Lydia Knecht Work Sample 2023

LYDIA JOY KNECHT ljk98@cornell.edu | 517-610-3147 EDUCATION: Bachelor of Architecture - Cornell University GPA: 3.9 (Dean’s List every semester)

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT SKILLS: Expected May 2025

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Cornell University AAP Ambassadors, General Body Member •

Spring 2021-

Providing prospective students with technical advice and insight on how to succed as an Architecture, Art and Planning student; organized meetings with prospective and incoming students to provide campus resources and facilitate a collaborative onboarding process

Cornell University Seismic Design Project Team, General Body Member

Spring 2023

Architecture Lead Spring 2023 In addition to team member duties: • Lead of the 5 member Architecture sub team; organized meetings, provided technical mentorship on students’ designs, renders, floorplans, and landscaping • Facilitated communication between Team Leads and Subteam on project vision and weekly status and deliverables Team Member Fall 2022 • Worked together to construct a 5-ft tall balsa wood model designed to withstand simulated earthquakes • Designed façade according to given architectural and cultural context, applying practices of sustainability and daylighting • Designed floor plan layouts and create renderings of final design using Lumion for competition presentation

WORK EXPERIENCE: Student Reseacher, Cornell University Building Construction Lab Summer 2023 • Thermal imaging data collection of houses throughout the city of Ithaca, New York using FLIR software; Analysis of energy loss and facade assembly in Python Architectural Intern, Mitchell Studio

Summer 2022 • Drafting in AutoCAD interior elevations, presentation site plan drawings, existing plans within residential designs • Creating and compiling over 100 Sketches in AutoCAD for Construction Administration Architectural Intern, Peter Pennoyer Architects Summer 2023 • Drafting interior elevations, creating presentations in BlueBeam and Indesign for client meetings discussing interior elevations, plans, and hardware throughout an entire residential project • Organized dataset by tagging hundreds of finished project images for internal digital repository; streamlined technical documentation for employees

Manual woodshop experience; power and manual equipment Rhinoceros 3D Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator Microsoft Office AutoCAD Bluebeam V-ray Lumion Grasshopper Unreal Engine

LIBRARY Spring 2022 Instructor: David Costanza Project Type: Individual Academic Auburn, New York

This small public branch library synthesizes a precedent and material system to create inventive redefinitions of organization, program, and tectonics. The Capilano Library by Patkau Architects generated the floor plan and program organization through concept of the building as a bar: private compartmentalized rooms, stacks, and reading rooms, each owner to a “bar” running the length of the plan. Open to both civic and historic contexts of Auburn, the library’s material system of precast concrete infrastructural elements carries out a gradient of opacity with glass as mediator. Public space reinterprets colloquial understanding of precast concrete elements; Double T’s establish opaque wall conditions in private spaces, constraining views to the commercial side of the site. Single-T’s and I-beams serve as columns, allowing ample light to enter.

Hence, this plan is a hybrid system of The Capilano Library.

PARTI WALL Spring 2023 Instructor: Andrea Simitch Project Type: Individual Academic Recepient of the 2023 Addison G. Crowley Prize Wynwood, Miami Wynwood, Miami is home to the intersection of multiple architectural, cultural scales. Situated adjacent to Wynwood Norte’s American Bakeries Company, (currently known as the Bakehouse Complex) this housing project expands the Complex’s proposal of a masterplan to create living and working spaces for artists.

In reflection of Wynood Walls, a main feature in the district’s visual arts culture, the project responds to scales of program in how the wall is employed, mainly through proximity and scale. Walls define spatial and programmatic zones. Public spaces are open; private spaces are enclosed.

Ultimately, the wall provides new living possibilities for both those drawn to and currently residing in Wynwood.