Treye Denton
Portfolio
Treye.Denton@gmail.com
137 N Plum St Granville, OH 43023
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Table of Contents
Pre-Graduate Work
Graduate Work
Kitaya Park Mausoleum Preliminary Design + Visualization
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3 Icosahedrons
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Totems Chess Set
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Visual Dsign + Redering
Process Development + 3D Fabrication
Licking Memorial MOB
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Elkhorn Ridge
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Denison Fine Arts Center
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Construction, Drafting, and Visualization
Land Development Engineering + Finance
Preconstruction Visualization + Sequencing
Arcadia Ridge + Ladera Drone Photography
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Kitaya Park Mausoleum Tokyo, Japan Tokyo is one of the densest cities on earth; a fact that comes to bear not just on the living but the dead as well. Situated on a sliver of land in the Shibuya District, the Kitaya Park Mausoleum develops the idea of a vertical tomb. The building is divided by a five story chasm slicing through the center, connecting public spaces and encouraging pedestrians to interact with the building. The divide also serves to create two distinct interiors—the larger volume serves as the mausoleum for the general public while each floor of the smaller volume is subdivided into private family vaults.
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3 Icosahedrons 3 Icosahedrons is an exploration of the idea of architectural scale through computer rendering techniques. The project tackles the creation of three sphere-shaped objects of identical dimension that, through the construction of a “landscape” between them, can be read to be of different scales. 5
Entirely digital, the project makes use of both modeling techniques—the dimensioning of objects, the density of tesselation, and the arrangement of objects in space—and rendering techniques—the mapping of texture, the arrangement of lighting, and the depth of field—to generate compositions that lead the viewer to different interpretations of scale.
Totems Chess Set The problem of the chess set is simple: to create pieces that are clearly of the same family but are each recognizable as their own piece. Examining the history of chess sets shows the evolution of this visual language and from this a set of rules can be developed. For example, one can look at the increasing complexity of ornament from pawn to king. The totems set was developed through an exploration of the work of WOJR. The silhouette of each piece is designed in accordance with the previously discussed rules of chess pieces; that silhoutte and its inverse then become the face and side of the piece respectively. The result is a distinctfamily of chess pieces.
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Licking Memorial Medical Office Newark, OH
The Licking Memorial Hospital Medical Office Building is the first building of a new medical development to provide better medical service to the people of licking county. The 40,000 sqft building houses an eye clinic, a family practice ground, and an orthopedic group. It was opened on time and in budget on August 26, 2016.
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I served as the Project Engineer for Robertson Construction, the general contractor for the project. I was responsible for reviewing and coordinating every bit of material and equipment that went into the building from ensuring that the steel went up with a problem to detailing grommets in the casework. I worked alongside the project superintendent and learned a tremendous amount about every facet of putting a building together from the physical labor to the importance of the flow of information.
Rendering Waiting Room Model + Rendering Most buildings change over the course of the construction process; this particular building went through a large overhaul of it’s lobbies and waiting rooms halway through construction. To help Licking Memorial visualize the space I created an accurate model in Sketchup to allow the hospital employees to walk through the space and visualize the structure of the rooms. We caught a number of potential issues early in the process and LMH felt the model allowed them to make much more informed aesthetic and functional decisions. We also used the model in the field to coordinate the arched soffits and radiused reception areas with the framers, glaziers, and carpenters responsible for making the project a reality.
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Elkhorn Ridge Elkhorn Ridge is a moderate-sized residential and, finally, the construction of the streets and utilities Fair Oaks, TX
development in Fair Oaks, Texas. I had the opportunity to participate in every step of the development process from acquiring the land, to land planning and engineering, to the economic analysis of the project,
and the sale of individual lots. Elkhorn Ridge proved to be a challenging development from both a political and engineering perspective and I learned a tremendous amount from working through the various difficulties
Land Acquisition
Land Planning + Engineering
Finding a single piece of land for development is rare. Dietz Elkhorn was an assemblage of four separate tracts owned by four different members of the same family. Negotiating the right to purchase each tract required a different approach and touch. Finally getting all four was quite the achievement.
It was important to also ensure that the land was developable: would the topography allow for utilities, streets, and homes to be constructed? Would the City of Fair Oaks allow the development to go forward? We went through endless iterations with our Landscape Architect to find a solution that worked for the community, the site, and the development economics.
