Lauren Mansperger 2021 Portfolio by Lauren Mansperger

LAUREN MANSPERGER

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CONTENTS

ACADEMIC WORK THE CUTE AESTHETIC ARETHA FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS JESSE OWENS NORTH RECREATION DOUBLE DOME

PROFESSIONAL WORK MADISON CORRECTIONAL 2001 POLARIS LAB ENCOVA INSURANCE BUILDING

ADDITIONAL WORK SKETCHES HIGH DENSITY DRAWING

THE CUTE AESTHETIC

SPRING 2019 HONORS STUDIO SANDHYA KOCHAR & DOW KIMBRELL This group project explored the aesthetic category of cute. Cute is considered as a seemingly weak and soft aesthetic that emerges from the sphere of commercial culture. Cute objects have no edge to speak to, being simple or formally non-complex. While the cute has an ongoing role in the commodification of social difference, this studio project aimed to use disciplinary strategies to understand the cute as a strong aesthetic tactic within architecture. The power of the cute lies in its association with the feminine, the infantile, and the unthreatening. Given its cultural repertoire as the “helpless”, the cute has the subversive power to manipulate the subject without their being fully aware of it. The desire to squeeze the cute object, even to the point of crushing or damaging it, underlines the category’s coercive ability to collapse even the very distance between the subject and the object itself. In the built world, cute is currently aligned with Disney hotels and roadside attractions. Given that beauty has become a term used less and less within contemporary design culture as a justification of form making, the cute takes up a similar space. Though less universal and absolute, the cute argues for the strength of its appearances which are by their nature attention seeking and flamboyant. If cute has this much power, can architecture take advantage by pushing this aesthetic category to its extreme as a design agent? Can things be more cutified? This project positioned the cute as such, one that thrives on its extremeness. Quotidian typologies such as towers, gas stations, and warehouses are filtered through the lens of the cute in order to examine and test these qualities at scale.

This project developed qualities shown in the chart below, of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;base-lineâ&#x20AC;? cute, to create a set of primitives that have capacities of phenomenon and fungibility. The discernible strategies, qualities, and properties of cuteness can be broken down into a catalog of qualities/operations. These primitives were then combined, altered, and applied to standard building typologies.

GAS STATION

Cute qualities applied: High Fidelity, Flat Representation, Shiny, Monochrome, Furry, and Low Resolution

TOWER

Cute qualities applied: Shiny, Wrinkled, Faceting, Quantity, Outline, Seam, Features, Low - Resolution

WAREHOUSE

Cute qualities applied: Shiny, Faceted, Furry

Group Model Presentation

ARETHA FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

FALL 2018 GUI COMPETITION KAREN LEWIS

A performing arts high school located in downtown Detroit. In an area of growth and urban revival the Aretha Franklin School for the Arts is surrounded by the architecture of Mies van der Rohe as well as two parks. The expansive Lafayette Plaisance park to the East and the very active Dequindre Cut to the West. Once a railroad line, the Dequindre Cut has been converted into a below-grade park running 1.65 miles featuring bike trails, running paths, and pedestrian markets. The design for the Aretha Franklin High School arose from analysis of the site, students, and programmatic requirements. The project began by carving representative spaces from a base form to understand the density and scale of the required program. In depth study of the site access and the predominant transportation systems extracted from GIS mapping data resulted in the form itself being carved by outside factors. Finally, the studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; routines were abstracted into disciplines and graphically represent the organization of spaces inside the form. The program of a performing arts high school is a dense one. This project faces the challenge of not only dealing with the hefty programmatic demands but addressing the sense of urban renewal within Detroit.

The first step shown above is a simple massing study to explore the density of space and potential to contain the programmatic requirements. The array of arched spaces directly correlates to the denser aspects of the program and is reflected as a theme throughout the massing. The arched space typology is then rotated, duplicated, and scaled to form other programmatic areas with multiple potential uses. The resultant massing is an intriguing form through which the main massing of the high school is extracted.

