mary schartman architecture portfolio fall 2015

MARY SCHARTMANARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

AUTUMN 2015

MARY SCHARTMAN

2001 - 2002

2005 - 2013

2014 - [2018]

EDUCATION 2001 to Present

Master of Architecture Class of 2018University of Cincinnati College of Design Architecture Art and PlanningSchool of Architecture and Interior DesignResidential and Public-Project Design Studios, Digital and Hand Drafting, Graphic Representation, Rapid Prototyping, Construction Technology, Environmental Systems, Passive Design Strategies, Structures, History and Theory of Architecture

Bachelor of Fine Arts Class of 2013University of Cincinnati College of Design Architecture Art and PlanningSchool of ArtDrawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Digital Image Composition, Color Theory, Art History, Critical Theory, German, Sociology, Mathematics

Dartmouth CollegeUndeclared MajorArchitecture Design Studio, Environmental Studies, Psychology, History, Literature, Drawing, Painting, Music

AWARDS 2015 Newton Tebow Scholarship for academic achievement2013 DAAPworks Directors’ Choice Award for outstanding thesis project2011 School of Art Sophomore Award of Excellence for studio work

2005 - 2014

2013 - 2014

2015

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE 2005 to Present

AIA Practice Academy Cincinnati, OhioParticipated in sponsored series of practitioner led workshops focusing on various aspects of architectural practice: codes and regulatory system, firm organization, construction documents and process, small and large project workflow.

Torrice Media Cincinnati, OhioProduction AssociateManaged the office of a documentary film and media producer. Designed and prepared PR materials. Organized and managed video production files.

Myra’s Dionysus Cincinnati, OhioManager, Line Cook, Prep Cook, ServerManaged a small but busy neighborhood restaurant. Responsible for preparing high quality food, organizing work-flow and training, daily problem resolution.

AutoCAD, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Revit, Sketchup, Sefaira, Digital and Hand Drafting, Model fabrication, Research, Writing

GROUP SHOWS 2013 “Rites of Passage” Manifest Creative Research Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio2013 “Directors’ Choice Exhibition” Reed Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio

PORTFOL IO CONTENTS

CIVIC CONTEXT: MARTIAL ARTS CENTER+ Access + Visibility + Daylighting

ORDER AND TECTONICS: MILLER HOUSE ADDITION+ Supple Form + Building Analysis + Addition Design

DESIGN VISUALIZATION: A HOUSE FOR CINDY SHERMAN+ Composition + Representation + Rendering

TOPOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS+ Topo Blocks + Wire Pass

HAND DRAWING+ Architectural + Observational + Sketching

I am drawn to architecture as a practical art and as a social practice. The structures we build and the spaces we inhabit both frame our views of the world and structure our relationships to each other and to the natural world around us.

Presented here is a collection of some of my recent studio work created in my first year of study in the Master of Architecture program at the University of Cincinnati and during my prior course of undergraduate study in Fine Arts. In the designs shown here, I have paid close attention to the relationship between structure and site, continuing an exploration of terrain and landscape systems begun in previous studio work. I have included examples of drawing as this medium remains a vital method for exploring form.

As I begin my career, I would like to continue to consider the relationship of the built environment to both social and ecological systems. I very much look forward to applying the skills I have learned in class and to gaining a tangible understanding of how architecture is practiced.

C IV IC CONTEXTCOMMUN ITY MART IAL ARTS CENTER

ACCESS VISIBILITY DAYLIGHTING

PLANS SECTIONS ELEVATIONS

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The goal of this project is the design of a public martial arts center at a site on the edge of Over-The-Rhine, a neighborhood of Cincinnati. This center seeks to provide an open space, drawing people from multiple communities together to learn and train in martial arts. The design is structured by three ideas: access, visibility, and daylighting. The result is a rectilinear steel-structured building that contains the programmatic space, while being visually and physically permeable.

