Nick Ruggeri
Education Kansas State University
College of Architecture, Planning, and Design 2009 - 2014 graduation Master of Architecture Minor Urban Planning
University of Virginia
Semester at Sea Summer 2012
Skills
Work Experience ARW Architects: 2007- 2009 Performed site analysis, preliminary designs, hand drawn plans and renderings, tectonic systems, client/contractor interactions. Ray Ott & Associates Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture: Summer 2012
Developed Form Based Code for Phoenixville, PA. Produced visual graphics to enhance Comprehensive Plan Renewal.
Benoit & Czarneckie LLC_Summer 2010 Residential and commercial construction of with dimension lumber framing, masonry and concrete systems, and carpentry.
Tucker Property_ Summer 2011 Managed residential complexes.
Rhinoceros. SketchUp Pro. AutoCad. Revit. V Ray. 3DS Max. PhotoShop. InDesign. Illustrator. Ecotect. Sketching. Hand drafting and rendering. models. watercolor. carpentry. welding. metalworking.
Travels Canada. Italy. Spain. Greece. Croatia. Turkey. Morocco. Portugal. Honduras. Belize. Mexico.
Awards Eagle Scout Marine Corps Scholar Athlete Award National Honors Scholar Kansas State Honors Scholarship
References . Robert Condia Professor, AIA Architect (785) 532-1106 condia@k-state.edu
Anthony R Webb Architect, ARW Architects (610) 363-0445
Ray Ott
Nick Ruggeri 484 883 9084 njr@ksu.edu
Urban Planner, Ray Ott & Associates (610) 429-9993 rayott@rayott.com
M. Arch (2014)
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Nick Ruggeri 484 883 9084 njr@ksu.edu
Nick Ruggeri
M. Arch (2014)
Index
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Marine Research Center
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Kansas City Fitness
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Kansas City Ptramdactyl
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SoHo One Artist Gallery
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Chicago Affordable Housing
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Kansas State
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Marine Research Center Vertical studio project that incorporated a one week site visit to the island of Roatan, Honduras.
Project focused on a sustainable marine research facility to study and monitor the ecological biodiversity of the island of Roatan, while also serving as a resource for the local community. The design responds to the urgent need for a population of rapidly modernizing, developing islanders to coexists with endangered ecosystems including coral reef, mangrove forest, and tropical jungle.
Kansas State Roatan ecology
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Kansas State Garifuna life
Undergraduate
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Spatial organization
Thermal shield
Island breezes
Kansas State
H2O collection
Undergraduate
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Kansas State
A double roof shade system protects the complex from the intense equatorial sun. An organization of open, exterior oriented spaces promotes natural ventilation and comfort.
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Systems incorporating locally sustainable materials such as bamboo were explored in detail. Design constraints included ease of construction and resilience against the harsh island elements.
Tectonic Detailing 11 gauge corrugated aluminum Vapor barrier 4” diameter bamboo Eco-foil reflective insulation Steel ties attached with 3/16” bolts Vapor barrier 1” R 30 rigid foam insulation Drywall finish 4” bamboo column bundle (4) Column ties Woven bamboo cladding panel 1” diameter bamboo reinforcement Woven bamboo panel Copper flashing 2” x 12” dimensional lumber joists 11 gauge corrugated aluminum 4” concrete Wood sub-floor Tongue and groove flooring 8” x 8” wood post 2’ diameter concrete footing
Kansas State
Shading, natural ventilation, and louvers passively adapt to local climate.
Undergraduate
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Scuba, Community gathering dock, continuation of vernacular tribal space.
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The site in downtown Kansas City is a corner lot across from a community park/ garden. Views to the Kaufman Performing Art Center are on axis with Central Street.
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Human beings are dependant on natural forms for physical, mental, spiritual, and social health. KC Fitness fuses nature and Active architecture creating an environment for holistic fitness. Fitness un-boxed: it is architecture designed as exercise equipment to climb up, run on, and be mindful within...
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An “empty lot syndrome� of excess parking afflicts downtown Kansas City creating a hospitable pedestrian environment and torn urban edges. The building conceals parking and wraps program around a courtyard for holistic fitness.
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An extension of the park into and on top of the urban fabric, this typology reinforces the community interests of health, place making, and an appreciation of nature.
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Shading, day-lighting, and views shape the form.
