Andrew Burik
Architecture Portfolio
Andrew Burik burik.2@osu.edu
614-753-1674
443 Barwood Drive Gahanna, OH 43230
Education Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science in Architecture; GPA 3.3/4.0 Bachelor of Science in Architecture; GPA 3.9/4.0
2015-2018 2020-2022
Columbus State Community College
2013-2015
Associate of Science
Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical Schools
2011-2013
Architecture-Construction Management
European Architecture Studies
May 2017
Knowlton School of Architecture
ULI Hines Student Competition
January 2021 - February 2021
Work Experience Graduate Teaching Assistant, Knowlton School of Architecture
January 2021- Present
Lead recitations for Architectural Systems course •Provide feedback and assistance to students concerning course content and labs •Grade student labs and exams •Assist professor with various tasks
Design Associate, Shremshock Architects
May 2018- April 2020
Assist and manage project development on behalf of Client Managers for retail clients •Provide construction and code consultation for retail clients •Prepare construction documents •Modify and create construction details •Modify projects based upon building department feedback
Grocery / Produce Clerk, Kroger
September 2011- September 2018 / July 2020 - January 2021
Assisted the Produce, Dairy, Dry Grocery, and Frozen Foods sections
Skills
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• Construction Document Preparation • Experience With Permitting Process
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Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop AutoCAD
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Rhinoceros Microsoft Office Suite Zoom Newforma Project Center
Table of Contents Rapport: A Conversation Between Two Countries
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An Embassy for the United States of America
Normative Courtyard + Distortive City
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Hotel
Portable Booth: An Alternative to the Status Quo System of Voting
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Full Scale Voting Booth Installation
KC Community
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ULI Competition Mixed-Use Community
Country Retreat for Professionals
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Lake Home
Aeropolis
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Theoretical Worldwide Nomadic Migration Vessels
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Rapport Embassy for the United States of America Mexico City, Mexico Paseo de la Reforma
Instructor: Jane Murphy Autumn 2017
The driving force behind this new embassy is as a response to the unstable relationship between the United States of America, and the United Mexican States. Thus this embassy would be located on a main boulevard featuring a Mexican nationalist monument across from the site that features many important political rallies and protests, due in part to both the embassy and monument. The Rapport embassy strives to start a dialogue between the people of Mexico and America through architecture. This is established through a path through a series of spaces that are easily accessible to the street that leads up to the pinnacle of the roof of the embassy. Along this path, there are moments of American events that shape our national identity. Not only does the information conveyed with carvings in the architecture to convey ideas, but the emotional aspects of these ideas are represented in the spaces. At the end, one feels and literally sees the point of view above the ambassador’s office, if not a thawing of tension at least, and thus a rapport is established.
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An era in which Americans re-invisioned their inward view of the world, into one that was outward. This space constructs the unity of different ideals of internationalism that meets at one point to create the pinnacle of foreign policy idealism.
The era in which Americans reassessed their prior consensus of liberty for all, and extend it to all human beings. This space constructs the feeling of compression by oppression and then the expanding relief of freedom.
An era in which mankind looked at nature and tried to extract self evident truths. This space brings out massings from the embassy to present self evident forms to project self evident ideas that founded the American conscious.
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An era in which Americans reconstructed what it meant to being an American in which all could participate regardless of race, sex, or religion. This space creates a plane that inhibits the occupant from inhabiting the entirety of the plane, contradicting optics, a feeling some felt before civil rights.
