mercielle mukendi
selected work. portfolio.
2020-2023
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROJECT 1
MANIFESTO: A Place Called Evergreen
READING ROOM: Dépaysement/“Change of Scenery”
SMOOTH ROCK FALLS CIVIC CENTRE: Intertwining Public and Private Spaces
EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CENTRE: Rainbow Ribbon
A Place Called Evergreen
An environment that allows trees to grow and fills an inviting space for peopleto feel relaxed. A sense of healing or release for people who sit or walk past a peaceful landscape requires care and emaning. Placing a tree in a well-occupied area and calling it Evergreen. For it is a space to breathe and to see that trees create a useful enviroment to invite man and nature together.
01 MANIFESTO
Project 1
This is a building design project focusing on structure and material. The structural design was inspired by a case study building The Center of Gravity Foundation Hall by Predock_Frane Architects. Design research was conducted and a thorough analysis opened doors to the utility of earth-ramned walls and wood columns. These plans, sections, and renders produce a structural intent that enables an understanding of how design functionality and materials work well together.
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SITE PLAN 1:400
BUILDING PROJECT DESIGN
Elevator
F 1 2 3 4 5 6 4.53m 6m 4,50m 4,50m 6m 4,05m 3,84m 4,27m 4,11m 4,05m FOUNDATION PLAN 1:100
A B C D E
1 2 3 4 5 6
F LINE FOR CROSS BRACE LINE FOR CROSS BRACE LINE FOR CROSS BRACE Secondary Entry Main Entry LINE FOR CROSS BRACE 4,53m 6m 4,50m 4,50m 6m 4,05m 3,84m 4,27m 4,11m 4,05m OFFICE SPACE W/C W/C MECHANICAL STORAGE ELEVATOR MAIN LEVEL PLAN 1:100
A B C D E
ELEVATOR
ELEVATOR
ELEVATOR
MEZZANINE OPEN TO BELOW 0.66m 0.15m
A
C
E F 4,05m 3,84m 4,27m 4,11m 4,05m
B
D
LINE FOR CROSS BRACE LINE FOR CROSS BRACE LINE FOR CROSS BRACE LINE FOR CROSS BRACE 1 2 3 4 5 6 4.53m 6m 4,50m 4,50m 6m MEZZANINE FLOOR PLAN 1:100
1.7m MAIN FLOOR 2ND FLOOR T/O FLOOR T/O ROOF T/O FOOTING TRIPLE GLAZED WINDOW STRUTURAL CABLED TRUSS STEEL COLUMN POURED CONCRETE FOOTING POURED CONCRETE PIER LOAD-BEARING WALL STEEL BEAM A C D E F X-BRACING FRAME GLULAM TRUSS 4.35m 4.35m 3.85m 7.45m 3.8m 5m 3.2m Office Space Mezzanine T/O ROOF 2ND FLOOR T/O FLOOR MAIN FLOOR T/O FLOORING 3.8m 5m 3.2m 1.7m POURED CONCRETE FOOTING POURED CONCRETE PIER STEEL COLUMN ELEVATOR SHAFT TRIPLE GLAZED WINDOW 4.53m 6m 6m 4.50m 4.50m X-BRACING FRAME Office Space GLULAM TRUSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 NORTH-SOUTH SECTION 1:100 EAST-WEST SECTION 1:100 INTERIOR VIGNETTE EXTERIOR VIGNETTE
Dépaysement/“Change of Scenery”
This project describes a change of scenery that is necessary for those that would like to excape the busy, occupied life by enetring a location of tranquility. This holds the concept of bringing peace and arriving in a place where you can detatch yourself from stress. A dreamy landscape to help conceptualize a heavenly space where you can relax and enjoy the moment. The building has a small scale gathering space for those that want to read books and a universal washroom permitted for the accessible. The elevattions and sections shows the definitoon of wood ansd large windows delivering the opportunity for the sun to come in and brighten the room.
03 READING ROOM
NORTH-SOUTH SECTION 1:100
EAST-WEST SECTION 1:100
FLOOR PLAN 1:100
Intertwining Public and Private Spaces
For the Community Civic Centre, I’ve designed a Public and Private themed building to provide a cultural space where people who enjoy secured, enclosed places can integrate with those who enjoy open, widespread places. A mix between the two themes intertwines an interactive community who like intimate, private areas. As well as others who loike to be social and interact in an open, public space. The location that this projects presents in is Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario.
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SMOOTH ROCK
FALLS CIVIC CENTRE
EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE BUILDING
INTERIOR VIEW (GATHERING SPACE EXPOSED TO THE OUTDOOORS)
ROOF PLAN 1:250
STAFF LOUNGE
STAFF WASHROOM
STORAGE
OFFICES
DELIVERY ROOM MAINTENANCE
RECEPTION
MEETING ROOM
RECEPTION
WASHROOM
OUTDOOR GATHERING CAFE
MAINTENANCE
PUBLIC SPACE
STAFF LOUNGE
STAFF WASHROOM
PUBLIC CHANGE ROOM WASHROOM
PUBLIC CHANGE ROOM STORAGE
WORKSHOPMAINTENANCE
MEETING ROOM OFFICES
FLOOR PLAN 1:100
INDIGENOUS HALL
The concept was based off of community engagement activites, where the responses analyzes the connection between the town’s surroundings. The space provides a united structure for everyone to embrace self-serve and service spaces to interact between each other. Spaces such as outdoor gatherimgs and the restaurent within this rpoject are considered to be areas of mixed social and intimate areas.
EAST ELEVATION 1:100
WEST ELEVATION 1:100
NORTH-SOUTH SECTIONS 1:100 EAST-WEST SECTION 1:100
PERSPECTIVE 1:100
SECTIONAL
EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE BUILDING
NORTH
EAST
The Early Education Learning Centre has structured two rectangular prisms that intersect perpendicularly as the edges of the building stretch across from one another. This project shares a representational form of a ribbon. By implementing colour in different shades of the rainbow to represent the transition between dull and vibrant spaces from the landscape conditions of the site.
05 EARLY LEARNING EDUCATION CENTRE
Rainbow Ribbon
BUILDING SECTION 1:100
BUILDING ELEVATIONS 1:100
1:25 DETAILED FLOOR PLAN 1:100 1ST FLOOR 1:100 2ND FLOOR
