teia m kilian student of architecture & art
TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 - THE FIRST FLOOR 02 - ARTIST IN RESIDENCY 03 - BRANCHOME APARTMENTS 04 - DINING UNDERWATER 05 - MISCELLANEOUS 05.1 - FRAGMENTS OF TAO 05.2 LIFE DRAWING 05.3 SELF PORTRAIT 05.4 XI’AN 05.5 CUBE IN A LANDSCAPE 05.6 FRESH AIR 05.7 DRAWINGS
01 THE FIRST FLOOR
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The First Floor is a high class restaurant focused on user experience. The first floor has a restaurant, kitchen, and dining space. The second floor houses a living space where the artists (chefs) reside. While this building houses 3 international chefs to display their work and serve the residence of Lincoln, NE, the architecture also aids in the experience through use of space and circulation. The restaurant frames the prairie-like landscape that is home to Nebraska. This is an intentional contrast to the international food being served within.
There are 3 phases to the entry of the First Floor. The first is the promenade. The promenade can be accessed through a underground entry. This underground entry acts as a palette cleanse before they enter the space. The guests travel though a tunnel underground and arrive within the building. Phase 2 begins when they arrive above ground and walk around the center curve of the building to end in the dining room. The dining room (yellow lit room) and curved corridor (where a pink dressed figure can be seen walking) are shown in render above. The long travel through and around the building reminds them of their surroundings and own history. The third phase is dining. The chefs present their international cuisine and heritage.
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02 ARTIST IN RESIDENCY
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The form of this building was derived from abstraction of the Sheldon Museum. Throughout the semester the ab straction was built upon to become architecture. Then, a program was added. The program for this building is artist in Theresidency.firstfloor is museum/gallery space and the second floor is private living space. Representation through collages were a heavy focus.
PORTFOLIO 2022 | TEIA KILIAN | 11 SECOND FLOOR PLANFIRST FLOOR PLAN 2 1/16” = 1’ SECOND FLOOR PLAN office 1 storage/closet 2 restrooms 3 private living 4 studio/workshop 5 0 5 10 20 N 5 4 3 1 1/16” = 1’ FIRST FLOOR PLAN 5 4 3 1 1/16” = 1’ FIRST FLOOR PLAN entry hall 1 lobby 2 storage/closet 3 restrooms 4 exhibition space 5 0 5 10 20 N
03 BRANCHOME APARTMENTS
TYPE 01, 02, 03 ORGANIZATION & ORIENTATION APPLICABLE COMMUNITY OUT DOOR SPACESCUL-DE-SAC STREET FOLIAGE PATHS OF INTERACTIONCOMMUNITY UNIT ORIENTATIONCOMMUNITY CIRCULATION & ELEVATION PUBLIC SPACE VS PRIVATE PRIVATE SPACE SEMI-PRIVATE SPACE PUBLIC SPACE
During the summer of 2022, I was employed as an architectural intern at MG2. This project was entered into an intern design competition within the firm. I competed against 18 other international interns. Branchome Apartments won 3rd place. We started this project by thinking about the successful American dream, which was ultimately buying a home and starting a fam ily. I first wanted to create an apartment complex that shifted this mindset to be more relatable to our generation, but I was faced with the reality: the “American dream” idea is ingrained in most of us which affects the perception of other living units that aren’t a part of the “American dream.” Instead of designing for the opposite of this housing perception, I decided to blend. Blending still changes the outlook on social housing, but in a more straightforward way. I arrived at blending 3 main attractive qualities of SFH into social housing: applicability, community, and public vs private space. Applicability is shown through offering 3 different unity types. Community is fostered through the clumping of different units, unit orientation, and unit circulation. The balance of public and private space mimics the relationship between house, front yard, and back yard in single family housing. Like in cul-de-sacs, homes are close together with their semi-private front yards/backyards, but also public shared streets. Therefore, my complex has a close proximity of units with semi-private patios and public circulation pathways/outdoor space.
