Graduate Portfolio by Amy Anderson

AMY ANDERSON

GRADUATE PORTFOLIO

[HYPER]STUDIO Smoke: Civic Vessel

HUMAN COMPLEXITY Simple Machines

VERTICAL CITIES ASIA Miami Beach

[HOUSE MATTERS] Pure Contamination Contamination Two Final Contamination

GLOW WORKSHOP Throw*

UCSF

Academic Office Building

[Hyper] Studio

Smoke:Civic Vessel The Civic Vessel is a proposition for a new cultural district that serves mainly Windsor and Detroit, and travels on the Detroit River, as far north as Port Huron (Michigan), and as far south as Toledo (Ohio) to participate in other regional events. The energy of the project, given that the initial topic of smoke is intrinsically a spectacle, is found through the spectacle of the civic program it contains, and its participation in an event network, a network in spectacle production. The barge contributes a unique stage for Windsor and Detroit events, and provides the opportunity for program that has been depleted by the regional economies.

Left: 9x9x9 Smoke Diagrams Right: Iteration Diagrams of the Civic Vessel

Program Exhibition Space

35,000 sq. ft.

Restaurant

30,000 sq. ft.

Shopping

30,000 sq. ft.

Residences

30,000 sq. ft.

Border Control

Total

162

Storage/Back of House

Theater Stage/Back of House

Planetarium Mechanical Room

Pool Mechanical Room

Kitchen/Back of House

Storage/Check-Out Counter

Back of House/Mechanical Room Holding Cells/ Primary Inspection/ Secondary Inspection

January

February

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April We

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July 4

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Dock: Saint Clair Shores, Michigan July 26th: Aqua Fest: Nautical Mile Boat Parade of Lights

October

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Dock: Port Huron, Michigan July 15th: Boats, Balloons, BBQ Festival

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15 29

August

10 17 30

June

December Tu

Dock: Amherstburg, Ontario September 6th-9th: The Shores of Erie International Wine Festival

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Dock: Monroe, Michigan September 3rd: River Raisin Jazz Festival Dock: Toledo, Ohio August 3rdt-5th: Smoke on the Water: BBQ & Bluegrass Festival

Anchored: Detroit River [Between Detroit and Windsor] June 2nd-June 3rd: Redbull Air Race June 27th: Fireworks Dock: Delray, Michigan [DRIC Location] Arrives on the Hour

Dock: Windsor, Ontario [DRIC Location] Arrives Half-Past the Hour

Arson Unwanted Land

Dock: Detroit, Michigan [Downtown Detroit] January 9th-22nd: International Auto Show February 10th-12th: Motown Winter Blast February 29th-March 3rd: Metro Times Blowout April 30th: Movement: Electronic Music Festival June 21st-24th: Detroit River Days Festival July 4th-6th: Comerica Cityfest August 19th: Woodward Dream Cruise August 31st- September 2nd: Detroit International Jazz Festival November 18th: Christmas Tree Lighting November 22nd: America’s Thanksgiving Parade Dock: Windsor, Ontario [Downtown Location] June 8th- 10th: Carrousel by the River June 15th-20th: Summerfest July 7th-8th: Festival Epicure July 11th: Windsor Symphony Summer Series July 14th: BluesFest International July 27th-August 1st: Windsor International Fringe Festival August 15th: Windsor Symphony Summer Series November 7th-10th: Windsor International Film Festival

Left Above: Schedule of the Civic Vessel Left Below: Map of Events Above: Exploded Axonometric of the Civic Vessel

Border Control Section: 1/16”=1’

Theater/Retail Section: 1/16”=1’

Achored Section: 1/16”=1’

Left Above: Rendering of Port Huron Left: Rendering of Detroit Above: Sections and Circulation Diagrams

Human Complexity Simple Machines

The door handle is the mechanism that facilitates the movement between spaces. An initial study of a door knob allowed for consideration of breaking down a simple object into components to be understood more clearly. The ambition of the project is more concretely, to conceive of an ordinary object that would normally be interacted with on a daily basis, while being complex enough to consider manipulations and interactions. It is from this that a series of ordinary products could be conceived of becoming relatable to such a complex problem as the size and scale of the human hand.

