Selected Works Portfolio by Josh Riek

JR JOSH RIEK Arc h itec t

D e si g n e r

Se l e c t e d Wo r ks Po rt fo li o --2015

2015

Table of Contents 01_

Sojourn in Silence

02_ Tampa Office Tower/Photography Museum

03_ New World Symphony Cafe and Residences

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Tea House

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Natatorium/Boathouse

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Sojourn in Silence In the exploration to determine ways in which a more compelling and emotive experience can be imagined, this thesis project seeks to merge individual and at first seemingly unrelated mediums together. In this case, architecture is juxtaposed with music, and with it the notion of a journey is woven in as a stitch to calcify the formula. The combination of music and architecture inform a unique type of process in which pieces of music were created in sync with drawings and models to explain all the parts of a complete journey. This journey was split into a series of six unique nodes. Each node coincides with the pinnacle of a particular type of experience, a fragment of the whole experience. These nodes are tenderness (node .001), chaos (node .002), anger (node .003), anticipation (node .004), joy (node .005), and love (node .006). Seen opposite are a series of graphics exploring the individual components of the journey, listed in the same order from top left to bottom right. The spaces that were created for these nodes each took on their own unique character to emphasize what they each represent. Their context and their forms and spatial flow are tied to the soundscape that best represents them. That way, each node has its own particular context that works both visually and aurally with the emotive qualities the created spaces attempt to evoke.

From left to right, up to down: Node .001; Node .002; Node .003; Node .004; Node .005; Node .006

Music + Archi

Tenderness Chaos Anger Anticipation Joy Love

itecture + Journey Each of these nodes represent their own particular soundscape, meaning that their respective contexts are all unique to their character. But each uses its context in some way to craft an aural journey throughout the architecture, whether that sound be about overwhelming noise or the immersion of silence. They are each unique, but they are each part of a cohesive whole. They make up a complete journey that challenges new ways in which architecture can be thought about and provided for others. 05

Node .001

Node .002

Node .003

Node .004

Node .005

Node .006

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Tampa Office Tower/ Photography Museum The main program of this design project is to develop a Class A office tower to be built in downtown Tampa, the first of its kind in downtown for over two decades. Additionally the first few floors are designated for the relocation of The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, as well as a sculpture garden, public park space, and a few shops along the street edge. The complex also houses a parking garage, and sits adjacent to another plot of land that is meant for a future hotel tower. The city of Tampa is also currently in development of a river walk that runs along the Hillsborough River, with the goal of bringing more people back to the downtown core. The siting of this complex runs along Brorein Street, which terminates at one of the major nodes of the river walk. This design project aims to help stitch the development of this river walk together by bring a pedestrian path up through the city that connects with a now defunct historical road named Cumberland Street. Evidence of this street can be seen on the old brickwork still laid on the site that slices its way through the architecture and up the office tower.

Green Space

Highways

Alternative Transportation Major Streets Railroad

Express Bus Trolley Car

Central Business Theater Channelside Gateway Government

Cultural Heights Waterworks

Districts

Surface Parking

Downtown Tampa

This is the proposed path that is brought from the western edge by the Hillsborough River, through the site of the office tower, and continues down the revitalized Cumberland Street to Channelside, where it meets back up with the river walk.

2nd Floor

3rd Floor

1st Floor 01_ Plaza 02_ Parking Garage 03_ Retail 04_ Museum Lobby 05_ Museum Retail 06_ Prefunction 07_ Museum Gallery 08_ Sculpture Garden 09_ Event Space 10_ Terraced Plaza 11_ Permanent Exhibition 12_ Temporary Exhibition 13_ Administration 14_ Archival Library 15_ Traveling Exhibition 16_ Auditorium 17_ North Wing 18_ South Wing 19_ Elevated Plaza

Office Floor

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New World Symphony Cafe and Residences New World Symphony is an orchestral academy located in Miami, FL. Its purpose is to prepare some of the most elite graduates of various music schools for positions in orchestras around the world. This design project is meant to be a second informal piece of architecture for the school, or in other words a satellite campus. It is nestled in an alleyway close to the water, bending its way through the narrow angled space it sits in. The building contains a permanent living space for a staff member and a temporary residence for alternating students, as well as numerous other program such as a studio, a performance space, a cafe, and a gift shop. The angles that organize the space are derived from site lines, and are also used to frame views of the street and the beach. The models are initial studies used to determine how the spaces work off of the nearby context, and how views are carried through the spaces. There is also a central light well nestled within the center of the building that brings light down into the lower spaces throughout, helping to illuminate what is an otherwise somewhat dim alleyway.

Cross Section

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Longitudinal Section 01_ Gift Shop 02_ Cafe 03_ Performance Area 04_ Gathering Space 05_ Light Well 06_ Student Residence 07_ Studio 08_ Performance Balcony 09_ Staff Residence 10_ Rooftop Performance Space 11_ Rooftop Garden

1st Floor

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Tea House The tea house is a place of rest, one in which people of all statuses and backgrounds put aside their differences and become men of equals, sharing in a common humble experience under the same roof. My tea house takes from this a certain simplicity of form as a means to communicate this humble nature. One who finds themselves in the incredible Red Beach of China will hopefully stumble upon this tea house during their travels, and approach by way of bare landscape. Bare stone steps lead up to a five foot high ladder that connects to an outdoor waiting room with a tsukubai, or wash basin, and a bench with a space to store shoes beneath. One must duck down as they slide open a door and step up to enter the tea house. The floor is a rounded 4.5 tatami mat room, and the ceiling is too low to allow any standing, ensuring that no one may impose their stature and everyone remains an equal. Spatial relationships lead the eye down and outwards toward the beautiful natural landscape of the Red Beach. This is accomplished through the use of a semi-translucent dome overhead and a ribbon window that wraps around the tea house. Another door on the opposite side opens up to a balcony that faces to the west. This is the outdoor tea room, meant to watch the sunset as orange sky meets red beach.

