Anna Schaefferkoettera collection of design work

CURRICULUM VITAE

SANCTUARIES an endless Sisyphean replay

COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING interGENerate

VERTICAL CITIES ASIA Inhabiting the Seams

NETWORKS Opportunistic Aggregation

REPRESENTATION AutoCAD Revit Rhino Hand Construction Physical Conception Process Work

THESIS A Typological Situation

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Master of Architecture Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, Michigan with honors

Bachelor of Architecture College of Architecture + Design University of Tennessee / Knoxville, Tennessee Summa Cum Laude

Tau Sigma Delta Finalist / 2009 Henry Adams Certi� cate of Merit / 2009 Finalist in AIA Middle Tennessee Competition / 2007

Bauhaus-Universität School of Architecture / Weimar, Germany Six month study abroad A1 Level German as a Foreign Language

Project Designer PLY Architecture / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Design initiation on small scale residentail projects as well as the collaborative fabrication of 1:1 mock-ups and � nal installation of an interior design / build commercial project.

Research Assistant : Liquid Planning Detroit MAde Studio / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Consolidating research and preparing video and graphic imagery for use in website presentation.

Graduate Student Instructor University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lecture and studio instruction in collaboration with the faculty members administering Construction II.

Student Intern Marmol Radziner / Los Angeles, California

as part of Taubman College Externship program Smee + Busby Architects / Knoxville, Tennessee

Producing elevations, details, and plans for construction document sets while also partaking in design development and basic schematic design.

education

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2008

experience

2013-ongoing

2012 / 2013

2013

2012

2008- 2009

CV

1000 West Huron Street / Ann Arbor, MI 48103 USA / +1 865 414 0664 / schaef.anna@gmail.comAnna Schaefferkoetter

CONTACT

Faculty Thesis Award University of Michigan / a Typological Situation

Vertical Cities Asia 2012 International Design Competition National University of SingaporeHonourable MentionTeam collaboration and international presentation of an urban scheme which held consideration for both high density as well as aging populations.

Student Show University of Michigan / Opportunistic AggregationRecipient of National AIA Huron Valley Graduate Scholarship

AmeriCorp Volunteer Iowa Department of Natural Resources / Des Moines, IowaResearched and developed a list of localized construction and deconstruction waste management companies. Volunteered for and organized DNR public events.

Construction Volunteer Habitat for Humanity / Des Moines, Iowa / Knoxville, TennesseeVolunteer / summer 2009, 2010, 2011Volunteered with the Carpentry Crew to aid in residential construction.

Pro� cient AutoCAD / Rhino / Adobe Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign / Physical Modeling / Fabrication / DrawingIntermediateRevit / Microstation / Form Z / Adobe Suite: AfterEffects, Premiere

awards

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service

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skills

SANCTUARIES3

endlessAtlanta, GADecember 2012

Graduate Design StudioInstructor: Meredith Miller

The premise of this studio was to investigate the means by which architecture contains, excludes, and/or regulates its environmental milieus. Focusing in particular on the evolutions of wall assemblies and strategies of enclosure as a means to re� ect how we perceive our place among natural and urban circumstances—and embody what we deem safe, healthy and life-promoting.

Researching architecture through this lens prompted the project to focus on the control and regulation of interior environments. Airports, with their necessity for endless interiority, became the typology through which to investigate this further.

As a prompt to re-evaluate the process through which our environments are judged, this project proposes a system which in itself is understood as a means to no ends. The architecture as an object, is inseparable from its own practices and serves as a showcase for our endless search for a cleaner, more seamless, more ef� cient interior. It inserts itself into the interior � eld of study while expanding the wall section to include material swatches. The envelope now separates interior variable � eld conditions from controlled and quarantined elements. In the end, it is our cultural values that decide what is or is not acceptable for the environments we occupy.

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an endless Sisyphean replay

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Dedicated to instant grati� cation, Junkspace accommodates seedsof future perfection; a language of apology is woven through its textureof canned euphoria; “pardon our appearance” signs or miniature yellow “sorry” billboards mark ongoing patches of wetness, announce momentary discomfort in return for imminent shine, the allure of improvement. Somewhere, workers sink on their knees to repair faded sections, as if in a prayer, or half-disappearing in ceiling voidsto negotiate elusive malfunctions,as if in confession. All surfaces arearchaeological, superpositions of different “periods” (what do you callthe moment a particular type of wall-to-all carpet was current?)-as younote when they’re torn...

-Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace

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For the betterment of future design... presenting guidelines for a continuously upgraded international standard.

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263,820Yongsan, South KoreaApril 2012

Graduate Design StudioInstructor: Mick KennedyCollaborators: Rachel Jessup, Sara Anderson

A one square kilometre territory is the subject of the studio prompt. This area, to house 100,000 people living and working, sets the stage for tremendous research and investigation into urban density, verticality, domesticity, work, food, infrastructure, nature, ecology, structure, and program. The design focus is the integration of these issues with a primary concentration on the social aspects of an aging population.

In order to direct our efforts, site considerations were defaulted to a generic urban condition, the corner lot. This provided the opportunity to focus on the architecture of the prompt. Through deep investigation into social constructs of housing for a culture which is rapidly aging, the main concept became that of adaptable integration. Providing a design which accommodates various lifestyle choices, the projects reaf� rms the importance of social integration for healthy growth and holistic living.

Here the plan became the priority through which design was executed. The building is bisected into two zones, one for assisted living and one for more independent individuals. The individual apartments establish this concept on a more intimate scale by providing the platform for diverse occupational situations. As families and individuals age, lifestyle choices may change. Here the social infrastructure is designed to provide for various living agendas with lifelong social support.

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An intensive part of the design processwas working through models as a meansto mediate between overall building schemes and intimate details. Becauseof this, broader formal concepts where able to be utilized to develop the details of individual operations within thehousing complex.

For example, the divisions between apartments became T formed structure (seen as black vertical pieces in opposite models) which supported the in� lled � oor plates.

This division then became an expressionof vertical cores which dispersed variousbuilding systems. The design utilizesthis function to organize bathroom and kitchen operations (as seen, here, in concrete) in a way which opensup the apartments to various livingcon� gurations.

(above) cast concrete sectional models(opposite page) exploded axonometric diagramming vertical organization of program, circulation and building systems(opposite page far right) full scale building model

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(above) elevation study(below) perspective study connecting elevation to interior space

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wall section providing programmatic links between urban seams and local inhabitants of Yongsan

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Honourable Mention

263,820 x 4Yongsan, South KoreaJuly 2012

International Competition: Everyone AgesMentor: Lars GreabnerCollaborators: architecture_Sara Anderson urban planning_Elliot Weiss

Evolving out of the interGENerate project, this competition entry extended the issues of social integration for an aging population into urban planning. Integrating the project within the one square kilometre territory became the subject of the competition prompt, and, in collaboration with an urban planning student, this entry focused on architecture’s ability to generate activity at the city seams. This design presents a unique nodal scheme which integrates speci� c conditions of the site into the life of the city.

Central to the site strategy is the belief that the development of the city in general, and the nodes in particular, is not limited to a focus on any one speci� c age or user group. Multi-functional programmatic spaces that are not segregated by age can adapt to meet the needs of all people - young to old.

http://www.verticalcitiesasia.com/?q=archive/2012

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The four nodes-Forest, Water, Cliff and Agriculture-each relate to a combination of speci� c conditions: the restored Uk’cheon, new and existing fabrics and the Yongsan Park. Daylighting of the Uk’cheon and revitalizing the park in particular play critical roles in the development of the site. The daylighting of the Cheonggyecheon in Seoul (just North of the site) has been extremely successful and speaks to the feasibility of this type of project. As for Yongsan Park, development plans are underway and as the city evolves, many opportunities for linking the park to the city will present themselves.

The nodes highlight these important changes in the urban fabric and establish a framework through which the city can develop. By capitalizing on the integration of social life into the naturalistic elements of the site, this scheme proposes an integrated approach to urban planning.

