Tyler Cukar Columbia GSAPP Master of Architecture & Urban Design Admissions Portfolio 2013
URBAN-ISM
EDUCATION + WORK 2006-2011 Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas Bachelor of Architecture W/ Emphasis in Urban Design & Minor Concentration in Architectural History 2009 University of Arkansas Rome Center for Urban Studies Rome, Italy 2002-2006 Park Hill South High School Kansas City, Missouri High School Diploma
June 2011-Present Day HNTB Architecture Kansas City, Missouri & New York, New York Architect 1 Input and involvement on projects on a varied scale including: San Francisco 49ers Stadium NYCT MTA Subway Stations Traffic Management Center, Columbus Ohio Chicago Transit Authority Wilson “L� Station Design March 2010-October 2010 Cutting Edge Dental Lab Kansas City, Missouri Architecture and Construction Consultant Complete full re-design and construction of 15 person dental lab Summer 2008 HNTB Architecture Kansas City, Missouri Intern Architect Input and involvement on convention center projects: Las Vegas Convention Center Kansas City Convention Center
AWARDS + PUBLICATIONS 2012 American Architecture Award University of Arkansas Community Design Center “Farmington: Townscaping an Automobile-Oriented Fabric” 2012 City Vision New York City Honorable Mention Tyler Cukar + Caleb Lowery “New York City 2030: By Robert Moses” 2011 Monsters of Design: 1st Place Urban Design Tyler Cukar “Scenario Planning: Streetcar City, Fayetteville 2030” 2011 C Murray Smart Medal of Honor-Fay Jones School of Architecture Tyler Cukar Highest Cumulative GPA in Architectural History & Theory 2011 AIA Institute Honor Award for Urban Design Boston Society of Architects (BSA) Unbuilt Architecture Award Arkansas APA Achievement in Urban Design University of Arkansas Community Design Center “Farmington: Townscaping an Automobile-Oriented Fabric”
2012 November City Vision Issue 7 September Re:View Magazine (Fay Jones School of Architecture) July 17 Arch Daily Website 2011 September Re:View Magazine (Fay Jones School of Architecture) September Atlas for Possibility for the Future of New York ( Institute for Urban Design) May Architect Magazine Work + Recognition | 7
URBAN ANALYSIS KEY URBAN PROBLEMS DISCONNECTED FABRIC Lack of Walkability Abudant use of resources Lack of Placemaking Leads to Auto-Dominate Development
AUTO-DOMINATE ORGANIZATION Lack of Walkability Creation of “Anywhere USA” Reactive Planning Leads to Sprawl Development
SPRAWL Lack of Walkability Excessive Landuse Lack of Community De-centralization of Urban Cores Leads to the Demise of Efficient Cities
CONTEXT
CAMPUS
TOWN
CITY
NODE
DISTRICT
SCALE
PATH
USE
INFILL
CATALYST
KIT OF PARTS
Urban Analysis Key | 9
ART & CULTURE + TRANSIT New York City 12-17
PROBLEM
URBAN HILL Rome, Italy 18-23
CAMPUS CONNECT Penland, North Carolina 24-29
ROMAN CONNECT Rome, Italy 30-37
CONTEXT
DICKSON DISTRICT Fayetteville, Arkansas 38-45
SCALE
TOWNSCAPING Farmington, Arkansas 46-57
NEW YORK CITY:2030 New York City 58-65
SCENARIO PLANNING Fayetteville, Arkansas 66-75
USE
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ART & CULTURE + TRANSIT Built Fabric The For the City/By the City competition prompted designers to choose any one of over 500 ideas and seek a way to challenge and transform the future of New York and the urban environment. Here, the proposal looks at how to address a vacant lot in the East Village of Manhattan and how to transform it into a space for art and performance. The proposal looks to explore the cultural relationship between subways, art, and performance. The L train runs beneath 14th Street, the Northern most street, and is served by a typical subway entry. The site becomes one large descent ramp into the subway, incorporating performing space, art space, and natural landscape. The vacant lot now stands as the East Village’s icon and artery to the rest of the city. The lot challenges what is typically seen as inconvenient or systematic and allows them to co-exist and become experiential. The subway is no longer seen as simply a means of transportation, but as an extension of the citie’s diverse cultures and varied lifestyles.
02%
NODE
Rooms
Paths
03%
45%
50%
Competition Entry
Summer 2011
Green Network
Art & Culture + Transit | 13
East Village Culture Connection
3 R D A V E
13th Street Section
Competition Entry
Summer 2011
NODE
East Village Culture Connection
Bridge the Lot...
