Architecture
Portfolio Amber Jurgensen
Design Lab D OysterPub Architecture 4, 2014 Archivio Architecture 4, 2015 Urban Link Rec Center AIA Winston-Salem 2014 Architecture Runner Up Award Architecture 3, 2014
02-09O A 10-15A A 16-21U A
Competition C Village East Prototype MAP Design Competition by Summit Powder Mountain 3 week, 2015 Duck Pond Washroom CAUS Third Year Competition Citation Award 2 week, 2013 Sinking Creek Mountian Shelter CAUS Second Year Competition Runner Up 2 week, 2013
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Thesis T Explorations 34-37E In Progress, 2015 I
Professional P Riyadh Metro 38-39R AECOM, 2015 A
Excerpts E Structural Studies Urban Link Rec Center, 2014 Monumental Stair Vibration, 2015 Hand Drafting Appalachain Research Center, 2013 Place of Wonder, 2013 Container For Water, 2012 Drawing and Mixed Media Contrast with Charcoal, 2011 Corner Assemblies, 2012 Model Building Quinquela Martin Art School, 2013 Photography RIVA Europe Travel, 2015
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OysterPub Architecture 4, 2014 Baltimore, Maryland The OysterPub is situated at the last natural edge of the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Historic maps of the harbor’s edge show this as one of the most recent locations of water filled in by land. At this site, NOAA’s projected sea level rise indicates floodwater to reach 10’ above sea level by the year 2100. The result being that this piece of land will be taken back by the water within 85 years.
5’ Flood
10’ Flood
Render Showing Complete Construction 2019
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Program and Layout The public enters the building from the pedestrian bridge, leading them across the oyster farmed inlet. First one walks past the market, then the oyster hatchery at the center of the building, and finally opening up into the restaurant seating overlooking the inlet and city to the North.
Plan: Movement and Structure
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Phasing Sitting on a flood plain, the OysterPub floods sequentially as sea level rises, reducing programmable space as a series of six flooding phases. First, it is constructed as three construction phases, the oyster hatchery and farm, then a market, and lastly a restaurant to introduce customers to oyster cultivation and restoration practices.
Flooding Phases 3’ - 8’
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Oyster Habitat The OysterPub’s timeline is inspired by timelines of oyster cultivation and harvesting. It is designed so that as parts flood, the waffle floor slab foundation is converted to artificial oyster reef. Over time an environment for man is converted into oyster habitat. As water rises, the modular glass curtain wall allows the façade to step back over time.
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Path of a Cultivated Oyster
The brass hatchery roof and brass clad mullions offer complimentary weathering with the exposed cypress walls. These stacked heavy timber walls and treated glulam columns provide the building structure. Wood being the perfect material to allow for easy manual construction and deconstruction phases.
Lifespan Timeline
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Scale 1”= 10 Feet
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Building Construction
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The OysterPub explores what it really means for a building to be sustainable: by adapting to its location to extend its useful life, and by being de-constructible to allow for material reuse.
Archivio Architecture 4, 2015 Riva San Vitale, Switzerland The Archivio is an archive to explore and research local Swiss architecture. It mixes two common organizational structures of archives. The first being a procession of time of historic documents or perhaps of the buildings itself, and second being an ‘egg in the box’ model where archives are housed within multiple shells for protection and preservation.
Location
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The archive sits adjacent to Santa Croce Church in a walled in piece of land. To be sure the building will not block other’s views of Lake Lugano below, it sits low to the ground. The surrounding landscape becomes the first room of the Archivio, the observation area.
Path The archive presents itself as a path through which you move further and further away from present daily reality, in order to allow yourself to become fully absorbed by the artifacts of the archive. As you move concentrically inwards, the rooms manage your awareness of outside time until it is no long perceivable. Each space has an associated material, light, and action to reinforce the journey towards removal of present time.
