SUPERjury
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SUPERjury, hosted by The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and The School of Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP), is a final celebration of the year’s most innovative and contemporary work at SARUP. Throughout the year, SARUP produces incredible work from all levels of students that often goes unrecognized. In addition to celebrating that student work, this event provides an opportunity for all students and faculty to get involved and learn about each studio’s curriculum. This year's nominated projects will be presented online through a the new online sarupgallery. Voting will take place digitally and winners will be announced during SARUP’s virtual Tea and Bikkies event on Friday, May 15th.
Distinction is the highest level a project can be awarded. The second level is Merit. The third level is Honorable Mention.
For context, Arch 310 and Arch 320 are sophomore undergraduate (BSAS) studios. These are the first studios in their undergraduate education. Arch 410 and 420 are the junior year undergraduate studios. Arch 810 and Arch 820 are the first two studios for the 3 year MArch (non-architecture background) program. Arch 825 is the graduate (MArch) comprehensive studio. Lastly, all elective studios, Arch 650/850, are a mix of undergraduate (BSAS) and graduate (MArch) students.
SUPERjury Winners
Distinction
Bella Biwer, Armand Gamboa, + Clair Hitchcock Tilton, Unidad, Critic: Jose Ibarra
David Katz, Apartment Structure, Critic: Michael Jefferson
Caroline Schlosser, Lucas Dedrick, DJ Curley, SIGLUAQ, Critic: Jose Ibarra
Jansen Van Grinsven, Museum of Hip Hop, Critic: Chris Cornelius
Merit
Lisa Sun, Steel Gardens, Critic: Kyle Talbott
Edward Fang, Deep Learning House, Critic: Michael Jefferson
Natalie Kuehl, A Dwelling with Character, Critic: Nikole Bouchard
Edward Fang, Milwaukee Inflatable Museum, Critic: Filip Tejchman
Kim Workman, The Estuary, Critic: Alex Timmer
Lexie Peterson, Tectonic Fragment, Critic: Karl Wallick
Bailey Abbott & Jack Glavin, 19/1, Critic: Alex Timmer
Kim Workman, Museum of Hip Hop, Critic: Chris Cornelius
Honorable Mention
Seth Calmes, Scholar’s Residency, Critic: Marc Roerhle
Connor Howard, Moonrock Boathouse + Spa, Critic: Monika Thadhani
Rachel Bergelin, Thermal Cascade, Critic: Bill Noelck
Claire Hitchcock Tilton, Seed Bank, Critic: Kyle Talbot
Amanda Golemba, Gridded, Critic: Jim Wasley
Max Driftmier, Sea Lion Zoo, Critic: Lucille Sells
Will Bowman, UWM Student Dorm, Critic: Brian Schermer
Conor Howard, UWM Eco-Residence Hall, Critic: Tim Wolosz
Thesis Prize
Gabrielle Fishbaine, A Tale of Water, Waste, and Human Trace, Chair: Kyle Reynolds
Jacob Kleveland, Conventional Parts, Novel Spaces, Chair: Alex Timmer
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(TRUST)
Telugu for Trust….”complete confidence in a person or plan “The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust.”
In 2015, Joanna Paidipamula was living with her family in Akkireddigudem, India. She contracted an acute form of tonsillitis and needed immediate medical care which was over an hour away. She was stabilized at the hospital but passed days later. She left behind her husband Sunder and two children, Avadh and Anaya, whom I visited in their village last October.
In recent years, medical centers are being constructed within India in response to shortages. These newly constructed spaces address the needs of the people, however, many medical centers are designed by doctors who don’t consider the patient experience.
Spaces innately affect occupants physically, emotionally and spiritually. Without being mindful of these effects, spaces can cause fractured experiences when they are designed in ways that reflect the opposite of their intentions.
Medical centers near the village of Akkireddigudem, India, provide essential healthcare, yet the designs of these spaces don’t reflect the sense of trust that their services intend to create. Rather, these spaces often create an added sense of uncertainty which can lead to visitor apprehension or distrust.
The result of this thesis will be the construction of the Joanna Memorial Center in Akkireddigudem, India, which seeks to imbue trust through its gridded plan, the arugu, the haven, layered screens, authentic material, and shaded roof that encourages the seeking of its services for the immediate and surrounding villages.
For more information, visit www.joannamemorialcenter.com
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Project Description
Hello, my name is Courtney Hoffeller. For ARCH 420, our studio focused
on three different forms of energy: light, sound, and heat. We created three
buildings associated with these energies, an Art Gallery for light,
Performance Center for sound, and Spa/Boat house for heat. The site is
located on the Milwaukee river just south of the urban ecology center with
many types of terrain. For each building designed, the main concepts dealt
with “frequency”.
