Trent Tunks - Master of Architecture + Master of Landscape Architecture Application Portfolio

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roots of change community garden

tenerife Thalassotherapy center

Studio/Year: Fall 2013 C a t e g o r y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Candid Rogers

Studio/Year: Fall 2013 C a t e g o r y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Candid Rogers

alamo city rollergirls roller derby rink

[re]placing the displaced

Studio/Year: Fall 2011 C a t e g o y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Dwayne Bohuslav

Studio/Year: Fall 2012 C a t e g o r y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Dr. Antonio Petrov

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suburban x-change: rethinking the big box

tx2050

multi-generational academy of architecture

Studio/Year: Category: Professor: Collaborator:

Studio/Year: Spring 2015 C a t e g o r y : Competition Collaborators: Ian Caine, Carlos Serrano

Studio/Year: Spring 2014 C a t e g o r y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Ian Caine

graphic design

multi-view, paraline, perspective

through the hand

Studio/Year: 2013 - 2014 C a t e g o r y : Academic/Personal

Studio/Year: Summer 2011 C a t e g o r y : Academic P r o f e s s o r : Rene Balderas

Studio/Year: 2010-2013 C a t e g o r y : Academic/Personal

Spring 2013 Academic Ian Caine Kane Toler

roots of change community garden This community garden’s existing entrance along San Antonio’s historic Commerce Street disconnects it from the neighborhood it serves to the south of the garden. This proposed master plan introduces a linear path that unifies the public entrance to the north with a community entrance to the south and organizes planter areas to either side.

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Water collection for the garden is based on a geographic watershed.

All roofs, including the structure over the new path, funnel water to a single location. From this pour point, water is stored underground and pumped back to spigots embedded in the columns of the new structure. A hand pump located near the cistern pumps water back to the spigots and engages the community members in the water collection process.

AGUA Rainwater Harvesting Design Competition: Jury selected Honorable Mention

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tenerife Thalassotherapy center Thalassotherapy is a collection of processes (baths, wraps, and pools) where the natural elements of the earth and sea are infused with the body to restore, rejuvenate and reinvigorate. Each treatment and process immerses the patient in a different element.

This proposal for a Thalassotherapy Center on the Island of Tenerife immerses its visitors with the processes and the elements they embody through the atmospheres that its spaces generate around its inhabitants.

The project reuses all of the existing shell structures on site, which were abandoned after the financial recession of 2008. By framing views to adjacent landscapes or bring existing site conditions into the structures, each space creates an atmosphere relative to the different processes of Thalassotherapy performed within them.

building shell re-use

EXISTING ABANDONED SHELL

existing site section & atmospheres

SALTWATER BATHS ADAPTATION

inward

MUD BATH ADAPTATION

DIPPING POOL ADAPTATION

outward reflective

SALTWATER BATHS [OUTWARD ATMOSPHERE]

MUD BATHS [INWARD ATMOSPHERE]

HOTEL

SITE SECTION

DIPPING POOLS [REFLECTIVE ATMOSPHERE]

SITE PLAN

RETAIL

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suburban x-change: rethinking the big box

METROPOLITAN EXPANSION SEQUENCE

This project is a re-examination of the big box typology in the suburban setting and the phenomena of change in the urban metropolis.

The site is located 15 miles north of the San Antonio within a maturing suburb. At the development scale, a typical big box emerges on the site in year 1. In the following sequences, multi-family residential bars and towers wrap the Big Box. A strip of surface parking emerges, binding the circulation of the project; the roof of the big box is converted to a large open public space. As the project matures, the developer can add or subtract Big Boxes in response to the consumer market.

At the scale of the metropolis, a series of similar developmental strips begin to take shape around the outer-ring road of San Antonio over a time period of 50 years.

Selected for presentation: 102nd ACSA Annual Meeting

INITIAL SUBURBAN LOCATION

5 - 10 YEARS

10 - 25 YEARS

25 - 50 YEARS

DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS

DEVELOPMENT SEQUENCE

BIG BOXES YEAR 1: EXISTING BIG BOX PROGRAM

RESIDENTIAL

CIVIC SPACE (ROOFTOP)

SURFACE PARKING

YEAR 5: RESIDENTIAL HOUSING BARS

YEAR 10: BIG BOX/CIVIC INFILL

TX2050 By the year 2050 the U.S. population will increase by half, with 70% of people living in a megaregion. As these megaregions grow, they must identify and leverage critical infrastructures that are capable of binding geographies and increasing efficiencies. This project speculates about one such strategy for the Texas Triangle.

Texas population is projected to double by 2050, and growth at current densities would cause land area to double. As the Texas Triangle grows, the megaregion has the opportunity to re-organize itself along a high speed rail corridor.

This project re-organizes the concentration of all projected population in Texas into a continuous megaregional corridor supported by high speed rail infrastructure. By allowing the rail stations along the corridor to absorb the projected population growth, the plan ultimately doubles the population with no increase in land area.

Selected for presentation: 2016 ACSA International Conference

current urban density - 2016

projected urban density - 2050

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THE 36 LARGEST URBANIZED AREAS in texas NOW ACCOMODATE 18.9M PEOPLE AT LOW DENSITY hillsboro

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total population

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AT CURRENT DENSITIES, PROJECTED POPULATION GROWTH WILL DOUBLE LAND AREA BY 2050 hillsboro

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THIS PROPOSAL ACCOMODATES ALL PROJECTED GROWTH WITH NO INCREASE IN LAND AREA hillsboro

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8 stations in smaller existing urban areas absorb all projected growth from the outlying areas el paso

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multi-generational academy of architecture The Multi-Generational Academy is a re-imagining of the current “education to workplace” model and emphasizes lifelong learning and living within a new academic environment. The Academy brings together learners of various age, knowledge level, and from various points along their educational timeline so they can live, work, and learn with one another.

