Neely Sutter Portfolio

neely sutter PORTFOLIO | ARCHITECTURE + GRAPHIC DESIGN

neely sutter masters in architecture neelysutter@gmail.com 402.239.8544

EDUCATION Graduate | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)

Masters in Architecture, 2016 - Present

Undergraduate | University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)

Graduated with Distinction & Honors, 2015 (GPA: 3.851)

- Bachelor in Advertising & Public Relations

- Bachelor in Art

Study Abroad | University of Arts-London, Central Saint Martins

Focus in Graphic Design

TECHNICAL SKILLS Proficiencies | Rhino, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch-up, Drawing Working Knowledge | VRAY, Revit, Grasshopper

EXPERIENCE Architecture Intern at DLR Group, 2018 As an summer architecture intern, at DLR Group in Omaha, I assisted on projects throughout all phases of design. Due to my background, I was able to work within both the architectural and experiential design teams to enhance the architectural solution, overall design, and user experience.

Teaching Assistant at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017- Present My role as a TA for a Landscape Architecture studio, is to assist with grading, graphic representation, and aiding younger students with composition principles and the design process.

Freelance designer at Lincoln Children’s Zoo, 2016-Present As the Lincoln Children’s Zoo goes through a large expansion, I was hired to develop signage, wayfinding, and several architectural entries and facades throughout the project. All projects worked within a larger brand identity and signage system that was developed in collaboration with the zoo.

Graphic Designer at The Clark Enersen Partners, 2015 - 2017 As the graphic designer for The Clark Enersen Partners I developed in-house graphics and graphic solutions for client projects. This included signage, branding, print deliverables, and RFP submissions.

Internship at Lincoln Children’s Zoo, 2013 - 2015 National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) Team at UNL, 2015 Internship at Hurrdat Social Media Agency, 2015 Jacht Advertising Lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014

HONORS & ACTIVITIES UNL Deans List, 2011-2015 Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society Secretary, 2017-Present AIA-NE Student Member The Dana & DLR Professional Scholars Fellowship J.A. Shneider Fund Architecture Scholarship UNL Honors Program, 2011-2015 Chancellors Leadership Class

chongqing community retail district ARCHITECTURE | MASTER PLAN

Through the University of Nebraska’s China program, I had the opportunity to travel to China to work with Chongqing University students on a redevelopment master plan. Our work included taking inventory of the current site and developing distinct zones for future designs. Highlighting the unique aspects of both our site and the city of Chongqing the four zones were: Mountain, People, City, and River. I individually developed the “city” zone with the design of the Chongqing Community Retail District. This district was developed with an understanding of the rapidly changing consumer culture in China.

The multi-level commercial district was cautious of the existing scale and the new building footprints were developed around the traces of the existing neighborhood. Through material, massing, and site lines the new development worked to maintain the existing culture, retailers, and spatial properties. It was important that the commercial district also be sustainable. Green systems were incorporated throughout the project and large openings in the development allow for the buildings to cross ventilate - creating a small micro-climate within the district.

“ Chi na i s q u ic k ly

b e co m i ng t h e b igge st co ns u m e r so cie ty a nd , in a few yea r s, c o uld have t he l a rge s t b uyi ng m id d le cl a ss i n t he wo rld .

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native bee research facility ARCHITECTURE

foraging network

The Bee Research facility will be the hub for wild or native bee research, education and habitat rehabilitation. The facility will be in Chapman, NE and will be owned by The University of NebraskaLincoln and the UNL Entomology department.

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LIFE CY release additive space

The focus of building research will be focused on the thousands of lesser known native bee species in Nebraska. Native or wild bees are quickly becoming endangered or extinct due to habitat loss, declining food sources, and uneducated general public. This is a problem because native bees pollinate a large number of the foods we eat and are more active pollinators than their foreign competitor, the honey bee.

The building massing itself is focused around the unique life-cycle of wild bees in Nebraska.

Many native bees burrow their homes into the ground or timber. This idea of burrowing drives the massing of the building with the lower level of the facility acting as a slice into the landscape.

The lower slice is the common lab and holds the bees during dormant months below grade. The upper level is the active spaces of the building and are more public focused. These spaces create the “release field� and allow for bee foraging activity in warmer months. The architecture between the upper and lower levels is a series of pop-ups that act as connectors between the levels and are the link between dormant and active.

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Vocational School Career Academy SCC Healthcare

downtown hospital ARCHITECTURE | GRAPHIC DESIGN

Critical Access Hospital

River Access

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Restaurant This research studio project focused on reimagining two concepts: first is looking at how a small downtown can be revitalized and what a “thriving� downtown should look like in the future. The second, looked at how a critical access hospital, could act as a catalyst project to give struggling downtowns, and entire communities, the boost they need to survive. Critical access hospitals can be a strong catalyst project due to the opportunity for grants that are available for their development. It is through this process that we can re-imagine what a hospital is and how healthcare can serve a community.

Placing a critical access hospital in the core of Beatrice could have many positive effects on the physical and commercial health of the downtown.

Inversely, this unexpected placement could have positive effects on the hospital. Placing the hospital within the heart of the city allows for it to become a gathering and community space. This community feel can carry into the hospital, making it a friendly center of the town, rather than a place of fear. Community engagement could encourage a more preventative, healthy lifestyle within the community and reduce the stigma of a hospital.

This project also creates adjacencies between the hospital and other programs that will allow Beatrice to thrive. This creates an opportunity for the community to take back the main street and grow around a new type of healthcare and a new type of hospital. To see the full design book visit: issuu.com/neelysutter/docs/_beatrice_master_ neelysutter_isuu

SCC Culinary

Residential

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Civic Lobby

MATERIAL. Along with color, the material choices of the building became an organizing element.

Material choice was important in the aesthetics and the programming of the building. Just as the pink and orange interior finishes work to create spaces and entice movement, the envelope was developed around private and public spaces.

CIRCULATION. The interior circulation path moves from north to south functions as the “civic lobby”.

Winding through the entire building the internal connector fluctuates between public and semipublic spaces and unifies programs within the building. Circulation is encourage through the building through several wayfinding techniques , such as colors, graphics, paving/ceiling patterns.

INSPIRATION. A wide variety of programs and people within the building meant that traditional ‘healthcare colors’ were not a good fit. This project uses more emotionally based colors that will encourage movement, provide wayfinding, and introduce new energy to the hospital environment.

PINK. Pink is known to be a neurologically calming color and will be a balance to the brighter colors throughout the building. Pink is used in gathering spaces to encourage people to stop and relax.

ORANGE. A bright orange was incorporated to serve as a pop of color that can be seen both inside and outside the building. Orange is known to inspire movement and was used along circulation paths to encourage walking from the street into the building.

prairie pines artist residency ARCHITECTURE | MASTER PLAN This project focused on reflecting the Prairie Pines mission as a “refuge for all living things” and encouraged interdisciplinary learning as a partner with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The project concentrated on developing an architectural solution that would boost marketing activity and provide opportunity for future development and outreach programs. Successful architecture must be driven by a genuine place and voice. Understanding and instituting the Prairie Pines brand within the architectural decisions helped the design to embody an authentic place and voice. The project for Prairie Pines included two phases: first to develop a master plan for the 148 acre site and second to develop further a building within the master plan.

Both elements of the project were completed in teams of two students each.

PHASE ONE. The master plan of the site focused on the creation of an Artist-in-residence program outside of Lincoln, Nebraska. The site, located at 112th Street and Adams Street, was once a Christmas tree farm owned and operated

by Walter Bagley, a retired forestry professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Bagley focused his efforts into the native prairie restoration that currently inhabits the most of the site before bestowing the property to University of Nebraska in 2015. Now known as Prairie Pines, the property’s mission is to be “protected forever as a place that would provide a pleasant habitat for all beings—plant and animal.” Our master plan aimed to be consistent with that mission with a minimally invasive approach focused on the south-west corner of the site – a section of the site that currently housed prior development.

Since the site is currently owned by UNL, we aimed to expand the program to other disciplines within the UNL community, and targeted three main user groups: artists in residence, sciences and agriculture, and the public.

Knowing that a crucial aspect of prairie restoration is an annual prairie burn, we borrowed the grid pattern of a prairie grid-burn for the organization of the site. Within the grid we established four zones on our site: public zone, classroom zone, gallery/studio zone, and housing zone. Each of the zones represent flex space that house static program. We wanted each zone to be able to flow from one to the other, and from internal to external space.

PHASE TWO. The second phase of the Prairie Pines project was to design the architectural building that would retain the artist residency program. According to our master plan incorporating multiple programs under one roof was important. Our building must include programing for artist in residency program, the University of Nebraska’s classroom and labs, the restaurant, store and art gallery. Our design of the main building complex aimed to be minimally invasive. This decision led to the design of a large building that did not affect the native prairie. This main complex would be located in the southwest corner of the lot to allow for a majority of the site to remain untouched. Upon visiting the site, we were inspired by the pods of the native prairie milkweed. The milkweed contained various components housed within a pod envelope.

With pods of multiple user groups in mind, we focused on a mat building design that catered to the needs of the users separately and offered a collaborative environment.

Prairie Pines site plan

MISSION: protected forever as a place that would provide a pleasant habitat for all beings--plant and animal.

The building would be organized into the four main zones present on our site: public zone, classroom zone, gallery/studio zone, and housing zone. Each of the zones represent flex space that house static program and would be able to flow from one to the other, and from internal to external space. In order to achieve this, we focused on using minimal stairs, and slight manipulations to the topography of the site. This allows the entire building to follow the grade of the site while also remaining ADA compliant.

Due to the maintenance of this balance, our topographic manipulation used more cut than fill. We counterbalanced the abundance of cut by using a wall technique called rammed earth.

Using the rammed earth technique allowed us to use local earth materials within our building.

This provided an opportunity for UNL students to be involved in the construction of the building through a design-build program.

Courtyards were another defining feature of the roof plan that acted to further provide a link between the interior and exterior space, as well as connect public spaces to mixed-use spaces. The courtyards brought the outdoor landscape closer to interior spaces with the inclusion of gardens, and served as active spaces for gatherings and events.

The roof followed the natural grade of the ground plane and provided covering both for and between the programmatic pods. The roof pushes and pulls according to light, and the maintenance of key trees on site. As homage to the history of Prairie Pines, the roof wraps around a barn from the current development on the site, which is used for the gallery space.

natatorium ARCHITECTURE This project focused on the design of a natatorium, an indoor swimming pool, that both responded to and enhanced a site within the Haymarket of Lincoln, Nebraska.

When designing the natatorium the idea of buoyancy, or the ability to float was a focus.

Buoyancy led the design process because the act of swimming or floating in water is almost an exclusive method to achieve this feeling. This makes pools a very special place.

skin envelopes and follows the path of the patrons through the building. The skin also represents the refraction of image that would occur above and below the “buoyancy line”. The upper pattern of the metal panels is straight angular gaps or panels that slowly break up as they move toward the “buoyancy line”. After the panels move under the “buoyancy line”, they a break up further and are shifted, similar to the visual effect of an object put below water.

The idea of buoyancy was integrated into the building shell, which skews outward to create a “buoyancy line”. This “buoyancy line” was located at eye-level from exterior and at the water level, or pool surface level, on the interior.

This allows for people on the exterior to have their eye level in line with the “buoyancy line”.

The creation of the “buoyancy line” was a key factor in both the arrangement of program and the development of circulation through the building. Patrons enter the building from the southwest corner and continue up an exterior ramp that moves along the west edge of the pool.

As patrons proceed up the ramp they are slowly moving up to be at the “buoyancy line”. The ramp leads to an exterior courtyard, which is in line with an secondary entrance from the alley to the west. The exterior courtyard is a gathering place and a link to the lobby which both have views to the pool to the south. From the lobby, swimmers are able to move into the locker rooms and then the pool area. Other visitors are able to move up the stairs in the lobby to the second level or upper viewing deck.

The idea of buoyancy is present in the skin treatment that wraps around the building. The exterior ramp along bouyancy line

lincoln children’s zoo SIGNAGE | WAYFINDING |BRANDING | GRAPHIC DESIGN The new front entry signage needed to stretch across the main entry of the new expansion entrance. For the front entry the zoo wanted an impressive gateway that signified a threshold.

The sign had to fit within the brand and have a friendly, graphic-based look that would read well to children. The Lincoln Children’s Zoo did not want a sign that looked similar to other current entry signs, but rather would become an iconic part of the new expansion project. As a non-profit company, the Lincoln Children’s Zoo wanted to use powder-coated metal as the main entry material due to a potential donor willing to donate that material. Natural wood panels were added to soften the entry. The wood panels also tie the entry into the current look of the current zoo.

