CHELSEA MEYER GRADUATE PORTFOLIO
CHELSEA MEYER 707 Moore, Apt #2, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 (e) chelsea.m.meyer@gmail.com (c) 937-441-7235
EDUCATION
University of Michigan Class of 2014 Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design Candidate for Master of Architecture -3.6 Cumulative GPA The Ohio State University March 2012 Knowlton School of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architecture -Cum Laude, English Minor Barcelona Scholars Study Abroad March 2009 Studied architectural history of the site and researched contextual relationships of Barcelona architecture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
WD Partners June 2013-Aug 2013 Architectural Designer I 7007 Discovery Blvd, Dublin, OH Drafted architectural drawings for new commercial designs and renovations, produced and finalized construction sets, corresponded with mechanical and electrical designers, worked closely with lead architects on international projects Ronnette Riley Architects March 2013 Extern I 350 5th Ave # 7401 New York, NY Worked directly with FAIA and LEED AP. architects for one week in the design and management of commercial, residential, and institutional architectural projects. Taubman Digital Fabrication Lab Sept 2012-June 2013
Fabrication Lab Assistant I 2000 Bonisteel Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI Provided machinery repairs and maintenance, assisted students in training sessions, monitored laser use to ensure safety and proper care
Aetna Building Maintenance Mar 2012-Aug 2012 Architectural Intern I 646 Parsons Avenue, Columbus, OH Created floor plans and elevations of branch facilities, led two interior design projects for corporate headquarters, worked directly with president in management of on-site community garden Decor & Floor Interior Design Apr 2006-Dec 2010
Project Assistant I 400 S. Main Street, Fort Loramie, OH Assisted lead designers in residential and commercial interior design projects, product inventory and customer service
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Habitat for Humanity Volunteer June 2013-Aug 2013
Aided the construction of truss systems, interiors, and porches for residential buildings in downtown Columbus.
Secretary & Social Chair of ARC Sept 2013-Current Address Taubman student concerns, meet weekly with the Dean of Taubman College, arrange and advertise social events Secretary of AIAS Chapter Sept 2011-Mar 2012 Managed networking opportunities for 40+ members, designed and arranged annual Beaux Arts Ball, raised funds, and hosted weekly coffee nights for students in the Knowlton School of Architecture
SCHOLARSHIP AND HONORS
Taubman College Student Show Alumni Award March 2013
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design
Alan G. & Cynthia Reavis Berkshire Scholarship Sept 2012 Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design
Architecture Alumni Scholarship Sept 2012 & Sept 2013 Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design
OCASLA Award Sept 2013
American Society of Landscape Architecture
SOFTWARE
Familiar with Revit Architecture 2012, Sketch-up Experienced with AutoCAD 2012, Rhinoceros 4.0, Adobe Illustrator CS5, In-Design CS5, and Photoshop CS6, Microsoft products
COMMUTE/COMMUNITY
FALL2012
Professor: Doug Kelbaugh With Alex Krug A brownfield development enveloped by Roosevelt Road, East 18th Street, and South State Street in Chicago calls for a sustainable accommodation of residents. Due to the physical isolation of the site, guests are encouraged to take up biking through efficient access to a bike interchange which passes through a cycling center and connects to the city’s pre-existing bike paths. This new development attempts to create a self-sustaining community which is highly supportive of environmentallyconscious design and ways of life.
Third Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan KOZY ’S CYCL E
The monumental biking center adjacent to Roosevelt brings in tourists and local bikers for the development’s economic stability and supports the commuterfriendly nature of the neighborhood. It connects directly to the apartment building and provides biking resources such as rentals, repairs, and retail, as well as an upper-floor cafe which overlooks the domed space.
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PROVING GROUND RO Professor: Rania Ghosn
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The development of barbed wire in 1874 negotiated further prospects of communal land. Today, private properties and urbanization have introduced opportunities for “states of exception” as identified by Gregorio Agamben, in which “the sovereign acquires the ability to transcend the rule of law in the name of public good.” An example of a state of exception is the proving ground, the US name for a military installation where military tactics are tested, taxes are altered, and entry is selectively granted. As local cities encroach upon these military grounds, plans for agricultural buffer zones have been proposed to alleviate spacial pressures on training space without consideration for possibilities of development. This thesis proposes urbanization on the agrarian landscape in which military dominance and violence of separation is accentuated.
