Ryan Wilson
Ryan Wilson
rtw@ksu.edu 719.238.2395
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Economic Assistance Center Connections The main form of the Economic Development center is created by c-sections that overlap and interconnect creating a wide variety of spatial variance. The structure of the building is formed by a series of sheer walls. When the core structure and as the shapes overlap no further walls are needed, each room is formed by the natural separation and interaction of the main form. The building speaks to its location with a large south facade that beckons in the gentle rays of the San Franciscan sun through a series of louvers. The building sits in the middle of the Soma district of San Francisco and relates to its neighborhood with a modest scale, but asserts its identity through its unique form. On the rear facade a stepped facade allows of window while abiding with code variance creating a unique, attractive, and functional form. The building is a metaphor for people in need it represents through education, a strong foundation, interconnections, and an open mind any problem can be conquered. Meant to represent the core values of the program.
Interlocking Planes
Grid
Circulation
Site Plan
Lobby
Work Area
Rear Facade
Section Perspective
Trajectories of Making Undulations Modern day mechanization and computers have changed the way people design and build forever. The project calls for the renovation of the eastern facade of a Holiday Inn. The facade was completely removed to be replaced by a series of six bays with varying degrees of openings. The series of six bays and repeated throughout the length of the building creating an undulating form that is repeated on the floors beneath, but offset by three bays creating an effect that make the building look as if it is blowing in the wind. Each of the six bays is to be prefabricated off site and lifted into place slightly increasing the floor space of every room. Prefabrication is the key of this design it allows it to be built off site where quality can be guaranteed while allowing for a quick assembly on site to reduce construction cost and build time.
Undulating Bays
Bay Detail
Bay Assembly
Production Models
The Holiday Inn is located right across the street from Kansas State University. All the bays are angled toward campus in order to capture a view of the campus. The bays are angled north helping increase the energy efficiency and unwanted glare into the rooms.
Section Cut
Elevation
Konza Prairie Winery Much of the inspiration for the form of the winery came from Wallace Stevens poem Anecdote of the Jar. Wallace writes of a jar placed on a hill in Tennessee and how when it was placed on the hill it was like nothing else in Tennessee. The jar helped define the hill and in turn the hill helped define the jar. At first the hill and the jar were separate and simple ; however, when together the hill rose up and around the jar defining the landscape in a new way altogether. Likewise, the jar now stood out and could be noticed from anywhere, in contrast to the pristine hill. The winery is much like the jar that sits upon a pristine hill, which is now defined by the presence of a giant cantilever that spans far over the Konza. The hill is brought to life, rising up around the cantilever standing in stark contrast to the skeletal metallic and glass forms reaching over the prairie. At the same time the winery takes dominion over the hill and sits defiantly like nothing else in Kansas. Like the poem, the land is no longer wild. The beauty of both elements are revealed when placed together.
Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
Section Cut
Wine Tasting
Dripple: The project was a studio wide effort for a ceiling installation piece for a third year architecture studio. The dripple is a ripple that is hung from the ceiling made out of over five hundred individually rolled and assembled cardboard pieces. Each cardboard piece was modeled after a voronoi grid which was modeled in a Rhino plug-in called Grasshopper. Grasshopper is a unique program which enables three dimensional modeling with the use of script.
Raw Cardboard
Laser Cutter
Assembly
Lamp The lamp takes the idea of the voronoi ceiling and shrinks it down to the size of a lamp while taking it into one more dimension. The lamp take the shape of a tower yet is appears as if it is exploding. The voronoi pattern is exploding outwardly from a central sphere, the origin of the light. The light coming out of the lamp has a luminous glow that shoots out in all directions taking the lamp from its functional origins and making it a piece of art.
Exploded Assembly
Pending Structures: This project explores the relationship of material and physical resolution and explores the pending relationship of form and function. The form needed to be beautiful while being able to integrate with its surroundings. The chandelier hangs centered in the AA Bookstore and is suspended in the air. The chandelier is both functional and beautiful. The plywood forms are easily cut out using a CNC mill and are easily assembled being designed to be notched together with no need for glue.
Active Matter This project was based on exploring the potential of material through trails and exploration in order to be able to control and manipulate the material in new, unique ways. Crayons were chosen because of their playful nature. Crayons come a variety of very bright coloras which have been used to illustrate children’s dreams for years. They are easily manipulated in a variety of fashions from color sequencing to melting the colors together. The options for creation are endless for crayons and are always beautiful even when unintended results are discovered.
Prototyping
New York Times: Our studio was given 48 hours to come up with feasible yet fanciful designs that cover the Arthur Ashe Stadium where the Wimbledon title is played every year. Rain has delayed the event for a few years running acting as a catalyst for the need of a roof. Our studio came up with four possibilities that would help.
