ERIC HARMON HECKMAN
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO | SELECTED WORKS | 2019
ERIC HECKMAN
OBJECTIVE Motivated fifth year architecture student with a desire to collaborate as a team to cultivate excellent results. Seeking to work as a full-time Architectural Associate; coming with exceptional problem solving skills and solid experience.
EXPERIENCE Architectural Intern Stanley Consultants | Summer 2019 - Collaborated with clients and team members on multiple projects - Generated drawings and models from redline markups - Operated Revit and AutoCAD to generate 2D and 3D models - Worked mainly in Federal Market working on Military and Air Base Structures Architectural Intern Studio MELEE | Summer 2017 + 2018 - Collaborated with team members and contractors on multiple projects - Generated punchlists for projects on walkthroughs - Created baseplans from field measuring existing buildings - Operated AutoCAD, Rhino, and Sketch Up to generate 2D and 3D models
EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture - Iowa State University | Fall 2015 - Spring 2020 - GPA 3.45
AWARDS H. Kennard Bussard Award by RDG - Nominee | 2019 CSI Award - Nominee | 2019 BWBR Award - Nominee | 2018 NCMA CMU Design Competition - Honorable Mention | 2018
SOFTWARE
MAIL Eric Heckman 2110 Cottonwood Road, 311 Ames, Iowa 50014 PHONE (563) 506-2607 EMAIL eheckman@iastate.edu DIGITAL PORTFOLIO issuu.com/ericheckman
AutoDesk - AutoCAD - Revit - 3ds Max - Print Studio Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop - Illustrator - InDesign
Rhinoseros 5 + 6 - V-Ray - Grasshopper Sketchup Microsoft Office - Word - PowerPoint - Excel
REFERENCES Jamie Malloy, AIA Nick Senske - Studio MELEE - Iowa State University - Co-Owner + Architect - Assistant Professor - (515) 314-9852 - nsenske@iastate.edu - jamie@studiomelee.com
Shelby Doyle, AIA - Iowa State University - Assistant Professor - (540) 454-4390 - doyle@iastate.edu
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THIS IS NOT WILDERNESS | ARCHITECTURE AND THE COLORADO RIVER
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SHIFT | COLLABORATIVE DESIGN BUILD
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PROJECT NARRATIVE This project explores the use of shipping containers, strategically placed tower cranes, and robotic fabrication systems as a method for creating architecture for populations relocated by climate change in the Colorado River Basin. Each architectural location, based on agricultural mapping and cropland tracking, is designed to accommodate the lack of rainfall and overuse of the Colorado River throughout the basin. The Colorado River, running 1,450 miles from Lake Granby in Northern Colorado to the Gulf of California, is the regions main source of irrigation. The river irrigates almost 6 million acres of farmland within the basin and supplies water to approximately 36 million people. The river also passes through several dams to provide electricity and recreation for the public. Under the stress of a severe twelve-year drought, demand for the river’s water now exceeds it’s supply, raising the urgent question of whether the basin can support increasing human occupation and activity. As the Colorado River challenges notions of control, legibility, and authority, a form of climate refugee housing must be developed to accommodate residents experiencing downfall across the river basin. Each architectural location, initiated and developed through government entities, will effectively house the climate refugees, while relocating them to regions along the river with accommodating living conditions in hopes of the river later being restored with this tapered back design approach. Our project intends to bring the architectural and environmental issues together through the use of a Coloradometer [Nileometer] making visible how the processes of architecture and human settlement contribute to the level and depletion of natural resources, as well as a tool to aid in seeing if conditions have improved. Specifically in our project, we were asked to design for the spiking population of climate refugees by creating sustainable structures with at least 100 housing units for them to stay. Through the use of a 250 foot radial tower crane, we were able to design and stack containers, created with the use of robotic arms that would fabricate the containers, for the intended amount of space needed for the occupant(s), within the radius of the crane to develop our site as fast as possible to leave no climate refugee homeless.
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LEAST CROPLAND MOST CROPLAND 100 POSSIBLE SITES MAJOR LEASTCITIES CROPLAND MAJOR RAILWAYS MOST CROPLAND RIVER 100 POSSIBLE SITES SELECTED SITE
COLORADO RIVER BASIN | 100 ARCHITECTURAL SITES
MAJOR CITIES COLORADO RIVER BASIN | 100 ARCHITECTURAL SITES MAJOR RAILWAYS 6 | THISRIVER IS NOT WILDERNESS
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FACILITY LOCATION
Made up by mainly eight foot by forty foot containers, the fabrication facility is located in one of the four quarters to the grid. It is also located within the reach of the crane so it can be moved to another quarter in the expansion phase.
