MICHAEL HOEHN Undergraduate Portfolio
CONTENTS 03 TECTONIC LANDSCAPE
Spiritual Retreat Center - Fall 2015 - Design Excellence Award Huntsville, Utah
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Space for Rumination - Fall 2015 Salt Lake City, Utah
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Urban Gallery for Land Art - Fall 2014 - Design Excellence Award Salt Lake City, Utah
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Community Art Education Center - Fall 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana
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Solving the Chicago Public School Crisis Chicago, Illinois
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Greenriver Sunscreen + Marriott Fabrications Salt Lake City, Utah 01
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MICHAEL HOEHN The Choices I Make
The places I have been, things I have felt, and people I have met have instilled a growing passion within me to create. This unyielding thirst can never be quenched, but instead must be set free. I make manifest this passion for depth of thought and care into everything I design.
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TECTONIC LANDSCAPE A Spiritual Retreat Center This spiritual retreat center provides modest accommodations and spiritual spaces nestled intimately within the surrounding landscape. Visitors staying in the retreat center will gain an understanding of sacred landscape and find an oasis of inner peace within its walls.
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Chapel SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
The natural landscape surrounding the spiritual retreat is highlighted through shifting planes. These grow out of the ground plane to form accessible green rooftops. These planes enable visitors to experience landscape in several unique ways through alternating levels and dynamic indoor and outdoor spaces.
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TECTONIC LANDSCAPE Conceptual Diagram
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Concept Development SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
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A Pathway to Explore There is a central circulation path that spans from each of the five volumes. This bridge found on both levels provides dynamic views of the connected spaces. Privacy and serenity abound through limited reveals of each programmatic element thus maintaining a high level of reverence throughout.
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Upper Level Circulation Path SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
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Entry 1 Support Wing 2 Meditation Area 3 Private Hermit Dwellings 4
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Plans + Section SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
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A Space for Learning Upon entering the retreat center your eyes are drawn through the long space and down into the lounge. This space is connected to the library under the main staircase and provides a public area to gather, study, or hold informal meetings. The space is naturally day lit from the underground meditation garden behind.
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Library + Lounge Lower Level SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
A Thriving Landscape This retreat center is dedicated to those in search of the essential meanings of life. The variety of space provided by the building will encourage all kinds of vibrant human interactions. By extending roof planes into the ground an expansive park is created for visitors to enjoy at all hours of the day.
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Entrance SPIRITUAL RETREAT CENTER
SACRED RHYTHM A Space for Rumination
The sacred rhythm is the rhythm of the self. The sound of the blood flowing throughout your body and the regular beating of the heart. Throughout the day we rarely get the opportunity to appreciate these subtle gifts of life. This small space for rumination was designed to give someone that rare opportunity to step out of their daily life and hear the sacred rhythm of the self.
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In order to better understand the sacred nature of the project I created pens to diagram core concepts of rhythm, movement, and polytheism
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Concept Diagrams SACRED RHYTHM
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This concept model acts as a reliquary and represents the rhythm held sacred by the practitioners of the Candomble religion. The object brings several types of wood together through a common thread which carries the rhythmic beads inside.
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Reliquary Concept Model SACRED RHYTHM
FORM FINDING Digital Fabrication
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Version 3 113 ft
Through an iterative digital design process I created several 3D printed prototypes. Through these iterations I was able to find the final forms and prepare for fabrication on a larger scale.
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Digital Fabrication SACRED RHYTHM
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A Space for Rumination The pods created utilize noise canceling hardware and mimic the effects found in an anechoic chamber. This creates an oasis of peace in the middle of a bustling downtown. The site for the final installation is framed by four tall buildings. These geodesic dome structures suspend from the surrounding buildings and provide a place for the visitor to discover the sacred rhythm within.
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Installation SACRED RHYTHM
[in]LAND ART GALLERY Urban Gallery for Land Art Land art is typically a form of art whose complexities and scale cannot easily be captured and displayed indoors. [in]Land Art Gallery utilizes 360 degree projections to bring land art from all over the world down to an attainable scale. The gallery is deeply embedded within the site and maintains one of the only remaining pocket parks in the area.