Bike Factory The bike factory is meant to run like a machine with all of its major components separated and optimized within themselves. The manufacturing and assembly section of the factory has been completely separated and sunk into the ground creating a small canyon between the project that connects back to the urban floor with a long ramp. The segregation of the project is only physical, large glass curtain walls are on either side of the canyon allowing the entire project to be seen whether by a potential buyer on the sales floor or a technicians view the paint room for the manufacturing floor. The roof is made of a high tensile fabric in order to give the entire project a very open feel and to take advantage of the abundant natural daylight. The open system allows the project to communicate with itself while remaining as efficient as possible.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT
Perspective
Conference
Gallery
Offices
Basement Floor Plan
Conference Room 460SQFT
Gallery 1720SQFT
Offices 2200SQFT
First Floor Plan First Floor Plan -
1/32”
West Facade
Assembly Detail
Wall Section
Wall Section
Tananger - Introduction Studio.MMCX was commissioned by a small industrial port in Tananger located on the western coast of Norway near the third largest city in Norway and oil capital of Europe, Stavanger. The port is looking for ideas for meaningful development and expansion of their town and business. Oil has fueled the fueled growth within the region and has brought relative prosperity, but has lead to unhealthy development in the area through sprawl which threatens to take over valuable agriculture land as well as put a major strain on the current infrastructure. There is little history and meaning in the current path of development. Studio.MMXC predicts that the population of the entire region will reach over one million with the current growth pattern by the year 2110. Tananger will have one hundred and fifty thousand people with these predictions and in order to plan for this growth, intelligent planning is needed.
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2110 - Sprawl
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Tananger - Solution Tananger is full of potential, there is a rich history that goes back hundreds of years and the presence oil industry’s in the area has brought highly educated people and big business to the town. Future growth needs to support the potential that Tananger has through embracing the knowledge economy. In a knowledge economy knowledge is a resource, tool, and product. It is an infinite source that utilizes the intellectual capital of the creative class. The creative class consists of interdisciplinary groups of economists, scientists, computer programers, engineers, architects, artists, and professions of the like. Zoning in the future Tananger will need to be dense and embrace diversity. Growth will need to be meaningful be built on ideals like beauty, love, memories, history, wealth, society, and culture. In order to look forward and design for the creative class we must look toward the past before the automobile when cities based on how far one could carry a bucket of water. Studio.MMCX based Tananger on a series of districts each based on a one mile walkable diameter. Growth will be limited to these districts and each will contain all the necessities of a major city called parts. Each of these parts will need to be triangulated with another part in order to foster unique, diverse interaction that will activate the place. This interaction will set up the bonds within the community and will create a wholistic community that will eventually form and create itself.
Triangulation
FJØRENES HOLMANENE
HAFRSFJORD BRIDGE
FIELDS ROCKY COAST
WWII BUNKERS
KYSTKULTUR SAMLINGEN
GIRLS AT FLATHOLMEN
HENRIKSHAMN SOLA HAGØYNÅ
HUMMEREN LOBSTER
MONSEN HOUSE HUMMEREN LOBSTER HUMMEREN HOTEL HARBOUR
BOATHOUSES SJØHUSENE PÅ MELINGSHOLMEN
LIGHTHOUSE
ROCKY ROAD
FARMLAND BRUNNAVIKA
FLYMUSEUM KOLNES
SOLA CHURCH RUIN
HORSEBACK RIDING SOLA
Potential
Diversity
Diversity
Diversity
Tananger - 2012 Major Circulation Buildings
Tananger - 2035
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2012
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Rail Line Major Circulation Buildings
Rail Line Major Circulation Buildings
Agriculture Green Space
Agriculture Green Space
Agriculture Green Space 0
Tananger - 2085
Tananger - 2060
Major Circulation Buildings
Agriculture Green Space 0
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2060
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Tananger - Implementation Studio .MMCX divided Tananger into four separate districts built on the three primary axis of the city that act as the backbone of the region. These axes act as an ancient Roman Cardo and Decumanus ordering the city simply and efficiently. Each district was broken up again into a series of neighborhoods. Development will happen incrementally between 2012 and 2110 growing denser and more diverse throughout time. All major neighborhoods are triangulated with each other to provide a smooth flow throughout the city. Enhanced public transportation and connection to the greater region will give people great mobility and reach. The relationship between the land and sea will be emphasized and express the long standing history and culture of the region. The harbor will evolve over time to adapt to changing needs of the region over time. Agriculture will be integrated into the urban fabric of the city to utilize local resources and emphasize green living. Tananger in 2110 will be a thriving city that embraces the knowledge economy and will act as an example for meaningful growth and prosperity.
Tananger - 2110 Rail Line Major Circulation Buildings Agriculture Green Space 0
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400 (m)
400 (m)
Education Secondary Education
Civic Center
Innovation/Tech District
Tananger Ring Mixed Use
Old Harbor
Arts District
Stadium
Tananger Museum New Business District
South Canal
Fabrication District Tourism
Tananger - 2110
Rail Line Street Car Buildings
200
400 (m)
Districts
Triangulation
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100
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Harbor Live/Work
Nodes
400 (m)
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Land Sea Connection
Neighborhoods
Tananger - 2110 Major Circulation Cardo Decumanus
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Marina
Triangulation
Agriculture Green Space
Agriculture Green Space 100
Ag Hub
Tananger - 2110
Rail Line Street Car Buildings
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Logistics
100
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400 (m)
2110
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400 (m)
Triangulation