DoArch Masters Program Application-Fall 2020-Joseph Kenny

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JOSEPH C. KENNY Resume EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Brookings, SD: August 2016 - May 2020

CMBA ARCHITECTS Sioux City, IA: May 2019 - August 2019

BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE •Current GPA: 3.875 •Class Rank: 1 of 29

PRIVATE PILOTS AND COMMERCIAL DRONE LICENSES

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN •Work preparing construction documents in plan, section, and elevation. •Working with Lumion and other rendering software alongside Revit for digital modeling. •On-site construction administration. •Assisting master planning sites plans for early education systems.

RIDGE VIEW HIGH SCHOOL Holstein, IA: August 2012- May 2016

HENKEL CONSTRUCTION Ames, IA: May 2018 - August 2018

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA •GPA: 3.79 •Class Rank: 14 of 69

CONSTRUCTION LABORER •Assisted in the installation and demolition of various construction materials in various scales •Analyzed situations to come up with the optimum solution for safety and construction. •Experience working as a team using problem solving techniques for various obstacles.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Brookings, SD: May 2018

SKILLS SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Revit, Rhino, the Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Microsoft office Suite, Lumion Rendering Software, and Blue-Beam. MODELING FABRICATION Plasma Cutting Machine, Laser Cutting Machine, CNC Routing Machine, 3D Printing, and Woodworking

DRONE DIRECTORE Holstein, IA: May 2018 - August 2018 AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHER •Experience operating and repairing complicated imaging systems. •Knowledge in the field of aerial operations and imaging. •Experience compiling images for editing and viewing.

CONTACT INFO.

HOLSTEIN ELECTRIC LTD Holstein, IA: May 2017 - August 2017

EMAIL: jckenny59@gmail.com

ELECTRICIAN’S ASSISTANT •Assisted in the installation and demolition of electrical components in industrial and residential setting. •Gained knowledge of electrical systems and power distribution. •Worked with a large range of machinery such as ditch diggers, and skid steer machinery. •Worked with powered hand tools, as well as non-powered tools for both wood, and metal work.

PHONE: 1(712)-660-2200 ADDRESS: 1735 200th Street Schaller, Iowa 51053

CLUBS AND HONOR’S TAU SIGMA DELTA HONOR SOCIETY IN ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED ARTS Brookings, SD: October 2019 INAUGURAL MEMBER TREASURER RECIPIENT OF THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING STUDIO PROJECT Brookings, SD: Spring 2019 & Fall 2019 WORKS PUBLISHED IN FEDERICO GARCIA-LAMMERS’ “LABOR ATLAS: IMAGING CONSTRUCTIONAL LABOR IN THE WORK OF ELADIO DIESTE” Brookings, SD: Spring 2019 WORKS EXHIBITED IN THE STUDENT DESIGN INVITATIONAL Sioux Falls, SD: February 2020- June 2020 WASHINGTON PAVILION AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS Brookings, SD: August 2016- May 2020 THREE YEAR MEMBER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Brookings, SD: August 2016- May 2020 THREE YEAR MEMBER FREEDOM BY DESIGN Brookings, SD: August 2018- May 2019 PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER DEAN’S LIST Brookings, SD: Fall 2016, Sprint 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, & Fall 2019 STATE OF IOWA INDUSTRIAL TECH FAIR CAD DESIGN STATE CHAMPION Holstein, IA: Spring 2015


MASKING TIME IN THIRDS

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A02 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

developed from the implementation of the previous thirds parti mentioned in the Maision Bordeaux project. The project was to develop a gallery and archive space for the work of John Hejduk. With a site that is a void between two buildings, and acts as memorial space known a the Judengang. It marks the funeral procession for the Jewish citizens buried in the Judischer Friedhof Schonhauser Cemetery. This space is currently gated and only opens once a year in order to allow for memorial passage. Inspired by John Hejduk’s Wall House projects, and their connection to movement through time we designed a memorial that examined the connection to time with the archive space being the past, the present being the circulation and the gallery spaces being the future that reflected on the past by over looking the cemetery. All work done in partnership with Nathan Krueger. A01: Site model and site extents, built with entire class at 1/16”=1’ scale. 4. Lapidorium: 1. Kathe Kollwitz Statue 2. North Gate of Judengang

Displaced Graves

3. Jewish Cemetery A02: Figure ground drawing with 5. South Gate of Judengang a 2 marking the north gate of the Judengang, the site highlighted in black, the Judengang highlighted in white, and cemetery with 22,500 marks, one for every person buried in the cemetery.

A03: Final model showing removable structure and gallery spaces, built at 1/8”=1’

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Recipient of the South Dakota State University Department of Architecture Excellence Award for Outstanding Studio Project: Spring 2019

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A05 A04: Hejduk Bordeaux collage, a hodge podge of ideas and inspiration including elements from Maison Bordeaux, the Wall house projects, and historical elements from the Judengang memorial.

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A05: Axonometric drawing depicting how the building overhangs and interacts with both the sidewalk and the Judengang. A06: Longitudinal and transverse sections showing mass void mass thirds parti, as well as, their relationships to time. The first being the past, and showing the internal gallery spaces. The second being the present, and showing the circulation void spaces as well as the central elevator. The third being the future gallery spaces with central displays meant to be circulatory and reflective.

