Architecture + Design Portfolio by Brad Kreuger

PORTFOLIO Bradley Kreuger

BRADLEY KREUGER 314 852 9832 brad.kreuger@gmail.com https://issuu.com/bradkreuger LinkedIN @BRADLEYKREUGER

EXPERIENCE GENSLER Los Angeles, CA Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2019

TRIVERS St. Louis, MO June 2019 - Aug. 2019

HOK Kansas City, MO May. 2018 - Dec. 2018

DIRTWORKS STUDIO Marvin Hall, KU Jan. 2018 - Aug. 2018

ARC/D MENTORSHIP University of Kansas Aug. 2017 - Present

AIAS BOARD KU Chapter Aug. 2015 - May 2017

Architecture Intern Joining the sports studio, I worked on Austin FC Stadium and assisted a variety of other sports related projects. I lead BIM development work regarding facade design, structural details, and layout studies. I conducted verbal and visual presentations for my team and clients. Architecture Intern I focused on BIM modeling, design studies and presentation, and client communication on a large scale residential project and historic revitalization project in downtown St. Louis. Architecture Intern I joined a variety of collegiate and professional sports projects including University of Alabama Bryant Denny Stadium Addition, Richmond Virginia Arena, and University of Delaware Stadium. I worked closely with principals and designers to learn the techniques of sports architecture. Design Manager I coordinated design decisions and managed documentation processes paralleling the construction of a full scale design-build renovation of two architecture studios lead by Chad Kraus. Student Mentor As an experienced student at KU, I visit with first - third year students to provide them with design assistance, program and modeling help, and general architectural advice. Development Manager As development manager I organized fundraisers and scheduled events to raise money for the AIAS KU chapter.

REFERENCES

Kristin Byrd

Gensler - Senior Associate

kristin_byrd@gensler.com Rashed Singaby

HOK - Principal, Senior Project Designer

rashed.singaby@hok.com Kapila Silva

University of Kansas - Professor

MY STRENGTHS

MY SKILLS Hand Drawing

Revit

Self Initiative

Illustrator

Rhinoceros 3D

Team Engagement

Photoshop

Sketch Up

Creative Problem Solving

InDesign

Grasshopper

Time Management

Enscape

Bluebeam Revu

V-Ray Lumion

MY INTERESTS

kapilads@ku.edu Gregory Crichlow

University of Kansas - Professor

gregory.crichlow@ku.edu

EDUCATION University of Kansas Lawrence, KS Aug. 2015 - Present

KU - Gensler Co-Op Los Angeles, CA Aug. 2019 - Dec. 2019

Graduation date: May 2020 Master of Architecture and Design Certificate of Urban Design Abroad : South & East Asia Graduate Research Semester In a highly competitive program, KU - Gensler interns conduct

a collaborative research project regarding anticipated socioeconomic and architectural trends.

DISTINCTIONS Microhome Competition Bee Breeders Dec. 2019

AIA Scholarship Aug. 2019

Masterprize Competition Nov. 2018

Hack The Walls Competition Feb. 2018

Architecture Competition Named Honorable Mention in Bee Breeders International Architecture Off-grid Microhome Design Competition. Scholarship Recipient of selective St. Louis AIA Ranft Fund Scholarship. Interior Design Competition Dirtworks 509 Design-Build project awarded winner of Architecture Masterprizeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Interior Design Competition. Design-Build Competition First place winner of design-build installation competition hosted by KU School of Architecture and Design.

PERSONAL Clothing Design May 2016 - Present

Platform I manage my own clothing company WAYALIFE Outdoors. I design all of my graphics and print each product by hand.

