Karin Jane Hostettler Architecture Portfolio by Karin Jane Hostettler

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ARCHITECTURE | DESIGN

KARIN JANE HOSTETTLER M.ARCH CANDIDATE 2019 | RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

KARIN JANE HOSTETTLER

Karin Hostettler is an architectural designer focused on the way in which we perceive, experience and contribute to the built environment. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Karin has long felt a pervasive need to better the lives and livelihoods of the people around her. Early in her studies, Karin became wholly focused around the social and communal aspects in architecture, specifically low-income housing and education. After studying urban design and architecture at New York University, Karin is now in her final year of the Master of Architecture program at the Rhode Island School of Design. With a background in urban design, building within the urban fabric has fascinated Karin, with most projects holding a strong focus on the greater reaches of architecture. This Wintersession at RISD, Karin had the opportunity to teach an architecture studio centered around user experience, asking students to question the definition of architecture under the lens of site, scale, and form, leading to a design intervention in Providence, Rhode Island. Participating in multiple design/build projects, and the fabrication of multiple large scale furniture pieces, her work is strongly rooted in craft. These principles place Karin within the world of makers, she is not only an architect but a designer, constantly questioning how we as thinkers and producers can better the lives of those around us, even if through one sole object.

DESIGN & FINE ARTS TRIVIAL TABLES | 2018 PLEASE TOUCH | 2018 FORMS & TEXTURES | 2016

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PROVIDENCE, RI Architecture and Education Advanced Studio Rhode Island School of Design Fall 2018

Nestled within community program, the South Side Community School values intermixing and flexibility. Through the placement of school within community center, the stigma of communal assistance and high school expectations are forgotten as programs begin to mix, shift and interplay. The main collective program pieces of the school – i.e. recreation, performance and health – are thus shared with the public. The core of communal interchange activates the corner of Broad Street, pushing the school back into the neighborhood, protecting it from the busy intersection, as the small library annex becomes the buffer between school and neighborhood. Here scale shifts, the horizontality of the school is lost for a vertical representation, allowing the library to be a hub of interconnection between school and community. Moving up, the main programmatic elements of the ‘traditional’ school are divided between two discovery-oriented motives; research and making. Here there are no classrooms, but a variety of meeting spaces provided to be used in either private or class programs. Students take part in design oriented educational practices, encouraging collaboration and individual freedoms, liberated from the constant confines of the classroom.

GREEN SURFACES

RISD MUSEUM | PROVIDENCE, RI Masterplan study of outdoor spaces for the RISD Museum Graduate Assistantship Summer 2018

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The mission of Rhode Island School of Design, through its college and museum, is to educate its students and the public in the creation and appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to make lasting contributions to a global society through critical thinking, scholarship and innovation. The RISD Museum was founded on the belief that art, artists, and the institutions that support them play pivotal roles in promoting broad civic engagement and creating more open societies. Based on the mission statements of the Rhode Island School of Design, the RISD Museum, and the RISD Museum Associates, the Green Surfaces study aims to expand the spatial presence of the RISD Museum within the context of not only RISD’s campus, but also the greater community of Providence. Catalyzed by the Small Courtyard proposal within the Museum, the implications of green surfaces adjacent to artwork create a connected and iconic language that spreads throughout the extremities of the Museum’s exterior spaces. These flexible spaces then create opportunities for meaningful and effective interactions between students, museum patrons, and the general public, by creating flexibility for use, including: teaching, production/display, and gathering. Through the intertwining and connecting of these underutilized spaces for the purposes of learning and reflecting, the permutation of interior to exterior, and the creation of green surfaces, the RISD museum becomes a symbol to both RISD and the City of Providence.

THE COLLECTIVE

KARIAKOO, DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA Between Content and Container V. III Advanced Studio Rhode Island School of Design Spring 2018

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Failure: VPRO is a collection of small rooms, the only hierarchy of space is between roof and interior Failure: Westminster is an open grid structural system disengaged with the major circulation system

The failures noted have culminated in the deprivation of formal and spatial hierarchy. Within Villa VPRO, the sporadic collection of small rooms results in the fundamental hierarchy lying between the interior and the roof. Whereas the structural grid and circulatory system that lie within the Westminster Tube Station are wholly disengaged, and the only interaction is the insertion into void. Through the spatial arrangement of rooms, acting at various scales of performance, an integral hierarchy of space can be achieved. Respectively through the combination of circulation and structure into a singular system, a formal hierarchy can thus delineate the spatial. CONTAINER

Failure: Audiences of social exchange are loose and fragmentary Failure: Performance of social exchange is limited to one to one interactions

The density and community of Kariakoo could contribute greatly to a collective social scene. However, the seemingly spontaneous development patterns and singularity of the neighborhood have created a space where the audiences of communal exchange are loose and fragmentary. Without a strong notable space of collective interaction, the social exchange between people take place in secondary spaces and due to this, the performance is limited to one on one interactions. The creation of a flexible space of performative collectivity will combat the lack of social interplay at street level, through the designation of a place of rest within commercial chaos.

