k kelsey

design portfolio2012

1 biome farm2 aids memorial park3 veloscape4 eugene kitchen5 furniture6 luminaries7 fringe urbanism

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Existing in ExtremesBiome Farm: Wetland Grafting for Restorative Landscapes

In the late 1800s meadows in Springfield, Oregon were employed for industrial production: a millrace was hand-dug and a mill constructed. This mills function transitioned from flour to energy to timber. As a result, an extreme was imposed on an untouched landscape shifting the trajectory of the place. Over time, the disturbance at the Booth Kelly Mill formed its own ecosystems; Chinook Salmon became abundant within the millrace as it took on the characteristics of a wetland, then a mill pond. This produced an artificial nature that at some point became authentic. As the timber industry disintegrated in the Pacific Northwest the mill fell into disrepair.

The site is situated at the bow of a river, the edge of a city grid, the base of a butte and is a place of historical and future extremes. Since the first disturbance at Booth Kelly industrial processes have rubbed up against its wilder edges. This place, formed by disparate and controlled uses, must look for a future state built on the weaving of its latent infrastructural and ecological potentials.

The Biome Farm harvests restored wetland scions on the Booth Kelly site, utilizing existing timber facilities and a Union Pacific rail spur to export these sections of landscape. A recipient site is excavated in order to receive the mature wetland graft. This disturbance regime will more rapidly propagate wetlands in other areas. As proof of wetland resiliency, this testing site of extreme conditions motivates the stitching of new architectures into the existing infrastructure of Booth Kelly. This proposal looks to exploit existing extremes through their reorganization.

This an example of a larger story of ubiquitous extremes. Extremes exist in areas that are pinched and constricted by dissimilar uses. Dissimilar uses form distinct edges. In this case, ecosystems of the city, industry, topographical shifts and a low-lying wetland exist in this hard contrast. What are the infrastructural opportunities for the integration of these ecosystems in the formations of new productive landscapes?

This is a project about the re-imagination of an ex-industrial site in Springfield, Oregon driven by a studio at the University of Oregon in partnership with the City of Springfield. The design is for a wetland farm that harvests grafts of the landscape for wetland propagation in other areas of the Pacific Northwest. It exploits opportunities at the junctions of various ecosystems.

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Booth Kelly Use Patters

Historical photographs of the use of the mill pond for the Booth Kelly Timber Company and the industrial infrastructure for timber production and exportation

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Site Plan Key Wetland Key

swaths of harvest rail lines extended into the site

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Site Plan Key Wetland Key

secondary collector lines intersect-ing with rail extensions

scion/graft grid by size of railcar [for transport]

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AIDS Living Memorial Urban Forest

competition entry with Joseph Sadoski

This park creates a grid of trees across the entire block dedicated to the AIDS memorial park. The trees are a living memorial to the many people that have and continue to suffer from HIV and AIDS, but also to the entire neighborhood, the researchers, community organizers, family members and friends.The grid of trees will show quick growth of a Hybrid Poplar or other local, fast growing varietal. After 8-10 years of growth the trees will be harvested and made into paper, creating a paper book or exhibition documenting the major hurdles and victories of that period of time. The trees will be replanted.

Over time, the memorial gallery will have a library of documents created by the trees themselves and showing a chronology of this epidemic. This design creates a haven for people within the city, but also habitat for birds and other animals. It is meant to contrast the built environment that surrounds it and create a functional landmark and unique park for the neighborhood.

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UPPER MEMORIAL GALLERY - AT STREET LEVEL

LOWER GALLERY WITH EXHIBITION/EDUCATION SPACE - AT LOWER PARK LEVEL

OFFICE & BATHROOM ZONESKYLIGHTS ABOVE

INDOOR STAIR & SMALL IN-FORMAL AMPHITHEATRE

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AIDS LIVING MEMORIAL URBAN FOREST

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Diagram of Tree Growth and Harvest Cycle

UPPER MEMORIAL GALLERY - AT STREET LEVEL

LOWER GALLERY WITH EXHIBITION/EDUCATION SPACE - AT LOWER PARK LEVEL

OFFICE & BATHROOM ZONESKYLIGHTS ABOVE

INDOOR STAIR & SMALL IN-FORMAL AMPHITHEATRE

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capturing the synergy of leg + pedal through one crank revolution

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capturing the synergy of leg + pedal through one crank revolution

VeloscpaeCycling Outposts: Infrastructure at the Fringe

In Eastern Oregon road conditions shift, there are great sweeping long horizons, ravines, plateaus, craggy cliffs, and small towns. The method of exploration is an unchanging datum of paved black road. The velocity of travel through this landscape shifts the vantage point, sensation and the connection of the traveller to it. A chain of proposed outposts occupies all of the roads varying conditions, adapts to their form, slips within the layers of vision, and accommodates a range of services for the cycling traveller.