Rooms 2 & 3 Entry and Exhibition
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Construction Attention and focus on archive artifacts is achieved through the removal of external stimuli; noise, light, color, movement. Terra cotta is a material used throughout the project in various forms, as a local and versatile material. The structure is simple metal stud framing with a crowning feature of a steel supported translucent glass roof covering the library, which provides a double shell to the archive housed in the center.
Rooms 4 & 5 Library and Archive
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Urban Link Rec Center Architecture 3, 2014 AIA Winston-Salem Architecture Runner Up Award Winston-Salem, North Carolina Highway Business 40 divides Winston-Salem into the downtown area to the north, and Old Salem to the south. The Urban Link Recreation Center occupies an underutilized piece of land surrounding the highway.
It connects across the highway via pedestrian paths. These paths intersect and interact with one another to provide freedom of movement for its users. An incision is cut into the recreation center to provide access to one of these paths. Its removed element occupies land on the opposite side of the highway. The largest space, to the east of the void, holds a gymnasium with two basketball courts, locker rooms, offices, a group exercise room, and a weight room. The adjacent space contains two dance studios.
Site and Detailed Plans
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The buildings program, much like the pathways, are reflective of athlete’s and people’s freedom of movement throughout the building and site.
Structure The building’s structure consists of interwoven steel trusses, skinned in metal panels. These structural elements span over the buildings’ void to connect what once was whole. Their crossing pattern represents a chaotic energy present on the site. The structure’s 2’ -10’ depth relates to the slope of Liberty Street, making habitable roof pockets, level with the street, in the space between the structural elements. Two pockets provide a view into the gym.
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Detail Ventilation ducts and services are also housed within the structural elements. The rooftop pockets store a packaged HVAC unit and storm water collection system. They also provide occupiable spaces, some for viewing and one providing access to a pathway crossing Business 40. Tan fibercement panels cover the exterior walls and roof as a rain screen. The gym interior has burnished CMU walls, wooden floor, and acoustic ceiling panels.
Design Diagram and Exploded Axon
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Village East Prototype 3 week competition, 2015 MAP Design Competition Summit Powder Mountain Final Visualization by Forrest Bibeau Eden, Utah The townhouse prototype provides a mountain dwelling suitable for high density development on a sloping site. It is intended for Summit’s planned Village Core East neighborhood. Summit Powder Mountain’s master plan includes ski resort expansion and a new ridgeline development. The site gets about 320 inches of snow per year and prevailing wind blows from the SW causing snow drifts to form on the North side of a structure upwards of 10 feet.
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Outside and Inside Order Intention was put into the design to maintain privacy, focus views down the mountain to the east, and provide light to the interior of the deep and narrow footprint. The living space is on the second floor, accessed by a glass covered stair atrium. The third floor contains a master suite, and the first a garage and private guest suite with a small outdoor space. A sloping pitched roof was chosen to shed snow and rain effectively. The roof and façade are made of standing seam zinc panels. The panel pattern allows for photovoltaic solar panels to be integrated into the roof, and the dark zinc color offers solar absorption to regulate internal temperature. The townhouse’s form and materiality help it function well year round. The Village East Prototype is a study of how climate and site can act as a primary driver for shaping a building to exist within it.
Winter Snow
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South facing building integrated Photovoltaic Solar Panels seamlessly bond with standing seam zinc roof
Energy efficient Cold Roof construction prevents ice dams
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Summer Rain
Built-in Gutter directs rain water
Standing seam Zinc panels provide a dark surface for solar absorption that will help regulate internal temperature
Rain Chain directs rain water to a collection cistern for re-use
South, East, and West facing windows provide solar heat gain Pebble bed for drainage of rain water and snow melt
Melt Thick Concrete wall provides insulation and structure to support snow drifts
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Snow Interaction Exterior stairs leading up to the entrance and the back deck are made of perforated metal mesh that allows snow to fall through, instead of collect, in order to maintain a clear walking surface. In the winter, the ground below the back deck gets filled with snow, allowing the deck to become second story ski-in access. The north side of the house is made up of wavy solid concrete which allows snow drifts to creep up the faรงade creating an ever changing and aesthetically pleasing condition during the winter months. Come Spring, pebble drainage at the base of the wall and a rain chain occupying the building cutout collect snow melt and feed it to an underground cistern. The objective of the building design is to perform proactively to the presence and movement of snow.
