A + w o r k s portfolio 2005-2024

from 2005 - 2024

About

Anna L Koosmann is an award-winning Architect and leader in participatory design, fostering resiliency within culturally diverse communities in the U.S. and abroad. An initiator of bottom-up, sustainable solutions to climate change, she is deeply invested in the places she serves, working closely with indigenous populations and natural disaster survivors, among other marginalized groups. She believes architecture, education, and research can play an active role and create positive impact on the built environment.

As an Architect and Phius Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC), Anna’s role intersects practice, education, and research, on high-performing and low-embodied carbon design projects in the greater Minneapolis and upper Midwest regions.

As an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona (2017-2019), she co-taught design-build studios for the Drachman Design-Build Coalition focusing on energy efficient and affordable faculty housing at University of Arizona.

As a Visiting Design-Build Instructor in the Philippines (2012-2014), she managed the first Filipino university design-build program at Foundation University, which showcased bamboo construction on small, community structures. She returned on a Fulbright grant to institutionalize the program in 2015. Her Fulbright research earned a national EDRA Core award in 2018 for post occupancy case studies of the first, three Filipino designbuild community projects.

Anna is an activist architect. She believes architecture and art can positively impact community through small interventions and place-making. She is invested in the places she serves, collaborating with the people that will truly benefit. She instigates projects and follows up to learn, reflect, and improve the process. In addition to architecture, she has exhibited artworks internationally in the Philippines and domestically in Seattle and the Midwest.

A + w o r k s architecture, teaching, and research centers on collaborative and public interest design for positive impact. The collection of works between 2005-2024, are integrated into the public realm as permanent structures, or as temporary art and events.

60% Energy Reduction

five northside homes property locations in north minneapolis

Northside Passive Minneapolis, MN 2024

The Northside Passive Homes were designed in partnership with Urban Homeworks and Project for Pride in Living (PPL) affordable housing programs. Five new homes are 1,666sf two-story structures built on vacant sites in North Minneapolis that were previously razed by a destructive tornado that struck the neighborhood in 2011. The designs for each home were slightly modified to work with the different site features and sun-orientation in order to meet the Phius Passive House energy targets for certification. The homes utilize frost protected shallow foundations (R-25), structurally insulated panels (SIPS) with 2x4 framing (R-63) walls and (R-60) roof, and triple pane windows for best energy savings. The homes also have Energy Star appliances, airsource heat pumps, and energy recovery ventilators (ERV) for healthy indoor air quality. - images courtesy of Precipitate

Urban Homeworks

Precipitate

Northside Minneapolis

1,666sf

Phius Certified Passive House owner/ developer: architect, CPHC: location: size: features: Minneapolis

Solistice Apartments

Minneapolis, MN 2024

The Solstice apartment building located in Northeast Minneapolis is the first Phius certified Passive House and low-embodied carbon design in the Twin Cities. There are 23 units ranging from 1 to 2 bedrooms with a common bike storage and bike wash area on the first floor. Low-embodied carbon elements include cellulose fill insulation and graphene polystyrene insulation at the foundation and exterior walls. Thin brick veneer is used as an exterior cladding, which enriches the elevation and keeps the embodied carbon counts low. Photovoltaic panels are attached to the roof to offset energy consumption. All electric energy star appliances throughout, with whole-house air-source heat pumps and energy recover ventilators (ERV) for indoor air quality. - images courtesy of Precipitate

80% Energy Reduction

30% Embodied Carbon Reduction

From Code Baseline

Footprint Development

Precipitate

Northeast Minneapolis

18,960sf

Phius Certified Passive House & Low-Embodied Carbon Design

owner/ developer: architect, CPHC: location: size: features: Minneapolis

window flashing and installation on-site construction mock-up

image: courtesy of footprint development

STANDARD BUILDING ASSEMBLIES

foundation:

cavity insulation: rigid insulation: exterior cladding: windows:

concrete fiberglass batt

EPS or XPS

standard brick veneer, metal panel fiberglass thin triple pane (U-0.16)

