Ethan Overland | Architecture Portfolio

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Ethan Overland

I am currently a student in the Master of Architecture program at the University of Kansas with an anticipated graduation of May 2024. In my educational and professional experience, both in country and abroad, I have continuously refined my design thinking, software skills, and understanding of urban design. My unique design ability and steadfast determination will be an advantage to any project I encounter.

2019 - Present 2021 2015 - 2019

Experience

Awards

Software

ethan.overland@gmail.com (651) 260-2333 issuu.com/ethanoverland linkedin.com/in/ethanoverland

University of Kansas | Lawrence, Kansas - 3.96 GPA Master of Architecture Pritzker Laureate Architecture Tour Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas Cretin-Derham Hall High School | St. Paul, Minnesota - 4.05 GPA High School Diploma with Honors

References

2022

2022 - Present 2018 2018

Technological Assistant | Lawrence, Kansas University Laser and 3D Printing Lab Haenglim Architects | Seoul, South Korea

Architectural Intern - Competition Studio and Model Shop Cunningham Group Architecture | Minneapolis, Minnesota Architectural Shadow with Michael Berg Mortenson: Construction and Real Estate Company | Minneapolis, Minnesota Job Site Tour

2022 2019 2019 2018 2018

2019- 2021

Freeman Foundation Scholarship University of Kansas Deans List

University of Kansas J.R.O.T.C Citizenship Award Cretin-Derham Hall High School Citation and Medal

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Eagle Scout Award Boy Scouts of America Commendation

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Proficient: Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Lumion, Enscape, Adobe Creative Cloud Familiar: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max

Kapila D. Silva Jae D. Chang One Jae Lee

Director of Design Haenglim Architects o.lee@haenglim.com (010) 9157-1142

Professor of Architecture University of Kansas kapilad@ku.edu (785) 864-1150

Professor of Architecture University of Kansas jdchang@ku.edu (785) 864-1446

CONTENTS

01 Terra Tower

02 The Psychedelic Movement Museum

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma pg. 19 - 40 pg. 01 - 18

Portland, Oregon

03 The Halieutic Market

Kansas City, Missouri pg. 41 - 54

04 Professional Work

Haenglim Architects

04 The Crux

Mammoth Lakes, California

pg. 55 - 62 Seoul, South Korea pg. 63 - 64

Terra Tower, located in the Arena District of the Oklahoma City Core-to-Shore plan, reimagines the future of urban dwellings in the United States. Terra Tower is a mixed-use cross-laminated timber high-rise that looks to create a unique experience for the residents of Oklahoma City. The building’s name, Terra Tower, is derived from the building’s modulated terraces. These terraces are populated with trees and greenery to create vertical urban forests for the building occupants to enjoy. These vertical urban forests promote activity, solitude, noise reduction, better air quality, and thermal comfort within the high-density residential tower, unlike most current residential towers, which feature little to no biophilic design.

Terra tower would provide 250 housing units and 225 hotel rooms, strengthening Oklahoma City’s population and bringing the city closer to a high-density future. The program of the building consists of a 525 ft residential tower, a four-story hotel, a sports betting lounge, and a shared central courtyard public space. Integrating itself within an Arena District that would feature many sporting events, Terra Tower houses a sports betting lounge, a new typology in a nightlife experience, and a shared courtyard space. These programmatic elements allow Terra tower to come alive within Oklahoma City’s urban fabric and aid in reinventing the image of Oklahoma City.

Terra Tower

(Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Photoshop, Illustrator)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | Fall 2022

Eddy Tavio | ARCH 608

HISTORY

Oklahoma City: Technological Innovation and Design Evolution

More than 100,000 people pour into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma to claim valuable land that had once belonged to Native Americans.

Land Run

Indian Territory Oil Illuminating Company and Foster Petroleum made a historic discovery with the Oklahoma City No. 1 oil and gas well south of the city limits, this discovery would cement its culture and economy for the next century in Oklahoma City.

Economic Boom

The Great Depression was period of worldwide economic depression between 1929 and 1939. The Depression became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States.

