Teagan Dorsch Situated Practice MA Selected Works
_Contents _Design Village Haus
03
Mass Development
07
Implication of the Jig
11
Nodac
14
Destruction Machine
17
Layered Perception
20
Collage
22
Fine Woodworking
24
03
_Village Haus|Studio|2019 The typical American house is a structure in the middle of the site with a front yard, a backyard and two side yards. But this creates underutilization of the relationship between occupants and the land. Village Haus is a proposal that rejects the typical suburban development by imagining an atomization of program into their base utilities. The site becomes an assemblage of living. The spaces are then reconnected by slipping from an imposed grid denoting site context. This slippage in both the structures and pochĂŠ of the structures imagines the importance of the space as well as the space in between.
Typical | Atomization Fall 2019 Indian Ink
PochĂŠ Slip | Residue Space Fall 2019 Indian Ink
Lower Plan | Plan Fall 2019
02
01
Upper Plans Fall 2019
04
03
Section A | Section C Fall 2019
Section B | Section D Fall 2019
07
_Mass Development|Studio|2018 Typically the construction and deconstruction of site is seen as a byproduct of architectural development. But what if it is taken as a problem of contemporary design. This boat workshop and exhibit explores how the destruction of native land in Seattle, can be experienced through space. The existential experience is to confront the weight of the boat workshop as they descend below it. To begin to reconcile the tension between developing a site or existing informally through the landscape; the exhibit space begins to rise from the land as it presents the visitor with a view of the unencumbered lake.
Structural Axonometric Fall 2018
Parti Diagrams Fall 2018 Digital Collage
Structural Model Fall 2018 Wood | Concrete Mylar | Wire
Section Fall 2018 Digital Collage
Plan Fall 2018 Digital Collage
Left: North Elevation Fall 2018 Digital Collage
Right: Cross-Section Fall 2018 Digital Collage
Below: West Elevation Fall 2018 Digital Collage
11
_Implication of the Jig|Studio|2018 The Jig, formwork, and scaffolding are often viewed temporal. This ignores their ability to express key experiences or moments of tension in design. This project begins to question the relationship between the ephemeral nature of scaffolding compared with the permanence of construction. By abstracting the traditional vault typology the line between which elements become supported and those which support blurs.
Model Boat in Jig Fall 2018 Walnut | Acrylic | Chipboard
Model Boat in Jig Fall 2018 Walnut | Acrylic | Chipboard
Broken Vault Casts Taxonomy Fall 2018 Rockite | Plaster
Structural Axonometric Fall 2018
Section|Plan|Elevation Fall 2018
14
_Nodac|Studio|2019 Community centers often attempt to centralize program on a site. However, Nodac is an exploration in fragmentation of the program to encourage the community to engage with the entire site and develop their own sense of place. By removing the wall at the site setbacks, the community is given greater access to the public nature of the community center; creating a welcoming environment rather than a division between the center and the community.
Parti Model Spring 2019 Kit Bashed Model | Wood | Erector Set
Section Through Gallery Spring 2019 Ink | Pastel | Paper Cutouts
Above: Typical Gallery Plan Spring 2019 Ink | Pastel
Below: Site Location of Gallery Spring 2019 Ink | Pastel | Colored Pencil
Above: Parti Study Model Spring 2019 Trace Paper | Brass | Plaster |Mat-board Below: Suspended Program Study Model Spring 2019 Baling Wire | Plaster Jewelers Wire
Typical Wall Section Spring 2019 Ink | Mylar
17
_Destruction Machine|Studio|2019 Positioning program as machine; this sculpture begins self-destruction of its panels as the program attempts to exist in a confinement and smash the boundaries it is held within. This sculpture explores alternate representation of the fragmentation of program as part of a synergy between the structures course and studio project.
Front Elevation Spring 2019 Baling Wire | Rockite | Erector Sets | Clock Parts
Fractured Program Parti Model Spring 2019 Baling Wire | Plaster | Jewelers Wire
Connection and Mechanical Details Spring 2019
20
_Layered Perception|Studio|2017 Double exposure in film photography is the act of layering multiple exposures over a single frame resulting in an abstraction of the still image. This study explores how perception of the eye can be directly contaminated by a secondary exposure. It questions the ability of our senses to be deceived through constant exposure to an input.
View Portal Exploration Model Fall 2017 Museum Board | Acrylic Jewelers Wire
Above and Right: Final Mask Fall 2018 Below: Axonometric and Section Fall 2018
22
_Collage|Watercolor|Image Cutouts|Indian Ink Collage is a method for me to translate the nature of an idea into a visual language. The abstractions found in collage begins to explore the relationships between the elements of a design.
The Mirage Fall 2017 Mixed Media Collage
Conceptual Parti Collage Fall 2017-19 Mixed Media Collage
24
_Fine Woodworking|Mixed Wood Fine woodworking continues to teach me the careful craft of the craftsman and the attention to detail that needs to be brought into the creation of unique artifacts. There is a focus on connections and an expression of material assemblage that I try to create in other forms of design.
Coffee Scoop Fall 2018 Ebonized Oak | Ambrosia Maple
DogHaus. Fall 2019 Oak | GFRC
Done in Collaboration with CoRe Designs. Core Designs produced the Concrete outer shell; while I created the inner wood component. Produced for BarkitectureCLT a Non-Profit organization.
Teagan Dorsch Situated Practice MA Selected Works teagandorsch@gmail.com +1 (919) 771 9224