Ryan Northcutt Architecture Graduate Portfolio

RYAN NORTHCUTT Graduate Architecture and Design Portfolio

THE BUILD MUSEUM

DANCE OF THE CANNIBALS

KANSAS CITY PROJECT FOR THE ARTS

THE SKATEBOARD CHAIR

NORTHCUTT SKATEBOARDS

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EDUCATION Master of Architecture Southern Illinois University Carbondale August 2015 GPA: 4.0 Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies Southern Illinois University Carbondale May 2014 GPA: 3.45

AWARDS & HONORS

AIA St. Louis Scholarship 2014 Helen C. Axton Scholarship for Architecture 2014 Southern Star Scholarship Academic: Deans List Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014

EXPERIENCE

Southern Illinois University Carbondale SOA Printing/Computer Lab Graduate Assistant Carbondale, IL August 2014 - May 2015 Assisted students with large format plotting, printing, and software/ computer questions.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale Design Build Collaborative Carbondale, IL/ Cairo, IL May 2013 - June 2013 Shotgun house restoration project in collaboration with Delta Center Youth Build Group Cooper B-Line (Eaton) Production Worker Highland, IL June 2011 - August 2011 June 2012 - August 2012 Assembled pipe fasteners, stacked channel, and hung channel and small parts on paint line.

Cracker Barrel Dishwasher/Busser Troy, IL December 2009 - August 2010

RYAN NORTHCUTT MOBILE: (618)420-1697 1 Tealbrook Court Glen Carbon, IL 62034 E-MAIL: ryananorthcutt@yahoo.com ALT E-MAIL: rnorthcutt@siu.edu

SOFTWARE CAD/BIM Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Office Microsoft Word, Microsoft Exel Other ArcGIS/ArcMap IES VE

MEMBERSHIPS American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) 2010 - 2014 Freedom By Design 2013 - 2014

CONFERENCES AIAS Midwest Quads: Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013 AIAS Forum: 2012 AIA Prairie Grass Roots: 2013

INTERESTS & HOBBIES Skateboarding, Parkour/Free Running, Mountain Biking, Woodworking, Handcrafting Skateboards

FOUNDER Northcutt Skateboards

CERTIFICATIONS

OSHA Accredited: Construction & Safety (10 hour)

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THE BUILD MUSEUM

ARC 550 Regional Architecture Studio Rend Lake, Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park, Illinois Project Links http://issuu.com/ryannorthcutt/docs/northcutt_ryan_final_book_semester_

An Exploration in Wood Joinery in Vernacular Architecture The conceptual idea of this project is to allow a direct user interaction. Allowing users to become a part of an assembly process is allowing the education of tectonics in architecture to become more predominate. This concept also becomes a function. It involves a specific program of spaces and a design that is backed by research in order for the form and function of the structure to becoming purposeful.

A project base of an open air museum that displays an architectural collection is a good opportunity applying this concept. Allowing a direct user interaction into a museum function allows for a better education. The building collection that will be featured in the museum displays the art of construction and regionalism. These two displays give each structure a unique experience. The function of this museum is not just to display architecture, but to teach the assembly process, tectonics and regionalism of each exhibit piece. Visitors will be interacting with the construction process from start to finish. This allows sync from the user to the architecture. The functionality of this museum becomes dynamic. With each construction cycle, unique functions will be needed in order for the process to become complete and correct. This type of museum will break the mold of a typical museum. This museum is user driven as it is a “build your own museum� type of environment.

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REND CITY This site is located in the Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park on the east side of Rend Lake in southern Illinois.

The park is made up of reclaimed farm land, which gives a variety of dense and open spaces. The park also runs along the edge of the shoreline of Rend Lake, allowing for boating, camping, and other outdoor activities.

This specific site was chosen because of its high contrast of open and dense space. This gives the design an opportunity to reflect each of the building types that are included in the exhibit collection.

This site also is located along a bike path and in between the marina and camp sites in the park.

