CV, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE + SELECTED DESIGN WORK
LANDSCAPE | PLANNING | ARCHITECTURE
KINA VOELZ
Design leader with over 20 years of experience in landscape design, architecture, and resiliency planning, bringing passion and expert project synthesis with interdisciplinary vision, to enrich diverse places where land, water and built environments meet.
1996 Albert Ludwig Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany and Eberhard Karls Universitaet, Tuebingen, Germany, German Language Coursework, Preparatory Courses for the PnDS (Pruefung fuer deutsche Sprachkentniss)
1992 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA. Pre-College Summer Program Intensive
2021 Critical Race Theory Workshops for Mahlum Architects, Amara H. Pérez, Portland OR.
2019 - 2021 Equity & Inclusion Training and Public Speaking Coaching Workshops with Paloma Medina, Portland OR.
2017 Botanicollage Filmmaking with Caryn Cline, Northwest Film Center, Portland OR. 2002
PUBLICATIONS, LECTURES, & ARTICLES
2021 “Community Schools Initiative”, “Intertwining the Built and the Natural” & “The Greening of Steel”- Mahlum presentations
2018 Constructive Form’s Studio ADU featured in TheOregonian, by Janet Eastman, January 24, 2018 edition
2009 MetroNatureinNeighborhoods:IntegratingHabitsAwardPublication, by METRO Tri-county Government
2008 “Integrating Habitats Within Real Neighborhoods”, by Kina Voelz, Simone Goldfeder and Brent Hinrichs, Arcade 06.04
2008 Summary of METRO Integrating Habitats Competition, Metropolis, by Susan Szenasy, Summer Edition
CURATORIAL EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE AT BIWA IZAKAYA, PORTLAND, OR.
2016 Artist Margo Majewska, Cut Me Open, Video Installation, Fall - Winter
2012 Ceramicists Dan Kunnecke, Careen Stoll & Steven Mickey, The Unpredictable Nature of Fire, wood fired ceramics In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland), Spring - Summer
2012 Sri Threads in collaboration with Stephen Szczepanek, Japanese Vintage Textiles, Spring - Summer
2011 Artist Jason Carlisle, Photomosaics, color photography collages, Summer - Fall
2010 Artist Margo Majewska, Spills, mixed media drawings, Summer - Fall
2008
Artist Margo Majweksa, Shadows, oversize pencil drawings, Spring- Summer
2007- 2008 Photographer Bob Goldfeder, Images of Manzanar, black and white photography, Fall - Winter
2007 Artist Tessa Hinrichs, Untitled, black and white mono types
TECHNOLOGY
Adobe Creative Suite including After Effects, Audition, and Premier; ArcGIS; Autocad; Bluebeam; Dragonframe; Maya; MS/Google Office; Sketch Up; Rhino; Vectorworks; Grasshopper; Midjourney and Revit Beginner.
Next Role: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
KINA VOELZ | SELECTED PROJECT LIST
WORKPLACE
Sullivan’s Gulch Offices | adaptive reuse for commercial office; Portland, OR 2020; (with Constructive Form)
Alpine Lake Building | adaptive reuse for commercial office and mixed use; Portland, OR 2018; (with Constructive Form)
712 SE Hawthorne Project | code compliance, ADA & modern upgrades - Portland, OR 2014; (with Constructive Form)
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. Offices | tenant improvement; Portland, OR 2010 & 2014; (with Constructive Form)
Fairclough Building Mixed Use | commercial tenant & storefront improvements; Oregon City, OR 2014 & 2017; (with Constructive Form)
Gateway Mixed Use | new retail & medical office building Portland, OR 2012; (with Constructive Form & Dominek Architecture)
Metro Tri-County Government | Urban Revitalization Services Contracts; Portland Metro Area 2012 - 2014; (with Constructive Form)
Portland Development Commission | Architectural Storefront Services Contract - Portland, OR 2010 - 2016; (with Constructive Form)
Ford Building Adaptive Reuse | planning & schematic design; Portland, OR, 2007; (with Ankrom Moisan)
COMMERCIAL, RETAIL, HOSPITALITY AND MIXED-USE
Oregon Olive Mill - retail store & future phases planning; Dundee, OR 2018, 2020; (with Constructive Form)
Giraffe Goods - cafe and grocery, Portland, OR 2018; (with Constructive Form)
Fressen Artisan Bakery | wholesale bakery and cafe, adaptive reuse commercial; Portland, OR 2017; (with Constructive Form)
