PORTFOLIO2022
WILLIAM WIERDA
OUTLOT A MASTERPLAN The University of Nebraska - Lincoln College of Architecture Studio 501 and the City of Valentine, Nebraska began an engagement to create masterplan concept studies for a new 32-acre neighborhood located just east of the High School. The intent of this engagement was to create a line of communication - between the City of Valentine (Mayor Kyle Arganbright), its community members, regional housing developers (including Jake Hoppe of Hoppe Homes), and UNL students - in order to facilitate the design and layout of a new neighborhood. The students traveled to Valentine in March of 2020 to meet with stakeholders and take the first steps in understanding community needs and development ideas for the neighborhood. The aim of the studio was to create two concept studies for the neighborhood development in order to start a conservation with the community and illuminate different planning strategies. The two masterplans employ various elements that can enhance the density and affordability of the area while maintaining the rural character of Valentine. Other group members: Adam English, Dana Howerter, and Rin Le. All work showed is mine unless otherwise noted. The masterplan uses a gridded street system to connect to the existing fabric of Valentine, NE. This design utilizes smaller blocks, and incorporates the beauty of the natural landscape to create a neighborhood that fosters community.
VALENTINE, NEBRASKA VALENTINE NEBRASKA
MASTERPLAN PROCESS WORK
MASTERPLAN DIAGRAMS
Secondary access off 5th St / NE-12
Access Off Of 5th St. / NE-12
CAPTURE VIEWS OUT TO PRAIRIE
BRING PRAIRIE INTO COMMUNITY
High and Medium Density housing located on main roads
Preserved Prairie Community Space
Continuation Of 3rd St.
Access Off Green St.
Connections to other blocks
Collective backyard: 200 x 100
Low density housing centers around the smaller secondary roads
PUBLIC
Connections to collective neighbors
PRIVATE
SEMI-PRIVATE
Collective backyard to increase the sense of community Single Lot: 50 x 75ft
Preserved Prairie path connect to the surrounding area
Preserved Prairie path connects the entire community
MASTERPLAN SITE MAP
DRAWN BY DANA HOWERTER
PERSPECTIVE SITE SECTION
20’ POROUS STREET
75’ LOT DEPTH
5’ GRAVEL PATH
85’ COLLECTIVE BACKYARD
5’ GRAVEL PATH
75’ LOT DEPTH
SITE PERSPECTIVE
HEADSPACE WELLNESS CENTER AT UNIVSERITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN Headspace Wellness Center is intended to maximize the affect nature and natural materials have on mental health. The programming of the project consists of four distinct areas of gathering, wellness, education and research. The design enhances the mixing of these four programs, and creates space for interaction between the different users experiencing the building. To create the different landscape zone of forest, garden, and prairie the project breaks the standard of University of Nebraska Lincoln campus by recessing the building from the street, and centering the project on the site, which allows the project to be wrapped in natural and designed landscapes. The entrance is pushed into the ground with a 1:20 ramp and allows the visual of a floating building in the landscape. A mental reprieve from the rest of the campus and a place for students to commune with nature in a healing way. PROCESS WORK
PROGRAMMING
SITE DIAGRAMS
RESEARCH
EDUCATION
WELLNESS THE FOREST
GATHERING THE PRAIRIE
THE GARDEN
FORM DIAGRAMS
PLUNGE GROUND PLANE TO CREATE ENTRANCE
PROGRAMMING CONNECTIONS
RESEARCH EDUCATION WELLNESS GATHERING
RAISING GROUND PLANE TOWARDS BUILDING FORM
RAISE FORM ABOVE THE GROUND PLANE
NORTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
SOUTH COURTYARD
SECTION AA
SECTION CC
SECTION BB
GATHERING SPACE
MIXING CHAMBER
LARSON TRACTOR MUSEUM The Larson Tractor Museum is on the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s east campus and is part of the only tractor test track in the country. The concept of the project originated on the transformative nature of the tractor. The planting rows created by the tractor informed the linear nature of the architecture and the surrounding landscape. The machine shed where tractors are traditionally stored informed the materials, and the roof design. The intent of the design was to showcase the tractor’s history as both a machine for the cultivation of the land as well as its inherent destructive nature especially as one of the main causes of the dust-bowl. The studio project went beyond schematic design into design development with the creation of significant building details. CONCEPT IMAGES
ICE CREAM PAVILION Designed as a pedestrian pavilion to activate an alley in the Haymarket of Lincoln Nebraska. Exploding the scale of obejcts is the concpet for the desing, first inspired with the adjoining wall textures and second by the Ivanna Cone service window. The pavilion consists of two cones, and three melted ice cream scopes.
HAYMARKET DISTRICT, LINCOLN NEBRASKA
SITE INSPIRATION PICTURES
PROCESS WORK
CONCEPT COLLAGE
SITE AXONOMETRIC
SITE PLAN
SUCCESSIVE SECTIONS
SITE SECTION
ENTRANCE VIEW
EXPERIENTIAL VIEW
FLEXIPLEX HOUSE The flexiplex house is a new house typology, to allow for flexible ways of living. The project explored a divorced couple with two children and the parents desire to have separate living spaces connected through a space for the kids. This would allow the kids to seamlessly move from one parent’s house to the other. The concept on the project was to create individual spaaces for the parents and a family space for the kids. The parents can plug into the family space when it is their time, and it allows the kids to remain in the family space. I wanted to design the large family space for use during holidays, birthdays, or larger gatherings. The parents are moving in and out of the family space leaving the kids to maintain a sense of home in the family space. PROCESS WORK
FLEXIPLEX HOUSE
PARENT #1
FAMILY ZONE
PARENT #2
MULTI-FAMILY DWELLINGS
PROPERTY 1
PROPERTY 2
PROPERTY 3
FLEXIPLEX HOUSE WILLIAM WIERDA
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PROPOSED ALLEY
A B
A
A B
B
DN
UP
UP
UP
UP
DN
UP
UP
DN
2
A A
B
B
A B
1
FIRST FLOOR
SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0”
SECOND FLOOR
BASEMENT
SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0”
SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0” P STREET
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2'
4'
8'
16'
SECTION AA SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0”
SECTION BB SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0”
MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS
ELEVATION CONCEPT STUDIES