WILL ULMER UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
WILLIAM ULMER
wrulmer@gmail.com 724.963.5394 cargocollective.com/willulmer
E D U CAT I O N The Ohio State University: Knowlton School of Architecture
2013–Present
Laurel Highlands High School
2009–2013
E M PLO YM EN T Perkins Eastman Architects
2016
KSA Mat/Fab Lab
2016
Historic Summit Inn
2013–2016
-Summer Intern
-Laser Technician -Banquet Server
AFFI LI AT I O N AIAS Ohio State National Orginization of Minority Architects: Ohio State Musicians Collective Ohio State MEISA Ohio State
AW ARD S / H O N O R S Gui Competition 2016 Runner Up Ernst Braun International Scholarship Ohio State College of Engineering Scholarship Buckeye National Merit Scholarship
S K I LLS Rhinoceros 5 Revit 2016 AutoCAD 2016 Grasshopper VRay Keyshot Pro Pepakura
Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Indesign CC Laser Cutting 3D Printing CNC Machining ArcMap GIS
RE FE RE NC ES Troy Malmstrom Jacqueline Gargus Karen Lewis
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malmstrom.1@osu.edu gargus.1@osu.edu lewis.1512@osu.edu
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San Francisco Music Hall Autumn 2016
Revealing The Oregon Trail Spring 2016
Barack Obama Presidential Library Autumn 2015
Hutch City: The Hare Net Spring 2015
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This objective of this project was to create a new home for the San Francisco Orchestra. The site was located in the city’s Golden Gate Park adjacent to Stow Lake and Strawberry Hill and in close proximity to Herzog and de Meuron’s de Young Museum. The program required a 1,300 person main concert hall as well as a 200 person chamber music hall.
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SAN FRANCISCO MUSIC HALL The Ohio State University The Knowlton School of Architecture Instructor: Andrew Cruse Autumn 2016 Programs Used Rhinoceros 5 Grasshopper VRay Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Project Description The intent of this project was to introduce an urban building into a park setting as a means of connecting the lower level of the park landscape and the higher elevation of the lake. This was done by splitting the programmatic elements in a vertical fashion and the circulation in a sloping horizontal manner. This creates a vertical chamber between the main concert hall and the other program elements. This project placed second in a class wide competition.
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PARK CIRCULATION
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BLACK BOX THEATER
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LOADING STORAGE AND SERVICE
MUSICIAN PRACTICE SPACE
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STORAGE AND SERVICE
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REVEALING THE OREGON TRAIL “Revealing the Oregon Trail� was an attempt to re-imagine the historical Oregon Trail in a contemporary context. We were tasked with designing a visitor center that would provide a home for exhibits about the trail as well as an historical archive for documents concerning the Oregon Trail.
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REVEALING THE OREGON TRAIL The Ohio State University The Knowlton School of Architecture Instructor: Karen Lewis Spring 2015 Programs Used Rhinoceros 5 Grasshopper VRay Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Project Description The intent of this project was to push people out of their comfort zones and into the wilderness; not unlike the pioneers who were thrust into the frontier. The project’s site spans between a riverside piece of land and Goat Island in the Willamette River. The mainland portion contains a visitor center and the administrative suite while the island contains a campground and a communal hall.
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AUDITORIUM ADMINISTRATION
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THE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY The Barack Obama Presidential library was a project located in Chicago, Illinois intended to house a presidential museum, a series of archives, a conference center, and a medium sized hotel.
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THE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY The Ohio State University The Knowlton School of Architecture Instructor: Jacqueline Gargus Autumn 2015 Programs Used Rhinoceros 5 Grasshopper VRay Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Project Description The objective was to create a building that acted as a sculptural object among the skyscrapers of Chicago. The intent was for the building to act as a city within itself with the large forms acting as the skyscrapers (self-containing programmatic entities) and the lower lobbies acting as the sidewalks and streets connecting them.
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(GROUP PROJECT) The Hare Net was a group project completed with Cassidy Rush, Justin Slayton, Jacob Clare, and Trent Zahara. The goal was to create a rabbit hutch that could act as housing for up to ten rabbits while also considering the ability for humans to view and interact with the rabbits.
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HUTCH CITY: THE HARE NET The Ohio State University The Knowlton School of Architecture Instructor: Troy Malmstrom Spring 2015 Programs Used:
Rhinoceros 5 Grasshopper RhinoNest Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Project Description The Hare Net was designed to act as a pavilion that placed the inhabiting rabbits on display to the visiting public. The open design provided large viewports while the nature of the triangular modules provided structure for the full scale production.
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hutch city: the hare net Fabrication required the production of numerous flat pieces of triangular cardboard to be cut using a three axis CNC machine which was modified to operate as a drag knife. These pieces were painted and taped at the edges to protect the hutch from rain and other weather. The pieces were assembled, grouped into larger “batches� using zip-ties, and then connected to other batches (shown ABOVE).
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OVERTIME AND PROFESSIONAL WORK Work done outside of school and professional work done during my time at Perkins Eastman Architects.
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(Previous) “Where We Settle�. GIS mapping to show population densities surrounding the Portland, Oregon area. Spring 2016 (Left Above)
Skewb Skewb William Ulmer William Ulmer Scale: 1:1 Scale: 1:1 TA: Michael Testrake TA: Michael Testrake
Exploration into physical production and graphic representation of a physical object. Modeled and produced a fully functional Skewb Puzzle Spring 2015 (Left Below) Hand sketches from a study abroad in Europe. May 2016
(Right) Site master planning and renderings for Perkins Eastman Architects in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Summer 2016
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