Anna Umantz
Portfolio 2009-2011
Mixing In-n-Out
Spring ‘11
Nest Urbanism
Fall ‘11
Living in Circles
Fall ‘10
mARTket
Spring ‘10
Mao’er Hutong Museum
Summer ‘10
Avery Fisher Hall
Fall ‘09
Gallery Tent
Fall ‘09
Religious Lights
Spring ‘09
outside of school competition
Metropolitan Bakery
Fall ‘10
technical drawings
Technical Drawings
Fall ‘09 - ‘11
Mixing In-n-Out
Spring ‘11 professor: Phu Hoang
University of Pennsylvania
International Court of the Environment
work with a partner
Located in Rio de Janeiro, this project takes roots in studies of river mixing and circulation flow patterns through the court house. Based on these two notions, the project deals with a fluid exchange of conditions between interior and exterior. Mixing between inside and outside environments is structured according to the group accessibility - public, staff, and secure, and visually indicated in the building with three large atria that act as circulation devices, natural light shafts, and water collectors. Published in: the WORK 10-11 series Making Microclimates book by Phu Hoang and Murray Carroll
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1 Site strategies 2 Building concept strategies 4 Perspective views from the water 5 Perspective view from the city
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Mixing In-n-Out
1 Long section 2 Interior views of the public entrance 3 Exploded view of the building
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1. Artificial Landscape 2. Virtical Circulation_bule color 3. Programs 4. Craters_basic structure & skin 5. Envelope_flat type (city) 6. Envelope_operable 2nd skin (sea) 7. inner crater_ structure & skin / public 8. second skin & structure / staff 9. spiral rampe
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1. Artificial Landscape 2. Virtical Circulation_bule color 3. Programs 1 4. Craters_basic structure & skin 5. Envelope_flat type (city) 6. Envelope_operable 2nd skin (sea) 7. inner crater_ structure & skin / public 8. second skin & structure / staff 9. spiral rampe
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1. Public Crater 2. Staff Crater 3. Secure Crater 4. Public Entrance Lobby 5. Military Command Post 6. Holding Cells
7. Secure Lobby 8. Staff Lobby 9. Wetland A 10. Wetland B
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Mixing In-n-Out
+47’ LEVEL PLAN_1/16” 1. Large Criminal Hearing Room 2. Large Civil Hearing Room 3. Civil Offices 4. NGO_policy making 5. Public Library & Open Gellary 6. Criminal Offices
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1. Large Criminal Hearing Room 2. Large Civil Hearing Room 3. Small Civil Hearing Rooms 4. Conference room 5. NGO_checks & blances 6. NGO_action taking 7. Investigation offices
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1 Ground floor plan 2 Second floor plan 3 Upper level Plan 4 Section through two “craters”
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1 Sectional diagram of moving facade curtains 2 Detailed section through a wall of the second level 3 Section through the inner wall of the middle “crater“ 4 Detaied view of the facade
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Nested Urbanism University of Pennsylvania
Fall ‘11 professor: Ali Rahim
work with a partner
Development of Yongsan Riverfront District Located in the new up-andcoming riverfront district of Seoul, South Korea, this project opens the site to the larger infrastructural needs of the city, while creating occupiable structure that morphs architecture and landscape. It allows for buildings to become a landscape while infrastructure inhabits all levels of this thickened site depending on its speed. Transition between speed levels of transportation on the site becomes a design tool that connects the site and works on the urban scale of a larger city.
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1 Panoramic photo of the site 2 Initial site diagrams showing intencity zones 3 Site bird’s eye view
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3 1 Infrastructure diagram of speed distribution 2 Section through typical site condition showing layering of infrastructure, landscape and buildings 3 Towers on top of built landscape
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1 Long section through one of the towers 2 Detailed night and day views of the project 3 Skyline
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Living in Circles University of Pennsylvania
Fall ‘10
professor: Cathrine Veikos
Dormitory for Curtis Institute of Music Located on the edge of Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia), this dormitory responds to its urban setting. Initial research explored two design study surfaces whose properties were adopted in the design of the building envelope. The main feature of the facade - circular protruding windowsact as view frames as well as light shelves to allow for the full sunlight penetration. Through the play of form, transparency and translucency this building addresses existing conditions of the site such as direct sunlight, views, and surrounding buildings as well as its central location.
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2 1 Study surface model 2 Study of panoramic views along several adjacent streets 3 Study of perspective views of RIttenhouse Square
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1 Building massing study models 2 Plans: ground floor and two typical residential floors 3 Detailed view of the facade
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1 Elevation showing outdoor zones 2 Detail model of a window 3 Series of study models researching massing of the building 4 Cross sections showing units of different occupancy
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mARTket
Spring ‘10 professor: Annette Fierro
Art center as a marketplace
University of Pennsylvania
This art center employs dynamics of a market with a central public space that acts as a “counter” - a place of active selling and buying that also accommodates multiple shifts daily and several modes of operation throughout the course of a year. The initial analysis of trash collection gave me a footprint of local activities on the site or in other words local “hang out” places. These local activities, marked by the trash, eventually determined the amorphous shape of the entire complex.
