J. Nicholas Hudacko 2632 S.W. 107th Oklahoma City, OK 73170 nick.hudacko@gmail.com 405.664.8776
|Education| Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City, OK School of Architecture Graduated May 2007 Stillwater, OK Expected Graduation Dec. 2012 |Work Experience| Fall 2011- Dec. 2011 - OSU Cowboy Dining Summer 2010 - Lowe’s Home Improvement 2009- 2010 - Oklahoma State University Vending Services Summer 2008 - Under the Sun Garden Center Summer 2007 - Arcadia Farms L.L.C. / Deep Fork Tree Farm Chesapeake Energy Summer Internship Program Summer 2006 - 2007 -Heenen’s Home Furnishings |Skills| Drafting - AutoCad 2008-2012 3D Modeling/BIM - Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010-2011 - Rhino 4.0 Graphic - Autodesk 3DS Max 2009-2011 - Adobe Photoshop & InDesign CS3-CS5 Office - Microsoft Word - Excel - Powerpoint - Project Manager |Affiliations/ Service| Member of Oklahoma State Chapter of AIAS National Fraternity Member - Rush Chairman 2008 & 2009 - Homecoming Director 2008 & 2009 - Varsity Review Director 2009 - Judicial Board Representative 2008-2011
The Big Event Community Service 2007-2011 Into The Streets Community Service 2007-2011
|Awards| 2nd Place Boomer AMP Outdoor Theater Architectural Design Competition - Sponsored by The Stillwater Boomer AMP Coalition
Boomer Lake Amphitheater arch 3116 2 weeks 2nd Place Boomer AMP Outdoor Theater Architectural Design Competition
This project was brought to our studio by a group of influential and concerned Stillwater leaders who were interested in the idea of providing a venue for the city’s residents to enjoy the outdoors, while listening and watching theatrical and musical performances. It was decided that an outdoor theater situated within the city’s existing parks system will provide fellowship, unity, and entertainment among the residents who wish to enjoy a performance outdoors.
We were given the opportunity to select our own site around Boomer Lake. When developing the concept we realized that the natural terrain is something we really wanted to focus on and try to enhance. I chose the site based on the natural topography, views in and out of the site and the fact that it was easily accessible. With an adjacent parking lot, a close road, and nearby jogging path, patrons can easily access the theater.
The continuos concrete form that acts as retaining walls cascade down the hill and provide ample seating and clear views to the stage. When the concrete reaches the stage it extends upward and provides the covering for the stage area to provide a unique punctuation to the transition down the site.
Near East Peace Center arch 3116 5 weeks Wadi Araba Israel Jordan Border
This project offers a unique perspective on how the culture, the geography, the political climate, and the program itself, can influence the design solution. Generally speaking architecture is a universal humanistic phenomenon. While it is evident that geography influences our racial/cultural diversity, there is no denying our commonalities and similarities as human beings.
The Near East Peace Center will be a place that will provide hope for the future and educate the public about the importance of peace, cultural coexistence, and religious tolerance. With this center I want to establish a sanctuary for those in need of hope safety peace and refuge. This building explores the aspects of what we know a sanctuary to be; not necessarily in a religious way, but in a physical and emotional way.
Building Vertically in the Urban Context arch 3216 4 weeks San Francisco, CA
This project utilizes an existing lot currently occupied by the historic Mercantile Building located on the West corner of Mission Street and Third Street in San Francisco, Ca. The site is in a mixed use zoning district where the surrounding community has strong cultural and historical significance to the city. The neighboring area is dense with hotels, museums, shops, and many different commercial buildings, as well as multi story residential buildings. The developer of the project wishes to preserve the historic East and South Facades of the current structure to be utilized in the current project. This new building is to become a multistory mixed use building that requires the lower floors to be utilized for building lobby functions, retail spaces, an art gallery and other public uses; whereas the upper floors will consist of a boutique hotel and a complex for permanent residents.
[IN]version - Articulating geometric relationships to where voids become substance.
