Kelly Beiser's design portfolio from 2013 includes projects such as a multi-family housing complex in Portland, Oregon featuring a sustainable rainwater collection system. It also includes the Sunset Pavilion in Moscow, Idaho designed to blend with the landscape, and a fire station in Boise with separate areas for living and working spaces. Kelly's portfolio demonstrates skills in Revit, sketching, and sustainable design principles.

1. Design Portfolio | 2013
[Kelly Beiser]

2. Kelly Beiser
305 Stapleton St
Boise, Idaho
Primary Phone: 406-212-1283
Education
Whitefish High School | 2005-
2009
Honor Roll all 4 years, cross
country team captain in 2009,
varsity cross country 2006-2009,
honor society member.
University of Idaho | 2009-2013
Architecture student all 4 years,
3.33 GPA, College of Art and
Architecture Ambassador, AIAS
member.
University of Idaho Rome Pro-
gram | Summer 2012
10 credits in 8 weeks: sketching
class, history class, and design
studio.
Work Experience
Western Woodwrights | May
2008-August 2008
Supervisor: Ken Beiser
Tasks: construction laborer,
mixed plaster, applied plaster,
shingle and roof work.
Micheals Arts and Crafts |
January 2013-March 2013
Supervisor: Brien
Tasks: Sales associate, greet
customers, help them find
products, back up cashier,
kept store neat.
Lowe’s Home Improvement |
November 2013-Present
Supervisor: Tony Butler
Tasks: Sales Specialist or
appliances, sold appliances
to customers based on their
communicated needs,
general zoning and recovery.
Skills
Weak Strong
Sketching
Model
Making
Analog
Graphics

3. Table of Contents
Portland Courtyard Housing
Sunset Pavilion
Revit Experience
Boise Fire Station 5
artwork and sketches
Piazza di Sant Egidio
Gonano Facilities

4. Portland Courtyard Housing

5. Bike
Locerks
Additional
ParkingRetail
Parking
Gym
2 Bedroom
Laundry
This multi-family housing complex is located on
Love Joy Ave in Portland Oregon. It is right across
from the hospital in Pearl District. The site plan be-
low shows the first floor and the courtyard. It has
commercial retail and parking as a buffer from
the street and limited parking encourages the use
of alternative transportation.
[First Floor/Site Plan]
[Design Process]

6. Portland Courtyard Housing

7. In the courtyard, there is a unique water collection
system that is also an aesthetic fountain that is part of the
courtyard. The gutters on each floor collect rainwater
and then create a fountain effect as the water falls from
each gutter to the next, eventually leading to a cistern on
the main floor. This water can then be used for the low
flow toilets, sprinkler systems, and for radiant floor heating
in the building. This further encourages sustainable living
and reusing our natural resources. [Roof Plan] [Third Floor Plan]
[Courtyard Elevation] [Section]

8. Sunset Pavilion
the Sunset
Pavilion, located
in the Shattuck
Arboretum at
the University
of Idaho, is
designed with
the culture of
Moscow, Idaho
in mind. It is on
a hill looking out
over the beautiful
arboretum
and it steps
up the hillside,
becoming
one with the
landscape. It
is designed in
a location that
has a natural
ampitheater
and creates a
place where
people can
gather outdoors
and enjoy
the beautiful
views of the
arboretum and
the palouse.hill,

9. The Sunset pavilion’s floor plan is designed to create places for people to
sit and enjoy the view, such as on planters and the steps. It has a small
indoor bathroom with a composting toilet, so that there is no need for
water to be piped out to it. The wistaria vines that flow off the roof provide
a curtain that protects from the harsh west sun but still allowing for the
sunset to be enjoyed.
[Site Location]
[Site Plan]
[Floor Plan]
[Section] [East Elevation]

10. Revit Experience

11. With the way things are going in the architecture
world and technology, digital design tools have
become a necessity to learn. I took a class at the
University of Idaho that specifically focused on
Auto Cad and Revit. We learned a lot of things
throughout the course, and our final project was
to recreate the classroom that we were in down
to every last detail. This required creating our own
components and learning all the little details about
revit, even how to create a doorknob on the doors.
These were my results and it was the first time that I
had ever used Revit as a design tool. I had always
used Auto Cad or sketchup before this. Now, I use
Revit for almost all my projects. I consider myself an
intermediate user of the program.
[Actual classroom picture] [Revit rendering of classroom model]