Falling Snow
Instances of Exterior Interaction
Settling Snow
Drifting Snow
Collection of Melting Snow
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Duck Pond Washroom 2 week competition, 2013 CAUS Third Year Competition Citation Award Team: Forrest Bibeau, Megan Gileza Blacksburg, Virginia Situated along the VT’s Duck Pond path, the restroom is made up of plates that shift and rotate into the earth as if being compelled by gravity, the essential element for the passive building systems. On the exterior, wooden sections foreshadow and align with interior components organized around a central concrete wet wall.
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Passive Systems A combination of water and antifreeze is pumped through a closed horizontal thermal loop, heating the concrete wet wall, and preventing water in the pipes from freezing. Runoff is collected by the gutter and directed into the wet wall where it is filtered through plants and stored to supply sinks and urinal. Grey water and overflow filtered water is recaptured to supply a garden spigot while black water is removed. The system is supplemented by running water when necessary. Compost from four toilets and compost receptacles is collected at a single location providing accessible fertilizer. A metal solar chimney on the SE side of the building is used to exhaust composting fumes from the basement, as well as naturally ventilate the interior. When sun hits the solar chimney the air inside it heats up, creating positive pressure to draw air upwards and out of the building. Lastly, the back wall is submerged 5’2� to help control temperatures by reducing temperature swings for thermal comfort.
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Sinking Creek Mountain Shelter 2 week competition, 2013 CAUS Second Year Competition Runner Up Craig, Virginia
The mountain shelter provides a place for gathering, rest and reflection for twelve hikers. Sitting on a ridgeline apart of the Appalachian Trail, the architecture is shaped by and utilizes the mountain’s views of the rising and setting sun, fresh air, and abundance of local wood and stone. The façade is continually altered by the inhabitants who use and replace the firewood, in effect becoming an interactive sculpture revealing who has arrived and departed.
Bunkbeds, Sunroom, and Fire Pit
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Design of Relationship between Building and Site
Thesis Explorations
1. Landmark
2. Camouflage
In Progress, 2015 The landmark building ignores and overpowers its site. It is always revealed in its landscape. The camouflage building, however, is an uncreative solution where building blends in with its site. It is always concealed. It is beneficial in a site both rural and urban, to combine these two relationships and blur their boundary.
A. Urban
In doing so we engage the site and create a place that contains moments of both reveal and conceal. The goal is to create architecture that is both building and context. Snow is a tool to achieve and exaggerate the blurred relationship. Snow can build upon a structure to exaggerate a landmark. It can also conceal a building as site to create a temporary camouflage.
B. Rural
A. Urban
3. Blur Boundary
C. Alpine Urbanism
Snow as Building
Building is Container Snow Builds Up
Building is Armature Snow Changes Shape
B. Rural
Snow as Site
Building is Formwork Snow Adds Elements
Building is Foundation Snow Covers
Building is Obstacle Snow Drifts
Building is Boundary Snow Permeates
Precedent Study Snow as Building and Site
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Snow Study Beginning to understand snow’s patterns of movement, its movements are divided into four primary parts: Fall, Settle, Drift, and Melt. Snow is understood as a temporal site, an inevitable addition that is key in creating a relationship between site and building. Snow can create space, change a space, or change the perception of a space. It obscures and reveals, completes and opens. The aim is to create architecture that could not exist as a building devoid of site, or a site devoid of building in an effort to design a fully integrated environment specific to its contextual situation. Thus we create a beautiful and functional space year round that is receptive of nature; her forms and climate.
Land Art to Engage Snow
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Study of how one shape, the funnel, can modify, sculpt, form, and direct snow.
