NA T H AN
KOROL
01
KLEIN & HOFFMAN
Spring - Summer 2015
Located in Chicago’s downtown Loop, K&H is an established multidisciplinary firm that specializes in architectural & engineering design for resotration and historic preservation. My six-month internship in their A/E department captured all project-management phases, as well as the process of initial on-site scaffold inspection and diagnosis, design documents, bidding, and constuction admisnitration.
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150 South Wacker Drive, Suite 1900 Chicago, Illinois 60606 Phone (312) 251-1900
02
PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE
Fall 2014
This firm specialized in commercial and residential projects, some of which were design-build under the company “Parallel Design + Build.� As an architectural intern, I utilized Revit to create detailed 3D building information models for design and the production of construction documents for final permit sets. I also researched new products and expanded my software skill-set in augmented realities for marketing applications.
(Renderings in collaboration with office partners and Maya Krolikowski)
03 EX
MUSEUM OF ANCIENT LIFE
WASHINGTON ST.
WASHINGTON ST.
Downtown Limits Urban-Blight
Capstone Studio Prof. William Worn
Project Site Green-Space
Fall 2012 - 12 weeks “EX” is an archaeological center for discovery and education that brings the community together to explore Champaign’s past, share its present, and imagine its future. This Museum of Ancient Life seeks to reverse urban blight with the revival of one vacant lot in downtown Champaign, IL. The various uses of excavation exposes architectural intersections which enhance the experience of exhibition. Abstract “artifact” models were generated by transforming concepts found in the museum precedent ‘Kunsthal’ by Rem Koolhas/OMA. The museum site becomes an extension of the city fabric by incorporating an “excavated” plaza, free for public use. Within the museum, spatial unification is achieved through a continuous circuit of ramps and transition spaces. The translucent channel-glass facade allows the gallery spaces natural light, but also obscures direct views into the exhibition space from the outside. The “excavated” plaza exposes the museum’s main volume belowgrade, juxtaposing two facades. The main facade honors archaeology, clad in translucent channel-glass screen-printed with signage and archaeological icons. The excavated facade honors geological history, composed of pre-fab concrete panels embedded with fossils and rocks, as well as back-lit translucent stone. Architecture in this case becomes an act of communication, education built into the facades, for the benefit of the entire community.
Champaign, IL
Artifact
Site Plan
Excavation
Base/Materiality
Excavation I
Exhibition
Structure/Circulation
Excavation II
Re-excavation
Enclosure/Lighting
Excavation III
Expose
Intersect
Composite
Composite
Parapet 30’
8
1
1
9
4
10 4
3
4
6
6
6
2
7 5
Level 2 15’
6
12
Level 1 0’
1
Single-glazed skylight module
8
Indigenous green roof vegetation
2
Low-e translucent channel glass
9
8” of growing medium
3
Polycarbonate ceiling panels
10 Green roof drainage and insulation
4
HVAC return ducts
11 Translucent stone panels
5
Translucent exhibition room glazing
12 Elevated under-floor HVAC supply
6
Fluorescent lamp fixtures
13 Below-grade rain collection tank
7
Maintenance walkway
7 3 5 11
Excavation -12’
12 Foundation -15’
13 SECTION A-A DETAIL
LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN
MUSEUM OF ANCIENT LIFE
A
NORTH ELEVATION
B
B
SECTION B-B
A
LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN
WEST ELEVATION
SECTION A-A
UNDERGROUND FLOOR PLAN
04 LAND-VIEW: BIO-ROADHOUSE Landscape Design Studio Prof. Allison Newmeyer Fall 2011 - 6 weeks Partner: Ryan Doidge SITE PLAN
By reinterpreting the scale of “site” to the nation as a whole, this project was able to take on a greater identity within the macro-scale landscape of interconnected highways, routes, and interstates across the US. This specific project site is in Morgan City, Louisiana. It is part of a nation-wide chain of ecological fueling stations and lodging. My partner developed the roadhouse component, and I developed the lodging. Together we developed our unique tourism opportunity: an adaptive nature boardwalk. The temporal nature of perception while driving on the highway results in a compression of visual stimuli, evoking a design sensibility towards movement. Breaking up the program into sections allowed for view control going in and out, giving the passerby glimpses or ‘snapshots’ that are pieced together when viewed along the appropriate path on the adjacent route 90 overpass. As the highway-oriented facade of the roadhouse screens views according to the adjacent interior program, the interior facade remains as open as possible for natural light and visual unification of the central plaza. The elevated plaza becomes a central gathering space and a public focal point that benefits from axial views. The protracting volumes of the lodging building connect views with the courtyard to the south as well as scenic axial views of the nature boardwalk to the north.
EXTENDED SITE SECTION
LEVEL 3 FLOOR PLAN 5 LEVEL
FLOOR PLAN
LEVEL 2 FLOOR5 PLAN LEVEL 2 FLOOR PLAN
LEVEL 1.5 FLOOR 5 PLAN LEVEL 1.5 FLOOR PLAN
5 LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN
LEVEL 1 FLOOR PLAN
ROADHOUSE
HOSTEL
05
PERSONAL ARTISTIC WORKS
2007 - Present
The human capacity for imagination and creativity has always fascinated me, especially how the design process becomes an actualized image or space. My spatial thinking and designing employs an aesthetic ranging from the purely mathematical to surreal dreamscapes. The following gallery of personal artistic works are highlights from commissions, independent projects, and academic projects. Alongside my architectural work, I continue to expand my expertise of the visual arts, now with the aid of photography, digital media, 3D-modeling, and programming. (See more at NathanPKorol.weebly.com)
“Game of Life” - 2013 30”x40” / Acrylic on Canvas
“Concentric Transconductance” - 2011 30”x40” / Acrylic on Canvas
“The Sublime Ascension” - 2007 (The Divine Comedy) 24”x30” / Colored Pencils on Paper
“Ludoviscosity” - 2007 (A Clockwork Orange) 24”x28” / Mixed Media on Paper