Architecture Student Work by University of Minnesota College of Design

ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT WORK

EXTRASTATECRAFT - URBAN FACTORY Masters Final Project by Terri Leung in the UMN MArch program GD3 MFP studio taught by Jennifer Yoos Urban space has become an instrument that contains mobile and monetized technology. The globalizing world is being displayed through spatial information of infrastructure, architecture, and urbanism with an underlay of some patterns of trading instead of the language of law and diplomacy. One of the infrastructures, the free zone, was described by Keller Easterling as EXTRASTATECRAFT. The zone has developed drastically from an out-of-way area for manufacturing customfree goods as a postwar surviving method to a model for thriving cities like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. Easterling did not make a clear statement on whether it is bad or good; rather, he described how this phenomenon evolves over time. This project is looking at the city of Hong Kong and makes a change to this

bleeding pattern of infrastructures. Ongoing trade war, Umbrella Revolution in 2014, Extradition Law in 2019, and the pandemic this year have evoked the problem of over-reliance from the thriving cities to the manufactory in developing countries (urbanspace-to-be). What if one day the trade war becomes more serious, could people in Hong Kong still survive without the imported food? What if one day another wave of a pandemic comes, China or other countries are not capable of transporting goods, would the economy of Hong Kong die? What if the main ports in the world lost their resources, could developing cities pick up the manufacturing technology and speed to provide the city’s needs?

Extrastatecraft Urban Factory By Terri Leung

DAWN Project by Yiyue Lin in the UMN MArch program studio taught by Victor Pechaty A heavy timber structure office space located in the warehouse district in downtown Minneapolis. The design features a translucent, habitable, doubleskin facade and four different gathering spaces throughout the building.

Dawn

By Yiyue Lin

Dawn

By Yiyue Lin

HOUSING NETWORKS AND SUBCENTRALITIES: THE SELF-PERPETUATING OCCUPATION OF SPACE Masters Final Project and recipient of a 2021 MFP Merit Award by Noor Abdelhamid in the UMN MArch program, studio taught by Jennifer Yoos Informality grows within self-perpetuating networks; it spatially infiltrates inconsiderate city plans; it structurally increments over time; it economically challenges predetermined processes of construction; it politically stands against obstinate eviction plans; and it socially forms nodal communities that grow and protect its boundaries. The case of Al-Warraq Island, located in Cairo, Egypt serves as a vulnerable site for an informal housing settlement threatened to be wiped out by a state-led redevelopment plan. Learning from informal settlements, this design effort proposed a spectrum of networks forming spatial and social boundaries for incremental

housing using architectural elements of the stair, the balcony, and the path+bridge. Existing networks of transportation access, street patterns, and prayer acoustics influence the creation of multi-level subcentralities. These centralized housing settlements consist of networks of socially-driven paths+bridges, distributing provisional services along elevated levels and connecting spaces of economic activity, religious practice, educational gathering, and housing structure. Stairs become pit stops between levels, balconies become pockets of curiosity, paths become streams of relationships, and bridges become connectors of space.

Housing Networks & Subcentralities By Noor Abdelhamid

SOUPED UP GREEN By Ashleigh Grizzell, Adam Rosenthal, and Garrett Hulse in the UMN MArch program design studio taught by Malini Srivastava This project is centered around the creation of renewable electricity from compostable waste, through anaerobic and aerobic digestion. But instead of hiding this operation behind closed doors, away from sight, the design creates a system that exists dramatically on top of the existing building, wrapped in a transparent double skin. Showing customers and passers by alike the extents required to deal with waste and use it for energy, providing an opportunity for education and an awareness of waste.

The project is exploring the idea of optimizing energy performance through an efficient interior volume, maximizing energy generation through the external shell of an existing building, and creating an occupiable buffer zone to which a more efficient structure can begin to operate within 2030 standards, with the potential to be net zero and capture wind as energy.

Souped Up Green By Ashleigh Grizzell, Adam Rosenthal & Garrett Hulse

THE EQUITY POOL By Megan Gahlman and Brian Smith in the UMN BS in Architecture undergraduate studio 04 taught by Gabriel Cuéllar “Is it possible to design property? This question is rhetorical because in fact property is already designed. A more productive line of inquiry might be, "How can designers use the architecture of property to their advantage?” This question was the studio prompt created by instructor Gabriel Cuéllar. Location, lot size, area median income, and single-family zoning have contributed to the creation of a threshold of housing unaffordability in Minneapolis. This intangible edge defines an unaffordable housing zone more pervasive than one may initially perceive. These implications have stifled attempts to create real affordable housing for those continually cost-burdened by

conditions deeply embedded into a multitude of systems politically, economically, spatially, and historically. We propose not simply a CLT (Community Land Trust) gathering property wherever possible, but a coalition pooling equity together to break down the line of unaffordability in Minneapolis through collective stewardship, income inclusion, and “highest and best” social use of each parcel. This could usher in a new wave of affordable housing in Minneapolis, creating new social environments and spatial organizations at multiple scales, from the home to the city. Check out the full project video.