Great Depression

The Pei Plan was an urban redevelopment initiative designed for downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, in the 1960s and 1970s. The plan called for the demolition of hundreds of antiquated downtown structures in favor of renewed parking, office building, retail developments, and public spaces

The Pei Plan

Current Core-to-Shore Conditions

Metropolitan Area Projects Plan (MAPS) is a multi-year, municipal capital improvement program, consisting of a number of projects, originally conceived in the 1990s in Oklahoma City by its then mayor Ron Norick.

Metropolitan Area Projects

The Metropolitan Area Projects Plan 3 is a $777 million public works and redevelopment project in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma funded by a temporary voter-approved sales tax increase.

Located south of downtown Oklahoma City, the Core-to-Shore site is an area of underdevelopment and abandonment. The officials and citizens in Oklahoma city recognize this underdeveloped district and advocate for its urban growth. The government and its citizens have pushed for plans such as the Metropolitan Area Projects, MAPS, to help improve the area. These projects have propelled the vision of a Core-to-Shore framework plan in Oklahoma City, connecting downtown to the Oklahoma River.

PROPOSED ARENA DISTRICT

Within the Core-to-Shore framework plan for Oklahoma City, an Arena District is proposed in the north. Planned around a new location for the Paycom Center, the arena for the Oklahoma City Thunder, the district aims to create large public spaces that integrate a unique nightlife atmosphere and engaging activity spaces for the city. In the mixed-use development of the arena district, there are bars, restaurants, hotels, a sports betting lounge, and a sports academy.

Arena District

THE FUTURE OF ARENA DISTRICTS

Existing Arena Districts

In today’s urban plans for arena districts, designers aim to create a lively atmosphere that integrates into a major city’s urban fabric. Predominantly, there are two typologies of urban planning in arena districts, large event plazas, and programed activity spaces.

Designing a Arena Super-block

Based on current arena districts, the arena super-block will combine those design ideas into one sizable, flexible space, allowing all arena district typologies to be present in one location. Two primary configurations are designed for this public space, a nightlife configuration, and a competitive configuration. Both layouts feature a permanent basketball court and green space to the east, while to the west, the space can be altered into pickleball courts, turf fields, or additional basketball courts. These two configurations integrate with the sports betting lounge and sports academy, flanking the space.

Integration of Greenery

Horizontal Urban Forests

Vertical Urban Forests

The block’s public spaces and mixed-use buildings will integrate horizontal and vertical forests to give the arena super-block a unique character and promote interaction with nature. This design will provide the public and residents of the apartment towers with a special connection with nature, promoting activity and solitude within the block.

Jurassic Park, Toronto

Titletown, Green Bay Deer District, Milwaukee

Site + Context 02 Programming Site

The project is a mixed-use residential tower between Scissortail Park and the Myriad Botanical Gardens in downtown Oklahoma City. Situated across the street from a newly proposed arena for the NBA Oklahoma City Thunder, the project aims to create an arena district for the city.

Within the building site, the project is split into the project’s hotel and sports betting lounge, while a parking garage and residential tower.

Establishing a Module 05 Stacking Modules/ Creating

As a primary step in the project’s form, a half courtyard module is formed, which will be used in both the hotel and residential tower. The module allows the form to embrace the gathering axis, sun angles, and views of the surrounding context.

Stacking the half-court modules creates terraces residential tower, the module is rotated to allow Myriad Botanical Gardens, and downtown Oklahoma

03 Axes

Axes within the site’s context create organization within the site. An arena axis provides space to develop a unique arena district and a gathering axis for city residents and the project. A southern axis provides a split between the project’s programmatic space.

Creating Terraces 06 Terraced Forests/ Arena Landscape

two halves. The site’s eastern section houses while the western section provides space for terraces for the residents and guests. In the allow for views of Scissortail Park, the arena, the Oklahoma City.

Within the modulated terraces of the residential tower and the hotel roof, vertical forests are created in a dense arena district. Additionally, landscaping and activity space is created between this project and a project to the north, creating a unique arena district.

