ABSTRACT INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
ACADEMIC DESIGN CONVERGENCE FALL‘14 - MARC 520
ART KINESIS FALL‘14 - AIA CENTRAL STATES COMPETITION
AS SALAM MOSQUE SPRING‘14 - MARC 519
ROUTE 66 MUSEUM FALL ‘12 - ARCH 315
TAICHUNG LIBRARY AND CULTURE CENTER SPRING ‘13 - ARCH 467
STUDIO RURALIS SPRING ‘12 - ARCH 214
ST. LOUIS CYCLE CENTER FALL ‘11 - ARCH 214
TABLE OF CONTENTS PROFESSIONAL DESIGN REYNOLDS HALL, MSSU ‘14 - BATES & ASSOICIATES
65 MARKETPLACE ‘14 - BATES & ASSOICIATES
PARADISE POINT BUILDING 9 ‘14 - BATES & ASSOICIATES
DESIGN BUILD BOYD ELEMENTARY ‘14 - DRURY UNIVERSITY DESIGN BUILD CLUB
ANIMATION SALK INSTITUTE RENDERINGS FALL ‘12 - ARCH 375
SKETCHES FORM STUDIES AND SKETCHES SUMMER ‘13 - ARCH 428
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DESIGN PORTFOLIO
ONLINE PDF www.issuu.com/richconyers
DRURY UNIVERSITY DESIGN BUILD CLUB
FACEBOOK PAGE www.facebook.com/dudbc
VIRTUAL REALITY: AND ITS ROLE IN EDUCATION AND PRACTICE During my academic career at Drury University’s Hammons School of Architecture, I have developed a deeper interest in virtual reality and its practical use. Virtual Reality is one of the fastest developing technologies in the world. The use of immersive technology allows education, entertainment, and communication on an unprecedented level in a variety of fields. The level of interactivity with immersive technology creates an encounter that provides not only hands-on learning, but simulation that may be used to test users, study responses, provide lifelike experience and create clarity in communication unable to be expressed through other mediums. Virtual Reality has a integral part in the design field, allowing users to experience a space or object before the physical form is created. Virtual technologies such as Oculus, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Glasses are providing platforms that will not only exist in the educational and professional field, but exist in the average home across the U.S.
CONVERGENCE Studio/FALL ‘14 Revit & Photoshop Convergence is more than a culture museum, it’s a mechanism for change. The project offered the Israeli-Pales"nian conflict as a subject while reques"ng that poli"cal, social, and architectural strategies be devloped to encourage progression towards peace in Israel. A$er extensive site evalua"on, poli"cal research, and mul"discipline collaboration, students were alloted six weeks for mechanism development followed by three weeks of schema"c design. Although the project produced a form, the design is meant to offer an example of a catalyst that would be implemented at mul"ple sites along the West Bank. Per"nent design requires site ccontext considera"ons for each new loca"on.
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ART-KINESIS achieved 2nd place at the 2014 AIA Central States student design compe!!on. The team consisted of four Drury University students compe!ng with schools from Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Missouri with graduate and undergraduate programs represented. The compe!!on focused on crea!ng a public MakerSpace, engaging the drive-thrus adjacent to the sites, and incorpora!ng a FEMA shelter within the building design. ART-KINESIS displays the process of creating and presenting art. Three themes exist in the site: Process, Engagement, & Product. The west site allows for guests to view creation of art and display each process. The tunnels are public driven Art of Space displays that flow from the gallery and studios onto South Avenue to create visual link on a major axis of downtown Springfield, MO. The gallery will display finished products which may be traced back to the studios to observe creation.
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AS SALAM MOSQUE Studio/SPRING ‘14 Revit & Photoshop The Worship Center project required research and design for a religion that was not the designer’s prac!ced religion. The project was also comprehensive, requiring HVAC and structural planing as well as basic code review. Due to the mul!-use program of the building, mul!ple concepts were implemented based on the func!on of the spaces. The forest concept mimics a screen produced by nature which allows light but restricts views to and from the worship space. The tent concept reflects prayer tents found in Islamic culture. The tent form was used as inspira!on for the structural exterior skin.
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ROUTE 66 MUSEUM Studio/FALL ‘12 Revit & Photoshop The Route 66 Museum project was created to design a museum that would house permanent and temporary displays involving the Route 66 theme. I chose to create a concept that would pertain to stripping back the layers of a car. I created a skin that pulls away from the structure similar to the body of a car from its frame. The diagram on the page to the le! demonstrates the comparison between the two elements. The skin is an organic form that permeates as it hugs the structure of the building, allowing a visual transforma"on from the interior of the building. These perfora"ons also manipulate light as it escapes the building a!er dark. The skin acts as a transforma"ve element in the entry sequence of the museum; the path enters into a space between the structure and the skin crea"ng a sequence that mimics being folded into the building. The program also accounts for office and administra"ve spaces in the upper floors of the building.
