Michael Swartz Architecture Portfolio 2019

Michael Swartz Architecture Portfolio Selected Works 2016 – 2018

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BADGER 210

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BADGER 210

A SUSTAINABLE PARK DESTINATION IN THE SECRET CITY

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A SUSTAINABLE PARK DESTINATION IN THE SECRET CITY

Oak Ridge, TN Fall 2018 Partners Michaela Stanfill & Tyler Sanford Professor James Rose

Since the 1940s, Oak Ridge has been the center of worldwide technological innovation through the Oak Ridge national Laboratory. Throughout its 75 years of existence, the lab has played a leading role in advancing the state of nuclear science, neutron science, energy, supercomputing and national security. The Lab is home to one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, employing over 4,000 researchers, and is always looking for the brightest minds from across the globe to help advance the Lab’s research and development. From ORNL’s origins during the Manhattan project, to the invention of touch screens, the innovations from the Secret City continue to touch our everyday lives. However, looking at the city’s current condition, the history of innovation isn’t apparent. Oak Ridge was created quickly during the time of the Manhattan project, and unfortunately it’s hasty construction still shows.

1st Place AIA Middle TN Student Competition Brewer Ingram Fuller Sustainability Award

GOVERNOR’S CHAIR ENERGY + URBANISM THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP

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This project involves first addressing the problem of urban sprawl with a new master plan. Within the new plan, a design for a residential development is proposed, along with an extension to the nearby Bissell park.

Because of it’s unique location, positioned between two parks, our residential building will capitalize on views through market rate units with double height living room spaces facing both parks. A shaded rooftop space will create opportunities for public and private events, along with panoramic views of Bissell and the ridge. The lower level will accommodate a make tank in partnership with Oak Ridge Associated Universities, and will house a restaurant brewery within the corner space at the intersection of Badger Avenue and ORAU way.

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Shown is a satellite image of the inherited site condition, with the building site highlighted. The site was chosen based on the possibility of using the currently unused hill terrain to create a new sister park behind along with the housing development.

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MASTER PLANNING PHASE The city is a case example of urban sprawl, having little defined edges in the within the city in favor of expansive parking spaces, and lacking a formal city center. In addition, the majority of buildings to be found downtown are big box retail and commercial chains. The objective of this project is an effort remedy this problem. Our project begins with a new master plan for Badger avenue and a nearby big box retail center.

Our solution involves beginning to reduce sprawl by creating defined edges along existing streets, and increasing walkability by expanding existing sidewalks and creating new ones. Sidewalks are lined with locally grown crepe myrtle and maple trees to create a pleasant, shaded pedestrian experience.

The building site is directly adjacent to Bissell park, a gem at the center of Oak Ridge that functions currently as a center for events for the city.

The park is home to the International Friendship Bell, a gift from Japan follow the end of the second World War. Our building proposal within the new master plan, acts as a gateway between Bissell park and a new park that will be shared by the new residential buildings and the public in general.

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RECIPROCITY Le Corbusier inspired interlocking apartment layouts allow 1,980 sq ft. of hallway space to be recovered for units. The overhangs and extrusions create shading, double height living room views, balconies facing both parks, and cross ventilation. Corbusier used this type of interlocking unit design in his Unite d’Habitation housing buildings. We decided to

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adapt this extremely effective design from its tight, socialist origins, and to a luxury apartment building. Each double height unit is between 1500 and 1600 square feet, and has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, along with living, kitchen, and office. The plumbing is solved through a shared chase wall that runs between each unit and from floors 3 through 5.

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Fiber Cement Panel Screen Attachment System 2X6 Wood Studs @ 16” O.C. 5/8” Zip Sheathing Rigid Insulation River Cane Slat CLT Floor Panel 3/4” Exterior Wood Finish Panel Aluminum Mullion Spandrel Glazing 5/8” Gypsum Board Fiber Cement Soffit Wood Panel Soffit 2X Blocking as Required 1/4” Panel Joint with Hidden Fasteners Primary Steel Screen Structure Triple Pane, Low-E, Insulated Glazing Secondary Steel Screen Structure

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The essential parti can perhaps be best seen from this section view. A set of double height units interlock, set above a layer of single bedroom units. A rivercane screen shades the outdoor venue, cuts underneath the building creating a passthrough 15

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and providing branding on the front facade, and runs up to the roof where it shades the rooftop bar and becomes a device on which solar panels are mounted. These simple concepts come together to create an intuitable design that is cohesive.

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This longitudinal section shows how lightly the building interfaces with the ground, especially on the park side. The units are essentially lifted above the walkway to allow maximum permeability under the building to access public spaces such as the venue, pub, and ampitheater. Also highlighted in this view is the level of transparency offered by the floor to ceiling windows facing the park.

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ENERGY SOLUTIONS A screen system made from rivercane, grown from Badger Park, will provide shading for community gathering spaces at the base and top of Badger 210. Shading these spaces creates an inviting and comfortable enviroment promoting visitation, community, and an improved quality of life.