East - West Section East

Singles count: 3 Doubles count: 4 Quads count: 1

Singles count: 8 Doubles count: 2

Residential Floor South (11)

Singles count: 3

Doubles count: 4

Quads count: 1

The Psychedelic Movement Museum

The Psychedelic Movement, which began in the mid-1960s, had an effect on music and many aspects of popular culture. One of the center points of the psychedelic movement was the experimentation and exploration of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, MDMA, DMT, and Ketamine. This exploration into psychoactive drugs allowed for new individual human experiences called the psychedelic experience. A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one’s mind which was previously unknown and intangible. The Psychedelic Movement Museum aims at embodying a similar journey to one explored in a psychedelic experience, providing visitors a new and unique museum experience.

Within the Psychedelic Movement Museum, guests experience a vertical ascension via central circulation elements, providing access to visual exhibits as well as contemporary exhibits such as the art, hippie, clothing, and music exhibits. This vertical ascension through the museum embodies the experience of rising to a higher consciousness while on psychoactive drugs popular during the psychedelic movement. At the climax of the museum’s ascension are the Celestial Womb and Divine Consciousness exhibits. These exhibits represent an experience that one would receive on the most intense psychedelic experience, manifested in the form of a projected universe in the Celestial Womb and a stark white cube, symbolizing a higher universal power in the Divine Consciousness exhibit.

The Psychedelic era was the time of social, musical, and artistic change influenced by psychedelic drugs, occurring from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. The era was defined by the proliferation of LSD and its influence on the development of psychedelic music and psychedelic film in the Western world. By the mid-1960s, the psychedelic lifestyle had already developed in California, and an entire subculture had developed.

Psychedelic Movement

Long before the Summer of Love drew thousands of hippies to San Francisco, Owsley Stanley was already an authentic underground hero, revered for making the purest form of LSD. Owsley Stanley, called the Acid King by the media, was the first known private individual to manufacture mass quantities of LSD. Between 1965 and 1967, Stanley produces at least 500 grams of LSD, amounting to over 500 million doses of the psychedelic drug.

HISTORY

Psychedelics: A National Impact

The Woodstock Music Festival began on August 15, 1969, drawing half a million people of the counterculture movement to a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for a threeday music festival. Despite—or because of—a lot of sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and rain, Woodstock was a peaceful celebration and earned its hallowed place in pop culture history. 19 69

Woodstock

The War on Drugs began in June 1971 when U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared drug abuse as “public enemy number one” and increased federal funding for drugcontrol agencies and drugtreatment efforts. The War on Drugs was a relatively small component of federal lawenforcement efforts until the presidency of Ronald Reagan, which began in 1981. 19 71

War on Drugs

In November 2020, Oregon became the first state to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use. The legislation, decided by public referendum, followed other more local decriminalization shifts. Other states may soon follow if the state successfully combines responsible oversight with previously unregulated therapies. 20 20

Measure 109: Path to Legislation

Owsley Stanley

Reality

THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE

Progression of Possible Experiences

Disorientation Hallucination

Dissociative drugs can produce visual and auditory distortions and a sense of floating and dissociation (feeling detached from reality) in users. Use of dissociative drugs can also cause anxiety, memory loss, and impaired motor function, including body tremors and numbness.

Hallucinations are the perception of a nonexistent object or event and sensory experiences that are not caused by stimulation of the relevant sensory organs. Hallucinations involve hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, or even tasting things that are not real.

Bad Trip Celestial Experience

Normally associated with Salvia, magic mushrooms, and LSD, a bad trip is a “trip” that goes from peace and oneness to pure horror and evil.

Hallucinations resulting from a bad trip often involve monsters, horrifying scenes, and paranoia/anxiety.

Why do People want these Experiences?

One particularly interesting feature of the psychedelic mystical experience is the entity encounter - people who take psychedelics sometimes describe meetings with seemingly autonomous entities which appear to possess intelligence and agency.

Hallucinogens’ effects vary slightly from substance to substance. However, most of them cause a combination of sensory distortion, altered thinking patterns, and heightened emotions. These drugs can temporarily transport an individual to another level of consciousness. For this reason, taking hallucinogens is often referred to as a ‘trip.’ Although tripping can be intense and sometimes overwhelming, many people enjoy the experience. Others may not relish the effects of hallucinogens but endure them for their spiritual or therapeutic impact.