The word mitate comes from the idea of a new point of view. Mitate seeks to see something from a new light, used in a way that surprises the viewer. Using this definition, I sought to create something new out of a found object: a K-cup. A K-cup is the leftover waste from a device many architects are familiar with: a Keurig coffee and tea maker. The cup holds the coffee grounds or tea leaves, and has a hole poked through the top and bottom that allows water to be ran through, making the drink. My answer was to use them as a living container that may regrow the tea previously used in them. Both tea leaves and coffee grounds that have been used can be mixed with soil and used to give nutrients to new plants. And because of the way that a K-cup is used, the hole the Keurig maker pokes in the bottom of the cups is perfect for filtration of excess water that is used with these new potted tea plants. The tea house may use this system to grow tea plants that can either be used to make the tea that is served or sold to interested customers. As for how the K-cups are actually applied to the tea house, I developed a movable system that holds the cups in place and can be rotated into two different positions. Once outstreched and vertical, the K-cups are ready to be potted and allowed access to the sun. When not used, the mechanism recedes and rotates sideways. This keeps them from blocking access to sunlight for other cups, and also creates a skin system for the tea house that catches light and filters it into the space of the tea house through the hollow K-cups. 22

Plan View

Cross Section

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Natatorium/ Boathouse The site on the Hillsborough River in downtown Tampa was once an active area, bustling with people and activity centered around the river. In recent times, this connection with the water has been lost, and activity on the site has ceased. The intention is to reactivate this space by recreating how people interact with and experience the water, giving a new life to the place. Sky meets water, with light as the force that joins them. The idea is to have the developing Tampa River Walk continue to the west, forming a datum line that traverses through a natatorium and a boathouse. This develops a public domain that celebrates both the river and the land. The architecture is structured in a way that brings light into a space through water, taking advantage of the reflection, refraction, and variation of tone that light and water can create. This is done with a floating Olympic swimming and diving pool that is suspended above the first floor of the natatoruim, with a series of reveals casting light down below. Water becomes floor, wall, and ceiling, moulding a hollistic experience for the inhabitant that is brought to life with the introduction of the sky and the light.

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Natatorium/Boathouse 420 West Oak Avenue, Tampa, FL 33602

The boathouse and nataorium complex is located on the Hillsborough River beside Tampa’s old trolley barn, as well as its old waterworks building and the natural spring that used to be the city’s main source of water. Boathouse and natatorium are split across an old inlet dug out from the river, with the river walk bridging the gap between them. A grid shift occurs where the natatorium happens on the second floor, turning to frame a view of the nearby downtown Tampa. Scale: 5ft 10ft 20ft

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Construction: Type III Occupancy: Business Zoning: Commercial

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Building Height: 46 ft. Latitude: 27°57’40.40” N Longitude: 82°27’55.81” W

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Square Footage First Floor: 26,165 sq. ft. Second Floor: 24,747 sq. ft. Total: 50,912 sq. ft. Surrounding Building Heights Trolley Barn: 36 ft. Waterworks: 50 ft.

Construction on inlet required. Retaining walls must be restored and inlet shape carved out into a rectilinear form. Another inlet is dug into the first floor outdoor space that connects to the main inlet here. Built up landscape that rises to meet retaining walls built around the river walk. River walk pathway. The path is made of limestone tiles, also known as coral stone, and draws from the similar stone used in parts of downtown Tampa, such as Rivergate Tower and the nearby Cube that lies further along the river walk.

W Oak Ave

Trolley Barn

N Ola Ave

W 7th Ave

Hillsborough River 5.

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The docks for use by the rowers of the boathouse serve to bridge the gap between either end of the inlet, connecting the natatorium with the boathouse functions. Erg room. Boat storage. Olympic diving pool. Sun Diagram Olympic swimming pool. Wading pool. Therapy pool. Main entrance to natatorium. 29 Fire exit from natatorium. Access to north parking. Main view out to downtown Tampa. Extension of river walk. New trees to be planted.

Fire Suppression 01_ Main Supply Line 02_ Backflow Preventer 03_ Fire Department 03_ Connection

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--Underground Supply 01_ Line: Blue Fire Suppression Piping: 01_ Yellow

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Mechanical 01_ Air Handler 02_ Main Supply Line 03_ Branch Ducts 04_ Mechanical Room 05_ Supply Air Diffusers 06_ Return Air Diffusers

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Supply: Blue Return: Magenta Estimated Tonnage: 62 Tons Total

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Plumbing

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01_ Cold Water Line 02_ Hot Water Line 03_ Sanitary Line 04_ Water Closet: Floor 01_ Mounted 05_ Urinal with Wing: 01_ Wall Hung 06_ Sink: Wall Hung 07_ Shower Stall: Regular 08_ Shower Stall: Handi01_ capped 09_ Tankless Water 01_ Heater 10_ Primary Sanitary Line 11_ Primary Cold Water 01_ Line 12_ Vent Stacks

Structural

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01_ Hollow Structural 01_ Section Column: HSS 01_ 8x4x3/8 02_ Hollow Structural 01_ Section Column: HSS 01_ 12x8x1/2 03_ Wide Flange Steel 01_ Bent Column: 24x36 04_ Concrete Round 01_ Column: 18in 01_ diameter 05_ Rectangular Footing: 01_ 72x48x18 06_ Custom Warren Truss: 01_ 12x26 Wide Flange 01_ Beams 07_ Rectangular Concrete 01_ Column: 12x18 & 36in 01_ Above Water Line 08_ Retaining Wall: 36x12 01_ Footing

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