Andrew Wolking - DESIGN PORTFOLIO The University of Michigan - Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
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03 - 40 ALTERNATIVE ELDERLY LIVING VERTICAL TERRITORIES AGRARIAN AESTHETICS BORDER PATROL ON DUTY
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43 - 54 FOLDING PLATE TECTONICS BODY + ENERGY BATHYMETRIC TABLE
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57 - 70 MADE - STUDIO MICHAEL FITZHUGH ARCHITECT
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This comprehensive housing design studio project is situated in Seoul, Korea and takes on the growing issue of the rising elderly population. A staggering number of this population are forced out of the work place at the early age of 50 in order to provide work for young professionals. This mixed use housing proposal provides ways to keep the elderly active and fully engaged in the community. The project, located adjacent to a public park, one of the few public green spaces in Seoul, takes on the scale of an entire block and re imagines the courtyard typology at an urban scale. An agricultural strip runs parallel to the border of the park acting as a productive buffer between park and city. The project utilizes this proximity to the urban agricultural strip, but at a personal and community scale. Practice gardens in the central space of the courtyard offer classes to the community, particularly the elderly, on growing their own food. Farmers markets on weekends in the courtyard draw the community into the central space of the project allowing interaction between the elderly and others living in the space with surrounding community. Personal gardens on the roof top of private units invert the ground plane and continue the idea of a productive landscape for food production. The first level of the housing block serves the surrounding community with open retail space, and restaurant. On the south side of the project are classrooms many of which are devoted to teaching those how to grow their own food. Practice gardens in the central space of the courtyard draw a visual connection to the urban agriculture strip.
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A path weaves its way into the courtyard where farmers market stands would be set up on weekends. A thin canvas structure allows shading in the warm summer months. On the east side of the site, sloping ground offers privacy to the residents living in the various units above. There are four unit types that make up each housing block. Drawing from the close connection to the earth at courtyard level, each unit is devoted to an alternative lifestyle focused on experiencing the elements more intimately. Earth, air, fire, and water are driving factors behind the unit designs.
Practice Garden Area
SITE PLAN SCALE 1:250
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Elder School Classroom Space
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Agricultural Strip
Pu P ub c P ub ark k Public Park
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Ground Unit Windows with Shading
Air Unit Windows without Shading
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Cluster Plan 1:150 Scale
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SECTION SECTION - FIRE- FIRE UNIT UNIT
ELEVATION ELEVATION - EXTERIOR - EXTERIOR FACADE FACADE
SCALE 1:20 SCALE 1:20
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SECTION SECTION - WIND - WIND UNIT UNIT SCALE 1:20 SCALE 1:20
Rigid Aluminum Rigid Slab Aluminum Slab Facing andFacing Support and Brace Support Brace
Interior Fireplace Interior Fireplace Exterior Facade Exterior Screen Facade Lift Screen Lift Track Track
Accordion Style Accordion Glazed Style Glazed Doors Doors Wood PlankWood Flooting Plank Flooting Concrete Slab Concrete w Metal Slab w Metal Decking Decking Structural Steel Structural Steel Wood Panel Wood Ceiling Panel Ceiling
Exterior Insect Exterior Screen Insect RollScreen Roll Cross Ventilation Cross Ventilation
Operable Exterior Operable Facade Exterior Facade Screen Screen Sun Shading Sun (Summer) Shading (Summer)
Sun Shading Sun (Winter) Shading (Winter)
Concrete Slab Concrete Slab Leaseable Leaseable Retail Space Retail Space
Vapor Barrier Vapor Barrier
Interior Column Interior Footing Column Footing
FoundationFoundation Footing Footing
SECTION SECTION DETAIL DETAIL - OPERABLE - OPERABLE METAL METAL SCREEN SCREEN SCALE SCALE 1:10 1:10
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Exterior Perspective of the communal cooking spaces
RENDERED EXTERIOR ELEVATIONS / RESIDENCE COMMUNITY HEARTH
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private gardens at roof level invert the ground plane
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Perspective of rooftop garden - Medium, etched rockite and charcoal
First Floor Plan
Section Perspective of Interior - Medium, etched rockite and charcoal
Second Floor Plan
the hearth serves as the structural base as well as organizing element
Perspective of living space - Medium, etched plywood and conte crayon
Section Perspective of Interior - Medium, etched plywood and conte crayon
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A section model of one of the “Water Unit� reveals glass partitions and the folding facade. The unit is arranged around the use of water with the sink two central sinks as organizers of the space. Community spaces are located on each level for all to access. Fire places and grilling stacks are part of these vertical shafts. Community engagement is oriented around cooking of the fresh produce from the market and gardens in the court yard
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The project situates itself in the uneasy territory of robotic construction and design. Through the use of an industrial plastic extruder, the architect is asked to reconsider his / her role in the design of space. No longer is space designed through the relationship of solids in a field. Single line tool paths, coded for the robotic arm, define interior and exterior, solid and void. The architectural construction document becomes a three dimensional diagram of the path of the robot. Architectural space is conceived and defined through a new drawing typology. Plan and section are eliminated from the construction drawing process and replaced by a holistic view of the final output. As material is deposited along these tool paths, the robotic arm becomes an opportunist seeking points of density to establish the next place for deposition. The tower is built in layers, each one a reaction to the previous. This constant response allows the architect the design capacity to be versatile allowing the material deposition to directly influence the formal output. The architect becomes a responder to live construction, where the final form isn’t conceived from the start, but allowed to develop from constraints given to the machine.
