AMY ANDERSONGRADUATE PORTFOLIO

HUMAN COMPLEXITY

VERTICAL CITIES ASIA

GLOW WORKSHOP

[HYPER]STUDIO

[HOUSE MATTERS]

Smoke: Civic Vessel

Simple Machines

Miami Beach

Throw*

PureContaminationContamination TwoFinal Contamination

UCSF

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Academic Office Building

Unlikely Interactions

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Through the juxtaposition of phasing and seasons, the residence, the table, and the cultivator are seen in ux and progression as a way of understanding the elastic and unpredictable transformation of our cities. Individuals that are knowledgeable about Detroit, have lived in Detroit, and have never been to Detroit are able to communicate under various settings through the acts of eating, sleeping, and growing that help to acknowledge time and the future, while continuing to build on the past. Being enmeshed in the intricacies of the site allows the tangible and intangible context to be commented and rethought as a way to promote communistic interaction and design to a skeptical society. The juxtaposition of friends and visitors in a residential neighborhood allows for the complexities of a site to be visible in an innovative way to people that live, work, play, and visit.

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Left: Final Soldered Working ModelRight: Iterative Sketches

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Left Above: Renderings Roof of The Table Left: Rendering of The CultivatorAbove: Sections of The Residence

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Left Above: Final Iterative Sketch Left: The Table Outdoor Seating Right: The Cultivator in the Second Fall Phase

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Above: Plan and Section of The Residence and Table interactionsRight: Plans of The Table During the Winter Phase

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Left/Above/Right:Close-up Images of Final Model

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The Civic Vessel is a proposition for a new cultural district that serves mainly Windsor and Detroit, and travels on the Detroit River, as far north as Port Huron (Michigan), and as far south as Toledo (Ohio) to participate in other regional events. The energy of the project, given that the initial topic of smoke is intrinsically a spectacle, is found through the spectacle of the civic program it contains, and its participation in an event network, a network in spectacle production. The barge contributes a unique stage for Windsor and Detroit events, and provides the opportunity for program that has been depleted by the regional economies.

Left: 9x9x9 Smoke DiagramsRight: Iteration Diagrams of the Civic Vessel 2

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Dock: Port Huron, MichiganJuly 15th: Boats, Balloons, BBQ Festival

Dock: Saint Clair Shores, Michigan July 26th: Aqua Fest: Nautical Mile Boat Parade of Lights

Dock: Monroe, Michigan September 3rd: River Raisin Jazz Festival

Dock: Toledo, OhioAugust 3rdt-5th: Smoke on the Water: BBQ & Bluegrass Festival

Dock: Amherstburg, Ontario September 6th-9th: The Shores of Erie International Wine Festival

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Dock: Detroit, Michigan[Downtown Detroit]January 9th-22nd: International Auto ShowFebruary 10th-12th: Motown Winter Blast February 29th-March 3rd: Metro Times BlowoutApril 30th: Movement: Electronic Music Festival June 21st-24th: Detroit River Days Festival July 4th-6th: Comerica CityfestAugust 19th: Woodward Dream CruiseAugust 31st- September 2nd: Detroit International Jazz Festival November 18th: Christmas Tree LightingNovember 22nd: Americas Thanksgiving Parade

Dock: Windsor, Ontario[Downtown Location]June 8th- 10th: Carrousel by the RiverJune 15th-20th: Summerfest July 7th-8th: Festival Epicure July 11th: Windsor Symphony Summer Series July 14th: BluesFest International July 27th-August 1st: Windsor International Fringe Festival August 15th: Windsor Symphony Summer SeriesNovember 7th-10th: Windsor International Film Festival

Dock: Delray, Michigan[DRIC Location]

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Dock: Windsor, Ontario[DRIC Location]Arrives Half-Past the Hour

Anchored: Detroit River [Between Detroit and Windsor]

June 2nd-June 3rd: Redbull Air RaceJune 27th: Fireworks

Left Above: Schedule of the Civic Vessel Left Below: Map of EventsAbove: Exploded Axonometric of the Civic Vessel

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Left Above: Rendering of Port Huron Left: Rendering of DetroitAbove: Sections and Circulation Diagrams

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2Human ComplexitySimple MachinesThe door handle is the mechanism that facilitates the movement between spaces. An initial study of a door knob allowed for consideration of breaking down a simple object into components to be understood more clearly. The ambition of the project is more concretely, to conceive of an ordinary object that would normally be interacted with on a daily basis, while being complex enough to consider manipulations and interactions. It is from this that a series of ordinary products could be conceived of becoming relatable to such a complex problem as the size and scale of the human hand.

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4.13.9* Door Hardware. Handles, pulls, latches, locks, and other operating devices on accessible doors shall have a shape that is easy to grasp with one hand and does not require tight grasping, tight pinching, or twisting of the wrist to operate. Lever-operated mechanisms, push-type mechanisms, and U-shaped handles are acceptable designs. When sliding doors are fully open, operating hardware shall be exposed and usable from both sides. Hardware required for accessible door passage shall be mounted no higher than 48 in (1220 mm) above nished oor.

