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DANIEL YONTZ

WORK-IN-PROGRESS MASTERS STUDENT - KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE additional former work viewable at danielyontz.com

01 Gas Station (x) Intersection Instructor: Curtis Roth Spring 2016, G1 studio project Page 4-15

02 Golden Parametric Hostel Instructor: Ben Wilke Fall 2015, G1 studio project Page 16-29

03 Imprint Mausoleum Instructor: Ben Wilke Fall 2015, G1 studio project Page 30-39

04 Designing for Culture Client/Advisor: Design Local/Kyle Ezell Spring 2016, OSU Real Estate Grant Page 40-55

05 24-Hour Competitions Administrator: Ideas Forward Winter 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015 (to be added)

06 Living Cities Competition Administrator: Green Cities/Metropolis Magazine Fall 2014 (to be added)

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Instructor: Beth Blostein & William Fleming Fall 2015-Spring 2016, Contructions 1 & 2, and Systems 1 (to be added)

Gas Station (x) Intersection AN EXAMINATION OF THE GAS STATION AND IT’S FUTURE Instructor: Curtis Roth Spring 2016, G1 studio final review project (6 week duration) LAND RECLAIMATION Intersections of highways or more major roadways have always been a contentious issue in our cities. They break up neighborhoods, compartmentalize or displace people, add persistent and unwanted noise, and they’re expensive.

The intersections are particularly contentious because they use such an enormous ammount of land, wasting the majority of it to unused space.

Although land reclaimation wasn’t paramount to the studios focus, redesigning the intersection to fit into a building-size footprint, and connecting the lost space via a park, could bring our cities closer together.

Gas stations are ubiquitous throughout America but few are icons, rather they’re often a collection of parts; a canopy, pumps, columns, store, tarmac, and tanks. This assembly never leads to uniqueness, and over time gas stations have homogenized to a standard.

Unlike the current state of the gas station, there is a history of prominent architects making their mark through a dynamic and unusual gas station.

The task throughout the studio was to design a gas station that would live on, and adapt to an unknown future. A future that would likely be without conventional fuel injected cars, or the continued use of the finite fossil fuels.

The final design reinvisioned the site and its use of land to be in one compact building, consisting of a series of turn radii and spiral lifts that not only allow the major intersection to take place on a much smaller footprint, but also allow for the future autonomous vehicles to fill up with gasoline as they transition from one highway to another. The design also examines a future where vehicles can enter buildings, have zero emissions, and engage our cities in creative, new, and remarkable ways.

Perspective from S. High Street

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Large axonometric of the site, with an infill of buildings reclaiming the lost area. Axonometric taken from South Eastern view.

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Complete Pedestrian Circulation

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compact, not only in design but also in use. The vehicles can slow,

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stop, and transition in unison. This building is designed with this new fleet of cars in mind.

Traditional highway to highway exchange

Reclaiming Land from expansive highway exchanges

Compact Vertical Transition + Gas Station [designed for autonomous vehicles]

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Large Axonometric of the site taken form the North Eastern viewpoint. The designs shows a living city right up to the interstate exchange with High St.

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Plan view of Site

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Perspectives, street level from N. High (top), and from i270 (bottom).

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

What happens when it’s not just one intersection? When it’s not just and interstate meeting a busy road? What happens when the primary motivation isn’t land reclaimation, but rather a larger paradigm shift? What happens when technology changes, and autonomous vehicles are the norm? When vehicular ownership is almost non-existent? When no more parking lots or garages are required? What happens when vehicles become electric and emit no CO2? When vehicles can enter and exit buildings as easily as people? How radical of a change could there end up being on our cities?

These are some of the ideas raised in this project, and even more raised at the final review. The idea of converting our cities to accomodate vehicles in a new way. Where buildings become part of the vehicular transit system, and pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, and any other mode of transportation are intrinsically combined, moving in perfect concert with one another. What would our cities look like? Would it bring people closer together, or further apart? How could this radical change manifest itself? and what would our future cities look like once it did?

