Elizabeth Emig Portfolio

Elizabeth Emig | [email protected] | 2318 Poplar St Apt 3 Phi ladelphia, PA 19130 | 215.407.3259

Living [City/Sound/Land] Scape

Undergraduate Architectural ThesisTemple University

A living archive of oral history, narratives, sound-scapes and stories told by members of Philadelphia’s African Diaspora is a framework for telling. Acting as a portal, collapsing time and space, it generates new mental and material cartographies from an overlapping mutable sound-scape. The real and the imagined, the here and the there, overlap in this system making both accessible to members of the Diaspora and other Philadelphia residents. Philadelphia is envisioned as a hybrid city-scape where its inhabitants live in and between multiple places.

The design acts as an auditory factory, producing sounds and releasing them into the urban landscape. Once stories are recorded inside the building they are put in a database and discovered by visitors wandering through the landscape. As story sounds are tripped off patterns of corresponding text fade in and out on the building’s wall, creating a constantly changing facade based on site occupancy. Recorded stories, implanted urban noises, and real time sounds of West Philadelphia overlap with each other, creating new mental imagery that transports visitors to an imagined place.

ARCC/King Student Medal | April 2009Diener Brick Award Nomination | May 2009

Selected Works // Thesis 09 | Temple University | 2010Where is Africa? | Domus Magazine | July 2009

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Sudanese Society of Greater Philadelphia[Sudan]

Sudanese Anti-Torture Group[Sudan]

Sudanese American Business Association[Sudan]

Dahlak Eritrean and Ethiopian Restaurant[Eritrea]

Makola African Fashion Boutique[Ghana]

Uhi African Food Market

Abby’s Desert Lounge[Ethopia]

Greenway Communication Services[Sudan]

Sudanese National Rally[Sudan]

Nilien Insurance Service[Sudan]

The Foreign Diplomats -Timbuktu Entertainment[Pan-African]

African Audio Video and Copy Center[Mali]

DJ Ishmael[Guinea]

Sagwa Chabeda, Photography, Film and Video, and Graphic Design[Kenya]

Queen Sheba Restuarant and Bar[Ethopia]

La Calebasse[Ivory Coast]

Nigerian African Food Market[Nigeria]

Baltimore African Market[Ivory Coast]

Gojjo Restaurant and Bar[Ethopia]

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PET/CT Imaging Suite

AHAdams&Company |Produced full set of architectural construction documents under Project Manager | Acted as LEED Project Team Administrator, working closely with the client and contractor to meet sustainability goals | Authored sustainable design specifications | Developed entrance facade design alternatives

The PET/CT Imaging Suite is Montgomery County Advanced Medical Imaging (MCAMI) and Abington Health’s first LEED project, seeking LEED Gold for Commercial Interiors. The new suite is located in a 2000 square foot space, originally an elementary school, on Abington Health’s Shilling Medical Campus. From the start, the design goal was to create a relaxing atmosphere for patients who may potentially have cancer.

There were many architectural challenges, including the small size of the existing suite, the functional program and spatial requirements of the scan equipment, along with the engineering requirements for the PET/CT scanner. Close communication with the equipment manufacturer was needed to accommodate unique electrical, structural, and acoustical needs of the equipment while maintaining the design intent of the space. The radioactivity of the procedure is accounted for in the design as led wall protection is provided throughout the suite.

Sustainable features of the space include the use of daylight, local materials, recycled content, rapidly renewable resources, and products that do not compromise indoor air quality. An energy efficient mechanical system, lighting system, and low-flow plumbing fixtures contribute to energy and utility cost savings. An uplifting atmosphere is achieved by using sustainable finishes that are durable and appropriate for healthcare environments. Not only do the finishes create a calming environment, but stringent construction processes ensure a healthy environment.

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PO Box 1166309 Davisville RoadWillow Grove, Pennsylvania 19090P 215.659.8844F 215.659.8873www.ahadamsco.com

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PET/CT Scan SuiteBlairwood Suite 8 & 9

2701 Blair Mill RoadWillow Grove, Pennsylvania 19090

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Architecture InstituteStudent Work & Exhibition

Adjunct FacultyTemple University’s Tyler School of Art Summer Architecture ProgramExhibit Curator

Over the course of two weeks, area high school students faced a variety of design technique exercises, ending with a comprehensive project. Students were taught the basics of hand drawing and model making as well as how to use these techniques to explain different spatial qualities. Students took field trips around campus and also around Philadelphia to complete assignments. The second week of the course was one project that began with abstract site observations, then exploring how the human body moves and its relation to scale. From this process students developed forms that would then create a related program and be placed back into the site. The course ended with a jury presentation of the students’ week long project and an exhibit of selected work.

