Courtney Klee // Portfolio 2019

COURTNEY KLEE Bachelor of Science in Architecture cgklee@umich.edu (248)795-3920

CONTENTS COLLECTIVE

Arts Library

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

Metalworking

CREATING COMMUNITY

Community Center

UNDERSTANDING THE GRID

Villa Stein de Monzie Study

DETAILING CONSTRUCTION Learning Construction Drawing

RECLAIMING A VOICE

Eileen Gray’s E.1027 Precedent Study

MODERNIST GARDEN

Accessible Outside Path

OPTICAL ELLIPSE

Layering Algorithms

PLAYING WITH FORM

Community Boathouse Exploration

EXPERIENCING LIGHT

Underground Jewlery Gallery

COLLECTIVE Arts Library “Collective�: Arts Library represents a space on Central Campus where an art collective for all of the arts at the University of Michigan can thrive and collaborate. This space argues that visual access enforces collaboration, the pursuit of knowledge, and the sharing of ideas. In this collective, artists, actors/actresses, architects, and musicians have this space to learn from the library materials, share a maker space (with recording studios, 3-D printers, working tables), display work in an exhibition space, and converse in the commons/cafe space.

All floors are fully accessible and are connected by a ramp and an elevator. Way finding techniques such as color, floor textures, and signage are deployed to ensure that this space is easy for all to navigate.

UG1 // Fall 2018 Museum Board, Acrylic, Polystyrene, Basswood Instructor: Athar Mufreh

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OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

Metalworking

This metalworking piece works to simulate the outsider view of a city apartment. This five-sided shape shows five different views that one would experience when looking inside or from the outside of city space. It features a couple inside the shape, a window, a skyline, a brick wall, and a frame. This designs in this piece were hand sawn.

ARTDES 196 // Winter 2018 Instructor: Susan Hoge

CREATING COMMUNITY

Community Center

Inspired by the connecting geometries developed through a stacked museum board model and a concrete cast model, a community center was developed for an urban infill site. This center serves to give a central urban site for communities to meet, collaborate, plan, and educate.

The form features a direct entryway that welcomes residents walking along a sidewalk. There is a second floor entry in the south side to invite individuals to move into the small lecture room. The community center features a ramp that completely wraps around the semi-circular form because it is critical that everyone regardless of ability can move throughout the space. This allows for visual access to the spaces to encourage engagement.

UG1 // FALL 2018 Illustrator, Museum Board, Rockite Instructor: Athar Mufreh

UNDERSTANDING THE GRID Villa Stein de Monzie Precedent Study This comparative model explores the underlying grid similarities of Villa Stein de Monzie to Palladio’s Villa Malcontenta as originally proposed by Collin Rowe in “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa.”

Villa Stein de Monzie is embedded into separate acrylic boxes that show the underlying grid that has been superimposed.

This allows for the removal of pieces in each floor to help understand how the placement of walls, staircases, and windows were made to fall within his intended grid. The model also works to showcase Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture which he outlined only a year before the project was completed in 1927.

ARCH 218 // Winter 2018 Museum Board, Acrylic, Basswood Collaborators: Mitchell Lawrence Instructor: Michael Jefferson

DETAILING CONSTRUCTION

Learning Construction Drawing

Using the Molle House as inspiration along with set dimensions, a case study was conducted to explore how to detail construction drawings and develop an understanding of necessary construction materials.

ARCH 317 // Fall 2018 Basswood, Acrylic, Miscellaneous Materials, Rhino Collaborations: Morgan Mohr, Matilda Terolli, Gabriel Guerra Instructor: Yojairo Lomeli

RECLAIMING A VOICE

Eileen Gray’s E.1027 Precedent Study

This collection of drawings of E.1027 serves to ensure that Gray’s design voice, presence, and intent is the center of discussion when viewing her work. It works to eliminate Corbusier’s attempt to gain credit for the villa and instead focuses on Gray’s intentional thresholds and integrated furniture design sensibility.

The plan is created to imitate the color differentiation that Gray had in her plans. The perspectives work to highlight the threshold views and are taken from Gray’s height. They work to highlight the moving pieces in her work and show how they relate to the most prominent view of the sea.

ARCH 202 // WINTER 2017 Graphite on Bristol, Illustrator Instructor: Dawn Gilpin

MODERNIST GARDEN

Accessible Outdoor Path

As an exercise exploring V-Ray, this modernist garden inspired by the Paul Klee’s painting titled “Monuments” works to create an outdoor garden space in which one can simultaneously enjoy green space and the noise that moving water provides. Composed entirely of landings, ramps, and featuring raise garden beds, anyone can utilize this space for a stroll.

ARCH 211 // Winter 2017 Rhino, Illustrator, V-Ray Instructor: Zain Abuseir

Klee, Paul (1929). Monuments. Watercolor.

OPTICAL ELLIPSE

Layering Algorithms

Algorithmic variations in an array of apertures on a plane, according to an attractor path, laser cut and mounted in parallel relief.

This exercise aims to break the orthogonal geometry of the rectangular apertures on the surface originally demonstrated by a given Grasshopper algorithm. Shifts in scale, transparency, and delicate representations of radial geometries begin to communicate energies, intensities, and the volumetric implications of the in-between.

Fab*Rep 333 // Winter 2019 Rhino, Grasshopper, Acrylic, Basswood Collaborator: Kay Wright Instructor: Malcolm McCullough

PLAYING WITH FORM

Community Boathouse

This work represents the first phase of a current boathouse project. This space is intended to be playful, free, and encourage fun for all users. The forms originated by designing perspective in study models that I wanted users to experience. I wanted visual transparency, a blurring of what a space was intended for, and a constant connection to water.

These forms were created and then turned into boat storage to explore the ways in which canoes, floaties, and rowing shells could be familiarized by being placed in close proximity and a habitable space.

UG2 // Winter 2019 Foam Core, Basswood Instructor: Ana Morcillo Pallares

EXPERIENCING LIGHT

Underground Jewlery Gallery

In this proposal for a jewelry gallery, the architecture enters the subterranean. The entry into the architectural space is an adventure--an introduction to different characters of light. The long entry hallway takes the user underground into a zone of darkness. Daylight foreshadows the experience of the gallery. The wall of the hall is incised by a slim window revealing a sunken courtyard. A turn in the hallway leads to a short, darkened hall.

At the end of this hall, an open, soft jewelry gallery is accessed. Inspired by the Monet Gallery in the Chichu Art Museum, the main gallery space will a feature clerestory window along the perimeter of the entire ceiling.

We aimed to produce a lightness; an anti-gravitaitonal experience in the space for viewing precious stones. A smaller, triangular side gallery-illuminated by rice paper screens--holds a special collection.

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS // Winter 2019 Foam Core, Basswood, Rice Paper Partner: Kay Wright Instructor: Jong-Jin Kim

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