John Architecture M Sampson Portfolio
John M. Sampson University of Michigan M.Arch Candidate Anticipated Graduation April 2016 University of Washington Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies June 2012 sampson.john23@gmail.com 509.551.6647
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North end Farm and Water Collective
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Arch 552/North End/Detroit
Museo
del Tevere Arch 400/Porta Portese/Rome
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Lunchbeat Seattle
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Arch 401/Downtown/Seattle
Capitol Culinary
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Arch 302/Capitol Hill/Seattle
Furniture Studio
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Arch 402/Seattle
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North End Urban Farm and Water Collective Arch 552/North End/Detroit Fall 2014
The North End Urban Farm and Water Collective is a project intended to address two pressing concerns in the city of Detroit—the unprecedented water shut-offs and the lack of access to nutritional food. Located in the North End, a neighborhood just above of the thriving Midtown and yet struggling like much of the city to maintain residents, the collective is realized through a network of urban farms and water collection zones with a central hub acting as a public restaurant and food distribution center. By reappropriating the vacant lots that populate the area into productive farmland, the areas that were once seen as blight are transformed into neighborhood assets. At the same time, the water collection zones reduce the widespread flooding that occurs throughout the city due to its outdated sewer system while simultaneously providing a new point of access for clean water. In addition to these water collection points, a portable water filtration device is designed in the form of water bottle in order to allow Detroit residents to find and filter their own water anywhere in the city.
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The central hub acts as restaurant and public mixing zone. It also supports the adjoining urban farmland and food distribution area.
Paravascular System
Paravascular System
Paravascular System
Paravascular System
Paravascular System
Vascular System
Brain Matter
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Natural Puddling Zones
Possible Intervention Zones
networks Inspired by the Paravascular system in the brain, a little understood system used to flush toxins out of the cerebrospinal fluid, a network of urban farms and water collection points are created as a para-infrastructure in the North End neighborhood of Detroit. This para-infrastructure works parallel and in addition to existing municipal infrastructure systems in order to reduce the large scale and common flooding of streets while at the same time increasing access to nutritions food. Urban Farming Zones
1) Before Intervention - Water fills street
2) Earth is carved out to creat retention zones
3) Retention Zones collect water and release pressure on streets
1) Pooling Zone 2) Retention/Preliminary Filtration 3) Recharge Zone 4) Silver Nano-Particle Filtration Point 5) Clean Water Collection
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re-imagined space The void space within the North End is reappropriated as a network of water retention zones and urban farmland in order to revitalize and repurpose the decaying area.
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central hub The nucleus of the North End Urban Farming and Water Collective is a central restaurant with included spaces for offices, a public kitchen, and food processing/cleaning areas. The building provides a community meeting point that displays the efforts of the collective to improve food and clean water access to the area residents. With an adjoining urban farm, the space is a showcase of the potential for neglected lots throughout the city of Detroit.
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PHILADELPHIA ST
Site Plan
Plan
Water Directionality on Roof 11 22
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Roof Filtration System Overview
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Roof Filtration System Overview 1) Water Funnel 2) Silver Nano-Particle Filtration
3) Downspout to Collection
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Water Bottle Aggregation Possibilites
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Water Bottle Schematics 1) Cap 2) Top of Vessel 3) Reservoir Body 4) Drinking Opening 1 CAP with Silver Nano Particles 5) Filter Paper Imbedded TOP OF VESSEL 2 3
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DRINKING OPENING
The Central Hub acts as both a cultural mixing zone as well as a living filtration organism. With filters built into the roof feeding into collection cisterns, the public is able to see and participate in the cleansing of their water. As a means to give the residents of the North End more ownership over their water usage, a portable water bottle with a built-in, pop-up filter witht the same filtration technology as the roof is designed and distributed across the city.
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museo del tevere
Arch 400/Porta Portese/Rome Fall 2011
The Museo del Tevere, or Museum of the Tiber, is a testament to the importance the river has demonstrated to the Everlasting City. Built on the site of an ancient port and the original location of the Papal Armory, the museum sits just outside of the ancient city limits delineated by the Aurelian Wall. Over the course of centuries, the river has been walled in by enbankments on both sides and effectively cut off from the city it helped create. The museum breaks down the modern barriers set between the city and the river that runs through its core and through the terracing of the landscape, a direct relationship is once again established between the Tiber and the inhabitants of Rome. The museum incorporates two existing buildings on the site—the Arsenale which now serves as an art museum showcasing the river and all it inspires, as well as a repurposed building which now acts as museum office. The musuem also incorporates a Library of the Tiber which houses all records pertaining to the river and other literature with references to the Tiber and Rome itself.
1) Porta Portese 1748
2) Porta Portese 2013
The site of the museum, once outside the city walls, is now in the center of a bustling area of Rome. With major development surrounding the former Papal Armory and the Ponte Sublicio running right next to the site, the Museo del Tevere will be accessible by all Romans.
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Main Circulation
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Rest areas
The museum campus is comprised of a series of terraces designed to break down the barrier of the existing embankment. These terraces provide a direct circulation route from the museum to the river path and includes several areas to rest and take in the view of the Tiber.
