Andrew Allmon
Architecture Portfolio
Resume
Objective:
Dynamic and positive person seeking full time employment.
Education:
Personal Essay
Drury University – Springfield, MO Master of Architecture: Urban and Regional Studies Minor: Psychology Graduated: May 2014 Dean’s List
Selected Works Cadenza Hotel Half Dome Shelter -- Trail Shelter
Goals:
Andrew Allmon
Fire Station
Drury University Hammons School of Architecture Urban and Regional Studies
Carl Junction, MO -- Center for Community Studies
1373 E. 45th St. Tulsa, OK. 74105 636.577.0603
Thesis: Revitalization and 5 Key Components Improving St. Louis
To obtain a full time position so I can further my education so I can eventually change the way that architecture is seen and experienced.
Experience:
KSQ Architect: September 2015 to Present 1 Architecture: April 2015 to August 2015 Selser Schaefer Architects: July 2014 to April 2015 Bates and Associates: Summer Internship 2013 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition- Joplin, MO. Center for Community Studies – Carl Junction, MO.
andallmon@gmail.com
Skills:
Computer Skills: Revit, Google Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and 123d Make.
The Link -- Trail Pavilion Extreme Makeover: Home Edition -- Volunteer Tribute Memorial Chapel
Design Skills: I am able to hand draft drawings and sketch drawings, I also am able to construct pristine models, I am also a strong creative person able think outside of the box. Professional Skills: I am team oriented with excellent social skills, comfortable with public speaking and able to motivate others. References upon request.
Resume
Theatre
Cadenza Hotel Mestre, Italy M.Arch 520 Fall 2013 The development of the site in Italy is to expand Venice out into the neighboring city of Mestra; to make this area more of a destination rather than just a place a visitor would pass through on the way to Venice. The site as a whole is going to fuse together various forms of transportation including: pedestrian, train, bus and boat. The site is in an industrial area that is becoming more urban, and losing its industrial grind. The site also connects with a number of other green spaces around the area; they are not connected with generic straight lined paths, but rather with lively, flowing paths that create a more creative movement. The concept is to carry on this notion of movement with the inspiration of music, creating flowing circulations and structures that have a life to them. The site has already been programed for a parking garage, a green space, a box mall and a hotel. The location for the parking garage is at the southwest corner of the site and the box mall is proposed to be directly north of the parking garage. The box mall is to be composed of 100-200 reused shipping containers measures at 2.5x12.5x2.5 meters. Here I wanted the energy and size of Venice’s streets to reflect in the mall area; in the city there are not many gaps in the surrounding builds, when there are they vary in size and in their destinations. Remembering walking through Venice, I recalled how piazzas would emerge from
Cadenza Hotel
the narrowest corridors, and all piazzas would have a similar but different feel to them. I also wanted the mall to enhance the parking garage and not to hide it from the site. To reach this goal the design became horizontal in movement and not vertical. The main inspiration for the hotel was the layers of the Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor. The concerto has very bold layers brought to live by the violin solo and an airy bright condition is created by the rest of the orchestra. The piece itself has conflict between the different groups in the orchestra, and the pauses in sound create anticipation for sound. I brought this concept to live in the design by having creating large voids in the faรงades of the hotels, these voids create open areas that the hotel guest can use. Along with this the vertical and horizontal circulation is have similar variations of each level, like the similar themes in the concerto. The hotel rooms are used as the basic element of music, notes, and they move in different directions and have voids in them. They structural members are placed on a grid and are used to connect the different parts of the site through the hotel, and to bring another vertical sense from the music. There are two variations of the structure members, one for the interior and one for the exterior. From the musical intention, they are meant to be the measures, the one standard in a piece. The materials chosen were, concrete for the structure, photovoltaic glass, and a tented steel panel for the exterior.
Trail Shelter Half Dome Arch 213 Fall of 2010
Half Dome Shelter
The nature of the trail shelter project was to design a shelter for an extreme environment; using materials that could be carried in small loads to the site, with a standard frame of 16 vertical members and 16 horizontal members. My site was located on a trail in northern California; the weather that had to be taken into consideration was the heat during the day and the cold breeze from the surrounding mountains after sunset. The difficulty of this was that the direction the sun came in and the view were in the same direction. Along with the fact that this shelter would only have a 4-6 hour window of use because the trail is not an overnight trail. The location is on a slope that looked down into a valley and mountains in the distance. I choose to use horizontal members to block the sun but also to have enough space between them that there was still a vista of the beautiful valley. There are two sides that are opening and one that is vent to allow the breeze to move through the shelter so that the hikers can cool down on their hike. The reason for the half flat roof is so that the adventurous hikers could sit at the top to see the wonderful 360 degree view of the mountainous area. I added built in seating along two sides of the structure so that it would not obstruct the view or use of the shelter.
