Zachery Michaliska Volume III by Zach Michaliska

2017 - 2022

DRAWINGS page 3

SELECTED WORKS page 4-43

PROFESSIONAL WORK page 44-59

MISCELLANEOUS page 60-71

HORIZON

COMPETITION: THE JACQUES ROUGERIE FOUNDATION2020 TYPE: OCEAN-SCRAPER SITE: PACIFIC OCEAN TEAM: SHRAVAN ARUN, KAROLINA CHOJNOWSKA, NICO HSU, ZACH MICHALISKA TERM: FALL 2020

Due to the growing population and rising sea levels, it is inevitable that humanity will have to confront the oceans and, one day, call them home. HORIZON is the first submersible urban organism that redefines where humanity dwells by challenging the horizon. The city provides residents with a dynamic landscape that is able to adapt and provide access to fresh water, high density multi-use spaces, and protection from inclement weather. Each individual building that constructs this city is capable of changing its depthor elevation at a moment’s notice. This unique ability to tune the city allows for resilience during tropical storms, optimal daylighting throughout the year, as well as the opportunity to experience the unknowns of the ocean. 5

Residential Tower

Vertical farm tower

Mixed Use Tower

Control Tower

Multipurpose public space

Outer Ring Landscape

Retail

Solar farm

Bridge Dock

Entry Level

Coral Reef Inspired by the coral reef’s vertical communities, Horizon utilizes similar methodologies in order to develop communities that bridge the gap between the ocean and humanity.

Inclement Weather Due to Horizon’s ability to tune the depth of its buildings, it is able to adapt to severe weather events by lowering its city below water.

Optimal Daylighting Horizon provides optimal daylighting for all of its residents by adjusting the depth of its building throughout the day.

Engine Room

Views As the buildings are positioned at different levels, residents will have the opportunity to experience the city at a multitude of perspectives.

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Main Floor

Urbanism/Polyps Coral polyps are microscopic organisms that are the catalyst for life on coral reefs. Polyps attaches themselves onto rocks on the sea floor, then divide and multiply into thousands of clones that reinvent the ocean floor. Horizon approaches the planning of its towers by mimicking the skeletal structure of these polyps to create vertical farms, mixed-use spaces, and residential homes. Solar Energy Horizon is committed to combatting climate change through the employment of sustainable energy solutions. The outer ring of the city is constructed of efficient and reliable solar panels.

Landscape In order to bridge the gap between dwelling on land and the ocean, Horizon is covered in rolling landscapes. The landscapes promote gathering and a sense of place.

Public Space/Corallite Corallite is the skeleton of coral polyps. This structure serves as a facilitator and a platform for the growth of the coral polyps. Horizon’s base mirrors the function of corallite as it transforms public space into complex ecosystems. These ecosystems are home to various species of plants and animals, similar to the communities within coral reefs.

Bio-diversity

The city’s outer ring is lined with a diverse ecosystem of plants and animals. Not only does this promote the landscape of the city, but it also allows residents to experience the nuances of nature both on land and water. horizon

The Future Rising sea levels, climate change, and land subsidization have blurred the lines between land and water, and Horizon only provides a new formal definition to humanity’s position in the environment. Horizon is a monument of action and change. Horizon is only the beginning. horizon

SOUTH LOOP URBAN AGRICULTURE NETWORK Typology: Learning Center Size: 28000 sqft Location: Chicago, Illinois Year: Fall 2019 Earl Prize: 3rd Place #urbananalysis #urbanscale #sustainability #agriculture

SOUTH LOOP URBAN AGRICULTURE TYPE: MIDRISE SITE: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TEAM: INDIVIDUAL TERM: FALL 2019

Urban agriculture is an important and growing component of Chicago’s push toward urban sustainability and a more locally sourced food economy. A developed network of urban kiosks has been formed to stretch across the south of Chicago off the chicago CTA “red” line. To support the growth of this movement, the South Loop Urban Agriculture Center is proposed for a site on the corner of Polk and Dearborn street in the south loop. The primary mission of the facility is education, public awareness and outreach. As such it represents the goals and aspirations of its community of users for whom urban sustainability is of paramount importance.

