danDeVeau design portfolio
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01 Public Private A Cedar Riverside, Minneapolis Supper Club
02 Seasonal Flux A luminous and thermal design based addition to Rapson Hall.
03 Part + Whole
04 S + A + E
An Introduction to mass customization and differentiation. A small proposal for the Midtown Greenway.
Situation, Apparatus, Encasement
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Public Private Fall, 2012 Grad. Studio I Professor: Nat Madson Located in the Cedar Riverside Neighborhood on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota Campus, this project strove to propose a specific supper club program into a dense ethnically charged site, while still respecting the existing site conditions.
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Hiawatha Bike Trail
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Highway 94
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Site analysis of artificial light within a larger city context
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Public Sidewalk lights
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Commercial | Residential Safety Lights
Main Street Lights
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Main Street Lights
Commercial | Residential Safety Lights
Main Street Lights
Public Sidewalk lights
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Zoomed focus on trafficked corridor relating to program
Commercial | Residential Safety Lights
Main Street Lights
Initial abstraction of information to form building and concept Cedar
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Execution of concept in form relating to photographs and site analysis
Photographing light: site analysis began to explore the quantitative and qualitative values of light within a varying distance by photographing light every 5ft along a heavily trafficked sidewalk.
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Why this place? The building pays close attention to the storefront faรงade and acts to create public and private space along the sidewalk to encourage onlookers to experience materials, structure, space and light.
Light as Envelope : Engaging Precision Starting with simple geometry (lines and points) and working rigorously to maintain geometric or numerical relationships between elements, the program of the building began to feather away creating variable densities of public and private space. While varying opacity, distance and value, each iteration attempted to respect the neighborhoods eclectic vocabulary and provide a sequence of experiences throughout the differing degrees of program.
Supper Club
Brewery
Garage Space
Roof Membrane Rigid Insulation Decking
Stainless steel 8� hollow core column 1/2� Glazing Ventilated metal screen Heater / Ventilation system
Radiant pipes (heating and/or cooling)
A series of sequences Striving to meld a diverse, low income neighborhood into a high end dinner program, this project worked to blur the boundaries of public and private space. Combining a revitalized Brewery with a supper club venue, three main passageways dissect the long, narrow building in hopes to respect the public in a frequently traveled thoroughfare while still providing an elegant dinning experience. A central hallway continuously runs the course of this building, providing varying dimensions of light and space.
02 Seasonal Flux Spring, 2013 Grad. Tech Studio 2 Professor: Mary Guzowski / Loren Abrams This luminous and thermal driven design project sought to introduce the ecological concepts and principles of daylighting, thermal, energy, and systems integration to a 3rd floor addition to the Rapson Hall, Cerny architecture building. By understanding the technological implications of lighting and thermal qualities, the addition strove to achieve a NetZero performance level by using passive and active design strategies. The concept for this project took from Steven Holl’s original scheme of seasons and applied it in similar fashion to the four sides of the building. Each season took on it’s own daylighting a thermal challenges while striving to form a cohesive addition.
The 2002 Steven Holl addition to the Rapson Hall College of design focused on asymmetrical angular forms and spaces contrast with the rectilinear modernist sensibility of the original building. Each angular form reflects the four seasons seen here in Minnesota.
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The execution of program related largely to the intended qualitative and logistical programmatic needs. Thermal modeling in IES and PHPP provided a dialogue between the design decisions and their eventual output.
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5th Facade Reflecting light into the south labs was done with a dove-tailed interior light shade that diffuses hot summer light while still allowing the labs to be bright.
Louvre Several iterations of louvers were studied including spacing, thickness and angle .
Solar Chimney Located on the east side of the building, classrooms are separated by small solar chimneys that allow light into lower studio spaces on the second floor. As shown below, a detailed understanding of louvers and green roofs helped accomplish many of the luminous and thermal daylight qualities.
Upperable Window
Green Roof
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Insulation
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Green Roof Dirt Insulation
Water barrier
Water barrier
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Concrete
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Lighter Aluminium
Glass Door
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South Facade The south facade addressed the key issues of luminous and thermal in two distinct ways. Because daylighting was a primary goal for this space, several iterations we run on how to control light into the space from the south yet still provide views to the south. However, the trade off with this approach was in its thermal output, therefore, considerations into how to reduce thermal gains in the summer (while retaining thermal gains in the winter where studied.)
East Facade The east facade’s largest goal was to celebrate morning sun while not having it overpower the daylight qualities provided by other facades.
Roof The roof condition became the most important facade for the lab space due to our daylighting qualities. In each study, the goal was to achieve diffuse light at all times of the day.
Material The interior material for the labs needed to enhance the diffuse qualities brought in by the roof, south and east facades. Studies were run on each interior wall manipulating texture, reflectivity and color.
