Brett Wheeler Graduate Design Portfolio

BRETT WHEELER DESIGN PORTFOLIO Selected Architectural Work | 2010 - 2016

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BRETT WHEELER.

GENERAL INFORMATION

LOCATION 309 Falcon Court

I graduated from Texas Tech University with a Masters of Architecture and a certificate in Urban and Community Design. Throughout my educational career I’ve designed a wide variety of architectural projects ranging from small installations to urban proposals. During my internship experience I served as an integral team member involved in processes of schematic design through construction documents, site visitation, graphic design and visualization.

Coppell, Texas | 75019

972. 800. 7597 brett@falconct.com

LINKS https://issuu.com/brettwheeler www.linkedin.com/in/brettwheeler1991 WINDOWS

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EDUCATION Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

Bachelors of Science in Architecture Aug. 2010 - May 2014

Masters of Architecture Aug. 2014 - Dec. 2016

EXHIBITIONS

PUBLICATIONS

First Friday Art Trail

living INDUSTRIAL

Lubbock Texas May 2014, May 2015, Dec. 2015, May 2016, Dec. 2016

Seoul Art Space Mullae - dong, South Korea

EXPERIENCE Studio West Interior Design Architectural Visualization Artist Dec. 2013 - May 2014

URBAN DESIGN STUDIO SHANGHAI VOL. II Memory & Morphology

REFERENCES PRDG, llc Architectural Intern May 2014 - Aug. 2014 May 2015 - Aug. 2015 Dec. 2015 - Jan. 2016 May 2016 - Aug. 2016

Paul Donaldson

Principal at PRDG Paul.Donaldson@prdgarch.com

Jeffrey Nesbit

Director of Haecceitas Studio jnesbit@uncc.edu

SUTURESCAPE | Los Angeles urban suture through productive landscapes Location : Los Angeles, California Professor : Peter Raab Year : Spring 2016 The year is 2060. Due to political corruption Los

The language of the augmented landscape transi-

Angeles, California and the remaining American

tions from an urban farming surface to an ascend-

cities have become isolated and no longer partic-

ing atrium volume. Spatially the volume performs

ipate in foreign trade. The population depends

to lighten, ventilate, and define programmatic hi-

on local food sources. Agricultural landscapes are

erarchy by separating private apartment units from

monopolized by the wealthy and continue to in-

communal growing spaces. Together the transfor-

crease uncontrollably. Food divides the country

mation of landscapes suture site to tower creating

into social classes and is the new currency. Ini-

a self-sustainable urban farming centers which pro-

tiatives, restricting urban sprawl, have constrained

vide place for a culture of growing.

Los Angeles, now the densest city in America with a current population of 11,500,000, from outward expansion. These acts diminish potential agricultural sites and force downtown to become receptive to the continual growth. Los Angeles’s urban form has transformed. Skyscrapers have become the typical living typology within the city’s flat topography. Sites known as “gardens” are skyscrapers that serve as programmatic negotiations between agricultural and residential typologies.

During the nation’s darkest time of corruption these gardens act as urban sutures bringing the public together through productive landscapes.

Each garden performs as a productive center where foods are grown and picked from an augmented vegetated surface, transfered to a processing center beneath, then distributed either on-site to markets, restaurants, cafes or to local markets.

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Site Circulation Diagram metro station

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Winter Equinox Shadow Diagram

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Site Step Diagram

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Site Diagrams

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Site Plan

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kitchen open to below

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04 Stretch | program associated with the urban farm stretch circulation from 7th to 8th street. pr oc re ess st in au g ra nt

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01 Orientation | reduce shadows across site and rotated for maximum sun exposure along south facade.

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02 Separation | divides public gardens from private residential units

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03 Lift | raise existing vegetated site and augment it for addi- tional square footage.

05 Suture | landscape augmentation ties the site together as it transforms from a agricultural surface to an atrium volume.

