Ryan Oeckinghaus Portfolio - Spring 2019

Territorial Transgressions, New Jersey, (2019). Transportation Center 01, New Jersey, (2019). Re-Frame, Xiong’an, China, (2018). Flows, Medellin, Colombia, (2017). Prora’s Reflection, Rügen, Germany, (2017).

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The design portfolio of Ryan Oeckinghaus. This is a compilation of research and design centered around architecture as a catalyst for change within the surrounding context.

RYAN OECKINGHAUS Architectural Designer

Syracuse University School of Architecture B.Arch 2019

I am an architectural designer with a B.Arch from Syracuse University School of Architecture. I completed my studies in the spring of 2019, following the completion of my thesis, which investigated New Jersey as a site of failed planning paradigms, and proposed a radical reorganization of state infrastructure that sees the state as a part of a larger territory. The topic sprouts from my interest in urban planning and critical theory, as well as philosophy and dystopian fiction. I have worked previously on an urban renewal proposal sited in Medellin that fostered this interest, as well as a large scale reinterpretation of Prora that looks at a similar monumental scale. I wish to continue to investigate architecture at the urban scale as well as new building typologies that encapsulate the driving forces of the area and the time. I believe architecture can begin to mediate the detrimental social, economic and environmental effects being brought on by our society, and want to continue to work in a critical capacity toward possible solutions.

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PROJECTS

Territorial Transgressions 06 Transportation Center 01 18 Re-Frame 28 Flows 38 Prora’s Reflection 46

MISCELLANEOUS Renderings 56 Models 60 Branding 66

RYAN OECKINGHAUS 609 Boozer Lane Hillsborough, NJ 08844 +1-(908)-328-7621 roeckinghaus.me@gmail.com www.ryanoeckinghaus.com

EDUCATION SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Bachelor of Architecture Magna Cum Laude, Dean’s List, Chancellor’s Scholarship Honorable Mention - Thesis Prize Jury GPA 3.57

2014 - 2019

HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL Hillsborough, NJ German Honors Society Varsity Ice Hockey

2010 - 2014

SKILLS SOFTWARE 3D Modeling - Rhino 5.0, Revit, AutoCAD, Grasshopper Rendering - V-Ray, Keyshot, Revit Adobe - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects Environmental Analysis - Climate Consultant, DIVA (Rhino Plug-In) Mapping - ArcGIS Pro DESIGN Model Building, Lasercutting, 3D Printing, Sketching, 3D Visualization Problem Solving, Diagramming, Iterative Design

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EXPERIENCE HDR, INC. - Architectural Intern Lawrenceville, NJ Constructed models for project proposals as well as client meetings, assisted conceptualstages of a proposal and digitally modeled for rendering, digitally modeled for 3D printing.

Summer 2017

KSS ARCHITECTS - Architectural Intern

Princeton, NJ Produced finalized renderings for architectural projects, created promotional video for showcasing a design, produced diagrams and site plans for clients, and worked on concept and massing development for a possible project.

Summer 2016

NESHANIC VALLEY GOLF COURSE - Golf Operations Neshanic Station, NJ Assisted day to day golf camp operations, oversaw and taught golf campers, ages 5+, and worked cooperatively in teams to organize activities & stations.

2011 - 2015

AFFILIATIONS POSIT

Creative Director Student Representative

2018 - 2019 2017 - 2018

ARCHITECTURE STUDENT ORGANIZATION Editor In-Chief

2014 - 2017 2015 - 2016

PUBLICATIONS Comparative Urban Atlas Volume 2 Design Energy Futures: Xiong’an 1.0 HDR Opacity Series 02: Rigor

PROJECTS Territorial Transgressions Transportation Center 01 Re-Frame Flows Prora’s Reflection

TERRITORIAL TRANSGRESSIONS A (NEW) NEW JERSEY

SCOPE Undergraduate Thesis Project Urban Planning/Design PROJECT LOCATION New Jersey ADVISOR Mitesh Dixit

There is a widespread, intense focus on the city that has been negatively materialized in urban planning and design. While broad, this statement provides a clear and concise starting point for this thesis investigation.

The city as the center of importance in design has allowed for non-city, non-urban areas to succumb to market driven and introverted planning practices that sacrifice necessary connections to outside systems and networks.

This thesis takes this over arching problem of the misconception of cities, as it has been materialized in New Jersey, and presents an overhaul of the state’s organization and infrastructure. It does this so that New Jersey can function not as a relegation of market demand, not as an interstitial real estate project, but within the broader territory.

