Perry J. Wreaks
Portfolio.
Selected Works 2017-2021
Academic Work Portsmouth Square 12th & Central Mixed Use Covington Row House Professional Work Nanjing (AS+GG) Brickell Miami (AS+GG)
Perry J. Wreaks wreaks.perry@gmail.com 408.637.1989 2318 Price Way San Jose, CA, 95124 issuu.com/perrywreaks
Education University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Bachelors of Science in Architecture 2016 - 2021 Deans List AIAS Member D.A.A.P. Ambassador Bellarmine College Preparatory San Jose, CA 2012-2016
Experience Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Intern Architecture Co-Op Chicago, IL Fall Semester 2018 Work involved participation on fast paced technical and design teams to help support design development packages on high-rise and super-tall structures. Contributed to graphics for client presentations. Participation in a biannual hackathon also provided insight into professional research methodologies. Studio Meng Strazzara Intern Architectutre Co-Op Seattle, WA Spring Semeseter 2018 SMS specialized in mixed-use and education. Participation on both the public and private side was gained. Work involved coordinating with consultants, iterating on existing design problems in Sketch Up, programing outstanding spaces, completing red-lined documents, and day to day tasks of an typical architectural firm
Technical Skills Revit Rhinocerous-3D Grasshopper V-Ray Auto-CAD Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Premier Pro Maxwell Maya Sketch Up Bluebeam Newforma Microsoft Office
Physical Skills Model Making Woodworking Laser Cutting 3D Printing CNC Milling Vacuum forming
Interests Arch. Visualization Generative Design Digital Fabrication
PORTSMOUTH SQUARE
Voxel exploded axonometric
Discretization through unitized voxels
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
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Spring 2021 14 Weeks Christoph Klemmt Skyscraper San Francisco, CA
Portsmouth Square is located on the border of San Francisco’s Financial and Chinatown districts. Pyramid and tetrahedron voxels populate an underlying surface geometry. The purpose of using voxels were to create complex geometries whilst maintaining prefabricated units. The underlying surface that generates its form is derived from 10 twisting tubes where the convex inflection point aligns with the concave inflection point. Elongated tetrahedrons spiral around the tubes to accentuate their twisting nature. The project’s program is comprised of parking, 42 office units, and a public museum that crowns the tower. The offices are split between two towers and then bridged by the museum. Structurally, each tower is supported by a centralized building core and a diagrid structure to which the facade attaches to. The museum’s interior deviates from the voxel grid and instead uses curvilinear geometry. Circulation spirals around the perimeter of the structure and holds the permanent collection. Exhibitions can be installed on 4 levels using a movable kit of parts to change the layout as needed. The exterior of the museum as well as the podium deviates from the pyramid voxels and instead uses planar panels that align with the 3 dimensional voxel grid. This breaks down the form into the traditional tripartite structure of base, middle, and top.
Axonometric wall section
Office floor axonometric
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. Site plan
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East elevation
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
Museum longitudinal section
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. Museum level 4 plan
10 Museum interior render
2021
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12TH & CENTRAL MIXED USE An investigation in urban planning and narrative Date: Duration: Core Studio V: Location: Project Type:
February 2020 7 Weeks Professor Ryan Ludwig Over the Rhine, Cincinnati Mixed-use
This building combines 80 residential units varying in size, an art museum, and storefront commercial units. A dozen of the units are of a live/work typology and 2 large studio units are intended for an artist-in-residency program sponsored by the museum.
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
This project is a collage of abstracted elements, systems, and programs found in the surrounding urban context of Over the Rhine—a historical Cincinnati neighborhood. The building combines ornamentation, masonry, patina, and industrialization into a cohesive whole. Given the numerous ideas and additional items of inspiration it became imperative for a seamless application; otherwise, an undesirable “amusement park” effect will occur.
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The intended effect is accomplished via superimposition. A brick gradient runs across the front façade in order to cover residential units with patina and masonry. The entire building sits in a packed steel beam structural system with bays mimicking the typical lot sizes and industrial nature of the surrounding blocks. An abstracted ornamentation system is deployed in chrome to assimilate with the fiberglass cornices and columns found all throughout the neighborhood. It is an iconographic symbol of Cincinnati and its rich historical neighborhood. It has a strong identity of its own but maintains a reasonable respect to past. It creates a strong sense of culture and community while avoiding egotistical tropes of misplaced novelty.
Superstructure axonometric
Exterior collage
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
Ground level floor plan
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
Traffic diagram
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Exploded axonometric diagram
Sun diagram Axonometric Site axonometric
2 bedroom floor plan
3 bedroom level 1 unit plan
1 bedroom unit plan
3 bedroom floor plan; level 1
1 bedroom floor plan
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. South façade render
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South façade detail
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. North façade render
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Transverse section
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COVINGTON ROW HOUSE A typological investigation Date: Duration: Location: Project Type:
February 2019 3 Weeks Covington, Kentucky Residential
The Covington Row House sits adjacent to the Roebling Bridge in order to house two Cincinnati folk artists. The home reconsiders the formal and programmatic relationships typical for a row house by utilizing two different methodologies. The first deployed method is an indifferent from-program relationship. This is one of versatility where there is intentionally no relationship between how the space is used and its formal properties. This is the vernacular language of the surrounding context.
When these two distinct methodologies intersect, it spontaneously creates a third methodology, one of intentional conflict. For example, the reciprocal ravine terminates inside an indifferent bathroom. There is an intentional clash between the experience of bathing and the formal properties leading the user to undergo the spacial qualities of architecture in an entirely new way. These intersections can be seen else ware, such as the termination of the stair into the pool, as well as the interior planter box.
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
The second method is a reciprocal relationship. The remaining formal properties of the building inform the program. The ravine-like extrusion forces the remaining elements to be structured around light, causing a experiential winding throughout the building.
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Typical Covington Urban Condition
Loosening of urban fabric inviting a typological deviation
Deviation
Transverse section
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. Side
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Ohio River
Longitudinal Section Back
2021
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P. Physical bay model Scale: 1/8” = 1’
Level 2
Roof Plan
Level 3 Plan
Level 2 Plan
Basement
Level 1 Plan
2021
Basement
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
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BRICKELL High-rise Building
Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Project Architect: Sara Beardsley Project Type: Commercial Location: Miami, FL Date: Winter 2018
PERRY WREAKS
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
AS+GG designed a 735’ office high-rise building in Miami. The program was originally mixed use; I joined the team and helped resolve the some of the consequences caused by major program alterations. I was engaged with this project between 50% DD and a Final DD submission. Completion of red-lined documents, and occasional contribution to graphics for client presentaitons.
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Rendered by Mario Romero
2021
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NANJING Super-tall Structure
Architect: Project Architect: Project Type: Location: Date:
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Iris Gang and Fei Xiu Mixed-use China Winter 2018
AS+GG won a competition to design a mixed use 580m super-tall building and I was tasked participate in the design development phase. I was engaged with the project for about two months seeing a development from 50% DD to roughly 80%. My responsibilities were placed on fast paced technical and design teams to help
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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | D.A.A.P.
support design development packages. I also occasionally contributed graphics for client presentations.
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Rendered by Lifang Vision Technology Co
Massing
Facade Study
2021
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wreaks.perry@gmail.com 408.637.1989