Graduate School Portfolio Timothy Rank
Concept: Adaptation Concept: Transparency
Architecture as the possibility to evolve as surrounding conditions such as, environmental, neighborhood, and culture changes that occur around a building. This change can come from the change of the transparency of the building or from designed building systems. In the constantly evolving world the professional architect must respond with the creation of green systems and adaptive reuse of buildings. Timothy M. Rank
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Whole Foods Pg. 1 Chair Exhibit Pg. 1 Weinland Park Pg. 1 Landfill Museum Pg. 1
Sullivant Hall Renovation Pg. 1
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Campus Seating
We were asked to create a structure by folding a piece of paper, being permitted to cut the paper, however no adhesives could be used. The site is in a relatively open area where wind rolls across the site from different directions depending on the time of day. My design is made with panels that form seating areas and provides a covered amphitheater dug into the ground. These panels also move with the wind. If the there is strong wind Seating area evolves into a new form that provides shelter to the students occupying the structure.
Adaptation
Effect of Wind on Structure
1st Year
Neutral Wind
OSU Campus
High North Wind
High South Wind
Music House
Hocking Hills, OH Adaptation
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2nd Year
The A Music House was designed as a vacation home for a musician that wanted to escape the city to compose in quiet. The house is designed into two structures, the “box” and the “blob”. Each of these serve a purpose for the musician. The box is used for recording since flat walls allow for a more controlled recording environment along with the large windows that bring light and nature into the building. The blob serves two functions. First, it operates as a B listening room for the musician using the curved walls to reflect sound so that they are able to hear the full effect of the music. It then can transform into the living area where the bed, tables, and chairs fold out of the floor, much like the suitcase house.
Weinland Park
Columbus, OH Adaptation 3rd Year
Weinland Park is located in a poverty stricken area of Columbus in which medical care is difficult to find. Our task for the project was to create a pre-natal care clinic that would also help with another aspect of child raising. In my design, in addition to the clinic I added a garden and teaching center so that when a child is born the parents have the knowledge and means of getting fresh fruits and vegtables. The garden area of the project is made of a wood grid where the spaces within can be occupied by wood boards for walking, plants, or grass. These spaces change through out the time of year based on weather conditions and need by the community. By doing this, the path to the building and the visual sight is constantly changing, stimulating the visitors. Along with the grid of planters the building is made from reclaimed wood in the neighborhood, collects rainwater, and had a greeen roof made from the planters. These aspects allow the building to stay more cost effective and green.
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Store/Supply Room
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Training Gardens are used to teach the community how to garden but, also act as a green roof.
Greenhouse Greenhouse
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Patios act as a way to bring people together within a community
1st Floor Plan: 1’ = 3/32�
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Greenhouses are used for year round teaching and gardening.
Office
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Exam Room
Clear water collection tanks collect rain water while teaching the community about rain collection by being clear.
Mechanical Room
Exam Room
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Facade is made of reclaimed wood from the neighborhood
Clinic Section A-A: 1’ = 3/4”
Section A: 1’ = 3/32” 8” C Beam Reclaimed Cedar Rainscreen (Random Sizes)
Wood 2” x 4” Mullion
Plywood Veneer Tyvek 1/2” Plywood 5” BATT Insulation
West Elevation: 1’ = 1/16”
1/2” Gypsum Board 2” x 6” Wood Nailer
2” x 6” Wood Nailer
Metal Mullion Connector
South Elevation: 1’ = 1/16” Aluminum Mullion
1/2” Single Pane Glass
1’ Concrete Slab 1/4” Rebar
Sullivant Hall Renovation OSU Campus
Transparency
3rd Year
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Sullivant Hall is located at a key juncture on the Ohio State campus. On one side is the city of Columbus and on the other side is the campus. Before the renovation, the building lacked an identity on this key part of campus. My addition acts as a way to create a clear entrance for both the city and the campus. Further more each entrance directs the visitor to a certain program, since the building will be used for three main programs. The entrance to the theater follows in the style of classic museums, theaters, and libraries in which they are raised above ground level to signify their importance when compared to surrounding buildings.
Library sitting area connects visiting guests with the campus by raising them above trees, looking down the main path on campus and the main library.
Stairs lead directly to the theater continuing the tradition of libraries and theaters being elevated to a higher level. Dance studios are places around the interior so that the buildings has visual activity while visitor move throughout the building
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Interior walls are made of glass so the activity of the building can be seen throughout the building.
DANCE STUDIO
SECTION A-A: 1/16” = 1’0”
Skylights surround the core of the building as well as lighting a usually dark area.