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INTRODUCTION OF BARBED WIRE The area surrounding DeKalb was effected by the introduction of barbed wire in many ways. Most involved the frustrations of enclosure liabilities and cattle health.
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MILLIONS OF RODS OF FENCING BEFORE BARBED WIRE “Annals of the Association of American Geographers Publication Info.” Association of American Geographers. Volume 71. Number 2. Taylor & Francis, Ltd. (1981). 179
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ILLINOIS SETTLEMENTS This map illustrates the movement toward northern prairie-based towns such as Dekalb, Illinois when dependence on forested land was deemed unnecessary with the introduction of barbed wire. With this movement came violent ecological and social changes, such as disease and cattle herd separation.
ILLINOIS: BARBED WIRE INFLUENCES ON THE HEARTLAND 1820 Settlements 1820 Forested Land 1820 Heavily Forested Land Barbed Wire Connectors 1880 Big City 1880 Small Town
BARBED WIRE & URBANIZATION
Heavy competition for land use in the Midwest can be traced back to the development of barbed wire fences in DeKalb, Illinois. The inexpensive strands of wire enabled property demarcation on large expanses of communal land and enabled settlement in unforested lands. However, they also triggered a variety of violent effects including ecological disruptions, monopoly empowerments, and altercations of possession.
DEKALB: BARBED WIRE INFLUENCES ON THE SMALL TOWN Industrial/ Farmland Residential Commercial Northern Illinois University
1880 Big City 1880 Small Town
DeKALB EXPANSION The introduction of barbed wire in DeKalb, Illinois brought about a large increase in population after 1874. Barb wire monopolies of this area began to gain control of rail lines and even politics, as seen by Ellwood’s funding of the Normal School of Illinois, known today as Northern Illinois University.
MILITARY DOMINANCE & URBANIZATION M h lik Much like th the d development l t off barbed wire fences, current proposals for buffer zones return to a case of territorializing cummunal land. The basis for this new proposal involves exports of unnecessary services within the base, making available internal training land and increasing base security.
Cohabitation with Agriculture in Development Housing Development/ Military Exports Agriculture
Currently, landscape allotments are arranged with constant agricultural buffers which serve as camoflage for military training land. These two grounds rotate every five to ten years for soil renewal and avoidance of compation. Housing and military exports are connected and property lines begin to overlap.
Layers of Spacial Mediation
Overlap of Cultivation/Training Land Use Training Land Agriculture
Civilian Housing 18 degrees
Civilian Workers/ Retired Military
Agricultural Land
Visible Military Training Land
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Land Use Distribution Scott Air Force Base
EBB & FLOW PAVILION S
PRING
2011
PROFESSOR: MICHAEL BAUMBERGER WITH TIM BEVERAGE, CHRIS ANDERSON, AND RYAN BIASELLA
In the attempt to provide a pre-existing spring protection from undesirable matter, the Ebb & Flow Pavilion makes use of two ribbons as they transition between furniture and roof. Each end of the pavilion is restricted within the spring walls and frames views of a nearby pond and forest. Pegs are precisely placed in assigned pieces through use of a CNC machine to provide additional support for the roof structure and to eliminate an excessive need of matierials.
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Ebb & Flow Pavilion
Ebb & Flow Pavilion
Pegs
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Ribbon 1
Supports
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Ribbon 2
Furniture Roof Foundation
Transitions between furniture and roofing created with use of wooden rods to allow for the dissolving of excessive supports. Form of ribbons is respondant to the pre-existing spring and stone foundation
PIVOT TOWER
WINTER 2013
Professors: Julia McMorrough and Heidi Beebe With Amer Sahoury and Andrew Baird This housing project within an idealized city resembilng the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon, emphasizes the unique qualities of its site while providing opportunities for residents to enjoy the production of local growing industries. Due to the warehouse typicalities of the Pearl District, this housing tower rises within the 200 by 200 square foot block in a pivot, which denies a singular frontality and allows equality of facades. As the structure winds its way upward, local nurseries offer shading and create spaces for guests to interact and produce gardens of their own. A large residential stairway is highlighted from the exterior as guests pass between the exterior and interior spaces.
