Ryan M Withrow Selected Work, 2014
ryan.m.withrow@gmail.com ryanmwithrow.com +1(214)240-1995 Dallas, Texas 75226
Education 2011 Master of Architecture Texas A&M University College of Architecture 2009
Bachelor of Environmental Design, Minor in Art & Architectural History Texas A&M University College of Architecture
Experience 2011 - Present Callison Architecture, Architectural Staff Intermediate Architectural Designer 2010 - 2011
Texas A&M University, Teaching Assistant History of Modern Architecture
Ryan M Withrow
Shinsegae Centum City Gimnasio Revoluci贸n Olympic Patinodromo Live Oak Townhomes New Surrah City Mall Agricenter Immix Mountains Easterwood Airport
Proposal for a mixed use, retail driven, environment spanning two large urban blocks in Busan, Korea. The client’s incredibly large program was comprised of an extension of the existing neighboring mall with retail, food and beverage, and entertainment spaces, office space, a hotel, and a performing arts theater. Due to the nature of the building height restrictions, we organized two towers that taper in as the building rises to house the office space and hotel programs.
Unlike the surrounding identically stamped towers, these twin glass towers address the skyline as a singular statement without mimicking one another. The lightness of the towers and the subtlety of the taper defy the immenseness of the program held within. Glass curtain walls project beyond the top of the towers in a gesture towards the sky. The broad side of the towers are bowed as they face each other, and flat as they face outward to the city.
Busan, Korea Callison Architecture, Invited Competition 253,000 m2 Design Team - Tower Design, Modeling, Drawings 2013
Shinsegae Centum City
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Renovation of a 1950’s 1,500 seat basketball/volleyball arena located in Culiacán in the Northwest of México. New design elements included updating the main plaza, new lobby/ticketing areas, new back of house areas, and an aesthetic update.
The extensions to the vaulted truss arena were conceived as solid and transparent boxes that address both the circulation elements of the arena and the lively public spaces along the street and plaza. Reflective and subdued during the day, and a beacon of light and activity at night. The use of multiple colors reflects the rainbow colored covered walkways of adjacent municipal park. Due to the gym floor being recessed, a ramp was added to update the arena’s accessibility standards. In order to enclose the new ramp, an arched pavilion composed of textured channel glass, fritted glass, and clear glass was designed to both enhance the ramp’s experience as well as the exterior identity of the arena.
Culiacán, México Callison Architecture, Built 4,000 m2 Design Team - Design, Modeling, Rendering, Drawings 2012
Gimnasio Revolución
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Enlarged North Elevation
Section thru ramp
North Elevation
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We were commissioned to explore prototypes for both an indoor and outdoor patinodromo stadium for the consideration of the Olympic Committee. These patinodromos, or velodromes, were to be used for inline speed skating as well as a flexible center space which could be used for inline hockey.
The shell of the indoor stadium exaggerates and pronounces the curvature of the velodrome and the grand stands. A walkway gradually rises from the plaza and wraps around the building allowing access to the opposite stand then gradually fades back into the plaza and nearby landscape, allowing the stadium to become an integrated part of the landscape. The open air patinodromo has a continuous stand that gradually undulates along the straight and curved portions of the raceway. A softly manipulated space frame provides structure for the overhang and adds an intricate detail to the interior of the stadium.
Prototype Callison Architecture, Prototypical Design Sqm, Cost Design Team - Design, Modeling, Rendering 2013
Olympic Patinodromo
A group of 54 townhouses were requested, but with the caveat of reducing the typical size of a 20’ x 40’ townhouse by about 15%. Leaving the footprint of the house asis, we designed a two bedroom two and a half bath residence with a gracious terrace.
This particular area of East Dallas is one with an aesthetic identity crisis. Neighboring buildings range from earth toned cement plaster to red brick to bright blue metal siding. Live Oak Townhomes were designed using a “traditional” palette of brick and wood with a modern sensibility. Combining the density of an urban setting with the private outdoor space of a suburban patio. The base of the building is brick clad with a stone enclosure at each of the front doors. The second floor is comprised entirely of an open living and kitchen space with direct access to the large patio. A row of doors and transom windows allow for daylighting and a visual connection to the terrace. The third floor holds the main bedroom which is accessed by an oversized sliding door giving the room a loft-like quality.
Dallas, Texas Callison Architecture, Under Construction 10,126 m2 Project Designer - Design, Modeling, Rendering, Drawings 2012
Live Oak Townhomes
Third Floor Plan - Type A & B
Second Floor Plan - Type A & B
First Floor Plan - Type B
First Floor Plan - Type A
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New Surrah City Mall is a central mixed use node within a new large scale master plan in the United Arab Emirates. My role on this team was strictly modeling and in-house rendering. The mall is a mixed use development, providing a podium of street retail and interior mall, office space, and a luxury hotel with buildings flanking either side of the office tower. The office and hotel towers are wrapped in horizontal and vertical louvers, respectively, to protect from the harsh sun and strong winds.
