Michael Wade Selected Works 2014 - 2021 michaelwade@att.net | 614.638.1846
PROJECTS
ENERGY LAB February 2020 Page 3
COLLABORATIONS
HISTORY CENTER November 2020 Page 6
BIG BOX(ES) April 2019
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VERTICAL CAMPUS April 2020 Page 13
TOWER + GARDEN November 2017
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OTHER WORK
MISCELLANEOUS 2018-present Page 21
STUDIES
CONFLUENCE October 2020
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PAVILION February 2019
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SKETCHES
2019-present Page 25
COMPLETED
BOARDWALK November 2014 Page 26
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PROJECT
ENERGY LAB In Justin Diles’ spring 2020 studio, I reimagined an existing campus parking garage by excavating the lower stories and replacing the structure with extruded concrete tubes. The uppermost levels remain, serving as a canopy for large outdoor spaces below. To minimize the amount of conditioned interior volume, indoor public event spaces are linked by open-air corridors. In order to serve both building users and passersby, I developed two public routes across the site, one burrowing through the ground floor and one crossing over outdoor plazas. A growing trend in my work is to grant important rooms an increased degree of independence, wherein they assert themselves as objects in space. What results here is a terraced village arranged to form an invigorating laboratory and academic environment.
top | view of outdoor plaza and terraced network of open-air corridors bottom | view through open-air thoroughfare linking streets on either side of the building
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top | section showing staggered terraces and open-air plaza spaces below remaining garage canopy middle | section through open-air corridor and laboratory air evacuation stack
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below | plan showing ground floor laboratory spaces and covered public thoroughfare
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COLLABORATION
HISTORY CENTER In Kay Bea Jones’ fourth year studio, I worked together with Sam Ferguson to propose a new center for the Columbus Historical Society. The project, to be located along Broad Street in Franklinton, will house both archives and exhibition spaces for the organization, which works to document the history of Ohio’s capital city. Our proposal for the Columbus Historical Society embeds galleries and archive spaces within a man-made hill, creating a dynamic museum experience and providing greenery to the nearby Franklinton area. The hill lends itself to a choreographed procession, elevating visitors above the city while providing room for excavation and discovery. By removing visitors from the bustle of the street, they are better able to reflect on the history of Columbus.
top | site plan showing the project’s location along the National Road, known locally as Broad Street
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bottom | view from Broad Street of the hillside and entry ramp, inviting visitors up into the building Mill Street
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lower plan
above | ground floor plan
above | aerial plan showing entry ramp and plaza, rooftop relic garden and vegetation right | section through the stepped “hillside,” which forms the envelope for much of the lower floor
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above | upper floor plan right | “clamshell” axon showing gallery spaces below | section through auditorium, atrium, main gallery, and tower leading to relic garden
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top | detail showing proposed interactive artwork and photograph displays bottom | renderings showing interactive displays used in main gallery space
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right | view of rooftop relic garden middle | view of entry plaza at top of ramp bottom | view of atrium and main gallery space
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PROJECT
BIG BOX(ES) In Ashley Bigham’s spring 2019 studio, I developed the concept for a showroom store located on the Vitra campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Playing off of the “Big Box” typology, I sorted each program into its own box, the size and placement of which were determined based on function, occupancy, and proximity to other spaces. Certain boxes burst through the exterior wall, thrusting it apart as if snapping a membrane. While many big box stores lack natural light, this move allows for its prevalence in my own design. Inside, merchandise is displayed on square tables that accommodate goods from lint rollers to refrigerators. Larger products are located in the sunken showroom, while smaller, lighter goods are found upstairs. Additional tables can be rearranged between permanent ones, allowing for a flexible layout.
above | view of main entry bursting through exterior “wrapper” wall below | interior view of lower shopping level and movable table inserts, such as the one in the foreground, within a permanent table grid
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above | ground floor plan, showing rotation of big boxes in relation to the wrapper right | model showing central atrium bounded by transparent walls of upper showroom and warehouse spaces
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above | section through warehouse, atrium, and showroom spaces below | elevation showing wrapper, alternate entrance, and loading area
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right | plan oblique, showing southeast facade, atrium, and upper showroom and offices overlooking the central atrium
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COLLABORATION
VERTICAL CAMPUS
For the second project in Justin Diles’ third-year studio, I enjoyed the opportunity to work with Kori Caughenbaugh and NDos Onochie on a proposal for a coworking office tower located at Broad St. and Grant St. in Columbus. Our 32-story tower houses both office spaces and amenities, arranging them into a Vertical Campus dotted with vegetation. In designing this tower we hoped to challenge existing skyscraper typologies by suspending independent masses in a common structural frame. The idea to selectively fill in such a frame was inspired by a construction photograph I had seen of William Lebaron Jenney’s Home Insurance Building. This methodology results in a non-monolithic tower comprised of many smaller pieces. While we all contributed to various aspects of the design, I focused on the building’s sectional functionality.
