Architecture Portfolio

ARIEL SCHOLTEN Portfolio

ARIEL SCHOLTEN Master of Architecture | Master of Landscape Architecture ariel.scholten@gmail.com Seattle, Washington

PROFESSIONAL Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, Copenhagen, DK Intern Thy National Park Center - Competition Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center - Competition La Brea Tar Pits - Competition Bestseller Tower BUILD, Seattle, WA Senior Intern Bothell Police Department Green Lake Community Center Queen Anne Community Center Burwell Apartments Central Area Development Cowen Park Place Fremont Development King Street Flats

Jan. 2019-Sept. 2019

June 2017-Current

SRG Partnership, Seattle, WA Intern Federal Way High School NYC Garage/LA Garage Red Cedar - Yesler Terrace Whatcom County Student Recreation Center South Seattle College Student Wellness Center WSU Everett

June 2016 - Sept. 2016

Puget Sound Creative, Seattle, WA Content Manager, Marketing

Oct. 2014 - Sept. 2015

evo, Seattle, WA Copywriter, Marketing

May 2014 - Dec. 2014

EDUCATION University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M. Arch + MLA Scan|Design Gehl Master Studio, Copenhagen, DK Australia Studio with Glenn Murcutt, Sydney and Maria River, AUS MLA Study Abroad at Rome Center, Rome, IT University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Temple University Rome Center, Rome, IT Study Abroad in Rome

Fall 2019 Fall 2018 Spring 2018 Fall 2017 BA in Studio Art, 2010 Fall 2008

AWARDS + SCHOLARSHIPS Here + Now, Housing for the 21st Century AIA, ACSA, CRAN Third Place, National Competition - Recognized for Common Ground AIA NW + Pacific Region, Student Design Awards Merit Award, Regional Competition, Recognized for Common Ground Gray Awards, Student Design Finalist, Regional Competition, Recognized for Common Ground Scan|Design - Internship in Copenhagen Scan|Design - Master Studio Landscape Abroad Scholarship Jay Bee Memorial Scholarship

PRESS + PUBLICATIONS The Urbanist, “The Best Architecture Seattle Has to Offer” Competition Line, “Here + Now, A House for the 21st Century” ARCADE Magazine, “Middle Housing” Authored by Ariel Scholten

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Professional - Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter + BUILD LLC Thy National Park Center, Thy, DK Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kiev, UA La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA Fremont Development, Seattle, WA Student Work Thesis: Cultivating the Desperation Point, Copenhagen, DK The Maria River Education Center, Kempsey, NSW The Fjord, Seattle, WA Common Ground, Seattle, Washington Emit|Effuse, Rome, Italy Bartonwood Compost and Transfer Center, Seattle, WA

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THY NATIONAL PARK CENTER Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Thy, DK

A competition for a national park center on Denmark’s northern coast, Jutland.

Design development including physical and digital modeling, made elevations and sections, assisted with renders.

Rhino, V-Ray, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Suite

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Site plan

Elevations, from top: South, East, West

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Vesterhavet

Nørre Vorupør & Forplads

Diagrams

Sections, from left: East-West, North-South

Interior perspectives

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Orientering

Klitlandskabet

Klitlandskabet

Ankomstgård & Udstilling

Foyer & Garderobe

Vesterhavet

Foyer

Ankomstgård & Udstilling

Undervisningszone

Udstillingszone

Off. toiletter

Skoletjeneste/udstilling

Møderum

Møderum

Servicefunktioner

Arbejdspladser

Udstillingszone

Indgangssluse & Info

Arbejdspladser

Off. ttoiletter Udstillingsgård

Servicekernen

Nørre Vorupør & Forplads

Fleksibel anvendelse - Dag & aften

Funktioner

Flow & forbindelser

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BABYN YAR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter + Martha Schwartz Partnership Kiev, UA

A two-stage compeition proposal over a four month period, this project was a Holocaust memerial center on the tragic historical site, Babyn Yar. Design development of building and facade, made elevations and sections. Renders done my Mir. Rhino, V-Ray, AutoCAD, Enscape, Sketchup, Adobe Suite

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Site plan

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Diagrams: program and circulation

Top, from left: South facade, North Facade Above, from left: section through west, section through south.

