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Michael Amidon University of Michigan Master of Architecture Master of Urban Design Candidate left to right Conway, Conway Union, Union Sandbornville, Sandbornville Photo courtesy of McLain Clutter, 2016
Michael Amidon
Urban Research 6 Detroit Institute for MicroUrban Networks (DIMUN)
8 Agriculture to Urbanization: The Importance of the Ejido in Housing Development
Urban Design 14 North End: Arterial Diversions
Urban Architecture 20 Nested Cubes: Detroit Housing
26 Misaligned Icons: Barack Obama Presidential Library
40 Bricks, Pigs, and Flowers: Leslieville Hotel
Architecture 48
209 Murray Avenue
Architectural Theory 54 Urban Objects: The Role of Surface in Spatial Composition
Painting Resume
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Urban Research
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Urban Research
Detroit Institute for Micro-Urban Networks (DIMUN) Fall 2017, Urban Design Studio Site Location: Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Instructor: Anya Sirota Codesigner: Kelsey Ryan
The Detroit Institute for Micro-Urban Networks (DIMUN) project explores Detroit’s evolving proliferation of micro-urbanisms as an emergent typology. The research identifies the unique economic and social conditions that have given rise to the phenomenon in the city, and catalogues the organizational, structural and aspirational formulation of Detroit’s key micro-urban sites in order to establish a standard of comparison and analysis. Learning from Detroit’s micro-urban initiatives, the project speculates on ways that new micro-urban scenarios might be instigated and improved in order to achieve greater social diversity and inclusivity. The result is a fictional institution that unites Detroit’s microurbanisms and leverages their acknowledged achievements in order to highlight a network of experimental cultural nodes.
see the institution at: www.imundetroit.org
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Final Model Photographs 40”x 40”- Museum Board, Foamcore, Wood, Acrylic, Glue, Spray Paint
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Urban Research
Agriculture to Urbanization: The Importance of the Ejido in Housing Development Fall 2016, Collaborative Research with Olaia Chivite Amigo Site Location: Chicoloapan de Juárez, Mexico Faculty Advisors: McLain Clutter and María Arquero de Alarcon
This project explores the role that methods of land control, land division, and property right agreements play in shaping housing and urban development in Mexico City’s peripheral municipalities. We argue that a typology of housing development has emerged through competing territorial agendas between formal (government sponsored) and informal (sponsored by social organizations) urban expansion. The project maps those housing types in an attempt to understand informal development’s role within Mexico’s attempt to house vast quantities of population within a rapidly urbanizing time frame and an intensely political environment with multiple powerful actors and many competing agendas; all while it transitions from agrarian land occupation to urbanization. This analysis renders explicit the formal organizations that result from various histories, relationships, and alliances between key actors in housing and urban development processes. -abstract co-authored by Olaia Chivite Amigo
Chicoloapan Boundaries and Grid Overlay
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Chicoloapan Land Development Evolution
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Sociedad Hipotecaria
Federal Government
PRI
SOFOLES
PRD
INFONAVIT State & Private
State of Mexico
Intervention Agency per Property type
Communal & Ejidos
Chicoloapan Municipality
DGRT
FINEZA
CODEUR
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Distrito Federal
State of Mexico
CORETT
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Housing Credits Bancomer & Banamex Onavis Banca Fideicomisos
URBI GEOVILLAS CASAS GEO HOMEX SARE
Construction Sector Businesses Social Organizations
FOVISSTE
Residents
Urban Area
Private Sector for Profit Lots in Relotting Condominium (modified from less regulation land fusion)
Antorcha Campesina
Fusion
Subdivision
Housing Development Water Control
Social Housing
Transportation
North
Concrete Brick
South
Asbestos Metal Sheets
Construction
Historic District Formal Development
Informal Settlement
Public Resource Financing
Agricultural Land
Chicoloapan Housing Actor-Network Diagram
Chicoloapan Land Type Ownership
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Urban Research
Chicoloapan’s Informal Development Block Types
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Chicoloapan’s Formal Development Block Types
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Urban Design
North End: Arterial Diversions Summer 2017, Urban Design Studio Site Location: Detroit, Michigan Instructor: Laura-Anne Wong
Arterial Diversions aggregates vacant lots, publicly-owned lots, and the land-bank in Detroit’s North End residential neighborhood in order to produce a whole that addresses collective needs more effectively than can be provided by individual parcels. The North End was once supported by its proximity to Woodward Avenue, the Dodge Main Plant (location of GM Assembly), Ford’s Highland Plant, and the Milwaukee Junction. Today, it is characterized by the Chrysler Freeway in addition to suburban components such as garages, front-yards, setbacks, driveways, sidewalks, side-yards, back alleys, and backyards. The connections and boundaries that exist between these components are regulated through residential-based zoning policies intended to facilitate vector movement – or automotive efficiency. Increasing vacancy diminished the efficiency of these policies and the environments that they helped to create. In response, this project reactivates those spaces; not in the service of automobiles, but instead in service of residents. Arterial Diversions erases the street, alleys, driveways, and residential block structures reminiscent of automotive dominance. In their place, it proposes new patterns of movement, transit, and habitation.