BEAM Carbon Calculator Minneapolis, MN 2024

The Beam carbon calculator tool developed by Builder’s for Climate Action quanitifies the amount of carbon in building materials. Precipitate architects applied the calculator to the Solstice apartment building assemblies to reduce its overall embodied carbon and compared it to standard building assemblies. The most significant reduction came from minimizing and using recycled concrete content, specifying 3/4” thin veneer brick, swapping out EPS insulation for GPS (graphene polystyrene) resulting in higher R-values, and specifying low-embodied carbon green gypsom board, adding cellulose to the cavity wall insulation, and FSC wood lumber. The triple pane windows increases the carbon load over double pane, but it is significantly offset by switching out the other materials. - images courtesy of Precipitate

SOLSTICE APARTMENTS LOW-EMBODIED CARBON BUILDING ASSEMBLIES

foundation:

cavity insulation:

high recycled concrete content dense packed cellulose

rigid insulation: exterior cladding: windows:

GPS

3/4” thin brick veneer, engineered wood fiberglass thin triple pane (U-0.16)

Precipitate

Solstice Apartments, Minneapolis

research: project: Minneapolis

CARD Grant Research Minneapolis, MN 2021-23

The Minnesota Department of Commerce Conservation Applied Research Development (CARD) grant compares three mult-family building sizes (small, medium, large) and their energy performance in three Minnesota climate regions: Bemidji zone 7, Minneapolis zone 6A, and Albert Lea zone 6A. The buildings were analyzed using WUFI Passive software and Phius +2021energy performance targets to compare the differences between code standard building assemblies and three different mechanical types: either gas, electric resistance, or air-source heat pump, and comparing it to Phius +2021 targets. The research team also did a comparative study of the financial implications between code baseline and passive house strategies. - images courtesy of Precipitate

Precipitate, CSBR, CEE, Slipstream Minnesota research team: location:

cee slipstream

UA Faculty Housing

Tucson, AZ 2019

The University of Arizona Faculty Housing is a series of five houses designed and constructed by UA architecture students of the Drachman Design Build Coalition (DDBC) led by Mary Hardin and Anna Koosmann. DDBC 08 is 1,500sf two-story, three-bed, and two-bath home featuring double height living space and open plan and views of Tucson’s surrounding mountain landscape from the second floor balcony. It utilizes energy efficient design with passive solar orientation to shade the hot desert sun and masonry block with metal wrap to insulate the interior from the heat. Zoned heat pumps provide energy savings. Low flow fixtures and xeriscaping with native desert plantings, saves water.

- photos courtesy of University of Arizona DDBC

Univerisy of Arizona

ARC 510e, 510f, 451a, 451b owner: d+b architect: location: size: instructors: students leaders:

Drachman Design-Build Coalition

University of Arizona Campus

1,500sf

Mary Hardin & Anna Koosmann

photos: courtesy UA CAPLA DDBC

DDBC 08 interior stair

DDBC 08 design-build students laying up the cmu exterior wall

DDBC 08 exterior wall detail, courtsy of UA CAPLA students

DDBC 08 sectional rendering, photos: courtesy UA CAPLA DDBC

Above: UA DDBC 09 Floor Plan, Below: East Elevation, images: courtesy UA CAPLA

Above: UA DDBC 08 Floor Plan, Below: East Elevation, images: courtesy UA CAPLA

Energy and Daylight Modeling

DBBC 09 daylight models design and window study: Left, clear glazing clerestory windows U-.28; Right, polycarbonate clerestory, images: courtesy UA CAPLA DDBC

Panaghiusa Multipurpose Hall

Dumaguete City, Philippines 2014

The multipurpose hall is Estudio Damgo’s second project. A partnership with Dumaguete City’s relief housing efforts for displaced flood survivors, from two national disasters (Typhoon Ondoy (2009) and Sendong (2011)). The building name, Panaghiusa, means “to unite” in the local, Visayan dialect. Uniting over 100 households and providing access to medical services, training, and assembly, the building showcases sustainable and energy efficient design using locally sourced bamboo as its primary structure, locally made interlocking clay bricks and clay floor tiles, passive cooling, and day lighting. Estudio Damgo is the first student-led, design-build program in the Philippines.

