CHAMBERLAINE DIANNE BEARD 2009-2010

Canal Street Fire StationCross Section1/16”= 1’ 0”Chamberliane Beard

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Canal Street Fire StationCross Section1/16”= 1’ 0”Chamberliane Beard

Canal Street Fire StationCross Section1/16”= 1’ 0”Chamberliane Beard

Canal Street Fire StationCross Section1/16”= 1’ 0”Chamberliane Beard

“An architect is the drawer of Dreams.” -Grace McGarvie

PROJECTS

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The NEST PerspectiveChamberlaine Beard

Canal Street Fire StationCross Section1/16”= 1’ 0”Chamberliane Beard

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THE NEST The Natural Education Station at Turtle Cove

Project ObjectiveDeisng a single outdoor room in a rural marshland set-ting for educational use with a focus on how people inhabit the space and the material condition of con-struction. The outdoor classwoom should deepen the awareness of the environment.

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Fire Station, Farmers Market, and Community Center

Location: Manchac Marshlands

Client: Turtle Cove Preservation Society

Project Dates: September - Octo-ber 2009

The design responds to the environment both in materiality and form. Its circular components provide a soft, or-ganic look, which allow one’s eyes to slip past the structures, maintaining a focus on the landscape, one’s ultimate field of study. In an effort to accomadate the clien’t small budget and long-term plans, the proposed design is composed of a “kit of parts”, in which additions can be made if/when funding becomes available. Begin-ning with a basic platform, the structure is meant to grow, incrementally, into a fully functional outoor classroom, complete with soalr panels, a composting toilet, and a water collection system.

The outdoor classroom is constructed entirely of managably-sized, local timber product, allowing for easy and cheap material transport.

Process Models Perspective

Facing Page:Site plan

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The NEST PerspectiveChamberlaine Beard

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Floorplan1/8” = 1’0”

Section1/8” = 1’0”

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Aerial View

Slat Orientation and Views Construction Sequence

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THE CANAL STREET FIRE STATION Fire Station and Community Center

Project Objective Creat a socially responsible design for a fire station as well as a communal function, with a focus on program-matic components and users to enhance community support and exchange.

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Fire Station, Farmers Market, and Community Center

Location: 3100 Block of St. Charles

Client: New Orleans Fire Departmen (NOFD)

Project Dates: October - December 2009

The project responds to the program with a compact design, which allows for immediate access to the ap-paratus bay at any time. The design clearly defines the different types of spaces (administra-tive, living, and apparatus/maintenance), emphasizing the more important spaces; the double height apparatus bay & living spaces sit very central whiel the lesser of-fice and maintenance areas are pulled out to the sides. All components are linked by a central bar of public space that takes the public from the Canal Street side, back through the fire station and out to meet the community aspects of the site. This bar is articulated by a semi-transparent tower

(a node to the church across the street) as well as a glass-wall foot bridge which serves as the firefighters’ private entrance to the community spaces. Althogh it also serves to compli-ment the stylistic language of the fire sta-tion, the community aspects are derrived directly from the regulating lines of the surrounding site, tying it all back to the community it serves.

Division of spaces, axonometric

Longitudinal Section1/32” = 1’0”

Facing Page:Site plan

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Maintenance/Apparatus

Administrative/Training

Residence/Living

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Connecting with the Community

The proposed community aspect consists of a large open-air warehouse space, a tutoring center, and a small grocery store and community kichen. The warehouse space can function as a flea/farmers market, exhibition space, or outdoor theatre and is directly connected to the fire station via an elevated foot-bridge at the second level. The tutoring center, directly across from the school allows fro quick and easy access to students. The grocery and community kitchen has a language that relates to the houses it fronts.

Perspective, looking back at fire station through community aspect.

Facing Page:Site layout process models.

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THE CASCADE AFFECT Freret St. Dormitory

Project ObjectiveEstablish commenity, leadership, self governance, and intellectural engagemnt via the design of academic and private components for thirty uppper classman students on the limited Freret St. site.

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Freret Street mini-Dorm

Location: 5112 Freret St.

Client: Tulane University

Project Dates: January - March 2010

Through the use of overlapping circulation and lounge spaces, the pro-posed desing fosters “inevitable interac-tion”. As residents move up or down through these stepping public spaces to access the private rooms, it is certain that they will interact with other residents. The spacious, open lounges of-fer plenty of light via glass walls, skylights and courtyards to create pleasent and desirable public spaces. Emphasizing the desirable quality of these public spaces encourages more “lounge living” in the hopes that residents will spend less time cooped up in their rooms. The entrance to the dorm is lo-cated on the Soniat St. side to emphasize and utilize the benefits of the second lot,

which is programmed as a social “green” space. Locating the resident entrance off of Freret St. allows the community aspect (Tulane City Center) to have a stronger place amongst the more public domain.

Axonometric Soniat Elevation1/32” = 1’0”

Facing Page:Site plan.

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Floor Plans1/32” = 1’0”

Bas Relief Model

Longitudinal Section1/32” = 1’0”

Transverse Section1/32” = 1’0”

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ACTING EXTRUSIONS A Pavillion

Project ObjectiveAlter a 20’ x 20’ x 20’ volume to create a series of twenty different, albeit related pavillions in a clear and controlled fashion.

The resulting design is the product of digital experi-mentation and reads as a playful, yet practical pavil-lion.

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A FOOTFALL OF FASCINATION A Staircase

Project ObjectiveExperiment with form to develop a complex surface strategy forming a stair condition.

The design abstracts the opening of a clam shell, flowing dramatically from the second level down to the ground.