Master of Architecture Portfolio Aric Reed

PORTFOLIO ARIC REED

2020-2023

Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

ARIC REED

Ann Arbor, Michigan

arreed@umich.edu

517-262-0770

EDUCATION

Master of Architecture GPA 4.0

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Ann Arbor, Michigan - ExpectedMay2023

Graduate Certificate Real Estate Developement GPA 4.0

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Ann Arbor, Michigan - ExpectedMay2023

Bachelor of Business Administration GPA 3.84

University of Michigan

Flint, Michigan - May 2020

WORK EXPERIENCE

CNC & Water Jet Coordinator

University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Ann Arbor, MI / September 2021 - May 2023

Externship / Design Associate

Safdie Rabines Architects

San Diego, CA / Winter 22 Spring Break Taubman Externship Placement Program

Team Trainer

Whole Foods Market

Talent Development, On-boarding, Operations, Customer Service

Ann Arbor, MI / May 2019 - Present

Store Manager

Pier 1 Imports

Selected Works

Talent Development, Leading teams, P&L, Operations, Driving Sales and Brand loyalty, Customer Experience

Traverse City, MI / September 2008 - June 2018

AWARDS / PUBLISHED WORK

2023 - Real Estate Finance Compition, Taubman 1st Place

2023 - Taubman Student Show, Propositions

2023 - Systems Studio Project “Radicle by Nature”

2022 - Featured in Dimensions Student Publication “Lot 9”

2022 - Taubman Student Show; Situations Winter 2021 Studio (First Place Award)

2022 - Taubman Student Show; Propositions Fall 2021 Studio

2020 - Deans list University of Michigan Flint, honors graduation

2019 - Exceptional merit award (wood sculpture) University of Michigan Flint

2017 - Store manager of the year (region & territory)

2016 - Store manager /talent (region)

2003 - Michigan Industrial and Technology Education Society - Overall Grand Prize Winner

SKILLS

RHINO

ADOBE SUITE (PHOTOSHOP, PREMIER PRO, INDESIGN, ILLUSTRATOR, AFTER EFFECTS)

WATER JET

CNC

REVIT

3 yrs

3 yrs

1.5 yrs

1.5 yrs 6 mos

C ONTEN T

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lot 9

Winter 2021 Studio Faculty

Adam Fure

work selected by faculty as a best example of student work from studio section for entry into Taubman Student Show. Work was selected for First place award by Jury.

Design Brief

Project X04 was designed for a studio shared site at the Detroit City Market. As the semester progressed, different design elements were chosen from a studio lottery to develop a kit of parts. The program of ‘lot 9’ focuses on a gradient of exercise from mall walker to Olympic lifter. The final deliverable asked to make a short video representation that further developed the concept.

Video Link

https://youtu.be/TlLue3dCuno

urban dwelling *net zero

Project Team Members

Aric Reed

Kimberly Lindberg

Begum Gokdag Ersozoglu

High Performance Design Faculty

Lars Junghans

Design Brief

A semester-long project that’s design focused on both passive and active design strategies in a high-performance building design. The focus of our project was to provide efficiency in a multi-family unit in an urban setting in climate zone 5.

radicle by nature

Project Location

Jefferson Chalmers, Lenox St

Detroit, MI

Project Team Members

Aric Reed

Sang Won Kang

Fall 2022 Systems Studio Faculty

Cluadia Wigger

Craig Borum

*work selected by faculty as a best example of student work from studio section, to be included in future Taubman College marketing campaings.

Site and Building Data

Site Area

GFA FAR

Roof area

Footprint

Site Coverage

Percentage of pervious site area

Number of Parking spaces

Design Narrative

Located by the Detroit River canal at the Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood, radicle by nature is a proposal to activate the site through the concept of “re-wilding” by bringing a forest of maple and beech trees, providing a dwelling for both humans and wildlife, as well as an enhanced perception of “living in the woods”.

Originally, the lot had been raised to 15’ above the street level of Lenox St, creating an artificial barrier to the river from the neighborhood. Through a proposal of a shared circulation system that cuts through the elevated land, we enable a pathway that cuts from the street to the canal, and a pathway on the waterfront to re-activate the site and make the water accessible to the neighborhood.

While the project envisions a life of generational growth and transformations along with the cycle of the trees, we recognize the challenges of concentrating a large number of trees that require a long time to grow and reach maturity, which makes the intent of concentrating a density of trees first before the buildings. We discussed various possibilities of an exchange or movement of trees at different ages to occupy the land and move out, to facilitate the process of densifying our forest.

Thesis WIP

Techno-Amusement & Carnival Travesties

Fall 2022 & Winter 2023

Faculty: Perry Kulper

Techno-Amusement and Carnival Travesties [TACT] is a speculative work of architecture that depicts the future anterior construction site of a caravanserai. Informative context flows in and out of the site, traded are ideas that create new possibilities from acts of migration. The work is built and staged at various scales “in-progress” to create continuous feedback as the work happens. Rooted in Bakhtin’s philosophical work, “Carnival Sense of the World”, this work explores the potential for an aethetic of amusement – one in which augmenting, and realignment of power structures, hierarchies, and binaries occur. A carnival of travesties acts as leveler of ideas and political acts, through moments of chaos, humor, and amusement, a place where the work becomes possible. Same as it ever was.

Mesalliances: ‘mes’ (wrong, misdirected), + alliance

This thesis does not seek to solve the political relationship to acts of migration, but rather provoke conversation on how the politics of aesthetics are at stake in the architectural representation of migrating travesties. The work is provoked through acts of authorship, including traditional patented drawing techniques that document and claim new relationships as well as staking a claim to authorship. Underpinning the work is a desire to understand and document a discipline of design. Personal interest including ornamentation, fabrication, and ‘artifacts of culture’ which make appearances in the work. A critical staging of the work in progress [WIP], allows for moments of intense work followed by periods of reflection. While drawing upon a literary devise that allows for the disruption and re-assembly of place, people, and time, TACT, restages important parts of this thesis into an ongoing act to stage speculative issues surrounding migration.