PORTFOLIOOF SELECTED WORKSSPRING 2005 - SPRING 2009

KELLY BALLBACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2009CORNELL UNIVERSITY

KELLY E. BALL

RELATED COURSEWORK

CORNELL UNIVERSITY . College of Architecture, Art and Planning . Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Architecture . August 2009 G.P.A: 3.63 . Deans List all semesters . Studies abroad in Rome, Italy and South America B. Arch. Thesis: Reforming Rows in Historic East Baltimore

TOWSON HIGH SCHOOL . Towson, MD

Aug 2004 - May 2009

Aug 2000 - May 2004

Finding Sustainable Form . Building Technologies, Materials and Methods . Digital Media . Structural Concepts Structural Elements . Structural Systems . Architectural Analysis . Site Planning . Thermal Environmental Systems . Building Renovation Technology . Building Systems Integration . Architectural Publications . Archi-tectural History . Freehand Drawing . Drawing Systems . To Auto CAD and Beyond . Professional Practice

SUPERFRONT . Brooklyn, NYPROJECTS INTERN Design graphic story of the gallery evolution through generation of drawings and diagrams for public relations media campaign Develop a competition brief for summer installation and public space design project based on public discussion series

CORNELL UNIVERSITY . College of Architecture, Art and Planning . Ithaca, NYNAAB COORDINATION ASSISTANT Edit, format and compile B. Arch. and M. Arch. 2009 Program Reports through coordination with the Department Chair, Undergraduate and Graduate Program Coordinators and faculty Collect, organize and format all course documentation and student work using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop for school-wide exhibition during two separate NAAB site visits

CORNELL UNIVERSITY . College of Architecture, Art and Planning . Ithaca, NYINTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE SUMMER PROGRAM CRITIC Taught high-school and college level students basic modeling, drawing and design skills Held daily individual critiques and group reviews with students in coordination with instructors Developed day to day curriculum and fi eld trip plans and assisted in weekly lecture series

CORNELL SOLAR DECATHLON . College of Architecture, Art and Planning . Ithaca, NYLIGHTING DESIGNER Designed interior lighting scheme and procured all fi xtures through coordination with interiors sub-team Installed fi xtures with electric sub-team and helped in house construction, exhibited house at NY State Fair and competed in International competition in Washington DC

Feb 2010 - present

Aug 2009 - present

Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

EDUCATION

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Jan 2009 - Oct 2009

keb57@cornell.edu123 farm st. / ithaca, ny 14850

(443) 226 7353

CORNELL SOLAR DECATHLON . College of Architecture, Art and Planning . Ithaca, NYDESIGN DEVELOPMENT SUB-TEAM LEADER Produced detailed working drawings for solar house construction and made design detail decisions with team Led weekly design development sub-team meetings to distribute work and update drawing set

CHO BENN HOLBACK ASSOCIATES . Baltimore, MDDESIGN INTERN Design powerpoint presentation for schematic design proposal for LEED Platinum Science Building at Virginia Wesleyan College Researched nutrient fi lm technique, photo voltaic, geothermal, wind turbine and green roof technologies for VWC proposal

WEISS/MANFREDI . New York, NYSTUDENT INTERN Assembled proposals for Childrens Museum of Art and Cornell Nanotechnology RFPs Assisted in construction of small-scale models and full-scale models Developed drawings in CD phase for Brooklyn Botanical Garden Visitors Center and Barnard Nexus

HORD COPLAN MACHT . Baltimore, MDSUMMER INTERN Completed 750-home community design plan and hand-drew/Photoshop-embellished site plan Assisted in completion of drawing set in CAD for window replacement project in MD State Armories

Aug 2008 - Jan 2009

Jan 2009

Feb 2008 - May 2008

May 2007 - Aug 2007

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS Member, Co-President of Cornell Chapter fall 2006-spring 2007

CORNELL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Member, participant in January 2007 Global Village work trip to Jutiapa, Guatemala

DELTA DELTA DELTA SORORITY Peer leader and coordinator of Refl ections: Body Image Program at Alpha Beta Chapter

Extensive Work: AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite, Rhinoceros, Sketch-Up, Microsoft Offi ce, laser cutting, hand-drafting, free-hand drawing and paintingTraining/Experience: form-Z, Revit Architecture, Autodesk 3ds max, ENVI-metLanguages: Profi ciency in Italian and capability in French and Spanish

AFFILIATIONS

RELATED EXPERIENCE (CONTD)

