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C o n t a c t Ariel Peisen 8452 Maurer Road, Apt 1134 Lenexa, Kansas 66219
arielpeisen@hotmail.com (402) 297-3142 issuu.com/arielpeisen
S k i l l s •Successfully work as a team member to exceed the expectations of clients and customers •Strong attention to detail as demonstrated through project finalization and scale modeling •Efficient multitasking ability as shown through completion of work duties and school schedule Revit • Rhino • Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign• AutoCAD • SketchUp • Physical Modelling
I n v o l v e m e n t 2013-Present AIAS • University of Kansas Chapter 2014-Present Freedom By Design • AIAS University of Kansas Chapter 2014-Present Architecture for Humanity • Lawrence, Kansas Chapter October 2013 Better Block KC 2011-Present Alpha Rho Chi • University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chapter Pledge Educator and Secretary
A w a r d s •2014 Mark of Distinction Award Best Abstract Model •AIA Kansas Honor Award for student-built work Armitage Center Pavilion at the KU Field Station
E x p e r i e n c e Summer 2014 Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects [JGMA]• Chicago, IL •Developed design concepts and digital models for museum in Chicago, IL •Collaborated to create digital model and physical presentation model for housing project •Headed the development of wayfinding standards for the company •Compiled grant proposal (concept development and programming) for healthcare facility 2013- Present Hatch Library Architecture Reading Room • Lawrence, KS •Daily tasks include assisting students with finding materials, database and scanner usage •Database catalogue and entry •Handles resource and material collection for faculty 2012- Present College Nannies and Tutors• Overland Park, KS •Responsible for the daily care two adolescent siblings •Assist with the morning routine of getting up and ready for school •Daily cleaning and household management tasks
E d u c a t i o n University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design, & Planning 2013-Current
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture 2010-2012
CONTENTS 2011-2015
URBAN ACTIVE PLANNING
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DIRTWORKS STUDIO ARMITAGE PAVILION
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ENDEMIC DESIGN MUSEUM
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MEDIATOR CONCEPTUAL
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POCHE CONCEPTUAL
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JGMA INTERNSHIP
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS 2014.
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QUICK FIRE EXERCISE
The first two weeks of the semester were dedicated information gathering on the WAD. Working in teams, students researched and analyzed the site, building two site models, and studies precedents for the coming projects.
To jumpstart our creative thinking, students were asked to create a lowdensity maximized use building situated between two existing structures. Working individually, students produced floor plans, diagrams, a physical mode, and renders. 6
In the wake of a recent global recession, Lawrence, Kansas faces an unprecedented opportunity to expand its downtown into a multi-faceted urban district. Traditionally a “Main Street” city flanked by historically dynamic neighborhoods, Lawrence’s contemporary urban fabric is now stretching east, re-occupying a collection of industrial buildings along the rail line with a renewed urban vibrancy and density. Recently established as the Warehouse Arts District, this urban expansion is comprised of an emerging grass roots arts collectives, small entrepreneurs, cultural institutions, and new residents of the East Lawrence Neighborhood.
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With the help of the Lawrence Arts Center and strong civil leadership, the City of Lawrence is in the early stages of redefining downtown and parts of East Lawrence as a newly designated cultural district, cementing its role as a regional hub for arts and culture in the central Midwest.
GATHERING
DISTRICT COMMONS
BIKE & BREW
For the first major iteration of design, groups of four students were paired off to work on two separate sites. The goal of working in teams was to create conversation and design communication similar to different firms working on sites with relationships to the other.
Continuing the goals from SCHEME 1, new pairs of students worked on the site opposite to their previous design (i.e. Site A went to Site B, etc.). With an already developed knowledge of the two sites, students were able to dive into greater detail when developing their designs.
Similar to the goals of the QUICKFIRE, the last 1.5 weeks of the semester gave the studio the freedom to explore their own program for the Lawrence Warehouse Arts District. Working in pairs, students addresses the impact of the Burroughs Creek Trail into the district.
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INDIVIDUAL PROJECT DURATION: 1 WEEK
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Q U I C K
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In an effort to jump-start the semester, students were asked to create a mixed-use building in the interstitial space between two occupied structures. Over the course of five days, each student developed diagrams, floor plans, quality renders, and a physical model. My design took root in the geometries of the Warehouse Arts District. The historic qualities and platonic geometries of the site influenced the formal characteristics, while a more contemporary and stark palette determined the material properties. Program was chosen based on the need of the surrounding context, and the interior placement was organized by maximizing the natural daylight, as well as needs for privacy and ideal views.
