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Madison Scheper Undergraduate Portfolio - Selected Work
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Hello. Madison Scheper Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA madison.scheper@gmail.com madisonscheper.wixsite.com/hello +1.616.446.7850
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Table of Contents 01 Clifton Public Library 02 Wescott House Studio: Bench 03 Wescott House Studio: Solar Faรงade 04 Institute for Food: First Seed Design/Build 05 Stacking Stools 06 3D Object Exploration: Mobius Object 07 Ghana Design/Build 08 King Cafe Redesign 09 Luxembourg Travel Studies 10 My Journey / My Place 11 In Progress: 3D Printed Joinery 12 Additional 3-D Studies
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My Process 01 Understand the Subject: Research precedents, and speak with experts, clients, and users. Ask lots of questions. 02 Identify the Problem: What can be improved? What solutions could limit the design solutions (cost, availability, etc.)? 03 Explore Concepts and Solutions: Develop concepts and solutions through sketches, scrap models, diagrams, etc. Go wide before diving into details and committing to an idea, and don’t fear failure. 04 Collaborate: Work with clients, users, and colleagues to get feedback and further improve the design. 05 Refine: Respond to critique, prototype, and continue to refine the design.
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Clifton Public Library ARC202 Professor Raffi Tomassian + Professor Murali Paranandi 6 Weeks Task Design a library to replace the current Clifton public library in Cincinnati, Ohio. The library must be no less than 30,000 square feet, and must adhere to certain program specifications. Approach A library should be organized in a way which is open, predictable, and consistent, so as to foster social involvement and interaction with the learning process. In my library design, an emphasis on both the contrast and interdependance between active and passive learning spaces are emphasized through varying levels of enclosure and transparency allowed by the steel fins on the exterior envelope. Thsi symbolizes the learning process not as the brute consumption of knowledge, but as the acquisition, application, and understanding of knowledge as is allowed by the clarity in organization.
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Left Typical Floor Plans,
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Below Elevations from left to right: North, West, South.
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Wescott House Studio: Bench ARC401 Professor John Reynolds 4 Weeks / Team Project Task Design a low seating element for a visitors’ center designed by BCJ Architects at the FLW Wescott House. Cost, access to materials, and ease of assembly were all factors considered during the design process. Concept We wanted to capture the movement and temporal nature of the space in our seating, pulling the elements which make up the bench out of a set grid. This implies slippage and emphasizes the individual pieces as separate from the whole. Slots which hold the seat and legs are left exposed to demonstrate assembly and give the impression that the pieces themselves have slipped out of place, and could be shifted back into a grid.
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Above Full scale bench, front and back. Below View from top-down Details The seat it tilted at a 5° angle for user comfort. The entire piece can be assembled with a mallet and wooden dowels. No glue is needed to hold the bench together. To lighten up the piece, a small rout runs along the base to separate the bench from the ground, and the back has a cut out. The bench can be made out of one sheet of plywood so as to be inexpensive.
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Wescott House Studio: Solar House Faรงade ARC401 Professor John Reynolds 2 Weeks / Team Project Task This project addressed a pre-existing solar house model which resides on the Wescott House property. The Wescott Foundation desired a new faรงade/exterior cladding to improve the aesthetic of the solar house. Our team also, through experiencing the site firsthand, decided that more shading was needed on the south faรงade, and that more privacy on the north and east would improve the interior experience. The concept was to be derived from the bench designs proposed for the Wescott House visitor center (as seen on previous spreads). Concept Our bench design embodied movement and developed from a shifted grid organization. Our proposed faรงade solution, similarly, was determined by a grid using extension lines from the windows. The west faรงade is on a track which allows the users to determine how much shade they want in the interior, and also allows them to block off a smaller prvate screened area on the outdoor deck.
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Above Left Floor plan Above Right Wall section Below (Left to right) west elevation, south elevation
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Above Final model Below (Left to right) east elevation, north elevation
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Institute for Food: First Seed Design/Build ARC302 Professor Murali Paranandi 4 Weeks / Team Project Task The Institute for Food approached us with the need for a temporary storage space and pack house area for their first growing seasons. Our lack of a building permit led to the decision to utilize a shipping container as the foundation of our design, and prohibited us from touching the ground in any way, or constructing a roof. The site itself presented issues that included: wind movement, sun shading, and integration with the land. These issues were brought to our attention at different times during the design process, forcing us to keep our ideas fluid, and adaptable to new situations. Final Design Our final design wants to celebrate the transient nature of our structure, and highlight the “guts of the operation�, through honesty of construction and orientation of the packhouse. The connections are all bracketed, allowing visitors to observe how the structure was assembled, as well as to make disassembly easier. The shading device not only helps shade the washline and prevents heat buildup in the container, but also allows the container to dissolve into the site, combining natural materials with the industrial qualities of the container itself.
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Below Timelapse of construction
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Reflections Everything takes longer than originally anticipated. What we thought would take only a few hours ended up taking several days. One of the major difficulties we had was that we had very little time to actually construct the modifications, and that we had little experience with this type of project. We also had difficulties in dealing with the university and legal issues such as building permits. Nevertheless, this project was a great experience for me and taught me about planning, purchasing products, the construction process, dealing with clients, and working in a team. It was also a privelege to work with and learn more about the institute for food at Miami, and to see their passion for the project.