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PLANS

GROUND FLOOR PLANStairs from Hughes, Access to Building and Elevator

PLANS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN Reception, Cafe, Viewing Area, Locker Rooms, Training Space

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THIRD FLOOR PLANApartments

SECOND FLOOR PLANHeavy Bag Training, Private Training, Offices, Patio, Outdoor Training Area

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SECTIONS

LONGITUDINAL SECTIONLooking WEST

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SECTIONS

TRANSVERSE SECTIONLooking NORTH

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ELEVATIONS

EAST ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

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WEST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

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ACCESS

HUGHES STREET LIBERTY STREETSYCAMORE STREET

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HUGHES STREET

SYCAMORE STREET

LIBERTY STREET

It was important to provide a primary entrance that was equally accessible from the two communities adjacent to the site: the more affluent section of Mount Auburn to the east, and the less advantaged Over-The-Rhine to the west. Though the project sits on Sycamore Street, this entrance is pulled west towards Hughes Street and is visible from both direction. A path pulls from Hughes to a stair that leads to the entrance. Vehicular access from the south is off Liberty Street via Cogswell Alley. This entrance provides access to the elevator and also has views into the training space above.

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VISIBILITY

GROUND FLOOR STRIP WINDOWSView into training space

FIRST FLOOR STRIP WINDOWSView into training space

VIEW FROM BLEACHER AREATo training floor and locker rooms

VIEW FROM SECOND FLOOR PATIOTraining floor below, offices to right

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APARTMENT 1private entrance

BAG TRAINING AND PRIVATE TRAINING

LOCKER ROOMS

PARKING AND ENTRANCE

APARTMENT 2private entrance

PATIO AND OFFICES

MAIN ENTRANCE CAFE AND VIEWING

TRAINING SPACE

STORAGE

SPLIT-LEVEL LAYOUT

The project is divided programmatically into two wings surrounding the central training area: one more private and devoted to martial arts activities (green), and one more public and devoted to viewing and peripheral functions (orange). These wings are connected by a circulation column. Each wing is capped by apartments (purple) which are accessed through a private entrance.

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DAYLIGHTING

SOUTH FACING WINDOWSLet daylight into all spaces

LIGHT SHELVESTo allow winter light and reflect summer light

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ORDER AND TECTON ICSM I LLER HOUSE ADD IT ION

SUPPLE FORM HOUSE ANALYSIS ADDITION

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As the first project for the Master of Architecture I studio, this project was as much about learning the process of design as it was about the acquisition of skills in representation, documentation and presentation. It began with the creation of a “Supple Form”: a compelling object sited for the hand. This form, originally constructed in clay, was translated through materials - foam, wood, 3D-printed plastic - as a process to learn various means of formmaking. The project’s second phase involved the study and analysis of a significant house - the Miller House in Columbus Indiana designed by Eero Saarinen. The final component of the project was the design of an addition to the Miller House, based on the supple form, accomplished through physical and digital model iterations.

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SUPPLE FORM

RIGHT

FRONT

LEFT

BACK

TOP

BOTTOM

CLAY WOOD

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RIGHT

FRONT

LEFT

BACK

TOP

BOTTOM

FOAM 3D-PRINT

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MILLER HOUSE

MILLER HOUSE PLANGraphite on paper

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ZONING DIAGRAMRhino model

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ADDITION

RECLAIMED MEADOW

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RECLAIMED MEADOW DAN KILEY GARDENS

This addition to the Miller house is sited as the gateway to a reclaimed meadow in what is now the lawn to the west of the Miller house. Visitors walk out across a bridge to a rooftop patio for views elevated above the field before passing through the addition for access to paths across the meadow.

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ADDITION

ROUTE OF ACCESS TO FIELD

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ADDITION

EAST ELEVATION

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EAST ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

ADDITION

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ADDITION

ENTRY LEVEL PLANMEADOW LEVEL PLAN

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ENTRY LEVEL PLAN

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DES IGN V I SUAL I ZAT IONA HOUSE FOR C INDY SHERMAN

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This project was the design of a house as a representation of the ideas of a notable person of our choice. In designing a house for the artist Cindy Sherman, whose work uses photography to critique identity I sought to echo these ideas in the architecture of the space. In her work, identity is an image, a presentation, a perception. Her characters and the drama of the situations they appear to inhabit exist only on the transparent medium of film. Any narrative exists only as created in the mind of the viewer. The facade is literally the image of a house: panels of fritted glass printed with a photograph of another building..The final product is a three panel work combining graphite drawings and photo-transfers.

