ammorgan portfolio

Amanda M. Morgan project list . march 2011

329 S 42nd St Apt D10 . Philadelphia, PA . 19104 208.521.5201 . ammorgan@design.upenn.edu

DIGITAL ART ANNEX

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FLUX BOX

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COGNITIVE MODULATION

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CONSTRUCTED VIEWS

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living/learning artist community

a network of transient art spaces

avery fisher hall lobby redesign

reappropriating dome lids

an installation

GRADIATED DENSITIES

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INTERCHANGE & MOTION

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GEOMORPHOLOGY

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architecture pin-up pavilion

housing for young professionals

nyc institute of geology

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3 . digital art annex

projector 2: overlaid image of external data

video camera

projector 1: mirrored image of current footage

white finish on wall

section showing equipment installation

interactions across time and space

art deployment strategy: filling urban voids with an interactive, digital art installation

DIGITAL ART ANNEX AS

living/learning artist community studio 502 julie beckman spring 2010 - 16 weeks

A HAVEN FOR KNOWLEDGE , CULTURE AND SOCIAL LIFE , THIS ART COMPLEX FOCUSES

ON COMPLETE IMMERSION INTO THE DIGITAL REALM .

S CREENING

TECHNIQUES WITHIN AND

BETWEEN THE EXHIBITION / PERFORMANCE OF THE WORK AND THE INTERACTIONS THAT ENGAGE THEM CREATE OVERLAP BETWEEN ART , ARTIST AND PUBLIC AND ALLOW FEEDBACK BETWEEN EXHIBITION SPACE AND VIEWER RESPONSE .

ORGANIZED

THROUGH A NETWORK OF CONTEXTUAL NODES , THE COMPLEX CURATES A

SEQUENCE OF EXPERIENCE THAT WEAVES THROUGH ZONES OF ART DISPLAY : CREATION , EXHIBITION , PERFORMANCE , INTERACTION .

AS

THESE ELEMENTS COLLIDE AND RESPOND , THE

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THEM ARE CONTROLLED THROUGH SURFACE AND VOLUME PROPERTIES INCLUDING TEXTURE , TRANSPARENCY AND DEPTH .

4 . digital art annex

nodes: urban voids / entry points / overlap across site number of occupants circulation path velocity fast

slow

site strategy: controlling circulation and velocity based on nodes across the site

study models: exploring exansion and compression of space to control movement

section perspective through galleries during the day

5 . digital art annex

interior double height galleries

section perspective through galleries at night

6 . digital art annex

perforated screens on the facade and landscaping elements provide areas for digital art projection and display

level 00

level 01

7 . digital art annex

artist studios and display within courtyard

facade projections at night

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level 03

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Jefferson St.

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site plan: sample deployment

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section through art box

installed art box

5’ fully contracted condition

10’

5’

10’ inbetween spaces on site inbetween spaces off site

network of flux box locations:

hydrolic system: acts in compression against existing buildings to suspend the flux box at any height

sites from 5’ - 20’ wide located between existing buildings

FLUX BOX FLUX

a network of transient art spaces schenck-woodman competition spring 2010 - 1 week

fully extended condition

BOX ADDRESSES THE ISSUE OF PUBLIC ART IN

P HILADELPHIA

BY INJECTING ITSELF

INTO THE VERY SMALL , LEFTOVER SPACES BETWEEN EXISTING BUILDINGS CREATING A NETWORK OF INDIVIDUAL MOMENTS .

DEVIATING

FROM THE FORMAL OCCUPATION OF ART

IN THIS AND MANY OTHER LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS , THERE IS A FOCUS ON THE TRANSIENT NATURE OF THE CREATION OF MURAL ARTS .

M ADE

OF LIGHT - WEIGHT MATERIALS AND FULLY

REDEPLOYABLE PARTS , THE FLUX BOX MAKES ART OF THE ACT OF CREATING BY PROVIDING SITE SPECIFIC , CONTROLLED VIEWS TO THOSE PASSING BY .

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IS DONE USING A VARIATION IN

TRANSPARENCIES , PERFORATIONS AND HINGED CONNECTIONS IN ALL WALL PANELS ALLOWING THE STRUCTURE TO OPEN UP TO THE SITE .

flux box

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Master St.

