Sam Cohen 2022-2023 Architecture Portfolio

Sam Cohen 2022 Architecture Portfolio

University of Kansas

3100 Ousdahl Road # 918 518 Forest Green Drive Lawrence, KS 66046 St Louis, MO 63119

Lawrence, KS

Webster Groves, MO May 2019 S

Sunset Hills, MO Bicycle Mechanic andSalesman March 2016 – May 2019

Des Peres, MO Bicycle Mechanic andSalesman June 2020 – Present

Lawrence, KS Bicycle Salesman February 2021 – May 2022

Contents

South Scissortail Plaza 1

Urban Station Greenhouse 15

Lawrence Transit Center 31

Kaw Point Bicycle Cooperative

Rock Project: Designing With Nature Scale and Motion

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Located in Downtown Oklahoma City, OK, South Scissortail Square integrates apartments , hotel rooms, entertainment spaces, retail spaces, and ample parking in one structure that contributes to a larger walkable district along the Oklahoma River.

Existing Conditions in

All sidewalks are overgrown and unused.

Most land is vacant and for sale.

South Scissortail Area

Remnants of roads are seen in vacant land.

Area marketed as prime development opportunity .

Giving a Sense of Community and

Extend district’s plaza through site and make building’s form direct North to South circulation 01:

Examples of Effective City Squares:

and Identity to South Scissortail

make circulation Embed parking garage in first three floors of the building to minimize building’s footprint on site

Extrude spaces for retail and dining to directly connect building to plaza at the pedestrian level 02: 03:

Squares: Sechseläuten Square in Zürich, Switzerland London’s Woolwich, UK

West Elevation

Fourth Floor Fifth Floor

Urban Station Greenhouse

Our final project in ARCH 509 at Urban Station in Kansas City, Kansas was a greenhouse that would be attached to the building where our client, Steve Curtis, would grow hydroponic fruits and vegetables to educate the neighborhood’s youth on growing their own food.

Urban Station is a community center that used to be a gas station and auto repair shop. The space has had numerous renovations made by previous ARCH 509 studios, and the space’s primary goal is to engage the community by hosting many classes for kids in the neighborhood and group coffees on Friday mornings.

In order for our studio to tackle the large project with limited time, we split in to four groups that would design and build different sections of the structure. I was in the group that handled the building’s foundation, which was comprised of cast in place concrete with rebar reinforcing.

Foundation Formwork

Once our studio had finalized our design for the greenhouse, it was time to split in before, I was in the group that focused on the building’s foundation, so we started construction documents to refer to when building. Below I have our construction dimension lumber.

Formwork Framing (All using 2”x 4” Dimension Lumber)

in to our groups and start designing and building each area. As I said started by making a digital model of the formwork from which we could make document for the framing of the formwork which was made of common 2x4

11'-8 1/2"

12'-8"

12'-1/2"

9'-3 1/2"

2x 4x 2x 4x

1'-2 1/2" 4x

Placing the Formwork

We were able to pre fabricate the formwork at the East Hills Warehouse in Lawrence, so after we finished excavating the site in Kansas City, we were able to simply bring the formwork in and place it. Placing the formwork was more challenging than we anticipated, as it was crucial that the formwork was level on all three walls. After we placed and leveled the wooden parts of the formwork, the three wall sections were fastened together, and the rebar (which we pre cut at East Hills) was secured to the formwork’s snap ties.

Pouring the Concrete

After finishing the placement of the formwork, process of pouring the concrete was with concrete, and the conrete was coming wide space in the formwork.

After we got the formwork full of concrete, and we had to pay special attention We then placed J bolts in the wet concrete

formwork, we had a concrete truck deliver us 2 cubic yards of ready mix concrete. The more stressful than I anticipated, as no one in our foundation group had experience coming out of the truck very quickly which made it hard to direct it into the small 6 inch concrete, it had to be vibrated to make sure there were no holes in the cured concrete, to the areas under our vent holes, as the concrete did not want to naturally flow there. concrete which would be the main anchor points for the rest of the greenhouse’s structure.

Removing the Formwork

Once the concrete was fully cured, it was time to remove the foundation’s formwork. we anticipated, as the snap ties would not snap properly, and the 2 inch insulation challenging to remove the formwork because the bottom sections of the formwork grinder, and the foam insulation we used on the inside of the wall only came We then fastened treated wood sills to the J bolts on the tops of the foundation the sills.

Formwork and Installing Sills

formwork. The process of removing the formwork took much longer than insulation we used as a spacer would not peel off cleanly. It was also formwork were partially buried. The snap ties had to be cut off with an angle came off in small chunks, so it was a tedious process to remove all of it. foundation walls. The greenhouse’s walls and windows would then be fastened to

To help our studio finish building the greenhouse, our foundation group helped greenhouse’s north wall. The vents were placed on the top of the north wall south and east sides. They use Univent automatic openers, which automatically vents were designed to blend in to the solid north wall, so they use the same

helped out with the form and building of two automatic vents on the top of the wall to provide natural cross ventilation with the vents in the foundation on the automatically open in warm temperatures, and close in colder temperatures. The same interior finish and exterior cladding as the rest of the wall.

