Undergraduate Portfolio [Visual ED] Bachelor of Environmental Design, Architecture Christian Storch Fall 2012 - Fall 2015
Contents Collaborative Design Cherry River Access Birdwatching Facility [Technical Drawing Set] TEDX Bozeman Stage Backdrop [Design Build]
Individual Design
Distinctions
Cherry River Access Observatory [Conceptual Design]
Context Analysis [Information Mapping]
Butte Urban Infill Gallery [Conceptual Design] Seattle Waterfront Center for Cultural Sustainability [Schematic Design]
The Classical Tradition and Critical Design [Research] Architectural Procession [Research]
Downtown Bozeman Residential Re-Interpretation [Urban Growth Planning]
Tectonics [Investigative Drawing]
Downtown Bozeman Hybrid Re-Development [Schematic Design]
Curriculum Vitae
Cherry River Access Birdwatching Facility Technical Drawing Set - Bozeman, Montana Christian Storch, Devin McCracken Spring 2015 Drawing set focused on accomplishing a professional quality through clarity, readability and embedded technical information
[manipulatable - louver exploded detail] Christian Storch
[wall sections] Christian Storch, Devin McCracken
[south elevation] Christian Storch, Devin McCracken
[longitudinal building section] Christian Storch, Devin McCracken
[site plan] Christian Storch, Devin McCracken
[floor plan] Christian Storch, Devin McCracken
[floor, wall and ground-level window assembly exploded detail] Christian Storch
TEDX Bozeman Stage Backdrop
Design Build - Bozeman, Montana MFGR DESIGN GROUP, Christian Storch, Zyg Wotzak, Tom Femrite, Katy O’Neil Spring 2015 MFGR and MSU SOA collaborate exchanging knowledge, skills, resources and ideas to develop a stage backdrop design optimizing the TED-X experience for both the presenters and the viewers
[stage backdrop design descriptive collage] a colloge combining imagery and language to describe the design intent of the stage backdrop Christian Storch
Construction
experiments with generating the project skin through parametric equation
MFGR provided the resources to their fabrication shop for the project. The product employed methods of digital and physical fabrication to accomplish the design intent. Wood, steel and plastic were combined into a completely deconstructable format, allowing for the re-use of all materials.
Architecture The architecture was established to optimized the relationship between the specifics of the presentations and the audience. The design establishes three unique spatial zones that allow specific affordances for presentation while projecting these unique formats towards both immediate viewers and digital viewers.
Cherry River Access Observatory Conceptual Design - Bozeman, Montana Christian Storch Spring 2013 Programs - Upper and Lower Observation Spaces A conceptual installment developed for the Cherry River Access park in Bozeman Montana with the intention of creating an architecture enhancing the participants experience of place
[defining project relationship diagram] the observatory is defined by relating a participant spatially to large scale celestial movements
[progressive study models]
[lover observatory entrance perspective]
[upper observatory entrance perspective]
[west and north site sections]
Project Overview The project investigated how a very personal creative experience can be translated into spaces that will be used by many different people. The observatory is defined by spatial relationships to celestial movements. The ideal is that within the space of the observatory a participant will be encouraged to reflect upon their position as an individual within a greater whole, through the experience of spaces that emphasize larger scale systems.
Butte Urban Infill Gallery Conceptual Design - Butte, Montana Christian Storch Spring 2014 Programs - Antony Gormley Art Gallery, Work Space and Residence, Event Space Leas-able Office and Residential Spaces, Urban Viewing Platform A conceptual infill gallery intending to simultaneously engage the spatial characteristics of Butte Montana as a significant historic location as well as the tectonic qualities of Antony Gormley’s unique art to develop a new cultural engine in Butte’s downtown district
[Butte Montana / Antony Gormley tectonic relationship collage exploration] design process explores ways of aesthetically relating the visual relationships between unique client - place contexts in order to derive an architectural response
[storefront perspective]
[ground floor gallery perspective] hand drawn line-work / construction, digital material additions
Project Overview The project works to develop a response that is respectful to the highly unique qualities of the site and the client. The design process involves investigations of visually relating relevant conditions through collaging, as a means to discover space for design to manifest. The architecture literally embraces the monumental structure of the mining head-frames that are a famous part of the Butte Montana landscape. This structure configures a series of specific spaces where the building and the art work together to establish an architectural quality.