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A series of typologies illustrates the makeup of the final form. First columns are constructed and then connected. Once this is stabilized, a zig- zag pattern drapes over the connection and solidifies the form allowing new opportunities for vertical construction.
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After the deposition of each layer a digital scan is taken and input into the computer. A model of the form is constructed from a series of photographs allowing the designer the ability to identify areas of density for the construction of the next layer.
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The tool paths of a tower are expressed in color to identify the different motions of the robotic arm. The resulting mesh form is a solid representation of the porous line work of the construction document.
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The aesthetics of agrarian living are recreated throughout the suburban landscape across America. Through a suppression of scale, suburban living is able to harness the aspects of the agrarian way of life. Expansive crops are replicated through private backyard vegetable gardens or indoor potted herbs. Acres of private property are replicated through individual plots of land for the suburban way of life. However, the garden offers the most unique way to experience agrarian living. Meditation gardens in particular, allow the participant an alternative way to engage with the natural environment through the staging of views, smells, sights, and sounds. This experience provokes an observer to become thoroughly connected to their “natural� surroundings.
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programmatic elements the project creates an atmosphere of meditative quality catering to those coming to escape the suburban or city life and partake in the aestheticization of the agrarian way of life Juxtapositions of expansive crops and vegetable gardens, community kitchens with high end restaurant are moments where various social spheres come together, their interactions supported by the arrangement of the architecture. The variety of programs integrated into the site to attract different user groups had to be supported by an architecture that read as one continual project. To achieve this, wood-planked paths flip and curve into interior and exterior walls, walk-able roofs, and floor plates for the surrounding buildings. This creates a visual blending to connect the various programmatic elements.
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ONE - Living accommodations for employees as well as visitors - Restaurant using foods from site - Indoor vegetable gardens - Grocery store and Office spaces
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TWO -Living accommodations for employees and visitors - Outdoor rooftop seating space THREE - Indoor Vegetable Gardens - Equipment Rooms FOUR - Check-in for visitors - Office spaces for employees
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FIVE - Aquarium for fresh water fish - Stadium seating for demonstrations regarding the fish industry - Equipment rooms
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SIX - Fishermen’s outing shop - Farmer’s supply store - Garderner’s supply store - Office space - Storage space SEVEN - Communal Kitchens - Outdoor pavilion picnic area
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EIGHT - Restaurant spaces using food from vegetable gardens and crops - Outdoor rooftop seating - Public Bar - Rentable gathering space NINE - Meditative Observation tower - Open floor plans to accommodate exercise classes TEN - Private Suites - Outdoor covered pavilion
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A cross section of the resort complexes shows the spatial arrangements of the interior. Farmland and indoor and outdoor vegetable gardens stretch throughout the site, taking on a meditative quality fostered by woodplanked walkways that weave in, out, and on top of buildings. This is to attract those coming to escape suburban or city life and partake in the aestheticization of the agrarian way of life. In these two structures the first of three social agendas is realized. The resorts offer rooms to not only those from the suburbs and city, but also to those working the fields and gardens. Their interactions are inevitable.
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When approaching the tip of the peninsula, occupants of the site reach a hot spot for the blending of social spheres. Kelleys Island is famous for its walleye fishing, therefore, attracting a third group of people. Communal kitchens connected by a folding roof for covered outdoor eating, lie in the middle of the site provoking fishermen docking on the north edge to pass hotel suites and uppity restaurants on their route to cook their catches. Similarly those who are leaving the hotels to pick their food and cook in the kitchens are forced to pass an aquarium/mini amphitheater and an outdoor fishing store.
