Evan Schlenk
Portfolio of Academic + Professional Architectural Design
“What is the most important thing a man needs if he wants to build? The will to do it.� -Wernher von Braun
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Health + Education Center 01 Cool Urban Archipelago 02 Thing Inside a Thing 03 Multi-Unit Housing 04 Seven Walls 05
South Cumminsville Cincinnati, OH
South Loop Chicago, IL
Downtown Cincinnati, OH
Clifton Heights Cincinnati, OH
The West End Cincinnati, OH
Renaissance Cleveland 06
Public Square Cleveland, OH
Health + Education Center Fall Semester 2017
39° 9’ 14” N 84° 33’ 5” W
The South Cumminsville Health + Education Center serves the residents of a post-industrial neighborhood that has the highest rates of preventable disease in the city of Cincinnati. South Cumminsville is also a healthcare “desert,” with the nearest primary care physicians at least a mile outside of the boundaries of the community. Because many residents are without a reliable means of transportation, this facility hosts medical services within walking distance of 75% of occupied neighborhood residences. Passive strategies reduce the Center’s energy usage, while storm water collection improves the health of Mill Creek’s West Fork to the south of the site, a waterway distressed from nearby brownfield contamination and sewer overflow.
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The first floor contains flexible classroom space, a childcare room, and pharmacy, but the primary function of the building is the medical office space on the second floor. The offices are designed for a reoccupation of the existing housing stock and new developments, for a peak neighborhood population of 2,000. As the community grows, physicians can perform services part time on assignment from one of many local hospitals. Above The central location of the Health + Education Center just south of Wayne Park is within a quarter-mile walk for 75% of South Cumminsville residents. Left The building’s rainwater retention tank (for use in lavatories and urinals), in conjunction with permeable surfaces around the site, reduces storm water runoff into Mill Creek. Civil improvements also include on-street parking and a bike lane to encourage healthy, self-reliant mobility. Opposite Page
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The eight energy-conscious strategies employed during design development create a net-positive building. At 7,627 SF, the building earns the community $610 per year, an improvement of nearly $19,500 over the baseline energy analysis. Collectively, these strategies eliminate the building’s reliance on fossil fuel energy by reducing overall energy use and producing the remaining energy through photovoltaic generation. Above Tectonic detailing of the south facade includes integration of structural, mechanical, water retention, and photovoltaic energy generation systems to create a cohesive envelope condition. Opposite Page
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Exposed structural timber abounds in the lobby and medical exam rooms, creating warm spaces that strive to foster psychological wellness beyond the primary goal of physical wellness. Left In section, a design focus on natural light led to ample glazing, interior and exterior, which, when open, catches prevailing winds from the south to naturally ventilate the building. Below
Cool Urban Archipelago Fall Semester 2019
41° 52’ 44” N 87° 37’ 47” W
In the year 2040, climate change has drastically altered the climate of the Upper Midwest. In response, the city of Chicago has commissioned a collection of “Civic Cooling Centers” which not only provide bathhouse-like experiences for residents, but act as a larger network of district cooling plants, scattered like an archipelago around the Loop. This example occupies the gutted skeleton of the Federal Center, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1960, filling it with a series of condensing rods that drip water drawn from the atmosphere into pools, which then cascade down to a subterranean ice bath. The pools are connected by a series of catwalks and platforms, allowing for maintenance but also providing spectacular views of the plaza and surrounding city. Work produced in collaboration with Mason Johnson.
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The tallest building, the former Federal Office Building, is filled with cascading pools, which waterfall into a large subterranean ice pool. The former Court House is converted to a large pool which chills the water for the district cooling system. Top Pipes connect the district cooling supply tank to the pump room, housed in the former Post Office building. From there, chilled water is sent out into the closed loop system, returning warmer after cooling nearby buildings. Middle Vertical circulation is primarily handled by elevator shafts running the height of both the Court House and Office Building. In the Office Building, a system of catwalks and platforms allow visitors and workers access to the pools. Bottom
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The project aims to combine ideas of civic monumentality with civil service. The line between worker and visitor is blurred, as both utilize the same circulation systems and share space. Back of house becomes front of house, and the worker shown above has as much fun servicing the condensing units as a visitor would have zip-lining through the mist and low cloud cover of a Chicago storm.
Larger-scale drawings of the pool system demonstrate the relationship between water, circulation, and the existing skeleton in the former Federal Office Building. Right A rendered collage over top of a General Services Administration photo show the airy web of piping contrasted with the weighty mass of the former Courthouse building. Opposite Page
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Thing Inside a Thing Fall Semester 2018
39° 5’ 57” N 84° 30’ 59” W
Focused on the conditions that result when objects are nested inside of each other and the interstitial spaces created through such action, this project culminated in a boutique hotel in Downtown Cincinnati. The nest-nested relationship is diagrammed through color, with the central atrium, in pink, nested in the regular, repetitive block of hotel rooms, in green. Public spaces shown in blue, including three art galleries, a garden, and rooftop restaurant, punch through the exterior shell of the hotel and into the atrium. Finally, large, vertical apertures slice through all pieces. The “slice” facing the street delineates an axis for entry and vertical circulation, and allows natural light into the atrium and galleries that otherwise abut the contextual buildings.
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The central core contains vertical circulation. It mirrors the formal properties of the atrium itself, shifting in plan from a square profile at the base to a nearlycircular profile at the top. As shown in the model, floor plates regulate the interstitial space between shell, atrium, and galleries. Right The “slice� defining the entry axis is most apparent in the north elevation. The aperture cuts the shell, atrium, and gallery spaces, with the vertical circulation core visible on axis beyond. Opposite Page
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The relationship between components is shown most appropriately in section. The cut-cutting relationship of the geometry was determined by establishing a hierarchy of program. The hierarchy begins with the central atrium (pink) protruding through the shell (green). Floors fill the space between the two objects in a regular pattern. Public galleries (blue) then punch through the exterior shell, floor plates, and atrium. The galleries sit in opposition to the regularly spaced floors, with their floors and ceilings displaced up and down from the datum of the plates.
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In plan, each floor is unique, as are individual hotel rooms. Slight shifts in elevation between hotel and gallery result in fragments of vertical circulation that accentuate the relationship between program that is otherwise apparent through color and form. As one moves upward (or left to right, in plans above), the profiles of the atrium and vertical circulation core transition from rectangle to near-circle, and the atrium tapers, opening space for hotel rooms..
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39° 7’ 40” N 84° 30’ 48” W
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Multi-Unit Housing Spring Semester 2017
on the southern periphery of the campus of the University residential units, ranging from one to three bedrooms, along retail space on the lowest floors. The residential levels are mesh screen system that hints at the steel structure beneath.
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Seven Walls Fall Semester 2015
39° 7’ 5” N 84° 31’ 48” W
Situated on a 50’x100’ “anonymous” urban site in Cincinnati, this project uses 7 wall programs to establish spaces for entry, gathering, study, and overlook. Borrowing the city motto of Strength in Unity as a theme, the entry sequence begins with many lines, tapering to one vertical component at the hub of the site, the space of gathering.
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Renaissance Cleveland Spring Semester 2016
41° 29’ 56” N 81° 41’ 40” W
This series of renderings, produced under the direction of Ben Gingrich at HSB Architects + Engineers, shows an exterior renovation to the historic Renaissance Hotel facing Cleveland’s newly refreshed Public Square. The proposal features several sign options, landscape upgrades, and an outdoor bar area for the building, which was completed in 1918. Special consideration was given to Renaissance Hotel’s design standards and its status as a National Historic Landmark, with materials selected based on the original design of the hotel and the broader Terminal Tower complex.
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