K A Y L AB A K E RArchitecture Portfolio USF SACD Upper Graduate Work 2014-2016

CONTENTS

[Project_01]2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium Advanced Design B Fall 2014

[Project_02]Cape Coral Urban RenewalAdvanced Design C Spring 2015

[Project_03]SACD Architecture Addition Advanced Design D Fall 2015

[Project_04]Sarasota Residential TowerAdvanced Design D Fall 2015

[Project_05]Reinvention Through ReuseMaster’s Thesis Spring 2016

Architectural Portfolio Work -Sample | 2014-2016Kayla Baker | University of South Florida SACD

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With the 2020 summer Olympics coming up, Tokyo is in need of a new stadium. The design for this is located on the site of the previous Olympic stadium so the area already has amenities to support the visitors of the stadium as well as the transportation to get there. The design concept of the stadium was to take the fl uid motion of organic characteristics with the tectonic structures that are unique to Japan.

The main idea of the stadium was to have the main shape more of a smooth organic shape while wrapping it with more of a structural system, successfully combining these two completely opposite fea-tures. Another main idea was the idea to be able to walk along the structural part located on the inside of the stadium, as well as being able to walk along the entire inside without interuption. Having the structural part also function as an aesthetic feature along the out-side of the stadium gives the chance for everyone to enjoy this char-acteristic without having to purchase a ticket to enter. Being able to walk under these massive steel beams and trusses helps to en-hance the experience for those entering the stadium and for those not able to. For those that are able to enter the stadium, they have a chance to walk underneath the steel structure as well as walk along it while having a view of Tokyo, as well as the ground beneath them.

2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium DesignAdvanced Design B Fall 2014 | 6 Week ProjectSite Location: Tokyo, Japan

Starting with the idea of designing with a fl uid concept, by taking the shape of a traditional Olympic stadium and morphing it into a more organic structure. The orientation and two openings that were cut into the design were focused towards the directions of the public transit system and the hotels and facilities for guests and atheletes. The idea of raising the stadium off of the ground to compensate for a slope was the decided. The stadium was raised off of the ground at fi fteen feet at the lowest point. This gave the opportunity to put shops, amenities, and even the athletes’ locker rooms and private entrances under-neath the stadium. Having shops and amme-nities around the stadium allows for a break in the path for guests and would draw them into these places to purchase merchandise.

Beginning Concept

Site Plan of Olympic Stadium

The structure needed to support the stadium includes diagonally placed trusses as well as supporting columns on the exterior to hold the cantiliver-like stadium. The trusses on the inside of the stadium are used to support the stadium itself as well as extend to support the retractable roof. While the primary focus of these steel trusses is for support, they are also used in an aesthetic sense and guests will be able to walk around and underneath them. The skin on the outside of the stadium is a glass curtain wall with a truss stainless steel structure to support the glass. The pur-pose of this skin is to not only add a unique look to the stadium but it is completely inter-active with the guests. On the ground level it creates interesting lighting features, while inside the stadium guests and atheletes can enjoy actually walking along this cur-tain wall structure and looking out over the city of Tokyo or down at the people below them. The structure of the stadium is meant to be exposed, and seemingly lightweight, this is to keep the idea of tectonic structure and organic structure fusing as one entity.

Sectional Qualities

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Starting out by rezoning the streets and plots of land on the site, a new map for the development of the downtown area was created. While rezoning the area a greenway was designed to create a visual path to the landmark that would be located in the basin. The purpose of this is to allow people to walk to the urban core of the new downtown area and have a landmark to follow at the same time. Creating these visual corridors also helped in the creation of three distinct districts for the new downtown: The Rose District, Bimini Heights, and the Basin East District. These three districts would help to incorportate the ideals of “Live, Work, Play” that the citizens of Cape Coral pride themselves on.

