ellyn freed

Studio 300:
Shelter form the Storm
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This project was my first studio project as an architecture student. This was a tectonic studio aimed at teaching students about column, beam and joist sizing and spacing.

Placed in Cleveland Memorial Forest in Issaquha, WA, the program required a shelter designed to fit 4 student counselors, with the space for 4 more students. A table and work station were required as well as a solid and waterproof locked bin for bag storage and firewood.
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Studio 301:
Ballard Photography Studio

The aim of this project was to design a space for a collective of photographers who need to be furnished with a gallery, office, a dark room and work spaces. The space resides in a vacant lot on Ballard Ave. in Seattle in the heart of Ballard's historic district.
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Studio 302:
Capitol Hill Cooking School
The aim of this project was to design a cooking school in the up and coming Capitol Hill district in Seattle, WA. The cooking school was designed to also house a daily market, restaurant and weekend farmers' market. It was a materiality study in learning how to design with local aesthetics in mind.
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Studio 400:
Rome, Italy
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This project was set on the side of the Tiber River banks in Rome Italy. It was the studio project for my study abroad program. The project aimed to design a space that reactivates an abandoned ship-building business from the 1700's. The program consisted of a museum that tells the story of the Tiber River directly as well as added elements of our choosing. My choice was to design an outdoor farmers' market as well a restaurant and an outdoor performance/park space due to the lack of green space along this ancient river. This project was a mix of adaptive reuse, new builds and landscape design.
Studio 401:
Green Lake Small Craft Center
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The Green Lake Small Craft Center in Seattle, WA is looking to update their facilities in order to meet the growing demand and attention for their programs. Our job was to work with the Green Lake Small Craft Center Administrators to come up with our own new designs for the Small Craft Center. This required careful study of the sport of rowing as well as working with Seattle Building Codes and building on and around a body of water. It was also the first project in which we worked very directly with potential clients who are looking to truly solve this problem in the real world.

Our projects resulted in a book of which I put together and has been showcased and received widespread excitement.
Studio 402:
GhostWorks, Twisp WA
​The GhostWorks project was one that integrated our Architecture class as well as the Interaction Design students at UW. We work with the public development authority in Twisp, WA called TwispWorks, to come up with different installations that would get the community interested in their work as well as to tell the stories of Twisp's past.
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Our group installed a landscape project to help enhance the proposed "Green belt" section of the TwispWorks campus and composed it of tree sections from a tree that had been felled on site to make room for solar panels on one of the campus buildings. The project was designed to establish community events that will get people engaged in building, design and learning about this project and the area's history in the Forest Service.

The first event get people involved in sawing the felled trees into sections with vintage manual crosscut saws as well as more modern mechanized saws.

The second event would be to let families and individuals to brand their names and stories into the wood slabs. Whether they be locals or visitors, anyone will be able to put their own stories on the tree slabs.
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The third event would entail composing these slabs into a form that people can sit on, play around and enjoy in any way that they chose.
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The final event will be to plant native plants amidst the tree slabs so that over many years people can watch the form grow and change with the seasons and the years, giving the ghost of this tree a new life to create more stories for years to come.