DesignPortfolio 2005 - 2013
Rudy Letsche
Preface This work is selected from the years 2005 - 2013 where I spent three years working in Gensler’s New York office, three years in Gensler’s Shanghai office, and the subsequent two years in the Master of Architecture program at UC Berkeley. I then traveled for one year on a research fellowship, and another year incorporating findings from that fellowship into a Master’s Thesis. The work for the fellowship and for the thesis has been put into companion volumes to this one.
Contents Qualifications RĂŠsumĂŠ ------------------I. Town Planning / Housing Adapting Mobility
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Commercial Innovatrium
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Cultural Berlin Film Archive
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Institutional Elemental Prison
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V. Educational Glen Park Pre-School & Daycamp ------------------VI. Commercial PNC Bank
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Hospitality Grand Skylight Hotel
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VIII. Commercial Wongtee Tower ------------------ Manifesto Arresting Architecture
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Personal Canon More with Less
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Rudy Letsche LEED AP rletsche@gmail.com
SUMMARY An energetic and team-oriented designer with a passion for resource conservation through informed design. I am interested in the intersections of architecture and the city, the city and the landscape, and the technology that enables us to simulate and analyze these intersections. EDUCATION University of California Berkeley
Master of Architecture 3.9 GPA
University of Richmond, VA
B.S., Economics & Finance German Literature cum laude, 3.3 GPA
2011 - 2015 | College of Environmental Design 2013 Sooky Lee Prize for most innovative housing solution 2014 Branner Traveling Fellow: one of three students selected for a one-year solo travel research project 1995 - 1999 | Robins School of Business 1998-99 Student Managed Investment Fund: one of ten students selected to manage $250,000 of the university’s endowment for a calendar year (achieved 18.3% return). ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
“The City and The City”
Branner Traveling Fellowship 2014
“Fieldguide to Computation”
Kyle Steinfeld 2012 - 2013
University of California Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor 2012-2013
One Year Travel Research Fellowship Investigated the ideal city amid the existing city across different cultural and physical latitudes. Findings were incorporated into a book, exhibition, and lecture. Graduate Student Researcher for Book Routledge: forthcoming (2016) graphic layout concepts | pseudo-coding diagramming | coding | color space research 100b and 200c Architectural Representation led classes with self-authored lectures, workflows, exercises de-Cal 185 Digital Practices in Architecture co-created a course on BIM for 35 graduate students SKILLS
Advanced Intermediate Beginner
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rhino + gh| revit | adobe ps, ai, id, br | autocad arcmap | python | adobe ae, pr | rhinocam| vcarvepro mandarin | german | spanish |italian | physical modeling html | css | javascript | processing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE GENSLER SHANGHAI Grand Skylight Hotel
Kunshan, China 350,000 sf
Shanghai Tower
Shanghai, China 3.7 million sf
YuJiaPu Cluster 5
New Financial District, Tianjin, China 4.4 million sf
Suning Plaza
Zhenjiang, China 2 million sf
Wongtee Tower
Shenzhen, China 1.3 million sf
GENSLER NEW YORK
2008 - 2011 | Associate, Sustainable Design Specialist 5-Star Hotel and Conference Center (under construction) conceptual design | prototyping concepts | programming site design | engineering coordination | material research construction documentation | revit model leader 2,073 ft tall Mixed-use Super High-rise (built) occupancy, fire zone, egress analysis | vertical circulation analysis | structural coordination at crown | observation deck concepts and testfits | revit model coordination Mixed-use, Urban Block Development (competition) conceptual design schemes | cultural pavilion design sustainable infrastructure systems research engineering coordination | design visualization Mixed-use Development (competition) conceptual retail podium and office tower design residential tower design | communicated with team in mandarin chinese Office tower and Retail Podium (unbuilt) conceptual retail podium and office tower design facade design concepts| tower core planning retail podium planning 2005 - 2008 | Job Captain, Designer
PNC Bank
Custom Designed, Two-story Bank Branch (built) conceptual design | site design | engineering coordination material research | construction documenation | design visualization | revit model leader
PNC Bank
