Rgen2015 portfolio

rgen 2015 portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CV portal

VAP

H4H home

ULI URBAN LAND INSTITUTE

food mecca

EMA

mid-town

the BASIN

Ryan Genther 1.216.235.2908 rgenther@foxmail.com

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CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

Kent State University - Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative

Master of Architecture with Focus in Urban Design|2013 to 2014

Kent State University - College of Architecture

Bachelor of Science in Architecture|2010 to 2013

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ryan Genther 2219 Murray Hill, Cleveland, OH 216.235.2908 rgenther@foxmail.com

Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Language & Literature|2005 to 2009

PROFESSIONAL

DEO Design|Richfield, OH

EXPERIENCE

Internship|August 2014 to present, June 2011

– design/fabricate custom shop fixtures using Rhino and Solid Works

– assist with process development and design consultation

Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative|Cleveland, OH Internship|March 2014

– set uip stations at Cleveland Step-Up Downtown public meeting

– record participants’ routes through and around Cleveland

Zhang Huan Studio|Shanghai, CHN Internship|Nov. 2009 to May 2010

– liaison for guests and collaborators (film director, architect, etc.)

– interpreter at Shanghai Art Museum inauguration ceremony

– translate various texts for publication and managerial use

COMPUTER

Archicad, Revit, Rhino, ArcGIS, Solid Works, Sketchup,

APPLICATIONS

Autocad, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

OUTSIDE

Cleveland Public Library Public Engagement Meeting

INTERESTS

Cleveland Step-Up Downtown Public Meeting

Urban Land Institute Competition Cleveland Homecoming Charrette Kent Environmental Council

Habitat for Humanity Affordable Home Design Competition

LANGUAGES

Mandarin-Chinese (fluent)

Portal: A Network Relations and Exchanges

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Professor: Daniel Vierya SUMMER 2014 The Portal utilizes game theory to guide and inform subsequent design decisions yielding not a building but a network of interdependent constituents that constantly exchange ownership and agency of the Portal. The objective of Portal is to physically and programmatically embed itself with its neighbors and site.

The design of Portal is initiated with the desire to build an interdisciplinary center that must minimally house an International Relations Department and collaborate with up two other academic departments. Thus Portal is programmed

ONE TO ONE ADELBERT GYM

CHEMICAL

GEOLOGICAL

EDUCATION

CROWD SOURCING

POWER

MECHNICAL

ELECTRONIC

MACROMOLECULAR

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

INT'L RELATIONS

STRATEGIC COMM

PHOTOJOURNALISM

COMM LAB STUDIO

SPORTS FIELD

RESEARCH

CAFE

ASSEMBLY COMMONS

EDUCATION

RESOURCE INFORMATION SERVICES

CROWD SOURCING

COMP LAB LIBRARY

EDUCATION

for international realations, photojournalism, and strategic communications departments. These three departments form an interdependent relationship and utilize each other’s achievements.

Value mapping (bottom right) is used to determine potenial building sites by defining a set of parameters that yield differing values when impartially applied to the target area. Program diagram (top left) is constructed to visualize the relationships between proposed program and surrounding existing program.

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macromolecular adelbert gymnasium strategic communications international relations photojournalism geology adavanced power chemistry

civil engineering electronic design sports field one-to-one fitness events community generated information and decision-making

resource information system community input research articles intellectual property rights spectacle mechnical noise cut-through service driveway

Food Mecca: Healthy, Cultural and Community Space

Kent, Ohio Architecture Design Studio 10102 Professor: Michael Abrahamson SPRING 2011

Kent Food Mecca appetizes our love for good cuisine with great company by linking residents and students with downtown Kent.

Hundreds of families and many more students are within ten minutes walking distance from KFM. KFM encourages people to forget their cars at home an invites vistors to lounge within the proposed public kitchen instead their personal ones. An indoor-outdoor food market, demonstration kitchen, and a restaurant allow the community to not only savor great foods a but also offers an

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environment enjoy each other’s good company.

Space study mapping elements at varying distances and their relative impact to the site.

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EMA: Function Inspired FORM

Kent, Ohio Architecture Design Studio 20101 Professor: Beth Bilek-Golias FALL 2011

SITE DOWNTOWN

When traveling to a nearby destination, short distances are often driven instead of walked because of what little sensual pleasure and interaction the route has to offer.

East Main Apartments serves as a mixed-use structure providing 3,600 sf. of retail space and 24,000 sf. of residential space. EMA’s form is derived from the flux of university students traveling from the campus towards downtown.

Thus the open end of the “V” shaped footprint is oriented to receive students from campus and the merged end directed toward downtown. The middle void space

KENT CAMPUS

is a green space open to residents and visitors alike.

