Kerry Frank
The University of Texas School of Architecture
Portfolio 2020
Intro
Hi, I’m Kerry! I’m a graduating student from the University of Texas 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,
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working every school break. Through my professional and academic endeavors I have concretized my belief in the power of collaboration and the importance of purposeful and dignified architecture. Recently, I completed all of my ARE’s and will be licensed in the state of Wisconsin following my graduation. In the coming months, I will be pursuing my LEED AP and my Fundamentals of Engineering (FE). This portfolio is a selection of my work over the past seven years, I hope you enjoy it.
Index
Nexus Center for Art
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East Austin TOD Housing
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‘Iris’ at Ragdale Ring
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Market Marfa
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L’ Habitation La Villete
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The Michelle Obama Justice Center
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Resume + Experience
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Nexus Center for Art
Lady Bird Lake | Austin, TX Professor Gary Wang | Spring 2016 University of Texas School of Architecture Awarded Sound Building with Distinction Austin is generally deemed the most culturally progressive city in Texas, yet it lacks a true definition or actualization of cultural spaces, becoming a cultural fabric rather than a city containing distinct cultural institutions. Pinpointing cultural hot-spots in the city, it seems Austin could
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be organized around a central avenue of encourages collaboration. Performance, cultural activity defined by Ballet Austin and exhibition, and discussion spaces exist on the Austin Music Hall. both ends of each volume while the central avenue allows for events of variable sizes. The proposal of a Nexus Center for New Art Sectionally, the volumes intersect blocks extends this cultural avenue and connects emerging from the site that contain practice the city and Lady Bird Lake bringing urban spaces, studios, and classrooms. growth in touch with the green roots of the city. Along this extension, three building Permeable and flexible, Nexus is more volumes visually connect Austin’s existing public infrastructure than insular building. cultural centers, framing views across the Its rigid frame system wrapped with city. corrugated steel punctured by skylights and channel glass melds Austin’s Programmed for three art forms: visual, warehouse vernacular with that of performing, and auditory, their intersection traditional metropolitan museums.
Looking Through Event and Practice Spaces Urban Section
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Urban Section Looking Through Exhibition and Studio Spaces
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Site Plan Creating a Public Cultural Campus
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4� Stud Wall, Insulated Suspended Track Lighting Channel Glass, Sheet Metal Frame Concrete Walk, Board Form Finish Suspended, Exposed Mechanical Reinforced Concrete Foundation Metal Cabinetry Materials Storage Concrete Pilings
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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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West Elevation Elevations Connecting the City to the Park
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Day to Night Urban Experience Connecting the City to the Park
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East Austin TOD Housing
and under the I35 highway that has been restructured resulting from an urban plan undertaking. The move increases porosity Professor Dean Almy | Spring 2015 and connectivity between downtown and University of Texas School of Architecture East Austin, while an existing building, graffiti wall, and a faceted growing volume In the face of population growth and interact three dimensionally to create gentrification in Austin, the East Austin TOD an occupiable grid for a wide range of Housing proposal revives unused areas of inhabitants to personalize their own space. the city, restitches the torn urban fabric, and stays adaptable to changing needs of Programs as distinct as a boutique hotel the city as well as the evolution of the urban and offices, shops and apartments, studios and four bedroom town-homes exist in a population’s needs. neighborhood protected by a screen skin The project occupies property adjacent to for privacy and environmental control. Saltillo District | Austin, TX
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Understanding that Austin’s large young population is not far from evolving into 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. The building is a concept for how adapting and integrating urban housing and infrastructure might create a more lively, diverse, and connected environment for living.
Connecting East and West Through Public Program Urban Section
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Urban Section Scaling Volume to Context
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Urban Section and Masterplan Proposal Preserving Existing Culture, Building High Density, and Designing for Human Scale
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Programming Urban Infrastructure Ground Floor Plan
Urban Massing Mitigating Scale with Site Context
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‘Iris’ at Ragdale Ring
Ragdale Foundation | Lake Forest, IL Wheeler Kearns Architects Competition Entry | Spring 2018
tree trunks to a center ring. The 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 crossing shadows onto the lawn.
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.
The stage, a yellow disk, floats above the ground in 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 green exercise balls that can be rearranged as the sun changes positions or as artists and audience see fit.
As day turns into night, visitors witness an additional spatial transformation, the filigree of thread above glowing against the darkness of the night sky. Shadows cast on the ground by the web of rope reveals new constellations, and the center of the Iris becomes a window to view the stars above.’
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 crisscrossing ropes that span from perimeter
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Tree Canopy to Canopy of Rope Section
Circular Truss Supported by Trees
Tensioned Rope Canopy
Round Stage
Array of Exercise Balls for Viewing
Proposed Ragdale Ring Concept Diagram
The Historic Ragdale Ring
Proposed Ragdale Ring Theater in the Round and Nature
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Entering a Performance by Night 18
Looking up through Iris 19
Marfa Community Center
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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 and locals alike.
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. The Marfa Community Center conceives of a
Multiple programs are arranged under one roof designed to formally and conceptually connect public space, picking up material queues from surrounding corrugated metalroofed warehouses and galleries. Aware of intense Texas sunlight, the canopy features a variety of aperture densities to indicate path and function beneath, allowing light to define use and inhabitation.
Marfa, TX Professor Judy Birdsong | Fall 2015
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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. The Marfa Community Center provides shelter for inclusive programming, promoting a connection between residents and visitors, and attempting to bridge an ever increasing social divide.
