Architectural Portfolio // Ben Bye

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Grow Your Own City

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An Artist Co-op for Granville Island

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Converging Cultures Pavilion

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Pacific Northwest Culinary Arts Institute

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Farming The Green

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Grow Your Own City First Prize | ACSA Timber in the City Competion Brooklyn, New York | Spring 2013 | Professor Judith Sheine Collaboration with Jason Evan Rood and Alex Kenton Grow Your Own City strives to technically and aesthetically celebrate the new building technology of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). This project, located in Red Hook of Brooklyn, New York, will become the assembly hub of Grow Your Own City modular CLT pods. Once the home to the busiest ports in New York, the borough of Red Hook, Brooklyn, had been in a steady economic decline since the 1960’s. The community has a strong heritage, however, living up to the name of Fort Defiance that once graced its shores. Today, Red Hook is one of the largest artisan communities and culinary tourism stops in New York, featuring outdoor recreational areas, urban farms, farmers markets, bicycle races, and arts festivals.

Grow Your Own City aims to enhance the energetic life and community of Red Hook, building on its rich natural and cultural history and serving as a catalyst for urban regeneration and economic growth. The project would create affordable living units that could support a wide range of daily activities, inspire healthy community relations and establish and celebrate the natural forest and ecosystem of the Northeast United States. The bicycle shop, Timber Restaurant, Timber Discovery play area, and green alley highlight Red Hook’s vibrant cycling, culinary and eco-friendly culture. The green alley on the interior of the site adds a valuable urban park area to support recreational activities, neighborhood and community functions, and festivals. The green alley is designed as an educational walk, explaining the lumber industry and the creation of Cross Laminated Timber and other wood products. Lastly, the green alley supports sustainable practices of rainwater harvesting, retention and reuse, solar energy collection through photovoltaic panels, habitat rehabilitation and ecosystem recovery.

Grow Your Own City is a modular based building concept that takes advantage of the material properties, strength and dimensions of Cross Laminated Timber. The design process is based on a prefabricated CLT pod that can be assembled, finished, and shipped from the factory.

The pods are stacked on the Red Hook site to form low-rise housing and a tower, with the CLT panels acting as both load-bearing and shear walls. The CLT pod is designed and engineered according to the Cross Laminated Timbers material properties. The façade is panelized with both solid CLT and floor to ceiling windows. Each pod type, whether a studio, living space, or bedroom, is assigned a quantity of shear panel and glazing that forms a pattern on the façade, giving it both regularity and variety.

The Grove in the heart of Grow Your Own City 4

Red Hook Site bus parking with a view

Aerial of Red Hook Brooklyn site.

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Phase One | Manufacturing

Phase Two | Stacking

Phase Three | Tower

Phase Four | Live

production plant constructed to prefabricate CLT pods

housing erected above flood levels on concrete plinth

pods constructed around thickened CLT core

healthy affordable living around a reconstructed ecosystem

Section through production plant and housing arm.

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interior perspective of production plant

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pods are stacked on site

the green alley buffers the zone between factory and housing 12

pods arranged to create a diversity of dwelling units

plant a tree

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grow a city

An Artist Co-op For Granville Island Vancouver BC | Spring 2012 | Professor Stephen Duff

The Artist Co-op for Granville Island was designed while studying abroad in Vancouver, British Columbia. Granville Island is a small island in False Creek, adjacent to downtown Vancouver.

The island is primarily occupied by small artist studios. As the island has become popular to tourist, the price to rent studio space has skyrocketed. In one instance, 5 artists share a single 500sqft. studio. This project is intended to create rentable space for emerging artists who cannot yet afford private studios. The co-op also offers workshop space for artist on the island who do not yet have access to large scale equipment. Individual studios, open studios, workshops, and lofts are offered for rent in the co-op. Spatially, private studios are locate on the ground floor boardwalk while co-op spaces are located on the second floor. A set of grand staircases bring the public up to the co-op artist market and studios.

The design focuses on aspects of contextual modernism. Granville Island is full of historic industrial structures. Many of the buildings contain large open spaces with timber truss spans. In this design, I intended to create a decidedly modern building that recalls the historic fabric of the island. This incorporation of island aesthetics molded the building into a double shed form. The off canter roofs are angled as such to accept the northern sun, giving artists the best natural light to work in.