SKILLS

Sep 2004 - May 2009

Sep 2004 - May 2007

Jan 2006 - May 2009

A housing project in the Little Haiti neighbor-hood of Miami provides apartments of various sizes confi gured strategically to provide passive ventilation, plenty of shaded outdoor space for public circulation on the street side of the complex and private courtyards in the back of the building. The fragmented block, composed of 20x20 modules, accommodates 28 apart-ments, with one to four bedrooms. Ground fl oor retail space and a parking ramp are pro-vided beneath the terraced apartment levels.

longitudinal section, NTS (below); fi nal model of apartment complex, view from southwest corner (right)

LITTLE HAITI HOUSINGFALL 2006 DESIGN STUDIO - MIAMI, FL

perspective view of pedestrian stair and retail space from northwest corner study model for intervention on site

third level housing plan NTS

SPRING 2007 DESIGN STUDIO - ITHACA, NY

ITHACA COMMONSARTS PAVILLION

This proposal for a temporary arts pavilion in downtown Ithaca received an honorable mention in a two-week third-year design competition. Overlap-ping canopies provide space for outdoor perfor-mances and movie screenings. A covered walkway for pedestrian traffi c connects to the promenade along shop fronts on the Commons. The corner site makes it an ideal location for advertisement, art exhibition and public gathering.

Section through pavilion NTS (left); Renderings (above); axonometric drawing illustrating circulation paths NTS (above left)

This model of the ocean-front Berkowitz-Odgis House in Marthas Vineyard describes the structural systems at play in the timber frame house designed by Steven Holl. The house is like an inside-out balloon frame structure with exposed wooden members carrying a porch around the front of the house. A bow-like dining nook window breaks through the porch to face west.

site plan (Steven Holl Architects), NTS (right); fi nal model, built to 1/4=10 scale (above)

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS MODELSPRING 2007 DESIGN STUDIO - MARTHAS VINEYARD, MA

Sited along the highline on the west side of Manhattan, this fi tness center is part of a dramatic urban proposal. The re-development of the highline into an elevated linear park creates an active pedestrian path onto which programmatic hubs can latch.

The urban scheme proposes a system of linear buildings and parks that connect the west-side neighborhood- through open space, views and pedestrian paths- to the Chelsea Piers and waterfront. The new urban system intersects with the North-South corridors of 10th Avenue and the highline. The programmatic network along the highline becomes a fi lter between this new condition and the existing urban grid.

Map of 10th Ave and highline (orange), urban proposal NTS (left)

CHELSEA HEALTH HUBSPRING 2007 DESIGN STUDIO - MANHATTAN, NY

map of existing built conditions surrounding site NTS (above); roof plan of building proposal at 10th Ave and 23rd St NTS (below)

east elevation of Health Hub as seen from10th Ave NTS

The proposed health hub uses the stair -- at many scales- as a tactic of spatial organization (clearest in the section through the highline). From 10th Avenue, the building acts as a voyeuristic screen to passerbys and a recreational fi lter through which one can experience and access the highline.

The building steps down to street level through a series of open recreational spaces -cafe, fi tness center, bas-ketball ball court- while hanging over the highline and connecting to it as a secondary pedestrian street. A glass curtain wall facade exposes all recreational activ-ity to 10th Avenue while the back of the building serves as support, both structurally and programmatically, to the building.

Section through building facing west, NTS

STUDIO LOFT

CAFE/LOUNGE

HIGHLINEENTRANCE

STUDIO 1

LOCKER ROOM

LOCKER ROOM

SWIMMING POOL

SQUASH COURTS

BASKET-BALL COURT

FITNESSCENTER

FITNESS CENTER

(OPEN TO BELOW)

RUNNING TRACK

HIGHLINESTUDIO 1

STUDIO 2

STUDIO LOFT

Section through building facing west, towards highline NTS (above);Section through building and highline facing north NTS (below)

third fl oor plan NTS (above)

PARCO PORTA MAGGIOREFALL 2007 DESIGN STUDIO - ROME, ITALY

This project in Rome investigates the Porta Maggiore site- a palimpsest of active and inactive infrastruc-tures, physical walls and monuments. The porta itself is a monumental double archway built by and dedi-cated to the Emperor Claudius in 52 AD, to celebrate the two aqueducts it carries. In 271, the gateway was incorporated into the Aurelian Walls and to this day serves as a portal into the original city confi nes.

