DANIELGREGORY ARCHITECTURE
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CURRICULUMVITAE DANIEL J. GREGORY
WORK EXPERIENCE
816-617-5307
KU Endowment Association
djgregory91@yahoo.com 1431 West 19th Street Lawrence, KS 66046
Student Development Associate 2012-current Utilized communications and sales skills to successfully secure over $25,000 in donations; Professionally represented the University of Kansas to the public and alumni; Part of a 1.2 billion dollar campaign
Suddath Relocation Systems
INTERESTS Traveling
7 Countries, 28 States
Hiking
Ouchita National Forest, Rocky Mountains
Skiing
Copper Mountain, Winter Park, Solvista
Cooking
Experimental
Building
Experimenting with various materials
Running
Half marathons, Tough mudder
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ProMover Summer 2012 Packing, loading, and unloading of household goods and furniture; Cleaning and organizing the warehouse at end of day; Inventoried customers’ items when moving
All-Safe Self Storage Leasing Agent 2006-2010
Riverside Self Storage
Leasing Agent 2008-2010 Managed over 1,200 storage units distributed between three locations; Used communications and sales skills to lease units to a wide range of customers; Responsible for solving any issues or problems that occured with our customers; Kept track of the financial books making deposits when needed
Olive Garden
Busser 2009-2012 Was part of a service oriented and customer focused team to provide a genuine dining experience; Worked as a team to meet the needs of the guests; Cleaned tables for the servers in order to keep the tables filled, maximizing revenue; Assisted the servers with any of their needs; The restaurant emphasized teamwork so we were encouraged to work as a team and encourage each other
SKILLS Design Thinking Freehand Drawing Sketching Soldering Project Management Time Management Leadership Communication Sales
SOFTWARE
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Adobe Photoshop Adobe In Design Adobe Illustrator SketchUp KeyShot Vray for Sketchup Autodesk Revit Autodesk AutoCAD Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper 3D Lumion 2.5 Microsoft Office Suite
Caddy Stack’s Volunteer Navigators Leader (J-Team) Member of the AIAS Member of the NSCS Member of the NSHSS Elisha’s Prophets STUCO Intramural Flag Football Intramural Basketball Kappa Sigma Fraternity Member Pledge Class President Academic Honor Roll (3.52 gpa) KU Hawk Week Leader Southwest Junior High Basketball Coach
REFERENCES Paola Sanguinetti
Department Chair and Associate Professor, Architecture
paolas@ku.edu
785-864-3862
Kapila Silva
Assistant Professor, Architecture
kapilads@ku.edu
785-864-1150
Professor, Architecture
sgrabow@ku.edu
785-864-3186
Stephen Grabow
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C ONTENTS MUSEUM
DALLAS TECHNICAL MUSEUM
Fall 2012
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STUDY
LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY
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PARAMETRICS
KINETIC PARAMETRIC FACADE
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HYPERDENSITY
CROSSROADS TRANSIT STATION
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SELECTED WORKS
FREEHAND DRAWINGS
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M U S E U M
D a l l a s T e c h n i c a l M u s e u m Fall 2012
My Junior year started with a project to design a museum to go in the Dallas Arts District, in the lot adjacent to the Nasher Sculpture Center by Renzo Piano. Looking at the surrounding buildings as well as visiting other museums was helpful to understand the context of the sight and how I could best integrate my building within the fabric of the city. As students, we were allowed to choose what media would be displayed in the museum. I chose to design a museum that shows how mechanical objects are assembled and how they work. The design of the building reflects the media being showed. Exposing how the building is constructed and expressing materiality mimics what is on display inside. In this design, I also felt there needed to be a separation between public and private spaces. The large curved wall creates an axis that serves as the boundary between public and private spaces, as well as a service corridor for circulation throughout the building. The radius of the curve and the location of the building on the site was determined by examining the surrounding buildings’ curves and focusing on the sculpture located in the north lawn of the Meyerson Symphony Center. 6 | Daniel J. Gregory
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Every building has layers to it, and that is something that I wanted people to see as they walk through the building. Thus, the viewing galleries are constructed out of a large box truss system, with a perforated screen layer, as well as an exterior aluminum skin. The layers are visible from within the galleries as well as from the exterior of the building and portray the construction and materiality of the building. These galleries are supported off the ground to create a lower level of galleries and a courtyard space that appears to be uninterrupted. Each gallery is oriented perpendicular to the defining curve of the building and point toward the pendulum sculpture in the North lawn of the Meyerson Symphony center.
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1. 1/2” Aluminum Cladding 2. Stainless Steel Custom Bracket 3. Perforated Screen 4. Laminated Double Skin Glazing 5. Steel Plate Encasement 6. I-Beam 7. Steal Plate Connector 8. Hex Nuts 9. Fire Proofing 10. Channel Glass 11. Horizontal Mullions 12. Double Skin Curtain Wall 13. Thermal Air Mass
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20. 2’ Tall Lightweight Steel Truss 21. Drop Ceiling Panel 22. Steel U-Channel 23. 1/2” Gypsum Board 24. Metal Stud 25. Floor Tile 26. Floor Trim Board 27. 8” Thick Fiberglass Insulated Concrete 28. Vapor Barrier 29. 6” Gravel
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S T U D Y L a w r e n c e P u b l i c L i b r a r y Spring 2012 Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this project was to design a branch library for the existing Lawrence Public Library. We first looked at the building site and examined the surrounding buildings and how the landmarks affected the site’s exposure to the sun. My design for the library started with building footprint studies, focusing on pedestrian circulation. Vertically extruding a conceptual footprint while pushing in and pulling out different volumes of the building resulted in the current form. The main focus of my design was to group the programaic spaces according to their function.
