Johanna BrandtUndergraduate Portfolio

Johanna Brandt

(248) 802 4164johanna.brandt1@gmail.com

3897 High Grove WayLake Orion MI 48360USA

EducationUniversity of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USABachelor of Science in Architecture, graduated May 20103.9 GPA

Lake Orion High School, Lake Orion, MI, USAHigh School Diploma, graduated May 20073.98 GPA, Honors and Advanced Placement Courses

ExperienceFink und Jocher Architekten, Muenchen, GermanyIntern, May 2009 - August 2009Worked on preliminary design and design phases of various residential projects Assisted architect team on two competitionsRevised plans, sections, elevations, detail sections Diagramming and site plansAssisted administrative assistant in office tasks (answering phones, mail, filing, organizing material sample library)

Place Architects, Seattle, Washington, USAIntern, February 2009Updated website images and texts

Brose North America, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USAIntern, Testing Department, June 2008 - August 2008Translatied technical documents from German into EnglishHelped analyze test resultsProvided assistance with organizational tasks

SkillsFluency in German, proficiency in Portuguese, basic conversational skills in SpanishProficient in AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, ArchiCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, Microsoft OfficeExperience in drafting and model making

Honors/Activities/OrganizationsWallenberg Studio Competition Finalist May 2010 One of 27 finalists chosen to compete in senior studio competitionJames B. Angell Scholar Award March 2010 All “A” record for two or more consecutive termsWork featured in TCAUP Student Exhibition 2010, 2009, 2008 Pre-Architecture drawing coursework, Ho(s)tel on State Street, KinderTankUniversity Honors 2010, 2009, 2008 3.5 Grade Point Average or higherMember of the American Institute of Architecture Students 2009, 2008National Honor Society 2004-2007

Morgan and York Fine Wine and Specialty Foods, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USAWine Department, May 2010 - currentAdvising customers on wineHelping customers order wine for special eventsMaking espresso drinks for customersDesigning sales displays and general store upkeep

Dr. Colleen KennedyAdministrative Assistant, March 2006 - July 2006Entered prescriptions into patient databaseUpdated patient information in database

Experience (cont.)

The Writer’s Getaway UG1 Design Studio Oct 2008, featured in Student Show Instructor: Tony Patterson

Ho(s)tel on State Street UG1 Design Studio Nov/Dec 2008, featured in Student Show Instructor: Tony Patterson

AgriLab Detroit UG2 Design Studio Mar/Apr 2009 Instructor: Melissa Harris

KinderTank UG3 Design Studio Fall 2009, featured in Student Show Instructor: Rosalyne Shieh

Make A Scene UG3 Design Studio Sept 2009 In collaboration with Mike Pigozzi Instructor: Rosalyne Shieh

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Two Islands in Flux UG4 Design Studio Jan 2010 Instructor: Jen Maigret

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The Shy Solar ArraySmartsurfaces Fall 2009

In collaboration with Chris Johnson, Alyssa Ackerman, Michelle Svetkoff, Yuming Yang, and Mat Schwartz

Instructors: John Marshall, Karl Daubmann and Max Shtein

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Fluctuations UG4 Design Studio Spring 2010, Wallenberg Finalist Instructor: Jen Maigret

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Sukkah NYC Open Competition Submission July 2010 In collaboration with Laura Peterson,

Josiah Burger, and Amanda Shin

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The sukkah of the future engages and invites locals and visitors to experience the night and day conditions of the harvest holiday. By daylight, folded canvas apertures create a light-shadow performance as the earth rotates. After sunset, New York City’s light polluted skies leave star searchers discontent. The apertures, now symbolically framing 28 of the Western constellations, point the star searchers to serendipitous framings of sky and city. The New Yorker not used to seeing the starry night sky now has a spatial understanding of Hercule’s and the Little Dipper’s location above him. Constellations line up with the intended viewing points on September 29th 2010 at 19:21, the last night of the Sukkot, when the first three stars are visible to begin the Havdalah service, marking the end of the Shabat. Organic bamboo and linen are used to keep with the Kosher requirements of the Sukkah. Two framed and woven surfaces collapse the traditional wall and roof planes, spatially reinventing the traditional Sukkah. Stargazers begin their quest in a narrow space between the two surfaces, allowing for a solitary experience with the night sky. Their progression continues into the inner shell, providing a more communal and festively interactive atmosphere.

