DESIGN
2011-2014
portfolio
RYAN
sudhoff
Ryan Sudhoff
1820 Alabama St. Lawrence, KS 66044 rsudhoff82@gmail.com 660_541_2007
_education
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09 2009_05 2014
University of Kansas
09 2008_05 2009
Northwest Missouri State University
01 2013_current
Personal Trainer [ACE Certified]
Master of Architecture
General Education Studies
University of Kansas
Learned to create and nurture rapport with clients as well as time management; balancing my availability with the clients’.
09 2011_04 2014
Bartender
Saints Pub + Patio
Learned patience when dealing with difficult patrons and how to adapt and sell to specific customers.
07 2006_08 2010
_skills
_involvement
Assistant Manager
Hangar Restaurant and Cinema
Taught me to delegate day-to-day work to coworkers. Problem solving when situations arose. Higher responsibilities, including closing and handling money.
Computer
Sketchup Autocad Rhino [minor skills]
Adobe Creative Suite Microsoft Office Revit
Craft
CNC Laser Cutter
Model Making Welding
09 2011_current
AIAS
09 2007_05 2009
National Member University of Kansas
Youth Group Teen Leader Maryville, MO
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Josh Shelton
Professor/Principle
University of Kansas/El Dorado inc. jshelton@eldoradoarchitects.com 816_674_8475
Stephen Grabow
Professor
University of Kansas sgrabow@ku.edu 785_864_3186
Brandon Bargdill
Regional Manager
Saints Pub + Patio Bbargdill@rileydrive.com 316_518_4702
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South Shore Central Master Plan Austin, Texas Austin, Texas has been one of the fastest growing cities over the past few years. With the influx of new residents the demand for high density housing is becoming greater and greater. The South Shore Central district is on the verge of undergoing major changes and is one of the most desirable development projects in the nation. With as many as ninety-six acres changing hands and becoming available for new construction a master plan is no longer considered a luxury- it is now a necessity. Working side-by-side with the City of Austin’s urban planning office, our studio worked to create several sensible-yet creative-designs revolving around high density housing, retail, a landing spot for the new urban rail that is being implemented in the near future, office space, while maximizing pedestrian friendly open space.
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With the reputation of being a spot of blue in a predominately red state; Austin has always been a unique city. It has been known for its widespread acceptance-and encouragement in some cases - of counter-culture thinking and lifestyle. Austin prides itself on being “weird”: It is the world capital of live music, is home to the nation’s largest bat habitat, it hosts “South by Southwest”; one of the largest film and music festivals worldwide, it has one of the largest biking and running populations in the nation as well as being the home of University of Texas-one of the largest public colleges. Austin’s easy going atmosphere, beautiful climate, and widespread open-mindedness attracts thousands of people a year to relocate within the Lone Star State.
Barton Springs Swimming Hole
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Topfer Theatre
Lady Bird Lake Trail
Congress Bridge Bats
6th Street
Austin Skyline
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Within the South Shore Central District we focused primarily on the two parcels that are currently owned by the State of Texas and the Austin American Statesman, both predicted to tip within the next four years. The two parcels combined create one of the most desirable locations in the entire city. The thirty acres have direct access to the Congress Avenue bridge as well as well as a large water front strip along Lady Bird Lake.
812 ATX Proposal 30 acres
30 Acre Site
Main Access Roads
Pedestrian Boulevard
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Underground Parking Plans
Retail Direct Access
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Building Push/Pull
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Green Roof Surfacing
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COX Texas Newspaper 18.3 acres
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Pearson 0.8 acres
Congress DOT, OFLP 0.4 acres
812 ATX Proposal 30 acres Crocket 22 acres
Splitting Site into Parcel Ownership
Waterfront Set Back + Bat Viewing
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Building Footprints Protect Sight Lines
Potential Permiable Pavement Uses
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Residential Direct Access
Building Massing
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By orienting our buildings along the Northeast-Southwest axis of the site we were able to create site lines from Riverside Drive through the site to Lady Bird Lake. We looked at the Vilamarina building in Barcelona as a precedent in how to achieve high density housing while maintain a predominately pedestrian scale. Towers in strategic locations allow the remaining building to drop a few stories, creating a less intimidating environment than if it were level taller forms.