Sink the Art...
Push to Trains! Art & Culture + Transit | 15
East Village AMP!
MTA Metro-North Railroad
Tickets
Section between 2nd and 3rd Ave
MTA Metro-North Railroad MetroCard
Tickets
MTA Metro-North Railroad MetroCard
Tickets
MTA Metro-North Railroad MetroCard
Tickets
MTA Metro-North Railroad MetroCard
Tickets
MetroCard
NODE Summer 2011
GRAFFITI GALLERY EAST VILLAGE AMPITHEATRE
EAST VILLAGE ARBORITUM LIGHTSCAPE GARDEN
Competition Entry
WATER ATRIUM
Art & Culture + Transit | 17
URBAN HILL Built Fabric Roma Tre University in Rome hosted an international design workshop with Waterloo University and the University of Arkansas, all in collaboration with highprofile Rome architecture firms. The competition was to re-envision Rome’s parliament building’s parking lot and create a new piazza for the area. The “parking hill” recalls the past, as a frequent approach to design in Rome, and looks to bring back an ancient hill that was destroyed by Bernini years ago. Rome is not a very green city, so the hill looks to not only create a new piazza but to give Romans a piece of the countryside within the center of their extremely dense and hectic city.
75%
NODE
Rooms
Paths
15%
05%
05%
International Workshop
Fall 2009
Green Network
Urban Hill | 19
Piazza del Parlamento
Piazza del Parlamento Parking HIll
Urban Hill | 21
International Workshop
Fall 2009
NODE
Lower Level Parking
Pedestrian Plaza
Parking + Plaza
Restaurant
Piazza del Parlamento Parking H
International Workshop
HIll Urban Hill | 23
Fall 2009
NODE
CAMPUS CONNECTION
Built Fabric
Penland North Carolina is home to the Penland School of Arts & Crafts, a national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. The campus of the school lies within the Black Hills and revolves around the natural setting. The new blacksmith studio looks to react to the natural topography, but more importantly engage both students and non-students traversing the hiking trails, forcing an awareness of the craft of the blacksmith. The blacksmith studio integrates itself within the existing trail system; and is a physical manifestation of the blacksmith process from education in the classroom through forging and onto a finished product. The building forces engagement not only with the natural surroundings, but encourages physical engagement between the pedestrians on the trail and seating and viewing nooks on the building.
60%
PATH
Rooms
Paths
20%
10%
10%
3rd Year Studio
Spring 2009
Green Network
Campus Connection | 25
Campus Connection | 27
3rd Year Studio
Spring 2009
PATH
Campus Connection | 29
3rd Year Studio
Spring 2009
PATH
ROMAN RE-CONNECT
Built Fabric
Rome is a city that has been built on top of itself over and over again, layering itself in history and value. Mussolini is one of these layers of history, and during his reign many areas of the city were destroyed and left unfinished after he was overthrown. One such area lies on historic Via Giulia, one of the most important roads of the Renaissance leading from the Vatican through the city. The site was left chopped in half and buildings were left unfaced with no openings or character. The intervention on Via Giulia looks to reconnect with the original level of Via Giulia and recall it’s importance as an axis through the city. The physical building serves as a museum to the urban transformation of Rome, and serves as a modern day reminder of the stratification the city is built upon. The museum serves as a piazza on the main level, allowing pedestrians to flow through the lower level, reemphasizing the axis and allowing the user to feel as if they are part of the layering of the city.
20%
NODE
Rooms
Paths
00%
40%
40%
4th Year Rome Studio
Fall 2009
Green Network
Roman Re-Connect | 31
Roman Re-Connect | 33
4th Year Rome Studio
Fall 2009
NODE
4th Year Rome Studio
Public Plaza
Roman Re-Connect | 35
Fall 2009
NODE
CIRCULATION CIRCULATION CIRCULATION CIRCULATION
AIR SPACE
AIR SPACE
CIRCULATION CIRCULATION AIR SPACE
ACTIVITY
AIR SPACE
EXHIBITION
EXHIBIT
AIR SPACE
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY
EXHIBIT
AIR SPACE
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
AIR SPACE
EXHIBIT EXHIBIT
EXHIBIT
CIRCULATION
AIR SPACE
ACTIVITY
EXHIBITION EXHIBITION
EXHIBIT
EXHIBIT
NODE Fall 2009 4th Year Rome Studio
Circulation Core
Roman Re-Connect | 37
DICKSON DISTRICT
Built Fabric
Fayetteville Arkansas is the home of the states flagship university, The University of Arkansas, but has a similar problem to many American cities of empty lots and a lack of densification. The redevelopment of the 164,000 sq. ft. parking lot seeks to reconnect all sides of the downtown district, using housing and light rail as a catalyst for this development. The housing seeks to disguise itself from the busy streets and allow for an internal public core for the enjoyment of the residents. The new development centers commercial activity around a new transit hub for the Northwest Arkansas (NWA) light rail system. This development not only helps to densifiy Fayetteville and reconnect the city, but also helps to promote Fayetteville as a destination in NWA and help bring in visitors and new residents.
