Mitchell Hartig's Architecture Portfolio

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MITCHELL HarTIg

Mitchell Taylor Hartig

3020 Jordan Grove

West Des Moines, IA 50265

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Iowa State University

College of Design

BArch

Environmental Studies

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MACBRIDEENVIRONMENTALLEARNINGCENTERnorth liberty, ia

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The objective of the design was to create a place that influences the education of nature and wilderness to both the youth and visitors. In pursuit of such an objective, it was quickly learned how fragile the medium was to work with.

Through the research of educational facilities, the team investigated how the design of an environmental learning center could potentially assist in educating the client’s primary audience; youth. What manifested was an understanding that kid’s ages 6+ learn as introverts and/or extroverts. Introverts are those that develop primarily through a self centered mind and reflection, extroverts are those that develop primarily through external interests and concerns. It is important the human mind works in both manners in order to stretch the ability to learn. What lacked in the MacBride Environmental Learning Center program was a place for extroverted activities.

With this in mind the building form became two forms that create an inner dialogue for visitors to congregate and learn from one another. This is the place where, after walking on a trail to discover nature’s wonders (an introverted act), kids will gather to participate in group activities.

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The MacBride Environmental Learning Center in North Liberty, IA is home to Environmental Education Programs teaching ages 7 - 14. The MNRA strives for an event and teaching center that embodies sustainability.

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SUSTAINABLEOften times the goal to pursue a sustainable project and holding a projects true vision collide. What results is a project that loses the original design intention to a more environmentally friendly one. Working with mechanical engineers, the MacBride Environmental Learning Center became a project that took the best of both worlds ensuring the original vision of the project held its values in the final design.

The Environmental Learning Center was designed with the intention of staying off-the-grid. The design took on the task of acting as a tool to teach kids about sustainability by becoming a visual display of it’s features; a wetland for waste filtration, roof canopy for rain harvesting, solar energy through PV panels and facade treatment, and a unique consideration to how neighboring trees shade interior spaces.

After running three different building shells our design proved 49.4% better than Ashrae Standard code minimum.

CANOPY


The design of the Environmental Learning Center was inspired by the site’s most prominent feature: the tree canopy. By incorporating the canopy into the design concept the building held its spirit and

engaged naturally with the surrounding context.

One of the client’s goals was to influence the exploration of the surrounding nature. With this in mind the Environmental Learning Center focused

on leaving the horizontal path as free as possible to reduce restrictions created by walls. The use of the

concept “canopy” creates an interior space that blurs the interior and exterior boundaries and drives the

ideals of the client’s needs.

As a part of the program the client desires a 5,000 square foot space that functions as a classroom and an event space. Made possible by a personally designed bi-fold collapsing partition wall, the space serves education, weddings, large and/or small conferences, and business retreats.

The objective was to create a space where education and an event can be at its most efficient while maintaining flexibility. Integrated into the bi-fold partition wall, vertical wooden fins create a moderate sense of privacy to adjacent spaces and offer visual moments at certain angles.

Using wood as a structural and finishing element provides a building that takes responsibility for its nonnative presence. Wood’s sustainability stems from its minimal manufacturing energy use, renewability, and few environmentally damaging greenhouse gases and other air polluting emissions both in manufacturing and over its life cycle.


FLEXIBLE SPACEclassroom & event


ADMINISTRATIONoffice & conference

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JAZZPERFORMANCECENTERboston, ma

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Located at the crossroads of Boston’s central business district and the North End neighborhood, the Boston Jazz Center focuses attention on local social stratification, the historical Haymarket (open-air fish market) and the new Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. Growth along the Greenway led design issues to confront an intervention with site forces and flows. Embracing these movements through and around the site, we elevated the program above street level, allowing the ground flow to act both as a link to downtown and a hub for the Haymarket. The design evolved into two elevated moments that encompass an inner dialogue; a gathering space shared by the audience of both performance spaces.