Prototypical LEED Gold Bank Branch Rollout (built) construction documentation | engineering and leed coordination | material research | shop drawings review construction site visits (foundation, steel, envelope, punch)
Barney’s
Two-Story Department Store (built) facade development | digital modeling | material research space planning | construction documentation submittals review | fixture design | leed strategies review
Parole, MD 4,000 sf
Northeastern US 2,800 sf (ea)
Scottsdale, AZ 60,000 sf
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Adapting Mobility*
“Arctic Possibilities” : : Mason White / Nicholas de Monchaux
In northwestern Alaska, many Inupiat villages that were once itinerant and completely self-subsistent are now stationary and dependent on airstrips. Through erosion and storm surges, the changing climate is reclaiming the land on which they now live. If the villages in western Alaska fold, their heritage would be lost. It would cost an estimated $200 million to relocate an entire village to safe ground. Instead, we propose a tenth of the investment in a “hacketeria” - a place that would kickstart a knowledge-base of building and rebuilding of a hyper-mobile housing prototype, made mostly from reclaimed building materials. *This project was done in partnership with Yuxing Chen and was the recipient of the Sooky Lee Prize for innovative housing solutions. Spring 2013, UC Berkeley
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Forces of Change in Northwest Alaska
EROSION
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MOBILITY immobile mobile western houses storage units airport smaller homes barge landing hunters windmills fishers garbage dump children (in summer) sewage treatment artists church gov’t workers school housing block logistics workers elderly children (iin winter) ECONOMY teachers local imported store clerks energy disassembly construction hacking teaching cleaning entertainment restoring clothing reassembly snack foods moving tourism fishing clothing CULTURE traditional modern subsistence import food mobility stationary storytelling tv/smartphones respect for elders respect for elders traditional houses western-style houses know the land know the land reliance on nature defiance of nature fish drying racks fish drying racks animal skins animal skins kayak motor boat harpoon rifle masks baseball caps intestine raincoat nike/adidas clothing making clothing buying ice games video games sled dogs snow machines fish camp fish camp caribou camp caribou camp dancing school bird watching
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HACKER CULTURE disassemble reassemble reinvent restore augment mash up
A Space Where the Old is Made New Again $200 million to move the whole village or $2 million for the ability to move in due time? Receiving an investment from the government for $200 million is a tough sell. On the other hand, we propose receiving an investment from the government of $2 million to create a small industry in renovating structures into relocatable assemblies. Thus we would be spearheading research in disaster avoidance, serving the growth of a circular economy, and giving the Eskimo a chance to highlight a rich heritage.
Present Building Stock
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A Flexible Housing Type
Hunter’s Cabin
Artist’s Studio
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Designed for Relocatability
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Innovatrium
“Technology Flowers Fragrance” : : Jason Young The Culture of Measurement “When we can measure what we are speaking about, and express it in numbers, we know something about it; when we cannot express it in numbers, our knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but we have scarcely in our thoughts advanced to the stage of science.” - Lord Kelvin
Measurement is currently limited to magnitude: amounts, speed, power, pressure, temperature, frequency; dimensions: distance, height, volume, time; and uncertainty: probability, percentage chance something is true or will happen. Studies into fragrance and flavor science continue to be confounded by: variations in our individual bodies (we vary in ability to smell and taste); disagreement on references on odor and flavor types; ambiguous metrics; a reliance on language to record fragrance and flavor experiences. The state of affairs: “Using the Michael Edwards classification scheme: suppose your mother judiciously wore K by Krizia in 1981. Look it up in the index, you will find that it belongs in the “Soft Florals” of which Chanel No 5 is the prototype. Once you have landed on that page, you see that it sits in the “Crisp” column, one of four ranging from Fresh to Rich. Each contains dozens of perfumes with date of creation. Study this for a while and you can confidently stride into your local perfumery to demand Royalissime by Prince Henri d’Orléans before settling reluctantly for the (vastly superior)White Linen.”
