Alyssa A. Fellabaum - University of Michigan, Portfolio 2020

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ALYSSA A. FELLABAUM MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE + URBAN PLANNING

2020 ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS Awards:

University Honors Martin Luther King Spirit Award Recipient Albert Kahn Memorial Scholarship James B. Angell Scholar Gaylord + Roberta Watts Merit Scholarship John Kuieck Architectural Memorial Fund President’s Honor Scholarship Michigan Competitive Scholarship Spring Travel Scholarship

Recognition:

Student Showcase Christian Unverzagt 2G1 “City Within a City Hall” 2019 +Work selected to be exhibited in 2019 annual college-wide showcase of exceptional student work.

Raoul Wallenberg Studio Competition Raoul Wallenberg Finalist Symposium Thesis Finalist “Institutional Subversion: Identities at Play” 2018 +Recognized as exceptional undergraduate thesis proposal by jury, exhibited in symposium for final competition.

Student Showcase Steven Lauritano UG3 “Non-Umental Transportation” 2017 +Work selected to be exhibited in 2017 annual college-wide showcase of exceptional student work.

SOFTWARE SKILLS 2D Drawing + 3D Modeling: RHINOCEROS 3D AUTOCAD DATACAD GRASSHOPPER SKETCHUP BIM: REVIT Post-Production: ILLUSTRATOR PHOTOSHOP INDESIGN Video: PREMIERE PRO DAVINCI RESOLVE AFTER EFFECTS

A collection of projects that are broken down into meals, each chewed-on and digested in a way that specifically informs the flavor of the next. The attitudes that drive the work thoughtfully gauge their context in order to unconventionally reorient, reinterpret, and reheat what might be known or expected. This is a working portfolio that highlights projects from undergraduate and graduate studios, as well as other design experience.

“BREAKFAST” COFFEE HOUSE CULTURE 01 “LUNCH” A CITY WITHIN A CITY HALL 05 NON-UMENTAL TRANSPORTATION 11 MARKET VUE 13 “DINNER” INSTITUTIONAL SUBVERSION: IDENTITIES AT PLAY 19 “DESSERT” JUNGLE FEVER 29 THE CRESCENT 33 STACKS 34 CHEN HOUSE 35

“BREAKFAST”

COFFEE HOUSE CULTURE

A library for the social.

Winter 2016

ADVISOR: JONATHAN RULE UNDERGRADUATE 2 STUDIO WINTER 2016 The current undergraduate library has no progression or sequence. As one moves through the space, it feels compressed and further compresses into a singular small lobby space, limiting one to only navigate vertically within the elevator walls.

The project introduces a new entryway which improves the atmosphere of the library. A coffee house culture that creates a generative space, creating liquid networks where there is fluidity in conversation, and a network of different people with different perspectives now able to gather together. It creates a spatial experience of public engagement by challenging the role of libraries. Centered within a collective void it now connects the existing “North Stacks” and “South Stacks” together.

CONVENTIONAL LIBRARY VS NEW LIBRARY Blurring the boundaries between inside and outside to emphasize the new library addition as an extension of the outside street.

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COFFEE HOUSE CULTURE

A library for the social.

Winter 2016

EXTENSION OF THE STREET The site is located at the University of Michigan’s Hatcher Library, more specifically the North and South Stacks. At the center of the Michigan diag places the site in a position to become a hub or central gathering space for students. It acts as an extension of the street creating a new axis from east to west. Near Hatcher Library is the University of Michigan Modern Art Museum and it’s modern addition. This intermingling of building styles within a strong historical context is what makes the UMMA a unique and lively within the city; The new Hatcher Library will also reflect this idea.

With the University at the heart of the city, and Hatcher at the fore front of the diag, the site is filled with art and entertainment attractions varying several eateries and restaurants, as well as various retail sores. The city, especially the diag, hosts many cultural events throughout the year. These events bring people together, feeding into a dynamic and intriguing environment.

Currently the library lacks any sense of experience as you enter and move through the spaces within the building. The user will identify several vertical circulation cooridors, but will find that it lacks any horizontal connection between each floor. As one approaches the library, their only option is to walk through a narrow walk way that leads to several elevators taking you only up or down. From there, the existing programs are different on each floor. The project seeks to introduce different programs that relate to one another on the same floor, to further interaction between students and faculty, resulting in greater conversation and interaction.

