FREDERIK HEUSER SELECTED WORKS | 2012 – 2016
+1 816.588.7472 frederikheuser@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE KÄMPFEN FÜR ARCHITEKTUR
7621 Jarboe Street Kansas City, Missouri 64114
ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND
Architectural Intern
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015 (8 Months)
Project Types: Residential (Single family, Multifamily, Apartment, Sustainable Design
Responsibilities: Competition Proposals (Design + Drawings), Design Development, Material selection and finishes for facade and interior elevations (kitchen, Bathroom), Model Building, Website Translation, Project Archiving and Marketing.
360 ARCHITECTS + HOK KC INTERNSHIP
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Architectural Intern
May 2014 - Aug 2014 (4 Months)
Project Types: Sports and Recreation Facilities, Campus Recreation, Stadium
Responsibilities: Material Study, Marketing and Rendering with University of Lafayette Training Facility, 2015 and Northwestern University Athletic Facility, 2016. Conceptual Development, Facade Study and BIM Model Documentation on Detroit Stadium and Entertainment Center, 2017
BBN ARCHITECTS Architectural Intern
MANHATTAN, KANSAS Feb 2014 - May 2014 (3 Months)
DIGITAL FABRICATION CLUB Technician
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
Nov 2013 - Jan 2015 Responsibilities: In-charge of maintaining and repairing 3d printers and laser cutters. Teaching students to use the technology.
OZ JOURNAL Staff Member
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 Responsibilities: In-charge of advertising, sales, and representing the journal publicly. Involved in minor editing and proof reading.
AFFÄRE RESTAURANT Interior Redesign
Feb 2012
Server
May 2012 - Aug 2013
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
FREDERIK HEUSER EDUCATION MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 2013 - 2016 (expected)
3.73 GPA
ARCHITECTURE (1ST AND 2ND YEAR) 2011 - 2013 SKILLS
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI–KANSAS CITY
3.85 GPA
Proficient in Rhino, ArchiCad, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Revit, AutoCad, Microsoft Office, 3DS Max Visualization + Compositing, AutoCad, Ecotect Analysis, Grasshopper for Rhino, V–Ray Sketches and Conceptual Thinking, Model Construction, Writing and Presentation,
HONORS Bowman Design Forum Sponsor: Bowman Bowman Novic Inc. 2nd place 2014 | Flint Hills Craft Center Students Engaged in Artistic and Academic Research (SEARCH) Symposium Nominated 2013 | Community Art Center 2012 | Lepidopterist Pavilion 10th Annual Bud Persons Scholarship for Design Excellence Sponsor: Helix Architecture + Design Winner 2012 | Community Art Center LANGUAGE
• German • English • French
IMPORTANT
Germany: Citizenship (EU) United States: Permanent Resident Canada: Permanent Resident
ACADEMIC
Crossroads Library Community Art Center Flint Hills Center For Craft Stavanger Market Place Undergraduate Thesis Project Meditation Retreat End of Gowanus In Progress – Master Thesis Project
PROFFESIONAL
Kampfen Fur Architektur 360 Architects + HOK KC Independant
SUPPLEMENTAL
Tensegrity Renderings Inspiration
CROSSROADS LIBRARY Situated in the crossroads district the library and adjoining car park act as an active infrastructure to accommodate the districts growth. The crossroads is a primary cultural node of the KC metro located south of the central business district. Currently, its growth is limited by the innumerable privately owned parking craters. The automobile is still its primary access and the district has ironically positioned itself in a cultural stalemate. Its in a homeostasis, where parking and businesses are at equal ends. One cannot survive without the other. One cannot expand without eliminating the other. The inherent domination of the vehicle has divided pedestrian access at an urban scale. The library’s typology now represents more than just a collection of tangible media. It constantly adopts new media types of the 21st century to be shared with the public. This focus of this library’s collection is to make available a variety of sources specific to the crossroads district; with a focus on the productive output of local artists, restaurant owners, and larger creative class. Being a public building, By lifting the parking from the street level the site creates an accessible ground floor that fosters a relationship with the surrounding context through new and existing activities. As an extension of the city condition the library is organized in a form of internal urbanism. Active bands of program that encase the parking volume are individualized and specific performance driven; public to collections, to media centers, and reading rooms.