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10”x4” steel plate (embedded + anchored)

b. 2”x4” steel tube c.

transparent photovoltaic panel

d. sensor controlled folding skin system

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steel outrigger

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4”x4” steel tube

west facade skin

residential facade skin system

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a. 10”x4” steel plate (embedded + anchored)

b. irrigation piping system c.

transparent photovoltaic panel

d. 2”x2” steel tube e. lateral bracing

urban garden skin system

core + egress

roof skin

roof truss system

+ suture urban farm transforms from growing surface to atrium volume

east facade fold + diagrid structural systems

+ lift raise existing vegetation & augmenting for additional growing sf.

augmented landscape truss system

column grid

DIGITAL MEDIA II archimedean solid : snubification Team Member : Steven Collard Professor : Dustin White Year : Fall 2012 Geometry: The geometry, snub cube or snub cub-octahedron is an archimedean solid composed of 38 faces detailed with 6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles. The six faces of the snub cube are proportionally pulled away from each other and rotated counter clockwise to produce equilateral triangles throughout the modules, with lengths equal to the lengths of the squares. The faces rotate 16.7 degrees from the original position.

Objective: Design a pattern, demonstrating repetition, of the archimedian solid.

Design: The form was inspired from the ideology of a DNA strand [double helix]. As the geometries join, either by face-to-face or boolean connection, the form begins to produce a curvilinear central spine. The central spine demonstrates the structural integrity of the of the composition by providing a base for the branched modules to attach.

The following page exhibits fabrication drawings and the snubification process...

Digital Media II

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D. [01]

D. [01] Face - Face Connection

Boolean [01]

D. [02] Tab - Face Connection

D. [03]

Unrolled Module [01]

Boolean 01 creates a joint for structural support stability, different from a face to face connection.

Boolean [02]

D. [02]

Boolean [03]

Unrolled Module [02]

Booleans 02 + 03 also create joints for structural stability, different from a face to face connection.

D. [03]

Unrolled Module [03]

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Unrolled Module 03 exhibits the standard Snub Cube without any booleans.

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PLACELESS POCKET SPACES hidden events through pocket reveals Location : Mullae-Dong, Seoul, South Korea Team Member : Joo Yeol Lee Professors : Kuhn Park & Jeffrey Nesbit Year : Summer 2014 On site, three urban actors (artists, manufacturers, and residents) communicate through different overlapping typologies. New residential developments have aggressively carved away the existing fabric of manufacturing zones.

Artists cannot

afford the new residential developments so they embed themselves within offices of abandoned manufacturing buildings. The site is situated in a location where three conflicting zones begin to overlap and carve away the edge conditions of each urban actor. Overlapping conditions are translated as a spatial negotiations between each urban actor as methods to create public urban pockets.

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Bukchon Hanok Village

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Bukchon Hanok Village | 북촌 한옥 마을

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Cheonggyecheon River

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Event_B.01 Tree Canopy Vegitation Edge

Scale 1:100

River Edge

Linkages between events and sub - events occur in conse-

Stone Edge

Tree Canop Vegitation

quence of “embedded pocket conditions.” Embedding of sub events to event is identified as the invariant.

Placeless Pocket Spaces

Scale 1:50

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Event_B.01 Cheonggyecheon River | 청계천 강

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hybrid Mmdel Push Push action | push

Push Pocket

01 | primary event : the trough

reaction | pull pocket [detail]

02 | embedding sub-events in trough

reaction | embedded pocket [detail]

Hybrid Model

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01 Site Boundary

04 Circulation | carve away vegetation for public circulation.

02 Trough | Immediate New Development zones overlap the site boundary creating new on-site scaring. This scaring creates the trough, a new development pocket beneath the urban surface dedicated for the extension of artist spaces.

05 Sub Events | Artist spaces within the Manufacturing structures are extended out onto the site creating overlapping conditions. These conditions create the sub-events of the trough

Overlapping conditions between three urban actors shape public space by defining primary event and sub event zones. Resultants of each sub-event act as pockets within the site as extensions of

03 Vegetation | continue existing vegetation edges and extend zones of vegetation on site.

Placeless Pocket Spaces

immediate artist studios.

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Overlapping Sequence Diagram

04 | Circulation

04 | Vegetation

05 | Sub - Event

Approach Diagrams & Site Plan

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Entrance 03

Entrance 02

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Section A - A Extensions of immediate music studios overlap the site. Tree canopies, concrete walls and wood flooring define the pocket extension within the trough creating intimate space for musical demonstration.

Section B - B Extensions of an immediate photography studio overlap the site. This overlapping condition creates a pocket that provides public space to demonstrate photography.

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Site Sections

Section C - C Extension of immediate art studios project onto the site. The overlapping vegetation zones and artist spaces create pocket conditions that provide public spaces for art galleries.