Student Timemap

Student Schedule Analysis

Jazz Band

To further explore the program requirements the student population has been abstracted into each discipline. Deeper study of these disciplines has resulted in a path throughout the school represented graphically. The X-axis represents basic school courses such as math, biology, and history. The curved lines deviating from the X-axis represent a student diving further into their chosen discipline. The final chart delineates where there are common overlaps or a need for clear separations in the program. This timeline translates directly into the interior organization within the school. The arts studios become a wide open, multi-story space due to the large overlaps while the individual studies take the form of separated units.

Choir Dance Ballet Art

Theater

Standard School

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9 AM

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12 PM

2 PM

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Site Analysis Map

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Analysis of the GIS mapping of the site revealed multiple transportation systems including people movers, buses, bikes, and more. The data highlighted in the map emphasizes the multiple ways in which access affects the project site. These access areas serve as guides to carve away space from the larger massing form. This â&#x20AC;&#x153;carvingâ&#x20AC;? has been imposed and removed from the site as seen in the diagram.

Band

Second Floor Plan

Site and First Floor Plan

JESSE OWENS NORTH RECREATION CENTER

FALL 2017 STUDIO STEPHEN TURK

A re-design of the Jesse Owens North Recreation Center located on The Ohio State University campus. This non-traditional method addressed the programmatic requirements by designing, combining, and splitting primitives within a cube in order to create form. The design process took the form of many planned steps that further explored the multiple potential uses of primitive forms and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;thicknessâ&#x20AC;? of space. Primitives were used as base forms and removed from a cube to create the required spaces. The cube was then subdivided and exploded into smaller cubes. The new cubes created by the previous step were strategically rearranged to construct the building and landscape. This design process investigated the relationship between rectified and figural forms as well as the dichotomy created when they are combined. The final form explores the use of poche space in contrast to open space due to the design method.

Rectified

Primitive Forms

The design process began by creating a catalogue of primitive forms, shown above as the basis of design. These primitives were combined, manipulated, and removed from a cube to explore the intersection and relationship of figural and rectified forms.

Figural

Primitives that represent different programmatic spaces as well as circulation organized within a cube and then subdivided.

The subdivided cube represented negatively with the primitive spaces shown in the positive displaying the organization of spaces.

The primitive forms and circulation have been removed from the subdivided cube creating impressions and spaces within poche.

The subdivided cubes with impressions are intentionally rearranged to create landscape while both positive and negative elements of the original primitives within the cube are selected to create the building form.

Site Plan

Section

DOUBLE DOME

SPRING 2017 STUDIO RYAN KEENER

An exercise in full scale design and construction. This group project called for the design of a study space installation within Knowlton that can be built using cardboard. The concept for the installation relied on the precedent of the dome and the construction of a single modular form for its base design. The final structure was modeled using grasshopper which easily allowed exploration of the possibilities of working with a modular unit. The physical construction involved the creation of hundreds of modular forms and then organizing them into a cohesive and usable structure. This installation challenged the group to understand the process of designing and constructing at the human scale.

4â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 8â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cardboard Sheet

The basis of design for the full scale structure was a simple hollow rectangle with a diagonal support running through the center. The modular unit allowed for easy mass production of the form. Once created these units could be combined, manipulated, and highlighted to create various areas of the Double Dome including integrated furniture. This process is displayed above.

Furniture Structure

First and Eigth Level Plans

Sections

MADISON CORRECTIONAL METAL ROOF REPLACEMENT

2019-2021

Full metal roof replacement of eleven buildings at Madison Correctional Institution. Located in London Ohio, Madison Correctional or MaCI is a medium security, all male, state prison housing approximately 2,570 inmates. This project followed the OFCC and ODRC design process beginning with the SD/DD stage. My role began with assisting in the drafting and design of all aspects of the metal roofing project. This included creating roof plans and details as well as assisting in the specification writing for the SD, DD, and CD submittals. The project bid in 2019 and has been under construction since June of 2020. The project is scheduled to be complete by March of 2021. I had several roles during the bidding and construction phase of the project including but not limited to; producing bid set and permit set drawing and specifications, reviewing and approving project submittals and shop drawings, attending and documenting weekly meetings and site visits, submitting and managing documents/processes within the OAKS CI system, as well as participating in and compiling the A/E final punch list. I assisted in all major parts of this project along with the supervision of my boss.

