Stephen Renard Architecture Portfolio
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau
Stephen Renard Architecture Portfolio
Education:
- Master’s of Architecture, Hyperbody, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, November 2017. - Bachelor’s of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University, Graduated Cum Laude, Class of 2014.
Accomplishments:
- Presented the Complex Studio Projects at the Beijing Design Week 2016 in Beijing, China, Fall 2016. - Studied abroad, Full Masters program in Delft, Netherlands, Fall 2015 – Summer 2017. - Evolutive Design Workshop - David Hernandez (Grasshopper) Fall 2013. - Studied abroad in YangZhou, China, Summer 2013. - Studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain, Spring 2013. - Published: Pop Op, Fabrication Project, Fall 2012. - Published: Essay featuring my third-year project on phenomenal transparency, Fall 2012. - Published: Mitchell Lab, Cliff House in collaboration with Kokkugia, Spring 2012 . - Eagle Scout 2007.
Awards:
- People’s Choice Award – Monumetal Sculpture Project, Fall 2013. - Best House Drawings – Studio Design Competition, Spring 2011. - Top Camper Award – Wildlife Conservation Camp, Summer 2010. - National Honor Society, First Baptist Academy, Fall 2009 - Bronze Palm, BSA, Spring 2008 - Eagle Scout, Troop 125, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Dallas, TX, Fall 2007. - Triple Crown Award (BSA High Adventure Award), Fall 2007. - Order of The Arrow, BSA National Service Award (peer elected), Summer 2004.
stephen.renard@gmail.com +1 214-677-6080
Experience:
- Project Designer – Bercy Chen Studio LP, May – August 2017. - Project Designer – Bercy Chen Studio LP, August 2014 – July 2015. - Student Technician – Texas A&M Automated Fabrication and Design Lab, Fall 2012 – Spring 2014. - Team Leader – Final Design Studio, Spring 2014. - Teaching Assistant – One Undergraduate and on Graduate Studio, Fall 2013.
Skillset:
- Highly Proficient in: Rhino Maya 3DS Max Grasshopper Unreal Engine 4 Vray Adobe CS Revit Sketchup Pro AutoCad
References:
(Modeling, Rendering, Data Analysis) (Modeling, Texturing, Rendering, Animation) (Modeling, Texturing, Rendering, Animation) (Parametric Modeling and Computational Design) (Virtual Reality Creation, Rendering, Animation) (Rendering, Animation) (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro) (Modeling, SD, DD, CD, Details, Drawing Sets, etc) (Modeling, Rendering) (Drawings, Details, etc)
- Henriette Bier – Associate Professor, TU Delft. h.h.bier@tudelft.nl +31 639251029 - Travis Lucy – Principal at LLVLL. travis@llvll.work +1 (512) 658-6486 - Gabriel Esquivel – Associate Professor Texas A&M University. gabe@theoremas.com +1 (614) 570-7060
Carbon Valley
Pop Op
EcoLibrium
Cliff House
Erosive Formation
Carbon Valley
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fall 2016-Fall 2017 Professor: Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria
Project Description:
This MSc3 project proposal is the design of a Multi Function Startup and Tech Exhibition Center. The startup scene in Amsterdam (locally) and The Netherlands (nationally) is very strong and has been successful over the past few years. The strategic location allows for new startups to flourish, as well as support from the Dutch government has allowed startups to be more successful. Since more startups are likely to occur, they will need spaces to house their new startup companies. There
are multiple exhibition centers around
Amsterdam,
but they are relatively small and spread out
from the city center.
The main one is the RAI which is approximately 25 minutes (7km) from Amsterdam Centraal by either Public transport or direct driving. This is not exactly the best location to experience the city while at a conference. Amsterdam is a leading city for startups in Europe and worldwide. It has been named Europe’s West Coast Startup Capital and there are even some who say it is a good alternative to Silicon Valley. The reasons are numerous, of which a main driving factor is the government has multiple resources to help in the success of startups. This
presents the unique opportunity to propose an exhibition center specific to the tech industry
that would incorporate temporary/ semi permanent exhibition spaces and facilities to house startups
Marineterrein in Amsterdam. This could be a place for collaboration between mainstream tech companies, such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Samsung, etc to house semi permanent exhibition spaces in one place. The startups could then collaborate with the companies and work together to enhance the tech industry. in the
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The
structure of the building is derived from
lines
that
flow
relatively
form of the building.
parallel
Scripts
along
the
were written that
mimicked different ways nature formed structure, specifically how lines pull and push to create the strength necessary.
Where
needed, it is created.
first layer had one way
The
the structure is
the lines pulled and the second layer has a second way the lines pulled together.
