Oliver Julius MOyski Master of Architecture University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design
Growing up in downtown Denver during a period of economic growth, I was surrounded by a constantly changing skyline, which inspired me to change a skyline myself.
My experiences as a youth development professional gave me the people skills to truly understand the needs and expectations of clients and how to turn their dreams and visions into designed reality.
Over the past five years as a student in the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Kansas, I have been able to develop and refine my design skills, using my expertise in some design consultation jobs.
I spend my free time appreciating music, film, painting watercolors, roller blading, and skiing whenever I can.
Collage Study of Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, Kansas
COntaCt infOrMatiOn
Email: oliver@moyski.com
Phone: 303-725-3738
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-j-moyski
referenCes
Nate Jenkins, OZ Architecture Principal, AIA | LEED AP
Email: njenkins@ozarch.com
Director Reid McKnight
Email: reid@genevaglen.org
Brian Van Winkle, AIA | NCARB
Email: bvanwinkle@vesselarchitecture.com
OZ arChiteCture
August 2023 - July 2024
Position: Architecture Intern I
From August 2023 to July 2024, I was fortunate enough to begin my architectural career officially at OZ Architecture. I had a hand in various projects from a variety of design stages. I designed massing models and created yield analysis to present land usage options to prospective clients, picked up redlines on projects going out for review for Design Drawings, construction documents, and Site Development Plans, and generated graphics for client use, including parts diagrams, site plans, as well as exterior and interior renderings. I gained more professional experience utilizing the tools I learned in college, including ArcGIS, Revit, During my time at OZ Architecture from August 2023 to July 2024, I officially began my architectural career. I was involved in various projects at different design stages. I worked on designing massing models, conducted yield analysis to present land usage options to potential clients, reviewed redlines on projects for Design Drawings, construction documents, and Site Development Plans, and created graphics for client use, such as parts diagrams, site plans, exterior and interior renderings.
I was able to apply the tools I learned in college, including ArcGIS, Revit, Adobe Suite, and Enscape, as well as learn new skills. In addition to my design work, I also participated in construction administration tasks, such as reviewing submittals and RFIs, conducting onsite visits and box walks, and attending OAC meetings. Although my time at OZ was brief, I am thankful for the valuable lessons and professional experience I gained there. While the mentioned projects do not represent all of my work at OZ Architecture, they were the ones that I dedicated most of my time to during my employment.Adobe Suite, and Enscape, to name a few, while also learning new skills. In addition to my design work, I also had my hand on the construction administration side, reviewing submittals and RFIs, going on-site visits and box walks, and participating in OAC meetings. While my time at OZ was brief, I am grateful for the lessons I learned and the professional experience that I gained. While the selected works do not represent my entire body of work while employed by OZ Architecture, I feel that these two projects were the two that occupied most of my time while employed there.
All images on pages 6 - 13 were deisgned while employed by OZ Architecture
While I was not a part of the design team for frameline, this project was my first forray into Construction Administeration, and i did work closely with the design team in decision making during construciton.
Frameline is a multi family “botique apartment” with 78 units and totaling 100,600 GSF.
• Site Analysis
• Reviewing submittlas and RFIs
• Wall Details
• Revieing materials specs
• Procore
My contributions included:
• Sharing CAD files & Revit Models with consultants
• Submitting ASIs
• Detail drawings
• Correspondace with GC & Consultnats
Frameline - 4225 E Hale
GWS Residential - 4003 Walnut St.
Located adjacent to RiNo’s newest development “One River North”, GWS is a 17 story multifamily, mixed use development. I assisted on this project for SDP submissions, as well as generating drawings for Schematic Design and Design Development phases.
