Architecture Portfolio - Christopher Fultz

Christopher Fultz fultzcl@mail.uc.edu Cincinnati, OH

Experience Architecture Co-Op, 05/2023 - 08/2023 & 01/2024 - 04/2024 Herscoe Hajjar Architects - Naples, FL • • • • • •

Utilized Autocad and SketchUp to produce designs, working drawings and schedules.

Completed red line drawings for architectural plans to architect’s standards.

Worked with a team to develop construction documents for client and builders.

Developed 3D models and renderings for client presentations.

On site visits for client walkthroughs and ad hoc questions for architects, builders, and clients.

Researched local building codes to ensure drawings met necessary standards.

Lead CAD Operator & Subcontractor, 05/2015 - 12/2018 & 01/2020 - 06/2022 Dan L Fultz Architecture - Louisville, KY • • • • • • •

Operated Revit and SketchUp to produce designs, working drawings, charts, and records.

Completed red line drawings for architectural plans to architect’s standards.

Represented architect on site, verifying builder compliance with design specifications and advising on design corrections, under architect’s supervision.

Managed numerous projects at a time and confirmed that all client requests were met in a timely manner.

Took two dimensional drawings and developed three dimensional renderings of residences for clients.

Built walkthrough presentations for clients and assisted in client meetings.

Assisted in expanding business into home remodeling with design, drafting, and hands on experience of various subcontracting.

Client Support Analyst, 01/2019 - 12/2019 Schneider Electric - Louisville, KY • • • • • •

Analyzed market trends, patterns, and customer usage to develop a budget for industrial clients.

Managed gas and electrical power contracts, invoices, and ad hoc requests from clients.

Trained clients on how to use Schneider Electric proprietary software needed to see their personal analytic breakout of invoices and energy usage trends.

Through diligent market research and collaboration with other departments, was able to provide over $1.5 million in savings opportunities for clients.

Established relationships with Schneider Electric customers to ensure client satisfaction Faciliated and organized-reoccurring and ad hoc meetings throughout the enterprise and with clients, including RFPs, client onboarding, quarterly business reviews, areas of opportunity, and risk management.

Education University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH Master of Architecture - expected May 2025 University of Kentucky - Lexington, KY Bachelor of Arts, Economics - May 2015

Software

Revit

Rhino

SketchUp

VRay

Twinmotion

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Grasshopper

Procreate

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Jumping Water

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Brick Block

Push, Pull, Squinch

Stitch Spa

hing ace

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Red House / Thin House

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Sukkah Build

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Mountain Residence

Moving Water: a series of Planes, Basins, and Cisterns Summer 2024 Redevelopment of flood prone site on the Ohio River Partner work Instructor Peter Yi

Aquaponics zone after storm

Moving Water envisions a forward-thinking urban development along the Ohio River, where the natural challenge of flooding is transformed into a defining feature of the community. We propose a riverponics village with a series of planes, basins, and cisterns all working to utilize rainwater and the river through innovative and sustainable practices.

With the site having been continuously hit by floods throughout its history we have implemented a series of manufactured terraced ponds. These ponds are strategically placed to absorb and manage incoming water, reducing potential damage while also allowing us to create three distinct functional zones: grey water, aquaponics, and aquaculture. Each pond is equipped with its own cistern, all interconnected through an extensive pipe network below ground and a pedestrian path above. The cisterns are not only utility based but are a visual monument which celebrates the vital role of water.

Jumping Water provides a pastoral community working towards self-sustainability where residents can harmoniously live and work with the river. By looking at the past we can begin to design for the future and create a new typology of river towns.

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Grey Water Treatment Zone

Aquaculture Zone

Aquaponics Zone

Site Building Plan

Aquaculture zone in a heavy storm

Brick Block Fall 2023 Museum in Over-the-Rhine Cincinnati, OH Partner work Instructor Andrew Tetrault

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A museum in Cincinnati’s Over-theRhine neighborhood, we took a historical approach by delving into old maps of the area. The objective was to encapsulate the essence of the neighborhood’s past, utilizing the rich history embedded in its city blocks.

