Andre Baros Select Projects

SELECT WORK ANDRE LH BAROS

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Beginning with my experience at Wheeler Kearns Architects on the Orchard Residences - which was a milestone for the office and marked a significant shift in my own work - and ending with my recent work at HOK, this selection of projects covers two aspects of my work over the last decade: What and How. What: the story of each project - the project's unique narrative through client, program, space, material, texture, and light.

How: the process of each project through listening, researching, imagining, experimenting, drawing, changing, diagraming, sketching, and modeling.

Note, all photography and renderings are my own unless otherwise noted.

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Wheeler Kearns Orchard East Residence Orchard West Residence 100 Shore Drive Residence Trinity Christian College, Theatre Arts Building DePaul Residence Lake Shore Drive Residence West Loop Loft HOK Mixed Use Development, Navi Mumbai Mixed Use Development, Izmir Turkey Mixed Use Development, Ankara Turkey Branding Exercises, Various Projects Pedestrian Bridge, Columbus, IN USA Community Parsons Park

2002-2012

Andre L.H. Baros

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Wheeler Kearns Architects, Orchard East

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Orchard East. This was a meticulously researched, designed, and detailed single family house occupying five city lots, drawing on dozens of consultants and consuming the whole office for several years. The team was led by Dan Wheeler, FAIA with everyone contributing to the design, research, and production efforts.

I was primarily involved with 3d conflict checking, coordination, and rendering; producing over one hundred renderings by the end of the project.

Near the end of construction documents, a new survey was provided which shockingly

corrected the size of the lot, and the size of the setbacks by one foot. The decision was made to subtract one inch from each of the twelve modules of the house. It was also decided that splitting up the task created too much room for error in the stack of AutoCAD drawings. I was asked to make all the adjustments to all the overall 2d drawings and 3d models while everyone else checked the details. The process of adjusting the building by one foot took over a week, at which point we began to look for a better way. This marked the beginning of the office's transition to Revit and a BIM process.

This house was an exploration of privacy and publicity.

The charge from the client was to create a glass house integrated into a lush garden in the middle of the city in which they could walk around comfortably without being seen.

The house needed to be intimate for a family of four

while also accommodating public events of one to two hundred people.

The solutions included moving

walls, multiple courtyards

each penetrating to a different depth in the house, and a

“venetian

blind� fence in which each blade was tuned to

allow public vision into the gardens but never into the house.

The floor to ceiling glass at the perimeter was

not

interrupted by columns through the use of four caissons to bedrock, two in tension, to allow most of the house to be cantilevered from the stair cores.

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â—„Photography by Me and Others Wheeler Kearns took regular trips to recharge our creative Our trip to Mexico City which featured several visits to projects by the Architects Ricardo Legoretta and Louis Barragan greatly expanded the pallet of colors we used in our work, including hot pink. energy.

Other trips included Dallas, Toronto, San Francisco, Seattle, and Phoenix.

Mexico city 2002

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why pink?

Wheeler Kearns Architects, Orchard West

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Orchard West was led by Larry Kearns, AIA who spent hours each day working with the very involved client. I was lucky enough to sit next to Larry during these years and learned immense amounts even when I wasn’t directly helping with the project.

I was involved with renderings, details, early design studies, and documenting and

coordinating the complex geometry of the double groin vault. The hardest part of many projects is making things look simple. For Orchard West, the intersecting arches and groin vaults looked simple but involved complicated math equations (which I enjoyed) and detailed coordination with the engineers and fabricators.

Orchard West. At the same time that Wheeler Kearns Architects was completing the much publicized, lauded, and very modern Orchard East, we were also completing a very different house for the clients more private cousins; directly across

This house was

Orchard street.

characterized by maximizing site coverage and stone

while minimizing landscape and maintenance.

The house proved to be a

study in building for permanence with every product selected evaluated for durability and cost of maintenance or repair.

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100 Shore Drive This project was

my first project designed, documented,

Revit and BIM process. I created all of the design drawings and construction documents including MEP and structural. Although I was learning and implementing new software during this project, I was able to complete the documents in the same amount of time we had projected for a 2d AutoCad workflow. and coordinated through construction using a

This project also provided many important lessons and valuable skills in client-relations. In particular, guiding clients who cannot articulate what they want and helping them through the decision-making process.

