James Robert Lutzke
Projects Belmont Branch Library Uof Oregon Spring 2011 Burnt Box U of Oregon Winter 2012 Preservation as Provocation Lawrence Tech Spring 2007 Construction Documentation Lawrence Tech Fall 2006 Professional Work Contracting Resources 2006 - 2009 Lillis-Albina Alternative Highschool
U of Oregon
Winter 2011
ALO[e]TERRA Lawrence Tech 2005 - 2007 Portland Ecological Aquatic Center
U of Oregon
(thesis)
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
James Robert Lutzke 231.250.4419 jimylutzke@gmail.com www.issuu.com/jimylutzke
Belmont Branch Library
Spring 2011 studio titled Civic Space: Community Architecture. An empty lot located in a former town center not far from downtown Portland was the site for a branch library. The design intentions focesed on providing much needed gathering space for the community both within the library space and through an outdoor plaza. Programatic organization with the community room and plaza on the East and the library on the West. The library is essentially one large room with the collections along the west wall floor to ceiling. Reading spaces primarily use daylight from a translucent curtainwall that is clear where circulation occurs.
Burnt Box
Fall 2011 group design/build studio in collaboration with the Oregon College of Art and Craft and workshops by Mark and Peter Anderson of Anderson Anderson Architeture. A new building at OCAC had shifted the entrance and campus center. OCAC looked to add a covered structure for student gathering, an object to assist in visitor wayfinding, and a safe route up a hill. Working with the OCAC students as both client and design partner the group looked to create a structure both open and closed to the parking lot from a simplicity in construction methodology and material. 4x4 lumber alternately stacked form the structure.
Preservation as Provocation
Spring 2007. Group design competition for an addition to the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Personal work included whole process: schematic design, 3d modeling, rendering, and presentation design. The project serves as a critique to the axial relationships throughout the campus. The addition focuses around Saarinen’s propylea and orpheus fountain, emphasizing the way the campus uses architecture to frame views and create exterior spaces. Stranded space relates to the integration of program through circulation and visual connections in plan and section. The addition creates a formal entry for what was considered as the back door.
Construction Documentation
Spring 2006. Building systems course geared at teaching students commercial building construction methods and annotation. The class included students touring a building under construction, preparing a book of hand drawn details, creating construction drawings, and writing specs.
Professional Work
Examples of professional work done with Contracting Resources, Inc, 2006-2009. Work included site playout, planning, construction documentation, estimating, scheduling, defing scope of work, and bidding. Left, an interior build-out, in a CRI owned office building, for a data management company, drawings done inhouse. Right, a remodel of the public corridors for Beaumont Hospital Grosse Point. Work inclded developing finish plans and documentaiotn of all wall items for removal and reinstallation.
Lillis-Albina Alternative Highschool
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Winter 2011 studio to design an alternative high school in Portland, for students disenfranchised by the typical highschool. Design concept came from student mentaility of wanting to fit it yet still retaining their individuality . This student driven concept transformed into building form with a structured bar of classrooms fronting the community edge and an expressional fan for the commons area opening up to the park and downtown beyond. On a smaller scale the classroom was designed to accomadate different learning styles of : classroom proper, small group space, and a dwelling zone with softer seating near the window.
ALO[e]TERRA
ALO[e[TERRA, Lawrence Technological University 2007 Solar Decathlon team. Interdisciplinary design and construction competition to create a 800sf self-sufficient solar powered house, project spanned from 2005-2007. I was involved with house design (mainly the deck), CDs, construction, and display in DC. The ALO[e]TERRA house was based on enlarging the living space by blending outside with a courtyard that can be closed off and a large deck and low-sloped ramp which doesn’t need handrails. Houses were judged in categories ranging from energy performance and architectural design to marketability.
ROOM LEGEND 1. Entry 2. Interpretive Center 3. Pump Room 4. Cafe 5. Large Tank 6. Research Laboratory 7. Shoreline Tank Support 8. Shoreline Construction Tank 9. Library 10. Experimentation Terrace 11. Viewing Deck 12. Eastbank Esplanade
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ROOM LEGEND 1. Marquam Bridge Overlook Plaza 2. Ticketing 3. Receiving 4. Employee Lounge 5. Pump Room 6. Mechanical 7. Electrical 8. Northwest Exhibit 9. Large Tank 10. Life Support 11. Storage 12. Research Laboratory 13. Ecology Office Siute 14. Toilet 15. Shoreline Tank Support 16. Shoreline Construction Tank 17. Experimentation Terrance
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ROOM LEGEND 1. Entry 2. Event Lobby 3. Toilet 4. Interpretive Center 5. Large Tank 6. Northwest Exhibit 7. Storage 8. Research Laboratory 9. Biology Office Suite 10. Shoreline Tank Balcony 11. Eddy Viewing Deck
ROOM LEGEND 1. Interpretive Center 2. Cafe 3. Kitchen 4. Balcony 5. Large Tank 6. Large Tank Support 7. Classroom 8. Conference Room 9. Research Laboratory 10. Administrative Office Suite 11. Library 12. Patio
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PEAC is a public oriented research facility for aquatic habitat. The project brings together Portland’s Eastbank with the Willamette River and public interation with aquatic research. PEAC is specifically focused on the synthesis of research and habitat restoration along the rivers edge intertwined in public education and interaction. As part of Portland’s waterfront scene with; views of habitat: natural, restored, and artificial; PEAC is a prominent building and an ecological urban site with downtown as its backdrop. The building, read in series, is composed of related objects connected in a row; each taking on a different aspect of an ecological aquatic center.