A unique aspect to Cape Coral is the vast canal system that runs through the entire ciy like a network of roads. These canals were tak-en into consideration while designing the project. One of the main design concepts was to connect the Bimini Basin with the Rubikon Canal, a canal that is directly north of the Basin. This would give a more direct water access to thousands of residents to the Basin. The canals were also a chance to be creative with public transpo-ration using a water taxi and kayak sharing, much like “City Bikes,” would be implemented to make water travel easier and more acces-sible, while also connecting the residents of Cape Coral even more.

Cape Coral Downtown Urban RenewalAdvanced Design C Spring 2015 | 12 Week ProjectSite Location: Cape Coral, FL

There are four main street types that are locat-ed in this new downtown core of Cape Coral. One of the biggest changes in street types was the one made to the Cape Coral Parkway. This parkway is currently six lanes across with very little streetlights and pedestrian walkways and narrow sidewalks. The changes made are to bring the lanes from six to four, to add a bike lane as well as on-street parallel parking, to widen the sidewalks to make them more pe-destrian friendly, add more streetlights, and to add a pedestrian walkway that also acts as a median for the parkway. The idea is to lower traffic and the speed of the cars while pass-ing this new urban core. Other street types will include public alleyways, single lane roads, and shared streets. The idea is to be able to make the streets safer for pedestrians and for bike riders. This would promote less usage of cars and give people more reason to walk to their destination or ride their bikes.

Street Types

The Bimini Heights District will be the new, multi-family residential neighborhood. It is lo-cated Northeast of the Bimini Basin and di-rectly East of the Rose District. This district focuses on supplying higher-density living for those that want to live in an urban environ-ment. The residential houses frame a large park that provides a view and a place for neighborhood interaction and engagement.This large park is divided by a linear path that provides a view corridor to the observation tower. Along this corridor are amenities for the residents and include a gym and wellness center, a farmer’s market to support local businesses, and a library that offers a quiet place for respite and gathering. With the in-clusion of this residential district the other two districts will strengthen and make it an ide-al place for both singles and families to live.

Bimini Heights

The Basin East District really defines the Cape Coral saying of “Live, Work, Play.” Lo-cated directly east of the Bimini Basin, the Basin East District contains the city owned property and will be the start of the develop-ment of the new downtown area. This area contains the plan for a boutique hotel and a craft brewery to be built within the next few years.This will become a catalyst for the rest of the district. Along with the craft brewery and the boutique hotel there is a boardwalk, observation tower, art museum, organic grocery store, multiple parks includ-ing Fountain Square, office space, a marina, and mixed-use housing. Ultimately, the Ba-sin East District will be the center of Cape Coral’s Entertainment core. All of amenities will be stitched together through the parks, shared streets, multi-modal greenways and the pedestrian alleyways. It will be known as the “hip” cultural center of Cape Coral that will attract visitors from around the region.

The Basin East

The Rose District focuses more on the cul-tural and art aspect of Cape Coral. It has a main street feel that provides a simple thresh-old between the active urban core and the quiet, single-family neighborhoods. Thie dis-trict is located to the northwest of the Bimi-ni Basin and runs along the neighborhood corridor to the west. This district will have an increased building density of two to three stories that house local restaurants, local of-fi ces, and other amenities for the residents of Cape Coral. The canal will be widened north of 47th Street to accomodate a new marina that will allow quicker access for boaters to the facilities. The Rose District is directly connected to the Canal Works Park, which will include things such as an arbo-retum, botanical and butterfl y gardens, a sculpture garden, cafe, and sports facilities.

The Rose District

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The purpose of this project was to expand and improve on the already existing Architecture building on the University of South Florida’s Cam-pus. The addition was to take more of a modern approach and to possi-bly give attention to the School of Architecture and Community Design. Along with the addtion to the school, the opportunity to redesign the already existing school to improve the layout and the flow of the newer buildings floor plans into the old. An important idea that was set into this project was to have connections both exterior and interior, to match the outdoor walkways and the interior ones of the existing building.

