2019 Selected Works

Kenna Winther

Student Architecture Portfolio

01 Public Interest Project 02 Art Centre Wood Shop 03 Caring Architecture:

A Proposal for Maggie’s Aberdeen

04 Fourmile Creek Floodplains Proposal 2

01 Public Interest Project A proposal for Kansas City’s Barney Allis Plaza, located right near the Power & Light District and KC Convention Center.

Life is a series of disconnected images, an incoherent place of limitless possibility; This idea can be translated into our work as designers, disrupting the nor ms of year ning for har mony within the city, and instead creating pieces that reflect life as it is. We can find the beauty in and embrace the disintegration and fragmentation that is steadily and inevitably transpiring, and by doing so we can bring more per manence to our work. Giving new meaning to the lost, forgotten, and decayed is a goal that we can strive for in order to make our world more lasting.

This project is a series of explorations, diving deeper and deriving new ideas and designs through each step. These explorations began from tracing a randomly chosen image, and extracting details within the piece. Drawing, various for ms of model making, software/ program editing, and concept development were intensely practiced through creating this abstract body of work. Disintegration, fragmentation, and the connection between time, space, and change are prominent themes throughout this collection.

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The concepts of disintegration, fragmentation, and change over time and space are most evident within this series of manifestos.

When thinking about these themes, we can begin to brainstorm new uses to old things, question the connection and value between past, present and future elements, and challenge new and unusual design methods and ideas, while incorporating disintegrated and fragmented material. The material used the most out of the manifestos is a recycled computer screen. In the final piece, other displaced material is polluting the plaster that is oozing out from the structure of the screen. This composition alludes to the ideas of re-purposing old items, and accepting and embracing disintegration and fragmentation that is happening around us. We should not ignore these changes, because they can be a gateway to a new way of designing.

This imagined landscape is created from a CNC designed board, and based off of the concept of Esoterism.

Esoterism in design is questioning Architecture in the afterlife or, in this case, in another dimension. Following the process of the Manifesto’s phase, these pieces emphasize new uses and ways of designing with old, fragmented items, as well as critiquing form and program.

The screen becomes the portal to the reality of this imagined dimension, and the images focuses on these exploration concepts of fragmentation, form, representation, and program . It is an escape from all that we know.

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This interactive pavilion, located at the Barney Allis Plaza in Kansas City, is a collision of two different “worlds� on one site. Outside, is a renovated green space for the neighborhood tenants, while the inside is an escape from reality- full of various installations of interactive experiences to make you feel temporarily disconnected from the real world. The interior contains spaces of illusions, reactive projections, lights, colors, and feelings.

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02 Art Centre Wood Shop Preliminary stages of a wood shop addition to The Centre for Arts and Artists in Newton, Iowa. Schematic design, and the beginning of the Second Level Plan Construction Document for the Centre. AutoCAD was used extensively to represent the space, and to indicate occupancy and egress.

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03 Caring Architecture:

A Proposal for Maggie’s Aberdeen Kenna Winther & Charlie Haas Maggie’s Centers were used to research and determine our understanding of care in architecture through interventions on the design to support our knowledge of what it means “to care.” The drawings that follow begin to articulate architectures that are more ecologically embedded and think about how care can be present throughout the life-cycle of the built environment. This concept of caring architecture continued through a proposal for the floodplains of Fourmile Creek in Des Moines, Iowa.

The life cycle of materials doesn’t need to end when a product or building’s life does, and this collection of images shows the story and potential that materials have. New uses of waste can be discovered, and change the discipline of architecture as we know it; through this project we are encouraging it.

Along with this, using recycled material encourages improvisation and interaction in the construction phase between the designer and the structure. The use of such medium prevents impact on the environment from new products, substitutes the use of energy with manpower by creating jobs, gives new value to these resources and in turn can create more profitable projects, and creates time to do other tasks within the design process. Through this series, the life cycle of materials is read throughout the page, and ended with potential uses that are exhibited within our proposal for the future of Maggie’s Aberdeen.

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04 Fourmile Creek

Floodplains Proposal Kenna Winther & Charlie Haas A project encouraging the preservation of meaningful elements of homes that once belonged to now displaced families of Des Moines, Iowa, while also creating a connection with the Iowa State Fairgrounds. This hybrid complex, highlighting important things and events from this urban context, creates a public gathering, outdoor venue, and explorative installation for visitors, while also challenging and critiquing the use of materials in Architecture.

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Red Shutters

Located near Mattern Ave and East 39th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

Blue Shutters

36”

Blue Front Door

Located near Dubuque Ave and East 37th St, Pleasant Hil, Iowa

Located near Dubuque Ave and East 36th St, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

80”

80”

36”

White Front Door

Located near Mattern Ave and East 40th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

36”

White Shutters

Gray Shutters

Located near Mattern Ave and East 40th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

80”

36”

15”

15”

Located near Mattern Ave and East 38th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

80”

31”

36”

Black Metal Door

Located near Mattern Ave and East 39th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

White and Red Metal Door

Located near Mattern Ave and East 39th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

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36”

3’ 40’

14.5”

18” 54”

3 Panel Window

Located near Mattern Ave and East 40th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

23” Single Panel Window

Located near Dubuque Ave and East 36th St, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

Wood Studs

Located near Mattern Ave and East 39th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

House Foundation

Located near Mattern Ave and East 39th Court, Pleasant Hill, Iowa

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