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FLOOR THREE PLAN 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

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“LUNCH”

A CITY WITHIN A CITY HALL

A city hall for the city.

Fall 2018

ADVISOR: CHRISTIAN UNVERZAGT GRADUATE 1 STUDIO FALL 2018 STUDENT SHOWCASE RECIPIENT Situating itself on Calder Plaza, the new City Hall seeks to address the ever-growing city of Grand Rapids. It denies the former presence of the existing City Hall and deconstructs the stacked office spaces by dispersing existing programs, and introducing new programs along the site to not only utilize the entirety of the plaza, but to allow the plaza to become spatial. In doing so stages new forms of informal occupation and circulation.

It is now a catalyst for an individual to be able to experience everything and see anything, but also for an individual to come to the City Hall for one thing, but to see everything. It becomes this moment of experience, rather than moments of efficiency, where the programmatic elements begin to overlap and the singular institution no longer exists.

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A CITY WITHIN A CITY HALL

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BANK + PHARMACY

A city hall for a city.

RECREATION CENTER

LIFTING PLAZA FOR OCCUPANCY

RESTAURANT + RETAIL

Fall 2018

GOV’T + CLERK OFFICES

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SITE AND FUNCTION Located on Calder Plaza in Grand Rapids, with the Ford Federal Building on the North, Symphony Center on the East, and Da Vos Event Center on the West, making it a great location for the city center.

Aiming to create an urban square that functions as a space of public engagement, the project creates connections between public entitities, residents, and the rest of the city. To eliminate the single institutionalized high-rise building that is indifferent to the street, and introduce a campus of municipal and public buildings provides integral, new, overlapping public spaces such as retail space, restaurants, gyms, and banking. The programs are no longer stacked on top of eachoth-

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er, but are dispersed across the entirety of the site to allow the current unoccupied plaza to become a new form of circulation, connection, and occupation.

EXISTING CONDITIONS

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FORMAL MOVES By understanding the existing adjacencies, the locations of the buildings directly respond to the Da Vos Exhibition Center on the left, Symphony Center on the

right, and a parking lot on the south. The proposal begins with two already existing buildings, and ensues moves such as split, shift, and rotate, with the intention of creating direct and in-direct paths to already existing adjacencies; Creating moments of experience rather than efficiency.

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FUNCTION OF PLAZA Initial ideas were implemented and tested through three varying intentions: creating paths to existing adjacencies, lifting the plaza for occupancy, or curving at edges of the buildings to create larger openings. Ultimately, the project seeks to address all three to further social and physical connection, spatial variety, and experience.

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A CITY WITHIN A CITY HALL

A city hall for a city.

Fall 2018

It divides the singular, authorative, city hall into five separate buildings at a more human and accessible scale, and then reconnects them by lifting the plaza as exterior circulation.

To further the functional and spatial continuity of the new city hall, the project continues the same logic and moves to the relationships between exterior and exterior, exterior and interior, and interior and interior; beginning to further make subtractions on the plaza, within the horizontal and vertical surfaces, to create new relational views and engagement inflecting stronger connections between each building.

To create way-finders for the visitors, moments of transition are also moments of curvature, which nods to the Calder sculpture by Alexander Calder. It ultimately creates a relationship between moments of transparency and moments of collectivity.

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NON-UMENTAL TRANSPORTATION

A bike hub for Chicago.

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ADVISOR: STEPHEN LAURITANO UNDERGRADUATE 3 STUDIO FALL 2017 STUDENT SHOWCASE RECIPIENT Seeking to transform the monumental detachment of the existing Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and integrate it into the growing dynamic network of the City with its hustle and bustle, this project proposes a central hub for multi-modal transportation: Introducing a bike share pogram as the contemporary motive.

porary lifestyle. When you drive through the city, you experience only the start and end destinations.

The joy of riding a bike through the city, is that it allows one to realize that it is not a homogenous place; it’s an intricately connected, interweaving fabric of neighborhoods, businesses, and people, all interlaced and filled with contemporary art, leaving you with a deeper sensory impression than if you were in a car.

