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2014 Bridgette Celeste Tinsley
Bridgette Celeste Tinsley 9584 Cooley Lake Rd. White Lake Mi, 48386
Education
2014
University of Michigan
Taubman College of architecture and Urban Planning B.S. In Architecture
2008-2012
Master of Architecture
2012-2014
Experience
Dumankaya Group Travel Studio
Urban Design Consultant 2013
Volunteer Dia Delectricity Installation Fabricator 2012
Ferndale School District
Module Creator 2012
Email: briceles12@gmail.com Phone: 1-248-342-8504
J.R. Snyder Scholarship Award 2012
University of Michigan Student Show
AIA Honorable Mention 2012
University of Michigan Wallenburg Competition
Nominated to Compete 2012
Skills
Rhinoceros VRay AutoCad Revit 3DS Max Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Sketching Modeling MIG Welding Laser Cutting
Recognitions
MIMSF Architecture Student Scholarship
Table of
The Street
Pages 1 - 10
Ijburg Island West, Amsterdam 260m x 75m Arch 562 / W2013
Site Seeing
Pages 11 - 20
Detroit, Micigan 90ft x 80ft Arch 432 / F2011
Golden Horn E.
Pages 21 - 26
Sut Luce, Istanbul 3000m x 1000m Arch 672 / F2013
objectecture
Pages 27 - 30
Domesticity 4ft x 7 ft Arch 660 / W2014
Glowway
Pages 31 - 38
Chicago, Illinois 6 Sites (120ft x 150ft) Arch 552 / F2012
The
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Ijburg is a series of man-made
residential islands created in 2013 and located in the Netherlands. Amsterdam, which reclaims significant square footage of land from the sea, is below sea level and experiences frequent flooding along the coastline. The project sited here has two major goals in mind. One goal is to collect and reroute the near constant rainfall of Amsterdam while mitigating any damage caused by the periodic flooding of these islands. The other goal is to foster a tight nit community for the island goers, not only by providing a plethora of public spaces for the building residents, but leaving them open to any and all that my pass through.
Location: Ijburg Island West, Amsterdam Site Dimensions: Program:
RES. 2 units per hectare
Collaborators: Project/Date:
260m x 75m
Alexis Galinis Arch 562 / W2013 02
Southern
Elevation
The flood plane is composed of a series of interconnected sports facilities with an adjacent gym and food court. In raising the residences safely away from the water it created an entire complex of accessible activity spaces we then leveraged into something of community center.
Water
Diagram
Pool 03
Basketball Court
Bocceball Court
The open air, flat planes of the basketball, bocce, soccer court, and playground (the lowest levels of the complex) allow excess water to collect and evaporate more easily. There is also a system of light/ water wells that collect water from the roof tops and divert them to a series of underground cisterns. On its way down the water filters through the green roof and green walls systems. It then undergoes microfiltration before it is pumped back into the units for toilets and heated floors.
View
Lobby
Soccer Court
Pool
Basketball Court
Playground
Massing Diagram
Bocce Ball Court
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Plan
Communnity Pool 2
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1. Main Lobby 2. Cafeteria 3. Building and Club Administration 4. Male Pool Locker Room 5. Pool Entrance and Basketball Connector 6. Female Pool Locker Room 7. Kiddy Pool 9 8. Hot Tubs 9. Main Pool 10. Club Locker Rooms
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Program
Unit Aggregation Program Lobbies Single Bedroom unit Lobbies Food Court Two Bedroom UnitSpaces Unit Storage Recreation Space Recreation Three Bedroom Rentable Space Corner UnitDay Care Spaces ThreeRentable Bedroom End Unit iv Public Restrooms Administration Four Administration Bedroom Unit
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Light Wells Light Wells
Food Court Unit Storage Day Care Public Restrooms
Circulation
Circulation Unit Aggregation Program Single Bedroom unit Lobbies Food Court Two Bedroom Recreation Space Unit Unit Storage Three Bedroom Corner Day UnitCare Rentable Space Three Bedroom End Unit Administration iv Public Restrooms Four Bedroom Unit
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View
Communnity Pool 6th Floor
6th Floor
23 occupants
23 Occupants
4th Floor 4th Floor 114 occupants 114 Occupants
2nd Floor
2nd Floor 1155 Occupants
Unit Aggregation Light Wells
Single Bedroom Unit Two Bedroom Unit
155 occupants
UnitCirculation Aggregation Three Bedroom Single Bedroom unitCorner Unit TwoThree Bedroom Unit End Unit Bedroom Three Bedroom Corner Unit Four Bedroom Three Bedroom EndUnit Unit Four Bedroom Unit
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TotalWells Residential Light Total Occupancy Occupancey = 584 People 584 People
Program Diagrams 06
Plan
Fourth Floor 1. Main Lobby 2. Recreation Room 3. Operable Hall Windows 4. Single Bedroom Unit 5. Two Bedroom Unit 6. three Bedroom Unit 7. Four Bedroom Unit 8. Rentable Space
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The units have been organized in a targeted public/ private fashion. The public covered hallways face the first floor activities, while the units' private balconies face out towards the sea or dyke. When balconies are forced to face each other the span is widened. This allows neighbors to commune and watch over their children from the comfort of their homes while maintaining privacy.
