This portfolio document summarizes Emily Schneck's architecture projects from classes in 2010. It includes 3 projects: an analysis of an eyelash curler as a handheld tool, a study of architectural features in Charleston, SC, and a proposed new facade design for King Street in Charleston. The portfolio shows photos, drawings, and models created to demonstrate concepts and designs. It also references further projects analyzing basic design elements like point, line, and plane as well as a study of tectonics in assembling design components. Photos depict final drawings and models representing ideas and designs.

1. Architecture Portfolio
Emily Schneck

2. Architecture 151
Spring 2010

3. Hand Held Tool: Eyelash Curler
Digital component
This project illustrates the use of both photographic and digi-
tal tools. It represents an analysis of how an eyelash curler
moves, focusing on its curling, rotating, sliding, tilting, and
clamping motions. Completion of this design required close at-
tention to the structure and composition of the hand-held
tool and how it is utilized in everyday life. This project also re-
quired deliberation of composition and layout and contem-
plation of its clarity, readability, and aesthetical appearance.

4. City Path Analysis
Charleston, SC
This presentation analyzes a portion of the city of Charleston, SC. The design
shown represents a concentration on the attributes characteristic to the build-
ings located in five different areas along this particular path. Through careful
study and observation, I determined the most prominent and distinguishable
architectural elements to be arches, balconies, bay windows, stair entrances,
and porches. The box-like figures represent the actual existing buildings along
the route, and those in color represent the buildings shown in the perspective
drawings. In displaying these architectural details, I utilized photographic rep-
resentations, one-point perspective drawings, and aerial perspective drawings.

6. King Street Facade Design
Charleston, SC
This project encompased creating a design for a new facade on King Street,
in the city of Charleston, SC. It involved examining the context of the area,
which implicated observing and understanding the surrounding buildings, their
function, compositional materials, and architectural details. This newly cre-
ated facade presents a contemporary, modern architectural design, yet com-
pliments the existing structures. In representing my ideas, I built a model
consisting of massive, sheet, and stick structures. Materials composing the
motel include foamcore, various-sized wooden sticks, toothpicks, white bristol
board, and a 20 inch long 1” by 6” board. I also utilized digital tools to dem-
onstrate my concept through drawings of elevation, perspective, and section.

8. Architecture 251
Fall 2010

9. This project involved using three basic elements:
point, line, and plane to develop a visual narrative
of a space. I constructed three study models to
contrast the strengths and weaknesses of how,
with what precedence, and where these elements
were combined. Each study model can be viewed
as a cohesive place, with each single point acting
as the main moment, or central focus. I then used
a mixture of my ideas from the study models to
create a perspective drawing that incorporates
the idea of both empty and occupiable space. I
integrated the layout of the four various sized pla-
nar surfaces and the shape and slope of the top,
transparent cover to mimic the shape and contours
of the incorporated rock. The drawing lends to an
experience of the hierarchy and arangement of the
components occupying a space.

10. “Washed By the Water” by needtobreatheI
Tony Cece
video analysis drawing.
From the observations I made from the music video, I
designed this model to illustrate the movement along a path
to arrive at a resolved location. I emphasized the emo-
tions experienced along a course by varying the height and
horizontal arrangement of the tunnel-like passageways while
providing continuity in the structural shapes.

11. In beggining this project, I chose three word-actions to manipulate the shape
of the foil: curl, pinch, and twirl. The diagram displayed below represents the
action “pinch” perfomed on the foil. The arrows shown both below and in the
illustrations on the right represent the movement of my fingers in pinching the
piece of foil, and the resulting deformations.
The image on the far left represents the flattened piece of
foil that was “pinched.” The middle image is a pixelated
interprettation of the foil. The far right image illustrates the
topography created from contrasting the color saturation.

12. In my design, I concentrated on the tectonics and hierarchy of the component parts and their function in the
development of the whole. My design process was centered around the layering of isosceles triangles. The
path provided between the moments frames a large triangle, while the actual moments themselves are in the
shape of, or a portion of a triangle. Sloping vertical members provide structure to the stairs and platform levels.
The assemblage is continuous through the landmass, with movement possible both above and below it.

15. The study model pictured on the top right concentrates on the
assimilation of triangles in developing a cohesive idea. I drew
inspiration from the Flatiron Building in NYC, shown in the middle
image. I studied the inclusive triangular shape of the building
and its varying layers of windows.
Flatiron Building, NYC
Daniel Burnham

17. final drawings (section)

18. My portfolio case is structured with slender wooden members, which give it a senes of lightness and precision.
The front of the case features four panels, which swing in alternate directions about individually pivoting wires.
Each of the four different projects of the semester are displayed on the interior sides of the panels. My portfolio
pages slide into the rear slot created by the parallel arrangement of members.

20. Architecture 151
Spring 2010