Alex Lamoureux Portfolio 2023

ALEX LAMOUREUX

Academic Works

ALEXANDER LAMOUREUX

I am a student in the Master of Architecture program at the University of Kansas. My anticipated graduation is May 2024. Throughout my educational and professional experience I have developed a design ability and understanding that would be an asset to any team.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

M.Arch / Honors Student Pursuing Graduate Certificate in Urban Design School of Architecture and Design Lawrence, KS / Class of 2024

FABRIC FORMWORK WORKSHOP

Taught by Mark West + Keith Van de Riet Spring 2022

PRITZKER LAUREATE ARCHITECTURE TOUR Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas Fall 2021

CONESTOGA HIGH SCHOOL Murray, NE / Class of 2019 Salutatorian

SOFTWARE

PROFICIENT: Rhino, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Adobe Creative Cloud, Lumion

FAMILIAR: Vray, Enscape, 3DS Max, AutoCAD, Revit

REFERENCES

KAPILA D. SILVA

Professor of Architecture University of Kansas kapilads@ku.edu 785.864.1150

ONE JAE LEE

Design Director Haenglim Architects o.lee@haenglim.com 82.010.9157.1142

JAE D. CHANG

Professor of Architecture University of Kansas jdchang@ku.edu 785.864.1446

alamoureux@ku.edu 402.917.8007 issuu.com/alexlamoureux www.linkedin.com/in/alex-lamoureux

HAENGLIM ARCHITECTS Architectural Intern / Competition Studio Seoul, South Korea / May - August 2022

TEACHING ASSISTANT Assistant for Third Year Architecture Studios Lawrence, KS / Fall 2022

RESEARCH ASSISTANT Research for Dr. Kapila D. Silva Lawrence, KS / Spring 2022

AWARDS

SIMPSON STRONG-TIE® SCHOLARSHIP Recognized for my academic achievement at a ceremony in San Fransisco, at Simpson Strong-Tie’s Headquarters. One of 100 recipients nationally.

U.S. BANK BELIEVER & ACHIEVER Top 48 Award Awarded to students committed to citizenship, school involvement, and community betterment. One of 48 recipients in the state of Nebraska.

FREEMAN SCHOLARSHIP Recipient of the Freeman Foundation Scholarship for students pursuing architecture internships in East Asia.

3RD YEAR PORTFOLIO WINNER University of Kansas Recognized by external reviewers as having an exemplary portfolio. One of 12 third-year students recognized.

DEANS LIST Awarded 6 Times

2022 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM Received the Outstanding Presentation Award, for “The Museum of Vanishing Arts”

EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES

2022 IES LIGHTING COMPETITION Choreographed Light: Re-imagining the Lobby of Crafton-Pryer Theater

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH: THE SEOUL VIBE An analysis of urban design strategies for livable city environments with special reference to Seoul, South Korea.

The Museum of Vanishing Arts pg. 01-22

CONTENTS

Cultivate OKC pg. 23-34

Professional Work pg. 35-36

01

THE MUSEUM OF VANISHING ARTS

A Museum for Dead & Dying Arts Fort Worth,

TX

Professor: Kapila D. Silva Fall 2021

The Museum of Vanishing Arts, located in the Arts District of Fort Worth, TX, acts as a sanctuary for the endangered and vanishing arts. Vanishing arts refers to crafts, skills, or human creative activities that have, or are starting to, become obsolete. The vanishing arts are more often referred to as “dead art.” This title would not be a correct name for these arts. While it is true that some of these art forms are genuinely dead, many are still being practiced by a small number of individuals in many communities around the world. A revival then occurs by bringing attention to the apparent endangerment of these arts. The cyclical life that these vanishing arts go through is akin to ‘Samsara⁠’ — a fundamental belief of Buddhism and Hinduism. The Museum of Vanishing Arts aims to educate visitors on the ‘Samsara of Arts’—the life cycle that arts take on. The form of the museum emulates the vanishing arts — drawing inspiration from the Caddo hut, a vanishing art practiced by the local Native Americans, for the museum’s generic spatial module. Traditional settlements of Native Americans inspire the spatial organization of the design modules. The cylindrical spatial modules are clustered together to form a premise that evokes the expression of a craft village. The museum’s construction, facade, and materiality convey the skills the vanishing arts require, creating a crafted space that engages and educates visitors through a progressive gallery experience.

(Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Lumion, Illustrator, Photoshop)

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

Samsāra: “The cycle of death and rebirth to which all in the material world is bound.”

Causes of Endangerment for Arts

THE SAMSĀRA OF ARTS

THE VALUE CHANGE OF ARTS

CREATING A CRAFTED SPACE

The materiality, facade, and construction techniques should emulate the vanishing arts to achieve a crafted space.

