graduate architecture portfolio

anthony.logan.killianportfolio

Team Members:Chris BennettAnthony KillianAmanda LevesqueBennett ScorciaLaura Sewall

Visiting Professor WorkshopAlexander DHooge

Highway Off Ramp

Drive Through CemeTery

As a land use often relegated to urban peripheries, cemeteries must be able to readily integrate with the interstate networks that frequently dominate a grey goo type landscape. This combination suggests a new typology, the drive-thru cemetery. Experienced from the car, the cemetery is organized into alphabetical lanes, each with a direct exit from the highway. Parking is distributed to each individual grave site as the termination of a processional drive through forest, prairie, and hillside burial grounds, in suburban territory, a cemetery can take on program that urban models lack in space to sustain.

This cemetery addresses far more than the simple issue of internment with program that engages the full scope of human needs when a loved one is lost, including estate storage, a nondenominational chapel, a large gathering space, a flower shop and a crematorium. The program is packed in a principle formal gesture running along the highway, while the remaining infrastructural lines bind the overall form in place.

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Arch 552: Networks_IconographiesKyle Reynolds

Delray_Detroit, Michigan

inTerwoven iConographies

The architecture of creating icons is part art, design, cultural significance, and time. The resulting neighborhood and international border crossing needed a new identity. In evaluating the site, the iconography needed was already present within the urban design of the neighborhood. The reorganization of typical urban characteristics and re-imagining them, hopes to redefine localized iconography within the neighborhood.

The border crossing and bridge aim to create a new iconography of utilizing specific formal values. The insertion of additional program and altering the border crossing experience into the circulating interior space radically changes the experience one would typically experience.

Initial Shapes Overlap Extrude Add Skin/Color Insert Program

The desire of the project is to re-establish a collective identity of the Delray and Sandwich communities along the Detroit River front that are directly affected by the proposed Detroit International River Crossing. This new identity specifically for the Delray community of Detroit also aims to serve as a catalyst for future redevelopment. The methodology of the project recognizes that there is an inherent plan iconography of neighborhoods. Prominent neighborhoods characteristics repeat themselves in predicable formal shapes and patterns. The premise of this proposal is that these existing iconographies can overlap and create new urban experiences and new hybrid iconographies that can reactivate the neighborhood by altering or reinforcing the existing conditions.

The resulting site of overlapping existing and new networks will work together to create that new identity and urban experience. Executing this transformation would be gradual to respond to the neighborhoods need at the time. To create a building, a simple method of formal moves is implemented to organize the road networks and incorporate various other programs that would be catalysts for local reinvestment.

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Team Members:Chris BennettJacqui ColaianniAnthony Killian

Arch 562 Comprehensive StudioClaudia Wigger & Carl Daubmann

Yongson District_Seoul, South Korea

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As part of the Vertical Cities Asia Competition, the project was to consider how to design for an aging population what would dominate the social landscape of South Korea. To expand on that challenge, my team decided to incorporate an agrarian dynamic to the formulation of the project. Many South Koreans are moving from the rural areas into the cities and we challenged ourselves to reintroduce the social and cultural activities of the rural into this urban project in the middle of the dense city of Seoul.

The implications of this inclusion permeated the project designs from site planning to the articulation of the interior corridors to accommodate agrarian functions at a macro and micro scale.

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Wood Sliding Door

Bamboo Solar Screen

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Corrugated galvanized steel panel

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Arch 505 Modern MattersGreg Saldana

GM Technical Center, Warren Michigan

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The project was focused on documentation of structures and methods that could lead to HABS types documentation and submittal. The core task was to reconstruct the south facade of the Research Administration Building. This involved hand measurements and acquisition of original blueprints of the as built building. Once the facade was reconstructed, a survey with a Total Station was conducted to identify keys points along the facade. Those points were fed into AutoCad and then used to rectify (flatten) photographs of the facade. The rectified images were layers depending on the feature and then layered in Photoshop to indicate the areas that were unable to be flattened with matte grey color. The resulting image was an eighteen foot printout.

Arch 672 Propositions StudioEl Hadi Jazery

Principality of Monaco

aCqua Terra

Capitalizing on the strong tourist destination center around the casino and opera house, the port aims to utilize its proximity to the destinations. The project manifests itself as an infrastructural landscape. Its location of interface with the shoreline creates a close connection for visitors to the center of the city arriving by boat. This connection is manifested in a connected surface that promotes and accommodates pedestrians traveling from the terminal pier to the casino and therefor the rest of the city. Vehicular access is accommodated as well. Both modes of transport pull from existing Monaco topography to facilitate and indicate programmatic changes and moments of importance.