Zone B Dormitory

Zone A Dormitory

Zone B Entry

Recreation and Chapel

Kitchen, Education, and Medical

Administration

2001 POLARIS LAB

2019-2021

An OSU Wexner Medical Center roof replacement project located on Polaris Parkway. This project followed the OSU Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) design process including following of the OSU Building Design Standards (BDS) and submitting SD, DD, and CD documents for review to the Technical Services Group (TSG.) This project was broken down into two phases. Phase one involved removal and disconnection of abandoned HVAC units on the roof. The roof was patched with a matching metal panel in order to secure the roof for Phase two. Phase one bid in 2019 and was completed in 2020. Phase two is a roof coating project with multiple alternates included. Phase two will coat the roof in order to create a watertight â&#x20AC;&#x153;re-roofingâ&#x20AC;? solution. Phase two will also address replacement of TPO roofing on a small entry feature of the building, replacement of all joint sealants in the building envelope, re-certification of the lighting protection system, updating of the security cameras and fall protection to match the OSU BDS. Phase two bid in the fall of 2020 and construction is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2021. My role in both phases of this project was to design and submit all construction documents as well as assist in the writing of specifications. During Phase one my role included attending and documenting weekly meetings for both design and construction, attending site visits to document progress, and working within the OSU e-builder system. My role in Phase two was very similar during the design process and will be similar when construction begins.

Phase 2 Roof Plan

ENCOVA INSURANCE BUILDING

2019-2021

An exterior renovation of the Encova (Motorist) Insurance Building located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. This project was broken into two phases, one addressing the older existing building built in 1945 and the other addressing the recognizable twenty - one story high rise. The existing building has some masonry and building joint issues that will be addressed as bid package one. My role on the first bid package was to draft the entire original building including details for the proposed masonry removal and replacement. Bid package one will also address the building joint sealants and the parapet edge cap stones. Due to issues with brick lead times bid package one scheduled to bid in October of 2020 has been delayed and will be bid in the winter of 2021. Phase two includes coating of the high rise portion of the Encova Insurance building. The high rise is combination of duranodic aluminum, spandrel glass, and louvres. My role is to draft the entire tower in order to create an accurate estimate for the proposed coating work.

Parapet Detail

South Elevation

Window Detail East Elevation

Partial Elevation

West Elevation

Partial Elevation

SKETCHES

SUMMER 2018

JACKIE GARGUS Sketches from a one and a half month long trip through Western Europe. Countries visited included Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, and Rome.

Guggenheim Bilbao

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion

Casa Mila

Bruder Klaus Chapel

Maison Louis Carre

Grand Place, Brussels

Wozoco Housing

Schroder House

Villa Savoye

Villa Cavrois

La Fabrica

DRAWING SEMINAR SPRING 2018

SEMINAR EMILY MOHR AND JON REIKE A High Density drawing seminar that studied the history of drawing, both handmade and digital. Over the course of the semester students studied the individual aspects and color themes of many popular dense drawings. This seminar extracted the key elements of the widely popular high density representation form being used by groups such as MOS and Isomatic Studio, into a customizable catalogue for students to control and enhance their architectural representation skills. Each student created a catalogue of drawn objects that reflected their personal style. These items included scale figures, trees, plants, cars, furniture, and hatches. The catalogue was used to create a series of highly dense drawings. The culmination of the seminar is a full scale re-drawing of a historic Ohio State campus map, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ohio State Interrota.â&#x20AC;? Using a historic map of the university each student recreated a grid portion using their personal drawing catalogue. These drawings were then printed on tapestries, sewn together, and displayed in the main space of the Knowlton School.

Final Drawing: Ohio State Interotta

Catalogue of drawn objects and color studies.

Knowlton Hall

Industrial Engineering Building

Judging Pavilion

Cattle Barn

Ohio State Interotta Personal Grid

Communication Laboratory

Daily Commute Illustrated

Knowlton in Ruin