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SPENCER DERTHICK

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE CLASS OF 2022

CONTACT

EDUCATION

Spencer Scott Derthick https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerderthick/ spencerderthick@wustl.edu +1 (303) 551-4600

Aug 2018-May 2022 Washington University in St. Louis St Louis, MO — GPA 3.82/4 Bachelor of Science in Architecture — Sam Fox School of Design Minor in Landscape Architecture — Sam Fox School of Design Minor in the Business of Social Impact — Olin Business School Aug 2014-May 2018 Fairview High School, Boulder, CO — GPA 3.93/4 National Honor Society, Graduated Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

As a senior undergraduate student at Washington University in St Louis, I am eager to explore my educational opportunities and delve into a career path that sparks joy. I value optimism, authenticity, creativity, logic, strategy, and having a lasting positive impact on the societal systems around me. I’m working on completing a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with minors in Landscape Architecture and the Business of Social Impact. I am intrigued by how environmental design elements interact with urban modern society to create a sustainable future. I hope to work in the field of architecture and design and am excited to see how my business minor will help me translate my interests into a successful career path. I hope to work in an environment that prioritizes a creative departure from the mundane world. I seek out stimulating people and the discussions, cultures, and values that invite purpose into my life on a daily basis. I enjoy creating meaningful relationships with family and friends, spending time immersed in nature, cooking breakfast, and cracking jokes.

May 2021-Current Damon Farber - Landscape Architecture Intern and Marketing Intern Develop schematic designs, produce construction documents, create renderings, and organize marketing layouts from over 300 projects for the new company portfolios Dec 2021-Current Van Dyck Murphy Studio — Research Assisstant Work on a design research team fabricating 592 3D printed ceramic modules for a temporary art installation in downtown St Louis Feb 2021-May 2021 Populous — Consulting Group Team Member Met with employees at Populous and worked with a team of students to organize a presentation that documents how the firm can use data to create journey mapping algorithms for event attendees at Populous venues May 2020-Aug 2020 Sterling Rice Group — Insights Intern Wrote quantitative research reports using primary consumer data for clients such as PepsiCo, Quaker, and Gatorade Presented comparative data and opportunities for growth within the target market sector in research reports Aug 2020-May 2021 Residential Life — Resident Advisor Responsible for 25 first-year students’ transition into college by living in the dorm with them throughout their first year Plan bimonthly programs for my floor that raise awareness to issues such as mental health, sexual assault, and racial bias

LEADERSHIP

Jan 2019-Current V.E.R.D.E (Volunteers for Environmental Restoration, Development, and Education) - President (2020-2022) and Treasurer (2019-2020) Direct volunteer teaching at five local schools to incite greater awareness about the environment Establish teaching schedules and oversee lesson plan creation for 72 other members/volunteers

ADDITIONAL

Oct 2020-Current Spotify - Freelance Music Curator and Writer Negotiate contracts with companies to run influencer campaigns for new artists using curated playlists on Spotify Written over 2000 music reviews for artists to explain successes of their songs as well as potential improvements

Sept 2018-Current Architecture School Council - President (2021-2022), Treasurer (2020-2021) Designed architecture school apparel for five semesters and sold and distributed over 800 total items Responsible for managing club operations and a $20,000 budget from the university for events and special programs

Jan 2021-Current Etsy - Small Business Owner Designed and distributed over 450 orders of hand crafted collages, printed posters, and seasonal cards

Oct 2020-Current Student Environmental Council - Council Representative Work with other environmental groups to communicate events on campus and create a larger impact within St. Louis Collaborate on the 2030 Sustainability Checklist for WashU’s strategic plan

Oct 2020-Oct 2021 Washington University Admissions - Campus Interviewer Interview 1-3 college applicants per week to help with the admissions process of students into the University Represent the university to provide information to the student about WashU during their interview

Mar 2019-May 2020 First Year Center - Washington University Student Associate (WUSA) Worked with a team in a first year student dorm to foster positive floor dynamics and create meaningful relationships Over 125 hours of training on mental health, de-escalating conflict, building relationships, and creating community