Section D - D

Site Sections

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Placeless Pocket Spaces

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CONFLICTING RESOLUTIONS urban collage through self-generation Location : Shanghai, China Professor : Jeffrey Nesbit Year : Spring 2015

Memory & Morphology

Research Between the mid 17th and 18th centuries foreign migration occurred in Shanghai because of its desirable port location along the Huangpu River. During this time foreign settlements began amalgamating around the “old city” of Shanghai which left the Shanghainese no space for outward expansion. Consequently, collisions between cultures caused a cross cultural pollination which generated Shanghai into an ever-changing collage.

The “ever-changing collage” began in Chinese Lilong neighborhoods on shikumen dwellings. These highly condensed neighborhoods created active, social and domestic spaces in the “shikumen lanes.” Shikumen lanes refer to the street section between two shikumen dwellings separated 4 meters apart and connected by clothing rods at each story. Life is expressed by the interchangeable objects and activities that occur between

Shikumen Lane

the lanes.

During the mid 17th and 18th centuries, while this cross cultural pollination began, motifs of foreign architectural styles were embedded into shikumen facades to adapt western culture. Today new living developments carve into the historical fabric of lilong communities creating conflicting urban zones. Although different in scale and design the collisions resonate self-generative hybrid conditions between living typologies. Facades become self-expressive canvases demonstrating the lost memory by Shanghai’s morphology.

Shikumen adaptation to western culture

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Cross Cultural Pollination

Cross Cultural Pollination

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mid - rise apartment

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Zone Collision Samples

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air conditioning unit clothing

air conditioning unit clothing

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apartment lilong clothing rack clothing

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planters clothing rack air conditioning unit clothing

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rise apartment

canopy introduced creating new facade of event

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the dry clothing racks no longer become boundaries but a self generative applications to define a hybridized facade typology

adaptation : forming new courtyard space

adaptation on ground floor

Adaptation of Space as a Facade

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Zone Collision Samples

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Implementation The following implementation simulates possible architectural and urban collision outcomes from interpretations of Shanghai’s memory. Collisions between different typologies result in hybrid building structures, passive and active landscapes and river edge manipulations. Each collision ranges in the master plan from urban scale conflicts between existing and implemented zones to the detail of conflicting architectural forces.

Through self-generation the implemented conflicting resolutions continue Shanghai ever-changing collage.

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carve |

insertion |

subtraction of type A creates space for

type A collides with type B structures

communal spaces in housing typologies

type A | based on an estimated average of 2 floors, 2 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

type A | based on an estimated average of 2 floors, 2 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

type B | based on an estimated average of 1 floor, 4 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

type B | based on an estimated average of 1 floor, 4

hybrid type | A + B

hybrid type | AB - A

apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

carve | erasures of type B from type C perform as break spaces for employees during the day and event spaces by night tissues | type C | based on an estimated average of 4 floors, 36

link communist housing types to continue

apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

a traditional communal lifestyle

type C | based on an estimated average of 4 floors, 36

hybrid type | C - A

hybrid type | C + A

apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

tissues | adding type A to type C links

carve |

communist housing communi-

erasures of type A & B from type C create

ties to continue a traditional

public spaces to continue a traditional

communal lifestyle

communal lifestyle

pocket condition |

type C | based on an estimated average of 4 floors, 36

subtracting type A from type C

apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

creates space for communal interaction within the communist housing typology

hybrid type | C - A - B

hybrid type |C + - A

type C | based on an estimated average of 4 floors, 36 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

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carve | public space in communist housing community

penetration| type C is intersected by

tissues |

infrustructural pathways

adding type A to type C links hybrid type |C - B

communist housing communities to continue a traditional communal lifestyle carve | erasures of type B from type C create public spaces to continue a traditional

pocket condition |

communal lifestyle

subtracting type B from type C creates space for communal

type C | based on an estimated average of 4

interaction within the communist

floors, 36 apartment rooms per floor, and 2

housing typology

people per apartment. type C | based on an estimated average of 4 floors, 36 apartment rooms per floor, and 2

hybrid type | CA - B

hybrid type | C - I

people per apartment.

insertion |

carve|

type A extends over the site and

erasures of type A from type D

performs as mixed use event spaces

perform as break spaces for employees during the day and event spaces by night

vtype A | based on an estimated average of 2 floors, 2 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

type A | based on an estimated average of 2 floors, 2 apartment rooms per floor, and 2 people per apartment.

type D | based on an estimated average of 10

hybrid type | A + D

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type D | based on an estimated average of 10

units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8

units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8

leased office spaces per floor, and 30 people per

apartment rooms per floor and 3 people per

space.

hybrid type | A - D

apartment space.

