RYAN
Oeckinghaus
Resume 02 Projects Flows
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Prora’s Reflection
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The Wall
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Library Studies
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Miscellaneous Renderings
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Models
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RESUME 609 Boozer Lane | Hillsborough, NJ 08844 | +1-(908)-328-7621 | rsoeckin@syr.edu
EDUCATION SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Architecture Dean’s List, Chancellor’s Scholarship GPA 3.53
2014 - 2019
HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL 2010-2014 Hillsborough, NJ German Honors Society Varsity Ice Hockey
SKILLS SOFTWARE 3D Modeling - Revit, Rhino 5.0, AutoCAD, Grasshopper Rendering - V-Ray, Keyshot, Revit Adobe - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects Environmental Analysis - Climate Consultant, DIVA (Rhino Plug-In) DESIGN Model Building, Lasercutting, 3D Printing, Sketching, 3D Visualization Problem Solving, Diagramming, Iterative Design
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EMPLOYMENT HDR, INC. Summer 2017 Lawrenceville, NJ Constructed models for project proposals as well as client meetings, assisted conceptual stages of a proposal and digitally modeled for rendering, digitally modeled for 3D printing. KSS ARCHITECTS Summer 2016 Princeton, NJ Produced finalized renderings for architectural projects, created promotional video for showcasing a design, produced diagrams and site plans for clients, and worked on concept and massing development for a possible project. NESHANIC VALLEY GOLF COURSE Neshanic Station, NJ Assisted day to day golf camp operations, oversaw and taught golf campers, ages 5+, and worked cooperatively in teams to organize activities & stations.
2011 - 2015
AFFILIATIONS POSIT Student Representative
2017 - present
ARCHITECTURE STUDENT ORGANIZATION Editor In-Chief
2014 - 2017 2015 - 2016
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE SCHOLARS
2015 - present
Projects Flows Prora’s Reflection The Wall Library Studies
FLOWS
SCOPE Recreation & Education Facilities, Commercial Corridor PROJECT LOCATION Medellin, Colombia INSTRUCTOR Francisco Sanin COLLABORATORS Timothy Attanasio, Brandon Zirzow
This project started with a prescribed zone in Medellin where a new tram line had just finished construction, connecting the outskirts of the city to the city center. There is a parallel flow of the main creek and the axis of the tram line, and this was latched onto to determine the location of this project’s intervention. The creek acts as a physical and social divider, where the area to the south is more recent, organized construction and the north side is mostly informal settlements.
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9 - Parroquia San Francisco de Asís (religion) 10 - Parroquia Hermano Francisco (religion)
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- Educational Institution El Pinal (education) - Escuela Beato Hermano Salomón (education) - Educational Institution Felix Botero Henao (education)
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- ITM Campus Fraternity (education)
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- Basketball Court (recreation) - Unidad Deportiva Miraflores Sports Complex (recreation)
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- Parroquia San Francisco de Asís (religion) - Parroquia Hermano Francisco (religion) - transportation - education - recreation - religion
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These diagrams show the determination of the intervention area (left) based on the creek relationships with the urban fabric, and the site (right) in terms of greenspace, circulation flows, important buildings and land use.
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From there, the focus was narrowed down by a more thorough analysis of the creek systems in the area. Where creeks exist or even have been covered up, there is space left untouched by the residents, and often it overlaps with areas of more extreme topography.
This axon is showing the main drive of the formal layout of this project; the lack of continuous circulation flows through the site.
This design utilizes those vacancies around the site to place important public programs north of the creek, where they are lacking. The project is broken up into three zones; a commercial corridor, a recreation center, and a library/education facility.
The reason this project is entitled Flows is because of the location of the programs within the formal organization of the site, as they connect existing circulation
There is a lack of connection through the site in both directions, due to the vacancies left by the creek and steep topography.
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The site plan and axon focus on showing the overall scheme in a similar fashion to the original condition, as each element uses terracing, open air segments and cantilevered shading referencing the current outlook residents have on the freedom and open access of public programs.
The interventions are therefore positioned to not only provide program, but infrastructural connections that continue pedestrian connections that end at the edge of the site, creating a more porous and effective public sphere.
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SCOPE Adaptive Re-Use PROJECT LOCATION Rügen, Germany INSTRUCTOR Maya Alam
The studio in which this project was produced focused on RUIN-ish and LANDSCAPE-ish to tackle new forms of re-use. Kicking socialism with flowers, citing the Chapman brothers water color paintings over Hitler’s artwork, is the means of taking a building with a negative historically loaded past (such as PRORA) and deconstructing it formally and programmatically to create a ruined building that leaves the original meaning and tone behind. This was accomplished through formal moves surrounding REFLECTION. By using a pattern derived from Josef Albers’ work, reflective punctures or protrusions are applied to the facade to break up its monumentality.
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PRORA’S REFLECTION
The reflective portions angle either up or down to reflect the sky and ground, respectively. These are mixed with cuts entirely through the building mass and cuts that show the rear facade visually disrupt the seemingly endless facade and break it down to a more personal scale.
Then a color gradient from early studies twas introduced onto the facade. This inverts the perception of the ruin; The original facade that still stands takes this new color, such as the application of bright colors to alter the sober mood in the Chapman brothers’ paintings, and creates a “new normal.”