THE SITE
SURFACE PARKING
CURRENT URBAN CONDITIONS
PARKING INTEGRATION As the collection begins to grow and develops a local identity the existing parking structures can mediate between collection and public space. Integrated parking system allows the library to maintain valuable public space by adapting the
libraries information base. This strategy truly integrates the building with the districts growth. As the city densifies, the demand for public space and information grows. The library can accommodate this transition.
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LIBRARY CONTRIBUTES TO PUB
INTEGRATED PARKING
BLIC PARKING AS THE CROSSROADS DEVELOPS
EXISTING AND PROPOSED PARKING STRUCTURES
LIBRARY EXPANDS COLLECTION TO MEET THE CROSSROADS CULTURAL STANDARDS
PROGRAM + INFASTRUCTURE
READING ROOM MEDIA LEVEL STACK LEVEL PUBLIC LEVEL
UNFOLDING ELEVATION
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EXPANSION A
PROGRAM PHASING A three step process that relocates a growing collection into the existing parking structures maintaining the library’s public program while
allowing for flexible future expansion. The level sectional quality makes this transition simple. Ramps create unique instances withing the existing structure.
CROSS SECTION A
EXPANSION B
EXPANSION C
CROSS SECTION B
ENVELOPE ASSEMBLY The extended facade form is composed of a variation of opaque, transparent, and translucent panels that respond to the existing interior conditions. The double skin facade provides flexibility to the interior
programs while responding to both the radical climatic conditions of the Midwest, and the future transition stages this library will undergo.
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Steel Suspension Cable Perforated Metal Ceiling Rigid Insulation Vapor Barrier Ventilation Gap 6” Concrete Over Metal Decking Metal Fascia Steel Truss Operable Exhaust Grate Precast Concrete Element Perforated Metal Grate Aluminum Cap Element Structural Aluminum Mullian 2” X 6” Wood Block Metal Attachment Plate I-Beam Double Glazing System Concrete Up-stand Fire - Rated Metal Casing Pre—Cast Concrete Panel Reinforced Steel Bar Vierendeel Truss L—Anchor Tie-bar Concrete Balustrade Open—Web Steel Joists 2” Gypsum Sheathing Reinforced Concrete Foundation Gravel Drainage Cavity Concrete Footing
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COMMUNITY ART CENTER 10th Annual Bud Prize for Design Excellence sponsored by Helix Architecture Nominated for SEARCH (Students Engaged in Artistic and Academic Research)
Located in the central, most active stretch of the Troost Corridor, the Community Art Center houses six rentable studios and one master studio. It also holds a gallery, workshops, and classrooms. With focus on community engagement, this art center resembles a frame that showcases not only art, but the artists and the visitors using this space. To accommodate all types of artists, this space needed to become completely flexible. Galleries and workshops can be cleared and arranged for any size event or gallery showing. With sight-lines traveling through the space, and the transparent ground floor along the south facade, this building truly engages the community.
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24 HOUR USES As part of the local community, this space must engage the community in various ways, and at all times of day. During business hours this space encourages a productive and
creative atmosphere, where the evening offers a unique social experiment centered around art and culture. Only a diverse and adaptable structure can meet the needs of the community.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FLINT HILLS CRAFT CENTER Nominated Finalist and placed 2nd in the Bowman Design Forum sponsored by BBN Architects
Located in the poetic prairies of west Manhattan, Kansas, the flint hills center for crafts holds up of three craft studios: ceramics, glass blowing, and metal. It also holds a gallery, lecture hall, library, and visiting artist residence.