| 15 1/32 1/64 1/64 1/16 1/16 1/16 1/16 TYPE 02TYPE 01 TYPE 01, 02, 03 ORGANIZATION & ORIENTATION CIRCULATION & ELEVATION TYPE 03 PATHWAYS LEGEND CONCEPT DIAGRAM BRANCHOME GROUND FLOOR LEVEL SCALE 1/128” = 1’ APPLICABLE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SPACE VS PRIVATE SPACE SITE PLAN SCALE 1/64” = 1’ TYPE 01 SCALE 1/16” = 1’ PLAN PLANPLANELEVATION ELEVATIONELEVATION TYPE 02 SCALE 1/16” = 1’ TYPE 03 SCALE 1/16” = 1’ LEVEL 2 SCALE 1/128” = 1’ LEVEL 3 SCALE 1/128” = 1’ A B ELEVATION A SCALE 1/16” = 1’
03 DINING UNDERWATER
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Dining Underwater was inspired and built upon the study of “Tao” by Kengo Kuma. The fragments of Tao used in this project were color, material, environment, and shape. Tao is a Taoist temple in Taiwan. Dining underwater encourages a relationship with the earth and surroundings like Tao does.
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PORTFOLIO 2022 | TEIA KILIAN | 19 COOPER ROOF WATER COLLECTION PATHWAY FUNCTIONAL WATER ELEMENT IRORI TABLE FIRE ELEMENT SHOJI PAPER WALL KITCHEN SURROUNDING WATER EXPERIMENTIAL WATER ELEMENT
DRAWINGS
MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS &
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FRAGMENTS OF TAO
TAO is a taoist temple designed by Kengo Kuma. The temple is a roof placed onto the landscape. The elements I chose to fragment from this form were the roof structure, roof texture/shape, floor materi ality and joinery, and interior patterning/coloring from the structure. Materials used were clay, wood, and Shoji paper. Keeping in line with the a Japanese design notion: “koi mon,” (respect for the landscape and incorpo ration of natural materials) I displayed the ground and roof relationship as well as refined natural ma terial palette.
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TAO is a taoist temple designed by Kengo Kuma. The temple is a roof placed onto the landscape. These images display the roof material/texture, as well as the composition of the model. The clay roof was made by first creating a foam mold then covered with plastic bags. The clay was hand molded on top of the foam, then left to dry for about 48 hours.
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Life Drawing was a course I took at UNL during my second year. The drawings produced below were part of a final assignment. The drawing below was not taken from a reference model. In the drawing to the right, we used a live model. I decided to take artistic liberties to exaggerate features.
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TEIA KILIAN | PORTFOLIO 202226 | SELF PORTRAIT In the following self portrait, I worked on line weight, clarity, proportions, and dimensions . These portraits were completed in my Design Drawing course at UNL.
Sketch from personal trip to the Muslim Quarter in Xi’an, China.
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING | XI’AN, CHINA
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CUBE
I started this project with a two dimensional composition which took inspiration from an audio and visual composition of my choosing. From this composition, I took my chosen design ele ments and implement them into a 3D landscape. My landscape focused on depth and perspective. The valley size and angle allow for a feeling of depth and the extrusions on the top and cut outs on the sides allow for a different perspective from elevation and plan view. The second part of the project was to create a cube that responds the landscape and is consistent in design with the landscape. Therefore, my cube is designed to portray depth through separation by the planes to create different spaces on the interior and exterior and also interacts with the apertures in the landscape. IN A LANDSCAPE
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FRESH AIR: HAYMARKET INSTALLATION
Based off of my community article about neuro-architecture, I first made an ei detic image that related neuro-architecture to the human body and to the Hay market area. From there, I created an alley installation in the Haymarket area. My installation attempts to contrasts against the hard geometry and industrial ma terials of Haymarket with the soft geometries and airy materials that make up the installation. The aspects of the installation also relate to the human body size and hu man form through the size of the entry of the canopy and the form of the pods. Other aspects of neuro architecture are seen through the use of plants and soft geometries.
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DRAWINGS
The following collection of drawings were from various periods in my life ranging from 2019-2022. Throughout all, I experiment with charcoal, pencil, color, and composition, and realism. Works on page 13 were prior to any formal drawing experience/instruction. These works are more a representation of self exploration of my skills.
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