Architecture | Portfolio 2016 - 2020
NATHAN SANDS
I am an Architecture student currently attending Iowa State University in pursuit of attaining a Bachelor’s Degree of Architecture. My goal is not only to provide sustainable and attractive spaces for people, but also to obtain a position as an architect in a firm that provides an engaging, challenging atmosphere, allowing for the development of architectural experience and the advancement of knowledge and proficiency. I am an ambitious, hardworking, and challenge oriented individual who enjoys enhancing societal living and function. I am eager to advance my skills in order to fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a licensed architect. Nathan Sands
Undergraduate Student of Architecture
Iowa State University, Ames
HUNTER’S POINT
Museum and Industry Center
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THIS IS NOT WILDERNESS
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SHIFT
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LANDSCAPExARCHITECTURE
23-27
FIVE MANHATTAN WEST
28-33
Relocation and Housing of Climate Refugees
Collaborative Design Build, Class of 2020
Sustainable Forestry via New Generation Mill
Affordable Communal Living | Public Housing
HUNTER’S POINT | Museum and Industry Center Project Year
2019 | 5th-Year Architecture
Project Type
Historic Preservation
Location
San Franciisco, California
Intent
Preservation | Monumentality As the working culture within San Francisco plummets, one of the last remnants of cultural diversity lies within the Southeastern region of the city, Hunter’s point, a prior Naval drydock. Home to a racially diverse population, the site is under remediation and redevelopment, facing obstacles of commercial monopolization and gentrification. As urban development and gentrification are ultimately inevitable, the project preserves and restores an essential axis that carves through the site. As new, commercial development encompasses the site, the axis stands rigid in preserving both the history and memory of Hunter’s Point, while implementing a museum and industry center for the pubic. Focusing on architectural strategies of respectful contrast and the use of digital media, Hunter’s Point Museum and Industry Center aims to achieve a new monumentality that counteracts the social pressures and gentrification impacting the city. 4
Renderings
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Site-Axis Plan
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Manifesto Drawing
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Museum Floor Plan
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Floor Plan | Level Two
Museum Section-Cuts
Conference | Office Spaces
Museum | Tunnel
Industry | Fabrication 9
Physical Model
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Physical Model
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THIS IS NOT WILDERNESS | Refugee Housing Project Year
2018 | 4th-Year Architecture
Project Type Residential
Location
Granby, Colorado
Intent
Relocation | Housing of Climate Refugees
The Colorado River, spanning 1,450 miles. is Colorado’s main source of irrigation. Under the stress of a severe twelve-year drought, demand for the river’s water now exceeds its supply, raising the urgent question of whether the basin can support increasing human occupation and activity. As the Colorado River challenges notions of control, legibility, and authority, a form of climate refugee housing must be developed to accommodate residents experiencing downfall in major cities. To properly house the spiking population of climate refugees, 100 sites, strategically selected across the Colorado River Basin, are under development, exploring the use of shipping containers, strategically placed tower cranes, and robotic fabrication systems as a method for creating architecture for populations relocated by climate change in the Colorado River Basin. 12
Site Selection | Site Map
AGRICULTURAL CROPLAND 100 POSSIBLE SITES MAJOR CITIES MAJOR RAILWAYS RIVER SELECTED SITE
COLORADO RIVER BASIN | 100 ARCHITECTURAL SITES
GRAVEL DRIVE MAJOR HIGHWAY ROADWAYS SITE EXPANSION UNIT PLACEMENT
GREEN MOUNTAIN RESERVOIR | SITE PLAN
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Unit Floor Plans | Pre-Fabrication Assembly
Two-Bedroom Unit
One-Bedroom Unit
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Facility Construction
Three-Bedroom Unit | Level One
Transportation to Site
Three-Bedroom Unit | Level Two 14
Facility Floor Plan
Robotics
ntainer Storage
Unit Construction
End of Cycle
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Programmatic Diagrams | Site Section-Cut
Facility Location
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Container Storage
Unit Placement
Circulation
Public Greenspace
Expansion
Site Section-Cut
Axonometric Drawing | Renderings
Three-Bedroom Unit
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SHIFT | Collaborative Design Build Project Year
2017 | 2nd-Year Architecture
Project Type Public
Location Ames, Iowa
Intent
Collaborative Design Build, Class of 2020 Currently located in Ames, Iowa, SHIFT is a design build project created by the architecture class of 2020. 87 students worked side by side to complete the project in just under eight weeks. The client, Reliable Street, is a group of Ames Residents that center around art, design, and economic development, intending to transform the grounds of an abandoned railyard factory into an indoor, outdoor cafe. SHIFT is a working envrionment that consists of three modules, encouraging the community to play, interact, and connect trhough the form and design of the installation. Serving as a project leader, I worked with the lighting team, model team, and fabrication team. My roles were to assist my peers in the completion of the lighting design and documentation, as well as lead in the construction of the three separate modules on site.
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Construction Documents
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Design Development
Surface Model
South Elevation Drawing 20
Final Form
Seating
Design Development
Climbing Space
Crawling Space
Circulation
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Final Installation
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Final Installation
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LANDSCAPExARCHITECTURE | Sawmill Project Year
2017 | 3rd-Year Architecture
Project Type Preservation
Location Huxley, Iowa
Intent
Sustainable Forestry | New Generation Mill An architecture living within the land that stands for sustainable forestry through existence and practice, LandscapexArchitecture is a sawmill facility practicing new generation forestry, an effort that attempts to maintain the full vigor of the forest. The facility has three main buildings, a sawmill, horse stable, and office. The sawmill and horse stables are equipped for sustainable forestry. Atop the treeline, the observation deck provides a view of the entire complex, revealing the forest in a new context. Existing within the timber of Huxley, Iowa, the site is a place for sustainable foresty to prosper, using knowledge of the forest and proper tree removal. Where a typical mill removes trees based on profitable margin, the new generation sawmill encourages preservation, removing only what it must and encouraging interaction between the forest and on site residents.
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Renderings
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Elevations | Floor Plans Sawmill Elevations
North
Sawmill Floor Plan
West
Office | Residence Elevations
North
Office | Residence Floor Plan
West
Horse Stable Elevations
North
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Horse Stable Floor Plan
West
Section-Cut Renderings
Site Section-Cut 27
FIVE MANHATTAN WEST | Affordable Housing Project Year
2018 | 3rd-Year Architecture
Project Type Residential
Location
Manhattan, New York
Intent
Affordable Living | Communal Housing Examining how the public inhabits a space, the inner world allows for idealization of an infinite interior. Through the manipulation of form and iteration, the composition creates livable spaces, intermingling public and private regions through the use of circulation. Located in the Hudson Yards development of New York City, Five Manhattan West is an adaptive, reuse project, focusing on coverting a historic warehouse structure into affordable, communal living for local residents. Similar to the inner world, the housing project plays with intermixing public and private space through its layout and use of circulation, taking into account family, individual, and communal living. Five Manhattan West is an attempt to influence the form and architecture within the modern apartment style living requirements of New York City, while encouraging interaction and play between residents.
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Isometric Rendering | Inner World
circut
circulation cutout alex dutoit - nate sands
Infinitive Interior Space
Exploded Section-Cut | Inner World
Infinitive Exterior Space
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Overall Floor Plan
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Living Program | Floor Plans Family-Living
Studio-Living
Individual-Living
Family-Living
Studio-Living
Individual-Living
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Rendering | Massing
nge in massing
Circulation
Glazing
Columns
Floor Plates
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Physical Model
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