Alicia Brown Portfolio

Alicia K. Brown

Team Members: Yasamin Arbabi, Edgar Bueso-Inchausti, Dominic Dunn, Sammy Gao, Cristina Garcia, Dorota Glab, Kornelia Krueger, Laura King, Leif Lomo, Midori Ainoura, Alexia Petridis, and Grace Tan

I worked on this project for close to three months. The first thing that I did was rework and create a pleth-ora of diagrams. I was then tasked with sections and lanscape drawings. There was a continuous reworking that I was responsible for and the whole experience taught me how to work more efficiently and effectively than I knew I could.

Project Name: Aerocity Location: Delhi, India

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates June - August 2010

Aerocity

Team Members: Yasamin Arbabi, Lowri Banfield, Broandon Buck, John Bushell, Dominic Dunn, Jim Dunster, Re-becca Egea, Mark French, Aman-da George, Rami Hage-Ali, Mona Haidar, Ken Faulkner, Je-Uk Kim, Cindy Liu, Leif Lomo, Sweta Patel, Rafael Pulido, Bo Youn Song, Xi-aoxi Song, Jacqueline Stluka, Grace Tan, Murat Uyanmis, Louis Vorster, Pamela Wackett, Wesley Veira, Sergy Yushchenko, and Al-anna Zie

I worked on this project for close to four months. The site for this building was already being prepared when I began. It was in it’s final stages of design so there were plenty of finishing touches to be considered. I was charged with checking and cross-checking schedules, at first. Later I put together proposal packages on building and landscape signage. I also did a lot of work on visual communications throughout the build-ing. This project demanded that I do everything from furniture construction drawings to designing logo fixtures.

Project Name: International Bank of Qatar Location: Qatar

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates August - December 2010

The National Center for Arts and Technology, which is a part of the Manchester Bidwell Corporation, isconsidering Austin, Texas as a site for one of their branch centers. We worked closely with ManchesterBidwell and Bill Strickland himself to create prototypes for this future facility. Our challenge wvas to useprospective sites that were chosen through cooperation and create a place that could uphold the valuesand goals of the corporation.

Project Name: Austin Center for Arts and Technology Location: Austin

Professor Elizabeth Danze Spring 2011

Austin Center for Arts and Technology

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Austin Center for Arts and Technology

Casa de Luz, a fitness and wellness center, was the inspiration for this project, and we were located on the corner of Sixth and Congress which is a prime spot in the middle of downtown Austin. I started with the idea of wrapping the wall and floor and used this to help me define my spaces.

Project Name: Lifestyle Center Location: Austin

Professor Elizabeth Danze Fall 2007

Lifestyle Center

This semester was our comprehensive semester. We were to incorporate all the different aspects of design that we had learned over the previous two and a half years and use them to produce an efficient and well thought out design. There was a lot more emphasis on structure and green building this semester, and we were required to really understand the “ins and outs” of the choices we made during our process.

Project Name: Fall Creek Winery Location: Austin

Professor Uli Dangel Spring 2009

Fall Creek Winery Alicia BrownDesign VI

Ground Floor Plan [1/8”]

Second Floor Plan [1/8”]

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Grape recievingv/ Crushing

Fermentation

Pressing

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Bottles and SuppliesMechanical

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Loading dockTool shop

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Employee Areas

Retail

Tasting

Dining

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Kitchen

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Fermentation

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Laboratory

Dining


Ground Floor Plan [1/8”]

Second Floor Plan [1/8”]

Section A

Section A

Section B


Fermentation

Pressing

Processing

Bottles and SuppliesMechanical



Reception

Employee Areas

Retail

Tasting

Dining

Rest rooms

Kitchen

Touring Level

Laboratory


Fermentation

Pressing

Processing



Laboratory

Dining

Fall Creek Winery

Fall Creek Winery


Roof Structure: • Standing Seam metal roof (2 inches high at seams) • Sealing and weather proofi ng layer

• Insolation (6 inches) • Decking boards (2 inches) • Wood parapet with fl ashing on left • Gutter on right end

Structure: • Square steel columns (6 and 8 inches) • Steel beams (18 inches in depth) • Wood joists (1 foot in depth) connected with steel plate through the center and bolts • Wood decking boards

• Light wood frame curtain wall with tile or plaster fi nish Exterior wall:

• Interior wall fi nish (tile or plaster)• Rigid insulation (6 inches)• Sealing and weather proofi ng layer• Standing seam metal on exterior

2nd fl oor: (from bottom to top) • Wood decking boards • Insulation (4 inches) • Radiant heating and cooling tubes with wood partitions • Thermal plating • Wood fi nishing

Exterior wall: • Interior wood fi nish • Insulation • Sealing and weather proofi ng • Exterior wall fi nish

• Gutter

• Parapet with fl ashing

Foundation and fi rst fl oor: • 2 feet footings • 6 inch slab on grade • Sealing layer • Concrete topping with radiant heating and cooling tubes • Wood fi nishing

• Flashing

• Double glazed facade with wood mullions

• `Dropped ceiling with ducts

Wall Section [1/2”]

