Academic Design Portfolio

CORY GAMBLIN ACADEMIC DESIGN PORTFOLIO

Marquee Facade Proposal Kansas City, MO University of Missouri – Kansas City

Manhattan Farmer’s Market Manhattan, KS Kansas State University

Flint Hills Boys & Girls Club Alma, KS Kansas State University

American Folk Art Museum Boston, MA Kansas State University

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Marquee Facade Proposal Kansas City, MO University of Missouri – Kansas City Spring 2020 Marquee is an upscale restaurant to inhabit a former midtwentieth-century neighborhood movie house; a single brick, load bearing wall remains on the site. The facade proposal for the restaurant stitches together the existing structure with a vestibule, staircase, and additional seating for waiting and dining. The austere, polycarbonate screen offers shading during the daytime but transforms at night to project the activity occurring behind along the West 39th Street corridor.

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Manhattan Farmer’s Market Manhattan, KS Kansas State University Fall 2020 The Manhattan Farmer’s Market is a multi-seasonal and biweekly operation occurring on an open lot in downtown Manhattan. The proposed design would offer a permanent home for the four-decade-old enterprise, adding space for a public teaching kitchen and an office for organizers.

The large lamella vault that spans the market space meets the heights of nearby buildings while the teaching kitchen maintains the urban edge. The structure imposed a significant influence on the design. A lamella system was chosen for its spanning ability and historical significance in agrarian structures. The limestone-hued, split-face CMU walls of the teaching kitchen respond to the historic downtown businesses and take durability and affordability into account.

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Flint Hills Boys & Girls Club Alma, KS Kansas State University Downtown Alma, colloquially the “City of Native Stone,” has a long limestone building history that is a point of pride for the community. Like many small towns across the United States in the mid-twentieth century, low-maintenance aluminum facades were applied to the aging structures. Alma still features many of these metal bandages. The proposed design for the Boys and Girls Club of the Flint Hills, located in the heart of downtown Alma, respects the local vernacular in a modern way. Buff-colored, honed limestone panels contrast a perforated screen that wraps the uppermost level; the Boys and Girls Club of America logo superimposed on the scrim giving the building an unmistakable identity.

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American Folk Art Museum Boston, MA Kansas State University Spring 2021 The American Folk Art Museum is a premier institution showcasing the efforts of self-taught artists for the last sixty years. The proposed design for its latest home accommodates a gift shop, cafe, library, and auditorium, as well as two floors of gallery space to house the museum’s permanent collection. Formal galleries are all housed within a patinated copper volume, elevated two levels above grade, which one experiences and interacts with throughout the museum. Patinated copper was selected both for its unique character and significance to Boston’s historical architecture.

Daylighting for the galleries is accomplished primarily by large, screened apertures facing an open-air atrium.

Generic Massing A generic massing was first derived by extruding the site borders up an appropriate height in order to meet the context.

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Galleries A patinated copper box rising two levels is offset into the massing to house the museum’s permanent collection. The form is lifted to allow for entry from either Merrimac or Lancaster Street.

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Functional Core A mass core housing vertical circulation, restrooms, and other support program is inserted approximately halfway through the building.

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Apertures Openings are carved from the copper box allowing filtered daylight into the galleries and the exterior pedestrian corridor.

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