portfolio alex buettner
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CONTENTS
DESIGN WORK
UWM Union Renovation
Detail
Kern Park School
Tectonic Campus
Inner Harbor
Farmer Retrofit
Intelligent Incubator
Kinetic Skin
Tacoma Art Museum
Colegio de Los Piletones
Communa 8 Masterplan
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alex buettner W61 N931 Glenwood Drive
Cedarburg, WI
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414-719-4175 Email: halbuettner@gmail.com OBJECTIVES
Complete Master’s Degree in Architecture at Arizona State University Find a position with a growing architectural firm that will leverage my enthusiasm and excitement for design and learning Become a Licensed Architect
EDUCATION
Arizona State University
Expected Graduation May 2015
Masters of Architecture GPA- 3.81/4.0 Semester Abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina Notable Achievement: Design Excellence Award | Tacoma Art Museum Design Excellence Nominee | Colegio de los Piletones
Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2014
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Graduation May 2013
Bachelor of Science-Architectural Studies GPA- 3.75/4.0 Cum Laude/ Deans List
TECHNICAL SKILLS 4
Cedarburg High School
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Graduation June 2009 Adobe Illustrator
Revit
AutoCAD Sketchup Ecotect Analysis Microsoft Office
EXPERIENCES
Travel Experience Study Abroad: Buenos Aires, Argentina Visited 3 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Chile Backpacked across Europe Visited 8 countries: Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway, France, Italy, and Spain Bogota, Colombia, South America
Fall 2014 Summer 2012 Spring 2009
Work Experience Architecture Intern- Dick and Fritsche Design Group | DFDG
Summer 2014
Participated in all stages of design process. Projects worked on include: PVCC Black Mountain ILB- schematic design Peoria Sports Complex- construction documents, various details in Revit St. Mark- schematic design, construction documents Project Assistant- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Spring/Summer 2013
Assisted in managing two small commercial projects in Student Union food court renovation Work consisted of scheduling, creating construction documents, ordering materials, delivery management Worked with contractors, electricians and restaurant operations throughout project Construction Experience Assisted with a kitchen remodel, rebuilding a barn, roofing a house Music Experience Jazz Guitarist Singer/Songwriter
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Communa 8 Masterplan Semester: Fall 2014 -all work equally belongs to Tyler Sternberg and Ali Abbaszadegan
Course: ADE 621 Professor: Claudio Vekstien Site: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Description The infrastructure specific to Communa 8 is quite different than the rest of the city of Buenos Aires as it is comprised of open space, lagos, slums, and large social housing projects. This large open space separates the neighborhoods of Villa Lugano and Villa Soldati. This open space can be traced back to a historical wetland, the Banado de Flores. This trace of the Riachuelo shows how natural and free it once was as it meandered and turned creating the border of the site. The current site is unhealthy with contamination and shows little indication of the potential ecological habitat. The site has lost its identity and has become more man made.
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Communa 8
Greenways
Green Belt
Wetland Extension
Riachuelo
Banado de Flores
Water Control
Public Pathways
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Problem: The large open space consisting of parks and lagos separates neighborhoods Villa Lugano and Villa Soldati. There is little that remains of the historic wetland existing in Lago Soldati. Solution: With the poor health of the community it is proposed that the ecological revival of the wetland will help stimulate and improve the overall health of the area. This revival will be done through an extension of the wetland of a Lago Soldati reconnecting with the Riachuelo. Through this extension, public infrastructure will play the role of bringing community and social activity to the area, serving as a stronger link between Villa Lugano and Villa Soldati. This infrastructure will consist of a meandering path containing sports fields and plazas that provide amenities to the local and future high schools.
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Colegio de Los Piletones Semester: Fall 2014 | collaborative project -all work equally belongs to Tyler Sternberg and Ali Abbaszadegan
Course: ADE 621 | Design Excellence Nominee Professor: Claudio Vekstien Site: Communa 8 | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Description Communa 8 lacks public infrastructure. This Colegio (school) will serve as a piece of public infrastructure merging together city, nature, and community. The main dialectical relationship focuses on tension between the wetland and surrounding community of Los Piletones. The school will serve as a public gateway and connection point to the wetland of Lago Soldati and merge it contextually with Los Piletones along with a the newly proposed master plan for an Olympic Village.
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The Slum Fabric The villa community “Los Piletones� is a slum that surrounds Lago Soldati. It is organized in an improvised fashion that lacks a specific planning or order. This creates an unpredictable circulation through out the site. Located within this fabric are small open pockets that serve as public use. Layering the traces of these public spaces allows for a sectional experience that can ultimately be applied to the public gateway for the school.
