Atalie Ruhnke Select Works
Portfolio Iowa State University of Science and Technology Bachelor of Architecture
2014-2019
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Atalie Ruhnke email: aruhnke@iastate.edu LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/atalieruhnke/ instagram: @ruhnke_by_design
Iowa State University of Science and Technology Bachelor of Architecture
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Tutorial Tower
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Des Moines Water Works Expansion
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SHEAR
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2X2
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Baths of Caracalla
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Station C
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Aqueduct Park
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St. Joseph’s Square
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Tutorial Tower Chicago, IL Academic, Student Residential, Retail Shared between 6 downtown universities 1.7 million square feet Y5- Fall 2018
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In collaboration with Brandon Lewis
Priorities: Accomodate academic and living space for six universities in downtown Chicago, provide the proximity of students to faculty similar to the British tutorial style method of teaching, design union spaces, residential social spaces, dining centers, and common spaces present in traditional college campuses, connect the building to the street level in Chicago’s Loop, implement strategies to break down the scale of the building and provide occupants with familiarity and community 4
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Tutorial Tower Programmatic Requirements
Plans: Brandon Lewis
Above is a representation of the allocation of the program. Chicago’s zoning code allowed for 1.7 million square feet to be used for the shared university building. Of that _ percent was comprised of lecture halls, classrooms, faculty offices, and other spaces alotted for education, __ was given to offices and administration, and __ was occupied by retail. The remaining __ percent of the square footage is given to student residences. 2-person dorms, 4-person suites, and 1-bedroom apartments are the three housing options pictured. 6
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Diagrams: Brandon Lewis
A narrow site (140’x400’) necessitated innovation in overall form. In an effort to place younger students (the most likely residents of the 2-person dorms and 4-person suites), adjacent to learning spaces and faculty, the residences are wrapped around an academic core. As the building height increases, the housing transitions from multiple-occupant units to 1-bedroom apartments. Openings at either as well as where the building shifts outward allows for natural light to reach the interior and indicates larger-scale gathering spaces when looking at the elevation. The form steps back as the need for educational spaces diminishes.
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Academic Diagram: Brandon Lewis
The scale of the project is also broken up Each educational zone is comprised of two vertically, with combined residential-educa- lecture halls and equal numbers of classtional floors interspersed with cafeterias and rooms, classrooms, and gathering space. student unions. This creates three zones of ecutaional spaces. 8
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In collaboration with an elevator engineer, it was determined that 36 elevators were needed within the project. Banks of elevators were designated to serve lower residences, educational spaces, and upper residences to efficiently move people to their intended destinations. Escalators move occupants through the educational core, reducing the circulatory load on those elevators during spikes in movement (as is common in large lectures). 9
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Embedded in the form on the ground level is a plaza on the southwest corner of the site. A main entry from the plaza and a supplementary entrance to the north draw people through the lowest two levels occupied by retail tennants. A grand staircase pulls occupants up into the system of escalators circulating through the educational core. The back of the building sits adjacent to the elevated train, and serves as the loading dock and entrance to undnerground parking, both unaffected by the noise of the rail line. 11
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The lower living quarters are in close proximity with the central education space. The academic floors are offset 2 feet from the residential floors, indicating the threshold between spaces. Access to the residential floors are limited to three secure entrances that are highly visible and watched by residents and students. Two two-story community spaces are shared between two floors of residents, acting as a dorm 'house,’ with kitchens and social spaces. These were placed in an effort to encourage community within a smaller number of residents living in those two floors.
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Capping the top academic floor, a three-story student union draws students past the mechanical floor and into a large food-hall style dining area. Different floor levels, built in booths, and hallways provide different areas for different styles of dining. At the third level of the union, the building form steps back, allowing for an occupiable rooftop adjacent to a student lounge. Student offices sit opposite this lounge, and both are open to the larger union space below. With built elements concentrated in the center, the facade of these three levels are transparent, signalling the large-scale gathering space on the facade.
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As the educational core can be contained within the lowest tier of the building, the floorplates of the higher levels are long and narrow. 4-person suites and 1-bedroom apartments make up the perimeter, with the middle space available for laundry and lounge space. The elevator load decreases with the stepback, allowing for 6 elevators in 2 elevator banks. As with the lower floors, the glass facade of the residences is fitted with folded metal screens. These not only provide shading from the sun, but appear as a smaller scaled element of the elevation, in reference to the smaller scale of the units they conceal.
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At the top of the skyscraper, the floorplates are made up of fewer 1-bedroom units, stepping back from the north in plan. Again the stepback is utilized to provide rooftop-access. At this point, a smaller two-story union is located, encorporating a cafeteria, lounge space, and study space for the use of the upper-level residents.
