ANN LOMSHEK ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Kansas State University Master of Architecture
ANN LOMSHEK
M. ARCH
DALLAS, TX 75207
T: (913) 617-7326 // E: ANN.LOMSHEK@GMAIL.COM
KSU College of Architecture Planning and Design - Minor in Planning - Minor in Leadership Studies and Non-Profit Certificate
SHAWNEE MISSION EAST HIGH SCHOOL Prairie Village, KS International Baccalaureate Diploma 2017
CORGAN ASSOCIATES
06/2023Present
Summer 2022
Project Specialist I
Managment and coordination of BIM modelling through SD and DD phases, delivered internally and with consultants. Focus on commercial and industrial use.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Construction Intern
Oversaw all design builds of ADA accessible home ramps, consulted new clients, organized volunteer clean up days, undertook application and research to win a grant for native landscaping for low income-affordable housing.
DEAN’S STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD
- 2019
APD PRO - YRS 1-5
STUDENT SENATOR - 2019
COALITION SPEAKER - 2019
Technical Skills
- Revit (Advanced)
- Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator (Advanced)
- Rhino 7 (Intermediate)
- Sketchup (Intermediate)
Hard Skills
- 3D Modeling
- Drafting
- Drawing
- Modelmaking
- Photography
- Writing Soft Skills
ABOUT ME
Growing up in Kansas City, I worked alongside my family at our restaurant, owned and operated for 22 years. At an early age I never doubted that I would be doing something in the arts or sciences, so architecture was an obvious choice for me. Graduating from high school with an International Baccalaureate Diploma instilled in me the importance of education and broadened my experiences from arts and culture, to volunteering in our community. I took the same openness and rigor in pursuing my Master of Architecture.
My academic career broaded my technical and design skills to be a successful architect. Along with two minors, one in Leadership and Non-Profit Studies and one in Planning, I expanded my design understanding at several levels and prepared myself as a future leader in the workplace. I was a construction intern at Habitat For Humanity, which I learned a lot from but more importantly the experience asserted my desire to work alongside designers, builders, and craftsmen. Now as I practice architecture with Corgan I am learning everyday and contributing to a team that is passionate about getting the details right, coordinating with consultants daily, and taking on anything when needed. The design process I take through model making, section design, and working through details is an enjoyable and worthwhile part of the discipline, but collaborating with others is what has shaped my experiences most.
01/20152020 SALSA GRILL CANTINA
08/201905/2020
Waitress and Designer
Part time waitress at a family owned business, and on staff designer for menus and handdrawn signs. Trained and lead new team members and learned business management practices
BIKE WALK MHK AMBASSADOR
Multi-platform manager of content around BWMHK’s efforts. Worked to organize advocacy efforts in planning, community involvement, and active transportation through storytelling via social media content.
03/202110/2021
REFERENCES
THREAD GLOBAL INDUSTRIES
Production and Sales teammember, making custom design work in illustrator, training new staff members, working with customers on bulk orders.
- Research
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Creativity
AWARDS
Delineation Competition 2021 Color Winner
Stella E. Ellithorpe Student Research Award
Workforce Solar Housing Research as part of ADS6 Spring 2022 Term focused on the current market for workforce housing in Ogden and the Greater Manhattan area of Kansas. available by request
Thank you for your interest in reading my portfolio, I have selected works to highlight my proficiency in a range of design skills. I hope you find something to enjoy and consider adding me to your design team.
Sincerely,
Ann Lomshek
NET POSITIVE HOME
The Net Positive House was designed and built in 2022 for Habitat for Humanity, organized with the Workforce Solar Housing Partnership. The project included coordination with Manhattan Area Technical College, Flint Hills Job Corp, Flint Hills Renewable Energy and Efficiency Cooperative, and the Fort Riley Home Builders Institute.
The total housing expense per month for the net positive house was $980 below the average listed home in Manhattan.