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type D | based on an estimated average of 10 units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8

carve |

apartment rooms per floor and 3

subtraction of type A creates space for

people per apartment space.

communal interaction in housing typologies type D | based on an estimated average of 10 units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8

public event space

apartment rooms per floor and 3 people per

line of offset

apartment space.

straus| type D carves away type A to create landscapes from building straus and public hybrid type | B - D

space underneath

hybrid type | D - A

type D | based on an estimated average of 10 units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8 apartment rooms per floor and 3 people per apartment space

straus| type D carves away type C to create landscapes from building straus and public space underneath

straus| type D carves away

line of offset

type B to create public event space

landscapes from

hybrid type | D - B

building straus

Hybrid Collision Types

public communal space hybrid type | D - C

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subtraction| type D is subtracted from zone collision B

skyscraper

hybrid type | S - D

continuation | facade skin systems of type D are continued throughout skyscraper skin systems

insertion| type S intersects and adapts to the facade and structure of type D

type D

type D | based on an estimated average of 10 units per acre, each with on average of 20 floors, 8 leased office spaces per floor, and 30 people per space.

hybrid type | DS

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hybrid type | SD

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extension| type A geometries and grids extend into the river creating board-

hybrid type | R + A

walks for passive & active events and landscapes extension| skyscraper envelope transitions from building skin to zoning segregation device.

hybrid type | R - A

decay| type A grids tear away from the existing river edge to create marinas for river edge housing

hybrid type | SAI

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zone of type A

zone of type B

zone of type C

zone of type D

zone collision 02| skyscraper developement is generated

from the collision between [3] Zoning Collision_01 conflicting zones. types A, B & D

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Zoning Collisions

zone of type A

zone of type B

zone of type C

zone of type D

zone collision 03| skyscraper developement is generated from the collision between [4] conflicting zones. types A, B, C & D

Zoning Collision_02

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passive landscape 被動景觀

DNA_A cruise ship port 游輪港口

cruise ship port 游輪港口

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active landscape 被動景觀 yacht harbor 遊艇港 D-B

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active landscape 被動景觀 R-A

low rise conflicting zone 低層衝突區

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marina 瑪麗娜

passive landscape 被動景觀

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skyscraper | 摩天大樓

continues high-rise surface + branding

S|D type D | high-rise developement | D 型 |高層發展 event space | 事件空間 type A | low-rise | A 型 |低層 passive landscape | 活躍的景觀 marina | 瑪麗娜

D-A

huangpu river| 黃浦江畔

hybrid type SD

active landscape | 活躍的景觀

continues high-rise surface + branding

hybrid type S|D hard collison | immediate transition of building skin systems

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hybrid type D - A

high-rise developments carve away type A but leave communal and landscapes typologies underneath

DNA Section_A

hybrid type SD | 混合型 S D type A | low-rise | A 型 |低層 hybrid type |S-D|

high rise masses penetrate through skyscraper

type D | high-rise developement | D 型 |高層發展 hybrid type S-D | 混合型 S D hybrid type SD | 混合型 S D type A | low-rise | A 型 |低層 hybrid type A+B | A+B 混合型 passive landscape | 活躍的景觀 exterior workout area| 事件空間

active landscape | 活躍的景觀

hybrid type |A+B|

type A inserts itself into type B mass

DNA Section_B

hybrid type |S-D|

high rise mass are removed leaving glazed surfaces for views

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DNA Sections

type A | low-rise | A 型 |低層

type D | high-rise | D 型 |低層 type D | high-rise | D 型 |低層

hybrid type E + C type C intersects and adapts to existing builiding structures

E+C

type C | mid-rise | C 型 |低層

erasures of type B from type C perform as communal spaces for residents

huangpu river| 黃浦江畔

D-C

C+A hybrid type C + A

C+A

passive landscape | 活躍的景觀

D-C

hybrid type C - A

tissues connect communist housing to continue a traditional communal lifestyle

D-C

C-A C+A

C-A C+A hybrid type D - C

D-C

erasures of type B from type C perform as communal spaces for residents

dna_c

DNA Section_C

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