PROVIDENCE MICRO-HOUSE

OLNEYVILLE, PROVIDENCE, RI Race To Zero: Student Design Competition Finalist Rhode Island School of Design Spring 2018

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The Providence Micro House establishes a relationship between the traditional New England vernacular and the contemporary interpretation of it by implementing energy efficient practices and strong daylighting strategies, to combat the affordable housing demand in Olneyville, Providence, Rhode Island. By occupying un-developed micro lots in the area the design changes the hesitant preconception of developers towards these lots while offering affordable energy efficient housing for small families. With strong economic factors the implementation of this scheme would promote a higher demand for home ownership, in turn giving back more to the community. At 837 square feet, the residence is conformed of two volumes, one that holds the living spaces, and the second volume that holds the shared spaces. This arrangement allows the design to establish a hierarchy that sets the organization of the residence as a layout that is simple to navigate and generates flexibility in use, benefiting any type of occupant. Placing the entrance of the residence at the programmatic boundary allows for the individual to easily access the living or sharedspaces. The exterior living space serves as a extension of the interior of the dining/living room area of the house into the neighborhood. This would strengthen the neighborhood connection by promoting the interaction of residents. The design reflects on two entities working as a whole, from a programmatic standpoint, to a design standpoint, and the neighborhood.

THE COMMONS

OLNEYVILLE, PROVIDENCE, RI Urban Ecologies Rhode Island School of Design Fall 2017

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INDUSTRY & THE NATURAL As a historic core of industry Olneyville has developed strong ties with the Woonasquatucket River; a natural source fueling unnatural outcomes. A once vibrant commercial center, Olneyville has become an impermeable island. The natural and industrial history of the area must be preserved, as the streets and open spaces must be returned to the pedestrian. With the elimination of vast amounts of concrete and the recreation of the wetlands, the river can again become the focus of town. This expanse of the natural creates a poetic juxtaposition between the rigid industrial mills left from the past and the surrounding landscape, compelling the community to encounter and reflect on these two contrasting elements, which together built the town of Olneyville. As parking lots are wiped out and greenery begins to grow in their place, these historic mills become monuments to the city. Major thoroughfares begin to accumulate density, reigniting street life as shops, restaurants and catered outdoor spaces draw pedestrians back to the area. THE GEODE Housing filters into the green and along these public corridors. Organized in neighborhood blocks, housing expands the community to its front doors. Built to bridge this juxtaposition between the natural and the industrial, the structures hard vertical street facades unfold into a mix of stepped terraces opening onto the green; in essence a geode. Lines between public and private become blurred, and a tightly knit community is formed.

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Phase X: Connection of Woonasquatucket River Bikeway Including: fully connecting the Woonasquatucket River Bikeway along the river making the experience safer for both bikers and pedestrians, continued reintroduction of wetlands and naturalization of landscape

Phase VI: Greening of Mills

Including: creation of parkland between housing and surrounding Atlantic Mills, creation of new side streets leading to residences and retail and connecting Mantion Avenue to Hartford Avenue, ground floor retail along Manton Avenue, Townhouses with apartments above along Atlantic Mills, approximately 60 units of housing

Including: introduction of natural landscape along, within, and around the historic mills lining the Woonasquatucket River

Phase V: Restoration of Wetlands Phase VII: Expansion of Housing Geode Including: continuead densification of Manton Avenue, create new entrance to downtown Olneyville at base of hill, creation of approximately 60 units of housing

Including: reintroduction of wetlands along the Woonasquatucket River, greening of riverway, creation of pedestrain walkway along river, creation of flood plain

Phase II: Hartford Avenue & River Embankment Including: Densification of Hartford Avenue, double front ground floor retail, creation of pedestrain promenade, creation of approximately 45 units of housing

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Phase IX: Parkland Including: continued intorduction of natural landscape surrounding mills, demolishing parking lot and creating a large park running between the elevated grass highway wall and the back of Atlantic Millsconne connecting to the Woonasquatucket River Bikeway to the North