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Detroit’s 10,000 acre tract along Woodward Avenue.
Highlighting North End within the 10,000 acre tract.
Single family housing
Evenly distributed housing density Northville Single family housing 4,500 people/mile2
Arden Park
Clusters of housing density
I-95 Chrysler Freeway
John C. Lodge Freeway
2,900 people/mile2
Woodward Ave
Ford Highland Park Plant
North End Industrial Zone
Single family housing
North End
2,400 people/mile2 Former Dodge Main Plant
Tight housing density Gross Pointe
The introduction of the Chrysler Freeway bisected the North End, destroying its main commercial street and isolating it from important employers.
Suburban Block: Vector Transition into a Field
Full occupancy suburban block.
North End condition with vacancy.
The North End does not have a low population density compared to surrounding suburban neighborhoods. Instead, vacant homes and lots introduce inconsistency, thereby reducing the efficiency of the original suburban block structure. The project reconnects the neighborhood’s various private clusters.
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Vector Connections Pedestrian Paths thorough-fare block connection multi-use
public transit local bicycle 200 ft
Connection Vector-Spaces pedestrian
thoroughfare
public transit
block connection
local
multi-use
bicycle
Land Ownership private plot
200 ft
single public plot Land Ownership
aggregated public plot
private plot
single public plot
aggregated public plot
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Urban Architecture
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Urban Architecture
Nested Cubes: Detroit Housing Fall 2016, Systems Studio Site Location: Detroit, Michigan Instructors: Craig Borum and Claudia Wigger Codesigners: Doug “Te-Shiou” Chen and Jordan Van De Walker
Nested Cubes is a housing complex that encourages interaction between Detroit residents. The design is comprised of clusters of prefabricated, cross-laminated timber boxes. These clusters are stacked upon one another and revolve around a centralized concrete core. The self-supported CLT cubes provide all of the interior conditioned spaces of the apartment units. The rotation of these stacked clusters creates various scales of spaces that are shared between the residents. The façade system is constructed from polycarbonate panels that allow light to enter while also providing protection from wind, rain, and snow.
Building Structure
Site Rendering Drawing by Doug “Te-Shiou” Chen
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Residential Unit and Core Organization
Common Area Organization
Unconditioned Interior Renderings
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Urban Architecture
6th Floor Plan Unit plan design in collaboration with Doug “Te-Shiou� Chen and Jordan Van De Walker
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7th Floor Plan Unit plan design in collaboration with Doug “Te-Shiou” Chen and Jordan Van De Walker
Site Cross-Section Exterior design in collaboration with Doug “Te-Shiou” Chen and Jordan Van De Walker
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Ground Floor Site Plan Site Plan in collaboration with Doug “TeShiou” Chen and Jordan Van De Walker
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Urban Architecture
Misaligned Icons: Barack Obama Presidential Library Fall 2015, Institutions Studio Site Location: Chicago, Illinois Instructor: McLain Clutter
Misaligned Icons is a proposal for Barack Obama’s presidential library that appropriates methods of figuration, material finish, and programmatic organization associated with some of Chicago’s most iconic buildings – Burnham and Root’s Monadnock Building, Mies Van Der Rohe’s Kluczynski Federal Building, and Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City – reconfiguring them in a manner that imposes direct relationships between these icons within a rescaled urban complex. The project is sited directly over the Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway, just north of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) campus. The campus was designed with a series of skywalks, and consequently the original buildings were entered from the second floor. Although the skywalks have been removed, the exaggerated base of these buildings makes one feel as if they are walking below ground even at ground level. Similarly, in most of today’s urban environments the pedestrian is exiled to spaces that resemble the basements of the cities that they inhabit. As an alternative, Misaligned Icons removes pedestrians from the street, encouraging an intimate interaction with the negative spaces that the figures have sculpted.
