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NATHAN ANDERSONM. Arch I Portfolio 10.09B.S. Architecture 05.10U niversity of Michigan

23560 West Creek Dr.New Boston, MI 48164734.223.4139njanderson14@gmail.com

PIZZA OVEN

URBAN VILLAGE

FLYNN PAVILION

BLIND CONTOUR

FILM CENTER - CCS

ANAMORPHOSIS

BIGNESS - HS

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NATHAN ANDERSONM. Arch I Portfolio 10.09B.S. Architecture 05.10U niversity of Michigan

23560 West Creek Dr.New Boston, MI 48164734.223.4139njanderson14@gmail.com

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CSDESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson

ADVISOR/ Joel SchmidtPURPOSE/ Arch 322LOCATION/ Detroit, MIDATE/ 01.2009 -04.2009

An investigation from the film Slumdog Millionaire provides a design basis for a film school at the Center of Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. The film was shot with an ovelap of planes and frames, leaving a tilted frame condition.

Centered around the cinema itself, a literal overlap provides the user with a dual experience. While you become disconnected from the city upon arrival, your mind is free to have a more intense film experience. Upon exit, the user is reintroduced to the city through tilted framed openings, all the while mixed pro-grams promote a voyeuristic learning experience. Materials include basswood, museum board and vellum.

The decision was made to collect the building on the street corner, both sat-isfying the surrounding context as well as giving back green courtyard space. This also allows the various occupants to see one another on different levels of the building.

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DESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson Chris Sotire Frank KavaADVISOR/ Mary-Ann RayPURPOSE/ ExtracurricularLOCATION/ Caochangdi, ChinaDATE/ 06.2009

The design is based around an inclusive pizza making center. There is room for prep work and display of finished product, with storage underneath. Fab-rication of the falsework was designed to easily be taken apart without being broken after dome assembly. Heat re-sistant barrier surrounds the dome and forms the countertop.

Based on a relationship with the local villagers, the oven was constructed purely by means of home-made uten-sils and materials. Those used in the development of the village became the foundation for our tool palette. Traveling to the nearby industrial market hosts all available materials.

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DESIGNER/ Nathan AndersonADVISOR/ Anca TrandafirescuPURPOSE/ Arch 218LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2008 - 04.2008

Intended for public interaction, this distorted projection by perspective captures a student walking into the stairwell, showing them the plan as they enter. The student occupies a specific vantage point, which reveals the shape. Unlike the normal use of projector-stencil techniques, these mediums are painters taped by eye only.

While from one vantage point the viewer can see the complete image, they get to experience the defragmentation as they walk through the space. The work exists as a whole - with its complete shape as well as the fragments. In presentation, the drawing pulls apart the space to make sense of the object and the object to make sense of the space.

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DESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson All Studio MembersADVISOR/ Lars GraebnerPURPOSE/ Arch 317LOCATION/ Belle Isle, Detroit, MIDATE/ 09.2008 -12.2008

In order to understand a buiding’s struc-ture and its components, its essential to examine a case study. Broken into teams, the studio was to break down an entire building and document its proper-ties and assembly. A compiled set of documents then accurately represent the model (chip and museum board) that was then constructed by hand.

In the process, my duties included all facade, roof, and plan documentation, as well as construction of the small room and truss members.

Flynn PavillionEero SaarinenBelle Isle, Detroit, MI

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Flynn PavillionEero SaarinenBelle Isle, Detroit, MI

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Flynn PavilionEero SaarinenBelle Isle, Detroit, MI

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Flynn PavillionEero SaarinenBelle Isle, Detroit, MI

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ADVISOR/ Anca TrandafirescuPURPOSE/ Arch 201LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2007 -04.2007

What creates a “real” drawing? A study in the excercise of blind contour gives insight for better drawing and design intuition, drawing past logical thought. Lead on Vellum.

Process included looking at the right hand as the left drew, following the eye along contour lines. This was followed by a paper bag, one drawing without looking and another every five minutes. Which is more “real” and authentic? What should it look like as opposed to what does it look like?

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Lindsey May Kayla LimADVISOR/ Mary-Ann RayPURPOSE/ Arch 409LOCATION/ Beijing, ChinaDATE/ 05.2009 - 07.2009

China is a rapidly changing city, and with that change comes an abandonment of history. With the economy and middle class growing, villagers seek to expand their estates, but not for the Ameri-can Dream. Over the course of three months, only a fraction of the +460 villages shown were documented.

The interviews documented hint that the villagers are torn between discontent for the past and what the future holds for their once rural but now urban villages. Still, all are welcome to the bettment of the whole, and act toward it.

Our aim is to document these changing villages and predict what might become of their futures.

B.A.S.E. Bejing, ChinaBeijing Architecture Studio Enterprise

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THE VILLAGEANYMORE;

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CALLED A VILLAGEWITHOUT

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CONSTRUCTIONIN THE VILLAGE

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HSDESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson

ADVISOR/ Thom MoranPURPOSE/ Arch 432LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 09.2009 - 012.2009

This High School is a result of the question “What is Bigness?” From the Koolhaas prespective of icon to Kreir and his village notion, where can the design play?

In this project, there is a combination of the two. At the scale of the context, the building is very massive, but on the scale of the school within itself, there is a village quality by means of a literal architectural gradient of rooms, which results in a program gradient as well.

In a strictly massing design strategy, our form did not change much, and compro-mises were made. From the early stage, various one minute models were made, and the best one chosen. Dialogues with circulation and program result in the final model.

The horizontal bars create a corridor urbanism, which scales down the mas-sive building to a village like quality. In other zones, where the bars meet for example, are places where people might congregate the most. Paint on foam, museum board.

The above depict a hand drawn perspec-tive series, showing how a student might travel through the school. As one moves throughout the building, the spaces get larger and smaller depending on what program is held in that specific location.

Lounge

Bookstore

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Different rooms can call for different programs, making the possibilities virtu-ally endless. This allows for changes to be made as the school adapts to differ-ent student bodies each year to supple-ment Chicago’s school system. Shown above is the second floor plan, which provides views to the pool, gym, cafete-ria, and room locations. An occupiable roof serves as a shortcut around the building, spanning all three floors.