CONTENTS Academic

Hyperloop Station

Five Points Incubator

Dallas Arts Extension

KC North Loop

Design-Build

Dirtworks Makerspace

Competition

Off-Grid Microhome

Urban Renewal Hyperloop Station URBAN MASTER PLAN & STATION DESIGN

West Bottoms, Kansas City Redevelopment Kansas City, Missouri Spring 2020 Prof. Peter Broeder & Matt Keys Partners: Gavin Goga & Jon Lelek The West Bottoms has historically been the main hub of import/export industry for Kansas City throughout most of the 19th and early 20th Century. A series of rail yards and shipping yards filled the area bringing about the need for more transportation. It fell into disrepair and industrial depression, leaving behind a once vibrant and bustling community. This district is slowly transitioning into a unique culture. “Where Hipsters vibe and Anitquers thrive...” The West Bottoms has its own identity separate from Kansas CIty, a sentiment echoed by the residents and blue-collar workers that we interviewed. The gritty, eclectic, lack of order of the space is what creates the character and charm that draws people to the area. The growing social landscape inspires creative expression as much as The West Bottoms is blended with the industrial formwork of the past. This authentic nature is something that we seek to keep through the revitalization process. As important as it is to recognize new growth in a district, it is equally essential to remain considerate of the existing community. All too often new development pushes out the old and in with the new. Our goal of surrounding a hyperloop station within existing framework of a gritty and hard working past, will not only preserve the West Bottom’s unique culture, it will bring new life and excitement to an area that once was Kansas City’s center.

RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

West Bottoms District

Acce essibility Proposal Determined site for Master Plan Anticipated Green Spa ace Connective Pathways Integrated Public Transit Pedestrian Paths M Mass Transit T it Access A Greenscape Accessibiility Existing Railroad

Master Plan Thesis Our masterplan development seeks to revitalize the historic West Bottoms by repairing broken connections using shared public transportation and social spaces, while maintaining the authenticity of the area.

Extended Hyperloop Connection

Hyperloop Operations Schematic 600mph

Kansas City

St. Louis Not to scale Magnetic Active Linear Accelerator Magnetic Passive Linear Deccelerator Vacuum Pod Tube

Linear Regenerative Breaking Point

Air Chamber Vacuum Turbine

MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL

Site Plan Drawing Credit to Team Collaboration

PUBLIC SPACES Anchored along the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Green Lineâ&#x20AC;? public spaces flow throughout the site, creating small nodes for people to intereact. Adding green spaces to the rugged, industrial West Bottoms allows for a more community oriented feeling.

TRANSPORTATION HUB To connect the site to the downtown area of KC and surrounding major cities, a transportation hub anchors the site. The hub would serve both public transportation and new modes of transport such as the hyperloop and UberElevate.

INFILL

LEGEND New Building

Streetcar Line

Adaptive Reuse

Existing Bus Route

Existing Building

Proposed Bus Route

Transportation Hub

Bike Route

To accomodate new growth, strategic infill will be needed to serve the community at large. To keep an authentic feel, adaptive reuse of the exiting brick buildings will be a major factor in our proposed plan. 11

Concept Design: Process Diagrams

1. Establishing Site The station was placed centrally within the fabric of the West Bottoms. Existing rail lines set the axis for design.

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Concept Collage: Relating to Contextual Form

m Analysis Performing a study regarding architectural typologies surrounding the site, the traditional masonry arch is found throughout the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial buildings. This iconic form became the guiding principle to our Hyperloopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dramatic yet recognizable entries.

SCHEMATIC DESIGN: DEPARTURES LEVEL PLAN

SCHEMATIC DESIGN: MARKET LEV ST. LOUIS AVE.

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DEPARTING PASSENGER

6. LOADING DOCK

LEGEND 1. AMPITHEATER ENTRY 2. NORTH MARKET ENTRY 4. MARKET LOUNGE

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SCHEMATIC DESIGN: ARRIVALS LEVEL PLAN

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3. TRANSFER AND INFO

Floor Plan Drawings Credit to Gavin Goga

DEPARTURES LEVEL 0’ - 0”

MARKET LEVEL -20’ - 0”

ARRIVALS LEVEL -40’ - 0”

Passenger Experience Exterior Exploration to Interior Arrival and Departure

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Interior Renderings Credit to Gavin Goga

Five Points Incubator DESIGN AND REPRESENTATION Comprehensive Partner Studio Five Points Denver, CO Spring 2019 Prof. Gregory Crichlow Partner Brady Whitehill

Our design vision was to foster and revitalize the community of 5-points Denver by designing a motivating, sustainable, and timeless space for creativity and community. Our design thesis focuses on responding to the community and context in a thoughtful yet contemporary way by relating to natural materiality, construction, and scale, yet bringing forward innovative, sustainable, and inviting design. Second, we will capture the uniqueness and exploration of makerspaces by creating an open and celebrated space to connect, inspire, and intrigue others that interact with the area. Our building will provoke exploration and desirability in what it means to be a maker. Our goal is to rejuvenate the gratiďŹ cation of making as it gives people a sense of dedication and appreciation for hard work which will help build the community from the inside out. The overwhelming concept of revitalizing the culture within 5-points not only is considered in the design strategy, but also within the people who use this space acting as beakons to inspire others and show the community what they are capable of as a collective.