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The building’s entrance is in the south east side of the central courtyard. A cantilevered lounge for reading overhangs part of the entryway. Upon entering the building, a person immediately experiences the main atrium space which serves as an area for the circulation desk. The floor plan of the building is separated into different cores based on public and private areas. One end of the building contains the adult reading room, offices, the archives, and circulation desk. The other core of the library consists of the Children’s room, the Historical Exhibition Gallery, and a small coffee shop. The clear glass stair tower directs people up to the Historical Exhibition Gallery, as well as to the roof of the gallery which is an outdoor patio space/partial green roof.
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Partnered with Zahner Metals in Kansas City, our studio was presented with the challenge to design a façade system that utilized Parametric Modeling as the driving design instrument. Zahner agreed to provide us with the materials, and the use of their equipment to manufacture the mock façade system. Split into three different groups, our studio presented three different designs to Zahner. Based on the ease of manufacturing, the design intent, and various other factors, Zahner chose to manufacture the façade design that was proposed by my group.
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My group’s design focus was to create a façade that provided necessary sun shading, while allowing natural light in spaces that need it. We also researched ways that a façade could harvest energy and decided to pursue a design that would allow for the harvesting of wind energy. Small wind turbines became a kinetic aspect to our design, and impacted the overall form of the façade. Using Vasari and Ecotect, wind and sun studies were performed on a study building in the Lawrence, Kansas climate. The data collected from these programs was put into Grasshopper which translated the data to affect the design of our façade. In the Grasshopper definition we created, the wind turbines became attractor points that affected both the perforations in the façade as well as the shape of the each vertical fin of the system. The placement of the wind turbines was determined based on the wind data of the desired building collected from Vasari. The width of the vertical fins was affected both by the placement of the wind turbines as well as the sunlight data collected from Ecotect. 22| Daniel J. Gregory
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I was interested in designing an interactive lighting system that would be part of the façade. Using the Arduino Uno, a programmable microcontroller, I was able to come up with a lighting design that would react to people walking in front of the façade. LED light strips span the vertical height of each fin and shine through the perforations. As a person gets closer to the façade, the lights get brighter.
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Since this was a Design Build studio, we had a budget and were able to build a full scale model that displayed all of the various conditions of the system. With the help of Zahner Metals, we were able to show how with the use of technology and parametrics, a product that is very unique can be mass produced even though the components aren’t the same.
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The structure of the life scale display became an important aspect since we weren’t attaching the façade to an existing building. The display was free standing, so we had to solve that issue by creating a wooden framework to which the vertical metal fins could be attached. I was largely in charge of the group of people working on the structural component of the system. As a studio, we were asked to design an interactive feature for the full scale display model. We decided to create a bench system that contained some of the same attributes as the façade. Perforations were the biggest part of the bench design which allowed for the bending of solid wood panels to create the surfaces for the bench.
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This project started with a macro evaluation of the Crossroads District in Kansas City. Split into five groups, our studio looked at how cities with mass transit systems differed from cities without those systems. Looking at the population density, demographics, various modes of transportation, my group created a master plan of the Crossroads District to make it a more walkable and pedestrian friendly area. Increasing the population density to make it a hyper dense city would result in a necessity for a mass transit system such as the proposed light rail. Hypothetically, we decided the light rail would become a reality. I was responsible for designing a Multi-Modal Transit Station that would become a center for various modes of transit within the Crossroads District including the light rail system.
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Looking at the existing conditions of the Crossroads district, I collaborated with my group to determine a solution to make the Crossroads district an attraction, rather than a dead space between Downtown KC to the North and the Crown Center area to the South. Increasing population density by proposing multiple mixed use buildings was the first step in the process of creating a more attractive district. Being part of the arts district, it was important to maintain the unique character of the Crossroads by leaving some open spaces in the urban fabric to provide places for street vendors and performances. The master plan proposed changing the layout of the streets, increasing the width of sidewalks and installing bike lanes, reducing the amount of vehicular traffic flowing through the district. This would encourage people to experience the district more directly and engage in the various activities the district offers.
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The main concept behind my building was to create an iconic structure that was unique to the area and acted as a gateway to Kauffman Boulevard, the pedestrian walkway that was proposed in our master plan. The axes of 18th street and Kauffman Boulevard became important traffic corridors and impacted the design of my building. Studying how people would move across and through the site, it was essential to create an experience that was pleasurable and exciting.
The programmatic spaces of my building needed to include a residential portion that included various sizes of apartments, café, bike storage/rental station, micro-garage, and a waiting room for people using the light rail. I separated the residential portion of the building from the transit based areas to provide a buffer between private and public spaces. As a studio, we were urged to use wood construction techniques, specifically Cross Laminated Timber, for our designs.
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East Elevation
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Level 5 65’
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