portfolio CASSIDY L. ROSEN

ARCHITECTURE Design

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the intimacy of a conversation within the collective city lifeValparaiso, Chile

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PORTFOLIO INDEX

This portfolio is a reflection of work from the undergraduate program of Environmental Design at the University of Colorado at Boulder and outside work. The ENVD program at CU is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the multi facets of design within the built environment.

KRM Consultants Inc, Structural Engineering and Design 4AutoCAD structural engineering drafting

Detroit Community Engagement 6Involvement within a community engagement conference on revitalizing cities

Public Space Research 7Independent research on the transformation of public spaces in Valparaiso, Chile

Mixed Use Office Space 87,000 sf mixed use office building located on Pearl Street in Boulder, CO

Redline/ Urban Fabric 12Urban analysis of Five Points neighborhood

Print Lab 14Print lab in Denver, CO

Landscape Architecture 18Landscape regeneration plan for existing site in Boulder, CO

“Architecture, more than any other art form, it is a social art and must rest on the social and cultural base of its time and place.” Sambo Mockbee, The Citizen Architect

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4 KRM Consultants Inc., Structural Engineering and Design

KRM Consultants: Structural Engineering and Design

The following drawings were created while working for KRM Consultants. Both the roof framing plan and detail were created using autoCAD. The following project is a remodel of an existing residential building. New roof purlins were being scabbed on to the existing roof purlins to accommodate new point loads for new partition walls and new headers in the upper floor. A combination of site visits, field measuring and analysis of existing structural and architectural drawings were used to complete the drawings.

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Detroit 2013: Making a Way Out of No Way

During the spring semester of 2013 I was involved within a community study course on grassroots organizations and change makers who are innovating in the transformation of Detroit. The following June a classmate and I presented at a conference entitled, Detroit 2013: Making a Way Out of No Way: Towards the Next American Revolution sponsored by the Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership. While in Detroit we had the op-portunity to visit localized community efforts such as; community gardens, the Heidelberg Project, and The Hush House Black Community Museum. The following photographs were taken over the one week period while in Detroit when visiting the vacant General Motors factory, vacant lots, and the downtown of Detroit.

6 Detroit 2013: Making A Way Out of No Way: Towards the Next American Revolution

An independent research project was completed over May-June in Valparaíso, Chile during Spring 2012 through SIT: Chile: Cultural Identity, Social Justice, and Community Development. The purpose of this project was to investigate five of the ten principle plazas in Valparaíso, Chile in relationship with the dynamic of the socio-political transformations that are impacting public spaces today. Users and use of public spaces in Valparaíso are transforming not only from the impact of neoliberalism and changes in the ideals of life, but also perceptions of what the contemporary definition of public space means. Are public spaces in Valparaíso identified by the physical space or in turn spaces around them? All research and observations were conducted in Spanish.

7Chile: Cultural Identity, Social Justice, and Community Development

Valparaíso, Chile

8 Mixed Use Office Space: Spring 2013, Instructor: Marianne Bellino Holbert

The integrated studio 4 course began by examining a solitary unit. The unit would not only dictate the design concept and program of a 7,000 sf office/residential/retail building but also serve as prototype for analyz-ing variations in private and public spatial qualities. The concept of the unit was that the unit has unique properties that become trans-formative based upon materiality constraints.

The facade prototype was created by analyzing the variation between solid and void created from both structure and glazing. (1 prototype created using rhino, line-weight exported to illus-trator 2 Combination of laser-cut model and photoshop)

Torque, moment or moment of force is the tendency of force to rotate an object about an axis as is shown in the structural facade. The torque can be thought of as a twist that enables the structure to both provide the rotation of the created geometry and provide stability. (3 rhino and illustrator 4 sketch)

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[RE]DEFINING THE PUBLIC SPACE

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The sense of an “inside” and an “out-side,” of intimacy and exposure, of private life and public space. People everywhere recognize these distinc-tions, but the awareness may be quite vague. Constructed form has the power to heighten the awareness and accentuate these distinctions. The site was located on the western end of Pearl Street. This is a transi-tional site where the design empha-sis was combining the neighborhood within the design of a mixed use building, while continuing to engage with the pedestrian Pearl Street Cor-ridor.

site model: autoCAD, laser cutting

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SITE CONTEXT21st and Pearl

Boulder, CO

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site context: rhino, autoCAD, photoshop

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RETAIL1 retail 12 lobby3 reception4 retail 2

OFFICE5 conference room6 exterior patio7 private o�ce8 communal space9 open o�ce space

RESIDENTAL 12 dining13 living/kitchen14 o�ce space15 bedroom

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Mixed Use Office Space: Spring 2013, Instructor: Marianne Bellino Holbert

floor plans

1 Exterior Perspective: revit, photoshop2 Concept Perspective: revit, hand-drawn

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GROUND 0' - 0"

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OFFICE 20' - 0"

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LOFT 29' - 0"

ROOF 38' - 0"

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Elevations, floor plans, and rendering were created using revit, illustrator and photoshop.

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south north

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elevations

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REDLINE ART CENTER AND URBAN ANALYSISDenver, Colorado

The following drawings are a reflection of the design process and urban analysis that was involved within this studio. An existing art studio, Redline, was located within a gentrified neighborhood of Denver and was the site location for our studio project. Through my studies of environmental design I have gained a strong appreciation that sometimes the process is often just as vital as the final product. During this par-ticular studio I became very interested in understanding the urban fabric of a city. I began to understand how research and analysis of a site with regards to understanding the long-term projection of a design and previous historical context are very important to how we understand the built environment.