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con� guration of different nodes (far left and far right)a day in the life sequence illustrating node as spatial and social connectors of the city fabric (center)

building adaption to site : Node 03 and Node 04

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2012 Student Exhibition_AIA Award

105,050Detroit, MIDecember 2011

Graduate Design StudioInstructor: Neil Robinson

The premise of the Network studio is to integrate broader connective issues related to site and the built environment. Focusing on the prospect of a new bridge linking Windsor, Canada to Detroit, Michigan, issues of safeguarding a territory from foreign intrusion became a primary issue. The idea of subnature, as provided by David Gissen, provided the underlying design directive to this study. Detroit, itself emblematic of different forms of urban threats which have begun to opportunistically aggregate in the city, provides an ideal location with which to investigate architecture’s interaction with the territory it inhabits.

The design proposal is composed of two opposite, yet interconnected programs, one which deals with the control of toxic substances and one which deals with the control of invasive elements.

Within each piece of program there is an integrated system of entrapment and release of the particular elements associated with the research. With more control as to how the elements are released back into the existing landscape and the Detroit River, the newly articulated landforms offer the prospect of a more adaptive future aggregation. The points of control which the program entails are only in control of creating a disturbance. This, in turn, generates the occurrence of an adaptive process which will continue long after this border control is no longer in use.

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(left) existing subsur� cial and air pollutants(right) existing sur� cial conditions of unregulated boundaries

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proposed site planleft : toxic substance control _ right: invasive species control

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(top) toxic substance control plan detail (opposite) invasive species control plan details(bottom) sectional presentation models

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In parallel to the design studio, a seminar on Site Operations provided the opportunity to more intensely investigate the projective operation of the design proposal.

Utilizing this opportunity, the area of study focused on successive landscapes. The research provided the tools with which to design the landscape which processes the release of any toxic substances. The successive nature depicts the extended time-frame of the design’s interaction with its site. Throughout the process, the building plays an important role in the creation of a territory extending beyond the site boundaries.

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sectional perspective illustrating the transfer of material through the invasive species control station

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AutoCAD

December 2011

Graduate Design SeminarRepresentationsinstructor: James Macgillivray

This seminar focused on learning the representational techniques of Piero della Francesca in terms of his perspectival constructs of solid geometries. AutoCAD was required as the platform to construct, render and output all � nal drawings.

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Revit

April 2012

Graduate Design StudioPrecedent Studyinstructor: Mick Kennedy

This precedent study focused on the analysis of a housing typology. Revit was required as the platform to construct, render and output all � nal drawings.

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Rhino

December 2011

Graduate Design SeminarRepresentationsinstructor: James Macgillivray

This beginning of this seminar focused on investigating representational techniques through the analysis of an architectural prototype, here the Abhaneri Step Well. Although not required, Rhino was utilized as the platform to construct and render the � nal representation.

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Hand Construction

varies

Drawingsketch book investigations / ink on mylar presentation /travelling sketch

Drafting and drawing skills developed while studying at the University of Tennessee. Sketchbook studies worked through during thesis at the University of Michigan.

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Physical Conception

December 2012

modelingconceptual charrette / 3 containers

From left: a container for heat material layers from interior air black rubber black yarn waxExpanding when warm, the wax becomes malleable. When the temperature cools and the rubber de� ates the wax reforms with the yarn to form a rigid shell indexing the past temperature.

a container for sand material layers from interior small stones metal fabric wireSand originates from the aeons of wear on larger stones. Beyond any immediate timeframe,natural wear will cause the interior material to gradually wear down and small particles will escape.

a container for dust material layers from interior air rubber metal fabric � lterRubbing against the metal fabric, the rubber will fail releasing the interior air. Air particles will escape through the � lter, leaving only the remaining particles too large to escape trapped inside.

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Process Work

December 2011 / June 2013

various media / schematic iterations

Left Column:

Process work completed during the design of Opportunistic Aggregation (see pg 29).

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Wax sections spatializing a 9” x 9” negative of the ground.Photographic inversion of conceptual growth patterns.Watercolor study of � gure ground relationship.Model / draft of spatial extension and � ltration.Hybrid grafting of prospective programs and existing conditions.Sketched organization studies of inverted sites. Wax pour to represent ground in � nal model.

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A day’s investigation in modeling sketches providing iterations of a studio apartment positioned between public land and private property. Work completed within the studio of PLY Architecture.

Study models built at 1/16” = 1’-0”Site model 1/16” = 1’-0”: chipboard layers with wax � nish, plywood base

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