Architecture Portfolio 2022_Allison Stamm

Allison Stamm Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Selected Architectural Works - 2022

ALLISON STAMM

PROFILE

ajstamm@umich.edu | 517-763-4732 Highly motivated M.Arch student with professional internship experience in various architectural markets. Team player with a positive attitude and great communication skills.

Proficient in a wide array of design softwares, and eager to always be learning while creating.

EDUCATION 09/20 - Present 09/16 - 05/20

EXPERIENCE 06/21 - 08/21

06/19 - 08/19

09/20 - Present

08/17 - 04/20

AWARDS 05/20 04/20 03/20 07/18

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Master of Architecture Candidate Activities: America Reads Literacy Tutor. GPA: 4.0.

Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Minor in Environment Activities: Climates of Chile Study Abroad Course, Outrage Dance Group Contemporary Choreographer, Alpha Gamma Delta Philanthropy Committee. GPA: 3.787.

LORD AECK SARGENT - Atlanta, GA - Remote Architecture Intern Created renderings, edited construction documents, and modeled an existing building in Revit for historic preservation and mixed use projects. Collaborated with three interns to create an outdoor dining parklet design concept for the non profit Central Atlanta Progress.

STANTEC ARCHITECTURE - Arlington, VA Architecture Intern Participated in all parts of the design process across multiple K-12 education projects.

Created diagrams for schematic design, developed renderings and presentations for client meetings, revised construction documents, and assisted with site visits and punch lists.

TAUBMAN COLLEGE FABRICATION LAB - Ann Arbor, MI 3D Print Lab Student Coordinator Maintain and operate six 3D printers in the fabrication lab for faculty and student research projects. Check 3D print job files for accuracy and oversee 3D print student staff.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF REC SPORTS - Ann Arbor, MI Building Supervisor Enforced safety, health, and security rules within the gym. Provided customer service by assisting patrons and selling memberships. Supervised entry level staff.

Masters of Architecture Merit Scholarship Merit scholarship awarded upon acceptance to the master’s program at University of Michigan.

Wallenberg Studio Finalist The Wallenberg Studio is the thesis competition of the undergraduate program. My project was chosen as 1 of 18 finalists and was presented at the Wallenberg Symposium.

2020 Student Show Participant Studio project from fall 2019 was chosen to be displayed at the annual student show.

Harley Ellis Devereux Scholarship Merit scholarship awarded upon transfer to the bachelor’s program at University of Michigan.

SKILLS Software

Fabrication

Rhinoceros 3D Revit SketchUp

V-Ray Enscape Cinema 4D

Photoshop InDesign Illustrator

Physical Model Making Laser Cutting

3D Printing Zund Cutting

Digital Photography Welding

Contents 1

HEALING GROUNDS

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FORTY FIVE DEGREES

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REFINED ECOLOGIES

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TREELINE TERRACE

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(STORE)AGE

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PARKLET KIT OF PARTS

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HEALING GROUNDS With industries of mass commodification ever-growing, it is imperative to address the physical and mental toll that extreme commercialization inflicts upon the characters involved in these systems. A particular example of this exists in the commercialized plant industry, consequences of which include harm to the environment, laborers, plant species, and to those impacted by the broader effects of the climate crisis. The project site in East Garfield Park, Chicago is a representative piece of heavy industrial damage on the environmental and social landscape resulting from commercialization.

Our project confronts these conditions by proposing a reworking of the relationship between plants and people, and between land and architecture. It recognizes both plants and people as living beings with the capacity to help each other and their shared environment, and land and architecture as two dynamic characters within the broader system of ecology and commercialization. The project proposes a wellness center for both the living and the land that have been affected by industry. In its approach, “Healing Grounds” considers “wellness” not as a way to smooth over the trauma of over-industrialization, but rather as a way to integrate the present state of harm as the foundation of recovery.

Site Plan - West Garfield Park, Chicago The site as a whole is involved in phytoremediation through a variety of native plants that assist in restoring the soil, water, and air that filter through the complex. These plants form their own architecture by creating spaces to shelter, obstruct, or guide the occupant, who is further guided by the materiality of the ground which alternates from fine chat gravel to exposed soil and rock to leftover asphalt.

