r. d. fisher portfolio

RACHEL FISHER

Selected WorksFall ‘12-Fall ‘15

The Grid

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Bungalows at Whipsnade Zoo

Portland Re-Design

Design Build | Modular Systems

Citadella Vecchia

Case Study House

Construction Documents

Precedent Studies

Notational Drawing

Contents

Resume

Notational Drawing

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Bay comparing three buildings using open-ended systems

KimbellFt. Worth ModernNasher

Bays

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T&P Station

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Notational Drawing

Texas State FairgroundsDallas, TX1936Paul Cret, Philadelphia

Dallas City HallDallas, TX1978I.M. Pei & Partners

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Precedent Studies

Palazzo MassimoBaldassare Perruzi

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entry vertical layering

proportion horizontal rythm

structure private vs. public poche

inside vs. outside entry centeringStudy models

Analysis

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Chicken Point CabinTom Kundig

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Reviewed with and signed by design architect at UT Arlington 3.25.15

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Pavilion

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Rachel Fisher 4174 Saranac Dr. Dallas, TX 75220

Main [email protected] Copyright © 2015

Issued for Construction

Project Information

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Nike Retail Store

Project completed in Revit and Photoshop.

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DART Bus Station

Project completed in AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Photoshop.

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The Bungalows at Whipsnade

Fall 2014 | Third Semester StudioProfessor Bill Boswell

The project at Whipsnade Zoo in England requires the design of a cohesive addition to Lubetkin’s Bungalow A that would then serve as a retreat for Richard Rogers and his associates. The original bungalow resides on a slope with a plateau to the South,which limits locations for the new addition. In considering the new addition the program is split to create a public space at the entry on the North end of the site, and a private space is situated at the end of the plateau on the South end of the site. The division of the addition was a deliberate shift from the same programs in the main house (Diagram A); the dimensions of the living room shifted to create the office space and the bedrooms shifted to create the sleeping quarters. The additions were set on concrete plinths, mimicing the original bungalow and creating a transition into the hanging concrete wall, otherwise known as the “theatre of construction”.

The project explores spatial sequencing with the inclusion of a landscape-framed slot condition through the site. The vegetation is reciprical with the building in figure ground. Exposed elements of construction highlight vignettes of the English landscape and art pieces placed around the site. The diagramatic shift of program. “theater of construction”, continuous architecture and landscape dictate the movement throughout the project, verifying a deep understanding of site planning and spatial sequencing.

Vignette of Entry

Diagram A: shifted programs; notational sketch.

Axon; architecture without landscape.

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AquarelleSteven Holl

Sequence

Vignettes; sketches

Hybrid section through site

Plan view

“Theater of Construction”; pre-cast concrete wall panels, plinth, exposed rebar; steel columns, wide flange beam.

1 View through public addition2 Steel frame and moon gate to West 3 View from private addition to art

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Citadella Vecchia

Fall 2014 | Third Semester StudioProfessor Bill Boswell

Seven Rules of the Italian Garden:1 grotto; source of life2 bosco; nature untouched by man3 views to plains beyond4 water 5 allee of trees6 containment of space

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The project site is located on the Arno River in Pisa, Italy. The objective is to design a visitor center for the existing wall and boathouse at Citadella Vecchia. The program includes a permanent exhibit containing models of the city, temporary exhibit for a notable Pisan citizen (Andrea Bocelli), office space, auditorium, bar and outdoor room. A pedestrian bridge connecting the site to the Guelf Tower across the Arno is also required. The precedent for the layout and sequence of the site is the Italian Renaissance Garden, most notably Villa Gamberaia; this is evident through the use of water elements, spacial containment of the outdoor ampitheatre, views to planes beyond, allee of trees along the main axis, and bosco. Vignettes display sequence.

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Gallery House

Spring 2014 | Second Semester StudioProfessor Dennis Chiessa

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Bailey HouseCase Study 21bPierre Koenig

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Barragan House Luis Barragan

Design Build | Modular Systems

Fall 2015 | Fifth Semester StudioProfessor Ivan Perez-Rosello

The intent of the design build studio is an urban farm that will provide fresh produce for a new cafe construction a the UT Arlington. While the studio is collaborative, the individual project takes on the required task of creating a flat-packaged, modular, and temporary product that could be used to construct the entire farm. An interest in jointure, human and structural, and product requirements led to the development of a prototypical planter box.

The planter box proto is an extended square that is bifurcated diagonally to create a dynamic geometric shape. The partitioned square allows the planter to stack, align, and arrange in assembly multi-form determined by the user. Further refinements led to three styles of plastic clips that can be used to hold the planters together and for other structures within the site, thus returning to the initial studies of jointure.

The panels are constructed from laminated polygal and plexiglass framing. This makes for a lightweight, yet strong planter box with the familiarity of green house materials. In this model, materials such as rammed earth, stone, sand, etc. are used as infill within the polygal membrane to showcase the diversity of materials used in the overall site design. The clip and panel system was translated into chicken coops and other programs throughout the studio.

