RYAN
ZIMMERMAN PORTFOLIO 2014
EDUCATION 2014 - present 2014 - present
Architecture Thesis LEED Green Associate - In Progress
2010 - present
Auburn University B.S. Architecture
2010 - 2013
Auburn University B.S. Interior Architecture
SKILLS AutoCAD Rhino 4 InDesign Illustrator Photoshop Radiance ArcGIS Microsoft Office Suite SketchUp Ecotect Analysis Laser cutter 3D printer Revit Hand modeling Sketching Hand drafting Code research
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RYAN ZIMMERMAN Contact Info Email: rkz0001@tigermail.auburn.edu Phone: 334.868.2365
IDP HOURS EARNED
829.25
TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 Year
RESUME
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
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REVIVING THE DOWNTOWN ECONOMY
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HEALTHCARE
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2008 - 2014
02 Year
Meteorite and Crater Research Center Wetumpka, AL Alabama “Woodcomp” Competition - First Prize Park 20 Brewery Birmingham, AL
03 Year
Patient Care Room Study Boston, MA Alagasco Competition - Participant
04 Year
PUBLIC
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TRAVEL
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Fulton County Central Library Interior Renovation Atlanta, GA Interior Architecture Thesis Project Study Abroad Rome, Italy
05 Year
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Ryan
02/24/2014
N A M R E M ZIM
318 E. Glenn Ave. Auburn, AL 36830 ryan.zimmerman@auburn.edu 334.868.2365
t architect & interior architec PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 05/2011, 05/2012 Washington, DC
4 Summer 2013 Montgomery, AL
Intern, Facilities Support, United States Government (USG) Coordinated with contractors as project manager, created an online project logbook for a multimillion dollar renovation, researched “Green Gym” technology and presented findings to upper management. Attended construction meetings, met with customers, contacted and met with bidders, determined cost analysis, codes and regulations. Earned IDP hours: 471 Intern, Seay Seay & Litchfield Architects Developed new office plan. Worked on elevations, floor plans and minor Revit model adjustments. Earned IDP hours: 120
EDUCATION 08/2008 - 05/2009 University of Alabama Undergraduate, Civil Engineering 08/2009 - 05/2014 Auburn University GPA: 3.68 [Architecture], 3.1 [Overall]
COMPETITIONS Spring 2010
Auburn University/Alabama Forestry Wood Competition — First Prize
Fall 2011
Georgia Tech EWB Refugee Camp Design Competition — Participant
Fall 2012
Alagasco Design Competition — Participant Study Abroad — Rome, Italy
Spring 2011
SKILLS Proficient in AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 4, Adobe Creative Suite, CS5/6, Microsoft Office Suite, SketchUp, Ecotect Analysis. Working knowledge ArcGIS 10, Radiance 2.0, [general knowledge] Revit. Laser cutter, hand modeling, sketching, hand drafting. Personal: Strong communication (verbal and written), leadership, problem solving, organizational skills, Research skills.
COMPLETED College of Architecture, B.S in Architecture, expected 2014
[working] 05/2014
College of Architecture, B.S in Interior Architecture, expected 2014
Ryan Zimmerman
LEED Green Associate
/ryankelly12 @ryankelly_12
Ryan
02/24/2014
N A M R E M ZIM
t architect & interior architec REFERENCES 334.844.5171 334.358.6110
334.514.5843
Justin Miller, RA, LEED AP, 104 Dudley Hall, Auburn, AL 36849, justin.miller@auburn.edu Mark Barrett, GMAC Sothern Regional Finance Manager, mark.barrett@larrypuckett.com
Senior
Sophomore
Junior
Younglife Auburn Orange Crusher [worked with woman’s basketball team] Knights of Columbus American Institute of Architecture Students – member
334.868.2365
American Institute of Architecture Students – member Auburn University Architecture/Alabama Forestry Wood Comp Design – participant, winner Dean’s List (Summer, Fall and Spring) Auburn Orange Crusher [worked with woman’s Representative American Institute of Architecture Students – 5 member 22nd Pumpkin Carve chair CAN-Struction – co-chair for Auburn University 2011 GT Refugee Camp Design participant Rome Study Abroad Program
Barry Mask, Alabama State Representative, Executive Director, Elmore County Economic Development Authority. 41Brookland Ct. Wetumpka 36093
Young Life Big Brother and Sisters Club of America Young Life Mission Trip to Jamaica Member of ASCE
ryan.zimmerman@auburn.edu
[3rd year, architecture basketball team] student] Committee of 19 – CADC College
HONORS/ACTIVITIES Freshman
318 E. Glenn Ave. Auburn, AL 36830
Senior
Auburn Orange Crusher [worked with woman’s
[4th year, architecture basketball team] student] Auburn University Dance Marathon -
Entertainment Committee Alagasco Design Competition - Participant Senior
American Institute of Architecture Students –
[5th year, architecture Social Chair, planned 150 person event; student] Beaux Arts Ball, Chair
Auburn Orange Crusher [worked with woman’s
[2nd year, architecture basketball team] student] Pan Y Vino – Retreat team leader
University Program Council – Film’s committee
Ryan Zimmerman /ryankelly12 @ryankelly_12
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Meteorite and Crater Research Center Wetumpka, AL Alabama Woodcomp Competition The purpose for this design is to enhance the public’s knowledge within the city of Wetumpka and state of Alabama about the 58th crater location and first ocean impact meteorite in the United States. With the moment of impact in mind, this design shows the process that occurs during impact: space, atmosphere, impact, explosion, and disbursement of the meteor.
