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4-19 New Orleans Film Center
22-31 Urban Perception(s)
32-39 KC AC
40-49 Redux
50-51 Poker Table Design
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Study Abroad in Italy _ sketches
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N ew O r l e ans F ilm C enter c o m p r e h e n s i v e New Orleans, LA
Studio 609
The mission of The New Orleans Film Center (NOFC), dedicated exclusively to supporting independent documentaryand independent-film artists, creating an indigenous entertainment industry. NOFC serves as a support facility and research center. It provides an ideal site for students and faculty to explore film and other media and plays a vital role in fostering serious interdisciplinary film scholarship. The Center supports classroom teaching, curricular film screening, and individual research in dedicated screening room and media classrooms, and through the development of its archival film collection. In addition to providing curricular support, NOFC hosts an array of public events, programming, archival film screenings, conferences and symposia, workshops and programs with visiting artists and film scholars.
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Located in the Garden District along magazine street and felicity street, the site sits in a neighborhood mixed with commercial and residential buildings. This makes for a very diverse group of people. Diversity is what makes this an interesting and unique place to be because the NO Film Center can be a place that connects all these people together.
NO Film Center sees itself as a little brother studio to Second Line Stages. Their close proximity is a definite benefit for both businesses to work together at times to either produce or view independent film. With only a 43 seat Theatre, Second Line Stages could benefit from the 250 seat theatre, which would be the perfect atmosphere for sneak previews, public or private viewing of their films, awards, or etc.
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1. Green room 2. Black box soundstage 3. Production yard 4. Cafe 5. Lobby 6. Mechanical 7. Offices 8. Break room 9. Conference room 10. Work rooms 11. Storage 12. Info booth 13. Small classroom 14. Large classroom 15. Outdoor/indoor connecting space 16. Multifunctional space (screenroom, classroom, gathering, etc.) 17. Gallery hallway 18. editing rooms 19. Viewing/sitting area 20. Theatre 21. Projection room 22. Green room access
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The floor plan is broken up into three parts: production, public, and private. The production areas are along the western side, the public areas are located near the southeastern side, and the private areas are located on the northern side. A feature of some of the spaces are that they are multifunctional. On the second floor there are a series of walls that collapse into the wall or pivot so that the room can either be closed off or opened up. Another feature on the second floor is that there are strategically places windows that allow people to look down into the production rooms so they can observe the process in which a film is made.
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Ipe wood was explored for use in a rainscreen facade. House Ijburg designed by Marc Koehler Architects was looked at for insipiration in a dark brick application for the back-of-house material. In response to the sustainable approach being implemented in the redevelopment of the Lower Ninth Ward, the NOCF will keep with this type of spirit by incorporating a green roof over nearly half of the roof area.
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drainage/aeration/wat er storage/Rootbarrior water vabor insulation gravel
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brick facade
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brick tiebacks
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copper flashing copper flashing
concrete decking
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multi purpose room archive
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Looking south on Magazine Street
NO Film Center sees itself as a little brother studio to Second Line Stages. Their close proximity is a definite benefit for both businesses to work together at times to either produce or view independent film. With only a 43 seat Theatre, Second Line Stages could benefit from the 250 seat theatre, which would be the perfect atmosphere for sneak previews, public or private viewing of their films, awards, or etc. 16
We were required to build a 1/2� = 1’ sectional model of a key area of the building. This model shows a sectional cut through the classroom space with the outdoor balcony and the stairway leading up to the entrance of the building. The southeast facing wall is a curtain wall system with wood louvers to protect the interior from the harsh Louisiana sun. The section shows structure, HVAC system, decking, insulation, water vapor barrior, roofing membrane, parapet detail, curtain wall and louver details. 17
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This studio is a collaboration between a group of fifth year students from the Universtiy of Kansas and the Kansas City architecture firm, El Dorado. Eldo Principal Josh Shelton leads the studio through local projects immersed in Kansas City’s urban culture and conditions. The semester consisted of three iterations of the same site located in downtown Kansas City. Each iteration explored a mixed-used high density solution to current issues in Kansas City with slight variations of program. Visit www.intercity.ku.edu for more information of the studio.