Fire Station Springfield, MO. Arch 215 Spring 2011 The main ideas of my concept are the separation of public and private spaces and an easy flow to the garage bay for the occasion of an emergency call. In a community a fire station is to be a point where people can come if they need help or just to visit, so the public areas of the station are in a place where it has easy access to the community. The site is located in an area that is not very appealing. Commercial Street is in the process of rebuilding the community, so there are many areas that are still in a rough state. There is also the concern for urbanoutdoorsmen (homeless), who linger at night. The proposed station has few windows on some elevations. Where there are large windows, the landscape creates a pleasant vista. The site is also small and flat. So I oriented the station to the back corner of the site to allow easy entrance and exit of the fire truck and engine, the garage is at a 60 degree angle to help with this as well. Program and Building Plan. The proposed stations are to have a garage, community room, and fire house.
Within the fire house are more spaces than the called for standard. The rooms are as follow: Kitchen, Dining, Day Room, Gym, Study, Office, Classroom, Laundry, Restroom, Bunk Room, Male and Female Locker Rooms, Captain Quarters, Captain Locker, Lounge, and Billiard. The added spaces were added to make the station feel more home-like. The more public spaces, like the office and classroom are located at the front while the private areas are in the back and second floor. The public rooms have oversized windows to allow more light in and to keep a stronger connection to the outside environment; the station is to be a place where civilians can visit freely. The garage bay is located at the center because it is the most important space; it makes a fire station a fire station. Since, the garage is at the center it is also at an angle to allow room for the trucks and so that the adjacent space fit in the site. The design of the station is like that of the surrounding area, the Federalist/Georgian Style. Material. The building is mostly brick, with the exception the garage which is concrete. These materials reflect the buildings around the station. Though it is not always necessary to reflect the surrounding, I felt that an extraordinary design would not fit in the site.
Fire Station
Fire Station
Structure Layout
Carl Junction, MO. Green Systems Lakeside Park Arch 417 Spring 2012
Carl Junction, MO
Carl Junction is a small town that has had a huge increase in population over the years due to the development of the Southwest MO area. The town is finding itself becoming a bedroom community to these bigger cities. To help create a vision of green systems, the city came to Drury University’s Center for Community Studies class for help. We began by researching and analyzing the town to gain an understanding of the community; during this time we also held visioning committee meetings to get feedback from the community. We came up with a cover plan for goals and objectives; Connectivity, flood control, access to local produce, waste management, and social sustainability. After we completed this phase we broke into groups of two to manage a park in the town. The existing conditions of the park were an unmaintained path that creates a loop through the park and over grown ground cover. For the park use to be a nine hole golf course, that was sold to the neighborhood, and then “turned� into a park. The park, for the most part, was only being used for: extensions of backyards, walking the path, dog walking, and teenage shenanigans. The neighborhood that the park is located in is cut off from the rest of the town, and some people consider it its own town. After talking to the community we learned what they wanted from the park. They wanted the park to be accessible to the whole town and not just the neighborhood that it is situation in, also they wanted the park to remain natural, and to have a dog park and to have something there that would bring people from the town and from neighboring towns and cities. Given that the park was once a golf course the park already has a variance in terrain. In our list of goals we
decided to; heighten the existing variations in landscape, fix the existing path to connect to a bigger path that runs through the town, establish three entrances for the park, and add a dog park and to create a disc golf course that would bring people from all over southwest MO. to the park. Seeing that there was a strong desire to keep this park primarily natural, the focus was on enhancing the terrain and landscape to make the different zones more noticeable. Trees, hills, and different types of grasses are to be added in order to give users an understanding of the zones. Overall, the decided promotion of lifetime wellness led to the jogging trail becoming a main attraction. Also proposed was the addition of exercise stops with undefined characteristics allowing runners to utilize them as they choose. Some areas will include picnic tables; barbecue grills, recycling drop off, and open fields. Since there are still signs of the previous golf course, a disc golf course will be implemented to activate the park and attract people to Carl Junction. This sport is very inexpensive to establish and lowmaintenance. It is also a very fast growing sport. The terrain types that we enhanced are a wooded area in the northern side of the site that will act as two entrances, one that will connect the loop with an existing path and the other that will act as the entrance for vehicular visitors; this area will also have meeting areas and picnic tables. The next area to be enhanced is an area that has rolling hills. This area will mostly be dedicated to the disc golf course and the walking trail. There is also a lake area, the will ideally be used for fishing and paddle boats. There is also a dog park at the south of the proposal and a prairie area in the middle of the park. The disc golf course is currently being built, with 1:18 holes are already completed. The course wraps around the whole park, ending where you have started. The course takes advantage of the variation in terrain and will be very popular to disc golfers once it is completed.
