Sophia Spock Portfolio UCL MArch Urban Design

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

SOPHIA SPOCK SELECTED WORKS | 2017 - 2021

SOPHIA SPOCK

WORK EXPERIENCE

5th Year B.ARCH Candidate, May 2022 Sustainability Minor Urban Studies Minor

Student Intern, Design Innovation Architects October 2020 – Present • Assisted the Architectural team in day-to-day tasks .

• Demonstrated adaptability and willingness to learn while undertaking newexperiences • Learned how to communicate Architectural Design through construciton sets.

• Organized and compiled the digital archives of past projects for the team.

• Developed and showed commitment to learning new technology skills in programs such as AutoCAD, Sketchup, Enscape and Revit.

Email: sophiaxteresa@gmail.com Phone: 704-550-6880

EDUCATION AND ACTIVITIES University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Bachelor of Architecture Candidate with Sustainability and Urban Studies Minors, May 2022 • Made the Dean’s List with Summa Cum Laude Standing and 3.97/4.00 GPA • Member and Secretary of Tau Sigma Delta Honors Fraternity • Member of American Institute for Architecture Students • Member of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society • Member of Chancellor’s Honors Society • Worked with UT Recycling to create Zero-Waste Game Days • Participated in three student run galleries • AIA Middle Tennessee Student Design Award Finalist • Distinguished Design Award SemiFinalist South Iredell High School, Statesville, North Carolina High School Diploma, Jun 2017 • Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 5.168 GPA • Founder and President of the Art Club • Secretary and member of the Varsity Science Olympiad Team • Set Designer and volunteer builder for School Plays

Teaching Assistant, College of Art and Architecture August 2020 – Present • Demonstrated leadership skills in leading a section of younger students through their representation courses.

• Provided feedback on weekly assignments and assisted students with day-to-day questions.

• Managed class time and answered group and one-on-one questions effectively.

Summer Intern, Northwood Ravin May 2019 – August 2019 • Assisted Development, Pre-Construction, and Construction teams in day-to-day tasks.

• Collecting, interpreting, and distributing data based on the needs of the team.

• Communicated with supervisors to ensure tasks were completed quickly and effectively.

Student Library Assistant, University of Tennessee Libraries August 2019 – October 2020 • Assisted and instructed patrons with library resources and directed them to professional librarian assistance.

• Assisting librarians, as well as collaborating with team members to efficiently achieve daily tasks.

• Managing library resources, such as books, digital printing, and electronic devices.

Job Shadowing, Adams + Associates Architecture May 2018 – August 2018 • Learned and became proficient with architectural computer software, such as SketchUp and AutoCAD. • Observed teamwork and project management in a professional setting.

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Time Management Organization Teamwork Analytical Skills Data Analysis Artistic Abilities

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Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) Microsoft Office Detail Oriented

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AutoCAD Rhino 3D Printing Sketchup Large Format Printing Revit

CONTENTS RIVERFRONT GARDEN DISTRICT _ Fall 2021

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URBAN CEMETERY _ Fall 2020

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SELF FORMING COMPLIANCE RESEARCH _ Spring 2021

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CONTINUOUS STAIRCASE _ Spring 2020

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ARCHITECTURE BECOMES ARCHAEOLOGY _ Fall 2019

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MOVEMENT AND MOMENTS _ Spring 2019

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PROSTHETIC REST STOP _ FALL 2018

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SPATIAL SEQUENCE _ Fall 2017

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TECHNICAL SHEET _ Fall 2019

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SELF DIRECTED ONGOING RESEARCH _ Fall 2021

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STUDIO 496 | NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN

T.K. DAVIS

RIVERFRONT GARDEN DISTRICT This project explored the development of a previously industrial site along the Nashville, Tennessee riverfront. In doing so, the project considers the development of the site and the design of the adjacent proposed park. Thus, the project became focused on locating the new development and creating recreational connections within the urban fabric. To do so, I focused on creating mixed-use residential programming, allowing for a taller office building amongst terraced residential housing to provide each apartment with its own outdoor space.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 5TH YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 496 | NASHVILLE CIVIC DESIGN

T.K. DAVIS

RIVERFRONT GARDEN DISTRICT The shape of the project was designed to focus the residents’ attention into the central courtyard and out towards the river, fitting with Nashville’s goal of encouraging connection and development along their river line.

