OLIVIA KEMPF PORTFOLIO
Education
University of Michigan
Class of 2016
M Architecture Candidate Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design 3.85 cumulative grade point average
University of Cincinnati
Class of 2014
BS Architecture School of Design Art Architecture and Planning 3.49 cumulative grade point average
École Speciale d’Architecture_Paris
Autumn 2012
Experience
Reasearch Through Making Assistant Taubman College Graduate Student Instructor bKL Architecture_Chicago Kroger Engineering_Cincinnati OFIS Arhitekti_Ljubljana DAAP Tour Guide_University of Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity_Cincinnati
Winter 2016 Fall 2015 Summer 2015/Spring 2012 Winter - Summer 2014 Summer 2013 2011-Present Fall 2012
Skills
Autodesk Maya
AutoCAD
Ecotect Analysis
Rhinocerous
Autodesk REVIT
Grasshopper
Adobe Products
Maxwell
Manual Modeling
Digital Project/CATIA
Mudbox
Manual Rendering
Microsoft Office
Google Sketchup
French Language Recognition
Robert Metcalf Scholarship
2014-present
Cincinnatus Scholar
2010-2014
UC Dean’s List
2010-2014
UC Study Abroad Grant
Summer 2013
Ephemeral Publication Nuit Hiver Spéciale
Autumn 2012
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2011-present
oliviakempf@gmail.com 1.513.702.7433
Taubman
DAAP
bKL
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Bilateral Phenotype
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Garden of Mineralogical Delights
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MOS Practice Session
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Bleeding Heart
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RoboFABulous
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Insect Drawing Instrument
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999.9
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Skin and Bone
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Cask/Tannin Culinary School
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Kroger Digital Forecasting
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Chevron Unit Design/Build
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Toronto Bayfront Proposal
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OFIS
ÉSA
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Wolf Point Tower
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Paris HABITAT Competition
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Luxembourg Competition
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Ephemeral Installation
TA U B M A N
1.1 BILATERAL PHENOTYPE
Instructor_ Matias del Campo January-May 2015 Maya_Maxwell_TopMod_Illustrator Collaborators_Veronika Bakalova_ Jaime Rivera This project begins by designing in Maya with ideas of nested forms and symmetry. Exploring natural examples of bilaterality, the design is interested not in the genetic, or genotypical reason for symmetry, but instead the physical manifestation, or the phenotype. For instance, insects are genetically almost perfectly bilaterally symmetrical. However, their actual appearance may not be so depending on the role of phenotype in their growth. Located in Stephansplatz in the center of Vienna with a direct view to the famous cathedral, the design stemmed from the mirroring of the same tetrahedron unit; the pieces nested together to fit compactly inside a containing “skin”. Symmetry and geometry are applied to the building through a contemporary method while still reflecting the Gothic values of the cathedral. A baroque inverted arch pattern is projected onto the exterior, creating aperture and opportunity for activated poché.
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Massing Development Genealogy of Mirrored Objects Beginning with a distorted and smoothed tetrahedron nested against itself, three “unit� sizes were developed through vertical and horizontal variations by mirroring. These were then nested against each other in differing configurations to occupy the assigned site.
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While the mirrored nature of the construct allows for some symmetry in program on each floor, the same cannot be said from floor to floor. Floor 1 through 3 house a public café and entomology museum and floors 4 to 9 are reserved for luxury apartments. Vienna is home to a large natural history museum with one of the world’s most extensive insect collections. The Naturhistorisches Museum uses the centrally located Bilateral Phenotype as an outreach to display insects. The entomology museum in the building allows insects to occupy the poché between the interior nested forms and the exterior skin. The insects’ occupation is controlled by seasons and provides an ever-changing coloration to the building.
13. Glass Glass Suspension Suspension Steel Steel Rod Rod Fixing Fixing 13. 14. Steel Steel Channel, Channel, 230 230 x x 100 100 mm mm 14. 15. Concrete Concrete Slab Slab Flooring Flooring 15. 16. Doulble Doulble Glazed Glazed Glass Glass Fixing Fixing GlazingGlazing- Shallow Shallow 16. Pocket System System Pocket 17. Graded Graded Packers Packers to to Suit Suit 17. 13. Glass Suspension Steel Rod Fixing 14. Steel Channel, 230 x 100 mm 15. Concrete Slab Flooring 16. Doulble Glazed Glass Fixing Glazing- Shallow Pocket System 17. Graded Packers to Suit
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Interior Hierarchy Nesting objects within objects creates a hugging and wrapping condition for the interior spaces. As this process creates more density in the center of the mirrored geometry, it lends itself well to vertical circulation and tighter programming such as plumbing walls and structure. The nodes of space surrounding the core then have the most natural lighting and spacious heights, a condition advantageous to more public areas.