HONORS

Mar 2020-Oct 2021 Alpha Rho Chi - Professional Architecture Fraternity Member Philon Chapter member responsible for organizing recruitment events and attending weekly chapter meetings Sept 2018-March 2019 Junior Urban Music Program - Student Mentor Work with local elementary school aged children after school hours to help teach violin weekly. Teach basic counting and pitch identifications as well as practicing more complicated pieces with older students

Aug 2018-Current Danforth Scholars - Advancement Speaker, Danforth Tribute Interviewee Represented the student body in a $24 million fundrasing effort for more university scholarships eventually helping to secure WashU as a need-blind admissions school in October 2021 Oct 2019 USPAA Scholar - Conference Speaker Selected to represent WashU scholarship programs at a national conference at East Carolina University Implement changes to the scholarship community on campus after participating in a three day lecture series Feb 2020 Laskey Charrette Design Competition — 1st Prize Winner Designed our team’s protoype for a set of eight light-modulating concrete structures that we casted over two days May 2020 Outstanding Student Associate Award Nominated for and awarded out of 33 eligible floor communities based on leadership in service and community impact

Feb 2022-March 2022 Sam Fox Search Committee - Interviewer Nominated by faculty to help conduct interviews of nationwide candidates for new tenured position in the landscape architecture department

SKILLS

Adobe (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop) AutoCAD BEopt Bluebeam Revu Grasshopper (Honeybee, Ladybug, Mosquito) Lumion Microsoft Office Rhino Revit SketchUp SPSS THERM V-ray

Spencer Derthick 303-551-4600 spencerderthick@wustl.edu

WORKS IN PROGRESS

06 Sine Screen

10 A Curtain Wall

Chouteau Commons

325 Blake Road

SunOpta Employee Patio

Zero in Texas

Home Economics

Suburbia Transformed

Mountain Dwellings

Laskey Charrette

Tiny Home

Samara House

Playtime

Leiden University

SINE SCREEN VAN DYCK MURPHY STUDIO The project is part of a partnership between the Regional Arts Commission, Downtown St. Louis, and Explore St. Louis for a new public art plan to support revitalization efforts in the area. The project lies at the intersection of Locust and 7th, on the property of Adler and Sullivan’s iconic Union Trust building, now Hotel Saint Louis. Through the integration of old and new technology, ceramic 3D printing has the ability to change both how we design and realize architectural ornamentation. The project explores the role of emerging digital technologies with an understanding of the ways humans have been constructing buildings for millennia. This work replaces the unsustainable, fixed plastic materials of traditional 3d printing with clay: a sustainable, locally-sourced, and reusable medium with deep roots in St. Louis’s rich architectural history. Sine Screen is comprised of 592 digitally designed and fabricated clay units which aggregate to form a self-structuring hypersurface. The geometry of both the individual modules and wall as a whole is drawn from parallel logics that are both tectonic and historically referential. The sculpted form of the units and aggregated system produce patterns of light and shadow, textural fields, and novel optical effects around the sculpture. Sine Screen references Sullivan’s ornamentation, while aspiring to engage passersby and instilling a new relationship with this historical building and downtown St. Louis.

LARGER PHOTO REMAKE PLZ

A CURTAIN WALL JACOB GREENGO & SPENCER DERTHICK A curtain in theater summons a sense of anticipation, inspiring delight and stirring feelings of hopeful fantasy and wonder. They are the decorative barrier between the audience and stage – the transient veil of a performance or an event – a grand window dressing of an unfolding narrative. Our work examines a playful juxtaposition between a billowing curtain and the rigid ceramic material of which it is made. The bottom of the curtain ruffles out onto the ground, increasing in complexity, while its state is materialized as a static moment in time. This project draws on Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza’s “The Veiled Virgin” which captures the draping effect of cloth over the contours of the Virgin Mary’s realistically rendered features. Clay’s willingness to be transformed both in form and texture make it a perfect medium for exploring the concept of a curtain. Using a 3D ceramic printer, we hoped to recreate this aesthetic in 26 component parts. We imagine this sculpture both in its unmarred form and as a ruin, with plants entangling the cracks and vining up the crevices.