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A07 A07: Floor plan diagrams illustrating all four floors of gallery and archive space as well as site plan showing progression of daily movement. A08: Exploded Axonometric drawing depicting the components that make up the building, as well as, the interior spaces.

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A09: Model image depicting interior of a gallery space over looking and reflecting on the cemetery.

ROBERT ARLT

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VAULTING SPACE FABRICATION

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B03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project

worked though the observation constructing a historical building element using the fabrication methods of today. This was done through the digital and physical fabrication of a tas de charge. This tas de charge was modeled after the sexpartite vaults in Notre Dame Cathedral, and is the piece of the vault that takes all of the weight from the arches. This was done through rhino three dimensional modeling, and fabricated out of baltic birch plywood using the CNC machine. All work done in collaboration with fall 18 461 class. B01: Model photo depicting the tas de charge built at 6�=1’ scale. B02: Model photo depicting the layered construction method. B03: Model Image showing a single drum of the tas de charge. B04: Digital modeling process method B05: Fully constructed Tas de Charge.

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Selected for exhibition in the Student Design Invitational at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD: February - June 2020

JESSICA GARCIA-FRITZ

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MAISON BORDEAUX PRECEDENT STUDY

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project worked as an analysis of Rem Koolhaas’s Maison Bordeaux, and as a precedent study for the following project. The study broke down the house based on elements and additive and subtractive operations. This was done through a series of models, drawings, and animations in order to understand a single house parti. This parti captures the essence of Maison Bordeaux. The parti is that everything within the house can be broken down into sets of three. This is created through the light wells that signify entry, and signify a mass void mass relationship. These voids also divide both plan and section. In plan it is used to divide orthographic and curvilinear volumes, and in section it is used to divide the housing masses. C01: Assembled physical model depicting division of building masses built at 1/8”=1’ scale. C02: Partially assembled physical model depicting separated masses and vertical circulation elements built at 1/8”=1’ scale. C03: Assembled physical model with interchangeable building masses to show interactions of vertical circulation with building spatial elements and the cantilevered third floor mass built at 1/8”=1’ scale.

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Selected for exhibition in the Student Design Invitational at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD: February - June 2020

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Site Carving

Masses+Vertical Circulation

C05 C04: Synthesis drawing depicting servant spaces and primary planes. C05: Synthesis drawing depicting thin elements and vertical circulation. C06: Building components animation key frames depicting physical construction elements that make up Maison Bordeaux.

Level One Thin Elements

Spatial Volumes Divided

Level Two Thin Elements

Spatial Volumes+Transitions

Maison Bordeaux

Maison Bordeaux

C07: Building elements transformative animation key frames depicting key massing elements and operations used to design Maison Bordeaux. C08: Exploded model image, depicting individual model elements. This model was hand built in fifteen individual pieces and pressure fit so elements can be removed and examined individually. Elements are coded by material: site- white washed cedar wood, planer and structural elementsbasswood strips and dowels, interior spatial volumes-carved cedar, transition spaces- brass dowels, vertical circulation- stained cedar (coded based on privacy) and frosted acrylic used to represent internal elevator. It also has an acrylic building mass interchangeable to observe interactions with the third floor building mass and vertical circulation. This model observed both building component and transformative operational methods of building Maison Bordeaux, and was built at 1/8�=1’ scale.

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Exterior Shell & Structure

Interior Spatial Volumes

Vertical Circulation & Structure

Exterior Shell

Interior Spatial Volumes

Site

ROBERT ARLT

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DIESTE LABOR RECONSTRUCTION

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project progressed as a method of observing constructional labor through methods of digital modeling and image production. It examined the historic methods used by Eladio Deieste and his team during the construction of gaussian vaulted structures. The progression of this project worked through the composition of two image types. The first being stationary images isolating both the construction, and the workers. The second dynamic images depicting the movement of workers and construction equipment, the enconfrado (movable scaffold system). D01: TEM Factory construction image 1 D02: TEM Factory construction image 2 D03: TEM Factory construction image 3 D04: Image type one, images isolating both the construction and laborers involved. Work done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle.

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D05: Image type two, a dynamic image used as a narrative method to depict the movement method of the enconfrado by folding in on itself, and rolling forward in order to construct each bay individually. The image contains a fully extended and folded enconfrado for each bay in the TEM Factory. Enconfrado digital modeling done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle. D06: Image type two, a dynamic image used as a narrative representational method to depict the movement method by folding in on itself, but more focused on dispersing workers across the top of the system. Enconfrado digital modeling done in partnership with Nathan Krueger and Drew Doyle.