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Venice Hosptial-Corbusier
Hospital Plan
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Materializing The Fabric A building that contains a large program with close proximity to a slum-like fabric, such as the proposed high school, requires a set of rules to give order to the extended fabric. This ordered system is applied by taking the existing trace of the Venice Hospital and creating a system that works with the variety of the given school program. The system trace starts with looking at the classrooms and how they can be reconfigured to break up larger spaces for student use. As the ordered structure of the classrooms takes place, the focus becomes on surrounding space and the flow of the student circulation. The challenge with adopting this newly ordered system, is that it also needs to merge with the existing slum fabric.
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Fabric Traces
Material Extract|Classrooms
Material Extract| Public Space
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Merging the Material
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Layering Material on Trace
It is important that the school has a strong relation to its surroundings. The school is meant to be an extension of the existing slum fabric. This will help to develop a stronger relationship to the surrounding community and foster acceptance of new spaces. The existing slum fabric lacks order and can be hard to decipher. The design challenge was extending this into a more structured system.
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Tacoma Art Musuem Semester: Spring 2014 | collaborative project -all work equally belongs to Marissa Mendoza
Course: ADE 621 | Design Excellence Winner Professor: Rick Labonte Site: Tacoma, Washington
Project Description The Tacoma Art Museum, called for an expansion to accommodate a new art collection known as the Haub Exhibit. The goal of the project was to reconnect the museum to the public and re-engage the city to the art. The Haub Expansion creates multi-dimensional spaces through the layering of multiple programs and public spaces. The museum addition redefines spatial relationships between art and the viewer; museum and the public; and the museum and the city.
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Extension
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Decision Points
Layering Art vs City
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In order to weave together the museum, city and the art, the museum must have a variety of spatial relationships and adjacencies. This is achieved through a multiple-layered language. This multi-dimensional quality will allow visitors to create their own experience. The museum will create thresholds through a layering technique. These will mediate between the city, the public, the museum, and the art allowing for traditional walls to be broken down. Located at the entrance of the museum is a large public amphitheater. This space creates an outdoor social experience linking the existing museum and the expansion. Main Gallery
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The museum addition is experienced in multiple sections. The art is displayed in two large galleries that extend off of the existing museum. The physical link that makes this extension, is a cat walk that provides multiple views to the city, the public and the works of art. The circulation from the catwalk to the galleries, takes the visitor through a series of thresholds which link the different spatial galleries.
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Conceptual Movement
Kinetic Skin Semester: Fall 2012 Course: Arch 615 Professor: Greg Thomson Site: UW-Milwaukee campus
Project Description When designing movable objects, it is very important to consider the process. This project focused on kinetic objects and what makes things move. The idea was to create a skin or facade that would be applied to an intelligent building. This skin structure is made up of several components that move and allow for different variations. The structure is simple and consists of a square that is the focus of the movement.
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Rotational Aspects
Expansion/ Contraction
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Multiple components are connected through a space frame type structure
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Component Construction
Component Movement
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Intelligent Incubator Semester: Fall 2012
Summer Shadow
Course: Arch 615 Professor: Greg Thomson Site: UW-Milwaukee campus
Project Description The intelligent incubator makes use of the kinetic skin in order to adapt to and leverage the environment. In this case, the kinetic skin was created as a roof structure that sits over the building itself. The movement of the roof structure allows for variances of light given the specific program space. The skin is also adjustable based on the time of the year to allow for a consistent amount of light year round.
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Roof Plan This set of images shows the amount of lux in a given space per given component. The concept is to show that there is a consistent amount of daylight throughout the year.
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Farmer Retrofit Semester: Fall 2013 Course: ADE 521 Professor: Wendell Burnette Site: Arizona State University campus
Project Description This retrofit design focuses on the Farmer Education Building located on the south east end of Arizona State University. The goal of this project was to make an introverted building more extroverted and allow it to relate to its surroundings. A solar canopy is integrated into the building and extends over Forest and Orange mall. This highlights a gateway to the walkable part of campus. The new shade provides the opportunity to remove the existing concrete wall panels and use glass instead. This then allows the building to become more transparent exposing the existing bones of the structure.
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CAMPUS Gateway
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gateways
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These perspectives show the existing Farmer Education building, and the proposed canopy and glazing system. Providing necessary shade and an indoor/ outdoor experience, allows the urban space of Forest Mall to extend and compliment the Farmer Education building. At night the structural brick cores are highlighted, and can be seen from the exterior.
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CANOPY DETAIL This detail shows how the system uses steel structural supports to allow the canopy to fold over the existing building. The canopy consists of structural steel tubes and wide flanges. The canopy structure is meant to appear as if it is floating above the concrete cornice. This connection is created by using a steel pipe installed at an angle from the cornice to the main roof girder along with a tapered wide flange section which frames from the cornice back to the existing structure. Photovoltaic panels are applied to the steel frame in order to provide necessary shade and to utilize solar energy.
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GLAZING DETAIL This shading device allows for infill glass panels to be installed, revealing the interior space and structure. The bottom glass panel uses a ceramic frit. This encourages focus on the upper glass panel, revealing the waffle slab.
