The document provides Isabelle Atkinson's portfolio, which includes 3 sentences summarizing each project: The portfolio includes projects from Isabelle Atkinson's architecture studies including a film hotel featuring outdoor screening areas [1], studies of bird anatomy and architecture inspired by nature [2], a raised natural history museum with pods catching breezes [3], an analysis of redevelopment in Igny, France [4], a master plan for mixed-use development along Airport Boulevard in Austin [5], a luminaire resembling a crowd of people [6], structural analysis of a double-glazed wall assembly [7], and a nature center built into a hill with a gabion wall [8].

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Film Hotel Tech Comm Project
Bird Studies
Natural History Museum
Projet Igny et Recherche
Airport Boulevard Master Plan
‘Crowd of People’ Luminaire
FEA Wall Assembly Rendering
Nature Center
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4. Semester 9 Tech Comm Krolicki/Smith with Leo Caballero
Film Hotel
The implementation of a film component grants
our hotel the ability to be truly unique. The
hotel will cater to the film enthusiast and the
film professional. It will do so by allotting some
of its spaces for screening areas and places for film related
conferences and lectures. In addition, the hotel will feature
a major public component. Austin benefits from an array of
beautiful flora which we have decided to
implement into our hotel as well. The hotel will
feature an outdoor green space adjacent to the
food market that will be shared with the immediate
community and provide a space for film as well,
which could be used for community
screenings of movies or bigger festival events.
The 80-room hotel is comprised of a kit of parts, or
gestures. The first gesture as a more “massive” one, in
which larger forms reflect more public programs, such
as the movie theater , the ballroom, and the screening
rooms.Thesecondegestureisamorecompartmenalized
one , in which smaller C-shaped forms reflect the more
intimate and private nature of hotel rooms. These
rooms act as box seats for the courtyard screening
area and facilitate the a quality of seeing and being
seen commonly experienced throughout the history
of theater and cinema. Public and private gestures
are connected visually with the use of light wells
and skylights to guide patrons throughout the hotel.

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8. Semester 2 Visual Communications II Spring 2011
Bird Studies
The basis of the second semester
was architecture inspired by
nature, with a focus on birds. This
led to a series of studies on bird
anatomy, motion, appearance,
and migration. The studies were
conducted in various mediums -
graphite, prismacolor, water color,
and museum board. The result is a
better understanding of the ‘user’s’
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continuing exploration of different
means of creative expression.

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12. Semester 6 Design V1 Birdsong
Natural History Museum
The following project is a 20,000
sq. ft. natural history museum ,
to be located along the hike and
bike trail at Lady Bird Lake and
South First Street. The mass of the
proposed building is to be raised off
of the ground on mega-trusses to
promote continued pedestrian use
on the ground, and would be further
subdivided into four “pods” that offer
a more human scale and allow for
outdoor circulation in between. The
pods are arranged in order to catch
southern breezes underneath the
raised structure of the museum and
also in order to mimic the structural
nature of neighbooring bridges.

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16. Semester 8 Master Design Studio Sabatier/Rioland
Projet Igny Analyse et Recherche
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The commune of Igny, France
was the focus of Richard
Sabatier and Stéphane
Rioland’s Master’s Design
Studio at the École Nationale
Supérieur d’Architecture
in the Spring of 2014. The
project began as an open-
ended question as to how
the commune could be
restored and improved as it
modernized, a question that
plagues many French towns
on the outskirts of major cities.
Two strenuous months of
group research and analysis
directed students to select
individual projects. The result
of this analysis points toward
a need for reevaluation
of the commune’s current
building code and the way in
which it preserves its heritage.

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NOUVELLE BANDE DE 30 M
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18. The following group project is a proposal
for the replanning of a neighborhood just
off of the intersection of Airport Boulevard
and Lamar. It currently supports industrial
trades and locally-owned businesses.
The goal of the replanning is to establish
a community of mixed use units that
will economically benefit and increase
the value of the surrounding Hyde
Park neighborhood. According to the
maste plan, the buildings along Airport
Boulevard are the tallest in order to
attract attention to the neighborhood.
The buildings gradually decrease in
height as you travel westwadr in order
to blend seamlessley into the single story
homes along the western edge of the site.
Semester 4 Design IV Spring 2012 with students Michaela Wright and Carlos Carballo
Urban Project: Airport Boulevard Master Plan

