Architecture Portfolio 2017

Graphic, Built, and Architectural Works

Pratt Institute

School of Architecture Brooklyn, NY

Spring 2017 Portfolio

Colin Ruppert

Graphic, Built, and Architectural Works San Francisco, CA

Semester 1 Design Process

Brooklyn, NY

the Pratt Institute 2016 1

Final Product

Semester 2 Design Process

the Pratt Institute 2017 13

Final Product Representation Skills

Semester 3 Kindergarden Project

the Pratt Institute 2017 23

The Cloud Project

San Pablo Ave.

UC Berkley embARC 2014 35

Cal Poly Final

Cal Poly Summer Career Workshop 2015 37

Sonoma Residence

Lundberg Design 2013 41

SFSU Dormitory Model

gould evans 2017 43

Fall 2016 Semester 1

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the Pratt Institute Academic Work

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BUILT DRAWINGS

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EXTRUDED TRIANGLES

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TRIANGULAR APERTURE VENTILATION

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APERTURE EXPLORATION

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ASYMMETRIES

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CYLINDRICAL EXPLORATION

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HYBRIDIZATION 10

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FRAMED APERTURES Scale = 1” = 1’ - 0” Section A = A

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Spring 2017 Semester 2

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the Pratt Institute Academic Work

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TWISTING CUTTING-PLANES The design originated from the desire to bring a threshold-like experience of entering a solid through the use of a void, my main design element. Although, one cannot see a ‘void,’ the shape of it would control the experience my viewer has of entering the solid. To cater to a certain occupant for whom I was designing this experience, a ‘hopper' and a ‘swinger', I gave the void a twist that split the void at an angle. This dynamic transformation allows the threshold to accommodate a hopper and a swinger through their entry into the solid. As depicted below, the component that came out of this concept acted as a set of pathways which are twisted vis-a-vis each another, thus locking onto a void that cuts the solid. To the right, one will find that these pathways naturally connect into others, allowing the occupant to continuously move through interconnected pathways by swinging and hopping around the obstacles they meet.

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PROTECTED VOIDS To explore my understanding of the void as an explicit design tool, not merely as a product of architecture but as the architecture itself, I employed a rectilinear void with the single rule that its boundary cannot be entered by the second piece. The language of this design is defined by the folded planes which wrap around and define at least two corners of the void’s edges. The plane has an arbitrary dimension, adding a playful eect to the aggregation of the components. They were composed to meet the edges of the folded plane. The model was designed to be versatile and free of context and even size: it can be placed in the plaza or mounted straight to the facade of the building to add outdoor or breakout spaces to the classrooms inside.

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INTERCONNECTED PATHS INTERTWINED PATH

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Drawings of the Hybrid Model done by hand and aided by printed plots The Final Model

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During the hybridization of these two approaches, I considered the similarities of the two designs as a manipulation of a rectilinear volume. A thought occurred in me to attempt the two transformations in the same volume. The overlap of the paths from my first design approach and the folded planes from my second approach combine to remove the overlapped portion of the structures. The materials I chose allow the viewer to differentiate among the hierarchy of design elements because the thickness of material is the differentiating feature.

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Experimental Drawing of Hybridized Approach Perspectival view of the Hybrid Model from street level

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the Tortoise House

Kenji Ekuan’s "Tortoise House” (1964) is conceived as a versatile, modular piece in the tradition of modern Japanese architecture. Analyzing and studying the four drawings which exist of the project shows how extreme the language and rigor applied to this architecture is. The individual modules differ slightly from one another such that certain panels are replaced by apertures which help to create different combinations of spaces within those modules. Thinking of the module as a species which evolves to adapt to its environment, I aimed for creating certain variations of the core structure that could survive or be suitable for the arid desert as well as in the arctic tundra. The project concluded with the task of redesigning a portion of Red Hook using learnt design and representational techniques.

Assignment 2.2

Transformational Analysis Mars Oblique View

Desert Oblique View

Salt Flats Top View

Floating Section View

Volcanic Top View

Arctic Section View

Colin Ruppert Representtion II 2017 Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture

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Comparisons of the remodeled Tortoise House (L) Original top view (R)

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Exploded Axonometric of the simple elements of the Tortoise House

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Fall 2017 Semester 3

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the Pratt Institute Academic Work

