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The mission of this project was to design a competitively-priced, zero-energy ready, suburban single-family production home. It will be a baseline for energy-efficient homes in the area. We worked as a team with engineers at UW-Madison to submit this design to the Solar Decathlon and presented our work in front of several judges and viewers. This design demonstrates the adaptability of our home by creating a production house design that can be applied to any lot located in the upper Midwest. To achieve this we focused on two clients: the home builders and the homeowners. The design is responsive to Midwestern clients interested in an updated Arts and Crafts/Craftsman style, and supportive to builder’s goals of economy of form and materials. This house will be an affordable, and modifiable house that can be built quicker and more efficiently than a typical home. This is the new standard for affordable and sustainable homes that actively fights climate change by reducing residential energy consumption. This home will be built for a family in Verona, WI. The design methods I went with on this home were around open concept and breaking up the house in a service/served style. Though a small footprint, an open floor plan and vaulted living space makes the space feel larger. The modern craftsman is now functional for the everyday Midwestern, and is a model for energy savings.

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The project explores the translation of machine learning within architecture perception. The focus of project heavily related to the process and interpretation of subtle detail that occur as the bi-product of ML outcome. Start with analyzing assigned artist’s project, we pick up the rule set being applied and use that to produce input data images. In this stage, we focus on the multiplicity of iterations, which structure the forming of our final approach to the project and acquire the final output images.

We investigate the nuance within the output images and develop a process of manual translation that can clearly demonstrate the relationship with the ML output. While doing so, we start think of architecture as the media. The texture, interior-exterior relationship, space quality and circulation, all are part of the translation process. As this process go on, we can provide a consistent method to generate 3D massing from 2D images. Ultimately it creates a design associated with both architecture as end-product and machine learning as its platform.

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Located in the inner Harbor District, the MKE Scholar’s Residency aims to create a community of individuals. A series of ‘steps’ throughout the hill define different social interactions and programs. A library, café, gymnasium and performance spaces hug the perimeter of the site forming a large public courtyard. Further south is home to the gardens and residencies of those who inhabit this urban village.

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Arch 650 Urban Design Studio focused on the underdeveloped east side of the Third Ward in Milwau-kee. Among the surface lot ridden land stands a blackhole in the neighborhood stretching two blocks long. This was previously known as the A. Gagliano Co. warehouse buildings and was used for rip-ening tomatoes. Instead of demolishing this cheap metal clad building, I set to transform it into afford-able work / live residencies for artists in Milwaukee. I focused on the north building and developed Buffalo Street into a pedestrian public space. The transformed north building includes 24 residencies and 19 studio spaces, while the south building contains a restaurant and formal gallery. The north building also includes a cafe and bloody bar adjacent to the public space and a produce market to the northwest. The project aims to create a small artist community as well as an iconic place people want to visit in the less travelled part of the Third Ward.

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Apartment Structure

Through exploring the work of Sol LeWitt, I developed an architectural proposal for an alternative apartment building that expressed the process that it took to create it. The process was driven by taking a rule set developed through research of the artist Sol LeWitt and his many sculpture series. By running a number of tests using a machine learning program called Runway to create images that are AI generated based on my own interpretations of LeWitt’s work. The project is an exploration of machine learning and graphic representation based on our perception of how 2D images appear to be blurry, transparent, and layered. The final massing, section, cladding, and plans were all a result of applying an “interlace” action to them, as it is a method used in broadcasting to send data efficiently over cable. The shifting that occurs and fracturing of the grid (based on Sol LeWitt’s original series) make for a building that plays with the perception of boundary and traditional form.

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A conversation within social housing about the individual versus the community. This projecthighlights 16 separate units stretching along the entire site, which is located in the Third Ward,Milwaukee. These units are not the same, but equal; some have a stair that extends up to the roof,whereas some have a backyard and are ADA accessible. Expressing a literal individuality withinthe units, the units punch in and out of the retaining wall and create different environments foreach unit. The community space formality is simple with two ‘boxes’ on top of each other, withthe bottom box having a slight angle to create a boundary between the public and privateindividual units. At that moment the building also carves in its own entrance. Overall this projectis having a conversation about the individual over the community within social housing.

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The goal of this project was to connect the underdeveloped parts of Milwaukee’s Third Ward District to the existing city by acknowledging and understanding the existing movements of the urban form. Throughout my transformation of the underutilized area of Milwaukee, I devised an urban greenway that cuts through the site, as well as an urban pathway that connects the Third Ward District the existing bike path along the lake, Riverwalk, and Downtown. In the hopes of creating a new permanent adaptive component of city life and devise a renewed sense of character for a redeveloped part of the city that can continually evolve and promote livability with a more pedestrian footprint. For my focus area, I wanted to create unique connections to people and places to create a vibrant urban community. I carefully considered the angles of my hotel to respond to the two corresponding north and south streets to create a “gateway” into the focal point of my project. As well as meticulously considering the different street layers to reclaim the ordinary and create dynamic spaces that merge the public and private realm.

