Daniel Polk ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Professional Résumé I will be an M.Arch I UCLA graduate in June 2019; and I am devoted to creating pleasing environments tailored to each Phone: 859-519-8700 Email: danieljpolk@gmail.com Web: linkedin.com/djpolk Degree: M.Arch I
client, through clean and elegant design schemes, with a focus on new technologies and construction methods with precise attention to detail. I believe projects work best with a strong team approach between architect, engineer, consultant, and client; and will make that a focus of my practice. My childhood, undergraduate, and early work years were spent in the Bluegrass region of Lexington, KY; and, I am combining those mid-east and southern influences, with my west coast graduate architectural education and work experiences, for a well-rounded national design appreciation and understanding.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
2016-2019
3-year Master of Architecture GPA: 3.92
Teaching Assistant
2018
A.UD 122 - Senior Undergraduate Design Studio (fall) A.UD 433 - Structures III (spring)
NAIOP Real Estate Challenge
2018
Architecture Representative on the winning UCLA team
(fall)
University of Kentucky
2011-2015
4-year Bachelor of Arts in Architecture GPA: 3.57
American Institute of Architecture Students
2013-2015
Chapter President and Freedom By Design Director
International Study Abroad
2014
Paris, France and Rome, Italy
Experience
(summer)
NBBJ Architects
2017 & 2018
Architecture Intern During my summers at NBBJ, I gained valuable experience working as an integral part of a small design team for an Asian soccer stadium competition, (winning firm to be announced).
EOP Architects
(summers)
2015-2016
Project Designer After receiving my Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Kentucky I took a year off before applying to graduate school and worked at the newly opened Louisville office.
EOP Architects
(full-time).
2011, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14
Architecture Intern During each summer of my undergraduate education I had to the opportunity to intern at EOP architects in Lexington, KY. While there I worked on a number of projects and gained experience in every phase of the architecture process.
(summer).
NCARB Record Holder 3,415.75 AXP hours completed of the required 3,740
Skills
Computer Programs Revit
Rhino
Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
VRay
Lumion
EXPERT
References
Cura
Grasshopper
Sketchup
ADVANCED
SurfCam
AutoCAD
INTERMEDIATE
Robert Mankin
Rick Ekhoff
Katy Barkan
Partner at NBBJ Architects rmankin@nbbj.com (213) 243 - 3333
Principal EOP Architects rekhoff@eopa.com (859) 231 - 7538
Lecturer UCLA A.UD / Founder NOW HERE katybarkan@gmail.com (917) 364 - 9004
contents
graduate work - the library - fire house - the shed - skypark - steel fabric - mass housing - displacement undergraduate work - rose st redesign - flagship store professional work nbbj architects - soccer stadium competition eop & nbbj - lexington convention center / rupp arena eop architects - various renderings
First Year Core Studio, UCLA Winter 2016 Instructor: Gabriel Fries-Briggs
THE LIBRARY
1: primitive mass
2: z-axis rotation
3: x/y-axis rotation
4: site crop
5: auditorium
6: completed form
Libraries in the 21st century are dealing with a period of transition
lab, a makerspace/workshop, and an entertainment venue. These four
and questioning of program. With the ease of access to online
programs register visually on the exterior as similar boxes, with facades
information, the library must begin to function more as a physical service
alluding to prototypical buildings in the area. These buildings are then
than as an informational resource.
rotated off axis and cropped to reveal their structure and connections to
In my design solution for this typology, the library has been divided into 4 distinct spaces; the traditional book stacks, an office/computer
pedestrians. In this way, the building does not only contain information, it is a source for the visual learning about the process of its construction.