Similar ideas were included in the development of recreational water areas in the park design, where the concept of connecting into the larger community of Nashville also became a prominent role. In doing so, the public park desires of the neighboring communities were addressed, so that the site could be best occupied and beneficial for the city’s residents.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 5TH YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 471 | ‘HORTUS CONCLUSUS

HANSJOERG GOERITZ

URBAN CEMETERY This project was developed in a team with fellow BARCH students, Sarah Lloyd and Taylor Thompson. All work shown is my own creation.

Constructed Ruin explores the idea of a cemetery in the urban context of Knoxville Tennessee. In doing so, we have used the technical elements of this class to explore how we can begin to make this traditionally horizontal program a vertical one. In achieving this, we focused our attention on how ascension and descension to the river could be reached symbolically and physically throughout the project.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 4th YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 471 | ‘HORTUS CONCLUSUS

HANSJOERG GOERITZ

URBAN CEMETERY This project was developed in a team with fellow BARCH students, Sarah Lloyd and Taylor Thompson. All work shown is my own creation.

In our design, the cemetery symbolism reveals itself through a connection to the river’s water table, and a series of descending rings of columbarium walls which are broken up by the inclusion of visitation rooms, a chapel, a crematorium, embalming rooms, and our secondary circulation system of towers. As we developed our primary circulation, we reinforced the theme of rising and falling by allowing descension throughout the columbarium to reach the seemingly untouchable river. Throughout our process, we have used the information we have gathered about our site and past building designs to inform a more experiential and narrative-driven urban cemetery.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 4th YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 496 | PROTO-ARCHITECTURE

MARSHALL PRADO

SELF FORMING COMPLIANCE This project was developed in a team with fellow BARCH students, Sarah Lloyd and Grayson Word. All research and development shown was my own contribution.

This project explores the architectural potential of three biological role models: The fern, the cone, and the armadillo.

In doing so, it investigates many different applications and degrees of self-forming abilities to create a final demonstration of the architectural paneling system it creates. This architectural context was not immediately clear to us. We felt there were many scenarios, that could benefit from a deployable and reactive construction system. In the end, we decided to develop an interactive façade system and used a bench as our interactive demonstrator. This decision allowed the demonstrator to better show program and form adaptability. This application also fit well with our ideas of parts coming together to create a whole system, malleable frames adapting into complex shapes, and winding systems that allowed these shapes to become complex surfaces with minimal material or transportation wastes.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 4TH YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 496 | PROTO-ARCHITECTURE

MARSHALL PRADO

SELF FORMING COMPLIANCE This project was developed in a team with fellow BARCH students, Sarah Lloyd and Grayson Word. All research and development shown was my own contribution.

Like with the decision to apply our biological role models towards an architectural and programable façade system, the process of creating this system was not a linear one either. Instead, we took many turns as we investigated both the potential and the feasibility of our systems and the demonstrator they led us to create. Initially, we grappled with the self-forming ideas behind our demonstrators but found them difficult to replicate under our existing technological and material knowledge constraints. Keeping this in mind, we started to consider the benefits of a form that could be selfforming, or infinitely reconfigurable under a set of constraints.

In creating the surface, a certain degree of compliance was also installed. Throughout the system, we intended the degrees of flexibility to adapt to the programmatic needs of the panels and façade system. This was also seen in the fibers’ ability to flex in our bench demonstrator.

