Kevin Rogan— architecture & design portfolio
Professional work
Cedar Terrace/Magnolia Homes (master planning, residential Broadview Hotel (institutional, rehabilitation) People’s Health Centers (commercial) Visualization (various projects and typologies)
Commercial building: St. Louis, MO
Professional work My professional work ranges from concept visualization to the production of final construction documents. I work on a wide variety of project typologies, including institutional & commercial buildings and 200+ unit multiuse housing developments.
various locations various typologies
Working primarily in the Housing Studio, I design and detail multi-use developments of varying sizes that adhere to U.S. HUD, LEED, and EGC guidelines and often support a mixed-income demographic.
Cedar Terrace/Magnolia Homes Mixed-use development: San Antonio, TX Phases worked: SD, CD
Current state of building
Preliminary plans & elevations Proposed rehab
Broadview Hotel
Preservation & rehabilitation: East St. Louis, IL Phases worked: SD, DD, CA
Building section
People’s Health Center Institutional building: St. Louis, MO Phases worked: SD, DD, CD, CA
Master planning: Atlanta, GA
Design development: Austin, TX
Post-CD marketing: San Antonio, TX
(All images were created with a combination of SketchUp, Revit, Lumion, 3Ds Max, Vray, Kerkythea, KeyShot, and the Adobe Creative Suite.)
Interior design: St. Louis, MO.
Schematic design: Minneapolis, MN
Academic projects Biopoetic urbanism: participatory infrastructure & the future city New Ecologies: recuperating urban hydrology in Suzhou, CN Performance of the boundary: campus theater Urban Green Systems: master planning and park
Biopoetic urbanism: Participatory infrastructure & the future city This design project is the
product of my
research thesis, Autonomy in the Future City.
EAST AFRICA 2080— How does a burgeoning population expand without destroying its surroundings? The Spine attempts to mediate growth and social/ environmental stewardship.
Semester X (thesis) East Africa urbanism & ekistics
A suspended transit platform
East Africa in 2080 is now home to 2 billion people. How can we ensure all these people will be able to live equitably?
Maps of proposed regional conditions
The city as we know it is a destroyer of landscapes, resources & communities—but it does not need to be.
The Spine in a pre-existing urban area
Technical section
The Spine in an existing urban area
The Spinal city topology is raised to minimize spatial impact but maximum distributive effect.
Longitudinal section through urban zone
The Spine is a conduit for the reception and distribution of resources, production, development, and people. A filigree urbanism grows from the Spine, responding to the morphogenic affiliation of a strong linearity, the amenities provided, and the connections offered.
There exists in East Africa an opportunity to propose a new urbanism that embraces the commons, the environment, and social equity in a new urban ecology.
Conditional longitudinal sections (typical)
Initial research map: Gini coefficient data
Research map: transit networks
Research map: data infrastructure
Research map: protected areas
Research map: population density
Research map: power networks
New ecologies: recuperating urban hydrology in Suzhou, CN Suzhou’s centuries-old canals are masterpieces of pre-industrial equitable infrastructure, forming a critical component of the Lake Tai hydroregion—now in peril due to increasing urbanization. The vertical canal offers the possibility of a new, recuperative hydrourbanism.
Semester IX Suzhou, CN urban ecology
Algae blooms in Tai Lake
Urban expansion near Tai Lake
Suzhou context
The elevated streetscape over remediation beds
Community functions are lofted to both allow the street level be a site of canal cleanup and water remediation, as well as to allow for the use of gravity in filtration, water capturing, and storage. System in Suzhou urban context
Street-level plan
Water remediation zones as parkscape
Structural diagram of systems
Egress/ingress diagram
Power distribution
Stages of implementation: rewriting the water cycle
Water cycle
Performance of the boundary: campus theater Drury University has a wellknown theater program, but no theater building. In designing a suitable theater, practice space, shop, and classrooms, I began to interrogate the notion of performative spaces.
Semester VIII Springfield, MO campus design
The boundary between stage & audience dissolves
Perspective section through theater/back of house
The Proscenium arch is a delimiter between actors & audience. The extension of the proscenium to encompass the entire theatre and move into the campus reconsiders the containment of the stage.
Section at black box theater and lobby
Longitudinal section at educational wing
Elevation from Drury Lane
Site plan
Phase 1. Plotting new parks, repositioning the downtown area as a foot traffic hub, creating regional ‘feeder’ trails connecting along rail lines to nearby communities.
Phase 2. Trail system expands and development of auxiliary infrastructure increases. Trailheads at strategic points are developed into spaces to contain local commercial endeavors.
Phase 3. The creation of neighborhood trails completes a comprehensive trail system. More specialized park and natural elements are put in place and allowed to develop.
Urban Green Systems: Master planning & park Carl Junction is a town in southwest Missouri marked by deep divisions. We proposed a system of connective tissues, based off of research & codevelopment with residents of the town and local government.
Semester VI Carl Junction, MO various typologies
Alternative transit
Economic zones
Ecological awareness
We proposed economic programs supported by an underpinning green network—trails, nature centers, parks, recycling centers, and other attractions—to boost economic development, creating an “eco-eco” approach to growth. The full report we delivered to the Carl Junction Visioning Committee is available online here.
Phase 4. The trail system is integrated into regional rail systems, making it possible to move throughout the town without use of a car. Natural systems and parks now work in tandem to produce new ecologies, and developmental guidelines, coupled with natural barriers, ensure new development will not be at the expense of natural systems.
Memorial Park plan
Entrance to park from E Pennel St.
Variance in the species, densities, and organizational schemes of plantings, coupled with a path and datum wall network, create an evocative, rolling experience.
View from within memorial walk toward pavilion
The memorial is the park. Instead of concentrating the memorial to a single ‘point’, the functions of the memorial are distributed into the park. Function & remembrance become one and the same.
Experiential sections
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