Claire's Portfolio 2014 by Claire Leavengood-Boxer

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MArch Candidate 2016 University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning cleaveng@umich.edu

Architectural Works: 1. Mapping New Orleans: Reading the City 9. Winton Guest House Redoux: Altering the Pre-existing 15. Found Objects: Designing Situations 17. Reprograming Space: Designing Situations Hands-on Works: 19. Bicycle Rack: Making Whole From Composite 21. Community Pavilion: Recycling to Engage 23. Storefront Redesign:Community Engagement Project Art Works: 25. Digital Drawing 27. Charcoal Drawing 29. Abstract Painting

Mapping New Orleans: Reading The City Tulane_Fall2012_DesignStudio2100__Professor:Wendy Redfield

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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Hurricane Katrina flooding overlaying 2012 urban fabric and topography

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Mapping New Orleans: Reading The City Tulane_Fall 2012_DesignStudio2100__Professor: Wendy Redfield

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 three-dimensional models, where form, space, and connections represent hierarchies and patterns found through diagrammatic analysis.

Mapping New Orleans: Reading The City

St Anthony St. and Burgu

Tulane_Fall 2012_DesignStudio2100__Professor: Wendy Redfield Marigny, New Orleans

Kerlerec St. and Daup

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

Marigny, New Orleans

Kerlerec St. and Cha

St Anthony St. and Burgundy St.

Kerlerec St. and Daup

Touro St. and Royal St.

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The visitor experiences the building through a series of programmed walls and spaces that diagram various elements of the Marigny

Winton Guest House Redux: Altering the Pre-existing Michigan_Fall2013_FormStudio412__Professor:Anca Trandafirescu

Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House was used as a precedent to study programatic and formal qualities. This threedimensional diagram examines both the interaction and segregation of forms and circulation in Gehry's design.

Winton Guest House Redux: Altering The Pre-existing Michigan_Fall 2013_FormStudio412__Professor: Anca Trandafirescu

After diagraming Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House, a redesign of the house was created in a pre-existing urban lot. Formal qualities of the house are further studied through this model, and subsequently amplified.

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

Found Objects: Designing Situations Michigan_Spring2014_Situations Studio422__Professor: Lauren Lynn

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)

Reprograming Space: Designing Situations Michigan_Spring2014_Situations Studio422__Professor: Lauren Lynn

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 colorcoded 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)

Architectural Works: 1. Mapping New Orleans: Reading the City 9. Winton Guest House Redoux: Altering the Pre-existing 15. Found Objects: Designing Situations 17. Reprograming Space: Designing Situations Hands-on Works: 19. Bicycle Rack: Making Whole From Composite 21. Community Pavilion: Recycling to Engage 23. Storefront Redesign: Community Engagement Project Art Works: 25. Digital Drawing 27. Charcoal Drawing 29. Abstract Painting

Bicycle Rack: Making Whole From Composite Hobart & William Smith_Spring2011_Independent Study_Advisor: Kirin Makker

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The goal for this independent study was to support alternative forms of transportation in the town of Geneva, N.Y. by increasing the availability of bicycle parking locations. Case studies for multi-use and highly functional bicycle parking were researched during the design phase. The actualized design was constructed of scrap metal donated by local metal fabricators, Vance Metal. Like patchwork, scraps of metal were cut into usable pieces and welded to create pre-prescribed forms. (The following was a collaborative design/build project with Benjamin Ahern) build

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functional bicycle rack

usable seating

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Community Pavilion: Making Recycling to Engage Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center_Summer2011_Internship

Through a community design initiative an outdoor learning pavilion was designed. The goal was to create a design that was simple enough for community members to assemble, and which utilized environmentally sustainable practices and materials. This pavilion relies primarily on recycled shipping palettes from local wine vineyards to create sliding sun screens. Occupants are able to adjust the sliding palettes based on sun positioning and ones personal desires for shade. This modular design allows for multiple configurations based on size and contextual requirements.

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Storefront Re-design: Community Engagement Project Hobart & William Smith_Spring2011_Architecture Society_Co-directed

Given the immediate, economically struggling city of Geneva N.Y. a vacant storefront was utilized as a laboratory to test philosophies of urban design. By altering and revitalizing the storefront, the goal was to create a more desirable, useable venue. As a means of bridging the gap between students and their greater community, architecture students volunteered to help revitalize the space and participate in events held at the storefront. An art auction of student work, a student led fashion show, and a student music show all helped transform a once quiet and vacant space into another visited storefront in town. *photo credit: Loren Marshall

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Composition of Words Michigan_Spring2014_ARCH422_Situations Studio__Professor: Lauren Lynn

This drawing represents an invented 'situation', given one verb and one noun. Using the verb 'to gamble' and the noun 'meat', a cartoon version of the idealized production of meat was created. This drawing provides a commentary on the industrialized meat system and the risks we take by gambling on our meat.

Still Life Drawing: Charcoal Hobart & William Smith_Spring 2008_Intro to Drawing__Professor: Philia Yi

40” X 32.5”

Abstract Painting: Acrylic Hobart & William Smith_Fall2010_Abstract Painting__Professor: Nick Ruth

EDUCATION University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Masters of Architecture Candidate Taubman Scholar 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 HONORS University of Michigan: Taubman Scholar Hobart and William Smith: Dean’s List (Spring ‘08- Spring ‘11) / Cum. GPA 3.69/ Cum Laude Seay Grant Recipient: Published documentation of Denmark’s sustainable villages (Fall ‘09) Helen Heath Scholar (Spring ‘08) Presidential Scholarship (Fall ’07-Spring ’11) RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Petals and Paths: Garden & Landscape Design, Kensington, MD Assisted designer with site drawings, renderings, and site measurements Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center (GNRC), Intern, Geneva, NY Completed neighborhood design projects; designed a community pavilion and proposed a new ‘wayfinding’ system for the city Cracker Factory/ Miles & May Furnishings, Design Intern, Geneva, NY Aided furniture designers with sanding and finishing of wood and metal pieces for the Spring exhibition line Urban Furniture Design/Build, Independent Study, Geneva, NY Co-designed and fabricated a bike rack, welded from donated metal scrap, to foster greater bike accessibility Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Teaching Assistant, Geneva, NY Helped instructor critique and instruct Studio Design I students Belisle Design, Summer Intern, Bethesda, MD Worked with principal architect and clients on residential design projects, participated with site visits and created digital models Climate Corps/ LarkSpur Energy, Community Outreach, Chevy Chase, MD Served as liaison between community members in the town of Chevy Chase and LarkSpur Energy, providing energy audits to residents Building Codes Assistance Project, Summer Intern, Washington D.C. Compiled and organized state energy consumption statistics for an online resource of new energy efficient building codes Meditch Murphey Architects, Summer Intern, Bethesda, MD Assisted architects with site visits, organizational tasks, and restoration of models SKILLS Digital: AutoCAD, Rhino, VRay, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite (PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign) Physical: Woodshop, Metal Fabrication, Hand Drafting, Hand Drawing, Watercolor

2013-2016 Anticipated May 2011 Fall 2009

Fall 2011/ Summer 2013 Summer 2011 Spring 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2010 Summer 2010 Summer 2009/ 2010 Summer 2009 Summer 2008

Contact: Claire Leavengood-Boxer cleaveng@umich.edu 301.5031714 Permanent address: 3515 Glenmoor Dr. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Current address: 905 Wildt St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103