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Temporary Excavation & Education Center

Comprehensive Design StudioTemple University

The Temporary Excavation and Education Center in the ancient Hezekiah’s Pool in Jerusalem serves as a nonpartisan space to learn about the history of the site. The building hovers above the center of the pool in order to maximize access to the ground for excavation and preserve and repair the surrounding building facades facing the pool’s interior. Multiple level pathways and spaces provide views of the pool and excavation spaces, including laboratories for visitors to view the excavation. Classrooms, and an auditorium on the opposite side of the building establishes a separate zone and access for visitors.

Al-Quds/Jerusalem 2015, 2008 Report | Research Center for Islamic History, Art, & Culture | 2008

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The Street Beacon

Designing Innovations Course Temple University

The Street Beacon is an all-in-one street light, advertising board, and street information system with a web based ecosystem controled by mutliple users from one central location. The design looks at the street light as a key component of urban infrastructure, and transforms it into a dynamic interactive system for all urban users. Design cues are taken from scale and size of existing streetscape signage, organizing and clarifying information by type of user. The Street Beacon enables an enhanced urban experience, where users are active participants in the city streetscape.

The project was developed in an interdisciplinary course setting with architecture, engineering, and business graduate and undergraduate students. Promoting the importance of design in business, the course focused around one semester group project, with a client looking to gain new innovative ideas for their company. Interdisciplinary project teams developed interactive product concepts integrating design process, marketing, and market research, into a comprehensive business plan. Development of the design was formally presented to the “client” at different stages of development with the end goal being the prototyping of one product.

Chosen by the course’s LED lighting client to be prototyped for production.

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The Process Of Reinvisioning Philadelphia’s StreetsTransforming the Condition at 15th and Market Streets

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Current Street Clutter (newsstands, trash cans, flags, various signage) in relation to the user’s body and perspective

15th and Market streets with installation of Street Beacon

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The Street Beacon has two double-sided light sources to fulfill the lighting needs of the street and vehicles and also the sidewalk and pedestrian. The two details above document the Street Beacon structure constructed of a truss system with a separate skin that allows easy access to LED screens and lights for assembly and repairs. The structure utilizes current street light ground plates on the sidewalk, to easily fit into the existing city infrastructure.

The LED screens are connected to a website database controlled by the city. The website is split into two sections, one for city controlled information and one for a public advertising and information network. The public network is open to local advertising and event websites as well as individual businesses and organizations looking to advertise.

The post is angled toward the street at a 45 degree angle so that two sides are visible to the street and two sides are visible to the sidewalk. Sides 1 and 2 face the sidewalk and show information pertaining to pedestrians such as an area map, and transportation information. Sides 3 and 4 face the street and show information concerning the driver such as parking information and emergency notifications.

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Choose Neighborhood: Graduate Hospital

Re:Shade

Collaborative Installation with OnDesign, LLC

Re:Shade is a process developed out of the belief that using recycled materials should be an integral part of design. Recycled materials utilized for purposes different from its original, provide new structural properties and therefore new architectural and artistic opportunities.

This installation emerged through an intensive process of design via charette and full scale production. Originally envisioned to be a space simply for shading, the program developed into the desire for an intervention that let shade be adjusted according to the desires of the occupant. The intervention responds to the desire for privacy or public interaction in direct relationship to the shading offered through the ‘shading device’ - reused window curtains.

The form which is reminiscent of a ‘drop’ utilizes the natural bend of the lexon panels, fragments from an old Quizno’s sign. The discovery of the flexibility in the material offered the capability to work with curves while presenting the challenge of making the ‘ribs’ structural. Using concave and convex forms allowed the ribs to become structural and create the space. The window curtains connect the ribs acting as the final element to the overall design.

