CAITLYN EKBERG: Architectural Design Portfolio (2017-2024)

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CAITLYN EK BERG

Architectural Design Portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Mirror Image Fork & Spoon Community Kitchen

3.2 Sunset Hills Crematorium & Columbarium

4.1

Rocky Mountain Laboratories Interpretive Center

INTERNSHIP / Hennebery Eddy Architects Comma-Q Studio Museum of the Rockies Expansion & Renovation

{Working Title}

Occu pied

THS THESIS / Timespace: Relativity & Railways in the Architectural Cosmos

RES RESEARCH / MSU Community Design Center Projects & Publications

SPL SPOTLIGHT / Assorted Sketches, Models, & Graphics

FABRICATION / Assorted Woodwork, Metalworks, & 3D Modeling FAB

MIRROR IMAGE

Mirror Image is a hypothetical installation along East Story Street in Bozeman, Montana. Upon noticing the visual differences in the maintenance, materials, and lanscaping of different properties on the street, I looked deeper at zoning codes and ordinances for this transect. I found this phenomena to be the result of different standards present in the three historic districts on the site. The proposal places doublesided mirror panels along the invisible historic district borders to juxtapose the characteristics of adjacent districts.

Professor: Bradley Engelsman

FORK & SPOON COMMUNITY KITCHEN

The Fork and Spoon Community Kitchen is enterprise restaurant with a pay-as-you-can in Bozeman, Montana. This project prop hypothetical satellite location downtown concept focuses on bringing people of a abilities, and socioeconomic status togethe inviting and welcoming space which enga natural elements of the site including B Creek and numerous fully grown Cottonwoo

a social n model posed a n. This ll ages, er in an ges the Bozeman od trees.

Professor: Chere LeClair

SUNSET HILLS CREMATORIUM & COLUMBARIUM

Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, Montana has an unparalleled and largely unobstructed view of the city below and the impressive Bridger Mountain range. When grappling with harrowing topics like life and death, grief and sorrow, it is imperative to understand the connection between the sacred and the profane, the human connection to nature, and the experience of the sublime. Engaging both vertical (sacred) and horizontal (profane) planes, the significance of procession and the spectrum of private and public space are key elements of design.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LABORATORIES INTERPRETIVE CENTER

Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Hamilton, Montana desire an interpretive center at the site of the historic Conaway family home, adjacent to the RML campus.

My design approaches the historic patterns of the log cabin home and the RML facility with the change of program to create a new footprint, blending old and new. Instead of curating the house to become a display, this approach considers the values of the home, the family, and the community that must integrate with the requirements of the laboratories, the public, and the need for transparency on either side of the fence.

Professor: Brian W. Brush

MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES EXPANSION & RENOVATIONS

The Museum of the Rockies is at a pivotal juncture of growth, education, and tourism with the city of Bozeman, Montana and its affiliate, Montana State University. It is the home of world renowned collections, including significant paleontology and indigenous peoples exhibits. The museum should be a statement piece for Montana, the Rockies, and the rest of the world, though it is currently lacking in physical space and visual dynamism. A more holistic understanding and experience of the museum could be achieved by designing a place that speaks to the museum’s mission to engage, inspire, and discover through the importance of user agency, space adjacency, and program equity.

Professor: Brian W. Brush

INTERNSHIP / Hennebery Eddy Architects Comma-Q Studio

Montana State Capitol Buil d Improvements / Helena, Montan a

Carpet replacement, nosing transition details, office space plann

ADA improvements in risers, seat and railings, historic consideratio budget assessment and prioritizat material and profile selections, seating arrangements.

INTERNSHIP / Hennebery Eddy Architects Comma-Q Studio

Feasibility Rep includes concep floor plan layou code analysis, analysis, assessment, & estimates.

Custom digital replicas of original windows and historic front door created in Revit, shown in elevatio

Manual Arts B Butte, Montan

B uilding / a port which pt renders, ut options, , historic condition & budget

Principal: Ben Lloyd

FOOTPRINTS

ROOF LINES VOLUMES

{ Working Title } utilizes modularity as a strategy in neighborhood, lot, and unit design to celebrate practical, efficient, and variable modalities of living and working. The concept is presented as a kit-of-parts catalogue which deploys in different user scenarios in the North Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. In defining three options, each, of building footprints, roof lines, and volumes, a set of standard, yet varied unit configurations comes to life. Each “living” module (used for residential, commercial, or mixed-use programs) is connected to a “core” module with shared amenities such as laundry or circulation to access upper levels.

