OLIVIA KEMPF PORTFOLIO
Education
University of Cincinnati
Class of 2014
BS Architecture École Speciale d’Architecture_Paris
Autumn 2012
Ursuline Academy_Cincinnati
Class of 2010
Experience
Kroger Engineering_Cincinnati OFIS Arhitekti_Ljubljana bKL Architecture_Chicago DAAP Tour Guide_University of Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity_Cincinnati
Winter 2014 Summer 2013 Spring 2012 2011-Present Fall 2012
Skills
AutoCAD
Autodesk REVIT
Rhino
Google Sketchup
Ecotect Analysis
Autodesk Maya
French Language
Grasshopper
Adobe Products
Microsoft Office
3DS Max
Manuel Model/Render
Recognition
Cincinnatus Scholar
2010-present
Dean’s List
2010-present
UC Study Abroad Grant
Summer 2013
Ephemeral Publication Nuit Hiver Spéciale
Autumn 2012
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2011-present
Ursuline Academy Honors Student
2006-2010
oliviakempf@gmail.com 1.513.702.7433
DAAP 1.1
Cask/Tannin Culinary School
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KROGER Digital Studio
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Cirro Stratus Acoustic Cloud
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Chevron Unit Design/Build
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Urban Tectonic Exploration
OFIS 2.1
Luxembourg Competition
ÉSA 3.1
Ephemeral Installation
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Neuilly-Sur-Marne Park
bKL 4.1
Wolf Point Tower
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1.1 CASK/TANNIN
Instructor_ Stephen Slaughter Course_Arch Studio 3 May 2013 Cask and Tannin as a gastronomical institute combines historical tradition and modern culture of Mt. Adams through the tasting and cultivation of wine and whiskey. The tectonics of the building are triangulated shards that emerge from the earth, aligning to leave the horizon line undisturbed on this prominent hilltop site in Cincinnati. Inhabitable spaces, both interior and exterior, are created by the technique of pushing and pulling tectonic pieces. The school and the public center are connected by these exterior spaces, implying connection while also separating programmatic elements using slope and orientation.
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Mt. Adams Cincinnati’s Seventh Hill Situated on the East side of the city, Mt. Adams is historically the site of much of the nightlife to the higher-income denizens of Cincinnati. Currently on the picturesque hill is a small private theatre with an interior-driven economic design. The studio posed the question of imposing a new purpose to the site as well as all historical, social, and natural elements of the context.. The response of The Cask/Tannin is to incorporate cooking with alcohol; drawing the bargoers to daytime activities in the area by developing a series of indoor and outdoor spaces that connect visually to the river and the skyline.
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Splitting the Mount This hill site has two distinct and divergent sides. The south facing slope is oriented towards the center of Mount Adams with the Cincinnati skyline in the distance. Wedged in the hill here is the Mount, a showroom for nightlife, with wine tasting on the open upper floor and whiskey tasting in the sunken ground floor. The north section of the site slopes down into an adjacent park, with serene views of the Ohio River. In this face is the Culinary School, bringing the bright northern light into the study spaces and cooking classrooms.
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1.2 KROGER DIGITAL FORECASTING
Instructors_ Edson Cabalfin, Michael Zaretsky Course_Arch Studio 4 August-December 2013 A course sponsored by the Kroger company, The Digital Grocery Studio explores future applications of digital technology and food retail. Through researching trends in human-digital interaction, store design, and consumer experience, the studio aims to understand the impacts of increasingly digital markets. The concluding goal is to compile a detailed analysis on the direction of how food will come to the table and to design a new idea of grocery based on these results.
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How will digital technology affect the consumer experience in the grocery of the future?
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The semester involved intensive research and collaboration with Kroger as a client. Research opportunities included trips to stores in Kentucky and Ohio as well as study of digital marketing for three days in Chicago. Working initially in groups, the focus moved from digital trend forecasting into individual proposals at the end of the semester. Five primary trends combine to generate scenarios, each which addresses a different directional circumstances of future planning.
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Scenario: Kroger Gives Food as a public utility and food as an equalizer
Scenario Planning
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As a company founded on dedication to its customers, Kroger assumes responsibility for the needs and wellbeing of communities when they lack the resources to provide for themselves. Kroger’s size and breadth of influence creates a responsibility for the health, safety, and welfare of all who shop under its roofs. Through this task Kroger can establish its future position as a provider of inexorable services.
KROGER PANTRY See video for presentation of research question
FARM TO FORK
$165
billion dollars wasted each year on discarded food
$1820
wasted per year in the average American family
10%
United States budget dedicated to farm to fork transport
40%
Percent of food produced that is discarded by Americans
Redistributing 30% of this would eliminate hunger in the United States
AMERICA’S CONNECTION
65%
of elderly Americans do not have internet access
40%
of African Americans do not have internet access
45%
of Hispanic Americans do not have internet access
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With 40% of food thrown away in the United States, an enormous discrepancy exists somewhere along the farm-to-fork chain. A large portion of this exists in grocery stores when cosmetically unattractive foods and products at the sell-by date cannot be sold. In order to register for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Ohio, users must print an application online to submit to the local office. From here, application status and account management is entirely paperless online.
ONE OUT OF SEVEN 71% In total, 71% of Americans have internet access. Those without are primarily the lower demographics
Americans utilize the SNAP system for food stamps. After recent economic troubles, enrollment in the program has spiked with recent economic conditions and kept
4.7 MILLION
Americans out of poverty. The program however has its limits and only allows for certain items to be purchased, excluding hot meals and organics.