Parts, Postures, and Parlances
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Chicago Metro Station 5,410 sf Auditorium 8,640 sf Auditorium Support 4,420 sf Office 3,800 sf Museum Exhibition/Gallery 18,560 sf Lobby 8,270 sf Archive 24,520 sf Research and Library Support 11,210 sf Greenspace 37,310 sf Community Center 19,930 sf Obama Foundation Headquarters 11,640 sf
Programmatic Axonometric
Precedent Study: Bruges Concert Hall Competition Entry Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Material Finishes Axonometric
Programmatic Axonometric
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Presidential Library Rendering
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Cross-Section B
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Access Between Figures
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Floor C Access
Floor B Access
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Ground Floor Access
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Floor Plan B
Diagram Section
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Final Model Photographs 16”x 20”- Wood, Acrylic, Wire, Foamcore, Plaster, Glue, Spray Paint
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Cross-Section D
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Presidential Library Rendering
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Urban Architecture
Bricks, Pigs, and Flowers: Leslieville Hotel Spring 2015, Situation Studio Site Location: Leslieville, Toronto, Ontario Instructor: Meredith Miller
Bricks, Pigs, and Flowers analyzes Leslieville’s historical and formal properties to propose an alternative for its public library. Leslieville is a historic neighborhood on the eastern edge of Toronto that once supported itself and the rest of the city through three main industries; brickyards, piggeries, and market gardens. The programs required by these industries developed particular block types whose traces can still be seen today. This particular site is one of many that were affected by the construction of Dundas Street; a route that was created to provide quicker access for wealthy suburban residents directly into the city. Consequently, the enclosed infill conditions of a typical Leslieville block were exposed. This odd condition is formally displayed through garages and empty backyards that now line the major thoroughfare of Dundas Street. The project traces and leverages these idiosyncrasies to develop a centralized hub for the benefit of a neighborhood that has been historically exploited by Toronto for its labor and resources.
Site Street Conditions
Leslieville Public Library: Front Elevation.
Library’s relationship to neighboring houses.
Condition caused by Dundas Street. Former block was cut in half, turning alley into main street.
Infi ll Formal Development
Present site condition.
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Block structure pre-Dundas Street.
Infill proposition in relation to surrounding context.
Infill proposition within constraints of present site.
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1 Infill development enclosed on all sides.
2 Infill development enclosed on three sides.
3 Infill open to street with alley access.
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Historic Block Types and Timeline of Leslieville’s Primary Industries
Row House
1854 Residents acknowled
Bay is dumping grou
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Market Garden Brickyards
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1791 Augustus Jones surveys Toronto for
settlement. Five long 200 acre farm lots. Queen St. is used as the baseline.
Identity Transportation
Brickyard
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Railroad built through Toron
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1890
First serious proposals to fill in Ashbridge’s Bay
1923
Ashbridge’s Bay landfill complete
1956 Toronto Brick Company closes
dge that Ashbridge’s und for Toronto Sewers
1909
First catalog of pre-fabricated, self-build home kits published
1952 Main Sewage Treatment
1880 Slaughterhouses and cattle barns pollute
Plant built
bay, cause terrible smells, kill fish
1915 Brickyard land becomes too valuable for making bricks. Houses more profitable
1926 Only four brickyards left as clay becomes scarce
1955 Construction of
1900 Typhoid fever epidemic breaks
Leslie Street Spit begins using clean landfill
out so water filtration plants built
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1900
1925
1875 Street car service begins through Leslieville
1914 World War I creates new plants, railways, jobs, and industry
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1901 Queen Street paved 1918 World War I ends, era of
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chain stores begins
1929
Great Depression begins and production stops
Creeks disappear to become sewer system Over half of Leslieville’s land surface either is or had been brickyad
1939 World War II starts
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Modern Translation of Historic Industries
Still Frames of Final Model Film 48�x 36�- Wood, Chipboard, Foamcore, Paper, Moss, Glue, Spray Paint
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Hotel, Community Garden, and Restaurant Massing
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Cross-Section
2nd Floor Plan
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209 Murray Avenue Summer 2016, Master of None Site Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Employer: McLain Clutter
209 Murray Avenue is a project completed under the direction of Associate Professor, McLain Clutter. It is an extensive renovation and addition to his personal home. The house is sited within Ann Arbor’s historical district which set constrains for the addition’s major formal design decisions. The house’s foundation also sits below the flood plain. Consequently, we were required to lift the house, infill the basement, and design the addition at this new elevation in order for the property to qualify for low-risk flood insurance. The wood flooring on the ground floor was replaced with poured concrete and polished to mimic terrazzo. I designed the addition’s roof to be supported by an engineered ridge beam, which allowed for a full height vaulted roof and minimal rafter thickness. This was done to increase the headroom of the second floor master bedroom of the addition without extending past the peak of the original house. My role for the project was to create the permit and construction drawing sets out of preliminary conceptual hand sketches. I also designed the stairs, the rain scupper in place of gutters, and the structure of the engineered ridge beam.