RENDERING BY BRADY WHITEHILL // REVIT - PHOTOSHOP

Understanding the Built Environment Letting context inform our design

Focal fronts and relationships

Connection and appraoch to activity

Materiality

Responding to the natural environment 24

Materiality of a building can speak to its surrounding context in a thoughtful way. Our Makerspace Incubator captures the brick and mortar, gritty, hard working community around it by utilizing natural matierlals throughout the space. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about evoking an emotional connection to the surroundings that helps people feel welcome and invited.

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cy of glazing in the warm wood ďŹ nishes tell people this is a an use. The durable timber framing tell his industrial modern r creation.

Constructability Constructability also relies greatly on material choices. Our strucutal decisions were made based on sustainability and a relation to contextual elements. The secondary structure of the building rests on bearing walls that make up the majority of solid faces in the building. The secondary structure is comprised of mass timber construction methods as a sustainable and design-forward system. 25

Plan & Program

LEVEL 1 PLAN

LEVEL 2 PLAN

LOWER LEVEL PLAN

FLOOR PLANS // REVIT - PHOTOSHOP

makerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boardwalk

Hand Drawn Visualization

entry approach from south

studio & gallery approach from north

Dallas Arts Extension DESIGN AND REPRESENTATION

Museum of Endangered Polar Regions Dallas, Texas Fall 2017 Prof. Kapila Silva

This project’s program allowed an opportunity for personal research. The program stated to explore the realm of endangerment in any aspect. I decided to focus on current global topics, and I narrowed my study to the endangerment of polar regions throughout the world. This is a crisis none the less, and bringing awareness to middle America is a powerful statement. This statement must be matched in design. I studied the way icebergs melt, and how icebergs break off of cap shelves which helped me develop an intuitive scheme. I wanted the visitors of this museum to be in awe by the facade’s stature the way an iceberg presents itself to a small ﬁshing boat passing by. This idea of the iceberg’s rigidity as my facade was inspiring, but it needed to be more than that. I wanted the facade to look opaque in the day time, but at night it lights up from the inside the way an iceberg illuminates by the sun’s glow. Upon entering the musuem, the visitor is welcomed with complete contrast. Sweeping cavernous walls draw ticket holders into a deep story of of the polar regions past, present and future.

RENDERING // REVIT CLOUD LAYERING - LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

Gallery Sequence

GALLERY 1

GALLERY 2

My museum’s four main galleries are minimalistic in form, but daring in elevation. I wanted to create a feeling of drowning into water through the gallery sequence. In galleries one and two, the visitor is above water, interacting with its surface peacfully, and the water feels present, but hasn’t brought any attention to itself.

GALLERY TWO UP TO GALLERY ONE // RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

GALLERY 3

GALLERY 4 “TH THE VOID” TH

In gallery three, the visitor ﬁnds themselves below the water’s surface, but still protected by the museums walls. The fourth gallery, “The Void”, is exposed, and the feeling of total submergance underwater becomes the visitor’s entire focus. There are no permanent exhibits in this gallery. The visitor themselves become the exhibit.

THE VOID GALLERY // RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

Form Development

The museum’s form reﬂects the abstraction of an icerberg. Not just in rigid lines and a frosted material, but also in it’s stature to human scale upon approach. The frosted glass facade undulates down towards the delecate plane of water and “melts” into a clear glazing showing the warm interior galleries. The angular concrete structure disappears into the water the same way visitors, progressing through the museums galleries, disappear below the water plane.

RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

THE VOID GALLERY // RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 1

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 2

FLOOR PLAN - LEVEL 3

A. 30” x 30” MaxFine Statuario Light Porcelain Heavy Grade Interior Marble Adhezive 1” Thick Light Steel Mounting Grid 2” Steel Mounting Brackets 4” Thick Steel Mounting Connection 1” Displacement Ventilation Supply Louvres 1 1/2” Air Space 1 1/2” Light Steel Furring 8” Concrete Slab on 1/4” Thick Corrogated Steel Deck Steel Connection Plate, Factory Welded to 4” Thick Steel Mounting Connection 1’ Steel Joist (6’ Separation Span) 20” x 8”Steel Beam 20” x 10” Steel Beam HVAC Light Steel Supply Air Duct 1” Light Steel Overhead Suspension Cable