Urban Analysis: Fall 2012, Instructor: Marcus Farr

FIVE POINTS represents a segment of Denver that is currently undergoing racial gentrification. Gentrifi-cation takes place when middle and upper-income people move into low-income communities, which ushers in economic change, reinvestment and development. Gentrification within the Five Points region is a result of political legislative legally allowing segregation forcing African Americans from their resi-dential neighborhoods. Gentrification often results in sigmas and oppression of racial and low-income groups. Thus, the design intention wasn’t to perpetuate further gentrification within the neighborhood, but establish an inclusive design scheme that would be mindful of creating a building that would repre-sent the community.

REDLINE

site analysisFIVE POINTS was founded in the 1860s as one of Denver's first residential suburbs and it features some of Denver's oldest homes and historic store-fronts. Brimming with history and pride, its commercial district was a requi-site stop for the world's premier African American jazz musicians--including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and countless others--who stopped in Denver on their way between midwest and west coast tours to play in Five Points' clubs and performance halls. Many of them stayed at the historic Rossonian Hotel, which still stands today. Music and celebration are still alive in the neighborhood including Five Points' Juneteenth celebra-tion--an annual parade and festival commemorating the day in 1865 when African Americans in Texas first heard word of the Emancipation Proclama-tion. This is one of the biggest such festivals in America, attracting upwards of 120,000 people over four days each year. As Welton Street runs along Five Points, you'll find the bustle and hum of 75 businesses, including restaurants, cafes, boutiques, barber shops, salons, a bank and a radio station. What you'll also find is that Welton Street is the only predominantly African American owned commercial strip in the country. From its jazz roots to this proud stretch of merchants, Five Points has made its mark on the history books and in the hearts of its residents.

curtis park historic district

clements

ballpark

Five points represents a segment of Denver that is currently undergoing racial gentri�cation. Gentri�cation takes place when middle and upper-income people move into low-income communities, which ushers in economic change, reinvestment and development. Gentri�cation within the Five Points regional is a result of political legilative legally allowing segregation forcing African Americans from their residential neighborhoods. Gentri�cation often results in sigmas and oppresion of racial and low-income groups.

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71 Blair-Caldwell African-American Research Library2 The Point3 Welton Place4 The Villages5 The Urbans @ Glenarm6 Glenarm Place Condos7 Italianate Townhomes8 The Urbans @ Stout

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general urbanurban center

urbanresidentialindustrialdowntownopen space

historical landmarks

urban renewal

political influence

constructed boundaries

art

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LIMINAL: Defined as the transitional threshold between two fixed states in cultural rites of passages or between two dis-similar spaces in architecture. Layering, dissolution, am-biguity, the ability to transform the occupants perception of the space. This ideology drove my design process, I started to realize that instead of solely focusing on a final building I began to analyze the imaginary forces within the built environment.

concept sketches

concept sketch concept sketch

concept sketch

The intent of this printing lab is to create a space for screen printing illustrators to pro-duce, dry, store, and display their prints. The interaction between digital design and hand-screened prints will intersect on the uppermost level of the print lab. A location of display and enclosed public gathering is located on the main level, the open perfor-mance space is located on the lower level. Below the performance space is a location for storage for prints and materials.

PRINT LAB Denver, CODesign of a print lab for limited edition band posters located near the existing Denver Art Museum.

Print Lab: Fall 2011, Instructor: Kathleen Kambic

Initial materiality and spatial study models. The design process focused on understanding therelationship between solid and void space.

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open space programs circulation

PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAMS

lower level farmers market/performance space looking towards the DAM:(revit, photoshop, colored pencil on mylar)

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Print Lab: Fall 2011, Instructor: Kathleen Kambic

1 Section Perspective: revit, photoshop, hand-drawn2 Section Cut: photoshop, hand-drawn

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south east

north westRenderings and elevations created using revit and photoshop.

L2display

L3 performance

Landscape Restoration of Walden PondsBoulder, Colorado

Landscape architecture project completed at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat. The habitat was originally used as a gravel mine starting in 1958. The property had been stripped 15 feet down to the bedrock. In 1974 the property was reclaimed by the county to create a wildlife habitat for the citizens of Boulder. Gravel piles were com-pacted into dikes to create three artificial ponds and trees and shrubs were planted to help re-vegetate the site. The design project was to further increase the reclamation process and create an open public space to be used by Boulder residents.

Site analysis sketches used during the initial phase of the design process. The sketches were used to understand the micro and macro elements that are present within the site.

Design Intent: Total site area: 9 acresThe design of revitalizing the site was to establish new eco-systems within the existing arid vegeta-tion. Usage of underground water channels will aid in redistributing water to various locations around the site. By redistributing water around the site the arid land will encourage new growth providing a sustainable area for a public park. The site will be connected with a pedestrian bridge that weaves throughout the various habitats. The design intent not only focused upon creating a reclusive public space but also strongly focused upon revitalizing the existing environment. (All work was completed using rhino, photoshop, and illustrator.)

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The manipulated cuts between the existing ponds are engineered for water to arrive at two drainage retention basins. The water surplus from these will irrigate back into the land, in doing so new habitats will emerge within the site to revitalize and regenerate the site resulting in optimized ecological variation and programmatic humanized environment.

site section

habitat marsh

habitat wetland

forest boreal

grassland

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Site plan demonstrating the regenerative possibilities and habitat variations that would be present after re-engineering the existing ponds water levels.

A 50 year site projection shows the gradual ecological and land-form transformation that will occur on the site. Through the process the pedestrian bridge will be taken over by the land resulting in a symbiot-ic relationship between the natural and built environment.