The Equity Pool By Megan Gahlman & Brian Smith

SUPERALLEY By Arseny Pekurovsky in the UMN BS in Architecture undergraduate studio 03 taught by Jennifer Newsom The North Minneapolis Superalley project explores the relationship between urban margins and the origin of street cultures such as break and hip hop. The project defines Superalleys as spatial systems composed of alleys, vacant lots, and derelict parking areas. The Superalley has its own uses and social conventions, a separate world away from the main drag and the neighborhood. In the Broadway corridor, the Superalleys are buffers between commercial and residential zones and often function as unsanctioned community spaces,

a means of colonizing unused urban turf. Superalleys provide refuge from surveillance; they represent both safety from authority and the danger of the street. The site selected for the dance center is adjacent to a Superalley system. The goal of the project is to tap into the potential of these interstitial areas to continue to support street culture, to subvert rigid systems of property-use and ownership in North Minneapolis, and to provide an alternative path toward neighborhood redevelopment and growth.

Superalley By Arseny Pekurovsky

WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR DOWNTOWNS? A project by Chon Fai Kuok for the BS in Architecture studio in urban design taught by Natalya Egon (MArch Harvard, BS UMN) This is an animated axon of a small segment of the current Minneapolis skyway system. It captures the essence of the system as the conveyor belt of a downtown economic center. This map captures the characteristics of a typical downtown which focuses on economic efficiency and lacks human experiences.

DECAY AND REBIRTH A project by Chon Fai Kuok in the UMN BS in Architecture undergraduate studio 05 taught by Wolf Scott and Todd Grove The project is a Center for Architecture located in the Minneapolis historic mill district. The site is part of the Minneapolis mill ruin courtyard, which is deteriorating and has been scheduled for removal due to safety concerns. While the historic artifact may inevitably be torn down, the project utilizes the limestone debris and transforms it into a mass anchoring a proposed reverse cantilever to shelter the new construction. The project juxtaposes old and new to tell a story of adaptive reuse. The distinct new construction lifts the spatial quality of the limestone masonry wall and changes the perception of the historic landmark. The architecture center is designed to

reconnect different generations within the architectural community, providing for programming such as design lectures, architecture students’ projects exhibitions, and mentorship events, for people from multi-generations to share ideas and experience stories of architecture from different perspectives.

Decay and Rebirth By Chon Fai Kuok

LOVE YOUR CURVES — TRIPLEX DESIGNED WITH CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER By Emma Haukom and Amy Caran for the UMN BS in Architecture undergraduate studio 05 taught by Samuel Daley and Nat Madson This triplex scheme explores the possibilities of using crosslaminated timber as an application to residential housing construction. Early on, we became very interested in the ability to use prefabricated apertures that transform space. Specifically, the proliferating forms of an archway. Cross-laminated timber also has the unique opportunity to utilize a balloon framing

system in which the walls may support floors at varying heights. For the design of a triplex, we utilized these two methods to create a unique environment for each unit without compromising the structural integrity of the material system. These two actions yield an array of varying levels of enclosure that is defined by a series of different archway variations.

Love Your Curves By Emma Haukom & Amy Caran

ADAPTIVE BALLOON FRAMING — CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT DESIGNED WITH CROSSLAMINATED TIMBER By Emma Haukom and Amy Caran for the UMN BS in Architecture undergraduate studio 05 taught by Samuel Daley and Nat Madson This project challenges traditional material systems of residential construction by testing cross-laminated timber as an alternative solution. Cross-laminated timber is an architectural, structural, and finish piece. Its prefabrication versatility lends itself to unique openings and forms to experiment with new residential configurations. Prior to this scheme, we designed a triplex that achieved unit variation by utilizing a balloon framing system in which individual panels were hung at varying heights. The vertical

spanels in this scheme were articulated with arch shapes that cued different spatial functions. For the design of cluster development, our intentions for this project are to carry forward these themes of creating variability within the material constraints in a way that responds to our assigned site and introduces a retail-residential typology in which there are adjacencies of different retail spaces and unit types intermingled into the material framework.

Adaptive Balloon Framing By Emma Haukom & Amy Caran

Architecture Student Work

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ADAPTIVE BALLOON FRAMING — CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT DESIGNED WITH CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER

LOVE YOUR CURVES — TRIPLEX DESIGNED WITH CROSS-LAMINATED TIMBER

DECAY AND REBIRTH

WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR DOWNTOWNS?

SUPERALLEY

THE EQUITY POOL

SOUPED UP GREEN

HOUSING NETWORKS & SUBCENTRALITIES: THE SELF-PERPETUATING OCCUPATION OF SPACE

DAWN

EXTRASTATECRAFT — URBAN FACTORY