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the Kindergarten Project

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Kindergarten Model

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above: Site Integration

below: Site Sections

above: Seasonal Change Study

below: East West Sections

above: Site Plan

above: Floor Plans

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below: North South Sections

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The Cloud Convention Center

by Studio Fuksas

below: Exploded Axonometric of Fuksas’ Cloud

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Exploded Axonometric

Images of the Cloud Convention Center by Studio Fuksas

Pratt Arch 112 Representation 3 - Fall 2017 - instructor: Danielle Willems

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student : Colin Ruppert - Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture

above: Fuksas’ Plan of the Cloud Convention Center

above: My Plan of the Cloud Convention Center

below: Plan and Section of Fuksas’ Cloud

below: Axonometric of Cloud Form

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Section & Plan

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Section looking SW

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Main Plan of Cloud

Pratt Arch 112 Representation 3 - Fall 2017 - instructor: Danielle Willems

Cloud Form

student : Colin Ruppert - Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture

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Axonometric Axonometric Axonometric

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Sectional Drawing

Pratt Arch 112 Representation 3 - Fall 2017 - instructor: Danielle Willems

student : Colin Ruppert - Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture

Pratt Arch 112 Representation 3 - Fall 2017 - instructor: Danielle Willems

student : Colin Ruppert - Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture

Section

Pratt Arch 112 Representation 3 - Fall 2017 - instructor: Danielle Willems

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Summer 2014 Summer 2015

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the UC Berkley embARC program the Cal Poly Summer Career Workshop Educational Work

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San Pablo Avenue Berkley, CA As part of an effort to imagine urban renewal and to offer sustainable housing in a formerly neglected part of Berkeley, California, I was tasked with the modeling of a multi-use building. The complex was to house private, public and commercial spaces with a seamless transition between them. I chose to integrate a central open space that is anchored by a green zone on the ground level. Successive floors are rotationally offset from one another to create a layering rather than a stacking effect. The challenge was to remove the impression of the ordinary, and to subtly differentiate the organization of housing units that are in close vertical and horizontal proximity. I believe that the culture of a building's inhabitants is much influenced by the mindfulness of the architectural spaces that surrounds them. Well considered architecture influences our ability to communicate, show empathy, be inspired by the aesthetic environment.

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Cal Poly Final My model of a private residential structure consists of three interlocking rectangles that are arranged at oblique angles to one another. The configuration of the forms cause space to either become focused or to open up to the world beyond. The top and bottom of these rectangles are further differentiated by a series of opaque and solid vertical segments that defy easy characterization (either as wall or window), as both criteria are fulfilled simultaneously. The idea is that the home allows light to be experienced in ways that challenge our expectations. The lines between walls and windows were intentionally blurred, and standard building concepts were dispensed with in favor of creating new ways of experiencing and inhabiting space.

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Summer 2013 Summer 2017

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Lundgerg Design gould evans Professional Experience

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Sonoma Residence I contributed design input for this custom Corten steel scrim wall of a private residence in Sonoma County. The translucent wall shrouds an exterior staircase in two locations of the building. One conveys mystery to the entry sequence, while the other provides a curtain outside of the exterior wall of the building to allow light to filter in while also sustaining privacy for its residents. The interstitial space is occupied by a staircase that provides access to an art studio. I was photographed in the act of modeling the scrim wall using the actual size cardboard representations that I built of the proposed steel elements.

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SFSU Student Housing Model During my seven week internship at Gould Evans, an architectural group which operates in a handful of US cities, I was assigned to the team of architects who are currently working on a 570-bed SFSU student dormitory in the Park Merced neighborhood of San Francisco, California. At the time, the project was still in the design development phase and needed the benefit of the perspective only material models can provide. I was tasked to build a scaled model for the team and present it to the firm and its principals on my last day. I began by taking the complex Revit model of the project and deconstructed it in Rhino such that I would be able to focus on transforming the whole into a paper model. I simplified the building into 1/16th inch paper pieces, in careful consideration of the structure. After the parts I specified arrived from the laser cutting bed, I commenced with the assembly on the model. The building was designed to have two L-shaped forms which I used to my advantage by allowing the assembly to happen independently. I designed it such that the floors were held in place without glue by employing a design that locked the floors in place with a lock-and-key feature that I pre-engineered into the pieces.

The cladding of the facade, the integration of the detached ‘L’ and a few touches to the vegetation completed the model on time and on budget.

Revit

Parts

Rhino

Structure

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Topographic Site

Context

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View from above revealing plaza (L) View of stairway corridor (R) View from NW corner (L) View of SE corner (R)

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Holloway Street (L) Sidewalk moment in front of grocery store (R) Building integrated with site and surrounding context

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Portfolio 2018

Colin Ruppert

I am grateful to have been associated with the following organizations that developed and furthered my interests in Architecture. Specifically I would like to thank my teachers, bosses, and mentors at Lundberg Design (2013), embARC design (2014), Cal Poly Summer Career Workshop (2015), and Gould Evans (2017).

Colin Ruppert 1033 Rover Road Sonoma, CA 95476 415.518.5920 colinruppert@iCloud.com