Left: Exploded typewriter thingsneatlyorganizedneatly Right: Sections and Circulation Diagrams

4.13.9* Door Hardware.

Lever Handle Typical universal design standard Low security Key lock recommended for added security Hand Breadth: First Percentile Women View a: Front elevation

View b: Top elevation

B: 2.8 inches

Handles, pulls, latches, locks, and other operating devices on accessible doors shall have a shape that is easy to grasp with one hand and does not require tight grasping, tight pinching, or twisting of the wrist to operate. Lever-operated mechanisms, push-type mechanisms, and U-shaped handles are acceptable designs. When sliding doors are fully open, operating hardware shall be exposed and usable from both sides. Hardware required for accessible door passage shall be mounted no higher than 48 in (1220 mm) above finished floor.

Left: Diagram of Level Handle Above: Definition of Door Hardware in the IBC Code

A. Hand Length The distance from the base of the hand at the wrist crease to the tip of the middle finger.

B. Hand Breadth The breadth of the hand, measured across the ends of the metacarpal bones (metacarpalphalangeal joints).

B B

A A A

C. Hand Circumference The Circumference of the hand, measured around the knuckles (metacarpal-phalangeal joints).

WOMEN’S 99th PERCENTILE WOMEN’S 50th PERCENTILE WOMEN’S 1st PERCENTILE

Left: Parameter Definition Above: Range of Hand Sizes Studied

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The design of the various door handles is an attempt to evoke a discussion between a simple machine, manipulated (lever door handle) and the complexity of the human hand. The project is a dichotomous interaction between two data sets. The first set is an attempt to describe and catalog a set of door levers that correspond to measurements of the human hand from the smallest hands to largest. The second is an ephemeral complexity that is realized partially due to the fact that the human hand simply cannot be recorded by any 3-Dimensional software accurately and efficiently. The final work is set out to generate discussion about the complexity of the human body in relationship to space and the range of dimension, movement, and interactions that take place on a daily basis.

Closed

Hand Breadth Ninetieth Percentile Men

Above: Range of Motion Studied

Vertical Cities Asia Miami Beach

The Vertical Cities Asia is a proposition and consideration for the high density cities and aging population. Considerations for residential towers with variable unit types provided the opportunity to rethink community spaces and neighbors not just horizontally, but vertically in space. The location of Miami Beach in a larger master plan drew from the proximity of the project to a newly constructed park, and brought the environmental and natural aspect up through the towers to create an environment of community and green spaces at the plinth level through the towers.

Playground DayCare Community Garden Sustainable Program

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Institutional Program

SOLID VOID

Playground DayCare Community Garden Sustainable Program

Restaurant Stores Market Gym

VOID

SOLID VOID

Playground Right: Program Diagrams DayCare Community Garden Sustainable Program

Restaurant Stores Market Gym

InstitutionalLeft:Program Commercial Program Images of Iconic City Grids Superimposed on Site

MIAMI BEACH

VOID

Institutional Program

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AMY ANDERSON, ZULIANG GUO COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO 2012

Commercial Program

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OPAQUE PROGRAM Commercial Program Residential Program One Bedroom Units Two Bedroom Units Three Bedroom Units

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ONE BEDROOM TWO BEDROOM THREE BEDROOM SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM/ LANDSCAPE COMMERCIAL PROGRAM

Left: Physical Models of the Unit and Building Above: Elevation Diagrams with Distribution of Units

VOID PROGRAM COMMERCIAL PROGRAM SUSTAINABLE PROGRAM/ LANDSCAPE PRIVATE PROGRAM

Left Above: Renderings from the Balcony Left:Ground Level Above: Axonometric of Program Distribution

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NORTH Vertical Flow Wetlands Recirculation Tank (IÀXHQW 5HVXVH IRU 7RLOHWV Irrigation, Cooling Towers

INTENSIVE GREEN ROOF LIVING MACHINE

Left Above: Renderings from Bridge Towards the Park Left: Rendering from the Park Above: Axonometric Diagram of Sustainable Program

[HouseMatters]

Pure

The initial project in the House Matters studio, started as an investigation of materiality and making. Pure is a production of an inhabitable-space that provides the most basic needs of a shelter, while being constructed of only one material. The form and materiality of the project took a secondary role only to the details and joinery of the material.

