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Center for Jazz Music
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Residential College
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Brady Street Market
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Junior Year
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Tectonic Campus
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Nathan Waddell 1140 S. 96th Street • West Allis, WI 53214 • CELL (414) 852Ͳ1611 • EͲMAIL waddelln@uwm.edu OBJECTIVE
EDUCATION
As an architecture student, I will dedicate my talent and passion in order to contribute to, and learn from architects, designers, and professionals. Major: Architecture, Bachelors of Science, Architectural Studies (BSAS) University of WisconsinͲMilwaukee, Milwaukee WI Expected graduation date: May 2014 3.7 cumulative GPA, Dean’s List, Support for Undergraduate Research Fellow recipient
EXPERIENCE HGA Architects and Engineers, Milwaukee WI May 2013 to Present Architectural Intern Construction document preparation 3D computer modeling Rendering and graphic illustrations School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Milwaukee WI September 2013 to December 2013 Studio Skills Assistant Individual student skill development instruction Graphic representation instruction School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Milwaukee WI September 2012 to May 2013 Research Fellow Assistant Website design and production Monograph preparation, design, and production Coldwell Banker, Milwaukee WI May 2011 to May 2012 Realtor Assistant Document preparation Property showing to clients
AWARDS
SUPERjury Design Competition May 2013 First Place Design Honors Award, Arch 410 Studio First Place Design Honors Award, Arch 420 Studio Golden Key International Honor Society 2012 to Present Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows 2012 to 2013 $1,200 Work Grant, UWM Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society 2012 to Present
EXTRACURICULAR University of WisconsinͲMilwaukee AIAS Member and Senior Class Representative September 2010 to Present Campus Crusade for Christ, Leadership Team and Emcee May 2012 to Present Friends of LaFollette Park, Volunteer June 2010 to Present SKILLS Proficient: Google SketchUp Microsoft Office Photoshop AutoCAD WebͲDesign InDesign Hand Drafting Monograph Design Bluebeam Revu Working Knowledge: Revit Inventor Illustrator
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420 STUDIO
Chris Cornelius
BRONZEVILLE CENTER FOR JAZZ MUSIC Located in Milwaukee historic Bronzeville neighborhood district, this once flourishing African-American community was a center of economic, social, and musical prosperity. After the development of Interstate 43 in the 1950’s, the community was separated, causing a deep segregation of economic and social status, resulting in the neighborhood’s decline. the purpose for the Bronzeville Center for Jazz Music is to stimulate this community once again. The Jazz Center includes public spaces that will serve for community engagements through multiple concert venues, as well as private institutional units for musical and educational development. This trigger in the community is intended to create a wave of building development in the Bronzeville district
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Solution- This design focuses on the experience of spatial overlap and threshold movement. The Jazz Center is divided into two bars of program. The smaller bar of program contains more private and institutional spaces, and the larger contains public interaction spaces, including the main event space. The building is pulled all of the way to the street to maintain a consistent edge with the neighboring buildings. However, this initial barrier contains partial transparency to reveal a secondary courtyard behind. The building’s main entrance is located in this courtyard where the user has the opportunity to move indoors or to the outdoor event space located in the center of the site. The event space appears to be a massive object that is consumed by a glass case. This enclosure has a facade that mimics a jazz musical piece throughout the representation of color and pattern. The powerful gesture created by this massing in the building acts as a beacon to the neighborhood, and icon to the whole city of Milwaukee.
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The building is used most powerfully in its sectional experience with vertical movement of the user. This section represents the overlapping and stacking of interacting spaces.
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410 STUDIO
James Shields
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE The residential college is an organizational method that creates a direct relationship between students and teachers through a living environment that holds both housing and academic spaces. The original concept came Thomas Jefferson’s design for the university of Virginia which is divided into several “houses” located along one central axis. The houses each have their own main academic focus where the students live, attend classes, and communicate their education with themselves as well as faculty. My design is a representation of this philosophy.
