Lloyd Megan Portfolio 2014 (PDF)

megan
lloyd
bfa, BEDS, m.arch candidate
Design portfolio
2014

Stewiacke

Megan
Lloyd
BFA, beds, m.arch candidate

Shubenacadie


2457 Agricola Street

Halifax, NS
megan.lloyd@dal.ca

(902) 830-8678

contents
Enfield

education

awards







Dalhousie University
Master of Architecture
2014-present
Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies
2012-2014










NSCAD University
Bachelor of Fine Art
2009-2012







St. Francis Xavier University

Engineering
2006-2007

academic involvement


Dalhousie Architecture Students Association

President // 2014

NSAA Intern Committee // 2014

Institute for Research in Materials // Oral

Presenter at Annual Research Day // Studying the

Material Implications of Green Oak Gridshell
Structures // 2014

IDEA Building Project Development // 2014

Technology Teaching Group // 2014

Lecture Series // 2013-2014

Professional Practice committee // 2013

School of Architecture committee // 2013

Humanities committee // 2013

UCBeyond National Scholarship // 2014
William P. Lydon Memorial Scholarship //
2014
Dalhousie Undergraduate Scholarship // 2014

certifications

St. John Ambulance First Aid/CPR // Updated
June 2014
Scaffolding Safety Training // Expiry 2017
Fall Protection Safety Training // Expiry 2017

skills




AutoCAD
InDesign/PhotoShop/Illustrator

Hand Drawing
SketchUp
Model Making
Woodworking
Metalworking
Rhino
VectorWorks
Revit

Shubenacadie
Grand Lake

Fletchers Lake

Fall River
Thomas Lake

Lake William

Bedford

Bedford Basin

work/volunteer


Teacher’s Assistant // Dalhousie University

Professional Practice // ARCH 3302
2014-present

Teacher’s Assistant // Dalhousie University

Building Systems Integration // ARCH 4211
2014




Coastal Studio
Co-op Student Designer/Builder
2013





EyeLevel Gallery
Student Intern
2012

references



Diogo Burnay
diogo.burnay@dal.ca




Niall Savage
niall.savage@dal.ca




Brian Lilley
brian.lilley@dal.ca




Ted Cavanagh
ted.cavanagh@dal.ca



Lake Charles

Lake Micmac
Dartmouth
Lake Banook

Halifax
Halifax Harbour

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Cheticamp Farmer’s
Market //
Cheticamp, NS

Fundy National Park
Treehouse //
Alma, NB

Dalhousie School of
Music //
Halifax, NS

Urban Planning +
Housing // In Process //
Dartmouth, NS

Other Works // work
done during BEDS //
Various Sites

Ross Creek Solar
Showers //
Canning, NS

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farmers market
M1 // May-August 2014
The Cheticamp Farmer’s Market was a Design/Build project which took place during
the summer of 2014 along with nine other students. The site is located in Cheticamp,
NS, a small Acadian town in Cape Breton made up of about 3,000 residents.
The structure is made using locally sourced green oak and is held together by a
hybrid lashing/clamping system, which all ties into a concrete slab floor. In addition
to designing and building the grid shell, our team also took on landscaping
and furniture design/building. We installed permeable paving at the entrances,
constructed a band stand, built a berm to reduce street noise and laid all new sod.
After several community collaboration meetings, new tables were specially built for
each vendor at the market as well.
The next phase of the project is to introduce a sun shading system of criss-crossing
wooden laths throughout the structure and to install a bench on the back curve. As
for the future of the site, a community garden has been initiated in the field directly
behind the structure to encourage the children of the town to grow food and sell it at
the market.