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THAICHUNG LIBRARY AND CULTURE CENTER Programming/SPRING ‘13 Sketch-Up, Pencil & Photoshop The Taichung Library and Culture Center project involves crea!ng a program for the given site in Taichung. During the analysis process I evaluated the site through zoning, transporta!on, and surrounding built context. The program involves stacking the program func!ons which alludes to a tower-like form extruding out of a base surrounding the tower. I created a formal idea that allows the program to func!on in interior and exterior spaces of the building; the site will actually be pulled up onto the building connec!ng the new park to the structure. The tower will appear to rise out of the site crea!ng a feeling of deeper connec!on. The interior program of the building involves an overlapping set of func!ons: library, museum, and educa!on. The program concept revolves around the idea of interlocking func!ons performing in synergy.
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ST. LOUIS CYCLE CENTER Studio/SPRING ‘12 Pencil The Cycle Center project was influenced by the McDonald Cycle Center in Chicago, Illinois. The building acts as a transporta"on/ commu"ng sta"on; a place to change and shower, and a cycle or smart car rental store. My specific building also offers a breakfast and snack bar and a repair area. The St. Louis Cycle Center focuses on the concept of movement through the building. I emphasized this concept through extruded forms that appear to float and slide across one another. I broke the boundaries of the envelope of the building by pushing and pulling the elements through the walls and into the interior. I also highlighted the func"ons of the spaces by crea"ng private spaces that seclude users from the exterior and create a more private space. I u"lized natural light through glazing and raised the ceiling to further open up the space. The building operates first as a transporta"on hub and rental center, then as a social gathering place and snack bar.
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REYNOLDS HALL, MSSU Bates & Assoc. ‘14 Revit & Photoshop Reynolds Hall is an addition and renovation project at Missouri Southern State University. The exis!ng building is an outdated science and technology center that is proposed to be updated to portray the advancing ďŹ eld. The wrapping of horizontal banding highlights the length of the building as the facade zig zags behind the adjacent building. The strongly emphasized entrance allows a direct visual axis to the iconic lion statue in the courtyard shared with the adajcent building. Resposibilities include design desicions, masterplan evaluation and revision, BIM modeling, and rendering production.
Bates and Associates Architects Springfield, MO. Design Portfolio
65 MARKETPLACE Bates & Assoc. ‘14 Revit & Photoshop The 65 Marketplace is a 12 acre development in Ozark, Missouri. The development consists of an 80 bed skilled nursing complex and 30 independent living units. The Southwest corner of the site is devoted to oďŹƒce/ retail space. Responsibilities include masterplan creation, independent living floor plan creation, preliminary code research, BIM modeling skilled nursing floor plan evaluation and revision, graphic rendering production, collaboration with city and client personel, and meeting management.
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PARADISE POINT BLDG 9 Bates & Assoc. ‘14 Revit & Photoshop The Paradise Point Resort is located on Table Rock Lake in Missouri. Building 9 is the largest building on the resort. Construc!on began in fall of 2014. Responsibili!es for the project included design development (formal and material decisions), construc!on document revisions, BIM modeling and rendering graphics. The project adhered to previous building elements such as stone choice and material theme. Design considera!ons include lakeview, entry sequence, indoor pool, and exterior landscape interac!on with site.
Bates and Associates Architects Springfield, MO. Design Portfolio
BOYD ELEMENTARY DUDBC ‘14 Concrete & Mulch The Boyd Elementary Reading Space allowed DUDBC to provide a needed area for a local Title I elementary school. The Reading Space was part of a collabora!ve eort to renovate the outdoor recreational areas of Boyd Elementary. While leading the design and build process, I was given the opportunity to use hands-on educa!on of over 30 volunteers for framing, pouring, and stamping concrete, light landscaping, and epoxy coa!ng concrete.
Bates and Associates Architects Springfield, MO. Design Portfolio
SALK INSTITUTE RENDERING Advanced Computers/FALL ‘12 Revit & 3DS Max This project involved crea!ng a set of renderings with 3D Studio Max to represent Salk Ins!tute by Louis Kahn. The renderings were created simultaneously with an anima!on of the building, showcasing the physical proper!es of the materials used in construc!on. The sequence displays the “unfolding” appearance of Salk with a wind-like force produced by the panels. As the wave passes across the site, day turns to night and ar!ficial light illuminates the building from within.
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FORM STUDIES AND SKETCHES Journal/SUMMER ‘13 Pen, Charcoal Many of these studies involve views and spaces in the city of Venice, Italy and Paris, France. They are meant to show typology and a sense of space created by the architecture. The main objectives are to portray the uniqueness created by the Venetian circumstance, a city seemingly paused in an earlier time and the Gothic influence in Paris. Subjects include views of the many canals in Venice, Notre Dame, San Salute, and others. Other drawings depict studies of live models considering proportions, shadow, angles, and how to ‘build’ a portrayal of a subject.
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