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WAYMON BANKS 2014-2015 JOHN YEON FOUNDATION + URBAN STUDY CENTER PORTLAND, OREGON

PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING CHAPEL BOISE, IDAHO

CIVIC CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ARCHITECTURE PORTLAND, OREGON

TECH INCUBATOR + MIX USED BEND, OREGON

THE REASON FOR THE COVER GRAPHIC * Portland Oregon was one of the reasons I chose to attend the University of Oregon. The Ideas that Portland represent, as a leader among cities for future planning of every aspect that would make a sustainable, green, natural and livable city, are one that I want to incorporate into my career. The graphic represent what I appreciate from Portland and what I desire in my career as an architect. The standard skyline represents my first desire to become an architect. Portland has been one of the United States leading cities in green, sustainable buildings. Part of my education has been in hands on construction and sustainable techniques. I want to ensure future projects are detailed to increase energy efficiency and built quality. The reflection of the skyline on the water represent the effect urbanism has had on the ecological health of the entire watershed. I want to increase my understanding of the relationships between ecological processes and urban development and form, as well as how to apply these design and planning disciplines in my career. The city map underlay represents my desire to incorporating my design into the existing context of the site I am building on. It also represents the planning ideas used by Portland to create an urban stage for successful community that is close-knit, walkable, commercially viable and leaves plenty of room for green and open spaces.

JOHN YEON FOUNDATION + URBAN STUDY CENTER PORTLAND, OREGON PROFESSOR JIM TICE

10TH STREET EXTERIOR VIEW

BURNSIDE ST

PARK

10TH ST

OAK ST

ENTER

AUDITORIUM

9TH ST

DESCRIPTION Dedicated to one of Portland’s most accomplished and respected modern architects: John Yeon. The primary objectives of the center is to bring understanding of John Yeon’s legacy and to bring an awareness of important design issues related to the architecture, the interior architecture and the landscape architecture of the Northwest. The center will have a major exhibition space, auditorium, meeting rooms and other related facilities for the public and private residents. There is a library of John Yeon archive and a permanent exhibition of John Yeon’s work. There is also a rotating art exhibition as a venue for the public to view 20th century and contemporary art of the Northwest. The site for the John Yeon Center is located between Northwest and Southwest Portland on Burnside Avenue. A challenging wedge shaped site near Powell’s bookstore. Maintaining the façade of the existing North Pacific Building, remodeling the interior and designing an addition to the building. APPROACH The initial design approach was to solve the wedge-shape (Flatiron Building shape) site. I decided to make the additional building a thin non intrusive rectangle along Burnside Avenue and dedicate the remaining wedge shape to landscape. The interior of the existing building, including floor plates and structure, was removed and all additional structure were glulam wood, to better emphasis the Pacific Northwest. The open interior houses required 150-seat auditorium, which is made of offsetting rotated wood interior and copper exterior panels with sound proofing. The shape help deflect sound for improved acoustic and creates an interesting shape from the lobby. The existing building houses the public exhibit spaces and auditorium while the rectangle addition houses the private library and residential units.

LOBBY VIEW

Student Living

Director's Apartment 1st Floor

Roof Garden

6th +40' 1/16" = 1'-0"

Curatorial Library 2nd Floor

Permanent Gallery

Cafe .

Bookstore

Administration

5th +30' 1/16" = 1'-0"

Lobby Library 1st Floor

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Rotating Gallery

Main Floor 0' 1/16" = 1'-0"

SIXTH FLOOR FIFTH FLOOR FOURTH FLOOR

MAIN FLOOR

4th +20' 1/16" = 1'-0"

North-SouthSection Section North-South 3/32"==1-'0" 1-'0" 3/32" North-South Section 3/32" = 1-'0"

East-West Section East-West Section Auditorium Auditorium 3/32”==1’-0” 1’-0” 3/32”

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1/16"==1-'0" 1-'0" 1/16"