Golden Parametric Hostel A HOSTEL DESIGNED FOR DE-RESOLUTION Instructor: Ben Wilke Fall 2015, G1 studio project (2.5 week duration) MORE PARAMETRICS! The wavey nature of the facade was created with dots and lines that determined the length, shape, and angle of the louver. The iterative process was attempted many times on each individual face the outer hostel.

The facade and hostel design would have inevitably been aided by a longer project duration, but the timeline restricted the design process to a break-neck pace, and forced the final design decisions to happen quickly.

The hostel was a brief project concerned with both the living requirements of the visitors, and the concept of de-resolution. In other words, the design should reflect some nebulous idea of what lies beneath.

The design plays a game with the veiwer from the street, explicitly mirroring the lower building it rests upon, then ridding itself from the connection via the dramatic gold-leafed louver system.

This project was created through using parametric software, and specifically, the software was used to design the louvers to aid in privacy in sections of the hostel like the bedrooms and baths, while opening up in the more shared public spaces. The louvers not only alter in angle and openess, but they also vary in length to achieve the unique public and private spaces. The interior spaces are almost modular in design, intentionally adverse to their glossy, ever-changing facade treatment.

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Longitudinal Section of the Golden Hostel.

Transverse Section of the Golden Hostel.

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View of the hostel from the alley adjacent to Pacemont Rd. The hostel design is created to activate previously unused or underused spaces in the area.

To the left is a site plan of N. High St. showing the hostel building and its relationship to the neighboring Clintonville buildings.

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Rendering showing some of the dining space and outdoor space of the hostel. The view is looking out toward High St. and Pacemont corner.

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Rendering showing the Pacemont Street view of the building, including the arched entry to the elevator and stairs to the hostel.

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This spread consists of images taken of the physical model, built at 1/8� : 1’ scale. The images were then set against a real sky, and include highly saturated people to display the unusual space that could be inhabited on N. High Street, and the relative closedness or openess of the golden louvers. The model was a combination of 3-D printing on Stratasus and MakerBot printers, laser cutting, traditional printing and hand-crafting foam core model.

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The above image shows primarily the facade treatment which balances the public and private area in the hostel.

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Plans of floors 3 and 3.5 (top), and 4 and 4.5 (bottom). Floor plans show the smaller indoor and bedroom space, and larger communal spaces on each floor.

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Imprint Mausoleum DESIGNING A CONTEMPORARY MAUSOLEUM Instructor: Ben Wilke Fall 2016, G1 studio project (3 week duration) REMEBERING THE LOST The contemporary design tries to bring your loved ones to life via interactive walls storing images, sounds, text and more from the loved ones buried or cremated on the site.

These touch sensitive walls are powered by way of PV cells on top, and additional electricity, if needed. They provide an interactive place where people can revisit their loved ones in a way many wish to, through recorded audio, video, still images, letters to visitors, and some additional medias.

The design of the mausoleum was created to mimic the Vietnam Memorial designed by Maya Lin. Instead of an open wound in the Earth, The Imprint Mausoleum was created to look as though it was a large fingerprint into the ground, displacing the neighboring soil.

The varied pavers seen on the gentle slope towards the primary interior burial space are meant to embody the actual individuality on everyone’s fingers, thus serving as a complicated smorgasbord as you decend to the private indoor space, where preparation rooms, funeral services, and burial units and urns run along the wall.

The design allows for a variation in public and private grieving spaces including four private rooms to keep families and loved ones together, and a closer density of walls barriers as you decent to give off the feeling of privacy. The decent is a light slope and the visitors enter through the wall of the actual mausoleum. The burial spaces at the rear of the mausoleum let you directly insert the deceased into the earth.

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Plan view without cut showing the site from an direct aerial view.

The patchwork is best displayed from this view, showing the unique print left on the ground.

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Plan view cut showing interior private rooms, preparation space, burial units, and ceremony area.

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Longetudinal section displaying the gentle slope that leads visitors into the Earth. The main ceremony space contains skylights the brightens up the below-ground space.

