Kristin Bevis / Portfolio

RELEVANT SKILLS

3d Modeling + Documentation / AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros 3D + Grasshopper, SketchUpRendering / Maxwell Render, V-Ray RenderGraphics / Adobe Creative Suite + Hand drawingPhysical Modeling / Various analog + digital modeling and fabrication techniques Miscellaneous / Microsoft Office Suite, GIS

KRISTIN BEVIS / Masters of Architecture, 2014

CONTACT / 832.287.6403 / kristinbevis@gmail.com / www.kristinbevis.com

EDUCATION

The University of Colorado, DenverMaster of Architecture CandidateSummer 2014GPA: 3.83

Danish Institute for Study AbroadCompleted architecture coursework in Copenhagen, Denmark in Summer 2012

The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Business Administration, MarketingGraduated May 2006Relevant Coursework: marketing, management, finance, accounting, communications, real estate

AWARDS + RECOGNITION

- University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture and Planning Deans List- Recipient of the Studio Excellence Award for Design-Build Studio- Recipient of the Munchow Studio Excellence Award for Comprehensive Studio- Recipient of the Willis Pember Studio Excellence Award for Advanced Studio Aspen- Finalist for the Studio Excellence Award for Design Studio IV, Spring 2013- Fgravity selected for public art display on 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado- Fgravity selected as the Colorado Real Estate Journals Project of the Week following exhibition at H+L Architecture- Multiple projects selected for University of Colorado Denvers [arch]ive Student Publication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Klipp, a division of gkkworks / Denver, Colorado / 2013Contract Architectural Intern- Completed multiple physical models to aid in design development and presentations

Harry Teague / Willis Pember / Cottle Car Yaw / Aspen, Colorado / Summer 2013Externships (in conjunction with Aspen Studio)- Completed individual charrettes related to each firms existing projects- Recipient of the Willis Pember Studio Excellence Award for my design charrette

NetSpend Corporation / Austin, Texas / 2006 - 2011Acquisition Marketing Manager- Responsible for implimenting and managing multi-million dollar new customer aquisition marketing campaigns- Implemented new campaigns utilizing cross-disciplinary team members, including legal, information technology, finance, customer service, and analysts, to ensure smooth roll out and ongoing management

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Lamar Station Crossing Community PavilionSummit Outside Lodge + Event Center West Colfax House of CultureFgravity InstallationSketch Charrette / Pop-Up Sushi RestaurantDrawing & Sketching

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Each semester the University of Colorado Denver engages in design-build studios of varying proportions. For Spring 2014, students partnered with MetroWest Housing and the City of Lakewood to design and build a 500 sq. ft. community pavilion that will serve users of a new transit oriented mixed use development, local preschool and elementary school students, the neighborhood arts association, and existing area residents. The site is situated between a creek, future bike trail, and future apartment homes; however, since redevelopment of the area is in its infancy, the exact location of the structure will likely change based on future development. Due to the potential site change, my team and I designed a transportable pavilion in which the structure=envelope=experience. The goal was to build a structure that can be assembled and disassembled in components and to put most of our budget into the performative envelope rather than extensive site work. The envelope is based on the concept of dynamic transparency, where apertures enlarge, decrease, or rotate in order to take advantage of or mask particular views in and out, to provide privacy or openness, and to alter light for different functions that may take place within the pavilion.

Team members included David Kornmeyer, Joe Coleman, and Paul Mitchell. I was responsible for the digital model using Rhino and Grasshopper as well as the physical laser cut paper model. The remaining team members developed the design through drawings and renderings.

Lamar Station Community PavilionCourse / Proposal for Design-Build Studio, Spring 2014Instructor / Rick SommerfeldSite / Denver, CO

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Dynamic Transparency

1. Optimize Views: The client and architect specified views to be privileged or blocked are optimized in this design when the surface geometry on four sides and the ceiling is extruded to a central point on the ground plane.

2. Alter Visibility + Light: Each aperture increases as the interior is cut closer to the outside edge, increasing light and visibility. Inversely, each aperture decreases as the interior is cut further from the outside edge, decreasing light and visibility.

3. Prescribe Experience: The interior surface is designed to prescribe program, views, visibility, and light in five directions. The extruded geometry which falls within the interior surface is removed, leaving the remaining edges to create an implied surface.

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Reflected Ceiling Plan

Roof PlanFloor + Site PlanScale: 1=12

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Skin Studies

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Summit Outside Lodge + Event CenterCourse / Comprehensive Studio, Fall 2013Instructor / Eric MorrisSite / Eden, UT

Recipient of the 2013 Munchow Studio Excellence Award

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+ Powder Mountain Ski Resort

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For comprehensive studio, my design partner, Jeffrey Woodruff, and I were tasked with designing an event center near Powder Mountain Ski Resort in Eden, Utah for a group of four 20-something entrepreneurs who host a yearly four-day gathering of nearly 1,000 of their closest friends, colleagues, innovators, and artists, most of whom are under 40. Summit Outside is a community rooted in the idea that collaboration drives innovation. Their existing events are built around a vibrant Bedouin-inspired tent village in the same location, where the discourse is as fresh as the mountain air. The experience is designed to foster stimulating conversations, personal connections, and new partnerships and possibilities. It connects top young minds and inspires a new generation of business leaders. Connections occur through fortuitous experiences such as dining at a 200-person long picnic table, meetings and talks in the middle of the woods, all-night parties and concerts, and living in close quarter campsites throughout the event.

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To begin the project we rethought the provided program, which reflected a typical urban conference center, and instead replaced it with a gradient of informal and formal experiences that foster planned and unplanned interactions for groups of two all the way up to 1,000. Each experience is defined through scale, relationship to other spaces, materiality, and light.

