ZACHARY ZAWORSKI
EXPERIENCE: 2022present 20192022
Designer
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Master of Architecture Candidate with experience working on retail, commercial, banking, educational, restaurant, healthcare and multifamily housing projects. As a designer I’m interested in material effects and how they can shape a user’s experience.
LUSK Architecture, Columbus, Ohio
Design Associate
Overhaul projects from start to finish Coordinate drawings with engineering and design consultants Deliver detailed renderings to better communicate design intent
Zachary A Zaworski linkedin.com/in/zazaworski zachzaworski@gmail.com issuu.com/zacharyzaworski 614.205.3874 Columbus, OH 43228
Meyers and Associates, Columbus, Ohio
Architectural Associate
Knowlton School of Architecture, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Architectural Representation 1 & 2
Instruct UG2 students on how to use computer software programs Provide feedback and critiques on graphic representation
Architectural Theory 1
Conducted recitations and lead discussions on weekly readings Graded papers and provided useful feedback
Outlines of the Built Environment
Lead two weekly recitations supplementing lecture material Instructed students on introductory terminology and diagramming Mentored a student to provide further insight on the discipline
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Williams-Shepherd Architects, Dublin, Ohio
Entry-Level Intern
Developed CDs through all phases of construction Performed onsite post-construction ADA surveys Produced renderings for project promotion purposes Consulted with engineers when challenges emerged
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GPD Group, Marion, Ohio
Intern Co-op
Revised CDs per redlines and visited construction sites Filed, scanned, organized, and recycled drawing sets
EDUCATION:
SKILLS: After Effects AutoCAD Bluebeam Grasshopper InDesign Illustrator Maya Microsoft Suite Photoshop Revit Rhino 5/6/7 Sketchup Substance Designer Substance Painter Substance Sampler V-Ray
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The Ohio State University
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The Ohio State University
The Knowlton School of Architecture Master of Architecture The Knowlton School of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architecture, magna cum laude
ACHIEVEMENTS: 2022 2011 - 2016 2016 2015 - 2016 2011 2010 - 2011
Master Project Finalist Dean’s List (AU11- SP16) Best in Studio Book Award Stephen Turk’s “Architecture Landscapism” Vertical Studio AIAS Member The Ohio State University High School Valedictorian Beechcroft High School High School Marching Band, Treasurer Coordinated with executive team about band goals Assisted underclassmen on questions about performances
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CONTENTS PROFILE
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SCRAPPY ARCHITECTURE
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WORLDBUILDING ABOVE THE 60TH PARALLEL
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CINCINNATI HOTEL
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CONTEMPORARY CHAUTAUQUA
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HOUSE OF THREE CULTURES
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A ROOM OF YOUR OWN
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DRAWINGS NOW AND THEN
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ARCHITECTURE NOT TO SCALE
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post-anthropocene elementary school
arctic prep academy
poly-scale
intersection and interaction
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post-anthropocene elementary school Advisors: Curtis Roth and Jeff Kipnis Class: Advanced Architectural Design 4 Semester: Spring 2022 Master Project Finalist
Once upon a time there were individuals with desires. These were individuals seeking self-identity, self-worth, and above all, smooth objects. Then there was the baby boom. Soon these desires evolved from the individual to the collective. These collective desires then gave rise to the global mass production of objects. Individuals became aggregated, causing institutions to systematize the way we think, learn, and build. Smooth iconic architecture began to populate in cities everywhere. In consequence, our individual desires led us to create an architectural wasteland of scrappy material. We consumed the limits of nature and in the process, generated our own nature of scrappy architecture.
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Material Experiments
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Scrappy architecture aims to produce a new architectural aesthetic through an investigation of material roughness. This is a critique of the pristine smooth architecture that has become a staple of innovation and future progress. It also interrogates notions of standardization and institutional architecture through field conditions. Field conditions, as described by Stan Allen in “From Object to Field”, are loosely bounded aggregates characterized by porosity and local interconnectivity. They are conceived as a spatial matrix unifying disparate parts. A process driven architecture conceptualized from notions of material weathering will inspire new ways of thinking regarding educational institutions. A scrappy model of education goes against the rigid, formal and pristine organization of the school. There are no formal corridors or hierarchy of spaces. Tectonic and stereotomic spaces are constructed out of additive and subtractive processes, mimicking material weathering. This space making formula conceptualizes an informal organization of spontaneous spaces reminiscent of the walking city typology. Learning in a scrappy environment may encourage the next generation to be more perceptive to materials and their effects.
