PORTFOLIO nick ruggeri kansas state university ap. design | undergraduate + professional work
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MEDICAL CAMPUS
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MIXED USE
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RESEARCH CENTER
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WELLNESS
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URBAN CONNECTION + REVIVAL
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MISCELLANEOUS
China’s first private hospital; this medical campus re-imagines how design engages patient care.
Housing, jobs, and amenities create a dense 24/7 urban center along a derelict Chinese waterfront.
Labs, housing, and community spaces help protect the tropical ecosystems of Roatan Island.
A full body fitness center designed around mental, physical, and social health.
This project restores connectivity, pedestrian walkability, and urban continuity to the fragmented Kansas City downtown.
A collection of designs ranging from graduate seminars to independent professional work.
spring 2013 professional : nbbj
spring 2013 professional : nbbj
fall 2011 undergraduate
fall 2012 undergraduate
fall 2011 undergraduate
2011- 2013 graduate + professional
WORK EXPERIENCE
RESUME :
nbbj architects | new york january 2013 - august 2013
nick ruggeri
worked on projects ranging from conceptual to schematic design packages.
484 883 9084 njr@ksu.edu
REFERENCES
kansas state university ap.design | masters of architecture
jay siebenmorgen | nbbj : design principal jsiebenmorgan@nbbj.com 212. 739. 7234
EDUCATION
NOTED
kansas state university
awards
ap.design masters of architecture
eagle scout national honors scholar marine corps scholar athlete
minor urban planning
university of virginia semester at sea summer 2012
travels
usa, canada, italy, spain, portugal, greece, croatia, montenegro, turkey, morocco, honduras, belize, mexico
SKILLS digital rhinoceros, grasshopper, revit, 3ds max, sketchup, v ray, ecotect, autocad, adobe cs, cnc fabrication, 3d printing
analog
sketching, drafting, rendering, watercolor, models,construction, carpentry, welding, metalworking
javier sanchez | jsa architects : principal javiersanchez@jsa.com.mx 785. 770. 5151
arw architects | west chester pa. january 2007 - august 2009
performed site analysis, hand drawn construction documents, tectonic systems and client/contractor meetings
ray ott urban planning + landscape 2012
anthony webb | arw architecture : principal
developed the new comprehensive growth plan for phoenixville pennsylvania based on form based code and t.o.d development
anthonywebb@gmai.com 610. 363 .0445
benoit & czarneckie construction summer 2010
ray ott | ray ott & associates urban planning rayott@rayott.com 610. 429. 9993
residential and commercial construction, timber framing, masonry, concrete systems, and carpentry
TRUSTBRIDGE HOSPITAL When built, this medical campus will be the first privatized hospital in China. Financed by Trustbirdge Partners, this facility will serve the needs of Shanghai’s expanding and aging upper and middle classes. Given the originality and scale of the project, much attention was given to the exploration of possible relationships between design and health early on in the conceptual phase. The design also anticipates technological and demographic changes decades in the future. Emphasis is placed on efficient medical planning, healing gardens, and stress-free way finding. Additionally, a separate maternity ward offers a removed identity to the hospital while maintaining proximity and connectivity to operating rooms.
MEDICAL CAMPUS spring 2013 professional: nbbj
LOCATION: SHANGHAI, CHINA CLIENT: TRUSTBRIDGE PARTNERS BUDGET: $1.5 B 100,000 M2
shanghai
10 miles
study models
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1|500 scale
CONCEPTUAL STUDIES Throughout the early phases of the project I worked in tandem with medical planning experts on possible configurations of the 100,000 m2 campus, seeking alternatives to traditional means of organizing medical space.
floating podium + tower
linear path
A series of sunken gardens creat a connective ground plane while filtering daylight into adjacent support spaces.
The ground floor lobby seperates visitors to in-patient and out-patient functions, both with efficient access to vertical circulation, emergency, and operating rooms.
Spacial configurations were derived from a series of studies on light, views, and efficiency of numerous and often conflicting medical cirulations. The medical ring connects to a maternity hotel to the west.
A bed tower emerges from the north side of the medical podium ring. Rising above the central courtyard, 32 bedrooms provide nurses access to patients requiring long term stay. Rooms in multiples of 8 are serviced by centrally located nursing stations.
final physical model
1|250 scale
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east elevation
HEALING GARDENS In-patient stay times can be reduced by half with views of nature and daylight. Hospital functions revolve around a series of these natural spaces.
Clockwise from top left: Main entry, sunken garden courtyard and entry to lower levels, rooftop terraces surrounding central garden.
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URBAN TERRACE Sited on the steep riverbank of the Yangtze River, this mixed use development creates a new urban node in the rapidly expanding downtown of Chongquing. The project consists of a dense mixture of many functions including 5 parking levels, parks, retail, restaurants, services, schools, amenities, offices, apartments, hotels, and access to mass transit with many areas open and active 24 hours a day.
RESEARCH FACILITY spring 2013 professional: nbbj
LOCATION: CHONGQING, CHINA CLIENT: CDL HHY BUDGET: CONFIDENTIAL 125,000 M2
chongqing
10 miles
Conceptualized as urban terrace, the project found inspiration from local responses to the steep and siesmically active sites in central China.
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MIXED USE DEVELOPEMENT Three towers of offices and apartments punctuate a terraced retail podium. A 17 story hotel curves with the topography, greeting the main street and framing the entrances to the central drop-off ring and open green space. The project was constantly negotiating with very tight setback lines and height restrictions as well as a client demanding maximum apartments and hotel rooms with corner views to the river. We worked closely with SCAPE landscaping, designing a terracing park woven into the retail podium. This urban path connects the isolated riverfront and mass transit with the urban fabric above and also provides a naturally cooled respite in what is known as the ‘Hot Pot’ of China.