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CONTAINER STORAGE
Eight foot by eight foot containers to be used in the fabrication of the housing units are stored in close proximity to the fabrication facility to reduce unnecessary movement and use of the crane.
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After the containers are fabricated, they would then be placed into the sixteen by sixteen foot grid within the radius of the crane. These housing units would be stacked on top of each other with space in between for circulation.
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Once the housing units are stacked four stories high throughout the full circle. The crane will be moved to a second circle which will then move the fabrication facility to a new quarter to allow for future expansions.
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GREEN SPACE
Public areas and green space will be littered throughout the site to give the residents a place to relax and play outdoors, or to give them a ‘backyard’, as well as a space that gives back to the environment.
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The main circulation paths can be found on the straight edges of the four quarters. They will be used for delivery trucks with supplies or more containers for housing. The main use of the smaller paths are for pedestrians only.
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HOUSING There were three different options designed for the climate refugees. They would be able to choose which house they needed specifically for them or their family. Along with that, the different options were designed to be modular so that any of these different houses could be stacked on top of each other allowing the site to be assembled and stacked in any order. With that being said, the houses would then be fabricated on a first come, first serve basis, giving people their new home as soon and as fast as possible.
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This two-level unit is designed to house families that have several children. There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large kitchen and living area giving plenty of space to the occupants.
SINGLE | COUPLE This one-level unit is designed to house a single person or a couple. There is a single, studio-type bedroom, bathroom, and a small kitchen and living area giving a decent amount of space in such a small unit.
SMALL FAMILY This one-level unit is designed to house families that have one or two children. There are two bedrooms, one bathroom, and the largest kitchen and living area of the three types giving ample space to the occupants.
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SECOND YEAR | SPRING 2017 INSTRUCTORS | ROMAN CHIKERINETS REINALDO CORREA BOSUK HUR NICK SENSKE ANDREA WHEELER PHOTOGRAPHY | CHRIS GANNON 11
Shift was a collaborative design build for all of the eighty-plus second year architecture stundents. For this massive collaborative project we were all split up into different teams in order to spread the work out amongst all of the students evenly. This allowed every student to get a unique experience of their own depending upon what team they were on. It also taught us how to work together kind of like an architecture firm would in the real world. The site for Shift is located at Reliable Street which is “a collective space in Ames, [Iowa] that works across the disciplines of art, design, and business seeking to strengthen the connection between the public and place-making. Reliable Street encourages a working environment that is both interdependent and collaborative.” Much like our design build that fit nicely into their mission statement. “The intention is to actively involve the public as both a participant and collaborator in the ongoing creation on the project.” This is the reason that they chose us to create this ‘playground’ or ‘play-sculpture’ for their business as they wanted people of Ames helping create their business and allowing the public (us students) to give our own piece to the site. Our design build was also the first large project done at Reliable
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Street which meant the bar was set pretty high for us to create a very unique and nice looking sculpture for them that will be there far into the future of the business. Along with it being the first major change to the site we were able to bring together a very large gathering of people for the grand opening of Shift which gave Reliable Street lots of new exposure to the city and people of Ames. Overall, Shift was a great experience for all of the young, second year architects. We all were able to work with our first client and to design for what they wanted and needed done on the site as well as meet their specific goals with the project. We also learned how to work as a group with appointed leaders or managers to help guide the project and make sure everyone was on the same page and that everyone had a part in this long process of the design build. For myself, it was very beneficial to learn about fabrication and how things all come together from digital modeling to the final sculpture as I have never been able to physically build any of my designs before. All in all, I would love to do more projects like this in school where we can actually build and see the end result.
Photo (Top Right): Scale model of structure before making final iterations after review with Reliable Street. (Photo taken by Kylee Cangas) Line Drawing (Bottom Right): Final digital model linework.
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Construction Documents The construction documentation team, which I was apart of, had the most amount of people as there were more than 150 layers throughout the three modules that needed to be documented. With these documents we were able to get all board dimensions and joint lables that would be used later in the process of constructing the final model.
Cut Sheets The cut sheets were used during the process of cutting down all of the individual boards to the correct sizes that are found in the CD’s. These sheets were used to be able to check off every single board in order as they were measured and cut to size in the woodshop.