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Inner Harbor Redevelopment Semester: Spring 2013 Course: Arch 645 Professor: Brian Peterson Site: Milwaukee Inner Harbor
Project Description This redevelopment plan was located at historic Grand Trunk Railroad in the south of Milwaukee’s Inner Harbor. This site is home to the last six acres of surviving wetland. The goal of this project was to highlight the wetland and incorporate it with a series of parks that cut through the new development. These parks help act as a guideline towards the Kinnickinnic River.
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wetland concept
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INNER HARBOR RESEARCH COMPLEX The Inner Harbor Research Complex is located at the front of the Kinnickinnic river. Comprised of a series of small buildings that focus on Milwaukee’s waterfront and existing wetland, this complex pays homage to the historic Grand Trunk Railroad and historic fishing villages in the area. The extension of the wetland works into the landscape, to enforce its inhabitance.
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Tectonic Campus Semester: Fall 2011 Course: Arch 410 Professor: Tom Hofman Site: Abstract
Project Description The tectonic campus explores the idea of taking a two-dimensional drawing and applying 3 dimensional concepts to create space. The idea of this campus was to keep it abstract. The focus was on the tectonics of the structures and how pieces are joined together to create space. The campus plan revolves around a centralized parti. An inner courtyard space was created as a void with the buildings surrounding it. The circulation of the campus is designed to flow towards the outdoor central space. In addition, as you move through the interior of the building, the occupants are encouraged to move back and forth through the structure. A tartan grid was set up to define large vs. small spacial play.
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The fragment is the basis of the tectonic language. The structure consists of planes, mass, and frames all interlocking with one another. This creates different abstract spaces.
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The auditorium was a detailed focus of the campus. The structure consists of similar tectonics used in the campus. The auditorium has a repetitive bay system. This project focused on applying the tectonics to the facade. The facade consists of a two-part system of adjustable louvers and a screen. The intent of the design is to diffuse light entering the auditorium space. The screen diffuses direct light, while the adjustable louvers can potentially darken the space.
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Kern Park School Semester: Spring 2012 Course: Arch 420 Professor: Ken Dahlin Site: Kern Park, Milwaukee
Project Description This elementary school was designed in a park setting. The idea was to capture the exploratory feel of the park and make an improvised feel through out the space of the school. The parti of the design revolves around the spacial play of the tartan grid to create a rich environment indoor and outdoor.
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Detail Semester: Spring 2013 Course: Arch 516 Professor: James Shield
Project Description The focus of this course was to create a set of detail drawings with a high level of craft. This featured project is a sectional bay of a modern chapel. The details consist of steel and precast concrete connections. A raised exterior precast panel allows for daylight to wash the floor of an aisle. A system of precast and steel louvers allows for diffused daylight into the interior space.
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ENGINEERED SOIL SHEET METAL PROTECTION MOISTURE RENTION LAYER AERATION LAYER FILTER FABRIC 5” RIGID INSULATION METAL DECKING WOOD PANELING
3” RIGID INSULATION PRESSURE EQUALIZATION CHAMBER LIGHT GUAGE STEEL STUD
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DOUBLE PANE INSULATED GLASS
DRY WALL SHEATHING WOOD PANELING STEEL C - CHANNEL BEAM
STEEL PIPE - LATERALLY STABELIZING
LIGHT GUAGE STEEL BOTTOM CHORD STEEL TUBE PRECAST CONCRETE -WHITE PORTLAND CEMENT METAL BRACKET TIE
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DRIP METAL FLASHING DOUBLE PANE INSULATED GLASS
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WALL TO FOUNDATION SECTION DETAIL
WALL TO STRUCTURAL COLUMN DETAIL
ALEX BUETTNER/ MATT RASSMUSEN/ DEREK VOSTERS
EXERCISE 3
PG. 2
4/18/2013
UWM SARUP
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UWM Union Renovation Semester: Summer 2013 UWM Mechanical Services- Project/ Design Assistant Restaurant Operations Food Court Site: UWM student union
Project Description Role:Project Assistant This small commercial project was a renovation to the existing University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student union food court. Responsibilities included working with contractors, electricians, restaurant operations, and material distributors. Tasks included creating demolitions plans, and construction documents used by contractors. Scheduling, sizing, pricing and delivery management were also a fundamental part of the job. The time frame of this project was approximately three months with an estimated budget of $150,000.
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Construction progress of Taco Bell
Construction progress of City Subs
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STUDENT UNION
NEW TACO BELL ELEVATION
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211
UWM Union Maintenance Project Assistant: Rachel Toler
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STUDENT UNION
CITY SUBS
NEW CITY SUBS ELEVATION
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2200 E Kenwood Blvd Milwaukee, WI 53211
UWM Union Maintenance Project Assistant: Alex Buettner
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Finished Taco Bell
Finished City Subs
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