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Allison Burrell
Table of Contents
Urban Context
[micro] Libraries - Detroit, MI
Axial Estrangement - Detroit, MIMedia Lab - Ypsilanti, MI
Live/Work Barn - Ann Arbor, MIExploited Detroit
Indefinite VoidSuspension
ExactitudeAlphabet in Shadows
Squat Hotel - Rotterdam, NL
Altered Landscape
Abstract Representation
Analysis
Spatial Studies
Installation
Allison BurrellM Arch Applicant3649 Wards PointOrchard Lake, MI 48324
Urban ContextAxial Estrangement - Detroit, MIMedia Lab - Ypsilanti, MI
Axial EstrangementArch 432_Design Studio 3Keith Mitnick - Fall 2011
Set adjacent to the abandoned Michigan Central Station, this project responds to the train station’s axis, while creating a new one. The building is set on it’s own axis to counteract the inherent axis from the train station. The train stations axis is brought to the interior through a view cut through the building. The interior axis is extended to the train station through a red projected cut on the landscape and the built structure.
Detroit, Michigan
Photo-construct illustrating estrangement Interior estrangement conceptual model
North - South Section
Model illustrating estranged axis projection
Diagram of estranged axis versus building circulation
Estranged axis interior view Circulation confusion
Axis within the interior office space
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
This Media Lab for the research and creation of new forms of media interaction achieves more public engagement with the research. The organization of the design is centered around a public circulation that allows Ypsilanti residents to experience old innovations in a new way through advances in technology. The circulation has immersive environments that allow for more normative human interactions with the technology.
Media LabArch 312_Design Studio 1Joshua Bard - Fall 2010
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Circulation diagram of interactive environments
First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan Fourth Floor Plan
Section model studying the continuous circulation
Section illustrating immersive environments
ExactitudeAlphabet in Shadows
Abstract Representation
ExactitudeArch 218_Visual StudiesDawn Gilpin - Fall 2009
Based on the memo “Exactitude” from The Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino, the Fibonacci sequence is used to create an architectural space. The surrounding ground is a burrowed space which is carried into the structure, forcing the inhabitant to crawl through it.
Alphabet in ShadowsArch 212_Understanding ArchitectureMelissa Harris - Winter 2009
This project focuses on the use of shadows to create letters in the alphabet. Photos are taken around the University of Michigan Central Campus. The project forces the observer to include shadow in their read of the image.
Live/Work Barn - Ann Arbor, MIExploited Detroit
Analysis
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Live/Work BarnArch 317_ConstructionEllen Donnelly - Fall 2010
This Live/Work barn is sited in Ann Arbor and serves as a case study of construction methods. Through the use of a cut away model, construction techniques are explored while staying true to the nature of the barn. Work on this model was done in conjunction with two other students, Owen Maher and Arthur Ferris. Drawings shown are examples of drawings which I red-lined as project manager. The drawings were completed by Owen Maher and Alexis Galinis.
Concrete block foundation
Unfinished attic
Cutaway wall detail
Exposed structural roof rafter
Finished living space
North Elevation
South Elevation
Exploited DetroitFall 2011
Images of destruction in Detroit are exploited through photographic manipulation. Either through surface manipulation or construction in 3-D space, the inherent properties of the photographs are exaggerated.
Detroit, Michigan
Indefinite VoidSuspension
Spatial Studies
Indefinite VoidArch 312_Design Studio 1Joshua Bard - Fall 2010
A spatial binary is explored through video, modeling and drawing. Solid and void space is relative to the frame of reference. Only with a clear reference frame can the void be definite, otherwise the perceived void space is ambiguous. Through the model definite frames on the exterior lead to unknown interior voids.
Model illustrating the definite exterior and indefinite interior
Conceptual drawing of reference frame in relation to perceived void space
Indefinite void axon
Indefinite void sections
SuspensionArch 322_Design Studio 2David Moon - Winter 2011
Different scales of photography are exploited to create a photo from which to build an abstract structure. The photos taken focus on the idea of structural suspension, which is carried through in the model. The basswood structure is built to appear random, but is composed of a structure of differing size rectangular frames. The whole structure is suspended from two points at the top of the construct.
Suspension Model
[micro] Libraries - Detroit, MI
Altered Landscape
[micro] LibrariesArch 322_Design Studio 2David Moon - Winter 2011
The neighborhood of Brush Park provides a context of flat open land in an urban setting. The library is fragmented with green-space dividing it into three micro libraries, while still keeping the appearance of one large monumental library. Apertures are focused on capturing views of the surrounding green-space, anticipating the positive re-growth to happen in that space. The landscape is carved to promote interaction between the occupants of the different libraries.
Detroit, Michigan
North - South event space section
Site analysis of vacant land
Vacant land
Developed land
Library model illustrating micro libraries
Family Library Youth Library Event Space
East - West Section
Library model entrance photos
First Floor Plan
Construction methods sectionInitial folding study model
Squat Hotel - Rotterdam, NL
Installation
Squat HotelArch 409_Post Squat: NLDavid Moon - Spring 2011
This proposal has been chosen to be continued into an installation at the 2012 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. In this summer independent research course, modular systems are used in empty office space to create a hotel run by squatters. The integration of squat and hotel space provides a way to fund the squatters lifestyle and change the public image of squatters over time
Rotterdam, Holland
Initial module schematic diagrams
Second iteration of hotel modules
Interior section perspectives of hotel rooms
Interior perspective of the squat hotel
Hotel section illustrating the gradient of squat space to hotel space
Allison BurrellM Arch Applicant3649 Wards PointOrchard Lake, MI 48324