Joint Sheets The joint sheets were used when roughly laying out the individual layers at the King Pavillion but more importantly, at Reliable Street when constructing the final structure. These joint sheets helped the builders line up the next layer with the previous layer and get the correct angle on some of the more difficult connection points. Shown in the dashed line is the previous layer (C07). In the lighter line weight is the lower board of layer C08. The bolder line is the top board. Also show are ideal screw points to avoid any colision with lower screw heads.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION Permanence and Temporality is a partner project where we were given the task of renovating an existing building, 5 Manhattan West, through the means of subtraction. We were also tasked with developing an Inner-World within our building as well as explore and create our own architectural definition of what we thought co-housing should be. So what is an Inner-World? To us, an Inner-World is what the building contains for public spaces and attractions. For our building we added a art gallery, water park, winter garden, rooftop bar, cafes and restaurants, small shops, play tower, fitness area, and more. All of these areas would be shared between the people actually living in the building and the public. Along with this, we also would have thousands pedestrians making their way through our building every day between Hudson Yards and Manhattan West, and we made it our goal to attempt to grab the attention of these pedestrians and encourage them to explore our building. Co-housing being the other important part of this entire project was also a difficult task to figure out ourselves as there have been so many failed attempts with this in the past. We chose to find our own definition of co-housing through the means of creating permanent and temporary housing for residents and commuters/visitors of New York City. Further descriptions are given later on throughout the layout of this project over the next few pages for these new definitions.
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The existing building on the site, now known as 5 Manhattan West, which was previously used as an office building and factory, as well as including a full ice rink on the top floor, was assigned to Michael and I with the task of creating a mixed-use apartment building. With the massive floorplates, measuring roughly 250’ x 450’, we were asked to use only subtraction methods to remove parts of the building in order to create our new apartment building made up of over 250 residential and visitor units.
We began our subtraction methods by first responding to the existing consitions of the site that had already been planned years before we began this project. In Manhattan West, there are two very large and prominent sky scrapers that border the large green space in the center of the site. Using the edges of their green space, we lined up the two voids that were cut through the building which allowed people to see out into the city towards Hudson Yards as well as be able to freely travel outdoors through and across 5 Manhattan West.
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After adding the voids that ran East-West, we then proceded to do a few solar and wind studies which led us to add two voids to the Southern towers which would allow for the Southern sun to enter into the courtyard that was formed as well as getting light to the two Northern towers as they were previously very shadowed. Adding these two voids also allowed us to manipulate the flow of pedestrian traffic through our building where the occupants could snake through almost any way they wanted. However, we made sure to keep a few main circulation paths that cut straight through to the highline as well as the street level from the Manhattan West green space.
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Finally, we did our final subtractions to the building where we removed the tops of the four small towers. The main reason for this, was to remove several visitor units that did not match up with the ratios we found from Manhattans dynamic population of commuters, residents, and visitors. On the southern side of the building contained a very dense ammount of commuter and visitor units that we needed to remove in order to get closer to the ratio we found in our previous studies. This subtraction also helped with our day lighting throughout the entire building. This was our final massing that we used throughout the remainder of the project. 19
Level 7 Plan (Top): On the seventh floor of the plan there are multiple different luxuries for the residents and guests to use, as well as the public Winter Garden in the lower right hand corner. For private luxuries on this level there is a kitchen and dining room and a laundry room to be used by the visitors as their rooms do not include these amenities like the residential units. Another luxury seen in the top right is a office/work space for people that need a desk or a conference room to work in. We thought amenities like this would be really beneficial to people that would be commuting to the city for a night or more. All of these amenities would be locked to the public and residents/visitors would need a keycard to access the rooms. For the Winter Garden, it is accessible from the ground by taking the elevators from the lobby. People can also get to it through the sky bridges between the two towers. However, one important thing we did with the sky bridges though was to only have a maximum of two on each floor. The reason for this is to encourage people to take the stairs and snake through the building exploring almost every part of it with something different on every floor. Street Level Plan (Bottom): The street level plan of our building is meant to be very intriguing to the people passing by as we wanted our building to be an attraction that people would want to walk through and feel comfortable doing so. With that in mind we created several public areas that would catch someones eye through the large glass facades.
CONJOINED UNIT PLAN The conjoined unit is one of the main parts to this project as a whole and is where the title Permanence and Temporality comes from. This design came from ideas like the Half-House where someone could purchase a house but then add on to the house at a later date when they had more money saved up to spend on their house. We wanted the residents to be able to expand their homes just like this as long as the hotel-like room is vacant when they would like to rent it out for guests or others. The plan shown above is just one of the options where this occurs throughout the building.