CHOUTEAU COMMONS GREENLINK 411 STUDIO, PATTY HEYDA This project is the centerpiece in Midtown’s revitalization, creating key connections between St Louis University’s North and South Campuses and the rest of the city. It is dense enough to support mass transit like bikes, buses, and metro lines that plug into schools, jobs, parks, community anchors, and other daily destinations in St Louis. It provides quick access to the MetroLink system and eventually, Chouteau’s Greenway will connect nearby ecological corridors. This exciting mix of retail, residential, urban farming, and schooling spaces covers 25 acres of industrial land. The mixed-use scheme brings people within walking distance of amenities and also attracts some of the 24,000 daily traffic vehicles from the major crossroads. The housing is compact and leaves room for integrated social spaces and vegetation to lower stormwater impact and reduce the heat island effect. The densified housing also improves the economic viability of community services, decreases infrastructure cost per inhabitant, and improves the safety of shared spaces. Finally, creative layout of volumes offers generous light and outdoor areas, creating attractive public realms and increasing social interactions. The apartments use a system of exterior paneling that responds to changes in solar radiation and two stack ventilation columns to regulate the building’s climate. The tri-plex prototype investigates methods of capturing and storing rainwater to be used as greywater for household activities and watering outdoor plants during drier weeks. Rowhouses are the most sustainable form of housing, and this area of the project explores ways to realign the rowhouse to maximize passive design strategies Schematically, the building shapes are formed by a 30x30 ft grid that aligns with the two major cross streets and a diagonal grid that creates connections from the south to the Grand metro station. The diagonal grid also increases the wind flux during the summer and allows helpful solar radiation to reach a larger surface area on the buildings.

PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOFTING PHOTOVOLTAIC ROOFTING

WIND VACCUUM WIND VACCUUM

4000 sq ft of solar panels are capable of 4000 sq ft of solar panels are capable of generating up to 80KW: enough energy to generating up to 80KW: enough energy to cover electricity needs of 5 of the units cover electricity needs of 5 of the units

RAINWATER COLLECTORS RAINWATER COLLECTORS

The angled roof causes strong southern wind to suck air The angled roof causes strong southern wind to suck air out of the heightened atrium spaces into temporary low out of the heightened atrium spaces into temporary low pressure areas pressure areas

Collecting rainwater from 5500 sq ft of total roof area Collecting rainwater from 5500 sq ft of total roof area will reduce water consumption by an estimated will reduce water consumption by an estimated 144,000 gal annually 144,000 gal annually

OVERHANG OVERHANG

Overhangs on the southern faces reduce Overhangs on the southern faces reduce direct solar illumination during summer direct solar illumination during summer months months

GREEN DECK WITH CENTRAL RAIN GREEN DECK WITH CENTRAL RAIN COLLECTOR COLLECTOR

HIGH PERFORMANCE HIGH PERFORMANCE OPENABLE WINDOWS OPENABLE WINDOWS

Double casement windows on the side Double casement windows on the side of the building scoop in high speed of the building scoop in high speed wind produced by the venturi effect wind produced by the venturi effect

HIGH QUALITY HIGH QUALITY INSULATION AND INSULATION AND SEALING SEALING INSULATED CONCRETE INSULATED CONCRETE FORM WALLS FORM WALLS MINIMAL CARPET USE MINIMAL CARPET USE

SOUTH

SOUTHERN WIND SOUTHERN WIND

SOUTH

Winter Solstice

SCREENING TREES

Winter Solstice

UP UP

EAST

WEST

EAST

Equinox

WEST

Equinox

Equinox UP UP

Juniper

Paper Birch

Quaking Aspen

Juniperus virginiana

Betula papyrifera var.

Populus tremuloids DN

Summer Solstice

Level 1 1/16" 1'-0"1 Level 1 1/16" 1'-0"

LARGE TREES

Level 2 1/16" 1'-0"2 Level 2

1/16" 1'-0" Freeman Maple

Acer x freemanii

Summer Solstice Summer Solstice

Level 3 1/16" 1'-0"3 Level 3 NORTH 1/16" 1'-0" Kentucky Coffeetree

Ohio Buckeye

Skyline Honeylocust

Aesculus glabra

Gleditsia triacanthos

NORTH

Gymnocladus dioicus

American Linden Tilia americana

American Elm Ulmus americana ‘St.

