Fiona Wholey

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Ellerbe Application

Fiona Wholey | 2015



Thomas F. Ellerbe

Written Application Statement

February 15, 2015

Architecture might not be able to change the fundamental human condition; it might not be able to solve everything however its role is to inspire us and speak to us of life and beauty. The difference between a building and architecture is that architecture can communicate these ideas – it can communicate values and beliefs whereas a building just meets our basic needs. Architecture can and should be read like a book even though for each person, it speaks a different truth. The role of architecture, for me, is about discovery and to create a beautiful experience that responds to the scale of an individual. An architecture that is tactile, that allows people to interact with it. Incorporating the warmth of daylight, the feel of the air with operable windows or the blurring of boundaries and a diversity of sensory experiences. Through that to create memories particularly as memory is so intimately connected with the physicality of space and the tactility of experience. That invites people to discover and it creates the space to envision other ways of being. Or simply, just to be a source of comfort when a beautiful space is most needed. To design spaces which provide a sense of permanence yet also the opportunity for people to write their own stories through them. As with most things, it is this simplicity that is the most complex to design for. Within this framework of architecture, I am interested in using design to create a vision of possibilities and discovering new approaches to some of the challenges that we are facing from an aging population to a changing climate. Using architecture to re-think and expand to a systems view that examines the broader impact of the building on the surrounding environment and the way people live. Challenging assumptions on what a building could be and what we are expecting a building to do for us. While I do not yet know the scale, the type, or even the style of architecture that I would like to design, I view architecture as a profession of continuing development and discovery. I would like to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to design a home, or a hospital, or an office and what those types of spaces mean. Ultimately, my career goal is a process of continual discovery through design.



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| Day Center + Day Care

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Research + Learning Center

Atlas | Minerals

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Contact whol0001@umn.edu

| 612.226.2303 linkedin.com/in/fionawholey | issue.com/fwholey University of Minnesota | M.Arch GD III


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Heavy Air | Day Center + Day Care Tianjin, China Professor: Blaine Brownell

M.Arch Fall 2014

Located in Tianjin, China this project is about directly addressing existing air pollution and actively seeking to re-mediate the air. It is re-creating the experience to be outside and breath fresh air. The building creates a protected unconditioned area acting as the streets and community spaces. With trees and grass throughout this space, it is creating a protected area to experience being outdoors while unexposed to the site’s poor air quality. The air is filtered by a carbon eating mesh of Titanium Dioxide Pigment and further refined passively with the incorporation of trees throughout the ‘streets’.

The programs, a day center for the elderly and day care, are housed within individual volumes that open out onto the interior streets. Two levels allow for an interplay between the programs and fluidity of interaction while each program still contains a center and is oriented around their own courtyard. These program spaces are further conditioned with radiant heating systems and the further one goes into the building, the more protected they are from the external site conditions while always having views to reconnect to the site.

Site Plan


South East Elevation

DOWN toground

UP to 3.9M

UP to 6M DOWN to 3.9 m

DOWN to 3.9M UP to 4.8 m

DOWN to 3.9 m

DOWN to ground

UP to 4.8 m UP to 3.9M 1

DOWN to 3.9M


Meeting Room Staff Lounge Meeting Room Sleep Area

Offices Crafts + Art | Day Centre

Lounge Activity Center | Tables Play Area

Games + Play

Cafe + Tables

Second Floor

E

D

Mechancial

Storage Storage Reception Media Day Care | .6 - 1yrs

Admin Offices Office

Model Unit 1 Bedroom Day Center Courtyard Lounge Activity Center | Tables

Meeting Rooms Day Care | 1-2yrs C Day Care Courtyard Exhibition

VIP Areas Day Care | 3-4 yrs

Kitchen Kitchen + Pantry

Play Equipment

Exercise Equipment

Ground Floor


Day Care Section

Day Center Section


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Maggie’s Center

Minneapolis, MN Professor: Mary Guzowski

M.Arch Spring 2014

A Maggie’s Center is a place that provides for the non-medical needs of those with cancer offering practical, emotional and social support. This Maggie’s Center is located near to the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota. The building is about providing a variety of spaces that can respond to an individual’s changing needs as they go through the long-term process of treatment. It provides areas for community support - a kitchen and hearth which are central and highly visible while at the same time, creating