right | site plan, showing the tower’s location across Grant St. from Packard’s Seneca Hotel below | aerial view of tower at night
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Plans
below | north elevation
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above | 25th floor plan 25th Floor below | 14th floor plan
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right | longitudinal section through all four workspace types
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above | 28th floor plan 28th Floor below | 19th floor plan
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below | transverse section
option a | pod spaces 900 SF + shared space
option b | mini high-rise 2,700 - 3,600 SF
option c | half footprint 9,900 SF
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right | program diagram
option d | full footprint 19,800 SF
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PROJECT
TOWER + GARDEN In Ben Wilke’s autumn 2017 studio, I produced a concept for a 60’ tower that sits within a 48’ x 64’ garden. For this project, the model was built at 1/4” scale, and all drawings were hand drafted. In creating the garden layout, I explored approximating circles within a rectilinear grid. The landscape uses a limited vocabulary of vegetation including deciduous trees placed in circles and coniferous trees placed in lines. The tower is intended to complete a trilogy of geometries; while the field is rectilinear with approximated curves, the tower consists of diagonal elements. Circulation concealed on the back of the structure connects the garden below to the tower’s interior spaces, including a stepped seating gallery and a suspended observation deck.
right | study model exploring the use of a field to approximate a circle below | view showing circulation on hidden south face
above | section highlighting suspended observation deck left | study model, showing circular elements
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below | plan through observation deck
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right | isometric drawing of tower below | profile studies opposite | southwest view, showing the circulation as it meets interior spaces
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STUDY
BRIDGING THE CONFLUENCE In a weeklong design charrette, my autumn 2020 studio was asked to identify a site in Columbus, OH which we felt would benefit from a bridge. Having spent studio time on socially-distanced tours of downtown Columbus and the Scioto Mile, it became apparent that there were limited ways to get from Franklinton to the Arena District without a car. My proposal goes a step further, establishing a hub of transportation for cyclists and pedestrians to connect communities across two rivers.
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left | section and elevation of bridge bottom | site map showing the bridge as it straddles both the Olentangy and Scioto Rivers
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above | diagram illustrating flow of traffic on the bridge’s suspended central roundabout left | aerial view of the bridge showing its nighttime usability
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M I S C E L L A N E O U S
top | section oblique drawing of Álvaro Siza’s Duarte House bottom | study of circulation in a local pizza restaurant
top | plan oblique drawing of a rest area proposal bottom | drawing of a chair based on a photo collage
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below | model of a live/work house I designed in 2019
above | half model of a duplex house I designed in 2018
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below | model of an elementary school located atop a ravine, designed in 2019
above | proposal to sink the east entry plaza at Knowlton School, 2019
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STUDY
DISPLAY PAVILION
In January of 2019, I created a concept for a pavilion, the program of which would be the display of a single chair. Here, I sought to explore the relation of skin to interior, wrapping a bright graphic design around the outside while limiting the inner condition to a single color. This contrast was then injected into the form itself: what had been two unioned, enclosed prisms became an unfurling, single volume clearly made up of surfaces as opposed to solid mass.
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above | model profiles, showing wrapping of exterior graphic
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right | section, showing the splitting of the shell and the subsequent creation of ramp and platform below | plan taken at 6 feet, showing location of chair left | “storage, reveal, and display” study models featuring a heptagonal geometric theme
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S K E T C H E S
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below | bird’s-eye perspective of a public plaza in Germany
below | two-point perspective drawings of buildings I visited while in Europe
right | various scenes from Columbus, Ohio
above | perspective featuring Columbus vernacular houses and landscape design right | the sole arch left from Columbus’ Union Station
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COMPLETED
BOARDWALK One requirement to attain the rank of Eagle Scout is to complete an extensive service project that benefits the community. For mine, I chose to lead a construction endeavor: the installation of a 110-foot Boardwalk at the New Albany Outdoor Education Center. The project budget was approximately $2,000 and it took 250 human-hours to complete. The boardwalk allows local students to study the wooded environment without eroding the forest floor. The site includes two large vernal pools (seasonal ponds) that are home to a variety of wildlife. The new walkway connects to a preexisting dock at each pool. In designing the project I was mindful of the site conditions. I decided that the Boardwalk would best be built in sections which could be angled around trees and other natural obstacles. Each section is approximately 8’ x 4’ and many are bolted together at the ends to form straightaways. Where the path turns, wedge-shaped elements were built on site.
above | view of boardwalk, summer after completion
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below | diagrams that I drew and presented at project proposal in September of 2014
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