TRISTEN ZIMPRICH b ac h e l o r o f s c i e n c e i n a rc h i t e c t u r e ac a d e m i c p o rt f o l i o
Tristen Zimprich 2845 Laurel st s Cambridge, MN 55008 (763)-439-4754 zimpr009@umn.edu
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Fusing Domains
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Merging Environments
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Canopy and Movement
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Hand Drawings
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Waterfront Porosity
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Connecting Fabrics
Fusing Domains Noticing the amount of bikers in the dinkytown area, I was immediately drawn to the idea of creating some sort of ‘hub’. Also, there is a rich potential to connect to the greenway bike trail that runs directly under the southern edge of dinkytown. This is addressed through digging into the earth and allowing circulation up the building and out on the dinkytown level. A Bike shop, velodrome, biker bar, observation deck, locker rooms and a repair shop are some of the programs designed around the bikers’ needs. Top Floor Plan
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Bottom Floor Plan
Site Section Through the Greenway Entrance
View Down the Main Level Expressway
Nolli Map Highlighting the Site’s Location Residential Residential
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Interior Velodrome
Interior Render of Lobby and Velodrome
Merging Environments The city of St. Peter, MN currently houses 12,000 residents along the bank of the Minnesota River. Resting on the edge of a floodplain, the
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river becomes hidden to the people of the city, very few even giving it recognition. Noisy highway 169 creates a disconnect within the cities Central Business District. As the population continues to grow, a stronger need for expansion is necessary. My proposal dealt heavily on connecting the existing bike trails and forming a cohesive system. This design mimicked the midtown greenway of Minneapolis, connecting the built MN Square Park to the natural floodplain via bike trail.
Existing Bike Trail
Eight Blocks Within the CBD
Bringing Bikers Into the City
Proposed Bike Trail System Connecting City to Natural
Central Business District Front Street Redesign Housing Complex
Existing Housing
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Hybrid Renderings Illustrating the Three Districts
1 - East/West Section Through the Housing Complex
Proposed Housing
Iterations for the Design of a Housing Complex Along the Bike Path
Canopy & Movement The state fair grounds are heavily populated during the two weeks of the fair, yet left abandonded for the remaining fifty. Opposed to the other fair entrances, the current north gate lacks a powerful entrance and sense of place. Instead of employing a singlestructure landmark to mark an entrance threshold, Cuningham’s proposal disorientes visitors by using a shift off the existing rectalinear grid, vegetation, curvalinear paths, canopy, and materiality, therefore creating a sense of place through a natural, varied
Exception to the Grid
landscape. Learning form this, my studies focused on how canopy can influence movement. Studying both CGA’s Innovation Hall and Grace Farms by Sanaa, my north gate proposal utilizes canopy, and the components behind it, to slow people down, encourage stay, and provide a year-round, programmatic landscape.
Lateral Movement
Canopy and Gathering
Aerial Context Image
View Down the Diagonal Path Towards Innovation Hall
SE Entrance Illustrating the Use of Canopy and Light
Hand Drawings Below is a series of hand movements relating to the pliers that, when layered together, looks like the image to the right. This assignment was for Design Fundamentals I, with a focus on lineweights and clarity of a layered drawing. The image on the far right is a value drawing completed in the Introduction to Drawing class using white pencil on black paper. Both this drawing, and the axonometric, are of the Ralph Rapson Hall staircase located near the lobby.
Wa t e r f r o n t Po r o s i t y In south Minneapolis, a sloping park is in need of a four season community center. Utilizing the strengths of steel construction, spaces open up to create a welcoming, porous structure. A wooden facade brings out a modern feel and blends the building into the surrounding context. The ďŹ nal design directed views to the lake and city beyond, hosted an exterior space on the lakeside, and resulted in a well lit, transparent public facility.
Exploded Structural Diagram
Section Perspective Looking West
Interior Rendering of the Community Room
C o n n e c t i n g Fa b r i c s Located alongside the Mississippi River in Minneapolis sits an underutilized site. This building reacts to the sites’ inhabition to allow circulation between the urban and natural environments. By integrating a three-story building into the sites’ steepest slope, the oors act as an extension to the three level changes of the site and serves as the circulation point. The atrium turns the negative stimulus about the slope into an emulation in the main display space.
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Site Section Through Entrance and Atrium