2018 Portfolio_Philip Niekamp by Philip Niekamp

PHILIP NIEKAMP Portfolio 2018

CONTENTS 01

WATER PARK

_OPEN SOURCE

A PROTOTYPE FOR SUBLIME CONFORMITY

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TAUT

BLORK

CITY OF CITIES

PHONE: EMAIL: ADDRESS:

+33 7 68 88 64 51 philip.niekamp@icloud.com 2403 Watts St. Apt 3 Houston, TX 77030

EDUCATION The Rice School of Architecture HOUSTON, TX // 2016-2019 Masters; Architecture

Knowlton School of Architecture

COLUMBUS, OH // 2011-2015 Bachelor of Science; Architecture Honors in Architecture - Research Distinction Latin Honors - cum laude

Columbus State Community College

COLUMBUS, OH // 2007-2010 Associate of Applied Science; Architecture

VOLUNTEER + LEADERSHIP Editor, PLAT Journal

PROFICIENCY AutoCAD Rhino Sketchup Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Model Making Laser Cutting CNC Milling Multimedia Photography Music

HONORS + AWARDS

HOUSTON, TX // 2018 Edited content for PLAT 07: Sharing.

Web Manager, One:Twelve Journal

COLUMBUS, OH // 2014-2015 Curated the online presence of the student publication. Critiqued and edited magazine content. Collaborated on the issue topics. Participated in the Writing Architecture: A Symposium, with Jimenez Lai, Sean Lally, Anna Neimark, Curtis Roth, and Liam Young

Camp Counselor, Camp Architecture

COLUMBUS, OH // 2014 Participated in 2, 5-day camps - Elementary and Middle School Week Supervised hands on design activities, field trips, and games.

PROFESSIONAL DC/S

HOUSTON, TX // 2016-Present Part-time research Fall and Spring. Full time Summer 2017. Researched and built prototypes exploring vacuum-infused, textile-composite structures.

Arch Out Loud

HOUSTON, TX // 2016-Present Part-time, Graphic Editor + Content Generator Worked with the compeition writers to create unique identities for each competition.

InterActive Group

COLUMBUS, OH // 2015-Present Full-time internship, Designer. Renovated the building and designed new high and low tech interactive exhibits for The Hayes Presidential Library.

2018 Rice School of Architecture-Paris// Study Abroad Morris R. Pitman Award in Architecture// 2018 ACADIA, DC/S Project Published// 2017 Deans List // 2011, 2014, 2015 AIA Ohio Schools of Architecture Competition Charrette 2013 // School Finalist 2015 Denman Research Forum // Participant Faculty Book Award // 2015 2014 Knowlton School Maymester // Study Abroad

WATER PARK Rice School of Architecture AU 2017 Totalization Studio GY2 Michelle Chang // 15 weeks New York, New York // Visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center Group Member: Sam Schuermann

The public of New York City lacks attainable and accessible, basic public services. New York is a city where anyone is supposedly able to acquire anything at any time, but this is simply not true. Most of the public space has been privatized or designed in such a way that falsely fronts as public space. We are approaching this lack of attainable and basic services through the Gross Roof, which we believe can provide a genuinely accessible, communal, public amenity space.

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PERFORM

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KEY A

WATER COLLECTION

REVERSE OSMOSIS FILTRATION

TRUSS

CEILING

COLUMN

WATER CLOSET

LAVATORY

1 OF 20 FIXTURES 175 GAL CAPACITY

3” x 4” STEEL ANGLE IRONS PORCELAIN TILE 8” DIA. STEEL COLUMN ENCASED IN BRASS 1 OF 16 FIXTURES 10 WSFUs 26 GAL / HR 1 OF 41 FIXTURES POINT OF USE WATER HEATER 1.5 COLD / 1.5 HOT WSFUs 64 GAL / HR

WATER FOUNTAIN

FLOOR

TABLE

1 OF 45 FIXTURES .25 WSFUs 8 GAL / HR NO-SLIP EPOXY

TYP ROOF

GROSS ROOF

The Gross Roof’s primary function is the flipped diagram of a typical roof. It collects and distributes water rather than diverting it. The uneven thickening of the Gross Roof allows it to disguise what is essentially a small water treatment plant—a system of water tanks and reverse osmosis filtration systems capable of processing around 200,000 gallons of rainwater. Although the original brief calls for 16 water closets, 10 lavatories, and 2 water fountains, this hidden system will feed a field of 16 water closets, 41 lavatories, and 45 water fountains, all publicly accessible all of the time. The suspended water treatment system creates, at ground level, a field of slender vertical pipes that blend in with the similarly clad and slender structural columns supporting the Gross Roof. The typical visitor’s center provides basic water services, sometimes electrical services, and moments of repose or shade within the park. Rather than adding programmatic elements to the visitor’s center, the nature of the Gross Roof allows for the maximization of these minimal requirements, providing a generosity to the patron—which we call the Water Park.

