LISA CORKUMlisacorkum@gmail.com143 North Shore DriveStow, MA 01775978.212.5269339.368.0333 EDUCATION

Cornell University, College of Architecture Art and Planning, Ithaca, NY

Semester abroad throughout Europe

Cumulative GPA 3.552

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Aid January 2008 PresentProfessor John Coleman, Cornell University, Ithaca NYTraveled to Halai, Greece to document and graphically represent ancient archaeological finds.Analyzed layers of architectural construction. Prepared images and illustrations for publication, including photographs, scans, interpretive maps, plans, sections, and axonometric reconstructions.

Architectural Intern November 2003 January 2007Wilson Butler Architects, Boston, MAArranged boards and Power Points for presentation, involving scanning and manipulating images and drawings.Constructed models at high level of detail involving interpretation of digital files. Coordinated samples for project specifications.

Architecture Intern / Office Manager June 2005 January 2006Hecht and Associates Architects, Inc., Belmont, MAManaged archives from previous projects and incoming and outgoing correspondence with current clients. Organized material and submitted projects for competitions.General office management.

SKILLS

SoftwareAutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Maya, Form Z, Sketch Up, EON, CAVE, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Premiere, Final Cut

Summer 2007May 2009

Fall 2007Three Semesters

May 2009Deans ListSemester in Rome Program

Bachelor or Architecture

Germany, Austria, Hungary, Holland, Czech Republic, Polland, France, Switzerland, and Spain

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LR and Byzantine Chu

The Parthenon

The New Acropolis Museum

The Elgin marbles wrapped around the cella of the Parthenon, giving a

set of specific dimension to the core of the Museum

and a starting point to the transformation of the plan

The roof plan is a scaled up version of the base of

the Parthenon

The column grid is cut in half, repeated and

expanded to the confines of the site

The curvature of the Parthenon is most apparent where the columns meet the base. From within

the colonnade the columns become the interval through which to see the plinth, the other

temples in the complex and the city of Athens. When your eye compensates for

the distortion of the Parthenon, the cogni-tive reconstruction of the panorama is

warped along the datum of the curva-ture, producing a second implied

skyline. Each colonnade hits the stylobate (base) at a parabolic

curve. The Parthenons curvature can be projected nearly 500

meters into the air forming an implied geometry of two inter-

secting forms made of para-bolic curves. The Parthenon

itself is a crystalization of these forms complex

intersection, truncated at a height scaled to

human limitation.

Bernard Tschumi's New Acropo-lis Museum is a lost opportunity. It represents a modern interpreta-tion of the Parthenon, housing its treasures, displaying its history. It uses specific dimension and orienta-tion as well as certain visual queues to reference its transformational parent. But the Parthenon, despite its apparent simplicity, is far more geometrically com-plex, employing not a single right angle or straight line, each articulation so accurate it seems impossible that these classical people could have this technology for measurement and construction. The effect is subtle but clear, tuned specifically to the human eye.

THESIS 502Profs. Caroline ODonnell & John Zissovici

Site. Halai Greece

Program. Archaeological Facility & Observatory

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Scalar function of Settlement

Projection of traces to corresponding shore

Separation of architectural material

Establishment of grid system through site

Neolithic

Archaic

Hellenistic

Late Roman

Vertical disruption

Grid system reprojected to breach wall circuit

Split

Simultaneous

Halai, Greece is an ongoing site of excavation. Over the past eight millennia it has been con-tinually settled, abandoned, resettled and re-abandoned. Construction above a context with complex temporal layers presents an opportunity for an involved and perpetual analysis of site. The temporarily final phase. As a port city, Halai has always had a very specific and dynamic interaction with the shore line, and is now partially emerged. This diagrammatic exploration informed an archi-tecture that is both involved with the archaeo-logical process and a registration of the inter-action between temporal layers.