- photos courtesy of Foundation University

owner: d+b architect: location: size: cost: instructors: students leaders: donors:

City of Dumaguete, Brgy. Bajumpandan

Foundation University Estudio Damgo

Core Shelter Brgy. Bajumpandan, Dumaguete City, Philippines

82sm (880sf)

Php 922,000 ($20,000)

Anna Koosmann & James Casao

Rhea Dicen, Leigh Lagrimas, Daryl Suasin

Bambusa Collabo, Counselor Teves, Global Giving Gifts

Manila Dumaguete

core shelter children gathering

estudio damgo team

community workshop

Dungga Classroom

Malaunay, Valencia, Philippines 2013

The Dungga Classroom is Estudio Damgo’s pilot project established in June 2012. A partnership between Foundation University, the Department of Education (DepED), and Municipality of Valencia showcases innovation in bamboo and sustainable design strategies. Dungga is an annex preschool classroom located at the elementary site in Malaunay, Valencia. The building features locally sourced bamboo, thatched (or sak-sak) roof, and rammed earth. Energy efficient, it is located in a rural, mountain village, that captures expansive views, passive cooling, and natural daylight.

- photos courtesy of Foundation University

owner: d+b architect: location: size: cost: instructors: students leaders: donors: awards:

DepED and Municipality of Valencia Foundation University Estudio Damgo

Brgy. Malaunay, Valencia, Philippines

68sm (730sf)

Php 450,000 ($10,000)

Ray Villanueva and Anna Koosman, Von Jovi Biala and Rick Gando

Bambusa Collabo, Global Giving Gifts

TAYO UAPS Php 50,000 Scholarship

TAYO 2013 National Program Award

Manila Valencia

First D+B Program in the Philippines

bamboo workshop estudio damgo team

ESTUDIO DAMGO 1 | 2013

Preschool Classroom

owner: d+b architect:

DepED and Municipality of Valencia Foundation University Estudio Damgo

location:

Brgy. Malaunay, Valencia, Philippines

size:

68sm (730sf)

cost:

Php 450,000 ($10,000)

ESTUDIO DAMGO 2 | 2014

Multipurpose Hall

owner: d+b architect:

location:

City of Dumaguete, Brgy. Bajumpandan Foundation University Estudio Damgo

Core Shelter Brgy. Bajumpandan, Dumaguete City, Philippines

size:

82sm (880sf)

cost:

Php 922,000 ($20,000)

ESTUDIO DAMGO 3 | 2015

Floating Guardhouse

owner: d+b architect:

location:

City of Dumaguete, Brgy. Batayan

Foundation University Estudio Damgo

Marine Sanctuary, Brgy. Bantayan

Dumaguete City, Philippines

size:

120sm (1,290sf)

cost:

Php 1,294,081 ($27,000)

“we have a road map to guide us on future projects.”

2 student leaders

6 fourth year students

500 volunteer hours

194

100

June 2012 - March 2013

Best Practices | Bamboo training workshop gave students the skills necessary for construction. Including 4th year architecture students and volunteers on construction helped the project stay on schedule.

Lessons Learned | Remote site access caused delays during construction.

- estudio damgo instructor

3 student leaders

210 volunteer hours

210

80

June 2013 - March 2014

Best Practices | Establishing partnerships with City Administrators and community stakeholders early helped the project stay on schedule.

Lessons Learned | Identify owner responsibilities in the contracts at design, construction, and turn-over.

9 student leaders

150 volunteer hours

266

80

June 2014 - June 2015

Best Practices | Trial testing structural mock-ups before construciton resulted in a successful launch of the floating structure.

Lessons Learned | Develop trust with community stakeholders through participatory design practices. The floating guardhouse collapsed October 30, 2015, 5 months after its launch.

“we have a lunch program for the students and a place to hold our meetings.”

“we can meet in one space to resolve conflicts.”

- core shelter community president

“we like the structure, but worried it won’t hold up to strong winds and high waves during typhoon season.”

- barangay school teacher design site innovation culture green impact design site innovation culture green impact design site innovation culture green impact

50+

50 preschool children gain access to education per year.

100+

Over 100 households have access to a multipurpose space for community meetings, adult training, ceremonies, and health services.

- bantay-dagat resident

9+

9 Estudio Damgo graduates are empowerd with the knowledge and skills for the profession.

ESTUDIO DAMGO 1 | 2013 school children reciting the national pledge of allegiance.

ESTUDIO DAMGO 2 | 2014 core shelter residents playing bingo.

ESTUDIO DAMGO 3 | 2015 sign says “ WARNING: anyone caught using the Marine Guard House will be fined and arrested.”