The museum aimed to be a representative to the people who shaped the community over time.

Inspired by the distinctive brick facades prevalent in the neighborhood, the design incorporated the stacking of multiple city blocks. This architectural decision not only paid tribute to the historical fabric of the area but also mirrored the traditional brick structures found throughout Over-the-Rhine.

The result was a novel urban form, where the museum’s structure became a composite of stacked brick blocks, enabling visitors to experience the neighborhood from various perspectives—looking up, down, and around.

The building’s brick facade emerged as a microcosm of the interconnected city blocks, symbolizing the collaborative building blocks that form a vibrant community. Through this architectural storytelling, the museum became a living testament to the evolving history of Over-the-Rhine, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in the layered narratives woven into the fabric of the neighborhood.

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FIRST LEVEL

LOWER LEVEL

TRiPLE GLAZED WiNDOW UNiT FINISHED FLOOR - POLISHED CONCRETE SUBFLOOR SLEEPERS

BRICK SILL METAL PANEL FOR INSULATION AND BRICK METAL DECKiNG & CONCRETE

12" i BEAM WiTH FiREPROOFiNG CLiP ANGLE

WELDED WEB STiFFENERS

METAL SOFFIT HANGERS WALL TIE SHEATHING i BEAM

Section Cantilever Detail

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Library Floorplan archive

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Push, Pull, Squinch Spring 2023 Apartments & Amphitheater in Cincinnati Instructor Mara Marcu

Muqarnas domes are ornate vaulting structures integral to the Islamic building vernacular. Comprising variable yet repeating tracks stacked together, each track consists of four key elements: flat surfaces, squinches, pendentives, and extruded vertical planes. The muqarnas, with its multiplicity of focal points and curvature variations, serves not only an aesthetic purpose but also contributes to acoustical effects. The muqarnas design, through its intricate geometry, facilitates sound diffusion, effectively eliminating echoes and producing a rich, expansive auditory experience. This diffusion occurs as the sound spreads, traversing through the air and bouncing off multiple surfaces, enhancing the overall acoustic quality within.

I wanted to harness the diffusion proporties of the muqarnas by strategically merging an apartment and an amphitheater into a cohesive structure. Initially sharing a common rear massing, the apartment undergoes intentional distortion of its squinches, pendentives, and surfaces as it converges with the amphitheater. The resulting facade features an unrolled muqarnas, where pendentives drip off the massing, forming a visually striking and deformed arcade that envelops the entire complex.

Beyond its aesthetic allure, this muqarnas integration serves a functional purpose in acoustics. Balconies and bridges, designed as squinches, extend outward from the apartment, providing elevated viewing areas facing the amphitheater at the structure’s core and front. This arrangement not only enhances sound diffusion but also offers unique and immersive perspectives for amphitheater performances.

The fusion of traditional muqarnas elements with contemporary design principles manifests as a harmonious and innovative complex. This architectural blending of historical influences with modern creativity, transforms the combined apartment and amphitheater structure into a captivating environment where form and function converge seamlessly.

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FLAT SURFACE

SQUINCH

VERTICAL MUQARNAS

CELL

MULITIPLY

STRETCH

DISTORT

ROTATE

MIRROR

LIGHT WELLS

FACADE

BRIDGES

MASSING

BALCONIES

ENTRANCE

GROUND

Site

Exploded Axon

SITE

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TIERS

Stitching Space: Patterns of Light and Materiality Fall 2024 Reinvision of the pharmacology Lloyd Library in Cincinnati OH through a material study of thread and crochet.

