Lindsey Connell _ Bartlett Architecture

LINDSEY CONNELL

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Crying Over Spilled Milk and Other Ways To Say “I Love You”

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CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK AND OTHER WAYS TO SAY “I LOVE YOU” 5th Year Thesis l 1 Year New York, New, York [Investigations on Architecture of Connection] As the external environment has become increasingly shaped by humans, so too has our internal environment. The cage of our own design has infected the Western mind with the notion of an “individual,” leaving humans in a state of unbalanced solitude and no longer able to live without exploiting and destroying the delicate systems of the world around us. I chose to imagine a new framework for connection, in which biological knowledge of humans and non-humans is understood as a key infrastructural element in maintaining life.

Fascinated by this act of co-becoming, I focused on designed encounters between microbes and humans, serving as facilitators for either reciprocity or reverence and bring forward a new multi-species conception of identity.

RITUAL + RECIPROCITY

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Maan Barua

Infrastructure and Non-human Life: A Wider Ontology

Gavin Lucas

Symbiotic Architectures

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01.2 Thesis Concept Diagram

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MICROBIAL MYSTIC

Kevin Kelly

Donna Haraway

Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world

Primate Visions

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FOLKLORE

FOLKLORE AS AN ASSEMBLAGE OF VERNACULAR KNOWLEDGE

THE INDUSTRIAL MIND

MATION AS A OWER

THROUGH ACTS OF REVERENCE AND RECIPROCITY WE BEGIN TO DECENTER THE HUMAN

FOLKLORE IS A FORM OF VERNACULAR KNOWLEAGE THROUGH WHICH WE LEARN INERSPECIES RELATIONS

NARRATIVE OF ISOLATION AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM

John Berger

Why We Look at Animals.

INTERSPECIES ACTS OF CONNECTION

MICROBES AND THE MICROBIOME AS A UNIFIER OF EXPERIENCE AND DECONSTRUCTOR OF PURE BODY POLITIC

YOU NEVER WALK ALONE

MEDICAL COSMETOLOGY AND MICROBIAL INTERFACING

MILK

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César E. Giraldo Herrera

Microbes and Other Shamanic Beings

MICROBIOME

01.3 Microbial Conceptual Collage

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01.4 - 01.6 Collective Connection Billboards are architectures of desire: immense resources devoted to physically constructing culture. If we are expected to crave what this infrastructure displays, might we re-appropriate this space? Can we covet closeness to the “invisible” infrastructures supporting our wellbeing?

Stripped of original purpose, a billboard becomes feeding ground, an attractor for species yet to find habitat. We imagine ourselves as saviors, yet harnessing scientific techniques with reverential attitude toward the biological might evolve better futures. The monumental forms of our time (infrastructure devoted to resource consumption) transform into sites of multi-species biological production.

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01 .7 Model Elevation

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01.7 - 01.10 A Device for Reciprocity This fermentation device investigates reciprocity between human and microbe, reimagining notions of self through symbiotic exchange. Users place milk in a detachable chamber worn against the body. Body heat ferments the milk over the course of a day, producing yogurt that nourishes the wearer whose warmth enabled its growth.

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01 .11 Welded Jigs and Construction Process

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01.11 Process The Microbial Mystic required precise steel bending at specific angles. Custom-welded jigs secured rods while blowtorch heat made the metal malleable. Each connection piece was individually fabricated and welded to assemble the complete armature, translating digital geometries into physical fabrication constraints.

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01 .12 Construction Drawings NTS

02.13 Exploded Assembly Diagram

01.14 Light Fixture

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01.11 - 01.17 Microbial Mystic The Microbial Mystic explores connection to microbial mysticism. Like reading tea leaves, this divination device predicts futures through biological traces. Users breathe onto petri dishes and observe microbial growth patterns, interfacing with previously invisible aspects of self. These cultures reveal the microbial makeup dictating nearly every facet of existence: mood, sociability, cognition, identity. Can interfacing with these entities tell us something about ourselves? Can they reveal our futures?

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01 .15 Counterweight Detail

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01 .16 Arm Detail

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01 .17 Connection Detail

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01.19 Sand-cast Aluminum Model Back

01.20 Sand-cast Aluminum Model Front

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01.18 Process Sand-cast aluminum process using PetroBond sand molds and 3D printed forms. Sand is compacted around the positive until secure, then removed.

Aluminum heated in a furnace is poured into the cavity. Images document this archaeology of making.

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01.18 Sand-cast Mold + Pour Process

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01.21 Process This aluminum model was constructed through lost-wax casting. A 3D printed positive and casting wax formed the pattern, which was submerged in plaster and burned in a kiln. Liquid aluminum poured into the void left after burnout. Once cooled, the plaster mold was broken away to reveal the final form. Images document the excavation process.