Shix Neet Affordable Housing Yakima, WA 2006-08

A partnership between the University of Washington - College of Built Environment and the Yakama Nation Housing Authorities (YHNA) built two homes using energy efficient design and construction for a 50+ affordable housing neighborhood development plan. Three years total from community planning, design, and construction, the project received a HUD grant and award for the culturally sensitive design and technologies using advanced framing and SIPs.

YNHA

UW-CBE Design-Build Studio

Yakima Valley, WA

approx. 1,300sf unit

Michael Pyatok, Dana Walker, Frank Mestemacher

UW architecture students

HUD Community Futures Demonstration

HUD 2008 Community Futures Demonstration owner: d+b architect: location: size: instructors: students leaders: grant: awards: Seattle

shix neet community homeowners

2006 design-build team

shix neet development plan

Wood Technology Center

Seattle, WA 2013

Seattle Central Wood Technology Center replacement is an academic and industry facility focusing on wood construction and trades. Received a LEED Silver certification, the facility has four wood shop, classroom, support spaces, and a two-story entrance lobby and gallery atrium. - photos courtesy of Schreiber Starling & Lane Architects

Seattle Central Community College

SS&L, Jody Miller Construction

Seattle, WA

67,000sf

$19,000,000

LEED Silver owner: architect, contractor: location: size: cost: certificates:

Seattle

wood technology center second floor plan

wood technology center first floor plan

entrance interior

cabinet wood shop interior tiered classroom interior

SuperCharge! Foods is a micro-green production, juice bar, and community space in Madison, WI.

SuperCharge! gutted and renovated a single-story commercial building by converting two tenant spaces into one. The production room can generate up to ten times more growing volume than before utilizing vertical shelf towers. The 3,000sf interior renovation and exterior site paving and plantings has made an improvement to the urban neighborhood and serves as a community hub on Madison’s East side. - photos courtesy of SuperCharge! Foods.

owner: architect: location: size: cost:

SuperCharge! Foods

Whole Trees & Anna Koosmann

Madison, WI

3,000sf

$120,000

Madison

www.annakoosmann.com

micro-green production room vertical towers

Community Urban Farming

owners TJ DiCiaula and PT Bjerke in their new commercial space - photo by Amelia Cook in Isthmus

community juice bar looking into the glowing micro-green production room

supercharge! foods floor plan

Mobile Art Gallery Stillwater, MN

2016

The mbile art gallery was conceived by ArtReach members to showcase art and music along the St. Croix River Vally community. The mission of the mobile gallery is to allow people access to the arts, by having the art come to the people. Anna Koosmann facilitated a design workshop with art members and developed design options for ArtReach’s member show for feedback and vote on the designs. The mobile art gallery was constructed in 2016 and continues to operate every summer showcasing art along the St. Croix River Vally at multiple venues each year.

www.annakoosmann.com

ArtReach St. Croix

Anna Koosmann Stillwater, MN

128sf owner: architect: location: size: Stillwater

mobile art gallery on disply at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, photo courtesy ArtReach

design workshop with ArtReach St. Croix, photo courtesy ArtReach

Displaced Populations Memorial Vigil

The memorial vigil is the winning design for the three-day Design Build Challenge (DBC) for Seattle’s Tent Cities temporary encampents, co-organized by Tilt. The multi-colored cube can collapse and dissasemble for mobility, designed and constructed by UW architecture master’s students. The photo shows the cube temporarily stationed at Seattle’s City Hall after the three-day competition.

Seattle, WA March 2008

Tilt and Project Locus

Seattle Tent City UW Grad Students

Seattle, WA 50sf dbc organizers: owner: d+b architect: location: size: Seattle

Tilt Community Design-Build

Tilt Community Design-Build is a grassroots coalition of designers, architects, and builders based in Seattle, WA. Tilt and its members are emboldened by the notion that public art and architecture can affect positive social change.