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Studios, climbing walls, and exercise spaces form a perimeter around the fitness courtyard. Nature and health coexist throughout these spaces:
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yoga. swimming. meditation. aerobics class. bouldering/climbing. rooftop aerobic course.
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Kansas City Ptramdactyl
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Conceived as a medium for urban revival and connectivity in Kansas City, the Ptramdactyl project restores balance to the auto dominated downtown. A hub bridges the 1-670 corridor providing pedestrian connectivity and a reclaimed urban fabric to a city currently expanding yet segmented by an urban chasm.
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I-670 corridor_ Noise and scale both create an environment of pedestrian discomfort.
A sea of under used lots.
Unaccommodating and hostile to the human scale. Sprint Center and Power and Lights District.
Crossroads art district and Kauffman Performing Arts Center.
Lack of pedestrian infrastructure severs the city. Expanding areas such as the Power and Light District, Sprint Center and Crossroads Art District are cut off from one another. The opportunities for economic and social growth of Kansas City’s downtown lie in wait. Currently, minimally addressed by design.
Sprint Center KC Star
Three parking lots are transformed into green and shaded usable urban space adapted to sporting, leisure, transportation, nature, and art. These parking spaces are consolidated (and added to) with a parking structure. Roofed as park and pedestrian boulevard, it serves as a Southwest means of connectivity over the steep typography.
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A central hub was needed, turning a pedestrian infrastructure, into a network conducive to urban growth. An icon, providing this rapidly developing urban area with an identity and sense of place. N Sprint Center
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Hub. Landmark. Urban hill. Shade. Stage. The concept of a unifying element bridging the 1-670 chasm and connecting the downtown.
Water elements in the hub act as skylights. Bringing ambient daylight down to 1-670, while acting as storm water basins, seating, and a central place.
Amphitheater
From Southwest
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I-670 Amphitheater_ Reclaimed urban fabric, transit hub, shade, connector.
.. binding element unifying the Sprint Center, Power and Light District, Kauffman Performing Arts, and Crossroads Art District of Kansas City.
Kansas State
SoHo One-Artist Gallery
Infill of existing parking lot on the corner of Broome and Crosby St. in SoHo New York.
Displaying the work of Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. His pieces of performance, sculpture, painting, and installations cumulate to a diverse and complex portfolio.
A vegetated public sculpture garden and recessed plaza to reinforce the urban pedestrian experience. Daylight control drives the form.
Programmatically organized as galleries, with temporary exhibitions and public functions on the ground floor around a central atrium designed for performance pieces. The installation galleries are vertically stacked.
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Kansas State
South east elevation
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South east section
How does one begin to orchestrate perception in a space for art?
Structural ribs compartmentalize the space into galleries while providing rhythm and movement.
Light and form create a uniquely guiding viewing experience tailored to Beuy’s many mediums.
Kansas State
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Structural bays divide space, while providing unity through rhythm and light. This system guides the viewer through the sometimes disorienting psyche of this abstract artist.
Ground floor exhibit space
Chicago Affordable Housing Affordable housing in Chicago’s near north side that addresses a dynamic spectrum of human needs. Security, views, nature, community, and cost control were all critical design factors. The corner site meant the design must relate to and enhance residential neighborhood and commercial development. Treating the site as a connection between mixed use Clyborn St. and residential Mohawk St. meant the design of a pedestrian thoroughfare. A shaded park-scape divides the vertical neighborhood, fostering community and nature.
Kansas State
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Focusing on affordable and sustainable design, re-purposed steel shipping containers compose the building envelope. Stackable, readily available in Chicago, and modular they engender a ordering system highly adaptable to the site and client’s needs. - A system known as SG Blocks allows containers to be re-purposed for 1/20 cost of recycling a comparable weight in steel, and has one of the lowest embodied energy utilization of any construction method.
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Architecture meets nature, creating a habitable urban park-scape.
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Circulation
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Circulation Utility
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Residential privacy and view.
Stack and offset to create vertical neighborhood of outdoor terraces.
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Entry from Clyborn St.
View from terrace.
Mohawk St.
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Employment
Summer 2011, 2012
3 Bay Timber Frame _ Type: Residential.
Phoenixville PA, Comprehensive Planning _ Type: Master Plan. Summer 2012
Works
Summer 2011
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Chapel in the Rock _ Type: Sacred.
Second year
Kansas State
Undergraduate
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Charcoal rendering _ Type: Study.
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Second year