Philly Works | University of Pennsylvania | October 2009Yestermorrow School of Design | Vermont | August 2009

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New Rules

Advanced Architectural DesignTemple University

Sports and games both contribute to and are a product of complex phenomena that include social, political, and economic factors. This project traces the cultural changes embedded within the game of cricket from its colonial origins and Victorian ideals to its current state as a register of nationalism and global media. Extracting narratives and rules from research on the sport itself, the project parallels the associative features of a “game” including aspects of competition, alliances, and of course, victory and defeat. Unlike the sport, the project is more about the exploration of associations and discovery of relationships than expected outcomes or forms.

With this method there is no perfect outcome, but instead the possibility for many unpredictable forms created by the relation of information by the users.

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1907-1908: Hindus field a team in the Bombay Triangular.

1912-1913: Triangular becomes Quadangular with Muslims form their team.

1907: Ranji appointed Jam Sahib of Nawanagar. He was an Indian prince and famous cricketeer that played for England and Cam-bridge. He was known to use his reputation as an outstanding cricketeer to move his way up in politics and esape a line of debt. Ranji Trophy is named after him.

1947: India gains independence

1937: most popular pre-independence cricket competition (Pentangular Cham-pionships?) was or-ganiized by religions (Parsis, Hindus, Muslims, and “the rest” - Christians, Jews, Buddhists)

1940: opposition to religious orga-nization of tour-nament grew as Muslims wanted a seperate homeland

1934: Ranji Trophy established. The Ranji Trophy would later relace later competitons orga-nized by religion. It is a first-class crick-et championship played amoung state teams.

1930: Proposed MCC tour is can-celled due to turmoil having to do with the Civil Disobedi-ence Movement and Mahatma Gandhi.

1946: Nayudu, India’s first Test captain, is one of the first Indian cricketers to endorse commerical brands. He promotes the Tea Market Expansion Board.

1946: Pentangular officaly abolished.

1967: India wins first over-seas test match in New Zealand

1960s and 1970s: Indian Spin Quartet (Erapalli Prasanna, Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Bishen Singh Bedi) pay more than 225 Test matches and take out around 800 wickets. Contributed to some of Inida’s greatest victories

1948: Lost Test match to Australia

1952: Lost to England

1961-1962: The Duleep Tro-phy was started by the BCC in India in an effort to provide a greater competitive edge in domestic cricket.

1952: Mankad achieves fast-est double- 100 wickets and 1,000 runs- in Test cricket.

1940s- 1960s: Umpires appointed by nepotism and favoritism, most were members of cricket organizations or boards or friends of those members. WHEN DOES THIS CHANGE - NEED DATE

1970s: India beats England in test series, also beats West Indies, wins 17 test matches Marks the psychologi-cal boldness in Indian crciket.

1983: India wins world cup Prudential Trophy against West Indies

1977: World Series Cricket launched. Even though Indi-ans did not play it went a long way towards revolutionalizing how the middle class con-sumed the images accompa-nied by cricket.

1981-82: England tour of India, first one-day match played in India

1985: India wins Benson and Hedges World Championship of Cricket in Aus-tralia

1979-1980: Pakistan tours India. Some of the Pakistan players had played in the WSC and the “star appeal” of those players was demonstrated.

India 1993-2003 rapid economic change

1991: India opens up its economy to the global market. Middle-class growth begins.

1987: Reliance Cup, (the World Cup as it moved out of England to India- joint host with Pakistan)

1993: Indian board sells first television rights of a test series to private television (when England was touring)

1996-1997: Television ad for the Indian team’s offical sponser shows bowlers throwing balls of fire, batsman facing bowlers firing machine guns, and fielders leap-ing over burning tyres to get to the ball (subtle message- only war and cricket bring Indians together)

1989: 6 top cricketers are debarred for one year for par-ticipating in exhibition match-es in the US and Canada that were not offically sanctioned by the BCCI.

1996: Javed Miandad (Pakistan?) in his last international appear-ance is heckled of the field by Indian fans.

1996/1999: The Wolrd cup semi-finals abandoned in Kolkata and the final day of the India-Pakistan Test Match had to be played without a crowd, due to crowd disturbances.

1999?: Illegal betting inquiry launched. Banned Indian play-ers Mohammed Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma, and Manoj Prabhakar. Kapil Dev caught but not banned.