Left: Interior of One Material Sketch Model Right: Diagrams of Vinyl Lacing Strategies

Contamination

10’-0”

The contamination project built off of pure as a way to either add another material or contaminate, while using Le Corbusier’s Cabanon as a programmatic model. Instead of continuing with the same Vinyl tubing and lacing, Contamination led more to an investigation of contaminating space, while working on a container versus interior condition, and how the threshold of the container would be breached and altered.

Left: Sketches of Contamination Strategy Right: Contamination Section Diagrams

Contamination Two

Contamination two, continued with the idea of a container and a contaminating material, while introducing the program and ideologies of a precedent study, Jacob’s House by Frank Lloyd Wright. The introduction of another material, gypsum, became the contaminator in a plywood framework. The program of the Jacob’s house was reconsidered and rearranged to allow for some recognition and ghosting of the home, while constructing a new take with new materials.

Left Above: Jacob’s House Precedent Left Below: Material and Frame Studies Right: Section Diagrams of the Rigidity Versus Flexibility of the Materials.

Left Above: Plan and Interior Sketches Left:Gypsum & Frame Model Right: Contamination Two Plans, Introducing Precedent Program

Final Contamination

The final contamination was an investigation of a plywood framework that would outline the precedent program, only then to be pushed and pulled to create a new space. The gypsum material was then applied to the framework in degrees of opacity to allow for light to penetrate the space.

Left Above: Profile Sketch Model Left: Phasing Model Right: Framework/Sections of the Final Contamination

West Elevation

South Elevation

East Elevation

North Elevation

West Elevation

East Elevation South Elevation

East Elevation

North Elevation

Left: Framework Model and Full Material Model Right: Elevations

Kitchen

Bathroom

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Dining Room

Study

Left Above: View Into the Dinning Room Left: View From the Side Yard Right: Contamination Plan

Left Above: View of Living Room Left: View From Living Room Down the Main Hallway Right: Contamination Sections

Glow Workshop Throw*

Throw re-imagines “streetlights” in the context of the peculiarities and darkness within the city of Detroit. With the intention to resonate with and obscure the context, these lights do not provide for the missing illumination or exist only for function, instead, they are to alter the space, comment on the condition, and devise something different. The shape of the modular is a commentary to the rigor of the Brewster Douglass complex. The materials promote glow, darkness, scalar shifts, and imagination.

All: Test Groupings of Painted, Translucent, and Mirrored Acrylic with LED lights.

UCSF

Academic Office Building In a competition for the UCSF Academic Office Building,Valerio Dewalt Train Associates and STUDIOS Architecture teamed up with Webcor Builders to provide the University with a new Academic Office Building that would provide durable, environmental, efficient, high performing work and learning spaces. Planning and Design Criteria, as well as, Technical Performance Criteria developed by the University was precisely followed and developed into a building information modeled design.

Left: Rendering at Night into the Atrium Right: Concept Sketches by J. Valerio

Left Above: Rendering from 16th Street Left: Rendering from 4th Street Right: Axonometric Diagram of 60’x60’ Typical Floor Modular

CAMPUS WAY A

33' ‐ 0"

27' ‐ 0"

28' ‐ 0"

34' ‐ 0"

30' ‐ 0"

S 1

30' ‐ 0"

STAIR 396 SF LG CLASSROOM 1213 SF

LG CLASSROOM 1234 SF

50 HEADS

WOMEN'S TOILET 285 SF

MEN'S TOILET 287 SF

50 HEADS

MAIN ELECTRICAL 324 SF

MD CLASSROOM 867 SF

MAIL 505 SF

BOOSTER PUMP 198 SF

BDF 207 SF

32 HEADS

FIRE PUMP 124 SF

PG&E VAULT 339 SF

LOADING 549 SF

30' ‐ 0"

CORRIDOR 1235 SF

CPF 82 SF

ELEC

CLASSROOM STORAGE 469 SF

CAFE 3678 SF

3 LG CLASSROOM 1331 SF

LG CLASSROOM 1348 SF

COMPUTER LAB 1346 SF

30' ‐ 0"

LG CLASSROOM 1475 SF

60 HEADS

CONF A 1150 SF

52 HEADS

50 HEADS

ETS 151 SF

56 HEADS

30' ‐ 0"

