KennethReynold_Architecture Portfolio

01 Balaban Community Center

02 TESLA

Showroom & Hotel

Contents 03 Kyudo

Japanese Archery

04 Kapel

Balaban Community Center

Concept Design

My concept design started from the Chinese character called ‘’ren’’. That character if translated to English means people or human. The main function of my building is to be a community center in Balaban city. The building around the site has a market, Mosque, park, and mostly residential. Our site is at the center of everything. So I am using forms and shapes that looks inviting and can be used to gather people around the place.

Private Spaces

Retail

Circulation

Restaurant

site plan Istanbul, Turkey Town of Balaban

The designed site plan complete with all the information necessary about the building. The building has two main entrances one is located at the North an the other one at the south of the building. Both of the main entrances are accessible for handicaped. The sites topology creates an elevation of 10 feet between east and west, but to make the building more accessible it’s fully equipped with a ram. The ‘L shaped building on the north west is going to be a town market, a place where the community of the town can buy and sell stuff. It is also designed with a huge parking, large enough to accomodate for both buildings. The building with the light pink color symbolizes the Mosque which is the center of the town. The other white buildings are houses. Then, the empty land located on the north east is planned to be a gift shop and cafe in the future. So, with all considerations taken the building will be very convient not only for the people who are going to use it directly, but also for the community surrounding the building.

T E S L A

TESLA showroom & Hotel Detroit, Michigan The building was designed according to three types of cars that Tesla had. So the building separated into three sections with each type of Tesla cars. It also had a connection through the bridges on the second and third level and through the basement.

It is a mixed-use building included residential, restaurant, office and showroom.

The Showroom is starting from the ground floor to the third floor, and the rest are mostly private area included the hotel and the office. The secondary or the middle part is a private area because that is where the office is.

Sections

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The section view tells better about how the building was divided. From left to right: Model S, Model X, Model 3. There is an elevator for the vehicle from the basement to the third floor because those levels where the showroom is. Then the 4th and the 5th are the hotels with a total of 16 rooms, 6th is the restaurant with the kitchen and the storage space and 7th is the bar.

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A. LOBBY B. ZEN GARDEN C. GALLERY D. REGULAR GARDEN E. ADMINISTRATION ROOM F. ARENA G. OBSERVARTORY H. STAGE I. MEDITATION ROOM/ PRIVATE GARDEN J. CHANGING ROOM K. PRIMARY BATHROOM

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South Elevation

West Elevation

KYUDO

Japanese Archery Delray Beach, Florida

the way of the bow, is a living tradition of meditative archery rooted in old worrier tranditions of Japan. The perfect mastery of the bow was considered an art by the Samurai, an art that knew no other goal than the highest experience of the here and now, of the moment as it is, beyond any strategies of thought and concept. Today, Kyudo is being practiced by thousands of people all over the world for their mental schooling as well as for their physical, mental and spiritual development. The simple elegance of the movements, the beauty of the bow and arrows and the atmosphere of quietness and dignity predominant in the practice of time and place, have a great fascination for those who wish to work upon the path of self-knowledge.

East Elevation

North Elevation

K a p e l

Kapel is a mixed-used building included the chapel, retail and residential. The building is divided into three sections, Primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary which the tallest part of the building is the chapel itself. The bottom part of the secondary and tertiary are the retail and the top part are residential with a connection by the bridge to all part of the building.