2001: “In India much more time is spent on the crowd because they are so animated, so colorful...If you try to do this Indian type coverage in England, it won’t go over well” -Ugra 2001

1999: Months after Pakistan played a three game test series in India, war breaks out in Kargil, Kashmir. “No such thing as a normal cricket match between India and Pakistan) Stop was put on India and Pakistan playing either other.

2000-2001: India wins three-Test series against Australia “the greatest Test series ever”

2002: India wins NatWest Trophy final.

2003: World Cup attracts television audiences of over a billion people, great-est concentration in South Asia.

Uniform: one-day cricket: (in “recent years”) sky blue shirt and pants. Shirt has a diago-nal tricolor design reflecting the flag of India. Also where a sky blue cap. (wikipedia.org)

Uniform: 1970s: World Series Cup uniforms had light blue are their primary color and yellow as their secondary color. (wiki-pedia.org)

Uniform: 1999: World Cup light blue and yellow. (wikipedia.org)

Uniform: 1992: dark blue (wikipedia.org)

Uniform: first-class cricket: cricket whites, Indian fielders sometimes wear a sunhat which is dark blue with a wide brim.

1960s: Radio begins to broadcast cricket in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Marathi.

Elementary vocab of cricket creates a “hybrid language” as Enlgish terms are mixed with Indian languages.

1933: Cricket broadcast largely in the English on All-India radio in the 30s, 40s, and 50s,

Much of the 19th cen-tury cricket is a segragated sport, Englishmen and Indi-ans play on opposite teams when they play together

1840s: Parsi cricket clubs started in Bombay

1888-1889: The first Eng-lish team toured India.

1870-1930: High period of the Raj- “for Indians to play cricket was to experiment with the mysteries of English upper-class life” (Appadurai 93). Officers of the army, businessmen form England, and senior gov officalshelped implant cricket into various settings. Indian princes brought English and Australian professional cricketers to train their own Indian teams.

Pre-WWII: Indian cricketers outside big colonial cities saw cricket as the key to upwards social mobility. (Still exists today)

Television coverage makes the transition to spec-tacle

From the timeline on the right the above mapping was created by relating the India’s cricket history to the rules of the game. Each plate relates to an important period of time in cricket’s history in India, and each has a diagram relating to that period and topic. These specific mappings from important pieces of the larger composite.

From the discoveries of the timeline a board game was created with rules designed to expose the complex history of cricket in India. Each of the three model / drawing composites illustrates a different scenario of how the board game could be played. These models are meant to illustrate different narratives based on time period and events and make connections to how specific historical cricket figures might play the board game.

Earth Wall

Mumbai, India Summer Study Abroad ProjectTemple University & International Design Clinic

The EARTH WALL acts as a portable thermal mass wall creating a cool space for learning by using a variety of leftover construction materials. It is easily dismantled and transported to new sites, widening the possibility of more schools for children on Mumbai’s construction sites. Different structural aspects of the wall facilitate interaction between the wall, child, and teacher through texture and scale relationships. The design concept considers the reality of the building’s life span and acts as a lesson on how materials can be creatively reused.

Temple University Global Conference | November 2008

idcSUIndia | August 2008

International Design Clinic Travel Fellowship | May 2008

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Methods of ConstruCtion: a comparative study

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1 worker can lay 25 CMU blocks an hour

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Used CMU block and rein-forcement bars cannot be reused after construction. The entire strucutre must find a new use or be de-molished.

Once the structure is covered with plaster the sandbags cannot be reused. The structure must find a new use or be demolished.

Soil from the construction site can be deposited back into the site. Ties and brackets can be reused if undam-aged, and welded wire fabric and polypropalene fabric can be reused for the next creche.

CMU block walls without insulation pro-vided a limited amount of thermal cooling dependent upon the thickness of the wall.

The mass and thickness created by the sandbag wall creates the affect of a traumwall providing a space much cooler than the outside.

The mass and thickness of the wall created by the soil and construction waste acts as a traumwall, storing heat in the wall postponing it until af-ter the hottest part of the day creat-ing a space cooler than the outside.

Theoretically, construction an earth wall should take much less time than sandbag construction and be more comparable to the time it takes to construct a CMU wall. This is due to the simple “fill and tie” method of construction.

