KERRY FRANK
The University of Texas School of Architecture | 2013 - 2020
Portfolio 2019 001
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Hi, I’m Kerry! I’m a student at the University of Texas, completing my fifth year of six in a dual degree program for architecture (B.Arch) and architectural engineering (B.S.ARE) alongside a business minor. My academic and professional interests lie at the intersection of these three fields in the belief that real change and progress comes with some magic combination of optimism, pragmatism, and art. I have sought to find this balance through studio projects in Texas, travel study in Europe, and internships in firms around the country, working every school break. Recently, I ended a 15 month residency at Wheeler Kearns Architects in Chicago, where I completed the required hours to begin testing for licensure, and concretized my belief in the power of collaboration and the importance of purposeful and dignified architecture. This portfolio is a selection of my work over the past six years, I hope you enjoy it.
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Town Lake Trail
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Saltillo District
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Nexus Center for New Art
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4th + Frontage
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Hand Drawn
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Rockite|Plastic|Scissors
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Early Childhood Center
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Wood Joint
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Urban Farm | High School
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Bat-Form Platform
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Shepley Bulfinch
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Iris at Ragdale Ring
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TOD Affordable Housing
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Austin Bat Center
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SoCo Branch Library
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Foundations College Prep
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Botta | Bianchi | Books
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Lowell Custom Homes
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Rowe Middle School
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Art School Lobby
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Towering with the Stars
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Market Marfa
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Corporate Campus
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Travel Photography
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Perform Austin
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Habitation La Villete
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Town Lake Trail
Lady Bird Lake | Austin, TX Design VI | Professor Gary Wang | Spring 2016 The University of Texas School of Architecture Awarded Sound Building with Distinction With rapid and seemingly endless growth, the city of Austin has been unprepared to accommodate increasing density and provide for the social and cultural needs of its new inhabitants. With most of the downtown core built-out and inhabited a large community is ready to engage a new urban fabric. Currently, Town Lake Metropolitan Park is not only incapable of handling new levels of usage, but also doesn’t
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offer the amenities that are expected of large scale city parks. This plan intends to fills programmatic gaps in the existing park, interjecting the city into the site. Currently disconnected from the city programatically, visually, and physically, the plan entails enhancing and rethinking existing accessibility methods and enticing users outside of the current joggers and bikers. By creating a rowing center, renovating the Seaholm Intake Station, building a new event center, and providing space for a new cafe and retail scene, the Town Lake Trail plan creates community space that caters to a growing and diverse Austin population with different interests and brings them together in the center of the city. New piers, yoga docks, a new beach and public pool ensure continued devotion to the healthy lifestyles embodied by the city’s ethos.
Connecting Across the River Macro Site Analysis
Sight-line Analysis
Landscape Categorization
New Buildings and Access Points
Landscape Masterplan
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Saturday Morning on the Lake Public Access to Nature and Activity
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Nexus Center for New Art
Lady Bird Lake | Austin, TX
and connects the city and Lady Bird Lake bringing urban growth in touch with the roots of the city.
Design IV | Professor Gary Wang | Spring 2016 The University of Texas School of Architecture Awarded Sound Building with Distinction Austin is deemed the most culturally progressive city in Texas, yet it lacks a true definition or actualization of cultural spaces, a cultural fabric rather than a city containing a distinct cultural institutions. Pinpointing cultural hot-spots in the city, it seems Austin could be organized around a central avenue of cultural activity defined by Ballet Austin and the Austin Music Hall. Nexus Center for New Art extends this cultural avenue
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Along this extension, three building volumes visually connect existing cultural centers, framing views across the city. Programmed for three art forms: visual, performing, and auditory, their intersection encourages collaboration. Performance, exhibition, and discussion spaces exist on both ends of each volume while the central avenue allows for events of variable sizes. Sectionally, the volumes intersect blocks emerging from the site that contain practice spaces, studios, and classrooms. Permeable and flexible, Nexus is more public infrastructure than insular building. Its rigid frame system wrapped with corrugated steel punctured by skylights and channel glass melds Austin’s warehouse vernacular with that of traditional metropolitan museums.