70%
Paths
DISTRICT
Rooms
08%
15%
07%
3rd Year Studio
Fall 2008
Green Network
Dickson District | 39
Transit Node
West Street Housing
Housing Core
DISTRICT Fall 2008 3rd Year Studio
West Street Housing
Dickson District | 41
Dickson District
West Street Housing
DISTRICT Fall 2008 3rd Year Studio
Dickson Street Transit Node
Dickson District | 43
Housing Core
Dickson District
3rd Year Studio
Fall 2008
DISTRICT
Housing Core
Dickson District | 45
TOWNSCAPING Built Fabric
Farmington Arkansas is a town of roughly 5,000 in Northwest Arkansas. Farmington has become a bedroom community to Fayetteville, home of the University of Arkansas, and has lost its identity and imageability relating to it’s past character as one of America’s more vibrant farming communities. Townscaping, unlike master planning, employs a serial organization of nodes to create a walkable urban environment and deemphasize the autodominate 5 lane arterial. Using urban agriculture and low impact development (LID) principles, townscaping looks to set up new modes of connection to the built environment and imaginative practices in growing, planting, and foraging. Farmington Townscaping looks to serve as a model for other cities and towns, developing a kit of parts for use in a sort of plug in play manor.
02%
UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
Paths
DISTRICT
Rooms
80%
8%
10%
4th Year Studio
Spring 2010
Green Network
Tonwscaping | 47
Farmington 2030
Existing Five Lane Arterial UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
Context sensitive highway solution
DISTRICT Farmington 2030
4th Year Studio
Spring 2010
Aerial of Townscaping
Tonwscaping | 49
Highway Ecology Kit of Parts
UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
DISTRICT Spring 2010 4th Year Studio
Farmington 2030: System Phasing
Tonwscaping | 51
New Civic Town Center
Existing City Service Center
UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
New Civic Town Center
DISTRICT Spring 2010 4th Year Studio
Food-Bearing Multiway Boulevvard & Pedstrian Interface
Tonwscaping | 53
Viticetum & Public Art Gateway
UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
Tonwscaping | 55
4th Year Studio
Spring 2010
DISTRICT
New Multiway Boulevard
New Multiway Commercial Boulevard
UACDC
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER
CO
CO
CO
NO3
NO3
NO3
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- -
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P
O2
+ + N + + P +
Multiway Boulevard
School Promenade
Grow Street
+ + N + + P +
N
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P-
4th Year Studio
Spring 2010
DISTRICT
Espalier Gateway
Tonwscaping | 57
NEW YORK:2030 Built Fabric
What if Robert Moses got everything he asked for? New York City: 2030 is a competition for CityVision that looked to answer the question, “What is New York like in the Year 2030”. The response looks to New York’s past planning follies and imagines a future in which current day New Yorkers must respond to these past mistakes and answer them in a newly oil conscious society. The entry responds to two primary areas: Washington. Sq. Park and Robert Moses LoMex. It is understood after existing for 80 years the LoMex could not be dismantled, so it was simply deemphasized. A pedestrian promenade is snaked under the overpass with moments for amusement parks, green hills, skate parks, and amphitheaters. The pedestrian promenade links to a greenway connecting to Wash. Sq. Park. Wash. Sq. Park is dealing with 5th Ave. and it’s bifurcation of the park. To mediate this divide in public space, the pedestrian realm is simply blanketed back over 5th Ave. creating a sectionally articulate space. These responses are looked at as a kit of parts that can be applied to other trouble areas in the city.
