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University of Michigan B.S. Architecture _._.20

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Gian Paolo I. Anovert

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P A O L O

A N O V E R T Address:

3356 Talbert Circle, Rochester Hills, MI, 48307

E D U C A T I O N University of Michigan, Ann Arbor + Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning + Bachelor of Science in Architecture DIS Study in Copenhagen + Study abroad studio course

Email: 2016-2020 G.P.A. 3.3

+ Drew various plans, sections and details for a residential project that would be submitted to the Chicago Building Department. + Visited project sites to measure and provide analysis. + Pitched residential addition to clients that was approved.

Rackham Student Event Assistant

+ Managed various large and small events. + Handled lots of technical equipment from projectors to live streaming recorders. + Worked with clients to ensure a successful program.

Lowes Home Improvement

+ Managed inventry on floor and assisted customers. + Recorded and notified customers about online orders. + Assisted in managing big online bulk orders. U of M Graduate Research Assistant + Assisted disabled graduate student in creating architectural models. + Led research and discussions on ADA accessibility within Ann Arbor and Detroit. A focus on inclusive designs. + Managed and organized materials for future projects.

August 2019september 2019

May 2019March 2020

Seeking new technical skills to effectively engage the profession of architecture as it constantly shifts through the climates of life. Through the right knowledge base and collaborative enterprise, I hope to learn more about how design can satisfy the empathetic demands of architecture.

S K I L L S May 2017August 2017

AutoCad Fabrications Illustrator

2016-2018

Modeling Photoshop Revit Rhinocerous

2016

Furniture

2016

Sketchup V- Ray

+ Started small business of providing college students cheap reusable furniture for housing.

+ Taubman Wallenberg Studio thesis Winner

2020

+ Taubman Willeke Portfolio Competition Winner

2020 2019

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R E F E R E N C E S Jonathan Rule Jonrule@umich.edu

R E C O G N I T I O N + Taubman Student Show Finalist

248-885-4427

P R O F I L E

Blitz Build Detroit, MI + Helped organized revitalization projects to rehabilitate three homes on the eastside of detroit. + Volunteered in fundraisers and door to door advertising.

Design

Phone:

2018

E X P E R I E N C E Architectural Intern- RKarchitect

giano@umich.edu

Jen Maigret Maigretj@umich.edu Lars Junghans Junghans@umich.edu

C O N T E N T S

Definitions & Models

Planar Interventions [\] Boathouse on Ford [x] Complementary Figures [-] Pornographic Manifesto [=] Krumbach Residence [~] Larâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence [<] New Kids on the Block [+]

[\] The projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial disposition was invested in studying the larger context of Ann Arbor- denoting areas of political and educational activity. In doing so, it allowed the project to establish itself as a node for conversational exchange between the two. The conversation offered opportunities to deliver listening as an analytical experience and attention as a commodity for speakers. A transition between the exuberant and anechoic, guided by an amplifying inlay [bookshelves] gives the participants an incredible sense of concentration and connection when suddenly enclosed or open. May we be many or single, the formal proposal conclusively creates an arena for the individual and the public in which they may debate, connect, or compromise.

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I N T E R V E N T I O N S

// Noun: The brupt Interruption of thought caused by a disagreement in debate. Individual work: Undergraduate Studio 1- Dawn Gilpin

12.10.18.

Planar Interventions

Mapping sound throughout the building established its formal parti. The wedge allows sound to travel throughout the building similar to a megaphone amplifying ones voice. Having this control allowed floorplates to be designed in a way to mediate the noises of the society and the academy as they made their way up to the top of the edifice.

42.2793° N, 83.7399° W

More often than not, we don’t take the proper time to listen to opposing opinions. This architecture works to draw focus on those who are trying to be heard in our current intemperate political field in Ann Arbor.

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||Areas of debate in Ann Arbor.

Planar Interventions

The Construction of this Intervention uses steel to resonate and wood and brick to dampen conversation. The combination of these materials provide reverbs for deeper listening during debates.

Planar Interventions

Detail //: Staircase balcony.

A S S E M B L Y

Detail //: Front threshold Facade.

