University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture Design Portfolio Christopher Pulcer
Table of Contents Year 1 3-4 Harmony Park Pedestrian Walkway 5-8 Woodbridge Art Gallery Year 2 9-14 The Study of Translucency 15-18 Corktown Community Credit Union 19-26 Foreign Language Center 27-32 University Orchestra Center Year 3 33-36 Hudson’s Interactive Craft Center 37-42 Urban Complex Year 4 43-52 University Multi-Form Theater 53-56
Non Studio Projects
Year 1 Studio-Amy Rakich-Winter 2011 Harmony Park Pedestrian Walkway
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Site:
Harmony Park, Detroit Off of Randolph St.
Objective: The freshman studios were challenged to build a walkway that was to go in between two preconcieved building concepts by the second year students at a lot near Harmony Park downtown. The theme of sound was the design element. Features: Wind is incorporated as the primary sound element. The walkway’s warped arches appear as if a gust of wind is blowing down on them. Pedestirans walking through the space will hear the wind rustling through the arched areas. Curved forms along the path create interactive places of rest and gathering for the public.
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Year 1 Studio-Amy Rakich-Winter 2011 Woodbridge Art Gallery
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Site:
Woodbridge District, Detroit On Lysander and Rosa Parks Ave.
Objective: The goal is to revitalize the art scene in Woodbridge by designing a 4700 square foot art gallery on an empty lot. Features:
The gallery spaces are separated into individual cubes tiled in various materials. The transition areas are open glass curtain walls supported by massive wooden glu lam beams. The two level resident studio is placed in the back away from the public eye.
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Program :
Gallery space Lobby Storage Resident studio Office space Restrooms Outdoor space
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Year 2 Studio: Tadd Heidgerken, Fall 2011 The Study of Translucency
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Site:
Long Island, New York Steven Holl’s Writing With Lighthouse
Objective: The goal was to take an architect’s work and study how they incorporated elements of translucency (admitting and diffusing light so that objects cannot be clearly distinguished) into the design. Steven Holl’s Writing With Lighthouse is a residential living space which contains aesthetic and functional methods for translucency. Features:
The house is constructed using balloon framing with its horizontal timber slats running along the exterior including covering the windows. Much of the house’s windows cannot be seen from the outside. Small skylights on the roof filter the light through and illuminate the central living space. 10
Second Level
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Year 2 Studio-Tadd Heidgerken-Fall 2011 Corktown Community Credit Union
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Site:
Corktown District, Detroit Off of Michigan Avenue
Objective: The goal is to design a community credit union with above studio apartments using the elements of translucency (unclear boundaries) in the design. Exterior Features:
The building’s facade is a frosted glass curtain wall with a clear glass ribbon running through it. The clear ribbon transitions and phases into the brick of the adjacent building next door. It appears as though the two buildings are one.
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Third Level
Second Level
Ground Level Interior Features: The interior resembles a curved organic form. The exterior walls peel inward and curve to create the credit union’s individual spaces. As the plan moves to the right the forms become less organic and more box-like to suit the needs of the credit union and office spaces.
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Wall Features:
The interior walls from the lower levels continue and rise through the upper floors as to be one continuous wall moving freely in the building
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Year 2 Studio-Tadd Heidgerken-Winter 2012 Foreign Language Center
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Site:
Windsor, Ontario Off Windsor Armouries Building and University Ave.
Objective: The goal is to design a school function for the University of Windsor Art Center. The class was to collaborate with each other building their own art school function adjoined to one another. This lead the project to be more about class cooperation and collaborative design. The art school function is designed using the word multiplicity (varying forms of space combined together acting as one). Program:
The art school function for the university is a foreign language center. The building’s mass is subdivided into separate rectilinear forms. The separate spaces act as a step by step journey of learning about a foreign language.
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Site
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Second Level
Interior Features: There are five steps of the language path; an introduciton space, a language basics area, a day in the life area, and a culture and current times area. The last stop is the cultural cuisine area where there is a large cafeteria space. Additionally there is a back solid form which is used for residential living.
Adjoined Features:
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On the left the neighboring sculpture center shares the foreign language center’s cafeteria and there is a space between the two school functions that houses a freight elevator. On the right, a neighboring residence hall uses the the foreign language center’s roof as its balcony.
