Interventions : Architecture Reaching Out

exposing territories

Stanley, ND

infiltrating networks

St. Louis

INTERVENTIONS : ARCHITECTURE REACHING OUT

B R O O K E H E LG E R S O N adapting infrastructures

Valparaiso amplifying cities

Buenos Aires

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exposing territories

RECRUITING FUTURE GEOLOGIES

infiltrating networks

connecting landscapes

ORCHESTRATING ENERGY

PROGRAMMING INFRASTRUCTURE

adapting infrastructures

CONVENING A CONSTITUENCY

amplifying cities

EVOLVING EDUCATION

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RECRUITING FUTURE GEOLOGIES _EXPOSING TERRITORIES

Protologics Graduate Studio Instructor Stephen Mueller https://protologics.wordpress.com

Spring 2014

15 weeks

Stanley, North Dakota: geology, aquifers, and new oil well sites, Illustrator and GIS

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BUILDING IN DEEP TIME The proliferation of fracking and its extraction of 65,000,000 year-old material in western North Dakota is setting in motion several alterations to both the landscape and peoples’ idea of their home in the present. The processes of the oil industry cannot be stopped, but they can be taken advantage of in order to give some power back to the region’s original residents.

By reorganizing farming and oil waste as well as the junk from the residents’ pasts into a built-to-last constructed landscape, the people can have agency again through actually participating in the manipulation their environment.

Oil in North America : Sources and Destinations, Ilustrator

U.S. Geology and Oil Boom Towns

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Stanley, ND: 1) geologic strata

2) oil collection

3) agricultural collection

FUTURE G Project site section in relationship with city of Stanley, ND; Rhino and Illustrator

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4) landscape collection - erosion

5) combined collection processes

6) effect of oil extraction

GEOLOGIES organizes a system of material ecologies that encourages people to mark their landscape 5

ORCHESTRATING ENERGY _INFILTRATING NETWORKS Graduate Degree Project Studio

Instructor Elena Canovas

Fall 2014 - Present

30 weeks

St. Louis Energy Interface Solar, Algae, Biomass, and Microturbines 30 + MW

Anheuser-Busch Coal 26.1 MW

SW Bell Telephone Petroleum 17.2MW

Centralized systems (white) and distributed generation (red), visualized throughout St. Louis, Photoshop and Illustrator

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REDEFINING POWER

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Energy production and transmission in the United States is an infrastructure in great need of a redesign. Centralized systems of power are highly susceptible to the increasing number of extreme weather events. A system of distributed generation sites in St. Louis provides an opportunity for a unique architecture: each site is a spatial prototype for bringing research in alternative technologies together with spaces for specific city programs, in this case, the MetroLink and St. Louis University.

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Project plan and perspective. at Grand Avenue showing access ramps and network connection Rhino and Illustrator; original scale 1/16” = 1’-0”

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Program plan, Rhino and Illustrator; original scale 1/16” = 1’-0”; opposite: rendering of public activity within the power plant

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The ENERGY INTERFACE joins people and power to make energy an experience of the city 9

PROGRAMMING INFRASTRUCTURE

_CONNECTING LANDSCAPES

Undergraduate Synthesis Studio with partner Katlyn Flannery

Instructor Dan Clark

Spring 2012

One of the elevator nodes situated within the existing fabric of the city, Rhino, Vray, and Illustrator

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10 weeks

VALPARAISO, CHILE Valparaiso is located on the coast amidst steep hills and ravines that limit mobility and cause social segregation. The existing system of ascensores are in need of an upgrade: a network of vertical nodes inserted into the city’s hills. These will house both the infrastructure needed and commercial program to fund its upkeep, giving the city a lasting extension to their current transportation system.

