5th Year Architecture Portfolio

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Seth Campbell Architecture Planning and Design Kansas State University Contact: (785) 230-8314 1423 Fairchild Ave. Manhattan Kansas 66502 scampbell13@ksu.edu

Degree Masters in Architecture Minor in Regional and Community Planning

Design Philosophy

Awards

Skills

Dedicated to the balance of urban design and nature. Architecture should create a harmonious relationship with people and nature, allowing the two to coexist together.

Understanding that the places we design shape how people think and live so that should play a crucial role in how we design small spaces as well as large regional planning.

National Honors Society

Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Rhino Lumion Autocad Revit Adobe Indesign Model Making Hand Sketching

High school representative (2015 - 2016)

Collegiate National Honors Society Cumulative GPA - (2015 - 2016)

ALSA Merit Award Warner Park Revision (Spring 2018)

Bowman Design Forum Finalist Mount Mitchell Interpretive Center (Fall 2019)

3D Printing Procreate Adobe Lightroom

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Douglas Park Aquatic Center

Manhattan Education and Culinary Center

Bowman Competition Finalist: Mount Mitchell Interpretive Center

Architecture Year 4 Techniques Used: Revit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Lumion Adobe Indesign

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Architecture Year 4 Techniques Used: Revit Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Lumion Adobe Indesign

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Architecture Year 3 Techniques Used: Rhino Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Lumion Adobe Indesign

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ALSA Merit Award: Re-envisioning Warner Park

Architectural Hand Sketches & Model Making

Working Master Thesis: Re-envisioning the American Suburb

Architecture Year 2 Techniques Used: Rhino Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Hand Sketching Adobe Indesign

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Architecture Year 2-5 Techniques Used: Hand Sketching Model Making

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Architecture Year 5 Techniques Used: Procreate Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Hand Sketching 3D Printing

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01 Douglas Park Aquatic Center Architecture Year 4

Located in Manhattan KS, a proposal for an aquatic center was designed to bring a neighborhood together and give local swimmers a new home after the closing of the Kansas State Natitorium. Subtle materiality and architecture form allows this building to fit into the context and become a beacon of safety at night.

The facility provides the community a competition swimming pool, warm up pool, and a dive well. As well as locker rooms for male, female, and private univerisal lockers for families and non-binary individuals. There is also community rooms in the facility to all people to gather for meetings, birthday parties, and teams to meet before competition. The design goal was to not only create a safe facility for the swimmers but to allow a walkable activity for everyone in the neighborhood.

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Entrance Elevation Douglas Park is located off of Fort Riley Blvd and 9th street in Manhattan Kansas.

It is home to a couple local amenities like the Douglas School House, which is a historic building preserved for future generations. The School house has community based classes like yoga and night schooling for adults. It is also used by the two churches across the street.

The site also has outdoor amenities like

a playground, basketball court, and a shade structure. The final building on site is the new Douglas Rec Facility currently being built by the city. Housing an indoor gym, basketball, volleyball, pickle-ball and other athletic activities will be held here. With these great amenities and the great residential context around the site, I chose this site as a potential site for the new aquatic facility for Manhattan Kansas.

Students are working closely with the Manhattan Parks and Rec to pick and choose sites, design elements, and overall the best way to design an aquatic center that best fits the wants and needs of local residents, college swimmers, high school swimmers, club teams, and utmost young children learning how to swim.

Site Plan and Proposal

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Sections

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Roofing Deck Parapet

Parapet

Exterior Brick Cladding Rigid Insulation

Roof Decking

Cast Concrete Structural Steel Rebar Steel Girder

Metal Drop Ceiling 1 A 600

12 x 26 Steel Beam

Ceiling Level 3 4 42' - 0"

Hvac System

Ceiling Level 4 3 42' - 0"

White Gypsum Board Metal Steel Pipe 3rd Floor Hallway 3rd Floor Hallway

Steel Column

Perforated Metal Screen HVAC System Start of Third Floor

12 x 26 Steel Beam

Wood Finish

Metal Stud Structural C Channel Window Facade

Ceiling Level 2 27' - 0"

Ceiling Level 2 27' - 0"

2nd Floor Hallway 2nd Floor Hallway

Start of Second Floor

Wood Slat Drop Ceiling

Load Bearing Concrete Rigid Insulation

Ceiling Level 1 12' - 0"

Ceiling Level 1 12' - 0"

Brick Cladding

Locker Room 1st Floor Hallway

Structural Footing

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Section A - Wall Section 1/2" = 1'-0"

Wall Sections

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Section B - Wall Section 1/2" = 1'-0"

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02 Manhattan Culinary Center Architecture Year 4

Located in Manhattan KS, a proposal for an aquatic center was designed to bring a neighborhood together and give local swimmers a new home after the closing of the Kansas State Natitorium. Subtle materiality and architecture form allows this building to fit into the context and become a beacon of safety at night.