EXHIBIT VIEW AUDITORIUM VIEW EXHIBIT VIEW

AUDITORIUM SECTION

North-South Section 3/32” = 1’-0”

PARK SECTION

PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING CHAPEL BOISE, IDAHO PROFESSOR JOHN REYNOLDS

EXTERIOR VIEW

Winter

Summer

SUN STUDY BEFORE REMODEL

Fall

Winter

Spring

Summer

SUN STUDY AFTER REMODEL

DESCRIPTION The origin of this project was from my second of eight studios in my undergraduate degree. The chapel was the center of a larger complex of residential units designed for a community lead by mother Teresa. One of the stipulations for the project was including the use of several 20 feet squares, which I used two for the east and west walls. Upon entering the chapel from the east the vestibule is dim with small windows. The second door enters the nave with differing levels of light, depending on the season and time of day, coming from the south window and the west clerestory. The section illustrates the desired light during the evening when light would enter the clerestory washing the west wall with light. Taking a passive heating and cooling class, I had the opportunity to re-develop an existing project in order to apply passive techniques. I had a desire to further develop the chapel and this was an opportunity for that. The new site was in Boise, Idaho to adapt for the change in the daily temperature in the climate. The techniques for the chapel was to take advantage of high mass of the building for storing heating and cooling during temperature swings. Further consideration on the design aesthetic lead to the addition of a cool tower also being used as a steeple. Different phases of the course walked through calculating different techniques to sizing the thermal mass, glazing amount, and size of the cool tower for the square footage of the chapel.

INTERIOR VIEW

4 x 6 sqft openings on the bottom 24 sq ft total

30 ft

2 x 20 sqft openings on the bottom 40 sq ft total

COOL TOWER SECTION

SOUTH-NORTH SECTION

OFFICE FLOOR NAVE FLOOR

NATURAL LIGHTING SECTION

CIVIC CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ARCHITECTURE PORTLAND, OREGON PROFESSOR JAMES GIVENS

LOBBY VIEW

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Tanner springs

Jamison site

normal water cycle sky

water

land

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building as part of the cycle

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sky

building

water

DESCRIPTION The Civic Center will be charged with educating the public on the process and beneﬁt of architectural design by providing key rooms and spaces for educating. It is intended that the building itself will exemplify architecture at its highest level of art and integration. Key categories of the design will be revolving galleries, great rooms, libraries and public meeting spaces. The site will be located on an urban in ﬁll site in Portland in the redeveloped Pearl District along Interstate 405.

APPROACH The strongest view from the site was west towards the West Hills and Washington Park, however the raised interstate blocked much of the views below 25 feet. The design idea was to create a hill-like structure that was able to be climbed to views that reach over the interstate and towards the hills and park. The sustainable idea for the building is one where the building participates in the water cycle in the environment. Using the space under the cantilever ﬂoors a park and storm water reservoir pond in created and the green roofs collects rain and can be utilized for public space. The green roof also acts as a ramp creating the climb to the top exhibit space and the views west. The building becomes the landscape, able to slow the diversion of water straight into the sewer, further helping the ecological health of the surrounding Willamette and Columbia Rivers. The interior works to showcase the idea of prospect and refuge by creating tuck-away and semi-enclosed spaces with in the open interior. This provided the public with quieter spaces of differing sizes to meet and still have a view of the surrounding, and to the exterior of the building.

HIGHWAY 405 EXTERIOR VIEW

east - west section Scale

CANTILEVER SECTION

1/8" = 1'-0"

PARK SECTION

hiding middle ground borrowing the landscape

the view

the city 5’-8”

Special features of the top ﬂoor gallery: west hills.