Extension of access and mobility with proposed elevator network, Rhino and Illustrator

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1) ascensore

2) new vertical access

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PROPOSED

3) public space above and below

4) circulation through commercial spaces

PRO City axon showing elevator network, Rhino and Illustrator

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Network of elevators acting as visual beacons in the city, Photoshop

OGRAMMING INFRASTRUCTURE invents a typology of transportation that improves access to the city 13

CONVENING A CONSTITUENCY _ADAPTING INFRASTRUCTURES Field Research and Independent Study

Instructor Stephen Mueller

ASCENSORE FUTURES Field research reveals that the current situation of the ascensores is fragile: despite governmental attempts at ownership, promised repairs and operations have not taken place. This suggests that the ascensores should be put in control of the community. But as the city has changed, are the ascencores’ historic purposes enough? Speculating into the future of Valparaiso reveals the potential for alternative programs that highlight existing needs and important user groups. These include the Hypertourist, the Courier, the Newsie, and The Outdoorsman.

“Outdoorsman” location

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Spring 2014

18 weeks

“Outdoorsman� plan with diagrammed program and user groups, Illustrator

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Collage of views seen from the Artilleria ascensore in Valparaiso, August 2013

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Ascensore mechanics, Illustrator; Ascensore experience, photos by author

“The Outdoorsman� section, Rhino and Illustrator

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“The Outdoorsman” collage, Photoshop

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CONVENING A CONSTITUENCY appropriates the ascensore to spatialize local micro-communities 19

EVOLVING EDUCATION _AMPLIFYING CITIES Buenos Aires Graduate Studio

Instructors Gustavo Cardon and Gerardo Caballero

Planta Baja, Rhino y Illustrator; 1 : 250

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Fall 2013

15 weeks

PLATFORM FOR FLEXIBILITY Villa 31 is an informal neighborhood at the center of current political debate, located in the heart of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This project provides resource collection areas, a library, a cafeteria/ learning kitchen, and rehearsal rooms below that support flexible spaces for students and teachers above. The buildings lift off the ground to preserve public thoroughfares under the highway, and the space between them is utilized for public performances and community events.

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FREEDOM OF CHOICE The upper level is the center of activity where students can identify and build for their own interests. The floating roof structure is built in, but the location and materials of enclosure are to be determined by the school each season.

Opciones de facada en el nivel alta, 1 : 50; 1) cortina

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2) madera

3) chapa

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EVOL Vista: Mantener acceso para el barrio; opposite: Teatro debajo de la autopista

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LVING EDUCATION reconceives the school as an open system to be defined by students and teachers 25

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BROOKE HELGERSON

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s t a t e m e n t Design is a way forward into new worlds--that is, the exploration of unexpected layers of information

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and knowledge. I see architecture as part of this, a beautiful way of problem solving. Its relevancy from the

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design Buenos Aires Study Abroad Semester GPA 3.94/4.0 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA College of Design, School of Architecture College of Liberal Arts, School of Music, Music Minor Design and Society in Copenhagen Global Seminar Graduated summa cum laude with high distinction (GPA 3.9/4.0)

2012-2014

HOK INTERN Contributed 3D models and design and technical documents to a variety of existing projects and proposals for buildings around the United States

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D I G I TA L Revit; Rhino; AutoCAD; Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop; GIS; Vray; Grasshopper; Sketchup; Kerkythea; 3D Studio Max; Adobe Premiere; Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint

2008-2012

EXPERIENCE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDIO TEACHING ASSISTANT Engage with professors and students in stimulating ideas and providing critical feedback relating to improving drawing and diagram communication

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construction detail to the creation of space for interaction make it a powerful tool with endless layers to discover.

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bhelgerson22@wustl.edu

Fall 2014

H O N O R S + AC T I V I T I E S Honor Award Morpholio Pinup Competition (Online) Evelyn Webb Scholoarship

Summer 2014

JLG ARCHITECTS INTERN Worked with project architects to create, edit, and publish project documents for clients while developing improved office organization

2011-2012

MEYER, SCHERER & ROCKCASTLE MODELMAKER Crafted models of the firm’s current projects for client proposals

2010-2011

National Merit Scholar Selected Presenter National Conference For Undergraduate Research Recipient UMN Fibiger Prize For Research Musician

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