17 PRORA These images are from a “Daily Render� series meant to begin iterating broad concepts on how to break down the monumentality of the Prora facade. These start the investigations into reflectivity that drove the final product.
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DROPS/LANDING - Large height changes/drops - Gaps between elements - Long landing areas
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SWINGING - Pipes - Scaffolding
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BALANCING - Pipes -Thin wall tops
CLIMBING/WALL RUN - High walls with landings
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VAULTING - Medium Obstacles - Above hip height
JUMPS - Low Obstacles - Small height changes
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DROPS/LANDING - Large height changes/drops - Gaps between elements - Long landing areas
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diagrams are studies into5 VAULTING SWINGING 3 These - Medium Obstacles - Pipes of parkour and the elements - Above hip height - Scaffolding movements that necessitate these specific conditions, as a driver for 6 JUMPS 4 theBALANCING interior cuts and formal moves, - Low Obstacles - Pipes evident in the - Small height changes -Thin wall tops interior rendering.
The interventions are a ruined concrete that reads as old and worn, whereas the existing reads as the new, the altered. This RUIN-ish aspect of the interventions also applies to the landscape. The pieces that have been removed from the original facade are strewn across the
The interior form and ruined landscape are designed to foster parkour, a movement that uses the body to reclaim unused areas for new activity at a human scale. What is now left on the site of a PRORA block is a deconstructed version of the original building that both dissolves itself into the sky
landscape as evident fragments of carving, as well as indenting the landscape itself to create a similar depth existent in the facade.
and landscape through reflection and formal ruination, while standing as a bold reinterpretation of a monotonous Nazi object.
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THE WALL
SCOPE Multi-generational Residential & Commercial PROJECT LOCATION Syracuse, NY INSTRUCTOR Elizabeth Kammel
Going off of the topic “of the city,” this project strives to become urban through a programmatic focus on retail and a formal organization using an inhabitable wall driving through the site. The site is on the border of a business park and nearby other housing in Franklin Square in Syracuse, NY. Programmatically, there is an emphasis on the retail sector, which serves the city twofold; the retail functions as a nearby attraction for the apartment buildings and business park nearby, and it allows easy access to necessities for the elderly inhabitants of the project’s multi-generational housing.
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Formally, the project is organized based on the wall through the center of the site. The wall holds storage and egress circulation, and divides the site into differing programmatic sides; Retail and Service vs. Residential and Circulation.
The wall’s organizational presence is felt when transitioning from the open public patio and atrium into the retail; a deep and shorter portal makes a distinct threshold moving into the retail space.
Also, the wall is seen as organizing the building but not controlling it; the masses read as disconnected through angle shifts and glazing details at the seams. The wall brings the urban density of residences onto the creek side, embracing the views and creating a separation from the existing industrial buildings, while the retail on the other side begins to link in to the urbanity of the site.
Therefore, this project is not merely “of the city� because of its location near the city, but it becomes urban due to its programmatic and formal strategies.
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These diagrams highlight the one sided circulation and the fingers that cross to programs on the other side of the wall, as well as program layout and an explosion of the main formal and structural elements
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SCOPE Library and WeWork PROJECT LOCATION NYC & Syracuse INSTRUCTOR Yutaka Sho COLLABORATORS Jessica Casero (Proj.1) Ricardo Rodriguez (Proj.2)
These next two projects are both studies on the library typology and organization. The first looks at packed-ness versus emptiness based on an analysis of the street condition in New York. These categories prescribe packed mass as minimal circulation with dense programmatic focus, i.e. parks and commercial extensions into the sidewalk, while empty mass refers to mostly circulation with pockets of program, such as sidewalks with street vendors.
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LIBRARY STUDIES
Empty mass is inherently effective for circulation yet often loses directionality, and packed mass is ideal for dense programs but often lacks cohesion and flow of people. The street essentially becomes an ideal mix of these two conditions.
This project recreates these conditions with sectional moves, affecting the allocation of program and circulation in the plan. Structure and slanted interior walls create environments of implied density or openness for programs to inhabit.
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One clear path is organized through each floor to create a lazy river of library as one delves deeper and deeper into the niche moments of cafe’s, study spaces and collaborative work areas that appear along the open mass trail.
The next library study utilizes act of weaving to determine the formal organization. The warp (static threads that the weft is pulled around) becomes the vertical columns with different fiction genres, while the weft (the thread that travels around the warp) travels around these consistent points as ramps, and holds the Dewey Decimal system books.
The columns also act as the major structure, and hold stairs and elevators for one to traverse from different levels. As the user circulates from 000 to 999, the layout includes topical programs related to the subject matter, such as a computer section near the technology books.
MYSTERY
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Miscellaneous Renderings Models
37 RENDERINGS These renderings were done in conjunction with KSS Architects during my summer internship. This specific style was done to match previous work and maintain a visual continuity.
These images were produced for two different studio projects. They were included to show the materials, which were applied in Photoshop instead of through a rendering program.
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The left model showcases melting plexiglass to form curved surfaces.
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The right model was produced after structural calculations of beam depths to show a feasible overhang.
This model was done during my internship with HDR and was a published proposal for a data center in Norway.
43 MODELS The modules are sanded to create the hill-like form and recede as green roofs down to the end of the neighboring mountains.
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This model was also done with HDR and measured at 10’ x 6’. It was a site model for the new LA Union Station. I worked to facilitate all of the lasercutting, 3D printing and worked with a small team for the final construction.
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