Villamarina, Batlle i Roig Architectes
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Push/Pull Diagram
Unit Orientation within Building Massing
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Building Floor/Unit Layout
Residential layout
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Balcony
Bedroom Living/Kitchen/Dining
Bedroom
Storage
2 Bedroom Unit Plan
Storage
Living/Kitchen/Dining
Balcony
1 Bedroom Unit Plan
Bedroom
Mattie Rhodes Addition Kansas City, Missouri The Mattie Rhodes Foundation started as a free childcare service offered to working mothers. Since then it has transformed into one of Kansas City’s strongest family centers. Offering a wide variety of services including: inschool tutoring, music lessons, a summer art camp, display galleries for traveling collections, family counseling and after school activities. The Mattie Rhodes existing headquarters contains a modest pottery shed, two gallery spaces, offices and several craft spaces. As the organization continues to expand it is in need of additional facilities so it can broaden its scope of amenities offered. Our program was to contain an after school art space, exhibition/multi-use hall, different activity rooms, offices and a conference room. We used rapid fire iterations to find an architectural language we felt worked and then produced as complete a set of construction drawings as possible.
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Located in the West Side district our site is in a very exciting part of Kansas City. A diverse and changing neighborhood surrounds it; it historically houses a predominately Hispanic population, but has recently received an injection of gentrification. The West Side has traditionally been a family centric area, with the Primitivo Garcia Grade School, the existing Mattie Rhodes, a community center, and several parks. I-35 separates the neighborhood from downtown Kansas City, making it a short walk from the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the West Bottoms where the First Fridays art movement takes place.
Site
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Primivito Garcia School
Existing Mattie Rhodes
Corner of 17th and Summit
First Fridays
Kauffman Preforming Arts Center
Flexibilty of Space One of the driving ideas behind my design was flexibility of space. By having two different buildings separated by a small exterior courtyard the addition would have the ability to host two different events simultaneously. By using a nanawall system to open nearly the entirety of the courtyard-facing facades of both buildings allowing the two can act as a singular space.
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Interior/exterior space The sliding door system allows for the line between interior and exterior to be blurred. Opening up the facade enables some natural ventilation and lets the exterior courtyards, both on the top and bottom levels, act as overflow and also a play space for children.
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Height Change as Barriers Changes in height were used as a tool to divide spaces between private offices and the conference room, and the more child friendly activity spaces while minimizing doors and walls, allowing for a more open feeling.
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First Level Plan
WOOD RAINSCREEN
C.I.P. CONCRETE
North Elevation
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Second Level Plan
STUCCO
SLIDING GLASS DOORS
South Elevation
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We were instructed to create as complete a set of construction drawings as possible. Our instructor insisted that we used Autocad to create our drawings, that way we had to think about every line we drew. That we had to understand every connection and not rely purely on Revit to generate plans, sections, and elevations for us. Through this exercise I learned to view a set of drawings as a map. Starting at the most broad and least detailed-site and floor plans-we then use more exact drawings-building and wall sections- to eventually lead to the most specific of the drawings, the details.
Post Career Living Lawrence, Kansas Within the next decade most of the Baby Boomer generation will be retiring, leading to a great need for a new form of residency, targeting those in their “Post Career Life”. Our professor asked that we look at a co-housing style design. Thirteen units along with a space for a care taker, a live-in aid for the residents. Along with several community spaces, including a kitchen where the residents could cook group dinners. We were asked to design small details, specific “moments”, as my professor referred to them. Overall schematic design and detailed renderings were regarded as less important as the ideas and design intent behind the “moments” we suggested.
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Our site was located along 11th and Oregon. From there it has nearby access to several parks, including Hobbs park, which has several covered picnic tables and a baseball diamond where the summer kickball league is held, as well as being a walkable distance from Massachusetts Street.
Mass Street
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Mass Street
Mass Street During KU game
Hobbs Park Baseball Park
Hobbs Park Picnic Table
Site
The programming is broken up into two wings of units surrounding an exterior courtyard with a small walking trail and flower beds. The community spaces, colored orange in the diagram to the left, are sandwiched between the units as well as looking out at an enclosed meditation courtyard. Storage spaces, colored purple in the diagram, can be found at the end of the hallways.
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Gardens provide a routine and hobby; both of which help increase health, both mentally and physically. Having an outlet to be able to put nuturing tendencies into can also help improve quality of life, and gardening has an annual Inheriant Value of Labor, every year seeds become full flowering plants, create a sense of accomplishment. By raising the flower boxes up twenty-four inches allows enough soil to beable to plant nearly any common vegetable. It also reduces the strain on the back by eliminating a high percentage of bending and squating, however built in kneelers provide comfort for when kneeling is necessary.
The Park Bench can serve any number of uses: people watching, feeding the birds, doing the morning crossword, a rest place during a jog. It can be a planned meeting or just a place to extend a chance encounter into a lengthy conversation; making this a nearly ideal social meeting space. In an attempt to capture this spirit each individual unit has a bench bent in an obtuse “U” shape. This formation gives someone the option to either sit with a friend and have a conversation or sit alone for some quite time overlooking the Health Plaza.