1 Sukkah NYC Open Competition Submission July 2010 In collaboration with Laura Peterson, Josiah Burger, and Amanda Shin

The sukkah of the future engages and invites locals and visitors to experience the night and day conditions of the harvest holiday. By daylight, folded canvas apertures create a light-shadow performance as the earth rotates. After sunset, New York City’s light polluted skies leave star searchers discontent. The apertures, now symbolically framing 28 of the Western constellations, point the star searchers to serendipitous framings of sky and city. The New Yorker not used to seeing the starry night sky now has a spatial understanding of Hercule’s and the Little Dipper’s location above him. Constellations line up with the intended viewing points on September 29th 2010 at 19:21, the last night of the Sukkot, when the first three stars are visible to begin the Havdalah service, marking the end of the Shabat. Organic bamboo and linen are used to keep with the Kosher requirements of the Sukkah. Two framed and woven surfaces collapse the traditional wall and roof planes, spatially reinventing the traditional Sukkah. Stargazers begin their quest in a narrow space between the two surfaces, allowing for a solitary experience with the night sky. Their progression continues into the inner shell, providing a more communal and festively interactive atmosphere.

2 Fluctuations UG4 Design Studio Spring 2010 Instructor: Jen Maigret

Common walking routes taken by local residentsPhotographic study of current site conditions

In order to establish a new way in which the public can inhabit Manhattan’s shoreline, this project lays its interest in the creation of three water systems and the effect of water on the people with which these systems interact. The first is a wading poolscape which is constantly altered by the ebbing and flowing of the Hudson River. A public pool in which artificially manipulated water levels transform programmatic implementations makes up the second system. In order to sustain this complex public water infrastructure, and to allocate as much area as possible to the public poolscapes, a series of stacked private pools on the northern edge of the site creates an economic system with which to subsidize the rest of the project. By implementing the construction method of a simple parking structure, pools are stacked on top of a private locker room. These pools can be rented out short term and provide opportunity for a more private swimming experience in the midst of Manhattan.

Common walking routes taken by tourists

WADING POOL

PRIVATE POOLS

SKATING POOL

LAP POOL

wet/dry tidal

wet/dry seasonal

dry

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concert/performance/film

meeting/excercise

filtration

reservoir

rental high cost

membership no cost

integration no cost

public no cost

sunlight/privacy/access/proximity

protection from views/stable water quality/ access

integration/audience

social interaction/ leisure/ events

Initial studies with an interest in water fluctuations and their programmatic consequences

Study models exploring sectional changes through folding and shearing of planes

Wading poolscape along shoreline in which incisions and folds create wading pools

Public pool with audience seating connecting to wading poolscape

Private pool tower is created through the folding over of surfaces at the north end of the site in order maximize southern exposure

Study model: Chipboard and paper

Parking tower/Private pools Public lap poolWading poolscape

Column and beam structure - regularized

Column and beam structure - shifted for private pools

Column and beam structure - shifted for parking

Column and beam structure - system

Column and beam structure - regularized Column and beam structure - shifted for parking

Column and beam structure - shifted for private pools Column and beam structure - system

Initial studies of private pool system: hanging from structural walls vs. inserted into column and beam structure with incorporated parking

Study models: Museumboard

Study model: Texturized quickcreteThe public poolscape consists of a soft-edged texturized hardscape which alters in texture depending on the space’s relationship to water

Frequently flooded elements have a rougher texture in order to provide a safer environment