Considerations for the students and facuilty of the school were examined , as well as the needs of the other students on cam-pus. Using the already existing sidewalks that have heavy foot traffic helped to give shape to the first floor and outdoor path-way and courtyard of the new building. Encouraging students to continue on their predetermined paths would bring them into the front of the new architecture school. This would bring popu-larity and notice to the school and the gallery of student work that would be located on the first floor and accessable by the public.

SACD Architecture Building AdditionAdvanced Design D Fall 2015 | 7 Week ProjectSite Location: Tampa, FL

In the addition to the building is an auditori-um that will be used for specifically for events held by the School of Architecture. This mass will be made from a different material than the rest of the building as well as stray from the symmetrical pattern that the rest of the addition tends to follow. This will allow the auditorium to act as an anchor piece for the school as well as meet the needs of other stu-dents on campus in walking a direct path to their destination. It is the only place for col-laboration and common ground between un-dergraduate and graduate students as well as the faculty and administration and should be a well defined landmark in the school.

The Anchor

The bridge that is located on the third floor of the building acts as not only a place to over-look the campus, but as a tie between the old building and the new. It is a continuation of the outside walkway that wraps around the entire third floor of the old and new building. This area is a common area for students, fac-ulty and any guest or student at the University. Directly below the bridge is a large common area that is meant for all students of the Uni-versity to enjoy and to pass through. A ma-jority of it is shaded and it provides a place for students to gather and socialize, as well as give the new architecture building attention.

The Bridge

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Taking an already existing building in the downtown Sarasota area, the goal was to create a unique residential tower. The two primary focuses of this building were to enhance the views of the bay and the downtown area as well as hopefully create a sense of community be-tween the residents. The V-shape, the transparent spine, the overlap-ping pathways, as well and the community park located on top of the platform help to make this a truely unique place to live in. The main V-Shape of the building was inspired by the inverse angles of the sur-rounding streets, and the idea of opening a book to see it’s contents.

The pathways that interweave throughout the building are every three floors with balconies inbetween them. Because of this every unit in the building is either a two story space or a three story space. This creates plenty of opportunity for double and triple heighted spac-es, which ultimately gives the feeling of a more opened floor plan to each of the units. There are six different units in all, ranging from one bedroom to three bedroom and 700 sqaure feet to 1600 square feet.

Sarasota Multi-Residential TowerAdvanced Design D Fall 2015 | 6 Week ProjectSite Location: Sarasota, FL

Residential Unit_1Scale : 1/16” = 1’

-Entrance on Second Level-750 Square Feet- Two Bedroom- Two Bathroom- Balcony Located on the Third Level- Double Heighted Space

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-Entrance on Second Level-775 Square Feet- Two Bedroom- One Bathroom- Balcony Located on the First Level

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-Entrance on Second Level-1600 Square Feet- Three Bedroom- Two Bathroom- Balcony Located on the First Level- Double Heighted Space

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- Entrance on Second Level-930 Square Feet- Two Bedroom- Two Bathroom- Balcony Located on the First Level- Triple Heighted Space

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-Entrance on Second Level-950 Square Feet- Two Bedroom- One Bathroom- Balcony Located on the Third Level- Triple Heighted Space

Residential Unit_6Scale : 1/16” = 1’

-Entrance on Second Level-1450 Square Feet- Two Bedroom- One Bathroom- Balcony Located on the Third Level- Double Heighted Space

The main idea of the project was driven by the V-shape and the overlapping pathways that con-nect it. The shape gives opportunity for ever resi-dent to have a view of the water, while also giving them shade. The two main buildings are connect-ed by a glass spine. The spine is a common area used by all of the residents and guests of the Sarasota area. The weaving pathways that stretch from one side to the other is how people reach their unit as well as visiting other units in the build-ing. The pathways are located every three stories with the balconies of the units seperating them.

