MICHAELHARRISON
Index This portfolio is the culmination of two years of undergraduate architecture studies at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TCAUP) by Michael Harrison. By nature of the University's undergraduate pedagogy, projects range from early, abstract representations to medium-scale architectural proposals. Additionally, a lobby (in progress) designed while at Mancini Duffy TSC, and photography (local and abroad), are represented.
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Fes Tannery
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TCAUP Facade
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Lot+
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microcosm
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Faculty Annex
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Thor Equities
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Impact
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Quickness
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Photography
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Duration Abstraction Scale Least
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Section Perspective
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Study Abroad (Morocco + Spain) - Summer of 2012 Professor: Irene Hwang
Fes Tannery An essential evil in the medina of Fes, Morocco, the open air tannery has treated animal hides for generations, polluting the air to intolerable levels. As part of a semester abroad, students were asked to propose a new program in the heart of Fes were the tannery no longer a viable government enterprise. In strong contrast to western typologies, the exterior facades are rarely adorned, while more than 5,000 master plaster artisans toil for years on interior treatments. Drawing inspiration from local textures and patterns, this new school aims to be an oasis in the desert for public gathering and learning.
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Elevation
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4:1Taubman Additions The focus of a semester-long studio was the proposed improvement to the Art and Architecture building at the University of Michigan. Targeting under-utilized areas of the school, projects investigated the role of the existing parking lot and south facade in broadcasting to the public the college's position within the university. Two auxiliary sites to the east and west were to become annexes for faculty and student work, respectively.
Site Perspective
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ARCH 322 - Winter of 2012 Professor: Laura Bouwman Coordinated by John McMorrough
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TCAUP Facade Its adjacency to Lot+ makes it the most noticeable facade of the building, and in its current state the most unremarkable. In an effort to expand awareness about the school to the to the University's 40,000 other students, the south facade takes on the appearance of a billboard from afar. Approaching the message a pattern/ image becomes pixilated as individual apertures become visible.
Day/Pattern Elevation
Night/Text Elevation
Made up of thousands of programmable apertures, the facade displays rasterized images, texts and patterns. On the interior, variable lighting occurs throughout the day while at night the effect inverts. Light from the building displays the evening's or next day's events.
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ARCH 322 - Winter of 2012 Professor: Laura Bouwman Coordinated by John McMorrough
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Elevation
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Light Study
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Museum board, acrylic, chip board
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1/2”:1' Section Model
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Lot+ Nearby Detroit's Hart Plaza hosts a wide variety of public gatherings during summertime evenings. During the day, however, the series of riverfront amphitheaters and stages go untouched save for the light and shadows cast throughout the open plaza. This, public, punctured, concrete landscape was the influence for a new parking lot and performance venue at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. The programmatic addition to
Pattern
the parking lot was made given the proximity to the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and the lack of outdoor performance venues in Ann Arbor. The circulation for bodies and vehicles as well as light wells were located by applying a pattern to the site plan. The tessellating hexagons were scaled and positioned with regards to existing topography and parking code constraints.
ARCH 322 - Winter of 2012 Professor: Laura Bouwman Coordinated by John McMorrough
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Site Plan
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Pattern on Topography
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1/32”=1’ Model
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Museum Board
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microcosm
Tasked with using a primitive geometry in new ways, “microcosm� is (programmatically) a miniature school for experimenting with possible new pedagogues in architecture. Volumes collide and separate, simultaneously, creating partitions as they do so. The shifting gives the impression of a building in motion, embodying the constant change in architectural discourse. The facade patterning binds the conglomerate together, asking: are pieces being drawn towards conclusion or are they dividing to find new form?
Primitive Shifting Iterations
Wrapping Process
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Massing Axonometric
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ARCH 322 - Winter of 2012 Professor: Laura Bouwman Coordinated by John McMorrough
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First Floor
Second Floor
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3/16”=1’ Model
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Faculty Annex Regularly involved in research and fabrication, the faculty at
Museum Board, Acrylic
TCAUP lacks sufficient on-site space for assembling and presentation of installations. Approximately 15,000 sqft of open floor space for faculty use and display are housed in the proposed faculty annex. Eight subtly shifting sections give impression of a volume in staggered motion, lifting and hovering out over the ground. On the interior, this separates the space into a large basin and smaller terraces, able to accommodate a variety of project scales.
1/32�=1’ Model
Section
Massing Process
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ARCH 322 - Winter of 2012 Professor: Laura Bouwman Coordinated by John McMorrough
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Thor Equities Lobby Adjacent to the High Line in New York's Meat Packing District, this feature stair is located on the cramped ground floor off of 14th Street. Limited in build-out depth due to egress, facetting became the solution to concealing the protruding core elements inside. Providing a rhythm and emphasizing the sectional quality of the cavernous space, recessed LED strips run from floor to wall to ceiling.
Section Perspectives
Summer of 2012 Designed at Mancini Duffy TSC Overseen by Avery Miyasato Handy
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Design Developement East Elevation
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Thor Equities Lobby
Design Developement West Elevation
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Impact The initial line work was created during a performance by an orator recounting a childhood memory. The narrator describes a family trip in autumn to visit relatives in the American southeast. Upon return, their van collides with an indescribably large heron, whose eye, through the shattered windshield, fixes on the child briefly be-
Graphite on Bristol (Inverted)
fore ascending. The drawing attempts to evoke the speed and emotion of the crash while embedding details from the story. In particular, the drawing focuses on glass and smoke; two mediums that distort and conceal. Similarly, the art of storytelling sometimes relies on obscuring the true nature of events.
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ARCH 218 - Winter of 2010 Professor: Dawn Gilpin
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Quickness Quickness explores the three-dimensional representation of speed, rhythm, and pace in oration, writing and discursive thinking. Equally important to “pressing on� is knowing when to stall the discussion, making the work an abstraction of both design and linguistic processes.
Graphite, Colored Pencil on Bristol
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ARCH 218 - Winter of 2010 Professor: Dawn Gilpin
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Photography
Reales Alcázares de Sevilla
“There are always two people in every picture the photographer and the viewer.” -Ansel Adams
-Ansel Adams
the photographer and the viewer.” “There are always two people in every picture
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Catedral de Santa MarĂa de la Sede
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Louve
Cooper Union
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Sainte Chapelle
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Medina of Fes