Ground Level
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Year 2 Studio-Tadd Heidgerken-Winter 2012 University Orchestra Center
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Site:
Downtown Chicago,IL Near the Chicago Sun Times Building
Objective: The goal is to design a school function on the bend of the Chicago River. The site’s topography is a hill sloping 30 vertical feet down to the rivers edge. Program:
The school function on the river is for the orchestra department of a university. An orchestra is one whole production of multiple instruments. The mass of the designed building adheres to this idea. The building’s entire structure lies underground within the hill. In certain locations, fragements of the building mass rise above the ground plane to appear as separate buildings. The roof of the underground mass is exposed and used as walkways for the students going to class. 28
Third Level
Second Level
Ground Level
Exterior Features:
The broken fragments of spaces are arranged from the largest spaces at the top of the hill (retail, sound recording, offices, labs, faculty personel) to medium sized spaces (computer labs, eating areas, rehearsal spaces) to small fragments (classes). Underneath the surface lies the complete auditorium with balcony seats. Underground Auditorium Levels
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Interior Features:
Irregularly shaped skylights on the student walkways/exposed roof allow for daylight into all the individual practice rooms below.
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Year 3 Studio-Jan Mazur-Fall 2012 Hudson’s Interactive Craft Center
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Site:
Hudson’s Parking Garage, Detroit, MI On Woodward Ave. by Compuware Building
Objective: The goal is to design a space that has the appearance of being empty, but is actually full with plenty of people interaction. This was to be set on the site of the former Hudson’s department store. The design is for an interactive craft center housed in a center portion of the underground parking garages below. At the ground plane is a modular gridded concrete park with only restrooms and glass bus stop cubicles. Features:
Sections of the gridded modules on the ground plane are cut away to expose the workers in their the work stations below. The work stations are used for craft making (wood carving, glass blowing, fabric weaving) and the pedestrians above can view the workers through various viewpoints from the beginning when the materials are gathered to the end when the work is showcased in the gallery.
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Program: Ground Floor:
Open walkable concrete park Glass cubed bus stops Restrooms Entrance events kiosk Viewable sections of craftmaking 1 public pedestrian ramp w/ elevator 2 Automotive ramps for parking garage
1st and 2nd Basement Levels:
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Offices Restrooms Materials storage and drop off 8 Working stations for each craft Showroom gallery Continued parking for garage
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Year 3 Electronic Design Studio-Wladek Fuchs-Winter 2013 Urban Complex
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Site:
Royal Oak, MI On the corner of Main St. and 11 Mile Rd.
Objective: The goal is to redevelop a vibrant street corner by constructing a commercial business center complex combined with residential aparments. The corner site shares a green space with the Royal Oak Library. The design is an adjoining of rectilinear forms with the smaller masses being public locations and the larger masses private spaces. Features:
The contrasting of heavy and light materials is a recurring theme in the design. Glass rectilinear forms house public locations (gallery, atrium,restaurant, main lobby, concesions), light brick forms contain semi private spaces (business offices), and precast concrete houses the private spaces (residential apartments).
Urban Complex: Commercial business centers combined with residential apartments Site: Royal Oak, MI Corner of Main St and 11 Mile Rd Design: The massing of the materials indicates the public spaces (glass, light brick) versus the private spaces (precast concrete)
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Fourth Level
Third Level
Second Level
Program: Commercial: Gallery space 1st floor retail Restaurant Concession Office:
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Residential: Atrium Reception 14 apartments 39
Ground Level
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Interior 3 Bedroom Apartment Program: 41
1400 Square feet Living Room/Kitchen Restroom Master Bedroom Single Bedroom Guest Room
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Year 4 Inegrated Studio-Stephen Vogel-Fall 2013 University Multi-Form Theater
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Site:
University of Detroit Mercy McNichols campus, Detroit On Livernoise next to Admissions Building,
Objective: The goal is to deisgn the University of Detroit Mercy Multi- Form Theater. This is a blackbox theater for the campus and local public. The design of the theater will integrate itself with the campus and the neighboring urban streetscape. An integrated studio project focuses on each phase of construction in detail (schematic design, structure, artificial lighting, mechanical systems, acoustics, wall sections, and cost estimations). Project Features: An 11,000 SF program makes up the site complete with two parking lots totaling 130 spots with handicap accessibility spots, drop off, back service entry, and theater marquee on the street.
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Program 1st FLoor: 2 Vestibules Central Lobby Central Ticket booth Multiform Theater Space Restrooms Catering Kitchen Two Dress Rooms
Green Room Costume Shop Storage Prop Storage Theater Storage Scene Shop Mechanical Room
Program 2nd Floor: Theater Catwalk System 2 Offices Conference Room Electrical Room
Dimmer Rack Room Sound Control Room Projection Room Theater Lights Storage
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Structure Features:
W10X33 steel column support system 20 -30 foot spacing Light guage steel roof truss 10�/12� Slope The Lobby span of the curtain wall is supported by metal ties from mullions.