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My first project designed and built from the ground up was this was single family home for a wonderful couple of empty nesters.

Ozzie and Harriet* approached us to fit a house on a lake front lot which was considered to be “unbuildable” because of it’s long, narrow orientation in an area characterized by broad lake views on broad lots.

Our strategy was to create a series of “unfolding” spaces which each engaged the prized lake view in a unique and expanding way.

Every space paired a solid wall and a glass wall. The solid walls were “L’s” of continuous integrally insulated concrete masonry units from footing to parapet wrapped in the same stucco finish inside and out - providing security and simplicity.

Opposite these immovable shells were floor to ceiling glazed walls strategically oriented to views, creating a relationship with the outdoors. Starting from the street which faced the rows of driveways and garage doors with a mostly opaque landscaped expression, to the living room which faced the lake with almost no intervention, each space carefully opened up more and more to the landscape.

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The showcase element which literally and figuratively pinned the layers of the house together was a central stair. The stair brought together the elements of light, water and earth in perfect balance. The stair’s skylight allowed bountiful light to penetrate deep into the house, reaching clear to the basement.

Through a series of tensioned cables run down the center of the stair in a slightly random pattern, a hint of the sparkle of a rain shower descended, barely casting a shadow. The ipe used for the stair itself gave a grounded, outdoor feeling. In spite of its unique design, the stair remained within the client’s budget and, of course, safely guided and protected the homes’ occupants.

Today, every space in the house benefits from abundant daylight and expansive connections to the outdoors. The indigenous landscape grows right up the edge of the house and the minimal threshold where outside becomes inside. Growing out of the dune, the house tries to tread lightly while still graciously providing for its occupants, now and into the future. *names changed to protect client anonymity.

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Wheeler Kearns Architects Trinity Christian College, Theatre Arts Building

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Theatre Arts Building This project was my first commercial/institutional building completed in Revit and also the first project where I taught the rest of the team while working on a project.

A key element of this project’s process was using Revit to custom tailor color plans for each department which clearly highlighted their goals, spaces, and shortfalls.

Using Revit

to manage the color plans was a textbook

case of giving the team much more time to focus on archi-

tecture while the communication graphics which were critical to moving forward were automated.

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This project was an exercise in fitting too much program into too little space while pleasing a committee of clients and a hornet’s nest of end users. Wheeler Kearns stressed a process for every project of always and only working with end users and avoiding speculative projects for hypothetical clients.

Though challenging on this project, it meant working with and ultimately accommodating the needs of the Theater, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Art, Communications, and Broadcast Art Departments. Each individual was wonderful to work with, but, in true academic fashion, scraped for as much of the limited resources as possible for their students.

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The programming phase of the project was led by Larry Kearns, AIA which resulted in a clear diagram of a long masonry “bar” which oriented to the other buildings on the campus and lightweight “fingers” on the back which could inexpensively warehouse each department. The Design development phase was led by Mark Weber, AIA and saw several “fingers” cut off to meet the budget. The construction document and construction administration phases were led by Tom Bader, AIA and saw the “fingers” reduced to “a finger” attached to “a short bar”. I provided continuity, documenting much of the project from start to finish, managing the space allocation, and ultimately teaching Revit to the rest of the team as we went.

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The Residence built near DePaul University: The DePaul Residence was the only project I’ve worked on with an “outhouse.”

The parti diagram of the project was two “cubes”; one with a more formal, public orientation, the other more casually, privately focused. Between the two cubes was a scissor stair in an “outdoor” like atrium space. The purity of the plan didn’t leave room for a powder room on the first floor, so it was placed in the rear yard, in the “outhouse”.

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DePaul Residence In this project, led by Larry Kearns, AIA I was a young architect tasked with resolving the library space.

I learned about floating

volumes, privacy and publicy, and millwork.

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Wheeler Kearns Architects Lake Shore Drive Residence

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One of Wheeler Kearns most recently completed projects was this single family residence along the parks on Chicago’s Lakefront.

The very public nature of the site required a very inwardly focused project.