Instructor Roberto de Leon

Crochet Study Model

Inspired by the craft of crochet, explores architecture as a woven tapestry of spaces, scales, and material interactions. Using a system of green terracotta tiles and limestone, the design threads together intricate patterns of transparency and opacity, drawing parallels to the tension and flexibility in crochet. Each element, from the micro detail of a single tile to the macro view of the building within its urban context, creates dynamic relationships between light, material, and program. The building invites discovery through interactive and evolving spaces, where gaps are not voids but opportunities for connection, exploration, and light. This approach transforms the museum into a living, everchanging structure that resonates with its historical and material context while fostering engagement and curiosity.

Woolen Form

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Pattern Making

Red House / Thin House Spring 2023 Design a personal residence given a 3’6” narrow space Professor Mara Marcu Began the project with research into a precedent home, the Red House by JVA in Oslo. The Red House is set on a hill overlooking a wooded area and has three basic geometric shapes that are pushed, pulled, and deconstructed to create views and seperation of spaces. The red coloring creates a heterotopia, or a world within a world. This space is in contradiction with the environment surrounding it and I took these principles into my Thin House design.

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Precedents

Parti

Pair

Push

Position

Place

Provoke

Panel Exercise

Red House

Symmetrical Red House

Red Box House

Red House Penthouse

Vertical Red House

Roof Garden Red House

Red Billboard House

Red Diving Board House

Interior Roof Red House

Inverted Red House

Red Boot House

Cascading Red House

Flipped Red House

Theater Red House

Passage Red House

Column Red House

Sukkah Build Fall 2022 Design & build a sukkah for a local summer camp Class Build Instructor Vincent Sansalone

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EVOLUTION with design in mind

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An evolution of construction can be seen throughout the three preliminary designs. The initial two sukkahs utilize 2x4s, plywood, and screws - which are not in keeping with the ideals of the sukkah. Whereas the final design’s roots are based on construction with natural materials and a sense of unity from the begining. The idea of using the hills in Cincinnati to act as the structural system of the build into a beautifully simple system of notches and dowels create a sukkah not reliant on unatural materials while enhancing the aesthetics of the structure. Through

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the process of construction we found notches a good idea in theory, but in practice we had to impliment screws into places where notches were intended to be fitted. With expanded parameters provided and the potential for consistant constrcution of parts we could cut down on the use of unwanted materials in the build and improve the fittings necessary for the final group sukkah.

THE BOOTH culmination of plan

The sukkah went through a multitude of designs to ensure we did not compromise on the elegance of the shape. Through combined effort the class was able to build on all of our own sukkah ideas to create the booth sukkah. The final design utilizes a system of notches, braces, and spacers to provide necessary strength and to enhance the organic flow of the structure.

The system of construction worked, but was not perfect and can be improved on. For example, instead of using the jig saw to cut the 394 notches individually into the 61 columns, we could use the circular saw and chisel to make the cuts more uniform and quickly. This may also help with the fitting of the spacers around the curves.

SUKKAH x-brace assembly

The power of legible design can be seen when studying furniture assembly manuals.

Working to provide concise directions without the written word encourages thorough diagrams to enable accurate replications of the design The sukkah x-brace assembly is an example piece and shows potential implemention into the construction drawings fore ease of assembly.

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Mountain Residence 2018 Project Manager for Residential home in Wyoming Dan L Fultz Architecture A residence designed for a steel manufacture with ADA compliance in mind. The site is located on the outside of town and has views of the Bighorn Mountains and a creek running through the rear. Steel is a reoccuring theme in the home as both offices have exposed custom steel trusses and the shading elements is a custom steel trellises.

7 8' - 0"

35' - 0"

8' - 0"

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STEEL TRUSS

10' - 6"

GLASS ROOF ABOVE

10' - 6"

5' - 3"

2' - 7"

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6x6 TIMBER @ 4' O.C.

