TYLER NEAL KUENZI
graduate ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
welcome, My name is Tyler Neal Kuenzi. I’m an architecture and design enthusiast who loves to create new things and solve challenging problems. I’m currently looking for a creative team to join.
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CONTENTS selected academic WORK Coupled Networks STRI Labratory New School for Dance Native American Cultural Center Paniker/ Schroff Residence
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coupled networks LOCATION: Phoenix, AZ STUDIO: Thesis Project PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Architectural and infrastructural intervention. This thesis proposal attempts to transform and reconfigure the architectural and infrastructural landscape through a series of strategic and tactical interventions that leverage energy and transportation infrastructures with the latent urban condition of the Central City in an attempt to amenitize and create a new landscape that promotes civic life, tourism, and a new vision for the city of Phoenix. The development patterns of the Phoenix metropolitan area have resulted in the creation of an infrastructural zone that cuts across the city. This necessary yet negatively perceived infrastructure supports the ever-growing postwar American dream of the suburbs, but has resulted in a degraded and blighted urban condition that chokes Phoenix’s Central City. The Cloud proposes a new strategy to deal with the co-existence of the old and the new by covering a pre-existing site and structures with a roof that produces energy. The starting point for this project is the existing condition. The project then became focused around the notion of the “in-between” space located between the new energy roof structure (Cloud) and the existing ground plane.
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The Cloud
Urban Field
Social Condensers
Urban Theater
Cultural Lobby
Sky Forest
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site plan
The Bazaar
Light Rail Station
Urban Theater
The Boulevard
Arizona Grand Canal
Sky Forest
Grand Canal Park
Light Rail Station
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Soccer Stadium
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Sky Harbor Airport
Cultural Lobby
Commuter Rail Station
component axon
The Cloud
Social Condensers
Mobility Network
Solar Roof
Sky Forest Cultural Lobby Urban Theater
Pedestrian Derive Network The Pedestrian Boulevard Transportation Network
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postcards from phoenix 2030
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stri laboratory LOCATION: Gigante Peninsula, Panama STUDIO: Biomimicry PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A new field station to replace an existing non-functioning facility for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) located in the rainforest along the Panama Canal. Program requirements include a laboratory, communal space, sleeping arrangements, and services for up to 20 people. All energy, cooling, water collection, and sanitary considerations must be locally produced on site. Using the biomimetic principle found in the geometry of the Lobster’s Eye solved the major challenge of how to harness energy from the sun to produce electricity in high light and low light conditions found in the Panamanian rainforest.
Biomimicry is an innovation method that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies - new ways of living - that are welladapted to life on earth. 10
polycarbonate transparent roof
lobster eye inspired light concentrators
wood structural roof system
dyesol BIPV transparent solar panels
interior light diffuser
programmatic volumes (green represents public space)
STRI site
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Biomimetic principle : the lobster eye
Surface of the Lobsters Eye
The environment that the Lobster lives in is dark and murky so even the lightest amount of light needs to be utilized in order to allow the organism to see. The Lobster eye has evolved to focus minute amounts of incoming light precisely onto it’s retina which allows the Lobster to see. This is done through precise geometrical alignments that direct light to a single point (Land 1976). The surface of the Lobster’s eye is comprised of a series of squares, but upon closer inspection these squares are actually square channels with a highly reflective coating that redirects light to a certain point.
Square channels
Diffused light source #1 Reflector units
Retina
Diffused light source #2
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The principle of taking ambient and diffused light and reflecting it towards a specific point formed the bases of the biotic model. Instead of focusing light to see, the reflected and condensed light is being focused onto solar panels to create energy to power the buildings at the Gigante Peninsula. The diffused light is reflected and concentrated onto transparent solar panels. Once the light passes through the solar panels it is then diffused via the inverse of the Lobster eye concentrator to naturally daylight the building space below therefore eliminating a daytime electrical load for lighting. Incoming direct and diffused light Rainwater catchment system Lobster Eye Solar Concentrators Escaping hot air Translucent BIPV solar panels Interior light diffuser Diffused natural light Incoming cool air Louvered panel sliding doors
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Structural roof system that houses the solar condensors covering building program
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school for dance LOCATION: San Fransisco, CA PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Future School of Dance is built upon evolving relationships within the surrounding neighborhood in order to foster a new connection between dance and the community.The Tenderloin District, where The Future School of Dance is placed, desperately needs vital community space to help reestablish it’s identity as a place for culture. The Future School of Dance challenges current relationships. Current concealed and rigid spaces don’t allow for intense exploration in dance and deter the public from experiencing dance and the arts. The future school of dance seeks to overlap, combine, and integrate elements that are vital to the study, progression, and transparency of dance as an art form in order to facilitate a dialog that will allow dance to foster a new relationship with itself and the community.