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Pivot Tower utilizes the typical datum atum lines of the city, including residential, commercial, mercial,, and institutional, to specialize the p public space p of its four housing sections. As the structure rotates upward in two typical plan an types, yp , its views, garden spaces, and interior terior public spaces become more specialized. d.
Two typical block types, the setback block and the flush block, alternate and rotate upward to create enclosed outdoor public spaces. Setback block units allow access to these spaces, while flush block units offer additional balcony space and private or shared gardens. The ground floor of this housing tower provides basic resident amenities as well as an art gallery and public entry to the gardens and nurseries above.
2 Bedroom
Typical Setback Block Floor Plan
1 Bedroom/ Studio
Small Garden by Stair
Typical Flush Block Floor Plan
Site Plan
Setback Block
Flush Block 6
interior sod growth
Setback Block 4 tall grass filtration
Flush Block 5
young tree nursery/ winter relocation
Setback Block 3
resident gardening
Flush Block 4
open resident social program
Flush Block 3
interior botanical garden
Setback Block 2
exterior botanical garden
Flush Block 1
sculpture garden
Setback Block 1
retail/gallery space
Below-ground Block
parking
Flush Block
INFRASTRUCTURE S UC U & OBSOLETION SO O
WINTER2014
Professor: Farzin Lotfi-Jam The average person uses 80 to 100 gallons of water per day. In that same day, Detroit’s Water & Sewer Plant (the largest plant in the world) will filter around 200 million gallons of grey water. To accommodate these numbers, abundant space is required for increasing scales of infrastructure, creating land use conflicts as populations grow. Why then, would these systems become so physically and visually disengaged from its users, especially as water conservation becomes more prevalent? When considering Detroit’s past as a national tourist site largely for its water infrastructure developments, we begin to wonder how might we return to a public engagement with water infrastructure while conscious of both system efficiency and land use? Further, in researching the life spans of past infrastructures, we find system obsolescence occurs on average every 30 years- might we use infrastructure obsolecence to our advantage while encouraging this engagement?
SITE SYSTEMS Detroit water filtration systems
platform subassembly
upper rotating subassembly scraper assemblies
embly upper fixed subassembly
lower rotating subassembly
SITE SYSTEMS DWSD is extremely disconnected from its users; even internal personnel managing the infrastructure seem disengaged. We find systems overlapping in such banal spaces as the parking lot.
upper fixed subassembly
incinerator/ clarifiers
pumping station/ parking garage
fence : limited engagement
waste export system
waste system
water system
operations system
visitor system
managemevnt system
SORT LOGIC
Typical Filtration System
As the largest waste management site in the world, Detroit’s current organizational techniques focus explicitly on efficiencies in size and speed, requiring close proximities of related filtration units. As a result, land use is clustered tightly near a suburban landscape. As translations are considered, we find that expansions may occur north toward a few desolate blocks of abandoned homes, south toward Zug Island, and southeast toward a polluted section of the Detroit river.
Landfill Pumping Stations
Grit Chambers
Aeration Decks
Primary Clarifiers
Sedimentation Basins
Secondary Clarifiers
Chlorine Additives
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TRANSFORMATION OF APPARATUS With reconsideration of visually accessible factors, active apparatus may be reconfigured in such a way that they create new spacial conditions with visitors while functioning. Inactive apparatus become substrates for new equipment and continue to transform in space as preferences in publicness vary throughout the timeline of obsoletion. Here, architecture acts as a new typology of fence, allowing visual contact, yet maintaining distance for security purposes.
WATER FILTRATION APPARATUS
PRIMARY PUBLIC SPACE
WATER FILTRATION APPARATUS
ADDITIONAL TENSEGRITY
TENSEGRITY CONNECTION ADDITIONAL COMPONENT
DWSD APPARATUS TENSION CABLES
COMPRESSION UNIT
COMPONENT CONNECTIONS
APPARATUS CONNECTIONS
VISUAL ENGAGEMENT WITH INFRASTRUCTURE
“FENCE CONDITION” REINSTATEMENT
NETWORK CONNECTIONS
90-YEAR OBSOLETION PERIOD:
year 0: REORGANIZATION OF EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
year 60: STABILIZATION OF PHASE 2 APPARATUS + SUBSTRATIFICATION
year 30: STABILIZATION OF OBSOLETE APPARATUS + SUBSTRATIFICATION
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