Trent Tunks Portfolio / MArch / The University of Texas at Austin / UTSOA

TRENT TUNKS

SELECTED WORKS

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AUSTIN CREMATORIUM

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THE LANDING

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SANTA FE ARTIST RESIDENCY

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

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THE GHOST OF GERMANTOWN

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OAKWOOD CEMETERY COLUMBARIUM

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PROSPECT AND REFUGE

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AUSTIN CREMATORIUM At a new crematorium and tree nursery for the City of Austin, a series of thresholds that guide the visitor, the body, and the trees through a series of temporal, spatial, and experiential transitions.

The crematorium utilizes the process of Alkaline Hydrolysis, a form of cremation that uses 1/8 the amount of energy of flamebased cremation. The process leaves behind both the remains for burial and a sterile solution used as fertilize for a street tree nursery. The site is organized by a field condition of linear columbarium walls.

Both the interior and exterior programs are organized between the walls, and experiential phenomena occur at spaces of programmatic overlap. A sequence of experiences at the entry, chapel, and tree nursery provide a space for the visitor to come and move through the process of grief and remembrance.

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The sequence of passage for the visitor, the body, and the trees through each program space was mapped. Each transition from space to space marks an experiential change during the journey from arrival to departure or final resting place. Similar temporal and spatial transitions that occur between the three elements determined programmatic adjacencies and spaces where important experiential phenomena could occur.

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Columbarium walls generate a field condition and visitor access is moved to shady lane.

Interior and exterior program is organized between columbarium walls.

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1 STREET TREE NURSERY 2 COLUMBARIUMS 3 CREMATORIUM 4 PARKING/ENTRY

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Sm. Chapel

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Tree Nursery

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4 SMALL CHAPEL 5 LARGE CHAPEL 6 QUIET ROOMS 7 VIEWING ROOMS

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Right: As the visitor moves forward into the Entry Vestibule, they encounter a connection with the young trees beyond.

Far Right: The filtered light and minimal materiality of the Main Ceremony Chapel create a space of solace and remembrance.

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THE LANDING 2019 URBAN LAND INSTITUTE HINES COMPETITION NATIONAL FINALIST The Landing is the billboard for the future of progressive city development, and is Cincinnati’s gateway from a coal powered, industrial past into a sustainable future.

At The Landing, sustainable infrastructure intertwines with vibrant public and commercial spaces to encourage social activity throughout the year.

The development bridges the existing highways and reconnects Cincinnati’s Downtown with the Ohio River Waterfront along a spine of active civic spaces. It establishes dense urban living, outdoor public spaces, and cultural amenities that support an ecologically sensitive landscape with a restored riparian riverfront.

The Landing is the first step in preparing Cincinnati for the challenges facing cities of the future. By bringing together uniquely designed public spaces interwoven with innovative sustainable systems, The Landing makes Cincinnati a leader for twenty-first century urbanism and development.

Project Team: Trent Tunks, Hailey Brown, Eric Joyce, Victoria Freeman, Andres Manrique 16

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OFFICE RETAIL HOTEL

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River Views

Affordable Housing

Rooftop Party

Rotating Street Mural Smale Park Trail

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A YEAR-ROUND SOCIAL SCENE

Adventure-scape Ohio River Transit Museum Multi-Sport Court The Thinkery

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Freedom Square on a Spring Day 20

The Landing Restaurant

Summer Swimming at Smale Harbor Bath

Music in the Park

Tailgating Hot-Spot

Food Hall Hot Coco Stand

Ice-Rink Bengals Beer Garden

Who-Dey Bengals Plaza on Game Day

Winter Festival at Symphony Green 21

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Algae CO2 Ventilation Tubes

Biomass Waste Collection

Solar Tubes & Led Street Lights

An abandoned transit center below street level has been re-imagined as a collection point where waste from both the neighborhood and stadiums is collected using Envac tube technology. The bio-waste is transported to a new Bio-mass Energy & Research Facility that provides district-wide energy, heating and cooling.