Urban Agricultural Network Off The Red Line

Main Hub

Dearborn Street

Node 1 Cermak ChinaTown

Polk Street

Node 2 47th Ave. Dan Ryan

Node 3 Garfield-Dan Ryan

Site Plan

Node 4 63rd Ave. Dan Ryan

Form

Node 5 95th Ave. Dan Ryan

Kiosk Interior

Division

Activity

Outdoor Public Space

Materiality

The journey through the staircase creates an experience for the user. This staircase allows light to permeate in different ways. Through its materialities, of green walls, channel glass, and honeycomb glass, the light casts shadows on parts coming ahead to entice users to use the vertical circulation. As the staircase compresses towards the top, pressure is released through a triple heighted Greenhouse, allowing for breathtaking views of the printer row area in Chicago. agriculture center

1. Gathering

2. Exhibition 10

3. Classroom 2

4. Growing Wall 5. Classroom 4 6. Library 7. Reading Area

8. Library 3

9. Green House 10. Offices

11. Outdoor Growing

Above Exploded Axon Full Spread North-South Section Top Right Exhibition Space Rendering Top Left (Opposite) Exterior Rendering

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Full Spread Green House Rendering Bottom Right Model Photo

The circulation journey opens into a three-story green house with access to the roof, and roof top classroom. This greenhouse showcases the larger scale vegetation and has the best views towards the Dearborn station, and Dearborn park residences.

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BARCELONA PAVILION TYPE: PAVILION SITE: GRACIA, BARCELONA TEAM: JERRY RODRIGUEZ, ZACHERY MICHALISKA TERM: FALL 2020

The celebration encompasses the narrow street of career de mila with echoes that can be heard around Barcelona. The moment was for a new pavilion, built like an urban clubhouse, a haven lifted from the street below. The hyper adaptive pavilion offers a new way to interact with a piece of architecture. The user can physically transform and adapt how the building will work for them. The main floor is kept like an open blacktop, and moves up to a nest of catwalks, all with an all encompassing view of the stage below. The panels can be individually opened to let in light and offer breathtaking views of the city all around.

Push This pavilion takes up two thirds of the site and gives the rest of the site to the city.

Site Located in Gracia, Barcelona the site is 10m x 14m (32ft x 45ft). The project doesn’t take up the whole site, but instead gives back to the community with an open space and covered space. This first level is called the “black top” and it features an open asphalt area with a adaptable front/back stage. The lockers on the main floor is to store fun items like balls and hammocks for the community to use. The user can take the stair up to the catwalks that look down to the stage during performances, and have views to the outside.

Carve The main floor is carved to create an open space for the community.

Lift

Refine

The volume and elevator is then lifted by thin posts to create a floating nest with catwalks.

The pavilion is then refined with stage lights, a solar roof, a truss system, and adaptive panels.

Above Site Plan Full Spread Pavilion Drawings Right South and East Elevations TopRight (Opposite) Form Diagrams

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All the panels can open up at all degrees and are operable individually from a remote behind the stage. This individuality offers a range of different combinations that help filter light for a multitude of lighting experiences. The users of the pavilion can switch to the preset combinations to suite their best needs. These presets include but are not limited to, “closed”, “cloud”, and “zig-zag” combinations.

Closed

When the panels are closed it allows users to focus more on the stage. This facade combination would be best for concerts at night, or when shade is most desired.

Cloud

This combination allows half the panels to be opened and half closed, which offers some transparency. This transparency resembles god rays peaking through a cloud. This facade combination would be best when light is desired.

Zig-Zag

The Zig-Zag combination shows off the full capabilities of the flexible panels. The panels are fully operable at all degrees, offering unique shape opportunities. This facade combination would be best to showcase the circulation as the users wonder through the catwalks.