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The Estuary is a fish hatchery designed for pre-cast concrete construction. When designing the precast module for The Estuary’s roof, I wanted to focus on designing an element that could collect, drain, and filter water while following the typical pre-cast construction limitations. My roof module is designed in two different sizes that when combined create 3 different roof conditions. The module is faceted in two directions to deliver the water to a stream in the middle of the panel. The center of the panels are rippled on the top to allow for water to run down the panel slowly, and travel through small collection pools. The building is designed so you can experience the roof’s underside while walking through the raceways on the first floor and view the top side of the roof from the second floor gallery and balcony. The Estuary is split into three separate areas: the main building which holds most of the program, the raceways which are exterior, and the restaurant, which is separated from the main building by the raceways. Splitting these programs into three separate spaces allows for people to visit the site all day long.

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The Craftsman V. 05 is the fifth version of a Net Zero Production home series in the Craftsman style. This iteration takes a few differentiations of the original craftsman design from Rachel Schulz in its detached garage and roof plan. Both the original craftsman as well as this design strive to be close to or better than net zero energy consumption in their performance. This semester’s work was primarily based around producing a working set of drawings as proof of the simplicity of what it takes to construct a net zero home today in hopes of working with builders and developers to broaden the use of such designs in mass on today’s market. The semester saw two primary approaches in construction techniques to achieve this goal the primary design, selected from UW Madison’s energy department, was the use of SIPS panel construction to fabricate a net zero home. My design approaches the project from a more typical 2x6 construction seen in the residential building sector today. This was to prove that net zero design and detailing can be easily achieved, in mass, both in new innovative technologies as well as with use of technologies familiar within today’s market and building community.

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Unidad

For the last 30 years, the region of Huepetuhe has undergone significant geological and cultural change. Before the global recession in 2008, the area was predominantly verdant rainforest, but financial conditions worsened, and the value of gold rose to counterbalance the fall of fiat money. This economic condition spurred a rush of artisanal, often illicit, mining practices; the effect of which has produced a dramatic decline in arboreal populations, rises in CO2, and widespread mercury contamination.

In response to this landscape, the intervention is a structure whose appearance is informed the specific dimensions of its host pit: a modular bamboo spaceframe acts as an extension of the landscape. Scaffolding would first be introduced to support the insertion of bamboo modules (easily assembled and sourced from local material). The community then aggregates these modules as needed to accommodate the established indigenous weaving practices performed by women throughout the region. The architecture will therefore allow women to become an integral part of the economy and will in turn encourage women to pass their dying knowledge of weaving, dyeing, and embroidering textiles to the next generation.

Over time, the plant waste from weaving and consumption will accumulate and compost, resulting in the gradual buildup of sediment in the host pit. In the far-future, the project, in the absence of humans, will shift ownership to the animal stewards who came before, as they incorporate the derelict frame, which will by this point be indistinguishable from adjacent plant growth, into their habitat lifestyles.

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19/1 A Precast Roof System Located at the confluence of the Milwaukee and Menomonee Rivers,19/1 is an Urban Fish Hatchery and Public Park developed in conjunction with a precast roof panel system. The precast roof system is developed from a single shape which is then flipped, rotated, and reflected to create unique interior experiences. The different arrangements of the panels also allow for practical implications such as the management of light, water, and maintaining a green roof structure on a portion of the panel. The structure manages water by allowing it to collect within rooftop bioswales that overflow into interior drainage columns with allow for the possible collection of water. The downturn of the precast panels also allows for the controlled flow of water off of the roof into ‘green alleyways’ that insert themselves into the footprint of the building. In an economic sense the single shape allows for a maximum of two roof panel molds with various inserts which greatly reduces the cost of creating each individual panel. The structural components of this precast system are is the use of an inverted single tee beam. On the ledge of the beam is where the dapped end of the precast roof panel rests allowing for simple assembly. The goal of 19/1 is to create a public space within an area that is generally thought of to be privatized. Implicating education, leisure, and production within downtown Milwaukee will provide a valuable community asset while providing a practical and dynamic means of construction.

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The town of Nuiqsut occupies the fastest warming region of planet Earth. Located on the northernmost coast of Alaska, the landscape surrounding the town is drastically changing due to rising global temperatures. The town is financially reliant on the oil production in the region; however, it is the oil extraction practices which have expedited local warming trends, melting the permafrost, and threatening the Inupiat peoples’ traditional methods of subsistence hunting and storing meat in underground ice cellars, or sigluaq. 

In response to these conditions, Sigluaq is constructed in the center of town. Using repurposed materials from the now decommissioned TransAlaska Oil Pipeline, a vertical structural slab with an accessible interior is built that burrows deep into the permafrost and bedrock and hosts a series of new ice cellars built off it. As the permafrost continues to thaw over time, the ice cellars are converted for different uses and a new, deeper ice cellar is built off the slab. Over time, the system expands, and due to the unstable ground above, the village moves completely underground in what is now a self-sustaining, subterranean city. When a human extinction event occurs in the year 2250, the city saves the residents and allows for the eventual return of human civilization.