12. Boise Fire Station 5Boise Fire Station 5 is designed for both comfort and efficiency. It is located in Boise, Idaho across from the
freeway and a skateboard park. The design focuses on a clear and open floor plan with human spaces
and spaces for working and fighting fire. The apparatus bays are large and open, allowing for lots of space
for fire fighters to move and work. It is made of CMU blocks in system of veneer and actual structural wall.

13. On the exterior of the building, material choices depended on the
use of the space. The human spaces have wood veneer on the
outside of the CMU block while the CMU is exposed in the areas
where work is to be done. The space where the fire fighters live and
work has wood veneer on the walls insdie was well which gives it a
more warm and welcoming feel while in the working areas, it is more
industrial and high tech feeling.
There is a large atrium space above the bedroom spaces to provide
natural lighting and also for ventilation. It brings in much more light
from the south that is then utilized in the living spaces. The bedrooms
on the north side of the building so that traffice noise and direct
sunlight are minimized, allowing the fire fighters to sleep when they
are off duty.

14. artwork and sketches

15. Left: Value perspective drawing, looking into my
dorm room. Fall 2009.
Top Right: Tree study for Landscape class. This is a
chestnut tree in the Arboretum of the University of
Idaho.

16. artwork and sketches

17. All of these sketches are from my time spent in Rome for a study abroad
course through the U of I. Sketching was a 3 credit class that we took
while we were there, and I learned a lot from my professor and from
sketching the sites and scenes of Rome.

18. Piazza di Sant Egidio

19. Piazza di Sant Egidio is located in Rome,
Italy in the Trastevere neighborhood.
The two context maps show the larger
center of Rome with its many historical
attractions. There is a street through the
piazza that acts as an arterial through
fare all the way from the piazza to the
famous St. Peters Cathedral. The other
road leads to Ponte Sisto, which crosses
the Tiber river to the main center of
Rome. The piazza is an important
knuckle in the Roman street system
and the improvements to the plaza
improves with more seating, spaces
that are raised to promote gathering,
and a clear cut path that paves the
way toward St. Peters. Many tourists
pass through this space with their maps,
and so a informational booth was
also added to the Piazza. The stairs to
the museum were reformed to better
celebrate it and also creates additional
seating.

20. Piazza di Sant Egidio

21. The placement of the water feature responds to predominant wind direction through the space in the summer
time and acts as an evaporative cooling agent to the space. Part of the museum stairs is covered by the
canvas coverings and so provides a shaded place to sit. There are also spaces for sitting that are in the sun.
Light colored Travertine material helps separate the walking and gathering spaces from the street and also
keeps the space more comfortable in the summer. The original cobblestones are kept for the roadway. It was
important to separate the space for cars and the space for humans to better improve the space.

22. Gonano Facilities

23. Gonano Facilities is a
high tech lab facility that
manufactures nano material
that can then be used in
many different applications.
The design is focused on the
efficiency of the lab space
and also sustainable design
techniques, such as passive
solar and ventilation. It was
a group project, and mostly
I focused on creating the
structure and researching
and implementing sustainable
techniques into the design.
There is an atrium space
that creates ventilation via
the stack effect and plenty
of glazing on the North
facade to take advantage
of views and also the indirect
northern light. By using an
EPDM membrane on the
roof, there is the opportunity
to have a green roof and
use xeriscaping to limit
the maintenance. In floor
heating using water creates
radiant heat, which is more
efficient and affordable than
forced air heating
This wall section diagram shows the
footing system and the raised elevation.
It also shows the floor system heating and
the roof system with the green roof.
[Cirrculation diagram upper floor]
[Cirrculation diagram main floor]

24. Gonano Facilities

26. Thank you!
Kelly Beiser
305 Stapleton St
Boise, Idaho 83705
(406)-212-1283
kellybeiser@gmail.com