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Through iterative studies in IES, this project helped to understand such conditions as glare, seasonal thermal performance and daylighting qualities. The south labs were looked at specifically due to their south facing facades.
03 Part + Whole Summer, 2012 Grad.1 Week Design Studio Professor: Adam Marcus, AIA If we understand a building as fundamentally, an assembly of discrete parts, then architecture becomes largely about selecting, designing, and organizing the parts into a larger whole that serves a specific purpose. The objective of this project was to foreground the duality of part and whole, and to introduce concepts of mass customization and differentiation. Using only 2� and 4� segments of basswood, glue and building constraints, a series of systematic rules were created capable of producing a full spectrum of effects ranging from opaque to transparent. This analysis paved the way for an architectural intervention containing two rectangular volumes approx. 100 and 200sf, which, when built would attempt to affect and reconfigure the existing boundary conditions of highly a trafficked cycling and pedestrian corridor in Uptown, MN, the Midtown Greenway.
Bench Assembly Using a system of stacking and mathematical pattern assembly, the construction logic of this project allowed for a wall to be converted into a bench, corner and roof. The increased depth of each level also provided varying values of shadow and light within in each structure.
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Understanding water’s role in Agriculture
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1 Situation — Site + Client: The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum had proposed a new campus focused on food production and preparation including vegetables, vines, honey, cooking and food preservation. In response to their needs, this project sought to understand and educate visitors about the role of water in agriculture. 3
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Water Access and Existing Well
The proposed site currently has no realistic water collection system. A small well, located near the center of the site, pulls water from an existing marshland across an adjacent highway.
Topography and Water Runoff
The proposed infrastructure will increase not only the demand for water on the site, but also create waste water and infrastructure related water contamination that could be dealt with in a sustainable way.
The role of Water in Agriculture
In terms of agriculture, the understanding, it’s conservation, distribution and collection is crucial.. Although the Landscape Arboretum is surrounded by lakes and fresh water, our disconnect with water creates problems that are leading to water shortage issues and health problems even locally.
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Spring, 2014 7 Week Design Module Professor: Eric Amel, AIA
Bringing Water to the surface
Why don’t we care more about our water? Speaking to the disconnect between humans and their interaction with water, the goal for this project was to call attention to the gross misuse, beauty, dependency and choreography we have with water. Latching on to an existing well on site provided a compelling juxtaposition for this project. Initial studies (seen below) began to explore the unique character of the site while utilizing architecture to educate, inspire and form relationship between our impact on the environment and water use.
Choreographing the Apparatus
2 Apparatus — (A water treatment center) As a fully functioning treatment center, this project fit the needs of managing storm-water runoff on the site, as well as greywater management from nearby education follys. In addition to it’s practical nature, the building brought to the surface a previously disregarded integral part of our need for water. The encasement for the facility focused on the three elements of water treatment, Rapid Mixing, Flocculation and Sedimentation. In addition to encasing each apparatus, the roof condition was brought into the project as play against the infrastructure needed to clean the water by human interaction.
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Water Defining Walls
The walls for this project embraced the apparatus in two ways. As part of the water treatment process, grit and sediment are removed from the chambers and typically sent to a landfill where they are left to sit. Rather than allow this to happen, Gabin wall like structures are used to store sediment as it is removed from the process. Over time, these walls become thermal mass and rain screens for the facility.
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Engineered Soil with plantings
S.S. C-Channel Pre-fab Rubber relief From Interior: 1. 10’ H 3” S.S. Arch grade C-Channel (mulleon HSS Rounded 2. 3/16 Gap (post-silicone infill) 3. 5/16” single pane glass 4. Butterfly clip / bolt to S.S. channel
Filter Fabric Resevoir Layer Moisture Layer Aeration Layer Waterproofing
S.S. 1” Cap
6” S.S. Arch grade HSS Rounded Column (Height varries of roof height)
Post-Tensioned Conrete (var. thickness) S.S. Corner angle S.S. Edge w/ perf cont.
6” Conrete Wall Slab w/ rebar reinforcement
1”x1/4” S.S. plate cont. to columns (supports frame) L bracket to Screen Removed Grit
Interior channel cap Galv. Steel Weld plate w/ 1” diameter steel rod 2” masonory slab (int. pool) 2” mortar bed Waterproof membrane
Perforated Screen (1/8-1/4” holes)
3” Gap for water runoff (cont.)
Interior S.S. angle (flush to grade 2” masonory slab Exterior S.S. angle (flush to grade)
Exterior Stone cont. as edge gaurd
Structural Conc. Wall footing @ 5’
A large portion of this project focused on understanding and executing the details. Sections were cut through the building at each apparatus and understood at a rigorous scale. Issues of water control, direction and retation were addressed. In addition, thei project encourages the flow of water back into the building through a retention pond seen below.