This current era in which Americans are faced with an expansion of identities, in contradiction to the relative conformity of this nation’s past. This space carves out different depressions that symbolize the multitude of identities that impress upon the American society
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Path of Narrative
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Public to Private
Mirroring of Types of Forms
Plans
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Normative Courtyard + Distortive City Hotel Cincinnati, Ohio Instructors: Best Blostein & Erik Herrmann Autumn 2020
In Collaboration With: Salma Abdelrahman Normative Courtyard + Distortive Courtyard investigates the assumed typology of the western courtyard and distorting it, while putting forward a duality of heaviness and lightness. The distortive [bottom] courtyard is distorted using the forces of the city and the way people move through it. Incidentally, it then creates a main entrance that is hidden when seen from the city scale, but evident when you get to it. The normative [top] courtyard is the assumed typology in its most basic form. It creates a visual heaviness not only because of its larger and rigid form, but also because of the materiality of rough stone. Contrast that to the light glazing panels of the distortive form and a visual tension is created where the normative is compressing the distortive, adding yet another force outside that of the city. Programmatically the normative and distortive behave differently yet can understand each other. The normative assumes the typology of the double loaded corridor. However, the distortive assumes the double loaded corridor in some places, and a single loaded in others. This is to create a continuous space from top to bottom floor where the curvature is inverted, yet difficulty to see continuously, depending on which floor a person is, distorting how an atrium behaves. Finally, structural and circulation cores are added to visually resolve the normative with the ground and exaggerate visually the curving of the distortive. Additionally, it provides normative circulation for the guests and to create unique conditions where cores only go to certain floors.
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Portable Booth: An alternative to the Status Quo System of Voting Columbus Ohio
The Ohio State University Campus
Instructor: Troy Malmstrom Spring 2016
In Collaboration With: Tristan Huck Austin Schlosser Zachery Stewart Aleah Westfall Austin Schlosser Cameron Whaley
How can our society make voting more popular among the general public? This is the question many Americans have been asking for years now. Through this project, we proposed to answer this question by asking another one. How can we make voting more accessible to the public? We saw the status quo of marginalizing the vote of the less fortunate through the inconvenient locations of voting spaces, and therefore our main task to overcome. Our resolution was that the booths should be transformed into modular pods that can be move from one location to another at ease via bicycles. While also creating a unique design that can entice the democratic spirit of all Americans. We also postulated that the portability of the structure and the transparency of the design would make voting more appealing to an ever more mobile American culture.
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Little to no Paneling
Single Layer of Tulle
Multiple Layers of Tulle
Numerous Layers of Tulle
Multiple Layers of Tulle
Single Layer of Tulle
Little to no Paneling
Using an irregular waffling technique, set up using a radial geometry, creates a sturdier structure.
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This structure can withstand everyday forces any booth would be expected to withstand, including the jostling of moving behind a bicycle.
The waffling consists of setting up an array of vertical pieces of cardboard with angles horizontal pieces slotting through them at irregular locations.
Not only can the portable pod be singularly used as a voting space for a small constituency, it can also be grouped, by nature of its form into large clusters to serve larger constituencies.
The simple mechanics of the voting booth requires only 1-2 persons to attach and detach from a bicycle. Additionally the light weight material of cardboard allows for light transport.
A movable arm, that is attached to the base structure of the booth can be rotated to attach to a bike underneath the seat.
A basic bolt and wing nut is used to lock the arm securely into place for simplicity for the user.
Mobile Base Installation
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Perspective
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Elevation
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Elevation
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KC Community
ULI Hines Student Competition Mixed-Use Community Kansas City, Missouri Mentor: Matthew Leasure Spring 2021
In Collaboration With: Rosie Rabati (Architecture) Spencer See (Landscape) Megan Esselburn (Planning) Byron Ekey (Financial) KC Community is a proposal for a new urban neighborhood in downtown Kansas City that is more livable for the people. The key goals are connectivity, equity and ecology to correct the wrongs of urban renewal and errors in the market.
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Finally, this new community will focus on providing 21% of its leasable space as affordable housing. This new area will also host retail and office space as an opportunity for some jobs close to home. The focus on alternative modes of transport allow those who rent affordable units the opportunity not to buy a car and all of the costs that are associated with it.
This project proposes the implementation of bike lanes in existing streets, a streetcar lane which is a local favorite mode of transport, and a green corridor. The green corridor which contains rain gardens and bioswales would be implemented by closing a north-south street in the middle of the site to just pedestrian traffic in order to increase safety and as a space in which community interaction can be fostered. All of this is to expand the possibilities of movement in and outside of the site. Also put forward is the idea of access to food for all. With the implementation of a space called Market Square which hosts a permanent grocery store and a temporary space for farmers markets as well as community events and informal gatherings this idea is realized. In proximity to the Market Square, there are community gardens for the exchange of urban growing practices between the tenants.