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11 . cognitive modulation

cognitive maps of linooln center for 10 protagonists

proximities and densities by program

programmatic intersections

COGNITIVE MODULATION PUBLIC avery fisher hall lobby studio 601 phu hoang fall 2009 - 6 weeks

OWNED .

SPACE IS THE VOID , THE CHASM , THE NOTHING BETWEEN ALL THAT IS PRIVATELY

BY

MAPPING THE VISITORS ’ CURRENT COGNITIVE PATH THROUGH

L INCOLN CENTER ,

THE OVERLAPPING AND INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN THEM CAN BE MANIPULATED TO FORM A NEW CONDITION APPROPRIATE TO EACH EVENT TAKING PLACE .

M OVEMENT

IS THEN CONTROLLED

BY RAMPING AS EACH EVENT IS DIRECTED BY VERTICALLY AND HORIZONTALLY DEFINED VOIDS .

12 . cognitive modulation

bar & outdoor lounge

circulation vip & circulation

bar & indoor lounge

dance floor restaurant seating

restaurant & kitchen

indoor concert hall

catwalk & dance floor outdoor concert

flux gallery

storage entrance & flux gallery

new lobby section and exploded axon showing program distribution and circulation

view to auditorium (lower) and dance floor (above)

entrance

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dance floor

private seating

bar

indoor performance open to below

cafe

level 02

view from plaza entrance

level 04

cognitive modulation

gallery kitchen

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section a-a

constructed views to gallery below: the interactions with the installation (below) and views (above)

15 . constructing views

installation in meyerson hall

manipulation procedure

detail

CONSTRUCTING VIEWS TRANSLUCENT reappropriating dome lids studio 501 phu hoang fall 2009 - 3 weeks

MATERIALS

INTRODUCE

THE

QUESTION

OF

VISIBILITY .

AS

AREAS

OF

TRANSPARENCY WERE CONTROLLED , PARTICULAR VIEWS WERE IMPAIRED AND A FEW CLEARINGS WERE LEFT FOR UNOBSTRUCTED SIGHT .

O NE

HAS CONTROL OF HOW PUBLIC OR PRIVATE

THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH THE INSTALLATION BECOMES , AS THE LAYERED MODULES FILTER THE VIEWS AND IN TURN MASK THE IDENTITY OF THE VIEWER .

DENSITY WAS PROVIDED BY THE CLUSTERING OF CLEAR LIDS, WHICH WERE THEN COUPLED WITH T HE WHITE LINES OF THIS FORMATION PROVIDE VISIBLE ORIENTATION AND DIRECT ATTENTION TO VARIOUS MODES OF INTERACTION .

A SINGLE OPAQUE LID .

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17 . gradiated densities

model detail: high density construction procedure

pavilion plan model detail: light/shadow

section

density collage

GRADIATED DENSITIES REVIEWS ARE architecture pin-up pavilion studio 501 phu hoang fall 2009 - 5 weeks

OFTEN THE ANTI - CLIMAX TO ANY PROJECT AS A SHORT , IMPERSONAL CRITIQUE

TAKES PLACE AND ULTIMATELY THE STUDENT ’ S FEELINGS OF SUCCESS HINGE ON THE COMMENTS OF A FEW JURORS .

MY

DESIGN AMBITION IS TO FOCUS THE TRADITIONAL REVIEW

BACK TO THE MOST IMPORTANT FUNCTION IT SERVES : PROVIDING A FORUM FOR INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE , WHICH ARE SPARKED BY THE PROJECTS COVERING THE WALLS .

W ITHIN

THIS PAVILION , A GRADIENT OF PRIVACY PRESENTS A NARRATIVE FOCUSING

THE CRITICS AND STUDENTS INTO A MORE INTIMATE DISCUSSION BY BREAKING UP SPACE INTO SMALLER SECTIONS AND BRINGING STUDENT WORK TO THE CENTER .

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19 . interchange & motion

site plan showing integration with existing neighborhood and new bridges to university and schuylkill river trail

INTERCHANGE & MOTION AS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS living for young professionals studio 601 jules dingle fall 2010 - 16 weeks

SEARCH FOR HOUSING IN

P HILADELPHIA , BY

TO BALANCE THE SOCIAL AND PERSONAL LIFE IN THE RESIDENCE .