The second layer is offset between 20 and 30 CM depending on how high the structure is. The third layer utilized a connecting script to start to interweave the first two.
50 CM
This
layer is offset between
from the first layer.
Each
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and
layer was then
interconnected to the others and structure was formed around the lines.
Glass
is placed in between the exterior layer of
tubes in order to create a double skin affect.
The
multiple tubes allow for natural light to enter the building and create shadow affects that paint the interior with light and shadows.
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1CM CURVED GLASS WATER TIGHT BARRIER ALUMINUM FASTENER RUBBER BLOCK STAINLESS STEEL BOLT EPS FOAM EPOXY RESIN 3 MM CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE SILICON/RUBBER CUSHION EMBEDDED WOOD CONNECTOR STAINLESS STEEL BOLTS 3 MM CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE EPOXY RESIN EPS FOAM
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Animation
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Exhibition Space
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Pop Op
College Station, Texas
Fall 2012 Professor: Gabriel Esquivel Partners: Ryan Taylor, Erin Templeton, Dylan Weiser, Erica Duran, Kara Kewetz, Patrick Scott, Kathy Xiao, Jorge Cruz, Roberto Jaimes, Lyly Huyen, Emily Knapp, Catlan Fearon Featured: SuckerPunchDaily
Project Description: This
project was inspired by
Op Art,
a twentieth century art movement and style in which artists
sought to create an impression of movement on an image surface by means of an optical illusion.
Passive
elements consisting of composite laminates were produced with the goal of creating
lightweight, semi-rigid, and nearly transparent pieces.
The incorporation of active materials comprised
a unique aspect of this project: the investigation of surface movement through controlled and
SMA wiring SMA wiring and Arduino.
repeatable deformation of the composite structure using the integration of composite materials with
technology.
Pop Op
utilizes
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Thermostats 4’x8’ Masonite
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EcoLibrium
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fall 2015 Professors: Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria Partners: Siavash Malek, Kelvin Karel, Livio Spada, Cheung Cheuk Ming
Project Description: Our
World Expo 2025 in Rotterdam. For this pavilion, Augmented Reality as a new media to inform people about the worldwide issue of Deforestation. We then have simple tasks that would help people realize how they can make a difference by changing a few small things in their everyday life. We are proposing a new model for the future by merging food production spaces within the urban environment. project is a proposal for a pavilion at the
we are using
The
pavilion can be broken into two parts: the
Augmented
Physical. The augmented reality enhances the experience by informing people about the issue of Deforestation. This is a tool that will be implemented throughout the entirety of the pavilion. The physical part is inspired from research about what causes deforestation and how we can address it. The main cause of deforestation is Agriculture. and the
For the physical, we looked into the greenhouse as a tool to reduce the need for more agriculture fields. This would lessen the amount of forests that are cut down each year. We decided to use the greenhouse model and relocate it to the urban environment. The greenhouse model we chose is comprised of a multi variety ecosystems that are constructed in a Pod like manner. Each Pod consists of multiple plants that complement each other in their growth cycle in order to efficiently benefit each other as they grow together. plants.
Fish and fowl are introduced to this environment to fertilize the Each species works in unison to produce a high quality product within the urban context.
The
site was solar analyzed and we located the
areas in between trees that have the necessary amount of light required for the greenhouses.
The
pods are placed strategically in between the
trees on the site.
The
trees, pods and boundary
of the site create the parameters for the path that extends throughout the site.
In
order to
connect these parts together, a script creates a path that people can walk on.
This path fluctuates
in height according to the requirements needed by the height of the greenhouses and trees.
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In
certain areas, this path is elevated, and one
floats through the forest.
The structure for the path is inspired from tree branches, and connects multiple points from the surface to an individual point on the ground.
The
path will be made of
reclaimed wood and board formed recycled plastic planks.
Upper Level
Lower Level
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As
the trees in the greenhouse grow, the height
for the environment increases. is located
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Each
greenhouse
meters below ground level and is
covered by a translucent inflatable panel.
This
inflation expands the volume and allows for the trees to grow to maturity without hindrance. translucent panels allow
Expo
The
attendees to look
into the greenhouse and see the growth process.
The augmented reality will explain the process and virtually accelerate the growth in order to see
Virtual Reality Animation
and experience the finished product.
