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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A COLLECTION OF UNDERGRADUATE WORK

TEXTILE CENTER

Studio 2, Spring 2013, Nina Ebbinghausen

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Materials & Methods, Fall 2012, Jim Lutz

PEAVEY PLAZA FOUNTAIN Studio 3, Fall 2013, Jody McGuire

LAKE NOKOMIS

Studio 3, Fall 2013, Jody McGuire

HEATH CERAMICS

Studio 1, Fall 2012, Martha McQuade, Dan Clark, & Andrew Dull

TEXTILE CENTER

PROSPECT PARK MINNEAPOLIS, MN This project involved creating a new building for a client with a focus on the programmatic layout of the building. We met with the client for a tour of their current facility and were given insights into their future goals for a new and expanded program. The site is located in Minneapolis along a new light-rail corridor within the iconic Prospect Park neighborhood.

There were three goals regarding the program in my design that I focused on.

First, I wanted to show the process of making textiles in my building, showing the learning, making and displaying that occurs with each item. Second, I wanted to highlight their Textile Library, which is the largest circulating textile library in the country. Finally, I created a gathering space with an atrium street in order to strengthen the community spirit that already occurs with the making of textiles.

Evolution of tower form

MAKING

Weave Lab Sew Lab Dye Lab

LEARNING

Weaving Classroom Library

Program section

DISPLAYING

Gallery Link

Textile Classrooms

Final Textile Center model

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First Floor

Second Floor

Levels of “street”

Atrium View from Entrance

Section Atrium/Lobby

Gallery

Gallery Hallway

Tower

Tower

Atrium

Atrium Perspective

Library

Library Entrance

Building

Building Perspective

University Avenue night rendering, showing digital LED display system

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

COLLABORATION WITH MAURICIO OCHOA For this project we were asked to analyze an existing building for its structural qualities and how the systems worked together to create a cohesive structural system. My partner and I chose to analyze the San Francisco International Airport – International Terminal by SOM. We specifically looked at the buildings front façade wall and overhanging awning and how the two elements worked together. The end goal was to create a large model showing structural details. In order to do this, we had to analyze detailed drawings and construction documents to aid in the construction of the model.

Section Cut

Elevation analysis

Roof detail

Exploded roof

Combined structure

Exploded wall

Section detail

Structural details

Detail of column and roof canopy

PEAVEY PLAZA FOUNTAIN PEAVEY PLAZA MINNEAPOLIS, MN

This project was a quick two week design charette that encouraged us to analyze a site and create a non-architectural interactive site intervention. Peavey Plaza is located in downtown Minneapolis, along the popular transit/pedestrian Nicollet Avenue.

I began by exploring the hard and soft surfaces at the site, mainly concrete versus vegetation. This gave me a lens to analyze the monuments on the site, located in the “hard� zones. These monuments were always fountains on the site. Looking at these, I noticed there were three distinct colored concrete elements holding them. However only two of the three had fountains, so adding a fountain to the third was my design solution.

Hard & Soft

Monuments

Square Forms

Section looking west

Sound analysis

Proposed Installation

Fountain Illumination

Playing the hydraulophone

Pipe organ fountain rendering

HEATH CERAMICS

WAREHOUSE DISTRICT MINNEAPOLIS, MN This material studio focus waslearning how to use different material characteristics to shape the form and space of a building. The initial process involved doing spatial examinations with wood boxes which then transferred into using concrete boxes; thinking about them as occupiable spaces for a ceramics showroom. The ability for the different elements to be modular in nature was also highly encouraged for the project.

The next step of the project, involved using steel trusses as a way to create a factory space for making the ceramics. The rhythm of truss spacing and cladding was also highly encouraged in order to utilize the characteristics of trusses the most. Lastly, we combined the different elements and integrated the modular concrete elements into the truss portion of the project to create a single integrated design solution.

Sequence of ceramic showroom evolution

Spatial separation models

Concrete Dark translucent glass Dark transparent glass

Sequence of ceramic factory evolution

Building entrance

Rear building perspective

Materials

Concrete, Steel and Glass

Factory Interior

LAKE NOKOMIS PAVILLION LAKE NOKOMIS MINNEAPOLIS, MN

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