CALI ANNE NELLIS
Master of Urban Design Candidate, 2014 Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2011
URBAN DESIGN Delta Urbanism: The Mathematics of Thriving Cities Food Plugs: Or How to Solve the Food Desert Phenomenon One & A Half Wards: Savannah Cultural and Civic Center VOLUNTEER Architecture for Humanity: Microgreen Growing Boxes School-Based Health Program: New Clinic Designs Corryville Recycles: Cincinnati Recycling Challenge 2012 Orange Tree Atelye: Design for Haiti ARCHITECTURE The Aperture: Cinema and Street Festival Connect: Environmental Education Annex Live-Work Studios Steger: Public Sculpture RESEARCH & TRAVEL Immersion Hong Kong 2012
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URBAN DESIGN 7
Delta Urbanism, 2013 The Mathematics of Thriving Cities The Upper 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana A collaborative project with Carlos Paz Delta Urbanism recognizes the “latent talent� of the landscape identified by Frits Palmboom in Drawing the Ground by inviting residents to reconnect with water, encouraging an adaptive land use strategy to alleviate blight and promoting a sustainable relationship with the natural systems that humanity must engage. By reorganizing the city according to its mathematical factors, [Population, Density, Area, Elevation, Risk, Benefit, Inundation, Value, and Cost] areas appropriate for human redevelopment or a return to nature emerge. The Upper 9th Ward falls in a zone appropriate for both wetlands and urban development.
URBAN DESIGN
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current / proposed city planning by rank-size
water - X 1 = 136 permeable - X 2 = 68 urban - X 3 = 46
mathematical derivation: relationships of driving forces within cities can be expressed mathematically, where any factor, X, exerts more influence than a related factor, Y, expressed as X > Y Some factors studied: R [risk of flooding] B [benefit of building] I [probability of inundation] P [population] D [density] Additionally, the city exists within the larger scope of urban ecology and delta urbanism. By identifying each square mile of the city by is dominating landscape feature, the city displays misalignment with the needs of its fragile environment, and a proposal for change realigns the city fabric by giving rank-size preference to the natural.
mapping inundation potential in the city
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mapping historic infrastructure in the city
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mapping blight in the upper ninth ward
mapping inundation in the upper ninth ward
a proposal for bioswales & water ownership
I>B
the plan for the upper ninth ward, 2078
R>B A c > P/D
URBAN DESIGN 13
Food Plugs, 2011 Or, How to Solve the Food Desert Phenomenon Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio A collaborative project with Alex Corbin, Leslie Deacon and Kelly Gillen, 2011 Food Plugs seeks to alleviate the hardship faced by Avondale residents when faced with needing to bring food home. Many residents live more than 2 miles from a grocery store, without access to a car. Food Plugs proposes a solution to the nearly innumerable problems by adding small, residentdriven food programming into the neighborhood, in identified and established community hubs. In order to cover most food centric needs, three corridors are established in the neighborhood to cover production, sale and identifying potential customers.
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diagramming food additions to streets
mapping primary use corridors
diagramming food additions to civic space
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One & A Half Wards, 2012 Savannah Cultural and Civic Center Elbert Square, Savannah, Georgia Savannah’s urban structure in the historic core of the city is rigidly based in a ward system that, while walkable, struggles to yield to large civic programming. In 1971, the Civic Center opened on a lot composed of property from two wards in the city, having demolished two city squares and segmented the ward system in the district. The project, One and A Half Wards seeks to reconnect the urban fabric of the historic downtown with a pedestrian through-street, integrated bike lanes on two major lateral boulevards and cultural and residential architectural development while maintaining programming in the civic center.
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section-perspectives through ward reconnections
site aerial with new development
diagrammatic elevations of new construction CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
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Volunteerism, 2008-2012 Though there are several names for design that engages an underserved community, I’ve found a universality in the passion and dedication in collaborators on projects where I have been able to engage and contribute. Design activism is defined not only in the ability to change unsatisfactory conditions but also in the ability to shape methods and mentalities at the global scale. I have been involved in design-build projects locally with Cincinnati’s Architecture for Humanity chapter and internationally with a student and professional organization focused on rebuilding Haiti, but have also brought my perception and sensibility as a designer to my year of service as an AmeriCorps member in school health and as a community organizer in my neighborhood.
PERMAGANIC BUILD DAY SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 9am - 1pm Permaganic Eco-Garden (1718 Main St, Cincinnati) Come join us in deconstructing used shipping pallets to transform them into multi-use growing boxes. We hope to see you there!
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AfH - permaganic microgreen growing boxes
School Health - plans for new clinics Current space
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Corryville Recycles 2012 - mapping activism
OTA - earthbag construction design for Haiti LAYING EARTHBAGS
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The Aperture: Cinema & Street Festival, Mt Adams, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2010 the film center lobby A collaborative project with Antonia Marinucci, Josh Michaels and Ben Morris. The project sought to bring the entire experience of film to the neighborhood, as a studio, workshop and moviegoing experience.
the theater lobby
an upper level plan of the aperture
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Connect: Environmental Education Annex, Mt Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2011 educational space looking into the gardens The Taft educational annex seeks to bring students away from their daily classroom experience, into nature and environmental education.
site edge featuring school gardens
main floor plan for the annex
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Live-Work Studios, Downtown, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2009 plans for the two-story units Two story, live-work units in the up and coming neighborhoods adjacent to downtown Cincinnati could provide young entrepreneurs with affordable spaces to kickstart their projects.
elevation of the complex in the site
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Steger, 2008 Public Space Sculpture Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio During Summer Design Trailer Studio 2009, all enrolled pre-architecture students collaborated on the construction of a model based on the Steger Center on UC’s Main Campus. Made from reclaimed lumber planed down to 2”x2” sticks, assembled into pyramids and connected, the sculpture intended to reflect the changing nature of the perception of the building. The arch shifts in proportion and scale relative to the location of the viewer. The sculpture stood in the DAAP building courtyard for two months, and on exhibition in the front lawn of the Clifton Cultural Arts Center for two weeks.
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Immersion Hong Kong, 2012 Research and Travel Hybrid Media in Architecture Urban Form and Spatial Analysis Hong Kong, China The opportunity to travel presented itself and I ventured to Hong Kong with two professors and nine classmates in late November 2012. While traveling, I enrolled in two courses, and thoroughly investigated the city during three weeks of long days spent in the city, meeting with architectural practitioners and engaging local architecture students. The unseasonably dismal weather presented the opportunity to study the city through an altered lens, and portfolio pieces submitted for the Hybrid Media course included the following images.
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