http://www.carmenjulejohnson.com/work daily 0.75 2018-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1388605211751-YYTQK063QASPFCSHYRTN/073.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1388815039394-G2B7K0NCJJ98UWC9YN0L/110.jpg Projects A small performance center to serve the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music series. An architectural experience in counterpoint: repetition and variation of the structure creates a rhythm and interplay that builds throughout the composition, generating a hierarchy amongst harmonizing spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1389579651916-9SSO0S9RQVFY8VHP30DV/CAM00134.jpg Projects A home for the Minneapolis Rowing Club. Sliding forms glide alongside one another, emulating the action of a rower’s arms and legs as they come together and stretch apart. The building cuts through the land as a boat cuts through the water, offering a silent simplicity and harmony, sweeping views, and fluid accessibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1389165313759-EXY55VLD41UNMY04IHWT/Wildlife+Center+Scene+9.jpg Projects A wildlife center to celebrate the relationship between two native residents of Spearfish, South Dakota: the raven and the buffalo. According to Native American legend, the raven would find a resting place atop the buffalo’s back and in turn would tell his friend where to find the most fruitful land for grazing. The structure of the wildlife center was inspired by this relationship between grounded roaming and flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1398846167571-ZL4EHBTQZO4TIHBOA9IQ/Exterior+Render.jpg Projects A low-rise office building to be constructed on the past site of a steel fabricator. The Star Institute celebrates and showcases the life cycle of steel and LEED-rated design through the integration of re-used materials from the site and active building components such as customized louvers, mid-pane blinds, and photovoltaic panels. Inspired by a shifting architectural network of forms and voids created from the random geometry of a railyard, the building is broken into a series of paths [voids] and single-space [forms] to encourage pedestrian access and interaction with pop-up steel exhibits. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1498668548923-AUOYS7G3NKZ0GZOQAST1/IMG_7225a.jpg Projects The stacked rotation of a variable core + facade module produces a flexible system for a new tourism infrastructure in Lofoten, Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1496789267162-P0ICQBJ5QZNLWRYF406M/IMG_0554.JPG Projects - PATAPHYSICAL PROSTHESIS: BRINGING THE 3D PRINTING INDUSTRY TO DETROIT, MI In The Technological Society, French philosopher Jacques Ellul explains that “our modern worship of technique derives from man’s ancestral worship of the mysterious and marvelous character of his own handiwork”. We are still intrigued and fascinated by modern technology because it is indeed a human discovery. However, modern technology has been detached from tradition. It has become a game of mechanical reproduction, by which copies upon copies lose their “aura” - borrowing Walter Benjamin’s term -to the absence of context, ritual, and wonder. What is fabricated in a production plant, and the goal of this labor, is outside of the question of its design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1388606402618-XEOGKHAC98X10LV7WHXF/073.JPG Projects A home to facilitate the healing process for an agoraphobic woman and her twin sister. Her story is told through the creation of an artifact: layers of newspaper clippings represent the memories of a formative past that has been suppressed by the crushing weight of an anxiety disorder - here, embodied by a coiling case of concrete. Through a ritual act of participation, the concrete is uprooted by unraveling the rope beneath it to reveal layers of tainted memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1502222840163-5ENT1MGWMRC2XGMMBUNH/Long+Section+in+Frame.jpg Projects Investigating the urban fabric of an informal settlement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1421784894372-H0N1L9OWB9YLUL1U00SS/High+Rise_Section+Detail+Flattened.jpg Projects A sustainable vertical community in San Francisco, CA that engages the street and fosters a beautiful, healthy living environment. A curving elevated highway once directed the flow of heavy vehicular movement across the site. Today, the extrusion of this curve as a vertical community would instead direct pedestrian traffic into a secluded urban oasis. This oasis is linked to busy Folsom Street via a passage that cuts through the bottom two floors of the building, changing the flow and slowing the pace of foot traffic. A secondary skin of operable panels harvests solar energy and controls sun exposure for residential and hotel guests as it curves down the building, culminating in a series of trellises that shade the rooftop gardens of restaurants and retail spaces below.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1534799218009-SN8JB2VKSJPZ68FE3L3Z/SCENE+7.png Projects Kokle is a proposal for a new bird observation tower in the Pape Nature Park, Latvia. It translates traditions of Latvian craftsmanship to produce a solution that is respectful and sensitive to its environment, familiar to place yet somewhat foreign, and ultimately iconic and beneficial for the development of the Pape Nature Park and the local identity as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1407295785419-R6YRWDGCDYTEX47LPYN8/Study+Nook.jpg Projects A youth center for the community of Roseland near Chicago, IL. Architecture as direction and motivation: a simple and minimal concrete building is sheltered by a sustainable gridshell system that points north toward downtown Chicago and opportunity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c46ba6e4b019e1bba1cc1e/1431891421656-YKW1FIYU8O3PTZG69VD6/Cover+Small.jpg Projects The Strand is a solution to an urban problem in Brussels, Belgium. Local concrete plant Inter-Beton sponsored a competition for a redesign of their site that would be better incorporated with the surrounding area: low-income residential and an abandoned industrial wasteland to the west, and high-income residential and business to the east. This project strives to establish connections between these areas and to restore the urban fabric by proposing a redesign for the Inter-Beton site as well as new development to the south. 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