“Age-related types of bonding in later life, such as autobiographical insiders (the sense of belonging to and having one’s life expressed within a plate that can stem from lifelong residence)” -Home in Later Life Doors are more than just a portal into a space but also serve as the first threshold of meeting an individual and understanding them. Refrigerator doors show off family pictures, good test scores, reminders, and various other knick-knacks. Dorm room doors have cute nicknames, white boards and pictures from last week plastered to them. The door right before leaving the locker room to take the field will often times have a slogan painted on it that is slapped as inspiration by every player.
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“Performance of daily routine tasks is important processes linking or anchoring a person to a home place” -Elderly-Home Modifications on the Meaning of Home Going to a coffee shop to read the paper, or do the crossword over a cup of coffee every day is a very common routine and a great way to have social interaction beginning early in the morning. Another aspect of the “Entertainment Coves” is a TV area, a perfect place to watch a big game or a favorite TV show as a community. The final “Cove” is a small library which has a free standing wall to visually remove it from the TV area and coffee bar, to make it a more intimate reading lounge.
Remaining physically active and breathing in fresh air are both important to maintaining good health, especially once people begin reaching advanced ages. A walking track is another way the Post Career Village promotes pet ownership and a strong social connection between residents. While walking a dog is motivation for walking so is group exercise-group exercises encourage shared goals, team work, healthy competition, and social interaction (“Social Cities”, Jane-Frances Kelly). According to ACE (the American Council on Exercise) working out in groups encourages adherence (the desire to stay with a program), as if someone skips a workout it goes noticed and their workout partners would ask where they were. A picnic table and fire pit both provide residents with outdoor places to sit down and have a meal, drink a beer, watch some fireworks, help the grandkids catch fireflies, or tell ghost stories under a full moon.
Floor Plan
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Unit Floor Plan
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“Anything that facilitated social contact, from being a member of a social club to owning a pet, was associated with an increased chance of survival [of a Chicago heat wave that was used for quantitative studies of elderly life expectancy and social contact].” -Social Cities, Jane-Frances Kelly Incorporating two bowls in the bottom of the entertainment + storage units increases the Village’s level of pet friendliness. The bowls are slanted in the back to allow the food and water to remain towards the front of the dish and easily within reach of any dog regardless of size. A lip at the front of the compartment allows the bowls to retain their substance.
The individual dining area can also be used as a bench to take off shoes or place groceries after entering the unit. Hand rails integrated into the back of the seat allows for the resident to easily return to a standing position after sitting to take off their shoes, an action many people of age struggle with. Nearly all corners in not only the individual units but the entire complex are rounded so if a resident does happen to fall into one the damage force is spread out over a larger surface area than that of a sharp edge.
Loss of vision, especially depth perception, trouble seeing in low light and a need for greater ambient light are all common side effects of aging as the body deteriorates. The muscles responsible for controlling pupil size loses strength resulting in an inability adjust to light levels. (allaboutvision.com) To help the residents find their way in the dark and avoid running into walls or counter tops a 2”x1” rectangle is cut out of the baseboards allowing for a recessed light to be hidden to illuminate walk ways and act as a guide at night while remaining invisible during the day.
Backyard Wood Shop Lawrence, Kansas Our design/build studio took on a small sub two-hundred square foot residential woodworking shop. It was designed for a client who designed and constructed furniture as a hobby. We looked at integrating a flexible storage system integrated into the structure and plenty of access to natural lighting and ventilation. We did all the design and construction work ourselves, except for electrical work and the concrete.
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The site is located on 8th and Missouri St, a calm and quiet neighborhood only three blocks removed from the University of Kansas’s Memorial Stadium. We knew that our design and material choices needed to blend in to such a traditional environment while still utilizing a modern language.
Site
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Missouri Street
Memorial Stadium
The Campanile and Oread
University of Kansas Union
University of Kansas
Expolded Structural Axon
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Exploded Axon
We used a large sliding door to effectively allow our client to use the patio as an extension of the workshop. We wanted the workshop to be able to open up to the exterior to allow the small space to feel larger. The ability to open up the building also enables some nice ventilation, which could potentially allow our client to use aerosol or stains in the wood shop without the fumes being too much.
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During the fabrication process we learned to variety of techniques to manipulate the steel and wood we were using. Welding and grinding were new to all the students in the studio and we each soon found strengths and weaknesses.
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Before going to site, we prefabricated all the individual elements and fully errected the wood shop in the warehouse.
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Concrete Slab
Erecting Walls
Adding the Roof
Adding Sheathing
Adding Roof Structure
Adding Vapor Barrier
Adding Glass to Windows
Adding Corrugation to Roof