Measurement enables comparison and evaluation by data. The innovatrium will be a data gathering machine. It will enhance, dope, juice, dope, and supercharge the culture of measurement. Fall 2013, UC Berkeley
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Enhance | Juice | Dope | Supercharge The Innovatrium should be a new and strange experience, foreign to any preconception of space for control groups, R+D, and administration. The innovatrium is a subsumptive architectural system saturated in measurement phenomena. So much data is generated and subsequently gathered, and in all directions, that there is no way for one to know what is and what is not of interest in any study. The innovatrium mechanisms record movement in thick time of R+D, Administration and Visitors alike. All interactions are subject to recording and archival, but no one knows how the data is being used or how it will be used. This makes programmatic crossings crucial. The data is built up over time revealing emergent patterns that we cannot ourselves analyze - we are but agents in the system. In time the system will have enough data to begin running simulations of projected behavior - what aromatic or flavor mixtures people will be attracted to or repelled by most - and then test results against its own trending simulation, recording deviations and learning from them.
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Summary The Innovatrium is a metadynamic reactor that sorts individuals as they smell and taste their way through the space, like ants following pheromones. Data is gathered based on subjects location over time on an unseen, 3-dimensional diagrammatic matrix. The prevailing interests of the subjects are databased and over time build up a formidable relational study of a possibility space for new mixtures of flavors and fragrances.
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Deutsche Kinematik Film Archive, Berlin “Cinematic Urbanisms� : : Mark Anderson / Rene Chow
This film archive would celebrate the work of exiled German directors back in their home city of Berlin. The architecture addresses this by making the archive a solid block of program and then allowing site forces and other program forces to carve into it, as history carved into and influenced these directors. The resulting space is intricately wound in and about the archived film materials, making visitors highly conscious of the output of these German directors of the early film era. Spring 2012, UC Berkeley
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Elemental Prison
“The Four Obstructions� : : Raveevarn Choksombatchai / Kyle Steinfeld After three departures based on an obstruction, 1. Form 2. Program 3. Material, a final four week design module was an opportunity to choose our own obstruction, or to mix different obstructions together. Given the site of Pt. Bonita, a craggy saddle at the pacific side of the Golden Gate, we each wrote our own program, thus the narrative was unique to each student. The Henry David Thoreau elemental prison for political officials, corporate executives and lawyers to rebuild individualism, self-esteem and ethics: the prison seeks to amplify nature. Using enclosure as a device to divide the senses of seeing and hearing, the prison wall as armature has been formed by site forces and in turn influences programmed cells, creating a hierarchy of spaces for quiet reflection. yard time is served amid the split prison wall and prisoners can walk to the west side of the site to be exposed to the elements - wind, fog, rock and sky. The cantilever soars 30 feet over the pacific ocean and would disappear from land in heavy fog, creating a feeling of complete isolation. Fall 2011, UC Berkeley
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Elemental Prison
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Point Bonita - Phenomenological Specification
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Yard Time
the prison wall as an armature creates a hierarchy among the cells
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Glen Park Canyon Daycamp / Preschool “The Strange Ways of Nature” :: Roddy Creedon
The goal of this comprehensive design project was to amplify nature. This could be accomplished by responding to existing conditions carefully, using the architecture as an insertion into a void. In this way it is a lens through which to see nature, while learning about it. A careful analysis of the surrounding trees and scrubs led to the discovery of a missing layer at the site. This became the vertical location of the insertion. It was also noted that two clearings enabled views to the far side of the canyon. These two vectors became the axes about which the building’s layout took shape. The project considered sun, wind, and light in an effort to maximize the degree of sustainability inherent in the design. Courtyards occur throughout the building enabling natural light and air to infiltrate. Fall 2012, UC Berkeley