Framing a particular view to the

The way different light levels effect the transparency of glass.

refuge at day prospect at night

HIDDEN MIDDLE GROUND PROSPECT & REFUGE

INTERIOR VIEWS

SITE/ PORTLAND, OREGON

level 3

+25'

Scale 1/16" = 1'-0"

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level 1.4 +5'

level 2

Scale 1/16" = 1'-0"

THIRD FLOOR SECOND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

+14'

TECH INCUBATOR + MIX USED BEND, OREGON PROFESSOR JOHN L. BROCKWAY

A BUILDING THAT FUNCTIONS LIKE A PLANT THE LEAVES USE PHOTOSYNTHESIS TO CONVERT THE SUNS RAYS INTO USEABLE ENERGY. THE STEM OF THE PLANT IS ITS STRUCTURAL SUPPORT. THE ROOTS HOLD THE WATER AND NURTRIENTS FOR THE GROWTH OF THE PLANT.

CONCEPT COLLAGE

INCLUDING DOWNTOWN, DRAKE PARK AND OLD TOWN NEIGHBORHOODS.

HISTORICAL PATTERN SCALE SITE SCALE

DESCRIPTION Tasked with conceptualizing a set of strategic architectural operations, this project is meant to influence future patterns of development in Central Oregon. The city of Bend is actively courting tech startups and entrepreneurs. Bend has positioned itself as a hub for just-in-time digital manufacture and commerce. Design for this new wave of technological immigrants the program will involve micro-housing, working spaces, shared facilities and more. The site for the project is located along the urban edges of the Deschutes River. This edge condition is the source of significant controversy, about the possible futures of the city. APPROACH The approach to this design was different from what I was accustom to. I started with a series of Photoshop collage of images and quick 3-D models. This was to inspire the feeling for the project before plans and sections were even thought of. My further study in ecology, especially water ecology, lead the design of a building that functioned like a plant. Collecting solar power with a photo-voltaic roof and raising the majority of the building, sinking the ground to create a storm water retention pond and park under the building. The studio was meant to look forward in developing spaces of tech start-up that could be adapted for unknown future possibilities. The structure then become an open pod, allowing whole rooms and floor plans to be plugged in and out depending on the needs of the client. This created a flexible, ever changing façade to the building similar to the growth of a plant with new leaves of flowers.

CREATING A DETENTION BASIN UNDER THE BUILDING WHERE THE WATER RUNOFF FROM BEND’S CITY CENTER CAN FILTER AND CLEANSE BEFORE ENTERING THE DESCHUTES RIVER.

BRIDGE VIEW WATER VIEW

SITE/ BEND, OREGON

LANDSCAPE UNDER THE BUILDING

CONCEPT COLLAGE

THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE ON T REGISTER. THE LIGHT GREY SQ GENERAL HISTORICAL DISTR INCLUDING DOWNTOWN, DRAKE TOWN NEIGHBORHOODS.

BEND, OREGON THE SITE

PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOF ANGLED TO OPPITMIZE SUN EXPOSURE.

MATERIAL USE LOCAL MATERIALS

DYNAMIC INTERCHANGABLE ROOM ALLOWS SPACES TO CHANGE IN SIZE AND USE.

DENTENTION BASIN

B LANDSCAPE

D E

HOLD AND FILTERS THE FIRST INCH OF STORM WATER BEFORE POLLUTANTS CAN ENTER THE DESCHUTES RIVER.

REDUCED THE SLOPE OF THE RIVER BANK AND ALLOWING IT TO FLOOD. FILTER DOCKS REPLACED GRASS WITH OYSTERS INTRODUCED NATIVE PLANTS DOCKS RECEIVE THE TO FILTER AND CLEAN DESCHUTE RIVER THE WATER. TRAIL PASSAGERS.

CURRENT NEW BANK A

B C

RIVER VIEW

USING DRONES AS THE NEW MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

PARK VIEW

EAST-WEST SECTION 1’-0” = 1/8”

EAST-WEST SECTION

peak 3713 ft

+93

roof 3683 ft

+65

dynamic floor 3671 ft

+53

dynamic floor 3659 ft

+41

dynamic floor 3647 ft

+29

retail floor 3647 ft

+17

ground level 3630 ft

bottom 3620 ft

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