Maggie House Portfolio 2018

Maggie House

fourth year b. arch

portfolio. spring 2018

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An opportunity with your firm allows me to use the skills I have acquired in school, add to an ongoing dialogue, and learn and prepare for the next steps I plan on taking.

first day of architecture school

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00 maggie house 01 san francisco, ca 02 manchester, ky 03 arlington, va 04 lenoir city, tn 05 hand work 06 writing 07 travel

00 Maggie House

A tennessean home brought a tennessean maggie up into a shy world full of things.

I watched cities turn to seas in the light of the late afternoon sun and stories that unfold under the softness of lead.

And I’ve learned that things are there for reading and there for making, and the shy-ness of my world has grown into a big real-ness that challenges me, inviting me to its arches each time I pick up my work.

portfolio. spring 2018

01 San Francisco, CA

archaeologies. fall 2017

collaboration: Cullen Sayegh

recipients | Brewer Ingram Fuller Sustainability Award, Second Place 2017.

proposed post script year 150

research education outdoor recreation public exhibits events site maintenance

energy consumption

energy production

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This project seeks out the opportunity to express the personality of the layered archaeologies of its site. It makes tools of the reality of time cycles and temporality and sees opportunities in the beautifully present. The manifestation of this educational research center is one that is hyper conscious of its footprints, and embedded in energy, culture and ecology, as expressed through form, structure, program and vision.

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a steel frame system with ETFE ceiling and metal grate flooring is used for programs with short and changing definition, such as research exhibition space, and outdoor gathering places. a SIP panel system is used for programs with medium lifespans, planned for periodic obsolescence, like offices of researchers with time based study grants.

pre - existing pads targeted for minimum site impact, and opportunity of expressed timelines.

The proposed constructions of this project, located on site at the Romberg Tiburon Marine Research Center, are intended to have a finite lifespan, and are imagined as pieces that may vanish overtime after the relevance of their programs has run its course. Each piece after vanishing then creates its own archaeology by leaving traces of its existence through cuts made for column footings and other foundational systems attached to per-existing pads.

A kit of parts is developed to allow for this temporality of program, ease of construction and deconstruction.

exhibition space . year 01

remnants of exhibition space . year 50.

Various programs across the site were developed to take full advantage of existing natural elements.

Pictured here, a saltwater research facility grasping the shore line is equipped with office space on the upper level and classroom and lab space below. This program is projected to grow as drought conditions persist in California make fresh water less accessible, and sea level rise prompts the acceptance of salt water as a resource.

The Salt Water Research Lab

includes a collection pool that is filled daily with the tide, allowing researchers and visitors to experience and utilize the cycle of the ocean

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vegetation growth

highly concentrated growth [aided by a density of penetrations]

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Decades after all program relevancy has passed and human activity is removed from the site, the vegetation pulled back from the coast by the adjacent highway will encroach on the previously inhabited area. This planned overgrowth will be aided by penetrations in concrete plinths left from the previous column system, ushering in the next life of the site .

02 Manchester, KY

a children’s ministry. spring 2017

concept model for chapel

At the topographic pinnacle of the Impact Outdoor Adventure Center in Manchester, Kentucky, sits a place for personal and communal reflection. The chapel of this youth ministry camp acts as a climax along a network of program aimed at engaging campers with the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains, and using nature as an invitation for spiritual growth and community involvement.

horse barn

chapel

camper lodge

bunk houses amphitheater

manchester, ky

camp impact outdoors

recreation center

kayak center kayak adventure

rv camping intense textures of rock, plant life, and human life were spilled on the ground here, and reflected brilliantly from the filtered light of the canopy

the traces of coal mining, now a part of the earth, wafted up to us in smells from the hundreds of fragments now jaggedly shaping the landscape here

The master plan of Impact Outdoor spans a site of over 200 acres, and various programs each situated carefully after a macro and micro investigation of the areas’ physical and social contexts.

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A lodge for campers located in the center of the camp grounds is programed to lead the camp experience both physically and visually. A skylight piercing the mess hall directs the eye towards the highest peak of the grounds, where the chapel is located. Softly programmed meeting space used for class time and assembly directs foot traffic along a physical path which is weaved through the grounds connecting each individual program to each other. The sharp sliding angles of the camp lodge and the chapel are inspired by the jagged textural nature of the site, its history, and meant to relate to a dynamic, energized camp life.

The filigree textures of these pieces works to reference personality of the landscape and the scale of the child. The edges produced by the angles and direction of the spaces help to lead campers through the site and filter and offer frames for the natural world to be understood and explored.

03 Arlington, VA

communion. spring 2016

featured in College of Architecture and Design’s “Nine x Nine” annual publication of student work. 2016.