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Cliff House
Las Vegas, Nevada
Spring 2012 Professors: Roland Snooks, Gabriel Esquivel Partners: Adrian Cortez, Zach Hoffman, Rafael Vazquez, Andrew Horne, Tyler Nagai, and Lyly Huyen. Featured: Kokkugia, Studio Roland Snooks, Sucker Punch Daily
Project Description:
The Cliff House is an experiment in composite fiber architecture operating in extreme conditions. The project is a collaboration between Kokkugia and the Mitchell Lab at Texas A&M that explored agent-based behavioral design methodologies operating across the scales of form, structure, and composite fiber. Designing through agent-based behavioral strategies encodes design intent within individual elements that interact at a local scale to give rise to the emergence of complex order at the macro-scale. Applying this methodology to a composite fiber house enables the local scale to be reduced to a sub-material level. This increase in the population of agents generates greater intricacy and intensive emergent affects. The geometry of the Cliff House is not discrete or reducible - instead, geometry negotiates complex behaviors such as structure and ornament, generating emergent characteristics that shift throughout the project.
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Plan One
The
site for the house was chosen to test the
capacity
of
composite
fabrication
in
extreme
structural situations to resist both wind and static loads.
Although an argument for composite fiber
construction is frequently premised on the desire for structural optimization, the use of composite material in the
Cliff House
is a negotiation of
structural necessity with more esoteric aesthetic, formal and tectonic intentions
- it is the expressive
nature of these formations that is of interest.
The
translucency of the composite material is
exploited to reveal the embedded networks and emergent hierarchies of structural strands.
The
composite skin registers the ripples of bifurcating and converging strands that blur the distinction between structure and ornament.
The
strands
shift from a networked surface to tentacles that etch their trajectories into the cliff-face.
These
tentacles, attach to the cliff partly out of
structural necessity but also from the desire for continuity and to blur the edge of the object
–
a strategy for diffusing the object into its
environment. hybrid
There
The
between
relationship sets up a strange
rock
and
composite
strand.
is an ambiguity as to whether the strands
are growing through the existing cracks in the rocks, or whether the cracks have been made for the strands.
This condition is neither geological
nor synthetic; instead it sets up a tension between the two.
Plan Two
Physical Model
Erosive Formation Austin, Texas
Fall 2013 Professor: Mark Odom Partner: Zach Hoffmann
Project Description: The
natatorium takes on water’s way of changing from a body that is shaped by its container, to a
body that begins to form its own environment. form and circulation.
Our
Through
turbulent erosion, it begins to establish
natatorium is meant to have a regional relation to
icon that develops a relation between the
East
and
Western 6th Street
Austin,
becoming an
and providing a reason to
transition between the two areas.
The
natatorium is oriented to allow minimal sunlight during
Austin’s
hot summers, while allowing
light to pass through in the winter.
Minimal glazing is placed in the western façade while only heavily The east and northern facades have the most glazing to receive the natatorium. These openings are formulated through slits and
shaded glazing is placed in the south. adequate lighting throughout lightwells on the roof.
The
natatorium utilizes a multitude of sustainable technologies which allow it to function more
efficiently.
The primary method is through involutions, which are repeated throughout the natatorium and apartments. The involutions first act as a water storage device by collecting rain water into a cistern. The water is then channeled through grooves on the roof. The involutions also allow light to enter the bottom, darker floors through the use of diffusion.
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Site Plan
LEGEND 1 LOBBY 2 BAR/RESTAURANT 3 OFFICE SPACE 4 UNDER-POOL TUNNEL 5 BATHROOM 6 KITCHEN 7 HVAC 8 CHILLER/BOILER 9 STORAGE 10 APARTMENTS
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South Elevation
North Elevation
East Elevation VERTICAL BRACING
CONNECTION DETAIL - TUBES
STEEL TUBING - 1.5’ BOLTED CONNECTIONS COPPER CLADDING STEEL TUBING - 1’ VAPOR BARRIER STEEL TUBE - .5’ INSULATION INTERIOR CLADDING
INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER DRYWALL
SOCKET
STEEL TUBE - .5’
SOCKET LOCATION
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COPPER CLADDING
STEEL TUBE 1.5’ SILL PLATE
PLASTER FINISH
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COPPER CLADDING
VAPOR BARRIER
STEEL TUBE - 1’ BOLTED CONNECTION CONCRETE
INSULATION
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CONCRETE FOUNDATION WALL
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ROOF/WALL/FLOOR DETAIL CONNECTION DETAIL - STEEL TO CONCRETE
STEEL TUBES
FOUNDATION/WALL/FLOOR DETAIL
West Elevation
Reflective
copper skin covers a large portion of
the ceiling, which reflects part of the light cast on the natatorium.
To avoid being too reflective,
the copper skin is treated through sanding and heavily insulated to avoid overheating.
The
interior has a cave like affect, which carries
the idea of erosion throughout the entirety of the project.
This
provokes the imagination and
desire to explore within.