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Rooftop Park INLAND ART GALLERY
The site for the gallery exists at the center of the expanding downtown Salt Lake City area. It was designed to preserve one of the last green spaces in the area and to facilitate growth of an under appreciated art form. This is accomplished by manipulating the existing site conditions and going underground.
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ROOF MANIPULATION Hyperbolic Paraboloid Roof
Pull Existing Site Condition
Push + Pull
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Concept Development INLAND ART GALLERY
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360 degree land art viewing sphere 1 Lower formal gallery 2 Restrooms 3 Mechanical facilities 4 Main circulation 5 Green roof above 6
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A New Gallery Experience The land art gallery brings existing land art installations from around the world down to the human scale through a 360 degree projection space. This unique spherical space not only attracts people from all over the world but sends them out to discover new and exciting places.
Plans INLAND ART GALLERY
hyperbolic paraboloid roof structure
projection sphere structure
360 projection space
main circulation pathway to lower main gallery
accessible green roof outdoor cafe area ground level entrance
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There is one central path that guides the visitor down through the 360 projection space and the formal gallery.
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Exploded Axonometric INLAND ART GALLERY
ART HOUSE
Community Art Education Center Art House serves a disaster stricken community through collaborative art education. Broadmoor New Orleans was one of many locations left flooded in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. In it’s wake the community chose to come together in a unique way. This process is highlighted through Art House by giving people a place to learn and make art together.
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Exterior ART HOUSE
Art House first developed from a need to be accessible for the entire community. The building needed to facilitate both programmed activity and spontaneous community events. Art House accomplishes this through its facade design and enclosed program. The model pictured here is the beginning concept of how the facade could enhance the buildings functionality.
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THE SPACES BETWEEN Concept Study
Volume
Negative Space
Concept Model Art Education Classrooms
Gallery
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Administration
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Concept Development ART HOUSE
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Public exhibition space 1 Outdoor patio 2 Courtyard 3 Painting classroom 4 Sculpting classroom 5 Digital media classroom 6 Administration wing 7
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A Synergistic Classroom Art House is primarily a community art education center. Pictured here are the functioning classrooms which are designed to be opened to combine classroom lessons. Each room is programmed to teach a different art technique and media. In total there are classrooms for sculpture, painting, and digital media.
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Lower Level Classrooms ART HOUSE
Pictured here is final model of the facade system wrapping the Art House. This facade was programmed to provide optimal light to each of the interior spaces. This program was created using a typical sun path and site conditions. The apertures along the facade change in diameter allowing the most appropriate amount of sunlight to enter the building.
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Sections ART HOUSE
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A Conscience Space The main gallery on the upper level of the Art House provides a naturally lit space for formal exhibitions of student work and community events. The quality of this space is created by the facade which encloses it. A semi-enclosed hallway wraps the gallery and leads to the exterior spaces.
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Upper Level Gallery ART HOUSE
CHICAGOLAB Solving the CPS Crisis
ChicagoLab is a two month long studio embedded in the heart of downtown Chicago and dedicated to solving some of the cities most controversial topics. This studio aimed to repurpose several closed schools throughout the city in the Chicago Public School Network. Team members Michael Hoehn, Matrix Lee, Yuzhou Peng
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It is easy to simply demolish an old school to make way for something new, but the best solution came from redefining what school can be.
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Section Concept CHICAGOLAB
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A City in Crisis Pictured here are the public schools that make up the Chicago Public School system. Currently several of these schools are in danger of being closed. Only those schools able to maintain high numbers are allowed to stay open. In this crisis Chicago is in great need of a redesigned school system.
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Chicago Public School Closings CHICAGOLAB
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The main solution came through understanding the surrounding area and what it has to offer to young children. This diagram describes local businesses and extracts from them key childhood development attributes.