Parasol Bar | grocery & cafe tenant improvement; Portland, OR 2016; (with Constructive Form)
Alameda Plateau Cohousing | new housing, site & landscape design; Portland OR 2025; (with Constructive Form)
East Burnside Multi-Family | pre-design & feasibility studies; Portland OR 2018 & 2024; (with Constructive Form)
NE 6th Commons | feasibility and planning for new development; Portland, OR 2018; (with Constructive Form)
Promoting Health Through Multi-Family Housing Planning Study | site analysis, planning, design & community engagement; Portland, OR 2014; (with Constructive Form & Carleton Hart)
Camas Multi Family Housing Developer | site analysis and feasibility planning; Camas, WA 2014; (with Constructive Form)
Lacamas Creek Residences | site and land use planning & new construction of dwellings; Camas, WA 2010; (with Constructive Form)
The Mirabella South Waterfront Retirement Community | LEED consultation Portland, OR; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Nye Beach Condominiums | schematic design & LEED consultation; Newport, OR 2007; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Holladay Place Senior Retirement Condominiums | schematic design & LEED consultation; Portland, OR 2007; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Holladay Park Plaza Commons Remodel | schematic design & land use planning; Portland, OR 2007; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Trinity Terrace Retirement Community : City Tower | design development thru construction; Fort Worth, TX, 2006; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Trinity Terrace Commons Remodel & Parking Garage | design development thru construction; Fort Worth, TX, 2006; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Upper Falls Condominiums | design development thru construction; Spokane, WA 2007; (with Ankrom Moisan)
Woodlawn T.E.S.T. House | site & exterior design for new residence; Portland, Oregon, 2000; (with Portland Habitat for Humanity)
ACADEMIC, CULTURAL AND CIVIC
Mancos Commons | site and exterior design; mixed use: housing & print making studios, Mancos CO, 2024; (with Constructive Form)
Canby High School | new science wing & campus-wide renovations; Canby OR, 2021- 2022; (with Mahlum Architects)
Canby School District Masterplan | masterplan and phasing scope; Canby OR, 2021; (with Mahlum Architects)
Carus, Eccles, Knight & Lee Elementary Schools, Baker Prairie and Trost Middle Schools, 91 School, Canby School District Office | renovations, playgrounds & core and shell upgrades; Canby OR, 2021- 2022; (with Mahlum Architects)
Ainsworth United Church of Christ | tenant improvement for HIV Day Center ; Portland, OR 2020; (with Constructive Form)
Lothar-Guenter-Buchheim Museum at Starnberger Lake | new museum; Bernried, Germany, 2000; (with Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner)
CONCEPTUAL STUDIES AND COMPETITIONS
Revitalizing El Chorrillo | framework & resiliency planning, urban design; Panamá City, Panamá, May 2024; (at U Penn)
Informal Settlement Engages with Ancestral Lands | framework & resiliency planning, urban design; Kisumu, Kenya 2023; (at U Penn; in collaboration with Marcus Owens)
Innovative Place Making Emerges from Existing Communities; | framework planning & new mixed use district design; Philadelphia, PA 2023 (at U Penn; in collaboration with Ying Zhang)
Erasing Boundaries: Reclaiming Lenape Land in the Brandywine Watershed | regional & framework planning for new community land stewarding; Chester County, PA 2022; (at U Penn)
Metro Competition Categories 1 (1st prize) and 3 | ecological & urban design competitions; Portland, OR 2008; (with Constructive Form)
Project Role: Feasibility Study, Code Guidelines, Conceptual Site & Building Planning, Phase 1 installation guidelines & specifications.
Kina worked on the framework planning for transforming a former motor lodge into a destination eco-resort. This included development of a new trail system to upland areas to the shore, preliminary concept designs for key areas and zones that would lend themselves to a deeper and richer experience, timeline and project phasing, accessibility upgrades and sensitive habitat restoration.
