Teagan Dorsch_Undergraduate Portfolio_2020 by Teagan Dorsch

Teagan Dorsch Undergraduate Portfolio

_Contents _Design Village Haus Mass Development Implication of the Jig Nodac Destruction Machine Ritual Pavilion

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_Studies Layered Perception Crease Patterns To Join Wire Hand Classical Studies

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_Creative Tinkering Collage Fine Woodworking Form work Drafting Computation Watercolor

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_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

Upper Plans Fall 2019

Section A | Section C Fall 2019

Section B | Section D Fall 2019

_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

_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

Broken Vault Casts Taxonomy Fall 2018 Rockite | Plaster

Structural Axonometric Fall 2018

Section|Plan|Elevation Fall 2018

_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

_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

_Ritual Pavilion|Studio|2017 Architecture as ritual; This project explores the interrelationship between the traditional Viking funeral and spatial development. By breaking down the procession through the site, several zones in the landscape facilitate different portions of the funeral: Zones of placing the boat, Zones of lighting the ritual arrow, and Zones of remembrance.

Model Detail Spring 2017 Baling Wire | Mylar | Concrete | Museum Board

Plan | Elevation | Section Spring 2017 Graphite

Gathering Density Diagram Spring 2017 Watercolor | Indian Ink

_Studies

_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

_Crease Patterns|Studio|2017 How can crease patterns be used as a method of restrictive form finding? This study looks into developing curves out of single sheet materials through specific creases and cut locations. Through articulating specific arcs and linear crease patterns the sheet material can be shaped into different tensioned forms. This allows structured forms to develop out of restrictive crease moves.

Crease Studies Fall 2017 Paper

Final Model from Study Fall 2017 Styrene | Acrylic

_To Join|Studio|2017 To Join is a study into the relationship between materiality and joinery. Beginning to examine how detailing and connections can inspire non-normative design. Taking Richard Serra's verb list as precedent; what does it mean to join like and unlike materials. Joinery can occur through different means such as formal interlocking, lashing and tensioning, or through chemical adhesions creating different moments of light, shadow, and detail.

Material Studies Spring 2018 Rockite | Baling Wire | Brass | Aluminum | Wood

_Wire Hand|Studio|2017 The Wire Hand explores the relationship between objects in space and conditions of light. The confinement of an object through a bounding box; then becomes articulated through apertures with moments of light and shadow to describe the inner object in context of its site.

Hand In Bounding Box Spring 2017 Baling Wire | Mylar | Cardboard

Detail Photos Under Light conditions Spring 2017 Baling Wire | Mylar | Cardboard

_Classical Studies|ICAA|2017 An intense summer studio, by the non-profit Institute of Classical Architecture and Arts, focused on teaching the Beaux Arts tradition of classical design. Exploring how the use of the classical language: traditional proportions, ornamentation, and humanistic approach to design lend themselves to a holistic approach to architecture. The Institute of Classical Architecture and Arts is nonprofit organization that promotes the preservation of classical design. Their summer studio is a competitive program that selects 20 of their applicants.

Stone Gate Baluster Summer 2018 Measured graphite drawing by hand

Tuscan Column Capital Summer 2018 Ink Wash

Final Pavilion Elevation|Plan|Section Summer 2018 Graphite on paper

_Creative Tinkering

_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

_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.

_Formwork Design|Concrete Working through the process of creating forms has developed my understanding of the important relationship between how the things are constructed and how objects become representative of the process they are developed through. Methods of process should be influential in the final design. It creates an understanding of how the materials meet and articulates their purpose.

Small Model Forms Fall 2018-19 Rockite | Chipboard | Styrene | Silicone

Counter Front Panel Summer 2019 GFRC | Melamine

At CoRe Designs I helped with building the formwork, mixing, placing, and finishing the concrete.

_Drafting|Graphite One reading of phenomenology in architecture begins to relate methods of production to the connection of our senses and in turn our development of experiential space. The connection of the hand as an extension of the mind begins to relates the tactile nature of drafting to the process of creating. Hand drafting allows a level of humanism through the design that is sometimes lost to digital craft. It begins to reconnect the human senses to the design.

Framed Space Conceptual Axonometric Fall 2016 Graphite on Paper

WaterColor Brush Pen Elevation and Section Fall 2017 Graphite on Paper

Conceptual Bathhouse Parti's Spring 2018 Graphite on Paper

_Computation|Grasshopper Exploration through computation creates studies that focus on how rigid parameters create a complex relationship amongst all its individual parts. This allows a series of complex shapes and data to be explored and constructed. These select projects were done in partners. We worked closely together to refine the project designs and fabrication while I developed a large portion of the grasshopper script that expanded the design logic.

Tangible History Fall 2018 Visually encodes travel distance through tension of the ruled surface.

Parasitic Pavilion Shell Fall 2018 The shell responds to sun path location and occupant density.

Model Connection Axonometric Fall 2018

_Watercolor|Watercolor|Indian Ink Watercolor allows an abstraction of thought that does not place a focus on formal interventions; but rather through fields and relationships. This allows diagrammatic relationships to be drawn without preconceived notions of space.

Interaction Study Spring 2017

Density Studies Fall 2017

Relational Studies Spring 2017

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