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PORTFOLIO Adin Mehanovic Selected Works

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ADIN MEHANOVIC CONTACT 816-560-1142 adinm28@outlook.com adin-mehanovic

SKILLS Communication Problem Solving Negotiation Strong collaborator Adaptable

SOFTWARE Revit Rhino Adobe Suite Sketchup Enscape

EDUCATION The University of Kansas | Class of 2026 Master of Architecture GPA 3.7 Study Abroad | Summer 2024 Helsinki, Jyväskyla, Lahti, Finland Stockholm, Sweden Copenhagen, Denmark

WORK EXPERIENCE University of Kansas | Architecture Ambassador | 2024-pres Lead tours for prospective students and families Represent the architecture program and school Help organize events and promote the program Camp Counselor | 2017-2022 Supervised and mentored up to 32 K-5 students Managed daily schedules and led group activities Helped plan special events

INVOLVEMENTS Dirt Works Studio | 2023-2024 Project Manager Created the construction schedule and made necessary changes during construction Assign tasks on job site while ensuring safety Oversee the job site when the professor is absent KU Mentorship Collaborative | 2024-2025 Member Multicultural Scholars Program | 2021-pres First generation college student member KU Car Club Recruiter | 2021-2022 Recruited new members through social media and pop-up tents while also helping host car shows

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PHOENIX HOUSE

Design Build Lawrence, Kansas Professor - Chad Kraus Fall 2023 - Spring 2024 Role - Project Management

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Focus The University of Kansas has partnered with Tenants to Homeowners to provide affordable housing to the surrounding community as well as other communities across the country. Their goals aligned with the KU core goals to provide a sustainable, affordable , and durable home for someone in nee d.

The studio of just 1 4 students was tasked to design and fully build a single bedroom tiny home. The primary goals of this project were low embodied carbon , sustainable materials, affordability, durability, as well as renewable energy in an aesthetic way. The entire building is created out of 3 PLY cross laminated timber walls.

CLT walls create a warm and inviting interior space while also expediting the build time. The exposed wood has many benefits for the user who lives there, and to accompany the wood we used a wood rain screen on the exterior as well as a standing seam metal roof that extends to the ground.

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SITE Lawrence, Kansas The site is located in East Lawrence, known for it’s historic districts and proximity to Massachusetts Street. Phoenix house is nestled among a close knit community of neighbors, close to nearby parks , and a trail that runs along the edge of the property known as Burrow’s Creek trail.

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The building will be placed on the Northwestern side of the site to avoid the flood plane , but also receiving a good amount of Southern light. Plans to build a second home on the property are slim, but had expressed interest and so the Northwestern plot made the most sense in many ways.

During the first week of the design phase, part of the studio had the opportunity to meet the neighbors and receive feedback regarding affordable housing in their neighborhood. The feedback was u nanimous that Lawrence needed to make a change and that the community was always there to help in any way.

WI N T ER I N T ER SESSI O N C O UR SE The studio had the opportunity to take a winter intersession course to help expedite the building process later on. We prefabricated all of our studded walls as well as assembled all of the cabinetry for the home.

As Co Project Manager, I was tasked with keeping the studio on task as well as pushing deadlines . Many shop drawings were made in the early stages of this course in which we used later to prefabricate all of the walls that were not mass timber.

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The layout of the home was kept relatively simple with the bedroom on the North end of the home, and the living and wet spaces on the South side.

The entry acts a s a bridge between the two spaces and on the exterior acts as a hyphen separating the two private and public spaces. The exterior doors which connect to the hall are both full glass, which creates the illusion of a negative space.

As Co Project manager with Samantha Weidner, I was in charge of weekly team meetings, creating construction schedules, as well as assigning tasks throughout the entire production phase.

The outdoor areas were very valuable, especially for someone transitioning to a home for the first t ime. The front and back patios created both public and private spaces for the individual to enjoy, depending on if they want to be social with the neighbors or enjoy the peaceful backyard that connects the trail.

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My role during construction documentation was to develop the elevations for Phoenix house, as well as meet with every individual during this process.

During my individual meetings I would discuss progress being made and create internal deadlines with my peers to stay ahead of schedule. This documentation led to quicker turnaround times and a smoother workflow among the studio.

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CONSTRUCTION

Steel work and welding

Plant er Box

Concrete drilling

During the construction of Phoenix house Hayley Ford and I did most of the steelwork for phoenix house which included welding and steel fabrication. We cut and welded all window frames as well as construct the steel tie connectors on the interior.

Corrie Bolton, Hayley Ford, and myself also took a lead role on designing and constructing the planter box that sits in front of Phoenix house.

This planter box was built using the leftover CLT and Rothoblass steel connectors. This planter box was constructed off site and burned using a Shou Sugi Ban method of charring the exterior of the box.

During the initia l phase of the on site construction, Julia Bond, Hayley Ford, Grace Beirne, and myself drilled holes on the foundation for our Rothoblass connectors .

These connectors needed to be exact with little to no wiggle room. These supports would anchor the CLT walls to the foundation.

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VALMISTAA

Craft House Helsinki, Finland Professor - Chad Kraus Fall 2023 Sketchup, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite

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Focus Valmistaa is located in the heart of one of Helsinki’s more up and coming neighborhoods near the bay known as Hernesaari.

Hernesaari is currently being reconstructed from a dockyard to a famil y oriented area for residential districts to thrive.