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INTERVENTION
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PNC Bank
Parole, MD | Custom Two-story Bank Branch in Revit A small parcel created the need for a one-off design of a two-story bank branch. Using an interlocking ‘L’ concept to express space-types from public to private, the result is a compact, functional building with enough articulation and variation to make it stand out. We designed and modeled this project using Revit. I was the project leader through design development (before I transferred to Shanghai). In that office, it was the first building done entirely in Revit. Spring 2008, Gensler New York
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Grand Skylight Hotel
Kunshan, China | Business hotel and conference center in Revit Geared to rising business professionals, the Grand Skylight Hotel would provide a modern affordable line of hotels in key markets around China. This prototype hotel is located in Kunshan, 60 km from Shanghai. The architecture of the tower reflects the national brand, while the podium and interior space are inspired by the layereing of walls and the progressively more private courtyards entered as one moves further inside of traditional Yangtze building complexes. Spring 2011, Gensler Shanghai
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How to creat a special guestroom experince uestroom experince
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public space connection 公共空间联系
street space 街道空间
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Kunshan CATIC City Garden Five Star Hotel 昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆 北北北北北，西北西西西北，东东东东昆昆昆昆昆 Design Architect
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昆山中航城花园五星级酒店
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F23
8 A12.30
STONE TYPE 1 石材石石 1 STONE TYPE 2 石材石石 2
P1 94.100
设计总负责人/日期
Shadow Box 雨影阴
4000
ALIGN
MT6
3 A12.30
200 100
F2494.100 94.100
F24
PAINT TYPE 1 涂材石石 1 ST3
MT5
850
4500
4500
MT5
P1
1100
3 A12.30
2000
102.800
One Corporate Avenue, Suite 908 222 Hu Bin Road Shanghai 200021 China
MT4
GL1
4 A12.30
ST2
MP1 GL3
MT3
GL1
ST1
MP2
700
MT7
Design Architect
设计单位
STONE TYPE 3 石材石石 3 STONE TYPE 4 石材石石 4 GLASS TYPE 1 玻玻石石 1 GLASS TYPE 2 玻玻石石 2
北北北北北，西北西西西北，东东东东昆昆昆昆昆
北北北北北，西北西西西北，东东东东昆昆昆昆昆
STONE TYPE 1 石材石石 1 STONE TYPE 2 石材石石 2
100
MP1
e Window
1
MP1 ST2 ST3
MP2
3Box
3
昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆
MATERIAL LIST 材材材材
MATERIAL LIST 材材材材
1
3
Kunshan CATIC City Garden Five Star Hotel
昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆昆
T3
1
Kunshan CATIC City SHEET NOTES Garden Five Star Hotel
SHEET NOTES
Drawing Title
图纸名称
WSE North Facade @ Gridline J-16 (High)
WSE North Facade @ Gridline J-16 (High)
墙身详图
墙身详图
图号
Drawing Number
图号
Drawing Number
A12.02
A12.02 ©
Gensler
©
Gensler
Grand Skylight Hotel
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Wongtee Tower
Shenzhen, China | Facade concept for an office tower Shenzhen is just across the river from Hong Kong, in southern China. It is hot and humid during the Spring, Summer and Fall. The client wanted a high-rise office building with no curves - in fact they specified it was to be a box. To address the climate, this design articulates the facade with an increasing angle on the window to minimize direct heat gain from sunlight. In the end the client favored this proposal, but did not have the budget for such a facade. Spring 2011, Gensler Shanghai
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eme 02b 方案二b 280 m 20 deg 52 层 15 deg
48 层 45 层 41 层
10 deg 31 层 26 层 5 deg
19 层
11 层 0 deg
TOWER | SHENZHEN
Rendering courtesy of Gensler
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Scheme 02b 方案二b
六月21号 June 21
太热
四月到十 一月 April - No vem be r
HEAT ST RES S
四月1号 / 十一月1号 April 1/Nov 1
冷 太
June 21
SS TRE LS OO
月 到四 April 月 r一 be 十 em ov N
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西 West Dec 21
角度 Dec 21 十二月21号
20 °
30 deg
Solar Insolation 日照量分析
15 °
10 °
5°
0°
WONGTEE TOWER | SHENZHEN
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North 北 June 21
June 21
西 West
25 deg
Dec 21
East 东 Dec 21
South 南
Rendering courtesy of Gensler Wongtee Tower
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Scheme 02b 方案二b
WONGTEE TOWER | SHENZHEN
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Total GBA: 128,500 sm Avg Tower Floor Plate: 1989sm
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Manifesto | Arresting Architecture
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in its materiality, this building is salk requires time to appreciate its fter a while, one may notice that a m occurs at all scales of the design, me. at face value a simple building, ying complexity.
