2020 Portfolio Final

Portfolio 2020 Rachael Maeri Jackson

Design should connect with nature and problem solve to make the world a better place through green architecture, cultural awareness and well designed affordable housing.

The opportunity to make a change and help people with design is what drives my creative passion in architecture.

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2019 Clemson University Architecture Major History Minor GPA 3.63

2013-16, 20 Receptionist Michael Jackson DDS

Barcelona Architecture Center 2016

USC Upstate

2015 Boiling Springs High School

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2016-20 Cabin & Beach House Renovations Jackson Real Estate Design & Build Lee VR Lounge Clemson, Lee Hall

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Electronic Repair Technician Jackson Electronics

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Digital Rhino Revit AutoCAD Sketchup Lumion Enscape Adobe Software Analogue Photography Painting Sketching Model Making Wood Working L A N G U A G E S

(828) 447-6564

English Native

rachaelmaeri@gmail.com

Spanish Intermediate

Online Portfolio: https://issuu.com/rachaelmaerijackson/docs/

Swedish Beginner

Subtractive Design: Tourmaline

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Year 1

Where Earth Meets Sky

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Year 2

Museu Gaudi: The Hills of Gaudi

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Year 3 Design + Build Lee 257 Year 3

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The heritage Walkway

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Year 4

Product Design: Wine Connections

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Visual Arts: Oil + Charcoal

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Spring 2017 Sallie Hambright-Belue

Subtractive Design: Tourmaline Year 1 I transformed the landscape of the

Lee I courtyards into an over growth of dark crystals and carved pathways to the least used doors of the courtyard, forcing them to be used. The crystals filter out the light and create different effects through the day.

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Design Inspiration

Carving Out Paths

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Plan Site

2. Longitudinal Section

Fall 2017 Joseph Schott

Where Earth Meets Sky Year 2 For this project the objective was to

create a pavilion in the mountains of the south east United States, using my design I used the folded plate technique to frame the sky. In addition to the structure being folded plate, I terraformed the landscape around to blend the structure into the site.

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1785 ft

Process Models

Original Site

Charcoal Site Plan

East Section

Transformed Site

West Section

Spring 2019 Miguel Roland Partnered: Mike Norwood*

Museu Gaudi: The Hills of Gaudi Year 3 Earth rising to create habitable green space

on top while creating inhabitable void below for people to learn more about Antoni Gaudi while looking up at the Sagrada Familia is the main purpose of this museum. It provides more green space for both residents and tourist to enjoy in a city lacking in grassy hills.

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Green Roof

Concept Sketch*

Site Views Analysis

Thin Shell Concrete

Gesture Diagram

Steel Rib Supports Glass Facade

West Facade Render Mullions 1 1

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Site Plan

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Water Collection

Views of Sagrada Familia Analysis

Interior Perspective

Exploded Axon

Entry Exhibition Library Storage Restrooms

Programming Floor 0

Floor Plan 0

Section Render 10

Exhibition Auditorium Workshop Storage Meeting Rooms

Programming Floor -1

Floor Plan -1

Entrance Perspective

Summer 2018 David Lee Team: Jessica Longhurst Kendall Wilbanks Murray Byrd* Nathan Carlton Taylor Kojack Virginia Jett Sean Tedesco* Seth Forrester Brantley Crile Grayson Mosteller

Design + Build: Lee 257 A group of eleven architecture Year 3 to use Sim[Ply} to renovate the

students led by David Lee set out storage room of 257 into a VR Lab and student lounge. After two months of collaborative design the transformation was complete. I helped with construction and design of the photostation, charging station, and white boards.

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Kerfing To Bend Wood*

Bending Wood By Hand

Creating Curved Furniture

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Floor Plan

Perspective Photos: 1.Computer Stations 2.Charging Stations 3. Photography/White Boards 4. VR Green Room 5.Student Lounge

Sim[Ply} Dog Bone Detail

AR Table Arm Construction Drawing

Fall 2019 Dan Harding Team: Jessica Longhurst* Kendall Wilbanks**

The Heritage Walkway Year 4 Oak Bay, British Columbia

faces the problem of lack of gathering space as well as affordable housing. Using Sim[Ply] as an affordable construction method for temporary houses as well as transparency to bring awareness to the situation, we aimed to solve this issue

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Transparency:

In regards of materiality in architecture and culturally, to showcase the heritage of the First Nations people and the site.

