ADAM BURKE SELECTED WORKS
Adam Burke
10130 Wesley Chapel Road Marshall, VA | 20115 phone | 540_878_0102 email | aburke3@vt.edu
Education
School of Architecture + Design | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA Bachelor of Architecture | third year Expected graduation_2016 | GPA_3.81 Mountain Vista Governor’s School | Warrenton, VA Conducted research on straw composite insulation design 2009-2011 Fauquier High School | Warrenton, VA 2007-2011 National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) A three week course focused on development of leadership and rock climbing skills in the Wind River Mountain Range, Wyoming July 2010
Experience
John S. LaMonica, AIA Architect | Marshall, VA Assisted in preliminary design, site measurement, and AutoCAD drawing 2010-2012, 2014 | summer and winter breaks Rutlage Farm | Marshall, VA Documentation of historic farm houses and general maintenance 2013 | summer Piedmont Environmental Council Nature Camp | Marshall, VA As a camp counselor I led children aged 7-11 on hikes, coordinated activities, and facilitated their awareness of the natural world 2008-2013 | two weeks each summer
Leadership
Global Architecture Brigades | Virginia Tech In a healthcare center competition {honorable mention} I worked with a team on the design and diagramed the rainwater collection system 2011 | member
Proficiencies
Honors
AutoCAD
Analog Model Building
Adobe Suite
Rhinoceros 4.0 | V-Ray
Woodturning
Hand Drafting
Window Weight Repair
Tractor Operation
Photography
Pamplin Leadership Award 2011 | spring Dean’s List | Virginia Tech 2011-present
University Honors Program | Virginia Tech 2011-present Lucy & Olivio Ferrari Annual Scholarship 2014 | spring
Room + Garden Third Year
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A Room for Construction Third Year
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Art Gallery in a Suburban Neighborhood Second Year
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House for a Painter Second Year
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Other
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Room + Garden The Room + Garden project is derived from the apparent extension of a wall existing on the site. The garden is an isolated destination reached by a narrow, winding path of white gravel that descends into the earth towards a cool, moss carpeted enclosure. It investigates the question of how to inhabit a wall. The room is open. The wall is thin again and only prevents the encroachment of the earth behind it. Beams reach over the room, carried by the wall on the uphill side, to land on a series of columns which rest on spheres.
A view into the room
A sketch of the room
A way to touch the ground
A drone’s eye view
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A view out of the garden
A detail of the door
A view through a portal
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A Room for Construction
The progect is an extension of the program of the Room + Garden. It is a room for large scale architectural tests and propositions. Here the long north wall defines a boundary that the roof springs from landing on internal columns. The extending roof cantilevers, enveloping the existing test-cell building.
A sketch from the road
A sketch of the column pair
A slice of the building
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A drone’s eye sketch
A revealing isometric section
A sketch of the section
Some sections, elevations, and a plan
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Art Gallery in a Suburban Neighborhood The Art Gallery in a Suburban Neighborhood is based on the archetypal house form. It is clad with a translucent membrane and massively scaled. The entrance is below grade, accessed via a ramp leading to a large circular depression where the visitor reorients themselves to the axis of the building. Circulation within the building is directed through an outdoor “chimney” which contains a ramp up to the gallery floor. The “chimney” also functions as an element to circulate around within the gallery space. A sketch of the idea
A view from the street
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The roof plan
A sketch of the entrance
The gallery plan
The basement plan
The E/W axis section
An early study model
The N/S axis section
The elevations
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House for a Painter
The House for a Painter is a rectangular prisim suspended within a larger rectangular prisim. The suspended object, accessed by double-helix staircases, contains the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen. The space around the object is open except for a stationary cabinet in the center of the ground floor, forcing circulation. The building was conceived without a specific site and is intentionally non-directional. There are external fabric shades to adjust the light and recieve the shadows from adjacent trees.
A sketch of the idea
A drone’s eye view
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The roof plan
Another space
The living space
The working space
The section and ground plan
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The Pantheon
Wood cut and polished on four sides
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