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SEQUENCED FUNCTION
The first building in the campus marks the division between product and process, the world of the visitor and the world of the crafter; making this building symbolically dominant. The final building captures a framed view of the site.
SEQUENCED FUNCTION
Public
PROGRAMMATIC ORGANIZATION
Educational
The program is separated into: •P ublic, Educational, and Private Blocks •V isitor, Maker, and Residential Spaces •S hort Term and Long Term spatial use
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SEQUENTIAL THRESHOLDS
Channels in the circulation create a series of realizations from product through making, and again towards the landscape (inspiration). PROGRAMMATIC ORGANIZATION
INITIAL SKETCH
SEQUENTIAL THRESHOLDS
STUDIO ORGANIZATION Developed from a device inspired by Andy Goldsworthy’s words “what lies below the surface, affects the surface”, the design, through movement and interaction creates a spatial realization of the site, a cognizance of the
expansive landscape. Appropriately too, since craft is largely inspired by nature. The scene changes as you move across the device, mimicking how our brains read space precognitively. Moments around the building are inspired by this phenomenon.
CONCEPTUAL DEVICE
SITE/ BUILDING RELATIONSHIP
FRAMED LANDSCAPE
SITE INTEGRATION The program is stretched and separated to fully integrate into the landscape. The inherent mass/void relationships created between the studios create interesting and new perspectives of the landscape just as a photographer would
carefully choose views to describe the nature of the subject. Spaces between buildings become places of interaction, and repose while the buildings become a place of creation.
PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION
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MODEL DEVELOPMENT
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STUDIO ORGANIZATION Individually crafted studio daylighting serves each of the craft’s needs specifically, giving all three studios a distinct personality and unique light quality. Interaction amongst students, with nature and building tectonics all collide to encourage the creative
act vital to the profession. Sunken into the prairie, artists are located in close proximity to their artistic medium, both literally, and metaphysically.
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STUDIO RELATIONSHIPS
STAVANGER MARKETPLACE Undergraduate Thesis Project – Completed issuu.com/frederikheuser/docs/final_utepils_book This project is a collection of discoveries that led to the formulation of urban strategies in order to re-energize the market place in the core of Stavanger, Norway. The market’s existing conditions present to the city many opportunities to exact it’s sense of place. Performed in a group setting, the studio created a series of parameters in response to our discoveries. These include: • A definition of edges surrounding the market place • Connecting and defining the multiple strata of Stavanger • Maintaining presence of existing historic construction typologies and built architecture • Introduce multiple scales of navigation through the city • Provide economic, social, psychological, and physical diversity for the city’s inhabitants. • And to seek all opportunities from the “inbetween”
SUBWAY
VIEWING PLATFORM
BRIDGE
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URBAN ACUPUNCTURE Individual architectural projects become needles in a large connected web we call the “urban floor�. When these interventions are placed together correctly, they create meaningful relationships in the city of Stavanger. Three primary systems were carefully chosen to
be implemented into the overall structure of the city (the Campanile, the Cultural Armature, and the Urban Floor). Their inherent sub-systems become fundamental points of activation for a stable future growth.
PRIMARY ELEMENTS
WATER NECESSITY BATHROOMS
MARKET STANDS
TYPOLOGY + NAVIGATION The flow of energy is directed through the underground by creating a connection between the lake and the harbor which channels water through the subterranean realm. Water is used as the primary ‘sensory magnet’ that guides people into the space
while light is used to pull people back to a higher strata. Represented by light, balance is established by connecting vertical stitches through the various strata.