Solar energy captured Solar energy captured through solar panels through solar panels

Rain water

Northern Pin Oak

Heritage Oak

Q. Ellipsoidalis ‘Majestic

Quercus x heritage

Quercus macrocarpa

Hophornbeam

River Birch

Red Maple

Ostrya virginiana

Betula nigra

Acer rubrum

Bur Oak

Northern Red Oak

Air out through openable vents Air out through openable vents Quercus rubra

Domestic rainwater Domestic rainwater filtration provides filtration provides potable water to potable water to household needs

Hackberry

household needs Celtis occidentalis

MEDIUM TREES

ORNAMENTAL TREES 1

West 1/8" 1'-0"1 West 1/8" 1'-0"

Eastern Redbud

Blue Beech

Cercis canadensis

Carpinus caroliniana

Section 1 1 Pagoda Dogwood 1/8" 1'-0"2 Section 1/8" 1'-0"

Cornus alternifolia

Filter

Serviceberry

Prairie Fire Crabapple

Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘Au-

Malus ‘Prairifire’

Main Tank

Filter

Summer Solstice

SOLAR COOLING

Winter Solstice

SOLAR PANELS

A chiller, powered by hot water from solar tubes, pre cools external air for ventilation of the building

CLOSED during summer OPEN to release exhaust air during winter

Exhaust air Rainwater collection and reuse

THERMAL MASS ACTIVATION

LIGHT WELL Reduces the necessity for electric lighting and adds a ventillation space within the building

Well insulated and air tight envelope

DOUBLE SKIN FACADE Pre-heats ventilation air during sunny days Parametric paneling controls solar glare and harmful radiation

SSM PROPOSED EXPANSION

CANOPY RESTORATION Provide landing spot for a diverse range of migrating bird species

CROSS VENTILATED UNIT

GREEN SPACES

GREEN ROOF

Reduce the heat island effect

High thermal inertia avoids overheating of the interior

Rainwater collection and reuse

Rooftop Cafe

Evaporative cooling

RETAIL SPACE

REDUCED SURFACE PARKING 6’ Sidewalk

6’ Furniture Zone

5’ One-way Bike Lane

10’ Travel Lane

8’ Rain Garden

10’ Travel Lane

5’ One-way Bike Lane

12’ Permeable Walkway

6’ Furniture 6’ Sidewalk Zone

COMPLETE STREET Balanced transportation system provides equal access to roads and creates a neighborhood that is safer and more inclusive

VERTICAL GEOTHERMAL LOOPS

Cools air in summer

Warms air in winter

18’ Planting Bed

12’ Permeable Walkway

60’ Public Plaza

45’ Public Pavillion

12’ Permeable Walkway

21’ Raingarden

12’ Permeable Walkway

VIEWS

PHYTOREMEDIATION

Buildings receive superior views of the Chouteau Greenway to the North

Remediative plants such as weeping willows absorb elemental pollutants from industrial soil

CANOPY RESTORATION Provide landing spot for a diverse range of migrating bird species

RESTAURANT COMMUNITY Neighborhood amenities such as the garden establishe a sense of community and increase social interaction

36’ Restaurant

7’ Permeable Parking

16’ Neighborhood Road

7’ Permeable Parking

15’ Native Planting

60’ Sixplex

15’ Lawn

50’ Prairie Remediation

55’ Community Garden

50’ Prairie Remediation

325 BLAKE ROAD DAMON FARBER

Collaborators: HDR, Alatus, Loucks, Inter-Fluve 325 Blake Rd, Hopkins, MN 325 Blake Road aims to transform a former industrial site into a vibrant space where people and nature thrive together. As the project intern, I put together basemaps for the HDR design charrette in St. Louis Park, MN and participated in stormwater management discussions, helping to implement a goal of treating stormwater from 270 acres of surrounding area and restoring the creek frontage. I also created technical drawings for PUD Drawings submitted Oct 2021. Finally, I am working with the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District to model integrative nodes along the creek and connecting greenway.

