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Roy Cloutier ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO University of California, Berkeley — M.S Arch II / MCP Application

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This is a portfolio of my undergraduate architectural work from the University of Minnesota, completed between 2008 and 2011. For a more updated version of this portfolio, follow this link: http://issuu.com/roycloutier/docs/undergraduate_architecture_portfolio

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Roy Cloutier

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO University of California, Berkeley — M.S Arch II / MCP Application

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1STUDIO I: FORM AND ATMOSPHERE

ART + LAND ALLIANCE NATURE RETREAT

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HENNEPIN BLUFFS REVITALIZATION

MAPPING URBAN NARRATIVES

STUDIO III: URBAN ARTS FACILITY

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Studio I was an investigation into form, space, and materiality, examining how the three interrelate to create spatial atmospheres. For the purposes of this studio, architecture was essentially addressed as inhabitable sculpture, focusing primarily on how the body’s relation to form, space, and materiality shapes one’s perception of structures as one moves through them.

Through an iterative modeling process combined with digital manipulation of photographs of the models, I examined how two archetypes of materials — massive and planar — endow spaces with particular feelings, moods, and atmospheres. From this exploration, I created a final model that synthesized my explorations of massive and planar materials into a singular final design, demonstrating the atmospheres that each material can create.

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The site is an infill lot in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, fronting on a busy thoroughfare. Tucked away behind the site is a small park near the base of Riverside Plaza, a 1970’s urban renewal housing project that is currently home to an extremely diverse group of immigrants. Thus, a major challenge of the studio was to use the site’s unique role as a connector between the street and the park to structure users’ experiences of form and space. In response, I propose a tripartite scheme: an inclined plane forming a bus shelter adjacent to the main street, a raised platform forming an outdoor gathering space adjoining the park, and a combination of planar and massive elements forming a smaller indoor community space at the rear of the site, nearest the housing units.

STUDIO I: FORM AND ATMOSPHERE

Undergraduate Studio I: Form, Material, and Methods Professors Dan Clark, Martha McQuade, and Craig Roberts Fall 2010

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MASSIVE MATERIALS: Plaster

PLANAR MATERIALS: Paper

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SYNTHESIS MODEL + PHOTO SEQUENCE

Plan and Circulation

Approach from Main Street; Bus Stop

Community Gathering Space

Approach from Riverside Plaza

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Outdoor Gathering Space

Community Center, Interior

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Approach from Riverside Plaza

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In this project, I was assigned to design a retreat for the Art and Land Alliance, a rural foundation devoted to the artistic, architectural, and ecological education of young people.

Following initial explorations in which the topography and vegetation of the site were reshaped to create a variety of landscape spaces, the final portion of the project entailed the design of a visitors’ center and assembly hall for the site. My design seeks to use the building as a tool to more deeply connect the students with the natural landscape of the retreat.

--- The building’s three-leaved design cuts through the ridge at the peak of the site, minimizing its presence while simultaneously providing views of the entirety of the site from within the building. By placing the bulk of the building underground, the roof becomes an extension of the landscape, with the raised tips of the leaves serving as viewing balconies.

At its essence, my design conceives of the building as a frame for the beauty of nature. The architecture seeks to “speak softly” in a way that does not distract from the beauty of the natural context, becoming a canvas upon which nature can paint. The minimal material palette and snoothly curving interior form draw attention to subtly beautiful elements of the environment that otherwise might not be noticed, such as the passage of the sun and the changing color of sunlight throughout the day, views along the valley, and dappled light filtering through tree branches.

ART + LAND ALLIANCE NATURE RETREAT

Landscape Studio I: Understanding And Creating Landscape Space Professors Bradley Agee and Tony ChevalierFall 2011

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Urban waterfronts represent the most compelling convergence of society and ecology in the modern city. In these spaces, the overlapping and competing demands of culture and nature are brought to the forefront. Waterfront spaces represent tremendous opportunities not only for remediation, repairing the toxic legacy left behind by past industrial use, but also for renegotiation of cultural attitudes toward nature.

As a river city in transition from heavy industry to the service industry, Minneapolis is home to many blighted, post-industrial waterfront sites. My design for one such site, Hennepin Bluffs, seeks to create a model for the redevelopment of these spaces by transforming an underused, previously industrial waterfront site into a vibrant, unique natural oasis in the heart of Minneapolis.

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The design is planned in three phases, with the ultimate goal of restoring, reconnecting, and redeveloping the site and its immediate surroundings. The first phase focuses on restoring the site as an ecological asset, through the remediation of pollution on the site, restructuring of water flow through the site, and the restoration of terrestrial and aquatic habitat.

The second phase entails reconnecting the city to the restored park spaces, with the creation of an intermodal transportation corridor and greenway streets creating connections to the park, and trail creating connections within the park.

The third phase involves the community in redeveloping the area surrounding the site, restoring the historic mill buildings and creating a new mixed-use community center on a vacant lot.