B O A T H O U S E

O N

F O R D

3.24.19.

// Verb: The act of multiplying the shoreline in order to create a new threshold using architecture.

Individual Work: Undergraduate Studio 2: Jen Mairget.

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42.2183Â° N, 83.6056Â° W

The Spectacle of competition is the boundaries that are broken by the human capacity. When we are spectators to these spectacles, we become witnesses of human history. In its disposition this boathouse becomes an extension of the bleachers, a new viewing platform that engages how we experience rowing as a spectacle. By tracking the schedules of the athletes, spectators, and the coaches, the designed path would know when to undulate through the terrain- enabling the best views of the race. This project imagines a new spectorship methodology, one that is kinetic, not static and also one that is more participatory. It challenges the current notion that spectators are only witnesses. In the advent of method training, one should be able to practice alongside the athletes making a history of their own.

Boathouse on Ford

P R O G R A M Formal Diagram //: Dancing with lines to create intersections and voids.

The multiplication of the shoreline formally activates the threshold between land and water and the blocks of program allow for relief during the event.

Boathouse on Ford

The structure of the boathouse took on a high level of focus as it would have to endure natural conditions as well as the human condition. By placing aquatic renditions of dry activity underneath their structural units, its longevity would be extended while providing activity in both summer and winter.

Boathouse on Ford

Boathouse on Ford. Iteration.1.0

A S S E M B L Y

PLANS

[-] In this project, we were tasked to take a two dimensional composition and create a three dimensional response. Through analysis, implementation and iteration, this project takes Three Faces by Fernand Leger as a design challenge to establish relationships between spaces and voids. Its final development focuses on frontality, orthogonal and oblique grids, and the propensity that the painting had pherperical development. Three Faces is composed of fractured objects, layered into a logical spatial field. Through a lense of cubism (the style in which this piece was painted) layers were extracted to show the scale and depth that each component was placed. To push the project further, the question of frontality came into play. Why only four distinct sides?

C O M P L E M E N T A R Y F I G U R E S 10.24.18. // Verb: The dissassembling of a whole and reconfiguring it with a new whole. Individual Work: Undergraduate Studio 1: Dawn Gilpin

Complementary FIigures

P R O C E S S

This question led me to experiment with new relationships that could cause the flattened composition. I experimented with the possibility of rotation. More specifically, a plane that excavated these forms out of a tracing path. This investigation led to new fronts, redifing what face sat on the our world plane. This rotational operation suggested new material intersections and unique tests of perspective.

This investigation led to a revised iteration between the layered quality of the painting and the rotational intervention that was discovered.

Rotational operations used an experiments to decipher new material forms.

Complementary Figures

Having deconstructed the painting into a set of logics, the question of how these individual artifacts would come back together become the next design problem. By instituting a set of personalities within each piece, they were able to come together through personified similarities and differences. The aggregated form can now speak as a holistic object created from operations that produced an identity in each unit.

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P O R N O G R A P H I C M A N I F E S T O 12.10.19. // Adjective: To be of a rising subculture, a resistence to Individual Work: Undergraduate Studio 3: Y.T.

[=] In the advent of new technologies: the book, the screen, augmented reality, and virtual reality, society is faced with new filters. The obscene is now more accessible than ever and the human condition towards sexuality has not changed. As a billion dollar industry, the porn industry is no sub-culture economically, but politically and socially they are hidden behind virus-infected ads and online cookies. The obscene content has been filtered throughout our new media because of societal declarement. Politically, there is no strict definition as to what obscene can be defined as, because of this it has become a subjective constraint in the porn industries’ stride to become a reputable career field. This project works to empower those actors through a “pornhub”, to celebrate human sexuality and shed a positive light at this rising subculture.

41.9011° N, 87.6415° W

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Pornographic Manifesto

Surface Intervention using the Human Form

Using Leonardo da Vinciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manifesto as a method to study the human body, geometries were extracted to be used as cross-sections for interior forms. However, instead of one individual, more were involved to accomodate all gender types and scenarios. In turn, this established new geometric forms that would create a new fabric of filming. One that is comfortable and adjustable at the same time.