Under this model, young learners gain knowledge through the experience of older professionals, while those older learners gain new insights into their fields of study through their younger counterparts. By bringing together the elements of higher education, the workplace, and retirement into one institution, collaboration and interaction between young and old learners helps to serve as a catalyst for advancement in various fields of study, in this case, architecture.

LEARNER PROFILES & EDUCATION TIMELINES 20 yrs

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profession seekers fast tracked career explorers life experienced young learners experienced learners twilight learners multi-generational academy students

LEARNER SPACE NEEDS:

housing Classrooms Crit Spaces Fabrication Shop Creative Spaces Studios Lecture Hall

professionals

multi-family housing Cont. Ed. Space Fabrication Shop Creative Spaces Work Space Client Relations Office Space Exhibition Space

retirees

housing learn/teach space Re-explore Space archives Life’s work Space

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

housing bands - wraps the academic programs together, creates moments where interaction can occur.

professional interfaces - workplace where experienced learners continue practice.

studio core - interstitial collaborative space that promotes intergenerational learning through student interaction.

learning dens - classroom environments used by learners of all ages and experience level..

alamo city rollergirls roller derby rink

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Architecture can be more than an autonomous form. By intertwining idea-force and site-force it can transcend beyond form to become an architecture that offers a humanistic experience.

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The Alamo City Roller Girls need for a practice facility offered a unique program, heavily influenced by the parameters of their sport and the velocity at which it is played. The project site is adjacent to the historic Martinez Creek with a creek-side trail and nestled within an older urban neighborhood.

This proposal integrates the program into the site while allowing the site-forces to influence the form.

User experience and connectivity through the site is given careful consideration. The resulting architecture is a mediator between the adjacent urban context and natural landscape.

SUN & PREVAILING WINDS

URBAN LINKAGES

CREEK VIEW

RIPARIAN RESTORATION

MARTINEZ CREEK TRAIL

TRACK & CREEK VIEWS s.s. 86° w.s. 38°

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[re]placing the displaced

ADAPTABLE HOUSING FRAMEWORK

Displacement is a complex issue that occurs to people at a variety of scales and through a multitude of circumstances. To design for displacement requires one to account for the needs of those ranging from the homeless individual to the thousands of refugees forced to flee their homes.

SCALE OF THE INDIVIDUAL

This project proposes a framework to establish interaction and integration between the displaced and the new community they inhabit. The displaced are given a place to live by the existing community, and in return the displaced establish and maintain a new community institution, in this case a community garden.

The architectural translation of this framework is adaptable and flexible, allowing it to address displacement at a variety of scales. The residents are given a space in the framework within which they oversee and take part in the construction of their new home. This personalization helps to create a new sense of place for those removed from the home that was once theirs.

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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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UTAH HAMR ICK:

Conductor of the “Coming togeth University of Texas at San Antonio Jazz Ensemble UTSA Downtown er to play Apart” 5.26.14 6:00pm Campus. Alua Canaria.

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MORGAN KING: Professor of Jazz Studies at the “The Space University of in Between” Texas at San Antonio UTSA Downtown 5.28.14 6:00pm Campus. Alua Canaria.

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JAZZ IMPOROV: WHEN TO PLAY Attendees will break into quinte THE WRONG NOTE A series of lesson ts based on both and exercises skill level and Villita Assembly in improv will be lead by skilled instrument types.

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CHICK COR EA AND THE UTSA JAZZ VIGIL ENSEMBLE HIROSHIM A S.A. RIVER RATS BRAS S BAND BETT BUTLE R & JOEL DILLE WEST SIDE Y HORNS HERBIE HANC OCK

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Free and open to the public. Handicap seating at Arneson River Theater is available. You will not fall in the river at this performance. Durning all performances please keep children suprevised at all times. For more information please call 512-304-5694.

“SAN ANTONIO JAZZ FESTIVAL” 20”X30” POSTER

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THE TRUMPETS OF MR. DAVIS A collection of trumpets used by the Jazz great, and the story behin Blue Star Conte d each one. mporary Arts 116 Blue Star, Center San Antonio, TX 78204 5.26.14 - 5.31.1 4

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RHYTHM + FLOW A lesson in the importance of what holds everyt Villita Assembly Building. hing together.

401 Villita St San Antonio, TX 78205 5.29.14 6:00pm

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principal and co-founder: interboro partners

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UTSA COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE 2013-2014 LECTURE SERIES (COLLABORATION W/ CARLOS E. SERRANO) 24”X36” POSTERS

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southwest room durango bldg db 1.124 presented by the utsa college of architecture

multi-view, paraline, perspective Architects thoughtfully create space through the generation of three-dimensional forms. However, in order to convey those spatial environments to others those three-dimensional forms must be projected onto a two-dimensional surface, resulting in the architectural drawing.

This was a graphics study of the three drawing systems used by architects to construct those projections [the multi-view, the paraline, and the perspective]. Understanding the principals, characteristics, and construction of these three distinct drawing types fostered my ability to communicate architectural ideas in a variety of situations.

ALL DRAWINGS PENCIL ON 24�X36� VELLUM

through the hand Although we live in a digital age, my design process begins with trace paper, a pen, and my own hand. While the computer presents itself as a powerful tool, the ability to proficiently communicate my design through a variety of mediums is incredibly important to me. To quote Tadao Ando, “My hand is the extension of the thinking process the creative process.”

PEN, PRISMA MARKER, PRISMA PENCIL ON TRACE

PENCIL ON SKETCH PAPER

WATERCOLOR

PEN, PRISMA PENCIL ON TRACE