ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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HOTEL OMAHA | THE CANOPY HOTEL
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DAKOTAH PRAIRIE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
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BOUNDING SPACE
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ART ALLY | DRAWING, ART, & DESIGN BUILDING TELFAR SQUARE | RESTORATION WORKSHOP
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MOTION PICTURE
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WRIGLEY SQUARE
15 SANDBOX 16 17 -20
THE BARN | RE-ENVISIONED SMALL STADIUM | BIG LANDSCAPE
MIRANDA CHRISTENSEN
507.829.1854 | miranda.christensen@jacks.sdstate.edu | 601 SE Main Street Apt. 209 Minneapolis, MN 55414
DIGITAL PORTFOLIO
http://issuu.com/mirandachristensen/docs/architecture_portfolio
EDUCATION
09.11 - 05.15
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, SDSU, Brookings, SD
09.13 - 12.13 NC State University Prague Institute, Prague, Czech Republic Study Abroad. Included concentrated study and travel of Europe. 05.11 Graduated Marshall Senior High School with Honors, Marshall, MN
PROFICIENCIES
12.14 SDSU College of Arts & Science Dean’s List 09.13 AIA South Dakota Merit Award Assisted with the deisgn of the Mobridge Riverfront Master Plan Model, designed by Charles MacBride 04.13 Accepted to NC State University Prague Institute for Study Abroad 10.12 TSP Architecture Scholarship Sioux Falls, SD 01.12 SDSU DoArch Poster Design Competition
SKILLS
Software Revit Architectural Auto Cad Adobe (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) Rhino Sketch up Grasshopper(introductory level) 2 Dimensional Drafting Drawing 3-Dimensional Laser Cutter Model Building Manage Microsoft Office PC/ Mac OS
EXPERIENCE
01.15 - Present Teacher’s Assistant, SDSU Architecture Department, Brookings, SD Mentor to architecture students in stair focused design studio. 09.14 Vaulting Workshop with Benjamin Ibarra, Brookings, SD Assisted with the construction of “Guastavino” Thin Tile Vault. 01.12 - 05.14 Elected as SAB Representative, SDSU Architecture Department, Brookings, SD Facilitated communication between students and faculty. 08.12 - 05.14 Involvement & Participation in AIAS, Brookings, SD SDSU student chapter. Attended Midwest Quad Conferences. 08.13 - 12.13 Prague Institute Monitor, Prague, Czech Republic Monitored the Prague Institute when faculty was not present. 05.13 - 08.13 Model Builder, SDSU Architecture Department, Brookings, SD Assisted with construction of Riverfront Master Plan, Mobridge, SD. 08.12 - 05.13 Teacher’s Assistant, SDSU Architecture Department, Brookings, SD Mentored first year architecture students in studio and first year seminar. 12.12 - 01.13 Model Builder, SDSU Architecture Department, Brookings, SD Assisted with construction of hanging steel model frame. 09.11 Attended & Volunteered at annual Plain Green Conference, Sioux Falls, SD Assisted with the organization of the Plain Green conference event. 05.07 - 09.11 KHC Construction Inc. Marshall, MN Assisted in the preparation of bids, and updating records.
EXPERIENCE ABROAD
09.13 - 12.13 Prague, Czech Republic A semester abroad studying Architecture. 09.13 - 12.13 Study Travel Berlin, Germany, Vienna, Austria 08.13 - 12.13 Other Travel London, England Paris, France Barcelona, Spain Rome, Italy Copenhagen, Denmark Stockholm, Sweden Oslo, Norway
HOTEL OMAHA | THE CANOPY HOTEL ARCHITECTURE STUDIO II | PROFESSOR ROBERT ARLT
The unification between the existing, built environment, and the design addresses public and private through a massing and canopy system. Gridlines created from the surrounding buildings, streets, and existing environment was a base for investigating how to connect two ends of the site. After imposing a density of trees on the site, a natural canopy is created. When the footprint and program of the design are laid over the canopy of the trees, the design adopts some of the tress and re-purpose their footprint as the columns, holding up the ‘canopy’ that connects the public and private program of the Hotel. This connection is where wthe passageways become present and the buildings’ program act as an extension of the park. Extending passageways through the urban forest, reach out, which creates linear public spaces that provide a filter for the private spaces. The significance of a linear program on the site is to manipulate the landscape to work with the passageways as much as the building does.