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White Zone: Entry building and Woodshop Blue Zone: Habitable Architecture Red Zone: Sculpture Garden Yellow Zone: Sacred Architecture

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The Build Museum This museum will be viewed not only as a display of architecture that exists around the world, but as an educational and informational body. The function of this museum is to educate visitors through a building process.

Each visitor is encouraged to take part in the building process of each exhibit. This creates a dynamic museum and allows the visitor to create their own educational experience as they put forth time in assembling the exhibits.

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This building collection features five structures of vernacular architecture, all involving wood joinery. Each structure has its unique origin, function and assembly method, which will be replicated at the museum.

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Along the tour path and build program, visitors will experience these structures from ground break to finish, giving visitors a concept of vernacular architecture and the process of assembly. The structures are placed on the site in the order that they are presented on the left. This is based on a principal showing the quality of the enclosing membrane. As visitors are guided through the site, they will learn about each structure, the enclosing membrane, its tectonic base, and its regional aspects.

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Surrounding Environment Above shows the concept for the museum’s welcome center. The concept is to mimic the surrounding trees and use tectonic form to shape the details of the building.

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Program Square Footages Lobby 2360 sqft Administrative Office Suite 1100 sqft Intermediate Space 2700 sqft Work Shop 5700 sqft Cafe 1000 sqft First Aid 500 sqft Total 16686 sqft

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Arrival Arrival at the museum is an important factor in how the visitor experiences the museum as a whole. With the design of a long wooded approach, the visitor becomes enveloped within their surroundings.

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Tectonic vs Sterotomic At the base of the welcome center, stereotomic walls act as an anchor and frame to the tectonic elements. A larger timber frame makes up the structure of the tectonic portion of the building.

Suspended within that structure is a three dimensional lattice structure system. This system is the driving concept that mimics the surrounding forest’s upper canopy.

Stereotomic Tectonic Frame

The Framed Element Framed elements within the design of the museum’s welcome center give the visitor a sense of orientation and gives a view of exterior scenery.

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The Joinery Details Below are diagrams displaying wood joinery techniques used in the assembly of the museum’s welcome center.

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Timber Fabrication Process A major function of the museum’s welcome center is the fabrication process that the materials for each exhibit must under go in order for a smooth assembly to happen.

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An example of the fabrication process follows the barn house, which is a typical timber frame structure using poplar wood from a regional source.

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The process starts with poplar trees which are cut down and milled at a regional saw mill, making them into timbers that the museum can use.

Trucks will use the access road that cuts through the site directly to the museums loading dock to deliver lumber.

Upon delivery, the lumber is stored in the museums lumber yard until it is ready for prefabrication. Once ready, the timbers are cut to length and shaped with its appropriate joinery.

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Lastly the timbers are delivered to the build site and are ready for assembly.

Build Day The build program is a very unique part of the museum. Each visitor is encouraged to participate in the construction of this museum.

The structures themselves will be given a life span. This allows a continuous assembly process for visitors to participate in. As the museum advances, opportunities for new structures will become present in order to visitors returning.

As this museum grows in popularity it will attract a variety of guests including: - Architecture Students - Engineering Students - Construction manager trainee - Boy Scouts - Girl Scouts - Youth Programs Visitors will be required to take a 10 hour OSHA safety course. This also includes a museum safety course for specifics on the building process.

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Exhibit Piece The idea of this exhibit piece is to demonstrate the concepts and research that formed the design of The Build Musem.

The piece is constructed of reclaimed barn timbers that use mortise and tenon and tongue and groove joinery. The lattice system is new wood which gives a contrast to the reclaimed wood, signifying the concept of a building life cycle..

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DANCE OF THE CANNIBALS

ARC 551 Comprehensive Arch Design Studio ARC 541 Architecture Systems and Environment Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Project Links http://northcuttgradarchsiucfa14.tumblr.com/ http://issuu.com/ryannorthcutt/docs/northcutt_ryan_arc541_final_panelse/1

Olympic Legacy Plan This project displays a collaborative design effort to redesign an existing proposal by AECOM for an Olympic legacy master plan to succeed the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. This master plan demonstrates revitalization of the Rio culture and natural landscape, also promoting a healthy pedestrian lifestyle.

