Kyle Emmert - School Portfolio (Temple University)

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Kyle Emmert Temple University

Architectural Statement

Hello, My name is Kyle Emmert. I am a Temple Graduate student who recently completed his undergraduate degree and first year of his Master’s Degree in Architectural Design. I chose this career path for a few reasons. The first being the importance and beauty buildings can offer a community. I was always an admirer of classical architecture and the beauty their ornamentation radiated. It really fascinated me the level of detail and significance it added to buildings of all kinds. Secondly, a reason for this career path was what a building can offer an individual. A well crafted/designed building can greatly affect a mood or production of the user by the spacial quality it holds and I believe this to be a truly amazing aspect of architecture. Lastly, as a kid, I grew up with my father being a contractor who would always take me out to the sites he was working on. This interaction made me appreciate the process of making structures and stuck with me ever since. These are some of the many elements that help mold my interests/career path.

When it comes to making my own architecture there are a lot of interests I like to pursue. For starters, understanding that climate change is real and important to the world, I push myself to incorporate sustainable design features into my designs which could benefit the building and the surrounding community.

Another interest I have is the appearance a building offers through its facades.

As I stated previously, ornamentation tended to catch my eye, I typically push myself to have a design that can offer similar eye catching appearances. Along with these, I love the idea of connecting users to the outdoors in some sort of way. I think this connection does a lot not only for the building itself, but also for the individuals using it. Lastly, an interest of mine that I have not really had the opportunity to explore much is the idea of interactive design. What I mean by this is the idea that a building or space can change depending on a variety of factors. An example of this being the Arab World Institute in Paris which was designed by Jean Nouvel. This building's facade and interior drastically changes depending on sunlight. With apertures that open or close to let in more or less sunlight is an extremely cool idea that stuck with me and this idea that a building can change is truly something I want to pursue more as my career continues.

Table of Contents:

Procession of Observation

Forgotten Bottom

“Exploring and Highligting Nature’s Landscapes”

“Using The Success Of The Past To Pave A Better Future”

Architectural Competition

Urban Transformation

Reykjahlíð, Iceland

Philadelphia, Pa

Designed By: Kyle Emmert

Designed By: Kyle Emmert

Pages: 3 - 6

Pages: 7 - 10

Philadelphia School of Design

Seltzer Building

“An Oasis Within the City”

“This is Not A Hospital ... This is A Park”

Academic Design

Redesign

Philadelphia, Pa

Philadelphia, PA

Designed By: Kyle Emmert

Designed By: Kyle Emmert

Pages: 11 - 14

Pages: 15 - 18

Inspiration

Procession of Observation

“Exploring and Highligting Nature’s Landscapes”

Student Name: Kyle Emmert Course: Arch 8011 Level: Graduate Instructor: Eric Oskey Semester: Fall 2020 Second level Platform View

This project was designed for the BeeBreeders Architectural Competion.

For this Competition, this proposal aims to take advantage of the site’s amazing geological feature along with the surrounding beauty. Due to the flatness this site possesses, the mountainous terrain of iceland can be seen remarkably from the site’s location. As a result, this proposal is heavily focused on accentuating these views to its vistors while also engaging with the fractured Split of the Earth. These views are forced upon the various program spaces, which are divided into seperate structures, by an open air corridor.

This corridor is meant to act as a form of procession. The path starts off by taking an individual to the welcome center and ending at the desired observation tower upon crossing the crevice. Along with this, The proposal has a defined axis between the observation tower and the Hverfjall volcano. The individual is capable of seeing both end points of the axis on numerous occassions while walking along the path of circulation. Moving along, the Proposal suggests the addition of a bathouse which is intergrated with the public restroom facilities. This is to help with the preservation of the geothermal pool’s water.

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This proposal suggest walking through various corridors in order to get from one place to another.

The corridor is heavily influenced from the qualities basalt stone possesses. These spaces are dome like walkways with hexagonal apperatures guiding you through them. Also,the hexagons vary in their placement and apperature size.