DANCE STUDIO
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CARTOON LIBRARY
DANCE STUDIO SECTION A-A
DANCE/ MUSIC LIBRARY
DANCE STUDIO
Gone with the Wind SWACO Landfill Adaptation Transparency 3rd Year For this project we were asked to create a museum for a landfill around Columbus. The landfill is a constantly changing object, the work face moves throughout the day. So, creating a building that could change with the landfill became the goal of my design For this I began by observing that the crawler in Star Wars opperated in a similar style. From there I researched ship structure and decided to make the project about the experience of visiting the landfill. Visitor arive at a stationary welcome center and then are transported by bus to the the museum in the vehicle. Here the facade is constantly changing by catching trash that is blown off the landfill. This means the view to the landfill is constantly changing.
Wednesday 6:00 PM Wednesday 12:00 PM
Monday 10:30 AM Tuesday 3:00 PM Monday 5:00 PM
Bus at Welcome Center
Front is lowered for bus to enter
Bus deliveres visitor into the welcome center
Visitor experience the museum
Restroom Library
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Facade used to collect trash that blows off the landfill Observation tower for vistors to see several stages of the landfill Uses methane gas from the landfill as the gas for the vehicle Bus used to transport visitors from the welcome center to the vehicle.
Demonstration Garden
Green Roof used as a demonstration garden.
Permenant Exhibit
Theater
Sullivant Hall Renovation OSU Campus
Transparency
3rd Year Whole Foods is a grocery store chain that puts emphisis on organic, farm grown products. My design brings green area that can be used for gardening, park space, or for a farmers’ market into the middle of a large city. This means that the visual site of the building changes through the seasons. The visual sight of the building also changes as a visitor walks from one layer to another where each row of windows shows a different aspect of the workings of the Whole Foods market.
Spring 30% Garden 50% Public Space 20% Flower
Fall 70% Garden 10% Public Space 20% Flower
Winter 10% Garden 80% Public Space 10% Flower
Summer 30% Garden 30% Public Space 40% Flower
Facade
Roof Garden
Beam System
Structure Structure Shopping Service
Maintance Truss System
Office Storage
Installation
OSU, Knowlton Hall Adaptation 2nd Year
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Installation grows through campus
This installation was created after a study we conducted on a dance performance where there was no set choreography, the dancers instead would react to what the moves that the other dancers would make up follows this idea of acting based on cues. It adapts to its surroundings and based on where the flow of traffic is, the installation lowers tubing to form walls that indicate a route of travel and rooms in areas where there is little activity. If the flow of traffic changes due to a change in surroundings then the installation also changes to match the new flow of traffic.
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The Eames worked in a wide variety of areas, which included architecture, photography, film, and furniture. In this project we were asked to created a museum for their single chair design. With the museum I wanted it to be more then just a space to exhibit a chair. It should be an experience in which the visitor is introduced to the Eames’ videos and photography as well as the chair. To create this experience the museum consists over several screens that raise and lower through out the day changing the interior and what can be viewed at certain times. Since these are screens, there is a transparency to them that changes the views of the exhibits through the day.
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Hot Glue Lamp Personal
Transparency
While working with hot gun glue sticks on a project I noticed that they are opaque when light has not been introduced however, when they are exposed to light it becomes translucent. From this operservation I decided to make a lamp out of a wall of cut glue sticks. The ungulating surface causes that light that to be darker and lighter at parts creating a stunning visual effect.
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Hendrix Sports Complex
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Conway, AR Professional Kirchner Architecture
Hendrix College is in the prosses of expanding its athletic department by adding a football program. To do this I was asked to design a sports complex that contained home and away locker rooms, support facilities for the football program and a gym and locker room for students that wanted to used the tennis courts that would be part of the facility. To accomplish this I designed and program a three building complex where each of the buildings houses one of the main programs. The exterior design came from a previously completed Kirchner Architecture project. It was chosen for its cost efficient materials.
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Hendrix College in Conway, AR approached Kirchner Architecture to remodel an excisting bridge on campus that spans the major street which runs right next to campus. I was asked to explore two different options for the bridge. The first option is to use an excisiting bridge and move to the site. For the second option I was asked to create a bridge design that mimiced a bridge located on the Vanderbilt University campus. When designing the bridge I incorporated the excisting bridge structure to minimize costs. Another challenge when designing the bridge was the difference in campus styles. Vanderbilt is located in the center of a major city where as Hendrix is a small campus in a small city. These bridges were modeled in Revit Architecture for the rendering and drawing capabilities.
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Kirchner Architecture