The flexibility allowed for a more pleasant sitting experience and helped to fit our demonstrator with its program.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 4TH YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 372 | TED SHELTON

CONTINUOUS STAIRCASE This house was designed to accommodate a Foster Family of 2 adults and up to 5 children within a small footprint. To accomplish this, the house embraces a continuous staircase for efficient and interactive circulation. This is particularly important for accommodating many people within a small footprint, as it allows communal areas to feel open, while also creating private areas of refuge. Thus, the house acts as a puzzle of living and private spaces that grow gradually upward. Ideas of versatility and permanence are present throughout to provide security for the children and adaptability for the parents. The home also works to provide outdoor engagement both physically and visually, to lead the occupants beyond the narrow footprint.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 3RD YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 372 | TED SHELTON

CONTINUOUS STAIRCASE The foster family expands with the site’s ADU. This unit is a reduced-income apartment for children once they have aged out of the foster system. Young adults in these circumstances do not have access to familial resources and thus benefit from proximity to a supportive family structure. Thus, proximity tied with the independence provided by the separated structure and private entrance, allows new young adults to thrive in this unit.

This house provides an opportunity for families, like foster families, that are not represented in the housing market. Many homes on the market today do not provide adequate versatility or support structures needed for these families to thrive.

However, by including the ADU and the technically illegal lot size of the house’s site, this home challenges the rules of the housing market to provide for a more diverse range of households. In doing so, the house capitalizes upon urban infill opportunities and challenges the constraints of the existing housing market to expand its definitions of home and family.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 3RD YEAR B.ARCH

THE TOURIST

Encounter History

Bus Stop

THE ARCHAEOLOGIST

Community Space and Events

Storage

Sharing Artifacts

Processing

THE NARRATOR

Sharing Stories

Meeting Space

STUDIO 370 + 371 | TRICIA STUTH

ARCHITECTURE BECOMES ARCHAEOLOGY In architecture, the occupants who interact with the site create a sense of action. Without this action, the program of the site is lost, and the very moments that make the building architecture start to disappear. Thus, without an occupant, a building cannot be architecture because it cannot fulfill its sense of experience or program. This is where archaeology could enter. Archaeology is not concerned with the building’s current program, but rather with its programs from the past. In this way, the site of Knoxville College can be viewed as an archaeological opportunity instead of an area of architectural decline, which serves to give the site a new purpose and foster new interactions within its community.

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SOPHIA SPOCK | 3RD YEAR B.ARCH

The Interaction of Time

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Archaeology involves the study of how a building has changed to account for the needs and programs of the past, and, in the same way, could be forwarded to account for the needs and programs of the future. In doing this, I mean to explore how the implementation of defined spaces alters the way an archeological site it activated, and how these pathways act as a bridge between the site and its surroundings. In this case the idea of circulation paths between the archeological and touristic programing of Wallace Hall is being investigated, but these concepts could also be applied at the scale of a building, a site, or even a system.

Exploration of Expansion Archaeology and Activation doesn’t happen instantaneously. In stead it spread out over a site, building by building and allows the activation to intertwine with the existing spaces and infrastructures. Eventually this integration allows them to impact and be impacted by the community around them as the site becomes fully integrated into the fabric of society around them.

THE TOURIST

Encounter History

Bus Stop

THE ARCHAEOLOGIST

Community Space and Events

Storage

Sharing Artifacts

Processing

THE NARRATOR

Sharing Stories

Meeting Space

STUDIO 370 + 371 | TRICIA STUTH

ARCHITECTURE BECOMES ARCHAEOLOGY 1. The building must act as an alluring force for the surrounding community to draw them into the site.

2. The building must allow the tourist to experience the narrative of the site. In this way, community members can take the stories back home with them, and the narrative of Knoxville College can weave back into the surrounding community.

3. The building must provide a space for the archeologists to collect stories, and in doing so, must create a location in which said stories are shared and displayed.

EXISTING: As it is, Wallace Hall only captures the fleeting occupant, one whose stories are fleeting and moves swiftly by.

EXCAVATION: At this point both the hall and its narrative are supported a the building is excavated and examined for the artifacts it contains.

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SOPHIA SPOCK | 3RD YEAR B.ARCH

ENCOUNTERS: As the building is preparing to reopen people begin to occupy the paths to the site.

Gone are the worn down roads, replaced with a terracing of excavation, which provides the community with a place to gather and wait on buses.

ENGAGED: At this stage the community is engaged with the building. It has gained a function, and through this function occupants are able to once again interact with the architecture.