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Portland Re-Design

Spring 2015 | Fourth Semester StudioProfessor Joshua Nason

points

lines

planes

neighborhoods

highways

arteries

traffic

streets

healthcare

green space

entertainment

high pop. density

commerical

employment

multifamily

business

liquifiable soils

residential

Portland is a metropolitan area known for it’s block structure, city form, regulated downtown vistas, and bridges over the Willamette River.

The site chosen for the Portland re-design is a microcosm of the city. It is split by a highway, a business district separated from a predominantly residential area. The analysis is organized into points, lines, and planes (left), and translated into abstractions (below). On the site, the city hinges, bisects, and converges. Moving back into the concrete, these verbs are used to create model studies of possible scalar solutions to both the site and the city (black and white stills).

The site is divided by a major highway, or incision, so a bicycle and pedestrian path that weaves itself along the existing infrastructure (model) is proposed in order to stitch the two halves of the site together and add sectional value to the project. Green spaces, extracted from existing Portland parks, are placed in areas to connect the path back to the city at large. The urban center of Portland is placed at the hinge of the site. The project solves several things: it provides pedestrian access in a city that relies heavily on ped transportation, it connects business and residential areas across a busy highway, and it addresses a possible solution for the river and bridge system already in place on the larger Portland scale.

Site analysis and diagrams

Verb studies - hinge, bisect, and balance

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The Grid

Spring 2016 | Sixth Semester StudioProfessor John Chow

“All blocks are the same; their equivalence invalidates, at once, all the systems of articulation and differentiation that have guided the design of traditional cities. The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan’s builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies of distinction of one block from another.

The Grid’s two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos. With its imposition, Manhattan is forever immunized against any further totalitarian intervention. In the single block - the largest possible area that can fall under architectural control - it develops a maximum unit of urbanistic Ego. Since there is no hope that larger parts of the island can ever be dominated by a single client or architect, each intention - each architectural ideology - has to be realized fully within the limitations of the block. Since Manhattan is finite and the number of its blocks forever fixed, the city cannot grow in any conventional manner.

Its planning therefore can never be described a specific built configuration that is to remain static through the ages; it can only predict that whatever happens, it will have to happen somewhere within the 2,028 blocks of the Grid.It follows that one form of human occupancy can only be established at the expense of another. The city becomes a mosaic of episodes, each with its own particular life span, that contest each other through the medium of the Grid.”-Rem Koolhaus, Delirious New York

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“All blocks are the same; their equivalence invalidates, at once, all the systems of articulation and di�erentiation that have guided the design of traditional cities. The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan’s builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies of distinction of one block from another.The Grid’s two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid de�nes a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and �uid, a metropolis of rigid chaos. With its imposition, Manhattan is forever immunized against any further totalitarian intervention. In the single block - the largest possible area that can fall under architectural control - it develops a maximum unit of urbanistic Ego. Since there is no hope that larger parts of the island can ever be dominated by a single client or architect, each intention - each architectural ideology - has to be realized fully within the limiations of the block. Since Manhattan is �nite and the number of its blocks forever �xed, the city cannot grow in any conventional manner.Its planning therefore can never be described a speci�c built con�guration that is to remain static through the ages; it can only predict that whatever happens, it will have to happen somewhere within the 2,028 blocks of the Grid.It follows that one form of human occupnacy can only be established at the expense of another. The city becomes a mosaic of episodes, each with its own particular life span, that contest each other through the medium of the Grid.”

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commercial | mixed use

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Rachel Fisher

Academic Credentials

[email protected] Sarnac Dr//Dallas//75220

Work Experience

Skills

Architecture (2012-2016)University of Texas -ArlingtonGPA: 3.61Biology (2012-2012)Dallas Baptist UniversityGPA: 3.21Architecture (2010-2011)University of KansasGPA: 3.78

Kevin SloanPrincipal Kevin Sloan [email protected]

Grant SkeldonDirector and FounderInitiative [email protected]

Michael HellinghausenPrincipalOmniplan214.826.7080mhellinghausen@omniplan.com

AutocadRhinoSketchUpBonzaiRevitPhotoshopIllustratorInDesignNotational Sketching

References

Community Design Studio • Ft Worth • TXDesigner• Assisted in design and organization of community projects• Interacted with community members to uncover city needs

Omniplan • Dallas • TXIntern• Assisted in all design phases of multiple project types• Attended project management and coordination meetings

UT Arlington • Arlington • TXAdjunct Instructor• Taught Commercial Design Drawing to Continuing Education students in the Division of Enterprise Development

Initiative Network • Dallas • TXDirector Assistant - Intern• Attended meetings with influencial Dallas leaders• Developed and maintained network partnerships.

North Dallas Young Life • Dallas • TXStudent Staff - Cary Middle School• Created and maintained an after-school program• Built relationships with DISD school administrators

Activities // HonorsUTA AIAS • TXCAMP Mentorship Director

UTA USGBCS • TXEvent Planner

Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society • TXMember

Initiative Network • TXMember

Breakdown Ministries • TXMember

Templin Resident Hall Government • KSDorm President

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(May 2015- Dec 2015)

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(Jan 2012 - January 2014)

(Aug 2010 - May 2011)

(Nov 2015- Present)

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(July 2014- May 2015)

(July 2013- July 2014)

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