mixed use commercial general industrial recreational commercial industrial-least restricted multi-family residential residential
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8 1 Places where garbage accumulates naturally moved by wind or storm water 2 Connections between commercial areas within certain distance from the site 3 Connections between industrial and mixed use commercial areas within certain distance from the site 4 Connections between main commercial areas 5 Distances between site and important pedestrian destinations 6 Overlap of intersecting nets within adjacent blocks
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7 Parametric model of human movement/response/interaction with a performance in Union Square subway station in New York - side view 8 Parametric model - front view 9 Parametric model - plan view
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1 Study of garbage found on the site: tracing its silhouette, categorizing its origin 2 Silhouette outline 3 Tracing this garbage back to the site
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1 Study of human interaction with three art forms: painting, sculpture, life performance 2 Study models diagramming human flow through the subway station during the time of performance 2 Parametric model tracing speed of this flow 3 Interrelation between commercial and industrial areas on the site 4 Connection between the garbage study and the zone study
1 1 Connections found on the garbage study diagram 2 Plan of the proposed Art Center 3 Diagram of changing elements and attractions within art center
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Mao’er Hutong Museum Yale | TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
Summer ‘10 Group Project
Garden House Museum This project was designed to preserve traditional dynamics of a Chinese garden house in a living contemporary museum. Located in the heart of historical Beijing, House Garden Museum engages ever-growing torrent of tourists by proposing restaurants, cafes, and stores. It also engages local community of many ages and social groups, by including a community center, kindergarten, and a middle school.
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1 Conceptual folding model describing stratification of layers of existing historical information present on the site 2 Present condition of the site 3 Physical model of the entire proposal 4 Panoramic view of Lougu Alley (East border of the site)
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buildings of Qing dynasty
buildings after 1911
buildings after 1949
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Mao’er Hutong Museum
circulation
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modern and tradition courtyards
special remains
modern and tradition buildings
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Mao’er Hutong Museum
1 Mixing of new and old in the Pond Courtyard 2 Sections 3 Memorial Courtyard featuring existing electrical boxes and personal plates of famous previous residents as a historical trace of the past 4 Long section through the proposal
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Avery Fisher Hall
Fall ‘09 professor: Ben Krone
Avery Fisher Hall Lobby Renovation
University of Pennsylvania
This project proposes renovation of the lobby of Avery Fisher Hall as a part of Lincoln Center Renovation Plan. This project shifts the void of an existing lobby into the active space that employs Hall’s interior and the exterior Josie Robertson Plaza. Interior part of the proposal includes a series of balcony-like spaces that could accommodate various functions. The exterior of the renovation engages public by proposing a performance stage that would face the plaza. This project tries to shift the enclosed nature of Avery Fisher Hall by blurring the gap between street and high art of Lincoln Center.
Study Models
University of Pennsylvania
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1 View towards Columbus Ave 2 Panoramic view of Lincoln Center Plaza - day 3 Panoramic view of Lincoln Center Plaza - night
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1 Diagram of two ballet dancers 2 Diagram of a chamber music performance 3 Diagram of a part from an opera
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4 Conceptual interaction of these three elements in the motion of facade elements
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Avery Fisher Hall
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1 1 View from Columbus Avenue 2 Plans 3 Seasonal Lincoln Center performance schedule 3 Renderings 4 Sections: parallel and perpendicular to the facade
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Gallery Tent
Fall ‘09 professor: Ben Krone
Exhibition Shed
University of Pennsylvania
Detailed analysis of the baroque wallpaper pattern provides a basis for the design of a performance-form enclosure that serves as a temporary exhibition space for graduate architecture students. Design of the final structure is based on alternating wallpaper pattern by mirroring, bifurcation, multiplication, and rotation. The lines of the pattern form a frame supporting fabric walls, making the entire structure act like a tent.
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1 Sectional model of the proposal 2 Ornament making stages 3 Transformation stages
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4 Baroque pattern 5 Pattern analysis
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6 1 Three-dimensional ornament based on the final element 2 Singular unit 3 Composing unit based on rotation, mirroring, and multiplication 4 Offsetting the resulting composition 5 Ornament simplification 6 Simplified composition
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1 Cross sections 2 Floor plan 3 Construction plan 4 Inside/outside renderings 5 Sectional model
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Religious Lights
Spring ‘09 professors: Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer
Multi-Conventional Religious Center
Parsons new school for design
This project proposes a multiconfessional religious center. The concept centers around controlling daylight in the two main prayer halls. Wall perforations and a protruding light shaft create an interior light pattern during daytime and function as an urban “lantern” during the night. The holy spirit of this center is created not by a straight exposition of religious symbols, but by the play of light.
1 Spatial organization of different churches 2 World religions analysis 3 Sun study of different light shaft forms throughout a year 4 Natural light in both praying halls throughout a day
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1 Plans from the basement to the roof 2 Second floor plan - main sanctuary 3 Leonard Street elevation 4 Back side of light shaft featuring stairlike sitting for outdoors screening
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1 Grand stair section 2 Section through sanctuaries 3 Top stair and front tilting opening section 4 Grand stair top floor 5 Entrance from the corner of Leonard St and Church St
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Metropolitan Bakery
Fall ‘10 Metropolitan Bakery Renovation
Group competition entry
This is a proposal for Sustainability Smackdown Competition. The proposal strives to be a simple and elegant example of sustainable retrofitting that can be quickly and affordably implemented for small businesses around the University of Pennsylvania campus. By implementing these straightforward and attainable changes that save money and natural resources, Metropolitan Bakery will become a leader in the area of responsible building as well as responsible business management.
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1 Sun study 2 Solar exposure 3 Existing condition 4 Architectural proposal
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1 Material exploration 2 Proposal elements 3 Cross section of the front facade 4 Calculated therman data for existing and proposed conditions 5 Description of proposal elements
Technical Drawings
Fall ‘09/10 Construction works
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1 Reinforced concrete superstructure with heavyweight precast concrete cladding 2 Sheet-piling, waler beam, tie-back construction of understructure 3 High performance brick cladding on a reinforced concrete frame structure 3 Design of a retaining wall for a park