Danica Bogdanovic Portfolio by Dani Bogdanovic

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DANICA BOGDANOVIC ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

DANICA BOGDANOVIC

PERSONAL

University of Detroit Mercy graduate, Master of Architecture degree in Spring 2025.

Known for strong collaboration, communication, leadership and organizational skills.

Committed to a community- and human-centric approach to design. Emphasizing the social and cultural dimensions of architecture, ensuring that spaces are not only functional but also meaningful to the people who inhabit them.

EDUCATION

2024 - 2025

Masters of Architecture

University Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and Community Development

SACD

2020 - 2024

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

University Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and Community Development

SACD

2023

Study Abroad

Warsaw University of Technology School of Architecture

(519)819-2593

danicab2585@gmail.com

danibogd.myportfolio.com

Windsor, ON Canada

architectural designer.

3rd year semester abroad

TOOLS

Graphic Software

Adobe; InDesign, Illustrator

Photoshop Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Microsoft Office

Modeling Software

Auto CAD, Sketch-up, Revit, Rhino

WORK EXPERIENCE

Summer 2024

Architecture Intern

Quinn Evans, Detroit MI

Produced and developed Revit models for various projects.

Created Community boards and presentations during the conceptual design phase, fostering stakeholder engagement.

Contributed to historical preservation projects by creating surveys, drawings, and documenting existing conditions.

Participated in site tours across different phases of the construction process to observe progress and execution.

Summer 2023

Architecture Intern

Studio Detroit, Detroit MI

Gained hands-on experience in architectural design project workflows. Contributed to construction documentation of car dealerships. Updated the firm’s Luxury Car Condo Brochure. Design and branding. Contributed to conceptual design phase of luxury car condos.

Collaborated with project teams to refine design concepts and details.

2019 - Current

Facility Attendant

City of Windsor Parks & Recreation, Windsor ON

Engaged with community members to support events at the facility. Organized and facilitated recreation programs for ages 3 to 15yrs.

Taught classes such as Architecture and Building, and sports. Assisted in event setup, coordination, and ensuring smooth operations during activities.

Administration work; Organizing programs and function of facility rentals.

AWARDS

UDM SACD Portfolio Competition

Gold in Deans Choice and Student Choice (2021)(2023)

Published Photography

Detroit Mercy SIC Issue 31 (2024)

Detroit Mercy SIC Issue 32 (2025)

UDM Photography Contest (2023)(2024)

Deans List

2019 - 2025

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY

STUDIO WORK

SACD

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

WIDE PROJECT: PLOT TWO

“The Joe Louis Greenway provides connected, equitable and engaging spaces throughout our city and region, where we offer opportunities for empowerment, unification and healing for our neighborhoods and people.”

The goal for this path is to create a connection between the districts of Detroit while allowing each neighborhood to maintain their identity. The trail will provide recreational opportunities for residents throughout the Greenway and create a connection of the existing open spaces as well as adding new vegetation.

PUBLIC BIKE TRAIL

LOUIS GREENWAY

JOE

Joe Louis Greenway

SITE CONTEXT

This bike trail will connect many neighborhoods within and around Detroit.

The Joe Louis Greenway will join existing Detroit bike trails such as, the Dequindre Cut and River Walk Trail.

Louis Greenway

Cyclists using an alternate road as a path for the current green way that is blocked by trucks and garbage

PROPOSED MASTER PLAN

To begin our analysis of the Barton-McFarland neighborhood, as a group, we toured the area by bike to understand how the current environment is perceived through pedestrian travel as we intend to reshape the community to be primarily traveled by pedestrian modes of travel. To improve pedestrian travel, paired with the Joe Louis Greenway, a newly proposed Greenbelt connects Joy Road and Fullerton Avenue through a comprehensive linear park system full of recreational and leisure activities.

FUNCTION DIAGRAM

The park within the plot will offer play areas, and walking paths, all connected by the Joe Louis Greenway that runs along Oakman Blvd. and through the center of the site connecting to paths that lead to the neighborhoods and communities. The screens along the path act as a buffer from Jeffrey’s Road from plot two all the way to plot one, each spaced 6 ft from each other.

greenway

rail road

connection parks

public spaces

storm water management

Joe Louis Greenway

People occupying the vegetated steps as they are getting ready for a performance, while others are enjoying the businesses that connect to the floor above. I Bushra Fawaz

Joe Louis Greenway

ON CAMPUS WELLNESS CENTER

RENO HALL

Reno Hall, once a mens dormitory, now houses offices, classrooms, and workshops. Despite being outdated, it carries campus history. This proposal aims to revitalize Reno Hall into a community hub with the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a wellness center, and spaces for study, play, and collaboration. It also plans to connect Livernois Avenue to campus and enhance LOT B with food vendors and green spaces.

WELLNESS FACILITY

Physical and Mental Wellness

Recreation Casses

PROGRAM

RECREATION AND STUDENT LIFE

Collaborative Space Study Area

OFFICE OF DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Collaborative Space Office Space Flex Seating

MASSING

ADDITIONS

DESIGN

Render done by Bushra Fawaz

Reno Hall

INCUBATOR HUB

CORNUCOPIA CENTER

The Cornucopia Center is an incubator space fostering new businesses that focus on equitable and sustainable foods. With the site being in Eastern Market and on the Dequindre Cut access to the building though all different types of mobility became a key design driver along with securing spaces that could be utilized by everyone in the neighborhood.