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TERRITORIAL TRANSGRESSIONS

This investigation began with the indexing of the existing conditions in New Jersey. The maps seen here show these initial conditions: major roadways, the railway system, key industrial sites, urban centers, preserved land, population density, the spread of blue collar workers, and the key connective corridor, the New Jersey Turnpike. These all provide the basis for a planning understanding of New Jersey, and exemplify the points stated previously.

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New Jersey’s ineffective sprawl is the most evident conclusion from this series of maps, and my proposal at this scale seeks to remedy it. There is a zone between the cities that has the potential for densification and for providing a basis for a clear reorganization of a territory that is so clearly sprawled and deeply flawed by its misconception of urban planning and the city / rural dichotomy.

The proposal for New Jersey at the state scale centers on the alteration of the primary corridor, the New Jersey Turnpike. This connective piece between New York and Philadelphia is where the urban centers and the population should be redistributed. The state-wide proposal goes through a few key steps: relocating the urban centers along the primary corridor, increasing farmland, adding new industry sites, and adding secondary transit hubs.

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The proposed scheme, seen on the right of the previous spread, shows a more effective overall layout of the territory, redistributing people and resources through some of the existing infrastructure to combat the misuse of land and closure of the suburban sprawl paradigm. This system rejects the use of typical city planning paradigms and in doing so seeks to project a case study for the reinterpretation of other similar landscapes. The specifics of the replanning and new operation of this corridor are seen in the following pages, as this proposal calls itself what it is, a linear city, and takes notes from the similar theoretical exercises that came before it, as well as Albert Pope’s insights into urban planning.

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The collages to the left show a before and after view of a segment of New Jersey, showing how the replanning of the state would begin to affect it at a regional scale. from the interior to the coast. The above collage shows the grid being re-imposed on the existing Turnpike corridor.

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These diagrams show possible block arrangements, showing different internal connections, organizations of adjacent programs, and allocations of open space.

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Each step adds specificity at the smaller and smaller scales, while operating continually on the conceptual basis of territory. The process of fitting out the linear city scheme is meant to be done to anticipate and accommodate further growth and adaptation. Due to the territorial scheme presented, the construction of a linear city as described would allow for variations and new interpretations as it grows. The proposed city is NOT seen as a closed system that is constructed in entirety and then inhabited.

This step is showing a possible fit-out of this infrastructural framework based on land area and program calculations. Seen below is the result of calculations based on standards and metrics for different program occupancies as well as a need to relocate 70% of the population. The key programs are all calculated: Housing, Education, Offices, Retail, Medical, Government, and Assembly. The chart brings in more levels of prescription for the program, such as FAR, lot coverage, and urban formation.

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1.65 MIL/ 287,000

327 MIL SF/ 29.7 MIL SF

11.73 SQ MI/ 1.03 SQ MI

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1.36 MIL

204 MIL SF

7.32 SQ MI

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711,000

284 MIL SF

10.2 SQ MI

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2.0

HOUSING

MEDICAL

9,468 BEDS

24 MIL SF

0.86 SQ MI

POLYCENTRIC

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GOVERNMENT

640,000

125 MIL SF

4.48 SQ MI

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3.88 MIL

16.9 MIL SF

0.6 SQ MI

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The necessary programs will be allocated in concentrations on the territorial scale, for those that should be point or polycentric. At the Block scale however, the emphasis is on formal arrangements, which leads to an investigation of possible block arrangements on the previous page, showing different internal connections, organizations of adjacent programs, and allocations of open space. These can begin to be combined, reinforcing adjacencies and flow, and are brought back into the infrastructural framework, showing a possible build-out, a possible allocation of program based on adjacencies, open systems and transit flow.

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SCOPE Undergraduate Thesis Project Architecture as Infrastructure Transit and Related Program PROJECT LOCATION New Jersey ADVISOR Mitesh Dixit

The Transportation Center is an exercise in architecture as infrastructure, attempting to expand from the city scales of the thesis project and create a building that functions in line with the updated conception of New Jersey as a territory.

The building is designed to be an object derived from the forces of the site. It is an incredibly porous building, lifted off of the ground to allow for free pedestrian circulation as well as tram transport through the site.

Overall, the hub is the junction of 4 different lines, the high speed Maglev above, freight and countryside transit below, and tramlines on the ground level.