Beyond this, my contributions included:
• Site Analysis
• Parti Diagrams
• CAD Coordination
• Parking Plans
• AI Image Generation
• Form Development
• Rendering
• Unit Plans, Overall Plans, & RCPs
• Addressing
• Client Meetings
7th Floor Plan
Unit Code, Floor, Finish and Refelected Ceiling plans
OZ arChiteCture suMMer internshiP
Summer 2022
The summer of 2022 was my first forray into designing in a professional setting, i worked at OZ Architecture from May through August of that summer. Assigned to their Urban Living Depatment, I worked under Principals Nate Jenkins and Kelly Davis in devloping a wide variety of projects within their concentration, primarily on the schematic design and design development phases. The projects showcased here do not represent my entire body of work while eployed by OZ, but does represent my scope of work while employed. My breif time at OZ helped recontextualize my vision for my career as an architect, it taught me paitence, how to self advocate, and to have confidence in my work and the creative decisions that I make.
For my culminating assignment, I had the priviledge of getting to build a physical model of one of OZ Architecture’s projects, an office for Blackstone INC. in Boulder Co. This was a real treat to get to work with my hands and build intricate details The project took a little under a week, and consists of laser cut acrylic and basswood.
5505 Central Physical Model
Bozemen Housing Project
A modular construciton apartment compleex near Montana State University, with the oveall total square footage of the development totaling at 270,000 SF. My contributions included:
• Site Analysis
• Local Codes & Zoning
• Parking Efficinecy
• Programming
• Form Development
• Massing
• Rendering
• Video Rendering
• Yeild Analysis
3700 E Alameda Ave
Two mixed use apartment buildings on adjacent blocks along Denver’s Alameda Avenue between S Jackson St and S Garfeild Ave, with the S Garfeild development totaling at 415,000 SF and S Jackson St totaling 221,000 SF. My responsabiilities included:
• Site Analysis
• Local Codes & Zoning
• Parking Efficinecy
• Programming
• Massing
• Yeild Analysis
3699 east nObles, Centennial CO.
Summer 2021
Brian Van Winkle, AIA | NCARB
Summer Job/Internship
For the summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to be employed by architect Brian Van Winkle of Vessel Architecture as an intern, hired to assist with remodeling his family’s new home in Centennial, Colorado. As Brian’s sole intern on the project, I consulted with contractors, addressed design and structural issues of the building itself, and participated in the demolition and subsequent framing of the interior of the building. One of my first tasks was to do a thermal map of the house to assess its insulation adequacy and found many instances of thermal leaking (top images of page 37). I learned countless hard skills, including running wire in a house, digging trenches for plumbing and gas lines, and constructing the framing. This was an incredibly unique opportunity because I finally got to see all of the concepts that I had learned in my structures and building tech classes applied in an actual work site setting. While I could not see the entire project through to the end, the lessons that I learned on that job site were invaluable.
Thermal Imaging of the attic interior
Attic interior
Framing the master bathroom
Digging a trench for the gas line
Completed attic
Angle grinding rebar out of a fireplace to be demolished.
linCOln heights
420 W North Ave, Chicago Illinois
Architecture 811 Fall 2022
Professor Joe Colistra
Designed in SketchUp & Revit| Rendered in Enscape
This project was designed to be submitted to the annual HUD compettion. In the Fall of 2022 the HUD competition was to design a mixed use apartment building Chicagos Lincoln Park neigborhood, while incorperating affordable housing units, sustainable design stategies, and the potential functionality for smart home technologies, which would be monotored by an in house “living lab”. The overall design of Lincoln Heights’ form was intended to celebrate Lincoln Parks haritage and design language, while makiking a seamleess transition between the denser downtown chicago to the urban suburbs of Lincoln park.
Shared balconies and common spaces thoughout the buildings programming are meant to encourage a sense of community within the building itseelf, and the incramental setbacks on the East and West faces strive to create the same sence of community and connectivity with the surrounding neighborhood.
