Olivia Bowers Portfolio 2023

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8'-2" [2.49m]

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Welcome to my portfolio

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This portfolio contains selected works that I feel best represent me as a designer. The projects range from first year studio to third year studio.

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Livi Bowers

About Me

Olivia Bowers

Architectural Designer

Address : 257 Linkside Circle

Email : mbowers2@tulane.edu Phone : (904) 729-6837

Activities

Wave Leader

Education

2020 - 2025

Tulane University

Bachelor of Architecture

Third year

Dean’s List Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022

Tulane Merit Scholar

Mayo Clinic Dependent Scholarship

GPA: 3.86

Fall 2021

• Selected from a pool of applicants to guide freshman through move in and freshman orientation. Conducted meetings about how to be successful as a student and Tulane and gave campus tours. 2021

Tulane School of Architecture Peer Mentor Fall 2021- Now

• Selected from a pool of applicants to guide a group of first year school of architecture students in their studio course. Provided advice to the students and giving mock reviews before their finals.

Skills Experience

RS&H, Architecture Intern Summer 2022

•Nine weeklong architectural internship in RS&H’s Jacksonville headquarters. Worked in the Health and Science and Building Strategies teams to produce drawing for projects, attend meetings with clients, and help in design decisions.

Adapt Design and Build Summer 2019

• Weeklong internship with architecture firm in San Antonio, Texas. Shadowed architect, Pete Dewitt, through client meetings, contractor meetings, and design process.

Livibowersart Business Summer 2017- Now

• Created art pieces off commission

• Sold art off Instagram page to people all over the country.

Eleven South Hostess Winter 2020- Summer 2021

• Maximized overall guest satisfaction by using appropriate greeting, addressing customer inquiries, and maintaining outstanding customer service for the duration of their visit.

• Improved floor efficiency by affectively communicating with waitstaff, managers, and chefs.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign Rhinoceros

V-Ray Grasshopper + Plug ins 3-D Printing Lazer Cutting Microsoft Office Suite

Los Angeles Urban Design

Fall 2022 Third Year Studio

For the urban design portion of this project, my partner and I started by analyzing the green spaces surrounding the site in Downtown LA. We then created a green axis that connected the existing green spaces and had other green spaces branching off of it. We introduced a second urban centered axis. With urban plazas expanding off of it. People would arrive at the site from the green axis that extends into the rest of downtown LA and be connected to the urban axis through my building design. The buildings in the urban design frame the open spaces and have different porosities on the ground floor to create different connections on the site.

Los Angeles Afterschool Education Center

Fall 2022

Third Year Studio

The second half of this project was dedicated towards designing a building to be integrated into the urban design. The site I selected for the building serves as a connecting point for the green and urban axis. The mass is first cut in half. And then split to create a public space that connects the green plaza to the urban plaza. The volumes are then divided into three floors. And each floor shifts to create terraces for the associated programs on that floor to utilize. Then the vertical cores are inserted in a consistent spot. Which created interesting spaces in the shifting volumes. A central primary mode of circulation connects the two volumes with the public space below. A LED mesh wraps around the top two floors of the building to tie everything together while leaving the ground floor to be very porous for the public space.

Eco Cohousing

Spring 2022 Second Year Studio

The design of the metahome uses sustainable techniques to appeal to the community of environmentalists as well as a system of outdoor horizontal corridors that expand to create community spaces. The front porches of the homes on the site provide passive solar strategies and connect the private residences with the community. This idea inspired the horizontal circulation that contracts and expands to create community spaces and front porches. The solar study informed the placement of the solar panels and the green roofs as well as the need to create a porous facade that allows sun and wind to pass through it. The solar panels provide renewable energy to the people who live in the units as well as a light source to those in the large family home. The residential spaces are comprised of three different unit types: small studio, medium family home, and large family home. These units are evenly dispersed throughout the site to have interaction from a diverse group of incomes. The access through the lobby leads to three central vertical cores and a sky bridge that connects the separate aggregates on the third floor. Facing Tchoupitoulas are office spaces for environmental non-profits from New Orleans.

Jefferson Island

Fall 2021

Second Year Studio

The project includes a research and education center that was heavily influenced from the site. Jefferson Island, Louisiana is located above a salt dome that contains old salt mines from the industrial era. The design has four terraces located directly above the salt mine each marking a pillar in the room and pillar mining system. Each terrace has a building occupying one full length of a terrace. The viewer becomes a part of a system much larger than themselves.