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The Boston Jazz Center will focus on jazz, experimental, and electronic performance and study. It is hoped that its downtown location will attract a new audience interested in more avant-garde and cutting edge works, and that its jazz offerings will likewise attract a new demographic.

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MOTIONA question arised during the design development: how can music be captured into a static object? This vision manifested a two solid objects agitating in space and wrapped with the extract.

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Inspired by jazz music the interior is designed to accomodate the spontaneity of rhythm and sound through the triangular acoustic panels. These dynamic acoustical panels undulate at moments to create a lively, energetic space while absorbing the sounds and rhythm of jazz that often clash. The various hues of purple created by interior light present a highly spirited space that speaks to a soulful generation.

The performace space is designed as a musicial instrument in itself. Based on the style of music produced, the interior surfaces were designed with the intentions of being replaced and moved. Performers are awarded with a space that takes high consideration to the treatment of sound and the production of a sound performance as superior as the Boston Symphony Hall.

ENERGYmain jazz theater


Characterized by low-income families on the north edge of downtown Boston, the North End neighborhood has developed into an area susceptible to

gentrification. The problem arised: given such a program that encourages a middle class audience, how do you prevent further infuence of a historical

districts alteration?

The problem became solved by:

Preventing hierarchal spaces and creating a lobby space to share and intermingle.

Give back to the community and reserve the ground floor for local retail and commercial activity.

Establish the experimental theatre as a flexible space for lower priced local entertainment.

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INDUSTRIALDESIGNMUSEUMcolumbus, in

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The Columbus Center for Industrial Innovation and Design strives to enhance its local context and magnificient architectural pieces. The design choreographs movement on an axis through two volumes (exhibition area and administration) in order to develop a visual interaction of what exists in the exhibition and what exists in the city context. By exposing the buildings interior, the Columbus Center becames a place to both travel through and to.

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The city of Columbus Indiana is home to the Cummins Engine Company Headquarters as well as key architectural pieces of the 1950’s and 60’s. The city seeks an experiential engaging museum that addresses the city’s cultural landscape and celebrates the city’s long engagement with design. The challenge of a new museum to display the Cummins Foundation confronts issues regarding downtown urban development, a socialization of local architectural figures, and an education of design and the influence on industrial innovation.

ADMINISTRATIONIn order to create a meaningful experience in the museum exhibition and successfully develop a design that would give back to the community, the Industrial Museum becomes an exhibition space that is viewable from the inside out.

Numerous study models were made in an attempt to understand how solids and voids can direct path, manipulate light and shadow, and make a presence. What derived was a building that took into consideration the circulation of the exterior and interior. A path that goes through the building provides the public a personal engagement with what the building holds, a glance at the exhibit; their community’s history.

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CROSBYAPARTMENTCOMPLEXnew york, ny

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In an effort to combine organic with the inorganic this housing provides a nourishing environment in a congested city fabric. Resting on the corner in the art district of SoHo, the apartment complex reflects upon self expressed artistic manipulations towards external forces. Tilting away from the corner, the form takes advantage of solar, perspective and the rare privacy positions. Located near heavy retail Broadway St. the ground floor accommodates a restaurant with public access to the lobby floor. The interaction between the residents and community (customers) deliberates a semi-private zone as the facade skin secures privacy while maintaining oblique views.

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Develop a 25 unit housing on a corner parking lot addressing sustainability, community, culture and current housing issues. Ground floor must include a retail of sort.

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The objective of the apartment complex’s appearance was to prevent the influence of a neighborhood losing it’s harmony and unique characteristics. The use of Cor-ten steel layered over structural concrete attributes to the rustic qualities of the neighborhood while still holding a modern contemporary appeal.

VERNACULARThe rhythmic tilt in the building’s facade relieves condensing pressure to the street level, opens the interior apartment units to as much daylight and solar absorbtion as possible, and provides unique views through the openings of each tilt.

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