INTEGRATING
Oceancrest Eco-Resort | Phase 2 Planning for New Cabin Campus
INTEGRATING HABITATS | DISTRICT & COMMUNITY SPACES
Reinventing the El Chorrillo Waterfront
Project Information:
University of Pennsylvania & Isthmus University
Place: El Chorrillo + San Felipe, Panama City, Panama | 2024
Type: Recreational + Cultural Hub, Mangrove Restoration
Collaboration with a group working on larger urban design strategies to re-envision the El Chorrillo neighborhood to provide improved infrastructure and flood control investment, safety, and high-quality community spaces. Her specific project sought to demonstrate that this neighborhood and the historic UNESCO core of Panama City, San Felipe, will be subjected to flooding from sea level rise and upland weather events over the coming decades.
Her proposal provides an approach for cultivating and reforesting the coastal marshland with a mix of mangrove species, while allowing for a mix of recreational and cultural uses for tourists and residents alike to engage with the biodiversity of this dynamic intertidal zone, which is rapidly changing due to the construction of a U Loop freeway connector constructed a decade prior.
30 YEAR MANGROVE REGROWTH PROJECTION
NEW RECREATIONAL + COMMUNITY AMENITIES AT INTERTIDAL ZONE, + MANGROVE NURSERY
HYDROLOGIC UPLAND FLOWS + 2050 FLOOD PROJECTION
INTEGRATING HABITATS | DISTRICT & COMMUNITY SPACES
Informal Settlement Engages with Ancestral Lands
Project Information:
In Collaboration with Marcus Owens, University of Pennsylvania; Maseno & Great Lakes Universities; Kisumu Regional Government Place: Nyalenda, Kisumu, Kenya | 2023
Type: Water Management, Productivity, Communal Services + Amenities, Aqua- and Agriculture,
Fall 2023 design studio- located on Lake Victoria, Kenya in between a vast papyrus wetland, a cultivated and ancestral agricultural area that experiences regular flood events, and the informal settlement of Nyalenda. Building on the organic development pattern of this neighborhood, goals were to increase social services and community amenities, maintain access to agri-cultural areas, create greater environmental resiliency, and honor the traditional as well as contemporary cultural practice of burying ancestors adjacent to dwellings by developing a community forest for honoring those who
DUNGAWETLANDS
MARKET GARDEN AREA RENDERING BY MARCUS OWENS
FIGURE GROUND OF EXISTING BUILT PATTERNS
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & COLLABORATION
Kisumu, Kenya & Panamá City, Panamá | Comprehensive Urban Planning | 2023 - 2024
University of Pennsylvania Design Studios Planning and Landscape Architecture Departments
(with
Canby Masterplan | 2021 (with
Collaboration with Canby School District, Canby Bilingual Master Planning Committee
Promoting Health Thru Multifamily Housing | 2014 (with Constructive Form)
Collaboration with City of Portland, Housing Development Corporation, East Portland Communities
courtesy of Mahlum Architects
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITY SPACES & ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
Metro ‘Integrating Habitats’ Design Competition
Category 1
Category 3 First Place Winner
Project Information:
Place: Portland, Oregon | 2008
Type: Multi Family Housing & Ecological Restoration Design Team:
Kina Voelz, Simone Goldfeder, Brent Hinrichs
Category 1
The requirements of this competition were to design a mixed-use living and commercial project on a multi-acre parcel of land within a forested riparian zone. Drawing from studies and observations of the regional habitat’s characteristics and environmental qualities, primary ideas focused on providing contiguous greenways and flyway “fingers” across the site to support, enhance, and intensify the cultivated and native riparian forest landscapes, common spaces, eco-swales, and building footprints that are organized as directional clusters running concurrent with the green tracks.
Use and form of the built environments within the tracks ebb and flow based on use: housing, gardens, orchards, outdoor sports fields, retail, neighborhood daycare, greenhouse, wood shop, craft center, fitness gym, offices, solarium.
Category 3
Awarded the first-place competition prize and published in Metropolis and Arcade, the design explored the question of whether natural habitats in urban environments, such as remnant Oregon oak savannah, could be enhanced, restored and cultivated through careful development that also supports increased human density at the neighborhood lot scale.
