Meghan Owens - Portfolio - Taubman College

Portfolio

Meghan Owens

selected works winter 2018 - winter 2019

Phantom Resilience 3

Warehouse 9

Nested Me

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My name is Meghan Owens and I was born and

Some of my skills include Revit, AutoCad, Rhino,

rais ed in Dearborn Michigan. I am currently i n my

and the Adobe programs. My favorite would have to

first year of Graduate School at Taubman School of

be constructing models. When I am not working on

Architecture and Urban Planning. I completed my

architecture I love to read and fabric ate gifts for my

Bachelors of Science in Architecture at Taubman in

family.

Corridor

May of 2019. I spent my first two years of undergrad at the University of Detroit Mercy studying architec-

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ture, where I was for tunate enough to par take in the Volterra Study abroad program and travel to Italy during the summer of 2017.

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Phantom Resilience Wallenburg Finalist Winter 2019 Anc a Trandafirescu This project “Phantom Resilience� deals with the thought of permanent preser vation using a permanent material, concrete. Loc ated in Treme New

Each has their own personality, holding a life of their

Orleans at the site of the Afric an Americ an His-

own, yet they work off one another to become a

tor y Museum. The star t of this project began with

whole. Staging a new life for the future of the site.

understanding the life expectancy of the buildings

When the masses are only what’s left on the site,

on the site; asking what is permanent preser vation

they will ser ve as a park and cultural memorial, pro-

in a city where natural dis asters have a huge impact

viding moments of pause created by the alignment

of the life within it. From this I bec ame interested in

of the fragments. Fast for warding to the future, the

how I could add more time to these buildings, taking

masses suggest how new architecture might be

the approach of c asting concrete on the exterior

built on the site. Suggesting how the past will live on

of them. Years into the future what will remain are

in the future.

the concrete masses and the imprint of what once stood there permanently etched into them. These array of masses work as a jazz band.

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Ver y top is the current site and then an adaptation of the garden. The fragments surround the site and the homes. The images below the plan show what the site looked like winter 2017

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The top shows what the site would look like when the buildings are gone. The lower images are rockite c asts I made to resemble the conrete and what would remain behind

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Warehouse Fall Semester 2018 - Laida Aguirre

The purpose of the space is to re-imagine the

The inventor y includes street lamps, trees, con-

city of Pittsburgh as an array of the par ts that

crete objects, fencing, and parking blocks. Objects

make it, from the street signs to chain link fences

are stored on shelves, wrapped in shrink wrap,

to concrete aggregates. And to also ser ve as the

contained in concrete walls, stacked on top of one

warehouse where contractors c an go to find the

another, or a combination of all four, arranged in a

equipment they need in order to make the neces-

grid pattern that reflects the double grid structural

s ar y repairs or replacements within the city. Each

system of the exterior. This space is a deconstruct-

of these objects c an be found within three districts

ed citysc ape. In addition to the warehouse, there is

of Pittsburgh: the Central district, the Bluff, and the

also a storefront which represents the space that

Strip. The inventor y within the space is constantly

ser ves the public. Offering the s ame objects as pre-

being removed an d stocked by contractors depend-

sented within the warehouse but allows the public

ing on the demand. So that the users of the ware-

to take a piece of Pittsburgh home with them.

house would experience a new space each time Project Par tner - Thad Phung

they visit.

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Nested Winter Semester 2018 - Keith Mitnick

The word “nested� is the influencing concept for

Half of each of the programs are one the ground

this design, where an arrangement of units and

while the other half is above, making it so the

occupants lived within the nested spaces. Inspira-

ground and above programs c an quite literally be

tion c ame from the organization of the private and

adjacent to each other. To give the illusion that the

public spaces in a traditional Chinese house plan,

above spaces were fur ther than they actually were,

private spaces on the outer edges while the most

a series of ramps connected the ground units to

public was loc ated in the center. B eginning with

their upper units loc ated across from them.

the program which contained: the family, the roommates, the couple, and the single. The units are stacked and surround a public cour tyard, which was enclosed by a visual corridor connecting the units to one another.

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Corridor Winter Semester 2018 - Keith Mitnick

From nested to corridor, this project acts a c on-

The private is tucked away underground, the public

tinuation off the previous Nested house, moving

receives the views. Light-wells formed where the

from just the binar y of nesting to the concept of

units intersected to illuminate them on either sides.

the corridor. The occupants remain the s ame, but the site and the views drive the project. This design achieves the continuity of the corridor as a c onnector of spaces, while the spaces themselves are customizable.

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