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Courtyard Installation

Cube

Offi ce & Lecture

UWM Alumni

Textile Gallery Grid Fine Art

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TEXTILE GALLERYARCH 320 - Professor James DickerGiven a real site on Downer Avenue in Milwaukee, the intent of this project was to design an infi ll textile gal-lery. The most important space of the building is the main gallery, while two smaller galleries are opened to it. The grand stairway expands openly, and appears to be fl oating in the main gallery. Natural sunlight was studied in the design of two skylights. While one il-luminates the circulation space around the galleries, the other naturally lights the main gallery. Façades of neighboring buildings were also carefully studied, infl u-encing the design of the textile gallery’s façade. Room requirements and square footage restrictions were also taken into consideration in the overall design objective.

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OFFICE & LECTURE UWM ALUMNI CENTERARCH 310 - Professor Chad GriswoldAfter visiting UWM’s Alumni Center, designs for new

buildings were needed. I focused on designing a

main lecture hall and four offi ces. These spaces are

arranged to follow a tartan grid pattern. They are

individual spaces within a large photovoltaic glass

structure. Circulation within the linear building is

along and opens to a pond. Daylighting is controlled

in both the lecture hall and offi ces. Entries into the

building are at both the east and west end of the build-

ing, corresponding to the circulation space of the site.

COURTYARDARCH 310 - Professor Chad GriswoldThis program consists of a courtyard-style public market. Designed on a fi ctional rectangle site, the north is occupied by a brick party wall, and a small city park is to the south. The courtyard is the most prominent feature in the market. Public access is only available through the courtyard, which can only be entered from the south. Eighteen indoor individual stalls are repeated, and circulation space surrounds the courtyard. Specifi c materials were available for use. The primary structure of the market is made from 20’ tall insulated precast concrete. Circulation space is made from 24’ tall precast concrete, steel tubes and glass. This is taller because it encloses the courtyard, the most prominent space in the building.

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GRIDARCH 310 - Professor Chad GriswoldThis public market is designed as a grid building. Planned for a

fi ctional site, the market opens to the city’s southern park. Fol-

lowing a tartan grid pattern, eight individual structures are re-

peated. Within these structures are three market stalls. The

central structure is removed for natural daylighting and cen-

tral gathering space. Circulation space is not defi ned; how-

ever access into the building is available from the city park.

Specifi c materials were used in this market. While each in-

dividual structure is made from 24’ tall and 16’ tall steel

tubes and 2” thick wood roof deck, the entire building is en-

closed within a photovoltaic glass structure. This allows for

controlled natural daylighting and open views to the park.

INSTALLATIONARCH 320 - Professor James DickerThe intent of this project was to design and build a temporary intervention onto an assigned public site. Working in a group of eleven members, we designed, organized and constructed the entire installation in only a few weeks. The installation is constructed 8’ tall panels that create three perfectly shaped spaces on an irregularly-shaped corner of Oregon and First Street in Walker’s Point. They have no connection with the ground, but are reinforced at the top. While the gradient in the string prohibits the public from walk-ing in between the panels, the spaces provide clear circulation space. “It turns out that this is guerilla ar-chitecture at its fi nest” (Willow, Third Coast Digest).

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Team members:

Paige Alfuth, Julianne Bare, Emily Bequaeith, Derek

Blumer, Filippa Damato, Jared Gozdowiak, Joe Haider,

Brandon Lyons, Jon Schedler, Jerrod Van Oudenhoven

CUBEARCH 320 - Professor James DickerA 12” x 12” x 12” cube is constructed of real materials at full scale. Basswood and mesh screen create the details of the cube, while a wooden frame supports an illusionary fl oating screen structure inside. Each sheet of mesh is supported by slots in the wood. These heavy wooden elements make up the structural sup-port of the entire design, following a tartan grid pat-tern. Smaller wooden columns also provide support for the mesh screen within the primary frames. Differ-ent design concepts were explored as well as different materials. Connections, density, weight and pattern are important concepts in the design of this cube.

FINE ART

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“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright