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N athan H yman
714. 504. 7616 2012 Ruhland Ave. Unit 4 Redondo Beach, California 90278
Nathan Hyman
714. 504. 7616. Nathan.Hyman@gmail.com 2012 Ruhland Ave #4, Redondo Beach CA
A r c h i t e c t u r a l Pr a c t i ce Studio Pali Fekete : architects [SPF:a]
Culver City, California
Molnar Karlsson Arkitekter
København, Denmark
Employment : July 2014 - Current Orum Road Residence Design Development + Construction Documents Carla Ridge Residence Programming + Design Development Markely Residence Construction Administration
Summer Internship : April - July 2013
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca LLP
Summer Internship : May - August 2010 + 2011 U. C. San Diego CTRI Campus Children’s Hospital Los Angeles University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center
Los Angeles, California
Programming On-Site Construction Administration Design Development
U n d e r g r a d u a t e Ed u c a t i o n University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Graduated : May 2014 - 5 Year B. Arch Capstone Design Studios Collaborative Studio: RFP Design Submission for Tucson Downtown Visual Arts Center - Tucson, AZ Capstone [Research - Execution]: Community Health Education and Medical Center Neuro-Architecture Studies Spatial cognition, Memory, Attention + Formation of cognitive maps Augmented reality model preparation + conversion [Immersive Digital Environment]
Danish Institute for Study Abroad
København, Denmark
Attended : Spring 2013 - Study Abroad Semester
Pr o g r a m Pr o f i c i e n c i e s AutoDesk Products Revit Architecture, AutoCad + 3DS Max 2012 Adobe Design Suite 6 InDesign, Illustrator + Photoshop Rhinoceros 5.0 3D modeling, VRay Rendering + RhinoCam 2015 - CNC Milling Windows Office Suite
Ac a d e m i c Ac h i e ve m e n t s Daniel Cavanagh Scholarship Prospective Student Showcase University of Arizona, College of Architecture :
2014 2010 + 2011
Ta b l e o f Co nte nt s A r c h i t e c t u r a l Pr o j e c t s Orum Road Residence [SPF:a]
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Los Angeles, California Perched on the peak of its hillside residential community, this home spurs a conversation between transparency, nature and reflectivity. The necessary components of the house are extruded into the space as solid blocks. The blocks then compliment the open layout and vast expanses of glass through the language of compression and expansion.
Carla Ridge Residence [SPF:a] [15-24] Los Angeles, California
This property is situated atop a ridge in the hills of Beverly Hills. Its unique position poses unique opportunities for a strong linear procession with entirely uninterrupted views in all directions.
Devlin Drive Residence [SPF:a]
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Los Angeles, California
SPF:a was brought onto this project two years into construction and has since revitalized the design and adapted the existing structure to capitalize the incredible views of Los Angeles and create a truly unique living environment for the client.
University of Hawaii - Cancer Research Center [ZGF]
Honolulu, Hawaii - University of Hawaii Monoa campus
Fabrication of 1/8� section model for client presentation.
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Pr o f e s s i o n a l Ac h i e ve m e n t s 2014 Health Care Design Conferance
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San Diego - San Diego Convention Center I gave a lecture with Dr. Eve Edelstein at the National Healthcare Design Conferance on the emergance of self-quantify technology and its application with the healthcare industry as well as medical facilities and corporate organizations.
U n d e r g r a d u a t e Pr o j e c t s Capstone Project - Community Health and Education Center
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Tucson, Arizona - Barrio Viejo Historic Neighborhood
Barrio Viejo Community Health and Education Center is a catalyst for the regular maintenance of communal bonds and individual’s health in a low - income Hispanic neighborhood with rich historic value and atmospheric qualities.
UA Interdisciplinary Collaboration Center [39-46]
Tucson, Arizona - University of Arizona
The UA IDCC center is a multi-collegiate library space. Its direct adjacency to various colleges gives it the unique ability to cater to a wide diversity of skills and knowledge. The resulting space intends to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas.
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Orum Orum Road is unique property for a client in the begining phases of creating a real estate brand identity. This luxerious home has unique features which grab the attention of its visitors and guide them through the space in a coreographed procession. The overarching intentions are to create a diagramatic transititon of heavy materials of the ground, to a floating glass box. The basement ‘stone world’ consists of dense grey materials. Moving from the basement to the second level, expansive operable glass doors contrast to the anodized aluminum walls, visually enabling the glass box above to feel as if it were balancing delicately on the thin vertical planes below. The top floor is primarily white walls and glass, complimented by white oiled oak flooring. Each of the five bedrooms boast a unique, hand picked stone. This ultimately gives each user of the house a unique experiance within a larger organism. The procession through the site is equally as important as the form of the building. The residents drive through their front gate and are greeted by an expanse of custom glass panels with vision, mirrored and opaue films. The vertical striations of film establish a rythem of visualy compressive and expansive spaces beyond the building’s enclosure. The entry is organized around a central floating staircase, lit naturaly from a skylight above. The stair carries light to the basement through the atrium the stair creates. Beyond the stair, is a wall of callacatta marble framed with a thin reveal of champagane annodized aluminum. This creates a sense of space for the formal dinning room. These reveals occur throughout the house, highlighting the transitions of programmatically different spaces, as well as changes in material. This house ultimately creates a changing environment, united through a meaningful use of material, transitions and light.
RENDERED MODEL STUDIES
MODEL : EAST FACADE
SITE PLAN
VIEW : GRAND STAIR
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
Carla Ridge B e v e r ly H i l l s , C a l i f o r n i a
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Carla I was involved in the initial efforts of designing this home. The experience of going to the city for documents, speaking with the fire and planning departments and exploring initial design schemes was unequivocally important to my education as a young architect. The majority of my time spent on this project was in the Programming and Schematic Design phases, two areas I was not present for on my other projects. I place a large amount of value in crafting a uniquely accommodating plan for each client and this was an opportunity to work on those skills. We molded the experiences and transitions from one functional area to another depending on the clients desire to use the space. These transitions began to situate themselves around an axis, justified towards the north end of the ridge. The diagram of the building evolved into a single loaded corridor of program, flanked by views and nature. The entry to the space is centered about a vaulted canopy of trees which create an alley down the length of the site. As you move down this alley, the spaces within the buildings open themselves to you at specific moments, highlighting significant views of the hills, ocean and downtown areas beyond. The client had a strong desire to mitigate privacy in his home, and we agreed that the most effective and meaningful way to do so was through the naturally occurring aspects of the site. We implemented this idea of seeing through tree lines throughout the project in literal and diagrammatic ways. The vaulted alley is the main organizing feature. The facade of each of the three units (Main, Guest and Study) utilize vertical fins of varying widths. This gives the spaces a feeling of connectivity to the site and creates a visual bond between the natural and crafted features. An innately vernacular design, this home truly creates a sense of place atop its ridge.
SITE PLAN
STUDY. COURTYARD. MAIN HOUSEGUEST FLOORS HOUSE. 1+2
STUDY. COURTYARD. GUEST HOUSE.
Universit y of Hawaii Cancer Research Center
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U o f H CRC While working for Zimmer Gunsul Frasca as a summer intern in 2010, I constructed a large presentation model with occasional help from other interns or entry level employees. The model was built in three sections at 1/8� = 1’-0�. The model is built of two materials : basswood and acrylic. The idea was to model the building such that the firm could show the client individual pieces of program at a time and show how they fit into the rest of the building. What was unique about this task was the reproposing of the model after the initial presentation. After the client had seen the model, we converted it into a working model and replace various pieces of it as the design changed. From altering the facade design to removing the roof, the model maintained a high level of craftsmanship and was continually presented to the client as the project progressed. This was my first utilization of a laser printer and have since then vastly expanded my knowledge of its use and application. I see it as a strong tool with a variety of applications. The more intimate my knowledge of the machine, the more intricate models I was able to produce. This understanding ultimately helped in my acquiring an internship with Karlsson Arkiteken in Copenhagen, Denmark. Clarification of construction is an important aspect to design and it is through my experience with the laser printers that I began to understand this concept.
Barrio Viejo Communit y H e a lt h + E d u c at i o n C e n t e r
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B . V . CHEC The Barrio Viejo Community Health and Education Center is an urban redevelopment and reinvigoration project for the Barrio Viejo and Downtown Tucson residents. Located in the most historic neighborhood of Tucson, this project seeks to address some of the underlying problems the community faces on the platform of health through the means of education. The project first creates a place of refuge from the harsh summer sun, protecting itself and its inhabitants with a large canopy stretching the length of the site. It then welcomes people in from each corner of the site and extends the neighboring street through the site in the form of a pedestrian breezeway. When people are near the site, they are visually exposed to healthy decisions and behaviors occurring everywhere on site, ranging from communal cooking courses, to pick-up basketball games to guest lectures on nutrition and healthy habits. The project began to realize itself physically as the program was created to these ideas. The larger ideas : education, recreation and nutrition became an anchor for the built spaces in the community, and the smaller program filled in the spaces between. Each of these ‘anchor’ programs are placed along the street edge. This was to give the building an immediate presence to passing people while also exposing the program and people of the inside, to the community on the outside. The canopy speaks metaphorically to the Barrio Viejo as an interpretation of the community itself. In the desert, people gather under shade, and this shade becomes a platform from which people can comfortably interact with one another. At the same time, the canopy harvests rainwater, protects the building thermally and visually dictates the programmatic hierarchy of the site.