Principal member of the design team.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITIES & DISTRICTS
Alameda Plateau Cohousing
Project Information:
Office: In Collaboration with Constructive Form
Place: Portland, Oregon | Under Construction
Type: Land Use Planning, Landscape & Site Design, Housing, Community Commons General Contractor: RBL LLC
Project Role: Landscape, Site & Building Design, Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Planning & Jurisdictional Coordination.
A group of individuals came together with the intent of creating an inclusive cohousing community within a supportive, aging-in-place environment. Diverse is the array of builders and sub-contractors, and the age range of the initial group that will live here. Building on this, the project aims to connect its green spaces to the neighborhood at-large, to deepen biodiversity and community ties.
The buildings are arranged to maximize interior daylight, to balance rooftop shade and sun zones to allow for both solar panels and mature trees; and to create privacy from both the adjacent streets, and in between the community’s common spaces and individual patios at each dwelling. The series of outdoor rooms share a shade pergola space; an outdoor cooking zone and meeting area; covered outdoor workshop-studio zones; and a regenerative oak micro-habitat area located at the north.
Rainwater is retained on-site, collected and fed through cisterns to irrigate the vegetated spaces. In addition to creating edible garden zones with planting beds and small fruit shrubs and trees, selective portions will be reforested with native trees -oaks, silk tassel and quaking aspens-, with endemic mid and understory companion planting zones for each micro-zone. With the native plant palette, the goal is to build soil that can remove atmospheric carbon and create specific habitat zones that are mutually beneficial for flora and fauna, including humans.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITIES & DISTRICTS
Mancos Commons
Project Information:
Office: In Collaboration with Constructive Form Place: Mancos, Colorado | 2024
Type: Printing Studio + Workshop Center, Site Design, Land Use Planning, Offices, Housing
General Contractor: Jaynes Construction Partners: Mancos Commons, U Penn, Cultural Arts District, Colorado Housing Authority, Colorado State Historic Fund
Project Role: Jurisdictional Coordination; Landscape & Site Design, Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Building Design support during CD’s.
In this spectacular setting nestled at the base of the Las Platas mountains with Mesa Verde to the West, the first building to be constructed in downtown Mancos in over 100 years features an inclusive, participatory art-making and active space with a new street-facing community plaza, affordable housing, and wildlife corridor adjacent to the Mancos River, a tributary of the Colorado Rivershed.
Adjacent to the riverside, is an area for growing native and dye plants to be used in the studio’s print making, as well as acting as a zone for filtering run off and storm water flow from the Northern Plaza and the building roof. Drought tolerance and ease of maintenance were the primary goals for the planting areas, as well as the invitation for non-human inhabitants from the green corridor to access the site before heading back into the larger watershed and beyond.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITIES & DISTRICTS
Canby School District
Project Information:
Office: with Mahlum Architects Place: Canby, Oregon | 2021- 2023
Type: Educational K-12 Schools, Masterplanning General Contractor: Multiple
Project Role: Community Engagement & Masterplanning; Jurisdictional Coordination; Design & Historic Review; Project Management, all design phases thru CA.
While working with Mahlum Architects, Kina managed multiple projects at varying phases in collaboration with Canby School District. In this endeavor, she worked closely with approximately 8 - 20 colleagues depending on the design phase and point in the overall timeline. Throughout she worked closely with senior project architects and designers to create beautiful as well as practical and functional spaces desired by the District while meeting budgetary requirements.
The District sought a 20 year “look ahead” masterplanning and strategic visioning plan to serve their Spanish and English speaking student body; multiple building renovations across their elementary and middle schools; and a new science-forward high school wing to compliment their robust career-focused curriculum. They also wished to bring maker and flexible creative spaces to their lower grade bands, and Kina and her team worked closely with the district administrators to engage faculty from multiple schools to bring them into the decision making process. This resulted in flexible-use spaces with integral digital and analog technologies to support indoor-outdoor education, access to creative outlets for kids with varied learning styles, and cross-disciplinary teaching opportunities.