exploded structural isometric
rigidRigid insulation on Insulation on Metal Decking metal decking
12” deep steel column 12” Deep Steel Column w/ Gypboard wrapping Wrapping w/ gypboard
25” Deepsteel Steel Trusstruss 25” deep
Panels gfrc GFRC panels
12” deep12”steel columns Deep Steel Column w/ Spray Fireproofing w/ spray fireproofing curtainwall system Curtainwall System with 5’x5’ grid on 5’ x 5’ grid
Transparent Flooring transparent flooring
12” Deep Steel Beams 12” deep steel perlins
8-1/8” deep 8 1/8” Deep Steel Perlins steel perlins
12” deep steel column 12” Deep Steel Column w/ Intumescent Paint w/ intumescent paint
Concrete Facade concrete facade
detailed isometric
first floor plan
second floor plan
Hill Street
4th Street
third floor plan
roof plan
Second Year Option Studio, UCLA Spring 2018 Instructor: Gabriel Fries-Briggs
FIRE HOUSE
model collage front
model collage right
The problem of the firehouse typology is one of transformation. For a
model collage back
a very specific understanding of how the delineation of space can flex, blend,
majority of the day the fire house must function as a domicile, accommodating
and flow. The main driver for form and program distribution came from an
the everyday needs of the firefighters, such as eating, sleeping, bathing,
investigation of equipment and storage requirements. The turning radius of
and entertainment. At a moment’s notice however, everything must be able
the fire truck was appropriated planimetrically and sectionally to inform the
to transition into an efficient and organized machine, built to facilitate a
intersection of vaulted forms. These forms were then interrupted by rectilinear
streamlined response to an emergency. The dual nature of this project requires
voids - a requirement of some of the equipment used in the firehouse.
First Year Core Studio, UCLA Fall 2016 Instructor: Andrew Kovacs
THE SHED
The purpose behind this studio was to challenge the notion that a specific building typology, (namely “the shed”) is inherently not architecture. By focusing on a typically small and mundane structure, we were asked to question the form and purpose of a shed, and design a structure that can be classified as both a shed and an architectural
object. The impetus for the design came from a series of formal transformations to the protypical or “generic” shed. By altering the form through a singular gesture, a once familiar object begins to develop an entirely unique identity.
The rotational transformation of the stereotypical shed led to an investigation of a specific design methodology known as “Field Theory,� developed in the 1960s by architect Walter Netsch while at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. By rotating and overlaying a simple, two dimensional grid upon itself, tertiary moire patters emerge. These secondary
geometries are then traced and extracted to become three dimensional form. This technique was then adopted as a drawing technique in the effort to create specific hatch patterns that would relate the process of drawing to the process of architectural design.
Overlay Diagram
Third Year Advanced Topic Studio, UCLA Fall 2018 Instructor: Andrew Kovacs
SKY PARK
typical office
dwellings
skatepark
equipment store
parkour park and bungee platform
wind tunnel and skydiving platform
This project seeks to enrich the experience of Bunker Hill in downtown
My proposal would remove exterior layers of the building to expose a
Los Angeles by transforming the mundane and repetitive office tower into a
300’ tall section of the building that becomes infilled with various extreme
place where architecture and extreme sports intersect. The US Bank tower is the
sports programs; such as a skatepark, bungee jumping platforms, parkour park,
chosen location for this project due to its iconic history within the city skyline. It is a
equipment store, wind tunnel, and skydiving platform - all connected by a vertical
building that is emblematic of the prototypical office building - with an eight hour
climbing wall. This project would attempt to enliven the drab, monotonous routine
work day that leaves the building and neighborhood abandoned in the evening.
of work culture through a radical reclamation of the modern office building.
