Alice Kucherov
University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design
2023
Portfolio
Architectural
Table of Contents
RESUME.....................................................................4-5 FILM ROW ARTS CENTER, Kansas City.................6-19 FOLLY PAVILION, Prarie Acre.............................28-31 JAZZ LOUNGE & STRINGS SHOP, Lawrence KS..........................................................................20-27 1341 RHODE ISLAND, Lawrence KS...................32-39 PERSONAL WORKS...............................................40-49
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EDUCATION
-Graduated Magna Cum Laude at Parkway Central High in 2021
-Third Year Student for M.Arch at The University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design
EXPERIENCE
-Intern with Benton Design Group, 2023
-Host with Bengelina Hospitality 2022-2023
-Service Consultant at Waterway Carwash, 2020-2022
-Varsity Debate Team Captain, 2019-2021
-STL Literacy Program volunteer, 2019-2020
HONORS
-Special Distinction Award for Speech and Debate Honors Society, 2021
-St. Louis Group Scholarship Recipient, 2021
-The University of Kansas Chancellor’s Scholarship Recipient, 2021-Current
-St. Louis Artist’s Guild Young Artist’s Showcase Joanne Stremsterfer Prize, 2021
SKILLS
Archicad, SketchUp, Lumion, Enscape, Adobe Suite, hand drawing, model making, mixed media
INTERESTS
Stage design, urban policy, working with others
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In order to express the legacy of historic Film Row, as well as define a physical identity of the modern day arts district, the empty lot under the Kauffman Center in downtown Kansas City is becoming an arts center holding a theater, film galleries, and community programs.
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FILM ROW ARTS CENTER
Kansas City Crossroads Remboldt, Spring 209 7
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The outdoor ampitheater sits in a natural hillside, projecting on the western face of the building. The parking lot extends for a movie drive up at the top of the hill. Elevation as well as plantings create a buffer from Broadway St. Adjacent to the main plaza, a food truck drive up also abutts a public picnic area.
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Incorporating a 45 degree angle, spaces can imply direction, and move a visitor along by providing necessary previews of their destination. Working with steep topography on site also means improved visibility moving up and down the spaces.
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Art lovers might approach from the south gallery enterance while meandering First Fridays, while theater enthusiasts might be attracted by the dome and north plaza just across the road from Kauffman.
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JAZZ LOUNGE & STRINGS SHOP
Mass. St. Lawrence, KS
Thom Allen, Fall 208
Located in Lawrence, Kansas, Nighthawks Jazz Lounge and Strings Shop sits on Massachusetts Street between 8th and 9th.
Previously an alley between the Antique Mall and Jock’s Nitch Sporting Goods, the main floor hosting the daytime bistro adjacent to the parklet for ease of service.
The upstairs acts as the strings shop, with the main luthier’s studio connected at the back. Downstairs holds the jazzy speakeasy, with a supplementary woodshop for the luthier.
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A narrow cutout through the floor on the north side takes advantage of the southern angle of the sun’s path and injects a ray of light against the back wall of the lower performance space.
The lower story stage is arranged so groups are able to look at each other during improvisation, which is typical in the Kansas City style.
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Woven along the beams and potted roadside is a low maintenance garden of plants. While making the space more inviting and attractive, they also act as a carbon sink, as they can sequester the carbon that is left behind by cars, improving outdoor air quality.
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1341 RHODE ISLAND
Lawrence, KS
Thom Allen, Fall 208
For our second project, we created a new addition to a local historic home. This renovation explores how volumes can command space to define bounding lines. Volumetric differences between the original house, hyphen, kitchen and dining, and private bedrooms dictate how the spaces circulates.
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Beginning by researching a case study, this renovation is partially inspired by Vishaan Chakrabarti’s home in Berkeley, CA. Originally done by Walter Ratcliff in 1910, it balances loyalty to historic qualaties with modern cues to produce a charming home filled with light and warmth.
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Both Chakrabarti’s home and our site sit just to the south of a busy college campus, and adjacent to a youthful urban area.
The addition has the public and family spaces open out to views and act as main channels of circulation to remain active in its site context.
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Behind Blake Hall, the University of Kansas has dedicated an acre of land to the preservtion of native grasses. Individual stalks of grasses catch sunlight, creating an effect of glowing rods covering the earth. The folly pavilion enables play and relaxation, while framing views to the outside. It should feel like an extension of the prarie in its tiered elevation, and materiality that catches the light.
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FOLLY PAVILION
Remboldt, Spring 209 37
Prarie Acre, KU
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SEQUENCE, AXONOMETRIC SKETCH
Ockinga, Spring 109
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INDIVIDUAL WORKS
ALBION LIBRARY PRECEDENT STUDY
Remboldt, Spring 209
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Ockinga, Spring 109 ARTIST STUDIOS, MODEL Ockinga, Spring 109 MOTION, MODEL 44
LIGHT, WATER, SMOKE
Watercolor, Joanne Stremsterfer Prize, St. Louis
Artist’s Guild, 2021
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PAINTING Oil 46
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Acrylic
DRAWING Pencil/Pen 48
Marker Oil/Soft Pastel 49