Pornographic Manifesto

VIEWS

The aforementioned subculture quality

Peak Amateur Performance Professional Career Begins

8:00 A.M. Peak Professional Performance

of these occupants made it difficult to answer the question of how to disrupt the urban fabric enough to make a marker of new intervention. Monuments have been used historically to mark a place of change. In this way, this new edifice would have to act as one too. In order to do this, the porn industry had to be placed on the same level as a similar profession, Hollywood. With red carpets and academy awards, it would be the precedent for this project. Having Hollywood qualities would set standards in the industry to create more A-class level films , to give proper treatments to professionals and can create checks and balances on producers that are clearly exploiting this business for money. The professionshould work to be seen as a form of art.

12:00 P.M.

Pornographic Manifesto 2

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[=] In designing the shell of the interior, spectatorship and the external context were taken into account. Treating it as a black box theater, It stayed true to a simplified shape, contrasting the beautiful curves of the interior. In this way, it would not contrast its exterior surroundings during the day. However, at night, a beam of light would rise from the atrium of the building, signaling a beacon for those in the porn industry within the new urban fabric. To protect the integrity of the actors, the addition of programs such as a gym, cafe, work room, offices would be rentable for outside companies to provide the actors a way to distribute their other hobbies and work.

K R U M B A C H

R E S I D E N C E 3.24.19.

// Verb: The act of multiplying the shoreline in order to create a new threshold using architecture. Goup Work: Construction Studio: Done with Jacob White & Ethan Hop

47.5219Â° N, 16.1937Â° E

[~] This project was a study of construction. Construction methods, ideologies and code. We were tasked to take the Single Family House in Krumbach and decode its site-specific qualities. In this way, we took these attributes, studied them, drew them and modeled them. In designing the construction method for our model, the material choices created the most discussion. Most definitely the most important aspect of the house was the stark contrast between the heavy and cold exterior and the warm insulated interior. We knew that we would have to cut through a skylight and an exterior window to show the thick relationship between the glass framing and the house framing. Having decided our process we began building. The final construct took about 48 hours. The longest part being the oxidization of the copper. Overall the project was straightforward but it taught my team and I a lot in the methodologies in construction.

Krumbach Residence

Plans done by Ethan Hop. Model Done by all members.

30° 15’ 59.9976’’ N, 97° 43’ 59.9880’’ W

SECTIO

L A R S

R E S I D E N C E

4.25.20

// Adj.: Describes the uniqueness of something when current context is considered.

[<] The Lars Residence was designed to be a high performance home in Austin, Texas. High performance meant that it would have to deal with the hot and humid climate of the area using the least amount of energy as possible. Through good passive design, airtight construction and an integrated mechanical system, the building also aimed to be net zero. The residence was designed as a series of offsetted slabs, with its naturally shading overhangs utilized as balconies. The buildings compactness does two things:1. It allowed for proper stack ventilation to happen and 2. it minimized the amount of minisplit units we would need to keep the residence cool. With the minisplits, we integrated it with a large thermal mass (the central wall in our plans) with the idea that during the day it would amass a very low temperature and then release it during the night. Connecting these minisplits with a series of photovoltaic panels results in a very low cost mechanical system. With our current climate, the Lars Residence seeks to be an example of good, sustainable architecture. It works to be an excercise of design that challenges current trends of cookie cutter residential construction.

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DETAILS

Oak Wood or Gypsum Stud Wall w/ Polystyrene Insula�on (.08m) Oak Wood or Gypsum Oakwood or Gypsum Stud wall w/ polystyrene insula�on (.08m) Aerated Autoclave Concrete (.15 m) Concrete Finish Double Pane Glass

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Goup Work: Wallenberg Studio: Jonathon Rule. Done with Jesica Yu.