Looking down central pathway

Structural typology models

The four buildings are unified by a circumambulatory walkway that, due to the significantly changing elevation of the ground, at times hovers above the earth while at other times touches down on a rooftop, the ground, or merges into a building, which provides the occupant opportunities for varied spatial experiences of the ground, building, and nature.

Walkway

Located closest to the local neighborhood, the community gathering building provides spaces for educational programs to teach people about phytoremediation, sustainable living, and plant properties. The open floor plan can be shaped at need by curtain walls and non- fixed furniture, allowing for flexible use of the space.

Community Center

Final Model

The bathhouse establishes a setting for recentering the components of a typical “spa” to focus on the essentials of bodily health without the connotations of luxury. Spaces for plants, people, water, and light are made ambiguous. Aqueous and humidity-loving plants help maintain the space by filtering the water and air.

Bathhouse

Lower Floor Plan

Upper Floor Plan

Longintudinal Section

Therapy Center Axonometric

Bathhouse Axonometric

Greenhouse Axonometric

Community Center Axonometric

2 FORTY FIVE DEGREES The ambitions of this project are to use the site organization and variety of programs to bring together typologies of living that are in proximity to each other in the city of Detroit, but are currently separated due to exclusionary zoning, leaving little interaction between residents. These typologies include family living, single resident occupancy, and coliving. The project works against problematic housing trends that have persisted due to historic regulatory segregation in terms of race and class in order to approach the problem of “missing middle” housing. The “middle” here is defined as a common ground between the extremes of single family living and the apartment complex, and is a common ground that brings together those that were once separated by zoning and mortgage or rent barriers.

Titled 45 degrees due to the angle cut through the existing site, this project takes advantage of the direct adjacency to the Dequindre cut. This recreational “rail to trail” path links downtown Detroit to the outer districts of the city, and we aim to use this greenway infrastructure to further link various communities and cultivate a network within Detroit. By creating a public boulevard branching off of the greenway and organizing the site into three distinct typologies of living, this project aims to become a lively common space for residents and the community alike.

Creating a sense of urbanism at a smaller scale on the site, the project creates a hybridity, bringing together multiple scales of living, working, making, learning, and playing.

Site Context

Sun Path

Wind Path

Green Space

Circulation

Single Resident

Family

Commercial

Gallery Co-living Co-working

Building Axonometric The various typologies of living are organized on the site in 3 districts. The northeast corner has family style living, with larger units, direct access to parking and rooftop communal outdoor space that is protected from the street level below. The single resident living is located in the rear and above one floor of commercial space that lines the boulevard from the cut, creating a mini urbanism within the site. The co-living and co-working space is located at the southwest corner, and is geared towards artists and craftspeople due to our proximity to the eastern market and the creative culture in the neighborhood. It includes a collective workshop and studio space for people to work together, as well as a public gallery on Division street.

Unit Types

CO-LIVING

SINGLE RESIDENT

FAMILY

Aligned along the Dequindre Cut on the second and third floor is the coliving space. Each floor has seven 150 sf individual rooms, with shared bathrooms, kitchens, and living spaces. Also in this district is an art gallery, education space, and coworking space. The gallery and education space have frontage on Division St, and this facade is constructed of polycarbonate, allowing light and views into the atrium. The coworking space has direct access to the Dequindre Cut, and is geared towards artists and craftspeople due to the creative culture of the neighborhood.

The single residnet districtconsists of 19 one bedroom units as well as common spaces throughout the building such as a lounge and a gym. The commercial space on the first floor is intended to be occupied by local businesses. Included in these are a deli, bike shop, book store, plant store, and a barber shop. These are chosen to invite the larger community into the site, and create access to learning, exercise, local fresh food, and other services.

The family district has larger units with an occupiable rooftop providing a common space for families to gather and play. The units vary between two bedroom apartments and three bedroom, three story row houses. The ground floor units have front and back doors, and all units have two exterior walls, providing ample sunlight. The family housing is strategically placed at the northeast corner of the site to provide a sense of safety, privacy and belonging for the families, while still being in proximity to other programs.