Comfortable slopes welcome sun-bathers and relaxing outdoors by the water

Very smooth surfaces lend opportu-nity for skateboarding and biking

Study model: Formwork constructed mainly in chipboard in combination with other materials create different textures in the quickcrete

Low Tide High Tide

Fluctutation DiagramTidal fluctuations in the Hudson and its relation to people use

Low tide High tide

Diagram of changing tidal levels of the Hudson and their effect on population concentrations and densities

Large areas of normally flooded terrain are exposed, creating an ideal undulating playscape

As the tide rises, population is pushed further towards the city, watching concerts and performances in spacious flat areas

Water levels continue to rise, people are attracted to the seating area of the public pool to watch a swimming competition

In a catalystic moment, a large field within the public domain floods and becomes a very shallow pond. People gather to explore the spectacle

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Public wading poolscape

Public lap/shallow pool

Parking structure

Private rental pools

Sloped seating for performances, public locker rooms underneath

Plan drawing: hard and soft edges represented through accumulation of water “particles”

Locker Room Plan 1" = 16’

Women’s Rantal Pool Lcoker Room

Men’s Rantal Pool Lcoker Room

Women’s Public Pool Lcoker Room

Men’s Public Pool Lcoker Room

Public Lap Pool

Spectator Seating / Shallow Pool

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Public wading poolscape affected by the Hudson River’s tidal fluctuations

Low tide, high public traffic

Public lap pool with artificially manipulated water levels

Low water, competition and spectator seating

Rising tide, low public traffic High tide, high public traffic

High water, shallow pool for play Low water, community lap pool

Section 11" = 16' Pool/Parking

Section 21" = 16' Public Locker Rooms

Section 31" = 16' Pool/Parking and Public Pool

Section 11" = 16' Pool/Parking

Section 21" = 16' Public Locker Rooms

Section 11" = 16' Pool/Parking

Section 21" = 16' Public Locker Rooms

Section 31" = 16' Pool/Parking and Public Pool

Final Model (chipboard and basswood)

Site Plan1/64” = 1’

KinderTank is a progressive coalition of educators and and concerned citizens who are re-inventing traditional educational methods. Rather than teaching children from a distance in hope that they will, in the future, be able to apply that knowledge, KinderTank works as a facility in which children are tapped as a resource to solve the problems of the present. Because children are not yet desensitized to the world around them , they have the ability to problemsolve in unique and radical ways.

3 KinderTank UG3 Design Studio Fall 2009 Instructor: Rosalyne Shieh

Site access along river via Chicago’s “River Walk”

Highrise residential buildings to the east of the site

Site as seen from across the river

Freeway bridge and skyline south of site

Initial studies are concerned with the sensory stimulation which children need to learn. Continuous faceted surface as hypersensory spatial experiences in which senses and experiences may overlap provide a unique and playful environment

Sensory pods in which specific senses are amplified or diminished allow small groups to meet and perform high concentration brainstorming sessions actively engaging necessary senses

Isolation spaces are packed and re-oriented vertically. Access to them now requires vertical movement, creating a transitory phase between hypersensory and isolated programs

Isolation spaces are packed and re-oriented vertically. Access to them now requires vertical movement, creating a transitory phase between hypersensory and isolated programs

Programs, whether public and continuous or private and isolated are sandwiched between two landscape surfaces.

Surfaces fold ninety degrees in order to accomodate both types of program (horizontal hypersensory and vertical isolation)

Dining +2’ 0”

Mediatheque -10’ 0”

Kitchen +2’ 0”

Event / Playspace + 0’ 0”

Playspace +0’ 0”

Program adjacencies: Diners can hear the show in the auditorium, the audience can smell the food from the cafeteria and see the mediatheque as a backdrop to happenings onstage, etc.