DEVELOPER

TRAILHEAD AND OVERLOOK

MIN

STORMWATER KG RE EN W

LANDING AY

R AC MINNEHAH

CONCEPT

GATEWAY TO GREENWAY

NATURE BASED

MINN

EEK EHAHA CR

100

150 FT

SUNOPTA EMPLOYEE PATIO

GROVE

GARDEN

DAMON FARBER

Collaborators: Andrew Montgomery SunOpta is a non-GMO and organic foods distributor that is focused on helping make the planet and its people healthier through LAWN plant based foods and beverages. Sustainability is central to their operations and they hoped to materialize some of their core values in an outdoor employee patio at the Minnesota office. The project began with sketching out a number of options that center around a nature related concept. The client picked “Oasis” which features a wooden elevated deck with a central shade tree that provides the “oasis” to the deck. It also resembles a seed and the tree sillouettes reinforce the tree seen in the brand logo.

GRILL

SHED

TREE PERGOLA DECK

BRIDGE

RAMP

Preferred option - axon view 2

Preferred option - axon view 1

Preferred option - interior view

SUNOPTA / EMPLOYEE PATIO CONCEPT DESIGN

Preferred option - garden view

SUNOPTA / EMPLOYEE PATIO CONCEPT DESIGN

Preferred option - deck view

VE option - bridge view

SUNOPTA / EMPLOYEE PATIO CONCEPT DESIGN

ZERO IN TEXAS 312 STUDIO, STEPHEN LEET The focus of the Menil Collection is to exhibit art “[in] a place where each visitor’s very singularity is valued: you are not told how to look, you are invited to imagine the possibilities of vision and contemplation.” The curatorial criterion of the Menil Collection prioritizes experience over didactic displays. This project juxtaposes works from four Zero artists in a quiet setting with natural light. The four artists I chose to include in this project are Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Enrico Castellani, and Lucio Fontana. After doing a research presentation on Heinz Mack and Enrico Castellani, I was inspired to explore how tesselations, fragmentations, variations, and repetitions are used in art and architecture. These elements can be used to create naturalistic representations. Heinz Mack, specifically, noted that he was able to create organic and vibrating artwork through organized patterns. As I was developing my project, I scripted a program in Grasshopper that arrays points on a planar grid to form a delaunay triangulation. Delaunay triangulations and voronoi tessellations are able to create organic structures without directly imitating nature. This triangulation that I used to make a collage out of the Zero artists became the side elevation of many of my project’s walls.

The project shape represents a catamaran, with private program on the south side, flanked by native tree cover, and public program in the center with openings to the north. The rotated squares juxtapose this shape. The large open atrium greets visitors and funnels them into a second interstitial space and the main remaining portion of the building.

The four artists I selected for this project each have their own diamond enclosure in the permanent collection. Each enclosure contains process drawings and experimental models that require observation at a more intimate level while the outer walls showcase a collection of iconic finished work from each of these artists.

Sawtooth skylights bring northern light into the space while shielding the interior from Houston’s hot summer climate.

Otto Piene permanent installation of Light Ballet works

Lobby (Ticketing and Coat Check)

Director’s Office

Lobby (Ticketing and Coat Check)

Restroom

Heinz Mack Permanent Installation

Curator’s Office

Temporary Gallery

Reflection Pool

Both the larger sculptures and aluminum reliefs scatter light, as do the reflection pools, creating many rays of reflected light in the gallery.

The window pockets on the northern facade create sudden interruptions in the gallery wall that draw the viewer in from center spaces. As living, growing things, gallery plants stand out in stark, organic contrast next to the human-made artworks they accompany. This once again reinforces Mack, Enrico my overarching theme of nature’s presentation role in art and architecture. on explore how are used in art naturalistic r epr was able to cr patterns.

As I was that arrays points Delaunay organic structure that I used to The artworks are placed in pairs and compliment the architecture rather than being in competition with it. The interior space investigates the various relationships between art and architecture, “spatial art”, building and setting, and the opportunity to design and develop architectural spaces that privilege experience over appearance.