The sandstone facade mirrors the surrounding desert and rockscape. Cavernous passage ways and punch through storefronts are carved into the mall exterior. The louver systems on the towers provide multiple levels of reflection and take on different identities based on viewing distance and angle.
Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates Callison Architecture, Ongoing 146,560 m2 Modeling Team - Modeling, Rendering 2013
New Surrah City Mall
Site Plan
Firstly, Agricenter proposes reusing an existing historical landmark in the center of Dallas as a new food market which draws inspiration from traditional markets of Europe and blends them with a modern food grocer to provide a much needed grocery store to the Downtown Dallas neighborhood, and a centralized market place for the city as a whole. Secondly, Agricenter proposes creating a system of large and small urban farms from left over sites bordering the highways that encircle Downtown Dallas which will feed agricultural produce into the newly created food market.
This proposal attempts to address urban revitalization at multiple scales from the street to the city and posits that social revitalization and urban agriculture are critically important to the resuscitation of an existing urban form. The Old Dallas High School is adaptively reused as an open market, small grocery store, and cafe. A new building which fades into the environment houses the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center. The research center will serve two main purposes: to facilitate research in urban agriculture, and to be an educational resource on within the urban communities of Dallas.
Dallas, Texas Academic, Thesis 11,000 m2 Academic - Design, Modeling, Rendering, Drawings 2011
Agricenter
Site in Red Pre-highway Street Grid
Highways & Light Rail 1 Research/Community Gardens 2 Plaza 3 Open Air Market 4 Loading Area/Food Truck Area 5 Indoor Market
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Local Grocer Reseach Center Existing Light Rail Station
The highways that currently ring Downtown Dallas cut through the existing street patterns leaving behind small oddly shaped sites that are either undeveloped sites left over from the now broken street grid or are undevelopable sites due to rights of way for the raised highway. This final study proposes using these sites as small agricultural plots, thus creating an urban agricultural system that links these plots with the larger site at the new market place. This proposal takes otherwise “useless� voids in the urban form and reconstitutes them within a larger system to provide agricultural product which is then sold within the community that inhabits this urban form. This final study proposes reappropriating this building as a new market place for the city of Dallas. The program will blend the idea and experience of a European indoor food market with a contemporary grocery store to create a unique, relevant, and much needed program for the Downtown Dallas neighborhood and the city as a whole.
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Immix Mountians combines retail, office, residences, a public library, and park into one urban block. The context of the site, as well as the variety of programs called for a very sensitive evaluation of the building’s organization. A distinction was made between fixed and fluid elements. Parking, retail, and public library were positioned at or below grade to create a platform on which the residences and offices sit. Above the street there is a shift in materiality and form. Rising up in two towers, the residential and office spaces create a rooftop park in the valley between them. The towers are modular allowing each floor plate to be slightly different. The office tower is eight floors. A total of 49 unique residences were designed to accommodate families of varying sizes.
Careful attention was paid to how the various programmatic elements interacted, joined, and shifted one another. These interactions created an opportunity to carve out interconnecting voids of space. Where the towers reach down through the library and retail to connect with the street voids between the offices and the library, bringing natural light deeper into the library.
College Station, Texas Academic, Studio 37,000 m2 Academic - Design, Modeling, Rendering, Drawings 2010
Immix Mountains
Residences Office
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Library & Reading Room, Escalators to Rooftop Park
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Retail
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Parking
49 Unique Residential Units
Library & Reading Room, Escalators to Rooftop Park
Residences Office
Park Library
Section cut through office tower, library, retail, & rooftop park.
Louvers for full height windows at selected office and residential modules are produced based on a randomized three dimensional voronoi tessellation. The greater the sun exposure, the greater the number of voronoi cells.
Renovation and expansion of Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas. The existing building led the user through a disjointed and stale experience. After concluding that the existing aesthetics and spatial proportions were inadequate, but the overall programming was sufficient, the existing architecture was stripped down to its bare essentials. The programmatic elements were allowed to grow out of their existing boxes in an organic free form manner. Overgrowth attempts to humanize the presecurity spaces, while the secure spaces provide a sense of openness and freedom. Concepts explored in this project were that of a performative skin that envelopes and shades. Yellow was chosen for its calming and cheerful qualities. Thought was given to contrasting and exposing the orthogonal existing building with the organic qualities of the new architecture.
The glass envelope produces a slight yellow glow on the white, red, and blue walls. Users intrinsically experience the twisting of the organic forms as they grow from the existing building and settle onto the surrounding topography.
College Station, Texas Academic, Studio 3,800 m2 Academic - Design, Modeling, Rendering, Drawings 2009
Overgrowth
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Left Elevation
Back Elevation
Right Elevation
Program Isolated
External Strucure Isolated
interior garden
baggage claim
office space
office space
baggage loading
mechanical
rentals
entry/ exit
flight lounge
sky bar flight lounge
security
exterior garden
restaurant
entry
baggage check
baggage check pre-flight lounge
drop off