OLIVIA KEMPF PORTFOLIO
Education
University of Michigan
Class of 2016
M Architecture Candidate Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Design 3.82 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
Ursuline Academy_Cincinnati
Class of 2010
Experience
Kroger Engineering_Cincinnati OFIS Arhitekti_Ljubljana bKL Architecture_Chicago DAAP Tour Guide_University of Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity_Cincinnati
Winter - Summer 2014 Summer 2013 Spring 2012 2011-Present Fall 2012
Skills
AutoCAD
Autodesk REVIT
Rhino
Google Sketchup
Ecotect Analysis
Autodesk Maya
French Language
Grasshopper
Adobe Products
Microsoft Office
CATIA
Manuel Model/Render
Recognition
Robert Metcalf Scholarship Cincinnatus Scholar
2014-present 2010-2014
Dean’s List
2010-present
UC Study Abroad Grant
Summer 2013
Ephemeral Publication Nuit Hiver Spéciale
Autumn 2012
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2011-present
Ursuline Academy Honors Student
2006-2010
oliviakempf@gmail.com 1.513.702.7433
Taubman 1.1
Bleeding Heart
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RoboFABulous
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999.9
DAAP 2.1
Skin and Bone
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Cask/Tannin Culinary School
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Cirro Stratus Acoustic Cloud
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Chevron Unit Design/Build
OFIS 3.1
Paris HABITAT Competition
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Luxembourg Competition
ÉSA 4.1
Ephemeral Installation
bKL 5.1
Wolf Point Tower
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1.1 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
Studies in ink and soap; how do opposing forces mobilize each other?
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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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HEART HUB community learning center nutrition assistance offices commercial kitchen processing packing house
HEART MARKET open outdoor market indoor vendor market wine tasting vineyard tour
BLEEDING HEART VINEYARD vineyard herbal garden wine cultivation
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1.2 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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1.3 999.9
Instructor_ Jonothan Rule August-December 2014 Concrete_Water Baloons_Adobe A study in the density of water, 999.9 is an exploration of void through materiality. Using water through different media, ie. water baloons 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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Scenario: Kroger Gives Food as a public utility and food as an equalizer
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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 CIRRO STRATUS
Instructor_ Ming Tang Course_Digital Media Skills Grasshopper_Rhino_Adobe Based on concepts of parametric design, the Digital Media course approaches the programs Rhino, Grasshopper, and 3DS MAX through practical application. Addressing acoustic concerns in the University of Cincinnati’s Niehoff Studio, the semester was focused on budgeted proposals for the presentation space in the studio. The Niehoff Studio in Clifton Heights is a flexible work and display space for a variety of patrons, yet it is limited by its versatility. Cirro Stratus focuses on the issue of acoustics and zoning as a way to sharpen performance and improve atmosphere.
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Acoustic Cloud A surface conceptualized into horizontal planes, the construction of the suspended cloud absorbs sound and denotes programmed spaces. The thickness and proximity of the panels is determined by the parametric script of an adjustable image of a cloud. This adaptable system allows for zone-specific sound absorption, such as density of panels in the main presentation area. Privacy in nodes off to the sides are generated by the illusion of a lower ceiling plane. This idea can be applied to the studio as a whole or can be indicative of program. Each plane in the suspended structure is constructed from two layers of corkboard laminated to either side of a structural piece of hardboard Masonite.
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2.5 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 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.
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3.2 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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4.1 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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5.1 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.
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