SOPHIA SPOCK | 1ST YEAR B.ARCH

STUDIO 171 | ALYSSA KUHNS

SPATIAL SEQUENCE An investigation into how regulating lines can be derived from organic objects and used to create sequencing throughout a site.

An example in traditional hand drawing techniques.

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SOPHIA SPOCK | 3RD YEAR B.ARCH | TECHNICAL

SCHEMATIC WALL SECTION

ASSEMBLIES

SOPHIA SPOCK

SCHEMATIC WALL SECTION 1’

2’

5’

ASSEMBLY A : ROOF SYTEMS 1/2’

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3’

SHINGLES ROOF DECK BATTING INSULATION PURLINS GLUE LAMINATED WOOD TRUSES (12” DEEP) STEEL BEARING PLATE AND ANCHOR BOLT ) T M

(ATTATCHES

BEAM

RUSS SYSTEM TO THE

ASONRY BEARING WALL

THREADED STEEL ROD (WITH NUTS AND WASHERS) EXPOSED 40’ GLUE LAMINATED BEAM (24’’ DEEP) MASONRY BEARING WALL

ASSEMBLY A

EXTERIOR INSULATION/ MOISTURE BARRIER

ROOF SYTEMS

ASSEMBLY B : WALL SYTEMS 1/2’

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3’

MASONRY BEYOND INTERIOR WALL BEYOND GLASS PANES WOODEN MULION WOODEN WINDOW FRAMING INTERIOR WOODEN WINDOW SILL MASONRY WINDOW SILL DRYWALL AND INTERIOR FINISHES RIGID INSULATION BATTING INSULATION FINISHED WOOD PLANK DECKING WOOD FRAMING STUDS SUBFLOORING AND CEILING FINISHES EXPOSED 10’ WOOD JOISTS (6” DEEP) MASONRY BEARING WALL EXTERIOR INSULATION/ MOISTURE BARRIER

ASSEMBLY C : FLOOR/CEILING SYTEMS 1/2’

1’

DRYWALL

3’

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FINISHES

RIGID INSULATION FINISHED WOOD PLANK DECKING WOOD FRAMING STUDS SUBFLOORING AND CEILING FINISHES

ASSEMBLY B WALL SYTEMS

ASSEMBLY C

MASONRY BEARING WALLS EXPOSED 10’ WOOD JOISTS (6” DEEP) EXPOSED 40’ GLUE LAMINATED BEAM (24’’ DEEP) (THIS IS

STEEL ANGLE BOLTED TO THE MASONRY BEARING WALL AND IS USED TO SUPPORT THE FLOOR PANNEL ENDS)

FLOOR/CEILING SYTEMS

BOLTS BATTING INSULATION

ASSEMBLY D : GROUND SYTEMS 1/2’

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3’

DRYWALL BATTING INSULATION

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WOOD PLANK DECKING WOOD FRAMING STUDS VAPOR RETARDER AND PROTECTION BOARD PLASTIC SHEET THAT RESISTS THE PASSAGE OF MOISTURE FROM THE GROUND. THE PROTECTION BOARD SERVES TO PROTECT THE MOISTURE -RESITOR.)

MASONRY SLAB RIGID INSULATION PERFORATED DRAIN PIPE)

(CONDUCTS GROUNDWATER

AWAY FROM THE FOUNDATION

DRAINAGE MAT

(CONDUCTS GROUNDWATER

TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF THE WALL AND THE PERIMETER DRAIN)

NEEDLE BEAM BEYOND WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE )

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THE PASSAGE OF GROUND MOISTURE INTO THE BASEMENT

24” MASONRY FOUNDATION 10” DEEP AND 12” WIDE CONCRETE FOOTING COMPACT GRAVEL INFILL

(PROVIDES A FRM

BASE FOR THE SLAB AND REDUCES MOISTURE WICKING UP FROM THE SOIL)

5” STEEL PILE BEYOND (APPROX 4’ DEEP)

ASSEMBLY D GROUND SYTEMS

SOPHIA SPOCK | 5TH YEAR B.ARCH | ONGOING RESEARCH