Claire's Portfolio_2015

[Architectural Portfolio] Claire Leavengood-Boxer Master of Architecture Candidate '16 University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture & Urban Planning

[Networks Studio]

pages 1-10

University of Michigan_Fall 2014

[Comprehensive Studio]

pages 11-24

University of Michigan_Winter 2015

[Situations Studio]

pages 25-36

University of Michigan_Spring 2014

[New Orleans Studio]

pages 37-44

Tulane University_Fall 2012

[Forms Studio]

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University of Michigan_Fall 2013

[Building Anatomies]

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University of Michigan_Spring 2015

[Situations Studio]

pages 53-56

University of Michigan_Spring 2014

[Visual Representation] University of Michigan_2014-2015

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[Networks Studio] Theorist Paul Virilio argues that “every invention contains its accidental demise, converting the accident from an unpredictable uncertainty to the accident waiting to happen. The train’s invention was, therefore the simultaneous invention of the derailment… the accident presents, at least in the city, the opportunity for another invention. In theory, then, the accident holds the kernel of reinvention.” Virilio defines this as the ‘Tabula Futura Imperfecta’.

Virilio’s Tabula Futura Imperfecta allows for an unconventional means of looking at Detroit. Vacant community centers are no longer defined as 'failed' entities, but rather seen as sites placed along temporal graphs depicting a perpetual rise and decline. The state of ‘failure’ (decline), as Virilio declares, becomes an entity’s kernel for reinvention (rise).

In this study the church, the library, and the school are archetypes of community centers in parts of Detroit that are projected to incur increased populations from surrounding blighted areas.

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“The site of destruction becomes a projective launch into the future, rather than a memorial to all that was lost. In a sense, catastrophe is a breading ground for both conservation in responce to the destruction (we can’t forget the past) and, paradoxically, we can’t forget the avant - guard. At the folcrum where a full measure of the something that once was and the nothing that presently exists are in balance, new architectural work tips the balance toward an as-yet undefined vision - the future imperfect” - Dana Cuff, Fast Forward Urbanism

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The perpetual rise and decline of each site, or network of sites, are studied at three scales: Macro, Meso, and Micro.

Each site remains in its own temporal cycle of rise and decline, although may interact (physically or ephemerally) with other sites in the city.

Over time the typology of each community center will transform and reinvent itself. At each scale, the community center seeks to incorporate water re-use into its transformation. An interwoven, sustainable network of 'tap-in' communities begin to form, which seek to question the typology of their respective community centers.

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Present 2014: Detroit’s public school district is failing, exemplified by a seemingly constant stream of school closures. Water can play a role in rethinking the educational system, perhaps through less conventional forms of teaching.

Future 2025: Vocational schools are created to educate students in the practice of urban farming. Commonly untaught skills are learned for the betterment and sustainability of current and future communities.

Conventional education, however, is not lost, and remains a viable option.

Future______: Similar to Barn Raising, communities rely on vocational education to teach and re-teach each generation a set of skills that will enable them to provide for future generations (such as, but not limited to, urban farming).

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[Meso Scale]: community Present 2014: Water plays a substantial role in religion. In many Christian denominations members are initiated into the congregation through varied forms of Baptism. In the Baptist community a Baptism consists of the future congregant being fully submerged into a body of water.

Future 2055: Within the confines of the built walls exists a pool of holy water, to be used for Baptisms. The pool surrounding the exterior of the church serves as a pool for repentance, where congregant’s sins are filtered and purified through water purification systems.

Future______: The community continues to rely on the central body of the church.

However, the role of the structure has expanded beyond religious practice, and now provides fresh water for its tap-in congregation.

