James C. Hardt - M.Arch App.

James C. Hardt Selected Works 2015 - 2019

01

The Post Digital Garden Taxonomy of Volumes

02

Alter Forum Expanding the typology of Museums

03

CraftHouse A manifestation of the Industrial Factory

04

Houston HyperInfrastructure Exploration into High Speed Transit

05

Genesis Object as Building

01

The Post Digital Garden _ Taxonomy of Volumes ARCH 205 _ Fall 2016 Indexicality Studio _ TAMU Instructor: Gabriel Esquivel

Floor One

Architecture today is entering a postdigital era. As the next generation of aspiring Architects, it is our task to define what this world will be. The possibilities are endless. This project is a speculative building centered in the complex and disorganized urban environment of Houston. The structure will serve as a flagship store for Issey Miyake in the Houston Galleria Area.

The form was created through the combination of two separate studies: one of a twentieth century house through the process of “indexing�, and the other a transgression of surface logic based on the clothing line of Issey Miyake.

Having created two separate objects, the logics were combined to create a resulting urban garden. A scattered reality in this Post-Digital world. The field surrounding the building produces many ways of approach to the entrance, all demanding further exploration of the site. Upon entry, the inserted volumes redefine the operations of each floor and the wayfinding of each. This garden and structure begin to challenge the notion of program and site context. The result is a beatification and insertion into the complex urban fabric of the Galleria.

Floor Three

Floor Seven

Perspective Render

Longitudinal Section

Interior of Auditorium

Transgression

Original Precedent

Dress Precedent

Surface Logic One

Surface Logic Two

Dress Precedent

Surface Logic Three

Surface Logic Four

Axonometric Render

Collection One

Collection Two

02

Alter Forum _ Expanding the typology of Museums NonArchitecture _ Summer 2017 Competition: “Showing” Collaborator: Hannah L. Terry

Birds - Eye View

Who decides what is preserved and heralded? The building which houses a museum’s archive is a physical manifestation of its ideology. By consciously overturning the typical enclosed form, we can introduce a system of inclusivity and interaction.

Alter Forum presents an alternative approach to socially ingrained notions of the museum typology. It resists institutionalized pyramidal relations between curators of museums’ content and the public. A work of architecture never exists apart from the social fabric, and our structure is only the bones of a cultural landmark, only being completed over time as the public sculpts and presents its identity. The open air museum is a reflection of the open invitation to create, and the ground, walls, platforms, and voids all serve as canvases and containers for expression. With use of the paint dispensary system, which is integrated into the structure, the ability to create is not limited by the access to medium.

No piece, motif, or commentary is off limits, but public opinion decides the lifetime of any exhibition. This new typology opens avenues of connection with art, in which any piece can occupy, and where no place is off limits

City View

Close - Up

Axon. Drawing

Perspective Render

Interior Mural Render

03

CraftHouse _ A manifestation of the Ind. Factory ARCH 305 _ Fall 2017 Study Abroad Studio _ BAC Instructor: Miquel R. & Marta O. Collaborator: Hannah L. Terry

FLOOR -1 1:100

Sub Floor

The CraftHouse is centered inside Barcelona’s old city. This thick urban tissue is crowded with hard opaque buildings that hide all activity within their walls. The structure strives to provide transparency to this closed tissue. It provides both a space to work and to build or craft. Every component that resides within the glass shell is prefabricated. Thus making construction and assembly easy, but also allowing for large open spaces to be rearranged to every specific need.

These spaces achieved by a series of stacking truss systems. During the industrial revolution, large, open floor, monster factories were born left and right, but since then these factories have needed a face lift and have been demolished by tourism and retail. The CraftHouse produces the 21st century factory made to be used by humans and their community. The result is a flagship for industrial revitalization and development in regards to construction and economics.

CA

RR

ER

DE

VA L

LD

ON Z

EL

FLOOR G 1:100

LA

SANT ANTONI

Floor One

CA

RR

ER

DE

VA L

LD

ON Z

EL

FLOORS 2&4 1:100

LA

SANT ANTONI

Floor Two & Four

Perspective Render

1 DOUBLE FACADE + PODS

0.03m SHGC 0.29 FROSTED GLASS

0.03m SHGC 0.44

0.03m SHGC 0.37

POLY CARBONATE SEMI-TRANSPARENT

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

2 3 7

4

POLYCARBONATE STEEL SUPPORTS STEEL STRUCTURE TRITAN PLASTIC CONCRETE CORRUGATED STEEL GLASS STEEL ATTACHMENTS ACOUSTIC POLYSTYRENE