What was particularly unique about this project was that the owner did not only purchase land for himself to build a home, but also land next door for his best friend so they could share a basketball

court. Sharlene Young, AIA and I were paired to work with the two owners, each of us positioned to focus on one of the clients while supporting each other.

Sharlene focused on this client who ultimately moved forward and built his house. I helped Sharlene and focused on the best friend next door who never moved forward with his project.

Lake Shore Drive Residence In my role supporting Sharlene, I had three areas I was most involved in. Early studies of the massing and skin, drawings, renderings, and coordination with the interior designer regarding the kitchen, and detailed studies, drawings, and renderings of the main stair.

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The West Loop Loft was a downsizing project for a family which Wheeler Kearns had designed a space for many years before. Now empty nesters, Frank and Zoe* wanted to keep their favorite parts but move into a smaller, more flexible space. From their original cellular Gold Coast apartment they brought their art, pottery and antique collections while we added an open plan, color and a light touch to this space which squeezed in so much of their history. Zoe’s goal was to make the loft as “loft” as possible to

correct the previous owners attempts to drywall and paint over everything; she was searching for the “authentic”. The ultimate expression featured a single large public space as large as the constraints of the building would allow and private spaces tucked into the residual space left by the structure and services of the building highlighted by bold colorful accents. *names changed to protect client anonymity.

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West Loop Loft This project was

a high point for me

- a pro-

cess based on communication and fitting a space to the client.

Because of the small size of I was the only team member from Wheeler Kearns assigned to the design, documentation, and management and had the chance to really develop a close client relationship.

Once the functional plan and goals were laid out, the project was characterized by regular walk-throughs of the space with Zoe, the interior designer, the contractor and myself.

Zoe and I would meet for breakfast to discuss goals for the day, then work through the space the project,

and respond on the spot to the qualities of the building which were uncovered or the form of the space which wove into the building.

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contractor was excellent and open to a loose process.

The interior

designer had worked with

the client for years and knew every piece of furniture, art, and history which would ultimately grace the space.

Together we

designed a space

which was a perfect expression of the client married to the unique space.

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My role on the project evolved

from project architect,

responsible for documenting everything, to part of the

project design team, responsible for the skin of the building.

I had the distinction of moving

Revit Master Planning and Design Phases of the project with a team of 2 to the project into

where we were able to document the

Concept 4 people which had previously been documented by of 6 to 12 people.

Over

the course of the year

a team

I worked on this project I did

core and shell design for multiple office towers, office test fits to both International and Indian office layout standards, dozens of curtain wall studies for both the tower and the podium, skylight designs, canopy designs,

railway station layouts, pedestrian and vehicular circulation concepts and diagrams, residential and hotel tower concepts, and so much more.

Seawoods is the project 3000 sqft projects in Indiana to 3,000,000 sqft projects in India. which moved me from

This project also provided me with opportunities to explore parametric and computational design methods on a large scale which

I had only experimented with in very

small

projects or theoretical exercises before.

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How do you describe a project which has a potential to reach over 11m square meters of public space when complete? My first project at HOK took me to a new world, not Navi Mumbai India where the project is being built, but to the land of mega-projects. We had a client who was one of India’s largest, most successful companies, who decided to enter the real-estate and development markets in grand form by making the most expensive land purchase in India’s history for this project. The project went through it’s first master planning and concept design phase before being shelved when the world economy slowed down. While the project was on hold, the original 12 person team, except for the project manager, was broken up.

I was hired as team member number one of a

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new team which ultimately grew to 4 people, but which for months at a time consisted of just myself and the project manager. The first few months of the re-born project involved running diagrammatic and tabular scenarios of the development potential of the project as a phased development. In addition to phasing it to allow it to move forward though uncertain economic times, the client was also pursuing various attempts to increase the height and build-able area restrictions to try to expand their return on investment enough to compensate for a revised, reduced pro-forma.

While there was never a single scenario selected, there was eventually enough consensus to move phase one of the project forward with much of the original mixed-use program compressed from the

original 40 acre site to a 20 acre phase 1 portion, leaving two parcels for two future phases.