U.S. AvagWater Useage: Water usage per person per day: 130 - 150 liters Annual avg. water usage for household of one: 66,000 liters Annual avg. water usage for household of two: 110,000 liters Annual avg. water usage for household of four: 165,000 liters Drinking water per person per day: 1 - 2 liters

Water Storage: People’s Missionary Baptist Church Existing church: Area = 90ft x 100 ft Area = 9,000ft

Conceived surrounding pool: Area = 3.14 x (70)^2 Area = 15,386 ft^2

Projected annual water containment: Area of containment = conceived pool - existing church Area of containment = 6,386 ft^2

Catchment caluclation (given 2.25ft avg. annual rainfall in Detroit) Catchment = 6,386ft^2 x 2.25ft Catchment = 14,386.5ft^3

= 107,476 gallons/yr = 294.46 gallons/day

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The model depicts a complex network of seemingly atomized community centers, but which more closely resemble a sporadic dropping of seed-bombs at each designated site. Each individual community center becomes interelated and interwoven within a greater network of community centers.

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[Comprehensive Studio] Today, over 80% of housing in Singapore is labeled public housing (or HDB housing). The Singaporean government began this mass public housing movement in the 1960s as a way to efficiently re-house a predominately squatter population. Through government savings programs families were put on a path to ultimately own their own HDB unit, and today the vast majority living in HDB housing own their property.

Through this process the government is able to monitor growth, maximize housing efficiency, and control the housing market. Subsequently, the government is also able to dictate HDB flat typologies, and enact rules and regulations for ownership and occupancy type.

The goal of this project is to work within current rules and regulations for HDB housing, while also challenging Singapore's public housing typology. To help provide for fluctuating family size, changing demographics in the housing market, and entrepreneurial growth, flex-housing opportunities were studied. By creating dynamic unit conditions an occupant’s housing can adjust to fit their changing demands of space and use.

(this project was done collaboratively with Emily Trulson)

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By using folding panels flexible spaces are created at the scale of the building. Panels can be inserted into predetermined track locations and used to create rentable storage space, work space, farm stands, bike lockers, etc. This flexibility allows tenants to dictate how public and private spaces are used, and enables a vertical community to form.

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Panel operability at the patio scale allows tenants to determine natural lighting conditions, dictate levels of privacy, and create open or closed-off patio spaces. The flexibility of panel positioning helps to lessen the homogeneity of facade detail, and creates a level of individualization between units.

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At the level of the unit: panels can be used to cre ate storage space, create rooms, or section off wings of the house. As families grow and shrink spaces of the houses can be turned into bedrooms, offices, or entirely segregated, rentable wings. This flexibility makes the longevity of living in an HDB unit more manageable for a tenant.

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Occupant 1 A married couple moves in after the birth of their first child. They invest in a 4-bed 4-bedroom unit so that they may each have a home office. Child number two is born and the family decides to hire a move in nanny, as the careers of both parents force them to work outside the home. The children grow up and the nanny moves out. The Grandmother, who is now old and in need of assistance, moves in to be closer to family.

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Occupant 2: A father moves into the unit house with wife and young child. After the child moves out to attend University the father gets divorced from his wife. With the ample space now left with in his home the father decides to rent out an enclosed section of the unit to a tenant. The rest of the unit begins to fill with paraphernalia from the father’s new found hobby: hunting and taxidermy.

Occupant 3 A young entrepreneur who recently graduated from University has started up a textile company. Business is initially small, and thus the unit is primarily used for housing.

After a few years business picks up enough traction to warrant an office, and thus part of the occupant’s studio apartment serves as an office. As the business continues to grow and subsequently require more space, the homeowner continues to use the home office to meet with clients, but now rents out entrepreneurial work space elsewhere in the build building to house the studio space and primary textile machinery.

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[Situations Studio] Street dancing exists in many styles, names, and geograpgic locations.

One of the first known street dances was coined 'Clowning', conceived in Los Angelos and infamous for the movemnt that followed in the early 1990's. The goal of Clowning was to asuage drug and gang related pressures in crime ridden communities by creating an oppertunity for kids and adults to battle through dance rather than violence.

Braddock, PA is an old mining town in Pittsburgh that maintains similar qualities to areas of the country that have adopted their own forms and style of street dance. In an effort to preserve Braddock's population from an already blighted community, the neighborhood has been provided with the challenge of generating their own form of street dance. The proposed 'community center' will then become a central location for dance battles.