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Academic Rendering: Brandon Lewis
The education core is broken up into three educational "zones" each containing lecture halls, classrooms, faculty offices, study/gathering spaces. A series of escalators climbs through the open space of the five floors and provides visual access between them. Each zone emulates the scale and function of a single building on a traditional college campus.
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Residential Commons Rendering: Brandon Lewis
Top: Every two residential floors that wrap around the educational core have a common area that encompasses a kitchen, eating area, and two-story lounge. The double-height space takes advantage of the skyline views to the north.
Bottom: The food hall in the main union is broken up into smaller seating areas, each with a different identity (restaurant-style, vs bar seating). The glass facade appears transparent on the elevation and provides sweeping views of the Chicago Skyline and Lake Michigan.
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DMW W Des Moines Water Works Expansion Des Moines, IA Administration, Labratories, Public Engagement Y4- Fall 2017
Priorities: Increase the nitrate treatment capacity of the Des Moines Water Works, Research the Des Moines River and Raccoon River watersheds, Engage with the adjacent Water Works Park and engage with the community
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The Des Moines Water Works is situated within a floodplain and protected by a 13 foot perimeter berm. Both catastrophic flooding and increased levels of nitrate pollutants in the water are consequences of the elimination of 95 percent of Iowa’s natural wetlands and more direct water pollution and drainage via farming on an industrial scale and field tiling. Proposed is the construction of artificial wetlands, natural flood mitigation and filtration systems. Two dams redirect water from the bend of the Raccoon River surrounding the DMWW. The dams also act as structural elements for the research and administration programming of the complex.
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a. Diversion Dam b. Lock System c. Vascular Plants d. Shallow Water e. Basin with Liner and Substrate
Water is directed into the tiered, constructed wetlands through a system of dams and locks. Built partially into the perimeter berm, the new construction provides a new face to the complex that acts as a bookend to Water Works Park, while maintaining the necessary security of the interior of the complex. The dams and buildings are connected to existing walkways within the park. 25
DMWW Phase 1
Construction of the expansion can occur in two phases. The first consists of implementing infrastructure to redirect water from the first bend in the river into a series of tiered wetlands. The public, from the park, has access to a platform overlooking the wetland. The main entrance of the building acts as a gathering hall for employees and the public. This offers the potential for events and discussions with the community. 26
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The second phase places a dam on the opposite bend of the river and directs water to the surrounding plains. Laboratories are connected to the dam, adjacent to the wetlands. Connecting the interior spaces is a public outdoor amphitheater. The top of the amphitheater acts as a walkway and continues onto a bridge over the laboratories and through the wetlands. This bridge connects Water Works Park to Gray’s Lake and walkways to downtown, which are separated by Fleur Dr. a major 4-lane roadway in Des Moines. 27
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Park visitors overlook the wetland ecosystem and the infrastructure that operate it.
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In the case of major flooding events, the Des Moines Water Works remains protected while the surrounding wetlands allow for the natural proccess of flooding to occur.
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SHEAR Lilienthal Glider School and Music Venue Ames, AI Hang Glider school and workshop, performance and rehearsal space Y3- Fall 2016 Hansen Prize runner-up
Priorities: Provide space to construct and repair Lilienthal Gliders (named after aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal), Provide ease of access for loading the gliders, Design for takeoff location with ample altitude for gliding, Ensure acoustic soundness in rehearsal and performance spaces, Create practice spaces that accommodate a variety of musical ensembles,
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SHEAR Site: Moore Memorial Park Ames, IA
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The programs are separated to mitigate acoustic problems that might arise from combining the noise of a workshop with the sound of instruments. The shape of the buildings appear as nesting shapes, as parts of a whole split apart, emphasized as the torsion of the buildings reach toward each other. The trapezoidal shape also acts to diffuse "flutter echo" that is a consequence of parallel walls. The in-between space is occupied by the public both as a gathering space for musical intermissions, and a space from which they can observe and admire the gliders above. Through the intermediate space the prairie landscape is framed and showcased.
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Lilienthal Glider Workshop
There is a distinction between the musicians’ private, behind the scenes space, and where they perform. Their building reflects this by embedding the rehearsal rooms into the hillside disappearing from view, while the performance space rises above the decending hillside. The grade is also highly practical as well as symbolic, as it provides additional sound insulation. Also practical is the simple, one directional movement for the loading, storage, repairing, and flying of gliders. 35
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With the twisting and torsion of the buildings, each seems to reach toward the other. The canopy does this as well, and encloses the interstitial space making one whole project as opposed to two separate entities.
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A canopy encloses the in-between social space. The gliders’ workshop, rising above this in-between space, acts as a protective case, exhibiting the artifacts it contains.
