academic — Liz Pettit

telluride bathhouse

Final Graduate Studio - 2013

Masters Class | Immersion Studio

INSTRUCTORS: Rick Joy, Peter Stutchbury, & Richard Leplastrier

GROUP: David Remy, Matt Latham, Liz Pettit, & Sara Zezulka

The Masters Class studio was an intensive week long immersion design studio set in Telluride, Colorado.

Each day was broken into lessons focusing on capturing sense of place in design, followed by sketching, studio group work, and an evening presentation.

After the immersive week in Telluride, we returned to CU Denver and our groups continued our bathhouse design.

Exterior Perspective

Physical Site Model - River Connection

Interior Perspective - Bath 1 - Winter.jpg

POOLS: Lightwells allow daylight to penetrate the roof into the large pool space.

Slivers are carved our of masonry exterior walls, framing view of aspens.

Axon section through bathing chambers

Section Rendering - Revit + Photoshop

Exploded Axon Diagram - Sketchup + Illustrator

yampa valley feed

PROJECT: Yampa Valley Feeds | Hayden Granary

STUDIO: Graduate School 3 - Preservation Studio 2012

PROJECT GOAL: Bring Yampa Valley Feeds into the next cycle of its life by renovating what was once a grain storage facility, into a community center. There shall be a clear identity between new and old. Both new and old elements shall serve as a way to engage users in a tactile way, and help them understand the history of the granary. Where the granary once served as a place for grain, it is now a place for people. Much in the way grain was moved and stored, the next life cycle of the granary will allow for people to move through the space, creating places of gathering (holding), and allowing visual and physical access to the mechanisms that where once used as integral technology of the granary.

Exterior circulation serves as a community platform during events

Exterior elevated circulation serves as a loading doc and sales corridor during farmers markets

mixed use

Grad Comprehensive Studio - 2012

PROJECT PARTNER: Sean McMurray

PROJECT: mixed use

LOCATION: Uptown Denver, CO

STATUS: Unbuilt

Comprehensive studio is a class that takes a design problem and works to solve it in its entirety. From the design of systems, structure, and facades, to social engagement, traffic flow and street presence. My partner and I worked to design a building that address the need for multi-family housing that can accommodate families that wish to live in the cities. Strategies for our design include maximized social engagement spaces with other dwellers, treating the roof as a 'yard' and extension of the home, and creating an urban living space that meets the criteria of a traditionally suburban home.