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architectural program
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- Entry / Lobby................................................1568 - Offices..........................................................3198 - Large Creative Activity..................................3944 - Large Creative Activity..................................4347 - Small Creative Activity..................................3091 - Small Creative Activity..................................2107 - Large Community Space..............................1897 - Small Community Space..............................1071 - Large Teaching Space..................................1101 - Small Teaching Space..................................1017 - Archive/Library..............................................1007 - Cafe..............................................................702 - Storage.........................................................3727 - Lockers / Showers........................................2023 - Toilets...........................................................1498 - Receiving Area / Loading..............................965 - Back of House/ Control................................1495 Net 34,758 -Circulation....................................................9,788 Gross 44,546
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Needs: - Flexible and Adaptive Spaces - Transparancey - Cross - Polinization - Community Involvement - Indoor / Outdoor Space - Natural Light - Technology Rich
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PROGRAMMING SPACE / ADE 522 / SPRING 2010 / STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: FRANK MELENDEZ
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TYLER KUENZI performanceprivate / support p u b l i c
PROGRAM CRITERIA
PROGRAM | SPACIAL NEEDS
Goals: - Engage Community - Break Barriers - Historical - Stereotype - Economic - Relationship - Provide Social Space - Merge Arts and Public
ENGAGEMENT SPACE
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SOCIAL SPACE
PROGRAMMING SPACE / ADE 522 / SPRING 2010 / STUDIO INSTRUCTOR: FRANK MELENDEZ
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Native american cultural center
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LOCATION: Flagstaff, AZ PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The program consists of a 14,000 sf Native American Cultural Center on the campus of Northern Arizona University. NAU has one of the largest populations of Native American students in the country. The proposed Center will serve as a living demonstration of the principles of Native American thought and practice. Native American Architecture is notable for varied and innovative response to climate, place and culture. Given the importance of integrative thinking in sustainable design (combining scientific and cultural ways of knowing), the holistic perspective of Native American culture has much to offer. The proposed Cultural Center serves as a living demonstration of the principles of Native American thought and practice. These Beliefs are translated into a contemporary building with its practical demands and economies. This cultural center, located in Flagstaff, Arizona aims to extend the Native American Culture’s sphere of influence to the NAU campus. Pueblo culture shows that the notion of “the center” is where time and space meet. The all encompassing site plan centers the vital functions of the building including ceremonial, meeting, and reception spaces.
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Section B Assembly Space Classrooms Restrooms Entry Lobby Secondary Pathway Activity Space Ceremonial Space
Section A
NAU Central Pedestrian Walkway
The weaving of Navajo textiles is central to traditional Navajo culture and community. It provides a balance between the spiritual and physical and is a deeply felt expression of beauty, harmony, and balance: concepts that lie at the center of Navajo art and life. The facade of the Cultural Center is comprised of terracotta tiles in three colors that expresses the weaving tradition of the Navajo people and prominently displays it for everyone at NAU to experience.
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paniker / schroff residence LOCATION: Phoenix, AZ PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This courtyard house encourages interactions between the public and the private spaces; the inside and the outside; and the inhabitants and the neighbors to create a synerginistic interconnectivity that is open and exposed, yet private. The Paniker/Shroff residence is located in a courtyard home community that is adjacent to the Indian Bend Wash greenbelt. The 1800 sf home utilizes vertical CMU block walls to provide a structural support system that extends through the perimeter walls of the facade to provide house/garden/community interpenetration while also providing shading to the glazing from the harsh desert sun.
Papago Park
Tempe Town Lake
Downtown Tempe
ASU
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Second Floor
Bedroom 1
Outdoor Terrace
Bedroom 2
Open to Below
Closet
Closet
Bath
Sitting
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Bath
Ground Floor
Courtyard
Kitchen
Living Room Office
Entry
Bath
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Dining
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