Leann Dreher Graduate Portfolio

LEANN DREHER

PORTFOLIO

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURETAUBMAN COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2012

LEANN DREHER

1CONTENTS:

PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACE

2NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY HEADQUARTERS3PAPER ARCH

6THESIS: FABRICATED DISTANCE54

7

PARAMETRIC SCREEN

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

PROFESSIONAL

1PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACENEW YORK, NY

This studio will bring forward the taxonomy of the performative tactics of existing corporate architecture to develop the strategies for a new Architecture of the Corporation that is an agent for new kinds of collaboration and cohabitation in the city. The goal of the studio is to investigate the possibility of architecture that is the catalyst for the coexistence of the market and the civic, the articulated and productive interface between the ideals of the city and the means that support it, and generate a projection for an urban infrastructure against the obsolete or irrelevant (non)cities of the future.

Through research of Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) in New York City, this project sought to develop and design a new POPS system within the city. Using Hudson Yards as a case study, this system was deployed across the development. By connecting and programming each space to have a different function, and creating a brand identity to make the spaces easily recognizable, the new POPS system aims to become a vital part of the development and attract users from across the city with its varied and diverse programming.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:

PROJECT DESIGN:

MANHATTAN POPS

ARCADE

PLAZA

THROUGH BLOCK ARCADE

MULTIPLE

ENCLOSED PUBLIC SPACE

PUBLIC OPEN SPACE/PARK

THROUGH BLOCK GALLARIA

SIDEWALK WIDENING

MANHATTAN SUBWAYS

covered public space

uncovered public space

building

EXISTING CONDITIONS

parkland

OPEN AIR CONCOURSE COVERED PEDESTRIAN SPACE THROUGH BLOCK ARCADE ELEVATED PLAZA

PLAZA ARCADE URBAN PLAZA SIDEWALK WIDENING

PROJECT SITE

30th ST

31st ST

32nd ST

34th ST

35th ST

36th ST

37th ST

38th ST

39th ST

40th ST

41st ST

42nd ST11

th A

VE

10th

AVE

9th

AVE

8th

AVE

HUDSON RIVER

42nd ST

[A]

[B]

[C]

[UNFOLDED SECTION]

PROJECT SITE: HUDSON YARDS

POPS AXONOMETRIC

articulated facade that differs from original structure

articulated facadethat differs fromoriginal structure


creates a recognizableidentity for publicspace that can be seenfrom a distance



projects from thestructure to increasevisibility

creates views acrossthe city

BASE DESIGN PROJECTION

BUILDING TOP CONNECTION



enlarges usable floorarea

enlarges usable floorarea

projects from thestructure to increasevisibility

NEW POPS TYPOLOGY

[B] MAIN ENTRANCE

[C] HIGHLINE CONNECTION

[A] READING CORRIDOR

READING SPACES

PARTIAL UNFOLDED SECTION

racquetball

basketball

yoga

artists spaces

racquetball

running track

meeting space

swimming pool

running track

chess/checkers

dance studios

batting cages

running track

artists spaces

grill/barbecue

subway

boulderingfield hockey

community garden

artists spaces

reading spaces

soccer

2NATIONAL SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY HEADQUARTERSCAVE CITY, KY

To locate a site, create a program, and design a new headquarters for the National Speleological Society. This project should take into consideration the goals of the group, including visibility, current member needs and membership growth, as well as budget. At the end of the semester, the research compiled by the studio, as well as the individual projects will be sent to the NSS for their use.

The new headquarters design was located in Cave City, Kentucky, near the Mammoth Caves, and in the heart of the caving culture. The design incorporates a museum, archives, sleeping quarters, and a meeting room to allow the building to function in all necessary capacities, while remaining small in size to accommodate the modest budget of the NSS.


PROJECT DESIGN:

SITE PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

1 ENTRY2 MUSEUM3 MULTIPURPOSE ROOM4 KITCHEN5 ARCHIVE6 LIBRARY7 BOOK DISTRIBUTION8 OFFICE SUPPLY9 OFFICE10 BUNK ROOM11 LOCKER ROOM12 STORAGE13 VERTICAL TRAINING14 24 HR ACCESS15 OUTDOOR TRAINING AREA16 PATIO

BUILDING KEY

9

9

9

98

7

6

5

43

13

15

16

1

2

A

B

A

B

NORTHEAST ELEVATION

SECTION A

SECTION B

CANTILEVER SECTIONVERTICAL TRAINING SECTION

OUTDOOR TRAINING

LATTICEWORK ENTRANCE

3PAPER ARCH

This project explored, through the production of a freestanding arch, the various ways in which complex assemblies are drawn, described and fabricated, with comprehensive directions for final assembly. Each team selected an assembly system, made up of a limited number of varied and related units, to examine communication techniques of diagramming 2D + 3D and production of coordinated sets of directions for making and assembly.

Together with my partner, Minghue Huang, we researched, designed and constructed a full scale arch out of Bristol paper, to a height sufficient for the professor (5-7) to walk under freely. The arch was composed solely of the designed units, with no separate connection pieces or adhesive. Drawings were out together as an instruction manual, describing through drawing, the method of assembly to construct the arch in full.