Dance of the Cannibals A design solution to promote a passive living situation while expressing visual cultural ideas about Rio de Janeiro. Many ideas, concepts, and visual art pieces seen from Burle Marx, Louis Kahn, and the many street artists of Rio de Janeiro can be seen in the design.

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Barra da Tijuca 22° 59′ 58″ S, 43° 21′ 57″ W Located in Barra da Tijuca, a city in the region of Rio de Janeiro, is the site of the 2016 Olympics. The original site plan, developed by AECOM architecture firm, includes multiple phases to succeed the Olympic games, which the last involves reverting the site to a habitable living and working environment.

The highlighted portion on the left is the required design area. The site is approximately 150,000 square meters and includes a program of housing, hotels, public amenities, safety facilities, and educational facilities.

Considerations for design: - Northern Solar Path - Solar Orientation - Hot Humid Zone - Southern Winds from Lagoon - Natural Ventilation - Surrounding Site Ecology

The design project is a collaborative project with two additional classmates. The initial solutions to the redesigned legacy master plan is to eliminate much of the infrastructure and bring back Rio’s natural landscape, allowing for ecological growth once again. By bringing green space to the site and a minimum amount of roadways vehicular use will decrease and promote a healthier and more active lifestyle for Rio’s future.

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Outdoor Culture

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The landscape of Rio de Janeiro brings great opportunities for designs to bring out the cultural importance of the area. With the urban landscape nestled within the corners of the surrounding mountains, a vibrant contrast occurs, exposing a dynamic relationship between urban form and natural landscape.

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Site Movement An important feature of the master plan is to eliminate mass vehicular transit on the site. By reducing the number of roads, more economical means of transportation can be used.

By burying the roadways below grade allows for an ease of transportation for pedestrian groups. Parkway overpasses allow for users to move to other sections of the site without meeting vehicular traffic directly.

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Green Landscape & Parks Active Culture Rio’s climate allows for an active outdoor culture. By increasing the amount of green space and parks this allows the people to be active and outdoors. An important environmental issue that has developed with Rio’s urban sprawl is the decline of natural landscape. By bringing in greenery and restoring the mangrove forest along the lagoon brings Rio’s natural landscape back to the urban environment.

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Brazil Maybe

by Jack Wolfe

“In his 1928 Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald de Andrade polemically argues that Brazil’s history is typified by cannibalism of other cultures. He advocates for the Brazilian people to continue this metaphorical tradition in order to detach themselves from oppressive impositions of European cultural and religious ideals, such that Brazil might re-establish their own imagination, sentiments, and expression. To Andrade, cannibalism offers the possibility of improvement, it is a positive destruction.”

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Concept Related Terms art noun \ ärt\ : something that is created with imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses important ideas or feelings

dance verb \ dan(t)s, dän(t)s\ : to move your body in a way that goes with the rhythm and style of music that is being played : to move with and guide (someone) as music plays

favela noun \ fe-’ve-le\ : a settlement of jerrybuilt shacks lying on the outskirts of a Brazilian city

Conceptual Building Form Using vibrant colors and obscure shapes, this urban form shows cultural aspects of Rio’s high appreciation of the visual arts. These also represent the current urban sprawl that nestle up into the mountains, which specifically relate to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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Passive dwelling solution towards Brazilian culture.

With an overall importance of culture and environment, the design solution is defined

by Rio’s urban and natural environments. Understanding how the people of Brazil have defined their own dwelling lifestyle gives insight about their culture. Also understanding their pattern of urban sprawl shows for an almost organic design.

Brazil’s natural and urban landscape represents centuries of self expression and unique lifestyle.

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Culture The final plan expresses Rio de Janeiro’s rich culture of the visual arts. Each of the components are derived from other cultures, but due to Brazil “cannibalism” there are many positive attributes that come together to create a collage of art, design, and movement excellence.