Site Plan

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Conceptual Drawings

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Design/Build Team: Xan Hawes, Nina Hitzler, Evan Hoyles, Noah Jacobson, Amanda Kemeny, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham, Megan Lloyd, Fraser Plaxton, Julia Weir

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cheticamp
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M1 // May-August 2014

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Photos Throughout the Design/Build Process

Cheticamp Farmer’s Market, August 2014

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fundy
national park treehouse
b4 // work term // august-december 2013
The Fundy National Park Treehouse is a project that was first conceived in 2012.
Initial site work began at this time but the design of the grid shell structure did
not begin until the following year.
I was on the team of designers tasked with making this unprecedented type of
construction work. What makes the Treehouse project unique is that it is a grid
shell that does not touch the ground. It wraps into itself like a cocoon. This type of
structure has never been built before so the design and building process was a
lot of thinking while doing, a lot of testing ideas out by physically building.
This project required very detailed drawings, models and accurate documentation
for clear communication with our partner engineers and client, Parks Canada.
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Site Plan

Models. Above: sketch models, bottom left and middle: 1:1, bottom right: 1:20

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4” 8”

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Critical Section

2’ 4’

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Plan

Work Term Design/Build Team: Ben Angus, Katie Hall, Tyler Hall, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham & Megan Lloyd

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dalhousie
school of music
b5 // january-april 2014

The design process began with the study of the relationship between the pianist
and the piano. Starting the process here, made it clear that the primary goal
of the design would be to make spaces that musicians would want to inhabit,
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Geometry, acoustics and lighting became the main factors considered.
Dalhousie University campus. As the design moves further away from the
layout
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to greenery. This is what brought on the large atrium piercing the entire building.
more private institutional University Avenue. The plan was cut into three parts:
he second floor. These steps made it possible for all rooms in the school to have
Learning, Practicing and Performing. The Learning slice was closest to Edward
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students would
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end of the building; the Performing slice was adjacent
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City Scale
Robie Street meant to interact with the public. The Practicing slice mediated
operties.
the space in between.
This splitting and slicing lent itself to the existence of natural lighting and
green spaces within the building. Some of these features include south facing
balconies stacking the facade and a staggered atrium piercing the building
acting as circulation as well as an impromtu performance space.

View of Main Entry
City Scale

Neighborhood Scale

Neighborhood Scale

Inside Practice Room

Cladding Detail

Building Scale

Building Scale

1:50 Model of Practice Rooms

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8’ 16’

32’

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12’ 24’

48’

Axonometric Plans

1:200 Scale Model

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works
B1-b3 // september 2012-july 2013

Halifax Harbour

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Selection of projects from the first few semesters of the Bachelor of
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of studying the juxtaposition of urban conditions on the Dartmouth
waterfront and asked to improve the existing site by developing a new
master plan for the area. This is done by thinking about the city as
one entity and the waterfront as another and how to use housing as a
means to mitigate these two zones.
The first part of the term is about studying the site at all scales, from
its context within the province down to changes in topography over
each individual building site. As I began to study the site, a gap
appeared between Dartmouth Cove and Sullivan’s Pond; it is the only
non-continuous part of a chain of lakes and rivers that run all the way
from Halifax Harbour to the Bay of Fundy. The first step in the new
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simplification and the implementation of public green space. the step
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Live/Work Housing Design: Family home and home-school design
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Proposed Site Plan

B1 //
1:100 model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Banff Park Pavilion presented in detachable wooden parts

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ross
creek solar showers
b3-4 // May-december 2013
The Ross Creek Solar Showers was a project that began in
2011 at the Ross Creek Center for the Arts in Canning, NS.
Unfortunately, the the first time it was built, the construction
failed and it needed to be rebuilt.
I was a member of the team who worked to rebuild the Solar
Showers in the summer of 2013 and then again was involved
with the project that fall to create a set of as-built drawings to
obtain necessary permits.
The shower pavilion is designed to appear as if it is cantilevering
off a steep hill, looking out to the woods beyond. It is made up
of four private shower stalls each framing a specific view, taking
inspiration from the Perry Lakes Park restrooms in Marion, AL by
Rural Studio.

Plan

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Section 1

Section 2
1’ 2’

4’

As Built Drawing Team: Katie Hall, Kaitlyn Labrecque, Katelyn Latham & Megan Lloyd
Build Team: Wes Bou-Saleh, Megan Lloyd, Philippa Ovonjiodida-Keri, Alina Rahkmatullina, Luke Ryalls, Max Schnutgen & Mahsa Shobbar

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thank you