A VITALIZED WATERFRONT Emerging from the large riverfront site the three towers randing from 27 to 52 stories called for an iconic yet permormative facade. By code bathrooms and kitchens need natural ventilation and all apartments require operable windows.
Constantly shifting property lines meant plenty of oppotunities to experiement with different facade studies.
ECOLOGICAL OUTPOST Off the sandy shores of Punta Gorda, on the island of Roatan Honduras, exist some of the richest biodiversity on earth. Pristine tropical reefs sustain the islanders’ way of life, and this facility aims to establish a harmony between an expanding and modernizing population and this irreplaceable natural resource. Energy prices on the tropical island are extreme yet the people have forgotten how to build in ways that provide natural comfort and environmental resiliency. Marine research labs, tank spaces, classrooms, a dining area, and residences create a structure fostering a community of understanding of the island’s ecology.
RESEARCH FACILITY
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fall 2011 undergraduate
LOCATION: ROATAN, HONDURAS CLIENT: HONDURAN GOVERNMENT BUDGET: x x x
punta gorda
5 miles
Vibrant tribal communities of some 600 individuals make up the population of Punta Gorda. Living on the water, these people depend completely on the ocean and the health of the reefs. Recent growth however, has frequently come at the expense of these pristine and fragile ecologies. Much of the population still lives in relief housing provided after hurricane Mitch battered Roatan in 1998. Unfortunately, these cinderblock, metal roofed structures become ovens in the tropics, and poor planning has resulted in an abandoning of the public realm as a place where the village sustains its social health. Outreach and education are paramount to the project.
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dock
scuba
gathering deck
maintenence shop
apartments (students + faculty)
kitchen + dining room (classrooms above)
tanks
biological research labs
agriculture + water cisterns
The design responds to high energy costs, an intense equatorial sun, tropical bugs, and a need for social gathering space by incorporating a slender footprint and natural cooling into the form. The double roof shields buildings and circulation, while allowing cooling ocean breezes to pass through. Rainwater is collected and stored uphill.
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Details of woven bamboo concrete formwork supported by bamboo column bundles. The existing craft of shipbuilding informed the tectonics.
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
Resiliency to natural disasters meant building the structure from locally sourced materials and existing labor skills. Fast growing bamboo provides a strong, light building material as well as erosion control.
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 CITY FITNESS
WELLNESS CENTER fall 2012 undergraduate
LOCATION: KANSAS CITY, KS CLIENT: x x x BUDGET: x x x
This full body wellness center organizes a 3 lane lap pool, rock climbing walls, aerobic studios, and lifting facilities around a central courtyard. Conceptualized as a continuum of the existing community park and vegitable garden across the street, the roof can be accessed for aerobic training and views to the cross roads and power and light districts of downtown Kansas City.
kansas city The site’s current state is an under used parking lot with proximity to parks, housing, and cultural amenities.
5 miles
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The concrete plates provide rigid support for the courtyard and bouldeing wall while enclosing the pool under an undulating, light filled volume. A perimeter of folded concrete plates provides an climbable structural system.
Fitness programs including yoga, aeobics classes, lifting, cycling, rock climbing and kickboxing enclose an exterior workout room + aerobic green roof aceess.
ground floor
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Cable stayed curtain wall shaded with screen louvers and greenery.
section looking north
KC _ PTRAMDACTYL This intervention restores connectivity, pedestrian walkability, and urban continuity to the fragmented Kansas City downtown. A series of parks take advantage of under used parking lots, together creating a network of urban paths and green spaces converging on a central hub. At this point, the sunken i-670 corridor is bridged creating place at the edge conditions between the Power and Light sports complex and the Crossroads art district.
URBAN REVIVAL
spring 2012 undergraduate
LOCATION: KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI CLIENT: x x x BUDGET: x x x
kansas city Two popular attractions, the Power and Light complex and Crossroads art district are currently isolated from another.
5 miles
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URBAN REVIVAL
Kansas City’s downtown has an epidemic of under used parking lots lining the sunken i-670 corridor. The pedestrian experience is poor, and design has failed to address the full potential of the area. The downtown is sparsly populated with residences, and at night the streets are either jam packed or totally devoid of life. This urban intervention aims to connect and cataylze the area providing an incentive to move to and invest in Kansas City.
Current pedestrian paths lack sidewalks and rely on exposed chain link fence bridges to cross the rift.
Networks of parks, seating, and paths converge at a central, shaded crossing point connecting kansas city.
Sprint Center
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central hub
i-670
The concept of a hill as an central gathering place evolved into a covered amphitheater bridging one block of i-670. This generates revenue, creates an iconic public space, and can accomodate many events.
parking structure
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AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN
GRADUATE SEMINAR fall 2013
This seminar explored the design of transportation through many mediums. A cyclical design process of digital modelling programs, hand sketching and rendering, and clay modeling cumulated in a final branded package.
carbon fiber body light steel frame hydrosatic electric drive train
hubless all terrain wheels = lower center of gravity and increased stability when cornering.
MANHATTAN - QUEENS CONNECTION
GRADUATE SEMINAR : TECTONICS fall 2013
Informed by a tectonic case study of Kenzo Tange’s olympic stadiums, this project reimagines the tensile bridge as a connective, habitable, and activating asset to New York City’s upper east side.
astoria, queens
1000 ft
Central steel frames act as both structural cores for habitable structures and tranfer tensile loads from the pedestian platform and subway spine, to the main cables. This allows for a street section of new york city to be extended over the east river. Commercial activity, offices, residences, and green space create a connective neighborhood and a myriad of urban experiences.
elevated residential sidewalk
THANK YOU . nick ruggeri 484 883 9084 njr@ksu.edu
kansas state university ap.design masters of architecture minor urban planning
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