AERIAL PERSPECTIVE

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN ROOF PLAN

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

ROOFTOP PERSPECTIVE

CROSS SECTION LOOKING NORTH

LATE ROMANOBSERVATION

LEVEL

HELENISTICOBSERVATION

LEVEL

GANTRY CRANE ORIENTED ALONG ARCHAIC

SUPER-STRUCTURESPANNING SITE

SUMMER 2009Site. Vivos, Greece Program. Trellis on existing house

VIEW TOWARDS BAY FROM ROOFTOP

VIEW OF HOUSE FROM GROUND LEVEL

AXON OFCONTINUOUS TRELLIS

This project edits a residential project

currently under con-struction. The client

was dissatisfied with the current trellis

scheme proposed by the architect, my

scheme was designed as an alter-

native. Conceived as a continuous

strip that links the existing trellis

network on the property with the

higher terrace, encircling vegeta-

tion about the property. The view from the

highest terrace is framed and shaded, the

industrial relic that

once con-nected the

ore mine behind the

site in a continuous

overhead conveyor

belt is stitched into

the Coleman-

Purdy property

by its own continu-

ity.

The Atlanta Fulton Public Librarys new city/street presence is defined by a

continuous media strip. Contemporary media is flexible, ephemeral, and

dynamic. The ATL Mediastrip blurs the conventional building/marquee/public

plaza/city relationship with an uninterrupted deliberate gesture

characterized by flexibility, programmability, and unpredictability. It

accommodates the presentation of moving and still images, advertisements

and art installations, news broadcasts and live performances, among a myriad

of other media capabilities.

The multi-layered surface extrudes out of the buildings faade and is informed by the librarys iconic orthogonal geometry.

The folding cantilevering canopy is a steel structure sandwiched by wooden panels on the top and LED light panels

on the bottom. As the strip unfolds out and downwards onto the public space to define a new plaza, the media underside

of the canopy wraps to become an ever-changing video pavement. The strip

continues diagonally across the new plaza and terminates with a grand

cascading stair informed by the existing topography.

SUMMER 2009Site. Atlanta, GA Program. Library Plaza

PERSPECTIVE FROM SOUTHWEST

PERSPECTIVE FROMNORTHEAST

PROGRAMMATICDIAGRAM

EXPLODED AXON

led panelsstructural members

mediastripatlanta-fultonpublic library

A center for environmental educa-tion should pedagogically

express its interaction with the site conditions specific to, in this case, Santa Barbara. The project is articulated around a courtyard,

lifting off of the ground plane to allow direct exposure to natural light and to harness air circulat-ing off of the nearby ocean. The

building acts as a series water catchment systems as well as a

layered environmental laboratory, connecting outdoor and indoor

spaces through water movement. Sustainable use of materials and

local resources inherently con-textualize this project, making it a center for environmental learning

in Santa Barbara.

COMPETITIONProf. Martha Bohm Site. UC Santa Barbara Program. Education Facility

Scale - 1:300

COURTYARD PERSPECTIVE

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

ROOF PLAN

LIBRARY AND CLASSROOM PLAN

EAST ELEVATION

3 Fly-Ash Concrete

Steel Decking

Open Web Steel Joists

1 Rigid Insulation(Expanded Perlite Organic Bonded)

Vapor Barrier

1 Fly-Ash Concrete Cladding(Sub-Sand/Gravel/Stone Concrete)

1/2 DrywallWater Resistant Barrier

Airspace

Uncoated Low-E Double Pane Glass

Steel Stud

Wooden Planks

Drainage Layer

3 Cellulose Insulation(Recycled Newsprint)

Metal Grated Drop Ceiling

ROOF ASSEMBLY

WALL ASSEMBLY

FLOOR ASSEMBLY

Marmoleum

3 Fly-Ash Concrete

Steel Decking

Open Web Steel Joists

1 Rigid Insulation(Expanded Perlite Organic Bonded)

Vapor Barrier

Airspace

1 Fly-Ash Concrete Cladding(Sub-Sand/Gravel/Stone Concrete)

Vapor Barrier

3 Cellulose Insulation(Recycled Newsprint)

Water Resistant Barrier

Airspace

Airspace

over - flow drain 1

over-flow drain 2rooftop sedum plantings

bioremediation plantings

water collection pond

drain 1 collection area

drain 2 collection area

flow towards slough

EXPLODED AXON IN SITU

WALL SECTIONAXON OF WATER FLOW AND FILTRATION

Scale - 1:100TRANSVERSE SECTION

vertical and horizontal louvres

floor slabs and partitions

core

EXPLODED PERSPECTIVE

A secret insertion within an ancient context. The project is a perfect

plinth over a programmatically active underbelly: during the day, a

bustling market-scape, at night, a dynamic club scene. Sandwiched

between the ancient Roman Wall and Monte Testaccio (a mound of discarded pottery from antiquity), the project reads as a removal of

material, and a reestablishment of ground plane. Drawing upon con-

text, the plane is fattened, and sheared downwards, providing light wells, structure, vertical circulation,

and pockets of program.