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URBAN PERCEPTION(S) Alex Augustin Abby Brandenburg Aaron Kalfen
Residential 1BR: 104,400sf (120 units) 2BR: 79,200sf (120 units) 3BR: 108,000sf (60 units)
TOTA L : 2 9 1 , 6 0 0 S F ( 3 0 0 U N I T S )
Retail TOTA L : 1 0 5 , 8 0 9 s f
Office TOTA L : 9 3 , 6 0 0 s f
Amenities Grocer y Store: 10,800sf Gym: 13,440sf
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The alleyway, represented in orange, is the main circulation artery for the site. It gives access to Broadway Street, the parking garage and the courtyard terraces. This courtyard scheme is multifunctional. Parking below terraces up with the site; large horizontal openings between courtyards allows for natural ventilation, lighting and direct access. Separating the courtyards naturally creates program hierarchy and distinct sequences through the site.
Scheme 1 utilizes the existing buildings on the site to account for the required amount of retail spaces. New program is placed in the center of the site for a more private residential complex. This strategy created interesting pathways and spaces in between the existing fabric. Office space anchors the north of the site as a measure to connect to the central business district.
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Bartle Hall Convention Center
The alleyway, represented
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Kauffmann Center for the Performing Arts
This courtyard scheme
is multi-functional. Parking below terraces up with the site; large horizontal openings between courtyards allows for natural ventilation, lighting and direct access. Separating the courtyards naturally creates program hierarchy and distinct sequences through the site.
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The brick facade greets the exterior of the complex. It is characteristic of robust developments around Kansas City. The warping brick facades describe motion, influenced from the passing of cars to the adjacent highway.
East Elevation _ Broadway Street
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Each “building blocks” is is composed of multiple towers. Gaps between towers allow access for winds to ventilate the site and sun exposure. These gaps also act as public rooftop gardens.. These rooftop gardens are common on each of the “building blocks”.
The wood facade embraces the
interior as a warmer and more human sensitivity material, which is influenced by the homes in the Westside of Kansas City.
All buildings have 60 ‘ floorplan widths. All lengths are multiples of 60’, with the exception of two residential towers at 60’ x 80’. This strict dimensioning allowed the achievement of the required program without taking over entire site footprint.
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Residential 1BR: 104,400sf (120 units) 2BR: 79,200sf (120 units) 3BR: 108,000sf (60 units)
TOTA L : 2 9 1 , 6 0 0 S F ( 3 0 0 U N I T S )
Retail TOTA L : 7 7 , 0 6 8 s f
Office TOTA L : 1 5 8 , 4 0 0 s f
Amenities Grocer y Store: 10,800sf Gym: 13,440sf Community Center : 15,240sf
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Hotel 350sf/room: 32 rooms
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Scheme two replaces the existing fabric with new retail, amenity and office spaces using the same logic as the first scheme. This demonstrates to a developer or client that each scheme is plausible separately or together as a phasing process.
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Alex Augustin Carmen Arriaga-Butcher “Created more spaces for imagination to mix with social information so the relationship between the formal and the social begin to collapse and blend together.� - Mark Bradford
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Investigations of how a city is added and subtracted upon grew into the idea of layering of activity, program and space though out the development. This layering would reflect the character of the adjoining communities and create a strong intercommunity in the new development. The concept of collage and decollage were driving forces throughout the design. An extensive process began with the construction of a collage of the program spaces. Further development of stacking, shifting and rotating led to the idea of multiplying units. This idea played out closely within the residential units.
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With connections to the Performing Arts Center, Crossroads, Westside, and Downtown, circulation was a key factor. The circulation was created to activate the Broadway streetscape with retail shops and restaurants while providing an inter pedestrian walkway. Running along the pedestrian street is a bioswale to slow the water runoff and activates the outdoor space. All of these design factors combine to serve the existing communities but add a much needed density to the area.
