Stephanie Dose - Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio

STEPHANIE DOSE

2023 UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

STEPHANIE DOSE

Architecture Student

• Hand Drawing

• Physical Model Making

• Collage

• Collaboration

• Group Facilitation

Digital Programs

• Adobe Suite

• Rhino

• Autocad

• Sketchup

• Revit

• Enscape

Hello, and thank you for reading. I’m Stephanie. I am in my final semester of my Bachelor of Science in Architecture Degree and I am currently in the process of preparing to pursue a Master’s degree in Architecture. I have always juggled varied interests ranging from art and science to literature and public policy. In architecture, I found a place where all of these interests could meet. Moving forward, I am excited to grow my unique skills and experiences into a service-minded design process focused on broad collaboration and growth within communities.

AREAS OF FOCUS

• Urban Design

• Cross Disciplinary Collaboration

• Community Driven Design

• Landscape Architecture

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

Projected Class of 2023

DIS Study Abroad in Copenhagen

Copenhagen Denmark

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

WORK EXPERIENCE

Student Blogger

DIS Copenhagen

Copenhagen, DK, Aug. 2022 - present

Digital Assistant and Graphic Design

Consultant

Lumpen Studio, Kenneth B. Smith

Remote, May 2020 - present

Office Admin & Housing Navigator

MN One Stop for Communities LLC

St. Paul, MN, Sep.2021 - present

Covid 19 Test Administrator

USA Mobile Drug Testing

Minneapolis MN, Jan. - June 2021

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Construction Volunteer FacilitatorAmericorps

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity

St. Paul, MN, June - August 2022, 400hrs

Volunteer Designer

Search For Shelter Charette

Remote, February 2021 and 2022, 40hrs

Housing Navigator - Americorps

Ramsey County Emergency Shelter

St. Paul, MN, June - August 2021, 300hrs

• GPA 3.9

• 2021and 2022 College of Design Student Team Academic Excellence Award

• 2022 Katherine E. Sullivan Scholarship recipient

• Spring 2022 DIS Student Research Assistant

• Participated in cross-cultural exchanges

• Lived with a Danish family through the Career Connection Program

• Had focused studies on Danish and Nordic Architecture and European Theories of Urban Design

• Ran a student blog documenting my experience studying abroad in Denmark

• Attending events as a DIS ambassador

• https://doseofdenmark.wordpress.com/

• Assisted client with vision impairment in navigating digital interfaces

• Researched and tested options and applications for self publishing

• Consulted on text, design, and layout of printed publications

• Developed office organizational system

• Helped clients in temporary homeless shelters apply for benefits and connect with housing providers

• Maintained health and cleanliness standards

• Assisted patients with proper test taking protocol

• Framed and finished portions of single family homes

• Created clear and communicative construction diagrams

• Instructed and supervised volunteers on daily construction tasks and protocol

• Collaborated with a team of volunteer designers

• Provided a homeless outreach center with a renovation design proposal

• Supported staff at a hotel converted into a temporary homeless shelter

• Helped clients apply for and renew benefits and connected them to housing providers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WANDER SAIL STOLEN LIGHT

DANISH STUDY ABROAD STUDIO - FALL 2022

p. 6 - 15

PROGRAM STUDIOFALL 2021

p. 16 - 25

AMICUS WATERS

DANISH STUDY ABROAD

STUDIO - FALL 2022

p. 26 - 29

EVERYTHING IN TRANSIT

URBAN DESIGN STUDIOSPRING 2022

p. 30 - 37

HANDMADE

MISC DELIVERABLES

FALL 2017 - WINTER 2022

p. 38 - 43

WANDER SAIL

DANISH STUDY ABROAD STUDIO

FALL 2022

Community Food and Culture House

Under the threat of climate change many people and industries find themselves questioning their current ways of living. The way we eat and the way we build are among them. Both the culinary and construction industries are searching for new, sustainable alternatives to current practices.