PROJECT DESIGN:

90

2STEP1 STEP

STEP3 STEP4

STEP5 STEP6

STEP7

FINISHED MODULE

MAKE FOLD ALONG DOTTED LINEMAKE REVERSE FOLD ALONG DOTTED LINEFOLD IN DIRECTION OF ARROW

MODULE ASSEMBLY

90

90

90

90

STEP1

+

MODULE AGGREGATION

ORDER OF ASSEMBLY

STEP2

STEP3

STEP4

STEP8STEP7STEP6STEP5

STEP2STEP1

MODULE

MODULE

STEP4

STEP1 STEP2 STEP3

STEP3STEP2STEP1

MODULE

AGGREGATION A

AGGREGATION B


The intention of this exercise is to begin to explore techniques and logics of variable assemblies through iterative research methods that integrate parametric and scripted computation strategies and scale model fabrications. Explorations should follow an iterative process through a series of intense and focused explorations of specific material(s)/method(s).

PROJECT DESIGN:

This surface is derived from strips of paper that are folded and joined in a series of simple operations to produce a larger unit; these larger units then aggregate to form a surface. These operations create surface that act as a screen, with the units aggregating along a curving surface, the length and dimensions of each strip change in accordance to its position in the structure. To allow the unit to aggregate along the curving the surface, the script offsets from a selected surface, and the projects normal to that surface a specified distance to form each unit. To affect the depth of the unit, an attractor point, changes the depth of the unit based on its distance from the attractor point.

4PARAMETRIC SCREEN

5BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

Each group will prepare and produce an illustrated narrative text that frames, links, explains, expands, etc. the stories of the particular industrial sector they have been examining within the Great Lakes Mega-Region.

Together with Sheri Zon, our research analyses the production of the two leading biofuels in the Great Lakes Mega-region: corn-based ethanol and biodiesel made from soy. The support of biofuel through government incentives, laws and regulations, and programs for ethanol and biodiesel production in the last decade is a response to environmental concerns and the United States ever-increasing consumption of non-domestic fossil fuels. This analysis examines what is driving the biofuel industry, the inputs/outputs/byproducts/volumes of its production, the expanse of its distribution, its impacts on connected markets, and its potential for continued growth in the Great Lakes Mega-region.


PROJECT DESIGN:

JAMAICA19,584,358

CANADANETHERLANDS

UK

INDIACHINA

AUSTRALIA

INDONESIA

THAILAND

TURKEY

S. KOREA

UAE

BRAZIL

1,644,6411,019,014

18,175,319

275,068

395,220

2,528,697

506,475217,536

23,053,168

30,218,427

18,474,904 20,461,205

8,053,812

IRELAND

VIETNAM431,133

291,364

252,080

JAPANUNITED STATES

MEXICO

1,021,185

CORN RECEIVING

ELECTRICITYGASOLINE/DIESEL ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY

fine milled corn

corn slurry

STEAM

CORN STORAGE HAMMER MILL CONVEYOR BELT SLURRY TANK JET COOKER1 2 3 4 5 6

emissions

corn

enzymes

BIOFUEL TRADE

1 BARGE630,000 GALLONS ETHANOL1,500 TONS DDGS

1 BARGE 15 JUMBO HOPPER CARS 58 LARGE SEMIS

1 JUMBO HOPPER CAR29,400 GALLONS ETHANOL100 TONS DDGS

1 LARGE SEMI8,000 GALLONS ETHANOL25 TONS DDGS

10% 60% 30%

= =

wastewater

wet distiller grains (WDG)

200 proof ethanol

emissions

ELECTRICITY STEAM GASOLINE/DIESEL

zeolite absorbants

R COOLING TANK FERMENTOR DISTILLATION PROCESS

MOLECULAR SIEVE

ETHANOL STORAGE

ETHANOL TRANSPORT

7 8 9 10 11 12

wastewater

emissions

GASOLINE/DIESELHEAT

WDG HIGH INTENSIVE DRYER

DDGS TRANSPORT

1413

HEAT

yeasturea (nitrogen source)

95% ethanol

corn slurry

carbon dioxidewater

ethanol

5% water

BIOFUEL TRANSPORT

ETHANOL PRODUCTION

> 139

91 - 139

45.5 - 91

5 - 45.5

FLEX FUEL VEHICLE DENSITY BY COUNTY: vehicles per square mile

ETHANOL REFINERY

ETHANOL REFINERY

(unknown capacity)

(diameter scaled to annual production: 1 = 50,000,000 gal.)