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TRANSPORTATION CENTER 01

The infrastructural objects shown here were the starting point for the development of the building. Existing infrastructural systems are not inherently detrimental to the urban fabric, but the way they are often applied (systematically and at the human scale) creates closed and divisive systems and spaces. Therefore, I do not seek to change these objects themselves, but I seek to change the way that they are applied within the urban fabric. These examples show an attempt at overlapping these systems and pieces into new infrastructural objects that enforce the open grid transit and block system.

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These three axonometric drawings serve as the basis for the transportation center, as testing grounds for architecture as infrastructure, and a recombination of existing elements.

The varying elements that interact with the ground plane are situated to serve nearby programs. The top left is the community entrance, located nearest to housing in the area, providing direct access to public program and gathering spaces. The opposing corner is located near commercial buildings and accesses offices and supplementary program.

The subway punctures the ground outside of the building footprint, and the Maglev platform entrances bisect the building North to South.

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The populated ground level (left) and the community platform (right) shoe the main points of access to the varying building program and transportation systems.

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The material reality of this project therefore seeks to function along a new conception of territory in the New Jersey region. At each scale, down to the building, the focus is on creating connectivity and openness that supports the overall territorial reorganization. Instead of allowing New Jersey to fall victim to land misuse, disconnection and infrastructural chaos as a result of the focus on cities, a planning emphasis is reinstated, and a Holistic Proposal is put forth, to remedy such outdated planning and infrastructural practices.

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The building itself has no clear envelope; it is open air. The entryways and programs are seen as reflective, enclosed glass boxes within the concrete skeleton.

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SCOPE Green Research Facilities Product Sales & Exhibition Auditorium & Event Space Classrooms PROJECT LOCATION Xiongan, China INSTRUCTOR Fei Wang COLLABORATORS Ian Masters

This project, as part of the publication Design Energy Futures: Xiong’an 1.0, which is a collection of projects done at Syracuse University under the guidance of Professor Fei Wang, is an investigation into the reuse of an outdated building typology within a developing city to spark urban interaction and develop a hub of environmentally conscious research and investigation. This project specifically is cited in the developing Xiong’an and is an intervention in an old industrial building.

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This building is mainly focused on creating pedestrian interaction and unique interior spaces to house two sets of program. At the left of the building, where the tilted exterior frame exists, the public is invited inside. They circulate up through the frame and interact with public programs such as a coffee shop, event space, auditorium, and classrooms. The other half of the building, with a more rigid layout, houses the green research facilities and a showroom for the products the researchers develop. Connections between these areas allow for programmatic overlap.

This set of diagrams show (in order of rows) the arrangement of HVAC and Radiant Heating systems, the existing, frame, and additional structure, and the multiple circulation paths.

Diagrams produced by Ian Masters

The bottom diagrams show the development of the building form, focusing on freeing the ground plane and adding the rotated form for new interior spaces.

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The building also seeks to alter the typical paradigm of R&D by integrating the consumer/citizen in the process. The lab spaces are organized to allow for pedestrian-like storefront viewing; they can witness the research and creation of green products. From there, the user continues through their viewing circulation path. The viewer enters the showroom, where they are able to purchase some of the products they’ve seen. Along with the educational programs in the public-focused side of the building, this building emphasizes the dissemination of environmentally friendly knowledge and products through its program and form.

The systems used in this building are also important for the expression of environmental consciousness. For example, the exterior form uses a PTFE mesh to not only expose the structure and interior program to the public, enticing their interaction with the building, but to also reduce solar heat gain (the product can reflect as much as 73% of the suns energy). Overall, this project uses transparency of structure systems and program to entice user interaction. The public is engaged in the development process of environmentally-conscious products through a reinterpretation of the programs this building holds, and these users can learn about and purchase said products to promote environmental responsibility within the developing city.

Drawing produced by Ian Masters

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FLOWS

SCOPE Recreation & Education Facilities, Commercial Corridor PROJECT LOCATION Medellin, Colombia INSTRUCTOR Francisco Sanin COLLABORATORS Timothy Attanasio, Brandon Zirzow

This project started with a prescribed zone in Medellin where a new tram line had just finished construction, connecting the outskirts of the city to the city center. There is a parallel flow of the main creek and the axis of the tram line, which was used to determine the specific location of the intervention. The creek acts as a physical and social divider; the area to the south is comprised of new, organized construction and the north side is predominantly informal settlements.