The island is also owned by the government. Because of that, it is necessary that all studios are open to the public. This jurisdiction ruled the organization of the building. A large open market hall is host to smaller artist who share working. The ground floor studios open out to the new boardwalk, giving them strong public access and helping boost art sales. Restaurants and cafes located along the boardwalk draw the public to this end of Granville island, the unique artists make them return.

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The Artist Co-op, a new hub for the east end of Granville Island

The boardwalk at the Artist Co-op terminated by the historic Granville Island Crane 18

The Co-op Gallery and the main entrance to the Co-op workspaces

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opposite| the artist market co-op and with a wood and steel truss adjacent| sections and elevations of the artist co-op

ice cream shop

design firm

cafe

artist studio wood shop

artist studio

co-op loading

co-op entrance

artist studio metal shop

artist studio

artist studio

kitchen co-op market

restaurant

multipurpose

gallery

Ground Floor co-op gallery / artist studios / boardwalk / restaurant 22

2nd floor the artist market and co-op

Urban Design Diagram

fluid urban space for a flexible island schedule

hotel and co-op parking

flex parking / event space

park / greenspace

studio apartment

3rd floor studio apartment / lofted art studio

Co-op Axon Diagram

shared space for emerging artists

*hotel

Converging Cultures Pavilion Eugene, OR | Fall 2013 | Professor Sebastian Guivernau Collaboration with Jackie Stinson and Product Design Students Zoey Liu and Amanda Wunderlich In the summer of 2014, Eugene, Oregon will be hosting the World Junior Track Championships. When tasked with designing a flag display and pavilion for the event, our design team approached the project by first exploring the DNA of the event. What stuck our team about the World Junior Championships is the idea that 175 nations will be coming to one place, Eugene, to compete in one event. The World Junior Track Championship is in one place, and in one idea; a Convergence of Cultures. When further exploring the concept of Converging Cultures, other global phenomenon that bring together divergent cultures were studied. Food became noted as the central theme shared across cultures, a love of food and even more pertinent to the event, a love of sharing food. Food became the central medium for converging cultures within the context of the World Junior Track Championships. From that stance, the flag display and pavilion where merged and an international food festival was programmed for the pavilion. A place was created where athletes and fans alike can eat the foods of the world under the flags of the world.

CONVERGING C U L T U R E S 1 75 NATIONS RUNNING, THROWING, AND EATING TOGETHER

BRINGING THE WORLD TO ONE PLACE I A A F WO R L D J U N I O R C H A M P I O N S H I P T R AC K / E U G E N E , O R / J U LY 2 2 - J U LY 2 7

Interior perspective of the Converging Cultures Pavilion. Visitors eat the foods of the world under the flags of the world.

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The dynamic pavilion is created using a simple kit of scaffolding, plywood, and canvas.

a field of pods converge cultures

one pod serves multiple functions

pods are arrayed to create eating and moving zones within the pavilion

pods are shifted within grid to create breakaway space for ordering food

lateral support braces define spaces within the free form pavilion

flags float between the pod structures in a symbiotic relationship of form and structure

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NAAN C H A AT D O SA BHAAJI A LO O T I K K I

7,752 MI | 12,475 KM pods are arranged by time zone allowing a break from the code sanctioned alphabetical order the site is on the southeast

pods are constructed using recycled scaffolding with fabric sheathing allowing for customization of individual pods

Pacific Northwest Culinary Arts Institute Portland, OR | Spring 2011 | Professor Jolie Kerns The Pacific Northwest Culinary Arts Institute, is to be a hub and to the organic foods movement in Portland.

Setting a precedent for the way it can be done. A building and program that facilitates the use of organic and local produce, making it an affordable solution to the operation of a culinary arts institute.

Portland and the Willamette Valley region are abundant in organic farms and would be able to sufficiently provide a majority of the produce, game, and poultry needed to run the institute. When foods are needed that do not grow in the region, an attempt will be made to use Californian produce rather than that from Other countries, and further regions of America. In order to continue the use of local produce into the winter months, a food preservation station will be made. Further more, classes will be arranged in such a way that the heaviest use of foods will be done in there time of harvest.