This assignment challenged us to design a food and culture house using sustainable materials and building methods. The building, located near a small sustainable aquaculture set up, needed to provide space for community members and visitors to visit, relax, and attend classes on growing and cooking sustainable food, including blue mussels and seaweed.

The project site is in the harbor of Skovshoved, a small residential town North of Copenhagen, Denmark. Skovshoved is now primarily a place of recreational boating and living, but it has a rich history as a working fishing village.

Today, wandering paths cut through historic plots and houses, immersing walkers in the thatched roofs of the old village. The harbor contrasts this with new architecture, staggered row houses, and concrete jungles filled with boats. The new harbor features a strict program delineation. Space is divided cleanly into green space, boat storage, pedestrian paths, and food production.

The juxtaposition between the new, artificially constructed harbor, and the historic village homes, highlight the desire of local residents to have a place where their modern and antique ways of living could blend.

Upon visiting Skovshoved I saw a need for program integration within the harbor. So, with my professors permission, I expanded the scope of the assignment to include designing a master plan for the southern portion of the harbor in addition to the food and culture house.

site plan iteration

Initially, I attempted to create order within the harbor by imposing a grid over the lot currently used for boat parking. I attempted to draw different angles for the grid from the existing lines preset on the site, (upper left) I then placed a rough building outline following these grid patterns.

site plan iteration

Eventually I began allowing the curve of the harbor to inform the grid before focusing instead on outlining a path for pedestrians to travel. I created a plan where a series of foot bridges over canals led pedestrians across the lot to the building. The canals would allow for aquaculture farming in the harbor and would proved more structure for boat parking (lower left.)

boat locations across months and years - based on google earth archive images

Before moving forward, I decided to study how boats are currently parked on the site. Using google earth archives I found photos of the harbor at different points in the year. I traced over the boats, found trends in boat orientation, and defined areas where boats were less likely to be parked.

During this process I realized my initial grid idea had lost the wonder of the wandering paths of the village. I found beauty in the organic organization of the boats.

Moving forward, I continued developing a landscape where canals cut into the existing harbor, but the geometries discovered through this study informed my movements.

boat orientations across months and years - traced over top image

In Wander Sail’s final plan iteration, angled canals are bordered by a walkway on one side and green space on the other. These canals in tandem with green islands create a landscape for boats to park in and people to walk through. The main pedestrian route is maintained and meets the food and culture house as it bridges over an outdoor learning space.

The canals left alone provide a water feature in the landscape, but removable modules would allow users to transform the site (right diagram.) By placing and moving modules new paths in the harbor could be created and individuals could begin their own personal aquaculture production.

Green space is created for people’s recreation. Around the sire recycled mussel shells are used a s mulch for planters. The building itself is made from sustainable materials, hempcrete, timber framing, and a thatched roof. The building places a traditional gabled roof onto an offset row house footprint. The smoking chimney serves a joining point between the recreational living room and the workspaces. The exterior learning space provides a walk down to the water and space for programming. Boats are still able to navigate the site and various programs pull a variety of people together.

STOLEN LIGHT

PROGRAM STUDIO - FALL 2021

Stargazing Learning Center and Retreat

Stolen Light answers the question of how to create a stargazing experience in a city with no stars. This intervention steals, manipulates, holds, and releases light to reveal the wonder, science, community, and insight of the stars.

Located in Minneapolis MN, the retreat utilizes abandoned grain mills and silos to create an enclosed environment. Users travel through a series of structures and experiences of light that shape their learning, giving them knowledge and appreciation for the stars while living in a city where light pollution has rendered them all but invisible.

left: interior view of the planetarium, above: site program dia-

To enter the learning center, users travel past a towering, abandoned silo before arriving at the main building. The journey begins with the planetarium, a sphere 50% below grade that utilizes perforations in its shell to recreate the wonder-filled experience of stargazing during the day. Users follow the inner wall of the planetarium down to the bottom. They walk through a below grade hallway with skylights allowing them to retain their connection to daylight during the transition.