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LA BREA TAR PITS

Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter + Martha Schwartz Partnership Los Angeles, CA The La Brea Tar Pits Museum and Park was a competition for a complete redesign of the iconic site in Los Angeles, including the existing Page Museum.

Design development including physical and degital modeling, diagram production, assisted with plans, sections and renders, built final model to be on display to public in Los Angeles Rhino, V-Ray, Enscape, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Adobe Suite

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Site Plan (Martha Schwartz Partnership)

Program Diagrams

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Physical Model

ARCHIVE

OIL POOL

Section: East - West

ticket gate

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Plan: Ground Floor

COLLECTION TOWER

ARCHIVE

OIL POOL

Section: North - South

Plan: Upper Floor

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FREMONT DEVELOPMENT BUILD LLC Seattle, WA

One of many EDG + MUP Sets completed during my time at BUILD, the Fremont Development project analyzed massing studies for a new multifamily building on a steep slope.

Design development, code research, diagram production Revit, Adobe Creative Suite

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CULTIVATING THE DESPERATION POINT Amplifying the Perceptibility of Climate Resilient Design Copenhagen, DK Fall, 2019

Cities must be designed and built to mitigate and adapt to climate change, yet we also need a far more systematic approach to engaging humans to become active on the climate crisis. Leveraging a mentality of incorporation, this thesis aims to demonstrate an approach to climate change awareness from a systematic viewpoint. It proposes a site plan and landscape design that visually demonstrate climate resilient change over time. It then programs the site as a sculpture park, allowing artists to contribute on an international scale to amplifying the human connection to the site through emotion, encouraging a deeper understanding of human impacts on the landscape and our role in climate change.

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RESEARCH SYNTHESIS UN Sustainable Development Goals The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are the groundwork for this thesis, as they, along with local risks, are important and feasible to address with the technology we already have available in a cost effective manner.

They relate to poverty, inequality, health, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice, and are broken out into hundreds of sub targets and indicators, which facilitate concrete monitoring. The SDG’s are set to benchmark their targets in 2030.

Cloudburst Flooding

Storm Surge Flooding

Heat Island Effect

Copenhagen Climate Risks In 2011, the City of Copenhagen published the Climate Adaptation Plan, providing an overview and toolkit to help Copenhagen restructure and mitigate for climate change. Several important aspects of this report include the use of already developed technologies and the increased greening and bluing of the city as a strategy for management. This is both economical and makes for successful public space, each of which Copenhagen is known for doing well. Specific risks outlined in the Adaptation Plan include cloudburst flooding, storm surge flooding and heat island effect.

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Strategies

1. Carbon sequestration Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Using the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the site specific risks outlined in the Copenhagen Adaptation Plan, I’ve identified 7 strategies that address climate change in Copenhagen. These 7 strategies can be directly applied to different ecological zones that occur at the site as well as the along the waterfronts of Coastal Denmark and similar locations.

2. Increased food production Created by Linseed Studio from the Noun Project

3. Biodiversity Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project

4. Biofiltration Created by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project

5. Cloudburst flooding mitigation Created by Panuwat Srijantawong from the Noun Project

6. Storm surge flooding mitigation Created by Danil Polshin from the Noun Project

7. Heat island effect mitigation Created by fibo junior from the Noun Project

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SITE ANALYSIS

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Climate-related risks in Copenhagen, from left to right: Cloudburst intensity + frequency, heat island effect, seasonal tides and storm surge flooding over time.

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Diagram of Thesis Process: Utilizing climate policy and local climate risks to develop tactics and apply them to the landscape.

Site: Refshaleoen

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Site photos

Marine landscape Salt marsh Wetland Meadow Forest

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Overlaying Denmark’s natural coastal edge edge with that of the site in Copenhagen produces an historic ecosystemic reference point suitable for landscape restoration and that is why is suitable as a basis for this climate resilient design program.

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Marine landscape Salt marsh Wetland Meadow Forest

Across: Natural coastal landscape in Denmark (the island of Saltholm) Above: Coastal landscape overlayed on existing site to create pre-industry natural condition.