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2x2 Public Space Intervention Ames, AI Design-Build Y2- Spring 2016 In collaboration with the Iowa State University Architecture class of 2019
Priorities: Analyze the public space within the Iowa State University College of Design, Design a temporary installation to accommodate a variety of uses, Coordinate with the 77 members of the second-year class to organize, design, document, fabricate, and construct the installation.
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Scheduling
Design Documentation Fabrication Assembly 5 WEEKS
A phased construction schedule was necessary to complete the scope of work in our 5-week time frame. To do so, four teams were formed, design, documentation, fabrication, and scheduling. During the assembly, members of all four teams joined the construction effort.
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Photos by Christopher Gannon
Photos by Christopher Gannon
My role was within the Documentation team, overseeing the annotation process, delegating work, editing documents and coordinating with members of the team and scheduling to maintain our quota. The project was built in 200 layers, each with its own plan and inventory. As they were completed the documents were handed to the fabrication team.
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Baths of Caracalla
Baths of Caracalla Tourist Center Rome, Italy Workshop with Roma Tre Study Abroad- Rome Y4-Spring 2018 In collaboration with Eduardo Pasquali and Megan Zeien
Baths of Caracalla Priorities: In a 2-day workshop collaborate with architecture students at the Universita Roma Tre, Produce a design for a tourist center and event space neighboring the Baths of Caracalla
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With our limited time frame, we developed a modular arch system that could be scaled up or down. This offered multiple options to combine the units in order to house office space, retail space, and exhibition space. The retail and office space flank the road cutting through the triangular site. The exhibition space to the north and an amphitheater focus outward toward the Baths of Caracalla. 43
Station C
Station C Subway Station and Historic Preservation Rome, Italy Study Abroad- Rome Y4-Spring 2018 In collaboration with Megan Zeien and Vanessa Miller
Priorities: Design a station for Line C of Rome’s subway system, Provide public outdoor space for the community, Preserve and showcase unearthed 2nd-century military barracks,
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Central to our project was the idea of layers, in the physical layers of the city ground, and the historical layers they represent. A public plaza slowly decends to access the underground rail. Walking down the stepped surface, visitors face the ancient ruins parallel to the steps. The occupiable roof serves as a community park and a cut in the surface shines light and provides visual access from the street level to the military barracks below. 45
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Aqueduct Park Community Center Rome, Italy Study Abroad- Rome Y4-Spring 2018
Priorities: Showcase the ancient aqueducts at the southern border of the site, Ensure safety through openness, tiered spaces, and visual access, Continue the greenspace to the northeast, Provide areas for art, events, play, and social life.
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The gradual descent of the land (apparent as the aqueduct disappears into the ground), can be utilized for the creatiion of spaces. Insetting program into the land and strategically excavating and leveling portions of the land allows for overlooks into each space and occupiable roofs to maximize parkland and play space.
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Aqueduct Park Atalie Ruhnke Select Works
c. a. classroom b. exhibition space c. exhibition space d. main courtyard e. auditorium f. tennis courts g. cafe h. cafe back of house i. fitness classroom j. gym k. locker rooms l. walkway m. ancient aqueduct n. midieval tower
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The lower step of the project houses civic programming, with exhibition and gallery spaces as well as a small theater. Visitors can look into this space from the parking lot to the west. An overlook is also accessible where the land peels away and serves as the roof of the auditorium.
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The L-shape inset into the rising landscape is made up of a gym and recreation space as well as a small cafe. Both focus views to the connected courtyard and tennis courts. The greenspace that comprises the east end of the site extends over the gymnasium, capping the space. During matches and competitions this overlook is ideal for spectating. The land adjacent to the aqueducts maintains its gradual rise, allowing occupants ease of travel between the civic and recreational zones. 49
St. Joseph’s Square Blackbird Investments Ottumwa, IA Summer 2018
Priorities: Design single-family triplexes for purchase, Maximize customizeability of the elevation of each home, Provide a sense of individuality and ownership with each unit
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Site Development
Typical Triplex
St. Joseph’s square is a new development occupying the site of the former St. Joseph’s hospital. Planned is a community of triplexes intended to be privately owned. Each triplex is made up of a small, medium, and large unit, the last of which is two stories.
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St. Joseph’s Square 31 min
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A housing analysis completed by Iowa State University recognized a shortage in purchaseable houses in the low-mid price range. It was revealed that much of Ottumwa’s workforce commutes from neighboring towns. The task of the St. Joseph square development is to provide variable housing options for this demographic.
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St. Joseph’s Square
Above: Medium unit Below: Large unit
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Above: Small unit
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St. Pierre at Firminy
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Collage Workshop
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Palentine Hill - Torre Argentina
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Piazza del Popolo
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