Architecture Portfolio 2012-2016MEGHAN GARNETT

- PATH, SPACE, FORM / 1st yr

- GREEN COLLAGE / 2nd yr

- WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE / 3rd yr

- NC DISTRIBUTION CENTER / 3rd yr

- PASSIVE PAVILLION ENVELOPE / 3rd yr

- NODA CULTURAL CENTER / 4th yr

- BOTTA’S LIGHT AND FORM / 2nd yr

- CONSTRUCTED BOX / 3rd yr

- SHADOW BOX, LIGHT AND LIFE / 3rd yr

Architectual and Creative Works by Meghan Garnett

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Path, Space, Form

Progressing through the process of analog skills as well as grided and creative form finding proj-ects in order to learn the basics in design com-position and study analog drafting techniques

Path, Space, Form

GREEN COLLAGE GREEN COLLAGE

With the given program of creating a gallery and apartment living space off of the New York High line, My design revolves around the idea of living art filling the interior and exterior of the building’s erod-ing form, to connect and build up the people’s realtion to their site.

PASSIVE PAVILLION ENVELOPE

The objective of the project was to design a small coffee pavilion on the campus of UNC Charlotte that utilizes the sun to passively heat & cool the conditioned space. Starting with a square grid, I created a pavillion with facades adjusting to the sun angles of the site. The pavillion demonstrats an understanding of the basic principles & appropriate application of climate and the movement of the sun on the design of building envelopes, including the floor, walls and roof planes. The buildings edges and surfaces respond both to the their tectonic order and to the issues of climate and environmental control. The flat roof and large overhang on the West side shades the interior sitting area of the coffees shope. The East facade has a pitched roof to allow morning light to come through, as well as allowing for a good air flow from the opposite side of the building and out through the top.

PASSIVE PAVILLION ENVELOPE

NC Distribution Center NC DISTRIBUTION CENTER My objective was to design a craft beer warehouse for the world wide manufacturer and supplier company Alibaba. The choosen site is next to the Steel Fabrication build-ing in Charlotte, NC. My design comprised of a parallel datum dividing the two functioning spaces by their program. The chronological order of unloading, packaging and reloading, flows through the three main areas of the warehouse, with a seperate building acting as a vistors center and private sellers market for local craft beverages.

4x4 Glulam wood connection detail to articulated wood column with Steel T spacers

WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE

Learned about the different types of structual systems by designing three, nine square bay warehoues with the building materials of wood, concrete and steel. The wood structure is a scissor truss with a second-ary cable system. the con-crete warehouse is made up of a flat plate system with angled roof slabs and tapering columns. The last warehouse is concstructed of steel castellated beam system that curves on one side and slants up to the other.

WAREHOUSE STRUCTURE

NODA CULTURAL CENTER

This project consisted of designing a cultur-al center that is placed between the down town Art District called NoDa, and the uptown Char-lotte city area. This site is a meeting place for these two opposing spaces as well as a center for the fractured zones that surround it, acting as a missing puzzle piece between them. Each one pushing against the other as they meet right on the corner of Jordan St. and North Davidson St. The commercial, high-energy art district of Noda comes from the west. The calm residential neigh-borhoods are built up to the south. Then the industrial busy city life pushes towards the site for the North East. All of these opposing zones are missing a connection piece to complete the cultural grid. A cultural center transitioning through these places will need to be a social hotspot to attract attention as well as push its movement along to keep the flow of these three grids moving.

NODA CULTURAL CENTER

“As you walk up to this border-line Noda site, you feel the need to pass through its large opening to transition to another part of town. The building is lifted away on the corner to allow for the public to enter from the street and experience its

spaces. There is a storefront to the building facing the Amelies building to complete the look of a regular small town building. The west side holds the more private spaces for the building to function as a working community space. There

are views to the city and created public spaces to invite pedestrians on to the buildings surface for a more optimum placement. There are public space in the front and back of the building to allow for concerts, food trucks, tent sales,

and other events to be held to bring the community together.”

Botta’s Light and Form Botta’s building Centre Durrenmatt sits in the limestone mountain with most of its structure underground. There is a main tower that sits on top of the semicircle form, and continues down to the bottom level of the building. Botta’s abstract idea behind this project was to create a Dam. By purposely mimicking a dam, Durrenmatt’s work was protected in one strong manner and “its energy” was held to be reflected upon. The central idea of the wall separates what is contained from the emptiness of the valley. The dramatic thresholds Botta creates as you travel down into the “belly” of the building brings you from dark to light spaces. The tower and semicircular have little to none apertures, creating a solid container for the art inside. The vertical tower holds the circulation to the program types and transitional thresholds of the new to the old buildings. I designed and casted representational light forms based on this project. The solidity of these forms shows how light travels through the Durrenmatt.

BOTTA’S LIGHT AND FORM

Constructed Box

Objective was to design and build a human scale changing room to learn more about acutal simple construction. Using only two materials and one type of fabricated fastener, my partner and I created a simplistic box with a sturdy structual form.

CONSTRUCTED BOX

Through the studies of the architect Luis Barragan and modern story telling artist Dario Robleto, I complet-ed this light sculpture for my shadow box project. Taking Barragan’s linear and sharp edged building forms with the storytelling of Rableto, giving life back to the dry objects he sculpts with, I formed a four pillar stage for the candle wax to drip and give life back to the centered skull below. As the wax slowly flows drown the copper troff, it will drip onto the white clean figure to change its form and create a movement of energy to tell a story of death and life.

Shadow Box, Light and Life SHADOW BOX, LIGHT AND LIFE

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