Arts
Direct Interaction with Tiber
Literature
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Floor 1
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Floor 2
Floor 3
AURELIAN WALL The Aurelian Wall—an ancient city wall of Rome—serves as a site boundary for the museum as a whole and for the Library of the Tiber in particular. Sitting directly against one another, the Library is bound by the wall until the third level when it reaches over and extends past the partition, allowing views into the city it once protected.
1) The top three floors of the Library of the Tiber house the museum’s collection of literature as well as seating and study rooms.
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2) The ground floor of the library acts as the entrance to the museum as well as providing space for museum visitors to relax.
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Floor 1
Floor 2
The former Papal Armory now serves as an art museum focusing on Rome and the Tiber River in particular. The original arches provide niches for paintings—mostly housed in the added mezzanine—and for sculpture and larger pieces on the ground floor. The space becomes a lantern in the night as light leaks through the frosted glass that fills the outer arches.
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Lunchbeat Seattle
Arch 401/Downtown/Seattle Winter 2012
Taking its cue from the Lunchbeat movement started in Europe where lunchtime dance parties are held for the public, Lunchbeat Seattle is an inclusive arts venue located in the downtown core of Seattle. With a ground floor stage for public events, showcases, and dance parties, the space gives both professionals working downtown and the tourists visiting Seattle a place to relax and enjoy the art of the community. Each floor is connected by a series of ramps winding around the perimeter of the building, giving a sense of continuity between floors and allowing the party to continue throughout the building. The upper floors, comprised of varying spaces for art, sculpture, dance, photography, graphics, and offices as well as an event space on the top floor, are arranged around a central atrium which allows for a constant view of the dance party happening on the ground floor and letting light in through the large skylight.
Dance
Bus Bus Routes Routes
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Dance
Theater
Theater
Art
Cultural Centers
music
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Cultural Cultural Centers Centers
Cladding Diagram
The faรงade of the building consists of a series of ribbons which are bent and shaped to allow light to penetrate the building as well as giving views to the city.
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The main circulation of the building consists of a series of ramps from one floor to another. Each floor is organized around a central atrium which overlooks the ground floor party space.
The ramps provide a smooth transition from one floor to another, enhancing the notion of a continual space. As one ascends to the next floor they are met with glimpses of the city through gaps in the facade.
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Section BB
Each floor combines work spaces with lounge spaces intended to induce creativity and social exchange.
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Capitol Culinary aims to combine the education of a culinary school with the nightlife of Capitol Hill. By engaging the public through the restaurant and public events held at the school, culinary education will become more accessible to the community.
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Capitol Hill, a neighborhood just east of downtown, is a lively area filled with shops, restaurants, bars, and schools which makes it the perfect location for a culinary school. Situated between the Pike/Pine Corridor and Madison St, Capitol Culinary is surrounded by nightlife to the north and Seattle University to the south. The culinary school contains teaching kitchens and auditoriums, classrooms, offices, and collaborative work spaces as well as a cafĂŠ and wine bar among other open spaces for public events. A large outdoor area is used for farmers markets in the summer and for public events throughout the year. The focus of the school is to combine the entertainment and nightlife for which Capitol Hill is known with the educational focus of the surrounding schools.
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E n t e r t a i n m e n t
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1) The site is organized into four columns, each with varying functions; spaces meant to be activated by the public and those meant solely for students of the culinary school
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E d u c a t i o n
2) The columns are compressed to varying depths in order to create transitions between the lower public spaces and raised private spaces
The upper floors of the culinary school house classrooms, faculty offices, a library and areas for relaxation and collaborative work.
3) The main column is separated in order to differentiate between the private kitchen demo auditoriums and the culinary event spaces below
While the teaching kitchens and cafe are housed in the basement and ground floor, the upper floors contain two teaching auditoriums where the core instruction takes place.
4) The transparent central hub is extended over and under the primary and secondary columns providing natural light as well as a transition between the two
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The basement of the culinary school includes a kitchen, classroom, and event space which opens onto the sunken courtyard.
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Furniture Studio Arch 402/Seattle Spring 2012
As the final architecture studio of my undergraduate education, I was given the opportunity to design and build an heirloom quality piece of furniture. By designing a console table/liquor cabinet, I was able to apply the design skills I had acquired over the course of my education while focusing on the details that are often overlooked when designing on a larger scale. With this cabinet, each element, down to the adjustable feet of the base, had to be resolved in order to create a successful piece. Over the course of 10 weeks, I was able to bring this table from the sketchbook into reality.
The liquor cabinet consists of three parts— a wooden cabinet with three compartments, a metal base, and a wooden table top. All wooden components made of Khaya wood and the metal is blackened steel. The sliding doors and metal shelf in the cabinet have been blackened and then lightened through a process of polishing.
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1) At 36” tall, the cabinet is meant to be tall enough to prepare drinks comfortably
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2) The cabinet is divided into two outer compartments meant to hold wine and liquor bottles and a central compartment for wine and cocktail glasses
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