Masters of Architecture Application Portfolio by muellermegan43

MEGAN MUELLER

Masters of Architecture Application Portfolio

CONTENTS NEGLECTED BOMZHI RUSSIA’S MONO-TOWNS MAGNUM OPUS URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER BUILDERVI THE EXTRAORDINARY HORTUS CONCLUCUS ENTROPIC DWELLING DECK OF CARDS PINA BAUSCH CAD I: 3D MODELING DEJONG STUDIO

Neglected Bomzhi Critic: William Tate, Spring ‘21 Site: Moscow, Russia

Homlessness in Moscow

This project seeks to provide a Homeless Shelter in Moscow. There are 13,000-15,000 homeless people in Moscow, Russia per night according to the Russian Federation. Russian homelessness is mainly due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the repeal of Soviet Union vagrancy laws which prohibited begging and vagrants. Homeless shelter in Moscow, specifically, tend to be scarce and unsuccessful because of the push back from residents of the community and the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ view that the Russian Federation takes towards homelessness. Located right across the Moskva River from the Red Square and the Moscow Kremlin, this shelter will provide the growing homeless shelter with resources to assist them and serve as a first step towards the destigmatization of homelessness

Phenomenology Site Study

Smell Site Study

Russia’s Mono-Towns Critic: William Tate, Spring ‘21 Site: Baikalsk, Russia

Renewing a Civilization

This project study seeks to revitalize a single industry Russia monotown that is withering after the death of its industry. The industry that the town of Baikalsk used to thrive on was the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Plant that contributed large amounts of pollution to the oldest and deepest lake in the world that Baikalsk is on the shore of, Lake Baikal. This project proposes a new water treatment industry plus a new urban space based on the phenomenology of the site that would revitalize the town and start to clean the lake.

Sound Site Study

Sight Site Study

Site of Explosion

Magnum Opus Critic: William Tate, Fall ‘20 Site: Beirut, Lebanon

A Home for Refugees

This project seeks to give free choice back to the refugees in Lebanon that have been displaced from their homes. The intention behind the design of the city is to connect large public spaces with multiple narrow passages, allowing for free movement through the new city. This city design is based on a series of drawings of Moroccan space that created the tiling models. Located on the site of the 2020 warehouse explosion in Beirut, this new micro-city interacts with the Mediterranean Sea in order to provide sources of water for desalination to combat the gap in supply and demand of drinkable water.

Metal City Tiling Studies

Model Tiling

The fragment models are based on a series of pattern drawings of Moroccan space. By tiling these small models together to form larger city space models, and then tiling those together, the design of the city was formed.

Metal Fragment Tile Models Directionality of Streets Drawings

Fragmented Model Collage to show fluidity in neighborhoods inspired by Enric Miralles

Moroccan Pattern Drawing

Urban Ecology Center Smoke Stacks Height

Oil Droplet Formation

Non-biodegradable oil

Critic: Evelyn Tickle, Fall ‘19 Site: NRG Potomac River Generating Station, Alexandria, VA

Pollution at the Potomac

Oil in Water

Smoke Stack Interworking

Electrostatic Precipitator Interior

Smoke Stack Interior

Oil Droplet Framing

Electrostatic Precipitator

Malleable Oil Droplet

Non-biodegradable oil

Hydrocarbon Atom Composition

I have selected the site of the, now closed, NRG Potomac River Generating Center for this Urban Ecology Center that focuses on the release of oil and waste from the power plant and the release of soot into the air from the below regulation height smoke stacks. These pollution issues are what formed the ideagrams on the left. The intention of my design is to reinvent the shoreline of Alexandria and the power plant site into a layer of estuary that can filter out pollutants and to provide research facilities that sit in the estuary itself.