The entire site acts as a rain and grey water filtration system. The existing below-grade parking is utilized as a space for new sustainable infrastructure. Water is collected and stored in an on-site cistern under Freedom Square. It is then recycled to the businesses, residents, and stadiums in the district. A wetland along the western edge of the park allows water to soak and filter through the lush landscape and provides visitors with an educational outlet to riparian ecology.

HYDROTHERMAL LOOP

Rainwater Cistern & Reuse

Intermittent Bioswales

Filtration Rain Gardens

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Freedom Square on a Spring Day 24

A Summer Evening at THE LANDING 25

SANTA FE ARTIST RESIDENCY Situated within the hills of Santa Fe, this Artist Residency seeks to engage each visitors’ perception of the pristine New Mexico landscape. The means by which it either juxtaposes or embeds the architecture with the site creates an experience that fosters a critical dialogue between the artist and the landscape. Each artist travels into the landscape to practice their work, fully immersed in the natural variations of the land. At the end of the day with their return home, they step out and hover above it, experiencing the magnitude of place.

The residency’s housing structure is a superimposition that bridges above the land, while the artist studio will recedes into it, blurring boundaries. The two experiences heighten a user’s perception of their experience in the land as they traverse between the two. The material palette utilizes concrete, copper, and cedar; Materials that age and develop a patina representing the passage of time. Within two spaces emerge: a blank space for an artist’s individualism and an articulated space to nurture the artist’s human needs.

Project Team: Trent Tunks, Kevin Choi, MaKayla Rutt, and Rosa Nussbaum

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ARTIST

01: The Residence The visiting artist begins their day suspended above the landscape. There’s time to ponder the landscape as they look out upon it.

02: The Workshop The descent into the landscape intersects a hub of activity within the shared workshop, encouraging community and collaboration.

03: The Studio Nestled into the landscape, groups of studios appear as markers along the trail. Linked together, artists can feel immersed in the raw wilderness, yet never far from the comfort of a nearby friend.

04: The Overlook The day culminates in a communal overlook. A fire-pit where the artist can enjoy each other’s company with mountains and the entire residency in view.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN The fundamental elements of graphic design are synonymous with those of architecture; hierarchy, scale, balance, the grid, the figure/field relationship, etc. Graphic design is augmented by the addition of typography, and its ability to both influence those elements and convey information.

Manipulating these elements within the boundary of the page or poster has increased my understanding of them and their relationships to one another. Through my exploration of and passion for graphic design, I have bettered my understanding of architecture and design.

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“TYPOGRAPHY: CENTURY GOTHIC” 20” x 30” POSTER

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Continue onto W Market St

Turn right onto E Cesar E. Chavez Blvd

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BLACK BOX COMEDY PRESENTS:

Leave the City

Take exit 365 toward TX-163: go 42.5 mi

Continue to follow I-10 East toward El Paso: go 204 mi

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live @ the WIP theater // jun. 19-20 // 10pm 6670 N. Northwest Highway Chicago, Il. 60631

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“FROM SAN ANTONIO TO JUNO” 20” x 30” POSTER

312.692.9327 // www.thewiptheater.com // BYOB gd,131006,directions

“MIKE SHEEHAN” 11” x 17” POSTER - WIP THEATER

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LUMINARIA 2018 GHOST OF GERMANTOWN This collaborative project was selected for exhibition at the 2018 Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival. The work sits at intersection of visual art, design, and architecture. It marries concerns of history, place, habitation, and the poetic resonances of site.

The site of the festival, Hemisfair Park, was built over San Antonio’s historic Germantown neighborhood. Although it was once one of the most diverse neighborhoods in San Antonio, Germantown was bulldozed under eminent domain to make room for the 1968 World’s Hemisfair.

The piece was developed from a reconstructed map of the neighborhood using archival photos. The result was an abstracted scale model of the neighborhood that once stood before. The Ghost of Germantown roamed the festival grounds like an apparition of the neighborhood and people that were lost. It was not haunting Hemisfair as much as it was serving as a reminder of the site’s complex history.