SITE Located in Chicago, Illinois the new museum will now act as a starting point, rather than a destination. This map This juxtaposition of programs produces unexpected situates the site relative to distances by foot, walking, or opportunities, relationships, and conversations. The bike car. The existing works of art in the Permanent Collecitself necessitates a different awareness than riding in tion, will inspire visitors to seek out “the real” contempoa car, on a bus, or simply walking by foot. The literal rary art outside of the institutions walls. By transforming movement of bikes acts as an example of the contem- the MCA into a transportation hub, the building itself ar11

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PUSHED DOWN FOR MUSEUM ACCESS

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gues that the true contemporary art can never be found within a fixed institution, but is best sought out by riding your bike through the dynamic flux of Chicago.

STRUCTURAL STRATEGY The structural strategy is a development from an earlier set of studies based on the idea of weaving and bending of wooden members. At the urban scale, weaving of wooden members reinterprets stitching the detached MCA within the fabric of the city.

The original structural pattern was that of an egg crate, however, to further the design and structural logic, the members now reflect the interaction between program and circulation paths. The apertures are created where two structural paths no longer intersect, and the form extends beyond the boundaries of the existing MCA to act as shelter for the existing bus station.

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MARKET VUE

A housing development for Detroit.

Fall 2019

ADVISORS: MICK KENNEDY + KIT MCCULLOUGH GRADUATE 3 STUDIO FALL 2019 Through the entanglement of material and craft, program, and community, this project seeks to address the site’s lack of urban enclosure, while also introducing an interior community backyard that redefines the relationship to the street, reinterprets “alley”, and reimagines the community block.

Through the introduction of both row houses and mixed-use typologies, the project addresses the varying types of residents, achieving a balance between residential, recreational and commercial spaces. Ultimately, the site provides greater social interaction, greater community spaces, all while still maintaining the familiar neighborhood scale.

The site offers an opportunity to create a neighborhood that provides urban enclosure, without being a self-contained development.

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MARKET VUE

CENTRAL AXIS CIRCULATION

A housing development for Detroit.

EXTEND AT CORNERS FOR WAYFINDING

COMPRESS FOR EXTERIOR LANDSCAPE

Fall 2019

COMPRESS FOR EXTERIOR COURTYARD

HEIGHT AT CORNERS

CIRCULATION CONNECTING TO ADJACENCIES

TYPE A MULTI USE

TYPE B ROWHOUSE

TYPE C ROWHOUSE

SITE On the corners of St. Aubin Street and Wilkins Street, the site faces the Detroit Public Academy on the West and the Germack Pistachio Company on the South.

It is located within a twenty minute walking distance to the Eastern Market, nearing many popular restaurants.

The site currently lacks a sense of enclosure after most of the surrounding buildings have been demolished. The site used to incorporate street alleyways that could have been potentially rich community spaces, but were turned into hardscapes for parking, waste disposal, and the individual backyards were too small to occupy. The lack of community spaces might have had to do with Detroit’s historic typology of individual, separated homes that were small and quaint, encouraging only small-scale social interaction.

ORGANIZATION The site organization creates a centralized axis that ties the site together with the existing adjacencies, and in doing so, creates exterior public spaces for enhanced community activity.

There is a sense of hierarchy at the corners of the site, while also introducing more green space at the front and rear of each unit type. The site plan is designed to have different layers of privacy, where the interior landscape is bordered by modestly sized rowhouses of 3-4 stories, but the border is selectively cut out to connect to the wider neighborhood and site adjacencies.

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By addressing the street, St. Aubin offers a larger area with more foot traffic while Wilkins St is a more privatized residential street.

Within the design of each building typology, to index public and private spaces, the project utilizes a solid/void concept at the scale of both the site and building. On the street front, the facades are solid and vertical, taking part in the urban landscape, while the inner facades along the courtyard are more informal and transparent, with massings terracing down to create balconies and making a more inviting and social inner landscape.

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MARKET VUE

A housing development for Detroit.

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Fall 2019 THIRD FLOOR

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“DINNER”

INSTITUTIONAL SUBVERSION: IDENTITES AT PLAY

THESIS COMPETITION FINALIST

Winter 2018

ADVISOR: DAWN GILPIN UNDERGRADUATE 4 STUDIO WINTER 2018 RAOUL A. WALLENBERG STUDIO C OMPETITION FINALIST Architecture, as a form of cultural production, serves as a framework for the development of personal identity. Materiality, color, symbolism, and the formal spaces of everyday prac- tice of routine and ritual, in uence the identity of a culture.