CORN YIELD BY COUNTY: bushels per acre 175 +

150 - 174.9

125 - 149.9

100 - 124.9

74.9 - 99.9

< 75

inputs per 1,000 kg of biodiesel oil from soybeansradius = relative cost of material

soybeans (68.37%)electricity (6.11%)

steam (11.83%)stainless steel (1.38%)

steel (2.16%)cement (0.93%)

clean-up water (1.4%)space heat (1.33%)direct heat (3.86%)

losses (2.63%)

diesel (11.8%)gasoline (7.21%)

LP gas (0.67%)

phosphorus (4.16%)potassium (1.28%)lime (36%)seeds (14.79%)herbicides (3.47%)electricity (0.77%)

machinery (9.61%)labor (7.58%)

transport (1.07%)

energy inputs per hectareradius = relative cost of material

costs ($) / kcal*1000

1.155

0


.18

0

nitrogen (1.58%)

> 139

91 - 139

45.5 - 91

5 - 45.5

DIESEL VEHICLE DENSITY BY COUNTY: vehicles per square mile

SOY BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FACILITY(annual production capacity unknown)

SOY BIODIESEL REFINERY(diameter scaled to annual production: 1 = 50,000,000 gal.)

OTHER BIODIESEL PRODUCTION FACILITY(annual production capacity unknown)

OTHER BIODIESEL REFINERY(diameter scaled to annual production: 1 = 50,000,000 gal.)

SOYBEAN YIELD BY COUNTY: bushels per acre> 50

45 - 49.9

40 - 44.9

35 - 39.9

30 - 34.9

< 30

diesel (12.36%)gasoline (4.99%)nitrogen (30.17%)phosphorus (3.33%)potassium (3.09%)lime (3.88%)seeds (6.41%)

irrigation (3.94%)

herbicides (7.64%)

insecticides (3.45%)

machinery (12.54%)labor (5.69%)

electricity (0.42%)

energy inputs per hectareradius = relative cost of material


.38

0

transport (2.08%)

inputs per 1,000 kg of biodiesel oil from soybeansradius = relative cost of material

corn grain (38.21%)

corn transport (4.88%)water (1.36%)

stainless steel (0.18%)steel (0.18%)

cement (0.44%)

steam (138.9%)electricity (15.32%)

95% ethanol to 99.5% (.14%)sewage effluent (1.0%)


1.33

0

This thesis will focus upon ways through which architecture converts abstract cultural notions about the world into physical forms that engender them with the characteristics of real things. It will examine different ways that belief becomes inscribed in spatial orderings, and explore architectures role in smoothing over apparent contradictions between the concepts with which we define the physical world and the way we experience it through our senses. This thesis will call into question the terms and techniques with which architecture embodies and communicates different views, values, and cultural mythologies and it will experiment with techniques for making things that adhere to contradictory types of conceptual and visual logic simultaneously.

This thesis explores the ways in which perceptions of distance can be manipulated, and works to simultaneously exaggerate and collapse ones sense of distance within a single spatial envelope. Through investigations into physical, visual, material and experiential means of spatial manipulation, such as the international dateline, geographical mapping techniques, and cultural borders, this work creates two simultaneous perceptions of reality that interact with, and are cognizant of each other.

6THESIS: FABRICATED DISTANCE


PROJECT DESIGN:

HORIZON

COAST

DEEP WATER

CHASM DISTANT PEAKS

FOREST

HORIZON

DISTANT PEAKS

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Following are selected drawings from my work at Daniels and Zermack Associates, Inc., an architecture firm specializing in banks, credit unions and savings and loan facilities. While working there I have had the opportunity to work on projects at all stages of the design process, from preliminary site design to construction administration to shop drawings, and all areas in between.

7PROFESSIONAL WORK

FLOOR PLANNORTH

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EDGE OF CABINET

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1/4 TEMP CLEAR GLASS

1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOP W/ROUNDED EDGES TOMATCH EXIST.3/4 X 4 7/8 WD FRAME

3/4 WD TRIM

3 SOUND BATT INSUL

5/8 GYP BD ON 3 5/8METAL STUDS

5 NOM

BULKHEAD

EXIST CEILING

FINISH FLOOR

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NEW CHAIR RAILNEW WD BASEBOARD

MATCH TRIMHEIGHTS TO EXIST

WOOD FILLER STRIPCOPE AROUND EXISTTRIM & SEAL

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1/4 GLASS1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOPW/ ROUNDED EDGESTO MATCH EXIST.3/4 X 4 7/8 WDFRAME

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3/4 X 4 7/8 WDFRAME1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOPW/ROUNDED EDGESTO MATCH EXIST.1/4 TEMP CLEARGLASS

1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOP

1/4 TEMP CLEARGLASS1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOPW/ROUNDED EDGESTO MATCH EXIST.3/4 X 4 7/8 WDFRAME

5/8 PLYWOOD

3/4 WD TRIM

ROOM SIDE

MAINTAIN BASE ATAPPROX.1/4 ABOVESUBFLOOR FORCARPET TO FIT UNDER

CARPET

WD. SIDELIGHT SECTIONAA1.1

31 1/4 A.F.F.

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3/4 X 4 7/8 WDFRAMESOLID CORE WDVENEER DOOR (TYP)

3 SOUND BATT INSUL



1 x 4 MILLED (TYP)

1/2 X 1 1/4 WD STOP

DOUBLE 20 GA METALSTUDS (TYP @ CORNERS)

5 NOM 44

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INTERIOR ELEVATIONAA1.1

1/4 TEMP CLEARGLASS (TYP)

1/4 GLASS PANEL

GLASS SEAM

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BA6.1

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