EXPRESSING CULTURAL WEAVING

The United States has long been considered the melting pot of the world—a country where people of all different nationalities, cultures, and ethnicities are mixed together. All of these different cultural experiences weave our social fabric together.

REVIVING DEAD ARCHITECTURE

The form takes inspiration from the dead architecture of the local Native American

01 PRESERVING ORDER

The Kimbell Art Museum demonstrates order and encourages the surrounding context to follow suit. Order is preserved and extended onto the site through a modular grid that is projected by the Kimbell Art Museum.

LAYOUT PROGRESSION CLUSTER PROGRESSION

Grid & elliptical module layout is created

02 ORGANIZING SPACE

The site is divided into the primary functions—galleries spaces are subdivided into public and private. spatial order and thus is separated from the

Modules are orientated towards the center of the grid GALLERY

04 CONFIGURING FORM

The form of the hut modules emerges from a curved extrusion of the module’s elliptical footprints. The height of each extrusion is determined by the number of floors and the function of the space.

05 INTERTWINING THE BUILDINGS

The various hut modules are intertwined through walkways orientated along the grid. The walkways between the modules—creating dynamic interior

functions—galleries and support spaces. Support private. The Heritage Tree acts as the center of the rest of the site by a courtyard.

03 CRAFTING A VILLAGE

A series of elliptical modules are arranged around the Heritage Tree and orientated along the grid. The eliptical modules are clustered together to accommodate various spaces’ programmatic needs

Modules are clustered in various formations to accommodate programmatic needs

BUILDINGS through a series of single and multi-level walkways bow blocking interior sight lines interior experiences.

06 ACKNOWLEDGING HERITAGE

The rooftops of the huts are angled towards the Heritage Tree—acknowledging the tree’s significance to the site.The rooftop of the lobby hut modules tilts away from the Hertiage Tree and down towards the street expressing the primary access.

Primary Entry from Darnell Street

The primary entry to the museum is from Darnell Street and is adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art, designed by Tadao Ando. The entry hut module tilts down towards the street rather than the courtyard to signify the primary point of entry.

Cultural Arts Gallery

The Cultural Art Gallery is a space dedicated to endangered cultural arts, crafts, and traditions. The cause of endangerment for these cultural arts ranges from technological advancement to colonization, as well as cultural appropriation.

Vanishing Art Gallery

The crafted feel of the facade enclosing the galleries reflects the craftsmanship of the arts preserved within the museum. The facade modulates the light entering the galleries, making the light a dynamic part of the museum experience.

Dead Art Gallery

The Dead Art Gallery is buried beneath the ground, symbolizing the perceived finality of death.

Water flows down from the reflective pools in the gardens above. The flowing water, in tandem with the sun’s light illuminates the sunken space symbolizing hope and revival

WIDE FLANGE GIRDER

OPEN WEB STEEL JOIST OPEN WEB STEEL GIRDER HORIZONTAL

VERTICAL TIMBER SLATS MOUNTED ON HORIZONTAL TIMBER FURING ABOVE GRADE BELOW GRADE

GLUE LAMINATED TIMBER COLUMN CONCRETE RING BEAM CONCRETE COLUMN FOUNDATION

WIDE FLANGE GIRDER GLUELAM FINS MOUNTED ON GLUELAM COLUMNS AT 8’ INTERVALS

SCALE 1/2”=1’

VERTICAL TIMBER SLATS

HORIZONTAL TIMBER FURING

GLAZED CURTAIN WALL

GLAZED CURTAIN WALL MOUNTED BETWEEN GLUELAM FINS

HORIZONTAL TIMBER FURING MOUNTED ON GLUELAM FINS

DIAGONAL TIMBER SLATS

HORIZONTAL TIMBER FURING

GLUELAM FIN GALVANIZED C BRACKET WITH THERMAL BREAK C BRACKET ANCHOR PLATE GLUELAM COLUMN

DIAGONAL TIMBER SLATS MOUNTED ON HORIZONTAL TIMBER FURING

The Heritage Courtyard

The Heritage Courtyard sits at the center of the site and is spatially organized around the Heritage Tree. The lush greenery and flowing water evoke feelings of life and revival. The courtyard seperates and protects the Heritage Tree from the rest of the site.

CULTIVATE OKC 02

Mixed-Use CLT Skyscaper

Oklahoma City, OK

Professor: Eddy Tavio Fall

2022

Cultivate OKC, located in the Arena District in Oklahoma City, looks to reimagine the future of urban dwelling. Cultivate OKC is a mixed-use CLT Skyscraper, and its completion would make it the tallest CLT construction in the United States. The program of the building consists of three residential towers that provide high-density urban living, a sports academy pedestal for the community, and restaurants that interface with the shared central courtyard and the sports academy. The building gets its name based on the definition of cultivating: “to foster the growth of.” In this project, cultivation looks like cultivating a vertical urban landscape, cultivating the built environment, cultivating the city culture, and cultivating relationships with people in the community. Cultivate OKC would provide nearly 600 housing units for the people of Oklahoma City, bringing the city closer to its goal of a high-density central heart of the city. The other primary objective of Cultivate OKC is to create a new vertical urban landscape. This vertical urban landscape looks to extend the greenery from the adjacent Scissortail Park and the Myriad Botanical Gardens. The greenery from these public spaces is continued vertically along the roof of the pedestal and on the balconies of the residential units. The extension of the greenery along the building provides numerous benefits, such as improving thermal comfort, noise absorption, air quality, and the physiological benefits of biophilia. Cultivate OKC looks to foster the growth of the new future of high-density urban living.

(Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Enscape, Illustrator, Photoshop)

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

Oklahoma City: A Timeline of Urban Development

2022 1993 1964 1937 1930 1910 1900

Land Run

Over 100,000 people line up and rush into Oklahoma to stake down and claim the land for themselves.

Economic Boom

Oil is discovered south of the city limits, with this discovery causing significant growth in the OKC economy.

The Great Depression

The Great Depression was felt world wide, this occurred after major falls in stocks prices in the United States

I.M. Pei Masterplan

This master plan was aimed at demolishing antiquated buildings, and replacing them with new construction.

Sonic Boom Test

High speed air travel tests are conducted over Oklahoma City, resulting in frequent sonic booms.

The Past, Present, and Future Development of OKC Past

MAPS 1

The Metropolitan Area Projects (MAPs) is a multi year municipal capital improvement project.

MAPS 3

$777 Million in public works and redevelopment in Oklahoma City, funded by local sales tax.

FORM DEVELOPMENT

Site Context as Design Motif

Creating a Vertical Urban Landscape

Cul·ti·vate (verb) 1:

To raise or grow plants on a large scale: CULTIVATING

Defining Cultivate in OKC

Cul·ti·vate (verb) 2:

To improve or develop something: CULTIVATING

Cul·ti·vate (verb) 3:

To positively foster the growth of something: CULTIVATING

Cul·ti·vate (verb) 4:

To seek the society of: to make friends with:

Scissortail Park Myriad Botanical Garden Paycom Center (NBA Stadium) Existing Basketball Courts on Site

01 SITE AND CONTEXT

The site is located in the newly established Core North District in Oklahoma City. The project site has adjacencies to the future NBA stadium, the Myriad Botanical Gardens, and the newly developed Scissortail Park.

02 ORGANIZING SPACE

The site is divided into the two primary residential housing and a sports academy. The the site, creating visual connections between

PRELIMINARY SKETCHES

04 CONFIGURING FORM

The form of the building emerges from the vertical extrusions of the sports academy podium and the twisted extrusion of the residential towers, which optimizes the towers’ views of the stadium and the parks.

05 CREATING A VERTICAL URBAN

The green space from the Myriad Botanical and extended vertically along the residential the concept of cultivation.

Dining/Courtyard Conecpt Sports Academy Section South Elevation

components of mixed-use development— The sports academy is situated to the east on between it and the future NBA stadium.

03 AXES AND SITE PERMEABILITY

Two primary axes are established—the stadium axis and the academy axis. The program responds to these axes, improving site permeability and creating a sports alley that engages the central courtyard.

URBAN LANDSCAPE

Botanical Garden and Scissortail Park is continued residential towers. This vertical landscape reinforces

06 EXTENDING THE ENEVLOPE

The envelope of the towers peels away and extends itself over and around the podium, creating a shading device for the interior court spaces and the exterior sports alley while visually tying together the towers and the podium.

East Elevation North Elevation West Elevation North Elevation

View from NBA Stadium

The flowing facade of Cultivate OKC moves both vertically and horizontally, wrapping itself around the sports academy pedestal. The facade from the towers peels off and swoops itself over the dining modules adjacent to the courtyard and the sports academy.

Sports Academy Floor

The sports academy floor has six basketball courts. From the interior, the flowing exterior facade can be seen. This fluid motion is carried on into the interior ceiling, creating a visual connection between the exterior and interior of the building.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK

Seoul, South Korea

Summer 2022 Haenglim Architects

Pyeongtaek Children’s Experience Center

Competition: Winning Entry

Project Status: CD

The Children’s Experience Center is a children’s museum located in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The design features a circular form with an interior courtyard that connects to the adjacent park. As a part of this project, I contributed to the museum’s form and concept generation and the design and concept for the exterior perforated screens.

Ochang 4th Generation Synchrotron Facility

Competition: Winning Entry

Project Status: DD

The Ochang 4th Generation Synchrotron Facility will be a state-of-the-art scientific facility. Synchrotrons use a particle accelerator to utilize synchrotron light for scientific research. As a part of this project, I contributed to the pre-design research, which included researching and modeling precedents and documenting relevant design constraints.