10” x 10” Steel Column White LED Integrated Light Mount Integrated Translucent Acrylic (Flush with MaxFine Porcelain Finish

Scale: 1/2” = 1’

B. 1 1/2” Thick Double Pane High Thermal Exterior Glazing

Thermal Conduction Ventilation Louvre Water Heated Copper Coil Thermal System

20” x 8” Steel Beam Walker Textures Blue Acid Etched 1 1/2” Flush Mounted Frosted Glass 3” x 3” Square Steel Frame 2” x 7” Plate Welded Pin Joint Mounted Half-Sphere Steel End Cap Steel Arm Connection Brace

Weather Sealant Backer Rod Butt Joint Transom

Scale: 1” = 1’

C. 2” Steel Mounting Brackets

4” Thick Steel Mounting Connection 2” Steel Mounting Brackets 40” x 40” Max Fine Marmi Stone Grey Porcelain 1 1/2” Air Space 1 1/2” Light Steel Furring 8” Concrete Slab on 1/4” Thick Corrogated Steel Deck 1’ Steel Beam 1” Thick Light Steel Mounting Grid Steel Connection Member 2-Way Water Heating System Water Heated Copper Coil Thermal System Clear Waterprooﬁng Wrap Layer 1” Rigid Insulation Layer 4” Thick Steel Mounting Connection 30” x 30” MaxFine Statuario Light Porcelain 30” x 30” MaxFine Blackened Blue Marble Simulated Porcelain Suspended Wiring rack Track Lighting System

TECHNICAL DRAWING // REVIT SECTION - ILLUSTRATOR - PHOTOSHOP

Once the visitor has entered the building, they are welcomed with an entirely different architectural language. The interior cascades through the building the way a melting iceberg’s cavernous walls slip into the ocean below.

The entry’s atrium is illuminated by a skylight and holographic Aurora Borealis above. Openings in the walls provide invitation to explore up into the classrooms and library on the upper ﬂoors.

The smooth stone clad walls give the impression of a cavern that draws you deeper into the galleries.

The walls in the model are designed in Rhino, and the images to the right demonstrate my process and technical thinking along the way. RENDERING // RHINO - REVIT - PHOTOSHOP

RHINO LOFTING PARAMETRIC

A museum designed to inform a distant society about the endangerment of polar regions. Being in Dallas, I immediately was drawn to such a contrast in environments, and I used that philosophy to my advantage. Climate change is causing drastic ďŹ&#x201A;uctuations in weather patterns worldwide. In this rendering I wanted to convey that idea and create an unfamiliar feeling by making it snow in Dallas. To show a relationship with the public realm and the tightly woven gallery sequence, the cutaway rendering is a perfect tool to excentuate the complex elevation changes between the two.

RENDERING // REVIT - SKETCH UP - V-RAY - LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

KC North Loop URBAN MASTER PLAN & VENUE DESIGN

1-70 North Loop Redevelopment Kansas City, Missouri Fall 2018 Prof. Peter Broeder & Matt Keys Kansas City, a midwest hub of growing activity that thrives on its culture and diverse urban districts. This master plan begins at the North loop of I-70 that bisects downtown KC with the River Market District. The highway was built to efficiently navigate masses of drivers in and around the city. The problem with this is that the urban environment surrounding the highway was neglected and undesireable. The purpose of this master plan is to bring a new life to the developing north side of town. The program requires that the master plan consist of a multitude of different buildings and the main focus being an arena with a permanent tenant. I decided that my arena would be focused around improving the overall desirability of the area. However, I also wanted the tenant to be a new market with a growing audience: E - Sports. The challenge with these two typologies is that not many people know about E - Sports, and the imagination of what an E - Sports arena would look like may not be as inviting to the everyday city dweller. A venue of the future serves more than one use in a city. It becomes multi- purpose and a daily used active space for any visitor/ consumer. Integrating the community into recreation and entertainment inside an urban realm redeďŹ nes the funtionality of built space. I determined that my arena should not be unrecognizable to Kansas City, but instead â&#x20AC;&#x153;concealâ&#x20AC;? the stadium into a city block of amenities, outdoor space,and natural activity. The arena will be open to the public when not in

RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

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SURVEYING THE COMMUNITY Located north of Kansas City’s downtown business district and south of the growing River Market creates an interesting diversity of social culture. I conducted multiple interviews with locals around the River Market to see how people felt about the existing highway, why they gravitated to the subtle lifestyle of the River Market and what would make the area more desirable. There was a resounding response that the highway’s presence was uninviting and made people feel separated as it was not friendly to cross. People also said they gravitated to the River Market because it was safe, quaint and traditional. People could walk from their home to the market and to get a drink later at night, which deﬁnes the successful human scale of the area.