HOME ECONOMICS STUDIO 311, KELLEY MURPHY

This project focuses on the design of a two-family dwelling in the Washington Avenue-Loop neighborhood. The building program is defined by a study of part-to-whole relationships bringing together two different but connected private living quarters and a shared space. Technological advances, evolving definitions of family, changing gender and power roles, increasing inequality, a rise in the sharing economy, and now the Covid-19 pandemic are disrupting the traditional separation between home, work, and play. Throughout this course, I reconsidered all elements of housing including the formal, spatial, material, iconographic/symbolic, compositional, programmatic, and the social in the creation of a new model for urban residential living. The studio began with a detail study involving the close investigation of the relationships between interconnected orinterlocking parts. These studies were used for their potential as generators of tectonic, programmatic and spatial strategies that can appear across scales from the architectural detail to the building. My precedent interlocking joint informed more of my ideas about gridded space and geometry rather than the way my two units interlock. I constructed study model using a basswood frame and then added flat strips of bristol as flooring. I was inspired by precedent studies to patchwork my exterior with panels and screens. In this model I experimented with adding curves to both plan and section.

Interlocking Space

Plan

Axonometric

Elevation Exploded Axonometric

The first floor is a relatively open game room with a bar. In the center is a square base double helix staircase.

The second floor has a half bathroom, kitchen, dining room, and open living space.

The top floor has three bedrooms in each unit and additional bathrooms.

Due to the close adjacencies of the building to the neighboring buildings, I added a light modulating cladding around the top two floors. These two foot tall light wells angle out on the east and west sides of the building to pull southern lighting into the room.

Above is a diagram of the solar path of the sun throughout the year and a temperature mapping using EPW data. This rendering also has shadows from 12pm on the summer solstice.

SUBURBIA TRANSFORMED INTEGRATED PLANTING DESIGN JACQUELINE MARGUETTE Suburbia Transformed taps into the spirit of collective urban living celebrated in communes, gated communities, and Dutch woonerfs. It considers the suburban garden as a shared condition. It enables a more intentional and custodial involvement of natural systems that extend well beyond the footprint of the typical back yard. The subdivision itself is an ecosystem which humans share with nonhumans. The project seeks to explore the sensorial effects made possible by plants: people come into some kind of encounter with plant form, color, texture, movement, spatiality, and change through time – in short, the veridic.

MOUNTAIN DWELLINGS STUDY BUILDING SYSTEMS DUSICA STANKOVIC

Collaborators: Annika Pan, Connor Merritt During the first portion of this course, my team created a board of study diagrams and illustrations: an environmental analysis using Grasshopper/Ladybug; a material drawing of some of the exterior cladding elements; a planter box detail; and diagrams showing the structural and experiential relationship between parking lot and residential space. We also analyzed the structural components of the building through creating a technical section drawing and a 3D model. Integral to completing this assignment was learning AutoCAD and V-Ray softwares.

LASKEY CHARRETTE 212 DESIGN COMPETITION LESLEY LASKEY Our project for this two day design charrette, Model T, plays with angled, planar modulations of light and forms a variety of wall structures that vary in transparency. The form of each of the concrete modules comes from a rectangular void through a cube with planar cuts through the corners at 45 degree angles. One face of the module is cut through by a triangular extrusion, allowing more light to infiltrate the interior space and reinforce the triangular geometry of the external form. Given the module’s symmetry about multiple axes, it can be stacked in a variety of ways, each way creating intricate tunnels of light. My main role in this project was creating and modeling this final design in Rhino. We named our project after the Ford Model T vehicle to liken our systematic and efficient process of creating the concrete modules as a team to the assembly line used to produce these vehicles. We completed some of the more time sensitive tasks simultaneously as a group like glueing the molds together, pouring concrete, and peeling off the mold at the correct time. In the planning stage we worked on tasks such as creating a digital model and template for the mold separately to maximize our breadth of ideas. Through trial and error of test models and effective group dynamics, we were able to navigate some of the difficulties associated with constructing out of concrete.