THERE IS A NEED PROVIDING STUDIO

DWELLINGS , BUT THEN GROUPING THEM AND INCORPORATING A COMMUNAL LIVING SPACE , THIS PROJECT IS ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT BALANCE .

PUBLIC

GALLERIES , A CAFE AND AN OUTDOOR PLAZA OCCUPY THE GROUND LEVELS AND

ACTIVATE THE NEW PATH THAT BRIDGES THE SURROUNDING , CURRENTLY DISCONNECTED NEIGHBORHOODS .

T HIS

MAIN PATH RUNS THROUGH THE BUILDING ’ S CENTRAL COURTYARDS ,

AND SECONDARY PATHS THEN FURTHER EXTEND THE MOBILITY TO UPPER , RESIDENTIAL LEVELS THROUGH A NETWORK OF RAMPS .

20 . interchange & motion

new bike paths through site existing bike paths site

existing and new bike paths

university of sciences

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residential neighborhood

new path reconnects three disparate existing neighborhoods

section perspective through both courtyards and public plaza

industrial land

21 . interchange & motion

site model

view from schuylkill river trail connection

view from paschall avenue connection

view from university of sciences connection

interchange & motion

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cluster 4 4 units

cluster 3 3 units

cluster 1 5 units

living + 18’

living living

+ 10’

+ 20’

living + 12’

cluster 5 5 units

+ 15’

living

cluster 2 5 units

unit clusters create small communities which share a communal living space

semi-public interior space private interior space

circulation & public space semi-public balconies

public vs private interior spaces

public vs semi-private exterior spaces

exterior spaces surround units

men’s restroom women’s restroom office

gym + recreation cafe / bar

gallery

outdoor public plaza

bicycle storage

lobby

bicycle shop

level B1

level 00

23 . interchange & motion

open courtyard provides interaction with exterior weather conditions

transparencies and voids allow interchange between units and views back to the city of philadelphia

living living + 28’

living

roof garden

living

living

living + 22’

+ 15’

living

+ 25’

+ 12’

living

living

level 01

level 01

level 02

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25 . geomorphology

1 reconnecting to manhattan

4 primary building

3 viewing plazas 5 reshaped shore

site strategy

+ ‘beach’

8 varying topography

6 new landscaping

2 new pier conditions

7 integrated stream network

site plan

GEOMORPHOLOGY USING A TIME BASED, GENERATIVE PROCESS, LINES OF FORCE WERE DRAWN TO PROVIDE AN nyc institute of geology studio 602 ferda kolatan spring 2011 - 16 weeks

OVERALL SITE STRATEGY FROM WHICH THE INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY EMERGES .

THAT OCCURS WHEN THESE FORCES COLLIDE PROVIDES A DYNAMIC EXPERIENCE .

T HE VORTEX E XHIBITION

5 INDIVIDUAL TRAJECTORIES BASED ON THE BRANCH T HE CURATION OF THESE BRANCHES IS ORGANIZED

BY SCALE AND TIME ( DURATION OF FORMATION ), WHICH IS REINFORCED THROUGH A GRADIENT FROM DARK SUBGRADE SPACES TO LIGHT OPEN GALLERIES .

A LINEAR , STRIATED LANDSCAPE ALSO DISPLAYS THE PASSING OF TIME THROUGH THE AND RESEARCH SPACES ARE DIVIDED INTO OF GEOLOGY EACH IS ASSOCIATED WITH .

MOVEMENT OF ITS SURFACE AND THE INTERACTION OF THE NEW ISLAND EDGE WITH THE RISE

*team: amanda morgan, mark nicol,uhn choi

AND FLOW OF THE RIVER .

26 . geomorphology

curatorial organization

section perspective through paleontology branch

27 . geomorphology

section looking west

section looking north

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entrance level plan

28 . geomorphology

1. polycarbonate plastic 2. fiber mesh 3. polystyrene foam tems 4. integrated building systems 5. cast-in-place concrete 6. integrated lighting 7. brushed aluminum case e 8. glass enclosure 9. leather cushion 10. aluminum reveal

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wall assembly diagram

index of curatorial options

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geomorphology

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