There are thirty-two 400 ft. deep vertical wells to provide geothermal energy for the 65 tons building load required by the project. The system is designed to support two more

building project tap-ins, a total of 3 buildings. These future projects have been masterplanned for ORAU’s expansion along Badger Park’s edges.

The park includes (3) 3,000 gal. cisterns that will be used for rainwater and greywater collection and distribution throughout the building as well as park irrigation when necessary. Working with the low pressure fixtures within the building the project should be able to reduce water consumption by 20%.

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(Above) View of rooftop bar with mounted PV array.

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Plumbing needs are met through the use of shared cavity walls between units. HVAC ducts and conduit are mounted directly to the underside of the CLT floor above, as no horizontal cavities are permited.

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The rigid structure involves a concrete “plinth” level on the first level, and glulam with CLT floors throughout the upper levels. The CLT panels span 20’ and are continuous for 70’ at 7” deep.

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Fiber Cement Board Panel Attachment System 2X6 Wood Studs @ 16” O.c.

5/8” Zip Sheathing Rigid Insulation 5/8” Gypsum Wall Board Clt Floor Panel Glulam Beam Joist Aluminum Mullion Spandrel Glazing Panel Wood Stair Tread Aluminum Handrail Wood Panel Soffit Conc. Floor On 2“ Metal Deck 1/4” Panel Joint With Hidden Fasteners Weather Barrier Triple Pane, Low-E, Insulated Glazing Insulated Closed Loop Ductwork Sprinkler System

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AMAZON HQ II

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AMAZON HQ II

THE FUTURE OF THE LARGE SCALE TECH CAMPUS

Nashville, TN Summer 2018 Partners Tieg Dryden & Tyler Sanford Professor T.K. Davis

In 2017 Amazon put out a Request for Proposal asking for submissions from cities that would propose the best place and design for their second headquarters. This new campus would be home to as many as 50,000 new full time employees averaging $100,000 per year in salary. The project was expected to cost around $5 billion in capital expenditures. The RFP required that the proposal be divided into phases, beginning with 500,000 sq. ft. in phase I, and ending with up to 8,000,000 sq. ft. in Phase III which would be complete by 2027.

Our proposal was to take the 3 million sq. ft. of space surrounding the Nissan Stadium in Nashville, TN, and use this for a new campus. This land is currently very sparse, and outside of scattered warehouses, is used mostly for

the stadium and surrounding parking, which has effectively created a heat island. The design involved removing excess parking, and what is required would be transformed into an urban orchard, populated with trees between spaces so as to provide shading. Remaining parking needs would be met by structured parking in later phases.

The design involved creating a large mall (linear green space) which was highly walkable and bikeable, that connected all three phases of the project and made traversing the large site more viable and pleasant at a human scale. The first phase of construction would have a balance of housing, office space, recreation, and retail, so that it could essentially become autonomous while the rest of the campus was expanding.

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The first phase includes the campus’ two tallest office towers that will provide 700,000 sq ft of space and create an iconic connection with downtown as it is built perfectly on axis with broadway. Apartments and structured parking make up the remaining construction in phase 1, leaving enough open area for football tailgating to the east of the stadium.

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Site Grid Site Grid The primary site grid is oriented parallel to the mall to capitalize views to the mall and to the river.

The lower third (phase II) that is built on a parking plinth, inherits the grid from downtown Nashville, and merges with the campus grid at a 45° angle, which made resolving the structure a simple task.

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Permeability of the campus was a big concern in the design. It needed to not feel secluded from downtown, but that the same time not so open to create possibilities for security breaches. Therefore, many different access points are available, but are directed tightly so as to control more precisely who is gaining access.

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In communication with the last point, the campus exists next to a populated downtown, and needed to establish spatial connections with the city to anchor it as a member of the community. An urban cable car transports tourists and employees alike across the river to the Amazon market square.

Towards the north, a greenline perpendicular to the mall extends to existing low income neighborhoods, providing a valuable public ammenity.

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NEW FITNESS

TRANSFORMATIONS & THE CULT OF THE BODY

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TRANSFORMATIONS & THE CULT OF THE BODY

New York, NY Fall 2017 Professor Mark Stanley 10 weeks

This project seeks to explore ways in which technology might augment the fitness center. Specifically with regards to optimizing the process of body transformation and maintenance to the highest possible degree. It is about looking into what arises when the activities of a fitness center are combined with the extreme meticulousness and precision of a laboratory environment. Sprawling networks of data collection systems line the walls of isolated enclosures that collect various forms of data that are then used to improve every aspect of the body training process.

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Additionally, the ideas in this project aim to call attention to the data harvesting process taking place on humans in current times. Search engines, app usage, gps location, and cctv networks are a few of the ways human patterns are analyzed to create digitized profiles of people for advertising and security purposes.

For better or worse, individual privacy is dissapearing in favor of highly optimized working and living, and the fitness center as a typology has yet to see this level of optimization on a building scale until now.