Of the Manhattan area, 48% of renters spend more than 35% of income on housing, making it an unaffordable market. This need for affordable housing not only drove the partnerships of the organizations involved, but resulted in a successful built house. The studio worked together to create shop drawings, fabricate SIP panels, and weld columns to be brought to site for a quick construction phase.
Existing site - project north
CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH COMMON SPACE
This house’s build was conceptualized in a gabled form to cohere with the traditional neighborhood style. The vaulted space on the public side greets the resident upon entry, carries over into the bedrooms, and contrasts with the service core to highlight the hierarchy of spaces.
PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAM
The service core is comprised of built-in furniture, housed within the core wall, reaching between the kitchen and the living room.
The core serves as a datum of functionality for optimal storage, elevating the quality of the space in conjunction with the practicality.
1. Little bluestem
2. Prairie dropseed
3. Side-oats grama
4. Smooth Aster
5. Wild White Indigo
6. Bee Balm
7. Prairie Blazing Star
8. Purple Coneflower
9. Black-eyed Susan
10. Blue Vervain
11. Ground Plum
12. Purple Prairie Clover
13. Foxglove Beardtongue
14. Yarrow
15. Anise Hyssop
16. Common Milkweed
17. Swamp Milkweed
18. Butterfly Milkweed
19. Red Osier Dogwood
CONTEXT
Bioswales along the south-southeast sides of the home were developed as a strategy to restore natural prairie to the landscape, mitigate for runoff by slowing and storing water in the landscape. The plans above for the site were submitted for grant funding as part of my internship with MAHFH. The low maintenance strategy for habitat restoration is ideal for low-income homeowners. In addition it brings awareness to the house as it stands out among its neighbors and in the community for being a net positive house.
ARCHITECTURAL PLAN
Porch Roof at Eave Detail Porch Section Porch Roof at
AQUATIC HOUSING
In the Northeast coast of Maine, the town of Rockland is home to the Apprenticeshop which specializes in sailboat commissions using hand built wood technology. Connecting the existing campus dock because of a need for student housing, the Aquatic Housing branches into the water by hovering on piers over the tidal flats. The community hall and dorm hall save on-land real estate for their direct facilities, treating the dock as an extension of their community that retains privacy and maximizes views.
The users’ experience of sailing and building vessels for the water is heightened by living on the water.
Master Plan
Looking from Ferry
Existing Dock
Entry Ramp
Dorms 4- Community Hall 5- Cafe Seating
6- Fire pit Lounge 7- Private Outlook
Translate Extension Alignment Carve
COMMUNITY HALL
A gathering place for the residents to dine and prepare food is embellished with direct views to the water surrounding and the campus to the East. The facility is large enough for family style dinners and potlucks, a common event among the apprentices, staff, and community. The program plays host to a variety of uses, meeting places, and lounging hideouts by the fireplace.
COMMUNITY HALL AXON
The program above the cooking area is reserved for mechanical space, eliminating it from the usable floor area, while providing room for services such as trash below which is not desirable in the primary spaces. By hiding some of this program, the rest of the building becomes an opportune place for a clean refreshing environment that, in contrast to their busy workplace, is receptive to the day to day needs of a small living community.
SECTION AT RAMP ENTRY
ELEVATION AT SOUTH HALL
FIRE PIT AT SOUTH OF HALL
CUTAWAY AXON - DORM ENTRY
SOUTH ELEVATION - DORM HALL
SECTION - DORM HALL
FLINT HILLS HISTORICAL CENTER
Mt. Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park is a hill formation that carries natural, cultural, and historical significance. A landform shaped by glaciers 600,000 years ago is now covered by native tallgrass, wildflowers, and quartzite boulders. From creating a center to celebrate the beauty of the place, the public steps into a learning enviroment honoring the history and its inhabitants. Visitors are introduced to a scenic walk into the base of the hill, where they are led to the building with a horizontal form that blends with the cascading landscape and melds with the exterior in spaces everywhere around the building. These spaces are also utilized by researchers studying the landscape to further biological research typical to the region.