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PLAN: GROUND

The four fixtures that define the visitors center: the lavatory, the water fountain, the table, and the water closet, are condensed and arrayed to fill the floor plate. They are rotated to generate adjacencies, super-imposition resulting in compositions which resemble typical programmatic zones.

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PLAN: REFLECTED CEILING

Physical and visual barriers exist between and within zones through the proximity of the fixtures [where the pipes begin to act like transparent walls], the operable doors on either side of the water closets [which open and close off spaces], and the door extensions that become fixed partitions.

BRUSHED BRASS PIPE HOUSING

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EMBEDDED GLAZING MULLION STEEL STRUCTURE, 4”x 3” ANGLE [X2] VAPOR BARRIER RIGID INSULATION STEEL U-CHANNEL CERAMIC TILE BACKING CERAMIC TILE 3/4” STRUCTURAL GLAZING [X4]

E-2 LAVATORY 1/2” = 1’-0”

G-1: EXTERIOR WALL AT CEILING

G-1, 1 1/2” = 1’-0”

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COLUMN REVEAL AT CEILING

STEEL STRUCTURE, 4”x 3” PLATE GUSSET PLATE STEEL STRUCTURE, 4”x 3” ANGLE [X2] VAPOR BARRIER RIGID INSULATION STEEL U-CHANNEL CERAMIC TILE BACKING CERAMIC TILE 8” STEEL REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN

H-1: COLUMN REVEAL AT CEILING

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SECTION: A

= 1’-0”

PORCELAIN WALL MOUNTED TOILET PANTONE 11-0601 TPX

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ROOF DRAIN AND GRILL CERAMIC TILE GRAVEL BEDDING FELT DRAINAGE LAYER WATERPROOFING 3” RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER STEEL STRUCTURE

C-2 WATER CLOSET 1/2” = 1’-0”

D-1 STACK VENT 1/2” = 1’-0”

E-1: ROOF ASSEMBLY

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EXTERIOR WALL AT GRADE

NON-SKID EPOXY FINISH FLOOR, PANTONE PQ-D9D9D9 EPOXY SKRIM CONCRETE TOPPING SLAB RIGID INSULATION 3/4” STRUCTURAL GLAZING [X4] NEOPRENE GLAZING GASKET EMBEDDED GLAZING MULLION CONCRETE FOUNDATION SLAB GRAVEL FILL EARTH FILL RIGID INSUALTION

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SECTION: C

LAVATOR

WORK

_OPEN SOURCE Rice School of Architecture AU 2016 Studio GY1 David Costanza // 8 weeks Houston, Texas // City Hall

_Open Source is an investigation into the insertion of an antagonistic programâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a maker spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;into what might be considered a typical civic center consisting of a day care, courts, tax collection, information, and their various support spaces. A large square footage requirement that nearly matches the site boundaries provides the perfect opportunity to put both the civic and maker programs on one level in constant, unavoidable conversation. The central space in the building opened up for the maker space for musicians, and

is situated so that a main corridor of circulation arch between the two civic nodes must past through between the two civic wings. In this way music is part of the daily civic interaction no matter the location. Large ribbon windows

publicly display the inner workings of the institution, the maker space, and the soft and hard adjacencies between them both.

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A circular void in the middle acts as a hinge in the project, emphasizing its importance as the program rotates at this point in section. The stage below provides direct access to the park so the audience can spill out / the public can be pulled in. The entire building becomes an exhibition. On the interior, people move between the abrupt changes in mundane civic functions. This is read on the exterior as the public passes by and are unexpectedly drawn by the creation of music and activity.

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PLAN: LEVEL 01

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SUBLIME CONFORMITY Rice School of Architecture SP 2017 Studio GY1 Daisy Ames // 8 weeks Houston, Texas // High-Density Housing

The Prototype for Sublime Conformity is an exercise in rendering the absurdity of the ever-expanding amenity actually usable again by questioning their location in regards to the living programs found in the typical housing scheme found all around Houston. Spanning the last decade, the housing market in Houston has experienced the same “boom-bust” instability reflected in the city’s economic climate. As a response, a long list of amenities has afforded developers to secure profitability by offering more—putting them in a game of “one-upping” each other—by adding strange, yet exciting amenities to their housing developments. The goal of this prototype is to capitalize on the trend of oversaturated amenities by collecting and relocating them into a single, central tower. As a result of the shuffling and reorganizing the amenities, the conventional relationship between domesticity and leisure is repositioned.

STRATEGY: REORGANIZE AMMENITIES INTO CENTRAL TOWER.