Event to be sponsored by the Pittsburgh Dance Council Council:

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"The Dance Council has a strong and important voice in the local community... By committing 40% of its programming to artists of color, focused primarily on African-American, Asian, and Latino/Hispanic artists, the Dance Council subscribes to the belief that art can be a catalyst for positive social change by exploring community issues through the artist's creative process."

Each style of dance maintains a variety of steps, body movements, swings, bends, turns, etc. Documenting movements in plan and elevation enable each dance to be broken down and studied beyond a 3-dimensional understanding. Ultimately plan and elevation drawings are layered to further document and study the intricate level of imformation each dance provides.

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Drawings taken from the dance analysis phase are then placed together in one frame. Decisions of size, orientatation, and relation of each drawing were made based on potential hierarchies or similaries in movments, steps, etc. between each dance. This drawing is meant to exist as a relational study that examines spatial connections through dance.

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Spatial connections, and elevational and plan drawings were used to understand the spatial demands of a dance arena. In the proposed design the street continues through the site, and uses concave stadium seating to demarcate the street's 'stage'.

Street dancing often occurs at street level, however dance battles take place in areas that allow for large crowds and loud music.

The goal of this design was to provide both an informal space for dancing and a venue for large crowds.

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The dance arena maintains a less formal space at street level, but also provides more formal space for the community below street level. The basement level exists as an open exhibition space where more formal dance productions or dance practice can occur.

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The curvelinear screen serves as a backdrop to the stage. The screen houses speakers, a plug-in for music devices, and lighting to be used for formal dance battles. The screen is the only formal design piece at street level, while the rest of the site is meant to exist as an informal, concrete extension of the streetscape.

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[New Orleans Studio] New Orleans is mapped to document topographical trends, flood zones, population densities, and historic geographical information through various diagrammatic techniques. Graphically documented data was synthesized to create larger maps that theorize on conclusions drawn between geographic and anthropological trends

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Focusing on a neighborhood in New Orleans, the Marigny provided the opportunity to further research and document geographical and historical trends specific to a singular place. The graphical devices that help to document this information were first synthesized and later extruded as a three-dimensional diagram of the Marigny.

Two-dimensional diagrams became threedimensional models, where form, space, and connections represent hierarchies and patterns found through diagrammatic analysis.

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A museum was designed to provide a threedimensional experience of hierarchies and patterns present in the Marigny, as found through previous analysis. The site represents one of the few lots within the neighborhood where the urban grid shifts and creates a double-lot space. (The following project is representative of group work done with Ashley Jackson)

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Visitors then enter the museum through a narrow hall, which sequentially widens at each turn bringing the visitor to the most radically experiential room in the museum. This room parallels the vast experiential qualities of one who works their way through the Marigny to the coast of the Mississippi River.

Each leg of the museum provides different historical and experiential qualities of the city. Such characteristics of the Marigny are depicted using ramps, windows, light penetration, and niches that display books and maps of the city.

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[Form Studio] Winton Guest House Redux_ Altering the Pre-existing: Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House was used as a precedent to study programmatic and formal qualities. This threedimensional diagram examines both the interaction and segregation of forms and circulation in Gehry's design.

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After diagramming Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House, a re-design of the house was created in a pre-existing urban lot.

Formal qualities of the house are studied through this model.

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Similar to the guest house, a central circulation core locks in peripheral, singularly programed spaces. This design works to create a greater level of interaction and overlap between formal spaces.

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[ARCH527_Building Anatomies] Using plans of a pre-existing Robert Metcalf house, the Botch House, the building was studied to identify various active and passive systems. The house was modeled threedimensionally to further analyze the success and failures of these systems, and how each fit with relevant building codes. Systems studied include solar gain, wind load, heating/cooling systems, airflow, plumbing, drainage, and electrical systems. (This project is representative of group work done with Emily Trulson, Ryan Mason, and Kevin Rosenberg)