The large glass playspace serves as an intermediate space between hypersensory landscape and concentration pods. Children enter the hyperenergized space, walk through it, disappear into the circulation core, and re-emerge on the catwalks high above leading them to their isolatied discussion room or workshop

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Mediatheque -10’ 0”

Kitchen +2’ 0”

Event / Playspace + 0’ 0”

Playspace +0’ 0”

Programmatic elements are glass volumes sandwiched between the two surfaces. Covered outdoor spaces connect these volumes

Workshop + 125’ 0”

Discussion + 125’ 0” Discussion + 125’ 0”

Discussion + 125’ 0”

Mediatheque - 10’ 0”

Auditorium - 7’ 6”1

Isolation pods attached to folded landscape surfaces and separated from one another

Hardscape fostering interaction between children in think tank and community

Section 1-1

Rooftop hardscape as extension of openly programmed space below

Landscape between two folded surfaces in which hypersensory program occurs

Section 2-2

Isolation tanks for concentrated think-tank sessions

Both surfaces fold from horizontal hardscape to vertical surfaces

Tall open playspace which connects public programs to isolated pods through vertical core and catwalk system

Upper surface covering programs and acting as hardscape for play and

community activity

Surfaces connect through several ramps

and wide stairs

Isolation program and hyper-sensory program are sand-

wiched between two surfaces. Differentiation in orientation

(vertical or horizontal) and boundary condition (solid wall or

glass wall)

4 Ho(s)tel on State Street UG1 Design Studio Nov/Dec 2008 Instructor: Tony Patterson

This hotel/spa project in a very narrow infill site in downtown Ann Arbor primarily attempts to encourage interaction with different social and economic groups. Because of its proximity to a large college campus, its clientele includes visiting students and faculty, as well as professionals and families.

State Street

Automobile velocity patterns Pedestrian routes Storefront entrancesPedestrian aggregations due to intersections

Storefront entrances Site studies using ribbons as tool to represent velocity

Due to traffic intersection, pedestrian traffic along site slows, while vehicular traffic is either still-standing or accelerating

Traffic patterns intensify in proximity to narrow infill site at traffic intersection, creating aggregations of people

BASEMENTLocation of spa rooms and changing rooms. The circulation ribbons along the party walls allow for daylight to enter the spaces

ONELobby and garden lead to gym and pool spaces. The circulation ribbons along the side lead to the ho(s)tel above and the spa below. Pool and gym can be used by both spa and ho(s)tel visitors

TWO Small hostel style rooms with communal bathrooms and small lounge area

THREEPrivate hotel rooms for wealthier patrons

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Lobby Garden

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Gym

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Hotel

Spa

Skin Ribbon

Structural Ribbon

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Spa

Double height lobby space

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Circulation Ribbon

Light Well

5 AgriLab Detroit UG2 Design Studio Mar/Apr 2009 Instructor: Melissa Harris

Detroit is a sick city. Many of its residential lots are empty, and crime and obesity levels are high. The most logical approach to such a ailment is a place that fosters a healthy lifestyle. The required program of entomology research lab and gym fit perfectly into this concept when accompanied by a marketplace.

Empty residential parcels are converted into satellite farms which are worked by farmers and gym patrons alike. Gym users rent workout equipment in the form of farming tools and trade physical labor for fresh produce

Empty public parcels become farmland. Produce is transported to marketplace. Researchers are able to use farms as field stations and ‘bugs’ such as earthworms, bees, and ants can be sold as commodities for patrons’ private gardens

Occupied residential parcels vary in density throughout city, farmland is used to fill gaps between these areas

Location of site in cultural center of Detroit, near Woodward Avenue, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the College for Creative Studies

