Meaghan Kelly Graduate Architecture Portfolio

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I am first year graduate student at Syracuse university pursuing a masters degree in architecture

Earning my undergraduate degree from a fine arts school has provided me with a unique and interdisciplinary perspective of architecture. I was able to immerse myself in an environment where cooperation and collaboration was encouraged across the spectrum of artistic discilpines. My undergraduate education has made me a bold and experimental designer.

I am currently earning a Master of Science in Architecture from Syracuse University. After my first year of graduate education I have been introduced to numerous new softwares and technologies that have elevated my representation skills. I am looking forward to continuing with this expansive aproach to design education.

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Fall | 2019 Profesor Roger Hubeli | Graduate Studio I This studio explored material and material reactions In this performative pavilion I have used specific material, site placement and structural design in order to create a capillary reaction. The roof is designed to catch the wind and create a vacuum effect on the water underneath the plastic polycarbonate panels. The water is pulled up into the openings within the panels. Visitors can enter the pavilion and move through the panels and watch the affect light, wind and water play within this structure. This project resulted from a semester of material studies and testing on the effectiveness of our performative pavilion.

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Spring | 2020 Profesor Lori Brown| Graduate Studio II This studio explores the research behind climate disasters and aims to respond with proactive architecture This project resulted from a month of research on an assigned climate crisis. My assigned crisis was wildfire and my task was to design a performative structure in response to wildfire. I created an underground bunker that can temporarily house those retreating from wildfire. I designed the system to be compact, modular and self sustaining. I looked at the Lowline’s fiber optic cables and how they can be used to transport sunlight above ground to underground. The sunlight is transferred from the cables down into the underground space where plants grow and provide oxygen and air filtration.

likely increase 66.7 %- 90% low agreement

world fire projections

likely increase 90 %- 66.7%

2010- 2039 950 degrees

55- 65 Degrees

2070-2099

Heat

burn scars 1878-2018

the underground city

the biggest yet

the lowline

Performance HELIO TUBES

FILTERED CARBON VENTILATION REMOVES 60 - 80 % OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS REMOVES 25- 30 OF FORMALDEHYDE WASTE CAN BE TREATED WITH BURNED ORGANIC MATERIAL MATTRESSES ARE STORED UNDERNEATH THE FLOOR

HELIO TUBES AT THE LOW LINE PARK NYC PLASTIC PRIMARY MIRROR

SECONDARY MIRROR

REFLECTIVE PARABOLA COLLECTS SUNLIGHT

A TRACKING MECHANISM FOLLOWS SUN PATHS THROUGHOUT YEAR

FIBER-OPTIC CABLES CHANNEL SUNLIGHT FROM THE STREET ABOVE TO SUBTERRANEAN SUBWAY CHANNELS

RECEIVER MODULE

TRACKING MECHANISM

GPS RECEIVER

DOMES REFLECT AND DISTRIBUTE CHANNELED SUNLIGHT

SYSTEM II

T R A N S L A T I O N S Fall | 2019 Profesor Mathew Celmer | Media I In this class we explored means of representation while creating architecture from translations of the liberal arts In this assignment we referenced a passage from Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. We designed our own schema in order to translate the written word into an architectural pavilion. I created a concrete model of a portion of my structure with the use of a CNC mold.

“A great writer turns a reader into an arcitect.”

-Walter Benjamin

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FOUR GERMAN GUARDS

100 AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR

WINDOWS AND ROOFS GONE

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SECTION III SHALLOWER SHELTER

SECTION IV GUARDS GOING UP AND DOWN

SECTION V SPACE FLASHBACK

SECTION VI CRASHED DOWN IN LOW AND GRACEFUL CURVES

SECTION VII HOG BARN

SECTION VIII MORE SOLID CURVES AND THE BULLETS MISSED

SECTION IX A SUBURB UNTOUCHED BY FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS

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Fall |2019 Profesor Mathew Celmer |Media I In this assignment we created an exquisite corpse. Three Postmodernist sculptures were chosen and manipulated and warped into one sculpture. After the completion of the exquisite corpse sculpture we represented our creations as architectural towers through our drawings. I created a 3D printed model of my sculptural tower. “This suspicion of a career that moves continually and erratically beyond the domain of sculpture obviously derives from the modernist demand for the purity and separateness of the various mediums...For, within the situation of post-modernism, practice is not defined in relation to a given medium- sculpture-but rather in relation to the logical operations on a set of cultural terms, for which any medium-photography, books, lines on walls, mirrors, or sculpture itself-might be used.�

- Rosalind Krauss

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P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E R E S E A R C H I N T E R N S H I P S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 Syracuse University provids the opportunity for students to work with faculty on personal research projects I applied for and was granted a research internshio for the Spring 2020 semester. I worked with Mathew Celmer, who is a assistant teaching professor at the University. He is currently working on his Narrative Homes project in which he designs homes based on chosen literary passages. I have been completing final line drawings as well as photoshop collage renderings for his homes.

Thank you

617-347-0317 mkelly29@syr.edu