Reid Snell Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2022
REID SNELL 319.450.6641 snelre01@iastate.edu EXPERIENCE SOLUM LANG ARCHITECTS- Summer Intern
May 2021 - August 2021
Assisted in program analysis for proposals Edited red-lined AutoCAD drawings General project development and documentation Generated lumion renderings for marketing materials
AMES FITNESS CENTER- Custodian
September 2019- Present
Maintaining a clean environment for members during the Covid19 Pandemic Minor maintenance tasks Swim Lesson Instructor
BOWMAN WOODS SWIM CLUB- Manager
June 2016- August 2019
Scheduling and supervising 25 staff members Lifeguard Swim Lesson Instructor
EDUCATION IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY - College of Design BArch | NAAB Accredited 5 Year Program Department of Architecture | Ames, Iowa James H and M Suanne Stange Scholarship Endowment Recipient Secondary Major in Environmental Studies 3.75 Cumulative GPA - Dean's List Spring Class of 2022
LUTHER COLLEGE General Education | Decorah, Iowa August 2016 - May 2017
AutoCAD | Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign | Lumion | Revit | Model Making | MS Office Suite
TABLE OF PROJECTS BEYOND
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in collaboration with Sam Gibbs instructor Bosuk Hur spring 2020
WATER WORKS
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in collaboration with Sam Gibbs and Ana Sofia Ramos instructors Andrew Gleeson & Kimberly Zarecor spring 2021
EXHIBIT DES MOINES
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in collaboration with Mackenzie Deluliis instructor Shelby Doyle fall 2020
SOUNDSCAPE instructors Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski fall 2021
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BEYOND in collaboration w/ Sam Gibbs - instructor Bosuk Hur project site: 555 West Street, New York, NY 10014 program type: Residential and Art Gallery Arch 302 Spring 2020
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Within our cube studies we mainly focused on the depiction of the collision between different materials which represent public and private realms. These studies look for ways in which organic forms react to rigid materials at this collision point.
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The boundary is occupiable space where the public and private are diluted to expand this invisible line into a collision of program which is viewed by both the public and private. Boundaries act as an illusion which can appear, disappear, and re-appear. These should be treated as inconspicuous, multi-dimensional edges but are currently being treated as physical obstacles in response to our economic, cultural, and social differences. The programmatic evolution of the boundary has the capacity to create transitional spaces that omit a permanent divide between the realms of public and private.
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In New York City, the Chelsea District has many art galleries that are not visible while walking along the Highline. In order to expose the art collections which are showcased in these galleries, Beyond will merge the displays through featuring select pieces from these ever changing exhibitions. Visitors and residents of Beyond are urged to find the inspiration to further explore the unique art experience in Chelsea based on which art captivates them most. Located at an end of the path most traveled through Chelsea, the Highline gives a unique vantage point which provides captivating views of the city’ s architecture. The extruded shapes seen on the facade of this project showcase high-end art which aims to draw users from the Highline. These glimpses further inform visitors of other immersive art opportunities exist off of the path.
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HIGHLINE LEVEL PLAN
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ACCESSIBLE UNIT A
UNIT C
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WATER WORKS
in collaboration w/ Sam Gibbs and Ana Sofia Ramos instructors Andrew Gleeson and Kimberly Zarecor project site: Downtown Des Moines, IA project type: Urban Planning Arch 402 Spring 2021
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By the beginning of the next century, it is projected that sea level rise, rising temperatures, and other climate factors will adversely affect many populous cities in the United States. Preservation of these cities will be costly, temporary, and in some areas impossible, resulting in out-migration to more moderate climate zones in the interior of the United States. how might cities in the Upper Midwest transform and grow in the coming decades to accommodate potential in-migration to this region? What if in the year 2075, flood water crests at an unprecedented level in downtown Des Moines creating damages that require the reformation of the infrastructure. In response, the City of Des Moines adopts a water conscious design that approaches protecting the future longevity of the city through flood mitigation tactics and urban renewal techniques while promoting water catchment as a mitigation strategy for future floods. The ward system and overall design, functions in proximity to large water sources but can also be implemented in places closer to more capillary water sources all within larger flood plains. With the rapid increase of population density in Des Moines, the Water Wise city centers around the balance of the functional flood prevention and the livability of the city for its residents that can allow for further integration into the surrounding Des Moines areas.