Space in between**:

The contrast of solid vs void in order to define interstitial spaces that offer opportunities for recreation.

Public vs Private*:

Trying to answer the question of whether there are zones of interaction that mediate both public and private space.

Sim[Ply] System

To provide a solution to the need for an adaptive site, we used the Sim[Ply] system to enable construction and deconstruction quickly while only utilizing a small team of people.

For the foundation, we used a diamond pier system to provide a grid for any unit to be constructed on the site.

Pier

Plug + Play Tidal Steps Bunk House ADA Housing Community Market Family Housing Heritage Walkway Playground

Heritage Village

Site Plan Perspective Render**

Diamond Pier System*

Heritage Village After a meeting with locals from Oak Bay, there was a request for a recreation of the old boat house. To recreate the feeling of the old boat house and educate visitors of the site, we created a village of fragments of the boat house containing various exhibits.

New Boat House Perspective

Anomura Office Perspective

Site History Museum

Native History Museum

Kayak Center Anomura Housing Office

Boat House Information Center

Storage Space

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Boat House Village Model */**

Heritage Walkway Planters Detail

The Heritage Walkway continues to educate visitors of the site by displaying native species, instillations from local artists telling the stories of the First Nations people, and framing the surrounding islands.

Heritage Walkway With Local Art Instillations

Tidal Steps Sections** High Tide

Intertidal Tidal Steps + Pier Perspective

Low Tide

Social Housing Bunk House Temporary housing unit owned by the City of Oak Bay. Rented out to groups of up to 8 people per unit.

Fitted with a 2 way kitchen, 3 showers, 3 toilets, 8 bunk beds, and stair case up to crow’s nest looking towards the sea.

Transparency Diagrams

2nd Floor

1st Floor

BUNK HOUSING Transverse Section

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Exploded Model Axon

Public Gathering Space Community Market A large market place with room for artist and farmers to sell wares to community.

Second floor provides seating area to look out to heritage trail and sea. The exterior provides opportunities for murals of first nations people of British Columbia.

Transparency Diagrams

2nd Floor

1st Floor

Transverse Section

Exploded Model Axon

Product Design: Wine Connections Throughout the development of the product, my main goals were modularity and collapsibility. As a college student I was constantly changing apartments, making it difficult to transport bulky furniture. In response to this, I designed the Wine Truss to ease the moving process.

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COLLAPSIBLE

JOINTS + SLABS LIGHT

CONNECTION SYSTEM

BOOK SELF

WINE RACK

TABLETOP

CONFIGURATIONS

STANDING FACADE COFFEE TABLE

Process + Study Models

Modular: Endless Configurations

Axonometric Drawing

Acrylic Module

Wooden Module

Mixed Module

Collapsible: Easy To Ship

Standing Wine Rack

Coffee Table Configuration

Visual Arts: Oil + Charcoal My paintings are inspired by my love for history, nature and my observations on the world around me focusing on historic figures, portraits of my friends and still lifes.

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T r a p p e d Oil Paint On Canvas 05/19 A depiction of a figure cowering away from the viewer, finding herself away from their gaze. She feels trapped and afraid.

Skull With a Pearl Earring Oil Paint On Canvas 09/19 A take on “Girl With The Pearl Earring” by Vermeer.

The rabbit symbolizes shyness and sensuality, both of these are captured

by Vermeer’s original. Now the rabbit skull’s gaze draws in the viewer’s eye towards her, while she looks over her shoulder.

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C u n n i n g P r o p h e t Oil Paint On Canvas 04/18 The fox has been known to be cunning, deceptive or even as a guide. This painting started with 3 items: A fox skull, historic painting and a blank book with a shadow across it.

The figure poses as holy but looking closer there is no knowledge being offered, only shadow.