Portfolio - 2015

PORTFOLIO KAMREN KUBESH

Bridge Museum This is a study of materials and methods used on Kengo Kuma’s Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum addition in Yusuhara, Japan. The study model represents the building at ¾” = 1’, standing at 3.5 feet tall. The location of the study model section was critical to gathering key components that make up the components of the structure.

The structure constructed to bridge the gap between two public buildings doubling as space for workshops and artist-in-residence programs.

The structure features a series of Japanese cedar timbers in a system used by the Chinese called Dougong. The use of Japanese timber is often used in religious shrines and palaces, giving the structure a more suggestive significance. The use of Japanese cedar is suitable for the damp climate conditions, as a secondary precaution every exterior surface is laminated or sealed.

Interior view of the corridor.

A sloped footing supports the cooridor joining the two buildings together.

Kengo Kuma’s use of traditional materials and methods draws the eye to Japanese cedar structure, hidding the supporting steel and elevator. Long corridor is lined with windows giving the viewer fullview of the surrounding mountains. The base of the corridor is lined with cedar flooring over the top of a thin layer of insulation. The section cuts help reveal the very fine components that waterproof and insulate the structure. Below is a very large continuous slab of wood resting on top of the interlocking timbers in a triangulated form to meet at a single load bearing column. High structural steel column is placed in a concrete sloped footing. The flexibility of timber and the interlocking structure helps withstand earthquake conditions.

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Drawings of Kengo Kuma’s Bridge Museum addition. The section of the study model is shown above.

Full study model.

Section revealing the various building components.

Creative Enterprise Zone Our team was asked to analyze an existing building in St. Paul, Minnesota for a potential creative commons space for CEZ’s growing community.

The building was used as an ambulance outfitting facility. Over time, the building has remained rather vacant.

The building is made up of three separate buildings that had been joined together over time. Much of the existing infrastructure from the ambulance outfitting facility still exist in the space. There are a number of office type spaces that appear to have been put in during different periods of time.

By working directly with the client we helped develop programs that were appropriate for the Creative Enterprise Zone community. We analyzed coworking spaces, fabrication labs, hacker spaces, maker spaces, and techshops that are all membership based program spaces. All different types of spaces that provide a multi-use settings under one structure.

Through our research of the space, site and community we devised a few different types of design interventions that would help improve the existing building. By removing some of the existing walls the space becomes open and navigable. Using the garage and mechanical system we developed a space that could be adjustable using the existing tools in the space.

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Heath Ceramics Heath Ceramics was founded on the principles of environmental and social points of view to “create simple, good things for good people.�

Refining and creating ceramics over the past 65 years and now looking towards a new site in the Midwest.

This project was an exploration in materials and their qualities and limitations. Working with medium-density fibreboard (MDF) to explore a box form and how openings interact with the street level. Transitioning from MDF to concrete quickly helped discover characteristics of concrete. The concrete form would house the showroom for Heath Ceramic displaying of flatware, dinnerware, decorative house items, tiles, and clothing.

Openings in the showroom were strategically placed to bring in natural lighting on three different sides of the building. The placement of the openings toward the back of the site helped create a view from street level of the bridge. The front of the showroom provides a public atrium lined with mosaic of Heath Ceramic tiles. The glass curtain wall in the atrium allows for public to see into the show room when passing through the public space.

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Ceramic shrinkage rulers are used to predict the final product size. Along the process of drying and firing the ceramic particles come closer together. There are three stages that ceramics go through to get to the final product, (A) Greenware (Wet Clay), (B) Bone Dry (Dry Clay), (C) Bisqueware (Fired Clay). The trusses form resembles this change as the ceramic pieces move through the facility to completion.

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Adjacent to the show room is a large warehouse where Heath Ceramics will develop the majority of their ceramic products. The warehouse is pulled forward to allow for space to host events.

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recycled back through to continue producing more ceramics. Placement of the windows allow for the public to look in at the process of production as it passes through the kiln. The placement of the warehouse and showroom are close the street edge replicated the warehouse district qualities of the surround context.

Card-Struction This exploration in material structural and joinery techniques of common deck of cards. Pulling together a greater understanding of how the material reacts when being folded and twisted.

