REBECCA ERDE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN BUILD STUDIOS 4
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AMP
STØL
Spring 2015 Architectural Design IV
Fall 2014 Furniture Design in Denmark
ETCETERA 23 24 PRINTMAKING Spring 2014
FABRICATION 25 ACCUMULUS Spring 2015 Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
GLASSBLOWING Since 2003
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MANTIS
MANGA FARMING
Spring 2013 Cycles
Spring 2013 Intro to Design Processes IV
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AMP : a design build studio /amp/
watch video: vimeo.com/126084593
Spring 2015 iteration 2 Architectural Design IV Professor: Chandler Ahrens
Digital Design Team iteration 3 Grace Davis & Samuel Leder
noun short for AMPERE (a unit of electric current) noun short for AMPLIFIER ( an electronic device for increasing the amplitude of electric of electrical signals) verb short for AMPLIFY (to increase, to become more intense)
Preliminary Seminar Work by Christopher Taurasi, Jeffrey Lee, & Lexi White
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Iteration 3
Materials/Fabrication Team iteration 5 Matt Brice, Rebecca Erde, Gabe Dash, & Jim Noh
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Representation Team Paige Bergmeier, Jennifer Rockoff, Amy Sun & Matthew Weinberg
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Teaching Assistant Jeffrey Lee
Iteration 9
12 undergraduate architecture students developped, fabricated, and assembled an architectural installation for TRex, a startup technology business incubator in downtown St. Louis. The installation explores how architecture affects human iteration 8 ways to alter vision using iteration 9 iteration 6 senses, as well as the effects generated by the architectural entity. Students researched reflection and use light as an environmental variable to generate the form of the installation.
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LIGHT PROJECTION DIAGRAM
Adhesive Backed Reflective Mylar
Thermoplastic Olefin Laser Cut Panels
Slotted Connection
Front View
Snap-fit retention bracket
CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAM
SNAP FIT JOINT
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STØL /stül/
an imaginary noun the Danish word for chair, STOL, combined with the Scandinavian “slashed o” that I invented to describe the design of my chair
ORIGINAL
CONCEPT
Fall 2014 Furniture Design in Denmark Professors: Natalie Jeffers and Lars Hansen
SIMPLIFIED
I took Furniture Design while studying abroad in Copenhagen. Our studio studied the master’s of Scandinavian furniture design, including Arne Jacobsen, Hans Wegner, Alvaro Aalto, and Jørn Utzon, among many others. We were each given a blank shell and a metal base. I asked myself, How much of the plywood shell can I strip away with it still being a chair? Still comfortable, durable, and ergonomic? I was inspired by birds nests, street grids, stained glass, and spiderwebs.
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man•tis
/’man(t) s/
noun a slender predatory insect related to the cockroack that waits motionless for prey with its large spiky forelegs folded like hands in prayer
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Spring 2013 Cycles Professor: Lindsey Stouffer
The goal of this studio was to design and build a cycle inspired by the movements of an insect. I worked in a team with two other students, Cristina Clow and Kim Gagnon, where our original inspiration was from studies of centipedes. Through our multiple iterations, we let go of our original studies of the centipede, and ended up with Mantis, a 7 foot-tall upright reverse-recumbent tricycle with working brakes.
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man•ga farming /’maNGg /
noun a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels, typically aimed at adults as well as children
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Spring 2013 Intro to Design Processes IV Professor: Elisa Kim I was assigned to design a terrarium. As I was researching alternative growth methods, I was inspired by Japanese artist Koshi Kawachi to attempt to grow radishes in manga comics. I was intrigued by this process because it is an innovative way to plant while recycling and reusing old books.
The undulating curves that formed in the moist books inspired the form of the growing pods in my terrarium. Each row of pods was tilted so that water could travel down to the bottom, where there was a pump to lead the water back to the top. To form the curves in the terrarium, I CNC milled molds to thermoform the plexiglass strips. Prior to thermoforming them, I lasercut air holes for growth. I attached LED lights under each row to light the row below it.
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ETCETERA printmaking
Spring 2014 Monoprints, ink rolled in mesh Professor: Angela Malchianno
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ETCETERA glassblowing
Hobby Since 2003, More serious artistic pursuit in recent years at UrbanGlass in Downtown Brooklyn
Photos from CAMSTL Instagram and Washington University Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts Facebook Page
I was brought in to work on the completion of this graduate design build installation, where I CNC milled and fabricated about a quarter of the project. Sheets of recyclable PETG plastic were laid on CNC milling machines, fabricating the modules efficiently with minimal waste.
FABRICATION ACCUMULUS
Spring 2015 Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis Professor: Lavender Tessmer and Jason Butz
The graduate architecture students in the studio were Jay Bassett, Qian Huang, Boxun Hu, Jeffrey Lee, Chun Liu, Alex Melvin, John Patangan, Joseph Vizurraga, Lingfeng Zhang, and Yue Zhang
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REBECCA ERDE Bachelor of Science in Architecture, cum laude Minor in Urban Design and Minor in French Washington University in St. Louis 2015 CONTACT rebecca.erde@wustl.edu rebecca.erde@gmail.com 914-282-6771 References available upon request