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- Educational Institution El Pinal (education) - Escuela Beato Hermano Salomón (education) - Educational Institution Felix Botero Henao (education)

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From there, the focus was narrowed down by a more thorough analysis of the creek systems in the area. There is space left untouched by the residents where creeks exist or have been covered up. This space often coincides with areas of more extreme topography. Due to these vacancies formed by the creeks and topography, the site features a lack of connection to other development on both sides. The title Flows references the intervention’s focus on connecting the site’s truncated circulation paths with program and infrastructure.

The project is broken up into three zones; a commercial corridor, a recreation center, and a library/education facility, programs which are all missing in this informal area North of the divisive river. These connections and structures all play off of the externality of personal interaction that the climate and culture emphasizes to revitalize the area within the citizen’s acceptable framework.

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The site plan and axon focus on showing the overall scheme in a similar fashion to the original condition, as each element uses terracing, open air segments and cantilevered shading referencing the current outlook residents have on the freedom and open access of public programs.

The interventions are therefore positioned to not only provide program, but also infrastructural connections that can continue pedestrian paths to the edges of the site, creating a more porous and effective public space.

The below perspective shows the public area attached to the education center and library. The exploded axon emphasizes the formation of program atop infrastructure as a means of pulling the user through the area.

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SCOPE Adaptive Re-Use Parkour Park PROJECT LOCATION Rügen, Germany INSTRUCTOR Maya Alam

The studio in which this project was produced focused on the terms RUIN-ish and LANDSCAPE-ish to tackle new forms of reuse. Kicking socialism with flowers, citing the Chapman brothers water color paintings over Hitler’s artwork, is the means of taking a building with a negative historically loaded past (such as PRORA) and deconstructing it formally and programmatically to create a ruined building that leaves the original meaning and tone behind. This was accomplished through formal moves surrounding REFLECTION. By using a pattern derived from Josef Albers’ work, reflective punctures or protrusions are applied to the facade to break up its monumentality.

PRORA’S REFLECTION

PRORA’S REFLECTION

These images are from a “Daily Render� series meant to begin iterating broad concepts on how to break down the monumentality of the Prora facade. These start the investigations into reflectivity that drove the final product.

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These diagrams are studies into elements of parkour and the movements that necessitate these specific conditions.

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The reflective portions angle either up or down to reflect the sky and ground, respectively. These are mixed with cuts entirely through the building mass and cuts that show the rear facade visually disrupt the seemingly endless facade and break it down to a more personal scale. Then a color gradient from early studies was introduced onto the facade. This inverts the perception of the ruin; the original facade that still stands takes this new color, such as the application of bright colors to alter the sober mood in the Chapman brothers’ paintings, and creates a “new normal.”

The interventions are a ruined concrete that reads as old and worn, whereas the existing reads as the new, the altered. This RUIN-ish aspect of the interventions also applies to the landscape. The pieces that have been removed from the original facade are strewn across the landscape as evident fragments of carving, as well as indenting the landscape itself to create a similar depth existent in the facade. The interior form and ruined landscape are designed to foster parkour, a movement that uses the body to reclaim unused areas for new activity at a human scale. What is now left on the site of a PRORA block is a deconstructed version of the original building that both dissolves itself into the sky and landscape through reflection and formal ruination, while standing as a bold reinterpretation of a monotonous Nazi object.

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MISCELLANEOUS Renderings Models Branding

57 RENDERINGS These renderings were done in conjunction with KSS Architects during my summer internship. This specific style was done to match previous work and maintain a visual continuity.

These images were produced for two different studio projects.

They were included to show the materials, which were applied in Photoshop instead of through a rendering program.

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RENDERINGS

The left model showcases melting plexiglass to form curved surfaces.

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The right model was produced after structural calculations of beam depths to show a feasible overhang.

This model was done during my internship with HDR and was a published proposal for a data center in Norway.

63 MODELS The modules are sanded to create the hill-like form and recede as green roofs down to the end of the neighboring mountains.

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This model was also done with HDR and measured at 10’ x 6’. It was a site model for the new LA Union Station. I worked to facilitate all of the lasercutting, 3D printing and worked with a small team for the final construction.

These images were produced for a POSIT event, an orginaztion that manages a multimedia publication platform on www.thisisposit.com. The images to the left were used to promote upcoming articles.

The poster on the right was designed to be distributed to students who attended discussion events that were then uploaded to the site.

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