Schools & Playgrounds:
Canby High School
Trost and Baker Prairie Middle Schools
91 School (K-8)
Knight, Eccles, Carus and Lee Elementary Schools
Other Projects/ Buildings: Ackerman Middle School
(currently used for community and as district office
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
RESUMEN EJECUTIVO
The Master Plan outlines the vision and aspirations of the Canby community for its school facilities, an evaluation and recommendation for each school building, and an implementation plan. El Plan Maestro describe la visión y las aspiraciones de la comunidad de Canby para sus instalaciones escolares, una evaluación y recomendación para cada edificio escolar y un plan de implementación.
Plan Maestro guía el desarrollo equitativo e inclusivo de los sitios escolares de Canby durante los próximos 20 años, centrando las necesidades de los estudiantes, maestros y personal dentro de
INTEGRATING HABITATS | DISTRICT & COMMUNITY SPACES
Innovative Place Making Emerges from Existing Communities
Project Information:
In Collaboration with Ying Zhang, University of Pennsylvania Place: Kingsessing + Bartram’s North, Philadelphia, PA | 2023
As a starting point, youth- oriented design guidelines were generated for a new intergenerational neighborhood with a community land development and ownership model, with the goal of bringing home and business ownership to residents not typically served in this often overlooked area of Philadelphia.
Building on the traditions and cultural foundations of the long-standing neighborhoods and historic Bartram’s Garden along the Schuylkill River, the design is derived from the existing neighborhood fabric-- at the block scale, at the community scale and at the 15 minute walk scale.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | DISTRICT & COMMUNITY SPACES
Erasing Boundaries: Reimagined Lenape Stewardship
Project
Information:
University of Pennsylvania
Place: ChesLen Preserve, Chester County, Pennsylvania | 2022
In this design, Kina considered the ways in which the original indigenous group of Eastern Pennsylvania, the Lenni-Lenape, inhabited these lands prior to colonization. ALenapeAmong theQuakers:TheLifeofHannahFreeman , provided an inroads to understanding the Chester County landscape over 200 years ago, and inspired much of this work. At a site selected at ChesLen Preserve in Chester County, she began design explorations through making hand drawings and models.
This work is ongoing and has culminated in a performance-video installation as well as an animated short film.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | SITE SCALE | RETAIL & WORKPLACES
Sullivan’s Gulch Office Renovation
Project Information:
Office: with Constructive Form Architecture & Design Place: Portland, Oregon | 2020
Type: Commercial Offices, Phase 2 Land Use Planning
General Contractor: Bridge Town Construction
Project Role: Building Acquisition Due Diligence; Jurisdictional Coordination; Design from Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Feasibility Study for a Phase 2 Build.
Principal architect and manager working to create light filled, flexible workspaces within the warehouse-like bones of the existing structure. Kina assisted the small business owners during the due diligence process for building acquisition, and provided full architectural and interiors services from feasibility and pre-design, thru contract administration.
Additionally, land-use planning for phase 2 redevelopment to increase density, and add outdoor
Alpine Lake Mixed-Use
Project Information:
Office: with Constructive Form Architecture & Design Place: Portland, Oregon | 2019
Type: Site Design, Retail, Commercial Offices, Gardens & Workshops
General Contractor: Robert & Kids LLC
Project Role: Building Acquisition Due Diligence; Jurisdictional Coordination; Concept Design; Feasibility Study for a Phase 2 Redevelopment.
Architect involved during building acquisition, feasibility studies for multiple scenarios for redevelopment for this adaptive reuse of an old woodworking shop with warehouselike bones.
Kina assisted with tenant improvement drawings and specifications for what evolved in workshop-retail work and maker spaces and phase 2 redevelopment planning. Also key to the project through careful site restoration, was the preservation of a heritage American Chestnut tree.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | SITE SCALE
Antica Terra
Project Information: Office: with Constructive Form Place: Amity, Oregon | 2016
Kina worked closely with Antica Terra and Lillian Winery, and her team to review, uncover, discover all aspects of the current winery and vineyard operations, the winemaker’s aspirations and business goals, as they considered the possible forms that new hospitality venues might take, analyzed how to create a better work flow during harvest, and explored the best use their facilities in the off season.