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Plan Second Floor
Plan Sixth Floor
View Fourth Floor Roof
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Plans
Basic Units
Single Bedroom Unit 36 Units
Two Bedroom Unit 96 Units
Three Beedroom C 36 Units
Four Bedroom Axon Unit
Each unit is designed with a private balcony equipped with swinging doors meant to extend the living space out.
View Unit Balcony
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two Bedroom Axon Unit
Corner Unit
Three Bedroom End Unit 24 Units
Four Bedroom Unit 16 Units
View Covered Hallway
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Site 11
Detroit's Foxtown definitely
has an air of privilege within the district. Most, if not all, of the inhabitants are financially stable with immediate access to some of Detroit's finest cultural attractions (Fox Theater, Detroit Opera House, Comerica Park etc...). It's not exactly wealthy but overall the standard of living is higher in Foxtown than the general population of Detroit. Hence the exaggeration of verticality in this project. The building is to be a means of access to this culturally rich district. Mainly the building desires to attract visitor from all walks of life and financial means.
Location: Site Dimensions: Program: Project/Date:
Detroit, Michigan 90ft x 80ft 100,000sqft Arch 432 / F2011 12
Vertical
Programming 22nd Floor - Restaurant Scale: 1/16” = 1’0”
22nd Floor - Restaurant Scale: 1/16” = 1’0”
Plan Scale: 1/16” = 1’0” Restaurant
22nd Floor - Restaurant
View Restaurant
21st. Floor - Arts Education Scale: 1/16” = 1’0”
Plan Scale: 1/16”Library = 1’0” 2nd Floor
21st. Floor - Arts Education
View Outdoor Gallery
21st. Floor - Arts Education Scale: 1/16” = 1’0”
Plan 1st Floor Library Scale: 1/16” = 1’0”
20th Floor - Arts Education
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View 1st Floor Library
The building is mixed use in the truest sense. It is programmed with both commercial and residential attributes including indoor and outdoor gallery spaces with artist and standard living quarters. To attract more visitors to the gallery there is a cafe, a restaurant, and a library. This is to ensure a wide variety of people are using the entire building, be it for recreation, education, or occupation. Spaces like the restaurant and the library are found amongst the top floors to offer privileged views to everyone.
Program Diagrams & Southern Section
Service REtail/REstaurant Mixing Space
General Residential Live-In Studios Gallery Space
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View
Main Gallery
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9th Floor
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Digital Media
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Live - In Studio 5
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Live- In Studio 8
6th Floor Mezz.
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1. Main Gallery 2. Studio 3. Artist Loft 4. Atrium 5. Passenger Elevator 6. Freight Elevator 7. Resident Waste Disposal 8. Public Restrooms
Administration offices Floor Live-7th In Studio
6th Floor
Adminstration Lobby
The main gallery is designed in tandem with the artists' live-in studios. The artists have the choice to leave their work spaces open to the gallery so the public can watch their works in progress, or close their spaces for privacy.
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Site Seeing
Comerica Park
14th &17th Floors Single Bedroom Apts 17
12th,13th,15th, &16th Doubld Bedroom Apts
oodward Ave.
Grand Circus Park
More than verticality is necessary to truly get every visible sight line. Inside the dense fabric of the city where vertical sight lines are extremely limited. This suggested the use of horizontal sight lines to entice those within this density and leave the height to entice the faster and further traffic. The cantilevers over the street allow for pedestrians to see pieces of the build from every possible position. These deviations from Foxtown's strict gridline also allow sight lines from the building out into the city. Not only is the building trying to attract visitors but is also trying to inspire them to visit more of the culturally rich sites in the area. 18th & 19th Floors PentHouse Suites 18
Physical
Model
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East
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Location:
Sut Luce, Istanbul
Site Dimensions:
(Full) 3000m x 1000m (University District) 1000m x 380m (Town Center) 265m x 240m Program Sqft: FAR of 2 Collaborators: Sarah Anderson, Grant Block, Zeeshan Vira, Simiao Wang Project/Date: Arch 672 / F2013
Istanbul, a city wedged between the black and Marmara seas, is one of
the fastest growing cities in the world.As such, it is pushing to become a recognized player in the global community. The rapid expansion and constant construction has created a city where many of the buildings are under thirty years old. The city, built on the coast of the Marmara fault line, suffers major and frequent earthquakes. This travel studio sponsored by the Dumankaya group was charged with creating modern designs that also preserved the rich Turkish culture and mitigated the potential disaster of the next earthquake. There was a ten day visit to Istanbul in which many sites were visited. Of these sites, four were the main targets of the studio. They are located close to the coast and were built with inadequate materials and building techniques. These were deemed prime urban revitalization zones but what of the inhabitants of these sites? 22
Diagrams
Site Strategy
1/4 Mile Radius 1/4 Mile Radius from Neighborhood Center Existing Neighborhoods Exterior Neighborhoods Neighborhood Overlaps Neighborhood Overlaps Neighborhood Center Neighborhood Center
Diagram Mahalle
Commerical District University District Residential District Light Industry District Mosques Buffer Zones Parks Existing Buildings Comercial Strip Existing Highway Faster Traffic Greenway
Diagram Site Strategy
Phase I Phase II Phase III Phase IV Under-developed areas Existing Institutions Existing Roads
Arts/ Cultural Space Park / Open Space Mixed Use Residential Arts / Cultural Space Commercial Business Park / Open Space Commercial w/ res. above Mixed Use Residential Commercial / Business Commercial ped. alleys Commercial above Civicwith / residential Religious Commercial pedestrian alleys School / University Civic / Religious Bus Stops School / University Bus Stops
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Diagram Land Use* *Created by Sarah Anderson
From what was observed, there was a colorful life within each site that would be ruined by outsiders, though change would save many lives. As a result, this project tries to take a culturally sensitive route through phasing and preservation to try and retain as many residents as possible on site. It targets the most underdeveloped areas first to house each phase of residents, instead of sending them off site, away from their friends and families. The original site is also very large so it made sense to create four different zones (Commercial, University, Residential, and Light Industry).