Located in the National Arlington Cemetery, this project aims to transition from the world of the living to that of the sacred remembered.

Shown here, spaces carved into the earth and lit from above allow relatives of those without graves to mourn and commune with loved ones.

grade // garden area

-10’ // interior flower sanctuary columbarium flower walk communion areas

These small spaces for communion are placed along a sunken path filled with flowers that visitors may pick to bring with them to their loved one’s grave. This descent out of and re-entry into the realm of the living acts as a quiet threshold, meant to ease visitors into the gravity of the cemetery peacefully.

04 Lenoir City, TN

scattered city. fall 2016

recipient | Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement, Honor Award . 2017.

scatter

distracted; disorganized dispersion without cohesive, relational logic

distribution

characterized by relatively extensive contact between the articulating organs dispersion with understood, cohesive and relational logic(s)

center

the source of an influence, action, force a [singular] point or place upon which interest, emotion [community and economic activity, communal identity] is focused

centerless

without a singular point or place of focused interest, emotion, community and economic activity and communal identity

identity

the state or fact of being the same one as described the sense of self providing sameness ; continuity [over/ throughout distribution]

“ideal” of garden city

separation of work and home

formation of necessary path

locating home

lack of connective tissue

lack of allotments and “centers”

a. misplaced center

b. infestation of car

This project, in efforts to look past conventional and out of date definitions of urban life, sought to identify life with vitalization, equate presence with community and give meaning to the reality of Lenoir City’s present. After investigation, it was clear life in this city was no longer centered in its historic downtown district [as the traditional logic of an idealized garden city dictates it should be] but because of the processes of modern cities had become scattered throughout the neighborhoods, parks, and schools of the city.

b. lenoir city c. a.

c. spotted community

knoxville

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fire station // bench field

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library // bus stop

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sixth avenue alley // playground

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school administration //

hammock swing set

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Sites were chosen throughout the city strategically for their opportunity as a possible point of public life and vitalization of existing community activity.

Installations were designed considering each sites specific characteristics and possibilities for place making.

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fire station // bench field

public lawn

office spaces

public corridor meeting / training / event room

living / dining / library space semi - private courtyard

bathroom

truck bays and equipment storage

An installation of ambient public space draws the sidewalk traffic and invites a relationship between the street and this fire station. By allowing the main meeting place of the station to open to passerbys and be part of a greater public realm, firemen as community members can not only serve public safety but serve as a small center of life and learning.

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sixth avenue alley // playground

A process of urban renewal and growth is investigated here, as programs are implemented initially by using simple elements - like traffic cones eliminating vehicle movement to mark newness to community members, spark interest and gain traction for full scale installations.

05 Hand Work

selected works. continuing

graphite on watercolor paper.

2014

black and white charcoal on newsprint. 2018

charcoal and graphite on watercolor. 2017

above. graphite on watercolor.

2014 left. black and white charcoal on watercolor. 2016

07 Travel

sketching. spring 2018

light and shadow.

Rome.

frame and layering. above, Rome. left, Florence.

proportion and organization. above, Rome. left, Florence.

06 Writing

journaling. continuing

feb. 16, 2018.

Ostia Antica grew out of grasses like toes out from covers.

The beautiful crackling browns with green speckles just postcards from another time - a dried ring of coffee on the ground we walked.

Bricks spilled out of the hills just before being eaten up again. And in that coffee stain of a valley we sat for a while, watching the green slowly creep further up each half wall, all the half doorways and half windows - we were crossing our fingers and our covered toes we would see something bloom, even in the chill of a February morning.

jan. 8, 2018.

The wind behind the curtain is held back by the window and the earthen brick that hides the sky. The folds in its laces are still only breathing with my own chest. The light of Morning is shy, peeking into my dusty room afraid of the dark hallway it sees through my door left open. The night still hangs from the walls here. The stillness of Morning is brave and hard to face - a mountain of quietness and soft light defiant of the sound of my footsteps on the wood floor and of my hand at the curtain breeching my bedroom’s dark shore.

may 11, 2017.

Uncovering my forearms to the sun, they burn like fresh medicine in a pink wound.

It itches to my core, down to the tiniest hairs on my bones that ache with nerves, I’m rolling up my sleeves in the garden. Letting myself down softly, green grows fast on my knees, soaking my patches and through to my rug burns red hot, now dimpled with rock. I lean down to talk to the blooms who have bloomed without me - independently, fiery eyed, and blade tongued.

Humming softly to tame them, it tames the needles on my forehead, and in my mind, tires them and puts them to bed.

I’m mending the rows of my garden with gloved fingers and song, forging newness from the weeds and the tiger lilies, fiery eyed as they are.

contact

thank you !

mhouse4@vols.utk.edu 220 Cherry Street, Madison, TN 615.636.3586

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