RYAN MONINGER
Portfolio
Shifting Through Innovation
1st Place Award in BGSU Senior Architecture Competition
The city of Pittsburgh was once an important node in the rust belt during the 1900s. Manufacturing of steel and iron was the crown of pittsburgh’s economy. Pittsburgh was an icon of blue collar workers, manufacturing, and a melting pot of diversity. However, due to deflections in the industry and manufacturing becoming outsourced overseas, the city’s framework began to deviate. The city and its iconography is shifting toward a new economic frame, an industry of high technology. Robotics, nuclear engineering, and biomedical technology are now its major industries.
Entrance 20 1354 SF
Vestibule 24 Not Enclosed
Room 5 387 SF
Core 19 5504 SF
Cafe 15 1964 SF
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The Parti is based on this shift from the past to the present and future iconic frame. The design gestures towards the past manufacturing district, this is a salute to the industry that once framed pittsburgh. This gesture is materialized and formed with the past icon-steel. The motion toward downtown Pittsburgh, the main hub of high technology industry-is a statement to the present and future icon of Pittsburgh. This is material and form is fluid and futuristic to express this shift. The composition is shifted and are manipulated to engage the river and the surrounding strip district. The deisgn rises up over the existing Craft Museum to insinuate a dominance of new technology and innovation over the traditional thought and practice.
The expansive river front and trails of East Toledo are the underused attributes and fail to be a means to connect with the rest of Toledo. The goal of the master plan is to enhance and reconfigure the east river front into a more communal and interactive space and to integrate that space into the rest of the city.
1. to utilize the High Level Bridge as a means of connection to the West. Developing housing, recreation, and foot paths into the bridge creates nodes of interaction and new circulation routes.
2. Visually connect the east riverfront to the west. The axis line extends across the river through the master plan. At the intersection, a vertical focal space will be created.
3. To create an engaging riverfront. Developing bike and pedestrian routes that sweep along the coastline and designing housing and commercial spaces along these paths will inject vitality into the east front.
The World Museum Center normalizes global understanding through the relationship between the National and the International. The Junior studio project draws on the context attributes to convey that relationship. The axial line through the World War II Memorial and the site indicates internationalism.
The axial line through the Washington Monument and the site indicates Nationalism, while the axial line of the Jefferson Memorial and the site considers a synergy of both ideas. The interaction of these lines are the source of organization and alignment of the form for the World Museum Center in plan and elevation.
Concept Diagram
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There are three independent structures to the center with the central courtyard space that engages all three. This intersecting nexus was always there at that site. The architecture did not create it; it merely defined it and actualized it.
This project was part of Concrete Masonry Unit Design/Build Competition.The Design placed 3rd overall. This was a group project. I was the team leader and was in charge of the design and rendering.
The intention of the design is to present four unique circulation routes that result in either success or failure. The path of success widens and rises up out of the ground. The path of failure concludes in a static dead end.
Diverging Paths of Society
The Path of Inheritance, Endowment to Success. An individual born into a wealthy family and inherits family success
The Path of Hardship and Failure Individual born into poverty and follows the cycle of poverty
The Path of Hardship and Trial resulting in success Individual born into deficiency but works hard and rises to success
The Path of In heritance and Ease Concluding in Futility Indvidual born into wealth but squanders away his life in irresponsibility
LE CORBUSIER SCULPTURE
For my sophmore year studio, I created a sculpture from Le Corbusier’s painting. I took elements of the painting and reinterpreted them into a 2 dimensional drawing. From the drawing, I extruded 3 dimensional forms to create a sculpture. From the sculpture I sketched an abstract representation of the creation.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
The hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. -Tadao Ando
The hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. -Tadao Ando
An Exercise in Folding Paper
During my sophmore year, I explored forms by folding and cutting paper. The project began with study sketches and models, followed by a series of diagrams describing spacial configuration and design concepts. Finally a series of ink drawings were generated along with a scale model.
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For my final sophmore studio project, I had to design a house for the Greek fictional character, Odysseus. The housing concept was based on a courtyard. A main influence was the trojan horse and courtyard both being introverted.
The project needed to be developed through sketching and diagrams. Transformation models and diagram models. The final production consisted of ink floor plans and elevations and a scale model.
The Trojan Courtyard Scheme
Music is a big part of who I am and how I think and design. It permeates all areas of my life, especially architecture. The idea of layers, patterns, and repetition that I see in creating music is exercised in designing architecture, or any creation. Below are sample works that I have composed throughout the years. These works represent the layering, the patterns, and sometimes divergances that appear within my architectural designs.