lisa corkum's portfolio
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Architectural design portfolioTRANSCRIPT
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LISA [email protected] North Shore DriveStow, MA 01775978.212.5269339.368.0333 EDUCATION
Cornell University, College of Architecture Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY
Semester abroad throughout Europe
Cumulative GPA 3.552
WORK EXPERIENCE
Research Aid January 2008 PresentProfessor John Coleman, Cornell University, Ithaca NYTraveled to Halai, Greece to document and graphically represent ancient archaeological finds.Analyzed layers of architectural construction. Prepared images and illustrations for publication, including photographs, scans, interpretive maps, plans, sections, and axonometric reconstructions.
Architectural Intern November 2003 January 2007Wilson Butler Architects, Boston, MAArranged boards and Power Points for presentation, involving scanning and manipulating images and drawings.Constructed models at high level of detail involving interpretation of digital files. Coordinated samples for project specifications.
Architecture Intern / Office Manager June 2005 January 2006Hecht and Associates Architects, Inc., Belmont, MAManaged archives from previous projects and incoming and outgoing correspondence with current clients. Organized material and submitted projects for competitions.General office management.
SKILLS
SoftwareAutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Maya, Form Z, Sketch Up, EON, CAVE, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere, Final Cut
Summer 2007May 2009
Fall 2007Three Semesters
May 2009Deans ListSemester in Rome Program
Bachelor or Architecture
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Czech Republic, Polland, France, Switzerland, and Spain
F4
F2
F10 F101
Altar
LR and Byzantine Chu
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The Parthenon
The New Acropolis Museum
The Elgin marbles wrapped around the cella of the Parthenon, giving a
set of specific dimension to the core of the Museum
and a starting point to the transformation of the plan
The roof plan is a scaled up version of the base of
the Parthenon
The column grid is cut in half, repeated and
expanded to the confines of the site
The curvature of the Parthenon is most apparent where the columns meet the base. From within
the colonnade the columns become the interval through which to see the plinth, the other
temples in the complex and the city of Athens. When your eye compensates for
the distortion of the Parthenon, the cogni-tive reconstruction of the panorama is
warped along the datum of the curva-ture, producing a second implied
skyline. Each colonnade hits the stylobate (base) at a parabolic
curve. The Parthenons curvature can be projected nearly 500
meters into the air forming an implied geometry of two inter-
secting forms made of para-bolic curves. The Parthenon
itself is a crystalization of these forms complex
intersection, truncated at a height scaled to
human limitation.
Bernard Tschumi's New Acropo-lis Museum is a lost opportunity. It represents a modern interpreta-tion of the Parthenon, housing its treasures, displaying its history. It uses specific dimension and orienta-tion as well as certain visual queues to reference its transformational parent. But the Parthenon, despite its apparent simplicity, is far more geometrically com-plex, employing not a single right angle or straight line, each articulation so accurate it seems impossible that these classical people could have this technology for measurement and construction. The effect is subtle but clear, tuned specifically to the human eye.
THESIS 502Profs. Caroline ODonnell & John Zissovici
Site. Halai Greece
Program. Archaeological Facility & Observatory
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Scalar function of Settlement
Projection of traces to corresponding shore
Separation of architectural material
Establishment of grid system through site
Neolithic
Archaic
Hellenistic
Late Roman
Vertical disruption
Grid system reprojected to breach wall circuit
Split
Simultaneous
Halai, Greece is an ongoing site of excavation. Over the past eight millennia it has been con-tinually settled, abandoned, resettled and re-abandoned. Construction above a context with complex temporal layers presents an opportunity for an involved and perpetual analysis of site. The temporarily final phase. As a port city, Halai has always had a very specific and dynamic interaction with the shore line, and is now partially emerged. This diagrammatic exploration informed an archi-tecture that is both involved with the archaeo-logical process and a registration of the inter-action between temporal layers.