This central tower, affectionately named The Tower of Amenities, becomes a social condenser through the stacking of its somewhat-chaotic-but-still-functional super-saturation of amenities which range in function from urban necessity to leisure. The Tower of Amenitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; public reach is extended beyond the border of the Conti Street site, accessible not only for the renters within the complex but the greater downtown public as well. This in turn allows for a new model to emerge, one where traditional barriers between types of lands owned are now being united through a common use of social programing. The once, quite literally segregated housing unit of Houston, now invites. The line between publicÂ street and private yard is dissolved in the grounds leading to The Tower of Amenities. Allowing the private renters to mingle with the public not only justifies the programmatic means, but promotes a social engagement with the larger community.

IMAGE: LIBRARY + LAUNDRY

PLAN: LIBRARY + LAUNDRY

PLAN: A GROCERY STORE, BUT FORMALLY SIMILAR TO THE FORM OF A FAMOUS MUSEUM.

PLAN: A TANNING SALON, BUT FORMALLY SIMILAR TO AN INDUSTRUAL, CONVEYOR PIZZA-OVEN.

SECTION: TOWER OF AMMENITIES

IMAGE: THE VIEW FROM THE BAR, THROUGH TO THE ROCK CLIMBING WALL

IMAGE: BEDROOM

IMAGE: KITCHEN

The resulting housing units, therefore, represent the fundamental housing needs of the young professional. The unit, stripped of the amenities, becomes a modest yin to the excessive yangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ideal place for domesticity removed from the distractions of the collective. Here, young professionals are able to reimagine domestic life as an opportunity for contemplation.

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PLAN: LEVEL 03

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PLAN: LEVEL 01

PLAN: SITE

DC/S TAUT DC/S // 2018 Project Leader: David Costanza Team Members: Sam Schuermann, Ekin Erar, Daniel Kleeschulte Houston, Texas // Research

Taut is a half-scaled prototype of a full-scale pavillion, based on research exploring the potentials of using tensile surface morphologies to define the geometry of vacuum-assisted, resininfused, textile-composite structures. The final version of the prototype— conveniently the size of a table—was the result of intense, hands-on research spanning two years at the Rice School of Architecture. This included material tests, pattern tests, and infusion tests that resulted in eight prototypes. The project’s current status is the intitial phase of a full-scale implimentation. Taut was recongnized and published in the conference proceedings from ACADIA [Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture] 2017: Disciplines and Disruption.

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BLORK. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Picture Book 2015 Blork is the story of a rectangle looking for his place in the world. He travels to lands of many other shapes and colors, but because he is a rectangle, he does not fit. Once he arrives at the Land of Rectangular Rectangles, however, he realizes that being a rectangle and only fitting in a land of nothing but rectangles is no better than having no place. He searches and searches, eventually finding solace in the world of all shapes and colors, where he lives happily ever after. The four worlds Blork travels to are heavily influenced by architecture. Each shape and color is primary and match Kandiskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s color and shape theory from the Bauhaus [excluding the green rectangle]. All of these individual components are combined and scaled to fit the proportions of the Golden Rectangle, and sited on one of the four basic elements: Earth, Fire, Water, and Air.

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CITY OF CITIES Knowlton School of Architecture SP 2015 Honors Studio Y4 Lisa Tilder + Sandhya Kochar 15 weeks Undergraduate Thesis Group Members: Jessica Sprankle, Cheyenne Vandevoorde The City of Cities is an exercise in world-making through a narrative of architectural avatars. Rather than reacting to expected programming, the avatars create cities through their interaction, challenging the conventional authority of program, context, typology, and specific functions, resulting in a game-like operation of a new sensational metropolis. Borrowing from a selection of major cities across the globe, emblematic architectures which were imbued with the personality of their mother cities were collected. These personalities were used to create avatars that remained sympathetic to the historical events that created them. The characters took on a new, exaggerated form, a humorous critique of their former typology while avoiding the impulse to reinforce existing conditions.

CITY OF CITIES: SOLVES OVER-POPULATION

CITY OF CITIES: ON THE SCALE OF THE COSMOS

MAGIC!

“% @ # ^ & !”

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GAME OF BATTLESHIP TO SOLVE WORLD CONFLICTS.

MONUMENT TO CONSUMERISM

RELIGIOUS ROCKET

SECTION: CITY OF CITIES

LOUD ARCHITECTURE

CITY OF COMEDY

CITY OF WAR The avatars become players in a scene of a particular sensation: comedy, war, and heros. The City of Comedy is an exaggerated, nonsensical arrangement of architecture, existing everywhere and nowhere simultaneously. The City of War is a tactical critique on war. Peace and tranquility hid behind the thick veil of mirrors. The rank and file architecture is aligned for battle, but will only destroy itself. The City of Heros is formed by the collection of individualistic architecture exploiting each other and combining to create a vertical city that breaks through the clouds. The city is perched on a mountain of the defeated ruins of the non-heroic architecture.

CITY OF HEROS