daniel fougère
3810 SE Division Street, 405, Portland, OR. 97202
603.801.6806 | dfougere@umich.edu | www.danielfougere.com
Daniel Fougere is an aspiring architect who has a passion for design, research, fabrication and digital technologies. With his various experiences in academia and practice he hopes to actively participate in the evolving role architects and designers play in the current building industry. He has witnessed first hand the benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration and is motivated to develop relationships with industry and non-industry professionals to further research and prototype architectural system technologies.
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3810 SE Division Street, 405, Portland, OR. 97202 dfougere@umich.edu 603-801-6806 www.danielfougere.com
education april 2016
Taubman College School of Architecture & Urban Planning University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Master of Architecture Degree Thesis : Concrete Lattice // Unitized Architecture of Assembly
may 2013
School of Art, Architecture & Historic Preservation Roger Williams University - Bristol, Rhode Island Bachelor of Science in Architecture
spring 2012
The Institute at Palazzo Rucellai - Florence, Italy Study Abroad
Scholarships
Roger Williams University Scholarship Souhegan Valley Dollars for Scholars Scholarship New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
experience june - july 2016
Synecdoche Design Studio - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Designer + Fabricator - Fabricated various steel tables with hickory wood surfaces for a local tech office in Ann Arbor and assisted with the installation on site.
may - august 2015 & july ‘13 - july ‘14
Baker Design Group - Boston, Massachusetts
may - august 2012
Vision 3 Architects - Providence, Rhode Island
summer 2015
Architectural Designer - Worked through all phases of an architectural project from schematic design to close-out packages. Set-up Revit projects from a base template through to construction documents. Architectural Intern - Assisted with schematic design, construction documents and project renderings.
ACADIA 2015 Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene
Earned acceptance to the 2015 ACADIA International Conference with colleagues Ryan Goold and Kathy Velikov for our paper, Pneuma-Technics: Methods for Soft Adaptive Environments.
winter 2015
2015 Taubman College Architecture Student Exhibition, FULL
spring 2012
Published in the October Issue of AND Architettura Magazine
Presented Fall 2014 semester project in 2015 annual student exhibition.
Earned second place with Andres Daza in a competion for our Advanced Urban Design Studio project proposal in Castiglione Della Pescaia, Italy.
leadership & activities 2010 - 2012
Studio Mentor
2009 - 2012
AIAS
2011 - 2012
Eco-Rep
skills / interests
Mentored 10-15 first year architecture students in their design studio
Was a member and attended conferences for the American Institute of Architecture Students
Helped to insure Roger Williams University was at the forefront of sustainability issues. 7 Axis Robot / Kuka PRC / SMT Rhino / Grasshopper / Python Revit / AutoCAD 3-Axis CNC Mill / Water Jet
Photography Woodworking Mig Welding Furniture Design
Graphic Design Industiral Design Traveling Hiking / Backpacking
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emerging artist incubator
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jiangmen commercial plaza
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Concrete Lattice Unitized Architecture of Assembly Thesis Advisor Partner
Concrete Labor Tsz Yan Ng + Wes McGee Ryan Goold
Concrete Lattice seeks to challenge our normative association with this building typology by developing a lattice system using glass fiber-reinforced concrete, or GFRC, as the primary material. Thin lattice structures are porous, lightweight, and deployable; terms that are not typically associated with concrete architecture. The design of variable units rather than linear components, typical of lattice systems, allows the project to focus on the assembly of prefabricated units using integrated component details. By employing the use of PETG as a folded formwork, our goal was to explore the mass-customization of units to be flat-packed and deployed on site. Many material properties have come into play within our system, and we had to test each one by controlling certain variables and producing iterations in both the design and the process. While PETG has proven inherently unstable and liable to cracking, folding techniques and seam locations produce origami patterns across the formwork and provide stability. The PETG formwork would not hold its intended form by itself so it was neccessary to create an external jig to both support the cast and ensure accuracy and precision across all unit types. The jig design is reconfigurable to account for various parameters within both the unit design and the system itself, responding to feedback between computation, design, fabrication, and casting. concretelattice
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Concrete Lattice involved a multitude of fabrication processes and the following photos are insight into how this project was came together. Zund cutting was used to cut the formwork out of the PETG.
5-axis cnc routing was used for the laminated wood base/header and 3-axis cnc routing for the jig’s.
Robotic rod bending was used for steel reinforcement within the thirty-six units (nine unique unit types).
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We experimented with various concrete mix ratios throughout the year before settling on a final mix.
For final production concrete was poured into 6 various formwork/jib. combinations to finish production on time.
Assembling prefabricated concrete units on-site with minimal scafolding.