The facility provides the community a competition swimming pool, warm up pool, and a dive well. As well as locker rooms for male, female, and private univerisal lockers for families and non-binary individuals. There is also community rooms in the facility to all people to gather for meetings, birthday parties, and teams to meet before competition. The design goal was to not only create a safe facility for the swimmers but to allow a walkable activity for everyone in the neighborhood.

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03 Mount Mitchell Cultural Center Bowman Competition Finalist Architecture Year 3

Located just outside Wamego, KS at the base of Mount Mitchell, a proposal for an interpretive center was designed to encourage visitors to learn about the areas history. A focal point for history to many in the area, this small landmark was used as a trail marker for people going out West. An interpretive center was to be designed at the base, including an auditorium, museum, and event space. Not only an Architectural project but the exterior space was highly developed as the pathways around the building upgraded many of the exisiting trails. Lastly, the building’s entrance facade includes materials like limestone and wood to fit the contextual properties of the site. The goal of this design was to give focus to the history of Mount Mitchell and design an environment that encourages visitors to come to the area.

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The Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park has been accessible to the public throughout the year for decades, however, nothing beyond a simple information kiosk is currently available to inform and guide the visitor before they embark on the more than 2 ½ miles of trails that concentrically bound the hill and reach the summit. While the kiosk has sufficed, the organizations involved seek

a permanent Interpretive Center to provide information and the serve as a forum for the interpretation of the site’s rich cultural history and natural environment while also providing facilities for administration and further protection of the Prairie.

The approximately 8,000 square foot Interpretive Center will serve as a portal through which one is introduced to the intertwined natural geological, ecological,

scenic, and cultural attributes of the prairie, hill, and memorials. There will be exhibition and other programmed spaces that will serve as a transitional experience between the visitors’ arrival and experience.

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04 Re-envisioning Warner Park ASLA Merit Award Architecture Year 3

Located in Manhattan KS, re envisioned Warner Park creates a more environmental friendly and walkable park for the city of Manhattan and the neighborhoods that surround this park. The addition elements include a visitor center located on the South-West corner.

This building will increase the stay for park-goers as it adds bathrooms, air conditioned lobby, help center, and classrooms for kids to learn about the Kansas Flint Hills. The paths were updated to crushed limestone and gravel mixture to decrease rain run off. The pond and prairies were conserved and taken care of. Finally the 9-hole disc golf course was updated, a hammock grove was added, and two bridges were added to help people get across the valley. The goal for this design was the update the current amenities and add a visitor center to encourage more people to come out to the most underrated park in Manhattan.

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The park is a well preserved natural space but it needs improvements to reach its potential. Expedition: Warner outlines several proposals for Warner Park that are based around 3 actions: Discover, Adventure, and Connect. Each of these words directly relates to creating a memorable park experience and a stronger relationship between the park and the city. The Goal for the revision of Warner

Park is to create a holistic experience at the park for users to DISCOVER the natural environment, get involved in active ADVENTURE, and CONNECT with the neighboring community. Warner contains a wealth of natural beauty rarely found around Manhattan. Expedition: Warner seeks to uncover these gems and provide access to all users. Warner provides an incredible backdrop for a variety of

adventurous activities. Whether it be recreational kite-flying or an educational nature walk, Expedition: Warner facilitates collaborative programs and encourages independent adventure. CONNECT joins Warner Park with the community, creating an environment.

05 Hand Sketches and Model Making Architecture Year 2 - 5

Collection of models and hand sketches throughout school. The models include a section model of the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Headquarters, Oak Park Library, and the Bowman Finalist Mount Mitchell Interpretive Center. The techniques included in these models are hand cutting, laser cutting, 3D printing, and the use of power tools in the fabrication lab. The hand sketches below include schematic sketches for the Interpretive Center design and then personal hand drawings that were displayed at art shows in NOTO Arts District in Topeka Kansas.

Schematic Design Sketch

Final Model

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Hand Drawing Rendering

Hand Drawing Tiny Home Community Master Plan

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Hand Drawing of Kansas State Capitol in Topeka Kansas

Hand Sketches of Asian Storefront

Hand Sketches of Boston Apartments

06 Working Master Thesis Project: A Suburb For Every American Architecture Year 5

The suburbs are the elephant in the room when it comes to design and everyday living. Urban sprawl is not only creating a climate issue but an economic and social problem.

American families fit very well into their 2,500 sqf homes but what about the majority of people who don’t fit into the 2 parent-family household? Do they feel welcomed into the suburbs? Further, do the suburbs provide a good sense of community? Why isn’t it walkable?

Why is it so far from the business centers, schools, university, library, and medical facilities. These are all questions I have been looking in to. Design and problem solving are key to understanding the suburban issue. The drawings to the right are from the recent project submittal to try and tackle the social problem at a suburban block level. By rotating, resizing, and adding a pedestrian safe interior road, this suburban block tries to include all different household types from those that want to live alone in an ADU to large 5+ family sizes.

Conceptual Iso Drawing

Section Through Neighborhood