5' - 3"

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12' - 7"

3' - 6 1/2" 2' - 3"

3' - 8"

3' - 6 1/2"

18' - 7 1/2"

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9"

10' - 2 1/2"

7' - 1"

4' - 7 1/2"

PR 2'x7'

4' - 0"

10' - 8"

6' - 7 1/2"

9"

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5 1/2"

2' - 2 1/2" 17' - 2"

28' - 8"

8' - 1"

17' - 8 1/2"

DN

5 1/2"

DN

7' - 2 1/2"

12' - 0"

2' - 2"

6' - 9"

5' - 3" 5 1/2"

5' - 7"

10' - 6"

3' - 10 1/2"

3 1/2"

4' - 4 1/2" 6' - 2 1/2"

3' - 2"

3 1/2"

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LAUNDRY CHUTE

4' - 2 1/2"

UP

7' - 11 1/2"

3' - 2"

10' - 5"

9' - 5"

3' - 0"

7' - 11 3/4" 13' - 0 1/2"

5 1/2"

3 1/2"

5' - 11 1/2" 3 1/2" 3' - 1"

4' - 7 1/2"

5 1/2"

5 1/2"

4' - 0" 4' - 5"

4' - 5"

6' - 0 1/2" 5 1/2"

5 1/2"

WINDOW SEAT

1' - 0"

8' - 5 1/2"

9"

11' - 4"

2' - 2" 6' - 8"

6' - 3"

2' - 2"

13' - 6"

5 1/2"

11' - 10 1/2"

5' - 7 1/2"

12"

2' - 9"

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UP 2' - 11 1/2"

1' - 10"

2' - 0"

6"

6' - 8"

2' - 5"

3' - 8"

2' - 10"

15 TREADS

UP

11' - 0"

13' - 9 1/4"

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18' - 5" 20 1/2" 1' - 0" 9" 8 1/4"

7' - 1"

5 1/2"

15' - 1"

5' - 1"

UP

LAUNDRY

13' - 7"

12' - 9"

5 1/2"

9' - 7"

2' - 6"

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R.O.

18' - 3 1/2"

9 1/4"

o/o DOOR FRAME

4' - 7 3/8"

1' - 0"

6' - 6"

5' - 4"

3' - 11 7/8"

17' - 1 7/8"

6' - 0"

3 1/2"

5' - 11 5/8" COLUMNS

6 1/2"

COLUMNS

9" 5' - 0" 2' - 0"

13' - 0"

6' - 2"

29' - 0"

12' - 6"

10' - 1" TOP

5' - 11 1/2" 1' - 0"

7' - 2" 1' - 10"

2' - 1"

20' - 9 1/2"

14' - 6"

A507

1' - 0 1/2"

3 1/2"

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R.O. 1' - 8 1/2"

11' - 1"

11' - 4"

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CLOSET

6' - 11"

17' - 2"

5 1/2"

23' - 11" 14' - 0"

9' - 11"

2' - 0"

15' - 1"

19' - 10 1/2"

1' - 2"

7' - 0"

8' - 0"

9"

9" 1' - 2"

8' - 1"

6"

7' - 6 1/2"

R.O. (SIM.)

15' - 1"

2' - 11"

15' - 1"

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CABS.

26' - 1"

26' - 11"

9"

17' - 1"

3' - 2"

6' - 7"

TOP 4' - 4"

9"

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4' - 9 1/2" 8"

6" LINEAR FIREBOX

9"

5' - 4"

1' - 11 3/4"

5' - 1" 5' - 7" 2' - 6"

STORAGE

6' - 1"

15' - 1"

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6' - 9 1/2"

1' - 0" 4' - 2"

4' - 7"

15' - 1"

5 1/2"

5 1/2"

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9' - 4"

2' - 2" 2' - 1"

6' - 11 3/4"

6" 6"

3" 9' - 5" 5' - 5"

3 1/2"

8' - 10"

ENTRY

31' - 7 1/2" 6' - 4"

5 1/2"

10' - 7" 8' - 9 1/2"

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DORMER

1' - 9" 15' - 1 1/2"

CLOSET

3 1/2"

7' - 2" 6' - 11"

1' - 9"

4' - 9 1/2"

7' - 1" 8' - 11 1/2"

3' - 5 1/2"

4' - 1"

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4' - 1"

9' - 10 3/4"