This preliminary plan work gave Antica Terra guiding tools to look ten years ahead and imagine the evolution of their winery design, guest experience, and growth. Since then, their business team has put parts of this feasibility planning work into place. In 2020 Kina designed a new outdoor crush pad area giving Antica Terra much needed flexibility during harvest for their meticulous winemaking process.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | SITE SCALE | WORKPLACE & DWELLINGS
This Office-Studio replaced the former garage for the original 1913 home. Its rooms are organized to maximize views to community spaces, natural day lighting, ventilation, and views into the semi-private outdoor spaces and adjacent tree canopies. Rainwater is retained on-site for irrigation of native gardens. This project is all electric, with no fossil fuels needed within the addition and is insulated above code standards. Phase 2 planning allows for facade greening through a trellis system and connection with the existing dwelling, in order to access a new roof garden, further enhancing the neighborhood biodiversity, creating cooling and further off-setting carbon use.
Project Role: Planning, Infrastructure & Jurisdictional Coordination; Exterior and Building Designer, all design phases thru CA.
Design team member for a new residence located on a forested and sloping land within walking distance of the Pacific Ocean. The particular natural qualities of the site inform the layout and spatial arrangement of the house and guest residence, with views back through the forest, overlooking the wetlands, and toward the water.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | SITE SCALE | DWELLINGS
Collins View Residence
Project Information:
Office: Constructive Form Architecture & Design
Place: Portland, Oregon | 2010
Type: Dwelling, Site Restoration + Cottage Certified Platinum in the LEED for Homes Pilot Project.
General Contractor: Ierulli Construction, Inc.
Project Role: Designer, design development phase thru CA.
The site of this Southwest Portland residence slopes gently from east to west. The design arranges interior spaces and outdoor areas to the east and south, away from the street, emphasizing views back to an existing grove of trees and extensive gardens. The clients for this project were interested in exploring and integrating a number of environmental responses into their new home.
Lacamas Creek Residences
Project Information:
Office: Constructive Form Architecture & Design
Place: Camas, Washington | 2010
Type: Duplex + Land Use Planning
General Contractor: Private. Owner self-build.
Project Role: Designer, schematic design thru CA.
Designer assisting in design development, permitting services, and construction document support.
This duplex infill development is located on a bluff at the convergence of Lacamas Creek and the Washougal River. The new building is positioned between an existing home to the north, and the southern slopes with river views. There is a shared covered entry for two units, which are arranged as ‘flats’ on two levels optimized for light and views, while maintaining privacy from neighboring buildings. Despite the tight budget, building efficiency and sustainability were key project drivers.
INTEGRATING HABITATS | COMMUNITY SPACES | DETAILS & DOCUMENTATION
Biwa Restaurant, Storefront Upgrades & Test Kitchen
Project Information:
Office: Constructive Form Architecture & Design
Place: Portland, Oregon | 2007 - 2018
Type: Commercial Restaurants & Bar
General Contractor: Multiple
Project Role: Owner; Designer, schematic design thru CA.
Principal architect, owner, and creative director for interior design, storefront upgrades, and multiple tenant improvements over the life of the restaurants. Additionally, Kina conducted strategic planning and collaborated on signage and branding with graphic designers for the restaurants, and built numerous components in both of these well-known community gathering spots.
Biwa Restaurant Art Exhibitions
Curator for revolving art and ceramic exhibitions both in situ and in collaboration with off-site institutions such as Sri Textiles and the Portland Contemporary Craft Museum.
Selected Exhibition List:
2007 Bob Goldfeder, IMAGES OF MANZANAR, photography
2008 Margo Majewska, LIGHTNESS OF BEING, drawings & light
2010 Margo Majewska, SPILLS, drawings & paintings
2011 Jason Carlisle, TIDAL, photo montages
2012 With Sri Textiles, VINTAGE JAPANESE TEXTILES
2014 At Contemporary Crafts Gallery & Biwa: Dan Kunnecke, Careen Stoll, Steven Mickey, THE UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF FIRE,wood fired ceramics
INTEGRATING HABITATS | INTERIOR COMMUNITY SPACES | DETAILS & DOCUMENTATION
Noraneko Ramen Shop
Project Information:
Office: Constructive Form Architecture & Design
Place: Portland, Oregon | 2015 - 2020
Type: Commercial Restaurant & Bar, Catering Kitchen General Contractor: Multiple
Project Role: Owner; Designer, schematic design thru CA.