ARCH 402PROF. VINCE MULCAHY SITE. ROME, ITALY PROGRAM. MULTIUSE FACILITY

FRAMES:ANALYTICAL

SITE FILM

INITIAL SKETCH SECTION

ROOF PLANSITE PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

MODEL DETACHED

MODEL LIGHT WELLSSTUDY MODELS PARTI MODEL LAYERS

0 10m 50

SECTION LOOKING NW

Transversal SectionScale:

NIGHT EXTERIOR RENDERINGDAY EXTERIOR RENDERING SKETCH COLLAGE

0 10m 50SECTION LOOKING NW

Dancing House ("Fred and Ginger"), Prague, Czech Republic (1995)

Prunksaal (State Hall), Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Tugendhat House - Mies van der Rohe, Brno, Czech Republic

Farnsworth House - Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinios

Four Gasometers - Jean Nouvel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Manfred Wehdorn, Wilhelm Holzauer, Vienna, Austria

ARCH 401Profs. Chris Otto & Arthur Ovaska

EXPLODED AXON

PERSPECTIVAL SECTION

FISH-EYE PERSPECTIVE

PERSPECTIVE AND PLAN

AXON WITH PLAN AND SECTIONS

Site. Europe Sketchbook

AMSTERDAM SITE PLAN

BIRDS-EYE PERSPECTIVE

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

PERSPECTIVE ALONG NORTH SIDE

PERSPECTIVE ALONG SOUTH

This project is an exploration of economical optimization. A

three dimensional grid inserts intself onto the highline in

Chelsea, New York. As parts of the whole become more desir-

able, they expand, pushing those above it upwards, and

those beside it to the left and right. The skin of the building

responds to internal forces: puckering, creating distorted

images of interior happenings. The left side: apartments for

artists. The right: public exhibi-tion space.

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ARCH 302 Site. Chelsea, NY Program. Artist Housing and GalleryProf. Lonn Combs

PLANS

AXON OF FLOOR SLABS

AND PARTITIONSCELLS EXPAND:

OTHERS RESPOND

SKIN RESPONDS TO INTERNAL FORCES

VIEW FROM HIGHLINE

TRANSVERSE SECTIONLOOKING NORTH EAST

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVESITE PLAN

This project is a hybrid program facility on the edge of a gorge in Rochester, New York. It marks the intersection of a figure-8 light railway through the city that strategically links parts of the city outside the inner ring with the inactive city center. The form was derived from the transfor-mation from one railway to the other, selectively sticking to and detaching from the bent frame structure to create top story outdoor public spaces.

ROOF TOP EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

ARCH 302Prof. Henry Richardson Site. Rochester, NY Program. Transportation Hub, Mall

LONGITUDINAL SECTIONLOOKING NORTH WEST

AXONOMETRICSTRUCTURAL DIAGRAM

GROUND FLOOR LEVELFIRST FLOOR LEVELROOF TOP LEVEL

ARCH 202Prof. George Hascup Site. Red Hook, Brooklyn Program. Spa

Model SectionModel in Site

Exploded Model

Site Plan

Gym and Pool Level Plan

Locker Room Level Plan

A juxtaposition of two landscapes, in constant ebb and flow on the

fringe of Brooklyn. A high end spa for a slowly gentrifying site. Physi-

cally, the public landscape and private spa / recreation facilities

are separate, but through a series of shearing manipulations and

removal of material, the two typolo-gies are visually linked. Inserted into heavy industry, the delicate

white lines of the project stands in stark contrast and is articulated as

a projection of the strata from the surrounding urban fabric.

Interiorperspective

overlooking pool

Collage of precedents

Roof Plan

Exploded Model

Richmond CenterStage Richmond, VirginiaWilson Butler Architects

AquaTheater Oasis of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise LinesWilson Butler Architects

These cubes are in various forms of collapse/re-formation. Their initial

state was subverted by the removal and redistribution of material. The

cube is then implied and reconstructed cognitively, existing in both its initial and final state simultaneously in the

mind alone. As a set they are dynamic and interactive, as individual pieces

they are formally complex.

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