Amy Egerter

egerteramy@gmail.com 916.335.1991

I want to know how things work. I want beauty. I want functionality. I want to have fun with my work.

Right now I am exploring.

I started at a broad scale, progressively zooming in, trying to understand functionality on all scales.

Spacial Function

Experiential Function

Building Function

How can I manipulate

space?

The Golden Ratio

2011 - Introduction to Physical Modeling

to A+B is to A, as A is

Bauhaus Spatial Exercise

2011 - Introduction to Physical Modeling

Our task was to design a 300ft home.

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Thats like, the size of my bedroom. Thats like, only slightly bigger than an ADA bathroom stall. Thats like,
really small

505' - 0"

500' - 0"

495' - 0"

490' - 0"

485' - 0" 492' - 3"

480' - 0"

T.O. ROOF 487' - 0"

475' - 0"

470' - 0"

Site Plan 1=20 Portola Valley, CA

1 Site 1" = 20'-0"

So what should we do?

Arealess 2012 Fall Charette

Glass Skylight

Gravel

Louvers

Green Roof

To make 300sqft work, my teammates (Anran Li and Maxence Ryan) and I came up with the idea of sliding walls. These walls could change to adapt to the residents various social engagements. By sliding and swinging the walls, many configurations are possible.

Roof Plan Details

Night Time Layout 1/4" = 1'-0"

Night Time Layout ht2 Time Layout Night Time Layout 2 1'-0" 1/4" = 4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

Studio Layout 3 Layout Studio Layout Studio 3 1'-0" 1/4" = 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

Dinner Party Layout 4 Party Layout Dinner Dinner Party Layout 4 1'-0" 1/4" = 1/4" = 1'-0" 1/4" = 1'-0"

What does it mean to

experience?

Create a pavilion that represents Last.fm?

What do I like about music?

How can I experience music spatially?

Last.fm Pavilion

2012 - Intermediate Architecture Studio

The Last.fm pavilion makes listening to music both a personal and a social experience by encorporating the following features from the Last.fm iPhone App: 1. Personal listening history data visualization. 2. Music recommendations from users with similar taste. 3. A social network of your friends and their music.

1st Floor Plan

2nd Floor Plan

Music Discovery Private Listening Social Sharing

Grind is changing how we think of workspace.

Their goal is to increase interaction between disciplines.

Is it time to redesign the workplace?

How can the workplace become more collaborative?

First, center the building around one central transportation core.

Next, remove the walls that would be present in a typcial office building.

Grind San Francisco 2012 - Intermediate Architecture Studio

Create a facade that both frames the work being done on each floor, and unfolds to reinforce the idea of open collaboration.

Cafe

Breakroom Think Space

Graphic Design Office Space

Breakroom

Architectural Office Space

Think Space Meeting Rooms

Elevator

Elevator

Lobby

Meeting Rooms

Floor Plan - GroundLevel

Floor Plan - Second Level

Floor Plan - Third Level

We were asked to design a concert hall,

but is it a concert hall to everyone?

We should create public space.

We should create democratic space.

San Francisco Sound 2013 - Senior Design Studio

Concert Patron Circulation:

Level 1 at 0 1=20

For this site, there was not just one building user, but many. We wanted to create many musical spaces for those users. We tried to think of our building from the users perspective, and how each they might move through the space. We thought that if our architecture responded to not one, but many needs, and to many varieties of people, perhaps then it could become democratic.

Tourist Circulation:

Front St.

Green St.

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Level 1 at 0 1=20

Educational Sound Lab

Greenhouse Lobby

Public Performance Area

Offices

Private Auritorium

Listening Pool

How does a building

function?

Potable Water (30 units)

2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship

BASELINE WATER USAGE Anyone from California knows that water is one of our most valuable, and most limited resources. The Moscone Center in San Francisco had the unique opportunity to collect water via dewatering of their building. Because the building extends past the water table, they had to remove this excess water. We decided to look at how this water could change their overall potable water demand, if reused in the building.
Toilets (11 units)

The Road to Net-Zero

Kitchen Sink Lavs (3 units) (1 unit)

Urinals (4 units)

Turns out they could become a netzero building for water demand.

EXISTING BUILDING END USAGE (KGAL/YR)

Irrigation (1 unit)

Cooling Tower (10 units)

Wastewater
Evaporation

NET ZERO WATER USAGE:

5 units exported to Off-Site Demands Potable Water (4 units)

Dewatering (24 units)

Rainwater (1 unit)

Total Reuse Used: 24 units

Lavs (1 unit)

Kitchen Sink (3 units)

Toilets (10 units)

Urinals (3 units)

Cooling Tower (10 units)

Irrigation (1 unit)

Evaporation

Greywater and Blackwater Treatment

Study of Thermal Bridging

2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship
You could have the most creative building design, but if it doesnt work properly, whats the point? Thermal bridging is when parts of the exterior facade connect with the interior structure of the building, providing an easy way for heat to enter or escape from the interior zones. This can potentially have large impacts on heating and cooling loads, but can easily be counteracted by severing the thermal bridge with a non-conductive material. It was this internship at WSP Built Ecology that sparked my interest in performancebased design, and taught me that functionality must go hand-in-hand with good design.

FACADE HEAT LOSSES DUE TO THERMAL BRIDGING

AREA OF CONCERN

IMPACT OF THERMAL BRIDGING

CURRENT DESIGN: PROPOSED DESIGN:

Shadowbox (U-Value = 0.083 BTU/hr/SF/F) Mullions (MAX U-Value = 5.8 BTU/hr/SF/F) Corrugated Form Panel
(U-Value = 0.29 BTU/hr/SF/F)

External Glazing

Vertical Fins

Horizontal Projection

CURRENT DESIGN FIN PLACEMENT:

OPTION 2 SCHEMATIC:
10 5

SE Facade: 10:00AM Aug. 15

OPTION 3 SCHEMATIC:
12
NORTHEAST FACADE SOUTHEAST FACADE

NW Facade: 1:00PM Sept.17

OPTION 4 SCHEMATIC:
10 5 30

SE Facade: 1:00PM July 24

SOUTHWEST FACADE NORTHWEST FACADE

Facade Shading Optimization

2013 - WSP Built Ecology Internship
How do architects know if their shading works? That was the question that architects would ask, and Built Ecology would answer. By building models in IES (Integrated Environmental Solutions), I was able to find the efficacy of various fin orientations and lengths for the architect asking the questions.

PEAK ZONE COOLING LOADS - LEVEL 35

1 1 2 3

PEAK ZONE COOLING LOADS - LEVEL 7

4 5
1 BTU/hr-ft 2 3 4 5

2 3

4 5 1

4 5

BTU/hr-ft

1 2 1 2 3 4 5 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

2 3

FIN DESIGN OPTIONS:

OPTION 1 NO FINS NO FINS NO FINS NO FINS PLACEMENT: OFFSET: DEPTH:

OPTION 2 SE, SW AND NW FACADES 5 ON CENTER 10

OPTION 3 SE, SW AND NW FACADES 5 ON CENTER 12

OPTION 4 SE, SW AND NW FACADES 5 ON CENTER 10

OPTION 5 ENTIRE FAADE 5 ON CENTER 10

ORIENTATION: SCHEMATIC:

90 FROM FAADE

90 FROM FAADE

30 FROM FAADE

90 FROM FAADE

egerteramy@gmail.com 916.335.1991

With every shift in my focus, I hope to connect my understandings of architecture, from the broadest level, to the most detailed. The function of a building will continue to change, and so will the scope of my understanding.