Each one fractures away from those near it which is also a quality taken from basalt. The corridor is set to have the user experience a space that is cavelike, getting them ready for the geothermal caves located along the path. This corridor varies in some degree to the spaces that hold the program. This is intentional. This proposal pushes for them to stand out as their own special experience. This is due to the corridor not only acting as a means of circulation.

These hexgonal covered walkways also orient the buildings to have them forced onto a beautiful backdrop of the landscape surrounding the site’s location.

Basalt

Crevice Fracture

Plate Shifting

Existing Conditions

Exterior view of observation Tower

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view from within corridor Opens Towards Program Arrival

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125ft Site Plan Axis of Tower/Volcano Visual Connections

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1. information Desk 2. office 3. waiting area 4. Storage 5. cafe 6.bathouse 7. bathing cave 8. public cave 9.observation tower

Compression

Puncture Distance 0in .25in

All Hexagons are 8in in Depth

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Corridor Experience

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Corridor Experience

Cafe view

Corridor Modular Deployment

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Ground Floor Plan/visual connections

Axis towards Tower

Observation Tower:

Within this proposal, the observation tower is undoubtedly the most prominent structure. This is due to the fact of the grand gesture it evokes. The tower is oriented on an axis with the Hverfjall Volcano and requires a prominent procession to reach it. This felt right mainly because a site with such a unique geological feature is no common affair and should be treated as such.The tower, along with the other structures, has a facade that is influenced by the nature of this crevice that splits the North American and Eurasian Plates. The facade is an interpretation of its fracturing characteristics with the underlying notion that these plates are constantly shifting. The facade is made up of various wooden panels that are caped off on each side by polished copper. The copper is a means to not only improve upon this fracturing notion, but also add a flashy apperance enticing individuals to come experience the site. The observation tower offers individuals the capability of viewing the landscape in every which way. The upper level is almost entirely open offering views to beautiful scenery. The tower also possesses two exterior observation platforms. one is located on the second level which allows viewers a close aireal view of the crevice along with a nice mountain range in the distance. The other platform is located on the upper level and is oreinted on the axis towards to volcano. This platform also allows for an overall view of the site along with viewing the crevice in a different way.

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Tower to Volcano Axis

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7.5

12.5ft

Tower Section

North American Plate

Eurasian Plate

Facade Interpretaion

Facade Interpretation

Interior View of tower

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Forgotten Bottom: Urban Transformation “Using The Success Of The Past To Pave A Better Future”

Student Name: Kyle Emmert Partner: Miguel Jimenez

Forgotten Bottom

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The Forgotten Bottom is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia that due to its history is disconnected from the rest of the city.

This car-free urban design proposal seeks to reunify this part of Philadelphia while attempting to forge a new identity remembering its past. A series of physical and visual connections serve as devices that link the Forgotten Bottom to its surroundings. Within the community, we decided to seperate the area into districts that would have different experiences; we kept the existing neighborhood and added a tech district to the North which was inspired by a medieval city. This inspiration came from studying their success on being primarily traveled by foot. Through these studies, we tried to emulate key qualities into the design.

Additionally, we put our attention towards the waterfront, realizing that its success depended on the activities than run along it. The largest and Arguably the most important feature we implemented was our Civic Square. We envisioned it

Course: Arch 1015 Level: UnderGraduate Instructor: Pablo Meninato Semester: Fall 2019

being the heart of this little community and wanted it to be a place residents and visitors could gather and enjoy.

