Christian Wagner - Portfolio

CHRISTIAN WAGNER Bachelor of Architecture - Carnegie Mellon University www.christianwwagner.com christianwwagner@gmail.com

Front Cover - Room design model inspired by the Rietveld-Shroder House (1st Year) Right: Exploded axonometric drawing of a mobile library (2nd Year)

EDINBURGH

BERLIN LONDON

AMSTERDAM

NURNBERG BRUSSELS

STUTTGART

PARIS

MUNICH ZURICH SALZBURG LAUSANNE BLUCHE

DELPHI

ATHENS

OLYMPIA

SANTORINI MYCENEA

MYKONOS PATMOS KUSADASI

CRETE

35 Days, 22 Cities, 8 Olympic Cities Travel Itinerary, Summer 2008 Robert Burdett Assistantship

CHRISTIAN WAGNER CHRISTIANWWAGNER@GMAIL.COM WWW.CHRISTIANWWAGNER.COM

EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

Carnegie Mellon University Bachelor of Architecture; May 2009 College of Fine Arts Honors

Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics | Carnegie Mellon | June 2007-Present

Chinese University of Hong Kong Design Studio Abroad; Summer 2006 Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Singapore, Macau Escola Graduada de São Paulo International Baccalaureate (IB), June 2004 American Diploma, Honors

AWARDS Robert Burdett Assistantship 4th-Year Design Award - $7,500.00 Traveling Scholarship Best Theme Integration Orientation 2007 - In YOUR Element National Orientation Director’s Association Dean’s List Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008 Design Studio Commendations: 6/10 Studios Senior Leadership Recognition Award Office of Student Life, Carnegie Mellon University

SKILLS Computer Autodesk AutoCAD 2009, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Rhinoceros, Google Sketch-Up, V-Ray, Microsoft Office Suite, Ecotect, Wordpress Shop Woodshop, Digital Fabrication (CNC Mill, Laser Cutter, and Vacuum Former), Fabric and Tensile Production, Screen Printing Languages Fluency in English, Spanish, Portuguese Intermediate French (2 years) Living Experience Bogota, Colombia (2 yrs) Mexico City, Mexico (3 yrs) New York, New York (2 yrs) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2 yrs) Caracas, Venezuela (2 yrs) São Paulo, Brazil (6 yrs) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (6 yrs)

Research Assistantships Database development for core content, theories and concepts taught at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. Advisor: Volker Hartkopf Research grant awarded by the Green Building Alliance to design sustainable and integrated modular classroom designs under Terradime, LLC. Advisors: Azizan Aziz, George Mongell Layout design for a GSA document entitled “Energy Savings and Performance Gains in GSA Buildings – Seven Cost-Effective Strategies.” Advisor: Vivian Loftness Greenbuild 2008 Booth design, “10 Strategies for Living, Bioclimatic Facades for Sustainability, Human Health, and Performance.” Advisors: Azizan Aziz, Vivian Loftness Teaching Assistantships Performance of Advanced Building Systems (core grad)|Prof. Volker Hartkopf|Spring 2010 Advanced Building Systems (core u-grad)|Prof. Volker Hartkopf|Spring 2010 Integrated Product Development (elective)|Prof. Vivian Loftness & Azizan Aziz|Fall 2009 Environment 1: Climate and Energy (core u-grad)|Prof. Vivian Loftness|Fall 2008 Professional Consulting | Terradime, LLC Research consultant for a start-up research & development and real estate company. Experience in climate-responsive, energy-efficient, sustainable designs at various scales and building typologies. | June 2009-January 2010

School of Architecture | Carnegie Mellon | Summer 2008 - Spring 2009 Teaching Assistantships Human Factors in Arch. (core u-grad)|Prof. Christine Mondor|Spring 2008, Spring 2009 K-12 Architecture Explorations (8-12 grades)|Advisor: Kelly Lyons|Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Architecture Pre-college - Drawing | Advisor: Dee Briggs | Summer 2008 Leadership AIAS - American Institute of Architecture Students Attendee Milwaukee, Wi 2008

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Vice-President 2007; Forum

Student Life & Student Development Office | Carnegie Mellon | August 2005 - September 2007 Resident Assistant responsible for the safety personal development, and involvement of 60 residents. Project organizer including academic sessions, trips, and social programming. 2 years Head Designer: Orientation 2007 - In YOUR Element. Co-planned a 7-day orientation program for 1500 incoming First-Year Students. Trained a staff of 120 Orientation Counselors. Head Designer duties included design of documents varying from publications, fans, shirts, gifts, videos and weekbooks.

Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity - Appointed Spring Carnival Float Designer | 2007 - 2009 Orientation Counselor - Hired as a Mentor to the First-Year Class (volunteer work)

Wal-Mart Brazil, Architecture & Product Placement | São Paulo, Brazil | Summer 2005 Intern. Closely worked with product placement architects, learned essential values regarding working in an office environment, correcting redlined documents.

Foundations: 1st Year, Carnegie Mellon University 1. Drawing I - Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 2. Digital Media - Astor Piazzola’s Libertango Interpretation 3. Furniture Construction: A Bench for Two

CONTENTS

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Designing Through Image

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Urban Design: Promenade Framework

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Canopies over Hong Kong

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Mapping Las Vegas

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Static-Dynamic Rowing Facility

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Path in the Woods

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Sigma Phi Epsilon Yearly Community Service Floats

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Center for Regenerative Landscapes

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Star Trailer

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Construction Trailer

Above: Building Plans a. Exhibition Image - Conceptual Mapping b. Site Plan c. Occupancy Diagram d. Exterior Rendering

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Spring 2008 - Designing through Image Instructor - David Burns When focusing on completing a task, all else is blurred away.

The initial design response to a Movie Production Studio became an exploration in definining the interlude between moments with form. This notion was then carried further as an opportunity for architecture to blur disciplines with hopes that the built environment could provide for stronger opportunities in innovation.

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The existing hillside provides a natural barrier to the northwestern and northeastern parts of Larimer.

The Martin Luther King Expressway further provides a drastic change in topography on the southern edge of the site, creating two underpasses for vehicular access to and from Larimer.

With only 21.33% of available flat land area and 3 connecting bridges, the notion of entry and arrival into Larimer is important.

Historically, Larimer was connected to the neighborhood of East Liberty. Through the creation of Penn Circle and East Liberty Boulevards (Urban Renewal Schemes) the entry into Larimer was cut off from the city, and low-income high rise buildings served as physical walls into the neighborhood.

Currently, there are only 3 existing crosswalks in the entire stretch of East Liberty Blvd. Making East Liberty Boulevard into a more pedestrian-friendly avenue would mend this interruption.

There are 10 gateways into Larimer.

Of those: 3 are bridges 2 are interrupted by underpasses 3 intersect East Liberty Boulevard 1 is East Liberty Boulevard 1 intersects Washington Boulevard Most criminal acts occur at night around these gateways. Most criminal acts occur along the bus routes.

Vacancies typically occur towards the edge of the site or at the intersection of Meadow Street and Frankstown Avenue.

Areas are less vacant in the region adjacent to Lincoln and Frankstown Avenues.

Vacant lots make areas undesirable for business and housing developments.

There is a 24.2% Vacancy rate within Larimer.

East Liberty Boulevard has a width of 80’. It is uncomfortably wide for pedestrian travel.

East Liberty dead ends at two important throughways, Negley Ave and Penn Ave. Since fast traffic occurs on Penn Ave., crossing Penn at Larimer’s border is difficult.

Larimer Ave is currently too narrow for it to be a main through-way and dead ends just beyond Larimer.

The City and the URA currently own a large number of parcels within the edge condition. Devising a plan that unifies these vacant lots would increase the desirability of the land within Larimer.

Any decrease to the vacancy rate within Larimer would be beneficial to the community. A vacant lot strategy is considered in one of the student projects.

Cleaning out empty lots along the edge will provide the youth with jobs and opportunities.

