Emily Shaw

Emily Shaw is a Master of Architecture student at Penn's Weitzman School of Design with a BA in design from UC Davis. She is interested in sustainability, environmental justice, and human centered design. Throughout her experience at Penn, Emily has explored how to tie cultural significance, meaning, and design aesthetic into greater environmental questions of site and climate. Tactility, cultural contextualization, and place-based design solutions across all scales are reflected in her work.

Penn Praxis Studio+: New Freedom District -- 40TH & LANCASTER AVE_Community Meeting

Studio+: New Freedom District Emily Shaw, Yumeng Qu, Haoyue Ji, Bingtao Han, Madeline Barnhard, Sara Sterchak, Arisa Lohmeier, Audrey Genest, Olivia Hattie Loughrey, Kyle Johnson, Yubing Ge, Chanju Yang

Studio+: New Freedom District Emily Shaw, Haoyue Ji, Bingtao Han, Arisa Lohmeier, Audrey Genest, Sara Sterchak, Kyle Johnson, Madeline Barnhard, Yubing Ge, Chanju Yang, Yumeng Qu, Olivia Hattie Loughrey

Studio+: New Freedom District Bingtao Han, Haoyue Ji, Arisa Lohmeier, Yumeng Qu, Emily Shaw, Madeline Barnhard, Olivia Hattie Loughrey, Kyle Johnson, Audrey Genest, Sara Sterchak, Yubing Ge, Chanju Yang

Photograph from a community meeting where students presented design ideas and worked with community members to determine priorities.

Studio+: New Freedom District Emily Shaw, Sara Sterchak, Arisa Lohmeier, Audrey Genest, Olivia Hattie Loughrey, Yumeng Qu, Bingtao Han, Kyle Johnson, Yubing Ge, Madeline Barnhard, Haobing Liu, Chanju Yang

Entry level plan cut through the constructed landscape, showing visible versus hidden structures and generation of flexible space through programmatic misalignment.

Wachsmann’s Sublime? | Anti Architecture of Konrad Wachsmann Emily Shaw, Joao Freitas

Render showing generation of the outdoor amphitheater through the folding of the constructed landscape.

Wachsmann’s Sublime? | Anti Architecture of Konrad Wachsmann Emily Shaw, Joao Freitas

Penn Praxis Studio+: New Freedom District -- LEX STREET GARDEN_Stairs Building

Memory map showing impressions of Lancaster Avenue and its relationship to the expanding universities (shown in red).

Studio+: New Freedom District Emily Shaw, Sara Sterchak, Audrey Genest, Olivia Hattie Loughrey, Yumeng Qu, Kyle Johnson, Haobing Liu, Madeline Barnhard, Chanju Yang

Section cut parallel to the river, showing connections between existing and new datums.

Wachsmann’s Sublime? | Anti Architecture of Konrad Wachsmann Emily Shaw, Joao Freitas

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