UNDERGRADUATE benjamin bremner architecture portfolio
education
pre - diploma cedar falls high school class of 2009 post - diploma iowa state university department of architecture class of 2014
references
pre - diploma faculty of high school art department linda sneed - linda.sneed@cfschools.org post - diploma dsn 102 professor samantha krukowski - shk@iastate.edu arch 301 professor jungwoo ji - techarch@iastate.edu arch 302 professor tom leslie - tleslie@iastate.edu arch 302 professor rob whitehead - rwhitehd@iastate.edu arch 546 professor jason alread - jalread@iastate.edu arch 403 professor mitchell squire - msquire@iastate.edu work references owner of seymour av chris seymour - chris.seymourav@gmail.com
experience
summer 2009 the music station in cedar falls, iowa contact ken miller - 319.277.7722 summer 2010 rowan equipment and fabrication in dysart, iowa contact cletus rowan - 319.476.3100 summer 2011 suburban extended stay hotel in cedar falls, iowa contact natalie cummings - 319.268.2222 summer 2012 to present seymour av/ seymour screen excellence contact chris seymour - 515.450.5694
software
six+ years macintosh operating systems windows operating systems microsoft office adobe photoshop adobe indesign autocad inventor four+ years autocad architecture autodesk revit adobe illustrator google sketchup imovie two+ years autodesk 3ds max one+ years rhinocerous wentachee (macintosh beta) grasshopper (parametrics for rhino)
NEWidentity YORK apartment housing
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identity
the expectations of soho as a neighborhood and a place of residence propose a need for a formal language that is both indicitive of the rich history and yet unique to the conditions of an ever evolving metropolis. how do we design to inspire a promising future for new york without diminishing its historic role in the shaping of residential architecture?
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iterative DEVELOPMENT
second floor EXHIBITION SPACE
MASSING
CIRCULATION
ground floor RESTAURANT
PROGRAM
STRUCTURE
ground floor PUBLIC SPACE
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longitudinal section LOOKING WEST
second floor TEN
NANTS SHARED SPACE
third - seventh floors PRIVATE SPACE
transverse section LOOKING NORTH
COLUMBUS fracture innovative museum
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fracture
innovation of any and every design implementation at times requires a seismic shift in the trajectory of an urban planning development. to oppose the historic vision of designers in an architecture rich city takes careful attention and intention when designing programmatically flexible exhibits that are defined by unique forms and at times the shaping of geometrically foreign housing for those spaces.
iterative DEVELOPMENT
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massing SITE MODEL
ground FLOOR PLAN
second FLOOR PLAN
exterior PERSPECTIVE
section model REPRESENTATION
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diagrammatic SECTION DRAWING
LOBBY
CAFE
MEZZANINE
physical SECTION MODEL
MIAMI free verse premiere hotel
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free verse
much like the artistic flexibility of loosely constructed free verse poems, a unique architecture present in south beach must allow its guests to operate within gestural pragmatics and functional spaces. how do we open interpretation of an object,, or a specific destination as the key to maximizing intrigue of the user and the ultimate flexibility of how that place can be organized?
site CIRCULATION ST
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SP AR
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DUNE S
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MIXED
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H BE
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SOU T
20 TH
CO
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SA VE
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land MASSING
spatial PLANNING
sun SHADING
lobby ENTRANCE
MASSING
PROGRAM
rooftop POOL DECK
CIRCULATION
oceanside PERSPECTIVE
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night life ACTIVITY
SINGLE UNIT
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PENTHOUSE
single FLOOR PLAN
longitudinalSECTION
private RESTUARANT
sectional ANALYSIS
transverseSECTIONS
1’-0”
5’-0”
0’-1/2” = 1’-0”
public NIGHT CLUB
10’-0”
20’-0”