Additional signage and branding was needed for the zoo expansion. The Ager Play Center is an existing building that will be incorporated within the new zoo expansion. However, Ager needed a new face cover physical damage and better fit within the zoo brand. The third sign needed in the first phase is a large donor wall. This donor wall needed to match the other signage elements and needed to be flexible to allow for sign elements to be added and removed.

A new wayfinding system was also developed for the zoo expansion. The wayfinding worked off of animal outlines and patterns - making it easy to recognize and navigate for both parents and children. Simple, natural materials connect the expansion to the existing zoo environment.

Phase two of the project will further develop the wayfinding system. .

front entry signage

donor wall

ager play center facade signage

wayfinding system signage

chicago office graphics GRAPHIC DESIGN I worked to develop experiential graphics for the new DLR Group office in Chicago. The first task of this project was developing window graphics for four conference rooms. After talking with the Chicago design teams two main themes came through: Biophilla, due to their induction into a respected green committee, and the Chicago Flag, due to their pride in the history of Chicago.

These concepts were completely different and required contrasting styles for the graphics. The biophillia focused on the Voronoi diagram and used sharp vector lines. The Voronoi graphic is not an obvious representation of nature, but still read as organic. The second option focused on telling a story with a collage of historic Chicago imagery. Each conference room represents the history behind a star on the Chicago flag.

concept one: historical chicago

final concept: voronoi

texas softball pdc ARCHITECTURE | GRAPHIC DESIGN Through my internship, I worked on the University of Texas Softball player development center (PDC) programming study. I was tasked with developing an overall building concept that related to the existing softball stadium, but also read as new and cutting-edge to potential recruits. With this in mind, the new addition borrowed from the existing stadium’s bold strokes. Conceptually, the new PDC would read as large vertical voids that gave views through

the building into the stadium. This made the field itself a “gem” that would slowly be revealed as visitors walked by and through the building.

Along with an overall building concept the Texas Softball PDC project required a branded graphics package, a phasing proposal, and a highly developed 3D model.

west texas a&m football stadium signage SIGNAGE | GRAPHIC DESIGN Through my internship, I developed exterior gate signage for the new West Texas A&M football stadium. For these concepts, it was important to incorporate the stadium materials. The design iterations also had to work within the style and language of the stadium wayfinding system that was being developed.

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cal poly baseball GRAPHIC DESIGN As a part of the new Cal Poly Baseball Stadium, a new donor wall was needed as part of the player locker room. The donor wall needed to utilize recycled wood materials and the Cal Poly Baseball branding standards. A custom wallpaper graphic was developed for the design.

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Dignity Health of the Central Coast

The Copeland Family Charlie & Leslie King

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Richard & Joyce Andrews Tim & Marilyn Banducci The Billingsley Family Steven & Stacy Jones Jon & Tami Krause The Lee Family Kevin & Donna Lewis Jason & Sara Maas Al & Gail Montna David & Bianca Mossman Bill & Susan Murray Jason & Erin Novi The Peter Orradre Family Michael & Sammy Pineau John & Tracy Ronca Joe & Lorie Rumsey Monty & Sue Waltz John Wilson

Robin & Michelle Baggett Anonymous Jim & Martha Newkirk

donor appreciation

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Mark & Sheila Borjon Bob & Lisa Dinsmore The Hoo Family Dick & Nancy Morrow Bill & Jill Roth

Kent & Cathy Agler Rick & Judi Baker Matthew Brady

Jim & Michelle Bloomquist Dan & Loralee Chergey Rob & Tamara DeMarco

Brian & Cathie Conner Michael & Cheryl Costa Luke & Jane Faber Brad & Aimee Ledwith RJ Murray David S. “Bud” Norris David & Shelly Orlando Steve & Catherine Shelton Paul & Natalie Souza Robin & Stephanie Ventura

Bob & Sandra Espinola Shawn & Lori Kelly David & Jill Hampton Scott & Valerie Mollahan Todd Refnes Tom & Nadine Reilly Noel Schafner Rick & Karen Walker Michael & Kathy West Michael Wintringer

Chris & Bryanna Baker Eric & Kara Baysinger Ben & Marijke Boulware Church Brothers Pete Cocinni Bruce & Deborah Freeberg Mark & Theresa Gambardella Rick & Suzanne Herrero Jack Keese Paul Thompson