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The border between The United States and Mexico is an ever increasing zone of instability. The Rio Grande plays a major role in the separation of these two countries, acting as a natural boundary between Texas and the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, and Chihuahua. There are several major international border crossings along the Rio Grande including the sister cities of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and Laredo, Texas. These two towns serve as the most active inland ports for both the U.S. and Mexico, therefore, making it a hot spot for border crossing. This studio project highlights the sensitivity of these two cities by engaging the international border, which as it stands, is an invisible line that runs directly through the center of the Rio Grande. How can that line be reinterpreted, and what are the results and consequences of blurring that invisible rift? The site plan of the project shows the Rio Grande pulling behind three customs buildings physically detaching them from the city grid and allowing visual penetration to the city of Laredo on the opposite banks. An abandoned placita, a mexican plaza, sits behind the largest custom buillding. This is the site for the intervention. As the Rio Grande filters into the city grid, a space for recreational use is realized. The work addresses a larger international scale by redefining the political border between the United States and Mexico. The concepts and graphic work was done with the assistance of E. Crabb. Execution of this project was done as a team from beginning ideas to completed project.
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This group digital fabrication project was inspired by the idea of pushing a folded plate structure to its limits by using a thick gauge 1/4” HDPE plastic. After several material investigations, the group decided HDPE showed the most promise for formal exploration. The inherent elasticity of the HDPE allowed for the design and fabrication of a double curvature volume that is meant to test the limits of the plastic as well as the structural stability of the design. A script developed with the program Python, allowed for an ease of formal explorations by tiling the individual units around an input surface while maintaining planar characteristics of each piece. Once the final form was decided upon, cut sheets were made from 4’ x 8’ sheets of HDPE. Each individual unit was custom cut from a CNC mill and folded to its particular shape attaching to its neighbor through folded fins secured with rivets. The resulting vaulted form created a space for pause along the long corridor of U of M’s architecture school.
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Formal Studies with Script
Formal Investigations
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The energy crisis we face today will continue to worsen unless a significant and dedicated shift is made for clean and renewable sources of energy. To progress toward a sustainable future we have to involve those who have yet to be faced with energy decisions - our youth. Addressing the issues of energy consumption at the scale of a child should become an increasingly important agenda for schools across the country. This group project confronted this task allowing kids at Dickens Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan to have a kinetic experience by powering a television set as well as a VCR through biking in place. The project allows kids to ask themselves, “how much television would we actually watch if we had to work for it?�
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The project takes on the task of energy conversion through human power, and is constructed of entirely recycled or donated materials. Pedals, seats, and handle bars are mounted to a fabricated steel frame. By peddling, a giant wheel begins to spin a converter which transforms the kinetic energy into electrical power, allowing a video to play on the television mounted to the opposite side of the frame.
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This coffee table takes inspiration from my time spent in northern Michigan. Bathymetric data of Lake Michigan’s Grand and Little Traverse Bays is etched into the surface of the plexiglass top. Steel brackets lift the plexiglass off the surface allowing it to hover. Below the table top is a geometric representation mimicking the movement of the water juxtaposing the static nature of the bathymetric line work.
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This group digital fabrication project was inspired by the idea of pushing a folded plate structure to its limits by using a thick gauge 1/4” HDPE plastic. After several material investigations, the group decided HDPE showed the most promise for formal exploration. The inherent elasticity of the HDPE allowed for the design and fabrication of a double curvature volume that is meant to test the limits of the plastic as well as the structural stability of the design. A script developed with the program Python, allowed for an ease of formal explorations by tiling the individual units around an input surface while maintaining planar characteristics of each piece. Once the final form was decided upon, cut sheets were made from 4’ x 8’ sheets of HDPE. Each individual unit was custom cut from a CNC mill and folded to its particular shape attaching to its neighbor through folded fins secured with rivets. The resulting vaulted form created a space for pause along the long corridor of U of M’s architecture school.
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A series of site analysis drawings analyzes surface conditions as well as the surrounding neighborhood for the four Detroit public schools
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This residential condominium was designed for a resident in Traverse City, Michigan. The central stair was a key component to the organization of the space emphasizing the double height living room. The stair leads to the master bedroom, partitioned from the living room below by only glass panels, allowing visual continuity to be stretched from first to second floor. The kitchen, an extension of the living room, allows the user a unique opportunity to entertain as well as prepare meals. Full height glass windows open onto an exterior patio from the living room and blur the boundary between interior and exterior.
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This residential project is a custom timber framed home located in northern Michigan. It utilizes SIP panel construction, ideal for the cold climate, while also allowing for efficient construction.
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