Another aspect bricks that were in their gaps. The of quickcrete on

Pervious Floor

of the greenhouse my group helped build was the pervious floor. We used limestone leftover from a previous Studio 804 project, and buckshot gravel and black sand to fill The existing building’s foundation needed to be leveled as well, so we poured a level slab on top of the footing (top left image).

Lawrence Transit Center

Prof. Gregory Crichlow| Fall 2021

Located in Downtown Lawrence, the Lawrence Transit Center was designed to connect all inhabitants of the city by providing them with a space that makes Public Transit more user-friendly and accessible.

West 8th and Vermont Street Lawrence, KS

Southeastern corner of AT&T building taken from facades of the building that face the parking lot are both very bland and appear to be unused.

Case Study: Dairy Block in

The Dairy Block in lower downtown Building that makes the alleyway has been nicknamed the “activated city and its spatial elements/ideas Lawrence.

Activating the Alley

from the site. The lot and alleyway unused.

This back alley-facing side of a business on Massachusetts Street uses the area in the alley to their advantage. The business uses the alley for parking and access to two levels of the building.

This business on Massachusetts Street appears to leave their alleyway space unused. The building doesn;t have any setback against the alley, and all doors and windows are barred up most likely for security resons

in Denver

downtown in Denver, Colorado is a renovation of the historic Windsor Farm Dairy alleyway behind the building a space for showing art and holding gatherings. The project “activated alley” because it’s a great example of revitalizing a historic, unused area in a elements/ideas could easily be used to “activate” the alley east of our site in downtown

This photo shows the alleyway facing facades of Massachusetts Street businesses on the eastern edge of our site. The restaurants in this photo seem to use the alleyway space for back entrances and they keep dumpsters there.

Site Plan and Floor Plans

West 8th Street

Vermont Street

Alleyway

Massachusetts Street

STRUCTURE HVAC

CLT Construction with concealed beams and girders in the floor assemblies.

Underfloor Distribution with Roof Top Unit room on the third 5 feet to have proper airflow.

Distribution system Unit in mechanical third floor, raised proper outdoor

CIRCULATION

Two main fire stairs, one in each wing of the building. Shape and location of the stairways make circulation between floors as easy as possible

West 8th Street Elevation

Library (Second Floor)

South and West Facade Street View

Public Terrace (Third Floor)

Plan and Wall Section Details

I detailed the Southwest corner of the transit center because it emphasizes the three different types of use the building has at each floor level. The first level shows the building’s interactions with pedestrians in both indoor and outdoor spaces. It has a small section of indoor space, but most of the corner is comprised of shaded outdoor spaces to wait for a bus and walk on the sidewalk. The second level shows a section of the stairway and copy room which are mostly used by those who work in offices on the second floor. The third level shows a section of an outdoor terrace that’s connected to one of ten boarding units that make up the entire level. While the terrace is outdoors, it’s shielded from direct light by vertical louvers, and is protected from the elements by an overhang.

Third Floor - 26’

Second Floor - 13’

First Floor - 0’

Kaw Point Bicycle Cooperative Prof. Christi Dietze | Spring 2021

The Kaw Point Bicycle Cooperative was designed to improve the overall health and relationships with the outdoors for the people of Wyandotte County by making cycling more accessible.

Kansas City Riverfront Trail

Kaw Point Park

Downtown Kansas City MO

Kansas City River Market

Proposed Northern Extension

Proposed Southern Extension

Armourdale Levee Trail

Quindaro Ruins

Kaw Point Park

Kansas City Levee Trail

Kaw Point Park

in Wyandotte County, Kansas is the area’s only connection to the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. Upon visiting the park with my studio class, I noticed the park was not very accessible, as it’s wedged between heavy industrial districts. I also saw the potential for the existing bicycle trails to be extended, making Kaw Point Park an essential location to navigate Kansas City by bike.

Rock Project: Designing with Nature

Prof. Christi Dietze | Spring 2021

The Rock Project began with finding a rock that would act as a natural, unchanging landscape for a spatial journey design to 1/16” = 1’ scale. I studied the central ridge and valleys on the rock to see how water would collect on the lansdscape, and the symmetrical qualities of the rock inspired the symmetrical design of the spatial journey.

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Prof. Anne Patterson | Spring 2020

The Scale and Motion Project focussed on how the human body takes up and moves through space. stills so I could draw them and analyze how I moved while returning the ball. I made a series of drawings that shows both the movement of my arm, and the two trajectories

I based the project off of a video of me returning a ball while playing ping pong. I split the video into drawings (above) that focus on the space and movement of my right arm, and a physical model (below) trajectories of the ball coming towards me and leaving the paddle.

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Prof. Thom

Assembly Instructions