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Childhood Development Diagram CHICAGOLAB
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A Network Solution At times architecture is more than simply constructing a building. It involves being aware of surroundings to be able to design a better quality of life for others. This solution evolved into a hub and spoke network system of local business owners and teachers working together to provide a better education for the younger generation.
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Hub Identification CHICAGOLAB
GREENRIVER SUNSCREEN Design + Build + Budget Greenriver Utah is a small nonprofit making huge impacts on their local area through community engagement. They tasked our team with designing a budget friendly sunscreen that was just as engaging as their outreach strategies. Team members Michael Hoehn, Ricky Carlson, Diego Garrido
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This sunscreen was built using common materials and user friendly fabrication methods for on site installation by locals.
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Detail Model GREENRIVER SUNSCREEN
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Digital Fabrication Ditigal fabrication techniques allow for an iterative design process. The final design was influenced by the direct sunlight and glare experienced on site. The sunscreen was was then created with carved, overlapping layers.
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Digital Fabrication GREENRIVER SUNSCREEN
MARRIOTT FABRICATIONS Design Build Internship The Marriott Library at the University of Utah reached out to our team to design a new space for the Fine Arts terrace. With this new space I was asked to design and fabricate new sculpture displays and furnishings. Team members Michael Hoehn, Otto Stephan
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The sculpture plinth pictured here was designed to offer maximum flexibility for different types of art. The channel in the center acts as a conduit for the various art forms on display.
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Sculpture Plinths MARRIOTT FABRICATIONS
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A New Vision Pictured here is the entrance to the sculpture viewing wing of the Marriott Library terrace. Currently the terrace is under construction and all furnishings are being fabricated for the final opening in Fall of 2016.
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Sculpture Display Area MARRIOTT FABRICATIONS
MICHAEL HOEHN EDUCATION
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE | ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES + BUSINESS MINOR University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT 2012-2016 College GPA 4.0
ASSOCIATE OF SCIENCE | GENERAL STUDIES Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg ID 2011-2012 GPA 3.6
ACHIEVEMENTS
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR
DEAN’S LIST
DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
DEAN’S ADVISORY COUNCIL
LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE
University of Utah | 2015-2016
University of Utah | Fall 2014+15 University of Utah | 2014-2016
EXPERIENCE
University of Utah | 2014-2016 Brigham Young University Idaho | 2011-2012 2012-Current
AIAS CHAPTER PRESIDENT
-Secured internships funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Utah Young Architects Forum -Established student leadership within the University of Utah, AIAS, and AIA Utah -Compiled student leadership teams operating to achieve effective chapter goals
RESEARCH INTERN
-Tasked with researching and creating innovative solutions to the public school closing epidemic in Chicago -Summer studio embedded within some of the largest architecture firms in Chicago (CannonDesign+SOM) -Created and presented the most innovative solution in studio history
R+D ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
-Supplied technical solutions and support for research team aimed at delivering design excellence to paying clients -Created professional quality project renderings and presentations -Maintained team organization and supplied final shop drawings for project fabrication
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN
-Involvement in several phases of architectural design and practice within a small sized architecture firm -Projects include multi-tenant offices, custom homes and tenant improvements -Oversight of project visualizations through final rendering and web presentation
CUSTOM STAIR CARPENTER
-Fabricated unique custom staircases under some of the most skilled stair manufacturers in the country -Noted for supreme quality, our stairs would be shipped to several countries throughout the world -Provided leadership and quality craftsmanship throughout several one-of-a-kind projects
FULL TIME MISSIONARY
-During my educational hiatus I dedicated 2 years of volunteer service in Los Angeles California -Self discovery and development from invaluable life experiences and service opportunities -Learned fluent Spanish to be able to fully understand, communicate, and serve my fellow man
University of Utah 2015-2016
ChicagoLab, Archeworks Summer 2015 University of Utah Spring 2015
RAW Design Studio 2015-2016
Newman Wood Systems 2013-2014 The LDS Church 2009-2011
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CONTACT
mhoehn12@gmail.com 864.704.9140
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Resume MICHAEL HOEHN