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riannaBENN-ETT*>>PORT-FOLIO

*>>hellohelloMy name is Rianna Bennett. I am a twenty two year old architecture student with four years of design educaion from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. I love traveling, running, and cooking.

I am seeking an experience to help me gain knowledge and understanding of the materilization of innovative and forward thinking ideas.

I am incredibly self motivated, proactive, and detail oriented. I take great pride in what I do and I have a great eye for layout and presentation graphics.

Here is some of my work.

grocery and fresh market

jintang masterplan

ceramic prototyping

reactive fold

andy warhol foundation

new orleans public library

in plane sight

prospect delivered

the do! nut

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CONTENTSarchitecture and design portfoliospring 2012

south facade renderelevation and section

grocery infographic

NO ACCESS TO CAR

DRIVING ALONE

AFRICAN AMERICAN

OTHER 4 %

14 %

17 %

PUBL

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7 %

1 < 1.

5 MILE

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66 %

49 %

68 %

28%

6 %

13 %

27.5 %

0.5 < 1 MILE

20 %

7 %OTHER

WALK

<1.5 MILES

DISTANCE TO GROCERYMODES OF TRANSPORTATION

ETHNICITY

> 0.5 MILES

FOOD DESERTS IN NEW ORLEANS

THEN

38

18

NOW

POPULATION CHANGE SINCE 2005

LOSS OF GROCERY STORES SINCE 2005

AVERAGE DISTANCE TO NEAREST GROCERY

24.41 %52.64 %0.83 MI

2005

2007 20092011

454,863 294,488 300,845 343,825

With a goal of aiding the food desert crisis in the Bywater and Marigny, this design brings a full service grocery store, daily farmers market and restaurant to the neighborhood. The location alone Elysian Fields allows for access to the site via public transportation or car. Parking is provided for customers as well as additional parking allocated for residential permit holders. The grocery store component is lifted off of the ground floor to ensure constant activation of the street level with the farmers market and restaurant. Large atrium spaces within the grocery component provide section connections between different programmatic elements, creating a unified design and user experience.

GROCERY AND FRESH MARKETNew Orleans, LASpring 201201

south facade render

SITE

MASS

RAISE

LANDSCAPE

CARVE

massing diagram

section perspectiveinterior render

ground floor plan

section perspectiveinterior render

render from university entrancerender of new CBD

masterplan

This masterplan, designed while interning at the Tulane Regional Urban Design Center (TRUDC), proposes a masterplan for the rapidly developing city of Jintang in the western Chengdu province of China. The client stressed the need for three incoming university campuses and cultural amenities including libraries, a cultural center, a sports complex, and a museum. In addition to these components, the team at TRUDC proposed specific zoning and nodal arrangements as well as a major decrease in city’s standard block dimension, an increasing problem in developing China. The team also worked with group of environmental and water specialists to ensure that the most environmentally conscious strategies were adopted while designing the masterplan.

This work was done in conjunction with the American Planning Association, who was responsible for financial business as well as much of the communication between TRUDC and the Chinese clients.

masterplan

concept diagrams

JINTANG MASTERPLANChengdu, ChinaIn Progress02

354 M

512 M

362 M

92 M

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100 m 500 m 2000 m

design drawingspouring molds

build forms

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RIANNA BENNETT

3.86” 3.25” 2.58”

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unglazed formsbuilding prototype

This project, produced for independent study, explores the current and potential use of ceramic components as architectural forms. This investigation covers the advances in digital technology and fabrication and explores how this progress can be applied to ceramic architectural materials. The production and usage of ceramic block and tiles have a vast ethnological and design history. Ceramic modules with standardized measurements have been used as an effective, affordable, and sustainable replacement for stone for centuries. Recently, nostalgia for the ceramic module and technological advancements in prefabrication have increased possibilities for prefabricated non load bearing brick facades. The plastic and formable nature of clay offers endless options for it’s uses in contemporary generative designs, achieving increasingly complex organic and natural forms and ornamentation without sacrificing it’s structural capabilities. The current form is a srtuctural component, similar in dimension to a brick, with a repetitive faceted design. The tile was designed using Rhino modeling software and a set of prototypes were built with polyurethane coated cipboard. The prototypes were uzed to create plaster molds which could then porduce identical, structural sound, ceramic forms.

