DESIGN PORTFOLIO
JOHN MYERS M.ARCH CANDIDATE WORK wd Partners | Tim Horton’s Canada | Dublin, Ohio AutoCAD Summer 2013
Dayton Dragons Professional Baseball Club Fan Interaction, Dance, Mascot Appearances Spring 2007 / Fall 2009
Graduate Teaching Assistant | KSA ARCH 6810 | Systems II | Sullivan ARCH 2220 | Sustainability | Moore Winter 2013-Present
EDUCATION
Neighborhood Design Center | Columbus, Ohio Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD Winter 2011 / Spring 2013
University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design Bachelor of Science in Architecture | 2011
“John was a great student with a great sense of humor. He worked diligently on what ever he was given and exhibited good design talent. He has the tools to do well in this profession.” Al Berthold Executive Director | AIA, NCARB
Court Atkins Architects | Bluffton, South Carolina AutoCAD, Photoshop Summer 2010 “John was a valuable part of our design team. He had a good personality and was eager and willing to participate in a wide variety of ongoing design projects/tasks. He was always reliable on a deadline.” William Court Partner / President
Pinnacle Architects | Dayton, Ohio Initial Design Work, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Photoshop, Material and Structural Research Summer 2009 / Winter 2010
“His combination of intellect, creativity, ability to work with and quietly lead others and skill of presenting his concepts and ideas in a clear concise manner are all excellent qualities for any architect to possess.” Mike Taylor Vice-President | AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture Masters of Architecture | 2014
COMPUTER Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign AutoCAD | Maya | Rhino | REVIT Grasshopper | Pepakura | SketchUp
ACTIVITIES Columbus Clippers -LouSeal - Mascot UC Bearcat - Mascot Men’s Chorus AIAS | Executive Board
2520 Farrel Drive Apt.309 Columbus, OH 43235 myers2jr@gmail.com (937) 776 6415
STUDIO
SAHARA ARTS ACADEMY - Fall 2012 - 15 Weeks - John Myers, Ochuko Evwaraye, Shomari Lambert Project: Develop a global Arts Academy, including studio, artist residence, faculty office, gallery and library space. Our group developed a curved I-beam shell structure which drove the design as a method of creating shade and utilizing thermal mass and passive cooling strategies.
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XS - Fall 2013 - 15 Weeks - John Myers, Josh Helin, Melissa Poeppelman Project: Develop a taxonomy and or definition of Post Modernism, born of Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Charles Jencks. Our group chose to pursue the idea of excess throughout Post Modernism specifically by repurposing Rem Koolhaas and OMA’s S,M,L,XL then into Madelon Vriesendorp’s Object Archive.
LIVE / WORK RESIDENCY - Winter 2009 - 9 Weeks Project: Design a LIve / Work residency with respect to affordable housing on the corner of Walnut and 9th in Cincinnati.
CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY - SPRING 2010 - 8 Weeks Project: Create a campus and community driven center for UC Sustainability while historically preserving the original architecture of the former YMCA building on Calhoun St, while modernizing adaptively a space for the future. Develop a kiosk to promote UC Sustainability.
BUSINESS INCUBATOR of YOUNGSTOWN - Spring 2011 - 7 Weeks Project: Design a space for Youngstown, Ohio incorporating low income housing, genius residency, a rapid prototyping center, spec office space as well as wild card programming to connect all programming. I chose to create several integrated spaces of competition where a discourse community between all parties is fostered through sport and translated into the workplace.
MOUNT ADAMS FESTIVAL / ROCK ON TOP - Fall 2009 - 8 Weeks -John Myers, Dan Miller, Eric Pasche Project: Create a festival and design an intervention / building for the historic Mt. Adams area of Cincinnati.
SHOTGUN SHACK - Fall 2011 - 2 Weeks Project: Develop an inhabitable space through the snapshot technique in 3DS - Max, where human scale and studies of the human form and spatial task dimensions are taken into consideration through each snapshot or frame of the “Shotgun Shack�.
CHARLEY HARPER PAVILION - Winter 2012 - 2 Weeks Project: Create a pavilion for a Contemporary artist, highlighting the not only the artist’s work through gallery, yet also methodologies in manner of construction and building form.
WORLD EXPO 2012 / SWARM ROBOTICS - Winter 2012 - 8 Weeks Project: Create a plaza incorporating a contemporary technology, swarm robotics, for a proposed World Expo 2012 in Dubai, UAE. This plaza must include gallery/ exhibition space not only for the display of technology but also contemporary artist pavilions. Swarm robotics are experienced not only at the individual tactile scale but also through the larger crowd perspective.
WEINLAND PARK NETWORK - Fall 2010 - 6 Weeks - John Myers, Mark Pothier Project: After several weeks of urban design studies, the studio was asked to create design solutions for Weinland Park. I attempted to unite the residents of Weinland Park through a network of physical pathways, as well as nodes of wi-fi hot spots to further connect the neighborhood to the rest of the world.
WORK
PINNACLE ARCHITECTS - Summer 2009 / Winter 2010 Architectural firm spanning education, healthcare, religious and office design focused on the Dayton Metro region. While there I assisted in establishing new brand identity and templates for project bid materials, field measurements / site photography, as well as initial schematic designs.
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NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER - Winter 2011 / Spring 2013 The Neighborhood Design Center embraces underserved neighborhoods of the greater Columbus area, advocating design as a right, not a privilege. Whether taking measurements, meeting clients, assisting in civic association meetings, or designing everything from new logos to multiple facade schemes NDC was a buffet of design /cultural experiences.
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COURT ATKINS - Summer 2010 A service-oriented architecture and interior design firm located in Bluffton, South Carolina. Throughout the construction and design document phases I assisted on electric plans, sections, exterior elevations, floor plans and site plans of several high-end residential projects.
SEMINAR
BUTTONS AND BALUSTRADES - Fall 2012 - 10 Weeks - Group Project Project: Create an installation incorporating the inherent faciality in not only building facades but also a forced “Rorschach� like symmetry of those facades. After selecting visually iconic buildings, mirroring the frontal silhouette, revolving or extruding those new outlines a series of buttons and balustrades were created as pieces to a gameboard at the human scale, hand scale, and perspective omniscient scale.
GORILLA ARCHITECTURE - Winter 2012 - 6 Weeks
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Project: In line with the work of Gramazio and Kohler and their explorations into brick placement via robotics / helicopters, Jeff Kipnis asked each individual to develop the “next� brick type and or method of construction. After looking at the work of Stefan Sagemeister I wanted to approach the Banana Wall in a multiplanar perspective highlighting the variability in color as well as its rather temporary lifespan.
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CLOTHES CACTUS - Fall 2009 - 6 Weeks Project: Design a piece of “funny” furniture, create shop create an advertisement for said piece.
PIRANESI VARIATIONS | A FIELD OF DREAMS - Spring 2012 - 10 Weeks - Group Project Project: The project of the Campo Marzio, utilizing Piranesi’s original plans as generative form, for contemporary architecture figures to begin to surface and take life from the historic etchings. Dedicated to Le Corbusier and John Hejduk