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1.2 GARDEN OF MINERALOGICAL DELIGHTS
Instructor_ Kathy Velikov December 2015 Rhino_Maya_Maxwell_Photoshop The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is known for its unique geological composition and geographical positioning. It is one of the only places in the world where copper can be mined in its pure state with hardly any post-processing or smelting. Within the theme of propositions, the task of the studio was to create a garden with regard to the hyper-object scale of the mining industry in the Upper Peninsula. The Garden of Mineralogical Delights draws on the human reliance and experience of minerals. While the Quincy Mine in Houghton, Michigan was one of the most profitable and focused on extraction, the garden instead focuses on the growth of minerals and retaining the decadence they have stimulated in culture through the incorporation of baths and spas. “...All human things are but a dream, and many other things worthy of knowledge and memory� _ Hypnertomachia Poliphili
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Taking cues from a visit to the site, the representation of the designed spaces is ethereal and relates to a mystic tone suspended in time. A sensorial ballad is read as image after image is shown of interior spaces. A ridge on the expansive site stretching from one shaft to the next is the container for the baths, each end confronting the connection to the earth. Their form has been defined in the collaging of the tectonic logics of ancient Roman buildings. Just as mining once blindly dug tunnels into the ground, the poché of Hadrian’s Villa and St. Peter’s Bascilica is now blindly inserted for people to move through. 1
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Mineral Becomes Architecture Minerals grow in one of two ways; through the bondage of atoms in the magna below the earth’s surface or through disintegration and deposit into water. Many experiments were conducted with water in order to understand how specific minerals accumulate and “grow.” These growth methods can be utilized to grow architecture in a language within structure and form that can be more than a surface application. The intrinsic relationship between minerals and water lends the program well to a place of bathing and physical delight. The saturation of different minerals into pools and encrusted onto surfaces provides a variety of scents, viscosities, and temperatures as well as a spectrum of colors to define spaces.
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Mineral Growth Salts, Alum, and Sulfur are only a small sampling of the minerals that are grown and harvested for commercial use. In the baths, these growth methods would be incorporated into the spectacle of the architecture, creating glittering walls, ceilings and columns that grow and change with use.
SUGAR ATTRIBUTES Monoclinic Structure Eatable Human Carbohydrate Dietary Indulgence Skin Softening and Hydrating Hair Removal Glycolic Acid Skin Maintenance
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SALT ATTRIBUTES Isometric Structure Harvested/Mined Commercially Electrical Atomic Properties Necessity for Hydration Exfoliating and Soothing to Skin and Muscles Alleviates Congestion
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1.3 MOS PRACTICE SESSION
Instructor_ Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample November 2015 Illustrator_Photoshop Part of a 4-day design charrette, this practice session was organized by professors at Taubman College and led by the partners at MOS Architecture. Exploring themes of indifference in architecture, five groups of five students were asked to design a small-scale home and an object. A Home Without A House explores place making and placelessness, questioning what and how objects define the conception of home. Indifference toward site prompted a series of inflatable rooms that can be carried to places in household objects representing their function. A model was then constructed representing the convergence of all of these objects into a representation of “home.�
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Indifference in Architecture A Home Without A House There is a certain irony to unrolling a sleeping bag to become a bedroom. This is an indirect result of the tone of which the project was executed. Understanding objects at face value and openly exploring ideas resulted in what the critics called “too much care.” Indifference cannot be treated as an application but must be carried through every stage of design and representation.
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A series of narratives were constructed to illustrate the inflation of objects into space into function and back again. The objects were then combined and made homogenous in color to signify a unity in the marriage of functions of the home. 1
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1.4 BLEEDING HEART
Instructor_ Claudia Wigger December 2014 Rhino_Adobe_AutoCAD The first project of the 2G program, the Networks studio focuses on creating a multi-program center in Detroit that is tied into the urban fabric. Under the instruction of Claudia Wigger, concepts of void in design were used to handle the massive blight in much of the city’s downtown, building on existing resources and identities within Detroit. Bleeding Heart is a vineyard and food hub named after the neighborhood bordered by Woodward Avenue and 8 Mile Road. The food hub unites the urban farming network autonomously growing on the deserted urban planes while the vineyard exists as a brand to give an identity to the neighborhood. By incorporating cultivation and distribution, the site can act as a shining example of localized urban farming and give a common denominator to the diverse surrounding neighborhoods.