Site Map & Context
NORTHAVE
SEDGWICKSTATION
Wind Directions
Sun Path
SEDGWICKST
HUDSONAVE
LINCOLN PARK
Design Development
SEDGWICKST NORTHAVE
PRESERVE NEIGHBORHOOD VIEWS
SEDGWICKST NORTHAVE
PRESERVE NEIGHBORHOOD
SEDGWICKST NORTHAVE
SUBTRACT FROM MASS TO CREATE OUTDOOR
NORTHAVE
SUBTRACT FROM MASS TO CREATE UNIT BALCONIES
SEDGWICKST
Lincoln Heights’ outdoor programming is a residential amenity on the third floor, with an additional amenity space reserved on the second floor. The living lab and grocery store are the building’s two commercial tenants, both serve the Lincoln Park community and the building itself.
Exploded Floorplans & Programming diagram
= ONE BEDROOM: 36 UNITS
= TWO BEDROOM: 22 UNITS
= STUDIO: 28 UNITS
= LIVING LAB
ONE BEDROOM UNIT
TWO BEDROOM UNIT
STUDIO UNIT
Local universities will utilize the living lab spaces on the first and second floors to study biometric data from residents and conduct other biomedical, psychological, and medical studies. Lincoln Heights reaps the benefits of the living lab through the revenue generated from renting the space and through the universities offering their medical services to residents and the out. The concept of an apartment unit equipped to aggregate and analyze biometric data has endless possibilities.
CORRECTIVE
L.E.D. LIGHTING
FLOOR MOTION SENSOR
BED SENSORS
SMART MIRROR
SMART TOILET
NORTH
= FHA 221(D) = ILLINOIS CLEAN ENERGY GRANT = LIHTC
REMAINING ENERGY SOURCED THRU SLOAR FARM LOCALLY INDIGENOUS FLORA
Through the use of technologies, materials, and design strategies, Lincoln Heights is designed to be a “net-zero” building to mitigate the environmental impacts of its construction. Lincoln heights was designed to serve its community, and though sustainable efforts such as reducing the heat island effect, mitigating water waste, and ensuring that all energy that powers it is renewable.
PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS
HEAT ISLAND REDUCING ROOF
GREEN ROOFS
ENERGY HVAC UNITS WITH NATRUAL REFIGERANT
STONE MINERAL WOOL INSULAITON
Palais Des vues
Palais Des vues - heritage Center
30-34 Rue du Marché-Finlay, Quebec City, Quebec
Architecture 609 Spring 2022
Professor Kapila Silva
Designed in SketchUp & Revit| Rendered in Enscape
In my final studio, I was tasked with designing a heritage center in the historic Quebec City, Canada. Located on the main port into the city, the Palais des Vues strives to be a tourist detination, that not only displays Quebec Cities unique and rich heritage, but also guides visitors towards other key destinations.
The overall form is meant to accentuate the iconic chateau, utilizing an atrium space to preserve its sight line. Additionally the form draws from the adjacent battery wall, creating the illusion that the wall itself is enveloping the heritage center, while also mimicking some of the more colonial architectural motifs. The blend of historic and contemporary materials alludes to the celebration of Quebec Cities heritage, while looking towards its future.
Site & Massing
Stone brick utilized to connect the Heritage Center to existing battery wall Ramp implemented throughout the Heritage Center for seamless vertical circulation
Atrium Space Expanded
Building divided into North & South wings to preserve the view of the Chateau Frontenac
Innitial Programming Diagram
Site Context Map Site Map
“t-MObile aCCeleratOr”
50 East 13th St, Kansas City, MO 64106
Architecture 508 Fall 2020
Professor Eddy Tavio
Designed in SketchUp | Rendered in Enscape
In a group project with my fellow architecture student Rachel Vitt, we designed an accelerator office building adjacent to the T-Mobile Center in downtown Kansas City. The space is an office building with rotating and regular tenants. Our goal was to provide T-Mobile with a home in Kansas City while capitalizing on its location in the city’s social hub and inspiring a network within the Kansas City community.
This was my first project not located on the KU campus, which forced me to think about the role it would play in Kansas City. Considering the context of the building helped me create an intentional dialogue between the city and the office building.