The design solution for this project will greatly impact the city and it will directly influence the context and people it interacts with. It was very important to have the new building directly address the adjacent pedestrian plaza, Jesse Square, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the nearby Yerba Buena Gardens. Doing this creates an additional pedestrian entrance from an area that generates high foot traffic; while, on the other, side maintaining the historical facades of the mercantile building and utilizing them as store fronts at street level. One of the main features within the building is the interior court that acts as the main entrance to the building. This space provides a commons area for the building that directly links all the different areas of the building with a simple circulation system. A very important sustainable system is incorporated within the faรงade of this building. The system on the south face features a photo voltaic louver system which will be used to help power the functions of the building. Another important design feature is that of the residential circulation. This circulation core is located on the north side of the structure in order to separate the hotel and retail functions of the facility and to give the residents more privacy. Also, by orienting the circulation in this way it maximizes desirable views out of the resident spaces towards Jesse Square and the Yerba Buena gardens. This project also features a Seismic and Lateral force dampening system. The system helps to ensure stability for the structure during seismic activity. It also combats lateral forces due to the slenderness of the form, and helps maintain comfort for the occupants.
New Urban Models for Aging arch3216 5 weeks Boston, MA
From the beginning several underlying design objectives for the building to site relationship were established. By understanding the need for community throughout the site, not just within the building structure itself, the best course of action was to expand on a nature walking trail, Thoreau Path, running adjacent to the site that seemed to grow from various nodes of interest with in the area. The first objective was to create a new pedestrian node within a central location of the site. This would encourage interaction between the general public and aging residents. It should establish a sense of identity within the public eye. The second objective was to create our own private park-space which would serve as a place of seclusion and separation from the noisy, busy neighborhood of down town Boston. Parks in urban areas tend to attract many visitors, so the opportunities for different age groups to mingle with the elderly increases greatly. Dense tree growth on the southeast corner of the site buffers the park space from hospital noise. This barrier of trees in front of a long open park-space greatly reduces incident noise striking the building surface from cars or other noise sources. The long sun control louvers also play into controlling transmitted noise. These louvers combined with opaque panels cover certain parts of the faรงade where privacy is required. Vertical grass-panel systems accomplish the goal of privacy as well as being a main feature of our sustainable systems. Since our site is small enough to constrain our master plan into a building design, we realized that by manipulating the building footprint, we could control the pedestrian interaction and experience. This in turn would create public interaction with the site that could be viewed from the individual units surrounding the space. This aspect is aimed towards those in the skilled nursing, bringing a sense of outdoor activity to those residents that would be unable to leave their beds.
As an overall image, the building becomes a physical metaphor for a lantern along a dimly lit path. A beaconing of people from all walks of life. This becomes the main interior focus. At the intersection of the Assisted Living and the Skilled Nursing wings, there is an open common space, lit by fireplace at the very center to help anchor the room visually and act as a guide from the approaching hall ways. By night, it lights the surrounding room in a warm glow that is clearly seen from the path way outside. Further reinforcing the idea of connection and community from the fire place, two wooden sculptural frames rise, curve, fall, and snake throughout the common space and stretch down each respected hall to physically emphasise the connection between communities.
The fireplace and use of wood in the community halls attempt to unite the interior and exterior architectural focuses while bringing cozy and warm sensations of a home to the residents. The aging residents could perhaps more easily relate to the classic image of a hearth as a place of community. It is through this ever changing sculptural shape that the connection between the architecture and the elderly is made. The form serves as an abstract representation of a person’s life; ever changing, taking the many curves of life, the highs and the lows.
Corcoran Addition arch 4116 5 weeks Washington, D.C.
This proposal seeks to express three distinct entities: the established [The Flagg Building], the new [The Corcoran Gallery of Art Addition], and the emerging [The Corcoran College of art and design], while still uniting them through art. All three spaces can stand alone as one entity; however it is through the concept of art that forms the physical relationships of the three programs.