Professor: Kit Krankel McCullough / Collaboration with Shravan S. Iyer & Macey Bollenbacher

MODULES

OCCU PIE D

Occu pied is a framework for emotional space. Inspired by Ursula K. LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory, the studio explored what it means for architecture to hold and contain. A series of interrelated projects compounded in a study on how apple pie acts as an archive, a process of making, and a device for gathering. A recipe is just ingredients on paper unless you can recall the craft of recreating it. We place value in our most treasured memories, but often fail to realize their significance in our lives until it is too late. Without tangibility, these impressions fade from the forefront. Reviving the domestic tradition of sharing recipes with one another not only allows for intentional interaction, but also provides comfort and accomplishment through work and collective memory.

VIDEO
Professor: Stratton Coffman

THESIS / Timespace: Relativity & Railways in the Architectural Co

Spacetime is defined by the objective dimensions of time and space. Understood as a field - a ubiquitous condition at any point of the universe - it is observable, measurable, and fixed in its objective existence. Timespace is an inverse ordering scheme which seeks to understand the subjective make-up of these phenomena. Here, time is represented in three dimensions: past, present, and future, and space is represented in one: typology. Timespace is also a field, but a fervent one - observable, experiential, and in flux in its more subjective existence.

The ancient Greeks had two words for time: chronos, defined as measured, chronological time, and kairos as experiential time, the time of memory and human emotion. Spacetime and Timespace are two sides of the same coin. Heads or tails, left or right, really makes no difference, they are translations that maintain outcomes of order in the cosmos.

Time Orders Space Space Orders Time.

In a field of architectural space, we use time to order spatial logics and space to order temporal interactions. It is within these reflexive symmetries that a typology interacts with past, present, and future. The railroad, and especially passenger rail, exists from these dialogues around space and time. This project focuses the concept of Timespace to the reinstitution of passenger rail networks and programs in Montana. Through the innovative uses of existing infrastructure, agile infrastructure, and anticipatory infrastructure, welcoming back passenger rail is an opportunity to experience the orders of time and space at the scales relative to Montana, a perfect medium to investigate the multiplicities of relativity.

Timespace is a way to conceptualize design as a field like that of spacetime - ubiquitous and permeable - an infinite number of experiences within the architectural cosmos.

THESIS / Timespace: Relativity & Railways in the

RESEARCH / Community Design Center (CDC)

I wrote and compiled publications about the research and student projects completed in four Mon Architecture Community Design Center (CDC) studio courses. The books focus on the research and design typologies, and student projects of each design scenario. In this process, I worked with CDC develop a standard template for future CDC publications.

. Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Traditional Neighborhood (2019)

. Rocky Mountain Laboratories (2020)

. Intergenerational Community Center (2020)

Museum of the Rockies Expansion and Renovation (2021)

In the Summer of 2021, a fellow MSU graduate and I worked to research, map, and inventory downtow focuses on building occupants, vacancy, use, historic designation, and spaces of opportunity for design the creation of city growth policies and neighborhood planning strategies of downtown and the surround a fourth year CDC design studio project in the following Fall semester. The final report and ArcGIS ma

Inventory of Space Utilization in Downtown Livingston, Montana (2021)

ntana State University School of d history, site analysis, programs, C Coordinator Brian W. Brush to wn Livingston, Montana. The report intervention. The information aids ding areas. The work also supported aps were published in August 2021.

INVENTORY OF SPACE UTILIZATION IN DOWNTOWN LIVINGSTON, MONTANA

Community Design Center (CDC) Summer 2021
Collaboration with Shannon Payne

SPOTLIGHT / Assorted Sketches, Models, & Graphics

SPOTLIGHT / Assorted Sketches, Models, & Graphics

FABRICATION / Assorted Woodwork, Metalworks, & 3D Modeling

Correspondence Kit ...

Methods: CNC Routing, 3D Printing, Waterjet Cutting, Rod Bending

Methods: Laser Cutting, Watercolor, Carving

Materials: Rockite, Clay, Metal Rods

Adaptive Reuse

Arts & Entertainment

Community Engagement

Cultural Conservation

Education & Research

Historic Preservation

Production Design

Autodesk Revit

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

ArcGIS

AutoCAD

Acrobat/Bluebeam

Enscape

Google Workspace

Hand Drafting

Microsoft Office

Rhinoceros

SketchUp

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TAUBMAN COLLEGE / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) 2024

MATTHAEI BOTANICAL GARDENS / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Administrative Office Assistant 2022 - 2024

HENNEBERY EDDY ARCHITECTS COMMA-Q STUDIO / Bozeman, Montana

Architectural Intern 2021 - 2022

LONE MOUNTAIN GYMNASTICS & SWIM SCHOOL / Bozeman, Montana

Program Manager & Gymnastics Instructor 2019 - 2022

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / Bozeman, Montana

Research Assistant 2018 - 2021

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TAUBMAN COLLEGE / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Master of Architecture 2022 - 2024

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE / Bozeman, Montana

Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design 2017 - 2021

Honors Baccalaureate summa cum laude

C.M. RUSSELL HIGH SCHOOL / Great Falls, Montana

Graduate with Honors 2014 - 2017

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