Population

3 of 20 Homes are vacant

Vacancy

Visual Connection To Center City

Site

Define Square

Extend

Waterfront Activity

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150’ 300’ 450’ 900’ Proposed urban Plan

Town Square

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Visual Connections

Proposed Transit

Direct Connection

Connected Areas

Proposed Metropolitan Connections

River Trail

Secondary Paths

Sports Complex

Activity Node

Pennovation Square

Town Square

North Pier Amphitheater

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Museum Square

South Pier Skate Park WaterFront Activites

Toledo, Spain

New Axial Path

Existing

Secondary Path Transit Routes

Waterfront Transit Stops Monuments

Medieval

Sports

Views

Civic Traditional Arts

Urban Fabric

Circulation

Corridor Programs Civic Commercial Multi Family Art Galleries Civic

Arts

Waterfront

Workshops

Corridors

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Commercial

Philadelphia School of Design

Existing Conditions

“An Oasis Within the City”

Student Name: Kyle Emmert Partner: Kalen Wilkerson

Studio View

For this design, we had a lot of goals we wished to achieve. We wanted this building heavily connected to nature or “green space” due to how it can impact the mood of an individual. This can brighten someone’s day just through this connection. Along with this, we wanted our building to act as an “oasis” or “hidden gem” within the city with minimal green spaces. To achieve this our building has a central courtyard that is partially hidden from street view and offers students their own private space to sit back and enjoy it. This courtyard acts as our primary circulation path, due to hallways or corridors primarily circulating around it.

Going off of this, we wanted more than just one exterior space for the users. With this being said, we introduced multiple elevated outdoor space students or facilty can go out and utilize throughout the school day.

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Lastly, one of our most important goals we wished to pursue with this project was to have it fit within the context of the surrounding community, but also stand out and become an eye catching spectacle. To achieve this we stuck with the city’s

Course: Arch 8013 Level: Graduate Instructor: Bob Shuman Semester: Spring 2021

common material choice of brick and introduced a pattern to differ it from any other building.

This pattern is meant to be appealing by day and by night.

The site established for this proposed design is currently an asphalt block in Philadelphia used by the surrounding community for recreation along with the northen military school. The location is just north of Temple University across Diamond St. and west of N 13th St. The surrounding context includes a large residential section east and north of the site, the univesity south, and more of a small business district west the runs along Broad St. The intent of this proposal was to design a school of design for highschool students grades 9th-12th. Some of the programmatic requirements for this project was to have spaces of learning for both regular education and design studios. Along with this the school needed an auditorium along with a place for physical fitness which we described as a fitness center. In addition, a library, computer lab, and places for the school’s facilty was needed along with some support spaces.

Inspiration

World Expo Pavillion: Shanghai

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Entry View

SW Aireal View

Building with context

we envisioned our grand stair to be a critical design element within our school. With that being said, we wanted it to feel as a nice place to ascend or descend through our building. Wanting this goal, we made sure the stair was a comfortable width that allows for multiple individuals to utilize at the same time.

The stair essentially goes up roughly 7ft turns around a goes up the reamaining 5ft each floor level.

The stair is equipped with a glass railing that runs throughout. the risers are metal whereas the runs are wood that matches our ceiling panels that occur in our c i r c u l a t i o n spaces.

On the third floor the stair is brought to life by a skylight above and it enriches the experience as you come to the top level of our building. This is primarily the basis of our stair.

View Towards Stair

Auditorium Section

Central Courtyard

Lantern Effect

Grand Stair Elevation

These rendering have the primary focus on some of the green spaces the project offers the user.

These are the spaces we envision could brighten the day of an individual who could be stressed from school or other r e a l a t e d causes.

These spaces are what we feel like really drive our project.

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View of Courtyard

Finding Form

Administration

Support

Public/Common Space

Academic Support

Learning/Teaching

Matinence Room

Matinence Room

Phys Ed Storage

Basement

The larger components of our school were placed on the first floor such as the fitness center, auditorium and cafeteria for easy accesibility. The studios were prioritized in our design by placing them on the third level to allow for the best views out into the surrounding community.

Also, the rooftop garden is located on the same side as the studios to provide a relaxing green space for faculty and students. The stacking of homerooms on the second and third levels and the science classrooms on the first and second levels were to establish a familiarity within the s c h o o l .

South Elevations/interior Elevation

Ground Level

3rd Floor

2nd Floor

Roof Plan

Circulation was a vital design intergration for this project. With the idea that we wanted to connect the users with n a t u r e / t h e outdoors, we wanted to make sure that majority of our circulation happens along our central most courtyard space.