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BUILDINGS
FULL WARD LAYOUT
TRANSPORTATION
WARD INTEGRATION PHASES
PHASE 1: EXISTING CONDITION
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PHASE 2: FLOOD CONDITIONS
PROGRAMS
GREEN SPACE vs. HARD SCAPE
PHASE 3: TOPOGRAPHY ALTERATION
WARD STAMPED
PHASE 4: WARD INTEGRATION
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Current Des Moines
Downtown Neighborhood Topography
Existing Downtown Des Moines Neighborhood
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Downtown Des Moines Ward Intervention
Altered Downtown Neighborhood Topography
Downtown Des Moines With Ward Intervention
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Building Typology 100’ and below 100’ to 200’ 200’ and above roof slope direction
Principal Building
Des Moines Marriott
Ruan Building
HUB Tower
Equitable Building
The Plaza Building Polk County Courthouse
Civic Center World Food Prize Hall
Polk County Treasurer
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bioswale
water cistern
water collection
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permeable pavement
filtration system
water cistern
bio filter
bioswale
irrigation system
utilities
water collection
EXHIBIT DES MOINES in collaboration w/ Mackenzie DeIuliis - instructor Shelby Doyle project site: 120 East 5th Street, Des Moines, IA program type: Robotics Lab and Research Center Arch 401 Fall 2020
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At the onset of this semester, we were tasked with researching 3 significant contemporary design robots, including their production process and their spatial requirements. Through this research, we became familiar with Maria Yablonina's MorFES robot; a string weaving multi-species robot. This diagrammatic exploration of her work was meant to be an analysis of body standards and their interactions with different robotic species.
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The site is located at 120 E 5th street, in the historic east village of Des Moines. It sits adjacent to a formerly dilapidated, but historically significant, train depot, and an inactive rail line. As a part of our proposal, we are suggesting that the city of Des Moines follows through with their proposal to rehabilitate the rail line into a pedestrian and bike path. This addition to our site would increase the public’ s exposure to these new technologies. We hope to challenge the pedagogy of robots as purely a means of making art, or robots as purely tools of industry, and task them to functioning as both. Early on, we began to consider the robots acting as means of production, and we are framing this process of production as art. The process of making on our site requires an overhead multiaxis robot, vertical grid structures with anchoring pegs, filament, resin, and wall dwelling track system robots. The track system robots will inhabit the vertical grids, anchoring filament on the pre-existing pegs. Between each anchoring, the overhead multi-axis robot will unwind additional thread and taxi it over to the opposite grid, where it can be anchored. This process will continue until the form is complete, and ready to be cast.
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The process of iteration through to project completion could be outlined as follows: 1-Determine the desired form to be constructed. 2-Determine how the form needs to be woven 3-Determine if a new or existing robot is needed for the task 4-Fabricate the necessary robot 5-Allow the robot to complete the woven structure 6-Cast and cure a rigid piece using the woven form 7-Cure the finished form 8-Remove from the anchoring pegs 9-Transport to final location
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The required program for our facility includes robotics labs, an education suite, an administrative suite, a research suite and public spaces. We chose to integrate much of the existing depot space as administrative facilities, and our primary robotic space is housed in a glass, open air building in which the weaving robots will be used for research and production. In between the robotic facility and the research center, we propose that an extension of the grid structure and weaving robots, which will provide space for additional testing as well as functioning as a shading device. In this facility, we hope to create an in-between place. One that’ s focused on the interaction, the gradation, of human and robotic simultaneous inhabitation. Robotic inhabitants on the interior and exterior of the building lend themselves to interesting displays and offer shading during their process. Within the production side of the site the MorFES robot moves through the process of weaving. The benefit of this technique being the scale at which the forms can be cast.
Parapet Cap Vapor Barrier Insulation
Aluminum Grid for Robot Navigation Vapor Barrier Insulation
Double Glazing System
Concrete Floor on Metal Decking Mullion
Welded Plate Connection W-Shape Steel Structure
Concrete Floor Slab Steel reinforcement inConcrete Floor Slab Concrete Pile
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SOUNDSCAPE
instructors Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia project type: Imagined Post Work Society Arch 403 Fall 2021
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In the wake of destruction does the landscape speak? If the systems of capitalism and the people who fuel it cease to exist, the landscape speaks. A post capitalistic soundscape is one which has been altered and may sound strange. Various forms provide differing experiences and the volumetric essence of sound begs to be interpreted. Through interpretation enters a story, is it sound, noise, or an awakening? Does connection emerge from the deconstruction? 1. How do you reclaim yourself and your body, and what role does architecture play in self-exploration? 2. Human beings have created personal limits in their ability to experience the senses of their flesh. Spatial practices become a new apparatus for the liberation of the bodily senses. 3. At the end of work, away from the individualistic cultures of capitalism, we re imagine a new collective way to attribute senses to the action of being lazy. 4. “ Laziness becomes the absence of movement” , but what happens when the movement is a result of being lazy? 5. Through the perception of spatial stimuli in the built environment, we gain a deeper understanding of the cartographies of our bodies 6. Architecture bridges the cognitive, emotional, spiritual, physiological, behavioral, and ecological, developing a new environment. 7. Fear, discomfort and the unexpected become the obstacles of laziness as a result of being a weapon of capitalism. 8. Senses, perceived as a whole, are an information-seeking system. 9. What brings people pleasure and excitement? Are these senses heightened when we seek them out or when they happen naturally? How much of a role do our surroundings play in this? 10. Architecture is both a spatial and social practice. Architects have a role in recognizing the entanglements of the field with politics and the body. They have to be aware of its role in facilitating control, and work towards creating a new set of vocabulary and tools for emancipation.
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Thank You
Reid Snell 319.450.6641 snelre01@iastate.edu