A SCRAPPY MODEL OF EDUCATION MENTAL
PHYSICAL
How we learn?
SOCIAL
What we touch? The Inbetween
How we interact? Materiality
LEVEL 3: grades 4-5
LEVEL 2: grades 2-3
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WORLDBUILDING ABOVE THE 60TH PARALLEL: artic prep academy
Instructor: Ann Pendleton-Jullian Class: Advanced Architectural Design 3 Collaborator: Claire Walker Semester: Autumn 2021
Arctic Prep Academy is a cultural recreation hub which serves to prepare first nations, researchers, and tourists alike for the aerial, terrestrial and aquatic extremes of the natural environment. This project focuses on the body in the landscape in how one moves from the material to the immaterial as one gradually becomes more independent and acclimated with the Arctic environment. It is about celebrating the natural environment while also mitigating the difficulty of living in such a harsh climate. Travelers arrive via the airport and then have the option to take the transitionary Arctic survival program in preparation to navigate the harsh environment.
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In the worldbuilding scheme, our project’s rule set is that it needs to be in close proximity to water, there needs to be a first nation village nearby to support the local economy and the terrain has to be of varying difficulty. This project’s prototype is located along the West coast of Greenland on Disko Island, close in proximity to a small inuit village Queqertarsuaq. This island, which is known as the greenest part of Greenland, has a black sand beach, steep cliffs, high waterfalls and extreme terrain making it an ideal location for a preparation center. There is a stark contrast between summers and winters. In the summer it is the Grand Canyon of Greenland with red rock and foliage everywhere. In the winter it is completely snow covered where one could go skiing along the beach. The island is also known for whale and iceberg watching.
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PHASE 1: INTRODUCTION One arrives via airplane and is introduced to the Arctic through introductory courses. It is a controlled environment and newcomers are rather comfortable as they adjust to the inclement weather.
PHASE 2: ACCLIMATION The group of explorers arrive at a cabin-like aggregation of huts that project out from the landscape. The huts are conceptualized as interlocking bars that aggregate linearly. One enters through the threshold of the hearth and there is a catwalk connecting the huts together. There are small windows near the cots granting intimate views of the landscape. In this phase newcomers are forced to go outside and endure the cold as they become acclimated with the environment.
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PHASE 3: SKILL BUILDING Newcomers learn necessary survival skills and are becoming more comfortable with the environment. Here trainees learn essential skills they need to survive and the tents are partially submerged in the ground. The tents take on a hexagonal form and the landscape begins to delaminate along a hexagonal contour. The tents are independent of one another as trainees gain more independence.
PHASE 4: SKILL MASTERY Trainees gain independence from one another and rely on their own knowledge and skills for survival. They live in igloo-like structures made of 3D printed soil that aggregate in a spiral formation.
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CINCINNATI HOTEL: poly-scale
Instructors: Erik Herrmann and Beth Bloistein Class: Advanced Architectural Design 1 Collaborator: Tori Lones Semester: Autumn 2020
This project confronts the conventional hotel’s organization and its tendency to create an inwardly focused community. By scaling the courtyard and its organization, a complex relationship is created between interior and exterior which invites the public in. Furthermore, conventional hotels are produced through the repetition of elements of a known size, where our project uses scale as a device to disrupt the repetition that is necessary for a hotel. This project investigates the scalar relationship between disparate parts of a hotel to produce uniqueness in an otherwise conventional program.
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CONTEMPORARY CHAUTAUQUA: intersection and interaction
Instructors: Sandhya Kochar and Andrew Cruse Class: Advanced Architectural Design 2 Collaborators: Andrew Burik and Ben Arias Semester: Spring 2021
This project investigates the distinct meeting spatial conditions of the Chataqua through form, materiality, and shape. Our definition of the contemporary Chataqua is a place for social gathering, both physical and virtual, where people can meet at multiple scales and in multiple environments. Using this definition, we’ve created an assemblage of three tectonic systems: a concrete shell, a steel structure with glass and a steel framing system with a wood rainscreen.