Nolli Site Plan + Site Conditions
Partition for Access
Unify with Canopy
Parti Massing Model
Carve Pedestrian Path
Form to Hierarchy
Create Hierarchy of Form
Harvest Rain Water
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[1] Auditorium [2] Multi-Purpose Room [3] Cardio + Weight Room [4] Gymnasium [5] Community Garden + Market Plaza [6] Health Cafe [7] Community Kitchen [8] Bathroom [9] Storage [10] Parking
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North Transverse Section - Auditorium + Pedestrian Breezeway + Multipurpose Room
North Transverse Section - Parking + Atrium + Pedestrian Breezeway + Gymnasium
South Transverse Section - Gymnasium + Pedestrian Breezeway + Community Kitchen
Longitudinal Section West - Visual Connectivity + Light Diffusion
Community Kitchen - Cooking Class in Session
Presence on Street Edge
Gymnasium - Pick-up basketball games in Session
Community Garden
West Section Perspective
East Section Perspective
Longitudinal Section East - Visual Connectivity + Light Diffusion
Administration Balcony
Pedestrian Breezeway
UofA Interdisciplinary Co l l a b o r at i o n Cen t er
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U o f A IDCC The University of Arizona Interdisciplinary Collaboration Center (UA IDCC) is a stage for the cross-pollination of ideas among college students. Located just South of the College of Architecture on the University of Arizona, this project offered a rare opportunity to design a structure on a site that I have an intimate knowledge of. The idea was to use an extensive empirical understanding of site conditions to create a building that gives refuge to those seeking it, while offering a relief from the harsh climate of the desert for those passing through it. The idea of circulation became central to the investigation. Currently, the site is a parking lot in which many people wander through on their way to class or other parts of the university. The sheer volume of people who traverse this massive heat sink was interesting to me and inspired questions of how people move through a space. The main question was : How does vertical circulation alter the atmosphere or energy of a space? This led me to ask other questions about occupying a space on multiple levels and inspiring interaction between the people inhabiting these spaces. How do you encourage visual connectivity in a library space without encroaching on privacy or comfort? Can visual connectivity inspire creativity through an increase in stimuli? Can a place feel more welcoming through an increase of activity on multiple levels? I approached the design of this place with these questions in mind. The UA IDCC is a library space with an additive program of a cafe, gallery and archival space intended for research. The site is organized to draw in students from these buildings to a central pedestrian path which intersects a large courtyard to the south. This courtyard is the platform from which I explored the driving inquiry.
CALA Garden
Orthagonal Grid of Orange Trees
Winter
Palm Covered Paths
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Palos Verde Lined Circulatory Path As Site Connector
Summer Summer Summer
Southern Breezeway
Parti + Program
Pedestrian Circulation
Wind Flow through Site
Summer + Winter Terraces
West Speedway Blvd.
New Architecture Building
Dated Architecture Building
Mechanical Engineering Building
Center for Creative Photography
Civil Engineering Building
Harvill
Harvill Speach and Hearing Building
West Second Street
MOUNTAIN STREET - NORTH
West Third Street
North Olive Street
Bike Racks & Garden Space
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Private Works Library Roof Garden Book Stacks Small Reading Lounge Study Carrel Administration Office Summer Terrace Winter Terrace
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Steel Flashing Concrete Roof on 3” Metal Decking Studying Student Concrete Floor on 3” Metal Decking
1’ x 1’ Steel I-Beam 3” X 6” Steel I-Beam Perferated Steel Floor Steel Horizontal Fin Steel Mullian Double Pan Insulated Glass Copper Perferated Screen Wall
Entrance Atrium + Vertical Expression of Privacy
Exterior Skin Condition
Wall Section
Open Study Area + Cross-Pollination of Ideas
Breezeway leading to Central Pavilion
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