Architecture Portfolio - Brett Cherry

BRETT CHERRY

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO FALL 2023

Contents

Academic Resurgence

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The Organized Architect

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360° Manhattan

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PIKUS 3D Planter

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Competitions Museum of Emotions

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The Casa

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RESURGENCE

A LOOK INTO NEO-NOMADISM

FALL 2022 | ARCH 301 | INSTRUCTOR: ANDREW GLEESON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF TEACHING COLLABORATOR: HAO CAO FINALIST FOR THE RICHARD F. HANSEN PRIZE

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SITE PLAN

With climate change creating more consistent and worse floods every year, a new style of living is beginning to emerge that changes the way American life is lived every day. Van dwellers, or Neo-nomads, are a group of migratory people who travel cyclically across America to avoid bad weather and go where the jobs are. This way of living condenses architecture into a single van, and Resurgence aims to provide these neo-nomads with a safe haven during their time in Iowa.

Resurgence takes the role of a campground year-round, and a hub for neo-nomads to stop and live at during that leg of their journey. With the goal of touching the natural site as little as possible and the goal of providing year-round support for nomadic van dwellers and campers alike, the proposed winter pavilion and camp area are elevated above the Iowa prairie. This design allows for all necessary ammenities to be available 24/7, including during flooding season when the project’s location (Ledges State Park, Boone, IA) floods.

Providing carved prairie areas for vans, elevated camp platforms, and a pavilion with shelter, bathrooms, a full kitchen, and a conference room, Resurgence aims to provide comfort and full support for this revolutionary new way of life.

WEST ELEVATION

East Elevation EAST ELEVATION 1/8” = 1’-0”

NORTH SECTION 3

EXPLODED DIAGRAM

DRY SEASON RENDER

ROOF PLAN

FLOOR PLAN

SITE PERSPECTIVE

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MODEL

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THE ORGANIZED ARCHITECT DESIGNING FOR TINY LIVING

SPRING 2023 | ARCH 302 | INSTRUCTOR: ANNA AVERSING, ASSOC. AIA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE

With the ever rising cost to live, affordable housing is harder than ever to find. Many more people today rely on smaller apartment and studio spaces in order to survive, and so what does this new form of tiny living mean for design?

Focusing on creating affordable housing for architecture students, The Organized Architect aims to provide a comfortable and functional living space, that fits the student’s daily and work life needs. With a high optimization in storage and a focus on simplistic design, the project provides enough storage for all personal items and architectural tools, as well as dedicated spaces for pinning up drawings and displaying previous models.

FLOOR PLAN

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SECTION

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC VIEW

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360° MANHATTAN

BRINGING COMMUNITY TO HUDSON YARDS

SPRING 2023 | ARCH 302 | INSTRUCTOR: ANNA M. AVERSING, ASSOC. AIA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE COLLABORATOR: HARRISON KEAST WINNER OF THE STAGED STUDIO PRIZE: URBAN HOUSING IN HUDSON After construction started on the Hudson Yards development in 2012, the surrounding NYC boroughs like Hell’s Kitchen began to be overtaken by the unattainably high-end style of Hudson Yards, which has resulted in gentrification, and also the loss of community in the area. With that, plus the site location being just a few blocks from Broadway, 360° Manhattan’s goal is to provide a hybrid use residential/arts space for professionals in the theater industry.

360° Manhattan provides 15 single and 4 co-housing apartment spaces to allow for a more affordable living option that doesn’t lower the quality of the building. The mass timber building creates a large gallery/performance space on the main floor with moveable display boards, allowing for an infinte number of possible exhibit spaces, allowing anyone to put on a show, display their art, and allow the public to come visit at any time, rebuilding the sense of community that is currently being lost.

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108’ TOTAL

1 170’ TOTAL

2 30’

3 24’

4 24’

5 24’

6 6’

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30’

CENTRAL CORE

CO-HOUSING UNIT

B

20’

C

20’

D

20’

GREEN ROOF

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20’

F

20’

G

20’

H

20’

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5th Floor Plan 1/16” = 1’ - 0”

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GALLERY SPACE, EXTERIOR

LOBBY

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ROOFTOP LOUNGE

RESIDENT HALLWAY

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PIKUS 3D PLANTER

3D PRINTING WITH CONCRETE

FALL 2024 | ARCH 401 | INSTRUCTOR: SHELBY DOYLE, ASSOC. AIA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE

This semester’s studio involves developing architecture with 3D printed concrete. With this came a workshop with PIKUS 3D out of Salt Lake City to teach about the process, limitations, and innovations about concrete 3D printing, and how to incorporate this new construction method into our own projects. From this workshop came the opportunity to design and print our own planters, which provided a hands-on experience into the printing process.

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MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS BUILDNER COMPETITION

SUMMER 2023 | COLLABORATORS HAO CAO, TRUC (JENI) NGUYEN, ELLA KANNEGIESSER Architecture can influence our everyday life, the decisions we make, and most importantly, our emotions and how we feel. Different buildings can evoke different emotions, and even different rooms within the same building can do the same. By understanding what materials, shapes, and forms make people feel specific ways, designers can utilize these fundamental principles to design spaces that serve their function, but also serve an emotional purpose as well.

Tasked with designing a structure that evokes both a positive and a negative emotion, the challenge wasn’t so much designing to these emotions, but to create a cohesive space that showcases both sides of the coin. With a massive shell design, this hypothetical museum combines an imposing size with a lightness and smoothness, playing to both emotions. The positive space is lined with trees and surrounded by curtains, creating a kinetic and light exterior that utilizes sight. The negative sits indoors, and is lined with large rocks on one side, with a waterfall and a small stream through the center, utilizing sound and touch to evoke the negative emotions.

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THE CASA

ARCHMELLO COMPETITION

SUMMER 2023 | COLLABORATORS: HAO CAO, TRUC (JENI) NGUYEN The home is one of the most important and sacred places an architect can design. A home is where memories are made, where traditions live on, and where everyone can feel their most comfortable. The concept of home is a feeling that is very difficult to capture in architecture, which was the concept behind this competition. The challenge to create a space that feels like home to a large family of people while accomodating each of their lifestyles was a fun and exciting challenge.

With a three generation family living under one roof, this design aims to provide enough space for both the individual and for the family as a whole. Staggered between three levels, the design focuses on the importance of both private and shared spaces, alternating between a private top floor, a shared main floor, and a private bottom floor, with each room having enough space for each individual’s specific interests. Through this organization of space, this designs aims to provoke the feeling of home through togetherness, as well as personalized individuality.

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Contact Phone: 319-331-6613 Email: kcbrettc06@gmail.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/Brett-Cherry

References Anna M. Aversing, Assoc. AIA

Associate Professor of Practice Department of Architecture | College of Design | Iowa State University E: aversing@iastate.edu T: 646-455-7317

Carrie Bopp

Administration Assistance / Safety Coordination E: boppc@gilcrestjewett.com T: 319-550-7093

Andrew Gleeson

Assistant Teaching Professor of Architecture Department of Architecture | College of Design | Iowa State University E: agleeson@iastate.edu T: 515-291-6914

Thank you for your time!

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