Left: Diagram of Level Handle Above: De nition of Door Hardware in the IBC Code

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B. Hand Breadth The breadth of the hand, measured across the ends of the metacarpal bones (metacarpalphalangeal joints).

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The design of the various door handles is an attempt to evoke a discussion between a simple machine, manipulated (lever door handle) and the complexity of the human hand. The project is a dichotomous interaction between two data sets. The rst set is an attempt to describe and catalog a set of door levers that correspond to measurements of the human hand from the smallest hands to largest. The second is an ephemeral complexity that is realized partially due to the fact that the human hand simply cannot be recorded by any 3-Dimensional software accurately and ef ciently. The nal work is set out to generate discussion about the complexity of the human body in relationship to space and the range of dimension, movement, and interactions that take place on a daily basis.

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The Vertical Cities Asia is a proposition and consideration for the high density cities and aging population. Considerations for residential towers with variable unit types provided the opportunity to rethink community spaces and neighbors not just horizontally, but vertically in space. The location of Miami Beach in a larger master plan drew from the proximity of the project to a newly constructed park, and brought the environmental and natural aspect up through the towers to create an environment of community and green spaces at the plinth level through the towers.

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VOID Institutional Program

SOLID VOID Commercial Program

OPAQUE PROGRAMResidential ProgramLeft: Images of Iconic City Grids Superimposed on Site

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Left: Physical Models of the Unit and BuildingAbove: Elevation Diagrams with Distribution of Units

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Left Above: Renderings from the Balcony Left:Ground Level Above: Axonometric of Program Distribution

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Left Above: Renderings from Bridge Towards the Park Left: Rendering from the Park Above: Axonometric Diagram of Sustainable Program

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The initial project in the House Matters studio, started as an investigation of materiality and making. Pure is a production of an inhabitable-space that provides the most basic needs of a shelter, while being constructed of only one material. The form and materiality of the project took a secondary role only to the details and joinery of the material.

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Left: Interior of One Material Sketch Model Right: Diagrams of Vinyl Lacing Strategies

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ContaminationThe contamination project built off of pure as a way to either add another material or contaminate, while using Le Corbusiers Cabanon as a programmatic model. Instead of continuing with the same Vinyl tubing and lacing, Contamination led more to an investigation of contaminating space, while working on a container versus interior condition, and how the threshold of the container would be breached and altered.

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Contamination TwoContamination two, continued with the idea of a container and a contaminating material, while introducing the program and ideologies of a precedent study, Jacobs House by Frank Lloyd Wright. The introduction of another material, gypsum, became the contaminator in a plywood framework. The program of the Jacobs house was reconsidered and rearranged to allow for some recognition and ghosting of the home, while constructing a new take with new materials.

Left Above: Jacobs House Precedent Left Below: Material and Frame StudiesRight: Section Diagrams of the Rigidity Versus Flexibility of the Materials.

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Left Above: Plan and Interior Sketches Left:Gypsum & Frame Model Right: Contamination Two Plans, Introducing Precedent Program

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Final ContaminationThe nal contamination was an investigation of a plywood framework that would outline the precedent program, only then to be pushed and pulled to create a new space. The gypsum material was then applied to the framework in degrees of opacity to allow for light to penetrate the space.

Left Above: Pro le Sketch Model Left: Phasing ModelRight: Framework/Sections of the Final Contamination

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Left: Framework Model and Full Material Model Right: Elevations

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Left Above: View Into the Dinning Room Left: View From the Side YardRight: Contamination Plan

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Left Above: View of Living Room Left: View From Living Room Down the Main HallwayRight: Contamination Sections

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Throw re-imagines streetlights in the context of the peculiarities and darkness within the city of Detroit. With the intention to resonate with and obscure the context, these lights do not provide for the missing illumination or exist only for function, instead, they are to alter the space, comment on the condition, and devise something different. The shape of the modular is a commentary to the rigor of the Brewster Douglass complex. The materials promote glow, darkness, scalar shifts, and imagination.

Glow WorkshopThrow*

All: Test Groupings of Painted, Translucent, and Mirrored Acrylic with LED lights.

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All: Test Groupings of Painted, Translucent, and Mirrored Acrylic with LED lights.

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In a competition for the UCSF Academic Of ce Building,Valerio Dewalt Train Associates and STUDIOS Architecture teamed up with Webcor Builders to provide the University with a new Academic Of ce Building that would provide durable, environmental, ef cient, high performing work and learning spaces. Planning and Design Criteria, as well as, Technical Performance Criteria developed by the University was precisely followed and developed into a building information modeled design.

UCSFAcademic Office Building

Left: Rendering at Night into the AtriumRight: Concept Sketches by J. Valerio

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Left Above: Rendering from 16th Street Left: Rendering from 4th StreetRight: Axonometric Diagram of 60x60 Typical Floor Modular

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Left: Rendering Section through Atrium Right: First Floor Plan

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Amy Anderson2222 Fuller Court

Ann Arbor, MI, 48105(231) 675- 4602

anderamy@umich.edu