Highest level of poverty, City Center Vinh Long

Using Vietnam as a testing ground, the thesis subverts the institution of orphanage from an isolated, stand-alone structure that provides basic needs to children, to a distributed program within the site of cultural production: the city. The institutional program of orphanage that meets the basic needs such as sleeping, eating, and bathing, expands to a program of play. Thus, enabling imagination, satisfying curiosity, and encouraging dreaming. With the integration into existing structures of domesticity and commerce, and the oversight and care taking by elders, the intervention contributes to the development of cultural values that the institutionalized system currently lacks.

The thesis begins to speculate possibilities of subverting the institution of orphanage by integrating orphans back into the everyday of the culture so that they can be acclimated and nurtured by the architecture, and through Orphanageexist.

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THESIS COMPETITION FINALIST

Winter 2018

CASE STUDIES In order to extract a critical position and intervention, case studies were an effective and essential tool for exploration. These case studies were related to the typology of orphanages specifically in Vietnam from the early 1990s to present day. The main components analyzed from these case studies included, but were not limited to: ritual, space, concept, color, and materiality.

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MAPPING CITIES It traces the evolution of Vietnam and identifies factors influencing its patterns of development. This has involved observing each city at two levels: One, at the macro scale of the city, and two, at the micro scale of the neighborhood. The observations have been derived through research, informal talks, and interviews.

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Vinh Long and Ha Noi and exampled through the two following maps.

VINH LONG ORPHANAGE Address: Quoc Lo 1 Huyen Long Ho Vinh Long 3, Nghia Binh, Vietnam 10000 Vinh Long Province A province in Southern Vietnam’s Me- kong Delta, 3 hours southwest of Ho Chi Minh City.

The capital is a transport hub and a departure point for boats to Cai boating market.

TU LIEM ORPHANAGE Address: Quan Hoa, Mai Dich Ward Cau Giay district Ha Noi, Vietnam 1000 A rural district of Ha Noi, now divid- ed into two new urban districts. North and South Tu Liem, as geographical indications. A busy place with rows and rows of family shops.

Streets are lled with motorcycles, scooters, and bicycles. Ha Noi is much slower moving than the south, and more bureaucratic and more formal, and everything is more formalized because the government is there.

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“After the customary cup of tea, we left with Dr. Hong to visit Tu Liem Orphanage (now less imaginatively called Orphanage Number 3). As predicted, this was a good and important, but difficult experience. To call the facility sparse would be an understatement. Barren is more like it.”

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- Colleen Quint, Guardian of Adoptee. Feb, 2018.

“This little boy was sitting alone on the hard cement in the outside area of the orphanage. The walls are white and there are no toys here, I was hoping to get at least one photo of him

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“She was adopted months after this photo was taken. When I met her, she was in a room full of other babies in steel cribs. The whole room was crying. The nurse said they were afraid of me, but I think there was something else going on.”

-Cherie Clark. Jan, 2018 “This little boy was sitting alone on the hard cement in the outside area of the orphanage. The walls are white and there are no toys here, I was hoping to get at least one photo of him

Tu Liem Orphanage Mai Dich Ward smiling. It was quite sad to see the faces of the children, mentally ill, and physically disabled Cau Giay District Hanoi that called this place ho e - c enna, ran , Photographer an 1

“She was 14 here. We saw her one year layer. She was 15 and spent most of her life in orphanages. I do not know now what became of her. If she was sent to fend for herself.”

- Cherie Clark. Jan. 2018 “This little boy was sitting alone on the hard cement in the outside area of the orphanage. The walls are white and there are no toys here, I was hoping to get at least one photo of him

Tu Liem Orphanage Mai Dich Ward smiling. It was quite sad to see the faces of the children, mentally ill, and physically disabled Cau Giay District Hanoi that called this place ho e - c enna, ran , Photographer an 1

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“The baby sat in his crib behind the barred windows with the steel bars on his crib.”

“There are about 35 elders, 17 handicapped, and 42 mentailly ill people. There are 21 babies, and 14 children between 1-3, 4 children between 4-5, and 8 between 6-16 and 16 disabled children. We only have 10 employed caregivers, and the disabled children receive the same medical care as the ordinary children.”