In order to communicate this use of local foods to the people of Portland, the building will be made in such a way that it clearly illustrates it’s focus. Greenhouses will be an obvious feature of the school as well as a large bioswale, all shouting out that the building and the school is about local produce. The school will also create a brand, a way to become well known in the city. For example, Portland has the famous “Made in Oregon,� sign. The sign has now become both a brand for the city as well as the University of Oregon which occupies the building. In the case of the culinary institute, a fleet of trucks will drive around the region, gathering produce from local farms on a daily basis. By making the trucks recognizable, awareness of the schools mission can be made.

The goals of this new focus on local produce is to; reduce the carbon footprint of a culinary institute and to breakdown all of the layers that currently separate humans from the origin of their food. When working and eating at the Pacific Northwest Culinary Arts Institute, it is to be immediately clear where that food is coming from.

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Precedent Study Sketches

knight library / repetition & proportion

South Elevation

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erb memorial union / asymmetrical balance

glasgow school of art / order in bays

Sustainable Strategies

passive heating diagram

West Elevation

passive cooling diagram

closed loop irrigation diagram

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opposite | the farmers grocery store selling locally grown produce top | chefs cooking in the teaching kitchen with the attached green house in view bottom | diners enjoying farm fresh food with the bioswale and hanging garden in view

Farming the Greens Eugene, OR | Fall 2012 | Professor Jolie Kerns

Over the past five years Laurelwood Golf course has seen drops in golfers and subsequent loss in revenue. Currently, operations are maintained through public subsidy. Laurelwood is routed for closure and private re-development. Without a systemic shift in operations, the citizens of Eugene risk loosing the 93 year-old public green space.

Golfing is on a decline. As the number of golfers drops, golf courses are forced to close their doors. In Eugene, the Laurelwood Golf Course has been struggling to maintain profitability since the peak in golf popularity in the mid 2000’s. The loss of Laurelwood would forever change the landscape of Eugene, removing 90 acres of open park space from the citizens of Eugene.

The 9-holes of Laurelwood Golf Course will be replanted as Laurelwood Farms. The farm will be planted in the footprint of Laurelwood’s 9-holes, utilizing existing irrigation and drainage patterns of the golf course. Use of existing infrastructure will continue with the employment of golf carts for farmer and food transportation and the use of the clubhouse for food processing and sales. Excess fruits and vegetables will be canned on site for use through the winter months. The food produced in the footprint of the golf course will both be sold at the on site market and distributed throughout the 4-J school district for use in their school lunch program. The 4-J school district of Eugene has a mission to provide local and organic foods to their students. By partnering with the farm, they will be able to fully achieve an entirely local vegetable source. Without major modifications to the infrastructure of Laurelwood Golf Course, a community farm can be realized.

The transformation of the golf course into a community farm will help maintain the much loved public green space for the Citizens of Eugene.

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$150,000

Unpaid Rent

Unpaid Water Bill

Subsidized Future

The historic Laurelwood golf course will gradually be seceded to Laurelwood farms

The typical response to a decommissioned golf course is to build housing developments. Often presumptuous by nature, these developments level public green space.

Tom Shaw, a student from the University of Oregon, called Laurelwood home in the late 1950’s.

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top left | The public green space lost to a privately owned suburban housing development. top right | The current golf course is a historic public green space for Eugene. bottom | During WWII America’s most famous golf course, Augusta National, closed its gates to become a farm with over four hundred head of cattle.

Repurposed Infrastructure • putting green

• driving range

• club house

• hole one

• hole nine

irrigated holes / farmed land putting greens/raised vegetable beds existing infrastructure • neighborhood park

Passive Production

• hole three

• hole four

natural planted rough

• hole eight

optimal land for animal grazing forested land w/ hiking trails

• hole two

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people fed

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• hole seven

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• hole five

• hole six

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HOLE ONE TOMATOES

HOLE TWO LETTUCE

6 ACRES 240,000 LBS/YEAR 560 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

3.93 ACRES 137,550 LBS / YEAR 321 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

From Laurelwood Farms to the Cafeteria Table The farm at Laurelwood Golf Course has the potential to provide the entire vegetable demands for the 4-J school district’s lunch program, keeping food sources organic and local. Through school field trips and work opportunities, this farm could provide a unique learning experience for students while maintaining a large enough production level to meet the school district’s entire produce needs.

I-5 Highway

McKenzie R.