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Phase VIII: Infill Housing & Retail

Including: creation of three floors of parking in northern section of mills utilizing existing loading docks and acting as a terminus for a new residential street, creation of mills as maker and creative commercial spaces with live-work occupancy

Including: continued densification of both Manton Avenue and Hartford Avenue filling in parking lots, creation of more ground floor commercial space, creation of approximately 45 units of housing

Phase I: Living machine system & community center Including: rerouting of San Suoci Drive, beginning reintegration of wetlands, densification of Westminster Street, rerouting of nearby intersection of Westminster Street and Manton Avenue

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RISD ARCHITECTURE | PROVIDENCE, RI Design/Build Graduate Assistantship Summer 2017

Creation of two semi-permanent structures for the use of large scale architectural projects. Initial stages of the build boxes are complete, with a collaborative effort leading to the completion of two screens housing the project. On the street a louvered design is used to hinder views across the parking lot, while a series of slats and gaps is adapted for the lower screen creating a moirĂŠ effect as doors open and close. As building space becomes tight, the build boxes will provide more making space for architecture students, relieving stress inside. One box is intended for the use of tool storage and work space, while the other will house an air tight test chamber for use in advanced studios. Through collaboration with RISD Landscape Architecture, solar panels and a green roof will too be incorporated.

THE ACTIVE SPECTATOR

PROVIDENCE, RI Making of Design Principles Rhode Island School of Design Fall 2016

The study of the dispersion of a drop of ink merges with an analysis of athletes competing in synchronized figure skating. Skaters moving in unison create geometric forms on ice, gracefully shifting from one to the next. Presented to a surrounding audience, a performance is multi-directional, with elements encompassing the whole of the rink and paths crisscross back and forth. Through unrolling these elements sequentially, a dynamic course is conceived in which skaters must maneuver through as spectators are obliged to move with performers. Viewers ground the ice with the landscape through climbing up, down and around the skaters, engaging spectatorship in a new way where journey and performance play off one another. The spectators and skaters glide past each other, as two forces both attracted and repulsed; connecting, dividing, and deflecting in space, as water dancing with ink.

THE LIGHTNEST

ST. JOHN THE DIVINE | NEW YORK, NY Introduction to Architecture Studio GSAPP Summer 2015

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Individual analyses of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine lead to the collaborative design and development of Lightnest, a small space of worship. Form was created after conceptual and spacial investigations into the meaning and act of worship, creating a space accommodating to any individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of worship. The affects of light in intimate spaces drove the design of the modular structure, rooted in windows and perforated screens within historic spaces of worship. Changing apertures create an intimate shelter that capture individualized acts and perceptions of worship.

TRIVIAL TABLES

RISD ARCHITECTURE | PROVIDENCE, RI Fabrication of a series of tables for use in departmental Table Talks Graduate Assistantship Spring 2018-Fall 2018

These newly fabricated tables, in their colorful juxtaposition to the traditional black and white of the architecture studio, become a vibrant meeting ground for the students, faculty, and guests in the RISD Architecture gallery. The tables provide the setting for the newly developed series of Design Research Seed Fund Table Talks, allowing for informal yet revealing discussions between students and professionals. This dialogue surrounds the series of 6 equilateral tables, modular in form, allowing for a diverse and unique configurations that may shift from speaker to speaker. The bright colors of the tables reference those of the classic board game Trivial Pursuit, creating a playful setting for critical discussions revolving around architecture, design and research. Here the colors become a uniting factor as a centerpiece of conversation and debate, playing along with the roles of students and professionals, furthering our knowledge and perception of design.

PLEASE TOUCH

PROVIDENCE, RI Graduate Lighting Studio Rhode Island School of Design Winter 2018

This series of lights was developed as a platform for interaction and way-finding. Through the use of modest wooden forms, cutaways conceal the light source, with a simple sheet of copper indicating where something might occur. When placed outdoors or in the home, the contrasting metallic element invites you in to touch, and with that touch the light is activated. Designed as a prototypical series of public lighting display, these lights may act as way-finding devices, allowing illumination when necessary, and through the placement along a path, create a unique approach of interaction with the city. Lightweight and portable these lights may move ans shift depending on the needs of the user, lighting up the places we dwell, extending our time outside and spurring interaction with our environment and those around us.

FORM & TEXTURE

PROVIDENCE, RI A study of organic durability through form and texture Rhode Island School of Design Summer 2016