We were given the task of constructing an eighteen-inch cantilever that could hold a tennis ball using only a deck of cards. When joining the cards we were not able to use any types of adhesives or staples.

We found that to be efficient with cards leaving them as straight as possible. Compression being applied towards the cards best reacted on the long edge. Using two main lines of cards joined together by triangular structure preventing twisting to occur in the lines. The cards were joined together by sliding cards through slots preventing rotation towards the ground. The use of triangular forms allowed created a counterbalance the tension and compression being applied by weight of the tennis ball. The secondary component was connecting to a square railing. The flat surface that rest against the railing helped prevent rotation around the railing itself. Using series of cards that were joined to prevent being pulled apart. Creating rope like characteristics wrapping around the railing and connecting back on itself prevented rotation by friction.

Once constructed, the cantilever had to be deconstructed to define the steps to construct a portion of the final project. The use of line weights and dashed lines conveyed the different cards and their placement on the structure. Each of the five steps guide one even with a common language barriers through the assembly process using only symbols and arrows.

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Precedence Dupli Casa Designed by J. Mayer H Dupli Casa is located in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

This was a study on the various components that create a structure. The building is rather unique structure that twist 225 degrees from its original 1984 floor plan of the existing family home. The form of the building provides a challenge in drawings as majority of modern day buildings continue straight up to the roofline.

Using Dupli Casa helped better understanding how a drawing might better convey the spaces created while rotating on an axis. The twisting form was recreated in floor plans and section in Auto-CAD, helping to further understand the structure and how the spaces interact with one another. By projecting the wall movement in the plans using various lines types showed the fluid forms of Dupli Casa. The use of architectural layer standards helped separate the number of components that make up Dupli Casa’s unusual form. Interior and exterior became blended as the organic formed openings followed the form the building. Using the plans helped better define exterior and interior skin and how it interacted between the two different environments.

Reference images are from Architectural News Plus and have been modified for this precedence study.

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Architectural layer standards helped define the different components that make up the buildings structure.

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PARALLEL PARK Located on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, MN this landscape project ties together two existing public buildings in the community. The site was proposed to be turned into a public park located between the public library and public school. Using the two existing buildings and river there were two major connections that could be made. One connection was a direct path from the library to the school entrances. Another connection was between the library and a prominent island located in the river.

The prominent parallel paths helped inform the design process by defining a direction and order to follow. The smaller parallel slabs helped bring the hardscape into the organic forms of nature and the river. Bringing moments of nature into the hardscape helped break the tension between nature and cityscape that often prevents further exploration on both sides of the landscape.

Spaces are defined by the various benches, tables, vegetation and hardscape, furthering a very diverse set of programs that could take place in the park. Vegetation is strategically placed between the parallel slabs and around boundaries to help reduce the runoff and erosion into the Mississippi River. The shoreline is scattered with a number of emersed plants to reduce pollutants affect on the wildlife and shore conditions.

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Parallel slabs placed to allow to vegetation to grow, landscapes.

Emersed plants help protect the shoreline from erosion and the river from run-off polutants.

tedxumn TEDxUMN is an organization that brings together the University of Minnesota community to hear ideas worth spreading. As a group of undergraduate students we brought together the various colleges and universities to showcase untold stories, research, and raw talent taking place in our local community. Our team focused heavily on the experience of the event, we want the event to be about starting a conversation.

The talks helped with the finishing touches of the event spurring interaction, cross collaboration, and new innovations.

I served as one of founding board members of TEDxUMN, starting as production manager my first year guiding volunteers and other teams to capture moments from the event, while providing the materials and setting of the overall event. The following year I became the primary licensee and organizer of the organization helping guide our various teams: Production, Graphic Design, Speaker Curation, Sponsorship, Attendee Experience, and Community Engagement. Our team successfully built a stronger TEDxUMN community and hosted a number of TEDx events on campus at the University of Minnesota. I transitioned as Co-organizer acting as an advisor for the successor of the TEDxUMN the following year, helping guide and reach out to TED on licensing questions and conflicts.

Through the years TEDxUMN successfully brought together thousands of students, faculty, and the local community through events, conversations, and videos. TEDxUMN brought together the various backgrounds that make up University of Minnesota and the local community in the Twin Cities area.

Aaron Doering Professor, College of Education and Human Development

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