The program for phase 1 was a mixed-use transit oriented development designed to anchor a growing community in a newly portion of Navi Mumbai which was previously salt flats. Built over and around a railway station which serves 60,000 people daily, the project included Class-A Corporate Offices, Retail, Entertainment, Hospitality, an expanded Train Station, Structured Parking, Mechanical and Storage with a combined area of over 3.5 million GSF (Rounded Gross Square Feet) of enclosed area above grade plus below grade parking for over 6000 cars.

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From the beginning, the client responded very

favorably to

- the out- and expressed a desire to focus their dollars on making that key idea work.

To that end, I designed the mall with the guidance of HOK retail expert Luigi Franceschina, and the tower with HOK residential practice leader Robert Bistry. the key design element of our winning submission side flowing in and the inside flowing out

This project is an attempt

This project was a competition on many levels. The initial commission was won through a competition with outside offices.

My submission to the competition was the result of an internal HOK competition. The stand-out feature of the design competition was the amount of design, documentation, and refinement achieved in a twoweek period using Revit and Adobe Ideas on the iPad. Because of the success of these 2 competitions, the project won an internal HOK award for the progressive use of BIM as a visualization tool.

Because my design was chosen

for and ultimately won the external competition, I was assigned the status of senior designer on the project.

The tight schedule extended beyond the initial awarding of the work through the very end of Schematic Design three months later when the project was handed off to the local architect.

Jones Lang LaSalle Turkey, the retail consultant retained by the client, was impressed enough to recommend us to other developers who has sought out our services based on the rapid success of this project.

to create a destination retail

environment in the boundary space between a low rise working class residential neighborhood and a highwaymass transit-industrial zone.

Like

the prow of a ship

cutting through water, the project itself is sliced open to reveal a pedestrian plaza which anchors the building to the residential scale.

To the massive scale of the highway

and regional bus depot, the building presents signage and a

40 story

residential tower which will be the first tall

building in this area.

Stepping down

a level in scale, the design of the project

was driven by a simple pragmatic idea taken from an early conversation with the client.

Simple tower on top, simple "party in the middle." This translated into a simple tower volume-driven primarily by orientation and efficiency. The mall wrapper adopted a "puzzle piece" approach of stone walls broken up by interlocking metal zippers managing the pragmatic elements.

The "party in the middle" was realized sectionally with the operable roof and planted roof-scape between the podium and the tower, and in plan at the semi-enclosed plaza space between the outside and the inside. wrapper for the mall below and

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AREA LEGEND S S

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CONDO

2,908 m²

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FEC

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LEVEL 1 AREA TABLE Department Area PLAZA-INDOOR 2,896 m² PLAZA-OUTDOOR 76 m² RESTAURANT 186 m² RETAIL 8,301 m² RETAIL ANCHOR 3,835 m² RETAIL SERVICE 1,751 m² Grand total 17,045 m²

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2,310 m²

PLAZA-INDO

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287 m²

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TRAVELATORS TO PARKING

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153 m²

303 m²

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This concept

design exercise for a client in

Ankara Turkey

pre-

sented three directions for developing a mixed use site which is located at the western

“gateway” to the city. Among the many

challenges and possibilities offered by the site was it’s grading, which sloped

11m over it's 300m length, and the 10 lane road

which served it’s front door.

Concept 1, "Eskisehir Gardens" focused on a landscaped pedestrians experience of familiar, street scale, elements. The concept brought all the programmatic elements to the ground together to create an urban destination.

Concept 2, "Floating rings" used a layered approach to segment the site by use, demographic, and elevation, including a signature twisting tower. This concept pandered to the iconic nature of the gateway site and the distinctions between the everyday users and the upscale shoppers the project seeks to attract.

Concept 3, "Unfolding" connected all of the diverse programmatic goals into a faceted, patterned form which figuratively and literally folded up from the site. This concept took advantage of the huge length of the site to allow internal ramping to tie all the elements together.

At the end of the day, the client selected "Floating Rings" which may move forward to realization.

For this project, I was part of a two person core team led by the office’s senior leadership and assisted in the final stretch by some additional staff. My focus was on project metrics and modeling while sharing in the design work during the very short month that this project occupied, start to finish.