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[~] Plato once said “When there is a crime in society, there is no justice”. It’s easier to be repulsed by what politics defines as criminals when one is fortunate enough to be unacquainted with an offender. We recoil at the thought of people whose behavior has been ruled unlawful and we regard them as an aberration of human conduct. But maybe, criminals are not the only ones to blame. Are we as a society, also guilty? Our project is about creating connections and breaking boundaries through a pilot program of transitional housing in the city of New Orleans. Rather than addressing prisons themselves, it focuses on the post incarcerated, those that have already served their time and are struggling to get back on their feet. Through architecture, it gives society the means to stitch back what was left broken. It challenges the notion that “Once a criminal, forever a criminal”.

GLOBAL INCARCERATION RATE PER 100,000 UNITED KINGDOM 139 PORTUGAL 129 LUXEMBOURG 115 CANADA 114 FRANCE 102 ITALY 96 BELGIUM 94 NORWAY 74 NETHERLANDS 59 ICELAND 38

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MENTAL DISORDERS IN PRISONS Depressive Disorder

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Manic-Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Mania Schizophrenia or Another Pyschotic Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Another Anxiety Disorder Personality Disorder

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gulations and employment barriers, reintegrating y difficult, but when you have to do so while coping becomes an impossible task. According to an Urban alf of prisoners suffer some sort of mental disease. These ed when they reach parole. Without external help and far leased prisoners experience recidivism: the tendency for ecurrence of this effect has garnered it the phrase of “The his is where our project intervenes. To stop the cycle and st incarcerated need safe spaces that foster recovery and

CHOSEN NEIGHBORHOOD: SEVENTH WARD +3

UNITED STATES

To challenge the existing segregation within these neighborhoods, embedded within our proposal is an ecosystem that questions the smallest unit in a neighborhood, “the block”. More specifically, we challenge the phenomenon of “Not In My Back Yard”, abbreviated NIMBY, by positioning the housing system exactly in the backyard of residents with the purpose of encouraging interactions between the existing community and

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Religious Center Transit Stop Job Opportunities Grocery Store (none) Chosen Block

Incarceration in the U.S. is a major issue. Year after year,

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America reports the highest incarceration and recidivism rates. This means that while the U.S represents 4.4% of the world’s population, it barres 22% of its prisoners. Of those that are released, 76.6% are rearrested within five years.

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Ensuring that the post incarcerated have the best chances of recovery and growth is central to this project. An external support system is key for healthy reintegration, which is why we identified key amenities that would serve as the foundation for such a network. A social gathering space to share experience as well as progress, a market where the produce from the aquaponics can be sold to create a profit that benefits both groups of residents, offices that assist the job searching process, and a community kitchen that brings people together through food. .

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New Kids on the Block

Considering the lack of grocery stores in the neighborhood, we chose a gardening system as a common program that would benefit both newcomers and long time residents. With plants that require collective maintenance and fresh produce that generates a profit for everybody, this housing system encourages the birth of an unlikely community, interconnected by the simple task of gardening but challenging a much larger notion. This ecosystem thrives from the growth of the plants, the block, and the post incarcerated; whose growth continues beyond their stay at the transitional housing program.

New Kids on the Block

Comparison of average prison cell unit [left] with our proposed bedroom unit [right].

To promote both privacy and cooperation, each house accommodates two people. The unit has two bedrooms (one on the first floor and one on the second), each with a large skylight to allow ample light in, accompanied with a sliding panel system for personal space. Beyond the sleeping areas, the unit has a shared bathroom, working desk and pantry. For the warmer season, the new residents can enjoy a New Orleans sunset on the rooftop, which they access through an outdoor ladder.

New Kids on the Block

Built on the idea that a block is a micro ecosystem, a vertical aquaponics system is integrated into every new housing unit to generate life on the site. It takes a village to raise a garden so the responsibility of its fruition is dependent on the collaboration of its people. By assessing the new ecology, one can gage the transitional housingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. Through marketing the yard-grown crops, visitors from neighboring blocks can be inspired to incorporate such a network within their own block.

OPERATIONS Operation | \-p-r-shn : Any of various mathematical or logical processes (such as addition) of deriving one entity from others according to a rule. As I progressed throughout my college career the exuberance of design has escaped me. Lending my designs to be informed by operations, not intuition. By defining these operations I now enter a phase where my exuberance must return and entangle with new logics and operations.

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