Creative Work
David Polk
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Spanning across borders, cultures, regimes, ideologies, prejudices, stereotypes, expectations, and disciplines, architecture becomes the utmost exploratory art - the art of living and the art of building. Architecture captures current events in society, celebrates technological advances, and helps to resolve urban conflicts one site at a time. My education and interests span across the diverse geographies and cultures of the entire American continent recognizing exemplary precedents and unprecedented potential. Growing up in the vibrant culture of Florida, I began developing an aesthetic eye focused on interior design flipping houses1 and philanthropic sensitivity through hurricane relief efforts2 by providing the bare necessities of life. Offering ecclesiastical service3 in Mexico for two years allowed me not only to become fluent in Spanish but also the Latin culture at large. My studio-based education has been supplemented with competitions4 and exchanges5. My experience in Santa Fe, Argentina opened my eyes to how the architectural profession and urban planning are considered a singular, integrated discipline. The Americas are still relatively undiscovered and will pose boundless design potential and planning problems through which architecture will be the mediator, once again reaffirming how it plays the role as the art of living and the art of building. Latin America’s development alone will change how the world sees architecture and urban design and I will be part of it. The easiest way to help change the world is simply to change how one sees it. Architectural design can change how people perceive and interact within their world and in the world, helping transform site to sight.
Introduction
Letterpress Sun Screen
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Ballet West 6
2 1
Bespoke Bike Collective
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Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
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Guastavino Vaulting Workshop 21 Photography 22 Artwork 24 5
parametric screen Salt Lake City, Utah
with Chad Bailey and Grant Herron Design Studio II - 5 weeks Professors Dan Hoffman and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis This group project involved designing a facade system to rehabilitate an existing building in downtown Salt Lake City using a parametric approach. The new design served to enhance solar gain, privacy for workers, engaging views from both interior and exterior, and define the graphic identity for the Letterpress Studio that would occupy the building.
Design Studio 3
Letter Press Screen
Design Studio
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Assembly Method
Attachment Method
Full Size Mock-up
Letter Press Screen
Design Studio
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Ballet West Dance Studio Salt Lake City, Utah Design Studio I - 6 weeks Professor Charlott Greub The Ballet West program requires the application of architectural thought to design a dance studio within the urban city fabric of downtown Salt Lake City. Dance and architecture have much in common. Both are concerned with the practices of space - the dancer through gesture and embodied movement, and for the architect space is the medium through which form emerges and habitation is created. For both, the first space we experience is the space of the body.
Design Studio 6
5 UP
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1.Lower Lever
Ballet West Dance Studio
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2.Street Level - Public Plaza
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4.Roof-top Gardens
3.Upper Lever
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Dance Studios Stretching Space Offices Restrooms Waiting Area Storage
7. Mechnical 8. Public Plaza 9. Lobby 10. Reception 11. Recital Hall 12. Roof top Gardens
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Design Studio 7
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Pedestrian access to Benihana
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200 South
Section A
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Ballet West Dance Studio
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12
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Business Center on 200 South
Pedestrian access to Benihana
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Capitol Theater
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Section B
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Design Studio 8
Ballet West Dance Studio
Design Studio 9
Bespoke Bike Collective Portland, Oregon
Studio II - 6 weeks Professors Dan Hoffman and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis The communal nature of the program challenged students to study the pervasive culture of custom bike building, the predominance of bike culture in the city of Portland and specificly The Pearl District of Portland where we proposed a solution to bring together craftspeople, community organizers, and outreach programs in a collective. The intention was to capture the essence of our study into the mass, context, and articulation of the building.
Design Studio
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Bespoke Bike Collective
Design Studio
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Upper Level & Green Roofs
Lower Level
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Bespoke Bike Collective
Common Workshop 6. Cultural hall Individual Bike Shops 7. Offices Education Space 8. Double Helix bike circulation Gallery Space 9. Green Roof Cafe 10. Restrooms
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Design Studio
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NW 8th Ave.
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Bespoke Bike Collective
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NW Park Ave.
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8 NW Hoyt St.
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NW Gilsan St.
Design Studio 13
Bespoke Bike Collective
Design Studio 14
Cherry Peak Ski Loddge Richmond, Utah with Chad Bailey Studio III - 12 weeks Professor Anne Mooney Nestled deep in the Bear River Mountains, the site for the proposed ski lodge provides a unique geographical potential. Inspired by the sensory experience of the trails that change with the seasons and the flow of the Cherry Creek, we sought a design that capitalizes on the topography, positively impacts the site and environment, allows for cambering of program by redefining architectural boundaries through membranes, controls views allowing for moments of pause but always leaving the destination just beyond the limits of the senses.