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CONSULTANTS Dr. King, Geologist at Auburn University Barry Mask, Economic Development PROGRAM Classrooms Upper/Lower Gallery Cafe Offices SOFTWARE|TECHNIQUES AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Rhinoceros SketchUp
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Wetumpka, AL Site
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The meteorites entrance gives way to the form of an exploding and rotating pavilion for the research center.
Study model made to represent final materials and quality
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Early concept floor plan
FLOOR PLAN | Main Level Creating a research facility and public center for a community demanding national attention requires a clever and risky solution. The design incorporates the meteoritic impact sequence to derive the form of the science and research facility. As a person enters the building like a meteorite entering earth’s atmosphere. One, first descends into the front gathering space before being drawn into the narrowly growing entrance. One feels small and compressed into the entrance First Floor doors leading into darkness to the building, much like outer 1. Entry Research space. One then begins2.3.to see “the light at the end of the Classroom Office tunnel” which is the main4.5.lobby. Entering the lobby there is an Rest room 6. Lobby/Ticketing explosion of light and fantastic views of the horizon, much like 7. Kitchen 8. Cafe entering the earth’s atmosphere on top of the earths horizon. 9. Temperory Exhibit 10. Gathering 11. Event Space 12. Event Entrance
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Office and Media
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First Floor 1. Entry 2. Research 3. Classroom 4. Office 5. Rest room 6. Lobby/Ticketing 7. Kitchen 8. Cafe 9. Temperory Exhibit 10. Gathering 11. Event Space 12. Event Entrance
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Second Floor 1. Temorary Exhibit (continued) 2. Mechanical 3. Black Box 4. Permanent Exhibit
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Entry pathway perspective
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SOUTH ELEVATION
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Lower gallery
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REVIVING THE DOWNTOWN ECONOMY Park 20 Brewery
Birmingham, AL Downtown Birmingham is currently struggling to maintain a healthy resident population currently and visitor population after five o’clock p.m. The downtown area surrounding Lynn Park is primarily a civic quarter of the city. Events are held on weekends at the park which draws people to this location, but not enough to give the area a consistent life. For this Interior Architecture studio we required to solve the problem of the downtown Birmingham area. The site is the recently vacated Birmingham Board of Education building that dates back to the late sixties. We were challenged to keep the building 14 by renovating it and replace the neighboring parking deck with new program. In addition, there were no pre-known solutions to the problem.
PROGRAM Brewery [Park 20] Residences Restaurant Conference Center Exhibition Space Community Garden
SOFTWARE|TECHNIQUES AutoCAD Hand Sketching Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Rhinoceros SketchUp
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PROPOSAL SKETCHES
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Beer Garden
Typical Residence
West Elevation
Restaurant
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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West Elevation and Restaurant
View from lower residence onto the beer garden
PERSPECTIVES
One of the primary functions of the Brewery is the proposed beer garden. The beer garden is a private beer garden located on top of the conference center/existing Board of Education building for the residents of the Brewery. The roof top beer garden is intended to educate the residents and encourage participation in the brewery process. The participation in the brewery process in turn helps the brewery and the local economy by bringing residents and a night life to the area.