Valmistaa will be an affordable housing option for artists and crafts people to have a beautiful place to live and work.

Sustainability is at the forefront of Valmistaas plans for a long term housing option.

Recycled brick from the nearby dockyard and sustainable materials like rock-wool and mass plywood panels make Valmistaa a budget conscious solution for the long term.

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Recycled Brick Sourced from nearby harbor

Mass Plywood Panels 4“ Rock-wool insulation Zip sheathing Metal rain screen Triple pane glass

Nail Laminated Timber Floors 2x6 boards nailed together Staggered formation allows for p assage for electrical below and sprinkler system above

Glulam Columns & Beams 10 x 10 in attached with Rothoblass connectors

Concrete Floor Topper Gravel Sand Vapor barrier 4” Rock-wool insulation 4” Concrete slab

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Bottom Floor - Craft Space The bottom floor of Valmistaa consists of the wood shop and metal shop as well as the formal entrance and storage spaces.

Main Floor - Retail / Public Spac e The main level of Valmistaa consists of the retail space as well as more technical spaces for crafts.

Main Residential Spaces 16 apartments make up the top 3 levels of Valmistaa . Each apartment cons ists of a two story layout which alleviates the need for more levels in the building.

The upstairs portion of each apartment is the residents own personal craft space.

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THE ART NEXUS

Mixed - Use Omaha, Nebraska Professor - Marianne Remboldt Fall 2024 Sketchup, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite

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Focus The Art Nexus is located in Omaha Nebraska’s Old Market District. The Old Market is known for its night life and abundance of bars and restaurants.

The Art Nexus will act as a catalyst for the arts movement that is slowly engulfing the southern part of The Old Market and invite young artists of all ty pes to live and work together.

The Art Nexus is a CoHousing Mixed-Use development with apartments ranging from single bedroom ADA units all the way to 6 bedroom apartments that span two levels. Co-housing will help young artists connect and collaborate together while also living together and benefiting from a denser neighborhood feel.

All units offer ample private outdoor spaces as well as even more collaborative outdoor spaces for the residents.

The Mixed-Use first and second level offer a Cafe, Retail shop, and an art gallery that showcases artists in their natural habitat. Gathering stairs that span up to the second level allow visitors to enjoy a drink from the cafe while the artists have a chance to have some exposure for their work.

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1. SEPERATION OF SPACES 1.SEPERATION OF SPACES

2. BEMIS CONNECTION 2. BEMIS CONNECTION

Public & Private

3. OUTDOOR SPACES 3. OUTDOOR SPACES

SUN STRATEGIES 4. SUN4.STRATEGIES

STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC

2 HR CMU CORE 14” GLULAM COLUMNS GLULAM GRID 24’ X 22’ SPAN 20” DEPTH 8” WIDTH

5 PLY CLT W/ 2” CONCRETE TOPPER 5 PLY CLT T SHAPED FOUNDATION

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NATURAL VENTILATION All windows above the ground level have operable windows.

This means that stack venti lation strategies can be implemented in the mixed-use portions of the building and cross venti lation strategies in the unites themselves. This will bring operational costs down when the weather is at a comfortable range.

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (VAV) VARIABLE AIR VOLUME - This system is used in the mixed-use areas because it works well in large open spaces.

FAN COIL SYSTEMS - This systems is used in the residential units because it allows for individual control among the units.

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WALL SECTION GREEN ROOF ASSEMBLY GRO VEGETATION GRO EXT. / INT. ENGINEERED SOIL GRO FILTER FABRIC GRO FILTER FABRIC DRAINAGE ROOF MEMBRANE POLYISOCYANURATE AIR BARRIER CLT PARAPET CAP STUDDED WALL SYSTEM RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER 5/8” SHEATHING SCREW SCREW PLATE BOLT CONNECTION ROCK PANEL 5 PLY CLT GLULAM BEAM DOAS SYSTEM SUPPLY AND RETURN DIFFUSER 5/8” GYPSUM CAN LIGHT DUAL PANE SLIDING WINDOW

WINDOW FLASHING ROCKPANEL AS RAILING

GLULAM COLUMN CONCRETE TOPPER SLAB

CLT WALL SYSTEM RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER 5/8” SHEATHING SCREW SCREW PLATE BOLT CONNECTION ROCK PANEL 5 PLY CLT

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PERSONAL WORKS

CERAMICS & STUDY ABROAD

Focus Some of my own personal work includes my ceramics collection in wh ich I have used porcelain, clay, and even terracotta as my medium. These projects have been cont ructed by throwing on the wheel or by constructing coils out of clay to create a form.

Once the form has been finished and has already been bisque fired, it is ready to be fired again in a kiln. I had the opportunity to use three different kinds of kilns which all had their own unique way of firing.

The first of which was the modern natural gas kiln, next was known as electric firing, a nd lastly the most interes ting firing technique was raku firing.

This technique invloves removing the pottery when it is still extremely hot and then combining it with another material such as paper or wood in an enclosed environment to get a one of a kind texture on the exterior.

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Analytique This analytique is a composition of drawings of the Säynätsalo Town Hall in Jyväskyla, Finland. An analytique is a hybrid drawing in which I explored the relationships between different scales and scopes to create a playful one of a kind drawing of one of Alvar Aaltos amazing works.

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Adin Mehanovic Selected Works

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