For project 1 - light, my concept was framing nature with the movement of
frequency. To expand more on this, it was with the building movement
along with the gallery skylights. For project 2 - sound, my concept focused
on a simple form that would mask the exclusive interior acoustics. Finally,
for project 3 - heat, my concept was creating the motion of frequency within
the experience. I created four different typologies of channels to address
the different thermal conditions of each bath; light, wind, heat, water. Each
typology determines the height and location of the aperture which
corresponds to the thermal conditions.
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Hello, my name is Hanna Nitzke. For ARCH 420, our studio focused on three different forms of energy: light, sound and heat and buildings associated with these energies: Art Gallery for light, Performance Center for sound, and Spa/Boat house for heat. The site is located on the Milwaukee river with sloping hills on either side, a flat prairie, and a flooding zone. For each building designed, the main concepts dealt with “intertwining nature”.
For the project 1, light/ Art Gallery, the overall concept is to intertwine nature with spaces of light. The Art Gallery would be located on the steepest part of the site and slope down the topography. It would also utilize different types of roofs for different lighting effects. For project 2, sound/ Performance Center, the overall concept is to intertwine the natural landscape using subtractions and facade surfaces. This building would also slope down the topography, but the main idea was to create a building that would seem like a natural form coming out of the ground and creating a type of acoustic paneling that associated with the building. Finally, for project 3, heat/ Spa/Boat House, the overall concept is to intertwine the natural environment with pockets of heat. This building would utilize all three forms of energy with its unique roof structure for light, the faceted acoustic style panels for sound and creating different thermal environments for heat.
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The site is unique to three distinct area features, a meadow towards the top of the ridge, a forest area that runs down a forty-foot ridge, and a flood plain towards the bottom that meets the edge of the Milwaukee river. The GRID Project focuses on four boxed buildings, The Glass Box Gallery, The Floating Empathizer, the Jenga Spa, and the Welcome Center. The placement of the buildings were determined by creating multiple lines that cross each other to form and frame square and rectangle shapes, hence a grid. This technique helped to keep the buildings proportional and consistent throughout, but most importantly it helped maximize natural lighting. The strategic placement of the buildings forces one to explore and experience the distinct features of the meadow, forest, and prairie on the site. The box shape form of the buildings help illustrates and emphasize the grid concept. But also, the height of the buildings captures unique breathtaking views. The white material used throughout the exterior of the buildings, contrasts the site which breaks the norm of buildings fitting into a site. Instead, the white box buildings standout and can be seen from afar which makes this project remarkable.
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The three previous unit materials, learning experiences, techniques had built to this unit, designing a dwelling for a specific character for you to decipher and empathize with.
Czechoslovakian Author, Franz Kafka, important figure in 20th century literature. His works consisted of him distorting reality, hopelessness, absurdity and experimenting with the modernist movement. His most famous short stories consist of Metamorphosis, The Castle, Amerika and many more. The short story, Investigation of a Dog, the main character that has no name, had a life changing experience that made him realize and question what life really is and looking for the answers to many different questions that confuse him that many other dogs take for granted and don’t think about. He’s willing to take measure to the extreme like fasting and refusing to eat food due to wondering where it comes from and why it's there whenever he’s hungry.
After reading through the short story, the main character, very spiritual and questions everything in life, I consider it the dog version of Buddha. The importance to understand who the character is and empathize with them in order to design a dwelling for it to continue to philosophize and question the world it lives in.
The importance of creating these special moments in the dwelling was crucial, it tests one as a designer to begin to understand who the client really is, what they need from us, and what we can give to them that they didn’t know they really needed.
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The presented challenge is to develop a design proposal for a new visitors’ center for the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL that conforms to the distinct architectural style of the adjacent Temple in addition to being compatible with the historic style of Oak Park itself. The new 22,000 S.F. building features a large 2-story atrium space, a gift shop, new classrooms, a large lecture room for the congregation, new toilet rooms, a café and an administrative office on the second floor. A new below grade parking area accommodates the expanded occupancy. A garden is placed between the temple and the new addition that also serves as the main entry towards the visitors’ center.
The overall form of the structure is carefully designed to avoid visually blocking the Temple from view, as well as allowing the Temple to dominate in the landscape. Per Historic Preservation guidelines set forth by the National Park Service (NPS), new construction materials must be clearly contemporary in nature and the use of original identical building materials are discouraged. To incorporate some iconic materials strongly linked to Prairie Style architecture, vast amounts of wood CLT and exterior stone were used liberally on the exterior façade. Natural light is allowed to penetrate deep into interior of the building through tall vertical fenestrations and interior transoms.
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