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Arch 505 Liquid PlanningJen Magrait & Maria Arquero

Hope Village, Detroit, Michigan

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The project explores how water management can be incorporated into the planning aspects of a distressed neighborhood in central Detroit. The site is a prominent corner within the neighborhood and the proposal aims to use water management as a tool for educating the public and exposing the water systems within the new interventions. The large intervention is connected to a community garden and parking lot. The structure made out of standard steel trusses similar to barns, is modified to divert, collect, and filter the water into a local water tower. The site already is very impervious, so storing the water mitigates run off. The structure is designed to have an open frame environment over the parking for structured gardens. This section can be extended over time to encompass all the parking. The corner building contains a market for people of the neighborhood to develop a market and the second level is used as a class room for cooking and small scale agriculture classes.

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Bus Stop with connected Bioswale

Median Bioswale

Constructed water play-scape

Arch 660 ThesisCatie Newel

Detroit, Michigan

ConTroLLeD Burn: Thesis researCh

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The abandoned firehouse ignites a critical issue about Detroits value of its spaces. Unable to maintain service, it allows the physical materiality of the city to deteriorate. The firehouse is responsible for the protection of the materiality of the surrounding city. The materials of the capsule are stripped of their meaning. Their former function is no longer applicable. As a reconfigured object, they are optimized to ignited and burn, questioning the value of the material and threatening the immediate and greater city space. As a tool, it advances natural entropic tendencies of underutilized spaces and abandonment. The alteration of space is with fire. As a tool to shape our urban spaces, the residents or government can reshape the urban environment. The existing environments are inherently flammable and vulnerable. This is a reality of Detroit.

Proposition: The event of fire within a built structure embodies a preconceived notion that the action/event is a negative experience. But, used as a tool controlled and monitored, it could transform the landscape of Detroit from hallowed abandonment, to a field of ashes. Arson is a common occurrence throughout the city of Detroit. The presence of fire has become an image that is defining Detroit in tandem with abandonment and decay the city is experiencing. The reasons for arson range from personal gain to neighborhood safely, in attempts to eliminate crime in the abandoned structures. The act of arson culminates yearly, on the eve of Halloween, in what has become to be known as Devils Night. It has become a series of nights where high concentrations of arsons are lit by the people of Detroit. Detroit is already aggressively demolishing abandoned and blighted homes throughout Detroit. In the course of time, the plan expects upwards of 10,000 homes to be removed by demolition. This is a slow and expensive process for the city, which already lacks tax income. There is a counter movement to focusing on deconstructing those same homes to reuse the existing materials instead of sending them off to fill landfills. The proposition understands that Detroit has a desire to reduce the built inventory of single family homes within the city. The capsules goal is to embody those

ideals of materials and question the value of the existing structures or the risk of threat of fire eliminating the value of the structure entirely. The elimination of large portions of cities by fire has allowed for the correction of city plans throughout history. Historically these urban conflagration were the result of some natural disaster and were unplanned. Can the elimination of much of Detroit be an opportunity to the same degree but within a much more controlled manner, much like a controlled burn of a forest? This proposal focuses on the local and the controlled. The capsule, while it has the ability to combust, does not have to fully realize this potential. The very existence of the capsule can incite a different reaction to a space. With the trigger of combustion being decay and time, the constant presence and inhabitation of a structure could prevent the capsule from incinerating the structure. Therefore, within the mind of the inhabitant increasing the value of the space. The inverse could be true. An individual could chose to place the capsule with the intention of abandonment and conflagration. The preceding images focus on the space photographed, many of which have already experienced a fire and the resulting residue still exists. The capsule becomes part of the space but not the focus of the space. The locations of the capsule are to hint at the possibility of the consequences if left unmanaged and ignored.

Thesis Research ExhibitionCross pLoTTing: DeTroiT To winDsor

The exhibition component of the thesis research brought new circumstances that needed to be resolved in order for a successful show. Issues of international border crossing had to be addressed and accommodated for.

Exhibition Layout: Upon entering the gallery in Windsor, one first encounters the supergraphic of the Detroit interstate system with the plots of explored highlighted in the entry. The river graphic continues to the floor dividing the interior space. When entering the door one is on the Windsor, Canada side of the river. Before one continues into the space to the capsules you must cross the river and enter the Detroit side of the graphic. One is metaphorically entered back into Detroit within the space of the exhibition and capsules.

Graphic: Vinyl cutouts