- Cherie Clark. Jan. 2018 “This little boy was sitting alone on the hard cement in the outside area of the orphanage. The walls are white and there are no toys here, I was hoping to get at least one photo of him

Tu Liem Orphanage Mai Dich Ward smiling. It was quite sad to see the faces of the children, mentally ill, and physically disabled Cau Giay District Hanoi that called this place ho e - c enna, ran , Photographer an 1

“We spent our first day at the orphanage, and it was quite sad to see the faces of the children, the mentally ill, and physically disabled that called this place home. They live beyond poverty in some of the saddest and most barren places that you could imagine. The place used to be a jail, but like I said, it now houses these kids.”

- Tran Minh Tuan, Vice Director. Jan. 2018

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- Frank McKenna. Photographer. Jan. 2018

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INSTITUTIONAL SUBVERSION: IDENTITES AT PLAY MOTATION SYSTEM In order to start thinking about a construct of intervention, research was done relating to the daily practices and routines, specific site context and grid of each city. It is important to study how children interact, move around, and how often they might leave while also looking at architectural elements, boundaries, and thresholds before understanding how to start beginning to gure out ways of seeing how these children can be integrated back into the culture.

THESIS COMPETITION FINALIST

Winter 2018

imagination, discovery, and curiosity.

The system itself explores how orphans move through spaces to infer how their bodies might relate to the space of the static environment, and to then locate the threshold between the fixed spatial environment and the temporal experience of that environment, and to then examine specific elements within the space that might suggest a specfic orientation of ones self to the environment.

The result of the drawings on pages twenty three Using a motation system to use the human body not through twenty six suggest repetition in a child’s as a passive inhabitant of space, but as an active path and physical interaction with the built environplace-maker that would further inform my thesis. ment. It also suggests limited activity in the realm of

ing world is extreme, where environmental pollution and accidents are at their highest. With less indeROLE OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT pendent mobility, children have a reduced abiliMany factors shape a child’s prospects. Among these, ty to navigate and experience the city. This means the environment in which they live has to be consid- fewer opportunities for social interaction, chance ered as a key determinant of their health, behaviour encounters, playful journeys and discovery. and development. This affects not just their childhood but the rest of their adult life.

CHILD’S SPATIAL PERCEPTIONS AND EXPLORING SPATIAL RELATIONS Everyday activities such as walking, cycling and play A child’s spatial perception is how they see the can support a physically active population. In con- world and understand it. The purpose of recogniztrast, high density traffic, poor air quality and a lack ing these perceptions is to nd a way of strengthenof public space can directly discourage people from ing then and improve the quality of their space and being physically active. The impact in the develop- environment to develop.

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“There are 3 rooms filled with cribs for the babies and infants. There are always babies that share the cribs when napping or sleeping. Some of the kids sleep right on the floor where they play. Some of the infants do have severe disabilities, and will probably never be adopted but they are still cared for there.”

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“There were five caregivers when I visited the orphanage the first year. When visitors come it’s mostly college kids because they want to help the kids and the orphanage. However, there are still many more kids than there are helping hands.”

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The need to own a space as a child is a fundamental need and is seen in all ages. The ‘attractiveness’ of different types of spaces determined by various devices are, by fact, that they are trying to possess them.

sense of adventure, art, patience, awareness, and self control. Within the spontaneous aspect, promotes a sense of freedom, power, defense of individual rights, the ability to inhibit growth of their aggression in children.

NOTION OF PLAY Playing leads children to the growth of the social context of their personality and identity. The importance of imagination has differing effects on a child’s growth.

Children’s play is enriched by having varied environments that allow them to explore their surroundings. The simple act of being able to manipulate aspects of their environment can provide hours of enjoyment and discovery.

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note that places for quiet play are just as important as place for active play, and that the idea of linked play is most valuable: the idea that children can move naturally from one activity to another without having to stop in the middle of a sea of asphalt to decide which far-off piece of isolated play equipment they might want to play on next.

strating cultural meanings and values. The content or social structure of home is constituted by the organization of living spaces for the householders to inhabit, and to conduct their everyday social interactions and activities.

NOTION OF HOME Home appears familiar to everyone because it not only protects their life from natural conditions, but also sup- ports their everyday social interactions and activities. It is both a physical object made of materials and techniques, and a social structure demon-

In the action aspect, children learn self development, Architectural elements can be simple, but should be self satisfaction, self-esteem, acceptance of rules, able to be used in multiple ways. It is important to

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came in with gifts and money and helped out for the day.”