The Atrium serves multiple purposes. It acts as a central gathering space for the adjacent museum functions. The main vertical circulation for the museum is directly adjacent to this atrium and allows patrons to develop a strong sense of special relationships throughout the building. Also, the Atrium is situated in a location on the site where it receives significant amount of sun; as such the atrium acts as a filter for the light, allowing it to penetrate through multiple floors and back into the smaller intimate gallery spaces. The auditorium is a representation of “the new”. It acts as innovative representation of the Corcoran gallery itself. The copper panels on the auditorium are now “new” but the patina over time will eventually match the roof of the existing flag building and unite the buildings further. By signifying this as a distinct and important space to the program the physical connection between the gallery and the school represents the distinct bond between the two entities. By setting the Corcoran College of Art and Design apart from the rest of the program it gives the students the privacy they need. However by still being connected physically it represents the school as being a part of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Osage Cultural Center arch 4116 Master Plan 3 weeks Cultural Center 4 weeks Osage Hills State Park Pawhuska, OK
This project was divided into two parts, the development of a master plan for the grounds of the Osage Cultural Center and the schematic design for the Cultural Center itself. The Osage people have a very rich history and strong reverence for it as well. I’N - LON - SCHKA The most sacred dance serves as an overlaying structure for the master plan. Each concentric circle allows for the manipulation of contours, landscaping and building placement. The whipmen placed on the exterior allow the patron to oversee the site and gain further reaching knowledge of the inter working of the site. The center of the site is held for the most important monument representing striking the earth. PATH OF THE SUN The Osage people hold the path of the sun to be very sacred. This path divides the earth and the sky. Sky, in the Osage tradition, represents the spirit while earth represents physical being. The I’n-Lon-Schka dance is held during the summer solstice. The path of the sun divides our site corresponding to actual angles of sunrise and sunset on the summer solstice, June 21st. This time of the sun striking the earth was and is very important to the Osage peoples.
The monument in plan takes the form of the “Striking the Earth” symbol. It is extruded out of a piece weathered Corten steel. The monument becomes a series of frames for views of the morning and evening pillars. Surrounding the monument are manicured gardens and multiple seating areas to be provided for the patrons of the park. The cultural center has been designed to follow the line of summer solstice. This creates a view towards the central monument - and even further towards the pillar on the lake. An “observatory window” located on this facade keeps the visitors aware of what is truly important and provides a constant reminder to the Osage tribe members of what they hold sacred within the hearts of every tribe member.
Each pillar, viewable from the central monument, is situated to meet the angle where the sun strikes the earth on the summer solstice. It is this season that is most important to the Osage people. They celebrate this time by enacting their sacred dance“I’n -Lon-Schka”. Both pillars reach above the tree line, allowing the sun to strike them respectively during sunrise and sunset. The morning pillar in the east reveals a hole representing birth, life,peace, and new beginning. In the west, the evening pillar relieves the sun in a half circle,representing the burial of the sun_ death, the end of life, and war. The master plan also includes a proposed pedestrian bridge that leads visitors towards the outdoor cultural center. A captivating view of the cultural center appears above the tree line, attracting all whom it affects. After crossing the bridge, you arrive at the two “whipmen” towers, which sit at the head of the outdoor cultural experience. This space bring you down a winding switchback pathway with break-out spaces in which hikers can sit and experience reflecting pools and review the knowledge they’ve learned thus far. These pools are all connected with flowing streams that split the switchbacks into halves_ this further enforces the division in Osage culture.
Oklahoma Wondertorium arch 3216 5 weeks http://www.wix.com/arch3216/wondertorium Design Build Stillwater, OK
The Oklahoma WONDERtoruim is a non-profit children’s museum in Stillwater, OK. The museum’s mission is to “inspire curiosity to learn through play… for a lifetime” The museum used the talents of our studio to design and build and interactive exhibition. This educational exhibition for small children engages the laws of physics and utilizes the relativity of objects through velocity, gravity, friction, acceleration, momentum, and cause and effect. The objects we utilized were golf balls, the exhibition provides a variety of actions for children to explore and learn the simple laws of physics through meaningful play.
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45º edge bevel 3/4” MDF track 3/4” nut
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The Hanging Garden arch 3263 2 weeks Design Build
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