Thesis Revitalization and 5 Key Components to Improve St. Louis, MO. MArch 590 Spring 2014 Revitalization is rehabilitating urban areas through: remodeling, adaptive reuse, building new residential and civic buildings and addressing phasing for new infrastructure projects. The topic of revitalization is nearly endless, but for this thesis, the focus is on the following sub-categories: mixed function, density, walkability, landscape urbanism, and psychologically driven design practices. Each one of these, together with revitalization, are a solution to the problems that hinder St. Louis and prevent the city from moving past a period of urban decay and transforming itself into a great and successful city in this new modern age. The Problem: The failure of urban revitalization to take into account the people that use the development
Connectivity
Attractions / Public Green Spaces
This node will have a: -public high school -a housing complex for middle class residents -a public plaza that will serve as the place of interaction and focal point for the city -A public plaza has both the commercial appeal along with a local perspective that brings people to the area.
Washington Ave
Program: -Residential -Single Family -Apartment -Retail -Green Spaces -Public Spaces -High School
Laclede’s Landing
Public Library
Union Station
Wainwright Building
Scot Trade
Old Court House
Arch
Bucsh Stadium
Transportation and Amenities School School
School
The Solution: Redefine revitalization and to use five key terms to help ensure the success of the revitalization process. Surroundings
Edward Jones Dome
School
Grocery
Grocery
School Grocery
Grocery
Transportation and Attractions
Washington Ave
Edward Jones Dome
Laclede’s Landing
Public Library
Union Station
Scot Trade
Wainwright Building Old Court House
Bucsh Stadium
Arch
Thesis
The proposal starts with a layer of green, walkable areas of the city that serve to connect varies nodes within the city and explore a possible expansion to the current public transit system, posing a layer of interconnected ways of travel within the city. On top of this green network, a new node within the city will be designed that will address issues caused by deep routed segregation issues that continue to hinder the urban condition in St. Louis.
Aerial Map
Square Footage: -Site Total: 483,695 sqft -School Lot: 115,440 sqft. Residential: -Townhouses: 42 Units 1 Unit: 3 Bedrooms -Residential Tower: 40 Units Regular Units: 32 Studio Units: 5 Penthouses: 3 -Apartments over Retail: 140 Units Total: 222 Units Units per acre: 1/20 Retail: Tower Retail: 6,448 SQFT Mixed Retail Buildings: 78,000 SQFT
Render of Plaza
Thesis
Site Plan
Render of Plaza
Front Elevation
First Floor
Retail Common Space Studio Gym
SecondFloor Rear Elevation
Common Space Two Bedroom Studio One Bedroom
Third Floor
Interior Render
Fourth Floor
Section Mech. Space Three Bedroom
Outdoor Common Space
Fifth Floor
Exterior Render
Thesis Mixed Function Building
The Mixed Function buildings are used to create gateways for the plazas. On the ground level are retail spaces, along with the residential entrance and the gateway. The goal of the building is to promote interaction between residents and to create a connection between the outdoor green spaces and the interior spaces. On the second floor is were residents have areas to work out and lounge. The third and fourth floor also have common areas. The fifth floor has a large outdoor common space for all residents to use. The connection between the outdoor green plazas and the interior spaces is met by using large windows along the hallways to allow people to look out into the plazas. There are four types of apartments in these builings: studio apts., one bedroom apts., two bedrooms apts., and three bedrooms apts. The materials used for these buildings are steel, brick and glass. I choose these to relate to the existing materials of St. Louis and to give a starting point for new development.
Front Elevation
First Floor
Rear Elevation
Second Floor
Exterior Render
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Third Floor
Interior Render
Thesis Town Houses
The town houses in this project are the borders of the plazas and the site. The first level is meant to be more transparent so that it flows from the sidewalk through the town house to the plazas. Also on the first floor are the more public areas; the family room, the living room/study, and a half bath. On the second floor are the semi public spaces; the dinning room and the kitchen, and a half bath. The third floor is where all of the private spaces are, two bedrooms and a full bath on this floor. Each town house has a private two car garage that is sublevel. There is a common garage area that the private garages feed from. The materials used for these town houses are steel, brick and glass. I choose these to relate to the existing materials of St. Louis and to give a starting point for new development.