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Dietz Elkhorn: Economics Breakdown
Dietz Elkhorn: Assumptions Overall Lot Breakdown Total # Lots Total FF
50 60 75 90 Total Lots Total FF
Hard Cost Assumptions
311 lots 19,655
Lift Station Cost CPS Cost / Lot
Land Cost
$916,363
Land Cost $10,400,000
Lot Breakdown Phasing
Unit 1 25 30
Unit 2 24 13
Unit 3 25 19
Unit 4 47 4
Total Lots 121 lots 66 lots
Total FF 6,050 3,960
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101 lots
7,575
3 94 lots
11 86 lots
9 80 lots
0 51 lots
23 lots
2,070
6,020
5,820
5,225
2,590
Soft Costs Engineering Fees Geotech Entry + Landscape Legal Rollback Taxes Total
Streets Drainage Water Sewer Filtration CPS Lift Station Total Overall Total / Lot Total / FF
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$49 $3 $3 $9 $2 $8 $73
/ lot
$3,100 $193 $161 $579 $96 $482 $4,611
Hard Costs
Total
$964,100 $60,000 $50,000 $180,000 $30,000 $150,000 $1,434,100
Unit 1 $1,473,702
Unit 2 $1,021,911
Unit 3 $724,564
Unit 4 $1,160,065
Total $4,380,242
$64,100 $452,714 $403,262 $620,558
$232,478 $252,697 $445,775 $274,429
$76,060 $190,116 $351,148 $0
$83,541 $104,824 $162,172 $0
$456,179 $1,000,351 $1,362,357 $894,987
$169,200 $916,363 $4,099,899 $43,616 $681
$154,800 $0 $2,382,090 $27,699 $409
$144,000 $0 $1,485,888 $18,574 $284
$91,800 $0 $1,602,402 $31,420 $619
$559,800 $916,363 $9,570,279 $30,773 $487
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# Lots Total FF
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Economic Analysis
94 lots 6,020
Unit 1
Unit 2
86 lots 5,820
Unit 3
80 lots 5,225
Economics Overall
Unit 3
Total 311 lots 19,655
Revenue
$8,127,000
$7,857,000
$7,053,750
$3,496,500
Unit 4
Total $26,534,250
Streets Drainage Water Sewer Filtration CPS Lift Station Hard Costs Soft Costs Land Costs Total Costs
$1,473,702 $64,100 $452,714 $403,262 $620,558 $169,200 $916,363 $4,099,899 $439,241 $1,424,218 $5,963,358
$1,021,911 $232,478 $252,697 $445,775 $274,429 $154,800 $0 $2,382,090 $424,648 $1,376,902 $4,183,640
$724,564 $76,060 $190,116 $351,148 $0 $144,000 $0 $1,485,888 $381,235 $1,236,136 $3,103,259
$1,160,065 $83,541 $104,824 $162,172 $0 $91,800 $0 $1,602,402 $188,976 $612,745 $2,404,123
$4,380,242 $456,179 $1,000,351 $1,362,357 $894,987 $559,800 $916,363 $9,570,279 $1,434,100 $4,650,000 $15,654,379
Profit
$2,163,642
$3,673,360
$3,950,491
$1,092,377
$10,879,871
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 4
51 lots 2,590
Economics / Lot
Revenue
$86,457
$91,360
$88,172
$68,559
Unit 4
Total $85,319
Hard Costs Soft Costs Land Costs Total Costs
$43,616 $4,673 $15,151 $63,440
$27,699 $4,938 $16,010 $48,647
$18,574 $4,765 $15,452 $38,791
$31,420 $3,705 $12,015 $47,140
$30,773 $4,611 $14,952 $50,336
Profit
$23,017
$42,713
$49,381
$21,419
$34,984
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Economics / FF
Revenue
$1,350
$1,350
Unit 2
$1,350
$1,350
Unit 4
Total $1,350
Hard Costs Soft Costs Land Costs Total Costs
$681 $73 $237 $991
$409 $73 $237 $719
$284 $73 $237 $594
$619 $73 $237 $928
$487 $73 $237 $796
Profit
$359
$631
$756
$422
$554
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Unit 3
The economic analysis for Elkhorn Ridge was complicated-multiple configurations of utilities, road alignments, lot sizes, and separate phases--but the spreadsheets I created allowed us to hash through a large number of options in a short window of time. This allowed us to make decisions and move quickly to get the tracts under contract and begin planning for construction.
Spreadsheets tend to be indecipherable walls of numbers. They are not designed with the audience--the engineers, owners, or architects that need the information buried within to make decisions-- in mind. This should not be the case. Economic analysis are the results that flow logically from a core set of assumptions; this should be explicit in their structure. No one should ever have to dive through page after page to find information. Making assumptions explicit also allows for a degree of flexibility: pricing, timing, costs, everything can be adjusted on the fly, allowing a much faster and broader exploration of options. There is such a thing as a well designed spreadsheet.
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Construction
After months of hard work--acquiring the land, planning and engineering the development, negotiating with the City of Fair Oaks and Bexar County, getting bank loans--we proceeded with construction.
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Construction comes with a completely different set of challenges: schedules must be held, the environment protected, cost overruns contained. As of October 2016 the first phase of Elkhorn Ridge is complete and the first homeowner are moving in.
Denison Fine Arts Center Granville, OH
Often the most difficult things for a general contractor is getting the job in the first place. When Denison University began planning to build a large Fine Arts Building, Robertson Construction was placed on a shortlist of firms to be the GC. To help our internal team understand the constraints of the project I constructed a bare bones model of the site in Sketchup. As we worked through the construction
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sequence the model evolved and I realized that, with some additional work, it could become a great tool for visualizing the project for our final presentation to Denison. The rendered video helped to emphasize the amount of effort Robertson as a company had invested in truly understanding what we were getting into. Robertson was awarded the project and it is slated to start in spring of 2017.
Basement
Theater
Dance Studio
North Elevation
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Construction Sequence The unique challenges of the site were best represented through video. This allowed us to walk through each step of the process and distribute it to any number of stakeholders, bringing people up to speed quickly and easily.
To view the video please click here Or go to the following address: https://vimeo.com/191400712
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Drone Photography I’m always been on the lookout for new ways to improve the quality of my work. When consumer drones—the DJI Phantom in particular—came to the market I saw a tool that seemed almost designed for land development. As I learned over two years of use, the unique perspective a drone could offer was a huge benefit no just for managing construction but also for building trust with partners and clients. The pictures informed decisions and sometimes proved to be strangely beautiful, serving as a stark reminder of the immense environmental cost of development.
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