Plan & Section University District 24
Focus Area
Town Center
One of the main goals in of large open spaces and centers around existing m multiple parks and pedest
Plan Town Center 25
earthquake mitigation, along with getting buildings up to code, is the creation wide streets for emergency services. The entire site is designed to create town mosques so that they are within a quarter mile of any location. There are also trian streets for safe play/loitering and evacuation.
View Town Center
Axon University District 26
Thesis
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An initial investigation into the
classification and categorization of man-made objects has brought this thesis to question the threshold between object and architecture. Here, object is defined as a physically realized man-made item or token. It can range from something as simple as a quarter to something as complex as a building. The question is when does an object begin to prescribe movement? When it's the size of our hands; the size of our bodies; the size of a room? Through manipulations of scale, size, proportion, placement, mass, and materiality, the different uses and applications of objects in both established and constructed domestic spaces are defined. These manipulations negate the typical use of these objects but preserve the original associations made between it and a user. For example, the Magritte Apple forces a viewer to reengage not only that room but that apple as well. Location:
Domesticity
Site Dimensions: Final Object (4ft x 7ft) Program: Project/Date:
Challenge Routine Arch 660/ w2014 28
Application
Roof Room
Domestic Staircase - Object
Domestic Roof - Object
Domestic Chimney - Object
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Physical Steel Staircase
The apple only feels familiar because of its visual characteristics; it looks like an apple. It has been taken out of its usual context via scalar manipulations and is now more directly affecting the space around it. Do all objects have this spatial ability or is it simply scale that affects our understanding of the object architecture threshold? This question has brought this project to not only push objects to read more architecturally but also to push architectural components, such as walls and doors, stairs, chimneys and roofs to more readily read as 30 objects.
Chicago 31
This distributed project works
to achieve monumentality through a series of buildings with repetition of formal elements, visual connectivity, and the buildings' impression on cultural memory. It consists of a weaving path which works to connect the sites both across the stark divide of the Kennedy - Dan Ryan Expressway and the physical distance across the city of Chicago. The expectation is that these buildings become destination points for pedestrians, or incentives to leave the highway for motorists. The path travels adjacently to the highway with disappearing and reappearing building elements. The actual built space alludes to one continuous path.
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
Site Dimensions: 6 sites (120ft x 150ft) Program: Project/Date:
150000sqft Arch 552 / F2012
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Diagrams
Site Strategy
Diagram Program Distribution
Gallery
Restaurant
Park
Libr
Diagram Site Locations
These buildings found along the path are d visible at the two scales of the pedestrian the destination point in each segment of th where everyone from either sides of the br for the cultural memory. The project also a safe cheery place that both city residen
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Highway Ticket Booth
Drive-In Theatre
Movie Theatre
designed with similar formal characteristics and house elements that make them n and of the high speed traffic of the highway. They also offer nodal points as he pathway. Each of these points are meant to be something like a communal area ridge or path are welcome. This string of spaces aims to become a sticking point o works to leverage visitation both during day and night. The idea being to supply nts and visitors can frequent without pressure of time or money.
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Building
Sections
View Exterior Library
Gallery
Restaurant
Park
All are welcome to any of the 6 nodal points whether they've purchased something or not. Some of the sites have monetary restrictions, but they offer both free and charged areas of visitation. 35
Library View Park
Library
Drive-In Theatre
Movie Theatre
Section
Library 36
View
Library Interior
Plan 1st Floor Library 37
Plan 2nd Floor Library
View Restaurant
Plan 1st Floor Restaurant
Plan 2nd Floor Restaurant 38