Sam Nordmeyer Portfolio.
Sam Nordmeyer Select Awards & Nominations 2021 AIA COTE Top Ten for students Award Recipient Richard F. Hansen Prize in Architecture Award Recipient Substance Forum Finalist DLR Group Prize Finalist BWBR Studio Competition Nominee Academic Recognition Scholarship Award Bachelor of Architecture Secondary Major in Environmental Studies Iowa State University Graduation | May 2022 Portfolio.
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Index p. 6
Roosevelt Island
p. 20
The Step
p. 34
Experiencing Thickness
p. 48
New Monumentality
SAM NORDMEYER
BWBR Spring Competition Nominee
Roosevelt Island NYC Housing - Spring 2020 Professor: Rob Whitehead With Cameron Wahlberg
Common Link is a co-living /retreat center located on Roosevelt Island in NYC with the goal of breaking away from current NYC housing models with a focus on residence, community and wellness. The typical current housing model of NYC can be seen with layers of public and private spaces. Our building seeks to create the integration of public and private areas and minimize the hierarchy usually established with housing. The pedestrian manner of the island allows for those of the community to coincide at the common link to experience wellness living.
The building is comprised of two masses with the co-living bar and wellness mass connected at a hinge. Turning the skyscraper on its side we found that the co-living bar with 2 stories to be the right amount to ensure involvement between the floors without feelings of separation. We are challenging housing models by allowing the user to determine the level of how they choose to connect with the larger space. Opening up the doors to the atrium allows for neighbors to interact and engage with the larger community, while more private spaces can be found in their rooms.
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
Massing Drivers
p. 9
Meditation Study
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
p. 11
Community Living
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
Wellness Center
p. 13
Levels of Community
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
p. 15
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
p. 17
ROOSEVELT ISLAND
p. 19
SAM NORDMEYER
2021 AIA COTE Top Ten for students Award Recipient DLR Group Prize Finalist Stratta Publication
The Step Integrated Studio - Fall 2020 Professor: Ayodele Iyanalu With Cody Goedken
In a world where the need for innovative sustainable practices is increasing and becoming more critical, The Step begins to stimulate the discussion for continued action in Ames, Iowa. The Step acts as a catalyst within the community and the renewable energy movement by providing a platform for students, families, and members of the Ames community to engage and learn the innovative practices of renewable energy.
The Steps consists of solar and wind powered demonstration and maker spaces to serve as the engine that drives this engagement by allowing the community to study, operate, and create renewable resources and techniques. The Step is situated along the landscape with a sensitivity that allows the building to follow the natural grade as well as provide moments for nature to fill in the voids that are left between the branching spaces.
This embedding into the landscape allows for the programmed spaces to be visually connected pockets and levels, while expressing the demonstration spaces as the anchor for The Step. Providing an informative, dynamic, and innovative environment for those who are trying to improve the world we live in. While this is not the final solution to analyzing the built environment, it is the next step in the direction of sustainable design.
Massing Drivers
THE STEP
Central Corridor
Program
p. 23
Site Sensitivity
THE STEP
Central Corridor
p. 25
THE STEP
p. 27
THE STEP
p. 29
Water Management
Energy Production
THE STEP
Water & Energy
p. 31
Wind Demonstration
THE STEP
Sun Demonstration
p. 33
SAM NORDMEYER
Richard F. Hanson Prize in Architecture Award Recipient
Experiencing Thickness Architecture X Landscape - Fall 2020 Professor: Kevin Lair With Brenna Fransen
The Iowa agricultural landscape is defined by a system of grids that flatten the overlooked thickness of the landform region. The Westbrook Artist Site distinguishes itself from this framework due to its rare native tallgrass prairie, privately managed forest, and access to a river which is a culmination of the thickness in this region. The mission of the Westbrook Artists Site focuses on the history and condition of the land itself, to provide an experiential laboratory for exploration of the post-industrial rural condition.
Exchanges of growth and renewal on this site have created an observable transformation of both the land and the ways in which we interact with it. The architecture created is able to become the tool for this observation. At Westbrook Artists Site, architecture becomes a method of drawing spaces and framing the diversity of the ecology through aligning site rhythms to architectural interventions. Through research, we developed strategies which aid the land while encouraging the engagement of individuals.