The ceiling and surrounding silos of the Library separate occupants from daylight for most of the year. Here users utilize study spaces and projections onto the nearby silo to learn about the science and history of stargazing as they again travel along the walls, this time, traveling upwards.

aerial rendering of the main building at night

After the main building containing the Planetarium and Library, users are released to the rest of the retreat. As they walk along curved paths they are exposed to the open air but the trees and foliage prevent them from receiving an unfiltered view of the sky.

The abandoned grain elevator and silos tower over the space, constantly in view. They contrast the intimate scale of the foliage and pedestrian paths.

SITE PLAN & SECTION

The paths of the wooded area wander through the site, overlapping a sprawling body of water. The topography is unleveled, with hills and depressions. This entire curated landscape is nestled within the existing buildings. People can pass through trees and over the water to reach an outdoor amphitheater or a communal cafe. Some pods are vaguely hidden with vegetation and hills. Guests are able to rent out the pods and spend the night.

Each pod has access to a small private dock extending out over the body of water that weaves through the site. The dock is large enough for users to sit on to experience the breadth of the sky above them and its reflected image below, an experience that reflects the spherical planetarium. At night, users on the dock view an expanse of sky.

rendering of an individual dock

Viewers who go out onto to docks at night may expect a mirrored experience, similar to that of the planetarium where they are surrounded by stars. But Minneapolis is a major metropolitan area with heavy light pollution. Almost no stars are visible during the average night. They will instead be faced with a blank sky and a moment for reflection.

AMICUS WATERS

DANISH STUDY ABROAD STUDIO FALL 2022

This quick project focused on creating a public a bath on the edge of the central Copenhagen harbor in close proximity to the famous Nyhavn canal. After the Copenhagen harbor was decentralized, successfully cleaned, and declared safe to swim in, harbor bathing has become a staple in the lived of locals and an attraction to tourists.

Water is a naturally fluid and dynamic element. Currently, the harbor’s rigid walls and linear form prevent the water from spreading horizontally. The water in confined to vertical motion. Amicus Waters reverses this typology. There are no vertical slopes or curves in the project, but the plan is filled with horizontal curves and shapes that mimic the waves of the ocean.

Angles from the existing streets on the site are continued and used to divide the program of the harbor bath without creating borders. This provides curating experiences for multiple groups of people without segregating users.

Angled stalls to the west house private changing areas and restrooms and lead to a jumping of point and the largest swimming area. This space is designed for experienced swimmers and locals and provides quick access to deep water. The east side of the pool features kayak storage and ramps into the water. A floating walkway and net protects swimmers from kayaks and recreational boaters

The center of the bath includes walls aligned with the street behind the bath. The sight line from the street to the canal is preserved and space for covered seating is created here. A cafe with counter service is located here, curved steps gradually descend into the water and there are two enclosed pools. This open section invites passersby, tourists, or anyone seeking leisure.

left: final composite border, right: model photo

EVERYTHING IN TRANSIT

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO - SPRING 2022

Project Partner: Kathleen Hill

At the intersection of Hennipen and Central Ave. on the east band of the Mississippi river in Minneapolis MN, there is a triangular block. The unique shape of the space is defined by roads directed from a river grid and the current program is completed auto centric.

As cities continue to grow in population, urban transit must shift its focus away from cars and towards the people inside of them. Everything in Transit proposes a reprogramming of the site that reuses existing buildings and places a “skin” over the site to create a pedestrian center and sustainable public space in a neighborhood that is currently undergoing urbanization.

left: close up of the model material, center: entire model

Many major roads in the city run perpendicular to the curves of the Mississippi river. These river ways combine with secondary roads that run parallel to the water to form a river grid system. This river grid contrasts the traditional Jeffersonian grid imposed on the rest of the city. The site of Everything in Transit is formed by two Perpendicular River Ways, Hennipen and Central Avenue which intersect to create an zone with low walk ability occupied by a gas station and car wash, a walk up pizza shack, and a white castle. All catered towards cars. Apartment buildings are occupied primarily by young people who move often and first level commercial spaces see high degrees of turnover.