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Lighting Design Features:
T8 2X2 Parabolic Translucent Troffer T8 1X4 Parabolic Translucent Troffer Low Voltage LED Tracklighting Halogen Recessed Downlights Strip LED Covelighting
Interior of outside vestiblues and lobby
Interior of lobby and ticket booth
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Second Floor: Single duct variable air volume (top support spaces) Prepackaged system (theater only)
Mechanical Systems Features: Supply Ducts (marked in yellow) Return Ducts (marked in green)
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Single duct variable air volume system This 1x1 foot square duct is used for all support areas on the first and second floors, both public and private spaces.
Prepackaged System This 3.2 x3.2 foot square duct is used only for the theater/lecture venting from the second floor. The prepackaged units on the roof are hidden in a hip roof away from eye view. Hydronic fin tube radiator (marked in red) This heat only system is used for the lobby area only at bottom of the curtain walls to reduce condensation.
Ground Floor: Single duct variable air volume (support spaces) Hydronic fin tube radiator (lobby only)
Interior rendering of theater/lecture space Acoustic Calculations Features: Calculations verify that the acoustical performance of the auditorium falls within the optimum target (0.7-1.0 seconds) The theater design has a reverberation time of .92 which falls within the optimum as shown in the calculations to the right.
Reverberation Time: (0.05X Room Volume)/(Total # Sabines) Theater Volume=56,000 Cubic Ft. Total # Sabines= Surface Area X Absorption Cof. Sabines of Each Room Face: Total Wall Area=4,240 SF 4240X .65=2,756 Sabines Total Ceiling=2,800 SF 2,800X .05 =140 Sabines Total Floor=2,800 SF 2,800X .05=140 Sabine
Absorption Coefficient: ½” Perforated wood wall Panel=.65 2” Gypsum Ceiling Tile =.05 ¼” Wood Floor Paneling=.05 Total Sabines: (2,756 + 140 + 140)=3,036 SF Calculated Reverberation Time (.05X56,000)/(3,036)=.92 .92 Meets Optimum Reverberation Time
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Project Cost Estimation Features: Hard Construction: Total Sum Wall Exterior= $240,000.00 Total Sum Substructure= $145,719.00 Total Sum of Shell =$131,122.44 Total Sum of Interiors =$102,618.78 Total Sum of Services =$539,986.40 Total Sum of FFE =$112,222.98 Total Sum Special Equip=$250,000.00 Site Work 10%Sum =$152,166.96 Contract Fee 25% Sum =$380,417.40 Arch Fee 7 % Sum =$106,516.87 Hard Construction Sum: =$2,160,770.83 Soft Construction: UDM Admin Fee 5 % Hard Sum =$108,038.54 Total Hard+Soft Cost 8% Inflation DET Factor Wall Setion Features:
Precast Sandwich Concrete Panel 3:2:3 Sandwiched Rigid XPS Insulation Gypsum Wall Finish (For Public Areas Only
Gypsum Wallboard Ceiling Finish Composite Metal Decking Concrete Slab Roof R60 Insulation with membrane layer on top
=$2,268,809.37 =$136,128.56 =$2336873.65
TOTAL BUILDING COST =$4,741,811.58 COST PER SQUARE FOOT =$395.15
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Non Studio Projects
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Gardella Honors House Screen Design Site:
UDM Honors House
Objective: The goal is to design a shaded canopy for the students to rest and interact along the green space. The canopy structure is built around the existing honors house and tables are grouped together to create potential classroom settings. Features: The canopy deisgn is built using framed angles of timber posts. White canvas triangles are the methods of shading that meet at intersecting points inside honors house.
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U Factor Model Calculation
Original Thermal Analysis
Improving Window Wall Insulation Objective: The goal is to revise a window insulation and provide thermal support using the Therm and Window Analysis Program from Lawrence Berkely National Lab. Before Features: After Features: 55
The window insulation chosen was a brick veneer wall section with an air cavity wall and extruded polystyrene The window insulation was revised by adding a thin vapor barrier .7500 inches thick. The addition of the vapor barrier incresed the thermal properties of the window as shown in the analysis above.
Improved Thermal Analysis with .7500� Vapor Barrier
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