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Works Published in Federico Garcia Lammers’ “Labor Atlas: Imaging Constructional Labor in the Work of Eladio Dieste”

FEDERICO GARCIA LAMMERS

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THE MODULAR PERFORMANCE

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E03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project developed through as a translation of key constructional observations from the Agricultural Heritage Museum, kit of parts, hidden structure, and the manufactured module of the brick, to the historic First Avenue night Club in Minneapolis. It worked through the examination of Revit by misusing the tool in the four methods, and the implementation of an external construction detail. This project explored the precisions of SOM’s Amiee 1.0 3D printed construction in order to formulate a 6,000 sq. ft. addition that is constructed using methods that are as precise as digital modeling allowing it to perform with the same level of precision. E01: 3D printed physical building module designs at 1/32”=1’ E02: Model Image depicting modules stacked in unison. E03: Arched door way depicting a method of travel between modules.

Recipient of the South Dakota State University Department of Architecture Excellence Award for Outstanding Studio Project: Fall 2019

E04: Apparatus and projection performance image.

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E06 E05: Build-able site for 6,000 sq. ft. addition to First Avenue E06: Elevation drawing depicting a concert from an arrangement of modules in down town Minneapolis. E07: The breakdown of the kit of parts construction shown in a physical model printed at 1/16�=1’ scale. E08: The isolation of the manufactured module used to build up the space. E09: The arrangement of three modules that allows for horizontal movement.

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E10: Animation Key frames: The first being the connection to the existing building using 3D printed sections that layer together and push the addition away from the existing. The second being the layered construction detail of the building module that developed into a hexagonal shape in order to be a building space that is fluid and can be re stacked to in endless arrangements. Finally the gantry travel lift animation, a computer operated gantry travel lift placed on site. The travel lift is programed to use vacuum lifting technology that re stacks and re orders the built space into different arrangements based on the desired program per desired performance. E09

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Kit of Parts Construction

Hidden Structure

Layered Kit of Parts Construction

Hidden Structure

Separation Connection

Fully Constructed Module

Gantry Travel Lift Operation and Movement

JESSICA GARCIA-FRITZ

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THE RIPPLE EFFECT FACADE DESIGN

Step 1: Cut Placement

Step 2: Cut Steel

Step 3: Tab bending

Step 4: Press One

Step 5: Press Two

Step 6: Press Three

Step 7: Press Four

Step 8: Press Five

Step 9: Press Six

Step 10: Repeat 1-9 on Second Piece

Step 11: Interlock Tabs

Step 12: Completed Connection

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F03 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This

project progressed as a method of observing the possibilities and limitations of working with steel, as well as, the fabrication methods used to manipulate steel. It was designed to make a connection between two pieces of steel limited to a one foot by one foot square using all of the material within that square. The goal of the project was to create a connection between two pieces that creates a continuous undulation of opposing strips that has no flat connections and never interrupts the undulation. F01: Process photo depicting steel cutting method. F02: Process photo depicting manipulation method. F03: Process Image depicting manipulated and cut piece. F04: Digital representation of manipulation methods. F05: Connection and undulation image photo by Brian Rex. G06: Fully constructed connection.

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Finished Product

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BRIAN LEE

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JOSEPH C. KENNY Statement of Intent SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Brookings, SD: Fall 2020 Masters of Architecture Internal Applicant

Dear Acceptance Committee, When sitting down and asking myself why I would like to continue my education, I arrived at three reasons. The first being, I would like to learn more about where my interests lie in order to come up with a better understanding of where I would like to push my career interests. The second reason is to continue on the path of education that will give me the most career options upon graduation. The final being continuing my education in a environment that both enhances and facilitates the learning of my interests in order to push my studies. I have narrowed my interests to construction processes, and fabrication, alongside with teaching, but I am uncertain of which path would provide more gratification. I am originally from Schaller, Iowa, a small town in north west Iowa. I grew up on a farm where every day work varied day in and day out, but always included hands on building and maintenance of objects that varied in size, material, and function. It was this day in and day out hands on work that influenced my interest in the construction and building arts. My interest in hands on building drove me to pursue a career in architecture by studying at here at South Dakota State University. This curriculum pushes hands on process that is generally focused on the advancements in architecture through hands on learning and physical building. I have had the pleasure of being exposed to architectural elements of all sizes from full building design to one foot by one foot facade designs, and the curriculum and learning environment here at South Dakota State University has been the main driver for my interests within the field of architecture. It is my interest in the construction processes, fabrication, and teaching that has influenced me into looking towards returning to South Dakota State University for my masters studies. My interest in construction processes and fabrication has been facilitated by the building shops and large fabrication shop here at South Dakota State University. The integration of these fabrication methods and studies will allow me to push my projects by understanding the methods of fabricating complicated elements and systems. The one room school house studio environment has also had a major influence on my projects. It has allowed me to connect with students at all levels of the program. These connections allow me to push my projects beyond the bounds of the individual class studio and observe works from every level of the program. Finally the graduate teaching and research assistantships offered here at South Dakota State University will allow me to explore my possible interests in teaching and also offer methods of making graduate school more affordable. After graduation, I do not want to simply sit behind a desk and design buildings. I want to design architectural elements of all sizes that can influence, question, and advance the field of architecture. It is these interests and experiences that have inclined me to applying to be apart of the fall 2020 Masters of Architecture class at South Dakota State University, and I hope that my application is compelling enough to allow me to do so.

Thank you, Joseph C. Kenny


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