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Dancing Form Visual arts in Rio are important to its culture. The act of dance is a historical significance. This model represents two unique forms “dancing� while moving along a horizontal and vertical axis.

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Movement Buildings on the site also undulate on a vertical plan, similar to the favelas of Rio. Each building is unique to its approach and appearance, creating a dynamic complex.

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Visual Arts On a large scale, the dancing forms express Brazil’s active culture. By adding color this solution expresses the openness to express freely.

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Active Youth An essential part of an active culture is addressing the youth.

Designed playgrounds promote a healthly and active lifestyle for children.

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Dwelling Units

Wind, Light and Sun On a lagoon adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, natural ventilation is a reliable resource. Smaller HVAC units supply air as necessary. Each unit obtains maximum direct and indirect light from the northern sun. Solar fenestrations can be applied to control solar gain.

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- Much of light during daytime will come from day lighting design conditions.

- Night lighting will supply a sufficient amount to the interior spaces of the dwelling units.

- LED light technology will be used for all light fixtures within the interior and local exterior. This will save on power costs and decrease lighting maintenance.

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- Lighting on the landscape is important in order to lower crime rates. Runway lights along the sculpture walk allow for people to feel inclinded to use the walkway at night.

- Lighting on the sculptures allows for a dramatic effect.

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Structural Analysis Typical detail wall sections Maximum Story: 3 Maximum Floor to Floor Height: 3.5m Exposed Waffle Grid Ceiling Primary Structure: Cast in Place Bearing Walls (350mm) Primary Floor Structure: Triangular Waffle Grid System (350mm) Foundation: Raft Foundation

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KANSAS CITY PROJECT FOR THE ARTS

ARC 552 Graduate Architecture Design Thesis I Kansas City, Missouri Project Links Not available at this time

KANSAS CITY ARTIST LIVE-WORK HOUSING In the Kansas City Crossroads District, the artist makes home and display arts for the local and regional community of Kansas and Missouri. The KCPA is a striving idea that gives artist a live-work environment in order to live affordably in a growing district of downtown Kansas City.

With existing artist organizations, communities, and museums, the Kansas City Project for the Arts gains community support and allows those to continue working on their passion.

This design addresses artist’s living and working needs. This community oriented design allows public and private spaces to become congragated while keeping important constraints.

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THE SKATEBOARD CHAIR

ARC 502 Furniture Design Studio

Skateboard Chair This rendition of Gerrit Rietveld’s Red and Blue chair pays homage to skateboarding and surfing history, specifically the works of Hobie Alter. Using textures of laminated wood and metal piping, this chair displays features in reference to Hobie skateboards crafted in the 1960’s. Unlike the original chair, the members are fastened with screws in respect of typical classic skateboard assembly.

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Red oak, poplar, and cherry were carefully chosen for their contrast in color and texture. Pipes and fasteners replace wood members to act as skateboard trucks. A low gloss finish was applied and a badge was designed to mimic the iconic Hobie badge seen on his surfboards and skateboards.

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NORTHCUTT SKATEBOARDS

Personal Woodworking Hobby

Northcutt Skateboards In 2013 I took my skateboarding passion to the next level, studying its history and designs. I started crafting my own solid wood skateboards using classic parts and methods. These boards replicate a seemingly lost art of skateboard crafting.

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The boards are made with hard woods such as walnut, cherry, poplar, mahogany, and oak.

Each board shape is unique and resembles early skateboard shapes.

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All Links Undergraduate Portfolio http://issuu.com/ryannorthcutt/docs/northcutt_ryan_undergrad_portfolio_ The Build Museum http://issuu.com/ryannorthcutt/docs/northcutt_ryan_final_book_semester_ Dance of the Cannibals http://northcuttgradarchsiucfa14.tumblr.com/ http://issuu.com/ryannorthcutt/docs/northcutt_ryan_arc541_final_panelse/1 Kansas City Project for the Arts N/A

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