EconomyFarms Take Root in Detroit's Foreclosuresby Charla BearMorning Edition, June 11, 2008 · Wayne County, Mich. — home to Detroit — has been hit especially hard by the mortgage crisis.The county has inherited thousands of unwanted properties, leaving plot after plot of vacant land. So a nonprofit group pitched an idea: Take that unused land, and grow food for the needy. This year, the group — called Urban Farming — will take 20 derelict properties in Wayne County, then pull weeds, lay fresh topsoil, and plant fruits and vegetables. The gardens aren't fenced off, so anyone can wander through and take their pick — for free. Any leftover produce is donated to food banks 'A Huge Boon'. Neighborhoods in Wayne County are littered with boarded-up homes and vacant land that's covered in knee-high grass. Demolished apartment complexes have left empty lots the size of football fields.That's why Urban Farming founder Taja Seville says Detroit was the perfect place to start working on farming projects. The city has long suffered from a glut of available property, and last year it topped the nation in foreclosures. Wayne County now has about 7,000 idle plots. Seville saw that as an opportunity. "I've lived in L.A., N.Y., Connecticut, London, Minneapolis, and been around a lot, seen a lot of cities. But I've never seen these long stretches of unused land," says Seville.Under the 20-plot pilot program, volunteers will tend the garden, and the city of Detroit will pitch in water. Wayne County Treasurer Ray-mond Wojtowicz says that's a huge boon. "It won't cost the county anything. We're donating the land. If a person wants to purchase the lot, it will be for sale. Perhaps it will be an inducement," says Wojtowicz. 'I Want to Garden There' Wojtowicz says the biggest benefit, though, is less blight in the neighborhood. And residents say that, unlike abandoned houses, the gardens aren't targeted by vandals. De-troit resident Eric Parrish says that those who live around the gardens respect the farming projects. "They see we're doing something to help the community," he says.Parrish says he recently started gardening with Urban Farming because it helps turn things around in his city."You can tell people are struggling. So when I do see these plots of land it makes me say, 'I want to garden there,' " he says. Parrish says most people are grateful for the gardens, although at first a few were concerned they would attract pests. Turns out that urban farms do attract people, says Gail Carr, one of Detroit's city managers. She has houses boarded up nearly every day and sees what a dramatic dif-ference the gardens have on communities. "People are coming out of their homes who wouldn't come out under other circumstances because they didn't think there was still a community or a neighbor or a friendly person nearby," she says. Wojtowicz says the county is watching the program and hopes to expand it.Seville isn't waiting to expand. She plans to plant hundreds of gardens in at least a dozen other struggling cities this season.

Motown Going GreenDetroit’s 138 square miles are home to “enough abandoned lots to fill the city of San Francisco,” reports Bloomberg. In an effort to make its unused land more productive, nearly six acres of vacant land out of an estimated 17,000 have been turned into 500 food-producing “mini-farms. The 11th-largest American city has been rapidly shrinking; the population decline has been brought about largely by the ailing auto industry, as people move out to find work. The city, which suffers from a $200 million deficit and some of the highest poverty, unem-ployment and foreclosure rates in the United States, doesn’t have a lot of options. After decades of failed renewal efforts, the city’s leaders are starting to pay attention to the city’s dwindling size, and to its 55,000 empty lots. On Nov. 25, the city passed a Neighbor-hood Stabilization Plan that seeks $47 million from the federal government to knock down abandoned homes for development. Urban Farming, a Detroit-based nonprofit that was started by former pop singer Taja Sevelle in 2005, is hoping that its work helping to clear land and pro-viding topsoil and fertilizer to Detroit residents will catch on. The crops grown on its farms are sold in markets or end up in soup kitch-ens, and help to raise home values. But although urban farms are innovative, they may not be enough to save Detroit. “I hate to say it … but I wouldn’t put my money in Detroit,” says real estate broker Russ Ravary.

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College for Creative StudiesDetroit Institute of Arts

Wayne State University

The site is situated in a patchwork of residential and institutional buildings. This provides oppoertunity for students, residents, and scientists to interact closely

Unrolled section of drive-through and its relation to other programs

A drive-through facilitates the access to this new lifestyle approach, as Detroit is almost exclusively dependant on the automobile

Initial studies of program as continuous ramped surface folded around drive-through to foster interaction and connectivity

Drive-through and parking are closely related in order to encourage drivers to get out of their car

Arrangement and construction of spaces is derived through folds and faceting of surfaces