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DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION

Salt marsh Wetland Meadow Forest

Marine landscape

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Site Edges Over Time This site is designed so that over time it becomes more natural, with edges and barriers shifting and changing. Because two of these edges are situated adjacent to manmade structures, the north and east sides of the site have harder, more constructed lines, with the zones transitioning to more natural edges as they work their way out to the water.

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Fiducial Markers Fiducial markers are “objects placed in the field of view of an imaging system which appear in the image produced, for use as a point of reference or a measure.”

Historically, fiducial markers have been used to provide reference points when other scale markers are not visible. As with the markers in this image, we can place similar markers in the sculpture park to give point of reference and create a human scaled element of the park, thus making it more relatable for the visitor.

Above: The site with ecological zones similar to that of natural state, inluding marine landscape, salt marsh, wetland, meadow and forest.

Right: Feducial markers that give scale and context to images. Imprinted from lens of camera on image.

Across: Pylons act as markers on the site, giving human scale to the site and providing structure for movable boardwalk system.

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Boardwalk System By placing pylons on the site in 20 meter intervals on a north-south grid, a framework for connecting humans and landscape is created.

The top of the pylons are all at the same level, creating a datum for the site. This means that they rise 10 meters out of the water and stand at 7 meters in the forest, as there is a 3 meter change in topography over the site. The steel pylons provide structure for a tension system which allows visitors to navigate throughout the ecosystems of the site on boardwalks and platforms, each of which are suited to different environments. Using a tension system reminiscent of a ship’s mast, the boardwalks are suspended in air, laying lightly on the land and creating minimal impact. Furthermore, these pylons support variable art installations over the site over the course of time.

Pylons are activated through a tension system that allows for flexibility in design of where the boardwalks are placed. The grid structure makes it so platforms can be incorporated along the pathway at regualar intervals. The boardwalk system also provides the aquaculture portion of the site with utilitarian circulation, with floating platforms working in conjunction with boats to harvest oysters, mussels and seaweed. The westernmost line of pylons are vertical windmills, which harness wind energy while maintaining a safe habitat.

The pylons themselves demonstrate climate change, as they weather with floods and storms, marking historical events.

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Top Right: Pylon activation using tension system Above: Boardwalk structure and platforms that correspond with each ecological zone, from leftL Forest, Meadow, Wetland/Salt Marsh, Marine Landscape Below: Site section from East to West through all zones

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* Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Created by Linseed Studio from the Noun Project

Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project

*Associated Strategies, see page 23

Created by Panuwat Srijantawong from the Noun Project

Created by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project

Created by fibo junior from the Noun Project

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Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project

Created by Panuwat Srijantawong from the Noun Project

Created by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project

Created by fibo junior from the Noun Project

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Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project

Created by Panuwat Srijantawong from the Noun Project

Created by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project

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Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project Created by Danil Polshin from the Noun Project

Created by Chameleon Design from the Noun Project

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Created by Victoruler from the Noun Project

Created by Linseed Studio from the Noun Project

Created by Nithinan Tatah from the Noun Project

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Art in the Landscape Building on the site’s ecological restoration and evolving nature over short and long term, artists creating climate change art are invited to exhibit their works throughout the site, interpreting their own procession through the environment using the kit of parts. This can relate to a certain narrative from the artist, a specific ecosystem that they wish to address, or otherwise. Not only does this allow visitors to connect emotionally to the theme of climate change, but also creates an international community of artists and visitors.

Above, left: view from boardwalk in forest; art installation: AgrAir, Piuarch, original location: Milan, Italy Above, right: view from boardwalk in meadow, looking towards water; art installation: Waves, One Works Original location: Milan, Italy

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MARIA RIVER EDUCATION CENTER Kempsey, NSW Studio led by Glenn Murcutt Spring 2018

The Maria River Education Center was developed at Glenn Murcutt’s farm in Australia, where the Marie Short House is located. The program for the project was developed by Murcutt, who asked that the farm be expanded to include housing, a studio expansion, a community space and an agricultural component - including goat and chicken buildings, a glasshouse, and goat milk processing center.

Much of the time with Murcutt was spent resolving details for the project, from guttering systems, shading devices, light and material studies to incorporating and elevating vernacular Australian architectural systems. Murcutt also placed emphasis on the building’s relationship to the landscape - it’s interaction with on-site flora, the topography of the site and an overall need for buildings to sit lightly on the land.

