Adam Stehura
Adam Stehura Education University of Cincinnati, DAAP Cincinnati, OH M.Arch Candidate Awards: Graduate Scholarship, Graduate Assistant Smith Wildermuth Winkler Scholarship
expected june 2014
Northwestern University Evanston, IL B.A. Mathematics, Art Theory and Practice
june 2009
Skills Computer
Activities
Autocad Rhinoceros + Grasshopper V-Ray Maya Revit Ecotect Sketchup Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Processing
Community Assistant Undergraduate Leadership Program NICOrg Math and Science Tutor Project Soar Mentor NU Club Cycling President Columbus Marathon 2007 Climbing and Hiking Swimming
Language French Spanish
: 3737 Reemelin Road | Cincinnati, OH 45211 : 513.238.0204 : stehurac@mail.uc.edu
Experience Bohlin Cywinski Jackson San Francisco, CA september12_december12 intern Supported design of the Seacliff House. Designed and fabricated 1/8â€? site model, completed presentation drawings, and developed preliminary design of the sauna component. Constructed computer model for a bakery in Los Altos, CA, representing strategic interventions in a designated historic building. Output renderings for client feedback and assisted with construction documents. Prepared print materials, composed presentation renderings and final boards for Montana competition. Stephen Tilly Architects Westchester, NY june12_august12 intern Drafted construction documents for a pond and landscape modification. Fieldwork included site survey and inventory of existing materials. Produced a short video using 3ds Max and After Effects while competing for a restoration project on Long Island. Architecture Research Office New York, NY september11_december11 intern Generated a series of study models, 1/2 scale models, and detail models for a synagogue in midtown Manhattan. Also renderings and 2D presentation imagery. Completed site analysis, preliminary volumetric models, and contributed to regular design discussions as a member of the schematic design team for a dormitory at Tulane University. Hastings Architecture Associates Nashville, TN march11_june11 intern Participated in the design development of a corporate campus for Mars Petcare, including R&D facilities. Contributions ranged from the production of physical models for client consideration to drafting details in Revit and rendering elevations in Photoshop. JosĂŠ GarcĂa Design Cincinnati, OH january10_june10 intern | researcher Prepared materials for client review and publication. Engaged in the design development of two residential projects in the Cincinnati area. Conducted feasibility research and comparative analysis for the luxury hotel and spa facility sector. Worked in concert with consultants and investors to produce a business plan submittal for construction loan.
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CONTENTS
white water Field Station 8
Cranbrook Wellness Center 20
Cincinnati school for experiential learning 32
Residential college 42
congregation beit simchat torah 46
seacliff house 54
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Academic Portfolio
White Water Field Station CRITIC: DATE: LOCATION: PROGRAM:
KARL WALLICK
AUDITORIUM / EVENT SPACE, VIEWING PLATFORM
2010 WHITE WATER SHAKER SETTLEMENT LABORATORIES, SCHOLAR’S RESIDENCE,
The design of a field station was completed following the Universiy of Cincinnati’s acquisition of an historic Shaker settlement in southwestern Ohio. The University desired a program and campus that would facilitate teaching and research in Natural Science, Biology, Archaeology, and Anthropology. Through a sequence of iterative design exercises, a tectonic language for structuring the site and it’s architecture began to emerge. These tectonic strategies, principally based on Gottfried Semper’s mass, plane, and frame primitives, opened up a space for further linguistic variation and experimentation. The site strategy prioritized three organizational tactics which were further developed in the site’s structures. 1. Multiply trajectories for escape – virtual escape. - linear / nonlinear - framed space / unframed space 2. Understand the ground plane from above and below. 3. Use the site’s historical and cultural status to develop the iconic potential of existing structures.
8 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
EXISTING CONDITIONS | 9
EAST-WEST SITE SECTION - EXISTING
CONSTRUCTED SITE AERIAL 10 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
NORTH-SOUTH SECTION - EXISTING
SITE MODEL 1
SITE MODEL 2 ORDERING SPACES | 11
12 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
SITE PLAN | 13
VIEWING STAND
LABORATORIES
ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION
The tectonic character of several structures was developed through sketch models and schematic section drawings. Further development was given to the auditorium and event space, which draw on the Shaker’s desire for open spaces (to facilitate dancing) and the construction details that were developed for achieving these spaces. The existing structures on the site were not remarkable in their design or construction. The Shaker community had inherited them, and they did
14 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
not bear any marks of typical Shaker construction. As farm structures, they were quite utilitarian. The site design sought to retain and adapt existing structures where possible. In the case of the barn, a superstructure was designed to cradle the barn’s existing structure, allowing the excavation of a space below. The resulting effect is expressive structurally and simultaneously resonates with details typically found in Shaker construction.