Everything in Transit maintains the geometry of the site formed by the river grid, but superimposes grid on top through a layer of semipermeable paving and drainage that orients north/south and east/west. The two avenues have been reduced to one way streets and narrowed, making room for bike lanes, and a street car. The intersection is now resolved with a round about. Bioswales along the bike lane provide storm water runoff, greenery, and separate pedestrians from street traffic. Two interior roads have been removed and the triangular block is now centralized around a public plazas, with seating, greenery, and covered walkways. Folds in the topography of the semipermeable paving further define outdoor spaces.

central plaza, collage of computer render, site photos, and physical model photos

section 1 through the library and central plaza

The proposal reprograms and expands existing buildings. Existing structure is shown with blue in plan and section. The new programs reorients transit space away from cars and towards, pedestrians, bikes, and public transportation. The old gas station is now a public transit station servicing the street car and neighboring bus routes. It connects to an indoor public market designed for the high turnover rate typical to local businesses. New apartment style housing is built above this central hub. The old car wash becomes a public library and the first floor is dedicated as a new branch of the Minnesota tool library and bike rental location. The white castle and pizza shack are left unchanged, but public space and covered walkways are built around them to encourage diners to stop and eat their food on the site.

The grid typology was extended to the window placement in the new buildings, the porous brick facades of the library and market, and the structure of the covered walkways. Squares of the grid were raised in the plazas to create public seating and planters.

through the streetcar station, walkways, library, bio swales, and streets

On the northeast border of the site, a series of squares in the grid paving pattern are extruded to form planters. Other Planters in the central plaza include seating. These shown are placed lower to the ground. They are designed to provide community members or nearby residents with the opportunity to create a community garden, but they could also be treated as ornament. The planters also act as a barrier between the central plaza space and residential single family homes north of the site.

the northeast gardens, collage of computer render, site photos, and physical model photos

The 1/64” model built for Everything in Transit focused on the central plaza and then dissolved outwards. Building facades and walkway canopies around the plaza were fully developed, but the rest of the building elements were omitted. The entire model is shown on page 28

The chipboard base and cardboard skin were built with vertical layers. The corrugation of the vertically stacked cardboard displays the permeable properties of the paving. The grid was shown by alternating the orientation of the cardboard.

HANDMADE

MISC DELIVERABLES FALL 2017 - WINTER 2022

Before I began studying architecture, one of my main hobbies was painting and drawing. I took the art classes offered at my small high school - one of them twice - and I am constantly gathering reference photos for the next project. Through art, I learned to look at the world with a more critical and prospecting eye.

Learning to draw and model through an architectural lens has been extremely rewarding. And while I continue to find great enjoyment in creating art on the side, I am excited to continue exploring how I can incorporate my experience with drawing and painting into my architectural work.

While studying abroad in Copenhagen, I decided to create a new sketch everyday as a way to chronicle my experiences. This practice, has improved my ability to field sketch and has encouraged me to explore my surroundings. Additionally, this commitment has forced me to slow down and more critical engage with my surroundings rather than merely consume them. All of the sketches shown were made with ink pens and watercolor. The entire body of my abroad sketches and the stories that accompany them can be found on my DIS student blog.

day 049, superkilen park, Copenhagen, Denmark, fall 2022

day 057, Kölner Dom, Cologne, Germany, fall 2022

day 087, ARKEN museum for modern art, Ishøj, Denmark, fall 2022

day 075, Christiansborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, fall 2022

day 074, Jarmers Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark, fall 2022

During the Winter of 2022 I began to build a collection of hand drawn scale figures. I used reference images of my loved ones, family members, and friends. The primary mediums have been watercolor and pen and ink. Since then, I have kept a photo album of potential new references and I find myself returning to this practice during transitional moments in my life.