The ambition of the HKS Design Fellowship Detroit is to bring designers together and challenge the community we live in through observation, imagination and conversation. The Fellowship strives to bring our talents to bear on conditions that can benefit from an intense and open visual and conceptual exploration. By looking closer at our own community we deepen our relationship with it, forge new partnerships, and better understand the world we live in. The process will encourage questions relative to sustainability, constructability, representation, economics, and anything pertinent and representative of the current discourse regarding the built environment. The object is to bring students and emerging professionals together to create an atmosphere of exploration and learning where all involved are challenged and grow.
2013 HKS Detroit Design Fellows, In preparation for the design Charrette we will be having February 28th through March 2nd, we have prepared this packet of information for you. Enclosed you will find an explanation of the Fellowship Program and its structure. You are expected to research relevant facts pertaining to the site including its history, socio-political context, and surrounding neighborhood. The Challenge explains the design problem we will be tackling in our three day Charrette. Our Site Visit is at 9am on Saturday February 23rd. We will meet at the HKS office in Northville. (map is attached) Also included is a list of the Fellows and their profiles so you can become familiar with your fellow participants. And finally, we have included a schedule for the Charrette and things to bring. We look forward to seeing you soon! Thank you, The Fellowship Team and Facilitators
CAROL KARTJE AIA, IIDA, LEED® AP Associate Principal and Senior Vice President Master of Architecture, University of Michigan Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Michigan Literature Science and Arts Honors College, University of Michigan Registered Architect: Michigan \ Listed: State of Michigan Interior Designers
DAVID TAYLOR With a background in the Culinary Arts, David’s contributions to HKS come with a fresh perspective on detail and craft inspired design. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan and has been with HKS for five years. In recent years David has been a strong contributor to the firm’s leadership and growth in Building Information Modeling helping create many of the BIM standards and procedures used by the firm today. David is a key voice in the ever transforming design culture of HKS Detroit. CAMILLA MORETTI A native of Brazil and fluent in Portuguese, she has focused the majority of her six year career at HKS on the planning and design of healthcare facilities. Camilla’s involvement often begins in master planning and pre-design, continuing through programming and design. Her advanced computer skills enable her to quickly explore alternate solutions in a variety of 3-D software from Revit to Autocad. Camilla is valued by clients and colleagues for her enthusiasm, dedication, technical and problem solving abilities.
Carol Kartje is the HKS Director of Design-Healthcare Interiors-Detroit and part of the national HKS Maregatti Interiors studio leadership, contributing 27 years as both a registered architect and interior designer to regional, national and international design, business development, and marketing endeavors. Dedicated to building and leading an experienced and talented team of design professionals, she brings a holistic approach to leadership in all project phases and is committed to healing design that enriches human experience. Carol is a catalyst for collaborative design, focused on maintaining a strong project vision with a unified interior architectural vocabulary that expresses client goals and unique brand image and keeps promises at each encounter; is project specific with continuity to the health care campus as a whole; respects community context, and is environmentally responsible. Carol is committed to creating environments that convey a unique sense of place; satisfy body, mind and spirit; connect to nature; integrate intuitive wayfinding systems, and are enriched by the arts. She has earned the enduring trust of clients and colleagues by achieving shared goals on healthcare projects totaling over 4 million square feet across the nation, in the UAE, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The spectrum of her experience includes large scale medical centers, inpatient units, inpatient surgery, inpatient imaging, cardiology, birthing centers, women and children’s centers, emergency centers, cancer centers, ambulatory centers, medical office buildings, long-term care campuses, Alzheimer’s centers, wellness centers, childcare centers, corporate headquarters, museums and multi-family residential projects. A speaker at national and international healthcare conferences and seminars, Carol has presented in the United Arab Emirates at an Abu Dhabi international media workshop regarding the healing design concepts for Danat Al Emarat Women & Children’s hospital; and served as a Pediatric Design Awards juror for the 2012 Healthcare Design Conference. Celebrating the talents of emerging professionals at HKS, Carol enjoys connecting with HKS intern architects and interior designers as guest lecturers at the University of Michigan and Lawrence Technological University.