RESTAURANT
CURRENT CULTURE SHOP AND STOREFRONT
LIGHT CURRENT CULTURE MISCELLANEOUS
SWIMMING
INFORMATION
ADVANCING CULTURE EDUCATION
TWO METER PLAN
FIVE METER PLAN
EIGHT METER PLAN
MEDITATION RETREAT
This meditation retreat is accessible to students and faculty across the UMKC campus. The building includes an auditorium, classrooms for small groups, and numerous private spaces for individual visitors. This design creates a physical separation from campus life through the use of lifted meditative spaces. The site is comprised of multiple elevations providing varied spaces for different types of experiences. This change in elevation is used to organize the program. Just as the Palais des Papes by Paul Signac transforms as you move towards the painting, meaning unfolds as you investigate the structure above, subtlety revealing your point of refuge
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
RADIAL CROSS SECTION
SURFACE + LIGHT The combination of staggering form and shifting planes allow the auditorium to relate to the various pavilions. It also produces a delicate scale, which invites and satisfies visitors as they enter the space. The auditorium’s unique roof inspires visitors with its
angled surfaces and the dynamics of moving light. The site uses several varieties of single spaces. The interstitial space within the built framework, together with movable furniture, allow individuals to discover and create personal study areas.
END OF GOWANUS Master Thesis Project – In Progress In recent years, artists have invaded the original industrial buildings as studios or incubators to produce a variety of work from food, to sculpture, painting, to clothing, and performance. The creative population uses the barren industrial qualities as a supportive characteristic to their work. The Center for Craft and Production sits at the crux of this industrial rehabilitation with a single goal; to create a cultural core in Gowanus that fossilizes a meaningful making culture. The Center for Craft and Production (C/C + P) is located in an existing industrial building on the corner of 9th street and 2nd Avenue. The building is located along the canal in the center of Gowanus. The structure is key to the proposal as it has developed an iconic presence within Brooklyn. This is primarily due to the towering central structure supporting a ninety foot tall the Kentile Floors sign (figure 2). Its recent decommissioning has sparked controversy in the local neighborhoods who are in support of the canals industrial character. The C/C+P is 260,000 sf. Proposal consisting of three making programs; Craft Workshops, Gastronomic Kitchens, and Performance Studios, Local Artist Residences, Water Taxi Station, Open-air Market, and Local Artist Residences. In addition, the proposal introduces a water taxi stop from the canal and an open-air market to the south facing the residential neighborhoods. Local residences The public will be able to engage these programs simultaneously in addition to the water, the identifying source of the district, from the neighboring canal. Designed as a central hub and access point for the upcoming water taxi system, this project will set an example for the future development of the maker community. Each program has two distinct relationships with the building; First, the program is placed within the existing structural envelope; and secondly, new structural cores are placed centrally to the program engaging it from all faces.
condition OVER – PRIVATIZED STREET CONDITION
The street edge is confronted by highly privatized industrial program. The homogeneous program has produced two stark dialectic conditions. One is the low-permeable industrial facade, and the other is the industrial scaled, open parking lots and storage space. Interaction with the canal and the street edge is non-existent in the existing fabric. residential block
repurposed industrial building
condition LACK OF PERMEABLE + WATER RETENTIVE SURFACES
Because of the traditional industrial typology, large open plans have proportionally maximized roofscape with interior program. Hard paved roads and expansive generally water resistant roof planes created excessive pressure on the historic water systems. Sewage overflow occurs because of the lack in water retention by the above ground environment
condition HIGH PERCENTAGE OF UNUSED OPEN SPACE
Excessive parking spaces, and industrial storage is heavily unused and resists public engagement. Access to water is neglected because of the privatized nature of these sites.
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remedy FLEXIBLE BUILDING TYPOLOGY
Unique to the gowanus area is the diversity of flexible program existing on the site. Already repurposed by artists, musicians, and performers, the unique interior quality of gowanus is left largely unused and underprogrammed. Transforming the street to building relationship can allow endless opportunities to create an active public landscape.
remedy UNUSED GROUND/ROOF PLANE AREA
In heavy rain, water travels from above. There are multiple points where water can be delayed. Large area can be used to manage waterflow, and contain high pressure on the sewage system. The higher up retention starts, the more time it takes for water to reach the sewage systems.
remedy UNUSED EXISITING INFRASTRUCTURE
The Brooklyn - Queens expressway and the ninth street bridge have created uninhabitable spaces between their structures. Concentrating the Gowanus parking sites within these structure will free up spaces within the gowanus district. Public spaces and water retention sites can inhabit these locations.