Defining a Center, Bridging Disciplines Mapping Cultural Institutions
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Site Plan Creating a Public Cultural Campus
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Public Festival, Building as Infrastructure
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Linear Skylight Rigid Steel Moment Frame Panelized Corrugated Aluminum Glazed CMU Block Wall Suspended Display Walls on Tracks Concrete on Metal Deck, Board Form Channel Glass Bi-fold Doors Thickened Edge Concrete Slab
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Day to Night Urban Experience Connecting the City to the Park
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Hand Drawn
Austin, TX The University of Texas School of Architecture Having come from a studio art background in high school, UTSoA’s emphasis on a balance between analog and digital production felt like the right fit for me. Early design studios focused on hand drafting and technical courses worked with figure and light studies to increase our awareness of the intricacies of proportion, scale, figure / ground, and contrast. Later studios used digital softwares to derive abstract patterns which were then rendered in watercolors. Throughout my education, a propensity to doodling has always helped to clear my mind and revealed a certain disposition to depicting eyes. Here’s a small collection of some of the exercises.
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Burst*003 House Case Study
Tonal Drawings Photograph Imitation
Live Figure Studies
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Watercolor Digitally Created Pattern
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Classroom Doodles
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Early Childhood Center
Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Feasibility Study | 2018 W| Chris-Annmarie Spencer, Erica Wannemacher A collaboration between two local non-profit organizations, the extensive renovation and expansion of an existing community center involves the creation of a competition gym and daycare in a dense urban block. Needing to span two lots and preserve certain parts of existing buildings all while mitigating between existing levels and the new, the end goal of the project was to give a new face to community services while also providing athletic space for three area schools that lack any gym.
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Integration in an Urban Block Massing Models
Addition Sections Balancing Program and Daylighting
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Urban Farm | High School
Western Suburbs | Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects
campus that restores what was once a thriving school, and infuse that environment with community space and the potential of an urban farm to define a place of learning and community growing to reinvigorate a declining suburb.
Feasibility Study | Fall 2017 W| Larry Kearns Born out of a simple ‘what if?’ idea and a drawing in collaboration with Larry Kearns, this project gained momentum when previous clients and collaborators hopped on board at the immense potential of a 30-acre underutilized site. Juggling various interest groups, potential future owners, and programmatic desires, the project has seen many iterations, but the goal remains the same: to create a school
Aside from big picture conceptual site plans where added program was as diverse as senior living and communal park land, the project required understanding the capabilities and limitations of existing building conditions and budgetary restrictions. Learning from the success of a blended learning teaching model, we envisioned a phasing plan to transition current school occupancy to new leadership and develop a studentcentric place. Phasing involved both programmatic and environmental alteration planned over the course of four years and backed up by construction cost and phasing validation.
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Converting a Typical Classroom Blended Learning Model
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Site Strategies Program, Building Ownership, and Property Delineation
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Site Strategies Integrating Education with Public Program
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EXISTING HIGH SCHOOL
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2019 - 2020 SCHOOL YEAR
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10900 W CERMAK SCHOOL CAMPUS | WESTCHESTER, IL | 60154
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ART / 32,100 SF
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16 CLASSROOMS (810 SF)
18 CLASSROOMS (810 SF) 2 LABORATORIES (1,230 SF)
4 LABORATORIES (1,050 - 1,270 SF)
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ART / 32,100 SF
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NEW WINDOWS
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MINOR INTERIOR PARTITION WORK
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REFRESHED SURFACES
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NEW IDENTITY
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Building Renovation Construction and Occupation Phasing
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Shepley Bulfinch
Boston, MA Internship | Shepley Bulfinch Planning and Competition Entry | Summer 2016
through the Design Museum Boston. The prompt was to spend an entire weekend under one of Boston’s raised highways that separated two neighborhoods and engage with community members who used this connection and work with them to find a design solution that would improve their daily exposure to this dark space.