spaces for contemplation and solitude when needed - all while in a busy urban environment. Layers of enclosure, primarily using landscape, ensure that a level of privacy and quiet is available while creating an interaction between the street and the building. The building utilizes daylight with views of smaller gardens to connect with the landscape and create a building that changes as the seasons change especially to utilize the high latitude of Minnesota and potential for dramatically different experiences in each season.

Roof Upper 12’ Roof Upper 10’


Woodland

Prairie Dropseed | Short Grass

Native Grasses + Wildflowers

Site Plan Exquisite Room Model Photos Morning 9am

December 21st

March|September 21st

June 21st

Noon

Afternoon 3pm


Summer Perspective

Summer Section B | Landscape + Shading

Winter Section B| Hearth + Center


Winter Perspective


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Riparian Wetland Research + Learning Center

Minneapolis, MN Professor: Jeffrey Mandyck

M.Arch Fall 2013

The area around Lowry Bridge is a space of division. Highway 94 severs people from the river allowing only limited access to this resource. The industrial uses and their forms contribute to this division through restricted access and limited connections separating residential areas west of Hwy 94 and east of the Mississippi. The Riparian Wetland Research and Learning Center is about addressing these divisions between flows and program. It seeks to be an element that connects people with the river and also one that connects Minneapolis with the RiverFirst Wetlands. The building form and program seek to include traces of this idea of division while it’s overarching vision is to bring disparate elements and flows together. This is reflected in the separation

East Elevation

of the program into two distinct experiences, each with their own structural system that responds to the scale of space that those programs require.

Delivery

Parking

One is about research. Responding to the need for longer spans and larger loads, a steel frame is used that provides flexibility and strength necessary for the laboratory spaces. The placement of the windows present a visual connection to the interior activities while ensuring restricted access with only one primary point of entrance. The other is about community outreach. This program is about relationships and creating more intimate and varied spaces. A concrete pan and joist system is used reflecting the smaller spaces required.

Mechanical

Classroom

Classroom

Seminar

Seminar

Auditorium

Outdoor Classroom

Wet Classroom

Lower Level


B

B

Elevation

Section

Workroom

A

Meeting Room

Computer Room Green Roof Office

Maintanence Storage

Maintanence

Office

Office

Storage

Teaching Lab

Open Offices Classroom

Research Lab

Open Offices

Storage Archive Collections A

Storage

Board Room

Storage

Storage

Research Lab

Teaching Lab Maintanence

Lobby

Outdoor Exhibition + Green Roof

Exhibition Space

B

Multimedia

Pre-Event

Auditorium

Elevation A

Elevation

Section

C

A

B

Ground Floor

C

Second Floor


816

Site Plan


Material Axon


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The Minnesota Atlas | Minerals Minnesota Team Members: Anton + Turgeon-Schramm

Catalyst 2012

The Minnesota Atlas explored the natural resources of the state and, through mapping seemingly unrelated data, sought to discover new opportunities and processes. This part of the project examined the minerals in the state. Peat and iron ore became the focus as they exist in opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of raw production and distance the materials travel. These minerals were mapped in relation to their production, abundance, and transportation traveled to market. Through this it was possible to see that

iron ore is Minnesota’s largest mineral export however also travels a great distance and is declining in terms of it’s quality and amount. However, while peat is the second least exported mineral, it is abundant in the north of Minnesota, requires less processing, and has a far shorter travel to market. Through examining these minerals with a new lens, alternative networks and forms of production began to suggest themselves.