AUDITORIUM DETAIL - AT BRIDGE
BARN / AUDITORIUM MODEL
AUDITORIUM DETAIL - ENTRY STAIR TECTONIC CHARACTER | 15
LEVEL 2 PLAN
LEVEL 1 PLAN 16 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
AUDITORIUM EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC TECTONIC DRAWINGS | 17
AUDITORIUM NORTH-SOUTH SECTION 18 | WHITE WATER FIELD STATION
VIEW AT ENTRY
VIEW FROM ABOVE SPATIAL CHARACTER | 19
Cranbrook Wellness Center CRITIC: DATE: LOCATION: PROGRAM:
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, BOB BURNHAM 2012 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI STUDIO, MASSAGE THERAPY, GUEST SUITES, KITCHEN & DINING, LIBRARY
The Wellness Center is conceived of as an instrument for the balance of relaxation and creativity. The current scheme straddles the boundary between campus and wood. It acknowledges Eliel Saarinen’s petition that Cranbrook remain a “working place for creative art” where one may find an appropriate evironment for study, inspiration, and exposure. The design was considered through successive iterations of site, body and hand exercises. As a result of this constant shift of focus, the building began to emerge from the relationship between detail drawings, sections, and site strategies.
20 | CRANBROOK WELLNESS CENTER
BAY MODEL | 21
DETAIL STRATEGY DOOR
CRANBROOK 22 | CRANBROOK WELLNESS CENTER
From a very early stage it was understood that the wellness center would occupy a kind of hinge position between the Cranbrook and Kingswood campuses. As such, it seemed logical that entry would occur at the knuckle created by this condition.
Before attempts were made at plans or sections, an effort was made to design a detail that would embody the orgranizing concepts for the building. The door shown above locates the hinge of the building, as well as the hinge between the two campuses, in a very precise way.
KINGSWOOD
SITE PLAN
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The strategies for site, body, and hand, are focused towards creating an inward experience for the user while linking the Cranbrook and Kingswood campuses symbolically. The building’s plan fulfills a local responsibility to its site by partially replicating the enclave formations found elsewhere on the campus, almost completing the work begun by Moneo’s studio building. However, the building turns away into the woods, creating a knuckle at the entrance and generating trajectories of motion towards
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SITE STRATEGY | 23
ASSEMBLY DRAWING 24 | CRANBROOK WELLNESS CENTER
INITIAL SITE MODEL
SOUTHEAST PERSPECTIVE
NORTHEAST AERIAL SITE CONSTRUCTION | 25
ATRIUM SKETCH
BATH 1 SKETCH 26 | CRANBROOK WELLNESS CENTER
underfoot drawing
longitudinal section SPATIAL CHARACTER | 27
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SECTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 29
BATH 3
TO SAUNA
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AT PLUNGE POOL
BAY MODEL | 31
Cincinnati School for Experiential Learning CRITIC: DATE: LOCATION: PROGRAM:
MICHAEL ZARETSKY 2011 CINCINNATI, OH K-4MAGNET SCHOOL, 400 STUDENTS
This proposal for an experiential learning school attempts to address a semi-urban site on the periphery of a small commercial district in a nuanced way. It accounts for typological variations in adjacent structures, and responds accordingly in massing and programmatic distribution. In addition, the building features passive design principles to present the concept of stewardship and promote interaction with the environment.
32 | CINCINNATI SCHOOL FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
NORTH ELEVATION | 33
Cincinnati City Limits
GIS / demographic study with Drew Suszko, James Bayless, Katy Johnson
Placement of the Area
East Walnut Hills Placement Beyond
REGIONAL CONTEXT
THE EXTENDED LEARNING AREA
Historically, the disposition of many civic spaces could be characterized as patriarchal, overbearing, and, to some, even oppressive. This may be a product of the nationalistic discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but more likely it is due to the difficulty of representing the in-common singularly. Cincinnati Public Schools provides one Extended Learning Area (ELA) per each grade level, for an additional 20% of learning space. These were conceived of as the heterotopic spaces articulated by Michel Foucault. In Foucault’s thought, these spaces escape hegemonic rule. The ELA’s are to be both spaces for others and spaces for becoming other.