Design Museum Boston | Urban Hackathon Most Innovative Spending a summer working in the healthcare division of Shepley Bulfinch, I worked on large hospitals expanding the services offered by the main campus. Involving the renovation of existing buildings, creating more efficient and logical spaces, and managing operations, these projects were complex studies in phasing and planning. Additionally, during that summer I was a part of a team from the office that competed in an urban design competition
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We proposed new and brightly-colored crosswalks that give ownership of the street back to the pedestrian. We then wanted to lead the user on a multi-sensory experience through a canopy of light and sound. We imagined a series of light-filled aluminum cylinders undulating in height suspended from the existing infrastructure. As traffic moves through the site, this cloud of wind chimes responds. The light from each chime dances at your feet, transforming the concrete sidewalk into a shimmering path. The project won the most innovative award. Rendering created by Laura Tittle.
Expansion and Phasing Hospital Masterplan
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TOD Affordable Housing
Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Feasibility Study | 2017 W| Larry Kearns As a means of funding additional programming, an existing church is pursuing the utilization of portions of their properties for a new affordable housing complex. Sited within the legal distance defining a TOD in Chicago, the tight area and limited height become feasible with a reduction in parking and increased allowable FAR. Ultimately, the concept is a masonry mass building relating to surrounding masonry three-flats and the existing church that tapers in order not to shadow neighbors and engages the rooftops of the church buildings for green space.
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Placing an Addition in Urban Context Expansion Axon
Building Massing
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SoCo Branch Library
South Congress | Austin, TX Design III | Professor Allison Gaskins | Fall 2014 The University of Texas School of Architecture Published | ISSUE:011 Given the pace of technological evolution and our busier, more disconnected lives, a library must now offer more than books to have the same cultural importance it once had. Not only a library but also communal living room, a neighborhood catchall, and a space that fosters the maintenance, creation, and sharing of knowledge, the South Congress Library allows variable amounts of space
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and flexibility encouraging individualization and interaction. Conceptualized around the fusion between a courtyard and a suburban cul-de-sac, the library formally creates a social community space protected from the busy and commercially driven South Congress Avenue. Situated around the courtyard are spaces of various sizes for a wide range of program from maker space to book storage and private reading. Formally, the spaces wind up in scale as they wrap the courtyard from matching the street level to matching the neighboring retail buildings and finally to marking a beacon on the corner of the street. In section, a ‘bridge’ punctures the main volume for vertical circulation, entry from the courtyard and main street, and a formal division of static vs. dynamic programming. By designing around scale and space rather than definitive program, the library remains adaptable to future needs.
Pedestrian and Vehicular Traffic, Planting and Open Lots Site Analysis
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Concept Diagram, Cul-de-sac
Massing Surrounding a Courtyard
Courtyard and a Bridge
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Individual Family Community City
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Section / Elevation Concept Sketch
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Approaching from Across South Congress Avenue
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Section Perspective Activity Around a Central Courtyard
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Botta | Bianchi | Books
Riva San Vitale, Switzerland Design III | Professor Allison Gaskins | Fall 2014 The University of Texas School of Architecture Not known for its function, the Bianchi House by Mario Botta is a composition of intersecting volumes hanging off a bridge away from reality, contrasting the imperfection of an untamed land. Continuing this formal concept, the addition of a library cube is intersected with the main home. An extension of the bridge pulls the residents into the addition, a glass space revolving around a three story book chamber. Though the structure is neither practical nor actually ‘perfect’, both the addition and the house are a sublime take on the relationship between landscape and living.
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New Volume Intersects with Old Section
Site Analysis Ideal Building vs. Landscape
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Vertical Bridge
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Leaving the Ground Behind
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Rowe Middle School
Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Construction Administration + Marketing | Fall 2017 W| Larry Kearns This project entailed the renovation and addition to Rowe Elementary School, operated by the Northwestern University Settlement Association in Chicago’s Noble Square neighborhood. The new 18,000 sf addition houses Rowe Middle School and after school programs, as well as the expansion of Northwestern Settlement’s day care program and other services. The project added a sport court and outdoor
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educational growing hoop houses. Phase I was completed in September 2016 which included a new lobby addition and Phase 2 was completed in September 2017. My involvement in the project was in the post construction document phase of the Phase 2 project scope. I began work at the firm when the first steel was placed and followed the project through post-occupancy. Together, Larry Kearns and I managed construction on a rushed deadline to complete before Labor Day in order to open the school for the start of the academic year. Ultimately, the project was an exercise in mitigating construction error without losing sight of the big picture, preparing the school for students without interrupting the schools operating schedules. The school opened to great review with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel cutting the ribbon.