LAMINATED GLASS

5

0.03m SHGC 0.24 TRITAN PLASTIC

0.03m SHGC 0.10

0.06m SHGC 0.10 CORIAN

6

4 7

TRITAN PLASTIC

8

Open Floorplan + Workstations + Limited Columns POD FLOOR

9

Materials & Assembly

23m

19m

15m

11m

7m

Transverse Section 1:100

Night-Time Elevation

TRUSS STACKING

1

2

3

4

5

TWO TRUSS RHYTHM A A

B

C

A C B A

C

B

A

A

C

B

A

A

Diagrams

Interior Perspective

Workshop Perspective

04

Houston HyperInfrastructure _ Exploration into High Speed Transit Corgan Inc. _ Summer 2018 Internal Office Competition Collaborator: Anna C. , Rueben P. , Paul M. , Sutton J.

Buildings Roads Green

Figure Ground

The proposal for the new high-speed rail and masterplan intends to address certain questions about Houston and Texas scale transport and urbanity. As a city stitched together by both small and large scale urban organizations (i.e. The Woodlands suburb, or Grand Parkway), the project uses landscape to stitch together programs that have the potential of transforming this area of Houston into a new transportation hub that houses both new entrepreneurs, established corporations, old and new families, existing and emerging cultures and social behaviors, and visitors from all over Texas.

Through a sensitive approach to community and optimistic vision for transportation, slippages of landscape carry pedestrians, vehicles, and trains to different edges of the site the house said programs. In the interest of constructing a station that has longterm permanence, a series of extended surfaces protect passengers from the elements and give the impression of being outside while in fact being inside. Sheltered from the elements, yet moving fast to the next destination.

Pedestrian Drop-Off Roads Highway

Circulation

Transportation Community Office / Center Commercial Residential Industrial

Zoning Map

Perspective Render

Cutaway Drawing

High Speed Rail Station

Local Rail Station

View of Park and Market

Interior of Marketplace

05

Genesis _ Object as Building ARCH 405 _ Fall 2018 Integrated Studio _ TAMU Instructor: Koichiro Aitani Collaborator: Nicholas G. Houser Roof Plan

Centered in the heart of downtown Dallas is Genesis, a multi-use commercial and cultural object. This structure follows a streak of cultural objects in this region.

The project serves as a catalyst to connect the Winspear Opera House, the DMA, the Nasher, and the Perot all to Klyde Warren Park, in order to form a hub of activity in this district. The program of this object consists of seven floors of a contemporary museum, which will house a permanent collection with seasonal exhibits circulating through.

Tied to the museum are two commercial entities. These entities serve to justify economic development of this site and bring amenities with rentable space to the Klyde Warren area. In order to tie Klyde Warren to our site, a pedestrian bridge spans the road way allowing for pedestrians to move across the space.

Upon entry into the object, the viewer is taken along a path up through the building. The path is a contrast between permanent exhibitions housed in the large volumes inserted into the facade and the seasonal exhibitions housed in the interstitial spaces. This precession justifies the placements of the volumes in contrast to the generic floor slab exhibition spaces as it gives the viewer only one path to follow.

Volumes Axon.

Figure Ground

Perspective Render

North Elevation

East Elevation

South Elevation

West Elevation

Second Level

Third Level

Fourth Level

Hotel and Office Levels

Fifth Level

Sixth Level

Additional Plans

Typ. HSS Steel Joint HSS Steel Section Site Cast Two-Way Slab

Typ. Office Furniture Typ. Meeting Space Typ. Office Flooring

Typ. Plumbing Typ. HVAC System Typ. Drop Ceiling

Electrical Wiring Fire Sprinkler System Site Cast Concrete Column

Epoxy Coated Expo. Flooring Typ. Double Insulated Glazing Typ. Aluminum Mullions

Typ. Cast-in-place Rebar Site Cast Bearing Concrete Wall Metal Sun - Shading Screen

Transverse Section

Chunk Model

N

dwgmodels.com

Ground Floor

dwgmodels.com

Mural Installation

Birth of Venus 2030

Interior Panoramic

Longitudinal Section

CORE i7

CORE i7

CORE i7

CORE i7

Skeleton Axon.

Model Images

Structural Detail Section 1

ROOF DETAIL 1. Perforated Metal Skin 2. Water Proof Membrane 3. Drain With Grate 4. Tapered Insulation 5. Vapor Barrier 6. Grey Water Run-off return

to central drainage 5 2 3

4

385’ - ROOF

6

Cut extended back 15’

FRAMING DETAIL

7. Metal cross bracing 8. Metal Stud Spaced 16” o.c.

9. Insulation between Volume and 10. Wood 2x4 for future hanging

11

mass to regulate separate Climates 12

75’ - LEVEL 6

13

SPACE FRAME DETAIL

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

14

Formed W-Section for Space Frame System Fiberglass Modular Panel Off site bolted connection Pin joint On site Bolted Conection Formed W section Steel Rib for Lateral Support

15 16

7

9 8 10

Temporary Exhibition Level

17

60’ - LEVEL 5 CONNECTION DETAIL

18.