Above: Developing a Case a. 6’x9’ -Physical Model, Larimer (group) b. Site Plan - Designing a Promenade c. Swatch Perspectives of Promenade d. Change over Time (1-5-10-20 years)

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Fall 2008 - Urban Design: Promenade Framework Partners: Tim Thianthai, Alison Schloemer, Diana Miller Instructors - Rami El Samahy & Jonathan Kline Larimer’s dominant edge in the northern region of the neighborhood impedes connections to the rest of Pittsburgh. This study analyzes the edge condition as a source of great liability and seeks opportunities for growth through the creation of a promenade that relinks Larimer to its surrounding context.

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Above: Hand Sketches - Hong Kong a. Diagram - Re-imagining Tents along Hong Kong Skyline b. Experiential Renderings c. Proposed versus Existing

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Fall 2007 - Canopies over Hong Kong Instructor: Khee Poh Lam, Edward Ng With China’s emergence as a economic superpower, the balance between rapid modernization and maintaining cultural heritage is a challenge. Graham Street, a traditional market district in the heart of Hong Kong, will host a canopy that would protect produce below, and hover through the Hong Kong skyline like a dragon.

Proposed

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Existing c.

Above: Trends - Las Vegas 1970-2006 a. La Vegas Amenities Map b. Proportional Population Growth between Las Vegas, Clark County, and Nevada c. The Las Vegas Strip: 1985; 1995; 2006 and beyond d. Emotional response diagram to risks associated with the built fabric of Las Vegas, superimposed to Maslow’s heirarchy of needs.

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Fall 2007 - Mapping Las Vegas Instructor: Kelly Hutzell Proportional Population Growth: Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada

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In the past 50 years, the introduction of amenities outside of the Las Vegas core have encouraged urban sprawl. Influenced by

Las Vegas

Robert Venturi’s “Learning from Las Vegas,” this study analyzes

Clark County

the landscape beyond The Strip in an attempt to understand future

Nevada

developments of this city.

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Self Actualization Esteem Love/Belonging Safety Physiological

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Above: Immediate Context a. View from the Water b. Perspectives c. Site Section d. Immediate Site and Surrounding Contexts

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Fall 2006 - Static-Dynamic Rowing Facility Instructor - Vivian Loftness, Partner - Diana Lui Pittsburgh is blessed with its rivers. In an attempt to revitalize the city’s river systems, a series of barges containing rowing equipment could be placed around Pittsburgh. The new dynamic rowing facilities could be pick-up and drop-off sites for future rowers.

Site: 9-Mile-Run Watershed

Context: Pittsburgh

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Context: Pittsburgh

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Above: Hand Drawn Site Plan a. Concept Model b. Progression Renderings c. Physical Model

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Fall 2004 - Path in the Woods Instructors - Kent Suhrbier; Lee Calisti The site forces of sun, wind, and rain in an east-west swatch of land in Schenley Park gave form to this path in the woods. The planar definitions overlap to develop a sense of implied space. As a result, shadows obscure and reveal as an occupant progresses through the varying suggested enclosure.

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Above:Booth Build Week (4 days) a. Structure - Star Wars b. Structural Analysis - The Goonies c. Booths - 5 years d. Completed Goonies Interior Snapshot

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Sigma Phi Epsilon Yearly Community Service Floats Appointed Float Designer - 2007-2009 Each of these booths have the same dimensional footprint - 18’ x 24’ - and each uses the same lumber as its predecessor. The thematic nature of each tells a different narrative, and the progression between the rooms all depict a unique experience. This community service booth serves yearly its purpose to the greater Carnegie Mellon Community during the Spring Carnival.

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Rock & Roll - 2005

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Star Wars - 2006

Nintendo - 2007

Titanic - 2008

Goonies - 2009

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Above: Systems Diagram - Section a. Site Birds-Eye b. Building Plans c. Greenhouse Section d. Interior Perspective

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Spring 2008 - Center for Regenerative Landscapes Instructor - Vivian Loftness, Partner - Annie Bodhidatta Phipps Conservatory’s new office and classroom annex capitalizes on passive solar systems and state-of-the art mechanical systems that close the loops commonly associated with buildings (waste, water, and energy). Understanding climate, site, and technological forces was necessary to the design of this center.

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Left: Pittsburgh is situated in a unique region that forces the built environment to adapt to difficult topographic and geomorphic variations. (Topography, Building Footprints, and Streets) Back Cover: Model 2, Larimer - Transect of Promenade