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Summer 2014 - Fall 2015 | Stephanie Katherine Henschen
advanced design portfolio
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Tokyo International Forum | Tokyo, Japan | Architect Rafael Vinoly Beceiro
Summer 2014 | Professor Michael Halflants | Japan
advanced design / design development
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Tasake Art Museum | Location: Kyoto, Japan Building Area: 32,600 sq ft
Kyoto, Japan
This Tasake River Museum consists of three major programmatic spaces, the museum/galleries, the studios/workshops and the auditorium. Drawing inspiration from the traditional Japanese carpentry seen throughout the temples in Kyoto, this project mimics the Japanese joint. The museum/ galleries and studio/workshops interlock, as the auditorium acts as the pin that holds them together. The three flow into each other creating a dynamic section that allows interaction between each space. The intersecting volumes are completely different in character and are treated as such in the design. The mass allocated to museum/galleries is a primarily poured in place concrete. This gives it a feeling of heaviness and permanents. The studio/workshops has a skin system that wraps itself almost entirely around its volume. The skin system allows natural light to enter the space and allows those working in the studios to look out onto the canal. The skin is made up of Serangan Batu Wood. This wood has a dark; reddish tone that is a nice contrast to the concrete.
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Field Sketches |
Selected sketches from my skecthbook taken with me on travels
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Tasake Art Museum Main Entrance River Entrance Cafe River Sitting Area Tasake River Times I and Times II
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Opening the River | Following Ando’s objective to make the canal a focal point this project opens itself to the Tasake River. The building can be accessed from two locations. The south entrance faces Ando’s building on a wide, busy street filled with pedestrians walking and biking. The north entrance is along a thinner, less busy road. Each entry being different is treated different. The north entrance is about discovering the canal. You can see the canal as you enter but cannot fully interact with it until you have entered through the lobby. The south entrance brings you right to the canal and allows you to enjoy food and drinks in the outside café. The building itself is angled to mirror the angle of the Times buildings. Both buildings angled in such a way create a more open and inviting view of the canal.
Final Model
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museum galleries | 6 @ 1000 sq ft each
student gallery | 1500 sq ft
student studios | 4 @ 1000 sq ft each
auditorium | capacity: 150 people
cafe | 650 sq ft
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The Entry as well as the River are the main focal points in this project. It is the first two things you are presented with when approaching the museum. While standing on either side of the project, you are able to see through to the other side, which connects the two currently disconnected streets. Any where you enter on the site you have visibilty of the Tasake River. The building looks to be carved out at the base of the river to open the rivers edge.
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First Floor | Lobby
Second Floor
1 Main Entry 2 Lobby 3 Cafe 4 Reception 5 Student Stairwell 6 Fire Stair 7 Museum Stairwell 8 Mechanical 9 Storage 10 Toilet 11 Toilet 12 Entry to River 13 Cafe Terrace 14 Tasake River 15 Bookstore 16 Bookstore Lobby
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Auditorium Lobby
Bookstore
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Entry Perspective
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lobby| The Lobby is a triple heighted, dynamic space that allows the program of the building to be seen upon entering the building. The lobby, the heart of the building is seen from all sides of the project bringing you into the building. Once in the lobby you are presented with one of the art pieces of a featured artist, Motohiko Odani. In thi lobby space you can see the bookstore an auditorium
Tasake River Museum | 25,000 sq ft Times I and Times II Building| architect Tadao Ando
Site Plan
East Elevation
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Section Model | Lobby and Auditorium
Final Model | Skin System removable to show section of Auditorium and Studios
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auditorium | The auditorium was designed to allow the students working in studio to become more involved in any lecture that may be taking place in the auditorium. This creates a more dynamic learning space for everyone involved. The idea of the movable wall was to allow the spaces to change at any given moment. The addition of the movable wall gives more freedom and versatility.