Corridors on the upper levels are single-loaded to maximize natural sunlight from north and south A lawn populated with trees and faces. benches serve as a place of recreation that complements the shop- Apartment security is accomping environment of the retail plished by limiting upper-level access to either the lobby entry or shops . the two stair entries.

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Individual apartment units are organized around a structural grid layout. Second floor rooms are shifted to take advantage of natural light within each room as well as penetrate a two-story space.

VAP: Bridging People and

Their Spaces

Shaker Heights, Ohio Urban Design Studio 30102 Professor : Charles Graves SPRING 2012

Community plazas are often inundated with hundreds of parking spaces to accomodate their many visitors and thus are poorly utilized. Van Aken Plaza is reprogrammed and redeveloped turning it from a single stripmall surrounded by parking to a plaza of

festivities and urban living. Literally, the backbone of VAP is a skywalk that not only creates place for uninterrupted pedestrian traffic to travel but also a scenic highway physically attaching to major buildings and squares throughout the plaza.

The Van Aken skywalk is an instant landmark for the city of Shaker Heights, making it a functional landmark.The skywalk exists to unify the entire plaza and community image.

Shaded circles represent a five minute walking distance which help organize the spacing between key structures along the skywalk.

H4H Affordable Home: A Home to Call Home

Salem, Ohio Architecture Design Studio 40101 Professor: Lee Goodman FALL 2012 This Habitat for Humanity home is an integrated design combining passive climatic strategies and utilizing a four foot modular design that takes advantage of framing efficient and simple construction techniques. Overhangs and properly located windows allow residents to enjoy comfort during winter and summer months without an expensive energy bill. Expressing elements of the vernacular architecture of the community are important so as to propose a home that instantly matches its neighbors and promote a friendly environment for the future family to move into.

Designing a 1070 sqft program can make a house feel cramped when inside. An ‘L’ shaped plan is implemented to slightly increase the travel distance, but pyschologically make the home feel larger.

The design language and size of the home is articulated to seamlessly blend in with the existing neighborhood. The new family should feel as much a part of the community as they feel a part of their home.

Mid-town Connect: Site Plan and Project Rendering

Cleveland, Ohio Freelance Work Drafter: Ryan Genther FALL 2014 The Mid-town Connect is an designer intervention aimed towards revitalizing Mid-town Cleveland with a seamlessly integrated network of new building construction, repurposed structures and pedestrian paths. The linchpin of this intervention is inspired by an undulating, unfolding nautilus-like shape. This mixed-use building incorporates a greenroof that is accessible from street-level.

Circulation

Vertical/Horizontal Landuse

Public/Private

Solar Exposure

Water Retention

Wind Diffusion

Mid-Town Community Center

Typical Apartment Plan 1

Typical Apartment Plan 2

The BASIN: A Resilient

Healthy Urban Community Nashville, Tennessee ULI Urban Design Competion Team: Ryan Genther, Nadia Salmon, Catlin Russel, Spencer White, Rad Schneider SPRING 2014

Downtown and the Riverfront to one another. An economically and culturally diverse atmosphere on 3rd Avenue represents a crucial connection made from Downtown and becomes the physical backbone of the Basin.

3rd Avenue offers a variety of housing, work and entertainment options lending itself as a rich place for many to call home.

Basin residents and those of the Metro Nashville, enjoy an array of healthy and casual options such as strolls through its expansive park, a quiet night on the town and Cumberland Riverfront, as well as great weekend shopping and select cuisine. Not to mention, ball games at the new Nashville Sounds Stadium are just as exciting before and after the game.

The Basin is a unique opportunity to catalyze the redevelopment energy in the North Capitol area and connect the Basin to the vibrancy of Downtown Nashville and the adjacent neighborhoods of SoBro and North Gulch. The new Basin Recreation Center is placed at the Jefferson Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard intersection. It both complements the local Farmers’ Market and serves as a community anchor for Germantown, Salemtown, Buena Vista and Hope Gardens. The Basin boasts several The Basin is one of the first develconnecting avenues and pedes- opments in Nashville to engage trian paths that link its neighbors, the River in an open recreational

sense that also implements flood contingency strategies. A number of smaller streets and paths run through 1st and 2nd Avenue inviting residents and visitors to the Riverfront Boardwalk and further promote Nashville’s long-term riverfront plans. When in danger of flooding, the bowl-like Basin Park functions as a water-capturing deterrent and adjacent garage structures are designed to withstand 100 year floods.

As part of Nashville’s focus to retain its creative human capital, the Basin offers the largest amount of workforce housing yet constructed. Neighbor to Downtown, it is an affordable urban alternative for both young professionals, new families and emptynesters. A ten-minute walk from Downtown, the Basin is a vibrant and healthy urban environment to relax and enjoy a more leisurely pace of city life.

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