Kevin Carpenter Selected Works

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Kevin Carpenter CarpenterKS@gmail.com 908 391 6927 222 Bushwick Ave Brooklyn, NY 11206 United States

skills AutoCAD Bentley Microstation Blender 3D Maxwell Render Sketchup Some Rhino 3D Some 3DS Max Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign Dreamweaver Microsoft Office Mac OSX Windows

education University of Cincinnati, DAAP, School of Architecture and Interior Design Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 2009

Marmara Ăœniversitesi, Istanbul Turkey Studio workshop of urban design Summer 2008

Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Facolta di Architettua di Alghero International studio workshop on issues of sprawl Summer 2008

Hillsborough High School, Hillsborough, New Jersey Honors Scholar June 2005

professional Kohn Pedersen Fox, London, England January 2008 - July 2008 Intern Architect As part of a five person design team, I worked on a headquarter office tower in a major expansion of Canary Wharf, London’s financial district. I built detail models, kept the project documentation in order, created and corrected construction documents, and produced the materials for meetings with clients, developers, city planners, and master planners.

HACBM Architects Engineers Planners, Lawrenceville, NJ June 2007 - September 2007 Intern Architect The majority of my efforts were in research, design, visualization, and presentations for a large private education project. I also worked on detail design and construction documents for a small cafe, a second story balcony addition, and a residential complex.

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Professional Spiritual mobile Furniture

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kohn pedersen fox london, England. 2008

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I was part of a five person design team assigned to a high rise office project in London. The tower was part of a Woods Wharf development, an expansion of the Canary Wharf business district, and was planned by the Richard Rogers Partnership.

The building was planned to be the first built in the new development which forced an emphasis on transportation and urban integration, setting the stage for further phases of construction. My responsibilities on the team varied between research, construction documentation, project organization, project visualization, detail design, and model building.

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tibetan Monastery colerain, ohio. Fall 2007

spiritual

The Gaden Samdrupling Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery and Cultural Center of the Gelupa lineage lead by Ven. Kyabje Dagom Rinpoche. The majority of the time, Gaden Sampdrupling is populated by four to six resident Tibetan monks, and occasional traveling students, but regular services welcome Buddhists of all nationalities, and cultural events held throughout the year are open to the community and may draw hundreds of people. To accommodate this flux, the site is designed with varying sizes of multiuse spaces, indoor and outdoor, which work as gardens and reflection spaces for the monks when not in full use. With regard to Buddhist values, the design creates a minimum site disturbance and emphasizes a recreation of any affected animal habitat.

A number of passive strategies and the utilization of mostly recycled materials help make this a positive impact project.

Residential Quarters - First Floor 1/8 “ = 1’ 1’

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Solar Chimney 50’

Geothermal Heat

Natural Lighting

Thermal Mass

Wall Uses

Solar Water Heater

PV Panels

Grey Water Reclaimation

Insolated Wall

Runoff Collection

Vegitated Construction Waste

The perpetual wandering of reincarnation is translated into form by a multidimensional wall. The wall moves over the contours of the site in a gravitational flow leaning with the slope and reacting to buildings and trees. This wandering line sets up boundaries, defines space and paths of movement, brings energy and passive strategies, and relates space to adjacent space. The majority of the wall is made up of a metal meshing supported by wooden members and contains recycled construction debris and materials. The vertical wooden members are spaced six inches from one another and create a procession of individual pieces which unite to form a whole. The support spaces for the meditation room as well as the residential quarters are all created under the aegis of the wall’s curves. The spaces are built into the curve, which supports the structure and provides energy, water, storage space, working space, and brings life to the space from other areas of the site. When this undulating energy source reaches the main Holy space, though, it simultaneously comes together and breaks.

The three tall spires at the center of the site signify the Gompa, a space where one can meditate and break free from the earthly cycle. As they spiral upward, they define a roof garden which will be used for outdoor ceremonies.

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Pneumatic pnomad Fall 2007

mobile

The Pneumatic Pnomad was proposed as part of a think tank for the Historic Preservation Society of Greenhills and the City of Greenhills. The goal of the studio was to find out why Cincinnati’s historic first-ring suburbs have become blighted and vacant in recent decades, and propose a system which will aid their revitalization.

The first suburban ring was intended to be a temporary solution to the degradation of the inner city in the 1930’s. Modern planning coupled with disposable construction was supposed to last long enough to provide for a generation of disenfranchised middle class. The outcome, though, was very different: decades of emulation and the creation of a new American landscape.

This first ring now offers ample open space, proximity to the city, and a unique opportunity to reinterpret the ideal living conditions for the 21st century economy and what that might look like.

The Pnomad is a visualization of a more transferable architecture. By creating a home that is light-weight, versatile and maneuverable, inhabitants are free to follow their work in an economy that ebbs and flows at a pace conventional architecture has been struggling to keep up with. When demographics change, as they inevitably do, the populated area is free to return to it’s previous uses.

A Hoberman Sphere-style collapsible structure made up of a lightweight steel alloy provides rigidity for a pneumatic canvass shell. The canvass is filled with a highly insulative hydrogen mix which supports most of its own weight and defines the space. The structure can be packaged and ready to move in a matter of minutes, but the familiarity and stability of the space creates a much needed sense of place.

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Monastery Chair Fall 2007

Furniture

The Monastery Chair is made of a welded steel mesh framework with a white, nylon dipped finish which appropriately stains and weathers but does not deteriorate. The interior of the mesh forms a cage in which flora can be planted or allowed to grow naturally. The form is derived from a study of position and posture, and allows for maximum seating choices in a single simple form.

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As regular users come back to the bench and sit in their preferred position, the plant life reacts, being snuffed out under the repeated pressure and growing around the user. Over months and years the bench begins to show layers of growth that reflect the history of usage. Each generation of usage will leave a mark that becomes ephemeral on the green surface but leaves a lasting effect on the structural evolution of the piece.

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