The site is surrounded by mostly indu corrugated metal facades. The buildin through experimentation with scale an dramatically increased to give the fac to the project. Public facing facades g while interior facing facades are comp a differentiation between the interior a

Mass TImber and Concrete Construction

CoLiving and CoWorking - South West Elevation

ustrial buildings that have natural or painted brick and ng incorporates these same materials in a playful way nd color. The scale of corrugation of the aluminum is cade more depth, while different shades of pink bring life get a more neutral treatment of color with pink accents, posed of pink aluminum and brick masonry. This creates and exterior experience of the project.

Family - South West Elevation

Commercial Space

Level 1

Level 2

Central Landing

Art Gallery

Level 4

Divisi

ion St View

Dequindre Cut View

On the ground floor of the atrium is a gallery space, hosting the artwork created on site. The gallery is the space of expression for the project, a space for the districts to share their work within, defined by the community and the shared crafts and voices of the residents. It is adjacent to the boulevard landing for events to spill out and extend into the common space. On street level along division street, a large atrium space hosts art classrooms for the residents and greater community, providing an opportunity for teaching and learning.

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3 REFINED ECOLOGIES Houston, Texas is home to a vast oil industry along the Houston ship channel. The ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, just east of Houston, is the second largest oil refinery in the United States. The refinery, as well as the oil industry at large, have a long history of damages against the natural environment.

This includes a wide variety of organisms, plants, and landscapes. In Houston, the most vulnerable of these include oysters, butterflies, sea birds, and the chemical composition of the water and soil.

Through the decommissioning of a small portion of the ExxonMobil oil refinery, an experimental nature reserve is created. It takes the four main components of the site - pipelines, oil tanks, a pier, and an oil barge - and undermines their current processes in favor of ones that are beneficial for the ecosystems present. This small portion of the site becomes an exemplary microcosm of the architectural possibilities of oil infrastructure in a post-oil world. Through a process of de-growth the experimental nature reserve provides spaces for these vulnerable organisms to flourish in ex-industrial spaces by creating a space that is meant for nature rather than people, and for recovery rather than profit.

EXXON MOBIL SITE

Site of intervention

AFFECTED ECOLOGIES

Seabirds Local seabirds are under great threat due to disappearing habitats and industrial pollution. Oil spills are particularly harmful to seabirds.

We imagine this project and site as an exemplary microcosm, with the understanding that these strategies could be repeated over the whole exxonmobil site, and even industrial oil zones all over the country.

Monarch Butterflies The annual Monarch migration becomes evermore perilous due to excessive air pollution, automobile traffic, and disappearing wetlands.

Monarch butterflies are nearing endangerment.

Eastern Oysters The majority of reefs in Galveston Bay have disappeared in the 20th century due to hurricanes, oil spills, dredging, and water toxicity

DECOMMISSIONED PIER

Bird’s - eye - view

Pier Diagram

The pier becomes a space for sea birds to nest, using the crushed concrete from the tank decommissioning and other parts of the site to create an optimal environment for nesting. This strategy is based on research of similar industrial infrastructure used to create new habitat space for seabirds.

Tank Diagram

DECOMMISSIONED TANKS The tanks on site are stripped of their metal panel siding, and it is replaced with a mesh that creates a butterfly shelter. The concrete foundation is removed and crushed to allow for a ground condition that supports nature. The shelter includes ample milkweed plants to support the butterflies and allow for them to flourish.

Butterfly’s - eye - view

DECOMMISSIONED BARGE

Oyster’s - eye - view

Barge Diagram

The Barge is pulled towards land and partially sunk underwater.

When certain parts of the barge are removed, this creates ample surface area for oysters to create reefs.

Oysters are important for filtering water particles and protecting the shore.

Pipeline Diagram

DECOMMISSIONED PIPELINES The pipelines provide a space for spanish moss and other hanging plant species to overtake the structure to create canopies and habitat spaces for organisms. Spanish moss is a native and vital plant for the region.