STEVEN G. JACOBSON AIA, LEED® AP Principal in Charge Master of Architecture, University of Michigan Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Michigan One Year Graduate Program. Danish Royal Academy Registered Architect: Michigan As the Director of Healthcare for HKS’s Detroit regional office, Steve Jacobson contributes two decades of experience exclusively dedicated to healthcare architecture. A Principal with HKS, Steve has regional, national and international responsibilities related to business and financial operations, business development and client relationships. Steve is a long-time leader in planning, building an experienced team of programmers, medical planners, and campus master planners. From conceptual visioning through design development, Steve interfaces with planning, interior and exterior design efforts. He is recognized by clients from executive to user group level for his value in strategic thinking, team leadership, problem solving, and planning knowledge. He is actively involved in leading hospital of the future visioning and a smart healthcare design process in collaboration with executive client leadership and multi-disciplinary project teams. Across the country and internationally, Steve had been responsible for over 4 million square feet of healthcare facilities including Danat Al Emarat Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan, and innumerable projects within the Trinity Health System. His background spans an array of healthcare projects: large scale medical centers, inpatient units, inpatient surgery, inpatient imaging, cardiology, birthing centers, women and children’s centers, emergency centers, cancer centers, ambulatory centers, and medical office buildings. He and his team provide leadership in hospital of the future visioning and integrating state-of-the-art technologies into numerous healthcare environments. A speaker at national healthcare conferences and seminars on smart healthcare design and medical planning, Steve recently presented at Healthcare Design09 and Healthcare Facilities Symposium 2008.
BOB PIATEK AIA, LEED® AP Associate Principal and Senior Vice President Project Manager Master of Architecture, Lawrence Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Lawrence Institute of Technology Registered Architect: Michigan With over 35 years of experience in the architectural field, Bob Piatek has been integrally involved in a variety of large-scale, complex healthcare and commercial projects. As an HKS associate principal and senior vice president for the Detroit regional office, he is responsible for office operations, staffing, recruiting, project reviews, schedules and fees. Bob is a proven leader, trusted by clients and colleagues for his collaborative approach, depth of experience and ability to navigate complex project challenges and team dynamics. He contributes management strength and process expertise enabling him to consistently impact both project and team success. Bob works with clients to establish project goals and objectives, continuously engaging executive leadership, facility team leaders, physicians, clinical leaders and other key stakeholders for informed decision making at key milestones. Focused on enduring trusted relationships, he maintains open communication through regularly scheduled meetings with the owner, architects, consultants and other key project stakeholders. Bob’s project leadership includes coordination of the design, production, specifications and consultants. He also monitors the project’s progress and conformance with project schedules and budget requirements. Bob had been responsible for over 5 million square feet of healthcare and commercial facilities including the Boone Hospital Center patient tower in Columbia Missouri, the Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital patient towers as well as other projects within the Trinity Health System. His background includes: large scale medical centers, veteran’s hospitals, inpatient units, inpatient imaging, birthing centers, emergency centers, ambulatory centers, medical office buildings, corporate headquarters, and higher education facilities.
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What’s the motivation? Helping people - through excellent and thoughtful design - create a better community in which to live.
RAZIEH GHORBANI is an M.Arch candidate at the University of Michigan, currently working on her thesis. She received her Bachelors of Architecture from the Art University of Isfahan with highest honor. She has professional experience working on a residential apartment, three villas, and a medical research center. She also has experience in historic conservation, animation and graphic design.
The HKS Design Fellowship encourages fellows to be part of the solution, part of making change happen, part of the future.
KATIE BALDWIN
RAZIEH GHORBANI
LISA TILLMAN
KEITH MARKS
JESSIE PEKSA
Our goal is to cultivate emerging design talent, excite and stimulate new ideas, and deepen our design philosophy across all of our offices in an effort to continue to raise the quality of design at HKS for our clients and our communities
CATHERINE BALDWIN received her undergraduate degree in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr College. Currently in her thesis semester at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, she is most interested in attempting to reconcile the relationship between architecture and the urban environment and the social and political implications to which that reconciliation gives rise. During her time at Taubman College, Catherine has assisted in professor-led research on the Great Lakes Watershed Basin, worked with students in the Urban Planning program to design a mass transit hub in Mexico City, and worked as a Graduate Student Instructor in the undergraduate architecture program for the past two years.