Addition Photograph, Built 2017, Rear Facade and Deck
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A-201
EXIST. ROOF RIDGE 27' - 8"
MC
3 A-501
CLOSET
CLOSET
BEDROOM
2ND FINISH FLOOR 12' - 7 1/2"
DINING ROOM
KITCHEN/LIVING ROOM
STORAGE 1ST FINISH FLOOR 3' - 8 1/16"
THICKENED EDGE CONCRETE SLAB TO SUPPORT BEARING WALL ABOVE
GRADE 0' - 0"
EXIST. BASEMENT TO BE FILLED WITH COMPACTED PEA GRAVEL FOOTINGS -3' - 6" PIER FOOTINGS TO EXTEND 40" BELOW GRADE
1EAST-WEST BUILDING SECTION STAIRS
East-West Building Section
1 A-201
9 1/16"
1 A-200
EXIST. ROOF RIDGE 27' - 8"
RIDGE VENT EXTENDING LENGTH OF RIDGE NEW ASPHALT SHINGLES TO MATCH EXISTING
EXISTING ASBESTOS SHINGLES TO BE REMOVED. ORIGINAL WOOD SIDING AND TRIM TO BE REPAIRED AND RESTORED.
DCI SMARTVENT OR SIM. UNDER SHINGLE VENT. SYSTEM
ORIGINAL HIP ROOF LINE TO BE RESTORED. TO BE CONFIRMED AFTER ASBESTOS SHINGLE REMOVAL.
PTD. MTL. RAIN DIVERTER AND SCUPPER
CEMENTITIOUS BOARD SIDING AND TRIM, PAINTED TO MATCH EXISTING WOOD
2ND FINISH FLOOR 12' - 7 1/2"
EXISTING PORCH TO BE REPAIRED. ALL ORIGNAL DETAIL ELEMENTS TO BE RESTORED AND REUSED NEW MARVIN CASEMENT ULTIMATE CLAD AWNING WINDOW, W60XH60, TRIMMED AND PAINTED TO MATCH EXISTING WINDOWS WOOD GUARDRAIL TO MATCH EXISTING PORCH GUARDRAIL
3' - 0"
1ST FINISH FLOOR 3' - 8 1/16"
GRADE 0' - 0" PAINTED WOOD LATTICE AND TRIM PORCH BASE
EXISTING DOOR OPENING TO BE INFILLED WITH WOOD SIDING TO MATCH SURROUNDING
NOTE: HOUSE RAISED 21" TO BE 2'-0" ABOVE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION
CONCRETE PIER
NEW MARVIN ULTIMATE AWNING CLAD WINDOW IN PLACE OF ORIGINAL ROUGH OPENING, TRIMMED AND PAINTED TO MATCH EXISTING WINDOWS. SIZE AND LOCATION TO BE CONFIRMED AFTER ASBESTOS SHINGLE REMOVAL
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Addition Photograph, Built 2017, Rear Facade and Deck
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3/4" THICK WOOD FLOOR 1/2" THICK OSB SUBFLOOR
1/4" OVERHANG
2X8 WOOD JOIST
WOOD BLOCKING
6 23/32"
1/2" THICK OSB LEDGER
3/4"
2X10 WOOD JOIST
11 3/4" 3/4" THICK WOOD TREAD, 1/8" OVERHANG
1"
4X4 LEGS
3/4"
6"
3/4"THICK WOOD RISER 2X12 WOOD CARRIAGE
3/4" THICK CUSTOM WOOD MILLWORK SHOE CUBBY
2x4 WOOD KICKER
1BOTTOM STAIR LANDING
2017, Staircase and Poured Concrete Floor
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A-203
A-204
SMARTVENT DETAIL
NEW ROOF RIDGE 27' - 3 13/32"
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1/4" THICK WOOD SPACER
3/4" THICK WOOD FLOOR
A-201
3/4" THICK WOOD TREAD, 1/8" OVERHANG
1/2" THICK OSB SUBFLOOR
WOOD BLOCKING
2X4 WOOD JOIST
7 1/2"
3/4" THICK WOOD RISER
2X6 WOOD JOIST 5/8" THICK GWB
4X4 STRUCTURAL RIDGE BEAM SUPPORT POST IN WALL BEYOND
1/2" THICK PLYWOOD LEDGER
BOX BEAM MADE WITH 2X6 LUMBER
BEDROOM
2X12 WOOD CARRIAGE BATHROOM
1/2" THICK OSB SHEATHING
Top Stair Tread Detail 6TOP STAIR TREAD DETAIL
2ND FINISH FLOOR 12' - 7 1/2"
3/4"THICK WOOD RISER
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A-201
3/4" THICK WOOD TREAD, 1/8" OVERHANG
3/4"
LIVING ROOM
7 1/2"
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Bottom Stair Landing
2X12 WOOD CARRIAGE
1ST FINISH FLOOR 3' - 8 1/16"
3/4" THICK WOOD FLOOR 1/2" THICK PLYWOOD SUBFLOOR
2x4 WOOD KICKER 1"
GRADE 0' - 0"
2X8 WOOD JOIST 1/2" THICK OSB SHEATHING 2X10 WOOD JOIST BEHIND
