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Graduate PortfolioB. Arch 2010 + M. Arch 2012University of Michigan

NATHAN

NATHAN ANDERSONM. Arch I Portfolio 03.12B.S. Architecture 05.10University of Michigan

23867 North Park Dr.New Boston, MI [email protected]

OBJECT DESIGN

THE POINTS [A2]

REFRESH HOUSTON

ALASKA PORT TERMINAL

CAP and TRAY [ed]

MEGACHURCH

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NATHAN ANDERSONM. Arch I Portfolio 03.12B.S. Architecture 05.10University of Michigan

23867 North Park Dr.New Boston, MI [email protected]

Architecture of Objects | University of Michigan

Graduate 2G3 Project | University of Michigan

2012 Hines Competition Entry | University of Michigan

Undergraduate Final Project | University of Michigan



DESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson + Jesse WetzelADVISOR/ Vivian LeePURPOSE/ Arch 562LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2011 - 05.2011

What can a tectonically driven project accomplish? Does it provide experiential difference across multiple programs? Cap and Tray[ed] is a formally driven project that is situated in transitions.

In order to achieve this goal, indexing became a way to design. Then as a for-mal move, the various peices of indexed design is connected together through lofting to create dynamically interchang-ing spaces. This is found according to program, light, views, and atospheric conditions.

The result is a sectional set of buildings which house living quaters, communal spaces, spa, and other activities in a way that incorporate the daily functions of the spa; from the daily visitors, the week-end visitors, and the facility members.

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The spatial indexing of what it means to be cap and tray. From indexing, how do moments from each part start to speak to one another? What are the best qualities that hu-man inhabitation according to its position within the project?

Located at Willow Metropark, this peninsula extends outward into Kent Lake. In order to determine the exact lo-cation of the site, the experiential and situational conditions are indexed and exaggerated to accept the program of the intended type of spa.

DESIGNER/ Nathan AndersonADVISOR/ McClain ClutterPURPOSE/ Arch 521LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 09.2010 - 12.2010

Today, the so called mega churches that inhabit the United States act as a big business. Members are looked at money and an investment. Much like the big box businesses, they spawn in strategic communities, gathered from indepen-dant companies that use GIS software.

In this project, the intentional misuse of GIS software spawns both site and issues that pertain to spatial conditions within the megachurch.

Within the extents of Detroit lays a mas-sive urban sprawl, which is surrounded by ex-urban self suffiecient nodes of shopping and development. What would happen if a megachurch acted like the anchor department store in a mall and left the rest to adapt to the surrounding context throughout time?

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This information is compared to the projected developments (top) and the currently developed land (top right) along the road system (right bottom), gas stations/shop-ping areas (bottom), creating a typology to current churches.

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Paralleling this set of information with the generalized business nature of malls, I decided to place a new mega church in a high-rate growing community with the infra-structure in place to feed off of high traffic. This was Canton, MI with nearby Ikea.

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In order to create a spiritual effect as a justaposition against the mall concept, light is corrdinated with different types of concrete, which create differing atmo-spgeres within the project. This way, the blending of church and mall are utilized so that either program could inhabit the spaces as the context calls for it over time, giving the building great flexibility.

Shown above are spatial light renderings of how light penetrates the solid in accor-dance to the interior-designed court-yards. Using light as both a wayfinding device and store signifier, the flexibility lends itseld to most programs.

DESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson + Josh HendershotADVISOR/ Doug KelbaughPURPOSE/ Arch 672LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 09.2011 - 12.2011

Increasingly today, more people are working where they dwell. Designed as a comprehensive housing studio, this project acts to ease Ann Arbors demand for downtown housing, with an eye towards what the newer trend of residential living brings to a project.

Situated right off of Main Street (Ann Arbors historic restaurant district), The Points [A2] blends retail, housing, and working as lifestyle synergy. Living ontop of the citys biggest destination brings housing and retail to a better balance and more space for start-up companies to reside within.

Designing structure to house various apartment units/live-work units became the bones, while sytems technologies and tectonics play supporting roles.

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Located along a proposed greenway, The Points [A2] becomes a key node to the success of the project (left). Located within each tower, various units are arranged so that the balconies shift, allowing for facade variation and the further design of the louver systems (right).

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wall mount system(hanging one-story module ties the louvers to the facade)

louvre conguration(combats solar elevation)

rigid alminum tube support(prevents movement against wind loads and transfers load)

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133 2Flat Plate Solar CollectorsThermal Hot Water System

Seasonal Panel AdjustmentManual Adjustment allows for panel angle optimization without the added cost of a mechanical tracking system

HandrailAluminum extrusion top rail with steel

wire mesh panelling, spacing

Bunched LouversAt balconies, horizontal shading louvers are bunched upward to

allow for ideal southern views

Glass Balcony DoorSwing glazed doors allow for preferred

views while providing more superior infiltration control compared to sliding

glass doors

Interior Ceiling InsulationProtects against cold thermal

bridging in cases where an exposed baclony is above a non-balcony zone

WindowFixed, double glazed fenestration in standard sizes to fit with the aluminum panel facade system

Interior Ceiling InsulationProtects against cold thermal

bridging in cases where an exposed baclony is above a non-balcony zone

Aluminum Panel FacadeModular, 4 x 3 Panels that clip into vertical support mullions with rigid insulation beyond supported by light guage steel studs spanning between precast floor panels

Exterior Ceiling InsulationProtects against cold thermal bridging in cases where an exposed floor plate is above an open balcony

Horizontal Shading LouversFolded sheet aluminum louvers, 4

deep, that span the southern facade of the building, and bulge out at balcony locations, to provide more

ideal shading

Prefab Balcony InsulatorRigid insulation and resteel system designed to prevent thermal bridging through concrete floor plates

Balcony ResteelProvides additonal support for the cast-in-place balconies due to their custom insulation system

A combination of poured in place and pre-cast floors connect to a prefabri-cated, insulated balcony which resits horizontal thermal conduction.