People said that the area would be more desirable if it had more activity integrated into the unique culture of the River Market and if there was more of a connection to the surrounding districts growing to the east and west.

TRANSPORTATION DENSITY Roads that permeate the site fall into two categories: the commercial road designed to support gathering and activity and the boulevard which handles heavy volumes of traffic and isolates the pedestrian from connecting to activity. The site is ultimately deďŹ ned by six boulevards that will develop the urban zones. The street car also plays a role on the site, which will promote accessibility from other districts to visit the north side of town.

PUBLIC REALM Within a quarter mile walking radius from the site, I located where different amenities can be accessible. This later helps me determine where certain activity and connection nodes on the site will naturally want to occur. - Public Space - Restaurants - Night Life

EXISTING AND PROPOSED ZONES An analysis of existing commercial and residential zones helps me to determine where new zoning is appropriate on the site. It is important to help grow neighboring areas, but to also create a new identity for the site where those who live and work in the new environment have a sense of place and feel connected to their social network.

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Comprised of a tech campus to the southeast and a hotel and subterrainean shopping center to the west, the commercial zone impliments necessary building types to accommodate for the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth. A park and community center to the northeast of the zone makes the area desireable for the consumer.

AMENITY ZONE

RIVER MARKET

E-SPORTS VENUE

DISTRICT PLAZA

GREEN SPACE

KC LIGHT RAIL

RESIDENTIAL ZONE

The residential zone to the east of the site has a variety of apartment types. The podiums of each tower serve the residences with an integrated grocery store, fitness center, daycare and smaller cafes and restaurants.

Process Diagramming The Venue begins as a walkable urban center that creates a connection to surrounding zones and is easily permeable.

Residential Zone

Introducing an outdoor plaza and “E-Sports”venue inside the block initiates an identity for the district. Commercial Zone

Attention to the zone’s function, the design represents the community’s desires, and the new amenity promotes growth in the city.

Master Plan Visualization The interesting part about introducing a brand new market into a city, especially one that many people don’t know much about, the design will have a massive impact on the success of the district. The challenge is that E-Sports is such a new architectural and cultural typology. If an aggressive unidentiﬁable ﬂashy venue lands in Kansas CIty, people in the surrounding area won’t feel as connected to it. My design achieves this challenge by making the stadium feel transparently integrated.

Stadiums of the future are shrinking. My venueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s design focuses on an intimate bowl setting with fewer designated bowl seats as fans become more interactive and mobile during games and events.

This concept developed after I took the idea of a bowl and surrounded it with concourses that essentially can become multi-use shopping and dining spaces when the stadium is not in use. Stadiums of the past do not take full advantage of their opportunities to impact the community.

I first thought of my venue as a shopping center that has a seating bowl situated in the middle of it that, during the day, people can walk through and utilize the loge seating arrangements as places for people to eat food, relax and connect with others. Then during events, the space tur ns into an electric, active and flexible event.

My concept of inverting a traditional seating bowl came from the fact that, by doing this, the concourses become much larger and gives people the ability to meander around the event as E-Sports does not necessarily have to have one focal point. Places for fans to be interactive outside of watching their favorite players is crucial to the concept.

RENDERING // LUMION - PHOTOSHOP

Food Hall Concessions Haptic Gaming Portal

REVIT EXPLODED ISOMETRIC - PHOTOSHOP

ETFE Canopy Steel Tube Frame

Modular Videoboard Operable Entry

Slatted Wood Ceiling Supply Air Plenum Curtain Wall Facade Pre-Cast Concrete Seating Bowl Metal Floor Plate Paneling Floor Plate Isometric Stadium Plaza

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Dirtworks Makerspace DESIGN-BUILD STUDIO University of Kansas Marvin Hall Lawrence, Kansas Spring 2018 Prof: Chad Kraus

ROLE : DESIGN MANAGER Time for a renovation! KUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s innovative design-build studios have become increasingly more opportunistic and ground breaking. The design-build studio that I was apart of was given a semester to manage, design and then construct a renovation of two studios, an office space and a gathering space inside the school of architecture at KU. We were asked to rethink the conventional studio and redeďŹ ne what it means to be an architecture student in an ever expanding and more collaborative environment. Our core principles encourage transparency and invited communication between students. My role in the studio as Design Manager was to coordinate design decisions and manage the design documentation process from schematic design into construction. During the construction process I focused most of my effort on effectively controlling the existing and new MEP system in the space.