EASTERN MARKET DEQUINDRE CUT

The task of this project was to develop a sustainable building using innovative and new design ideas. The timber structure is constructed through wood dowel joinery to minimize the carbon footprint of the construction of the building. The site implements other sustainable ideals through storm water management, maximizing solar gain and implementing passive heat strategies

This project was in collaboration with fellow UDM students Ryan Lemke and Jake Lampi

DESIGN DRIVERS

COMMUNITY RESPONSE

Respond to human scale and allow for gathering and outreach

SUSTAINABILITY

Include innovative sustainability strategies

MOBILITY

Create a space that is open to all people and accessible through multiple types of mobility.

MURALS IN THE MARKET

Colorful context of Eastern Market influenced the use of murals and rammed earth

MODEL MAKING

PHYSICAL MODELS

This section combines 3D rendering and physical model making to explore design concepts in both digital and physical forms. The renders highlight spatial relationships and materials, while the physical models provide a hands-on understanding of scale and texture.

FLOOR

Concrete

Layer CLT Panels

STRUCTURE

Rammed earth wall: made of drywall compound for texture and paprika for color

OPAQUE WALL ASSEMBLY

Thermally Modified Wood Cladding Vertical Wood Battens

BEAMS

Wood Dowel Connection

model material

PAPRIKA & DRY-WALL COMPOUND

To achieve the rammed earth color and texture paprika and drywall compound was mixed and the applied to a plywood frame.

3D model and rendering; Sketchup and Enscape

actual material

RAMMED EARTH

Implementing rammed earth on the north facade is a sustainable strategy that has become iconic to this project. It not only creates an aesthetic quality of but is apart of a passive strategy for heating and cooling, absorbing interior heat gains and releases the energy absorption at night.

Moist clay (Clay, sand, gravel)

Framework

Pneumatic rams to compress clay

Layers of pressed earth

mixed use

MODULAR STRUCTURE

The form of the building mimics the stepping pattern that is both consistent in the roofs and steps within the area. The form was made by starting with a 12x12 block module that filled the site, then removing and adding blocks to create a contrast between solid and void.

DOBSON STREET

BRERETON STREET

12 X 12

thesis investigation: installation in SACD

VOICES BETWEEN FLOORS

“Voices Between Floors” explores how verbal interaction in transitional spaces can foster human connection and redefine peacemaking. This installation critiques traditional ideas by shifting focus from physical proximity to auditory engagement. PVC pipes wrapped around the cage of the stairwell—a highly active area within the school— allow participants to communicate across different floors, creating unseen connections.

Posters to go around stair well to direct use

SENSORY PLACEMAKING

Placemaking through auditory engagement shifts focus from proximity to sound

PLAYFUL CURIOSITY

Playful learning and familiar interactive elements stimulate a sense of wander and curiosity

MOVEMENT AND PAUSE

Transforming moments of circulation into moments of pause for social interaction.

contemporary art museum

3D PRINTED SECTION

MODEL

JOE LOUIS GREENWAY urban scale

To fabricate the 4’ x 10’ site model the site was built in Auto CAD and cut by a CNC machine. The base is made up of MDF with colored chip board on top and the buildings were 3D printed. This model was a collective studio effort over 2 weeks.

Organization of the studio model was done by Jacob Lampi

Proposed Buildings

Buildings

Public Spaces

Green Space

Joe Louis Greenway

Existing

Joe Louis Greenway Project Studio: Visiting Polish Professor Mikolaj Gomolka A Place With No Name

PLAYGROUND GREEN BELT

FROM TOWER

ENTRANCE FROM NEIGHBORHOOD

MARKET SPACE

EVENT SPACE

COMMUNITY GARDEN

GREENWAY

VIEWS

FILLSTRUCTURESTO EDGE CONDITION

NEW TRANSIT HUB

STREET BUFFER

QUINN EVANS INTERNSHIP

The goal for this path is create a connection between the districts of Detroit while allowing each neighborhood to maintain their identity. The trail will provide recreational opportunities for residents throughout the Greenway and create a connection of the existing open spaces as well as adding new vegetation.

THE JACKSON HOUSE THE MOVE

THE HENRY FORD

SIGNIFICANCE

Dr. Martin Luther King

This house is where Dr. King planned the march from Selma to Montgomery.

REMOVED ROOF

FOR TRANSPORTATION

THE HOUSE WAS SPLIT IN TWO

REMOVED PORCH

TRANSPORTATION 1,000 miles 9days

FIRST ADDITION 1960‘S ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION 1919

NEW EXHIBIT

SELMA ALABAMA

DEARBORN MICHIGAN

GREEN FIELD VILLAGE LOCATION

The move of the Jackson house form Selma Alabama to Dearborn Michigan

STUDIO DETROIT ARCHITECTS

Summer 2023 internship at Studio Detroit architects in downtown Detroit. Focus projects are car dealerships and luxury car garages. These projects allowed me to learn many aspects of the field of architecture that I would not be able to obtain at other firms. My main focus towards the end of the internship was working on the Luxury Car Condo Brochure and Revit Models for brand reviews.

The car condo Marketing Brochure: The Motor Enclave, Atlanta Motorsports Park

approval

MAVERICK CAR WASH renderings for site

Created Escape renderings and fly through video for city site plan approval process

04 PERSONAL WORKS

STUDENTS MODELS

After designing and building their pavilions and park students were tasked to photography and activate the spaces

TEACHING

CITY OF WINDSOR

ARCHITECTURE CLASS

LITTLE ARCHITECTS

This class engaged students how to explore both 2D and 3D space. Each week the class was assigned a goal to accomplish through hands on crafts and activities, while learning basic concepts of architectural design and building.

Students were tasked with redesigning the community park and recreation center the class was held in. This allows student to utilize spaces in their own back yard. Each week students were designing one aspect of a park and understanding its benefits to the adjacent communities.