The louver design translates into cano-py design through the entrance from the underground parking structure. It incorporates both the horizontal lou-ver curve with the straight elements of the rear arcade.

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Equinox - 46 Solar Altitude Angle -100% Flat Plate Exposure - 90 Solar Incident Angle (Ideal)

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Winter - 24 Solar Altitude AngleSolstice -100% Flat Plate Exposure - 116 Solar Incident Angle

Rooftop Mechanical Room Scenario

South Tower111 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,552 ft Collection Area

Central Tower111 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,552 ft Collection Area

North Tower114 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,648 ft Collection Area

Flat Plate Collecter Summary336 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors10,752 ft Collection Area

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Elevator Penthouse

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Equinox - 46 Solar Altitude Angle -100% Flat Plate Exposure - 90 Solar Incident Angle (Ideal)

Summer - 72 Solar Altitude AngleSolstice -100% Flat Plate Exposure - 68 Solar Incident Angle

Winter - 24 Solar Altitude AngleSolstice -100% Flat Plate Exposure - 116 Solar Incident Angle

Rooftop Mechanical Room Scenario

South Tower111 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,552 ft Collection Area

Central Tower111 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,552 ft Collection Area

North Tower114 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors3,648 ft Collection Area

Flat Plate Collecter Summary336 4x8 Flat Plate Collectors10,752 ft Collection Area

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DESIGNER/ Nathan AndersonADVISOR/ Anca TrandafirescuPURPOSE/ Arch 473LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2010 - 04.2010

How can architecture be defined as a threshold, both physical and mental? From the bowels of a cruise ship, one may try to define what the intermedi-ates are between one destination and another.

In this project, the ideas of intermediacy and disorientation are the subjects through which architecture tries to de-fine. As an occupant inhabits the cruise ship, they become displaced between point a and point b, but offers a sense of placeness by providing a multitude of amenities of entertainment. This ultimately dissolves the threshold.

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Much like the Yokohama Terminal, the project presents itself as a con-tinuous space, yet in this project, the space is determined by both program and the experience achieved between programs as threshold. The gesture to have the ship dock within the fabric of the city presents a duality of integration, as the height of the ship starts to blend into the cityscape yet is a completely foriegn object which is removable.

This project is best represented by a series of vignettes, which start to explain the programmatic and spatial process from dock to city. Slippages of arrival and departure spawn a curiosity and possible disorientation through two linear paths.

DESIGNER/ Nathan Anderson + Heidi Swift ADVISOR/ Douglas KelbaughPURPOSE/ Hines CompetitionLOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2012

The Urban Land Institute/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competi-tion is a nationwide interdisciplinary graduate competition engaging in a chal-lenging two week excercise in respon-sible land use.

The location chosen is a blighted corner just inside downtown Houston, Texas. After deliberations, our team decided to redevelop the program to be a market district, creating place by integrating the existing bayou park with housing and rerouted trafice/pedestrian routes.

My responsibilities included conpet sketching, traffic analysis, phasing with our financials team member, and producing three perpestives for visual interpretation.

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The Market District is a LEED Gold neighborhood leading downtown Houston into an urban renais-sance. The development will provide a fresh take on food, comfort, entertainment, and urban living, become an oasis in the city. The marketplace, national grocer, and community gatdening programs will squash the food desert stretching north from downtown Houston; the expanded Sabine-Bagby Promenade will revitalize Buffalo Bayou; and new transit-based and pedestrian connections will allow a seamless integration with the greater Houston area and all of Downtowns amenities.

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Urban Beach/Bar Canoe Launch

New Park Space Landmark Tower

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Infrastructural Barriers, Extreme Climate, Difficult Topography

Use Franklin to foster new downtown connections, create a retail corridor between downtown and the station, provide student housing and expan-sion space for UHD, and expand transit options

Synthesize these concepts into an identity that will attract people from all walks of life

View from top floor apartment in the 220 ft. tall mixed-use tower, with the Market District in the foreground and Buffalo Bayou and Downtown Houston beyond

View from the Louisiana St. Bridge toward the Sabine-Bagby Promenade and the Urban Beach/Bar, with UHD and the mixed-use tower in the background

The Market District is anchored by a congregation of multiple market typologies- and regular entertainment

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DESIGNER/ Nate AndersonADVISOR/ Shawn JacksonPURPOSE/ Arch 557LOCATION/ Ann Arbor, MIDATE/ 01.2012

As a designer, I feel it is necessary to involve myself with the tactile knowledge of building. At a small scale, understand-ing material qualities and connections between elements of design are integral to an overall understanding of architec-ture as a discipline. In my generation, and increasingly in academia today, not enough physical manifestations of ideas proliferate out of the drawings and into our hands. Throughout my final year in my graduate studies, I hope to build objects that harness my knowledge of the physical and digital together.

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The Dynamic Movement LampDesigned on paper, placed into the digital, and outputed using the automated fabric cutter and digital measuring tools to soder and construct a fabric tensioned lamp shade over a wire frame.

Ikebana Flower VaseTaking the traditional formwork casting process in two directions; by digitally creating and pour-ing the cast, and by a hand formed acrylic base.

nate anderson 2g graduate portfolio

Documents

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spatial conditions

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location ann arbor

daily visitors

atospheric conditions

situational conditions

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