wind tunnel
skydiving platform
parkour park bungee platform
equipment store
dwellings
climbing wall
skatepark
Second Year Core Studio, UCLA Winter 2018 Instructor: Kevin Daly
STEEL FABRIC
PARAPET parapet wall WALL
prefab fiberglass PREFAB FIBERGLASS PANELS
panels 4” square 4” SQUARE STEEL TUBE steel tube batt insulation BATT INSULATION TO FILL CAVITY to fill cavity W10w10 STEEL steel BEAM
EPDMEPDM roofing ROOFING MEMBR membrane RIGID INSULATION rigid insulation
corrugated metal CORRUGATED METAL DE decking
beam
fiberglass FIBERGLASS PANEL SUBFRAME
panel subframe
WINDOW GLAZING SYSTEMglazing window TILE FLOORING tile flooring
corrugated CORRUGATED METAL DECKING
metal decking
4” square 4” SQUARE STEEL TUBE steel tube
FLOORING COI radiantRADIANT flooring
cast-in-place CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRET concrete corrugated metal CORRUGATED METAL DE decking 4” square steelSTEEL TUBE 4” SQUARE tube W10 STEEL BEAM w10 steel beam
WINDOW GLAZING SYST window glazing
prefab fiberglass PREFABRICATED FIBERGLASS PANELSpanels W10w10 STEEL steel BEAM
beam
7.5” c 7.5" shaped C SHAPED METAL S metal studs
CONCRETE slab on
grade
TOPPING topping slab SLAB W/ EMBED
HYDRAULIC ELEVATOR hydraulic PIT
elevator pit
Steel is a ubiquitous architectural material, used in almost every large-scale
SLAB ON GRADE slab on grade
The prompt for this studio project included a number of challenges to
project built in the post-industrial era. Its properties as a homogeneously stiff
overcome, including the overlap of residences, an office, a nightclub, and flexible
member make it ideal for shaping into specific forms, designed to resist loads and
event space - all located within a small footprint. In addition, the site included a
accommodate deflection within a building. The selection, sizing, and locations of
small pizza shop (the assumed client for the new construction) that must remain
members are determined by a variety of factors that change based on the project
untouched. The result was a project that became divided into three equal boxes
type and adjacencies to other project types.
which interacted with each other to require an adjustment of each structural grid.
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Second Year Core Studio, UCLA Fall 2017 Instructor: Narineh Mirzaein
MASS HOUSING
At the urban scale, this project is organized into a series of stepped clusters that define promenades in between. At the scale of housing, the project introduces a strategy of incremental growth and variability that leverages unit type and size ranging from a 1,250sf family dwelling with 3 beds and 2 baths to a 450sf one bedroom apartment meant for a single tenant.
Ultimately, the bracketing unit logic is integrated into the formal expression of the project as varied edge conditions that step and stagger, producing a gradient of sectional and elevational conditions. At first glance it would seem each independent unit can be easily identified from the exterior - but as they are aggregated together they are more readily re-read as clusters, rows and blocks.
site model aerial
site model top
model aerial
model front
model side
enhanced depth
swapped color and depth maps
clipping depth
perspective distortion
Third Year Advanced Topic Studio, UCLA Winter 2018 Instructor: Jason Payne
DISPLACEMENT
color map “a” // depth map “b”
color map “b” // depth map “a”
color map “c” // depth map “d”
color map “d” // depth map “c”
The subtle control and differentiation of depth within Owens Lake can only be experienced fully through the act of visiting the site and interacting with
pixels and color values. By artificially re-creating the conditions of the lake through the generation
the salt and mud. Orthographic imaging via a satellite or drone tends to flatten
of a displaced surface, addition of lighting, and mapping of color, a highly specified
the lake bed into a grid accumulation of colors and textures. Shadow, reflection,
control of artificial depth can be reached. This project ultimately attempts to act
atmosphere, and parallaxing are all visual cues that are discernable in physical
as a parafictional proxy to the highly controlled engineering exhibited by the
space, but through the processing of an image they become reinterpreted as
anthropocene of Owens Lake.
Third Year Studio, UK Spring 2014 Instructor: Mike McKay
ROSE STREET REDESIGN
Rose Street, on the campus of the University of Kentucky, is a notoriously
the road and leaving the pedestrian “bridge� at the original elevation, a floating
congested area during peak times of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The purpose
plinth is created that can then be programmed with various amenities, such as a
of this studio project was to address the overlapping of pedestrian and vehicular
park, cafe, and amphitheater. Utilizing this approach transforms the design from
circulation routes by creating a seamless, layered connection, where each
that of simple elevated pedestrian bridges that may or may not be used - to an
circulation path remained uninterrupted. In order to achieve this desire, the two
event space and destination for students that does not impede with the flow of
modes of transportation had to be separated into individual layers. By submerging
vehicular circulation below.