HENNEPIN BLUFFS REVITALIZATION

Landscape Planning Studio II: Making The Mississippi Professor Patrick NunnallyFall 2010

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MINNEAPOLIS ST. PAUL

MINNESOTA

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTADOWNTOWN

MINNEAPOLIS

ST. ANTHONY

CEDAR-RIVERSIDE

ANALYSIS

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REPURPOSED AND NEW BUILDINGS

PARK / GATHERING SPACES

TRAIL CREATION

HABITAT RESTORATION

STORMWATER FLOW

COMMUNAL GARDEN

THREE PHASES

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FILTRAT

ION

RIVER

INFILTRA

TION

PHASES I: ecological restoration

HABITAT RESTORATION STORMWATER FLOW

AQ

UAT

ICTE

RR

ESTR

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YEAR

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REPURPOSED AND NEW BUILDINGSPARK AND GATHERING SPACES

PHASES II + III: reconnecting + redevelopment

Southeast Approach

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Mapping Urban Narratives is an exploration into the agency of mapping, investigating its potential as a normative activity. As such, maps were envisioned not as static objects, mere tracings of what is currently present. Rather, they were seen as dynamic — as tools that, in their capacity to reveal things about the present that may not be readily observable, set the ground for future worlds to unfold.

M A P P I N G U R B A N N A R R AT I V E S

Undergraduate Studio IIIProfessor Nina EbbighausenFall 2011

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In the site analysis phase of my third studio, I was given the open-ended task of mapping the concept “Past/Future” as it is expressed in the North Loop area of Minneapolis. As I explored the site, I began to realize that there is not one singular “Past/Future” of the site, but many individual, subjective “Pasts/Futures” coexisting within the site. These pasts and futures grow from the users’ experiences of the site, and take shape through the users’ narratives of what the site has meant to them in the past, and what they hope it will mean to them in the future.

Through interviews with users of the site, I obtained a number of these narratives and spatially placed them onto a multi-layered, transparent map. By employing mapping techniques that allow these narratives to be revealed and re-presented in a way that is spatial and allows for spontaneous juxtaposition, the process of mapping goes beyond mere documentation to become a normative process.

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The final project for my third studio proposes a new facility for Juxtaposition Arts, an urban arts nonprofit that seeks to empower underprivileged youth through artistic education.

The conceptual basis for my design is best summarized by a quote from Andy Goldsworthy:“Art is ... seeing something that you never saw before, that was always there, but you were blind to it.” In my design, I sought to embody this idea by using the building as a tool to recast the familiar in a new light. Through three spaces in particular, a street theater, a marquee staircase, and a skyline space, elements of the site and the building’s program are presented in a way that invites users to reexamine their preconceived notions about the site and the students.

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The facility houses a student art gallery, black box theater, education spaces and workshops, a café, and social spaces. The interstitial spaces created by this program were made to engage the site in unique ways, creating a street theater, a marquee staircase, and a skyline space.

From ground level, the view of the downtown skyline of Minneapolis is obscured by surrounding buildings, yet if one is raised above ground level the view is dramatically revealed. Similarly, the skyline spaces is canted at an angle, the reason for which is not immediately apparent from the street. However, the moment that one steps into the skyline space, the purpose for its angle is revealed: it perfectly frames the view to the downtown skyline, prompting users to realize anew the site’s proximity to the urban core. As well, on its near end, the space uses reveal joints to frame a portion of the existing brick wall of the neighboring building, lighting the wall and presenting it as if it were an art piece. In doing so, it re-frames the “gritty” character of the immediate site as beautiful, inviting users to reevaluate their ideas about it.

The street theater and marquee staircase work together to directly engage people on the street and draw people into the building. The marquee staircase is specially lit at night to signify to passersby that an event is occurring, while the street theater provides an in-between space to create a smooth transition from street to building. In it, spontaneous performance or installation of large-format artwork can occur, drawing people in off the street.

STUDIO I I I : URBAN ARTS FACILITY

Undergraduate Studio III Professor Nina EbbighausenFall 2011

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PARTI

Parti Plan in Site

Site Black Box Theater - Mass

Frame Downtown View

Street Theater - Void Education and Art Display Spaces

Vertical Circulation Core - Marquee Staircase

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PROCESS MODELS

Final Model

Explorative Models

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FIRST FLOOR 1. Street Theater + Entry2. Lobby3. Café

4. Student Artwork Gallery5. Main StairPoche: Private Spaces (Backstage, Administration, Etc.)

SECOND FLOOR6. Rooftop Balcony

THIRD FLOOR7. Skyline Space / Theater Mezzanine8. Black Box Theater

FOURTH FLOOR 9. Classrooms and Workshops10. Gathering / Pin-up Space

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Serial Vision of Skyline Space

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Marquee Staircase - Lighting Study