Drive-through connects the two streets along which the building is situated

Continuous ramps spirals around poche block containing labs and locker rooms

Private pieces of program are solid poche blocks intersecting continuous ramp, they include lab spaces, lockers rooms and circulation cores

Private pieces of program are solid poche blocks intersecting continuous ramp, they include lab spaces, lockers rooms and circulation cores

Sectional offset lets sunlight into ballcourts located on lower level

Different drive-though options facilitate spontaneous parking

Continuous surface folds up to create gym seating and folds again to form laboratory floor

Ball courts

Library/Gallery space

Research lab

Ramp up

Ramp up

Garden/Parking

Auditorium

Stair up

Stair up

3 4 521

Ramp up

Basement One

Section 1

Gym

Marketplace

Research Lab

Drive Thru

Ramp Down

Ramp up

Ramp up

Ramp Down

Cafe

Garden/Parking

Gym

Marketplace

Research Lab

Drive Thru

Ramp Down

Ramp up

Ramp up

Ramp Down

Cafe

Garden/Parking

Offices

Research Labs

Strorage

Locker Room

Ramp Down`

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Research Labs

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The given program for this first design project in the undergraduate studio series was an artist’s workspace. The sloping site lent itself to an exploration of density and porosity. The spaces, meant for a writer in retreat from the everyday, attempt to reconcile the close relationship between work and rest.

Two dimensional study of density and porosity

6 The Writer’s Getaway UG1 Design Studio Oct 2008 Instructor: Tony Patterson

Formwork for R ockite pour Density study repeated as “cast” Rockite

Density study repeated as framed chipboard model

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Plan Roof elevation

Carved “dense” quiet room for writing and rest

Lightly framed “porous” terrace for meditation, relaxation, and interaction with the environment

End of terrace is lifted off ground to amplify lightness of framed construction

Density study is continued along sloping site. The structure becomes more porous as the building moves away from the hill

Change in construction and density becomes evident from bird’s eye view

The project entails a proposed playful installation for the existing courtyard at the Art & Architecture Building. Our goal was to exploit views while creating opportunity for both acting out, watching, avoiding view, and performing.

7 Make A Scene UG3 Design Studio Sept 2009 In collaboration with Mike Pigozzi Instructor: Rosalyne Shieh

Carved spaces in the ground provide opportunity for shelter and avoiding view

Walkable surfaces along the glass curtain wall of the third floor creates a promenade along studio spaces

Planar surfaces wrapping around the center of the courtyard frame a central performing space

Shifting planes construct seating opportunities facing offices. Students can excercise surveillance over the administration.

Shifitng planes provide spaces which are ambig-ous enough to remain unprogrammed and open to receive the spectacle

The objective of this interdisciplinary course was the designing and building of a heliotropic surface that interacted with the sun. The group consisted of undergraduate artists, designers, architects, and engineers who pooled their knowledge and skills to produce a smart surface which made use of solar energy harvesting, microcontroller programming, parametric modeling, and digital fabrication.

9 The Shy Solar Array Smartsurfaces Fall 2009 In collaboration with Chris Johnson, Alyssa Ackerman, Michelle Svetkoff, Yuming Yang, and Mat Schwartz Instructors: John Marshall, Karl Daubmann and Max Shtein

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1 Thin layer of Formica, laminated2 Solar cell3 High density polyethylene with routed channels4 Thin layer of Formica, laminated5 Servo motor, screwed in place6 HDP for stability, insets for servo7 End panel8 Acrylic rotary bearing9 HDP for spacing and stability10 End panel

Because conventional solar panels are unattractive to the public and are easily damaged, the main focus of the project was to create a dy-namic surface which could shelter its solar panels from the elements via a flipping mechanism.

The curvilinear design of the rows maximizes sunlight exposure of the solar cells by offsetting them from the previous row and preventing them from casting shadows on one another

The panels can rotate to follow the sun’s path, but can also flip upside down to protect the sensitive solar panels from exposure

Sensors recognize sun’s position and environmental dangers and adjust panel’s response accordingly