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“The children were potty trained in plastic buckets and I couldn’t help but wonder if there were ‘real’ bathrooms anywhere.”

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“Most of the babies slept on the floor because there wasn’t enough money or room in the orphanage for cribs.”

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“This little girl stood silently with the barrier of the bars between us.”

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“I believe a city that is designed for people of all ages and abilities, including children, will truly be an inclusive city that will meet the needs of all its citizens and make it more liveable.” — Prof. Klaus Schwab, founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

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quality of the environments we wish to bring up our children in and how we enable them to flourish.” — Policy Studies Institute, “Children’s Independent Mobility”

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“Children need the opportunity to explore their neighborhoods, to dream up their next adventure, to build dens, to feel free in nature, to overcome physical and emotional challenges. It’s vital that the cities we build give children a chance to do these things, or else we all lose out.” — Tim Jarvis AM, Arup consultant, adventurer, environmental scientist

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“Meeting the needs of these children will not only create more resilient children, but they will help to create more resilient cities.”— Prof. Claire Freeman and Associate Prof. Paul Tranter

PULL & SHIFT

“We are living in an ever increasingly urban world, with more children growing up in cities than ever before. It is therefore imperative that we design and build cities that meet the needs of children: seeking their input, and the community, during the design process, providing access to play and education, and facilitating social and cultural interactions.” — Prof. Klaus Schwab, founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

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Lat: 21° 1'39.95"N Long: 105°49'53.99"E

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Lat: 21° 2’18.40”N Long: 105°50'44.36"E

The city of motorvehicles and tourism, children can explore the

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Children explore the inbetween, alleyway neighborhoods that act

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Lat: 21° 2'14.63"S Long: 105°49'6.04"W

In the heart of the city, children play in and under market stalls,

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“We should move beyond designing our cities for the 30-yearold athletic person and think about the needs of our most vulnerable users: children, older adults and the poor. We can and must provide safe, playful and stimulating everyday experiences for the child in the city.”— Gil Penalosa, founder and chair of the board 8 80 Cities

Lat: 21° 1'24.43"N Long: 104°52'33.86"E

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“At its most fundamental level the debate is about the quality of the environments we wish to bring up our children in and how we enable them to flourish.” — Policy Studies Institute, “Children’s Independent Mobility”

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Lat: 10°15'28.93"S Long: 105°57'22.33"W

Within the neighborhood homes that also utilize the front of the

Lat: 10°15'22.37"N Long: 105°57'45.16"E

Parks and nature give a sense of being part of a community, and

Lat: 9°14’2.58"N Long: 102°64'25.34"W

Within the city’s center of restaurants, homes, and shops, chil-

Lat: 10°96'45.52"S Long: 110°46'74.20"E

Near the city’s floating market center, set within miles and miles

Lat: 10°14'50.55"N Long: 105°57'32.79"E

Coinciding within the oldest neighborhood block of Vinh Long,

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“DESSERT”

JUNGLE FEVER

A co-working space for many.

Fall 2017

ADVISOR: ERIK HERMANN UNDERGRADUATE IND. STUDY FALL 2017

In the heart of downtown, Jungle Fever is a co-working space offering a multitude of programs ranging from living and sleeping, to working and eating. Combining these programs allows for a stronger inner community within the greater downtown. The gentle terracing and screen-like facades of the building itself allows for a softer envelope between exterior and interior, further bringing the two environments together, ultimately blurring the boundary between the two.

Located in Tokyo, Japan, the warm climate offers a wide range of possibilities to improve the relationship between the exterior environment and the interior of office spaces. It seeks to address the lack of greenery by implementing trees and green walls throughout the building, specifically emphasized at the public levels to create greater social connection and conversation.

Structurally, the building utilizes a concrete foundation, with glulam beams placed on columns that branch outwards referencing the silhouette of trees. The exterior glazing on the vertical walls further bridge together the sky walks and outside environment, while the wood provides a more earthen appeal as one approaches the building.

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JUNGLE FEVER

BUILD UP FOUNDATION UTILIZING CONCRETE SLAB + BARS

A co-working space for many.