Professional AECOM Summer Internship, 2015 Riyadh Metro, Saudi Arabia Riyadh’s selected metro system design required that each station contain eight above ground ventilation stacks, a skylight, emergency exit hatch, and chillers to occupy the road median above. Working with the tunnel ventilation engineer and manufacturers, the stack shape and median landscaping design was iterated to be functional and visually pleasing.
Resulting Design Options
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Structural Studies Urban Link Rec Center, 2014 Research Advisor Mehdi Setareh The structure is made of steel columns, floor beams on the second floor, and trusses on the roof. The structure was optimized and sized with appropriate live, dead, snow, wind, and seismic loads to meet minimum deflection, drift, and code requirements.
Monumental Stair Vibration, 2015
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Monumental stairs of steel and long spans often cause vibration serviceability problems in architectural structures. This research is being conducted to determine the best way to model stairs in structural analysis software for accurate analysis between analytical and field measured results. Virginia Tech Classroom Building drawings by Pinnacle Engineering Lavery Hall drawings by Skanska
Hand Drafting Appalachian Research Center Architecture 3, 2013 Marshall, North Carolina Situated in a valley, the roof is a focal point of the site and a crucial aspect of its design. The research center seeks to compliment the veins of movement through a mountain’s valleys by creating valleys that guide people though the building and landscape. The roof becomes topography for accessing six individual apartments on the top level. Additionally, the shifting roofscape and its light wells create the ceiling and light for the lab held underground below it. Concrete beams hold up this precast triangular paneled roof.
Reflected Ceiling Plan
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Place of Wonder Architecture 3, 2013 Catawba, Virginia This is a place of reflection for Appalachian Mountain trail hikers. It is designed to amplify one’s experience of nature by sight, sound, and touch. Wind howls, light passes, water drips, and plants sit in the metal pipes creating the space. These pipes are repeated and welded to be both sculptural and structural, disappearing into the ground around them.
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Container for Water Architecture 2, 2012
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Drawing and Mixed Media Contrast with Charcoal First Year Design Lab, 2011
Corner Assemblies First Year Design Lab, 2012
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Modeling Quinquela Martin Art School Architecture 2, 2013 La Boca Buenos Aires, Argentina The art school sits adjacent to the town’s colorful cultural hub, the Caminito; a pedestrian street exhibiting artists, craftsman, and tango dancers. The architecture itself is a dance between forms. Its organic shape and intertwining constructs generate an interior courtyard, exterior patios, fluid circulation, and framed views.
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Photography Architecture 4, 2015 RIVA Europe Travel A photograph captures a space at a given instance in time. There are clues within the image, however, that allow the viewer to unravel at what moment the photo was taken. Humans, nature, and weathering all leave their mark on that space. These characteristics help describe a year, season, time of day or even an hour of a day. A sense of time is received from just a still image.
Humans
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Human actions and activity leave their mark on the built environment. People bring objects to a space, and through the human touch, leave a memory of their own presence. These photos study how humans interact and alter their surroundings. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Neues Museum Berlin, Germany St. Vitus Cathedral Prague, Czech Republic Corso Palladio Vicenza, Italy
Nature Nature’s weather, seasonal changes, and sunlight impacts the built environment. These natural forces affect the atmosphere of a space. These two photos examine how the scale of these forces acting on the built environment change our perception of a space on a seasonal, daily, and hourly basis. Feuerwehrhaus Vitra Weil am Rhein, Germany Bagno Pubblico Bellinzona, Switzerland
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Weathering Weathering of the built environment is a process of aging. Weather can leave behind dirt, algae, and fade marks. This duo of photos capture the effects of weathering and the subsequent accumulation of marks on the built world. Parco della Musica Rome, Italy VitraHaus Weil am Rhein, Germany
University of Economics Vienna, Austria
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Snow Study of Reiulf Ramstad Architects Trollstigen Visitor Center by Amber Jurgensen