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Phasing Axon Expanding Program over Time
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Street Elevation Photo by Tom Harris
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Towering with the Stars
Marfa, TX Design V | Professor Judy Birdsong| Fall 2015 The University of Texas School of Architecture Inspired by the event culture in Marfa, this stargazing tower celebrates the landscape of Marfa as an event. Composed of four legs capable of moving and growing, the tower adjusts to focus on interstellar changes, stretches its nets so spectators can lay, provides shade during the hot summer, or adjusts to slowly follow a sunset. Each night is an event different than the last, every visit is special, and, once over, the tower recedes into the land. A simple metaphor for life in Marfa. Occupiable nets in the center provide a communal gathering space while platforms sprung from the scalable legs allow for individual respite.
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An Oculus in the Sky Tower Study Model
Tower Site Plan Disappearing into the Ground
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Nighttime Framing a Constellation
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Studies in Variability and Flexibility
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Corporate Campus
Chicago, IL
shifted to the immediate need to redefine the company’s street presence and create a ‘town-hall’ for employees.
Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Schematic Design to Design Development | 2017 - 2019 W| Larry Kearns, Emmanuel Garcia A foreign territory for Wheeler Kearns Architects, this corporate office project was pursued for its goals to create space that was restorative for employees and clients. The project began with a simple diagram understanding how a complex in a sea of parking could come to expand into a lush campus that engaged all of its edges, welcoming all employees in to spaces that embodied the individual characteristics of their departments. From there, the focus
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The town-hall would encompass space for events, a cafe, a cafeteria, collaborative workspaces, as well as ‘war rooms’ for team-based intensive project work. Engaging with a new courtyard and rooftop garden, the project will highlight the company’s presence near treasured parks, and pursue ways to demonstrate their sustainable practices and advanced technology. My involvement with this project spanned my entire residency at Wheeler Kearns and into the winter break following. Under the leadership of Larry Kearns and Emmanuel Garcia, I helped lead the design concept, produce deliverables, and participated in design coordination with consultants, client meetings, and coordination with contractors for phasing and pricing.
Hub and Spokes Connecting Office to Nature Expansion Concept
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Plan Iterations Defining Circulation, Service, and Programmed Space
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4 Schemes Slight Variations on a Central Concept
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Entrance Lobby
Cafeteria And Mezzanine
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Interior Renderings Creating a Warm Material Palette
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Entrance Drop-off Creating a New Face to the Campus
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Perform Austin
5th and Colorado | Austin, TX Design I| Professor Joyce Rosner | Fall 2013 The University of Texas School of Architecture Perform Austin takes the hypothetical building envelope of an urban lot and carves voids for large performances and concerts, providing spaces of varying sizes, views, and levels of involvement. Large apertures in the roof plane allow variable shade during the day and promote community engagement by night, directing sound out to the crowd and street, and splaying light on a nearby parking garage. Capturing the attention of passersby, the ultimate goal is to further the Austin dialogue between artists, music, and the city.
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Designing with Thermal Mass and Shading Circulation Section
Concert Abstract Plan Analysis
Diagrammatic Venue Plan
Section Perspective of Night Concert
Performance Study Designing for Crowds
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Saltillo District
East Austin, TX Design IV| Professor Dean Almy | Spring 2015 The University of Texas School of Architecture W| Maxwell Baird, McKenzie Edwards, Fiona Wong Confronted by economic, social, and political pressures, East Austin is changing at an unprecedented pace. Given the opportunity to question Austin’s growth patterns in the soon to be developed Saltillo District, our team decided to break with development trends and propose an alternate approach to creating a vibrant urban fabric. Through radical alteration of existing infrastructure. Redirecting the existing light rail, reducing its speed, and
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adding a stop increases use of public transportation, frees up land, and promotes an active street. Honoring the old rail line, a new pedestrian path connects downtown and East Austin, linking this region to the Waller Creek development. Finally, removing the berm beneath I35, and redirecting a frontage road, allows a more welcoming transition from center city to the cultural hub of East Austin. Avoiding social landmarks, potential building volumes were arranged, scaled, and programmed to create diverse urban spaces that weave into the existing. Comparing numbers with Austin’s current plan, our proposal increases public space from 2.5% to 34% and units per acre from 40 to 72.5. By attempting to be more mindful of Austin’s future without forgetting the rich past of the Saltillo Neighborhood, our project shows how large-scale planning can contribute to a more responsive city in the face of rapid population growth without undermining existing communities.