LIVING SPACE TINY HOME STUDIO 112 BRUCE LINDSEY This project seeks to fit the functions of play, sleep, work, cook, and using the bathroom into a 12x12x12 foot living space. The tiny home, based off of concepts from Ken Isaac, features concrete flooring and wood slated walls. The basswood slats, attached to a dowel, can be rotated upwards to provide more enclosed sleeping space or to let more light into the area. The dowel functions on both the back and right side depending on the location of the sun. The vertical slates on the right facade function as structural support for both the ceiling slats as well as the three translucent shelves. The transluscent work desks are illuminated by incoming sunlight, helping to provide work light during the day. As a precursor for the following “Living Structures” project, I constructed a 12x12x12 inch cube using interlocking basswood sticks and wire. The interlocking wood allows for self-stabilizing structure and mimics the style used by Ken Isaac.

SAMARA HOUSE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS I MICAH STANEK Collaborator: Micah Rydberg

The Frank Lloyd Wright Samara House sits on one acre of sloping terrain in West Lafayette, Indiana. Built from 1954 to 1956, the architecture has now been weathering and aging for around 65 years. In this wet bioregion, the constructed landscape has grown into a sort of lush woodland. Many things have aged well, but Wright’s signature large overhanging roof collects a lot of rainwater to a few select downspouts. Gutters and custom rain chains slow the downpour somewhat, but the landscape receives a high volume of water in these few select points on the ground. The rainwater, over time, has hollowed out the ground underneath the patio, causing the foundations of the patio to settle. The concrete slab that covers the patio has cracked and begun to tilt and sink. My task was to design a pathway to carry the water away from the building via a swale to a detention basin (raingarden). As I re-terraformed the site, I considered changing human circulation and replanting the site for functionality. Included in this portfolio are the original and regraded plans; site analysis using Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug, and Mosquito; an integrated planting plan; and section cuts through the site.

PLAYTIME: KINDERGARTEN STUDIO 211 PETRA KEMPF After writing an intial description of how our studio imagined the daily experience of a kindergartener, I designed a kindergarten module to support the experience of a kindergartener. This module is intended to support fifteen students and two teachers. In this kindergarten, the schedule for daily activities is determined by the sun’s position in the sky. The East, South, and West facades of the building are covered in a shell of diagonal rotating slats to shield the interior spaces from direct sunlight. The slats can be rotated perpendicular to the light to darken the rooms during nap time and opened back up for teaching time. The slats are interactive, making the building a game in itself. The structure of the building was created by rotating large steps in a circle and matching this twisting geometry with other rotational forms. The large steps create the sensation of endless play throughout the kindergarten and reimagine the notion of hopping: an element of play I studied during the first part of this studio through the creation of a game.

Lobby: Entraceway, kitchen, storage, and bathroom

Floor 1: Mat space

Floor 2: Mat space

Floor 3: Table space

Floor 4: Play space and rooftop garden

Floor 1: Mat Space

Floor 2: Mat Space

Ground Floor: Gender-neutral restroom for staff, storage

Floor 3: Table Space

Ground Floor: Entraceway, Kitchen, Storage, and Bathroom

Floor 2: Principal’s Office, Kindergarten Teacher’s Room

LEIDEN UNIVERSITY GARDEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE HISTORY AND THEORY ERIC ELLINGSEN My primary focus of study in this course was the influence of Italian Renaissance landscape architecture on Dutch Gardens during the Golden Age. After completing a research study and paper, I translated this information into an original drawing for a Dutch pleasure and botanical garden situated on a site near Leiden University. The garden is placed near a water canal and is a new version of the Leiden Botanical Garden. This garden works to encompass experimental spatial concepts from budding French baroque Classicism. This garden showcases a large, diverse range of exotic plants in floral beds and goes beyond merely presenting plants for their usefulness, serving as a status symbol of colonialism and power. Within the long rectangular shaped exterior border, the garden contains an orchard, a floral pleasure garden, and a botanical garden. Adjacent production areas such as the greenhouse, aviary, pheasantry, and orange garden compliment the formal structure.

SPENCER DERTHICK

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS SPENCERDERTHICK@WUSTL.EDU 303-551-4600