The use of minimal material is contrasted by the large scale of the site which is collected onto the face of the structure through reflections of the landscape. These rural interventions create an opportunity for individuals to engage, collect, and develop an investigation to lead impactful actions in respective environments. The architecture itself isn’t an isolated solution but rather a gesture of our integral role within the landscape.
The shifts with river, prairie, and forest can be seen through decades and over centuries. Shown are the shifts from 1930 to 2008.
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
Fo rest
Prairie
R iver
p. 37
Assembly Process
Prairie
Forest
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
River
p. 39
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
p. 41
Forest
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
River
p. 43
Prairie
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
p. 45
EXPERIENCING THICKNESS
p. 47
SAM NORDMEYER
Substance Forum Finalist Stratta Publication
New Monumentality Thesis Studio - Fall 2021 Professor: Bosuk Hur With Dai le, Cameron Wahlberg
How can we allow monuments and spaces of life to be remembered and continue to serve in cultural heritage capacities. The dead cities of Syria have become places of onlooking, but can these cities activate Syria’s history while becoming a place for preservation. Defining old monumentality as separating monuments on a pedestal allows us to generate a new monumentality.
Our project deals with creating a new infrastructure for current monumental sites of abandoned ruin or architecture that re-engages their history and potential futures by analyzing their layers throughout time as a jumping off point. Utilizing updated programmatic qualities to encourage the return of minute practices of life as an act of care, in turn, creates a new monumentality that ebbs and flows with the rituals and occupation of life on a human scale rather than an untouchable object.
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Old Monumentality NEW MONUMENTALITY
New Monumentality p. 53
Map of Syrian Dead Cities
NEW MONUMENTALITY
Existing Plan of Serjilla
New Plan of Serjilla
p. 55
Massing and Infill Studies
NEW MONUMENTALITY
Building & Fabric Studies
p. 57
Garden
Craft
Meditation
Bathhouse
NEW MONUMENTALITY
Garden
Craft
Meditation
Bathhouse p. 59
NEW MONUMENTALITY
p. 61
NEW MONUMENTALITY
p. 63
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NEW MONUMENTALITY
p. 67
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Education
Experience
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
Substance Architecture
Ames, IA
Intern, May 2021 - Present
Bachelor of Architecture Environmental Studies Secondary Major
Team member on two projects, completing design development Project Development and Documentation through producing diagrams, renders, sections, details, and digital modeling
May 2022 | Cumulative GPA: 3.87
BNIM Architects
Intern, May - August 2019 , December 2019
Skills Rhino
Revit
Sketchup
AutoCad
Photoshop
VRay - Enscape
Illustrator
Model Making
InDesign
MS Office Suite
Produced high quality diagrams, renders and graphics for awards and client presentation materials Universal Design Research with the Harkin Institute Completed Iowa Architectural Foundation mid-century modern display at Drake University
Westbrook Artists’ Site
Project Designer, May - August 2020
Affiliations
Participated in designing and executing the revitalization of a 1900 Barn near Winterset, Iowa Accuracy in creating wall assembly and various carpentry practices
American Institute of Architects Student Member National Organization for Minority Architects Student Member Architecture Department Liaison: 2020 Intramural Tennis, Broom ball Iowa State Blood Drive Volunteer
City of West Des Moines
Park Attendant, June - August 2020 Supervising and Monitoring the Parks of West Des Moines Assisting park users and providing necessary services to improve the quality of the recreational spaces
References
Recognition
Rod Kruse
AIA COTE Top Ten for Students Award Recipient | April 2021
Principal, BNIM Architects
Richard F. Hansen Prize in Architecture Award Recipient | February 2020
rkruse@bnim.com | 515.333.3035
Substance Forum Finalist | April 2022
Rob Whitehead
DLR Group Prize Finalist | February 2021
Associate Professor, Iowa State University
BWBR Studio Prize Nominee | May 2020
rwhitehd@iastate.edu | 515.419.8166
Academic Recognition Scholarship Award | 2017-2021 Deans List | 2017-Current
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