Solar Panels

Structural Grid

Trusses

Adaptive Facade

Stage Netting

Joints

Catwalks

Support posts

Entry Stair

Lockers Above Exploded Axon Opposite North-South Section

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LEGO APARTMENT TYPE: INTERIOR DESIGN SITE: CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS TEAM: INDIVIDUAL TERM: SPRING 2020

Wind flows throughout the apartment, throwing the many visions from a young designer around the room. In the middle of the room, lives the designer at work, scribbling away his next great idea on how to reconfigure his space. Surrounding him are the blocks, these are the lego bricks that help him construct his visions. These pieces transcend the physical 450 sq foot dimensions of the apartment, and live on in his dreams and landscapes he wishes to create. 29

Site The Lincoln Building in Champaign is the home to this transformable interior design. The building was built in 1916, with rich brick and marble elements that bleed into the inside. The building features floor to ceiling windows to bring in ample light to each floor. The room is located on the fifth floor, in the north-west corner of the building. This corner receives some afternoon sun, but it must rely on alternate lighting throughout the day.

Modularity This 1x1 ft grid provides modularity and builds a connection between the blocks, used for play, and the apartment utilities. In the diagram above, the unit in red was designed to compact the apartment’s utilities, such as the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry. The blue is the entrance with a smaller ceiling height to compress and open up to the larger “playing” space. The yellow is the reconfigurable pieces the designer can play with. lego apartment

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By reconfiguring these pieces, the client can use their imagination to redefine the quality of the spaces they create. They can create more open space, or create more solidarity between their living and playing area.

Section Light fills the cracks of the ceiling panels, like the morter of bricks to bring a unique lighting experience to the apartment.

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BEACON

TYPE: COMMUNITY CENTER SITE: POBLE NOU, BARCELONA TEAM: INDIVIDUAL TERM: FALL 2020

Light permeates through the skin of this building, bringing the building alive and radiating its energy throughout the city. This open light box is lifted by cables connected to two large trusses on the top. This lightness adds to the sense of the building floating and allows for more openness as the user goes on a journey from the first level to the top. The experience starts at the entrance lobby with a cafe and gathering area and proceeds up through an unjulated staircase wrapping the south facade, and leads to a roof top space open to the stars above. 35

Av. d’lcaria

Career d’Alaba

Site The Poble Nou district of Barcelona is known for its old industrial past and its revilization during the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Today, Poble Nou is the tech hub of Barcelona, and the site is on the chamfered corner of Career d’Alaba and Av. d’lcaria. I wanted to marry the site’s industrial past and tech hub future by offering a project that redefines what a community center can be. The programs inside promote technology education through areas of technology testing, community renting services, and technology focused classrooms. The steel and truss structural system takes inspiration from the site’s industrious past and suspends these programs up to provide open floor plans for the best collaborativative atmosphere.

beacon

Full Page 2nd Floor Plan Sketch Top (Opposite) Lobby Sketch Bottom (Opposite) Lobby Rendering

Light Beacon is a project inspired by the likes of the Pompidou Center by Renzo Piano, University of Iowa Visual Arts Building by Steven Holl, Media Tic by Enric Gelli, and Kunsthaus Bregenz by Peter Zumthor, because these projects use light and materiality to shape the users experience. The experience in Beacon is about light permeating through the frosted glass on the east and south facades. To get people to feel this light, I created a staircase seen on the exterior with the best views of the city. This staircase showcases light and provides access points to the programs from the stair landings on each floor. The light radiates in the building through the day and radiates out through the city at night, making it a true beacon for the community.

beacon

Structure The structure is comprised of trusses, I beams, cables, concrete bearing walls, and an exterior skin. From the base, six vertical trusses rise to the sky and carry two large horizontal trusses. The horizontal trusses have a cable system connected to I beams on each floor plate to suspend the floors up with no columns touching the floor. The egress stairs and the utilities are supported by concrete bearing walls on the perimeter, leaving all the levitating structural magic on the inside. The east and south facades have an exterior skin with cat walks and views around Barcelona, and the ocean. Top Left East Elevation Sketch Top Right Exploded Axon Sketch Top Spread Process Drawings

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East-West Section The East-West Section of the community center brings to light the open classrooms and shows this relationship between these floating program boxes and the above structural system. Users can engage with the truss system by walking through the vertical trusses on each floors landing, and walking inside the horizontal trusses on the roof level. The roof level showcases an auditorium, and well as a large open space for community gatherings and events.