Because of a very long discovery portion of the project, we were left with only days to compile a presentation at the end. Each of the three final schemes was modeled and sent out for rendering in less than an 8 hour day. Each challenged my modeling skills a different way.

Each used a toolset unique and appropriate to the scheme.

Concept 1, “Eskisehir Gardens” was modeling taking advantage of Revit’s core capabilities to produce a simple efficient model.

Concept 2, “Floating Rings” was modeled by hacking Revit to quickly get results by creatively reinterpreting the software.

Concept 3, “Unfolding” was modeled by leveraging Revit’s latest conceptual massing and parametric patterning tools to create a rule based form.

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Floating Gardens No. 1

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Destination:

unFOLDING

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MALL AT SEAWOODS CITY

SEAWOODS GRAND DEPOT

Destination Seaoods

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challenges I faced making the transition to HOK was designing to spreadsheets with very little client contact and only financial, not design goals; very different stories.

A tool common to both offices was the project diagram. A new tool I created for myself which proved useful was branding sheets. These pieces, such as the samples shown here, were parts of a market positioning branding statement which I created for the projects. The clients story was to monetize a piece of land, the projects we were designing were a part of that story. These branding sheets crafted a story of how these projects (primarily the retail) could fit into their respective markets to make that story come true.

In my mind, every project has a story to tell. One of the luxuries I became accustomed to while working at Wheeler Kearns was real clients with real personalities, goals, and desires; real personal stories. One of the

In the example I created for the retail environment in Turkey, I was pleased to see posters of these branding ideas up in the clients office when we went to visit for a presentation.

Project Identity Study for Mixed-Use Development, Izmir, Turkey

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Affectionately called the "bridge with accessory hotel" this faceted glass pedestrian bridge connects a new convention hotel by hok to the existing

Columbus convention

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"Hey Andre, do you know how to model this in Revit?"

"Sure."

"Oh, now that it's done, could you please change the length?"

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“Sure.”

"Looks great, but we need to make it wider, can your model do that?"

"Yup." "Now that we changed the length

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and width the curve..."

“Sure.”

"Since you're so intimately familiar with the bridge do you think you could detail it, too?"

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“Sure.”

"Is that why you like to work with parametric design?"

"Yup."

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ALLEY

One day while I was out gardening...

Hey Andre, do you still want to help clean up the empty lot at the end of the block?

RAISED PLATFORM (STAGE)

SWINGS

Yes, it should be a park!

CLIMBING TOY BENCHES

Ok good because I set up a meeting with the Alderman and a bunch of people from the community for next week, can you please have some drawings ready.

SLIDES

GAME TABLES

PLAY HILLS

ALLEY

Next week?

Great, see you there, you're in charge.

SMALL TREES

A few months later...

Hey Andre, the City purchased the lot what next?

FLOWER PLANTER

PLANTER

A few months later...

6' - 1 1/2"

TRASH CAN

TRASH CAN WATER FOUNTAIN

Hey Andre, the City got a grant to move forward using the drawings you did?

A few month later...

SHADE TREES

BOCCE AREA

ENTRANCE GATE

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ENTRANCE GATE

BELMONT AVE.

Park Plan 1/4" = 1'-0"

LARGE STREET TREES

Hey Andre, how do play Bocce?

A few months later...

Hey Andre, nice park.

On the left is one of the drawings I put together with working with neighbors to collect our thoughts. Various versions of these simple plans were used for meetings with the community, the City of Chicago, the Park District, and Conservation Design Forum who ultimately did the design and documentation of the new park.

On the Right is Conservation Design Forums presentation plan brought back to us to complete the circle. They were able to work very closely with our goals and Park District guidelines to produce a park unique in the City of Chicago.

Three key design ideas were carried through from start to finish.

Natural landscape as playscape, inter-generational mixing between kids and seniors, and dense planting to create buffers between the urban space and the child space.

Conservation Design Forum added water

conservation to the design mix

and made the park a model of water use in the

City.

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â—„Plan I drew based on meetings and discussions with neighbors.

Final Plan by Conservation Design Forumâ–ş

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THANK YOU

ANDRE LH BAROS 312.282.0181 ANDRELHBAROS@GMAIL.COM ABOUT.ME/ANDREBAROS

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