Wall Assembly

A 45cm hole is dug to support the wall.

The 6” mesh is cut into reinforcement, side pieces, and wall panels.

The tarpaulin fabric is cut the desired size of the wall. The col-ored tarp is sewn together to create one piece and slits in the bottom are cut to provide flashing.

The mesh is folded and placed in the foundation hole.

Mesh is then attached to the sides to create a cage.

The mesh cage is filled with soil and rubble to grade level.

The fabric is then placed into the cage frame placing the colored tarp on the outside and the white tarp on the inside. The 6 inch slits on the colored tarp go outside the mesh cage to allow a place for water to drain.

The white fabric is cut and neatly folded over at the ends to en-sure that the infill does not escape.

Reinforcement is placed at grade level and at 15cm above grade level.

Stone is filled 15cm high.

Reinforcement is spaced at 15cm for the first 45cm of the wall then at 30cm from the remainder of the wall.

The wall frame is filled with sand as the wall is being reinforced in order to prevent tears in the fabric.

The process of filling the wall and reinforcing it is repeated until the frame is full.

The remaining fabric at the top of the wall is sewn together to seal the wall.

Materials(for a 2m x 2m wall)(4) 1.3m x 1.3m 6” mesh pieces(4) 1.3m x 30cm 6” mesh pieces(2) 3.7m x 1.3m 6” mesh pieces(2) 1.8m x 3m white/ light colored permeable tarpVarious size of different colored water resistant tarpNeedleThreadBonding wire

White gunny sack fabric allows for flexibility for the teacher to decorate the creche as desired.

The sand fill shaped by the mesh frame creates a child-friendly bulging surface.

The position of the tarpaulin fabric creates a scaled relation-ship to the child and is easily cleaned.

Reflectivity

Using gunny sack fabric that is white, or light colored, reflects sunlight helping to reduce heat gain.

Moisture Protection

White permeable gunnysack fabric allows water to enter the wall and seep down to the base. The tarpaulin fabric lining the interior and the bottom ensures that water is pushed out the bottom on the exterior side.

Exterior Surface

As stone and sand fill the inside of the wall frame, reinforcement mesh is placed to stabilize the wall from buckling

White gunny sack fabric is placed behind the tarpaulin fabric, lining the entire frame.

Tarpaulin fabric lines the base and the interior side of the wall.

6” reinforcement mesh is cut into three pieces: one main piece is folded twice at the base and two side pieces are attached with bonding wire.

Interior Surface

Assembly Diagram

Pearlstein’s Furniture2521 W Girard Ave

Fairmount Area Visualizations

Storefront ConceptsOn Design, LLC.

Visualizations for storefront renovations in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia were produced for the client, the Fairmount Community Development Corporation. The scope of designs ranged from paint choices and awnings to new signage design and architectural features.

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Girard Avenue VisualizationW Girard Ave between 25th and 26th streets

Ali’s Wagon2017 Fairmount Avenue

In The Doghouse2319 Fairmount Ave

Suzie Q871 N 29th St

Sugar House Casino

Model Builder | ConsultantFloss Barber, Inc.

The Sugar House Casino lobby model was developed with close interaction with the firm’s designers to ensure their vision for the client. Two different screen wall element concepts for the lobby were built from the designer’s schematic sketches, fabrication documents, and material specifications. The objective of the model was to illustrate the screen wall concepts within the context of the interior architecture and material decisions at two different stages of the schematic design and development process. In this way the model served both the needs of the firm as a working model as well as a final presentation tool for the client.

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Close up images of show the two different screen wall options for the lobby space. The first is a concept for a delicate system of extremely thin rods that gradually rotate, creating a translucent pattern. The second concept calls for thicker translucent rods embedded with colored LEDs that pull their configuration from the interior architecture of the space. Aerial views of the floor plan and acoustic ceiling panels. These images show the chosen carpet, tile, and wall coverings with two different screen wall schemes.

Community Health Center

AHAdams&CompanyResponsible for stair details, floor plan revisions, casework, reflected ceiling plans, finsih plans, and schedules | Involved in document checking and engineering coordination

This Community Health Center is a 3 story, 36,000 square foot space for medical and administrative suites. The program includes spaces for a dental, pediatric, adult, and OBGYN suites, as well as community spaces and offices.

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