CERAMIC PROTOYPINGNew Orleans, LAIn Progress03

south facade render

north and south elevations

north and south elevations

sectional model

This project was a renovation of an existing post-modern science research building on the Tulane University campus. This monolithic, introspective structure built during the cold war era, was replaced with a dynamic and responsive facade. The strategically twisted and curved banding along the facade was developed from the analysis of sun patterns and pedestrianvisibility and circulation around the site. This created new spaces and relationships between the interior and exterior of the building while centralizing and hilighting public spaces within the design. The continuious and fluid folding of the bands varys the level of perceptability and privacy along the facade of the building to break up the solidity of the original facade.

REACTIVE FOLDNew Orleans, LAFall 201004

green dots distinguish the areas that are blocked from pedestrian view varying in size based on the percentage of the facade that they obstruct

by overlaying the two diagrams, a pattern becomes visible and allows a method for the placement of apertures and framed views into the building

lighter areas display parts of the facade that are in direct sunlight for the majority of the day

north facade render

north facade render

section detail

plan detail

facade detail

entry render

MASS ALONG STREET DIVIDE PROGRAM AND SCULPT ENTRY

INSERT PUBLIC SPACE MAXIMIZE VIEWS OF RIVER VISUALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY CONNECT BARS

entry render

detail section south facade

This project, located along the Mississippi River, explored the dichotomy of the river axis and the street connection as driving forces in the design. The development of an interior courtyard created two bars that angle slighting towards each other, emphasizing the axial relationship. Two connection bars are established to visually and functionally bridge the differing programmatic elements. These bars house the gallery spaces for the project, showcasing this space as a key element in the project.

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATIONNew Orleans, LASpring 201105

sectional facade render

interior render

detail section north facade

terrace render

shift for outdoor terracesmaximize square footagecurved to fit siterequired square footage53.600 sq ft

PRIMARY AXIS

PUBLICTRANSPORTATION

SECONDARY AXIS

SITE + CONTEXT

SITE + VIEWS

SITE +ACESSIBILITY

This program for a public library in the French Quarter incorporates community elements with traditional components. Through the exploration and application of the urban flaneur, visitors are invited to traverse the structure while remaining in contact with programmatially similar elements creating a continuous iternterary. By developing juxtaposing trajectory paths, sections of floors were manipulated to connect those above and below. A path consisting of ramps traversing the light filled atrium was implimented for the library visitor. This trajectory connected dynamic elements such as media centers, cafes and the communiy component. In contrast, a direct vertical circulation route was designed for the “everyday” user, tying together reading rooms and book stack areas.

NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARYNew Orleans, LAFall 201006

study models

exterior renderinterior render

study models

elevations

model photos

render from boardwalk

render from boardwalk

raised box form

made adaptable

views framed

views accentuated

This outdoor classroom and pavilion in the Turtle Cove Wetlands Preservation area of Manchac Louisiana provides a place for education and work storage along the endangered marsh area. In addition this pavilion was to be used by researchers in the area and needed to possess utilitarian, every day qualities. This facility is equipped with a water storage cistern and a solar panel making it eco-conscious independently operating. The main idea behind this project was finding a way for the visiting student to physically interact with the marshland in hopes to preserve it. This was achieved with the use of various framed views throughout the design, forcing the visitor to focus on different qualities of his or her surrounding that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.

This project was one of ten recognized and published by the Tulane School of Architecture in a class wide competition.

IN PLANE SIGHTNew Orleans, LAFall 200907

plan and section

diagrams illustration framed views

model photo

photo from sidewalkdiagram

aerial photomaterials diagram

Being tasked with creating a sensory experience from recycled or recyclable materials in school wide competition, the shipping pallet was adopted as a construction module. The students examined forms of architecture that existed before architects in order to produce a dynamic form from a static module. The fluid shape creates pockets of occupiable space that are denoted by benches and shelves. The form is also traversable. Sod and flowers are planted within the pallets to establish the form as a walkable extension of the landscape. Rather than isolating or enhancing one sense, the installation works to heighten all senses by altering the visitors equilibrium. Traversing the pallet, an otherwise uncommon tectonic object, divorces visitors from the ground plane and results in the experiences of joy and apprehension.

PROSPECT DELIVEREDNew Orleans, LAFall 201008

night photo

process diagrams

This deign came from the desire to create a singular, didactic form that would capture the spirit of the school wide Architects Week Competition while expressing the idea of collective sharing. Mobility was the driving design parameter behind the form, lendin to the obvious wheel form. This object is easily identifiable even to a non designer. The simple function of a wheel is very acessable to anyone who may enounter the object. The form invites an equitable discourse and proides a stage for a re-interpretation of soap box expression, the most crucial function of this project prompt.

This project was selected by a panel of judges as the winner for this design build competition.

THE DO! NUTNew Orleans, LASpring 201209

night photo

process diagrams

axonometric and section

day photo

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