View in brewery warehouse of cold brewing room
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RESIDENCE FLOOR TYPICAL
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RESIDENCE FLOOR PLAN TYPICAL
Park 20 Brewery axon
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HEALTHCARE
Patient Care Room Study Boston, MA Alagasco Competition The Boston healthcare clinic is a project that challenges a students ability to research code and fire safety while innovating the patient care facility. The project is located in a parking lot in front of an existing nursing home. The project was to propose a patient care facility or hospital on the site. Understanding the surrounding context and providing a positive healing environment was key. This project focuses on the patient care room.
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CONSULTANTS Patrick Davis, Code Specialist - Lecture series and desk critiques throughout semester.
PROGRAM Patient Care Room SOFTWARE|TECHNIQUES AutoCAD Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop SketchUp
SECTION PERSPECTIVE | PCU
PCU FLOOR PLAN DIAGRAM
Family Zone Patient Halo Work Zone Staff Zone Hygiene Zone
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FLOOR PLAN | PCU
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SECTION DETAIL | PCU
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PUBLIC
Fulton County Central Library Interior Renovation Atlanta, GA Interior Architecture Thesis Project
PROJECT PROPOSAL Increasingly, adaptive reuse has become an innovative practice, meeting new challenges with economically feasible and inherently sustainable solutions. Interior Architecture is now positioned as a leading design discipline, and it embraces our existing building stock as a valuable and renewable resource. Traditionally, renovations update and renew, adding amenities while uncovering a past. Renovations ground us in a tumultuous world of change. Looking to the future or anticipating change—proliferating new potentials—is still the privilege of new construction. New ideas need new structures. Entirely new experiential potentials lie 26 in maximizing effects with a minimum of resources. This new sensibility may assume less formal invention and more careful consideration of small but profound environmental effects. -Kevin Moore, Professor
PROGRAM Classrooms Study Rooms New Book Stacks Conference Areas Offices
SOFTWARE|TECHNIQUES AutoCAD Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2011 Hand Sketching Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop SketchUp
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The FCCL is a “blocky” building said to go unnoticed within the downtown Atlanta context. People also find it hard to love the building because of its brutalist appearance clothed in concrete and punctured with only few windows. The interiors other than the main stairway aren’t very loved either. Each floor, if you can imagine is a twenty-five thousand square foot pancake. The floors to ceiling heights appear squashed because of the expansive reach of each floor plate. The computers are overused and the books are under utilized. I personally think the exterior approach and discovery of the FCCL is refreshing eight-story tall building and strong relief from the tall surrounding buildings. I concur that the interiors seem compact and dark.
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PROGRAM PROPOSAL OFFICES OFFICES
CONF.
BOOKS
MEETING
BOOKS
MEETING
MEDIA
COURTYARD
BOOKS
book book well well three one & two
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CAREER CENTER
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BOOKS
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COMPUTERS
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MEETING
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RETURN
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BASEMENT
CIRCULATION NESS
PLAZA
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WELL
AUDITORIUM ALCOVE
GALLERY
STUDIO
COLLECTIONS
FCOCE
CHILDRENS
MEETING
SPECIAL
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RECORDING
Proposed Program in stacking diagram
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PROPOSAL SKETCH
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The rectangular shape of the book-wells originally did not contrast the “pancake� type floor plate but rather complimented it. In the places where I created openings in the rectangle to allow patrons to access the interior of the book-wells, as well as opening it up for thoroughfares and views. I chose to remove the bands of shelves remaining at the top of the openings.
By doing this it transformed the shape from a horizontallike geometry to a vertical-like geometry. For the interior space, I imagined myself within one of these wells and it still seemed to planar. The geometries still were too similar to the FCCL form. By taking into account the important views from parts of the library, as well as, opportunities to see the windows and reading spaces this gave way to the new form of the book-wells.
SECTION PERSPECTIVE DIAGRAM
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The book-wells became more angled and sharp appearing complex and objectified within the over all square-ness of the building. It’s objectified because the wells are now aimed at being objects that are inserted within the building rather than placed. Imagine yourself finding your way onto the second 32 floor from the point of the elevators. From the elevator you see the main stairs with the skylights lighting it softly even though you cannot see the skylights.