Top Left East Elevation Sketch Top Middle Exploded Axon Sketch Top Bottom South Elevation Sketch

beacon

BEACON TYPE: PROFESSIONAL SITE: LLANO, TEXAS TEAM: CLAYTON KORTE

Named the Delta Kilo Ranch, the property is a private ranch with various desert plants, and exotic animals. The property includes the guest houses, a hospitality suite, an observation deck, a horse barn, and the owner’s residence. All five projects are designed and facilitated by Clayton Korte and are at various stages of the design and construction phases. Above are the Delta Kilo Guest Houses, a set of houses designed for the owners’ visitors and their families.

Top Map of Delta Kilo Property Top Left Site Photos Right Model Iteration Photos

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Top North South Section Bottom Left View Looking South Bottom Middle View of Interior Bottom Right View of Interior

professional work

Top Left Process Sketches Top Middle Plan Right View into Bathroom

professional work

TYPE: PROFESSIONAL SITE: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY TEAM: SOLMOMON CORDWELL BUENZ

Solomon Cordwell Buenz

02 NorthWestern Kellogg Redevelopment

Gathering + Hospitality Layout

Views Layout

Circulation Layout

Project Type: Private Competition Project Contributions: Concept Iterations Collaborated on Graphics and Diagrams Assisted in Revit Modelmaking

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Solomon Cordwell Buenz

03 “One Chicago School” Chicago Prize Competition (1st Place)

Project Type: Chicago Prize Competition (1st Place) Project Contributions: Concept Iteration Assisted in Rhino 3D Modelmaking Collaborated in creating Final Drawings

The Chicago Architecture Center and the Chicago Architectural Club announced ‘One Chicago School” as one of the three winning designs for the 2021 Chicago Prize Competition, which called for innovative adaptive reuse proposals that would grant a new life to the iconic Illinois Thompson Center. Our proposal evolves the original “people’s center” concept of the Thompson Center to address the need for access and advocacy of equitable public education. Across from City Hall, One Chicago School envisions a new prototype public school focused on public policy and civic engagement for students in Chicago to learn, question, and ignite change. Reusing the Thompson Center’s impactful design enables a new model of urban public education and maintains a place for the people of Illinois to engage, rest, shop, and learn. professional work

The central atrium space remains the main feature of the building but is turned inside-out as an extension of the exterior plaza urban space with three “green trays” located at each of the setback tiers of the façade containing educational outdoor playgrounds, gardens, and playing fields. As exterior space, the mechanical systems required to cool the atrium can be removed to save energy and upgrade costs while providing natural ventilation and biophilic green spaces for the school.

A secure entry to the school is added at the ground floor retail program, and the second-floor acts as a buffer between commercial / public spaces and the school with offices for social incubators and educational foundations / co-working space such as IIT’s Institute of Design Action Lab. The school program stacks the youngest students on the lower floors up through the high school levels and tops out with adult education spaces allowing students & their families to learn, collaborate and foster entrepreneurship between the school and outside education partners.

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MISC 03

miscellaneous

sketches

Capturing the Mundane What is so compelling about the mundane of life? The subtle moments we share with strangers, the light we see, the textures we feel, the food we taste, the cute kid jumping up and down at the grocery store. To us these feelings are the average of life, yet there is unique stillness to all of It that I find really calming. We often like to forget about the mundane. At times of commuting to work, waiting in line, sitting at a desk, we wish time would fly by. We look at our phones and try to keep busy, but for what? Since much of life is comprised of these moments, we are choosing to devote much of life to passing time rather than being present in the moments we were given. I love to capture the mundanes of this world through photography. For me its a way to stay present while also searching for these beautiful moments that are often neglected

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Ricker Report

Illinois School of Architecture Student Journal Brief History on Ricker Report Ricker Notes was originally a periodical for the School of Architecture, edited and published by students, who included feature articles, news, poetry, drawings, and book reviews. The title - “Ricker” - refers to Nathan Clifford Ricker, the first graduate of an architecture program in the United States in March of 1873. In 2018, Ricker Notes was brought back in the form of Ricker Report. The goal of Ricker Report is to connect architecture, engineering, and other disciplines while featuring students, alumni, and other talented professionals.

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