The intervention proposed re-programs the Aurelian Wall where it intersects with the Neronian aqueducts, activates the urban enclave and engages people with the ancient monuments. Parco Porta Maggiore is the intersection not only of infrastructure- aqueducts, walls and tram lines- but also of pedestrian paths and expe-riential sequences through the city. Thus, the interven-tion is read differently from one side of the wall to the other and its program- cafe/nightclub/gallery and park is similarly multi-faceted.

Aerial view of intervention (left); fi gure-ground site map (below)

Facing north, view of glass facade and hanging stairway- entrance to bar and nightclub from traffi c roundabout (above); facing south, View of park from tramstop (below)

MONASTERY FARM FARMAPARTMENT APARTMENT APARTMENT

B, D LINES

T LINE

STREET/SIDEWALK

ROOFSCAPE

CHINATOWN TOWER COMPLEXSPRING 2008 DESIGN STUDIO - MANHATTAN, NEW YORK

Combining unlikely program with the high-rise building typology, this bold intervention in lower Manhattan proposes a network of towers that provide apartment housing, farms and a monastery to the Chinatown neighborhood. The intervention also provides a connection to the new T subway line, and the B and D lines, running under Christie Street. The scheme establishes an inhabitable programmed- market, restaurant, park- surface at the roof level of the existing buildings which transforms the separate towers into a complex urban network connected at three dis-parate levels- subway, street and roof. This was a group project, researched and completed with Zahira Crespo and Adam Vana.

A variable facade system wraps the main body, the middle zone in which the primary program is held, of each tower with glass or ETFE diagrid panels, giving a distinctive yet unifi ed character to each tower. The panels vary in opacity and change in scale to allow for control of light emittance and privacy.

Section through farm tower ETFE facade (above);View from apartment interior (below)

Section and plan of typical farm tower NTS (above)Section and plan of monastery tower NTS (above)

Shadow plan of area depicts shadows cast at 3 PM (top); Rendering of the wind col-lection crown of the farm tower (right) Each tower type has an iconic structure, a crown, atop the body which provides a different program-matic zone, a unique identity and either rain, wind or solar collection.

Sections and fl oor plans of typical housing tower NTS (above)

E Chase St

McDonogh St

E Eager St

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proposed block renewal strategy (thesis)proposed construction (JHU and EBDIexisting buildings

property lines

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REFORMING ROWSSPRING 2009 THESIS DESIGN STUDIO - BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

The thesis approaches the rowhousing typology as a critical component of the physical fabric, collective memory and urban identity of Baltimore- a city in which the population has been dropping and the popu-larity of the rowhouse has been dwindling. In Historic East Baltimore, partially or entirely abandoned blocks are being leveled and redeveloped into new-urbanist housing and conventional commercial buildings.

If it is to maintain its viability as a housing type and perpetuate an urban identity in Baltimore, the row-house must adapt to better support community needs and provide programmatic variation. The particular block under examination is comprised of 52 rowhouse lots between 1,000 and 1,500 sf in size. Public pro-gram will be introduced to the block without destroying the structural system, the inherent architectural logic or the perforated rowhouse facade.

The thesis reforms the individual rowhouse, the block and the neighborhood in order to stimulate the area and perpetuate an urban collective memory. The transformation hope to inform how redevelopment in American cities reuse existing urban constructs rather than replacing blocks.

Site plan with proposal (approx. 1/128=10); Elevation along Chase St, looking south (below)

REHAB IN HISTORIC EAST BALTIMORE

Greenhouse Library

Grocery/Retail LaundromatHousing

Courtyard/Park

LAUNDRY DAYCARE GREENHOUSE

GROCERY

LIBRARY

Daycare

1/32=10

Existing Buildings

Party Wall Greenhouse

Library

Grocery/Retail

Laundromat

isometric explosion depicting manipu-lation of block NTS (below)

refurbished facades and existing party walls

green roof and program-matic insertion

lower level parking, program, and pedestrian connectionsaxon diagram- distribution of com-

munity programs with residential component in orange

public programs introduced to block (above)diagrammatic plan program overlap (below)

AAPARKING LEVEL PLAN1/16=10

A

Aparking level plan NTS (above)section AA NTS through laundry/housing/greenhouse, parking/greenroof and library/housing (below)

BBGREEN ROOF LEVEL PLAN1/16=10

B

Bgreen roof level plan NTS (above)section BB NTS through pedestrian path facing entrance to library (below)

CC

HOUSING LEVEL PLAN1/16=10

hosuing level plan NTS (above)section CC NTS through lower level parking and green roof, facing west (below)

C C

sectional plexiglass model, depicting existing original rows (frosted), new construction (clear) and ground (black)