KELSEY MCLAUGHLIN 2015
CONTACT KELSEY MCLAUGHLIN 802.777.1478 kelsey.leemclaughlin@gmail.com
CONTENTS
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GRADUATE
06-12
HELSINKI [re]ACTIVE
13-18
TIMBER IN THE FOREST
19-26
DATA TREES
27-32
CLT MODULAR CLASSROOM
33-36
ADDITIONAL WORKS
01_HELSINKI [re]ACTIVE GUGGENHEIM HELSINKI COMPETITION 2014 | HELSINKI, FINLAND DESIGNED BY: Maksym Rokhmaniiko (team leader), Kelsey McLaughlin, and Artur Kupriichuk TEAM: Serjozha Yakimenko, Pedro Peralta, Iris Wu, Lenore Wan, Christian Amaral DESCRIPTION: Guggenheim Helsinki is composed of two equally compelling parts; the Guggenheim Foundation—a platform for active engagement with contemporary art, and the City of Helsinki— representing a rich history of Finnish Culture. After a thorough analysis of Helsinki as a layered urban context, and Guggenheim as a cross-cultural and innovative foundation, Helsinki [re] ACTIVE relies on the alchemy of the seemingly dissonant parts.
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EDUCATION & RETREAT CENTER 2014 | CORVALLIS, OREGON
PROFESSOR: Judith Sheine (Architect, UO) & Mikhail Gershfield (Engineer, CalPoly) TEAM: Kelsey McLaughlin (Designer) & Vicky Rogers (Engineer)
DESCRIPTION: The McDonald-Dunn Forest in Corvallis, OR serves as the research center for Oregon State Univeristy’s College of Forestry. With no on-site building to represent the program, this design brings the research full circle in utilizing wood harvested from the forest to create a forest products wood demonstration building. Through the exploration of the potential of new engineered wood products, the design will stand in contrast to both the old growth forest, as well as the historic buildings within the immediate arboretum.
a modern “twist� on traditional form
The design intent is to create an abstract form out of a traditional form closely associated with wood construction; the gable roof. By shifting the ridgeline throughout the length of the building, the slope of each rafter changes creating a curved roof. The structure is made up of repeating LVL columns and rafters, united by a perpendicular ridge-truss. This constantly shifting gable roof is visible from any point within the building, establishing a unifying feature amongst the different spaces.
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RIDGE-TRUSS 5” x 5” wood 7” x 20” LVL rafter
7” x 20” LVL ridge-beam
SKYLIGHT light diffusers
7” x 20” LVL rafter & steel plates
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1 5/8” steel rod 7” x 20” LVL column
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03_DATA TREES
HEALTHY FORESTS, HIGH SPEED DATA 2013 | PRINEVILLE, OREGON PROFESSOR: Jolie Kerns
DESCRIPTION: Data centers currently account for 2% of global energy consumption, and with an annual growth rate of 12% data centers will account for 99.99% of global energy consumption by 2050. Cheap energy is the driving force in locating data centers, resulting in many data centers being served by coal powered electricity. Despite the effort to create more efficient data centers, Jevons paradox shows that with increased efficiency may come increased consumption, and the same if not more energy use. Thus this project explores the utilization of local natural resources to provide energy to the data center, as well as the relationship between the energy source, NOAA data center, and the Prineville community.
merchantable lumber Ochoco Nat. Forest biochemicals
heat invasive juniper on-site feedstock
electricity
ethanol?
The NOAA data center acts as a literal archive of weather data from which climate trends are realized, and a symbol for sustaining climate and environmental health. By incorporating a Biomass Pilot Plant with the Data Center, the project provides the facilities necessary for proper forest thinning in the Ochoco National Forest, as well as a solution for the invasive juniper trees across the high desert of Crook County. As the surrounding environment grows healthier, multiple economic advantages, including employment positions for forest thinning, milling, and small diameter
merchantable lumber providers, are created throughout Prineville.The most economically and technologically viable solution to a biomass pilot plant in Prineville, is that of a combined heat and power generator, providing heat to the cold data storage and office spaces, as well as electricity for the servers. This process provides for both a comprehensive use of the biomass with maximum product and energy produced, and is well within a safe rate of forest thinning considering current conditions in the Ochoco National Forest.
The data center and biomass pilot plant create several spatial components key to the design of this project. The relationship between data, energy, woody biomass, and employees creates a gradient of immaterial to material. The facade responds to the program and interior material creating a gradient where data storage is immaterial and office space represents material. In addition, a porous building envelope allows for airflow to interweave between indoors and outdoors as well as between the respective program elements, connecting the building to the environment.
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1 PUBLIC SPACES 1.1 LOBBY 1.2 INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION & MULTIPURPOSE SPACE 1.3 CLASSROOM/WORKSPACE 1.4 RESOURCE ROOM 1.5 COMPUTER LAB 1.6 CONFERENCE ROOM
2 OFFICES 2.1 KITCHEN/BREAK ROOM 2.2 COPY ROOM 2.3 CONFERENCE ROOMS
3 DATA STORAGE 3.1 ACTIVE DATA STORAGE 3.2 INACTIVE DATA STORAGE 3.3 MECHANICAL (AIR INTAKE, TEMPERATURE CONTROL, AND WASTE HEAT MANAGEMENT)
4 BIOMASS FACILITY 4.1 COMBINED HEAT & POWER GENORATOR 5 PUBLIC ACCESS 5.1 COURTYARD 6 WOODY BIOMASS ACCESS
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04_CLT MODULAR CLASSROOM
CROSS LAMINATED TIMBER SPRING 2014-PRESENT | SALEM, OREGON
DESIGNED BY: Judith Sheine, Kelsey McLaughlin, and Cameron Huber
TEAM: UO: Judith Sheine, Kelsey McLaughlin, Cameron Huber OSU: Lech Muszynski, Laurie Schimleck Modern Building Systems: Mike Lewis DR Johnson Lumber DESCRIPTION: As part of a long-term goal to create collaboration between the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, a modular, prefabricated CLT classroom is being designed and built to serve as an example of how the study of wood product manufacturing, and archtiecture can affect building design, material resources, and building construction. The project is scheduled to be constructed in Spring 2015.
FLOOR + ROOF PANEL LAYOUT
LONG ELEVATIONS: PANEL/OPENING RATIO
SHORT ELEVATIONS: PANEL/OPENING RATIO
Working with 10’x20’ CLT panels, as well within strict height and width limits regulated for the transportation of prefabricated construction, the floor, roof, and elevations were layed out in a manner to leave zero waste. The final scheme uses 18 full panels. Because CLT acts as shear structure, a punched window removes any structural capacity for the entire vertical height, and ultimately
Wastes material. Instead, the full vertical section of CLT is removed leaving a floor to ceiling opening that a unitized window and ventillation panel fits within. The corner windows take advantage of CLT’s structural ability to cantilever at these corners, while lengthening the views through the classroom making it feel larger.
MIXED MEDIA
KROB COMPETITION 2014
DESCRIPTION: A combination of photography, hand drawing, modeling, and digital manipulation explores the relationship of two seemingly dissonant elements inherent our built environment; natural and human-made.
WOOD JOINTERY
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO SPRING 2011 DESCRIPTION: Through an abstract investigation of jointery, I designed and constructed a wooden sculpture, 18”x18”x24”. The interior ‘floating planes’ are MDF and the ‘ribs’ wrapping the structure are ash and oak with wormwood pattern.
KELSEY MCLAUGHLIN 2015