Academic
Academic
Led by 2014 Marcus Prize winner Sou Fujimoto and UWM Associate Dean Mo Zell,students in the Marcus Prize Studio took cues from Milwaukee’s rich tradition of masonry construction in conceiving a temporary public pavilion. Through creative material explorations, the studio developed a novel method of linking bricks into
billowing arches, giving the traditionally heavy material a feeling of lightness and playfulness. These arches combine to form a rippling brick carpet that invites human interaction and exploration.
Student Designers:
Laura Gainer, Robert Guertin, Bradley Hopper, Jared Kraft, Travis Nissen, Aubree Park, Ben Penlesky, Dustin Roosa, Damian Rozkuszka, Jimmy Sequenz, Nathan Waddell, Kelly Yuen
Master's Thesis Website:
Surge, an urban design strategy, mediates the conditions of the edge, Milwaukee’s riparian zone, between Lake Michigan and downtown. Surge restores the bluff, engages building and ground through landscape infrastructure and connects two disparate realms by way of customized precast components. The precast elements make the impossible possible, a trio of iconic towers, which rise to 75 stories; they serve as the new home of Northwestern Mutual Insurance and lakefront hotel and conference center. The restored landscape houses a relocated Milwaukee Public Museum and Children’s Museum to improve Milwaukee’s lakefront museum district. Throughout, interconnected public spaces reveal the ground plane above and below, the riparian edge, and solve user transition between the lakefront and downtown.
Group Members: Jill Schutts, Joe Miletta & Troy Geyer
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This design project took on the campus issue of finding space for a new 250 person dormitory and to try and keep students on campus, due to higher rates of un-returning, off campus freshman. This design process started with a “Chunk” of the building that took on the argument that there was a need to have a greater degree of gradient between public and private areas within a dorm. This solution implemented the insertion of wrapping “C-shaped” common rooms that punch through the exterior and warp into the hallways, accessed through two lockable sliding dorms. These insertions allowed natural light into the halls, created common gathering space between two rooms and activated the hall and room public to private gradient. This “Chunk” was then sited and aggregated, in addition to other dorm and campus program, along the “Campus Life Spine,” that connects the student union, library, Sandburg dorms and sports facility
The historic context of this site has been an ever changing armature for the flow and movement of goods,transportation and ideas. Hosting a fluid system of rail lines and harbor slips, this site has established a formal grain and an inherent weaving or blending between systems.
Given these site notations and patterns, this scheme develops a method of manipulating surfaces and grains within the landscape and architecture, blending the interface of building and landform. From the formal flow of the site, surfaces are sculpted, folded and continued to codify experiences and systems within the lands cape and building weaving the two as landforms within the site. These surfaces manipulate and coalesce from containing programmatic and perfomative components of pathways, seating, bus stops, picnic areas and water management strategies into structural systems of wall partitions, long spans and Enclosure strategies.