Axonometric

HUMAN ACCESS PATHWAY This pathway intersects different nature zones, allowing views of the industrial infrastructures and decommissioning strategies through platforms and pavilions. At the same time, it restricts people from interacting directly with nature and architecture.

Perspective

Plan

Perspective

Perspective

4 TREELINE TERRACE Ann Arbor is in need of affordable transitional housing for the homeless.

The site conditions on Washington St, with proximity to the Delonis Center Shelter Association, the new tree line trail running directly through the site, and being on the fringe between downtown and residential conditions, provides a unique opportunity to provide essential facilities and services for the people in need of stable housing. The residents are supported through community spaces that promote physical and mental wellness, while public access to spaces on the ground floor brings the residents and broader community together, decreasing the stereotypes surrounding homelessness and affordable housing. The design strategy utilizes fully modular one bedroom and studio units, which allows for time and money to be saved on construction and increases access to transitional housing. At the same time, it provides formal and spatial opportunities for a beautiful and dignified place to live and recoverstill providing opportunities formally and spatially for a beautiful and dignified place to live and recover.

The existing site is publicly owned with a vacant building and a flood plain condition that restricts the construction footprint to the west side of the site.

There is also a chimney on site that must be preserved because it is one of the last habitats for chimney sweep birds in Ann Arbor. The proposed treeline trail runs through the east side of the site, connecting disparate parts of Ann Arbor, providing a safe and accessible trail to walk or bike.

The Delonis center, which provides temporary shelter and other supportive services for roughly 1200 individuals each year, is a block to the north.

We see our project as a means of extending their existing efforts and providing further support for the homeless community in Ann Arbor.

Site Plan

Site Context

NARRATIVES

Exploded Axonometric

This project utilizes modularity as a means of cost saving and building form. Studio and one bedroom units are fully fabricated off site, allowing for less material waste, and a faster construction timeline. Four floors of modular units are stacked on top of the concrete structure of the first floor and connected through a vertical service duct that allows for drainage and pipework. Other mechanical systems are decentralized and built into each unit. Each modular unit is constructed with its own envelope of walls, ceiling and floor. The circulation is inscribed as a curve within the bounding box of units, and allows for extra outdoor space and access to the courtyard.

Circulation around courtyard

Modular Construction Diagram

The units include a full bathroom and kitchen, with a window on each end to maximize sunlight. The two sizes of unit modules allow for formal variation in the facade when the different unit types are stacked as well as private outdoor space for some of the studio units.

The building has a total of 144 units: 75 studio apartments and 69 one bedroom apartments. The open air single loaded corridor in the courtyard allows for windows on both ends of the units, which maximizes natural light and ventilation. The operable windows and daylight gives the tenant the ability to affordably heat, cool, and light their space.

Studio Unit

Section

One Bedroom Unit

16’

52’

Studio Unit

16’

42’

Market in summer

The ground floor is activated in different ways according to the season. In the summer, the market and community gathering space utilize garage doors to open and expand into the courtyard. The wooden pallets, benches, and igloos in the courtyard are spread out to be used as seating with a larger stage in the center to host events. In the winter, the market space and igloos in the courtyard can be adapted into warming shelters to provide additional housing in the cold months. the pallets are then rearranged to create privacy screens for the igloos. The south side of the building also includes facilities to support the homeless community that may choose to remain unhoused, including storage, laundry, bathroom and shower facilities.

LAYERS OF PRIVACY

Private One Bedroom Unit

Community Lounge

e

Public Courtyard

The organization of space in the project allows for multiple layers of privacy depending on the needs of the individual. The double walls and double floors in the units from modular stacking creates a safe and quiet environment to spend private time. The upper floors include areas of gathering to facilitate the building of relationships among residents. These social spaces provide a neutral area to connect with neighbors.

The ground floor encourages connections and interaction with the broader community, helping to integrate individuals back into the community and reduce stereotypes surrounding homelessness.

5 (STORE)AGE SPACE This project approaches the design of a big box store through the use of typologies. A typical big box can contain a multitude of programs or objects. They are representative of production and consumption, and exacerbate the problem of material excess in society. The goal of (Store)age is to create an alternative expression of the big box store that works against the problematic tendencies of a materially driven society. The project utilizes two typological precedents, historical exhibition halls and generic self storage facilities.