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The transverse section shows the entry via the wall, and section that tricks the eye into thinking its a forced perspective.

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The transverse section shows the burial plots within the wall, the meeting space, prep rooms, skylights, and the walkways inside each wall.

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PARALLEL PROJECTION

Axonometric looking from the South West Union Cemetery - Columbus, OH

The axonometric shows the slope into the Earth, the primary wall, the opposite sloping private rooms, the interactive mini-walls and you descend, and the intricate patchwork of pavers.

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ESSENCE OF ATHENS Hills

Essence of Athens, a strategic plan for economic enhancement and community competitiveness was a previYouthful book, ously award-winning designed to allow residents of Little Bigness Athens, Ohio to identify what inventiveness was most important to their accepting community and claim their culture as a future plan for the built environment.

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Whether people accept it or not, the built environment plays an enormous roll on how others view the place you may call home. The book aims to allowing a less strict planning code in substitution of designing with what residents claim most encapsulates their culture and people.

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The housing project was perhaps more successful, and despite using fewer terms from the book to aid in its creation, the finished product still celebrated much of what is distinctly Athens. It uses a courtyard and shares outdoorLeafy space in substitution of a traditional front yard. The open plan, large

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The prompt was to design a McDonald’s using a series of terms like casual, music, accepting attitudes, inventive spirit, hills, nature, joyful, openhearted, better, unafraid, original, fresh, catchy, and uplifting, to name a few. This directive made it difficult to create a structure that could perhaps be singular in its aim. Instead, the design strived to connect these terms back to a building design, but didn’t offer a cohesive element.

The McDonald’s would’ve likely benefited from fewer terms required from the book, but more sketches that drastically altered the initial concept. That said, although the structure was designed as a McDonald’s, the idea was to craft a building that would be adaptable and therefore could serve different owners or occupiers if the fast food joint failed. This is a relatively unusual idea, considering many fast food restaurants are identifiable via their roofs or windows (i.e. Pizza Hut’s trapazoidal windows), which inevitably make them more challenging to occupy when/if they change use.

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Site Plan of the McDonald’s proposed. The designed building is a lighter grey, while the existing structures are in black. The (not really) incoming McDonald’s wouldn’t remove or displace any existing buildings or parks.

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The above rendering is from the interior of the McDonald’s as one would enter from Union Street. The playful curved booths are intended to offer more private spaces, while benching and open tables are offered outside, on the roof, and in the glass cylinder.

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The renderings on this page show the large, light-filled cylinder that eclipses the roof plane and offers a route up to the rooftop garden.

The second rendering shows the large concrete wall on the western side of the building. That wall is created to do multiple uses, including store heat, offer a backdrop for movies and screenings, and give structure to the secondary means of rooftop egress,

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IT’S A MESS!! - PROCESS SKETCHES

The design sketches were numerous. All-in-all, there was somewhere around 200 sketches from Clint Calhoun (landscape architect) and myself throughout the duration of the project. The project required more of an emphasis on process because the that’s ultimately the element The Essence of Athens book was created to change, the outcome of the built environment would simply be the by-product of redefining the rules to create great places.

The sketches in the background are all focused on the housing project. The prompt was to create a housing option that would be enjoyable to residents while exemplifying a long list of identifiers in the Athens book. The new design is playful, relatively cheap, exemplifies sustainable or resilient building strategies, contains lots of light, redefines the average yard, and embodies the color palette of Athens.

Although, the house was fashioned as a small, single page project in a future publication, the design process was more rewarding for this prompt, and inevidably created something more rich.

The above rendering shows a lineup of newly designed student housing, along with the large courtyards. This project had no site, and therefore had to be versitile on the sometimes generous slopes of Athens, Ohio.

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The exterior shot of this rendering is showing a covered entry and a somewhat undefined courtyard space. The building is relatively tall in height given that its only two floors, and the windows are also raised to allow light to enter, but retain privacy if there are passersby.

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Unusual perches, reading spaces, open stairs, built-in shelving, and interior windows offer a more contemporary living for students.

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Interior images of the commonspaces in the house.

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