daniel fougère
125 West Hoover Avenue, Apt. 2B, Ann Arbor, MI. 48103 | 603.801.6806 | dfougere@umich.edu | www.danielfougere.com
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L2 GALLERY
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KITCHEN
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RESTAURANT
CLASSROOM
FABRICATION SHOP
WORKSHOP
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L1 GALLERY / SHOP
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ATRIUM
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level 2
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site context // midtown detroit
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site plan // level 1
weather shed
Networks : Exchange Agency | Advisor : Kathy Velkov 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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building section b 1/16” = 1’-0”
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site context // midtown detroit
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emerging artist incubator Systems : The New Frontier | Advisor : Joel Schimdt & Elizabeth Skrisson Team : Brooke Dexter & Alex 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 2-bedroom units. These may participate in. The access to the artwork
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public space via “sky alleys” interspersed between a mixture of studio, 1-bedroom and public “sky alleys” are available for live-work programs where artists and young workers live-work programming is combined with the hostel units on Peterboro, giving visitors produced within the community and providing consumers retail on the ground floor.
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jiangmen commercial plaza Comprehensive : Global Design Studio | Advisor : Lars Graebner Team : Alex 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. danielfougere
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pneuma-technics Independent Study | Advisor : Kathy Velikov Team : 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. Pneuma-Technics 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.. danielfougere
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