Striking a balance between these typologies, I am proposing a collective of stuff that is both store and storage, and treats objects as something to be appreciated and reused rather than wasted and thrown away. The store takes the form of a maze of rooms on the interior that are filled with a curation of used objects for sale, similar to a flea market.

This promotes purchasing items from local families and businesses rather than large corporations, and also the reuse of materials.

At the same time, the storage spaces allow for the juxtaposition of the current reality of material excess in society with mechanisms of re-use that can help to address it.

TYPOLOGY STUDIES (not to scale) Exhibition Hall

Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton, 1851

Exhibition halls were historically designed for world fairs to showcase the achievements of many nations, and an abundance of objects were curated and celebrated. The building forms were technolgically advanced, and often imitated the vaulted ceilings of Roman Basilicas or other traditional architectural forms. They contained large open spaces divided into smaller sections.

Self Storage

Scott Avenue Self Storage, ARE Associates, 2009

These facilities have become a necessity in our materially driven culture. They contain rows of garages filled with stuff, and each garage is representative of the person that rents it. However, the objects are stored in private, locked away and physically separate from the home.

DESIGN PROPOSAL The form of the building utilizes the same appropriation technique of many exhibition halls. A monumental grand entrance and long vaulted central space is created using utilitarian materials found in typical storage spaces such as pallet racks, corrugated metal, and polycarbonate.

The proposed market space utilizes the display method of the exhibition halls, where the individual stalls are representative of their owners, filled with things that once had meaning to them. And like self storage, the stalls serve as a means of storing excess that has no space in the domestic home. Creating a market provides a means of reuse for the objects.

Market Space

Elevation

Plan

Walkway within structural pallet racks

Self Storage Hall The building as a whole not only represents the current state of material excess that we live in, but also the diversity of life in America through a collection of stuff in boxes of multiple scales. The large scale of the big box typology contains boxes of the domestic scale in the form of garages and market rooms for rent. These boxes then contain small scale cardboard boxes filled with people’s leftover belongings.

Excess Personal Belongings

Longitudinal Section

Cross Section

On the interior, the pallet racks are structural support for the vaulted space and also serve as a means of circulation. They bleed out onto the exterior of the building, creating an art object representative of the excess contained within the building.

6 PARKLET KIT OF PARTS As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities around the world have experienced an increased demand for public realm use with a particular rise in the popularity of the “parklet” - a small outdoor space typically occupying a parking space or under utilized space. In an effort to allow small businesses to continue to operate, cities enacted many policies and programs to help encourage the deployment of parklets. In the City of Atlanta, several pilot project “parklets” have been installed and have allowed many restaurants to take advantage of under utilized parking spaces. Looking ahead, the popularity of these spaces has created a need to explore the design opportunities to elevate their appearance and function as they may become a more permanent part of Atlanta’s streetscape language in a post-pandemic world.

This study seeks to advance that conversation. In collaboration with Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) and it’s partners, the Lord Aeck Sargent Summer Intern Initiative Team developed a “kit of parts” that can be utilized by business owners and stakeholders to create their own one-of-a-kind parklet for their business. This kit of parts becomes a tool that will allow business owners to pick and choose which parts of the parklet structure and furniture items best fit their needs, their budget, and their brand.

The kit of parts consists of two main componenets, the platform and the buffer edge, and two optional add ons, the custom furniture and the canopy structure. The platform ensures that the parklet is flush with the sidewalk and handles drainage, and there are different patterns that the wood could be configured in for an added design element. The buffer edge protects the parklet users from street traffic, and provides opportunities for seating, bar tops, and a range of combinations. The furniture provides seating for a variety of dining types, with table and bar height options. as well as a design that allows the furniture t onest into the buffer edge. Te canopy shades the parklet from the summer sun and extend directly from the construction of the buffer, so they are structurally integrated and stable.

All of these components are mainy constructed of wood and are highly customizable.

Sample material palletes were provided to give examples of different color and wood stain combinations that would be possible with the kit of parts.

POTENTIAL COMBINATION EXAMPLES

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