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STAGE-SETS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

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SITUATED IN PLAN RENDERED IN PERSPECTIVE

The interior layout is pulled from the works in her “Untitled Film Stills” series. A sequence of rooms as constructed stage-sets were derived from each photograph and arranged to form the interior spaces of the house.

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STUD IO ARTTOPOGRAPH IC EXPLORAT IONS

TOPO-BLOCKS WIRE-PASS

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Much of my studio work created during my undergraduate education in Fine Arts dealt with terrain and topographic maps: specifically of sites I have visited and am drawn to in the desert of southern Utah; sites which were only partially accessible to me at a distance through the study of photographs and maps, and the drawings and models I make from them. Drawings were explored in graphite. Digital models were created from the maps and used to produce physical works through CNC-machining and laser-cutting. In creating this work, I developed skills in drawing, 3d modeling and in transferring an idea from concept to paper to physical object.

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TOPO-BLOCKS

TOPO-BLOCKS45 CNC-milled birch blocks2” x 2” x 2-5” each

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These CNC-milled Topo-Blocks are a model of a map, which is itself a model of a place – the left fork of the North Creek in Zion National Park. This piece is an attempt to make this distant landscape accessible, conceivable, tangible. The blocks are made to be handled, examined, grasped, arranged. This model shows one way of representing a landscape, and like all representations it necessarily falls short of fully presenting the subject. Yet something new is created, a series of minute sculptural objects that speak to the preciousness of the landscape itself.

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TOPO-BLOCKS

TOPO-BLOCKS COMPOSITEDigital and physical model

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WIRE-PASS

WIRE PASS PHOTOGRAPHSDigital prints on paper5” x 5” each

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This work was a gallery installation composed of photographs, drawings and models. Sequential photographs taken on a hike through the Wire-Pass canyon hang from a cantilevered beam and continue onto the gallery wall. The drawings presented included “Landscape Sections” which were hand-drawn from the elevation data of the topographic map of the site. Using the same data, I created a computer model of the information which was then used to create the laser-cut pieces of the physical model pictured. This project became as much about the representational systems used to describe the landscape as it was about the landscape itself.

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WIRE-PASS

WIRE-PASS MODELLaser-cut museum board14” x 18” x 8”

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LANDSCAPE SECTION IGraphite on paper15” x 15”

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HAND DRAW INGARCH ITECTURAL , OBSERVAT IONAL

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HAND DRAW INGARCH ITECTURAL , OBSERVAT IONAL

Drawing is a way of thinking. When something - a building, an object, an idea - is studied for the purpose of drawing, it is seen differently. Structures, patterns and relationships are found, created, presented. Drawing by hand adds a tactile aspect and is an indispensable way to investigate form, texture and relationships. Pages 53 and 54 show studies of architectural renderings. Pages 55 and 56 show drawings from life: explorations of representing 3-dimensional objects in a 2-dimensional medium. Sketching has always been a way in which I investigate the world around me.

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HAND DRAW INGARCH ITECTURAL

BEINECKE SECTIONGraphite on paper10” x 10”

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HAND DRAW INGARCH ITECTURAL

SNYDERMAN HOUSE AXONGraphite on paper10” x 10”

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HAND DRAW INGOBSERVAT IONAL

DRAWINGS FROM LIFEGraphite or pastel on paper

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HAND DRAW INGOBSERVAT IONAL

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HAND DRAW INGSKETCHES

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HAND DRAW INGSKETCHES

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THANK YOU

MARY SCHARTMAN525 McAlpin Avenue

Cincinnati, Ohio 45220(513) 325 - 8471

[email protected]/MARYSCHARTMAN

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