10%
PATH
Rooms
Green Network
65%
15%
10%
Competition Entry
Summer 2012
Circulation Paths
New York:2030 | 59
1947
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
RENOVATION
CENTRAL PARK ZOO
PARK PROPOSAL
RANDALLS ISLAND
OPENS
TRIBUROUGH BRIDGE
OPENS
WESTIDE HOUSING
PARKWAY OPENS
HENRY HUDSON
OPENS
EAST RIVER PARK
BUILT THROUGH SOHO
LO-MEx EXPRESSWAY
STUYVESANT TOWN
UNITED NATIONS HQ
1943 1935 1936 1935 1937 1939 1934
1943
MULTI-MODAL NEW YORK CITY
LO-WAY PROMENADE OPENS
WASHINGTON SQ PARK BLANKETED
OIL CONCUMPTION CRISIS
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
STUYVESANT TOWN
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
UNITED NATIONS HQ
TUNNEL OPENS
BROOKLYN BATTERY
BEGINS CONSTRUCTION
LINCOLN CENTER
DESTROYED FOR NEW HOUSING PROJECT
GREENWICH VILLAGE
THRU WASH SQ. PARK
5TH AVE EXTENDED
OPENS
HARLEM RIVER DRIVE
ROBERT MOSES DIES
EXPRESSWAY OPENS
CENTRAL PARK
EXPRESSWAY OPENS
125TH STREET
OPENS
HUDSON VIEW HOUSING
2030
Competition Entry 1997
RIP
2025 2020 2012 1981 1961 1961
1985 1991 1964 1955 1950 1947 1943
New York:2030 | 61
Summer 2012
PATH
LoWay
WESTSIDE ARBORETUM
WESTSIDE AMP!
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK GREEN CONNECT
SOHO PROMENADE
SOHO HILLS
LoMEX-1943
LoWAY-2025
Competition Entry
SOHO Street-1940
Summer 2012
PATH
LoWay:Bowery Amusement Park
SOHO ARTWALK
BOWERY AMUSEMENT PARK!
EAST VILLAGE SKATERY
EAST VILLAGE GREENSWARD
ALPHABET CITY GATEWAY
New York:2030 | 63
LoWay & Wash. SQ. Park Blanket
PATH Wash. SQ. Park-2020
Summer 2012
Wash. SQ. Park-1961
Wash. SQ. Park-2020
Competition Entry
Wash. SQ. Park-1950
New York:2030 | 65
SCENARIO PLANNING Built Fabric Fayetteville Arkansas has a population of 74,000 and is predicted to at least double it’s population by 2030. Like many American cities, Fayetteville has adopted a traditional planning method, based on forcasted decisions and densities at 4 units per acre. This type of development leads to sprawl, loss of imageability and the creation of “anywhere USA” conditions. Scenario Planning envisions specific futures from exploration of “what if” propositions. Scenario Planning studies multiple futures allowing for more complete exploration. In Fayetteville the driver seeks to understand “what if 80% of all housing starts developed within a 1/2 mile of a multi-modal streetcar boulevard along 71b?” In transit city the new development focuses around Fayetteville’s main commercial artery and looks to reconnect the city using it’s already existing amenities and historical markers. The scenario creates a walkable city based off place-making techniques, green infrastructure systems, and incentivized commercial growth.
55%
Paths
DISTRICT
Rooms
25%
10%
10%
5th Year Thesis Studio
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
Green Network
Scenario Planning | 67
Fayetteville 2011
Fayetteville: Sprawl City-2030
Fayetteville: Streetcar City-2030
Scenario Planning | 69
5th Year Thesis Studio
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
DISTRICT
Township Cultural District: Transit Node
2011
Disconnected Streets
2030
Urban Infrastructure
2011
Object Buildings
2030
New Built Fabric
5th Year Thesis Studio
Fall 2010-Spring 2011
DISTRICT
Township Cultural District
Scenario Planning | 71
Phase One pop. 9,000 Corridor established Edges of neighborhoods begin.
Phase Two pop. 18,000 Node infilled to connect to lightrail North South periphery axes defined
Phase Three pop. 24,000 Full distrcit definition is present Neighborhoods infilled Full pedestrian greenway complete
DISTRICT Fall 2010-Spring 2011 5th Year Thesis Studio
Township Cultural District: Transit Node
Scenario Planning | 73
Fayetteville 2030: System Plan
DISTRICT Fall 2010-Spring 2011 5th Year Thesis Studio
Township Cultural District: Transit Node
Scenario Planning | 75
URBANISM MATRIX SOLUTION
PROBLEM
CONTEXT
SCALE
USE ART & CULTURE + TRANSIT
URBAN HILL
CAMPUS CONNECTION
ROMAN RE-CONNECT
DICKSON DISTRICT
TOWNSCAPING
NEW YORKC CITY: 2030
SCENARIO PLANNING
Urban Matrix | 77