Fourth Floor
1 Auditorium seating 2 Studio Spaces 3 Concession 4 Speaker podium 5 Mens restroom 6 Womans restroom
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Building Area | 32,600 sq ft Capacity in Tons | 32,600 sq ft / 400 = 81.5 Tons Requires a 90-162 Ton rooftop package unit
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Roof Drain Roof Slopes to Drain
HVAC Acosutical Drop Ceiling Gallery Space
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The Golden Gate Bridge | San Francisco, California | Designers Joseph Strauss, Irving Morrow, and Charles Ellis
Fall 2014 | Professor Daniel Powers| San Fancisco, California
advanced design
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The Medial | Hotel/Residents and Office Building Address : 200 Folsom Street Location: San Francisco, California Site Area: Roughly 150,000 sq ft
Beale Street
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Howard Street
San Francisco, California
Main Street
The Medial is situated on three lots boardered by Howard Street, Main Street, Folsom Street and Beale Street. On the three lots, there are two high rise buildings, an office building and a hotel/residents, along with a plaza linking the two. Along Howard Street the Medial is oriented with views towards the San Francsico Bay Bridge. This 36-story building serves two finctions; a hotel for guests and an apartment building for residents. The two towers are designed and its occupents to flow organically into the plaza. The plaza has a year round cafe that serves hot chocolate on the winter and root beer floats in the summer. A parking garage bellow the three lots serves the offices, residents and hotel repectively. The Office tower was only conceptually designed while the Medial was deigned fully,
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Church of St. Francis and Plaza de San Francisco | Quito, Ecuador | Architect Francisco Cantu単a
Spring 2015 | Professor Jan Wampler | Group Members April Grimes and Laura Lozano
advanced design
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Creating Community | Location: Quito, Equador
Quito, Equador
Acting as a central artery and running along the entire length of the site, a linear path is the heart of this project. It is used to organize the spaces and connects the main plaza to the rest of the site. Branching off of the central path are secondary paths that connect to the part or four vocational schools. The project is full of oppurtunities for community gathering spaces. A main plaza sits along the path and gives visitors the oppurtunity to gather. As the densest area, this space is constantly active providing a safe and energetic environment. It is defined by the main religous center, resedentail buildings and a commercial area. Water feateres are used to carve gathering spaces along the main path.
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“Junk Model”
Found object model | 1” = 50’ Circles designate loation of five nodes.
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Abstract Statement | It is a sunny day. I can feel the warm breeze. I enjoy the moment while I watch my neighbor hang her clothes to dry. Suddenly I hear the children’s voices as they return from school. I walk down to greet them and pick up a sandwich from our local market. This market gives my neighbors a chance to buy and sell things that they make. It also brings people from other areas and gives us a chance to make a living. It is open every day along the main highway to give easy access to visitors. After passing through the market, I come to the older part of our community. These are older homes that were preserved to remind us of our history. It has been turned into an exhibition space for local artwork. It displays children’s artwork as well as art from around Ecuador. The space is beautiful as natural light floods the old buildings of our community. Tonight we will attend church. The church is located in a small plaza. When people are leaving, the space becomes full of people and activity. Because the plaza is surrounded by homes, it feels safer. People watch the plaza from their homes and make me feel better about my children being there. I am very fortunate here. My wife is a teacher at the nearby daycare where my children attend. My mother and father live in our building and we gather each night to cook a meal outside. I even have a small garden to grow food for my family or sell at the market. The people here are constantly interacting with each other and this community gives us the opportunity.
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Section Model
Section Model
Creating A Concept | During our initial analysis of the site we started to focus on five key paths that would run vertically along our project. Each path adopted a certain program; a street market, an artist walk, student activities, religious activities and lastly agiculture. The five paths are connected by a larger horizontal path that stretches the entire length of the site. Also located along the linear path are five key nodes, a church, a plaza, a recreational field, a school and a community garden. The nodes were taken from our found object model, in which we used to explore possibilies within the site. These concepts were later evolved into our final project.
Mass model| 1� = 50’
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Program | As our concept progressed we began to give more definition to our originial plan. The agriculture takes up almost half of the site and is seperated into three sub categories; bamboo, general planting and roses. The three zones have a learning center and housing associated with it. Each facility specializes in a type of farming, giving the residents an opportunity to learn new skills. The schools are located within the fields where the people can have first hand experience at growing bamboo, corn, roses and etc. The students also have the opportunity to live in the fields helping look after the crops. These farms provide most of the food and building materials for the community. The skin systems we have incorporated throughout the project help shade the buildings from Equadors’ harsh sun and are made of the bamboo found there. These schools provide an income for the people. What is grown here can be sold at the local street market and markets outside the community. A fourth school is the artist school, which has the same concept as the agriculture except it is for learning how to make art; paintings, cermaics, bamboo jewlary and etc. This school is located along the art walk. The exzisting building in which we decided to keep act as gallery spaces.
