ARCHI TECTURE PORT FOLIO heather ruszczyk
RESUME EDUCATION DEGREE
University of Washington, Seattle, WA December 2012 Master of Architecture Principia College, Elsah, IL June 2007 B.A. Mathematics, Studio Art minor
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Kobe University, Kobe, Japan October 2011- September 2012 • Independent research for Master’s Thesis Architecture in Rome Design Studio, Rome, Italy Fall 2010 Cogenhagen Study Tour, Scan l Design Foundation, September 2009 Kyoto Institute of Language and Culture, Kyoto, Japan Fall 2006
Intern, Atelier Bow Wow, Tokyo, Japan February 2012-April 2012 • Constructed study and presentation models • Worked with a team on competition projects Intern, Hutchison & Maul Architecture, Seattle, WA June 2011-September 2011 • Schematic and conceptual design • Built models and completed renderings for client meetings Intern, Geise Architects, Seattle, WA June 2009-September 2009 Installation Assistant, Kinesis Construction, Inc., Seattle, WA June 2009-September 2009 Research Assistant, Gundula Proksch (UW Faculty), Seattle, WA June 2010-September 2011 • Research in integrating architectural systems with urban agriculture • Prepared case studies, documents, designed layouts and diagramming for academic papers Teacher, Empowering the Women of Nepal, Pokhara, Nepal July 2007 - October 2007 Tutor, The English Studio, Kobe, Japan November 2011-September 2012
ADDITIONAL COMPUTER SKILLS
AWARDS
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AutoCAD, Revit, Google SktechUp, Rhino3D Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign VRay, Kerkythea (rendering software) Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint Kobe Fellowship, October 2011 AIA Certificate of Merit, Student Award, May 2011 Kiyoshi Seike Endowed Fellowship, May 2011 Hermann Pundt Memorial Endowed Fellowship, May 2010 First Place, USGBC Emerging Green Builders Competition, Boston Chapter, June 2009 Merit Scholarship, Principia College, 2003 - 2007 Participant, USGBC Greenbuild Conference, Phoenix, AZ November 2009 Member, Principia College Presidential Board, Principia College, Elsah, IL
CONTENTS
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Curating the Interstice
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Greyhound Bus Terminal
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Metro Station at Piazza Venezia
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Integrated Urban Agriculture
thesis / urban intervention
structural system / tectonics
transit infrastructure / urban issues
multi-family housing / systems integration
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01 Curating the Interstice
Exploiting the urban gap phenomenon in Kobe, Japan Location: Kobe, Japan Completed: December 2012 Project focus: installation space, intervention, urban form, curation, temporality Programs used: Rhino, Sketchup, AutoCAD, VRay, Adobe This project is inspired by urban phenomena in Japan, particularly those conditions that result from a rapidly changing urban form. One of the most significant effects of this rapid rate of change is the presence of gaps in the urban fabric. This thesis engages with the gaps in the Sakaemachi neighborhood of central Kobe as representative spaces of change, addressing the issues of temporality, questioning the void as a negative space, and offering a proposal to exploit the gap. This project envisions Sakaemachi’s gaps as a collection to be curated, creating an infrastructure that supports this network of gaps as an ‘art site’, filling them with temporary site-specific installations and inviting the public to transgress the void. 17 7” 36
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Japan’s Changing Urban Form
The average lifespan of a building in Japan is 26 years, roughly half of that in the United States. With a lack of long term planning strategies and a general lack of zoning and parcel regulation, urban form is constantly changing. Increasing land value and a disregard for preservation and reuse contributes to this attitude of ‘scrap and build.’ Further, a mandate requires a minimal separation between every building, rendering each structure an easily replaceable stand alone object. There are no urban party wall conditions. The most significant effect of these conditions is the appearance of gaps in the urban fabric.
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Four gaps & Art Site Sakaemachi (below)
This sequence of maps demonstrates the increasing fragmentation of urban land and the growing complexity of the network of voids that separates buildings.
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The overlay of the figure ground maps from 1956, 1984, and 2012 demonstrates the evolution of gap development within 26 year increments, the average length of one ‘scrap and build’ cycle. Notable is the growing number of gaps, the increasing division of space and smallness of property, and the amount of empty space by 2012.
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This project creates an infrastructure that supports a network of voids, providing a collaborative platform
throughfor curator and artist. The curator selects the voids and prepares the space through minimal architectural ention intervention. A resident artist is invited to respond through impregnating the void with a temporary
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site-specific work. Prior to installation, the artist is invited to occupy their gap, developing an intimate relationship with the space in order to respond accordingly. Finally, the public is invited to transgress into these gaps. While this process is happening in a number of gaps, a central facility, located in a larger gap, is a vital element in this process, working to maintain and perpetuate the art site. Scaffolding was employed as a tectonic expression that could be repeated throughout each phase of constructing the art site. This gap and for its system was chosen because of its ability to create and adapt to a variety ofoccupy spaces,the reuseability, expression of temporality.
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Experiencing the Gap
This rendering displays the final realized product of the curator’s intervention and the artist’s installation. In gap #12, the intervention was a simple ramp built from scaffolding which brings the visitor up into the space, suspending them 4’ above the ground plane. A mirrored surface covers the ground allowing the visitor to experience a reflected image of the sky above and the installation. The curator has invited a hanging installation artist to create a work for this space, which is here represented as a glowing pink orb. The projected length of any one installation is 6 months. visitor’s experience of gap #12 with curator’s intervention and artist’s installation
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Maintaining the Gap
This facility provides the basic infrastructure to maintain the Art Site. It is located in a larger gap, a typical infill site, measuring 34’ x 70’. Programmatically, it includes public restrooms and a welcome center for visitors coming to Sakaemachi, but most importantly, it acts as a storehouse and workshop. The scaffolding and other materials for the in-situ interventions are stored and staged here by the curator and artists.
