Mason Iverson Undergraduate Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO MASON IVERSON

CONTENTS

1. Lake Street Urban Garden Center (2)

2. Washington Fruit and Produce Company Headquarters (6)

3. Urban Land Merge (9)

4. Mississippi River Learning Hub (12)

Lake Street Urban Garden Center

Group Partners: Riley Houlihan, Ben Karg

The Lake Street Urban Garden Center was the culmination of multiple investigations of the Lake Street Corridor in Minneapolis, MN, identifying new and existing problems following the 2020 George Flyod protests, and addressing them through an architectural intervention.

Through urban gardening, fresh produce can be grown year round and be given directly to the community through the kitchen and food shelf. With accommodations for local food drives, farmers markets, and after school programs, the Lake Street Urban Garden Center would help a close community grow even closer together.

From Production and Preparation, to the Kitchen and Distribution Center, the programmatic areas have been arranged to maximize efficiency while showcasing the entire proccess.

AQUAPONIC GROWING CENTER PRODUCTION

EDUCATIONAL TEST KITCHEN PREPARATION

SOCIAL MARKET DISTRIBUTION

COMMUNITY GROWTH

The open courtyard provides the project with space for growing wildflowers and other native MN plants to promote pollination. The space also serves as an area for community gardening and gathering.

Washington Fruit & Produce Company HQ

Group Partners: Sam Cusack, Josh Ziehwein

With an emphasis on physical modeling, this precedent study focused on learning the structural systems and construction methods of the Washington Fruit and Produce Company Headquarters Building located in Yakima, Washington (GRAHAM BABA architects)

Special care was then put into capturing its details within the scaled physical model. Digital modeling accompanied the physical model by highlighting the main structural makeup of the building, as well as key connection moments within the building.

Exterior wall

2x8 WD framing w/ Batt insul.

Sheathing per structuralvapor shield

2” rigid insul. w/ 2” block

5/4 WD shiplap siding

Sloped roof

Standing seam MTL roofing

Membrane waterproofing

10” SIP panel

Steel drag strut

Basement wall insulation blankets

Glulam Rafter

10” Concrete foundation wall

Glulam Rafter pairs

Glass Partition

24” raised floor pedestal system

Steel king post tension rod assembly

Composite Glulam columns

Aluminum curtain wall system

Wood Column

Slab on grade

Steel columns

Conc. plinth

PROCESS

The physical model was sourced almost entirely from recycled material, and modeled at a 1/2”=1’ scale. Special care was taken to capture the advanced tensile structure that allows the building to span such a large distance.

Urban Land Merge

Group Partners: Claire Konner, Lauren Reiner

By investigating existing urban design schemes that could be improved upon, we identified alleyways as gap spaces that could be restructured. The alleyway gap space, renamed the Community Corridor after reprogramming, utilizes incentive driven community participation to transform portions of private property into a single communal lot. Several Tools of Sustainability are then placed into the Community Corridor to decrease the collective impact on the environment, as well as creating a better state of living for the community participants.

CAR SHARE LOT

Fewer cars on the street decreases car dependence

WASTE SORTING STATION

Communal waste station brings larger awareness to consumption levels, and provides more recycling options

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION

Community’s food scraps and compost are recycled into clean energy and fertilizer

COMMUNITY GARDENS

Urban gardening introduces fresh and affordable produce to the community, while also creating community collaboration

GREEN HOUSE

Extends produce growing season to allow for growing in colder months

CYCLE SHOP

Waste collected from community sorting stations is sorting and recycled in community workshop and craft center

INSPIRATION REFRAMING WASTE

Inspired by the Kuru Kuru shops in Kamikatsu, Japan, The Cycle shop would provide an area for waste materials to be better sorted into more recycling categories, as well as serving as a location for waste material to be repurposed into clothing, jewelry, and other innovative creations that could benefit the community.

With an expanded waste sorting stream, less waste would be introduced into landfills and incinerators. Instead, the community would be given the tools to reframe how they view waste, and repurpose recyclable materials into helpful tools for the Community Corridor.

Workshop finds new ways to reuse waste

House hold waste is transfered to sorting bins

Workshop creations benefit the community directly

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Kuru Kuru inspired “Cycle Shop”

Mississippi River Learning Hub

Aiming to celebrate the city’s connection and natural history with the mississippi river, the Mississippi River Learning Hub serves as an accessable destination for both locals and visitors to relax, learn, and have fun. Through architectural design, the building promotes a connection to the outdoors, while also being bold in it’s experimentation with new building systems that provide a truly unique experience.

The custom ETFE roof system allows for a transparency between the building and the sky above, allowing for an etheral lighting effect.

With an opperable exterier shell, the people within the building have the freedom to choose how open or closed off from the outdoors they wish to be at a given moment.

CONNECTION DETAIL

ALUMINUM CLAMPING STRIP

ETFE INSULATED PILLOW SYSTEM STEEL SUPPORT

PRIMARY BUILDING STRUCTURE - GLULAM BEAMS AND COLUMNS

INTEGRATED GUTTER SYSTEM - PLASTIC SHEET

AIR INLET

WALL SECTION 1/2” - 1’

WALL SECTION 1/2” - 1’