At the same time, millions of people go hungry every day. 14% of Americans use food stamps, keeping 4.7 million out of poverty. Our problem is, SNAP accounts can only be managed online. The 29% of Americans without internet access at home are forced to look somewhere else to gain access. By creating an outlet for these usable goods at a place with integrated internet access, we can give stability to the low-income bracket in food deserts across our nation. Tapping into this demographic establishes Kroger as a symbol of security and hope while giving citizens a sense of community through the sharing of meals. Existing stores in areas such as Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati can be re-configured to accommodate high product and customer transience. Kroger’s breadth of influence places them in an opportune position to grant access to resources that were once a luxury. Let’s give people the health and happiness they deserve.
PHASING Bringing Kroger Back to Vine Street Because of the nature of the concept and the and demographic location of the Kroger Pantry, the additions to the existing big box store will occur in integrated stages and will utilize local or recycled materials such as shipping containers, pallets, and glass block windows. The main structural shell will remain with renovations applied to the urban edge. The goal is to up-cycle usable materials to fill voids and create a more efficient closed-loop system.
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With dry and boxed goods stored on the upper floors, more space is created for displaying produce and other perishable goods. When customers enter the store, they can place their orders on the interactive screens. While they shop, the order is assembled and becomes available for pick-up at any time. This allows for online orders and a more organized storage system accessed only by the associates.
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Technology: The Equalizer in OTR The new checkout stations, made out of recycled pallets, involves a touch screen that acts as an all-access point for customers. A streetside interactive screen draws in the community to be involved in what’s cooking at Kroger. As products arrive to the store, a display shows an up-to-the-minute list of what is for sale each day.
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1.3 CIRRO STRATUS
Instructor_ Ming Tang Course_Digital Media Skills January-May 2013 Based on concepts of parametric design, the Digital Media course approaches the programs Rhino, Grasshopper, and 3DS MAX through practical application. Addressing acoustic concerns in the University of Cincinnati’s Niehoff Studio, the semester was focused on budgeted proposals for the presentation space in the studio. The Niehoff Studio in Clifton Heights is a flexible work and display space for a variety of patrons, yet it is limited by its versatility. Cirro Stratus focuses on the issue of acoustics and zoning as a way to sharpen performance and improve atmosphere.
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Acoustic Cloud A surface conceptualized into horizontal planes, the construction of the suspended cloud absorbs sound and denotes programmed spaces. The thickness and proximity of the panels is determined by the parametric script of an adjustable image of a cloud. This adaptable system allows for zone-specific sound absorption, such as density of panels in the main presentation area. Privacy in nodes off to the sides are generated by the illusion of a lower ceiling plane. This idea can be applied to the studio as a whole or can be indicative of program. Each plane in the suspended structure is constructed from two layers of corkboard laminated to either side of a structural piece of hardboard Masonite.
Presentation Node
Concept Plan
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1.4 CHEVRON UNIT
Instructor_ Melanie Swick Course_Design Lab March-June 2011 Acting as project manager of a twenty student team, this design/build installation was fabricated within a ten week period. The goal was to design a unit with intrinsic connecting capacity in order to construct inhabitable space. The chevron, each made of one 2x4 beam, allowed for a variety of spaces due to its multidirectional nature.
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1.5 URBAN TECTONICS
Instructor_RenĂŠe Martin Course_Arch Studio 2 January-March 2012 Tectonics, the study of line, plane, and frame, lends itself well to case studies of existing structures. Taking directional, monolithic, and experiential concepts from the Netherlands hotel in downtown Cincinnati, this design is a schematic proposal for an urban school on a prominent site in the city.
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Let’s Take A Walk Studying Carlo Scarpa’s powerfully experiential designs, the tectonic model aims to emphasize clear promenade. The linear elements become gestures of direction, letting intersecting masses to establish definition between the indoor and outdoor space, as well as ceiling and floor. The shapes act as careful barriers on otherwise open space.
Laser Cut Model
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2.1 LUXEMBOURG GENERATION HOUSING
Internship_OFIS Arhitekti Ljubljana, Slovenia May-August 2013 A multi-generational social housing competition, This urban block is raised on a monolithic plinth in order to bring vegetation to the sidewalk edge and extend the street into the ground floor programmatic elements. Responsibilities in the team involved compiling the original application for participation to the closed competition, communication with French design team, all translations of documents to English, and overseeing drawing regulations.
2.1 Courtesy of OFIS Arhitekti
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3.1 THE SHAPE OF WIND
Instructor_Brent Patterson Course_Ephemeral Architecture September-December 2012 This theoretically-based project is an exploration into the visibility of an invisible and fleeting force. Wind drives and alters form as well as providing constant change to our physical world. The exploration was executed by using plastic; a material which takes the form of that which it contains. Its lightness in color and weight give way to visibility. Bags of varying sizes and opacities as well as larger sheets of plastic were allowed to interact with a grate dispensing a constant output of wind. Photography and eight short films were used to document the effects.
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3.2 NEUILLY-SUR-MARNE LIFE MARKET
Instructor_Beth Weinstein Course_Atelier 3X September-December 2012 The third project out of a series of three charettes, this month long extensive urban proposal centers around the connection of the neighborhood to the greater Paris metropolitan area. Ideas of connection are rooted in the Marne river, the main tributary to the Seine. With the right resources, this river can act as a potential source of life for many aspects of the small community. The master planning of the site acts as a gradient between the commercial and natural elements required in the program. Flood irrigation areas in the lower planes utilize the river to promote the cultivation of vertical gardens, which in turn ensure the continued growth of the public market.
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4.1 WOLF POINT WEST TOWER
Internship_bKL Architects Chicago, IL March-June 2012 Situated on an iconic point in the joining of two tributaries of Lake Michigan, this structure is a part of a three-piece development. The shortest of its adjoining towers, the West Tower is programmed to be primarily residential. Responsibilities included generating renderings and design options for client presentations, regulation of kitchen and bathroom ADA requirements, and composition of material options.
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