Maggie House 2021 Portfolio

Maggie Housese

architectural strategies and spatial design

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00_maggie house 01_semi-urban usa 02_ocala, fl 03_san francisco, ca 04_alcoa, tn

00_Maggie House

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

I’ve 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.

BTA - CKN3 01_Semi-Urban United States

excess material

DOMAIN OF CAPITAL-STATE

RESIDENTIAL

erasive agencies_spring 2019 self-directed diploma studio Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Bronze Medal Distinguished Design Award Honorable Mention (External Review of Undergraduate Thesis Work)

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DOMAIN OF CAPITAL-STATE

RESIDENTIAL

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DOMAIN OF INTERIOR

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DOMAIN OF INEFFICIENCY

SECURITY MAP paint stripes flamingos clothes lines sip panels pallets stop signs kids playing people tilling pattern making wifi and water stealing informal power exists in

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black stripes = red lined areas black dots = density of new developments yellow stripes = unparceled areas red squares = exilic spaces

CURITY MAP

"HAZARDOUS"

Exilists use excess material from the DOMAIN OF CAPITAL-STATE, the commercial and developmental center of Knoxville, like scaffolding and construction pallets, to construct their domestic environment, camouflaging their precarious existence in the visual language of normative development.

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Erasive Agencies is predicated on the assumption that space and place are formally defined by necropolitical, capitalist, and racist structures, and informally defined by the creatively domestic.

It deals with the development and destruction of place in the United States. The project investigates systematic erasure facilitated by the processes of infrastructural development and eminent domain. It questions legitimacy of authorship in the built environment and the tools with which place is made and defined.

ADJACENT AGENCY

INFRAST FL

DOMAIN OF INEFFICIENCY

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TRUCTURAL LOW

DOMAIN OF MOBILITY

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Erasive agencies narrates situations in which individuals mark and claim space with a set of accessible tools, and economic strategies. To the left, the lawn chair sits in proliferation atop painted stripes, re-writing the visual language of the highway it inhabits. The shopping cart sells domestic artifacts native to the Exile Culture, camouflaging the Exilists as a part of capitalist economy.

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A tall flag proclaims: "COME SEE COMPOST CITY" 01. a worms eye view of an exilic space

Exilists market themselves as a tourist attraction. By doing so, consumers accept them as part of normal economic life.

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01. presentation

01_Ocala, FL

protocologies_fall 2018 collaboration: Alexa Macri narrative, design, analog and digital representation were products of collaborative effort and shared work. featured | Knoxville 100 Gay Street Public Gallery December 2018 - January 2019 recipients | TNASLA Merit Award

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01. (left to right) existing remediation procedures // existing robotic technologies // and physical implication of new drone protocols

02. ocala national forest // robot species and accompanying infrastructures are strategically introduced across landscapes and time

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Pine Castle Bombing Range, in the middle of Ocala National Forest in Ocala, Florida, is an active military weapons test site that has been practicing since the 1940’s, shown to the left in yellow. This project proposes a scenario in which decommissioned drones traditionally used for military operations are reprogrammed to neutralize environmental impact of the continuous bombing. For instance, drones with lidar capabilities are programmed to sense unexploded bombs, and may communicate with other robot species which can burrow to retrieve the bomb, take them away and explode them, the only way to truly neutralize their danger.

01. litter collector + fire trench digger and fire watcher // drones may work with park officials planning, surveying, and preparing for planned burns

02. bomb sniffer + fire starter // robots communicate with towers which relay data to forest civilians

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Protocologies refers to the ecological system induced when these autonomous robots become active agents in the livelihood and culture of the Ocala National Forest.

Shown here, drones leave traces on the landscape by digging fire breaks to facilitate regular burning while monitoring forest activity and collecting litter.

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02. physical model // procedural data inscribed on plexi layered over physical landscape

01. serial sections // yellow call-outs notate specific land formations indicative of robotic livelihoods

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The various traces left by drone activity are diagrammed to the left in section. The network of robotic agency is facilitated by an infrastructure of towers that enables communication between different drone species.

Their ongoing surveillance and processing of landscape then creates a data based landscape corresponding to the physical reality.

04_San Francisco, CA

archaeologies_fall 2017 collaboration: Cullen Sayegh narrative, design, analog and digital representation were products of collaborative effort and shared work. recipients | Brewer Ingram Fuller Sustainability Award, Second Place 2017.

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01. aerial view of porject site // year 30

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02. project site projections over time //existing conditions, growth, shrinkage, regrowth

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This project seeks out the opportunity to express the personality of the layered archeologies of its context. 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.

a SIP panel system is used for programs with medium lifespans, planned for periodic obsolescence, like offices of researchers with time based study grants.

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.

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02. pre-existing building pads

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

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01. 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.

02. This program is projected to grow as drought conditions persist in California making fresh water less accessible, and sea level rise prompts the acceptance of salt water as a resource.

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04_Alcoa, TN

systems of health_2018-2019 collaboration: Dr. Lesly-Marie Buer research led by Dr. Buer, representation and design effort led by Maggie, community interviews / engagement led by both team members, narrative written and edited by both team members

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Tennessee River

City of Alcoa, TN Trailer Park

McGhee Tyson Airport

01. description of periodic interventions

This project aims to analyze the complex issues that contribute to the environments of trailer park residents, that have to do with both physical attributes of their homes and neighborhood, and social attributes like land and home ownership structure, and community dynamics.

At the center of this study is a trailer park just north of the McGhee Tyson Airport in Alcoa, TN. We spoke with planning and design experts, met with staff multiple times, spoke with the trailer park owner, completed in-depth interviews with adult residents, organized a charrette with a range of school-aged children, took extensive property photographs, and attended community group meetings.

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01. description of periodic interventions

02. locating periodic interventions throughout lenoir city

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01 seasonal shading

insulating windows

efficient systems

01 planting leafy trees outside your home, shade can help shade your home in the summer, decreasing the need for air conditioning, and as it gets colder, leaves will fall, letting in more sun and heat.

02 by installing windows with R-values over 5, much less hot air in winter and cold air in summer will seep, increasing efficiency - ask a local home depot worker for recomendatoins!

03 efficient single unit heating and cooling systems can dramatically decrease energy bills with easy installation - attend the next community group meeting for more info!

Community education and empowerment is a key goal of this project.

As we research tactics for residents to take ownership of their environments and their health, we are developing a document of this research to be distributed to other communities, and infographics for residents which provide simple explanations of these strategies, as well as encouragement to participate in community activities.

_Thank You!

mellenmariehouse@gmail.com 615.636.3586