Elise Hansen Graduate Architecture Portfolio 2009-2012
MASTERS FINAL PROJECT Urban Terroir, 2012
MEDIA ARTS CENTER Minneapolis Soap Factory addition
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Swede Hollow interventions
ACSA STEEL COMPETITION Chapel RE-fashioned, NE. Minneapolis
MATERIAL APPLICATIONS Cancer Rehabilitation Center
LIGHT RAIL REPERCUSSIONS St. Paul Farmers Market adaptation
URban Terroir The intention of this project is to understand the implications of a working green roofscape in an urban setting; the main implication being a way to suggest a community by connecting/collecting systems and people with its infrastructure. The specific proposal is for a vertical winery with a sprawling vineyard in East Minneapolis. The proposition is grounded in the 2025 and 2030 City plan for a redevelopment of the parking lot wasteland of East Minneapolis and the removal of the stadium. This suggests a need for the Metrodome site to be reintegrated back into the city fabric. The traditionally rural program of the vineyard is reinterpreted into a new horizontal datum of elevated modulated fields creating temporal space above the surface parking block. The harvest then filters along this datum into a processing core which simultaneously acts as transit hub for bikes, light-rail and pedestrians. Grapes are collected and People are dispersed across and through this new working green space in the city.
Testing the Field
STUDY MODELS Testing the Module
VERTICAL PRECEDENTS STACKING URBAN�SUBURBAN LTL TOWER : This precedent, while not a winery begins to show a unique hypothetical situation where the “suburban” auto interlaces with the urban program of an office building if the autos were completely electric.
FLOW OF GRAVITY PILLSBURY A-MILL: This precedent shows another product that benefited from a vertical process. This plant is unique in that the elevators used to bring the flower to the top were operated by power from water turbines. No Electricity was used. The process went up and down the seven stories three times.
VERTICAL ASSEMBLY FORD PLANT: The idea of the vertical assembly plant for Ford autos was unique but unfortunately did not last long. They quickly found that it was not efficient to send parts down chutes and assemble on multiple levels.
Testing the Factory
ow might
THE MODULE
PUBLIC ACCESS AXON
SECTION BB 1/8”
SECTION AA 1/8”
WINERY ELEVATION 1/8”
Section AA
Section BB
Section AA
Section BB
SECTION BB 1/8”
WINERY ELEVATION 1/8”
PUBLIC PLAN DIAGRAMS
HARVEST PLAN DIAGRAMS
CONNECTING THE FIELDS This elaborate plan is a response to the question of a specific green roof space, a vineyard, that works as a symbiotic machine in the city fabric. The fields incorporate systems of growing crops, water mitigation, energy harvesting, bike movement, and crate movement. Where they connect are interesting design possibilities.
TEmpOrary CONNECTOr STOraGE OFF-SEaSON
The connection points, like in the building occur at areas where the vertical collectors are located. There are temporary connectors for just crates and harvest. These connectors are also adjustable for future development and elevation changes. There are also permanent connectors for bike paths. The bike path becomes a pedestrian festival path during harvest. Overall, these collector and connector systems create unique access points for these new datum levels.
TEmpOrary CONNECTOr DurING HarvEST
aLL yEar rOuND pErmaNENT CONNECTOrS (bIkE paTH)
FuTurE DEvELOpmENT ELEvaTION CHaNGES
pOp-up HarvEST CONNECTOrS FOr CraTES
3
MEDIA ARTS CENTER As a media arts addition to the Soap Factory, this eight week project began by exploring and diagramming the Walker Arts Center. From that study it was understood that an architectural addition which allows a relationship to form between old and new, can revitalize the existing condition to be seen in a relevant way. The addition in this project focused on a corridor which traversed old and new conditions and permitted opportunities to understand spatial and programmatic relationships through unexpected adjacencies.
swede hollow paths and nodes Working with Landscape Architecture students, this project studied the interesting history of Swede Hollow in St. Paul and proposed a subtle, yet stimulating intervention. The three nodes along the path use recycled materials including double T-beams from the Gillette building which is to be demolished, as well as materials that relate directly to the neighborhood behind the hollow. With architectural interventions working with landscaping interventions, creating a compression and release of canopy, the project sought to openly direct the visitors and neighborhood to existing ephemera that otherwise goes unnoticed.
wedding chapel re-fashioned
This short project was designed for a steel and glass studio and was also entered in the ACSA steel competition 2011. The premise was to design a wedding chapel using steel and glass in evocative ways. In a team of two, we turned the wedding chapel into a loading dock and barge system on the Mississippi River. The design focused on an industrious threshold that represented the Northeast arts and metal district in which it was located, and a structural ballet of a light and delicate roof system held up by the folded plate Corten steel body.
Material Applications This eight week comprehensive studio focused on material applications for a new program on an empty campus lot. This program became a cancer rehabilitation center, making material choices essential. The design focused on creating an elegant shading apparatus for the individual unit as well as the details of the large spa below the units.
St. Paul Civic Center This conceptual project began as a modular exercise to create implied spaces and circulation. It was later grounded in the site of St. Paul Rondo district where the Light Rail is intended to eventually run through bringing even more diversity to the area. The project became a civic center with a new arena for Lynx Basketball, open air markets, and additional indoor shopping which took structural and spatial cues from the module creating an orchestrated overlap of program and circulation.
ELISE HANSEN, ASSOCIATE AIA 3139 Girard Ave S. Apt. 6 Minneapolis MN, 55408 Hans3783@umn.edu (402) 305-4609
I am seeking to achieve a position that would allow me to further my experience in the field of architecture. This position should challenge and broaden my skills as a dedicated junior designer.
education University of Nebraska Lincoln Bachelor of Science in Design , 3.85 GPA (August 2009) Leibniz Universitaet, Hannover Germany (Summer term 2009) University of Minnesota Twin Cities M. Architecture, 3.62 GPA (May 2012)
relevant experience Conway Schulte Architects, Minneapolis MN August 2012 - present Architectural Intern Planning, interior design, Construction Documents, outline specifications, RFP organization, project management and business opperations. References: William F Conway FAIA (612) 333-5867 HDR Inc. Omaha NE May 2008- August’08 & December ‘08 - February ‘09 Architectural Intern Revising CAD drawings, building details, 3D modeling with VIZ, and creating presentation boards References: Steven Hill and Dave Thomas AIA (402) 399-1000
Software / skills
adobeCS Ps, Id, Ai, autoCAD, Sketchup, Rhino, Kerkythea, Microsoft Office, with intro to Revit and 3ds Max. physical modeling, hand sketching, writing, and conceptual drawing.
Awards Undergrad: Deans list, Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society, Mary Roelfs Scholarship, Gist Scholarship, James Canfield Scholarship Graduate: May Ohrbeck Painter Fellowship (2010 and 2011)
Volunteer and Teaching Assistants AIAS and NSCS Design Fundamentals II TA Spring 2011 and 2012 Intro to Drawing TA Fall 2011 Communications and Calculus Teaching Assistant 2008 Helped rebuild homes in New Orleans - 2008 and 2009