Andrew Evans Architecture Portfolio 2021 by andrewjevans

ANDREW EVANS ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

TABLE OF CONTENTS RESUME AND PROFILE

POWERPLANT An Adaptive Reuse Urban Farming Innovation Center

ROME AS FOUND A Prenestino Community Hub

AAMI PARK STADIUM MODELING 3D and Parametric Modeling

STACK 35 Mass Timber Multi-Family Housing

MANICA ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP Professional Work

ANDREW EVANS

andrewjevans21@gmail.com | (712) 790-8866

Objective: A driven and creative individual seeking a full-time entry level

architecture position at a firm or studio following graduation in May of 2021. I am looking to grow as a designer while making meaningful contributions to the team.

EDUCATION 2016 - 2021

SKILLS

Revit Rhinoceros Grasshopper V-Ray Lumion Enscape Sketchup 3DS Max

Bachelor of Architecture Iowa State University Ames, Iowa | Rome, Italy Digital Media Minor GPA: 3.84/4.0

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effects AutoCad Microsoft Office Model Making

EXPERIENCE 2020

Architectural Intern MANICA Architecture | Kansas City, KS Developed intitial programming, floor plans, area plans, and post-production imagery across multiple international stadia projects Created and expanded upon 3D models in Revit, Rhinoceros, Sketchup, and Lumion

2018 - 2019

Architectural Intern ISG - Architecture, Engineering, Planning, and Environmental | Des Moines, IA Extensive Revit use for architectural and structural modeling, construction documents, project management, and design development Initiated schematic design and design development for multiple large scale projects

2020 - 2021

INVOLVEMENT 2020

Study Abroad College of Design Rome Program | Rome, Italy

2019

Student Competition Team Member Design Build Institute of America | Iowa State University Collaborated with construction engeering and fellow architecture students to submit an RFP and RFQ to the National Design Build Student Competition, placing fourth

2017 - 2020

Small Group Leader St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church | Ames, IA

2017 - 2018

Sophomore Advisor Iowa State University President’s Leadership Class

REFERENCES Bosuk Hur

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University

bhur@iastate.edu | 857.756.4345 David Kelman

Director, MANICA Architecture

dkelman@manicaarchitecture.com | 785.760.4984 Robert Whitehead

Assistant Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University

rwhitehd@iastate.edu | 515.294.8276

Lead Draftsman and Architectural Designer 7523 Twin Lakes Rd Residence | Manson, IA Led design and construction document set for four bedroom, four bathroom home overlooking Twin Lakes finishing construction in the summer of 2021

AWARDS AND HONORS 2020 2020 2019 2016 - 2020 2016 - 2020 2014

H. Kennard Bussard Award Nominee Lightfoot Internships in Architecture Scholarship DBIA National Student Competition Finalist Iowa State Dean’s List Cardinal Leadership Scholar Eagle Scout

POWERPLANT

An Adaptive Reuse Urban Farming Innovation Center Philadelphia, PA | Fall 2020

H. Kennard Bussard Award Nominee PowerPlant is an adaptive reuse project transforming Philadelphia’s once monumental, but now abandoned PECO Delaware Power Station into an urban farming innovation center. Approaching the project in search of manifesting a new monumentality, this inactive power station became the perfect location. We believe that New Monumentality is no longer about the static ruin or entity commemorating an event or person, but is defined as celebrating architecture that evokes the ethos of a place. The site’s national and local historic designation is a presentday status of monumentality that celebrates the death of the site and is void of the ethos surrounding the site and its impact on Philadelphia. New Monumentality stems from the past referencing the historic ethos of the site to respond to its present-day context, thus creating a new future from its origins. To address many social and economic issues holding Philadelphia back, we developed a reciprocal approach sharing common ground with these very issues. Urban farming was identified as our catalyst to activate this approach. Transforming the PECO Delaware Station into an urban farming innovation center aims to once again expose Philadelphians to new technologies, giving the city a stake in this current technological era. The building’s program was designed with an output focused approach, to Philadelphia and beyond. Through this, we breathe a new life into the existing ethos of the site by having an impact which goes beyond the bounds of the physical building. Project Team: Jaya Tolefree and Tikeoluwa Akintan Instructor: Bosuk Hur 7

Site

The industrial site measures 5.5 acres, with the existing PECO Power Plant occupying about half of it.

A grid was established from the existing buildings dimensions to facilitate our proposed additions.

Shipping Route

Shipping System

To enhance the output-focused approach, a container transport route circulating through each fabrication module is established. 8

Grid

A crane system was designed to help facilitate the movement and storage of the repurposed shipping containers on and off the site.

Hub Placement

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Atrium

Module Arrangement

Re-orienting the historic entrance to the building to further establish continuity between exterior and interior spaces.

Learning, testing, and fabrication programs are arranged in each of the five hubs.

Drone Depot

Social and Recreation Spaces

The output and distribution routes pass through the drone depot, allowing smaller packages to be shipped via drone into the community.