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The fitness center will exist as a pipeline opening on the NYC highline, allowing pedestrians to flow from street level to the highline and vice versa. Shown in red is the highline and the flow of foot traffic to and from the street via access stairs, with the project site indicated in blue.

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Getting [In]formation This stage of the project begins to explore qualitative interpretations and arising spatial conditions through a series of real world material studies.

An array of monoliths proportional to the building site allow for rapid explorations of procession, spatial organization, and material experience. From

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this, central themes begin to inspire sketches. Ideas of the tenuousness of muscle fibers, the interconnectedness of the neural network within the brain hinting at ideas of strength of body and resolve of mind required in physical training.

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Aquatics Pool: Recreation Pool: Laps Pool: Open Weight Training

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Programatic Alignment Inspired by the work of OMA and Rem Koolhaas, the required program and square footages were arranged graphically, and organized roughly according to the underlying programmatic function, which involved wrapping spaces around the highline and connecting with a central ascending stair.

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Proposed design wraps the NYC High Line, beckoning passersby to peer in. Indicated is the sectional line for the exploded diagram on page 49.

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USER OPTIMIZATION Tactile input panels scattered throughout the fitness center allow users to interface with the intelligence. Complex algorithms generate precise fitness routines based on members own goals and body type using a history of volunteered biological data.

INTEGRATED ASSISTANCE Optical sensors create a skeletal wireframe of each member and record every movement while operating in the fitness center. Display panels offer live feedback on correct range of motion and form.

PERPETUAL COLLECTION Optical and spatial sensors log every minute biological detail of every user when inside the fitness center. This mass of information is used to create more accurate progression profiles, optimizing the effectiveness of directed workouts.

INTANGIBLE COMMODITY Anonymous data trends collected are made salable to outside companies.

Commercial and scientific industries commission the fitness center to perform specific studies on members.

Profits are used to heavily subsidize the price for individual use.

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LIVING INTERIOR VERTICAL BIOMES FOR CLEAN AIR

Knoxville, TN Fall 2018 Rana Abudayyeh Research and Design Assistant

This is an on-going project in collaboration with the school of Plant Sciences that seeks to improve the quality and experience of home living through a deployable hanging vegetation wall produced for a domestic client base. Design development began following the publication of an article in Science Magazine. The wall will house genetically modified plants with leaves that are bioluminescent. The flora will change color to indicate quality of interior air, softly glowing red and orange when pollutants and harmful

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bacteria are found in the air. The green wall will be located against the air return for the home, acting as a filtration system and ensuring maximum surface area is utilized for particle detection and response. The plants are hydroponically grown and receive water from a main located towards the top of the unit. Runoff is collected in a troph at the bottom and deposited into the water main. An elegant topographic acryllic cover will maximize airflow and provide the necessary film for viewing the luminescence put off by the plants.

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STEEL CHAIR I ANGULAR COMFORT LOUNGE

Greensboro, NC December 2016 Independent Project 2 weeks

A Christmas break at home became the perfect opportunity to design a build a chair for my apartment. A quick sketch turned into a rhino model from which measurements were used to create the final product. The body is 1/16� steel tube, welded and polished to a reflective finish. Emphasis was placed on having a slender, angular stance in profile. Upholstery includes 2� high density foam mounted on particle board and wrapped in faux leather.

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Ergonomics & Assembly The chair was designed according to the optimal resting angles of a lounge chair, having a 110 degree angle between the seat and back rest. The headrest only rises slightly in order to maintain the angular visual impact.

A large profile was printed via tiling on sheets of paper, and a welding jig was created from this for consistency between both sides of the chair.

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BRYAN CANTLEY Unifying the Chaotic

Knoxville, TN Fall 2018 Exhibit Designer Professor Diane Fox

Bryan Cantley is a professor of Design Theory at CSUF, School of the Arts, and founder of Form:uLA, an experimental design practice that explores the boundaries of architecture and representation and the role of drawing within the discourse of visionary space. The challenge with this exhibit was first to sort through hundreds of photos of works and

decide which were to be displayed.

The drawings were then arranged in a heirarchy of scales to lead the eye and create visual breaks along the length of the wall. Motifs found in the drawings themselves provided valuable indications for appropriate fonts to use as well as numbering conventions and relevant coloration.

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FAB LAB

EXHIBIT ON GAY STREET

Knoxville, TN Fall 2018 Exhibit Designer Professor Diane Fox

The UTK CoA+D Fabrication Lab is a workshop and makerspace open for architecture students 6 days a week. It houses over a million dollars in production grade equipment and tools. The university hoped to showcase the technology available to architecture students in an exhibit that would be located on Gay Street in the heart of downtown Knoxville. In order to broadly display a majority of tools, along with examples of student work, the design groups together items made using the respective machine. The categories are color coded, including the display pedestals for legibility. A monitor in the smaller window played footage of students in the Fab Lab using the workspace and machines.

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Michael Swartz 931.896.5130 michaelswartz3@gmail.com

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