ATX MID MIX RESIDENCE
This project, located in Austin, TX, visually and programmatically represents the intersection of mixed uses critical to the needs of the area. Stereotomic stone vs Tectonic glass forms are overlayed with the practicality of the sun shade superstructure.
Retail on the ground level has the ability to use the canopy below for markets, food trucks and other outdoor activities. Offices on the middle two levels and residences on the upper level also have access the rooftop canopy for leisure. A waterfall gradient of colored stones bookend the tectonic glass facade.
MASS AND LIGHT STUDY
This handdrawn study depicts study chambers for an egyptologist. By carving from a simple form, displays, a room for office and lounging, and a patio are created through the recesses in the walls and opening to the outdoors.
FABRICATION.
Use of Gravitational Form Finding techniques to uniformly shape Modular Mycelium Sheets without Formwork.
This experiment focuses on finding ways to grow mycelium as flat surfaces and determining their final shape without need for formwork. Ideally, these building materials would be modified to a degree in which they could be stacked as modular units. The research team uses the term mycelium to define the end product that occurs when fungal spores are allowed to grow in a sterile environment surrounded by substrates made of natural materials such as hemp. The spores branch out and form hyphae, or terminations, that present the unique capability of binding to the hyphae of other strands to form a unitized structural web. In mycelium growth, the hyphae is allowed to grow until it has completely engulfed the substrate that was previously sanitized and determined by Ecovative, the company that provides the material at a commercial level. Once the growth of hyphae is satisfactory, the mycelium can either be dehydrated or baked in order to stop further growth of branches and potential flowering into fungi. The researcher’s chosen course of action for preventing growth was air drying through hanging in order to take advantage of gravitational form finding.
read the full paper here
For the purpose of this research paper, the term, “building materials,” isn’t exclusively applied to the material once it is used in construction, rather, it discusses the processes of manufacturing materials and their byproducts as an important factor. Due to the nature of the class, the task presented to the group was to design a manufacturing process for mycelium that addressed this particular aspect of construction.
Concrete Panels Using Recycled Fabric: Jericho
The ambition behind Jericho was to rethink how building materials are utilized from the standpoint of ecology and sustainability that challenges the preconceived connotations of construction. In consideration of the project objective, our team chose to employ the strategy of sewing together clothing refuse into a quilt to be used as a mold for concrete panels. Textile waste is a significant contributor to landfills; Jericho acts to combat this by repurposing part of these heaps into usable formworks that have individuality based on the context in which they come from. Various pipe structures suspended this cloth work in the mold to forge unique variance in the panels that provide both structural rigidity and creative intricacies.
The variability in the clothing patterns and materials creates a unique texture and form in the wall construction. Shirts designed using vinyl heat transfer prints cast a mirror image of the pattern into the concrete. In addition to this, thick and overlapping sews on garments such as jeans leave behind an imprint that unmistakably reads as pockets and belt loops. The deviation between the materials’ elasticity forms an irregularity in the thickness of the wall, adding a third-dimensional quality that cannot be achieved with standard precast concrete practices.
Apertures are effortlessly added to the panels by incorporating sleeve and pant leg segments perpendicular to the quilt that protrude out of the formwork. This method allows for a smooth transition between wall and aperture that continues to afford the appearance of being formed by fabric. The interaction between formwork and pattern creates endless possibilities for unique panels giving the structure both personability and liveliness. Jericho breaks the barriers of materiality set by the construction industry and carries around the value of a cleaner future.
Steel
Sheet Metal Assembly
Fabrication of a sheet metal connection was created using a plasmacutter. In using dashes of cuts the sheet metal is able to bend and fold two pieces together in series of operations (right).
Hypar Exploration
Exploring Conics, Ruled, and Developable Surfaces I created a flexible tectonic machine for a developable surface of a hypar. The form of hypars are used in the iconic work of the Philips Pavillion by Le Corbusier. The flexible play of the piece allows manipulation and configuration to find hypar forms. This was prepared as a precursor to generate ideas for my final graduate architecture studio course.
ANN LOMSHEK ARCHITECTURE, ART, & DESIGN
Kansas State University Master of Architecture