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Conceptual Section Sketch
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Urban Section Spaces of Variable Scale and Program
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Site Plan Designing for Shade and Context
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Evening Performance Creating a Community Living Room
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L’ Habitation La Villete
reusing the existing Halles aux Cuirs, a unique concrete building formerly used as a leather tanning factory, and introducing Professor Igor Siddiqui | Fall 2016 a new residential tower with a density that École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture gives a nod towards that of a Parisian city block, the design aims to transform the W | Mayen Ondo, Hadrien Grimaldi, Haylee neglected city edge into a vibrant space which not only serves as a destination for Lovelady + Alienor Goffart some, but also a home for others. Sited in between the 19th Arrondissement of Paris and the suburb of Pantin, France, Programming the tower for a diverse Habitation La Villete tackles the pressures group of inhabitants involved stacking the of a new growing community all the while Parisian block vertically, allowing each to acknowledging and celebrating the richness have the community scale of traditional city and presence of its history. Adaptively housing while taking advantage of views to 19th Arrondissement + Pantin | Paris, FR
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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.
Creating a Beacon Based on the Parisian Block Urban Section
Clear Site, Maintain Tanning Factory
Remove Volume and Provide Vertical Access
Regulate Building Boundaries, Connect Site
Define Public Program
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Establish Vertical Circulation
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Stacked Housing Blocks Over Public Infrastructure 29
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School Library Mechanical Theaters Public Plaza, Park Courtyard Gallery Restaurant, Cafe, Bar Residential Lobby Lecture Hall Artist Studios
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Street / Tram Level Site Plans Integrating with Urban Infrastructure
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Cultural Programming in Re-purposed Infrastructure
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The Michelle Obama Justice Center
Studying the concept of restorative justice and the structural problems inherent in Professor Michael Garrison | Spring 2019 today’s legal system informed a building that integrated itself within the city, not University of Texas School of Architecture one that stood apart, a building with courtyards that allow for daylight and beauty to enter without compromising Nominated for Design Excellence security, and a building that incorporates compassion and dignity through selection W| Danielle Ndubisi of additional programming and respect for The proposed Michelle Obama Justice the importance of each individual in the Center questions traditional notions of legal process. a courthouse by subverting imposing architecture and hierarchy in favor of a low Sited on an incredibly steep site adjacent to a public monumental square, the Justice profile building that welcomes all. Capital District | Austin, TX
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Center visually connects residential scale to the West with city scale to the East. The massing is carved away for existing heritage live oaks, large courtyards, and points of public entry. Sectionally, the center connects two streets across three levels, with the most secure, private program, the court, on the middle floor, and judges’ quarters on the top floor. Building systems, mechanical, circulation, structure, and program adjacencies are considered as part of one overall design vision and work in unison to improve the human experience of the legal system.
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Stormwater Axon Diagram
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E|W Section Through Atrium
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Mitigating Transparency and Topography Elevations
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Kerry Frank Contact
Work Experience
kerryfrank@utexas.edu 847.987.5376 2503 Bridle Path Unit A | Austin, TX
NCARB Certified
Education The University of Texas at Austin 2013 - 2020 Bachelor of Architecture B.S. Architectural Engineering Business Minor École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Fall 2016 Masters Studio, Urban Housing
Skills
Personal Project Management, BIM Coordination Client and Consultant Communication , Digital Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Revit, Enscape Microsoft Office, BlueBeam, Navisworks, MS Project, Assemble, 3D Printing, Sketchup, Rhino, Digital Workflow Analog Model Making, Woodshop, Painting
Honors Design Excellence Nomination | 2013,18 BHS Alumni Artist of the Year | 2017 Most Innovative, Urban Hackathon | 2016
Wheeler Kearns Architects Chicago, IL Intern Architect | 2017 - 2020 Team member on multiple educational, cultural, and non-profit projects. Directed CA for NUSA Rowe Middle School. Worked from schematic design through early construction documents on Foundations College Prep and a corporate office expansion project. architectEURE Austin, TX Intern Architect | 2019 - 2020 Assisted in the design and construction documents for Austin residential projects, new construction and remodels. Developed client relations and introduced new software. Shepley Bulfinch Architects Boston, MA Intern Architect | Summer 2016 Worked in healthcare on construction documents and planning for hospital expansion projects. Won most innovative design for a Boston urban design competition. LPA, Inc. Intern Architect | Summer 2015
Worked in interiors on San Diego Unified School District’s design guidelines, schematic designs for retail, and construction documents for targeted development offices. Lowell Custom Homes Intern Architect | 2014 - 2019
Volunteer Work Design II Teaching Assistant | Spring 2017,19 Taught and mentored students in early design studios. UTSoA Undergraduate Mentor | 2014 - 2017 Mentored freshmen making the transition to architecture school. AIA Austin Homes Tour Docent | 2014 - 2017
Published, ISSUE:011 | 2015
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Lake Geneva, WI
Designed 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. Drafted remotely throughout my education.
Sound Building Distinction | 2016
Cockrell Scholarships | 2014,15,16,18
San Diego, CA
FLW Preservation Trust Tour Guide | 2006 - 2014 Guided groups of 20+ on tours of FLW’s home and studio.
Experience Rowe Middle School | Chicago, IL Wheeler Kearns Architects Construction Admin | Summer 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. Photo by Tom Harris
Charter High School | Chicago, IL Wheeler Kearns Architects Design Development | 2018 W| Larry Kearns, Chris Ann Spencer The school responds to the needs of a project-based learning model and their discipline model of restorative justice, creating spaces to mitigate conflict, and develop a culture of community. Rendering by Joe Weishaar
Tech Office Campus | Chicago, IL Wheeler Kearns Architects Design Development | 2018 W| Larry Kearns, Emmanuel Garcia A multi-phased project involving a campus masterplan, interior renovations, and new townhall addition to an existing property. The design focused on visually connecting to nature and creating communal amenities. Rendering by outside renderer.
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Thank you.
kerryfrank@utexas.edu
847.987.5376