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Stacking Stools ARC302 Professor Murali Paranandi 4 Weeks / Individual Project Final Product The Stacking Stool Collection is produced from a flat sheet of plywood CNC machined into interlocking pieces. It is friction fit, eliminating nails and adhesives, and can integrate into many settings as an extra chair, end table, laptop stand, etc. When not in use, the set of three lightweight stools can stack to be put away. Intent The Stacking Stool Collection was designed with the assumption that beauty derives from concentrated substance: namely function and use. An object is made FINAL DESIGN beautiful when it is designed in response to the lives of those that it will occupy.
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Process Throughout the design process I made three different scaled models to explore issues of form, structure, and jointery. After creating this preliminary cardboard model , it became apparant that the structure would need to be bulkier , particularly the horizontal support under the seat. I also wanted to soften the “shoulders�, making the transition from legs to seat more gradual. While the next prototype was more structurally stable, it did not stack flat, as the interior curves of the legs got in the way. The shoulder curve, and the end curve also needed to match visually. Finally, I created both a full-scale joint out of MDF and a more accurate full scale.
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3D Object Exploration: Mobius Object ARC 302 Professor Murali Paranandi 1 Week / Individual Project Process This object was created using Adobe’s 123D Design and 123D Make. What began as a 2-dimensional irregular shape, was ex- truded and twisted to create a bridge-like form. After flattening the form I printed it out and traced it onto the bristol that would be used to construct it. The yellow underside of the form adds visual interest and emphasizes the differing visual experiences when considering each side of the object. Reflection I learned that though technology makes it easier for us to imag- ine crazy shapes, we are still limited by our ability to realize our designs- constrcting the piece was difficult and required me to cut the object into three different pieces for assembly, before connecting them again.
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Ghana Design/Build Summer 2014 Study Abroad Professor J.E. Elliott 6 Weeks / Team Project Task Design and build a structure based upon visits with local chiefs and villagers in rural Abrafo, Ghana. It was determined that we would design and build a two bedroom home for Peace Corps workers who travel to the area. Process Three weeks were spent designing and developing concepts in small groups. We then presented our ideas to the locals, who chose a final design, and then with the help of several paid workers from Abrafo built the home in 21 days. Upon our return we presented our experience in a gallery exhibit. Below Gallery exhibit in Alumni Hall
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Experience As the youngest student on the trip, I was able to learn about process from the older, more experienced students. I also learned priceless lessons about teamwork, community, forging relationships, the construction process, our own material culture in the U.S.A., hard work, and the positive affect that architecture and design can have on an entire community.
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Above Timelapse of the Construction
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King Cafe Redesign ARC202 Professor Afsaneh Ardehali 3 Weeks / Individual Project Concept Create a sense of separation from the intensity caused by the circulation which occurs around and inside King Cafe, and show the different levels of intensity apparent in the movement of people and vehicles. Process Identify a natural element which embodies the site, and discover how forms can be created from observing the conflicting forces in nature. Choose a word which describes the forces apparent in this natural process and learn about its origins and meanings. Two words aided me in this design process— intensity and separation. By performing in-depth research about these words and natural processes not only was I able to transfer this meaning to my design, but also gained a better understanding of the site, allowing me to better design a structure which would positively affect the space.
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Above Process sketches
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Luxembourg Travel Studies
Miami University Department of European Studies Differdange, Luxembourg Fall Semester 2015 Experience The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is situated in the heart of Western Europe, sharing borders with Belgium, France, and Germany. Its small size allowed us to not only easily explore our new host country, but also travel easily across international borders. One of the joys of traveling by train is that it forces you to slow down, allowing time to look out the window at the villages and cities rushing past; a snapshot of someone else’s life. Traveling by train taught me that I am but one individual in this world, and that everyone has their own story. I left my semester in Luxembourg after traveling to twelve different countries, but gained far more than the 10,000 pictures that fill up the storage on my computer. Experiencing and learning about other cultures ultimately helps you better understand your own. Recognizing that while I cannot fully understand all of the people that I met while abroad, I can appreciate and celebrate the differences between us which make this world so beautiful.
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Top Stockholm, Sweden Middle Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Bottom Salzburg, Austria
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My Journey / My Place ARC 402
Professor Diane Fellows 2 Weeks / Individual Project Past : Suspension Suspend, verb. 1. To hang so as to be free on all sides except at the point of support. 2. To keep waiting in indecision. Present : Contribution Repeat, Verb. 1. To go through an experience again. 2. To make appear again. Future : Repitition Repeat, Verb. 1. To go through an experience again. 2. To make appear again.
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Above The order in which the drawings were created is symbolic of the journeys that I have taken over the course of my life.
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Above + Right Each tab on this sculpture represents a significant journey in my life which has contributed towards my current identity and place. Though each can be percieved as its oen entity, when they overlap and are viewed as a composition they being to relate and interact with each other in unforseen ways.
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In Progress: 3D Printed Joinery ARC 405 Profess Murali Paranandi 3 Weeks About
My project is intended to be an exploration in
digital manufacturing and flat-pack furniture. I would like to design and print joinery which could be used in simple-flat pack furniture made from plywood. I have worked with flatpack furniture in a previous project where I designed stacking stools, however with this project rather than designing furniture, I intend to design an object which could allow consumers to create their own unique pieces from standard plywood, and which would allow users an easier and cheaper way to get custom-sized furniture. Process Precedent research, familiarizing myself with the techology and Fusion360, and creating prototypes are all a part of my process. I inted to next test these joints in alumnium to explore material possibilities.
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Additional 3-D Work
A sample of selected additional work and studies.
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Thank You.