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Country Retreat For Professionals Lake Home Tofte, Minnesota Lake Superior
Instructor: Kay Bea Jones Spring 2018
A place of retreat from the stresses of a workspace should guide a person out into the landscape to engage in activities that regenerate both their spirit and body. This retreat is not only a house of rest and refuge for a professional, but it is a collection of separate spaces that provides different stages of relaxation. And because of their proximity and location within the landscape, entice the inhabitant to leave the house more often. There are four spaces embedded in the topography on a remote part of the shore of Lake Superior. Those four spaces are the house/library, the workshop, the sauna, and the swimming pool. The location of the pool, sauna, and workshop, on the top of three different steep ridges provide a natural organizer that can make it straightforward to differentiate the spaces and separate their uses. The materialistic narrative of this project is to evoke a memory of the early Scandinavian immigrants to the upper Midwest region by using the simple materials of the land such as stone and wood. In turn, that narrative complements the landscape by also evoking the natural materials of the rocky shoreline.
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Road to Tofte
Country Retreat Physical Rest
Library
Intellectual Recreation
Workshop
Professional Recreation
Country Retreat Physical Rest
Sauna
Physical Regeneration
Swimming Pool Outdoor Recreation
Lake Superior
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The central location of the library at the top of the tower is informed by the introverted nature of the activity, but since it leads away from the sleeping quarters, it allows an opportunity to take a detour into the landscape, thus recalling the main goal for the professional. Reinforced by the vertical organization of the spaces. The sleeping quarters, which entices many to stay indoors, are towards to bottom, separate from all other activities so that the professional is not tempted to retreat to the confines of the sleeping quarters.
The house, like the materials, is formally shaped with simple orthogonal moves. The primary generator for the space is the central vertical circulation as a rectangular tower.
The library is the other space of relaxation of the other professional in both relieving the anxiety of separation of work, and rejuvenation the spirit with literature.
It is difficult for a professional to be fully relaxed when they are away from their work completely. That is why the workshop is considered a space of relaxation, since it allows the professional in a limited sense to relieve the anxiety of being separated from their work, while not being fully developed enough to submerge the professional in their work. Thus tempering the spirit.
The sauna, embedded in the center ridge, acts as the center of the axis that runs parallel to the ridges which organizes the space. A staple of Scandinavian relaxation, the sauna is also the center of the regeneration of the body for the retreat.
Workshop
Sauna Cooling Pool Sauna Swimming Pool
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Main Gath
Library
Main Gathering Space
Guest Quarters
Vertical Circulation
Main Sleeping Quarters
Library
Carports
Guest Quarters
Main Gathering Space
Vertical Circulation
Main Sleeping Quarters
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Aeropolis Theoretical Worldwide Nomadic Migration Vessels Global Site Instructor: Galo Canizares In Collaboration With Daniel Yang Spring 2017
Aeropolis is a project that explores three different, but complementary ideas. First, the possibility that in the future, resources will not be readily available. Second, the imminent onset of artificial intelligence to enable humans to achieve greater things. Finally, groups of independent humans, such as nomads, being able to take the first two pints and navigate their environments and the globe more precisely. In addition, this would enable them to inhabit the earth without the permanence of grounded structures, but with mobile ones. This project thus investigates the politics of inhabiting the air, which would lead to a future in which nomadic societies would grow their own produce and create their own resources. These nomads would in turn travel the globe with the aid of artificial intelligence, thus inhibiting interference of governments and borders. Thus, this culture and way of life would require a more modular architecture that would be shaped by the physics of air and absence ground plane. That conclusion of form would be found within the sphere.
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Diagnostics and Sections
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Theoretical Construction Research Interpretations on how theoretical “weightless” projects can be built.
Orbit City: Television Popular Fiction
The Continuous Monument: SuperStudio Radical Design
Cloud Cities: Tomas Saraceno Contemporary
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