CONF D 228 SF

8 HEADS

CONNECTIVE PASSAGEWAY

30' ‐ 0"

CONF D 227 SF CPF 59 SF

8 HEADS

ELEC 66 SF

8 HEADS

STAIR 340 SF

CONF D 227 SF

ENTRANCE HALL 7064 SF

CONF C 451 SF 16 HEADS

QUIET STUDY 110 SF

PHARMACY 2002 SF

QUIET STUDY 110 SF

30' ‐ 0"

4TH STREET

25B (FUTURE BLDG)

OPENING ABOVE

ELEV 1 83 SF

ELEV 2 71 SF

ELEV 3 69 SF

ELEV 4 69 SF

MEN'S TOILET 228 SF

STAIR 344 SF

SRC 565 SF

WOMEN'S TOILET 251 SF

SM CLASSROOM 305 SF

SM CLASSROOM 303 SF

16 HEADS

3RD STREET

56 HEADS

CONF A 1146 SF

BUILDING OVERHEAD CONF C 508 SF

SM CLASSROOM 371 SF

33' ‐ 0"

16 HEADS

LC QUITE STUDY 508 SF

STUDY AREA 1707 SF

16 HEADS

SM CLASSROOM 381 SF

30' ‐ 0"

16 HEADS

MISSION BAY BLOCK 25A FACULTY OFFICE BUILDING PRELIMINARY DESIGN SUBMITTAL

Left: Rendering Section through Atrium Right: First Floor Plan

BREAK‐OUT 190 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 75 SF 73 SF

BREAK‐OUT 242 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

BREAK‐OUT 265 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 77 SF 73 SF

BREAK‐OUT 244 SF

STAIR 305 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF BREAK‐OUT 604 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 59 SF 59 SF

PRINT/COPY 20 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

FOCUS 63 SF CONF D 217 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

PRINT/COPY 43 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

HUDDLE 116 SF

HUDDLE 117 SF

CONF C 394 SF

CONF D 221 SF

IDF 178 SF

AV 47 SF

PRINT/COPY 29 SF

ELEC 155 SF

LG STORAGE 203 SF

CONF C 381 SF

CONF D 213 SF

CONF B 722 SF

OPEN TO BELOW

SM STORAGE 92 SF

ELEV 1 83 SF

HUDDLE 117 SF

STAIR 241 SF

HUDDLE 117 SF

ELEV 3 71 SF

HUDDLE 115 SF

ELEV 4 71 SF

HUDDLE 115 SF

MEN'S TOILET 229 SF

SHAFT 11 SF FOCUS 61 SF FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

OPEN TO BELOW

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 58 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 57 SF 55 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 72 SF 63 SF

25B (FUTURE BLDG)

HUDDLE 118 SF

PRINT/COPY 30 SF WOMEN'S TOILET 289 SF

ELEV 2 71 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

HUDDLE 118 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

STAIR 296 SF

FOCUS 58 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

IDF 218 SF

PRINT/COPY 43 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

FOCUS 68 SF FOCUS 65 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF 60 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

ELEC 56 SF

FOCUS 62 SF FOCUS 61 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 58 SF

HOTEL STATION 79 SF

HOTEL STATION 80 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

HUDDLE 118 SF

FOCUS 60 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

PRINT/COPY 18 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

HUDDLE 120 SF

FOCUS 62 SF

HUDDLE 126 SF

PRINT/COPY 51 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF HOTEL STATION 41 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

HUDDLE 125 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 57 SF 56 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

FILE 192 SF

MECH 107 SF

PRINT/COPY 20 SF

HUDDLE 118 SF

HUDDLE 115 SF

HUDDLE 115 SF PRINT/COPY 22 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 57 SF 57 SF

BREAK‐OUT 214 SF

HUDDLE 118 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 58 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 59 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 60 SF

FOCUS FOCUS 60 SF 58 SF

9 FOCUS 97 SF

MISSION BAY BLOCK 25A FACULTY OFFICE BUILDING PRELIMINARY DESIGN SUBMITTAL

Left: Interior Renderings Right: Typical Floor Plan

Amy Anderson 2222 Fuller Court Ann Arbor, MI, 48105 (231) 675- 4602 anderamy@umich.edu