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01.21 01.21 Breaking Mold from Plaster Formwork

01.23 Assembled Tower Model 01.24 “Exploded” Tower Model

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01 .25 Subway Section

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01 .27 Tower Section Iso

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01.28 Fermentation Space Section Iso 01.29 Fermentation Space Section

01.30Tower Iso

01.31 Ritual Space Iso 01.32 Ritual Space Section

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Lost and Found

02 LOST AND FOUND 3rd Year l 6 Months Pershing Square, Los Angeles [Community Gathering Space and Collective Archive] Tasked with an open-ended library in downtown LA, I examined what it means to share knowledge, returning to the most primal form of culture building: storytelling. Divided into four methods of engagement (listening, watching, collecting, and tasting), Lost and Found becomes a physical space for the forgotten and overlooked. I proposed that community fabric could become not only more inclusive but more tightly knit through designed interaction. The building derives from unencumbered collection, leading me to explore material collage as both narrative device and conceptual framework. The resulting form remains intentionally plastic, designed to change and grow over time as the community it serves evolves.

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2021

02.1 Kitbash Study Models

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02.2 Building Envelope Detail 1/4” = 1’

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STEEL ETFE SUPPORT WOOD BATTENS AIR SPACE 24” STEEL BEAM ETFE MEMBRANE

STEEL ETFE SUPPORT WOOD BATTENS AIR SPACE 24” STEEL BEAM ETFE MEMBRANE

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LED BAR PENDANT SUN SHADE WINDOW WINDOW SILL STEEL TUBE CEMENT SCREED THERMAL INSULATION METAL DECKING SAFTEY GLASS

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02.5 Pavilion 01: community centered 1: Pershing pt 2 1.5: access to the rest of Pershing pt 2 2: entrance hall 3: entrance to metro 4: entrance to archive 5:access to floor 2 6: maker spaceN 7: workspace 30’

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Some Disassembly Required

03 SOME DISASSEMBLY REQUIRED 4th Year l 2 Months Copenhagen, Denmark [Climate Response Center] Some Disassembly Required. This climate action center in Copenhagen designs for temporal flexibility across three structures with distinct lifespans.

The smallest building floats on water with an intended ten-year occupation before disassembly and relocation. The second building anticipates a century of use, acknowledging that spatial needs fluctuate as communities evolve, allowing reimagination in place or elsewhere. The third space remains most permanent, designed to last centuries while maintaining flexibility to adapt through community direction. Together, these three temporal scales create a center responsive to changing climate realities and evolving programmatic needs.

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03.1 Immersive Perspective

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Some Disassembly Required

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Mechanical Sweetness

04 MECHANICAL SWEETNESS 3rd Year l 1 Month Copenhagen, Denmark [Student Housing + Community Center] Mechanical Sweetness draws inspiration from surrounding industrial buildings, subverting practicality to create playful yet sustainable spaces. Slides twist around the structure, emulating mechanical systems while providing rapid descent. This logic extends to individual dorm units where efficiency becomes inventive: kitchen and bathroom share a sink, desks fold to become sun shades. Function remains integral but multiplies through imaginative deployment, where single elements serve multiple purposes and circulation becomes play.

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04 .1 Isometric of Student Module

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Professional Work

05 PROFESSIONAL WORK Framestudio I 3 months MDa Studios l 2 years Work shown from two professional practices. During my internship at Framestudio, I developed presentation drawings for clients and project consultations. At MDA Studios, I worked across multiple phases: one year on a new construction house in Palo Alto developing window details and mechanical coordination drawings, followed by a Sea Ranch renovation where I produced design presentation materials and led the project from Design Development through Construction Documentation, coordinating drawings and material research within the project team.

2022

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05.1 Perspective Process Completed during my Internship at Framestudio For this drawing, I created the 3D model from the 2D AutoCAD set.

Using the model, I developed a perspective drawing, which I then shaded by hand with pencil.

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05.2 Perspective Drawing of Project in CA

05.2 Perspective Process Completed during my Intership at Framestudio For this drawing, I used the existing Revit model as a source to draft the 2D drawing. I then used Illustrator for presentation linework and pencil for the shading and textures.

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05.3 Iso Drawings for Client Presentation

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05.4 Door Details Completed while working at MDa Studios Brick lintel and waterproofing coordination at exterior doors, developed with structural and contractor input.

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Nonacedemic Work

06 NONACEDEMIC WORK Alongside professional practice, I maintain ongoing material investigations through silversmithing, exploring lost-wax casting techniques at jewellery scale. Small aluminium installation cards extend this interest in metal fabrication and surface treatment.

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06.2 - 06.3 Morse Code Messageboard Interlocking aluminum pieces cut with morse code propose alternative communication systems at intimate scale.

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