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The Boundaries of Void Socioeconomic v. Physical Edges Local Markets Urban Farms
Void is understood in the city of Detroit by a series of boundaries. Whether it is a street between two neighborhoods or a lot defined by where someone decided to stop mowing the grass, the outskirts seem to have been reclaimed by nature. Despite these encroaching forces, Detroit’s resilient citizens have found their own ways to deal with issues like food deserts and miles of empty lots. 1
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community learning center
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Surfaces Heavily aligned along Woodward Avenue, the Market and crops are very visible to vehicle and pedestrian traffic along the newly named American Highway of Detroit. The hub is aligned on axis to the surrounding neighborhood, inviting locals to utilize the resources of the center. The city’s trademark flatness is broken slightly here by the introduction of a tectonic structure that is integrated into the landscape by lifting up the urban prairie, making it fertile on the roofs as well as inside the building.
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1.5 ROBOTIC FABRICATION
Instructor_ Karl Daubman August-December 2014 Rhino_Grasshopper_KukaPRC Using small Kuka Robots, this elective course is broken up into teams with the goal of scripting and designing a fabrication process to mimic the construction process of a building.
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Unit Stacking Regular Irregularity A robot by nature is exceedingly precise and the beauty of their work can be seen in the precision that is difficult to duplicate with human hands. By stacking an irregular unit, it demonstrates the robot’s ability to create a visual precise regularity within an irregular system. Processes involved tooling the robot, programming, and designing an overall scheme.
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Façade Face Lift Aperture in Suspension With the assignment to program the robot as one might program a crane on a construction site, Face Lift incorporates the fabrication of a façade with its installation. With a system of three “hole-punch” tools, the robot was trained to punch an aperture into a perforated metal sheet and insert it into a structural system. Water jet was used to fabricate the metal panels while ABS printed tools were used as the robots “hand” and the puncture tools.
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1.6 INSECT DRAWING INSTRUMENT
Instructor_ Kathy Velikov Septmember 2015 Mealworms_Photo exposure paper Collaboration: Steven Lees While architects often study topography at a human scale, this Black Box instrument examines micro-topologies often unseen. A fabricated acrylic 8�x10� natural environment houses mealworms with the goal of recording their movement within scaled space. They live, eat, and move around in a sawdust substrate sprinkled with oats and fruit. As the insects move to the fruit to obtain hydration and the oats for sustenance, the landscape begins to shift and swell reflecting their paths. Over time, territories of rest, movement, and exploration begin to form in a predictable way from insect to food. In order to translate the micro-landscapes to a visible human scale, the operator begins an analog process of photographic exposure. What was once an unseen process of nature is now processed with chemicals and fixed as a static image. The insects become the instrument; the human becomes the operator.
1. insects & sawdust 2. exposure to paper 3. developer 4. stopper 5. fixer
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1.7 999.9
Instructor_ Jonothan Rule August-December 2014 Concrete_Water Balloons_Adobe A study in the density of water, 999.9 is an exploration of void through materiality. Using water through different media, ie. water balloons and Rockite, water standing in free space can be captured, creating spacial qualities based on solid and void relationships.
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Addition and Subtraction Filling balloons with both water and Rockite, they were then placed with the same orientation and size within a 8”x8”x8” cube. Water was then pored around the curing concrete balloons and concrete was poured around the water-filled balloons, effectively creating a literal solid and void model of the same situation.
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2.1 SKIN AND BONE
Instructor_ Mara Marcu April 2014 CATIA_Digital Project_Adobe A Capstone studio entitled “Pseudo Vertical”, Skin and Bone is a center located along New York’s High Line for eating disorders. The studio began with vertical copy-paste studies and moved into aggregation of units derived from these studies. A manifesto questioning the inflexibility of built objects against the dynamic human form led the design to be one of two systems; the enclosure and the structure. The skin mimics the flexibility and use of that of a cephalopod, expanding and contracting to fit its surrounding conditions. The structure uses the term “pseudo vertical” liberally, allowing the spaces to move in and out of the ground, over the High Line, and into the bay. In many ways this approach can help the clientele to accept life as flexible and understand their surroundings as pliant, creating the opportunity for hope.