As you approach the stairs by swimming through the sea of public computers you see a glowing glass prism with books upon books in it. There are three of these prisms that look as if they puncture the ceiling because of the stepped up ceiling around the wells. You soon get even closer to the bottom of the first step and look up. You see three floors and four massive circular skylights above you. Suddenly, the clouds cover the sun and what little light entered the library is now dim providing just enough darkness to allow the remaining two story’s of the book-well to grab your attention.
BOOKWELL ONE
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Second level
Third level
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BOOKWELL TWO The three prisms are now librotis’ (columns) holdings the rest of the book-well stacks. This is the only moment where the book-well appears to be a continuous object inserted into the libraries core. When within the bookwell it appears less continuous. Each piece is slightly rotated on each floor centered on a central axis from the book stack below.
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BOOKWELL THREE Breuer’s idea of space comes true. The continuity of connection on each floor of the library meshes and seems to create one space. The book-wells look continuous like columns, but each individually creates am aesthetic contrast to the surrounding library spaces. The prismatic shape gives each of the book-wells a combined poetry that speaks a monumental phrase of establishment within the libraries core. The book-well says to the patron that looks at it or passes through it.
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Second level
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PHYSICAL MODEL
“I am here not placed, but interjected within this concrete block holding an item that you once held dear. It’s an item that once educated the leaders of modern society and an object that once was required to achieve a certain level of competence. Within me is the key that you can still access and enjoy. I house the idea that a library is never failing and that the book will forever remain apart of your society.” -Marcel Breuer
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Lighting analysis shows that the day lighting levels entering the front window hit the complex geometry of the book well and reflect gently into the space. Interestingly enough the natural light touches the reading and excess book stack areas.
Lighting analysis shows that the existing artificial lighting levels are very intense and could destroy the monumental effect of the book well.
The Lighting Analysis shows a combination of both artificial and natural day lighting.
Is the mid way analysis of the acoustical properties from the main stairway. The book wells form are not only intended to take advantage of views but to slow down noise from the more crowded public areas.
LIGHTING STUDY
3form Chroma Glass Artificial Lit and Natural Lighting study
Black Zinc
Selected Lights
This initial study was to take the more complex geometry of one of the three book wells to experiment with light. Adding new materials and lighting fixtures helped give a better understanding of how monumentality can be achieved.
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TRAVEL
Study Abroad Rome, Italy The study abroad program interventions within different urban conditions. The proposed sites are very different in scale, historic significance, structure and form, but the work will be interwoven by the principle of understanding the historic urban stratification and by different scales. The experience will engage the study of urban ideas, documentation, analysis and synthesis through observation and drawing, with specific reference to place to be discussed will include typology, mapping, neighborhoods, streets, urban spaces and fundamental issues of urban dwelling and design that shape the contemporary city. Specific emphasis will be placed on working in context, and understanding the organa building within the 40 spaces of the city through a series of studio analysis projects throughout the City of Rome. -Architectural Design Syllabus The sketches to the right is my personal favorite sketch page. I chose to show these to recreate my line of thought while touring Francesco Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (San Carlino) and Sant’ Ivo alla Sapienza. Documenting the plan first and then the section on top allowed me to carry the lines from plan to section. Seeing the actual plan helped me to recreate an original plan to try and better understand the geometries and to try and relive what the architect intended the form to express. I found the most prominent ideas to be expressed were the idea of space and light. The space was captured as one enters the church and light would guide you to the various important features of the church. Both of these concepts can be applied to both churches.
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Pictured to the right is a sketch of the Santa Maria di Montesanto which is one of two churches at Piazza Del Popolo. I chose to leave out the detail in the sketch of this church because it was similar to my first sketch of the right church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli. The premise of this sketch was to compare the two churches with their individual plans, expressing that one church plan is an oval and the other is circular [pictured far left]. Santa Maria di Montesanto [pictured left] as well as, Santa Maria di Montesanto [pictured, left] were both designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and completed by Carlo Fontana.
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I would like to dedicate my work and book to my parents Mary and Kelly Zimmerman who supported me through six years of school. Furthermore, to my brothers Kyle, Drew and Noah. Also, to those persons I love in my life. I hope to bring something new to the Architecture profession and world.
RYAN ZIMMERMAN Contact Info Email: rkz0001@tigermail.auburn.edu Phone: 334.868.2365