FOOTINGS -3' - 6"
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North-South Addition Section
4X4 LEG
Bottom Stair Tread Detail
4BOTTOM STAIR TREAD DETAIL
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Urban Objects: The Role of Surface in Spatial Composition Spring 2017, Thesis Studio Site Location: Chicago, Illinois Instructor: Cyrus Peñarroyo
This thesis uses plan and elevation to generate a series of architectural objects. These objects highlight the role of surface and elevation in creating three-dimensional form. Plan and elevation serve as primary representational methods in addition to generating form. By leveraging the constraints of these representational techniques, the thesis creates images that expand and collapse the three-dimensional spaces occupied by the objects. These images act as affective surface treatments, freeing the figures’ material facades to interact with – and redefine – the spaces enclosed by their composition. The act of arranging multiple architectural objects within an urban environment creates an internal context that also redefines its surroundings. Figured spaces are created within the composition, but also between the composition and its adjoining buildings. This nesting of internal and external elements develops a series of façades that use contextual surfaces to sculpt new public spaces. The creation of these tensions encourages new relationships and interactions between the architectural objects, their figured spaces, and the surrounding context. These public spaces complete a new structural framework which connects various buildings rather than treating them as an archipelago that one must ferry between. In the form of a late entry proposal for the Harold-Washington Library Competition held in 1987, the project offers a microcosm of Chicago by appropriating elements of its larger architectural context within the city while also suggesting new organizations for Chicago’s infrastructural, institutional, social, economic, political, and landscape systems.
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Developed Surface of Figuration Technique
Final Model Detail 48”x 60”- Wood, Acrylic, Soap, MDF, Rockite, Glue, Spray Paint
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Architectural Theory
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Final Model Photographs 48”x 60”- Wood, Acrylic, Soap, MDF, Rockite, Glue, Spray Paint
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Urban Objects Section
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Painting
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Shaped Places Summer 2016, Project by McLain Clutter Site Location: Carrol County, New Hampshire Role: Research Assistant and Painter All drawings and descriptions courtesy of McLain Clutter
Conway Sanbornville Union
New Hampshire Counties
Sanbornville, NH 1024 Acres Incorporated 1774
Conway, NH 4416 Acres Incorporated 1765
Union, NH 198 Acres Incorporated 1774
Frank Stella- Irregular Polygons, 1966
Sanbornville
Union
Conway
104”x 146”x 4”- Alkyd on canvas
102”x 174”x 4”- Alkyd on canvas
80”x 122”x 4”- Alkyd on canvas
McLain Clutter- Linear City Planning Units, 2016-2017 Courtyard Housing 3 Middle class apartments +suburban setback house + office park.