Design Studio 15
Tubing Hill
Parti of Flow and Form
Bunny Hill
Lodge
Drop off
Ski Lift
Primary Flow
Secondary (tributary) Flow
Seasonal Visibility Levels
Warming Hut
spring earth
Warming Hut
100’
N
50’
500’
250’
Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
Expert Runs Intermediate Runs Beginner Runs Terrain Park
rock bed
summer Cherry Creek
bank
winter
fall trail
ground foilage
low trees
high trees
mountain
Circulation Diagram
Exploded Axonometric
Roof
Natural Forces
Walls
Urban Forces Glulam Structure
Vehicular
Primary
Skiier
Tributary
Floor Plates & Foundation
Circumambulation
Design Design Studio Studio 16
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Lower Level 10 A
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Drop-off Area Temporary Ski Storage Lobby Public counter Ticketing office Waiting Area Retail Rental Storage
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Mechanical Elevator Service Conference Meeting Room Outdoor Patio Staff Office Ski Patrol Lounge First Aid/ Medical Office Restrooms Ski Area/ Lifts
Level 3 28’-0”
Level 2 14’-0”
North Elevation 5’
2’
25’
10’
Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
Level 1 0’-0”
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Upper Level 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
7. Outdoor Patio 8. Cafe 9. Waiting Area 10. Restrooms 11. Elevator Service 12. Aceess to Skiiing
Restaurant Bar Kitchen Day Spa Sauna Changing Rooms
South Elevation 5’
2’
25’
10’
Design Studio 17
Clerestory Detail
Section A
Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
Glulam Detail
Glulam Detail
valley breeze heat escape
10°
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summer cooling winter heating
Radiant Heat
75°
Section B 5’ 1’
10’
Design Studio 18
Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
Design Studio 19
Cherry Peak Ski Lodge
Design Studio 20
Guastavino Vaulting Workshop Salt Lake City, UT John Ochsendorf - MIT 300 bricks Plaster of Paris two sheets of 4’x8’ OSB four 2x4’s 7 team members 12 hours
Guastavino Vaulting Workshop 21
Abstracted Orientation: Chicago, Illinois, USA
2012 AIA Architectural Photography Competition Winner Sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter of the AIA On Display at the 2012 AIA National convention and to be Published in the 2014 Rizzoli Architecture Engagment Calendar
Photography 22
Perspective:
Vero Beach, Florida, USA DIALECTIC: Photo Competition - Judges Choice University of Utah School of Architecture Student Publication To be published in the 2013 edition of DIALECTIC
Photography 23
Speckled sunset: Oil and Acrylic on Canvas - 72 X 120 IN. Fusion of Pointillism and Impressionism
Artwork 24
The Paper Duckling: paper, oil, and acrylic on canvas - 48 X 60 IN. Books transformed into art.
Artwork
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Mask-eye-raid: Mascara on canvas 12 X 12 IN.
Artwork 26
Los Desconocidos: Oil on paper 12 X 12 IN.
Artwork 27
DAVID.POLK 1030 4th ct sw, vero beach, fl 32962
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e: davidgpolk@gmail.com
education University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT - gpa 3.78/4.0 2013 - Bachelors of Science in Architecture with Honors Summer 2012 - Semester Abroad in Santa Fe, Argentina as part of an exchange with La Universidad Nacional Litoral
professional experience RES Consulting, LC December 2012 - present; Salt Lake City, Utah research assistant CBAyA - Castellitti Bertoni Arquitectos y Associados May 2012 - July 2012; Santa Fe, Argentina intern architect The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints May 2011 - March 2012; Salt Lake City, Utah project scheduler The Poole and Kent Company of Florida January 2008 - November 2008; Vero Beach and Jupiter, Florida project coordinator Kinateder Incorporated January 2007 - September 2007; Springville, Utah scale model builder, graphic designer, AutoCAD drafter WPC Industrial Contractors, ltd. May 2004 - June 2006; Central & South Florida office assistant construction foreman
awards & recognition FFKR Architects Travel Scholarship - International Exchange Program to Argentina, Summer 2012 Judges Special Commendation Award - AIA National Photography Competition. Judges Choice Award - photography competition at the University of Utah School of Architecture Feature Article - “A BIG Transformation - The Kimball Art Center Transformation Project� 2012 issue of Dialectic. Church Service Mission to Monterrey Mexico - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 2008 - 2010 Boy Scouts of America - Eagle Scout - March 2006 Don E. Erickson Architectural Award: excellence in design and creativity - December 2005 For online portfolios visit:
www.doodlesdesignsdaydreams.blogspot.com