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LAUREN BORAH DESIGN PORTFOLIO BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE CORNELL UNIVERSITY 2013

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LAUREN BORAHDESIGN PORTFOLIOBACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURECORNELL UNIVERSITY 2013

THE VERTICAL NEIGHBORHOODMicro Housing High-RiseNew York City, New York

created as you look back into the unit with a lowering ceiling

THE DARK FORESTLibrary and MonumentDanteum Redux ProjectRome, ItalyConcepts based on Dante’s poem, La divina commedia

The Dark Forest project utilizes the existing trees on the site, extending them onto the other street side to create a frame for the building in its surrounding context. The project reaches a height nestled under the tall canopy of the pines so that the columns become a reference to the tree trunks and create a forest-like atmosphere in the project. Every facade is treated equally, resulting in the ability to enter from any side to reach the multi-story lobby space and the interior of the library.

The project references the temple typology to address the history of the monuments surrounding it. However, the building is still not at a large enough scale to be viewable as an icon from far away. It does not try to compete with the context, but to become

area, you then encounter 20-meter dark stone columns that range in diameter from .3 meters to 1 meter rising in front of you.

The columns are irregular, with each column either growing thinner or wider as it moves up towards the roof. The columns are not placed on a regular grid, and patrons must actively inter-act with the space to enter the library. As they walk through this

in order to reach the luminous white marble box of the library within. The interior box does not touch the roof held up by the columns, in order to create the feeling of a pristine box within the dark and uncertain forest surrounding it. Additionally the bottom

and create four main program spaces that can be divided into multiple arrangements. The space becomes increasingly free plan as you ascend in order to create the feeling of less and less uncer-tainty, in opposition to the dark forest that encircles it.

ILLUMINATUSThe Sublime Effect of Light and ArtMuseum of Contemporary Religious ArtCambridge, Massachusetts(Current work in progress)

Illuminatus is a Museum of Contemporary Religious Art completing the Divinity Quad of Harvard University’s campus. Contemporary art galleries

works of art. At night, luminescence from inside the museum will emanate out the carved cuts, hinting at the religious art contained within.

These working renders were created using Maxwell Render as a tool to investigate the realistic light qualities of Massachusetts. Daytime renders

glowing outward.

ARTISTIC NATUREPerformance Space and Music CampKlammath Falls, Oregon

The Artistic Nature project is a performance space and music study center carved into the landscape of Knot’s Tableland. It takes advantage of the natural slope of the cliff by nestling the buildings into the topography, visually connecting the top of the ridge with the river below. A privacy gradient runs down the hill, with the private residence halls at the top, the classrooms midway up, and the public performance spaces at the bottom. Users can descend through the pavilion by using stairs that drop through the roof plane of each structure to arrive at the next level.

Weaving the built forms through the vegetation, and taking advantage of the natural clearings, preserves every tree on the site. The ground plane in these clearings is lifted to create a green roof, which carves out habitable space below. From above, the built form is registered only as an undulating pattern that mimics the changing curve of the Sprague River below.

In the residences and classrooms, solid walls create directional views capitalizing on the landscape and the view over Winema National Forest. These elevated buildings are set between the trees so even when you are indoors the feeling is of being surrounded by nature. Ample skylights allow light to penetrate into the recesses of each building, and glass front walls allow maximum light, air and view.

In the performance halls, the same solid wall language is used, but is reversed to create internally focused spaces. The directional walls are folded back onto themselves to shape recital halls and theaters.

SITE PLANSCALE 1” = 50’

THE GLASS FIREHOUSEFire StationIthaca, New York

The Glass Firehouse consists of three main components. A glass box with four truck bays, a bridge building containing

building with circulation connecting the two.

The design focuses on linearity and layering into the site. The main structure runs in only one direction, and extends outside of the building envelope in order to express the horizontal. The bridge building then references the stretching and linear qualities, and raises the living area out of the landscape.

As you drive past the site a glowing glass box greets you.

put on display, by lifting them to four feet above ground level with long entrance ramps. This creates a parade up to the illuminated show-room type building housing the trucks,

performing their daily tasks.

The glass box slips beneath the bridge so that vertical circulation can penetrate the building below and provide ease of evacuation during emergency calls.

to mimic the horizontal banding of the glass mullions, and continue to express the lines created from the landscape.

the public can enter into the space created by the retaining walls, which leads to the park and running trails to the south of the site. They also create a lookout spot that faces back

the project back with its context.

Ice WallBaird Prize Competition3rd Place Winner

The challenge for the Baird Prize Competition consisted of creating a membrane allowing interaction between an interior and an exterior space. The interior space could either be a kitchen, living room, or bedroom.

My project deals with the interface between the private realm of the bedroom and the public space of a communal terrace. The structure presented allows for different perceptions of the opposing space due to the change in opacity throughout the layers of material. From the interior, private space, the walls seems mostly transparent allowing light

layers closer to the exterior.

The membrane leans inward and gets thinner as it moves up as if inviting the outside in. This allows for complete privacy for the internal space while still hinting at the program behind the wall. The two spaces are connected through their views and perceptions of each other through this obscured material. Neither can completely perceive what is

Bodegas YsiosYsios WineryStructural ModelLa Guardia, Spain Architect: Santiago Calatrava

Stanford UniversityCampus CenterDrawingsPerkins+Will 2012Palo Alto, California

PROFESSIONAL

Design WorkKirksey 2012Houston, Texas

HAND DRAWING