Solution- the residential college would be shaped by the existing pathways on the sides of the quadrangle which would divide my building into its three components on the academic floors; public, institutional, and administration. The first two floors are comprised of entirely academic space, along with the cafeteria located right off the quadrangle on the first floor (shown in the rendering to the left). The top three floors held all of the student housing. Most dormitories are organized in similar strategies, one building is divided into houses, which are divided into suites, which are divided into rooms. My plan adopts this idea, however, rather than dividing houses horizontally, I chose to divide mine vertically. Each house was centered around its own individual courtyard with three suites on both sides of the courtyard, with the resident assistant’s room in the middle. The first floor of housing circulates around the academic space below. As the user moves to the second floor of housing, they find the commons for each house, as well as the resident assistant rooms.
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In addition to the vertical organization of the living spaces, A unique circumstance presented itself through creating green-space for each floor. The first floor had a natural buffer that separated the building from the adjacent residential neighborhood through a series of trees and additional vegetation. As you move to the floors of housing, each level has either a courtyard or green roof.
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The Facade- the facade of the building provides a double-duty to the building. It helps to enclose the individual house courtyards to allow for privacy and act as an irrigation system for the buildings green-spaces. The facade would collect rain water from the roof, and then bring the water to the different levels of green-space, the courtyards, and finally the buffer for the street level.
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Brady Street Public Market Brady Street in Milwaukee is a vibrant melting pot of social class, ethnicities, and religious affiliations. It is home to the annual Brady Street Festival which embraces culture and diversity in the Milwaukee region. The objective was to create a public market that would act not only as a market, but also as a gateway to Brady Street.
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Solution- Rather than arranging my building on the traditional street grid seen throughout the community, I chose to shape my building in response to the holton viaduct footbridge, designed by La Dallman Architects. This allowed my Building to become an accumulation point for pedestrians traveling from Milwaukee’s north side, and those traveling west on Brady. The design consists of two main atriums where the vendor stalls would be located below a large cantilevered mass containing the management quarters, and demonstration kitchen. The shape of the building creates a strong centralized courtyard with opening curtain walls that allow for more desirable seasonal use. The Brady street side is cladded with a steel sign that binds the vegetation behind.
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The Tectonic Campus Looking at architecture from a traditional standpoint, the conception of tectonics can appear to be somewhat foreign. Summarization of tectonics is a way of talking about the built environment, where mass plane and frame create the built environment. Creating a community college campus entirely of tectonic representation would be the task.
Solution- Given an organizational strategy entitled “linear”, buildings would be created that maintained consistency and clarity with one another. Each building has a direct response to one another to create dramatic but strategic spaces that would influence the academic environment within it. The buildings represent tectonics on a micro and macro scale through the overall “mechanical” shape, and the structural details within.
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Tectonic Drawing- tectonic drawings go beyond showing an image of the design, but additionally shows the movement through the spaces along with the structural relationships within the built environment. The design was created through linear movements that create academic stimulation. The depth of color in the drawings show when this stimulation becomes most present.
The Event Space After creating the campus, the focus was to narrow down on a location that would become an event space for the college and the community surrounding it. This space is the paragon of the site and of the design.
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Solution- After creating the campus, Multiple spaces that had potential to become the event space. However, the centralized courtyard had not been developed for anything other than recreational use. I treated this as an opportunity to develop the courtyard as the roof to the event space by gradually dropping the topography of the site. As the ground plane drops, the openings to the event space becomes larger. The space is accessible from both the existing interior buildings, and from the exterior courtyard. Inside the event space, a lobby can be used to congregate before and after the events within. As the movement continues to the auditorium, you will notice a series of stacked wood acoustic insulation on the walls and dropped ceiling above. The circulation paths are defined from the light, bleeding from the openings above. This space is defined in its uniqueness to adapt the needs of both interior and exterior spaces.
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