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My body is relative. It changes, grows, distorts, and wilts, and there is no choice, pattern or will. Its appearance is my omniscient exposure, my cage, and my medium for life. My body is held up with bone. It threatens disclosure when I’m weak. My body is contained by skin; it engulfs me and leaves me naked before all feelings and perceptions. Its image cannot be constant or definite. What is definite is its change. I must secure my hope in the idea of change, and with this revelation I can find constancy, and eventual acceptance. We are contained by transience. Life is boundless, limitless, yet we are grounded and burdened by body, presenting time and change. If our bodies must limit us, why do we construct frozen things to inhabit as well? The influx and output of place varies too magnanimously with the nature of being. Let us exploit the perseverance of change. o.k. 2
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Skin Studies The Octopus Manifesto Driven by a thesis developed into a manifesto, copy and pasted void spaces of iconic New York skyscrapers come together to form a series of lifelike living constructs. Geometric studies of two-dimensional patterns morph into three dimensional objects to better understand how an enclosure can change.
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Horizontal Verticality The composition of the interior spaces is dependant on aggregation of a cubic unit. Placed within a point cloud, these vary in size to generate individual housing units, meeting spaces, and communal areas. The relationships are theoretical and meant to inform the concept of a full building. Designing sectionally, in accordance with the iconic permutations, demonstrates the program’s transition from street front to the more private treatment and residential areas.
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2.2 CASK/TANNIN
Instructor_ Stephen Slaughter May 2013 Rhino_AutoCAD_Adobe Cask and Tannin as a gastronomical institute combines historical tradition and modern culture of Mt. Adams through the tasting and cultivation of wine and whiskey. The tectonics of the building are triangulated shards that emerge from the earth, aligning to leave the horizon line undisturbed on this prominent hilltop site in Cincinnati. Inhabitable spaces, both interior and exterior, are created by the technique of pushing and pulling tectonic pieces. The school and the public center are connected by these exterior spaces, implying connection while also separating programmatic elements using slope and orientation.
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Mt. Adams Cincinnati’s Seventh Hill Situated on the East side of the city, Mt. Adams is historically the site of much of the nightlife to the higher-income denizens of Cincinnati. Currently on the picturesque hill is a small private theatre with an interior-driven economic design. The studio posed the question of imposing a new purpose to the site as well as all historical, social, and natural elements of the context.. The response of The Cask/Tannin is to incorporate cooking with alcohol; drawing the bargoers to daytime activities in the area by developing a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that connect visually to the river and the skyline.
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Splitting the Mount This hill site has two distinct and divergent sides. The south facing slope is oriented towards the center of Mount Adams with the Cincinnati skyline in the distance. Wedged in the hill here is the Mount, a showroom for nightlife, with wine tasting on the open upper floor and whiskey tasting in the sunken ground floor. The north section of the site slopes down into an adjacent park, with serene views of the Ohio River. In this face is the Culinary School, bringing the bright northern light into the study spaces and cooking classrooms.
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2.3 KROGER DIGITAL FORECASTING
Instructors_ Edson Cabalfin, Michael Zaretsky August-December 2013 Revit_Adobe_AutoCAD A course sponsored by the Kroger company, The Digital Grocery Studio explores future applications of digital technology and food retail. Through researching trends in human-digital interaction, store design, and consumer experience, the studio aims to understand the impacts of increasingly digital markets. The concluding goal is to compile a detailed analysis on the direction of how food will come to the table and to design a new idea of grocery based on these results.
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How will digital technology affect the consumer experience in the grocery of the future?
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The semester involved intensive research and collaboration with Kroger as a client. Research opportunities included trips to stores in Kentucky and Ohio as well as study of digital marketing for three days in Chicago. Working initially in groups, the focus moved from digital trend forecasting into individual proposals at the end of the semester. Five primary trends combine to generate scenarios, each which addresses a different directional circumstances of future planning. Responsibilities included team lead and graphic design.