MASTER PLAN The final Masterplan phase seeks to create an active and connected social scene along the canal. The use of the space only reaches its full potential through the diverse economy attached to the built environment. Here green space gets raised up with the inserted
volumes, and transposed when carving out the pedestrian network from the industrial landscape. The network extends beyond gowanus into the neighboring districts of BoCoCa and Park Slope making itself the central nucleus of southern Brooklyn.
PERFORMANCE
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RESIDENCES
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GASTRONOMY
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NORTH WEST ELEVATION
DETROIT EVENT CENTER Detroit, Michigan | 360 Architects + HOK KC The Detroit Entertainment + Events Center includes an arena seating 18,000 which will host the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, basketball games, concerts, and other events. It also includes an additional entertainment district holding commercial, residential, and office developments.
I was involved in the conceptual development of the facade material and construction systems, BIM model documentation, and plan development at the schematic design level.
PROVIDED BY 360 ARCHITECTURE
PROVIDED BY 360 ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA Louisinana | 360 Architects + HOK KC ULL Athletic Training Facility. The project required 3D visualizations of key interior spaces were
design development stage, materials were studied extensively and frequent spatial adjustments were made. The final
necessary to highlight primary design elements. During the
renderings were used as marketing and promotional tools..
NU ATHLETIC FACILITY Illinois | 360 Architects + HOK KC Northwestern University Lakeside Athletic Facility. In collaboration with Perkins + Will, this project seeks to expand various athletic programs (football, soccer, basketball, field hockey, lacrosse,
etc.) for the college. During the design development stage, the project required 3D visualizations of interior spaces for research, promotional and marketing purposes.
AFFÄRE RESTAURANT Kansas City, Missouri | Independant Affäre is a James Beard Nominated restaurant specializing in contemporary German cuisine in the crossroads district of Kansas City, Missouri. With the owners, I helped transform the interior dinning room from a pre-existing business. Based on a tight budget, the process included
re-appropriating furniture, lighting design, and dining layout. Art was incorporated improve the acoustic atmosphere and to support the district’s local artists. Seasonal foods and rotating art consistently provides a new experience for even the most regular guests.
TENSEGRITY
RENDERINGS
I found deep beauty in a courtyard space; defined by 4 walls made of an aged dark red brick—one of which was coated in a light pastel blue paint slightly darker than the sky. This is a courtyard filled with nature climbing up these walls, extending above to filter the crisp refreshing light. The city sounds are muffled by these massive textured walls. Here, the smells of food almost always accompanies the space and the smells of wine almost always accompanies the food. The soft touch of the table cloth on my arms contrasted the crunching gravel under my feet. All of these senses are contained by the weight of the surrounding walls that provide me with a new sense; that of lightness as I move between them. It wasn’t just the color that I found beautiful. It was how it coated generations of culture and opinions; It was not its historical context, nothing political or economic, but rather a pure collection of actions layering and degrading amongst themselves. It wasn’t just the presence of nature that I found beautiful. It was how it captured the passing of time through the natural change along side each experience. It was how its now thick manifold shapes and filters the light. And It wasn’t just the light that I found beautiful. It was how it, stripped from heat, could activate my peripheral vision with a slight breeze; how it could encourage deep thought. It was how, at night, the deep yellow lights suspended through the ivy could warm the space, fostering conversation. It was a combination of all of this that I found beautiful, sparking memories of my past, becoming the container for the memories of my future. My experience of this courtyard wont just be a moment in time. It will be an eternal critique of every space I encounter. For me, there is no space with out this space.