Kaitlyn Stein is an architectural designer. One of her projects involved designing a kit of parts to imply spaces for gathering and more intimate rooms. She drew the design by hand to understand drawing conventions. Another project involved analyzing tectonic strategies in existing buildings and creating an abstract drawing incorporating these strategies. A further project involved using mass, plane and frame digitally to create the appearance of different building elements.

1. KAITLYN STEIN
ARCHITETCURAL DESIGNER

2. KIT OF PARTS
LEARNING ABOUT THE PARTS TO BUILD AN ARCHITECTURALLY IMPLIED SPACE, WE WERE
GIVEN A KIT OF PARTS WITH ONLY A FEW DIFFERENT PIECES TO WORK WITH. CREATING A
PLATFORM WITH REFLECTING POOL AND COLUMNS TO IMPLY LARGER GATHERING SPACES
TO MORE INTIMATE ROOMS WITH PROCESSIONAL PATHWAYS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE
AREA. HAND DRAWING EVERYTHING TO FIRST UNDERSTAND THE WORKINGS OF DRAWING
CONVENTION AS WELL AND PLACEMENT CHOICES.

3. PRECEIDENT SPATIAL ANALYSIS
TECTONTIC STUDIES
FIRST ATTEMPT AT TYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
TECTONICSWORKWELL AT A BASIC LEVEL IN ALREADY
EXISTING BUILDINGS.
ORGANIZATIONAL MATRIX
AN ABSTRACT DRAWING INCORPORATING THE TECTONIC
STARTEGIES FOUND SUCCESSFUL THROUGH THE PREVIOUS
TENTONIC STUDY. STUDENTS WERE ALL GIVEN AN ORGANI-
ZATIONAL WORD TO TRANSFORM INTO A TECTONIC LAN-
GUAGE.

4. DIGITAL FRAGMENT
THIS ASSIGNMENTWAS USEDTO HELP GET STUDENTS COMFORTABLE USINGTHE RAPID PROTO-
TYPING LAB. USING MASS, PLANE, AND FRAME AS A BASIS TO CREATE A BUILDING. USING
FRAME TO CREATE THE APPEARANCE OF PLANE, AND PLANES TO CREATE MASS.
EXTENDING THE FRAGMENT
DESIGNING A PERFORMIG ARTS CAMPUS USING OUT GIVEN ORGANIZATIONAL WORD. HAVING
THE WORD, CLUSTER, THERE ARE 3 MAJOR CLUSTERS OF BUILDINGS, ALONG WITH A SECTIONAL
CLUSTER , OF MASSING AT THE BOTTOM AND A LIGHTER FRAMING AT THE TOP.

5. FRESHMAN DORMITORY
DESIGNING A FRESHMAN DORM ON UW MILWAUKEE’S CAMPUS TAKING SITE CONDITIONS INTO
CONSIDERATION FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE GRADE CHANGES ALONG WITH THE GEOMETRIC AND
REGULAR SHAPES OF THE CITY STREET ALONG DOWNER AVENUE AND THE IRREGULARITY OF THE
BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS PROVED A DIFFICULT CHALLENGE. INCORPORATING A HEIGHT CHANGE IN
MY DESIGN, BLENDS THE LARGER CAMPUS BUILDINGS AND THE SMALLER SCALE OF THE SUR-
ROUNDING COMMUNITY. THE PATHWAY IN BETWEEN THE TWO DORM BUILDINGS CREATES A GATE-
WAY TO THE OAK SAVANNAH TO THE NORTH AS WELL AS A COURTYARD FOR SOCIALIZIATION. THE
BOTTOM FLOOR OF BOTH BUILDINGS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO THE REST OF CAMPUS AS WELL AS THE
PUBLIC WITH A COFFEE SHOP AND LOUNGING COMMONS IN THE ONE BUILDING AND A LCTURE
HALL AND STUDY AREA IN THE OTHER.

6. PULASKI PARK AND KINNICKINNIC RIVER REBIRTH
CREATING INTERLOCKING ZONES AND ZONES WITHIN ZONES TO CREATE MICROZONES WAS THE OVERAR-
CHING IDEA TO BRING FISH HABITATS AND OTHER ANIMALS HABITATS BACK INTO THE KINNICKINNIC RIVER
CORRIDOR. SINCE IMPLEMENTING A CONCRETE CHANNEL IN ALONG THE KINNICKINNIC RIVER IN THE 60’S
TO HELP WITH FLOOD DAMAGES, THE ANIMALS HAD NO PLACE BEING IN PULASKI PARK. REALIZING THE
AFFECTS OF THE CHANNEL WERE ACTUALLY NEGATIVE, THE CONCRETE IS BEING RIPPED OUT AND A THE
RIVER IS BEING REVILATILZED. BY INTERTWINING DIFFERENT ECOLOGIES FROM MARSHY WETLANDS TO
DENSE FORESEST TO THE OPEN OAK SAVANNAH, THE ANIMAL HABITAT WILL BECOME MORE COHESIVE AND
ABLE TO HARBOR AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR CITY CHILDREN LIVING IN THE MOST DENSE AREA OF
WISCONSIN SURROUNDING PULASKI PARK.

7. PASSIVE GARDENS
EXPLORATORY FOREST
CENTER
ACTIVE LAWN
GREEN RIVER COORIDOR
SAFE PLAY WETLANDS