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DAKOTAH PRAIRIE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE STUDIO I | PROFESSOR FEDERICO GARCIA - LAMMERS
The project, in downtown Aberdeen, SD focused on the historical implications and the boundaries presented by the urban site. 24 massing models were created in five weeks to filter through ideas for a children’s museum near the Dakotah Prairie Museum. A
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SPRING 2014 | ABERDEEN, SD
6 SPRING 2012 | BROOKINGS, SD
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DESIGN II | PROFESSOR GEOFF GRAFF
A Controlled and thoughtful process of complexity in parameters, issues, and design techniques. Design is best introduced through studies and exercises that begin by conceptually limiting and controlling the conventions through which to work. Recording basic events to show the habitable and active space that is occupied. CAT scan sections depict the ephemeral body of the boundaries where the events take place. The bounds are dynamic and eventful and not formal.
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ART ALLEY | DRAWING, ART, & DESIGN BUILDING ARCHITECTURE STUDIO III | PROFESSOR JESSICA GARCIA FRITZ
Breaking through harding hall provides an opportunity to address public and private through keeping portions of existing harding hall and design new spaces for sdsu’s art department to occupy. Gridlines created from the surrounding buildings, streets, and campus green was a base for investigating how to connect the interior of the site to the rest of campus. The drawing, art, and design building wraps around paved interior spaces that provide meeting places and a place of being. The new design address private and public program, which suggests an agenda of separating the program into four regions, student studios, amenities, drawing/painting, and faculty, which is connected by exterior courtyard spaces. The move of pulling the north boundary of harding hall back creates an abstract barrier between 9th street and the entry. Existing harding hall and the newly designed drawing, art, and design building is working as one within the site by the awning that is a bridge between the four regions of the site.
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TELFAR SQUARE | RESTORATION WORKSHOP 11 DESIGN IV | PROFESSOR CHARLES MACBRIDE
Telfar Academy Rare Book Restoration Workshop and Gallery is immersed within the infill site, establishing a strong historical connection to the neighborhoods. The workshop design reflects the history of Savannah by creating a light translucent element allowing the history to speak. The program is simply organized to provide circulation through out the space. The design process involved the following elements, public/private, service/served, static/dynamic, user based, fixed/flexible, occupation times/frequency, were present to encourage sequential and cinematic design. The site maintains an existing passage, designed as an arcade.
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MOTION PICTURE
13 FALL2012 | BROOKINGS,SD
DESIGN III | PROFESSOR BRIAN REX
The part to whole relationship in motion picture is a strong contrast with the density of surrounding. The hierarchal ordered elements is an overall system within the design. Constants and variables lends itself to the jointures and the relationship between the ration of components. The site is a stage in which the system has the ability of movement that creates a complete composition.
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WRIGLEY SQUARE
14 SPRING 2013 | MOBRIDGE, SD
DESIGN IV | PROFESSOR CHARLES MACBRIDE
Wrigley Square is located in Mobridge, SD on route of the former Milwaukee Railroad passenger Depot. The site sits on an angle that has a strong linear element. The design relies on the urban aspect that it brings to the community of Mobridge. Wrigley Square becomes a development that meets a solution of creating a relationship between programs and objects. The programs are nestled in the objects.
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DESIGN I | PROFESSOR BRIAN REX
15 FALL 2011 | BROOKINGS, SD
A project to demonstrate the understanding of basic spatial relationships in discussion, drawings and models. A wooden sandbox was created to hold sand that was formed, driven by reliefs from images. Nylons and string were used to create boundaries and constraints that shaped the sand.
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16 SPRING 2012 | BROOKINGS, SD
THE BARN | RE-ENVISIONED DESIGN III | PROFESSOR BRIAN REX
This contest was designed as a semester kickoff for all architecture students. The objective was to create five posters using either digital or manual collage in order to propose a new use for the SDSU intramural building (barn). The proposals envision, a year-round golf practice center, a ballroom, a fashion runway, and a drive in movie. BALLROOM
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SMALL STADIUM | BIG LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO I | PROFESSOR FEDERICO GARCIA - LAMMERS
The project is a series of vertical concrete surfaces, embedded in the ground, creating a density of program and activity through the site. The structure generates possibilities for an enclosure that hovers above providing a connection amongst the density. The scale stays consistent within the context of the site, offering an approachable and integrated outdoor / indoor woman’s soccer stadium. The angle of the field opens direct entry and circulation to the two campus greens, which are the backbones of campus. The steel framed, glass skinned walls provide a bridge from the East side of the site to the West. There is a shift between the vertical walls and the steel frame enclosure above. At times there is a clearing, openness, but still defined by the enclosure. Within the canopy there is a system of cables that tie the wood screen back to the concrete surface. The stadium welcomes the public, students, and athletes to a structure that proves that the stadium functions as more than just a stadium.
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