By doing this it not only connects the users to light and outside, but highlights the spatial quality our courtyard has to offer. With this being said, I believe that having our buildings surround and look into this space, it would greatly increase the amount of users wanting to come together in this location.

Circulation

When designing our Elevation, we wanted to do something that related to the surrounding city of Philadelphia while also standing out. By having this goal, we decided to stick with a brick exterior which is common to the city, but also implenting a brick extrusion that forms a continous pattern around the exterior of our building. The pattern formed was essentially a running track that moved up and down the facade while also highlighting floor levels when four extrusions come together. The base brick was a red blend of running bond whereas the extrusion was a tannish soldier course brick. The soldier course is also present when the building goes below ground level.

For the curtain wall, the presence on facades come from how we defined our form finding exercise. This being where we split one building into two seperate forms. For the most part, the curtain wall remains a glass facade, but through solar analysis we implement a perforated metal screen to diffuse the sun’s exposure on some of these facades.

East Elevations/interior Elevation

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Elevation Creation

Seltzer Building Redesign “This Is Not a Hospital...This is a Park”

Student Name: Kyle Emmert Partner: Kalen Wilkerson

Existing Seltzer Building

The overall goal this project deemed to achieve was to take the existing Seltzer Building and redesign it to make it a much more useable building.

The building currently is very unwelcoming and the interior spaces appear to be scattered out. Along with this, the clinical aspect of the current building is not successful. In the current state, the building’s medical element is crammed into the upper level making it not known to many that it even exists.

As a team, we approached this project along with another as a 2 Part series. The series we set out to achieve is to take an element of something and keep it, but ultimately make it look/feel as something else.

For the Seltzer Building, we kept the element of having it be a Medical Facility, but made it feel park like through having an elevated rooftop greenspace. Additionally to having a park like aspect on our terraces, we heavily brought greenery onto our facade by having plants that require no soil to be planted onto our Brise Soleil. These qualities we felt help push to address our series. We wanted the medical facility to have a connection to nature. The reason behind this is because nature allows an individual to drift off in their mind and possibly ease the stress that comes with the whole process of going to a hospital checkup.

We began redesigning the building by keep the existing super structure of the building and began carving away and adding additional spaces we seemed to address the goals we set for the building. Along with this, we wanted the building to

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Course: Number Level: Graduate Instructor: Sean Vance Semester: Fall 2021

become more orderly and evenly distributed for the 3 entities that inhabit the structure. The 3 entities being Medical Clinics, Educational Spaces for the College of Public Health, and Expanding and Promoting the Philadelphia Cease Fire initiative. We gave each its own space within the building with them coming together on the ground floor.

Along with all of this, we wanted to design something that is eye grabbing from the street and a building that tells people they can come if they are in need of assistance. create spaces as such, he looks to a variety of design methods and implementation – zeroing in on robotic, algorithmic and parametric design and fabrication. He enacts these highly technical and computational tools in both the conceptual design phase through the process of physically realizing them. He uses a combination of these skills in tandem with each other, varying from project to project in order to fully realize and generate the experiential outcome he is aiming for.

Subdivided Columns is a project that conceptualizes the creation of a new column order through the parametric process of subdivision.

This is done, not by subdividing the column itself, but rather designing a process that produces a subdivided column. This allows for the process to be run continually with a variety of different parameters to create endless variations of columns. These subdivisions can then be combined and duplicated and in turn be a “point of departure” for the generation of new columns.

SE Aireal View

Entry view

Exterior View

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Site Plan

4th Floor

5th Floor

2nd Floor

6th Floor

As mentioned prior, as a team we aimed to connect the functions of a medical facility to those present in nature. The goal behind this was to allow patients to ease their minds, especially when dealing with visiting a doctor over a possible serious matter.

With that being said, through our form finding, we made the waiting spaces for the medical portion of the building directly accessible to our rooftop terraces. This gives the patient the chance to wait outside and have peace before being seen by a medical professional.

3rd Floor

Ground Floor

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Finding Form

North/South Section

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East/West Section