Principal architect, owner and creative director for 2,250 square foot tenant improvement for Japanese ramen shop and commercial kitchen. Provided construction management and carpentry during the build out of the tenant space. Additionally, collaboration on the restaurant’s branding, marketing and sign design, on-going creative direction and development, and facilitated exterior patio and exterior cafe seating with storm water design options.
Type: Commercial- Bakery Cafe, Wholesale/ Commissary Kitchen General Contractor: Deform
Project Role: Building Acquisition Due Diligence; Jurisdictional Coordination; Design from Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Feasibility Study for a Phase 2 Outdoor Spaces.
Architect from building procurement/ feasibility to concept design through construction administration; Planning for Phase 2.
The opportunity arose for Fressen Bakery to purchase and adapt a 3,000 SF former auto shop into their new wholesale bakery and a Viennese Kaffeehaus-inspired café and retail shop on a busy street with adequate multi-model access, and generous outdoor public spaces.
Fairclough Building
Project Information:
Office: Constructive Form Architecture & Design Place: Oregon City, Oregon | 2014
Type: Tenant & Storefront Improvement; Historic Design Review & Land Use Planning
General Contractor: Multiple
Project Role: Jurisdictional Coordination; Design from Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Feasibility Study for a Phase 2 Outdoor Spaces.
This family-owned building was, at one point, a mining provisions outlet, a long-standing beloved Chinese restaurant and now has been used for multiple commercial tenants. This project was supported by METRO’s ‘Main Streets’ pilot project, which sought to bring new storefront improvements, including windows and doors, new building awnings, signage and exterior painting, to prominent, downtown Oregon City commercial buildings.
Project Role: Feasibility Studies for Tenant Space Options; Jurisdictional Coordination; Design from Concept Design thru Contract Administration; Feasibility Study for Phase 2.
Principal designer-architect for new Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc., offices a nonprofit that trains and advocates for women in the construction trades. This project is located alongside a major commercial and transit corridor in northeast Portland and the client wished for a strong connection with the street and by extension, the community.
The raw space allowed for an increase in staff work spaces at both the ADA-accessible ground level and at a new mezzanine (completed in Phase 2), and includes a generous entry and job resource area, as well as meeting, counseling, and other staff areas.
The design brought daylight deep into the section and creates a sense of connectedness, visibility, and openness throughout while permitting acoustic and privacy separation.
Volunteers and support from skilled tradespeople, students, and vendors helped OTI to minimize project labor and material costs by building out some of the interior scope of work. The focus on simple and direct detailing was designed to accommodate a range of skill levels. Finishes were also selected for a healthy working environment with vibrant colors to create a sense of wellness and act, in a sense, for intuitive wayfinding.
MAPPING
DIGITAL MAPPING
Arc GIS, Rhino/ Grasshopper, & Adobe Creative Suite Digital Mapping | 2022
Arc GIS & Adobe Creative Suite Digital Mapping | Lake Victoria, Kenya | 2023
Arc GIS & Adobe Creative Suite Digital Mapping & Model Futuring Agriculture & Fiber Production in Oregon | 2023
OCEANA RESIDENCE SITE PLAN | PACIFICA, CALIFORNIA| 2006
Project Information:
Type: Site Plans & Planting Plan Studies
These sketches and drawings reflect site plan and model building studies during concept design.
For a number of built projects, Kina has provided edible and native planting design guidance for clients, and worked with landscape and irrigation installers, in addition to integrating these exterior and interstitial spaces seamlessly with the architectural design.
WOODLAWN T.E.S.T. RESIDENCE | HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PROJECT SITE PLAN PORTLAND, OREGON | 2000
LINDSAY THEATER PROJECT | EUGENE, OREGON | SITE STUDY |1995
DRAWING & SKETCHING
Informal Settlement Engages with Ancestral Lands
NATURAL
HEADWATERS OF AUJI RIVERAFFORESTATION
PAPYRUS ZONE- AFFORESTATION
Erasing Boundaries: Reimagined Lenape Stewardship
WETLANDS + FLOODING STUDY- NYALENDA, KISUMU, KENYA