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REDUX re•dux (r-dks)
adj. Brought back; returned. Used postpositively. Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary 2009
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Lawrence, Kansas
Studio 409
If this project were to have a name, redux would be a fitting candidate – this is an exercise in using reclaimed/brought back materials that would in all likelihood find their way into landfills across America. Our precedents included products available from companies such as Modern Cabana, Kithaus, and Modern Shed – all prefabricated kits/spaces designed for the backyard. With these products customers have the choice of assembling the kit themselves or hiring a contractor. All of the examples we examined were expandable and considered as outbuildings linked to a primary structure by walkways and other landscape features. All of the precedents utilized a range of programs: i.e., a guesthouse, a pool house, a workshop, an art studio, etc.
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An exporation of the modular L-shape system
Our prototype is 100 square feet and was conceived as a series of flat and L-Shaped components (floor, roof and walls). The prototype attempts to draw on “pattern” as a precise piecemeal fitting together of found materials that often require overlap and stagger in order to function as structure or skin. We also found this type of “pattern” as more closely approximating the notion of suburban transformation over time, where boats, pools, porches, sheds, landscape features, etc., were placed in the back and side yards of homes in order to provide the owner greater functionality or with a sense that their home was one of a kind and where a street was once homogeneous becomes episodic. For academic purposes we chose to locate the unit behind the 1954 Snower House in Kansas City by Marcel Breuer. This example of fine Fifties Modernism was chosen over typical suburban homes as a means of focusing on the abstract patterning that is apparent in its use of plain and patterned concrete block, wood siding and De Stijl-based window infill conditions.
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m a t e r i a l s used in project
Reclaimed
• 1x4s- 2/2x2s- 50/2x4s- 60/2x8s 12/2x10s- 1.5/4x4s- 5 • Heavy Timber Moving Blocks- 8 • I-Joists- 8 • Vinyl Billboard Sheeting- 2 • OSB- 250 sq ft./Plywood- 400 sq ft./ Particle Board - 1 large sheet • Roofing Felt - 2 Rolls • Exotic Hardwood - 100 sq ft. • Hollow Core Doors- 5/Windows- 2 • Vinyl Siding- 330 sq ft. • Skylights - 2 • Electrical Conduit- 30’ • Cable Routing Overhead Track- 12’ • Cinder Blocks - 8 • Full Length Mirror - 1 • Screws/Washers • Hinges- 5 sets • Door Hardware (1 handle set, 1 deadbolt)
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Framing Nails Sheathing Nails Staples Brad Nails Nuts & Bolts Door Sealant/Paint Lighting
$120 $40 $90 $82 $332 Total
• $332 or $3.32 per square foot (labor not included)
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Architecture 409: Team Bruce A. Johnson Critic Aaron Aday, Alex Augustin, Dani Boyd, Lindsay Brisko, Kristin Doner, Raymond Dwyer, Fritz Helbert, Lauren Kimball, Andrew Krivanek, Landon Moore, Ryan Otterson, Bryan Pendzinski, Claire Ryan, Kathleen Sis, Abigail Steck, Brad Thaw, Margaret Walck
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We intended that the south facade was set apart from the rest of this autonomous black box. The concept was to allow it to transform into something spectacular. In order to do this, we broke the facade and allowed sections of it to hinge in different directions. When closed, the facade becomes subtle and completes the rest of the box. When the hinged slats begin to open, it begins to transform into something completely different. The exterior space becomes interactive with the occupants and can be folded out into a table for several different uses. In this particular case, it was folded out to become an outdoor dinner table for two. The slats also function as a shading devise as well as a privacy shield. Making them operable allows for the owner to easily transform the space into something suitable for that individual or different occassions.
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Each student explored a different typology of the project. The exploded axonometric shows the different layers for constructing the kit of parts included in putting together an artist’s studio.
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Designed and built from scratch, this poker table is constructed to a custom size and function for an utlimate poker experience. It took two weeks to build and is a great addition to any poker players game room. The legs detach easily so the table can be stored away and can also function as side tables.
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Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore _ Florence
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study abroad in
Italy A collection of sketches from my experiences in the Architecture in Italy study abroad program at the University of Kansas.
San Rocco’s Church_Venice
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Basilica of San Domenico_Siena
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Vatican_Rome
Venice, Italy
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Duomo di Siena
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Inside of the Duomo inVolterra
Siena, Italy
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