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As a company founded on dedication to its customers, Kroger assumes responsibility for the needs and wellbeing of communities when they lack the resources to provide for themselves. Kroger’s size and breadth of influence creates a responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of all who shop under its roofs. Through this task Kroger can establish its future position as a provider of inexorable services.
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Internship at the Kroger Corporation After working closely with Kroger designers through the sponsored studio at UC, I was offered an intern position as a store designer. My responsibilities included designing digital solutions in the marketplace, specifically the new “Click & Collect� concept within new marketplaces. I also worked on new options for the produce and cheese areas as well as being a part of the Revit planning team. 2
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2.4 CHEVRON UNIT
Instructor_ Melanie Swick March-June 2011 Woodshop_2x4_Glue Acting as project manager of a twenty student team, this design/build installation was fabricated within a ten week period. The goal was to design a unit with intrinsic connecting capacity in order to construct inhabitable space. The chevron, each made of one 2x4 beam, allowed for a variety of spaces due to its multidirectional nature.
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3.1 TORONTO BAYFRONT
Internship_bKL Architects Chicago, IL June-August 2015 After receiving an existing proposal for a site in Toronto’s upand-coming Distillery Disctrict, the design team was asked to reconfigure the existing proposal to be more attractive and more spatially balanced, using the same retail and housing overall floor areas. Working primarily through physical modelling, responsibilities included conceptual design, building models, massing, and options.
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3.2 COAST
Internship_bKL Architects Chicago, IL March-June 2012 Completed in 2013, this high-rise residential block is a part of a development site in downtown Chicago along the coast of Lake Michigan. The site is adjacent to the location of the bKL office, allowing for integrated construction management and also the unique experience of watching daily progress. Due to the later stage of involvement, opportunities as an intern included generating interior renderings, models, and design options for finishings and colors.
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3.3 WOLF POINT WEST TOWER
Internship_bKL Architects Chicago, IL March-June 2012 Situated on an iconic point in the joining of two tributaries of Lake Michigan, this structure is a part of a three-piece development with Pelli Clarke Pelli. The shortest of its adjoining towers, the West Tower is programmed to be primarily residential. Responsibilities included generating renderings and design options for client presentations, regulation of kitchen and bathroom ADA requirements, and composition of material options.
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Chicago River Towers Sharing a shore with some of the most prominent architectural symbols of Chicago, the development of Wolf Point was long disputed and coveted by designers. Located in front of the Chicago Sun Times building and at the junction of the river, the design carefully integrates a river walk and green space for the residents. Returning to bKL during construction after helping in the design development phase, a site visit was in order. Photos taken on site July 2015. Courtesy of bKL Architecture
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4.1 PARIS 11EME HABITAT COMPETITION
Internship_OFIS Arhitekti Ljubljana, Slovenia May-August 2013 A competition for a large French housing organization in Paris, this prominent site is located in the 11th Arrondissement directly adjacent to the renowned PĂŠre Lachaise Cemetery. The entry focused design efforts on views through the site from multiple vantage points, aiming to carefully address the monuments in the vicinity. Responsibilities in the team involved compiling the original application for participation to the closed competition, communication with French design team, all translations of documents to English, and overseeing drawing regulations.
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Site Specific The program specified by Paris Habitat included designated sports fields, green roof and interior courtyards. The design incorporated aperture as an additional hierarchy within the building, allowing for views into the picturesque cemetery and from the Notre-Dame du PerpĂŠtuel Cathedral. Courtesy of OFIS Architekti
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4.2 LUXEMBOURG GENERATION HOUSING
Internship_OFIS Arhitekti Ljubljana, Slovenia May-August 2013 A multi-generational social housing competition, This urban block is raised on a monolithic plinth in order to bring vegetation to the sidewalk edge and extend the street into the ground floor programmatic elements. Responsibilities in the team involved compiling the original application for participation to the closed competition, communication with French design team, all translations of documents to English, and overseeing drawing regulations.
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5.1 THE SHAPE OF WIND
Instructor_Brent Patterson September-December 2012 DSLR_Bags This theoretically-based project is an exploration into the visibility of an invisible and fleeting force. Wind drives and alters form as well as providing constant change to our physical world. The exploration was executed by using plastic; a material which takes the form of that which it contains. Its lightness in color and weight give way to visibility. Bags of varying sizes and opacities as well as larger sheets of plastic were allowed to interact with a grate dispensing a constant output of wind. Photography and eight short films were used to document the effects.
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