19.

20.

21.

Welded plate onto precast plate in concrete column Bolted connection into welded plate W-section Louvres into mechanical room

18 19 20

Mechanical Room Sevicing Upper Museum levels 21

SKIN DETAIL

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

Welded connection Steel Angle Hss Square Section Perforated Metal Skin Aluminum Extrusion

27.

28.

29.

Sheetrock Insulation Metal Stud

30.

31.

Rolled steel panels W-Section Rib for Monocoque System

Special Devised system that allows for the insertion of the large volumes into the concrete bay system.

The Acceptor is a series of custom steel braces that holds the spaceframe and monocoque systems.

22 23 24

45’ - LEVEL 4

WALL DETAIL

25

26

Administrative Offices for Museum

MONOCOQUE DETAIL

27 28 29 30

30’ - LEVEL 3 WINDOW DETAIL

32.

33.

34.

35.

36.

37.

38.

31

Exterior Flashing Weather resistant barrier Drip plane Insulation Metal Stud Frame Triple Glazing

32 33 34 35 36 37

CEILING DETAIL

39.

40.

41.

42.

Gypsum Panels Multipanel Carrier Hanger Duct

43.

44.

Earth Monolith Pour

39 40 41 42

38 Administrative Offices for Building Managers

SITE DETAIL

15’ - LEVEL 2

SPECIAL DETAIL

45.

46.

Shear Wall to help brace large Monocoque Volume Gusset Plates For Stabalizing Composite Acceptor Support

47.

48.

49.

Rebar Rods Rebar Links Site Cast Concrete 2 Way Slab

50.

51.

52.

53.

Rebar Rods Rebar Links Site Cast Concrete Large Rebar Rods for 1 way slabs

FLOOR DETAIL

43

FOUNDATION DETAIL

45

Lobby for all building employees 44

46

1’ -GROUND LEVEL

50 47

49

48

51 52

53

Parking Level -1 & Special Service areas

Structural Section -15’ - PARKING LEVEL -1

James C. Hardt College Station, Texas + 1.512.966.5282 james@texashardts.com

SKILLS Leadership

_ Competition Collabaration, Directing Organizations _ Instructing Workshops, Selection Committies

Software: Modeling

_ AutoCAD, Grasshopper, Maya, Revit, Rhino, T-splines

Software: Visualization

_ Adobe Suite, Keyshot, Maxwell, Octane, Substance, Vray

Fabrication

_ Carpentry, Laser Cutting, Working Plexiglass, 3DPrinting

EDUCATION Texas A&M University

Bachlors of Environmental Design - Class 2019 Minor Study in Urban & Regional Planning

Barcelona Architecture Center Study Aboard Program - Fall 2017

ASSOCIATIONS Axiom Editor-in-Chief : AIAS

August 2018 - Present _ Leading a team for the curation and print of a student work publication.

Mentorship Program : AIAS

January 2018 - Present _ Helped start the mentor program, where I now mentor six lower classman students.

Student Ambassador : C.O.A EMPLOYMENT TAMU MakerPlace - Student Tech.

August 2018 - Present _ Assist Students in 3D printing and Fabrication.

Corgan Inc. - Architectural Intern

May 2018 - August 2018 _ Redlines and construction documents of data centers.

Embree Assest Group - Intern

May 2017 - August 2017 _ Responsible for mapping data and regulation oversite.

January 2018 - Present _ Represent the College of Architecture at public functions and administer weekly visitor tours.

Student Leadership Council : D.O.A January 2018 - Present _ Advise the Department of Architecture on the needs, concerns, and possibilities of studio culture.

Design Command Team : BUILD

Fall 2016 - Fall 2017 _ Design and Construction of the Texas Aggie Medical Clinics. ( 6 shipping containers)

HONORS Eagle Scout Rank : B.S.A.

November 2013 _ Highest Rank in the Boy Scouts of America under the ideals of servent leadership and community service.

Gary W. Chapman 89 Design Scholarship

Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 _ $2,000 Award based on portfolio submission through the Department of Architecture.

Leola W. & Charles H. Hugg Trust Fall 2015 - Spring 2019 _ $1,000 yearly award based on merit.

Thank You