Form Reflects Experience +

Psychedelic Threshold Reality Psychedelic

Simulating the Experience

vs.

Descent to Unknown Confusion of Interior Experience

As an entry experience to the museum, guest venture down a long ramp that provides access to the museum’s lobby. Much like the experience of taking a psychoactive drug for the first time, the entry experience into the museum is one of mystery.

A vital aspect of the museum’s public perception is to spark interest in the world of psychedelia. Due to the negative perceptions of psychedelia in the media, the building doesn’t outwardly show itself as psychedelic. The psychedelic experience is to be discovered within the museum.

Distorted Mirror

The museum is covered in mirrored aluminum panels. When the panels are flat, they create an image of the surrounding context, “reality”; when the panels are gyrated, they create a distorted and psychedelic image. This plays into the concept of reality versus psychedelics.

Vertical Progression

Within the museum, guest progress from exhibit to exhibit through a vertical movement that mimics the levels of the psychedelic experience. Those experiences being from mild hallucinations to a perceived encounter with a celestial being.

Museum Exterior

01 Site + Context

The project is a museum located in East Portland along the Willamette River. The museum will improve the Willamette Riverfront and interact with the East-bank Esplanade path, which runs along the eastern side of the river.

02 Orientation

The primary axis of the museum is orientated to provide access to the site from the nearby light rail station and a parking lot. Additionally, the axis is angled towards the Willamette River to interact with the river and the museum. Corners of a cube are placed on this axis.

The liminal line separates the cube into the psychedelic and reality portions of the museum, the liminal line acting as the transition between both zones. The Psychedelic section houses the museums’ exhibits, and the reality section contains the museum back of house services.

Along the liminal line, the museum’s vertical circulation elements are places. This physically represents the liminal line and emphasizes the transition between reality and the psychedelic sections of the museum.

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Tilikum Light Rail River Crossing

The Hampton Opera Center East-bank Esplanade Path

05 Journey

From the liminal line, the museum exhibits formed. The exhibits are stacked to provide vertical ascension within the museum; exhibits extended to create a protrusion into the riverfront.

06 Warp + Wrap

Exhibits are warped around with a polygonal warp that extends from the back end of the cube. This hides the exhibits within the museum and instills curiosity into pedestrians as to what the museum contains.

07 Materiality

Cladded on the polygonal warping of the museum are anodized aluminum mirrored panels. On the reality side of the liminal line, the surrounding built environment is reflected accurately on the panels, while on the psychedelic side of the liminal line, the polygonal warping creates a distorted reflection of the built environment.

08 Public Interaction

The museum’s roof is activated and designed to be a multi-use event space for events such as concerts or private parties. The museum’s surrounding site is improved to feature planters, hills with trees to act as a noise barrier, and an expansion of the East-bank Esplanade to give pedestrians a view of the museum.

Visual Exhibit

Music Exhibit

The Halieutic Market

Kansas City, Missouri | Spring 2021 Jae Chang | ARCH 209

Today, grocery stores are commonly bland in design and offer little to no engagement factor to their customers; The Halieutic Market is designed to counteract these issues. As a proposal for a future grocery store, the Halieutic Market features an integrated aquaponics system. This system provides fresh fish and produce to the grocery store and the citizens of Kansas City. To emphasize this system within the store, four large vertical structural fish tanks shoot through the structure. Serving as a draw factor to passers-by, the fish tanks give customers a unique experience while shopping, including picking their produce in a hydroponic farm connected to the store. To the rear of the store is a micro-fulfillment center, providing stock for the store while also serving as an online delivery pick-up point.

The Halieutic Market is not just a grocery store; it is an experience of itself. From the large fish tanks and the hydroponic farm to the public green space on the roof micro-fulfillment and the kinetic wall which encapsulates the structure providing green energy and sun shading.

The Halieutic Market is an entirely new reality in the world of grocery shopping.

Human activities are responsible for almost all of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere over the last 150 years. The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities in the United States is from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation.

Grocery

The American public favors renewable power and the costs of wind and solar power have declined rapidly in recent years. However, inherent attributes of wind and solar generation make conflicts over land use and project siting more likely. Power plants and transmission lines would be located in areas not accustomed to industrial development, creating opposition.

