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SARUP - Research GardenSARUP courtyard houses several research experiments. These experiments the result of applied research at the school of architecture and urban planning or completed by numerous faculty and students. each year the projects in the courtyard are refreshed with new experiments. Currently work one view in the courtyard was completed by faculty Kyle Reynolds, Karl Wallick, Jim Wasley, Alex Timmer, and Mo Zell. A unique installation completed by John Lauder of Cooper Union an Misaka Murata of the University of Pennsylvania marks the center of the courtyard. the space of the courtyard as seen as surface for the experimentation and outreach through making the faculty and students the school of architecture and urban planning . Scroll below to see some of the work currently on view.
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Mies.zip : Compressed Constructions
John Lowder | Cooper Union | Misako Murata (2019) University of Pennsylvania “As a counter-point to the ubiquitous contemporary pavilion, we are proposing a new category of architectural production: the .zip construction….In this particular compression, the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe was used as a point of departure… The result is a construction that references yet is autonomous to the building, an estranged and hyper-articulated totem that contains all the DNA of the larger construction; it is all detail.” |
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House of Follies
Mark Roehrle | Mo Zell (2021) Eli Liebenow | Quincy Drane University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Drawing from three interrelated ideas – engagement with the landscape, employing a kit of parts using common materials, and the blurring of audience and performer - House of Follies, creates a flexible venue for multiple uses. The small-scaled, mobile, stick framed structure, sheathed in translucent polycarbonate and plywood panels, challenges traditional notions of theatrical space.
The folly has its own distinct personality morphed from the identity of the gable roof – an identifier of traditional iconography of house and domestic space. Depending on the light conditions, the transparency of the polycarbonate changes throughout the day activating the polycarbonate as another character in the performance. It is simultaneously reflective, translucent and opaque. The Folly can be wheeled to reconfigure the space as necessary or can be actively manipulated during a performance to the delight of the audience. When viewed broadside, it acts like a giant billboard. Graphics can be applied to the polycarbonate, for long and short-term use. |
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Photo(s) by Angelina Torbica
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Sticks Stacks
Karl Wallick | Kyle Reynolds (2019) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee This timber portal is built completely from non-custom off-the-shelf elements. Thinking about craft and commodification, we sought to elevate everyday building components to a special architectural experience through imprecise assembly and intense tectonic articulation. The pavilion is comprised of 445 individual parts, but required only 58 cuts, is fastened with 900 screws, and offers a shady respite for enjoying SARUP's architectural garden.
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The Leftovers
Alex Timmer (2019) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Using waste CLT panels from the UWM Structures lab, these benches where cut from 9' x 12' x 7" cross laminated timber panels which had been crushed in a structures experiment. The new pieces, cut down to 3' squares are arranged and painted into a composition. They have been coopted as benches in the courtyard of the school of architecture. Each spring the benches are sanded refinished by student volunteers.
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Evaporative Wall
Alex Timmer (2020-2021) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee This installation is part of ongoing research into the evaporative capacity of pervious concrete. The pervious wall provides an evaporative medium, creating a grotto like microclimate. Benches made of reclaimed urban white oak occupy two of the tipped over modules. These cantilever while mimicking the geometry of the concrete modules.
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Thermochromatic Prisms
Alex Timmer | 2019 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee These prisms of various size and orientation are coated with a translucent paint mixed with a thermochromatic pigment that changes color from black to clear at 88 degrees. The various orientations and volumes of air cause the prisms to change color at different rates. Taller, more volumetric prism resist color change longer than small volumes. Prism faces oriented towards the sun change quickly while faces other faces remain black until the interior temperature raises to 88 degrees.
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Alex Timmer | 2018 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee The dichotomy of active and passive environmental systems is a recent development in architectural history. This dichotomy as of late has divided architectural responses to the environment. This folly explores other aesthetic agendas related to passive environmental strategies related to heliomorphism and pattern.
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