The modern world is moving at an unprecedented pace. Ordering ready-made coffee in a paper to-go cup, busy people find their patience tried if someone is digging in their pockets for correct change. They are constantly running late. they seek instant gratification. They watch television shows and movies rather than read books. if they read books they read best-sellers. They no longer sit quietly and think or write. Nature is around us and in us, but they rarely take the time to notice it. They suppress their inner voices and respond instead to the man-made world - a world that is now beyond machines, one which has entered a new age of cybernetic information at hyper-speed.
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This pace has had its effect on the built environment. In the past, some buildings became icons that put cities on the map, and now money-minded developers set out to create icons because they want their buildings on the map. Architects are only too happy to oblige, and they’ve created buildings that want so badly to be noticed. What we have to show for this splurge is a contrived, cacophonous collage of over-sized developments and buildings. Forget icons. It is better to be minimal and ambiguous, and to prioritize a more abstract spatial experience. People can complete the picture with their imaginations. In elementary school, the teacher would occasionally take our class into the nearby woods to sit and observe nature. Assigned an isolated spot along the path, each student would quietly observe the surroundings. For the first five minutes, we did not see or hear much at all. Our bodies were attuned to the built world - a place of traffic, schedules and ringing phones. But after just five minutes of sitting and being quiet, the sounds of nature would suddenly become noticeable. As time progressed, we could see and hear more. Just as our eyes become accustomed to darkness, our ears and eyes can become attuned to the natural world. It is in this moment that our imaginations take flight - we are alive. Let us refine architecture to its essence. Nature’s geometry is imperfect, but its systems are perfect. Architecture’s systems are imperfect, but its geometry is perfect. The most sublime building in new york city is a textured white box. The most noticeable building in a book of one hundred projects is a tiny concrete chapel set in the mountains of switzerland. It is not obviously trying to be more. For this, it stands out. Our imagination rushes in to fill in around it. It is arresting. By prioritizing the elements of time, materiality, proportion, and scale over (iconic) form, by utilizing axis and datum as underlying order, by introducing complexity at a subliminal level, the architect uses fewer moves for more impact. Simpler form allows craftsmen to get the details right. Those details would themselves be special, because they do not compete for attention. The result of this thoughtful process is a cohesive whole. One can lose oneself in the details without losing the feeling of the composition as a whole. Elemental architecture is arresting architecture.
Manifesto
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More with Less Seascapes Hiroshi Sugimoto a simple subject enriched by tone and texture. The result stimulates the imagination. In our minds, more is possible than what has been rendered here.
the tones and texture. the result nything is possible.
Ink Paintings Qi Baishi as important as what is painted is what has not been painted. the water is implied as the fish exhibit movement. we complete the picture in our mind, ascribing them their logical medium.
Oberrealta Chapel Christian Kerez this little, remote chapel is carefully proportioned, a bare concrete box, but with an understated elegance it enhances the swiss landscape.
Sculpture Jaques Lipchitz lipchitz’s art is angular, cohesive, and minimal. an axis orders the parts into a cohesive whole. the forms are thus highly organized despite their asymmetry.
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morphics
Gugalun Haus Peter Zumthor with attention to material and detail, a simple form becomes architecture. form is secondary to the essence of the project.
Anthropomorphics Ballet Dancer compositionally minimal, ballet poses appear light and graceful, belying the incredible amount of strength and blance required.
these ballet poses appear light and dible amount of strength and balance m. axis is clear and concise.
Abstractions Georgia O’Keeffe these paintings’ austerity is countered by warm colors and texture. the ambiguity is engaging, and one learns as much about oneself in studying these paintings as one learns about the paintings.
Casa Barragan Luis Barragan minimal fenestration keeps inner spaces intimate, a contrast from the bustling city. texture and rich color warms the stark forms.
Personal Canon
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Rudy Letsche LEED AP
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