Within Kansas City, the lack of permeable surfaces adds to the issue of stormwater runoff. Due to this vast amount of non-permeable surfaces, the Kansas City sewage systems are congested, the streets are flooding, and the waterways are polluted.

Urban design is vital in the creation of a city’s image. Apart from the Power and Light District and very few other locations in Kansas City, public urban space is lacking. The city needs to invest in public spaces to make Kansas City a more desirable location.

The term food miles refers to the distance food travels from the location where it is grown to the location where it is consumed, or in other words, the distance food travels from farm to plate. Studies estimate that processed food in the United States travels over 1,300 miles, and fresh produce travels over 1,500 miles, before being consumed.

The Farm to Table movement calls on consumers to choose natural, often organic, locally produced foods over imported or processed alternatives. The movement supports community- rather than global food systems, purchasing produce directly from growers to support local economies and encourage sustainable farming practices.

GROCERY STORE OF THE FUTURE

Aquaponic Food Production System

In aquaponics, the plants are grown in the grow bed, and fish are placed in the fish tank. The nutrient-rich water from the fish tank that contains fish waste is fed to the grow bed, where billions of naturally occurring beneficial bacteria break the ammonia down into nitrites and then into nitrates. Plants absorb these nitrates and other nutrients to help them grow. The plant’s roots clean and filter the water before it flows back into the fish tank for the fish to live. The fresh, clean, and oxygenated water recirculates back to the fish tank, where the cycle will begin again.

Solving Contextual Issues

Solution within Design

North

The Crux

Mammoth Lakes, California | Fall 2021 Jae Chang | ARCH 208

For centuries, natural hot springs have been used worldwide for their healing and therapeutic effect on the human body. Crux bathhouse enhances the sense of healing, and therapeutic one would get at an outdoor hot spring. Crux pumps fresh hot spring water from the nearby Wild Willy’s Hot Springs for guests to enjoy.

The bathhouse features various thermal pools, which provide visitors with different experiences. There are interior light and view orientated thermal pools, which also feature a cool pool that provides guests with thermal delight. Additionally, there are three exterior thermal pools, giving guests a similar natural hot spring experience by being exposed to nature. Not only is Crux a bathhouse, but it also serves as a wilderness getaway. In the northern module of Crux are guests rooms for both couples and family, and east of the lobby is a restaurant that provides diners with broad views of the surrounding landscapes.

California: A State of Earthquakes

The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly 750 mi through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, and its motion is right-lateral strike-slip. The fault divides into three segments, each with different characteristics and a different degree of earthquake risk.

1. SHIFT

Shifting creates two separate modules in the bathhouse, the public and private sections of the structure. Additionally, this shift mimics the shift in tectonic plates in the region which created the vast mountain ranges.

4. SECONDARY SHIFT

Additional shift allows for the implementation of an outdoor lounge area to be accessed from the private and public module.

2. SEPARATION

Emphasis the on the creation of the public and private modules of the bathhouse through physical separation of the areas.

3. EXTRUSION

Provides a connection between the private and public modules of the structure through a circulation module which acts as a transition zone between the two.

5. ACCESS 6. COMPLETION

Pulling the circulation module forward through the public module provides access to the structure.

Dining Room

Thermal Light Pool

Professional Work

Seoul, South Korea | Summer 2022 Haenglim Architects

Pyeongtaek Children’s Experience Center

Competition: Winning Entry

The Children’s Experience Center is a children’s museum in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Its design features a circular form with an inner courtyard providing a connection between the museum and a nearby park, bringing nature into the learning experience for the children. As part of this studio, I contributed to the museum’s form and concept generation, module façade typologies, and an exterior perforated screen façade.

Uiwang Civic Center

Competition: Winning Entry

The design for a civic center in Uiwang, South Korea, features two theaters, gallery spaces, offices, a lecture room, practice spaces, a café, and a restaurant. While in this studio, I aided in the development of final drawings and representation for a competition submittal. I also helped create a booklet of the final representation for the client and the firm.

Ethan Overland

ethan.overland@gmail.com (651) 260-2333 issuu.com/ethanoverland linkedin.com/in/ethanoverland