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AERIAL PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN ROOF PLAN
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
ROOFTOP PERSPECTIVE
CROSS SECTION LOOKING NORTH
LATE ROMANOBSERVATION
LEVEL
HELENISTICOBSERVATION
LEVEL
GANTRY CRANE ORIENTED ALONG ARCHAIC
SUPER-STRUCTURESPANNING SITE
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SUMMER 2009Site. Vivos, Greece Program. Trellis on existing house
VIEW TOWARDS BAY FROM ROOFTOP
VIEW OF HOUSE FROM GROUND LEVEL
AXON OFCONTINUOUS TRELLIS
This project edits a residential project
currently under con-struction. The client
was dissatisfied with the current trellis
scheme proposed by the architect, my
scheme was designed as an alter-
native. Conceived as a continuous
strip that links the existing trellis
network on the property with the
higher terrace, encircling vegeta-
tion about the property. The view from the
highest terrace is framed and shaded, the
industrial relic that
once con-nected the
ore mine behind the
site in a continuous
overhead conveyor
belt is stitched into
the Coleman-
Purdy property
by its own continu-
ity.
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The Atlanta Fulton Public Librarys new city/street presence is defined by a
continuous media strip. Contemporary media is flexible, ephemeral, and
dynamic. The ATL Mediastrip blurs the conventional building/marquee/public
plaza/city relationship with an uninterrupted deliberate gesture
characterized by flexibility, programmability, and unpredictability. It
accommodates the presentation of moving and still images, advertisements
and art installations, news broadcasts and live performances, among a myriad
of other media capabilities.
The multi-layered surface extrudes out of the buildings faade and is informed by the librarys iconic orthogonal geometry.
The folding cantilevering canopy is a steel structure sandwiched by wooden panels on the top and LED light panels
on the bottom. As the strip unfolds out and downwards onto the public space to define a new plaza, the media underside
of the canopy wraps to become an ever-changing video pavement. The strip
continues diagonally across the new plaza and terminates with a grand
cascading stair informed by the existing topography.
SUMMER 2009Site. Atlanta, GA Program. Library Plaza
PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTHWEST
PERSPECTIVE FROMNORTHEAST
PROGRAMMATICDIAGRAM
EXPLODED AXON
led panelsstructural members
mediastripatlanta-fultonpublic library
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A center for environmental educa-tion should pedagogically
express its interaction with the site conditions specific to, in this case, Santa Barbara. The project is articulated around a courtyard,
lifting off of the ground plane to allow direct exposure to natural light and to harness air circulat-ing off of the nearby ocean. The
building acts as a series water catchment systems as well as a
layered environmental laboratory, connecting outdoor and indoor
spaces through water movement. Sustainable use of materials and
local resources inherently con-textualize this project, making it a center for environmental learning
in Santa Barbara.
COMPETITIONProf. Martha Bohm Site. UC Santa Barbara Program. Education Facility
Scale - 1:300
COURTYARD PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
ROOF PLAN
LIBRARY AND CLASSROOM PLAN
EAST ELEVATION
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3 Fly-Ash Concrete
Steel Decking
Open Web Steel Joists
1 Rigid Insulation(Expanded Perlite Organic Bonded)
Vapor Barrier
1 Fly-Ash Concrete Cladding(Sub-Sand/Gravel/Stone Concrete)
1/2 DrywallWater Resistant Barrier
Airspace
Uncoated Low-E Double Pane Glass
Steel Stud
Wooden Planks
Drainage Layer
3 Cellulose Insulation(Recycled Newsprint)
Metal Grated Drop Ceiling
ROOF ASSEMBLY
WALL ASSEMBLY
FLOOR ASSEMBLY
Marmoleum
3 Fly-Ash Concrete
Steel Decking
Open Web Steel Joists
1 Rigid Insulation(Expanded Perlite Organic Bonded)
Vapor Barrier
Airspace
1 Fly-Ash Concrete Cladding(Sub-Sand/Gravel/Stone Concrete)
Vapor Barrier
3 Cellulose Insulation(Recycled Newsprint)
Water Resistant Barrier
Airspace
Airspace
over - flow drain 1
over-flow drain 2rooftop sedum plantings
bioremediation plantings
water collection pond
drain 1 collection area
drain 2 collection area
flow towards slough
EXPLODED AXON IN SITU
WALL SECTIONAXON OF WATER FLOW AND FILTRATION
Scale - 1:100TRANSVERSE SECTION
vertical and horizontal louvres
floor slabs and partitions
core
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EXPLODED PERSPECTIVE
A secret insertion within an ancient context. The project is a perfect
plinth over a programmatically active underbelly: during the day, a
bustling market-scape, at night, a dynamic club scene. Sandwiched
between the ancient Roman Wall and Monte Testaccio (a mound of discarded pottery from antiquity), the project reads as a removal of
material, and a reestablishment of ground plane. Drawing upon con-
text, the plane is fattened, and sheared downwards, providing light wells, structure, vertical circulation,
and pockets of program.