Sandbornville Linear City Planning Unit A city of heterogenous building stock indexing a heterogeneous public, and the consumerism to support.
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Courtyard Housing 1 Social housing + suburban courtyard apartments + retail + health services.
Union Linear City Planning Unit A city of Ha-ha Houses, city in the front, town & country in the back.
Courtyard Housing 2 Mixed income apartments + high-end mid-rise + terranced growing lots.
Townhouse towers Low + high income townhouses + mixed income midrise.
Conway Linear City Planning Unit Where the land makes the city and the city makes the land. In-progress
Sandbornville
Union
Conway
A city of heterogenous building stock indexing a heterogeneous public, and the consumerism to support.
A city of Ha-ha Houses, city in the front, town & country in the back.
Where the land makes the city and the city makes the land. In-progress
Michael Amidon
Sandbornville, Sandbornville
Union, Union
25”x 21”x .75”- Oil Paint on Board
15”x10”x .75”- Oil Paint on Board
Conway, Conway 39”x61”x .75”- Oil Paint on Board
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Painting
Blue Skull 36”x 48”- Palette Knife, Oil Paint on Wood Panel
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Orange Skull 18”x 24”- Palette Knife, Oil Paint on Wood Panel
Piano 18”x 24”- Palette Knife, Oil Paint on Canvas Panel
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Painting
Diptych- Still Life 12”x 12”- Palette Knife, Oil Paint on Wood Panel
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Diptych- On the Shelf 18”x 18”- Palette Knife, Oil Paint on Wood Panel
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Resume
MICHAEL AMIDON mamidon491@gmail.com 315.679.1089
EDUCATION University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Ann Arbor, MI
Exp. May 2018 May 2017
Jan 2014 Dec - Feb 2010 Jun - Aug 2012
Master of Urban Design Candidate Master of Architecture Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA Bachelor of Arts in Architecture Barnstone Studios Allentown, PA Studied Classical Drawing and Color Theory
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE May 2017 present
Research Through Making Assistant Associate Professor, McLain Clutter and Assistant Professor, Cyrus Penarroyo, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
Assisting in design and construction of project associated with $25,000 Grant May - Aug 2016
Jul - Aug 2016
Architectural Intern Master of None, McLain Clutter | Ann Arbor, MI Created permit, bidding, and construction drawing set for 1,200 sf renovation and 400 sf addition to home in Ann Arbor historic district, included raising house 4 feet Research Assistant Director of Master of Urban Design, María Arquero de Alarcón and Associate Professor, McLain Clutter, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
Explored informal settlements in municipalities surrounding Mexico City to understand factors causing and defining various organizations of urbanization
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March 2016
Extern inFORM Studio, Architectural Design and Planning | Northville, MI Compiled 75 page “Request for Qualifications” package of firm profiles and selected works Prepared feasibility study and preliminary design/construction schedule
2009 - 2012
America Reads/America Counts Tutor Broughal Middle School | Bethlehem, PA Served as tutor and mentor for middle school children
Michael Amidon
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Oct 2016
Jun - Aug 2013
Researcher and Designer University of Lorraine, ARTEM Alliance Campus | Nancy, France Participated in week-long charrette to design incubator combining campus’ Art, Business, and Engineering Schools Teaching Assistant Visual Fabrication in Architecture, Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA Aided students in learning design software Critiqued and reviewed student projects
AWARDS & gRANTS Sep 2017 present
DOW Sustainability Grant Recipient Faculty Advisors: Director of Master of Urban Design, María Arquero de Alarcón and Assistant Professor, Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
Member of student-led team that won $67,000 grant to implement housing project for an informal occupation in São Paulo, Brazil 2014 - present
Taubman Scholar University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI Merit-based scholarship administered by Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
2015 - 2017
Student Show Participant University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI Selected all three years for annual exhibition of student work
2009 - 2013
Recipient of Channing Allen Endowed Scholarship Lehigh University | Bethlehem, PA Merit-based scholarship administered by Lehigh University
SKILLS Digital Hands-On
Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, C++, SketchUp Rough Framing, Model-Making, Oil Painting
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