Connectivity and Capital Investment New Development Analysis
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Existing Proposed Building Massing and Open Space
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Urban Section and Masterplan Preserving Existing Culture, Building High Density, and Designing for Human Scale
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4th + Frontage
Saltillo District | Austin, TX Design IV | Professor Dean Almy | Spring 2015 The University of Texas School of Architecture In the face of population growth and gentrification in Austin, 4th + Frontage revives unused areas of the city, restitches the torn urban fabric, and stays adaptable to changing needs of the city as well as the evolution of the urban population’s needs. The project occupies property adjacent to and under the I35 highway that has been restructured resulting from an urban plan undertaking. The move increases porosity and connectivity between downtown and East Austin, while an existing building, graffiti wall, and a faceted growing
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volume interact three dimensionally to create an occupiable grid for a wide range of inhabitants to personalize their own space. Programs as distinct as a boutique hotel and offices, shops and apartments, studios and four bedroom town-homes exist in a building neighborhood protected by a skin of screens for privacy and environmental control. Understanding that Austin’s young population is not far from creating high amounts of urban families, the grid is adaptable to growth within the city, reducing urban sprawl, traffic congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions. Grounded by a grand hall developed in the space under the highway, the project’s public spaces offer opportunities for markets, events, and gathering. 4th + Frontage is a concept for how adapting and integrating urban housing and infrastructure might create a more lively, diverse, and connected environment for living.
Flexible Structure for Demographic Change Growing in Place
Urban Massing Mitigating Scale with Site Context
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Adaptable Housing at Various Scales
Connecting East and West Through Public Program
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Ground Floor Plan Programming Urban Infrastructure
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Rockite|Plastic|Scissors
Austin, TX Design I | Professor Joyce Rosner | Fall 2013 The University of Texas School of Architecture Beginning with a solid prism, volumes were carefully subtracted from the greater whole through the use of plastic food containers and bubble wrap, defining individual spaces while simultaneously redefining the understanding of the whole. Concrete, as always is a lesson in form-work, and this exercise illustrated the possibilities form-work has for surprising and unexpected results. Although conceived at the size of an object, the intention was to see formal relationships as infinitely scalable.
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Decomposition of Mass Section and Elevation
Wood Joint
Austin, TX Design I | Professor Joyce Rosner | Fall 2013 The University of Texas School of Architecture Studying finger joints and the way hands meet through the use of blind contour drawings, my preconceptions of connection changed. These studies drove the form of a wood joint that expressed the connectivity of clasped hands. The joint was crafted out of three different tones of wood and became a study in proportional relationships that appears almost building-like. The process of construction gave me a greater appreciation for detail and how to design for both concept and reality in buildings.
Elevation and Blind Contour Interlocking Fingers
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Bat-Form Platform
South Congress Bridge | Austin, TX Design II | Professor Brett Greig | Spring 2014 The University of Texas School of Architecture Inspired by anatomical studies of the Mexican free tailed bat, a viewing platform for the nightly bat departure from the South Congress Bridge took on a light, wing-like form. Connecting observants to new vantage points without obscuring current views, the structure only touches ground on inaccessible parkland, adding additional public space to the beautiful park that is not only useful for the popular summer event. Bat-form Platform becomes a park amenity, offering great skyline views, shade, and respite from the busy park trail.