[building sections] hand construction
Seattle Waterfront Center for Cultural Sustainability Schematic Design - Seattle, Washington Christian Storch Fall 2014 Programs - Auditorium, Office Space, Information Lobby, Research Space, Classroom Areas, ‘Civic Platforms’ A schematic proposal for the addition of a civic platform addressing the waterfront section of downtown Seattle Washington, intended to accomplish a high level of integration with the existing urban fabric through a strategic fluctuation between defined and undefined spatial zones
[context analysis diagramming] design process investigates methods of critical analysis in which sets of data are collected, combined, reconfigured, seperated and integrated in different ways as a means of developing an in depth understanding of relevant contexts
Project Overview The analysis phase develops a specific system of collecting data about the project site. Diagramming is employed as a primary strategy for progressing the design in relationship to the initial data collected on the site. The project conclusion establishes a new layer in the urban fabric, structured in relationship to a evolving process reacting to the initial data collected on the site. The characteristics of the design focus on integration through the establishment of interdependancies with social, spatial, and infastructural systems already operating on and around the site. Large open areas become interconnected by open stairways and multi-story atriums that allow the spaces to be used separately or jointly.
[visual context collaging]
[wall section] hand construction
floor plans [-1 - 4] building sections
building sections
[building sections] hand construction
site map
progressive study models
[progressive study models]
[floor plans] hand construction
[main entrance lobby perspective] digital rendering
Downtown Bozeman Residential Re-Interpretation Urban Growth Planning - Bozeman, Montana Christian Storch Spring 2015 Programs - [Phase 1] Art Gallery, Restaurant Space, Vendor Spaces, Residential Extension Reconfiguring the context of ‘residence’, the project distributes a residential program to service the larger community of Bozeman Montana by identifying the project-site as an optimal place to initiate a new layer of growth in the downtown district
Descriptive Architectural Mapping Throughout my undergraduate schooling various means of representation were employed to communicate and collaborate with others, in this map various representative techniques were combined in an attempt to communicate the design idea collectively
[alley entrance perspective]
[extended growth modeling]
[phase 1 - small scale building model]
Project Overview Process explores the relationships between residence and the evolution an urban environment as time progresses. Residence is identified as a familiarity that manifests through repetitive interaction. In response to an understanding of Downtown Bozeman as a critical space of Residence for the greater community of Bozeman, the project proposes the site as an optimal place to begin development of a new layer of the urban fabric. The architecture begins by engaing current programs on the site simultaneously extablishing access to the rooftops of existing structures. A series of phases are proposed in which a new layer is developed through repetitive expansion, emerging from a relationship to the existing urban fabric.
[storefront entrance perspective]
[phase 1 - large scale building model]
[building section] hand construction
phase one section
[growth plan diagramming]
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Downtown Bozeman Hybrid Re-Development Schematic Design - Bozeman, Montana Christian Storch Fall 2015 Programs - Bozeman Rock Company, Bozeman Pharmacy, Wok Restaurant, Bridger Trade Company, HDRC Bozeman, Sacks Thrift Shop, Bridger Coffee, One/Two/Three Bedroom Residences, Bozeman Hostel Co., ‘Re-Design’ Civic Center Critically reflecting on the relationships between architecture and cultural Influence, the project works explore the potential that architectural process has to Facilitate repetitive investigations of the world around us by creating space in which design and the public can repeatedly interact
[site-analysis mapping] the first phase of process collects data actively from the site and translates said data into imagery
“In this way, functions are not separated on a physical level, but on the level of ideas, their processes are mental, they are structures which build the world.� Javier Mozas
[organizing manifest mapping] the final phase of process attempts to organize form in relationship to existing site condition through active processes of creation
Architecture and Investigation Mapping is embraced as means of repeatedly engaging a unique context. The project moves through a series of analytical phases remaining in a state that resists determination. This strategy attempts to generate an architecture through processes of imaging that become interdependent as they are combined and built upon over time. The focus is on developing processes that do not react to a pre-determined result.
[formal derivation mapping] the second phase of process works at transforming site based imagery into form
[west, south,east, north building elevations] hand construction
[central space section model]
Project Overview A conclusion establishes a zone of ‘manifesting space’ within two ancillary parameters. In other words, a central structure is supported between two perimeter structures. This central structure is a large public bay within-which architectures both social and material can easily be created, deconstructed and manipulated. The interior zone is bound by the parameters created by the ancillary structures. Openings and floor levels dictate how the interior space can be connected to the perimeter areas. The social quality of the interior space is supported by a diversity of programs operating in the ancillary structures.
[longitudinal building section] hand construction, digital texturing
[schematic floor plans] hand construction
[central space building sections] hand construction
[central space perspectives] digital construction
Contextual Analysis
Information Mapping - Montana, Italy Christian Storch Spring 2015 - Ongoing Projects critically reflect upon how information is collected, what types of information are collected, and how this information can be related and investigated through processes of translation and imaging in order to develop a deep understanding of a given context
Bozeman, MT Population Analysis An investigation of Bozeman’s explosive population growth in relationship to the formal, functional and recreational qualities of the Bozeman landscape
[explorations in alternative methods of information representation] in these explorations information is embedded into a process of creation with the goal of investigating the way in which information can manifests formally in a completely difference formal language
The Significance of Process Information mapping is all about process; about developing a logical transition from context to representative product. As a product a map requires information; it cannot become without a context from which to come from. Mapping processes require an interaction with a context. From a point of interaction a movement towards a representative product is deeply architectural. The necessity of interaction is a powerful quality of architectural processes.