Riding a bicycle allows the perception of space to happen at three distinct levels. A point in the distance that appears unmoving, a point in the middle-ground that feels segmented by the speed that your eye can focus on object approaching, and a point in foreground that always appears blurred by the speed at which you are passing by it. This is the challenge of architecture designed for motion. Capturing ones interest, displaying wayfinding and providing program for someone that is constantly in motion. It is architecture that has to constantly respond to a changing vantage point. It is an architecture that has a life at all of those points, the background, the middle-ground and the foreground.

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slow moving/visually still landscape

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Site Analysis

Mt. Vernon r = 1 mile

John Day r = 1 mile

Prairie City r = 1 mile

Long Creek r = 1 mile

Monument r = 1 mile

Kimberly r = 1 mile

Dayville r = 1 mile

The majority of development in these towns exists within a 1 mile radius. Therefore, not only are these ideal place to initiate rural tourism to boost local economies, but they are also ideal places to encourage local bike transportation. Bicycle tourism cannot take significant hold in communities that are not particularly interested in bicycles or their use. If a cultural shift and understanding can take place with improved local bicycle infrastructure there can be a serious effect on the success of both local and touring bicycle riding.

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The outposts purpose is to initially identify areas where this language may be introduced with bike racks at existing businesses in the eight small towns along the route. They would provide basic infrastructure to encourage a cycling community in these small but dense areas. This creates a method of wayfinding and local business endorsement for the cyclists passing through. The outposts would continue to be deployed based on programmatic needs throughout the region in more remote and periphery locations as funding becomes available and the route gains popularity.

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mile marker 100road conditions: flatamenities provided: public dining + toilet

mile marker 8road conditions: low to highamenities provided: ipad info

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mile marker 45road conditions: plateauamenities provided: toilet

mile marker 60road conditions: flat to highamenities provided: sleeping hut

mile marker 125road conditions: ravineamenities provided: water catchment and refill station

conceptual model

capturing the synergy of leg + pedal through one crank revolution

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cycling outpost models

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Eugene Kitchen

The Eugene Kitchen is a kitchen incubator, commercial kitchen space available for lease. Kitchen incubators encourage and enable entrepreneurs with a variety of culinary skill sets to open small businesses. There is generally little investment required to begin using an incubator kitchen; although they are not a permanent solution for a business. As businesses become successful with the support and resources provided within a facility they will move on to more customized spaces. Eugene Kitchen will bring small scale local food production to the center of downtown Eugene Oregon and occupy some of the currently vacant lease space that is currently available in excess in the area. An incubator business will encourage new businesses, foster their development, and sustain their growth over time into other commercial production spaces. The Eugene Kitchen will provide the services and facilities to small local businesses to produce a wide breadth of products that are grown and created in the Eugene area. Additionally, there will be a rooftop garden for growing basic kitchen necessities, retail space to sell the wares produced at the kitchen and cafe to taste them.

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KITCHEN UNIT RENDERING

COLLABORATIVE WORKING SPACE RENDERING

KITCHEN UNIT PLAN

KITCHEN UNIT ELEVATION

KITCHEN DETAILS

Ventilation Hood

Combi Oven

Gas Range

Induction Burner

Braising Pan

Appliance Parking Wall

REmix IKEAWedge Bench

The Wedge Bench is a remix of the Ikea Expedit coffee table. The volume and the materials (real or insinuated) are borrowed from that original piece. From there it becomes a contradiction in style, construction, touch, smell, function and concept. The Wedge Bench strives to become an expression of the true form of wood and glass in a shape that provides a variety of functions.

The Wedges can be arranged as a bench, in a concave or convex orientation. It can be a series of stools, a TV diner table or an ottoman. It has the ability to be oriented to the user, but can also be a permanent, unchanged object in a place.

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Lighting Design

Rocks

collaboration with Amelie Reynaud

This luminaire is meant to evoke the form of river rocks. In a partnership with Amelie Reynaud, we experimented with glass blowing at the Craft Center with professional glass blower, Tim Jarvis.

This project was a true experimentation in materials and the construction of everyday objects. We were able to understand the properties of glass, what the properties are inherently good at, what the limits are, and how to manipulate them.

Fold Me

collaboration with Emma Silverman and Allison Hirzel

The Fold Me luminaire uses laser cut felt to suggest a pattern for increasing and decreasing the amount of light emitted from this ceiling mounted fixture. This object allows the user to manipulate the form to their desire and needs for light in a space.

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A sample of the presentation given to Senator Jeff Merkley in June 2009.

Fringe Urbanism

Multifamily Housing Site Design HandbookCo-Authored with Nico Larco and Amanda West

The research that I worked on with Associate Professor, Nico Larco addressed the issue of connectivity in multifamily developments, prevalent throughout suburbia in this county.

I worked with planners, developers and other architects to help conduct surveys, analysis of areas with progressive city codes, study the data that the survey collected and other related support work. The culmination of this research was presented in a handbook published through OTREC and distributed nationally to begin to help planners and developers build more walkable and livable mutlifamily housing communities.

This research is OTREC funded and part of the Sustainable Cities Initiative.

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I am a forth year graduate student pursuing a dual masters in Architecture and Interior Architecture. I came to Eugene by way of Boston.

I will be pursuing a job in architecture and interior architecture in Germany upon graduation in the spring.

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