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PHYSICAL BEING VIRTUAL BEING AUDITORIUM
OUTDOOR CLASSROOMS
VIRTUAL BOXES
RECORDING STUDIOS
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HOUSE OF THREE CULTURES Instructors: Sandhya Kochar and Andrew Cruse Class: Advanced Architectural Design 2 Collaborators: Andrew Burik and Ben Arias Semester: Spring 2021
This project investigates the amalgamation of distinct cultural tectonics and how they weave together to construct a shared domestic space. The spatial organization is conceived on raumplan, volumetric planning. The scale of the rooms directly correlate to the function they inhibit. A series of contiguous spaces with varying heights dependent on their vernacular style, wrap around a central shared living space. Due to the raumplan organization, steps guide you from one space to another and each space is at a different level with respect to one another. Circulation wraps around the periphery of the central public zone and moves you through the semi-public anteroom spaces.
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The anterooms serve as secondary service programmatic spaces that are shared between the two adjacent occupants. The clay studio is shared between Sam and Judy, the tearoom is shared between Judy and Hajoon, and the discussion space, on the elevated platform, is shared between hajoon and Sam. It’s essentially a Venn diagram of social interaction. On the lower level there is a central conversation pit adjacent to the hearth which also functions as the kiln to the clay studio. Secondary functions wrap around the periphery such as the bathroom, which takes on the tectonics of clay, the kitchen/dining space, which takes on the tectonics of the wood and the storage space, which takes on the tectonics of masonry.
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A ROOM OF YOUR OWN Instructors: Sandhya Kochar and Andrew Cruse Class: Advanced Architectural Design 2 Semester: Spring 2021
Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, most people were constrained to the confines of their room. The objective of this exercise was to draw the domestic space we spend the most time in. This investigation into our intimate spaces was to refamiliarize ourselves and to learn something new about a room of our own.
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DRAWINGS NOW AND THEN: the cutaway
Instructor: Sandhya Kochar Class: Architecture Theory Seminar Semester: Autumn 2021
This seminar explored what the role of drawing today is in the Post-Digital Era. Is drawing dead? Through researching the histories of drawing and how they’re currently deployed in contemporary practices, we seeked to understand its role in shaping architectural thought. The final project investigates the cutaway as a device to reveal the interior performance of an object whether through the physical operative act of cutting or through the digital illusion of discarded surface elements. Photoshop software makes it easy to add and subtract parts of an image through layer masks. This project deploys similar methods of illusion through physical layering and material transparencies. Zach Zaworski
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MATERIALLY VIVID Instructor: Justin Diles Class: Building Technology Seminar Semester: Spring 2022
This seminar explored the interaction between the properties of materials, both real and imagined, and form. Historically, materials have often played a secondary role in the production of architectural effects. This seminar aims to flip the script, placing a greater value on materials and their effects. Throughout the seminar, we were tasked with creating material experiments utilizing advanced rendering method. A series of material specimens were created using concepts of material weathing which later informed the materially vivid composition.
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ARCHITECTURE NOT TO SCALE Critic: David Eskenazi Class: Architectural Design 4 Semester: Spring 2015
This project explores the idea of the conglomeration of meandering masses that undergo a disfiguration to represent the fragmented whole. The ambition was to produce a small, medium and large structure that shared the same DNA, while reinventing the type. Ambiguities are imagined through interior deformations in how multiple figures can create a room and how rooms can coexist inside of other rooms. Each structure is further disfigured by a datum, which materializes differently in each project as walls, columns, and floor inlays. Altogether, all three structures are conceptualized as aggregated masses unified by a fragmented whole. Zach Zaworski
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THREE ROOMS The early phases of the project focused on scaling in reference to an object and scaling a field within a boundary. The initial diagram described meandering areas through a field, which got further abstracted as meandering lightbulbs disfigured by a datum. Three rooms with different ambiguities with respect to one another were created. There is one moment where multiple objects equal a room and another moment where a room coexists inside another room.
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Ornament was added to further intensify the misreading of scale through doors, windows, graphics, and lightbulbs. None of the exterior doors look like doors as they take on the contour of the lightbulb morphology. Different ambiguities are created by the seam of the door vs. the seam of the figure and by what is a door. Lightbulbs meander around the exterior shell and there is a seam that further disfigures this familiar object as it follows the path of lightbulbs and then trails off this path creating the two contrasting sides of this project. A graphic and objects were added to the rooms to further distort the reading of scale.
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LARGE Skyscraper
The skyscraper is represented as a large structure with the meandering lightbulbs materialized differently than the monolithic masses.
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MEDIUM City Hall City Hall is represented as a medium structure with the seam cutting it down the middle, signifying and denying its symmetry at the same time.
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SMALL Shotgun House The shotgun house is represented as a massive complex structure, with a seam following the path of a pitched roof.
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