[investigative mapping, Rome Italy] designing in Rome mapping was used as a means through which a foundation for an architecture could manifest
The Classical Tradition and Critical Design Research - Italy Christian Storch
Summer 2015 - Ongoing Developed by the Greeks and elaborated upon by the Romans the Classical Tradition was once the universal language of architecture; many significant historical architects manipulated this language in different ways in order to accomplish specific goals through design
“The entrance space represents the most drastic experimentation with the norms of the classical tradition to be seen in the renaissance period. Cornices, corbels, niches are portrayed out of proportion, out of functional context, are flipped and playfully reorganized. The result is highly disordered, affectively exasperated by the bizarre distended proportions of the space itself; skinny and tall. The quality cumulates as the massive staircase spills out to engulf the already curious spatial scene. The staircase is flowing and sculptural, of monumental proportion, confined on the edges by geometric arms that attempt to encase the liquid mass which continues to spill out into the space from the front. The reading room is long and rectangular, repetitious desks windows and columns line the walls.” Meaningful Architectures; Investigating Michelangelo’s Critical Architectural Process Christian Storch (excerpt)
Architectural Procession
Research - England, Greece, Italy, France Christian Storch (Undergraduate Research Program [USP] Funding) Spring 2015 - Ongoing The research defines architectural procession as “the unfolding of experience in a physical succession�, focusing on a comparison of architectural procession as a historical versus modern concept.
[processional translation - Lloyds Registar , London England]
Research explores procession at both the individual scale and collective scales by collecting quantitative data through literal participation in a procession, then translating this data systematically into technical images that are Compared on a structural basis.
Tectonics
Investigative Drawing - England, Greece, France, Italy, Germany, Washington DC, Seattle, Bozeman Christian Storch Summer 2014 - Summer 2015 Drawing is a employed as a strategy of learning learn through intensive study and active replication
Christian Storch - Bachelor of Environmental Design, Architecture Academic Qualification - Bachelor’s Degree (Honors) Environmental Design (December 2015) Montana State University – School of Architecture GPA – 3.53 Degree Specific GPA – 3.67 Dean’s List (2012 – 2015) - Rome Study Abroad Program Montana State University – School of Architecture (Summer 2015) Allowable via degree specific GPA-standing within program as a junior Career Experience - Rasmussen Construction (Summer 2014) Framer - Fentress Architects (Summer 2013) Intern - Brikor Associates (Summer 2013) Intern - Sweet Chili Restaurant (Spring 2015 – Current) Line Management, Prep Management, Cook, Restaurant Closer - Open Range Restaurant (Spring 2015) Presentation (Bus-er) Services
Research - Montana State University, University Scholars Program – Funded Research (Spring 2015 – Current) Europe / United States - Montana State University, Art History Symposium / Classical Tradition Graduate Seminar (Fall 2015) Europe / United States Paper presented December 4, 2015 at the Art History Symposium, School of Art Montana State University Voluntary Participation and Leadership - Farm to School – Nonprofit Organization Bozeman, Montana Volunteer Services (Fall 2015) [20 hrs] - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman (UUFB) Schematic Landscape Design (Fall 2015) - TED-X Bozeman, Montana Stage Backdrop Design – Build (Spring 2015) - College of Arts and Architecture, Dean’s Student Leadership Counsel Nominated Member (Spring 2014) - Leadership Counsel Scholar, American Institute of Architects (AIA) Selected Participant, Presenter and Project Organizer
Education and Skills - Revit - Rhinoceros 3D - Grasshopper Parametric Modeling Software - Sketch Up - Microsoft Office - VE Energy Analysis Software - Adobe Suites - Model Fabrication – Material Construction – Material Organization - Hand Drafting / Rendering – Digital Imagery / Rendering - Contextual Illustration – Information Abstraction / Translation – Situational Analysis / Imaging – Information Mapping - Digital Compilation - Verbal Presentation - Information Synthesis / Presentation - Conceptual Representation – Information Organization Awards and Achievements HONORS Bachelor’s Degree Graduate - Montana State University [2015] Dean’s List [2013-2015] LOCATI SCHOLARSHIP Interviewee [2015] GUTTERSON TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIP [2015] Anderson Masonry DESIGN SCHOLARSHIP [2014] Dean Harold C. Rose Memorial DESIGN SCHOLARSHIP Finalist [2013] National Society of Collegiate Scholars [2013 - 2015] WUE SCHOLARSHIP [2012]
Undergraduate Portfolio [Visual Edit] Bachelor of Environmental Design, Architecture Christian Storch Fall 2012 - Fall 2015