Eugene, OR pop. 156,929 Willamette R. .25 miles

1 mile

Laurelwood Farms

High Schools Middle Schools

HOLE THREE SALAD GREENS

HOLE FOUR BEANS

2.21 ACRES 38,896 LBS / YEAR 91 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

4.45 ACRES 44,500 LBS / YEAR 104 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

HOLE FIVE ONIONS

HOLE SIX SWEET POTATOES

3.4 ACRES 136,000 LBS / YEAR 317 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

1.99 ACRES 39,800 LBS / YEAR 93 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

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Elementary Schools

HOLE SEVEN ZUCCHINI 3.64 ACRES 160,160 LBS / YEAR 374 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

HOLE EIGHT CARROTS 4.21 ACRES 210,500 LBS / YEAR 491 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

HOLE NINE BROCCOLI 1.99 ACRES 25,870 LBS / YEAR 60 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

DRIVING RANGE APPLE ORCHARD

PUTTING GREEN GREEN HOUSE TOMATOES

PARK FIELD APPLE ORCHARD

5.61 ACRES 117,810 LBS / YEAR 421 PEOPLES FRUIT NEEDS

.47 ACRES 271,000 LBS / YEAR 632 PEOPLES VEGETABLE NEEDS

7.81 ACRES 164,010 LBS / YEAR 587 PEOPLES FRUIT NEEDS

FARMED PLANTS / WILD PLANTS SECTIONS

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WALKING TRAILS are located in the areas with wild plants, formerly the rough

FARMED AREAS fill the areas formerly occupied by individual holes

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Holes are on FLAT PARCELS and are easily converted for vegetable growth

STEEP SECTIONS lay beside holes and are planted with low-lying sedum to prevent erosion and wild berries for natural foraging

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• Fa r m ed Fa i r way

• N a tu r a l Ro u g h

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The new Laurelwood Farm merges the past and future. Farmed plots fill the historic outlines of individual holes. Hikers and joggers utilized the old golf cart trails. The farm becomes a ghost image of its golf course past.

Building Enclosures Fall 2012 | Professor’s Corner & Rowell

Enclosures deals with the design of building envelopes. In the course, we designed and detailed a wood structured enclosure, an aluminum curtain wall, steel structural systems, and a terra cotta tile enclosure. The design and detailing exercises stress the 4 D’s of enclosure; deflection, drainage, drying, and durability. Designs maintain thorough air and water barriers at all locations of the facade.

Details were drawn both freehand and with CAD. Free hand detail drawings were stressed as an effective way to communicate at a construction site or in a meeting. CAD details were used as a more completed deliverable, akin to construction documentation.

NIGHT VENTILATION

KAWNEER 1600 CURTAIN WALL VERTICAL SHADING MEMBER USING FR0STED GLASS AS THE SHADDING DEVICE STAINLESS STEEL CABLE SHADING GUIDE

FIXED WINDOW

OPPERABLE HOPPER WINDOW OPPERABLE SHADE AND HOUSING

NIGHT VENTILATION

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ALUMINUM FLASHING CAP ALUMINUM SUPPORT CLIP TERRA COTTA TOP TILE CLIP ALUMINIUM HORIZONTAL Z-GIRT ALUMINIUM TOP SILL 6” 20 GAGE STEEL STUD VAPOR RETARDER 1/2” DENSGLAS GYPSUM SHEATHING 1/2” DENSGLAS GYPSUM SHEATHING WEATHER BARRIER (BUILDING PAPER) 8” LONGOTON TERRA COTTA TILE (SHILDAN) VERTICAL SUPPORT ALLUMINUM EXTRUSION STEEL ANGLE SOIL RETAINER

R-24 EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE

ROOT REINFORCEMENT LAYER SOIL MEDIUM DRAINAGE AND FILTER LAYER DRAINAGE MAT MODIFIED BITUMEN ROOFING

BATT INSULATION FILLING THERMAL GAP

R-48 EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE

CASTELLATED BEAM 3” CORRUGATED METAL DECKING SUPPORTING 5” CONCRETE SLAB STEEL SUPPORT ANGLE ON 4” HSS LOOKOUT 20” CASTELLATED BEAM STEEL COLUMN FINISH PLASTER

TOP SILL FLASHING OPPERABLE SHADE AND SHADE HOUSING AUTOMATIC OPERATION INSULATED VENTING PANEL LOUVERS TO PROTECT NIGHT VENTILATION

opposite | a curtain wall and steel framed enclosure adjacent| a terra cotta wall detail cut at the roof

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