Deposits Iron Ore Peat Processing Iron Ore Peat Transportation Barge Freight Truck Port Land Use Developed


Minnesota raw mineral production Clays, Sand, Lime, Gravel

1830000

Stone: Dimension Stone: Crushed Sand, Gravel, Construction

16700 110000 188000

Gemstones Peat

7 2850

Iron Ore

2015860 USGS Mineral Commodity Survey 2009 (In thousand dollars)

Port Cargo Volume of Iron Ore (In Tonnes)

Duluth/Superior Harbors Taconite Harbor

Thunder Bay

Marquette Escanaba

40,000,000 20,000,000 10,000,000 5,000,000 2,500,000

Lorain

Chicago Indiana Harbor Gary Burns Harbor

Cleveland

Ashtabula Conneaut

Detroit Toledo


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Fiona Wholey

Whol0001@umn.edu | 612.226.2303 5 Augusta Lane, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55110 Linkedin.com/in/fionawholey | Issue.com/fwholey

Professional Experience 10/2014 - current Minneapolis, MN

Perkins + Will, UMN Research Consortium

12/2011 - 05/2014 Minneapolis, MN

School of Public Health, University of Minnesota: Web Editor

09/2011 - 12/2011 Minneapolis, MN

Habitat for Humanity: House Month Volunteer

04/2009 - 05/2010 London, UK

Urban Design London: Project Officer

08/2009 - 01/2010 London, UK 10/2008 - 02/2009 London, UK

Additional Experience 09/2010 - 02/2011 London, UK 05/2007- 07/2007 Xela, Guatemala

Skill Set

MSRP Research | Building Resilience: A Framework to Assess + Communicate Resilience Development and maintenance of wordpress sites.

Working on a LEED certified house including framing, insulation, porch, and interior finishing

Facilitated urban design training courses and events including visits to the Olympic Park 2012. Developed training material for a green space urban design program and on-line education courses.

SOAS, University of London: Graphic Designer Designed monthly magazine for th

Space Syntax Ltd: Intern

Analysis and mapping of existing and proposed movement routes using GIS and SSx software. Projects: Gummersbach: Urban Baseline, I-VALUL: Mapping the social and economic costs of spatial layouts and SEDUC: Exploring crime and spatial layout

Cobalt Development Services Website (http://www.cobalt-ltd.com/) Always on a Sunday Book cover Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group: Research Volunteer

08/2004 - 09/2004 Kerala, India

Indie-Gries + Water Basins: Construction Volunteer

08/2003 - 09/2003 Cairns, Australia

Conservation Volunteers Australia: Volunteer

Drafting Rhino ••• AutoCad ••• Sketchup ••• Revit ••

Software Photoshop •••• Illustrator •••• Indesign ••••

Other Office •••• WordPress ••• GIS •

Languages English (native) Spanish ••


Education

09/2012 - current Minneapolis, MN

M.Arch, GDIII

06/2011 - 08/2011 Berkeley, CA

[IN]Architecture Summer Program

2007 - 2008 London, UK

MSc Urban Planning, specialism Urban Design

2006 - 2006 Boston, MA

Professional Certificate in Photography

2002 - 2005 York, UK

Fellowships

College of Design, University of Minnesota College of Environmental Design: University of California Berkeley The Bartlett, University College London Dissertation: Perceptions of safety and the More London Development Boston University and the Center for Digital Imaging Arts

References Jeffrey Mandyck jmandyck@cuningham.com Adjunct Professor University of Minnesota GD2 Studio Professor

Nat Madson

mads0132@umn.edu BA Sociology Adjunct Professor University of York University of Minnesota GD1 Studio Professor Dissertation: Western conceptions of the city and how the transition from modern to post-modern society influenced them Mark Engebretson enge@umn.edu AIA Minneapolis Fellowship Communications Manager KKE - Ron Krank Vision Award University of Minnesota Sandy Ritter Fellowship School of Public Health Bruce Abrahamson Graduate Fellowship Manager 12/11 - 09/12


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