Theatre Drury University M.Arch 519 Spring 2013
Section A
Theatre
This course was a comprehensive studio to display our knowledge of mechanical systems and design. The theatre was to be designed for Drury University; the site was a parking lot on the university’s campus. The design intent was to the merge the older buildings on campus with a direction of the new buildings on campus. I set out using brick and glass as the main building materials, to relate to the masonry work throughout Drury’s campus. I wanted the facade to relate to the older building on campus but to have to interior to be open and flexible. From there I wanted the users view to enter into a long segmented lobby, that would have a different atmosphere in each segment. The segments would be meeting spaces, seating areas, and a bar area. I also designed vertical shading members to reduce solar heating in the lobby area that faces west. The educational portion of the building echoes the newer educational buildings on Drury’s campus. It is three stories, and has green spaces on the second and third floors. These green spaces look over the main street on Drury’s campus and over the outdoor arena.
Section B
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Theatre
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First Floor Structure
Second Floor Structure Wall Section
The Link Springfield, MO Trail Station Arch 427 Spring 2012 During this Arch 427 Professional Communications class we worked in groups of three to carry out a semester long project. The project was to help the city of Springfield, Mo to create a signage and structure for its biking and bus system. The space was to be big enough to have demonstrations and meetings; also there was a need to have a bike workshop in the space, along with a bike storage area. The site that was chosen for my group was the central site where one bike trail bleeds into a perpendicular trail. This would be located near a popular park with a biking trail head less than half a mile away. To the west of the site is a residential area and to the east are woods that separate the site and the existing park. We came up a design to have a light roof structure that comes up from the ground and echoes the three directions of the trails. We kept the material list very short, with wood being the only material for the workshop and the seating area, while the roof is made up of a steel frame with polycarbonate cladding. The seating area is partially covered, with three different lengths and heights of the benches. These benches merge into the woods that are just to the east of the site. During the day we wanted The Link to be nearly transparent, to allow contrast from the surroundings, but at night we wanted to structure to glow to make a statement that there is a trail station here and that it is available, the night time lighting also provides a sense of security for the nearby residences.
Volunteer Tribute Joplin, MO. Arch 315 Fall 2011 After the May 22, 2011 EF5 tornado that ripped through Joplin, Mo. killing 158 people and causing over $2 billion dollars in damage our Arch 315 class worked together to create a tribute for the first responders to the tornado. The site that was picked out by the city was where the tornado transitioned from an EF4 to an EF5, in Cunningham Park. The park and the surrounding area had a horrifying amount of damage done to it with only a handful of structures still standing and none of them being livable; the location was chosen to act a starting point for the recovery. We went through several stages for designs and finally settled on a design of rings, each ring symbolically shows a stage of the recovery process from the tornado. We broke ourselves up into small groups to get materials donated; I got 18,000 sqft of sod donated, which eventually led to the entire park getting sodded, I also helped get the landscaping donated. We got all of the materials donated by local sources. We also worked with Extreme Makeovers: Home Edition for this project and also help with some of the houses that were being built. We designed the project as a class, got donations, and built the project as a class with help from other volunteers. The project was displayed in a number of newspapers, magazines and it also aired on the show Extreme Makeovers: Home Editions.
Volunteer Tribute
Chapel Joplin, MO. Arch 315 Fall 2011
Memorial Chapel
Along with the designing the tribute as a class, we also individually designed chapels that were to be placed on the site of a historical house that was destroyed in the tornado. For my design I chose to leave the chapel on the original foundation of the historic house, because the foundation already sat higher than the surrounding buildings and the park. I wanted the chapel to have a vista of the recovery process in every direction, while still having a sense of privacy in the chapel. I decided to keep the structure of the building simple so that it would eventually blend in with the houses that are going to be rebuilt in the area. The interior of the chapel is very open, two sides of which are made up of windows with horizontal members that wrap the whole interior to allow for a small layer of privacy. These horizontal members add more privacy on the walls that surround the chapel. Allow a small view into the chapel but not exposing the whole space. The procession of the entrance is much focused so that the view into the chapel and the surrounding exterior spaces changes as you approach the chapel. The exterior spaces purpose is to act as a reflecting area and a lookout to watch the recovery process or just have a moment of peace next to the reflecting pool. The trees chosen for the chapel were Yoshino Cherry trees.
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Section 2 Wall Detail
Memorial Chapel
Memorial Chapel
Section 1