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Spreading Across the Park Conceptual Site Plan
Conceptual Section A platform in flight
Early Massing Model Extrapolated Bat Geometry
Experiential Section Variability of Viewing Experiences Experiential Section
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Iris at Ragdale Ring
Ragdale Foundation | Lake Forest, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Ragdale Ring Competition Entry | Spring 2018 W| Emmanuel Garcia Our installation “Iris” invites new guests and old friends to experience the site through a different lens—beneath a web-like canopy, in-the-round. “Iris” is conceived as an extension of the encompassing tree canopy, formed by a network of criss-crossing ropes that span from perimeter tree trunks to a center ring. The filigree of taut ropes grows in density towards a central focal point—a circle of sunlight. This circular void creates an oculus that floods a stage below with uninterrupted light while the ropes cast
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crossing shadows onto the lawn. The stage, a single yellow disk, floats a step above the ground and is placed near the middle of this “living-room” for artists, performers and observers alike to occupy. Audience members are invited to view performances “in-the-round,” seated on movable spheres of air (green exercise balls) that can be rearranged as the sun changes positions or as artists and audience see fit. The audience, seated around the stage with patterns of shadows crossing over them, becomes an ever-changing participant in the performance in front of them; the artists and actors are bathed in a traveling circle of sunlight. As day turns into night, visitors witness an additional spatial transformation, the filigree of thread above glowing against the darkness of the sky. The night shadows on the ground reveal their own constellations; the center of the Iris becomes a window to the stars above.
Performance in Nature The Historic Ragdale Ring
Proposed Ragdale Ring Theater in the Round and Nature
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Circular Truss Supported by Trees
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Proposed Ragdale Ring Concept Diagram
Iris at Ragdale Ring A Canopy Supported by Trees
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Entering a Performance by Night
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Looking up through Iris
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Austin Bat Center
South Congress Bridge | Austin, TX Design II | Professor Brett Greig | Spring 2014 The University of Texas School of Architecture Derived from an intensive exploration of bat anatomy, the Austin Bat Center on Lake Austin adapts a wing-like structure to respond to site conditions. Reshaping land to better route rain water to the river and integrating the building within this move allows planes to direct natural cooling and heating throughout. The center reclaims an under-utilized space of the existing park, providing public restrooms, an exhibition space, visitors information, and a vertical connection between the city and the park. Program spaces surround a central gathering space adjacent to the path, encouraging public engagement with the center.
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Flow around a Central Courtyard Circulation Diagram
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Entering the Exhibition Space
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Foundations College Prep
Roseland | Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Schematic Design to Design Development | 2017 - 2018 W| Larry Kearns, Chris-Annmarie Spencer, Brandon Hall Utilizing a project-based learning model, Foundations sought an architecture that responded to the needs of the curriculum, and their discipline model of restorative justice, creating spaces to mitigate conflict, and develop a culture of community. The resultant two volumes are a tight arrangement of two learning studios, one STEM and one humanities which surround a central volume for utilities and restorative spaces, and are situated between courtyards of various program for reflection or learning.
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Testing Scenarios and Engaging Stakeholders Play Models
STEM Studio Iterations
Arrangement Studies Formulating the Studio
Humanities Studio Iterations
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Inside a Humanities Studio Rendering by Joe Weishaar
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Additions Surround Programmed Courtyards
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Lowell Custom Homes
Lake Geneva, WI Intern Architect | Summer 2014 - Current
The imagery shown is a small selection of the projects built, under construction, and on the boards whose design I have led through floor plans, elevations, and / or interior details.
W | Todd Cauffman, Scott Lowell After my first year in architecture school, I was fortunate to be employed by a design-build firm in Lake Geneva, WI, Lowell Custom Homes. Building luxury second homes, the company is known for their quality construction and traditional designs. Given a small architecture staff and large quantity of work, I have been able to make significant contributions to the company’s portfolio over the past five years. I am fully involved in the design process from schematic design to construction drawings.
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In addition to design work, this job has exposed me to the residential construction industry. I am knowledgeable in construction techniques, understand the design-build process, and am capable of participating and contributing in client meetings as well as those with construction superintendents. Throughout the school year and over winter breaks I have continued to work for the company on schematic floor plans and elevations. Though the style of the work is not my personal approach to design, the lessons I have learned through the attention to detail and commitment to quality have impacted the way I see the field.