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Housing | 1” = 32’
Institutional, Religious and Municipal Buildings | 1” = 32’
Commercial Buildings | 1” = 32’
Building Usage | 1” = 32’
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Church of St. Francis and Plaza de San Francisco | Quito, Ecuador | Architect Francisco Cantu単a
Completed Elective Work | Spring 2014 - Summer 2015
Elective Studies
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A Programatic Study| Independent Study Professor Brandon Hicks Spring 2014
New York City, New York
The structure houses a collection of paintings permantly, along with temporary work(s) by local artists. The site, located at the southwest intersection of West 25th Street and the High Line Park. The sites dimensions are 40’x100’. It doesn not extend under the High Line, although the structure does alter the High Line. The museum has two entrances, one off of 25th Street and the other on the High Line. The one reception desk manages both . The museum offers a connection from street to High Line during museum hours. The site for this project is just as important as the building that goes in it. I created two site constructs that explored the sectional qualities of the site from different scales. The first construct dealt with the site as it relates to the city. While the second construct dealt more with the section of the High Line and the streets bellow it in the immediate vicinity of the project. I created these constructs to help dictate how I constructed the project. Creating my project like this helped to create something that fit into the site rather than something that was forced into it. I wanted my project to relate and react with its site.
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Draft Model | This draft model I experimented with the ideas of view, and how to create a skin system that creates different types of views. This “skin,� I felt, should create an emphasis on the two entrances while playing with different opacities throughout the project.
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The idea of entry is very important when discussing this project. This idea becomes especially important when there must be two entrances. Each entrance is completely different and had to be treated as such. The High Line approach was about altering the way people traveled through this linear park. This entry spills out into the High Line, becoming an extension of it. The street access draws you through the skin systems making you move up onto the High Line. I wanted to create a dynamic skin system that drew you into the project.
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A Gift | Care of Making Professor Steve Cooke Spring 2015 As I crafted this gift for my parents, I was in constant thought of them. Growing up I lived in a house that was apart of a series of homes that were all generated by a single transformer. The old transformer was not reliable resulting in those dozen or so homes to lose power frequently. My family and I would find ways to keep our minds occupied while the power was out, we would often play a variety of board games. One board game in particular was cribbage. I can remember the very moment my parents taught me the how to play. The memories I have playing those games with them are some of my most precious memories, I loved it.
My parents received their first cribbage board from someone, they can not remember who, years before and had learned to play in college. They still continue to use this cribbage board. I can always remember my parents playing out on our back porch laughing and having a great time with one another. I wanted to bring more significance and meaning to an object that was a part of these significant and meaningful memories we had. The cribbage board I created is composed of three pieces of wood; one single sheet of a 8”x24”, light poplar, divided into 3 equal parts; a small 4”x 8” piece of a darker poplar; and lastly a piece of walnut. The walnut was a gift from my boyfriend, given to me as a memento from his trip to Paris last year.
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Japanese Tea House | Japanese Architecture Professor Stan Russel Spring 2014 “A journey of a thousand miles starts with one step.� - Lao Tzu This modern Japanese tea house was designed around the notion of the journey being as important or even more than the actual destination. My design represents a mountain. You climb and climb, learning and gathering information about where you are and who you are. There are places for rest and contimplation. Once you have arrived to your destination you still look back on what you have just accomplished. Program: A place for up to 4 people to sit and enjoy tea. A place to store shoes. An alcove for exhibiting art. A place to heat water and prepare tea. Storage for tea and tea utensils. All work surfaces and seating should be integral with the building. A place to wait before entering the tea house. A procession that sets the mood for the tea house.
Sketches |
Selected sketches from sketchbook
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Tiny House Study | Independent Study Professor Robert MacLeod Summer 2015 This study was a short exploration into the design and construction of a house on a small scale. What are the basic needs of every human? Oxygen, Water, Food, Shelter and Sleep. One of the biggest challenges for a person choosing to live in spaces less than 400 sq ft is to fulfill those five basic needs while also incorporating the individuality of the person or people living in such a home. My design incorporates a hanging vegetale garden, water collection, solar power, a bathroom with a compost toilet and a shower, a kitchen with a sink, refridgerator and a stove top, a living room, a bedroom, storage, and an entire wall dedicated to my love of books. My 160 sq ft home will be tranformed into and have everything the average american home has. My house will be 15 times smaller than that of the average american home and yet will feel just as large. The house has been deisgn in such a way that will allow two individuals to live and grow in together. Each inch has been thought out and deigned.
Floor Plan Entertainment Living Storage
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Construction Process
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Tiny House Jamboree | Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Summer 2014 - Fall 2015 |Stephanie Katherine Henschen
advanced design portfolio