6' - 9 1/2"

5' - 1"

9' - 11 1/2"

9' - 1"

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4' - 9"

17' - 1"

2' - 11"

4' - 3"

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3' - 0" 9' - 1"

EQ 20' - 7"

21' - 1"

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2' - 7 1/2"

20' - 8"

12"

9"

3' - 8"

7 3/4"

6' - 5"

5' - 7"

2x8 FRAMING ABOVE OPENING

4' - 2 1/2"

4' - 2 1/2"

5' - 8"

7 3/4"

3' - 8 1/4"

DBL 14" LVL RIDGE

DBL 2x PLATE TYPICAL

2x10 RAFTERS @ 16" O.C.

STEEL STRUCTUAL DRAWINGS

DBL 14" LVL BEAM w/ 2x4 WALL ABOVE TO RAFTERS

12" 10"

12"

2x8 FRAMING ABOVE OPENING

6"

2x10 RAFTERS @ 16" O.C.

STEEL FRAME END WALL, BEYOND

4"

5' - 6 1/2"

9 1/4"

5' - 5"

11' - 0 3/4"

TOP OF STEEL

9' - 9 3/4"

6" IPE CASING

17' - 4 1/2"

TOP OF WALL

16' - 1"

TOP OF STEEL

14' - 4"

R.O. WINDOW

HSS 5x5x 1/4 BEYOND

10' - 0"

CEILING FRAME DORMER

16' - 4" 10' - 7 1/2"

SPRINGLINE FRAMING

16' - 1"

TOP OF STEEL

LINE

W12x19 BEAM BEYOND

HSS 5x5x1/4

LOFT SUBFLOOR 111' - 4 1/2"

BEYOND

R 19' - 4"

FRAMING

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11"

FINISHED

12"

SPRINGLINE

6' - 0"

T.O. WALL

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5' - 6 1/2"

SPRINGLINE

GLASS AND STAINLESS STEEL RAIL

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CEILING BEYOND

CEILING BEYOND LINE

5' - 0"

DINING

TO STAIR HALL

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FIRST FLOOR 100' - 0" #2 OF 4 ALIGNED STEEL & GLASS DOORS 3'-4"x9'-0"

3"

FULL WIDTH TRUSS

HSS 4x3x1/4 CHORD BELOW

3"

5/8" THROUGH BOLTS @ 8" O.C. w/ 1 5/8" (+/-) (?) WASHERS

1/2"x3"xFULL HEIGHT STEEL PLATE WEILD TO TOP AND BOTTOM CHORDS OF HALF TRUSS. PRE-DRILL FOR THROUGH BOLTS

4x3x1/4 CENTER CHORD BELOW OR ABOVE

1/2"x3" PLATE

3x2x1/4

4x3x1/4

12" 7"

20' - 11 3/8"

R 24' - 0"

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1/4" STEEL COVER PLATE. 45 DEGREE BEVEL THIS END.

20' - 11 3/8"

WELD, TYPICAL

ROOF FRAMING GABLE 4 SIDES 2x8 RAFTERS

45 DEGREE INSIDE CORNER

DBL 2x VALLEY PLATE

STEEL TRUSS'S IN FOUR CORNER/CROSS CONFIG. RADIUS BOTTOM CHORD, BOLT SECTION @ CENTER

1/2" 7 1/2"

10" +/-

HVAC DUCT

EXTERIOR 2x SLATED SUN SCREEN ON UPPER GEOMETRIC SHAPE GLASS PANES

3/4" CONTINUOS SHIM PLATE UNDER WALL FRAMING. TYPICAL ALL

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FIRST FLOOR 100' - 0"

8 1/4" PLATE

3/8" ANGLE T&G BOLTS TO FRAMING CORNER TIE

SET SILL @ DESK HEIGHT

2' - 7"

9' - 1"

R.O.

9' - 1"

ADD SUN SCREEN OR SHADES FOR LOWER GLASS

Thank you fultzcl@mail.uc.edu