The design of the project relied on a strong juxtaposition between a geometric honeycomb pattern and the fluid forms of nature. The hexagonal system was used in the supporting structure to create a unique visual experience for cars passing underneath while allowing large skylights to carry natural daylight through the
openings in the walkway. The same hexagonal system was modified slightly to respond to the circulation of people on the surface. The static areas (seating, dining, grassy lawns) stayed true to the pure grid, while the motion of pedestrians introduced a variable shift in size of the pattern.
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Second Year Studio, UK Fall 2012 Instructor: Kyle Miller
FLAGSHIP STORE
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The flagship store began through a process of creating experimental analog models that would later inform our design process. After many
experimentation to create a flagship store for a retailer / design studio. My proposal became an intersection of three separate forms, each
iterations of carving foam models, I became intrigued not by the individual
housing a unique program or function. The voids created by these spaces
cuts I was making, but the lines that were produced when multiple
informed the occupiable space of the building. Rather than focusing on the
cuts intersected. Moving from abstract form-finding to the design of an
lines that I was creating with each cut, I was more intrigued by what happened
architectural object, we were tasked with using what we learned through our
when two or more voids came together to create volumetric spaces.
NBBJ Architects, Los Angeles, CA Summer 2018 Unnamed Soccer Stadium Competition Entry (Winner TBA)
NBBJ ARCHITECTS
平面图 Floor Plan
主前厅层 Main Concourse
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场馆运营区 Arena Operation
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商品零售区 Commercial / Retail
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媒体区 Media
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保健区 Health and Wellness
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贵宾区 VIP
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会所/包厢 Clubs / Suites
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球员区 Player
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盥洗室 Restrooms
食品零售区 Food Service
后台工作区 Mechanical / BoH
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贵宾大厅 VIP Lobby 盥洗室 Restrooms
保健区 Health and Wellness 剧院 Theater
后台工作/储藏区 BoH / Storage 餐饮 Restaurant
信息台/急救区 Info / First Aid 零售区 Retail
零售集市区 Retail Marketplace
南京雨花国际足球小镇专业足球场 Nanjing Yuhua Stadium · 89
88 · 章节标题 Stadium Tour
While working at NBBJ Architects in downtown Los Angeles, I
食品区 Food and Beverage
and exciting options to move forward with. From there, the development
was assigned to a small team of roughly six full-time designers on a
and production of the design had to occur over the course of roughly
competition to envision a new soccer stadium and entertainment venue
four weeks. The final submittal included a 138-page book, physical
on a specific site in Asia.. The design process began with a studio-wide
model, and 150 second video animation. My specific responsibilities on
charrette in which over 30 unique ideas were generated. From these
the project included overall design input, programmatic selection and
ideas, a selection process occurred to find a few of the most unique
placement, and the documentation of all floor plans.
renderings (produced by mir)
model view - full
model views - detail
Lexington, KY & Los Angeles, CA 2017-2018 Rupp Arena, Lexington Convention Center
EOP / NBBJ
The Lexington Convention Center and basketball arena renovation is a project that has been particularly relevant throughout my career. I played a role in both the local (EOP) and national (NBBJ) facets of the project. On the local side, I helped measure and draw the existing building. From the national side, I gave input in the design process and helped build the final model (shown above).
k club - university of kentucky
veterans crossing proposal
aloft hotel - westerville, oh
My time at EOP Architects included 4 summers during undergrad as well as a full-year upon graduation in their newly opened Lousiville office. While there, I was involved in virtually every aspect and phase of project from schematic design through construction evaluation. Above are a selection of renderings that I produced to illustrate the diversity of work that I was involved with.
haupt humanities - transylvania university
Lexington, KY 2011 - 2016 Various Renderings
EOP ARCHITECTS
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
university of california los angeles
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE university of kentucky