The comprehensive studio captured an essence to architecture as a lifestyle approach, incorporating all aspects of life within process, practice and design.

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CRESCENT HEAD, NSW

KEMPSEY, NSW

MARIE SHORT HOUSE 31.0605° S, 152.8482° E

115000 M

MARIE SHORT HOUSE

STUDIO

1000 M

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BUILDING PLACEMENT

PUBLIC SPACE

WATER COLLECTION FLOW DIRECTION

Maria River Site

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A | Community Space Longitudinal Section

B | Cabin Longitudinal Section

Skylights In Community Space

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Community Space

COMMUNITY LIVING SPACE

Approach from North

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Site Model

Tectonic Model

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Southwest View

THE FJORD

Seattle, WA Studio led by Louise Grassov Fall 2018 15th Ave E in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is a strong community of people with a deep interest in maintaining the charming and approachable character of the neighborhood. The 15th Ave E QFC has a longstanding history on the street, with many residents and daytime workers and visitors frequenting the store. The Fjord is a proposed new development that is sensitive to the scale of the neighborhood while increasing green space access, maintaining relationships with small businesses already in the area, establishing hubs of activity that can be accessed throughout the day and into the evening, and increasing density of housing in the area.

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Project Location + Site Photos

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Existing Condition

New Geometry

Pedestrian Circulation

3 AXON PLAN 2 FOURTH FLOOR 1. Kindergarden / Public Playscape 2. Residential 3. Green Roof Amenity Space

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TEACHING KITCHEN

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Ground Floor Plan

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West Elevation: Day + Night

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North Courtyard Entry

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COMMON GROUND

Collective Housing in Seattle, WA Winter 2017 In recent years, Seattle has consistently been ranked as a top growing city in the US. According to the US Census Bureau, the past five years have seen a greater than 2% yearly increase in residents, with more than 53,000 new people moving to the city between 2012 and 2016. Residential zoning in Seattle allows for a maximum of eight unrelated adults to live in the same household, which has proven to be an unsustainable solution to housing. Real estate prices have skyrocketed and many residents have been forced out of city limits, increasing urban sprawl and creating greater traffic problems.

Common Ground is a home for individuals living a similar lifestyle, allowing them to create family through access to coworking, community and solitude within their home. Not only does this model address issues of increased density at a neighborhood scale, but also provides an opportunity for enriching the community wellbeing.

Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Creative Suite

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COMMUNITY

LIVELIHOOD

*Vicinity map indicates connections between business, retail or mixed-use, which appear in darker golden color.

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COMMUNITY | constructing family

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EMIT | EFFUSE Rome, Italy Fall 2017

For decades, Rome has used yellow sodium lights to illuminate the city’s streets. This year, a switch to using more economical and environmentally friendly LED lights was proposed. Residents have been outraged by the possibility that their soft, magical glow may soon be replaced with a harsh, cool wash of light.

Flooding in Rome is a consistent problem, with runoff frequently pooling and overflowing drainage systems before inundating the Tiber River. Piazzas cannot handle the vast quantities of water that accumulate during rain events.

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CONTROVERSIAL NEW LIGHTING IN ROME JUXTAPOSED WITH THE CLASSIC LIGHT

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RELEVANT ROMAN TECHNOLOGIES

SAMPIETRINI

IMPLUVIUM

LIGHT REFLECTION

Roman road paving stones made of basalt, overlaid on layers of sand, stone in mortar and gravel. Water seeps through the pavers into the lower layers, as well as to channels on each side of the road.

The square basin in the center of the atrium of an ancient Roman house, which received rainwater from an opening in the roof.

Romans used small pieces of marble between pavers to reflect moonlight and make visibility at night easier.

SUNLIGHT IN CAMPO DE’ FIORI SAMPIETRINI Roman road paving stones made of basalt, overlaid on layers of sand, stone in mortar and gravel. Water seeps through the pavers into the lower layers, as well as to channels on each side of the road.

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Paving solution integrating roman technologies

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BARTONWOOD TRANSFER AND COMPOST CENTER Seattle, WA Spring 2017

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