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22. Semester 5 Environmental Controls I Fall 2012 with Patrick McGovern and Jennifer Stein
‘Crowd of People’ Luminaire
The luminaire is a bundle of vertical
dowels of various lengths that run
through two clear disks of plexiglass.
The fixture is pendant-mounted with
the fixture supported by the lamp,
which is embedded into the top disk. In
conjuction with the dowels, the two disks
create one large chamber around the
lamp in the mid-section of the luminaire.
Moreover, the lamp light is softened by a
cylinder of yellow trace paper encased
in thin acrylic that runs around the lamp.
While providing more light for the working
surfaces, the luminaire will bring soft light
in close proximity to the user, offering a
more intimate, variable lighting situation.

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24. Semester 5 Construction III Fall 2012 with Isabelle Bogran
FEA Wall Assembly Study
ThefocusoftheFederalEnvironmentalAgency
in Dessau, Germany is to use the existing
environment to naturally heat and cool the
building, making it a completely sustainable
structure. The vertical exterior double-glazing
fits into the timber spandrel structure that
extends across the FEA’s outdoor skin. There
is a pattern of colored glass panels and
timber-framed windows that are translucent.
Narrow ventilation grilles can be found
behind the colored glass panels and can be
opened or closed according to temperature.
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1. Exterior timber beam that separates levels
and spans load bearing walls (spandrel)
2. Timber frame window
3. Blinds for solar protection
4. Ventilation panel for night cooling(not
shown in section)
5. Colored glass panels set in line with
spandrel
6. Internal timber window frame
7. External copper window sill
8. External copper window sill (same)
9. Ventilation grille
10. Deep window reveal for solar protection
11. Joints that separate and link glazing
(hidden behind spandrel)
12. Brackets holding the façade to the
building
13. Radiator
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26. Semester 2 Design II Spring 2011
Nature Center
The second semester culminates in the
Nature Center project. At this point, a
sound knowledge of how to use site
analysis and the natural environment
as a driving force in the design process
has been established. The back bone of
the nature center is a long gabion wall
that serves as a constant throughout the
form. It protrudes out of the side of a hill
and gives the sense of enclosure in an
otherwiseoutdoorspace.Usersaremeant
to enter the at a threshold at the top of
the hill and descend into a gradually-
shrinking gallery. Guided by light at the
end of the gallery, users turn to discover
the grand surrounding landscape.

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30. Resumé + Contact Info
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ISABELLEATKINSON
1906 Pearl Street Apt 204
Austin, Texas 78705
(832)-692-2896
iaatkinson@mail.utexas.edu
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Architecture
May 2015 (expected)
University of Texas at Austin
Student Exchange
January-June 2014
École Nationale Supérieur
d’Architecture
Versailles, France
SKILLS
- Fluent in English and French
- Detail Oriented
- Excellent communication skills
- Sketching
- Woodworking
- Works well under pressure
- Extremely organized

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RELATEDEXPERIENCE
City of Austin Public Works Department
City Architect Intern
August 2013 to December 2013
- Produced technical drawings, detail drawings, and renderings for city projects,
- Coordinated with city clients and various City of Austin departments
- Generated an inventory of city-owned properties with photographs, quantitative date and personnel information
Design Studio in Conjunction with Austin Habitat for Humanity at the University of Texas at Austin
Advanced Design Studio Student
August 2013 to December 2013
- Created a feasibility report for an Austin Habitat for Humanity property in East Austin
- Made conceptual and schematic design proposal for a mixed-use project
- Recommended design ideas to the chair of Austin Habitat for Humanity and various city architects
Design Studio in Conjunction with the Commune of Igny at the École Nationale Supérieur d’Architecture à Versailles
Master’s Design Studio Student
February 2014 to June 2014
- Formulated an analysis report based on existing conditions, resident interviews, and published design codes and
standards for the historic commune of Igny, France
- Collaborated with French students in order to define chief objectives for future development of the town
- Addressed a potential solution to the nature of housing in the protected historic town center in a presentation to
the city council and mayor
OTHEREXPERIENCE
College Nannies and Tutors Yia Yia Mary’s, Pappas Restaurant SNBT Diamonds and Jewelry Ltd
Nanny Server Inventory Organizer
May 2013 to August 2013 May 2011 to August 2012 June 2009 to July 2009