CLT CORE

GLULAM COLUMNS WITH BRANCHES

GLULAM BEAMS PLACED ON COLUMNS TO SUPPORT CLT FLOOR AND WALL PANELS

FLOOR PANELS

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BUILT UP GLULAM COLUMNS FOR CONNECTION

VERTICAL WALLS AND EXTERIOR GLAZING HELD IN PLACE BY TEMPORARY LUMBER SUPPORT

VERTICAL LOUVERS SYSTEM ON EXTERIOR OF CURTAIN WALL. SKYWALKS WITHIN CLT PANELS AND BEAMS, WOOD DECKINGS, STONE PAVINGS

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wood cladding 3ply CLT

aluminum mullion curtain wall

wood decking water proof rigid insulation with weather barrier

B

3ply CLT glulam beam wood cladding

glulam column

wooden louvers

steel connection

operable window glaze

stone paving

drainage rigid insulation concrete foundation

concrete slab

carpet curtain wall heating system HVAC ducts

wood slab 3ply CLT

Detail Render

glulam beam

A

Ground Plan 1”= 32’-0”

Office Plan 1”= 32’-0”

Apartment Plan 1”= 32’-0”

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32 ELEVATION

SECTION A

DESSERT

desserts a la mode.

Fall 2020

CRESCENT CHAIR Personifying an embrace, with a unique edged two component frame.

Complimenting it is a warm cosy upholstery. Design was inspired by the comfort and bowing form from a crescent moon.

STACKS ON STACKS The design confronts the repetitive, mass-produced metal fold out chairs often seen alongside card tables.

It incorporates subtle geometric patterning that reinterprets the aesthetic beauty within metal, through redrawing the common horizontal and vertical lines through the introduction of bending and moving points. It also offers replicability and variation with rose gold, gold, and black.

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DESSERT

desserts a la mode.

Winter 2017

CHEN HOUSE The Chen House is a private residential home designed by well-known architect Robert C. MetCalf, originally for clients Dr. and Mrs. Graham Chen in 1959.

These drawings and section model were a study of the construction processes as well as detailing and understanding materials, construction documents, and overall design intention.

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7

8

Roof saddle

8

4, 9

4, 9

4, 9

Roof saddle

Roof saddle

12

Laminated wood beam

Laminated wood beam

Laminated wood beam

10, 11 12, 13 Wood Stool 3

3

119 Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI

C A2 7

CHEN HOUSE

B A3 7

119 Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor, MI

CHEN HOUSE

A A2

6

B A5

1" 4'-72

11'-4"

Wood Stool 2x10 Joists

SECTION

1" 3'-02

Wood Sill

Metal Threshold, Vinyl Insert 2x10 Joists

2x10 Joists

Wood Sill

SECTIONS MATERIAL LIST

Drip edge

Precast Concrete Plank

Carriage Bolt

7'-10"

Carriage Bolt

8" I-Beam

8" I-Beam

Precast Concrete Lintel

5'-4" 8' 1

12, 13

28'

02

DIVISION 03 - CONCRETE 1. 033000 CAST IN-PLACE CONCRETE 2. 034100 PRECAST STRUCTURAL CONCRETE DIVISION 6 3. 055200 METAL AND WOOD RAILS 4. 061063 EXTERIOR ROUGH CARPENTRY DIVISION 07 - THERMAL AND MOISTURE PROTECTION 5. 071326 SELF-ADHERING SHEET WATERPROOFING 6. 072100 THERMAL INSULATION 7. 072400 EXTERIOR INSULATION 8. 075113 BUILT-IN ASPHALT ROOFING 9. 077200 ROOF ACCESSORIES DIVISION 08 - OPENINGS 10. 081416 FLUSH WOOD DOORS 11. 087100 DOOR HARDWARE 12. 088000 GLAZING 13. 085000 WINDOWS GROUP:

GROUP:

Finish Concrete Floor Stone Sill

Stone Sill

Steel bar

Steel bar

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NAME 1 Rebecca Liang NAME 2 Alyssa Fellabaum NAME 3 Sherrian Yu

Drainage Pipe

2" Rigid Insulation

DATE: 11/31/2016

2" Rigid Insulation

DATE: 11/9/2016

SHEET:

SHEET:

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1

SECTION 1/4 " = 1'-0"

A3

1

WINDOW SECTION 3/4 " = 1'-0"

2

WINDOW SECTION 3/4 " = 1'-0"

3

3

Alyssa Fellabaum Sherrian Yu Rebecca Liang

DOOR SECTION 3/4 " = 1'-0"

1

A5

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THANK YOU

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