Fall Creek Winery


Roof Structure: • Standing Seam metal roof (2 inches high at seams) • Sealing and weather proofi ng layer

• Insolation (6 inches) • Decking boards (2 inches) • Wood parapet with fl ashing on left • Gutter on right end

Structure: • Square steel columns (6 and 8 inches) • Steel beams (18 inches in depth) • Wood joists (1 foot in depth) connected with steel plate through the center and bolts • Wood decking boards

• Light wood frame curtain wall with tile or plaster fi nish Exterior wall:

• Interior wall fi nish (tile or plaster)• Rigid insulation (6 inches)• Sealing and weather proofi ng layer• Standing seam metal on exterior

2nd fl oor: (from bottom to top) • Wood decking boards • Insulation (4 inches) • Radiant heating and cooling tubes with wood partitions • Thermal plating • Wood fi nishing

Exterior wall: • Interior wood fi nish • Insulation • Sealing and weather proofi ng • Exterior wall fi nish

• Gutter

• Parapet with fl ashing

Foundation and fi rst fl oor: • 2 feet footings • 6 inch slab on grade • Sealing layer • Concrete topping with radiant heating and cooling tubes • Wood fi nishing

• Flashing

• Double glazed facade with wood mullions

• `Dropped ceiling with ducts

Wall Section [1/2”]


Section B [1/8”]

West Elevation [1/8”]


Section B [1/8”]

West Elevation [1/8”]


• Strip diffusers • Round Duct begins with radius of 4.5” and 295 CFM

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• Strip diffusers • Round Duct begins with radius of 6” and 681 CFM

• Strip diffusers • Duct begins with radius of 6” and 539 CFM

• Strip diffusers • Duct begins with radius of 6” and 466 CFM

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159.7 CFM each

292.6 CFM

146.3 CFM

439 CFM

Fresh air in-take (14’ high)

Cooling tower

Air Handling unit

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Return air vent

Return air vent

Return air vent

Return air vent

HVAC and Structural Diagram [1/16”]

Fall Creek Winery

This semester was an opportunity to branch out. The subject for this studio was CinemArchitecture. We learned about architecture from a different perspective and used thirty second/frame exercises to explore space. We were to create a thesis about movement through space from our drawings and produce a final pre-sentation that explained our theory. My focus was on how a person remembered a space.

Project Name: CinemArchitecture Location: Austin

Professor Nik Nikolov Fall 2008

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For this project we started with a simple geometric drawing of rectangles and lines then used lines of exten-sion and creative hierarchy to produce a 2D drawing. From this we gradually made a 3D model by interpreting the spaces that we created, and chose two spaces and thought about the light experience in them.

Project Name: Lines of Extension Location: Austin

Professor Bill Jackson Fall 2006

Lines of Extension

Our focus for the first half of the semester was to understand our corridor as a community and become familiar with it’s needs. With this knowledge we were to produce a library that met some of these needs and could potentially be accepted in the neighborhood. The site that I chose along the corridor was at the very end and I focused on the different faces of this corner and how to draw people from each. Then to create an interesting and compelling place to be.

Project Name: Library Location: Austin

Professor Charlton Lewis Spring 2008

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Library

Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center needed an entry pavilion to help orient and direct its visitors. My objective was to do this as clearly and cleanly as possible with the least amount of movements. At the same time I wanted to create some interest with my interactive openings in the wall along the way.

Project Name: Wild Flower Center Entry Location: Austin

Professor Elizabeth Danze Fall 2007

Wild Flower Center Entry

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory was beginning the process of building a new laboratory and we consulted with the on our project, making them our client for this semester. We were asked to keep our proj-ect focussed by creating an over-arching theme, and my theme throughout the project was interaction.

N.R.E.L. Alicia Brown | 05.13.10

Advanced Design | Lang StudioPage [1]

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Over arching theme: Interaction

My overall theme is Interaction. This consist of the interaction between different buildings, between different parts of the pro-gram, between the inside and outside environment, but most im-portantly, between people. Hopefully, by working on all the former, I will reach the gaol of the latter and people will make interacting between others outside of their niche a part of their routine and not just as an exception to their routine.



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Project Name: National Renewable Energy Laboratory Location: Boulder, Colorado

Professor Werner Lang Spring 2010



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Plan | Basement [1/32” = 1’ 0”]

Plan | Floor 2 [1/32” = 1’ 0”]

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Elevation | South [1/32” = 1’ 0”]

Elevation | North [1/32” = 1’ 0”]



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Section B [1/32” = 1’ 0”]

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Plan | Floor 1 [1/32” = 1’ 0”]

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In this semester of Visual Communications we were focusing on developing our drawing skills and did a lot of different freehand drawings to become familiar with technique and the tools of drawing.

Project Name: Freehand Drawings Location: Austin

Professor Joyce Rosner Spring 2007

Freehand drawings

Architecture is not only about solving problems. Anyone can solve a problem. It’s about producing an elegance, out of these situations, that would otherwise not have been there. Architects create, with these issues, a harmony and delight that are unique.

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