1 Main Entrance2 Parking Entrance3 Reflection Pool4 Meadow5 Amphitheater6 Meditation Stones7 Aspen Grove8 Main Building 9 Administration

Site PlanScale: 1/128=117

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Floor PlanScale: 1/64=1

Intimate Spaces:a Libraryb Music Cornerc Isolation Alcoved Fire Pite Service/Entertaining Kitchenf Swing Alcoveg Observation Bridgeh Meeting Pitsi Aspen Grove

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Medium to Large Spaces:1 Main Entrance2 Entry Court3 Informal Event Space4 Dining Room5 Formal Event Space6 Meadow7 Amphitheater8 Administration

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1 laminated photovoltaic sloped glass panelsSilicon strip

Glass fitting

36 deep douglas-fir glulams Post tensioning cable

3/4 laminated glass panels Glass fitting

2 - 23 x 6 x 1 steel angles12 x 12 x 1 steel square tube column18 thick board formed concrete wall (or quartzite stone cladding in some cases)

Polished concrete with mica aggregateGeothermal radiant heat pipes3 steel tray12 x 12 x 1 steel square beam

Wall Section + Ceiling DetailsScale: 1/16 = 123

West Colfax House of CultureCourse / Studio IV, Spring 2013Instructor / Clark ThenhausSite / Denver, CO

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Overview / This studio considered the role of analogue drawing produced algorithmic processes and the subsequent translation to digital design. This studio questioned, in what way(s) analogue algorithmic processes can couple with advanced digital technique to produce novel architecture and landscape propositions. The analogue drawings were created in groups of three students where each student created an exclusive rule set to control the page, including rules to overlap, change direction, and increase lineweight when one or more criteria were met. To analyze and initiate unique organizational and formal architectural strategies, specific considerations were given to qualitative criteria, such as density, intersection, boundary, layering, shifting scales, and mass/void.

Circulation /Define + Connect

Program + Form / Pinwheel of Activity

Site / On the exterior of the main volume, complex geometry houses auxiliary public programmatic spaces which pinwheel around the rectilinear volume.

Main Volume / Inversely, wihtin the main volume rectilinear programmatic spaces pinwheel around extruded and carved complex geometry. The complex geometry define and connect space.

Main Volume / Circulation takes places within the extruded geometry, and sometimes, as in the lobby, beneath the carving in the ceiling.

Site / On the exterior of the main volume circulation happens between, rather than within, the extruded and carved programmatic spaces.

Hierarchy /Whitespace vs. Intensity

Whitespace / The hierarchy of the overall site relies on visitors recognizing the the simpler rectilinear form, or the whitespace, as the main building.

Intensity / In certain spaces intensity through materiality reflects where visitors focus should lie, sometimes leading to continued movement, or focus on a performance area.27

West Elevation

View from Intersection of Irving & Colfax

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South Elevation

Northeast ViewSouthwest View Southeast View

Site PlanScale: 1=70

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Floor Plan / Level 1Scale: 1=33

1 Courtyard2 Main Entry3 Lobby4 Gallery5 Gallery Terrace6 Auditorium

Floor Plan / Level 0Scale: 1=33

1 Building Entrance2 Mechanical/Storage3 Backstage4 Amphitheater5 Theater Concessions

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Fgravity InstallationTeam / Jenn Leach, Will Otte, Maryam Biuki, Xiaojiao Guo

Course / Digital Fabrication, Fall 2012Instructor / Clark Thenhaus

Fgravity is an installation developed for the Digital Fabrication and Contemporary Craft Exhibition at H+L Architecture in Denver, Colorado. The piece was tailored to desirable performance criteria within the exhibition space as a suspended ghost ceiling mediating the double height transition between two floors. While the installation was designed using digital technologies and parametric modeling, it maintains an emphasis on post-digital materiality through color, texture, pattern, scalar apertures, and shadow effects. Formal gestures are defined by spatial requirements and enhanced by gravitational manipulation of individual elements. Varying tones of purple fabric, accentuated with pink and yellow stitching, were used in two layers to emphasize the various vantage points inherent to the space. The light purple layer, seen from above, contributes to an idea about the suspended ceiling appearing to be weightless and extending into infinite space. The darker purple underside assists in compressing the space. The compression, along with the light diffusion and shadows, informs a tranquil and intimate setting.

- Selected for public art display on 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado- Published in the [arch]ive Student Publication- Published in the Colorado Real Estate Journal as the Project of the Week

Sketch Charrette / Pop-Up Sushi RestaurantCourse / Sketching as Seeing, Fall 2013Instructor / Scott LawrenceSite / Denver, CO

This charrette explores how a secret pop-up sushi restaurant for two erected during restaurant week might take advantage of a quite nook on a river in one of the busiest parts of downtown Denver. Structurally, the sketches consider how the temporary building might take advantage of existing concrete walls at the edge of an overpass, while also employing screw-in piles, to enable it to float in the running water beneath the overpass. Programmatically and experientially, the sketches investigate how the same concrete wall used as structure can define space and create two distinct zones: an intimate dining room large enough for just the chef and his two diners, and a waiting area where two more diners waiting to be served can sip sake around a fire while viewing the river from their low elevation. Additionally, the sketches study how the skin might provide privacy for the diners and chef, yet at the same time create a lit-up beacon in a dark spot that peaks the curiosity of passersby.

Exterior View

Section / Waiting Area

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Envelope Studies

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Studio I Subtractive Form Study

Drawing

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Light Studies / Light passing through or on multi-faceted surfaces

MIT ChapelCambridge, Massachusetts

Eero Saarinen

Bler ChurchOslo, Norway

Hansen-Bjrndal Arkitekter

Rainbow ChurchInstallation

Tokujin Yoshioka

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