Clean Gables, Large Lake Views Modern Farmhouse
First Home under Construction, 2014
Simplified Victorian Maximizing a Tight Site
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Art School Lobby
Chicago, IL Professional Residency | Wheeler Kearns Architects Competition Entry | Spring 2018 W| Larry Kearns For the lobby, we envisioned the surfaces surrounding the eighth floor office suite doors as a physical portal. Kept purposefully abstract, the portal can be video mapped to take on radically different characters. To define the portal’s presence, we’re proposing stacking different sized blank “canvases” - actually shallow boxes of differing depths along both walls flanking the doors. In addition to creating three dimensional relief, it will also provide a series of ledges that can act as shelves. The boxes, painted white
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to cohere with the remainder of the wall, will provide a diffusive surface ideal for projection. With two or three digital projectors hung in the ceiling above, the surfaces of the stacked canvases can take on many identities. Each box can be precisely mapped to display a single image of student artwork. Alternatively, a series of “canvases” can be aggregated to illustrate a larger single work of art. Canvases can host video images. Images can slowly drift from one canvas to another. Donors can appear on canvases week to week or day to day. Projected images include school social media feeds and event notices. There are an infinite number of possibilities. The lobby can transition to a traditional gallery, using the projectors to provide accent lighting for three-dimensional works on ledges or physical two-dimensional works hung on the boxes. The space will be dynamic even when projectors are off.
An Aggregation of Blank Canvases Concept Sketch
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Donor Names and Sculpture Shelves
Singular Art Piece on Aggregated Canvases
Multiple Art Pieces and Donor Names
Rendered Elevations Variable Displays
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Market Marfa
Marfa, TX Design V | Professor Judy Birdsong | Fall 2015 The University of Texas School of Architecture With Marfa’s growing popularity amongst residents of large US cities, there is an increasing desire to provide public transit to the cultural mecca in the desert. Additionally, due to the recent removal of the town’s market, residents and visitors alike lack a public space to gather away from museums, homes, and hotels. Market Marfa conceives of a mash-up between a train station and public market that stitches together the communal spaces of the town, defining the heart of downtown and creating a social ‘living room’ for visitors
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and locals alike. Multiple programs are arranged under one large roof designed to formally and conceptually connect the public realm, picking up material and formal queues from the surrounding corrugated metal-roofed warehouses and galleries. Concerned with the intensity of Texas sunlight, the canopy features a variety of aperture densities to indicate path and function beneath, allowing light to define use and inhabitation. Variation in the ground plane and small occupiable volumes arranged throughout create a gradient of scale, allowing for large scale events like markets and concerts to coexist with waiting passengers, small group meetings, and individual respite. Operable partitions create flexibility in plan and provide backdrops for a variety of distinct events. Market Marfa provides shelter for inclusive programming, promoting a connection between residents and visitors, and attempting to bridge an ever increasing social divide.
Variable Partitions, Shade and Separation Conceptual Model
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Travel Photography
Northern Europe + France
Marfa, TX
Advanced Studio | Professor John Blood | Fall 2016
Design V | Professor Judy Birdsong | Fall 2015
École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
The University of Texas School of Architecture
Attempting to record not the actuality of place or time but rather the mental image and feeling of a memory, my travel photos are edited to capture moments that felt special, sights that took my breath away. I found myself less and less trying to capture iconic building imagery, and instead trying to see and document places from unique perspectives.
Using photography to explore qualities of light and shadow, a pinhole camera was designed to capture and manipulate the intense sunlight of Texas. Fabricated from lasercut plywood and walnut, the camera works for film and paper photography with filters that can be arranged for varying effects on light entering through three pinholes. Shot with the pinhole camera, a collection of photos shows a range of subjects, exposures, sun conditions, and filters. Most are too abstracted to see the subject, making them studies in positive and negative space. The images are left with a feeling, not a reality.
This way of thinking resulted in a fuller personal record of experiencing architecture than I could capture in a typical travel photo.
