MARK LINENBERGER A R C H I T E C TU R AL PO R TFO L IO
MARK LINENBERGER EXPERIENCE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS 2009 - 2014 School of Architecture, Design, and Planing - Graduating in May 2014 with Masters of Architecture ENSA VAL DE SEINE PARIS, FRANCE SEPTEMBER - JANUARY 2014 Ecole Nationale Superiour d’Architecture Exchange program for fall semester of 2013
WORK ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL PARIS, FRANCE FEBRUARY - MAY 2014 Primarily in charge of Rhino model for 80,000 square meter government office tower in Rijswijk, Netherlands. Created basic renderings for design meetings focusing on changes to the design and alternate proposals. Also worked in grasshopper to develop a louver system that optimizes reflections seen on the reflective louvers from the offices while keeping the form to a minimal number of unique panels. CORGAN DALLAS, TEXAS MAY - AUGUST 2013 Worked on multiple projects from around 200,000 - 600,000 square feet with mission critical and office components. Refined detail drawings for a project in construction administration while continually updating the Revit model. Produced site plans and initial views for newer projects as well as providing some design options. BRUCE GLASS GARDEN CITY, KANSAS MAY - AUGUST 2011 Created initial set of plans for a single family residence. Created elevations, plans, and sections for several renovation projects. Went with architect to site visits and client meetings. GMCN GARDEN CITY, KANSAS MAY - AUGUST 2010 Worked on construction documents for a large new high school and several renovation projects. Created plans and elevations for existing buildings.
SKILLS 3D Modeling Rhino Grasshopper Revit SketchUp
Graphic/2D Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD
Rendering Vray for Rhino Vray for SketchUp 3DS Max
Other Sketching, model making, photography
CONTACT
marklinenberger@gmail.com
EXTRACURRICULAR AIAS PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER MAY 2012 - APRIL 2013 Created posters for upcoming events ad meetings and making announcements through social media. Helped organize monthly meetings and took part in executive board meetings. AIAS CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE MAY - NOVEMBER 2012 Organized a workshop for rammed earth for the Midwest regional AIAS Fall Quad Conference hosted by our chapter. The workshop consisted of a lecture on rammed earth and then participants were invited to create their own rammed earth samples. Also worked throughout the conference in many other events. AIAS CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE MAY - AUGUST 2011 Attended AIAS Forum in Phoenix Winter 2012 and AIAS Quad conference in Detroit Spring 2012
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS Monsters of Design, Best of Show: Roth Trailhead AIA Kansas Honor Award: Roth Trailhead 50x50 Building of the Week, American-Architects.com KU Today, “KUFS’s new Roth Trailhead wins two design awards” - November 2012 Rammed Earth Conservation, “From the Ground Up” - June 2012 Lawrence Journal World, “Trail Entrance to Honor Teachers” - May 2012
PLACES LIVED
PARIS, FRANCE DALLAS, TEXAS LAWRENCE, KANSAS GARDEN CITY, KANSAS
PLACES TRAVELLED UNITED STATES CHICAGO DETROIT ST. LOUIS KANSAS CITY NEW ORLEANS DENVER PHOENIX LAS VEGAS SAN DIEGO
ASIA SEOUL, KOREA BUSAN, KOREA TOKYO, JAPAN KYOTO, JAPAN BEIJING, CHINA SHANGHAI, CHINA SUZHOU, CHINA HANGZHOU, CHINA
EUROPE LONDON, UK ROME, ITALY AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS BERLIN, GERMANY ISTANBUL, TURKEY BARCELONA, SPAIN
RIJSWIJK EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE
ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL
Images courtesy of AJN
While at Ateliers Jean Nouvel, I worked on the European Patent Office for Rijswijk in the Netherlands. It is an 80,000 square meter project that was won as a competition and will begin construction soon. I was on this project during design development and was in charge of 3D modeling as elements of the design changed. I would often develop multiple iterations of any proposal to be visualized. The model was used frequently to study the connections of the new building to the existing building.