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LISA TILLMAN is currently a Forum member in the new HKS Chicago office. Lisa’s background is in Commercial CHICAGO Interiors, although she has also worked on Hospitality, Healthcare, and Higher Education environments. Some of Lisa’s credible design accomplishments include FIRST Food & Bar (featured in Las Vegas SunINDIANAPOLIS and Las Vegas Weekly publications), as well as Ascension Health and Eli Lilly corporate offices. Ascension Health implements progressive workplace strategies and is currently being pitched to Interiors and Sources and Interior Design magazines.
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JESSIE PEKSA earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Maryland in 2009, and her Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to her architectural education, she began her freshman year at the University of Vermont, where she played Division I lacrosse, while majoring in Civil Engineering. Throughout her architectural education she has held leadership positions for several student groups, including Vice President of the University of Maryland’s chapter of AIAS, as well as Public Relations for the University of Maryland’s chapter of Freedom by Design. Throughout her education and her internships, she has developed her interest in the relationship between concept and form and the impact built form has on communities.
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KEITH MARKS is currently pursuing a dual degree in both architecture and interior design from Lawrence Technological University, and plans to further his education in graduate school next fall. Some of Keith’s most notable academic achievements include being awarded the 2011 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship along with placing first in the 2010 Florence International Urban Design Workshop. Publications displaying Keith’s academic work and architectural writing incudes Modern in Denver: Bright Ideas along with Suture(s):San Miniato Urban Design Workshop.
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I am interested in the relationships created between space and technology, and the resulting opportunities that allow for the collection and connection of disconnected urbanites.
This year the HKS Design Fellowship_Detroit will partner with Back Alley Bikes, a non-profit organization that provides cycling education to Detroit’s youth. Back Alley Bikes began in the summer of 2000 by employees of Detroit Summer, a “youth program / movement to re-spirit, redefine and re-imagine Detroit from the ground up.” The original purpose of the shop was to provide transportation to youth participants. With donated bikes, parts, and tools this dedicated group achieves their mission through the Youth Earn-a-Bike program. Through this program 8-16 year olds can earn a single bike by learning to build, repair and safely ride a bike in the city. The group has also created a community bike and repair shop called The Hub, to help fund their programs. Back Alley Bikes’ mission is to provide cycling education and services with a focus on youth development, sustainable practices, and community access. They have great support from the community and are looking at ways to move forward, grow and enhance what they have to offer.
To help Back Alley Bikes and the Hub move their organizations forward through architectural and organizational explorations. The goal is to produce something that will be useful to them moving forward. They can’t afford to rebuild the site. In general the existing building footprints, walls are boundaries to hold. There are certainly moments where strong architectural gestures could be utilized, but be purposeful with these moments, think about phasing if needed, expanded thinking to the overall city block is fine but keep it conceptual. How can the experiences and interactions of the people inside the spaces be enhanced by what you propose. These organizations move forward on resourcefulness, hard work and dedication to a belief in what they provide and how that can help the people of the city. Your interventions should keep these ideas close to the center of your thoughts. More specifics will be discussed when the Fellowship begins.
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1. Scales (arch and engineering) 2. Calculators 3. Triangles 4. Pencils 5. Drafting tools 6. Laptop (if you have one)
You will need to provide the following:
1. Trace (all sizes) 2. Drafting Dots 3. PENS: Sign pens, pilot pens, etc 4. Markers 5. Stick pins 6. Scaled map of the Site 7. Desktop Computing Power
We will provide the following supplies:
Please review this list as you prepare for joining us for the fifth annual HKS Design Fellowship Detroit. Please keep in mind that this will be a hands-on charrette, so come prepared accordingly.