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Habitation La Villete
19th Arrondissement + Pantin | Paris, France Study Abroad | Professor Igor Siddiqui | Fall 2016 École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture The University of Texas School of Architecture Sited in between the 19th Arrondissement of Paris and the suburb of Pantin, France, Habitation La Villete tackles the pressures of a new growing community all the while acknowledging and celebrating the richness and presence of its history. Adaptively reusing the existing Halles aux Cuirs, a unique concrete building formerly used as a leather tanning factory, and introducing a new residential tower with a density
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that gives a nod towards that of a Parisian city block, the design aims to transform the neglected city edge into a vibrant space which not only serves as a destination for some, but also a residence for others. Programming the tower for a diverse group of inhabitants involved stacking the Parisian block vertically, allowing each to have the community scale of traditional city housing while taking advantage of views to downtown and lifting the housing above a busy thoroughfare. Large communal spaces are situated between the blocks to act as a plaza in the sky, a place for the informal street encounters of a city street, an opportunity to share program in a collective space. The project tells a story of one object in the field becoming two; the first a celebration of the past, and the second a creation of a new history through inhabitation, allowing for distinct programs like studios and performances to occupy space between existing and new infrastructure.
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Remove Central Volume and Provide Vertical Access to Site
Regulate New Building Boundaries, Connect Across Site
Define Public Program
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Building Massing Connecting Development to Parisian Context
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Sunday Afternoon Cultural Programming in Re-purposed Infrastructure
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Urban Section Creating a Beacon Based on the Parisian Block
Stacked Housing Blocks
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Double Height Unit City Views, Operable Shading for Thermal Control
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Kerry Frank
300B W 34th St. Austin, TX 78705
Education
Experience
The University of Texas 2013 - 2020
Austin, TX
Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering Business Minor École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Fall 2016
Paris, FR
Travel Study Masters Studio, Urban Housing
Skills Personal Conversational Spanish Speaker, Quick Learner, Leader, Hard Worker, Team Player, Collaborator. Technical Adobe Creative Suite AutoCAD, Revit Microsoft Office, BlueBeam Navisworks, MS Project Assemble, BIM 360 Glue Model Making, Woodshop Sketchup, Rhino Digital Workflow
Volunteer Work Design II Teaching Assistant | Spring 2017 Taught and mentored students in early design studios. UTSoA Undergraduate Mentor | 2014 - Present Helped freshmen make the transition to architecture school. AIA Austin Homes Tour Docent | 2014 - Present Monitored visitors and answered questions about homes.
kerryfrank@utexas.edu 847 - 987 - 5376
Wheeler Kearns Architects Chicago, IL Intern Architect | 2017 - 2019 Worked as part of UTSoA’s Residency Program on multiple educational, cultural, and non-profit projects. Directed CA for NUSA Rowe Middle School. Participated from SD to CD on Foundations College Prep and a corporate office expansion project. Shepley Bulfinch Architects Boston, MA Intern Architect | Summer 2016 Joined the healthcare team for CD’s and early planning for large hospital expansions. Participated on an urban design competition team, winning most innovative design. LPA, Inc. Intern Architect | Summer 2015
San Diego, CA
Worked on the interiors team to create San Diego Unified School District’s design guidelines, CD’s for targeted development offices, and schematic designs for retail. Lowell Custom Homes Intern Architect | 2014 - 2019
Lake Geneva, WI
Designed projects from small remodels to 9,000 sf traditional custom lake homes. Participated in all stages of the design / build process: design through construction, participating in both client and contractor meetings. Continue to contract for design and drafting during school. Current NCARB Hours
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Honors BHS Alumni Artist of the Year | 2017 Most Innovative Design, Urban Hackathon | Summer 2016 Sound Building with Distinction | Spring 2016 Published, ISSUE:011 | Spring 2015
FLW Preservation Trust Tour Guide | 2006 - 2014 Guided groups of 20+ on tours of FLW’s home and studio.
Cockrell Engineering Scholarships | 2014, 15, 16, 18
Judd Foundation Chinati Docent | Fall 2016
Design Excellence Nomination | Fall 2013
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