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site context // midtown detroit
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Weather Shed Adaptable Working Environments Networks Advisor
Exchange Agency Kathy Velikov
With the fragments of a once-unified urban suburb, this area along Woodward Avenue is a strategic site for the Weather Shed. Artist collaboratives and maker spaces are a few examples of the shared economy programs that are helping to revitalize the city of Detroit and its greater metropolitan area. The shed fosters these shared economy programs with its dynamic and flexible volume which is able to adapt to the changing needs of the user. The “vessels” are customizable pods that each user can adapt to their specific needs. These “vessels” are able to move throughout the various floors of the shed, continually changing the shed’s internal atmosphere. The Weather Shed provides an alternative model of architectural authorship which allows for a more discursive engagement that acknowledges weather’s creative influence. Like the weather, this shed is in constant flux, adapting to the changing needs of its internal and external climate.
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KITCHEN
RESTAURANT
CLASSROOM
FABRICATION SHOP
WORKSHOP
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L1 GALLERY / SHOP
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site plan // level 1
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L2 GALLERY
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ATRIUM
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STUDIO APT.
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GYM
ROOF TERRACE
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south elevation weathershed
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Live/Work Detroit Emerging Artist Incubator Systems The New Frontier Advisor Joel Schimdt + Elizabeth Skrisson Partners Brooke Dexter + Alexander Hengstebeck
Sited adjacent to Peterboro and Cass, our housing project seeks to pull the interactions of the street (inspired by our frontier studies of Cuba) back into the site and into the vertical housing towers. The diagrams show the process we took in developing the form of our building in relation to the site. In close proximity to Cass Corridor, famous for its history of art in Detroit, the building addresses housing for young emerging artists entering the workforce in Detroit. The building invests in public space via “sky alleys” interspersed between a mixture of studio, 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom units. These public “sky alleys” are available for live-work programs where artists and young workers may participate in. The live-work programming is combined with the hostel units on Peterboro, giving visitors access to the artwork produced within the community and providing consumers retail on the ground floor.
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site context // midtown detroit
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axonometric section axonometric section
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Jiangmen Commercial Park Comprehensive Global Design Studio Advisor Lars Graebner Partners Alexander Hengstebeck + Xiayi Li
The city of Jiangmen is an emerging urban focal point along the western edge of Guangdong’s greater Pearl River Delta metropolis. Amid its many zones of construction and development lies an intriguing corner site flanked on two sides by busy vehicular traffic and supported at the rear by the rolling topography of a public park. The site will act as the commercial heartbeat of a newly completed, private residential tower park just north of central Jiangmen. The design proposal for Jiangmen Park Plaza establishes a new beacon for an urban commercial center in Jiangmen. The project seeks to transcend the conventional consumer shopping mall in order to deliver a more dynamic and memorable experience. This focal corner site captures the landscape and begins to blend architecture and environment, positioning the consumer in a setting that fosters organic movement and inviting retail space. The site’s overlaying terraces and dynamic vertical circulation paths strive to deliver a new commercial typology that embraces the landscape and promotes playful exploration. The architecture houses diverse program and integrates a narrative of the landscape with its forms. The built form is at once independent and integral with the hillside. Open plazas promote rich social interaction and stitches its users seamlessly into the surrounding urban fabric.
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commercial park - exploded axon
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PEDESTRIAN - RESTRICTIVE SIX - LANE MEDIAN
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL ACCESS
PARKING ACCESS
ADJACENT COMMERCIAL COMPETITOR
METAL MESH CANOPY SHADING TOWER LOBBY PARKING / DELIVERY ACCESS
PARK-TO-PLAZA ACCESS
KINDERGARTEN
HIGH RISE RESIDENTIAL
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Pneuma-Technics Methods for Soft Adaptive Environments Independent Study Pneumatic Actuation Advisor Kathy Velikov Partner Ryan Goold
We have the opportunity to rethink the interrelations architecture has with the environment and with human behavior. Adaptive systems are gaining traction in the discourse as relationships between the natural environment, the built environment, and its users evolve over time. This project, Pneuma-Technics, investigates pneumatic architectural systems, composite materials and components, computation, physical computing and sensory actuation. The objective is to advance a developing typology of responsive systems: a breathing architecture that is sensitive to its changing environment. PneumaTechnics is actuated breath in built form - pneuma, the Greek word for “to breathe,â€? and technĂŞ, the Greek word for technique/craft in art. The project imagines the potentials of a soft, interactive surface that allows for the passage of light, air, and human vision, yet maintains enclosure and insulation as necessary for architectural performance (Figure 01). These innovations project new futures onto traditional methods of architectural production and engage in nontraditional materials to develop unique environments. Pneuma-Technics is a body of research that consists of tangible experiments for the advancement of soft environments. We design for these potential futures as materials, methods, and collaborative action evolve the discourse toward adaptive technologies.. pneumatechnics
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