Project Team: Trent Tunks, Kevin Choi, MaKayla Rutt, and Rosa Nussbaum

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OAKWOOD CEMETERY COLUMBARIUM The spatial effects of the deceased extend beyond the simple volume occupied by bodily remains. The design of a new columbarium for Oakwood Cemetery accounts for remembrance, celebration, morning, and passage of the visitor who comes to see those they have lost. Organized as a monolithic concrete band the defines the northern edge of the cemetery, the inner spaces of the columbarium gives the visitor a series of places for shelter and solace while also allowing them opportunities to look outwards toward framed views of the cemetery’s natural elements.

The niches for remains are set within a grid of bronzed steel. Over time, the grid fills in, leaving a randomized pattern that reflects on to those who pass by.

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The existing site forces where analyzed and documented. A potential organization and material pallet were then collaged with the site. The layering within a collage implies depth and space. By making a cut through this collage, a section for the colmubarium was derived.

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PROSPECT AND REFUGE As we developed from our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we came to understand the threatening and comforting aspects of different landscapes symbolically. Storm clouds, chasms, and shadowy places were still felt to be potentially dangerous, though those dangers might no longer be directly experienced in the same way. Distant mountains, valleys, expanses of grasslands are picturesque vistas we inherently admire. People have an inborn desire for environments that allow the capacity to observe without being seen, to assess threats from a place of safety, and to seek shelter.

This lookout and shelter embedded into the cliffs of remote Iceland offers the weary backpacker a sense prospect and refuge.

Conceived as a series of planes that intersect the cliff, the lookout provides the traveler with a space from which to admire the beauty of the Icelandic landscape as well as a place to shelter themselves from its harsh environmental conditions.

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TRENT TUNKS 2215 Rio Grande St. Apt. 521 Austin, TX 78705 trenttunks@utexas.edu (512) 304-5694

Education

EXPERIENCE

The University of Texas at Austin

Alamo Architects - Architectural Intern - September 2015 to August 2017 (1 year - 11 months)

Master of Architecture - Candidate - 2019

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Bachelor of Science in Architecture - 2014 Magna Cum Laude

San Antonio College

Associates of Arts in Architecture - 2012

Assisted with project development during the schematic, design development, and construction document phases. Responsible for the development of 3D/BIM models, graphic visualizations, presentations, and detailed construction drawings. Worked on a variety of project types including multi-family housing, adaptive re-use, commercial/retail, urban design, and master planning.

Imbimbo Architects - Architectural Intern - March 2014 to September 2015 (1 years - 6 months)

Developed conceptual site plans, floor plans, and elevations for projects in the schematic design phase. Generated drawings for architectural construction documents. Researched building codes and city ordinances for development reports. Worked on numerous commercial projects during all phases of design.

NCARB Architectural Experience Program (AXP) - 5360 Hours Approved - Completed 100% American Institute of Architecture Students UTSA Chapter Freedom by Design - Director - June 2013 to June 2014

Facilitated fundraising, client relations, student involvement, and project management.

Led students on a project that made the home of a local San Antonio resident accessible.

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Selected work & Awards

Skills

Urban Land Institute Hines Competition - National Finalist - March 2019

Advanced use of Revit, Autocad, Sketchup, Rhino3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Luminaria Contemprary Arts Festival - Selected Artist - November 2018

Experienced in hand rendering, drafting, model making, watercolor, and sketching.

Acted as Team Leader for the competition entry The Landing. The poposal was 1 of 4 finalist selected from over 100 entries.

Selected to construct and exhibit a public art piece titled “The Ghost of Germantown”

TEXAS 2050 - Selected Reseach Project ACSA International Conference “Cross Americas” - Spring 2016

A study of how the implementation of high-speed rail could impact the projected population growth and density within the Texas Triangle Mega-region. 38% project acceptance rate.

Urban-X-Change: Designing Growth in the Contemporary Metropolis 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting “Globalizing Architecture” - Spring 2014

An examination of the big box typology in the suburban setting and the phenomena of change in the urban metropolis.

2014 UTSA Design Awards - 4th Year Designer of the Year Finalist AGUA Rainwater Harvesting Competition - Fall 2013 - Honorable Mention 53