Daniel Karas University of Illinois at Chicago Architecture Portfolio
Node (1-12)
Wynd (13-28)
Space (29-40)
Xeum (41-54)
Node Year 4 Semester 1 Professor: Juan Rois
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There exists a growing pressure on the Chicago airports of O’Hare and Midway to expand into neighboring communities destroying local houses and businesses. In order to alleviate this pressure there is a need for an interconnecting route that manages to condense the extraneous functions of the airport in an exterior infrastructural connection. By establishing a building that can compress the growing programmatic stresses of the Chicago airports, an infrastructural node can be established that connects the Airports by modifying and expanding the preexisting Chicago CTA blue and orange lines into an optimized high speed rail system. By extending the orange line from midway to Halsted and building an above ground blue line rail from the UIC- Halsted stop comes an unbroken high-speed rail in-between both airports which provides 7 minute airport transfers. By establishing the only stop at the famous circle interchange of I-90 and 290 a plinth can be built atop the preexisting highway infrastructure that creates an interconnected system of roads and rail that allow the inhabitant to reach any location of the city at ease. “Node” integrates the idea of the “kiss and drop” that exists within airports which allows car riders to drive into the building from the existing highways and drop off or pick up their love ones from a mobious line that connects with the rail station as well as convenience or overnight parking meaning you will never have to drive your friend to the airport at 5am ever again.
Awards: Year End Show, Pella Fellowship for best undergrad project, “Best drawing ever”
”- UIC Publication, Honorable mention- Van Allen Institute- “Life at the speed of Rail”
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Node seeks to combine the necessities of the Chicago airport through one central building. Node combines the blue line to the orange line while taking in the parking demands of ohare. Absorbing the commercial sectors Node also takes in businesses and profit making ventures, while creating a much needed green area for the new international travel icon
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By seeing the building as a vertical subway map it is easy to guide circulation from the exterior of the building to any part Node’s program. The interior is designed to give a mounumental feeling of scale while still allowing large open air systems to give the inhabitant the feeling of scope.
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Wynd Year 3 Semester 2 Professor: Bob McAnulty Chicago is now facing a growing deficit that requires major action to solve. Mayor Daley has been trying to bring a casino to Chicago but the law still stand that the people of Chicago can only gamble on the water. Alas the Wynd casino is located on Lake Michigan and uses multiple sources of wind energy to create a zero footprint building off the lake shore. The building becomes a blur on the lake shore as it is covered in wind belts which vibrate and create an atmosphere to the building that translates all the way to the interior. The core of the building is the main circulation of the building and is superheated or supercooled based on the exterior tempatures creating a weather conflict resulting in actual weather atmosphere inside the building. The building becomes the ultimate tourist trap with an innovative new concept. The wind tunnels that run through the building allow this energy transfer and create the programmatic organization based on noise resulting from the fans. The casino has a constant ramping exterior that takes the traditional horizontally of casinos and stretches it over thirty stories. This becomes the first casino ever designed around the draw of interior and exterior sound waves.
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Awards: Year End Show
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the casino uses energy gained from wind turbines to create energy as well as manage location of program based on sound intensity. The gradient oraginzes program based on the draw of larger noise gambling and the need for silent table games creating a organic organization of program that works in hand with energy creation
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Sound Waves Plan
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gambling floor
Stadium Venue
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Relaxing
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space Year 3 Semester 1 Professor: Dan Wheeler
Space seeks to take the spectral experience of the “marfa lights” and translate it into a sustainable 10’ by 10’ cube for the desert. Space was given two characteristics and 1 material to create the feeling of “heaviness and warmth” By optimizing a custom block of CMU Space is able to create a unique experience that differs from interior to exterior. The exterior has a built in planter that allows for the desert to take over the facade and blend into the environment making a statement about the solidarity of the monument. This project creates a unique experience for the inhabitant and would consequently turn into another arts attraction for the visitors of Marfa, Texas.
Awards: Year End Show
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The CMU module is created as to allow rebar and insulation installation. The planter on the exterior is rated for desert plants and is water tight as to prevent leakage into the interior. The blocks are light enough for 1 man to carry and are about 5 times the size of normal cmu blocks. These blocks would be poured on-site and the plexi glass would be the horizontal mortar that allows the thin beams of light in an otherwise strong concrete building. Overall the cost of the project would be very minimal other than the labor
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CUSTOM LINTEL BLOCK
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xeum year 3 Semester 1 Professor: Iker GIl Xeum seeks to adapt a park on the chicago river into a new budding arts center. The mueseum is developed around the arts and personal discovery. The form seeks to intertwine multple artists through intersecting planes. By blurring the definition between interior and exterior the building becomes a performance piece rather then simple architecture. The iconic form was developed from multiple sculture studies seeking to depict gravitational attaraction. The exterior skin uses colored glass as a way of changing the interior atmosphere of the rooms to accomodate for different artists as well as experiment with color in architecture. Xeum acts as a new way to revitilize what was once a simple meat packing district into a budding arts scene off of the typical Michigan ave location.
Awards: Year End Show
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Nodes connecting pre-existing circulation paths
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modular ribbing is created to give the building a tensile structure
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exterior and interior circulation allow multiple path orgins and exits
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The final result creates a unique beacon on the chicago river for a new art scene
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