Massing Diagram
1. Building wraps around T-Mobile Center
2. Form altered to form connections to the overall circulation of the T-mobile center, to the surrounding park, and the power and light district.
Concept Diagram
3. Pushed out aspects of the form to make the facade more continuous, as well as connect views of the interior to the surrounding community
1st & 2nd Floor Plans/Program
The exterior’s overall form is intended to maximize views as well as the occupants’ experience, while not sacrificing overall functionality (shown in the concept diagram on page 10). The interior layout facilitates a network within the office building by organizing the floor plan to maximize informal and more open-air meeting/collaboration spaces (Shown in the isometric floor program diagram above). The prioritization of a more open and flexible interior is especially critical in designing an office building for a postCOVID-19 world.
Ground Level Floorplan/Program
vOyager’s lanDing: a PavilliOn
fOr huManity
vOyager’s lanDing: a PavilliOn fOr
huManity
Architecture 812 Spring 2023
Professor Joe Colistra
Designed in SketchUp | Rendered in Enscape 59°55’43.20” N, 43°25’24.45” W
The philosopher Plato surmised that our reality is a collection of imperfect representations of reality’s true form and that our understanding could be likened to shadow puppets cast on the cave wall. The Voyager’s Landing takes this one step further by posing the question: if we are not alone in the universe, how imperfect is our understanding of the universe? The voyager’s landing is designed as a pavilion for humanity and a space of reflection on our place in the universe.
The name “Voyagers Landing” is meant to be a double entendre. Paying homage to humankind’s first message to extraterrestrial life: the Voyager Satellite. as well as the literal definition denoting the space as a landing for voyagers of all kinds: Interstellar, and earthbound.
The Voyagers Landing was designed to be a place of humble meditation, to reflect upon our place in the universe, and to be a space where people from all over the world can come to exchange ideas, collaborate and learn together. To achieve this meditative space, a remote and neutral site was of the utmost importance; in addition to this, sun exposure was critical to achieving the shadow effect of Plato’s Allegory of the cave.
Ultimately, the fjords near the town of Itilleq, Greenland was selected for various reasons, its accessibility by ferry and its isolated location ensured the successful execution of the intended concept and experience. While the site is in Greenland, it is situated beneath the arctic circle, enduring year-round sun exposure.
Designed in section to mirror Plato’s cave design, two separate galleries, one with exhibits and artifacts, and the other, on which the exhibitions and gallery occupants are projected onto the wall, representing our imperfect understanding of the universe.
SUN PATH
The disk on the Voyager satellite relied on the assumption that mathematics is a universal language, and the design of Voyagers Landing strives to speak the same language; in plan view, the form mimics the Fibonacci spiral, which is the most commonly occurring geometrical pattern in nature. Furthermore, countless design decisions were informed by the Fibonacci sequence, celebrating the ways we have found in nature throughout human history.
2 FLOORS, 1 DEDICATED GALLERY, 1 FOR OTHER PROGRAMMING NEEDS
CENTER VOIDED FOR AMPITHEATER
OUTER FACE TAPERED IN TO MAXIMIZE SUN EXPOSURE
SUN PATH
SUN PATH
CEILING ANGLED UPWARDS TO ACCOUNT FOR ANUAL CHANGES IN THE ANGLE OF THE SUN FINAL FORM
WINTER SUN PATH
SPRING
SUMMER
AUTUMN
GALLERY
FIBONACCI SPIRAL
MUSEUM PATH
VERTICAL CIRCULATION
Placing the Voyager’s Landing on a mountain or cliff was one of the priorities in selecting a site, intending to have the building users experience all scales of human travel. Arriving at the base of the site by way of a ferry, ascending the mountainous cliff through the sky by way of a gondola, and finally connecting with the ground to experience the cave. Paying homage to the travels by land, sea, and sky made by our ancestors, bringing us all to this collective moment.