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detailed section perspective of central facility
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2 x 4 studs @ 3’ o.c. attached to scaffold 2 x 12 floor joists @ 3’ o.c. attached to scaffold 2” plywood sheet attached to interior of studs
standard 43 mm tube steel ring lock scaffolding system
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exploded tectonic axonometric This building demonstrates the use of scaffolding to a higher degree of permanency with a lifespan of 3-6 years. The scaffolding acts as an exterior structure to shelter the unconditioned space of the workshop. The conditioned space, a simple box constructed of plywood and 2x4s, is entirely hung off of the scaffolding structure.
preparation for gap installation
02 Frame & Foundation
Shaping a new civic space for the Seattle Greyhound Bus Terminal Location: Seattle, WA Completed: March 2011 Project focus: Tectonics, Structural system Programs used: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Kerkythea, Adobe Due to the increasing cost of air travel and a lack of high speed rail, individuals traveling in the United States are left with few economical and ecological transportation options. A viable solution is to reconsider the bus for both regional and long distance transit. Preparing for the next generation of bus travel, the Seattle Greyhound Bus Terminal accomodates the civic nature of public transit terminals through creating an open and accessible public space. The terminal itself acts as an extension of the streetscape, allowing for ease of flow of people and buses to and from the site. The tectonics shift between a dense manipulated ground and a highly transparent plane defined by an expressive steelframed roof above. The roof meets the ground at support points on either side of the narrow building. These points of convergence between the tectonic and stereometric; the earth and the sky; the concrete and steel; become important moments of microspatial significance. The base of the columns respond to the human scale and become occupiable spaces; opportunities for sitting, meeting, congregating, and resting.
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long-term waiting along street
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Vertical and lateral support systems are integrated via three canted columns at each support point which rise from an extrusion of the concrete ground plane and meet a curved roof plane overhead. The frame of this roof also stitches together the lateral support.
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intersection of boren st + stewart ave
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Through exaggerating the existing topography on the site, the minimal square footage of the required program is tucked into the earth, leaving a truly open space above. This carefully carved concrete ground plane negotiates the grade change through a ramping split-level building.
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The following photos display a detailed tectonic exploration through constructing a 1/4” = 1’0” scale model using bass wood and MDF board. This model was used to resolve several structural details during design development.
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03 Integrated Urban Agriculture
Living + Growing in Yesler Terrace, Seattle Location: Seattle, WA Completed: June 2010 Project focus: Multi-family housing, integrated systems, urban agriculture Programs used: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Kerkythea, Adobe Plants and humans require the same basic elements; sunlight, water, and food. The strategy of this project is to integrate living and growing in such a way that the architecture allows for both plants and people to recieve their vital nutrients. This tall, narrow building is oriented towards the south where ample sunlight yields primary growing space. This large facade becomes a vertical growing screen and accomodates the primary circulation for the building, individual hung ‘backyard’ gardens, and small porches which extend the variety of plants capable of growth. The building structure itself welcomes plant growth and this tension cable facade becomes a host for climbing vines. Five empty units penetrate this growing wall, representing communal volumes where residents practice composting and maintain chicken coops.
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exterior growing screen + circulation
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provides housing for 140 people feeds 56% of residents required daily portion of vegetables 63,300 lbs of vegetables grown per year 54 chickens for eggs and compost indoor/outdoor soil-based growing constructed wetlands recycles: 70% of potable water 40% of grey water 10% of black water
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growing greenhouse
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summer summer solstice solstice sunlight transmitted
rainwater collection stored in rooftop cistern
plants gravity fed through drip irrigation
grey water from washer/shower to toilet
Water System Rain water is collected on the roof and circulated to a plant irrigation system. Grey water is circulated through a constructed wetland while black water runs through a membrane bioreactor
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membrane bioreactor processes black water from toilets
Sun Shading Sunlight and plant growth on the building naturally correspond with human need for light and warmth
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04 Lavori Linea C
A Metro Station at Piazza Venezia Location: Rome, Italy Completed: December 2011 Project focus: Urban issues, transportation infrastructure Programs used: Sketchup, AutoCAD, Adobe An archeological strata lies beneath Rome today, a sort of ‘untouchable’ layer which inhibits major infrastructural changes. Traffic is one of the greatest debilitating factors for this city and an expanded metro network is necessary for the progress of the city. Roma Metropolitan has planned two additional metro lines which will bisect the city, filling the gap in the public transportation network. Line C was scheduled to open in 2011 with one of its major stops at Piazza Venezia. After countless digs, the station was halted indefinitely on account of the archeological strata sitting underneath the piazza. Lavori Linea C is a proposal for reclaiming the traffic circle as the station for the Venezia stop at the interchange of metro lines C and D. This requires lifting the lid of the city to reveal what is underneath, finding an appropriate opportunity to puncture this precious layer and digging past, realizing the potential of an underground network in Rome.
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Piazza Venezia: 2010 condition (L); 2006 excavation (R)
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modernization of rome 2020 33 m
The station is almost entirely subterranean, entered through a small ‘hole in the ground’, circulating past the archaeological dig, and expanding once beyond this strata. The incision becomes a light well in addition to ventilation for the station. An underground tunnel system connects to multiple entrances, including a major bus station which allows for the safe navigation of the traffic circle above.
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Via dei Fori Imperiali
Venezia Bus Stop
Piazza Venezia site plan + major connections
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Metro Line C
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Metro Line C station plan
descending into metro station
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