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BEDROOM
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PARTNER: JOSEPHINE PORIER DURATION: 2 Weeks
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G A THE R I N G
The Warehouse Arts District is an area ripe for growth and development. This design was approached with a deep understanding for the alternative culture and lifestyle in the area. Using this as a starting point, a collection of mixed-use buildings were developed in an effort to create small interventions for the district’s inhabitants to utilize on both a daily and event basis. The challenge in this project was in paying heed to the traditional warehouse vernaculars of the district while still being able to design a development that reflects the contemporary trends. The site lies directly in between a residential neighborhood to the east and the WAD to the west. Keeping this in mind, we used a stepping approach to gradually build up our structures towards the commercial district, thus providing privacy for residents to the east and creating a strong presence for businesses to the west.
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MASSING DIAGRAMS 1. Site 2. Green link through district 3. Division of program 4. Residential volume 5. Interior Courtyard
6. Courtyard access 7. Setback for parking 8. Finesse 9. Terracing 10. Clubhouse
11. Penthouse/Apartments/Amenity Space 12. Commercial volumes 13. Setback for plaza 14. Finesse 15. Artist studio space
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WESTERN ELEVATION
Ground Floor: Restaurant
Ground Floor: Commercial Space Second Floor: Artist Residences
Ground Floor: Commercial Space Second Floor: Artist Residences
Ground Floor: Gallery
Ground Floor: Commercial Space Second Floor: Private Residences Third Floor: Private Residences
Ground Floor: Gym + Pool, Offices Second Floor: Private Residences Third Floor: Private Residences Fourth Floor: Private Residences
(IMAGES (IM ((IMA IMA IM IM MA AG GES GE ES LLE ES LEFT LEF EFFFTT TO EFT E TO R RI RIG RIGH RIGHT) IGH IIG GH GHT) T) ST STR SSTRE STREET TRE TRE TR REE ETT VIEW VIE IEW IEW EW FR FR FROM FRO ROM RO OM 9 OM 9TH 9T TTH H& PENNSYLVANIA, PE P PEN PENN EN ENN E NNSYLV NN SY SY SYL YLV YLLV YLVANIA LVA ANI AN ANIA NIIIA NIA N A, A A, AERIAL ERI ER ERIA E RI RIA RIA IAL V VI VIEW IE EW W FRO FROM FFR RO R ROM OM 9TH OM 9TTH 9 TH & P PENNSYLVANIA EN E ENN ENNS NN NNS N NSSYLVA N SY YLV YL YLVA LVA LLV VA V AN NIIIA NIA A
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PARTNER: MEGAN DAVIS DURATION: 2 Weeks
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After investigating the areas for potential within the direct context, our team chose to focus on the under-utilized parking lots hold immense potential in activating the Warehouse Arts District and creating a central hub for transportation and pedestrian activity. With this in mind, as well as the desire to financial justify a significant change to infrastructure, this design developed beyond the prescribed program requirements to create a heavily activated District Commons. These ideas were implemented by moving the large surface lot next to our site underground to provide a plaza space for the District Commons. To offset the costs of underground parking and help activate the space, three mid-rise (two- to five-story) residential buildings and one high-rise residential tower (twelve-story) were developed. The first level of all four buildings were programmed with rentable artist work spaces, retail and commercial spaces, including a bike shop, cafe, and community recreation center, to help create a program that pulls in activity to the new District Commons.
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SPACE=NO GATHERING
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PARKING LOTS
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DISCONNECTED TRAILS
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NEW CONNECTIONS SOCIAL ACTIVITIES & SPACES WEAVING SPACE REDUCING HARDSCAPE SUBGRADE OPTIONS
MORE PEDESTRIAN SPACE
SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT
ARTIST ENVIRONMENT
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NEW PATHWAYS + ROUTES
DISTRICT CENTER
CITY PLAN
Massachusetts Street Corridor
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MASSING DIAGRAMS 1. Site 2. Developable Space 3. Subgrade Parking 4. Workable Volume 5. Openings 6. Heights 7. Plaza/Residential Tower 8. Program
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TEAM PROJECT DURATION: SEMESTER Roles: Visual Communications, Wood Construction
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A R M I TA G E
PA V I LI O N
The Dirt Works Studio, in the School of Architecture, Design, and Planning at the University of Kansas, aims to educate architecture students in the design and construction of publicly accessible earthen structures for all to experience. For the Spring 2014, the Dirt Works Studio was invited by the University of Kansas Field Station to design and build a new entrance gateway to their Research and Operations offices and the Armitage Education Center. The site is located in northern Lawrence, Kansas. Our intervention manifested intoself in a thirty-five foot long rammed earth wall that rises from the earth, as the site’s surrounding trees rise up from the prairie landscape. The gateway will serve as a threshold between the surrounding landscape and the Field Station, offering signage and direction to those visiting the site, as well as paying homage to the prairie environment surrounding it.
