Amy Egerteregerteramy@gmail.com916.335.1991

I want to know how things work.

I want beauty.

I want functionality.

I want to have fun with my work.

Right now I am exploring.I started at a broad scale,progressively zooming in,trying to understand functionality on all scales.

Spacial Function

Experiential Function

Building Function

How can I manipulate

space?

The Golden Ratio2011 - Introduction to Physical Modeling

B

A

A+B is to A, as A is to B

A+B is to A, as A is to B

Bauhaus Spatial Exercise2011 - Introduction to Physical Modeling

Our task was to design a 300ft home.2

Thats like, the size of my bedroom.Thats like, only slightly bigger than an ADA bathroom stall.

Thats like,really small

.500' - 0"

490' - 0"

495' - 0"

485' - 0"

480' - 0"

475' - 0"

470' - 0"

505' - 0"

492' - 3"

487' - 0"T.O. ROOF

1" = 20'-0"1Site

3/8" = 1'-0"2GROUND LEVEL

Site Plan 1=20Portola Valley, CA

So what should we do?

Arealess2012 Fall Charette

Details1Roof Plan

1/4" = 1'-0"2Night Time Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"3Studio Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"4Dinner Party Layout

Details1Roof Plan

1/4" = 1'-0"2Night Time Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"3Studio Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"4Dinner Party LayoutDetails1

Roof Plan 1/4" = 1'-0"2Night Time Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"3Studio Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"4Dinner Party Layout

Details1Roof Plan

1/4" = 1'-0"2Night Time Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"3Studio Layout

1/4" = 1'-0"4Dinner Party Layout

To make 300sqft work, my teammates (Anran Li and Maxence Ryan) and I came up with the idea of sliding walls. These walls could change to adapt to the residents various social engagements. By sliding and swinging the walls, many configurations are possible.

Glass Skylight

Gravel

Louvers

Green Roof

What does it mean to

experience?

Create a pavilion that represents Last.fm?

What do I like about music?

How can I experience music spatially?

How can I experience music spatially?

The Last.fm pavilion makes listening to music both a personal and a social experience by encorporating the following features from the Last.fm iPhone App:

Last.fm Pavilion2012 - Intermediate Architecture Studio

1. Personal listening history data visualization.

2. Music recommendations from users with similar taste.

3. A social network of your friends and their music.

Social Sharing

Music Discovery

1st Floor Plan

Private Listening

2nd Floor Plan

Grind is changing how we think of workspace.

Their goal is to increase interaction between disciplines.

Is it time to redesign the workplace?

How can the workplace become more collaborative?

First, center the building around one central transportation core.

Next, remove the walls that would be present in a typcial office

building.

Grind - San Francisco2012 - Intermediate Architecture Studio

Create a facade that both frames the work being done on each floor, and unfolds to reinforce the idea of open collaboration.

Cafe

Lobby

Floor Plan - GroundLevel

Floor Plan - Second Level

Breakroom Graphic Design Office Space

Elevator

Meeting Rooms

Thin

k Spa

ce

Architectural Office Space

Elevator

Thin

k Spa

ce

Meeting Rooms

Breakroom

Floor Plan - Third Level

We were asked to design a concert hall,

but is it a concert hall to everyone?We should create public space.

We should create democratic space.

San Francisco Sound2013 - Senior Design Studio

Concert Patron Circulation:

Level 1 at 01=20

For this site, there was not just one building user, but many. We wanted to create many musical spaces for those users. We tried to think of our building from the users perspective, and how each they might move through the space.

We thought that if our architecture responded to not one, but many needs, and to many varieties of people, perhaps then it could become democratic.

Embarca

dero

Gree

n St

.Front St.

Tourist Circulation:

Level 1 at 01=20

Greenhouse Lobby

Educational Sound Lab

Public Performance Area

Listening Pool

Private Auritorium

Offices

How does a building

function?