Seattle, WA 40sf PB elemntal owner: d+b architect location: size: donors:

Ballard Homes For All Coalition

Tilt

Tilt Seattle, WA 130sf owner: d+b architect location: size:

Aloha Transitional Housing

Rover 1 Seattle, WA September 2008

A mobile hygiene station designed and built by Tilt for Seattle’s temporary car-encampments. The shower and dressing area is built atop a pull-behind trailer and made of translucent polycarbonate, to permit natural light during the day and a way-finding device at night. The prototype was debuted at the Sustainable Ballard Fair in September 2008. - photo courtesy of Seattle Times

Aloha Pavilion Seattle, WA May 2011

An outdoor pavilion designed and built by Tilt for Aloha Transitional Housing in Seattle. The pavilion serves as a place for residents to gather and smoke away from the building. The design of the roof is angled to shed rain water into a central rain gutter and barrel for collection. - photo courtesy of Tilt

ARTWalk: Art for a Cause

November 14, 2013

The 7-venue exhibit featuring 34 artists and over 120 artworks was the largest show of its kind in Dumaguete City. ARTWalk launched at Captain Ribbers with more than 50 ARTWalkers touring the works in participating restaurants within a two-block radius. The exhibit was up for two months as a fund-raiser for Estudio Damgo’s Multipurpose Hall. The ARTWalk raised the bar in Dumaguete’s local art scene and the awareness of the Foundation University’s design-build program. - photo courtesy of Foundation University

“I [want] to see more of this in the future, and hopefully. . . Dumaguete will be known as the city of ARTWalking”. - Basilianesk Sisneros

Anna Koosmann & Hersley Casero Dumguete City, Philippines

The Bean Connection Portal West and Downtown, Cafe Memento, Captain Ribbers, Cafe Mamia, KRI, and SG Bank organizers: location: art venues:

Manila Dumaguete

artwalkers viewing art at kri restaurant

artwalk patrons and organizers

hopia performing at the concert

organizers: location: musicians:

Estudio Damgo, Anna Koosmann & Hersley Casero Foundation University, Dumaguete City, Philippines HOPIA Band, Ground Zero, Xaris, Jay Squad, the Transformers, Nicky Dumapit, and Babbu.

Benefit Concert

December 14, 2013

Estudio Damgo’s Benefit Concert concert featured 7 local musicians and four dance troupes that performed between bands. It was a night of continuous entertainment from all types of music genres, dance numbers, fire dancing, and fireworks display, all in the spirit of giving back to community. During the show, we collectively held a one-minute-of silence to reflect on recent calamities from Bohol’s earthquake and Typhoon Haiyan.

Local Arts and Music for a Cause

a’void Seattle, WA March 2012

Created in collaboration with artist Aaron Asis, a’void stands behind a translucent veil of green neon. The unique spatial character of the gallery, inspired the creation of a holistic series of independent gestures derived over a half year of analysis and observation. a’void aims to share the story of Form/ Space Atelier, as a sculptural armature derived from the form and space of the unique gallery interior.

sway Seattle, WA September 2012

In collaboration with artist Aaron Asis, sway is an interactive re-interpretation of a traditional swing. Responding to the form and structure of the Deajeon Park Pagoda, the swings generate a wide array of reaction, interaction and creative engagement. sway was part of the NEPO House 5k and shared Pagoda space overlooking the I-90 trail with Nat Evans’ sound piece entitled, Record and Response.

countdown: build 2 destroy - classical space by this is nocturne

Countdown: Build 2 Destroy

Seattle May 2007

Five, temporary architectural installations exhibited in a storefront gallery, respond to Seattle’s rapid development. Countdown: Build 2 Destroy celebrates a moment of life and “collective memory” in a historic parking garage before its demolition. The Garage & Store Building was demolished in March 2012. Collaborating artists: this is Nocturne, Abby Ipanbutr, Ben Alberg, Donald Daedalus, Zack Carver and Mick Lorusso. Curators: Anna Koosmann and Paul Pauper.

negara makpung races, Bali 2015

bison release 2015

sandurot festival, dumaguete, philippines 2015

olympia island fishing village, philippines 2015

garage & store building large format 4x5 photograph 2007

wisconsin 2014

negara makpung races, bali

2015 traditional temple anniversary bali 2015

uw-cbe arch 500 design studio: film school elevation

uw-cbe arch 500 design studio: film school elevation

uw-cbe arch 501 design studio: uw visitor center elevations

uw-cbe arch 501 design studio: uw visitor center perspective rendering

uw-cbe arch 501 design studio: wall section

uw-cbe arch 501 design studio: uw visitor center perspective rendering

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