VISUALIZATIONS
Some examples of images I created to show changes in the design to the clients and consultants. All modeling was done in Rhino and Vray was used to generate simple renders. The two images on the left were focusing on the “Hinge�, the building that connects the new to the old. It was to show how the buildings meet and what the overall composition might feel like. The other images were to show the different aspects of the facade and how they relate to each other.
SCRIPTING Use of Grasshopper to generate facade system. These images and scripts are still works in progress and not fully developed. The goal is to use Grasshopper to create louvers on the facade that look similar to the ones in images used for the competition, but now they also have to actually perform their purpose of reflecting what is below into the offices and also be able to be fabricated with a minimal number of unique panels. These are two scripts that I have created to reach these goals. The first one shows what will be reflected in the louvers from any given point in the building. The second script utilizes only thirteen unique panels and arrays them so that each panel will influence the next panel based on the previous ones shape. They have to follow certain rules to achieve the desired outcome. For instance, when a flat panel is chosen, the probability that another will be chosen next is increased so that the overall form will have more gentle variation. P1
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This project is a design for a new Opera House in Chicago. It was a group effort with myself and two other partners. We wanted to create an icon for Chicago to suit the prominent location within the city. Our concept was to create a large sculptural and also structural shell that supports a glass shell beneath it through tension. Then, within the glass shell is a final opaque shell that encloses the auditorium and stage elements. The exterior hall is perforated to allow light through in the day and light out at night when the building is alive. The building faces South, directly down the river to offer excellent views from the Lobby. Surrounding the site is a large plaza with glass walls to protect the plaza from the strong winds and to dampen noise from the river.
CHICAGO LYRIC OPERA
This is a project for my comprehensive studio to design a culinary based community center with many programmatic needs such as a kitchen, tool rental shed, event space, market, green house, seed library, and a business incubator. The concept looks to the past when civilizations were formed around the common need for food. Two major aspects that relate to this are the courtyard and the tower. The courtyard acts as a public forum for the people to interact and the tower symbolizes the strength of the community in the way Granaries did in the past. This building offers the chance for the neighborhood to benefit from the food and businesses that they can help grow.
DENVER
CULINARY INCUBATOR
LAWRENCE
ROTH TRAILHEAD
The Roth Trailhead was a design build studio project where I was part of a ten person team that designed and built the project in one semester. We focused on the materiality of rammed earth and the effect of the structure rising from the prairie just as the treeline begins. We began the studio with research and experimentation of rammed earth. We then designed the wall and canopy and presented our ideas to our clients. We budgeted the entire project, created construction documents, and had a structural engineer consult with us. We then began construction. Most of the canopy was being prefabricated off site by one group of students while the other group was on site for the wall. I was able to experience and play a role in all aspects of the project, learning many things on the way.
PROCESS
First foundations were created for the wall, then formwork was built around the foundations. Soil and aggregate were mixed with a small amount of water, cement, and pigment and then dumped into the forms layer by layer. Each layer would be rammed by one or two people in the forms with the pneumatic rammer. The forms are then removed and rebuilt for the next section. At the same time, in our warehouse, the steel canopy was being fabricated. The wood slats were also cut and treated with a process called Shou-sugi-ban, where the outer layer of the wood is burned to create a protective barrier. Those pieces were then hauled out to the site to be attached to the columns we encased in the rammed earth. The final steps were coating the wall with a sealant to protect against weathering and then finally completing the site work to connect it to the trails.
PARIS SKYSCRAPER
A one week design charrette for a 180 meter skyscraper on the edge of Paris. The city of Paris had recently raised the height limit on buildings outside of the city to 180 meters. This area is part of a cluster of new developments taking advantage of the new limit. My concept was to take the complex network of Parisian streets and flip them to the sky to create a vertical conglomeration of several city blocks with aerial courtyards and public venues for entertainment and recreation. Each cell of the building also provides wonderful views of Paris and the surrounding area.
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C O N TA C T marklinenberger@gmail.com