Ryan Poppert Selected Works '23

RYAN POPPERT

Student of Architecture

CONTACT INFO

ryancpoppert@gmail.com

(402) 759-2342

Linkedin: Ryan Poppert

EDUCATION

Iowa State University

Bachelors of Architecture

Minor in Urban Studies

GPA: 3.34 out of 4.0

CERTIFICATIONS

OSHA Certified

QPR Suicide Preven tion

SKILLS

Rhino

Revit

Autocad

InDesign

Photoshop

Illustrator

Lumion

Enscape

Laser Cutting

3-D Printing

ORGANIZATIONS

American Cancer Society

Delta Upsilon Fraternity

ISU Men’s Club Volleyball

Iowa Statesmen Chorus

Pride Goes Greek

WORK EXPERIENCE

TEAM MEMBEER

Cornbred BBQ (2022)

Worked as a chef, server, and bartender

Completed daily cleaning and organizing of restaurant

Developed and curated new dishes for seasonal menus

Worked with the restaurant’s social media

AUTOCAD OPERATOR

Quality Management Inc. (2019-2020)

Represented Manko Window Systems in the Great Plains

Utilized AutoCAD to design installation details

Developed Bid Documentation in the regional office

Assessed documents to insure accurate bid quoting

LEADERSHIP

VP OF MEMBER EDUCATION

Delta Upsilon Fraternity (2019-2020)

236 hours of community service through January of 2023

Educated members on physical and mental well being

Acted as a liaison for campus resources related to health

Organized events for Brotherhood and various committies

REFERENCES

NATHAN GRIFFITH, AIA REINALDO CORREA-DIAZ

Assoc. Professor of Practice

nbg@iastate.edu

Assistant Teaching Professor

rcorrea@iastate.edu

EMERGENCE

WILD DIVERSITY HEADQUATERS

Fall 2022

PORTLAND, OR

In collaboration with Thomas Kracl

Professors Nathan Griffith, Brian Warthen, Nick Lindsley, Khalid Kahn Neumann Monson Architects

Emergence is a proposal to enliven the downtown area of Portland through a park-based intervention that aims to maximize exisiting green space, while providing a centrally-located home for a diversified non-profit.

Wild Diversity is a non-profit organization that aims to help create a connection to the outdoors for Black, Indigenous, all People of Color (BIPOC) and the LGBTQ2S+ communities through outdoor adventures and education.

Portland’s historic minorities have constantly been forced out of their homes, relocated for the privatized development of the city. Through Wild Diversity’s mission, our design looks to develop a project in the center of Portland that Emerges from the Waterfront Marina Park. Emergence focuses on the inclusion of all persons and promotes sustainable design practices to better the enviornment of the Portland area.

To learn more about Wild Diversity, vist https://wilddiversity.com/

Site Map

Detailed Green Roof Section

Skylight Louver System

Green Roof

Exterior Louvers

Building Mass

Section

Gallery View Render

Front Elevation Experiential Render

Park Experiential Render

Pool View Render

THE DELMAR KLOVER MEMORIAL

Spring 2021

In collaboration with Daniel Sellnau

Professor Renaldo Correa-Diaz

AMES, IA

The Delmar Klover Memorial Chapel is a ritual-based memorial centered on the physical and mental connection between people and water. Water throughout time has been used in many forms of rituals and ceremonies, and our project aims to bring light to this connection.

The structure pushes individuals through an arrangement of thresholds and waterfalls to drive a self-reflection of the user, allowing for mental clarity, and a sirene experience along the shore of Lake Laverne situated at the heart of Iowa State’s campus.

At the time of this project, I lost my grandfather Delmar Klover to cancer. His love for water and his testament to selflessness and personal reflection inspired the concept of this project. One of his favorite hymnals, “You Have Come Down to the Lakeshore” inspired the location of the project, as well as influenced the rituals that make this memorial special.

Memorial Plan and Section

RITUAL MANIFESTO

The manifesto of our project focuses on the qualities that water has on our senses, and the inner-peace that is brought through self reflection and interaction with water.

Section Model Photographs

ASSEMBLY DEVELOPMENT

The construction is a simple brick and tube system developed through our detail work. Our system is made up of custom concrete bricks that slide down poylmer channels and lock into a metal frame.

R&D Brick System

STONEWORKS: LWM CONTAINER

In collaboration with Daniel Sellnau Spring 2021

Professor Renaldo Correa-Diaz

Small-scale living is an up-and-coming style of living. The greatest challenge to be faced is how to provide comfort to a user while being confied to a small interior space. The design of such space has to be user friendly, easily transported, and adaptable.

“Technical Performance of the Architecture”

By first ideating the general form and detail that would frame the project, it became clear to better understand space as a ownership rather than a product of development meant to provide individuals a place where they can partake in the three separate functions of life, LIVING, WORKING, MEDITATING.

The final design is a culmination of various design representations, including collaging, massing studies, assembly development and visual representation. Our project is entitled assembly will allow the system to work for all specific uses.

Representing our enabled detail

ASSEMBLY DEVELOPMENT

The assembly of this small-scale living module uses the same R&D Brick System as the memorial chapel, allowing for easy transport and cost-effective construction.

