Katie Lynn CressallM.Arch University of Michigan 2011

cressall@umich.edu

5 ReActive_InActiveIncremental Construction

The proposal a 1-5-10 year scheme which combines the displaced unemployeed population in

Detroit with the uninhabited Fisher Body Plant.

1In the 1rst year the Fisher Body Plant

will provide a training facility in which the unemployeed will learn construction and

dismantaling techniques. Their first lesson will be constructing their classroom spaces.

The workers will then begin to take apart abandoned buildings in Detroit in order to recycle

and resue the parts. The materials will be

categorized and housed in the Fisher Body Plant.

5The 5th year begins construction of the more premenant traihing facility tube. It will reuse

the decontructed materials and be an ongoing educational contruction. The tube will grow

throughout the building as more sections are built and classroom space increased. The tube system fits between the pre-existing column system and

uses it as structure.

10The 10th year will begin the process of

repurposing, reusing, redirecting, and resizing materials for outside projects. The city will have abandoned buidlings recycled and the new work force will construct needed urban infill projects,

creating a healthy urban density.

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Mirroring SoaneCritic_Robert Adams

House of John Soane: mirrors as wayfinding, lightening space, and spatial interconnections.

Soane = Interloper. Guardian Glass Manufactering is also a house of mirrors without a guide.

The strong linear flow of glass is reflected into secondary paths. Primary direction is disturbed by mirroring - Soane the interloper. Cuts into

factory reveal. Tactful insertion of effects. Accupenctional zoning. Break boundary, somtimes inhabit. Rays, parascopic effects, and mirroring.

Hiding but visible. Delicate series of moves, not strong figures. Light touch. Inplicate body in a

harsh environment. Otherworldy is cast in curating experience. Refracted images. Mirror as micro

species. Penetration of light. Lightening the heavy. Laser atmospheres piercing cloud. Exactitude,

precision, toppography of dust. Capturing zephyrs with films. Perceptual games. Mirros as a device never gets stuck. Architecture goes through mirror

and migrates to next space.

Digital FabriDigital FabricationCriticFaculty_Maciej P. Kaczynski

Projects using digital fabrication tools such as:

CNC Milling of wood to make a footstool without glue or hardware

CNC milled mould to use in vacuum forming PET plastic to make a repeating module for

a screen

Seam-induced double curvature using waterjet cut steel, scripting, and spot welds.

Multiple Scelerosis CenterCritic_Ryan Smith

Facility for Multiple Scelerosis research and treatment. The concept was fragmentation

- reflecting the nature of the disorder with the built form of the buiding. MS is caused by the disconnection of the nervous system and the form of the building reflects this fragmentation. The breaks in the form are where circulation and interaction of various functions happen. The layers are 18 inches high to create a human scale and provide benches and tables for indoor and outdoor use. The terracing also blends the complex

Mass and VoidCritic_William Miller

The Salt Lake City Funerary Chapel and Crematorium is a study in dualities

which make up the experience of life. The design plays with the balance of life/death, mass/void and light/dark. People inhabit the

void, and when they die, they are buried in the mass. The equilibrium between the mass and the void calls for the creation of void

to, in turn, create a mass. The play of light coming out of dark and void coming out of

mass is explored throughout the project

Passive Cooling - Scale: 1/8” = 1’ - 0” Clearstory window allows hot air to be removed. Air moving across water is cooled

Passive Solar- Scale: 1/4” = 1’ - 0” Thermal mass absorbs heat or coolness during the day and radiates it at night.

Day Night

Passive Cooling - Scale: 1/8” = 1’ - 0” Clearstory window allows hot air to be removed. Air moving across water is cooled

Passive Solar- Scale: 1/4” = 1’ - 0” Thermal mass absorbs heat or coolness during the day and radiates it at night.

Day Night

Monastary Eco ChicCritic_Karl Daubman

Proposal for a monastary on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie. The project would follow a

comprehensive studio structure and explore all the technical as well as design aspects of

making an eco-friendly monastary.

Whitehorse Housevolunteered for Nonprofit Design BuildBluff which gave housing to a single mother with four kids. The site was on the Navajo Reservation located

in southeastern Utah. Scope included design, construction documents, fabrication, green architecture, and construction.

Digital Representation

Digital MediaInstructor_Tony Serrato

Rendering course. Software included Autodesk 3D Max, Carrara 4, Rhino with Vray

plugin, and AutoCAD 2010 as well as video editing software.