Landscape design links our site to existing trails, the Delaware River, and the Penn Treaty Park. 9

Circulation Diagram 10

Testing

Fabrication

Learning

Urban Impact Map

Regional Impact Map

We believe that this system will be a catalyst, impacting well beyond Philadelphia. The future of shipping will present additional manners to reach further and further beyond our site. This chain reaction will occur both conceptually and physically. These maps illustrate the potential transformative impact of PowerPlant through ideology and tangible impacts.

Atrium Entrance Transitioning from the various activity outside, the open interior of the ground floor allows for this public engagement to continue and be enhanced within the building’s volume. Users feel a seamless connection from the exterior spaces as they transition into PowerPlant. Nearly all of the first floor serves as public engagement and atrium spaces. Each hub touches down on the ground floor with a learning or testing space, as well as vertical circulation, serving as a tectonic invitation to the public to explore the hubs above. 15

Learning Program Module

The Mid-Level plan drawing slices through the building, revealing the contents as well as the connections between each hub. Along with user circulation, conveyor belts and the shipping container route link each the various spaces. At this level, the hub typology truly comes to life, showing how ideas, instruments, and production can be shared within each hub, and then with the adjacent hubs. 17

Perspective Section through Drone Depot and Food Applications Hub The output-focused approach is clear throughout each element of the design. Conveyor belts and the shipping container route linking hubs exposes this process to users throughout the building. Once complete with this internal circulation, small packages find themselves in the drone depot. These packages rise out of the refurbished smokestacks and into the Philadelphia community, ready to make an immediate impact. 19

Riverfront Approach 20

PowerPlant throughout Philadelphia 21

ROME AS FOUND

A Prenestino Community Hub Rome, Italy | Spring 2020 Located in Torrione Prenestino, a park in Rome’s Prenestino neighborhood, the project site acts as a detached member of Rome’s strong and stratified urban fabric. In an area constricted by train tracks and high-speed roads, the park creates this isolation by not reaching out to its immediate context. Creating contemporary architecture in a city like Rome requires the need for open, public space as well as a relationship to the existing ancient context of the given site. Our design for a new social hub for the neighborhood of Pigneto serves as a contemporary example of integrating architecture and landscape. Several large examples include the Capitoline Hill project and the Markets of Trajan, in which both projects are merged with an existing natural hill. The Torrione Prenestino’s existing slope in the back of the site welcomes a similar intervention. By integrating our ground floor into the existing slope and extending the landscape onto the roof, the hard line between the existing landscape and our new architecture becomes blurred. The Nolli Plan visually explains the continuity of public space through the dense urban fabric of Rome. Our public floors facilitate this exchange through permeable facades and no interior walls. Permeability also connects the site by creating easy paths through the building. Users experience the spectrum of public to private spaces as they transition from the park to the built piazza, semi-public interior space, and eventually private space. A simple design that takes precedent from antiquity informs the user about a fluidity created between interior and exterior space. Project Team: Jacob Gasper and Henry Melendrez Instructor: Simone Capra

Carving from Building Context and Circulation Routes

Expanding the Park Plane

Inhabiting Void Spaces

Site Axonometric Drawing

Park Level Plan

Section - A

Ground Level Plan

Perspective Section - B

Second and Third Levels Student Housing Student Amenities

Park Level Coworking Park Extension

Ground Level Workshop / Atelier Flex Space Café

Detailed Exploded Axonometric Drawing

Second Level Plan

Third Level Plan

AAMI PARK STADIUM MODELING 3D and Parametric Modeling Melbourne, Australia | Fall 2019

AAMI Park Stadium is a rugby and soccer stadium located in Melbourne, Austrailia. It was designed by Cox Architecture and completed in 2010. The stadium is recognized internationally for its iconic geodesic roof canopy design that encapsulates the entire stadium perimeter. This form serves an excellent playground for parametric modeling. Using a Grasshopper plug-in, Lunchbox, I developed a script to create the triangular roof panels, randomize the lower band of the canopy panels between translucent and solid, and model the canopy structure. Rhino modeling was used to create the remainder of the stadium. Referencing the architectural drawing set ensured a high level of modeling accuracy. This model set the table for further project development-seating bowl analysis. Once the stadium modeling was completed, I performed a seating bowl analysis by writing an additional Grasshopper script. Bowlbuilder, a Grasshoper-based seating bowl program, helped recreate the stadium’s seating bowl. Bowlbuilder measured each seat’s C Value, a measurement of a viewer’s sightline. To highlight varying levels of view quality throughout the stadium, C Value based graphics were created. This project was an excellent exploration of some of the many aspects of stadium design, such as bowl design, parametric modeling, and project analysis. Independent Project Instructor: Chiu-Shui Chan

Stadium Roof Grasshopper Script

C Value

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Seating Bowl Analysis

Seating Bowl Analysis Grasshopper Script

STACK 35

Mass Timber Multi-Family Housing Queens, NY | Spring 2019 Entering this project, my partner Trevor Toy and I saw many issues with current New York housing. A site adjacent to the Queensboro housing and overlooking Manhattan created the neccesity of medium-to high density housing while giving us the opportunity to innovate with bold approaches. We chose to allow the needs of each housing unit to shape the mass of our housing. This user-centric approach flips the narrative of multifamily housing. Instead of creating a large form and stuffing units inside, we decided to prioritize each unit and let them shape the larger form. The versatility, modularity, constructability, and lightness of mass timber made it an ideal material for our project. These qualities of mass timber allowed us to create a large, stacked mass angled at 35 degrees to uniquely respond to the specific site conditions. Continuing the materiality into the community center, we used CLT panels for the facade and long span glulam beams to highlight the versatility of mass timber. Our community center layers the programs of recreation, early childhood education and a garden-to-table center. Each program is tailored support the residents of Stack 35. The housing community comes together to serve as a prototype for mold-breaking housing techniques in a setting thirsty for such innovation.