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CANOPY PLAN
TIMBER LOUVERS INTERLOCK WITH EACH OTHER TO GIVE THE ILLUSION OF A SINGLE LOUVER
THREADED ROD RUNS THROUGH EACH LOUVER TO PROVIDE HORIZONTAL SUPPORT
TURN BUCKLES AND WIRE PROVIDE TENSION TO PREVENT FLUCTUATION FROM WIND GUSTS
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC Tension
Turn buckles and wire cord were attached with 3 inch screws to the top of each louver to help with potential swaying from wind gusts.
Connection
Custom built U-shaped steel ribbons weave in between the three sections of louvers, simultaneously attaching them the beams beneath and adding an extra layer of support.
Louvers
78 unique louvers made from recycled telephone polls create the overhead canopy. Each louver has a fluctuating height which when viewed as a whole generates a gently undulating structure, mimicking the adjacent prairie grass.
Sistered Beams Vertical Support
Two sets of custom columns provide the vertical connections from ground to canopy. Each column is made of three planks with the taller supports sloping gently to provide a lighter touch at the ground.
Rammed Earth
Five rammed earth walls generate the most striking feature of this design. Soil gathered from the surrounding site combined with pigment generates rolling striations that mirror natural soil and rock layers.
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DALLAS, TEXAS. 2013.
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Architecture has long played a role in working to resolve historical and social issues. This studio focused on a semester-long study of the Native American peoples in Dallas, Texas, and worked to confront the opportunities and challenges faced there. In a historical context, an ongoing struggle of the Native American people was addressing the lack of recognition for the atrocities during the colonization. Using this as a launching point for how design can bridge the history of a people, the colonization becomes a link between the past and future of a culture.
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PROGRAM Entry/Level 1 Colonization Gallery Reception & Ticket Booth Gift Store Auditorium Cafe
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Basement Level 2 Past History Gallery Colonization Gallery Storage Maintenance Offices
Basement Level 1 Colonization Gallery Archives & Offices Mechanical Room Security Offices
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Level 2 Colonization Gallery Administrative Offices Library/Reading Room Children’s Gallery
Level 3 Colonization Gallery Future Gallery
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PHASE1 / Create a barcode unique to yourself using the following formula: 0 or 1 XXX.XXX.XXXX X male (0)/female (1) identifier 10 digit phone number barcode check digit PHASE 2 / To introduce oneself to the section to determine the format identification of the whole - part to parcel. One must investigate the skill sets of sectional translation, aggregate contouring as a means of manifesting surface, and the use of basic parametric design principles in an analog format PHASE 3 / With the existing sloped surface, translate this surface into a series of four representations which will communicate its slope characteristics. PHASE 4 / The design from Phase 2 will be considered a site in which a planar surface will be located exhibiting an intentional preformative agenda. Upon analyzing the site model , design a planar surface structure that will be sited within the model.
BARCODE GENERATION / PHASE 1
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PROFILES / PHASE 2
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As a primary design intention, one should strive to achieve conditions of simultaneity: connection and separation; thickness and edge; abstract limit and visceral engagement. Aim toward design that allows the wall to be a spatial condition negotiating between two areas and yet actively participating in the space. It should also serve to explain the nature of dissection; why it was necessary to divide a once continuous space into two separate zones. The objective here is to explore the potential of the wall in its ability to make place and space. Using the bottom-up approach, this design explored the potential of the section and its ability to transform past its commonly static state.
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(IMAGES LEFT TO RIGHT) EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC, FRONT ELEVATION, SECTION, PLAN, PLAN WITH SHADOWS
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 2014.
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The following images and renders represent projects worked on while interning at the Chicago firm of Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects in the summer of 2014. During this period I not only improved my skills in large-scale model making, rendering, diagraming, but I also worked to create the firms’ graphic standard for wayfinding documents. This experience helped to shape my professional character and drove my determination for design. It was a remarkable experience to work one-on-one with other designers that encouraged such thoughtfulness in everything they did.
ROLE (opposite): Photoshopping, conceptual design
ROLE: Wayfinding Documents
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ROLE: Digital model construction
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ROLE: Built site model (black) & design model (white) MATERIALS: foamcore, rigid foam with gesso coating, chipboard 71
C o n t a c t arielpeisen@hotmail.com (402) 297-3142 issuu.com/arielpeisen
Ariel Peisen 8452 Maurer Road, Apt 1134 Lenexa, Kansas 66219