BASELINE WATER USAGE

Lavs(1 unit)

Kitchen Sink(3 units)

Urinals (4 units)

Toilets (11 units)

Irrigation (1 unit)

Wastewater

Evaporation

Potable Water(30 units)

Cooling Tower (10 units)

The Road to Net-Zero2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship

Anyone from California knows that water is one of our most valuable, and most limited resources.

The Moscone Center in San Francisco had the unique opportunity to collect water via de-watering of their building. Because the building extends past the water table, they had to remove this excess water.

We decided to look at how this water could change their overall potable water demand, if reused in the building.

Turns out they could become a net-zero building for water demand.

EXISTING BUILDING END USAGE (KGAL/YR)

NET ZERO WATER USAGE:

Toilets (10 units)

Urinals (3 units)

Lavs(1 unit)

Kitchen Sink(3 units)

Cooling Tower (10 units)

Irrigation (1 unit)

Evaporation Greywater and

Blackwater Treatment

Rainwater(1 unit)

Potable Water(4 units)

Total Reuse Used:

24 units

Dewatering(24 units)

5 units exported to Off-Site Demands

FACADE HEAT LOSSES DUE TO THERMAL BRIDGING

AREA OF CONCERN

You could have the most creative building design, but if it doesnt work properly, whats the point?

Thermal bridging is when parts of the exterior facade connect with the interior structure of the building, providing an easy way for heat to enter or escape from the interior zones. This can potentially have large impacts on heating and cooling loads, but can easily be counteracted by severing the thermal bridge with a non-conductive material.

It was this internship at WSP Built Ecology that sparked my interest in performance-based design, and taught me that functionality must go hand-in-hand with good design.

Study of Thermal Bridging2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship

IMPACT OF THERMAL BRIDGING

PROPOSED DESIGN: CURRENT DESIGN:

Shadowbox (U-Value = 0.083 BTU/hr/SF/F)Mullions (MAX U-Value = 5.8 BTU/hr/SF/F)

Vertical Fins

Horizontal Projection

Corrugated Form Panel

External Glazing(U-Value = 0.29 BTU/hr/SF/F)

OPTION 2 SCHEMATIC:

SE Facade: 10:00AM Aug. 15

5

10

OPTION 3 SCHEMATIC:

NW Facade: 1:00PM Sept.17

5

12

OPTION 4 SCHEMATIC:

SE Facade: 1:00PM July 24

5

30

10

CURRENT DESIGN FIN PLACEMENT:

SOUTHEAST FACADENORTHEAST FACADE

NORTHWEST FACADESOUTHWEST FACADE

How do architects know if their shading works?

That was the question that architects would ask, and Built Ecology would answer.

By building models in IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions), I was able to find the efficacy of various fin orientations and lengths for the architect asking the questions.

Facade Shading Optimization2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship

PEAK ZONE COOLING LOADS - LEVEL 7

2 3 45

1 2 3 45

1 23 4 5

BTU/hr-ft

1

12 3 4 5

PEAK ZONE COOLING LOADS - LEVEL 35

1

2 3 4 5

12 3 4 5

12 3 4 5

1

2 3 4 5

BTU/hr-ft

FIN DESIGN OPTIONS:OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3 OPTION 4 OPTION 5

PLACEMENT: NO FINS SE, SW AND NW FACADES

SE, SW AND NW FACADES

SE, SW AND NW FACADES

ENTIRE FAADE

DEPTH: NO FINS 10 12 10 10OFFSET: NO FINS 5 ON CENTER 5 ON CENTER 5 ON CENTER 5 ON CENTER

ORIENTATION: NO FINS 90 FROM FAADE 90 FROM FAADE 30 FROM FAADE 90 FROM FAADESCHEMATIC:

egerteramy@gmail.com916.335.1991

With every shift in my focus, I hope to connect my understandings of architecture, from the broadest level, to the most detailed.

The function of a building will continue to change, and so will the scope of my understanding.