Sewage Water Release

“This is really a time for celebration, this was the region’s biggest polluter. . . the Generating Station is really an eyesore, and it’s not appropriate for our historic waterfront.” - Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post

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Old Town Alexandria

CNC Routed Pywood Model

Monitering Wells Storm Inlets Manhole Locations Drainage Pipes Estuary Level Permeable Pavement Small Research Labs

Site Model Drawing

Power Plant Detail Drawing

Building Skin Studies

Reflective Skin

Inside Outside Skin

Yellow UV Ray Filtration Skin

Woven Organic Skin

Reflective Organic SKin

Bottom level sitting in Estuary

Final Building Design and Studies Prefabricated Wedges that slide out, inspired by Malleable Oil Droplet Ideagram Reflective Skin to Camouflage Building

Buildervi TEAM MEMBERS:

Megan Garrick, Hailey Ciolino, Tony Cautilli, Jillian Strauss, Sophie Johnson TEAM ROLE: Co-Game Designer & Aid in Block Making

Critic: Evelyn Tickle, Spring ‘20 Material and Methods

The Study of Materials

This game is designed to teach young children about different building materials and how they fit together through the use varying weights of building blocks and classic architecture case studies. The goal of the game is to complete Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Peter Zumthor’s Swiss Pavilion and Sou Fujimoto’s Final Wooden House by rolling dice to receive material blocks

Playing of Game

Studies of how the building blocks can be set up to learn about varying weights and materials

Writer’s Theatre Elevation

Canopy Walk Axon

Writer’s Theatre Section

The Extraordinary TEAM MEMBERS:

Megan Garrick

Critic: Evelyn Tickle, Spring ‘20 Materials and Methods

Learning From the Masters

Catspaw Component

In order to learn the complexities of digital drawing, Megan Garrick and I studied the Writer’s Theatre, done by Studio Gang in 2016, through a series of elevations, sections and an axon of their Canopy Walk. We were drawn to the Writer’s Theatre because of how they used tension to create the seemingly floating Canopy Walk placed over the lobby.

The Extraordinary Component The “Catspaw”

The “Catspaw” design is used at the end of all the Port Cedar wood battens that make up the Canopy Walk.

Graphic Instruction Manual of Catspaw 1. Slits are cut 2. Wedges are cut 3. Slits are steamed 4. Wedges are put into slits 5. Wedges hammered in 6. Slits and Wedges glued 7. Design is sealing in rain barrel 8. Battens are inserted in gluam beam

Inspiration photos of the batten being made, recieved from Trillium Dell Timberworks

Hortus Conclusus Critic: William Tate, Fall ‘20 Site: Indianola, Mississippi

For Fannie Lou Hamer

This garden I have designed is meant to be a place of healing and learning. It is dedicated to Fannie Lou Hamer and her fight against racial injustice in this country. This garden is located across from the courthouse where Hamer and seventeen others were unfairly treated during their attempt to register to vote.

Rocks found on site

Quartz Rock

Quartz & Asphalt

Entropic Dwelling Critic: Nick Wickersham, Spring ‘20 Site: Zenda, VA Tumbled Quartz

Quartz Rock

Foraged Block

Using materials found on the site in Zenda, VA of our theoretical residential home, the intention of the design is to create a structure using inspiration from a complete rock sculpture. The design is intended to break into the world of 3D printed concrete and create a home that provides personal space and work space and that is fueled by the natural light that the Shenandoah region offers.

Part of the rock structure is submerged in the ground, so natural light is still present in the underground spaces.

Light Studies

Sections

Interior Vignettes

Deck of Cards

Critic: William Tate, Spring ‘19

History of Architecture

Using composite drawings of all our previous studio work, we designed distinctive card suits for our own deck of cards. The face cards of this deck are highlighting some of the major faces of the architectural field.

Pina Bausch Critic: David Turnbull and William Tate, Fall ‘18

Places for Dance

The intro to studio life consisted of learning the basics of how to find space in our work, learning how to explore and take risk and compiling a series of drawings based on the movement of Pina Bausch’s studio dancers.

CAD I: 3D Modeling Critic: Sidney Griffin, Spring ‘19

Intro to 3D

Using a sketch of a building section, we were introduced to the process of exploring construction virtually through 3D modeling in Revit.

DeJong Studio

Falls Church, VA, Summer Internship ‘20

Kirov Academy of Ballet & Suder Residence I did the existing building drawings for a residential home expansion and the main building of Kirov Academy of Ballet in AutoCad after going to the sites and assisting in measuring.

Kirov Academy Photo

Kirov Academy 1st & 2nd Floors

Suder Residence Elevation

Finnish Embassy Stair Collage, Fall ‘18

Thank You.