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START TO FINISH Top Left: The raw metal mechanical system is being incased in a layer of metal studs. Each stud needed to be hand measured as the old decking it attaches to has warped over time. The challenge of making everything plum and rigid made me appreciate the complexity that is construction. Middle Left: The stone wall is being exposed. After being plastered in the early 20th century and later covered with a GWB stud wall layer in the 80’s, we decided to strip the stone and return it to the beautiful raw element that it was. This concept is reﬂected in other aspects of the project via the concrete ﬂoor, steel columns and girder and the white timber ceiling.

Bottom Left: I have never welded or metal grinded before, and this experience allowed me to learn a multitude of new skills and develop a respect for meticulous consideration that goes into all of the details in a construction process. This taught me how to be a better designer and to think about constructability during the early phases in a project. Contemplation like this ended up saving us time and money in the long run. Right: The ﬁnished product of our design build studio revitalizes the space to be inviting, bold, collaborative, and thoughtful.

Thuyen Nha

Off-Grid Microhousing BEE BREEDERS MICROHOME 2019 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION - HONORABLE MENTION International Competition Partner: John Perez November 2019 Presented by Bee Breeders, this international competition focused on small scale design. We were challenged to think big within 250sq m, and design a microhome to combat the housing crisis expanding around the world. Our design decisions were totally open and the site, narrative, and aesthetic were entirely up to us. As architecture is already starting to adjust to the current trends of urban inďŹ ll and the housing crisis, we wanted to take the opportunity to consider a further impactful variable: how rising sea level will affect developing regions around the world and if environmental and affordable design can sustain these fragile communities. We established our narrative based on how the necessity and ownership of space is evolving, and what that might look like in the developing yet bustling communities of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

Design Strategy The geography of the Mekong Delta is a diverse environment of unique social culture. It describes, through data driven evidence, an environment that will be most detrimentally affected by climate change and a shortage of housing in the future. We understand that 41% of Vietnamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban extent, 37% of their population, and 28% of their agricultural wetland will be impacted by a rise in sea level of 1 meter. The Delta is home to 21.5 million working people who utilize it as a means of commerce, transportation, socialization, and dwelling. Floating markets in Cai Be and Can Tho are bustling with farmers on ďŹ shing boats going to and from their own land to sell goods. Currently due to poor construction methods, lack of materials, and ďŹ&#x201A;uctuating delta river levels, residents are being forced to improve their living conditions by evacuating farther inland away from the river or re-building infrastructure. It is our intention through design to provide resilient housing for the local community and help maintain the cultural

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In response to the existing conditions, massing strategies began with an understanding of history and materiality. Vietnamese ﬁshing vessels have been a means of transportation for thousands of years. Their construction is durable to human use and natural elements. The form and construction is sturdy and reliable. These design methods are the driving force shaping the Thuyen Nha Microhome’s structural form and constructability. The programmatic arrangement of space and structure allows each section of the home to be prefabricated and constructed in a ‘tilt up’ process reducing cost and waste. The function and needs of a home in the Mekong Delta are focused on comfort, simplicity, and ﬂexibility. The Thuyen Nha Microhome integrates operable low inlet and clerestory outlet windows in the home to utilize proper daylighting and passive

Sustainable design is a human right.

Hanoi

Mekong Delta Region, Southern Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, population 9 million

Most affected areas by 1m of sea level rise*

Human population and housing market costs are rising on a disproportionate scale to global income and sustainable living conditions. This is particularly concerning for equator-centric, coastal countries, where annual salary is lower than ďŹ ve percent of the average housing cost.

Additionally, the modern world continues to experience climate change, and the vernacular environments of these developing regions will be affected the most by rising sea levels. An examination of 84 developing countries in 5 regions determined that approximately 56 million people will be impacted by a sea level rise of one meter*.

The built environmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s detrimental impact on our existence is under unavoidable pressure now more than ever. A combination of unaffordable housing and climate change should strongly inďŹ&#x201A;uence what motivates our design strategies for the future, As designers, we are being called to action to solve for a multitude of global crises.

Rendering by partner: John Perez

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