In new construcation, ELA DISTRIBUTION
In a child’s development, it is important to have a degree
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of unstructured play. This allows children to engage each other in an improvised fashion, creating another heterotopic space, but here a psychological one. While it is the nature of heterotopic spaces to be peripheral, they are simultaneously, central, irrepressible. In many ways they are an allowance for the intrinsically human, the animalistic, or the sanctioned capitulation to desire. As such, the school is bordered on the West by the heterotopic space par excellence, a wood. The pine wood is a space that allows for exploration and play while filtering surveillance. It opens up a zone to be territorialized by the children, between two buildings dedicated to the education and disciplining of the social.
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FIGURE GROUND DIAGRAM
DETERMINE APPROPRIATE SETBACKS
CUT FOR COURTYARD
SINGLE LOADED CORRIDOR WRAPS COURTYARD
MASS ACCORDING TO CONTEXT
FORMAL DERIVATION
SITE PLAN MASSING AND SITE DEVELOPMENT | 35
36 24 | CINCINNATI SCHOOL FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
NORTH ISOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE 25 COURTYARD WATCHING | 37
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COURTYARD ELEVATION STUDIES
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RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH OFFICE LOCATION: PROGRAM:
NEW ORLEANS, LA
SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
PROJECT TEAM:
ADAM YARINSKY, KIM YAO,
MANDY LEBOEUF, NEIL PATEL,
DANIELLE BROWN, ADAM STEHURA
PHASE: ROLE:
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
DIAGRAMS, RESEARCH, PRESENTATION
MATERIALS
256 BEDS, LOUNGES, TEST KITCHENS,
PHYSICAL MODELS, SITE ANALYIS,
As part of a university’s recently initiated Residential College Program, Architecture Research Office was asked to design a student residence on the southeastern corner of campus. The massing and distribution of program balanced the present need to maintain the campus edge with the university’s desire for future development to the South. The site boundary was drawn by an existing chapel and the driplines of several live oaks. Climatic concerns led to the adoption of a single-loaded, courtyard scheme with open-air corridors.
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SITE CONTEXT | 43
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LIVING PH ROOM
LIVING ROO
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RESIDENT ROOMS SOCIAL LOUNGES STUDY ROOM
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PUBLIC AREAS G& DIRECTOR FACULTY RESIDENCES MECHANICAL SPACE
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
SITE EXTENTS 44 | RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
PUBLIC AR FACULTY & RESIDEN MECHANIC
EXPLANATORY MODELS
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
SITE MODEL MASSING AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT | 45
CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH OFFICE LOCATION: PROGRAM:
W. 30TH ST. NEW YORK, NY
ADMINISTRATIVE SUITE
PROJECT TEAM:
STEPHEN CASSELL, JANE LEA, ZACH STEVENS, NORA YOO, ADAM STEHURA
ROLE:
MODELING, RENDERING, PRESENTATION DRAWINGS
SANCTUARY, MEZANINE, CHAPEL, LOBBY,
A congregation that had previously been sharing spaces on the Lower West Side desired a meeting place of its own and consulted ARO during their search to conduct a series of test fits. Schematic designs began after it was determined that an historic Cass Gilbert warehouse, now condominium building, would fulfill their needs. The project required that the architects work with an existing structural grid and adhere to constraints placed on the building by its status as a landmark. There was also a desire to introduce natural light into the sanctuary. The wall upon which the light would be cast went through several iterations. Various surfaces were tested under combinations of natural and electric light sources to explore a range of effects.
46 | CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH
1/2 SCALE MODEL DETAIL | 47
SANCTUARY STUDIES
light wall study 48 | CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH
light wall testing
1/2 SCALE MODEL PRESENTATION TO CLIENT
LIGHT WALL SCALE MOCK-UPS
FACADE RENDERING FOR LANDMARKS SANCTUARY CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT | 49
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PRESENTATION DRAWINGS | 51
52 | CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH
SANCTUARY RENDERING | 53
SEACLIFF HOUSE BOHLIN CYWINSKI JACKSON LOCATION: PROGRAM: PROJECT TEAM:
WITHELD PRIVATE RESIDENCE peter bohlin, greg mottola,aaron gomez,
tanner pikop, joe dinapoli, alex gregor, adam stehura
PHASE: ROLE:
SCHEMATIC DESIGN, DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH, PRESENTATION MATERIALS
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DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL MODELS,
LONGITUDINAL SITE SECTION
NORTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | 55
NORTHWEST PERSPECTIVE
VIEW ON ENTRY 56 | SEACLIFFF HOUSE
1/8” MODEL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT | 57
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: 3737 Reemelin Road | Cincinnati, OH 45211 : 513.238.0204 : stehurac@mail.uc.edu