Project Partner: Trevor Toy Instructor: Robert Whitehead

HOUSING MODULE MASSING OVERALL FORM MASSING 40

CIRCULATION INDIVIDUAL HOUSING UNITS

1 TRADITIONAL HOUSING consists identical units stacked vertically.

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PUSHING UNITS BACK uses the geometry of the form to create outdoor space for each level.

PLACING MODULES ON THE SITE angles one wing towards southern daylight and views of Queens. Modules in the second wing fram views of Manhattan.

STACKING MODULES VERTICALLY creates an interlocked massing of modules. Carving the mass optimizes outdoor space facing Manhattan Island.

ADDING VERTICAL CIRCULATION connects each module.

REDUCING HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION to every second or third level creates more livable space while allowing for air to pass through the length of the module.

PIVOTING EACH UNIT 30 DEGREES uses neighboring modules to create private outdoor space.

ROTATING PART OF THE MASS 35 DEGREES allows two wings to recieve different levels of daylight and views.

ADDING THE COMMUNITY CENTER PROGRAM of a recreation, education, and a garden to table center creates a well rounded and independent housing development.

FORIMING THE COMMUNITY CENTER MASS to the housing mass helps tie the buildings together and creates a central flow of site circulation.

STEPPING BACK LEVELS creates rooftop spaces facing the East river such as educational outdoor play space, a community market, and gardens. 41

LOUVERS AND UNIT GEOMETRY BLOCK HIGH SUMMER SUNLIGHT THERMAL MASS THROUGHOUT UNIT EXPOSED DOUGLAS FIR CLT PANELS

NATURAL VENTILATION CUTS THROUGH TWO LEVELS OF UNIT

4” CONCRETE FLOOR TOPPING TO CREATE THERMAL MASS

HIGH HORIZONTAL LOUVERS ALLOW FOR LOW WINTER SUNLIGHT

DIAGRID STRUCTURE CUSTOM FAB METAL HUBS 10x10 TIMBER MEMBERS

GLASS DECK RAIL REAR FACADE HOUSING UNITS

9’ x 45’ x 10” CLT PANELS

FRONT FACADE GLASS DECK RAIL DIAGRID STRUCTURE

CUSTOM FAB METAL HUBS

10x10 TIMBER MEMBERS

LOUVERS

1 x 8 DOUGLAS FIR MEMBERS

MICRO UNIT ONE BEDROOM UNIT TWO BEDROOM UNIT THREE BEDROOM UNIT LEASABLE COMMUNITY SPACE CIRCULATION

Third Level Plan

Fourteenth Level Plan

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Unit Plan Modules

COMMUNITY CENTER PLANS ROOFTOP

GARDEN TO TABLE CENTER

EARLY CHILDHOOD

EDUCATION CENTER 5th LEVEL

RECREATION CENTER

MICRO UNIT ONE BEDROOM UNIT TWO BEDROOM UNIT THREE BEDROOM UNIT

4th LEVEL

LEASABLE COMMUNITY SPACE CIRCULATION

3rd LEVEL

2nd LEVEL

1st LEVEL

GROUND LEVEL

MANICA ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP Professional Work Kansas City, KS | Summer 2020 Over the summer of 2020, I was fortunate to intern with MANICA Architecture, headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas. As a small firm specializing in large-scale international sports and entertainment venues, MANICA designs complex and high-profile projects. Additionally, their role as a design architect allows for projects to progress quickly while focusing on their expertise. This consistent exposure to such projects helped me rapidly develop skills to contribute to the team. Having a role in sports and entertainment projects brought to life a passion of mine - designing spaces for the athlete and fan experience. This exposure built off of previous internship experiences to expose myself to a variety of processes within the architecture field. For example, I developed client-focused graphics and imagery, tailored specifically to the project’s unique needs. Working through the schematic design and design development phases of a project showcased how to develop a complex and three dimensional program. Such layered projects reveal the implications of each design decision on adjacent spaces and forms. Finally, working in 3D softwares helped me develop and understand these spaces as malleable volumes, rather than simplistic two dimensional forms. Overall, the experience was crucial to my growth as a designer, both inside and outside of the field of sports and entertainment design. All images courtesy of MANICA Architecture. All graphics created in collaboration with members of MANICA Architecture.

Material Section Axonometrics

Design Development Analysis

INTERNATIONAL ARENA 52

Ground Level Plan, International Arena

INTERNATIONAL ARENA Ground Level Plan, International Arena