The Pathway System

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By definition, adaptive reuse is the process by which an old site or building is adapted and reclaimed for a purpose other than its original intentions. Adaptive reuse is not only a practical solution for economical issues; it can also be an answer for environmental preservation. It is an opportunity to solve problems creatively and uncover potential opportunity in the existing building stock around the world. It also helps to preserve culture and instill a sense of pride in a community.

Countless studies have been conducted and have concluded that renovated historical buildings are in fact more sustainable than the modern buildings that claim to be “energy efficient.” They outperformed these new buildings in every category, including: single-family homes, multifamily complexes, com-mercial buildings, and mixed-use structures. The cost of adapting an older building into a modern one is more often than not cheaper than building a new structure; it also uses a substantially less amount of material. Through the process of adaptive reuse, unoccupied buildings and sites could be-come suitable for many different types of use.

Located across from Chelsea Pier in Manhattan, NY, is the Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility. This historic building has been empty since 2012 and a recently a design competition was announced to turn this once correctional facility into a safe haven for women and children. This thesis focuses on the possibilities that could come from turning this site that was once known for the confienment of women, into one that could become their safe haven.

Reinvention Through ReuseMaster’s Semester Long Thesis| 14 Week ProjectSite Location: New York City, NY

The rooftop area of the New Women’s center is one that has existed since the opening of the building in 1931. When the building was transformed into a coorectional facility, closed in gates were used along the entirety of the rooftop. While necessary at the time, it blocked views and hindered oppor-tunies in this area. While removing most this gated structure, the decision to keep a small part of it was made. This structure could be adaptively re-used and act as a gateway between the old build-ing and the new and be a plesent and unique area to walk under. The usafe of different types of flow-ers and plants, as well as the addition of seating would create a shaded and enjoyable space. A structure that was once used to keep people in, now has the chance to be one that people go to talk and enjoy themselves.

Other opportunities on this rooftop area could include an outdoor wall garden, multiple seating spaces, and could even be a place for fitness classes, art classes, or some other creative outlets for the women and children to enjoy.

While this area was meant to be a community area, there would be a restriction of hours for guests and the general public. While this space would be one with a great view of the city and the Hudson River,

The Rooftop

The outdoor courtyard is located on the ground floor and is in the heart of the new and old build-ing. This space was one that exisited before but was used for other purposes. Redesign-ing and reusing the space is one that would be easy and very beneficial. This space is vi-siable and accessible through the first floor and accessible through the second floor as well.

The addition of shade trees and a variety of local vegetation and flowers is one of upmost impor-tance. This could provide somewhat of a santuary from the city life and be beneficial on the physi-cal and mental health of everyone seeking refuge there. Some additional features would include benches and other seating areas, as well as a pathway to walk around and a playground for the children staying there as well.

Just like the rooftop area, this space would be lim-ited to the amount it was exposed to the public. Set days and times would be in place for guests as well as residents of the chelsea neighborhood. During other times it would be a quiet area for the women staying in the center to enjoy by them-selves, with friends, or with their loved ones.

The Courtyard

Located in the new addition to the New Women’s center is the multi-leveled open lobby space. This space is the most public space in the entire build-ing and consists of small pop-up market spaces, as well as dinning and seating areas. One of the special features in this space is the suspended enclosed seating area. This space is located on the third and the fourth floors. The height of it is offset which is meant to help to space feel more enclosed and a separate entity from the walkway spaces.

This open atrium space is surrounded almost fully by glass facades, giving it an open and very light feel. Each floor is completely opened to the next for five floors and is bordered by walkways and balcony spaces. The purpose of this space is to help bring together the neighboring community with the women in the center, as well as give a new identity to the former prison. This space will give a sense of openness, freedom and community that was once inhibited in the same building not many years ago.

The multi-leveled open lobby space is the one space that truly brings the idea of fresh starts and new chances for these women and children to life. a sense of privacy and safety was a big concern when redesigning the building.

The Atrium

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