Noah Johnson Portfolio

Noah Johnson Portfolio 2023

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Contents Academic Projects

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Stair Space

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Kit of Parts

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Bronzeville Community Center

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Relief Pavilion

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Coach House

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Center for Healthy Living

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Culmination Community Center

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Precedent Studies

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Lantern Pavilion

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Loba House

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Stairspace Fall 2020 While a typical staircase is heavy and grounded, this stairspace is countered by a gravity-defying canopy that rises from the street to cover the staircase.

When moving through the space, there is a palpable dichotamy of the weight of the panels above contrasted with the delicate organization.

Graphite on Paper

Graphite on Paper

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Kit of Parts Spring 2020 Given the basic architecture elements of point, line, plane, and mass, the objective was to create a space that incorporated these elements.

While these elements could be seen as individuals, the strength of the design is when these elements interact to create something more than the individual parts.

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Ink on Vellum

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Graphite on Paper

Graphite on Paper

Bronzeville Community Center Spring 2021 Posposed for the community of Bronzeville in Chicago, the program includes a small kitchen as well as an art gallery for the community.

Enveloping the entire project and site is a parametrically designed wood membrane comprised of triangular panels. This cover creates moments underneath for shade as well as garden space.

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Relief Pavilion Fall 2021 Designed from the section cuts of a Rubik’s Cube and a tennis ball, this pavilion seeks to provide relief from chaos surrounding.

As a student in Chicago, the grid of the city is impossible to ignore. The grid provides so much order and rhythm, but is also causes anxiety and tension.

Within the form of a twisted grid, the spherical shape is removed, providing a hammock and area for relief within the grid.

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Chicago Coach House Fall 2021 Due to the change in Chicago’s housing code allowing coach houses to return, there was a unique opportunity to design these small spaces.

Using the concepts of how shelled spaces interact with void spaces, truncated cones define certain spaces within the coach house.

Then a short study was done to examine how concepts from this one coach house could interact with the rest of an alleyway.

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Center For Healthy Living Spring 2022

Designed for the MAAFA group in Chicago, this structure combines residential units as well as a classroom and teaching kitchen for the residents.

The form of the structure arose to adapt to the program, and the form is sculpted to provide moments of light penetration to the second and first floors, as well as terraces for the residents.

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Culmination Community Center Fall 2022 Inspired in part by an essay by Michael Jakob, Culmination Community Center build a mountainous feeling from density to reflect the richly layered history of the Bronzeville area in which the climbing gym is located.

The community center acts as a climbing gym, but also as a field house for the surrounding community. This gives the structure a unique blend of athletic programming and community programming.

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POLYGONIZE

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Lantern Pavilion Spring 2021 Precedent provides the groundwork to spur creativity, thus it is critical to the success of an architecture student to analyze influential projects around the world.

The Lantern Pavilion designed by Atelier Oslo in Sandnes, Norway in 2010 provides an understanding at what creates a successful pavilion. The contrast between the lightness of the structure contrasted with the heavy barn shape sparks enjoyment when underneath.

This aside, the adaptation to the location emphasizes the nature of the pavilions name, the Lantern.

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Graphite on Paper

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Loba House Fall 2021 Designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen in 2017 in Tome, Chile, the Loba House proves an interesting pin in the question of ‘What makes a home a home?’

Described as the space between a hut and a home, the monumentality of the concrete shelter provides to be an intriguing contrast to the warmth that a house demands.

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