First Floor Assembly

Second Floor Assembly

DETAIL IN ARCHITECTURE

Spring 2021

Professor Renaldo Correa-Diaz

This project was the introduction to intricate detail in architecture. Doorknobs, for example, are such small pieces within a strcture, however the doorknob serves a very important purpose, to introduce the space a user enters. In a way, the doorknob acts as the...

“Handshake of the building,”

By choosing a doorknob precedent, I was tasked with finding architectural detail within the doorkob. From here, I took the detail and began to explore different materials and fabrication strategies to discover a comprehensive understanding of the detail as it develops into physical architecture.

The final piece is displayed through the creation of two “isolated” details, that is two concrete volumes that once interlocked but have been ripped apart, leaving the nail rip marks on the conjoining sides.Together, they create a detail separate and distinguishable from the two original isolated details.

INITIAL DOORKNOB IDEATION

After prototyping the doorknob precedent study, I then began to develop new iterations of the original detail, which led to the final doorknob design, so here.

Doorknob Ideations

Original Design for the final 1+1=3 Detail

This design pulled inspiration from the motif found in the original doorknob precedent, and is combined with the non-detail of nails, showing a connection between two faces of the solid forms which have been ripped apart.

1+1=3 Final Detail Imagery

DIGITAL WORKS

Spring/Fall 2022

Professors Anna Aversing, Bosuk Hur

The following represent my graphic skills in relation to architecture and its relative information. Each of these drawings show my style of graphic representation and analytical research.These diagrams were created using Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, and Rhino.

125TH ST MASSING

125TH ST MASSING

ZONING DETAILS

District: C4-4D

Zone: Commerical or Residential V1

Community District 11

Lot Size: 84,728 ft^2

INCLUSIONARY HOUSING PROGRAM

“Developments may receive a density bonus for the preservation of permanently affordable housing.”

Program Value is calculated through the Floor Area Ratio, or FAR.

SITE DEMOGRAPHICS

BUILDING GUIDELINES

Floor

PUBLIC SPACE CLAUSE

Privately owned land used for public space can be traded for additional floor area.

HISTORIC HARLEM ZONING

Harlem’s 125th St Corridor is a zoning district that provides incentives for developments looking to preserve the culture of Harlem.

WE LACK SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURAL PRESENCE IN RURAL AMERICA.

Rural America has lacked sustainable design practices for years, uncovering many foundational issues such as failing infrastructure, mass migrations to the cities, an aging rural demographic, and investment negligence for years. Architects are responsible for developing the built environment to better society, though this development rarely occurs outside urban boundaries. In addition, it is an architect’s duty to provide equitable access to their resources and development.

ARE RURAL AREAS MISSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE AND ETHICAL ARCHITECTURAL PRESENCE?

I believe that Rural America is in a lot of trouble if more people continue to perpeuate the negligence of rural development. Cities offer better job opportunities, access to amenities, as well as closer proximity to schools, hospitals, an other relative emergency services. The mass migration to cities will only further the disparity of access to said amenities for rural areas.

“We realized that as architects, we were significantly detached from the countryside as it exists today—its technologies, issues, and its future—and perhaps that blind eye was shared by the architecture profession more broadly, as, let us face it, the majority of us live and work in cities.”

Hannah Wood and Christine Bjerke of Archinect

FURTHER RESOURCES

https://archinect.com/features/article/150047669/new-ground-i-advancing-the-countryside https://content.aia.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Architects_Role_in_Creating_Equitable_Communities.pdf https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/37598/sustainable-construction-for-coordinated-urban-rural-development

https://www.architecturelab.net/all-architecture-jobs-are-in-cities/

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/bringing-sustainability-small-town-america/1038931/

IF NOTHING CHANGES..

“Business as usual in the development of the built environment will continue to perpetuate the social, economic, health, environmental, and geographic inequalities that exist in our communities today. Disparities in well-being, health, wealth, policing, and education are distinct across race and class lines…”

AIA Equitable Communities Resource

HOW TO FIX IT.

- EXPAND THE REACH OF THE DESIGN COMMUNITY FURTHER INTO RURAL AREAS

- PROMOTE THE USE OF SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS AND BUILDING PRACTICES

- WORK WITH REGIONAL PLANNERS TO BETTER CONNECT RURAL MICRO-REGIONS

- INTRODUCE AND DEVELOP GREEN INITIATIVES TO BETTER DEVELOP COMMUNITIES

All members of the design community need to shoft more focus into the upkeep and development of Rural Areas.

PHOTOGRAPHY

SELECTED WORKS

The following photos are the personal collection of images that demonstrate my love for photography. I enjoy being able to frame a view and capture moments in time as reminders of the places I have been and experienced.

ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS

Spring 2023

ROME, ITALY

Professors Simone Capra, Conzu Nuñez Ciuffa, Lavinia Ann Minciacchi

This class is the exploration of 2 and 3 Dimensional representation of spaces and volumes. The outcome of our on-site drawing investigations are to gather, assess, record, and represent the qualities of both interior and exterior space in a layered city like Rome, where there is no clear separation among the landscape and architecture.