The Field of The Salt Mine

Walls of the pillars 1000 feet below ground are extruded up to protrude through the landscape and portray the large scale of the mines. Placing the audence in the field of the mine. Which can be seen in the site plan and axon.

Perspective: Gallery Space in Terace 2

Perspective: View on Terace 4

The Vertical Home

Spring 2022 Second Year Studio

The vertical home is designed around stair circulation. To maximize the use of the stair a two-level floor system was created. The two-level system is separated vertically by four stairs that create functions of their own. The vertical difference creates desk/workspace for the students when the higher level protrudes over the lower level. The stair also creates benches on some of the floors and a public workspace on the first floor. The stair and the different pieces of furniture are represented as one material. Thus the stair can be snaking and winding throughout the house as one big piece rather than individual stair sets.

The entrance to the house is on the second floor which enters to the main living room. Then there is the option to go down the stairs to the kitchen and dining area or go up to the more private rooms of the five students. The main bathroom is on the fourth-floor higher level, so it is in a central location for each bedroom. The fifth-floor landing has two bedrooms on the lower level where the botanist and yoga student live. The higher-level hosts some of the plants she is studying with a yoga platform and skylight for the yoga student.

The Tulane Depot

Spring 2021 First year Studio

The Tulane Depot serves as an archival gallery that contains a mixture of private and public spaces. The interactions between these private and public spaces are marked by cylinder shaped rooms, which contain the research rooms, conference room, and more special, private archives. Two courtyards are in the building. One contains a tomb from Meteri, located in the public sector and is used as an outdoor archive gallery space. The other is a private courtyard for the office workers that is enhanced by a cyprus tree.

A section is cut through each courtyard. This shows each courtyard’s relationship to public and private zones. The axon below shows how the circular geometry potrudes above the orthagonal geometry. Where the circular geometry is higher there are clerestory windows to allow natural light into the space.

There is a double heighted space created over the kitchen and staircase that leads up to the lofted dining area. The twin's balcony has windows that peer into the main living area so they can have a view to spy on the main house.

The master bedroom has a spiral starcase that leads up to the office and connects to and outdoor terace and fire pit. This terrace can also be accessed by the lofted area of the twin's bedroom.

The Sectional Home

Spring 2022

Second year Studio

The sectional home’s main scheme is a deconstructed cube with pieces being taken out for the vacancy to fulfill certain purposes. The bottom three pieces highlighted in blue create an entry way to the main living area with an outdoor grilling area. The pieces taken from the top of the cube highlighted in green create outdoor terraces for circulation, socializing, and green space.

The bottom three pieces highlighted in blue create an entry way to the main living area with room for a car and outdoor grill area. The pieces taken from the top of the cube highlighted in green create outdoor terraces for circulation, socializing, and green space.

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The deconstructed cube allows for many intresting sectional relationships including double height spaces and loften areas.

There is a double heighted space created over the kitchen and staircase leads up to the lofted dining area. The twin's balcony has windows that into the main living area so they can have a view to spy on the main house.

The master bedroom has a spiral starcase that leads up to the office and connects to and outdoor terace and fire pit. This terrace can also be accessed by the lofted area of the twin's bedroom.

Sectional Relationships

The deconstructed cube allows for many interesting sectional relationships including double height and lofted spaces. There is a double heighted space created over the kitchen and staircase that leads up to the lofted dining area. The twin’s balcony has windows that peer into the main living area so they can have a view to spy on the main house. The master bedroom has a spiral staircase that leads up to the office and connects to and outdoor terrace and fire pit. This terrace can also be accessed by the lofted area of the twin’s bedroom.

Axon

Livi Bowers

The Inhabited Stair

Spring 2022 Second Year Studio

The inhabited stair is programmed as a greenhouse. It has a 2’ by 2’ by 2’ modular design that with the stairs creates different programs. There are many options for people to choose to sit with the modular design. The scheme’s grid is also mimicked on the roof of the building. The cubes compress and open up to create shade or sun for plants in the greenhouse.

Advanced Digital Media

Fall 2022

Third Year Studio

In this course, I learned new skills for architectural representation. Both of these images were generated using the skills I learned in the third module of the course which was a deep dive into typography analysis. I learned how to generate terrains using grasshopper and analyze the typography, water flow, and hours of sunlight. The image below is a laser cut typography and waterflow analysis of Queenstown, New Zealand that I made for the final project of the course. The image to the left was created by using grasshopper to generate the terrain of Taiwan and creating a mesh that was then overlaid with a photoshopped map that I created. Finally I rendered the final image with the sun in a sunset position to generate different shadows from the mountain range.