ARCH 402PROF. VINCE MULCAHY SITE. ROME, ITALY PROGRAM. MULTIUSE FACILITY
FRAMES:ANALYTICAL
SITE FILM
INITIAL SKETCH SECTION
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ROOF PLANSITE PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN
MODEL DETACHED
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MODEL LIGHT WELLSSTUDY MODELS PARTI MODEL LAYERS
0 10m 50
SECTION LOOKING NW
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Transversal SectionScale:
NIGHT EXTERIOR RENDERINGDAY EXTERIOR RENDERING SKETCH COLLAGE
0 10m 50SECTION LOOKING NW
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Dancing House ("Fred and Ginger"), Prague, Czech Republic (1995)
Prunksaal (State Hall), Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria
Tugendhat House - Mies van der Rohe, Brno, Czech Republic
Farnsworth House - Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinios
Four Gasometers - Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Manfred Wehdorn, Wilhelm Holzauer, Vienna, Austria
ARCH 401Profs. Chris Otto & Arthur Ovaska
EXPLODED AXON
PERSPECTIVAL SECTION
FISH-EYE PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTIVE AND PLAN
AXON WITH PLAN AND SECTIONS
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Site. Europe Sketchbook
AMSTERDAM SITE PLAN
BIRDS-EYE PERSPECTIVE
GROUND LEVEL PLAN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
PERSPECTIVE ALONG NORTH SIDE
PERSPECTIVE ALONG SOUTH
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This project is an exploration of economical optimization. A
three dimensional grid inserts intself onto the highline in
Chelsea, New York. As parts of the whole become more desir-
able, they expand, pushing those above it upwards, and
those beside it to the left and right. The skin of the building
responds to internal forces: puckering, creating distorted
images of interior happenings. The left side: apartments for
artists. The right: public exhibi-tion space.
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AXON OF SKIN WITHINTERIOR CIRCULATION
CONTINTUOUS BANDSWRAPAROUND BUILDING
ARCH 302 Site. Chelsea, NY Program. Artist Housing and GalleryProf. Lonn Combs
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PLANS
AXON OF FLOOR SLABS
AND PARTITIONSCELLS EXPAND:
OTHERS RESPOND
SKIN RESPONDS TO INTERNAL FORCES
VIEW FROM HIGHLINE
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TRANSVERSE SECTIONLOOKING NORTH EAST
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVESITE PLAN
This project is a hybrid program facility on the edge of a gorge in Rochester, New York. It marks the intersection of a figure-8 light railway through the city that strategically links parts of the city outside the inner ring with the inactive city center. The form was derived from the transfor-mation from one railway to the other, selectively sticking to and detaching from the bent frame structure to create top story outdoor public spaces.
ROOF TOP EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
ARCH 302Prof. Henry Richardson Site. Rochester, NY Program. Transportation Hub, Mall
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LONGITUDINAL SECTIONLOOKING NORTH WEST
AXONOMETRICSTRUCTURAL DIAGRAM
GROUND FLOOR LEVELFIRST FLOOR LEVELROOF TOP LEVEL
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ARCH 202Prof. George Hascup Site. Red Hook, Brooklyn Program. Spa
Model SectionModel in Site
Exploded Model
Site Plan
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Gym and Pool Level Plan
Locker Room Level Plan
A juxtaposition of two landscapes, in constant ebb and flow on the
fringe of Brooklyn. A high end spa for a slowly gentrifying site. Physi-
cally, the public landscape and private spa / recreation facilities
are separate, but through a series of shearing manipulations and
removal of material, the two typolo-gies are visually linked. Inserted into heavy industry, the delicate
white lines of the project stands in stark contrast and is articulated as
a projection of the strata from the surrounding urban fabric.
Interiorperspective
overlooking pool
Collage of precedents
Roof Plan
Exploded Model
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Richmond CenterStage Richmond, VirginiaWilson Butler Architects
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AquaTheater Oasis of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise LinesWilson Butler Architects
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These cubes are in various forms of collapse/re-formation. Their initial
state was subverted by the removal and redistribution of material. The
cube is then implied and reconstructed cognitively, existing in both its initial and final state simultaneously in the
mind alone. As a set they are dynamic and interactive, as individual pieces
they are formally complex.
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