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[Situations Studio] Using a series of found objects an occupant's experience at the University of Michigan's Museum of Art is greatly altered. Screen systems were created of watch pieces, and stacked linearly across the atrium of the museum. Based on the angle at which an occupant views a series of screens, a level of foreshortening may occur. This method creates a series of screens that vary in opacity, and thus create altered levels of privacy based on the positioning of any one occupant. (This project is representative of group work done with Emily Trulson)

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[Situations Studio] Given a floor of a pre-existing parking garage a short-term intervention was proposed. This programmatic situation represents a go-go dance venue and hibachi restaurant. The focus of the proposal was on the continuous, circuitous circulation a car takes in a parking structure, and emphasizes the visual repetitiveness present in a garage. Circuitous paths of circulation are documented through color-coded floor markers, which lead users to their respective 'parking spot', or table. Each occupant/group maintains their own chef and dancer, creating a series of repetitive booths. (This project is representative of group work done with Emily Trulson)

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[Visual Representation] Forms of architectural drawing, limited to black and white line drawings, were re-appropriated to create an alternate world. By editing and juxtaposing scales, initial contexts and relationships begin to get lost and new spatial relationships emerge. The drawing is then able to maintain a self-referential context that no longer relies on an image's previous state, definition, or contextual qualities.

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[Visual Representation] This analytical drawing seeks to coalesce various aspects of a meal into one drawing through formal and informal means of representation. Arial photographs were taken throughout the entirety of the meal to capture various movements, gestures, speeds, and the overall temporality of the meal. A variety of analytical forms, including charts, graphs, and maps, were used to better convey the complexities of a seemingly basic, routine event.

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[Visual Representation] Hebrew letterforms are sent through a contrived syntactical process.

This process yields new, somewhat recognizable forms that begin to display new formal and relational qualities. As the letterforms continue through a series of syntactical operations, remnants of operations and moves are documented on the ground plane. Thus, while a new dialog and form is being created, the pre-existing moves maintain a visual presence.

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EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Masters of Architecture Candidate Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Bachelor of Arts- Major in Architectural Studies Double minor in Environmental Studies and Studio Art

Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS), Copenhagen, DK

2013-2016 Anticipated May 2011

Fall 2009

HONORS

University of Michigan: Taubman Scholar

Hobart and William Smith:

Dean’s List Cum. GPA 3.69/ Cum Laude Seay Grant Recipient: Published documentation of Denmark’s sustainable villages Helen Heath Scholar Presidential Scholarship

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE PLY Architecture, Research Assistant, Ann Arbor, MI

Currently working on schematic design for one of Metro Detroit’s regional park’s offices, which looks heavily at energy efficiency and green building practices.

University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor, Ann Arbor, MI Served as an assistant instructor for an introductory architecture course, in which I met with students individually to discuss their work and helped conduct regular pin-ups.

Safdie Architects, Architectural Intern, Somerville MA Worked with architects on large, mixed-use projects in Singapore, and completed research on the topic of dense urbanism in preparation for the firm's 2015 Fellowship candidate Cooper Carry Architects, Architectural Intern, Alexandria, VA Helped urban design department with schematic design and design development for urban city centers and multi-use buildings

Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center (GNRC), Intern, Geneva, NY

Promoted a new ‘wayfinding’ system for the city and designed a community pavilion Miles & May Furniture Works, Design Intern, Geneva, NY Aided furniture designers with sanding and finishing of wood and metal pieces for the Spring exhibition Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Teaching Assistant, Geneva, NY Helped instructor critique and instruct Studio Design I students Belisle Design, Summer Intern, Bethesda, MD Participated with site visits and digital model building, and met with clients Building Codes Assistance Project, Summer Intern, Washington D.C. Compiled and organized state energy consumption statistics for the launch of an online, energy efficient building codes resource

SKILLS Physical: Woodshop, Hand Drafting, Hand Drawing, Watercolor

Digital: Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, VRay, SketchUp, PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign

2012-2015 Spring 2008- Spring 2011 Fall 2009 Spring 2008

Spring 2016

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Summer 2014 Summer 2011

Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Summer 2010 Summer 2009

Contact: Claire Leavengood-Boxer cleaveng@umich.edu 301.503.1714