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To start, there are multiple large public lobbies designed to be large enough to hold large groups of people to gather while still allowing other pedestrians to pass through. There are two restaurants placed in the bottom right corner, one being a smaller cafe style area and the other being a more formal dining area and bar. There is a two level office building for the managers of the entire building located in the center. Also in the center are four privately owned stores. The main public place and eye-catcher on this level though is the water park. This was strategically placed next to the main walkway through the building in order to attract even the busiest people that are simply finding the fastest route through the building.
Shown on the next couple pages are a few of the other large public spaces like the water park that have their own strategic placememt.
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PLAY TOWER The play tower is a public space in a centralized location where occupants would need to come into the center of the building in order to access this space. It is a two-level structure that allows kids and sometimes adults to climb all over between these two levels.
WINTER GARDEN The winter garden is one of the highest public spaces in the building. We wanted this building to act as a beacon to draw people towards the building from the highline that may not be very interested in the building from a far. Within the space there are raised planters, instead of digging into the floorplate. This created a walkable miniature park on the seventh floor of the building.
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WATER PARK The water park is a privately owned public space which would require the public to pay to enter. The water park features plenty of lounge chairs for families, a pool for swimming and a landing area for the two water slides, and a hot tub for adults to relax while the kids play. The water park is located on the ground floor to give the slides the largest amount of space possible.
ART GALLERY The two art gallaries located on the third level of the building and the same level as the highline. With the popularity of the highline several people would be passing by the gallaries every day. The highline is also connected the the Chelsea area which has several art galaries itself. The use of the highline connecting to our building at this location creates a large draw for people to come into the building and explore.
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FIFTH YEAR | FALL 2019 INSTRUCTORS | ANDREW BALLARD NICK LINDSLEY AWARDS | BUSSARD COMPETITION NOMINEE CSI COMPETITION NOMINEE PARTNER | ALEX DUTOIT
Before our Institiution Project we were given the task of designing a barge. This barge would be a vessel that would travel in a ‘floatilla’ or group with the other barges that were made by our classmates. The ‘floatilla’ would travel between Davenport, Iowa and New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River.
for the workers to sleep. The distillery was placed in the center of the barge where it could be viewed by everyone. We also chose to use a very transparent design to allow people to see in from the shore and grab their attention to pull them in.
Photo (Top): Exterior render of the distillery barge. Right Page: 2D Drawings (Top): Level One and Level Two Plans and Section. Diagram (Bottom Left):
Moving on in the semester, we were tasked Exploded axon of screen. with creating an institution which would For our barge, we chose to create a also later end up acting as a headquarter Photos (Bottom Right): Render from level two looking overtop of bar floating distillery. We thought that it would building for our barge. and tasting area. be a great addition to the Mississippi River as there are a few distilleries that are What we ended up designing was the Render from storage and teaching space. scattered along it’s banks. With the barge Institute of Brewing and Distilling. This we wanted to teach people about rum that institute would be a school where students you would find from New Orleans distilleries could learn, live, and play. The building was and would do so by stopping at cities designed with a main lecture hall space, that were decided on by the studio as a two labs (one brewing lab and one distillery whole. That rum is made from sugar cane lab), a library, and eight classrooms for and is somewhat unique to the area on teaching the students everything they need the Mississippi because of its climate and to know about brewing and distilling. At ability to grow it there. In Louisiana, there the top of the tower is where the students are also lots of factories that produce the would stay in one bedroom apartments. sugar which we would be able to purchase They would be able to hang out on the in order to distill rum on our barge. We deck at the top. Or, they could also go would also filter and use water from the down to the library and study spaces as Mississippi in our process as well as solar well as the main lobby of the building during panels and shading devices on the exterior the day when the tasting bar would be in order to leave a smaller footprint on the closed. Outside we also wanted to create environment. For the design we included a space that would bring some more life a bar or tasting room, learning and tour to the Davenport Riverfront as well as add Next pages will show the final Institution of Brewing and Distilling. platform, storage room, and crew space some flood protection to the city.
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LEVELS TEN AND ELEVEN Apartments
LEVEL NINE Apartments
LEVEL EIGHT Apartments and Rooftop Patio
LEVEL SEVEN Mechanical, Administration and Offices
LEVEL SIX Mechanical, Administration and Offices
LEVEL FIVE Classrooms and Library
LEVEL FOUR Classrooms and Library
LEVEL THREE Sky Bridge, Upper Event Space, and Labs
LEVEL TWO Brewing Lab, Tasting and Event Space, Distilling Lab, and Lecture Hall
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ERIC HECKMAN eheckman@iastate.edu (563) 506-2607 2110 Cottonwood Road, 311 Ames, Iowa 50014