Stefan Gagnier Ruckert Architecture Portfolio 2021

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Stefan Gagnier Ruckert Dalhousie University M.Arch Candidate stefangagnierruckert@gmail.com 250 299 6493

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+1 (250) 299 6493 stefangagnierruckert@gmail.com

Professional Experience

Education

Architecture Co-op Student Halifax Regional Centre for Education Sept. - Dec. 2020 • cataloguing and assessing conditions of existing building envelopes across 140 buildings, ranging in age from 0 - 100+ years • site visits meeting with architects, contractors

Dalhousie University Halifax, NS School of Architecture M.Arch Candidate 2021 - Present Sexton Scholar

Carpenter’s assistant/labourer Hope Valley, England June/July 2019 • building traditional mortise and tenon cabin • milling lumber, chiselling joints, etc.

Dalhousie University Halifax, NS School of Architecture 2019 - 2021 Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies Dean’s List Dalhousie University Faculty of Management 2017 - 2019 Bachelor of Management Program, Sustainability Major Dean’s List University of Victoria Victoria, BC Faculty of Humanities 2016 - 2017 Dean’s List

Quality Control Technician Syme Road Improvement Services Kamloops, BC Summer 2013 - 2017 • quality control testing on logging road construction - liason between contractor and agency extending contract.

• performing tests and communicating results • stopping constuction until issues addressed Copywriter Minha Galera Studio Cologne, Germany 2016 - present • proofreading and editing • idea generation • promotional materials

Volunteer Experience

Installations

DASA Professional Practice Representative 2019 - Present, Dalhousie University • student representative to the Professional Practice Teaching Group Committee - collecting feedback, preparing reports

Enigma Matrix Tensegrity Pavillion w/ Sam Beckley + Peter Lombardi

Bowling League Coordinator 2018, Tofino BC • Organizer of 30-person bowling league • setting schedule, securing facilities and transport

Where: Nocturne 2021: Art at Night Halifax, Nova Scotia

Relevant Skills

Travel

Physical Model making: • skilled in conceptualizing and constructing wooden models • laser cutter familiarity

Have lived or spent significant time in:

Digital modelling: Preffered • SketchUp • AutoCAD • V-Ray Experience with • Revit • Rhino • ArchiCAD Digital manipulation: • Abobe Creative suite - Photoshop -Illustrator - Indesign - Premiere Pro - Lightroom

Collaboration: • Microsoft Office Suite • Zoom • Microsoft Teams • Conceptboard

- Germany - Philippines - Indonesia - Morocco - Liberia - Sri Lanka

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01// Lunenburg Row House 02// Eelgrass Nursery 03// Botafumeiro Secular Society 04// Teatro Oficina Physical Model 05// Tensegrity Exploration 06// Steam Bending Prototypes 07// Zugvogel Treehouse 08// Analog photography

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01// Lunenburg Row House

A single dwelling mixed-use program reinstates the traditional grid pattern of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (a UNESCO Heritage Site). Light enters the dwelling through an atrium core, which guides circulation and provides a centrepie ground floor izakaya.

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02// Eelgrass Nursery Net Positive Architecture with Abbi Brown, Peter Lombardi + Ester Fu

The project brief called for a systems-driven approach towards climate change. This project explored the potential of eelgrass as a low-impact building material, a means for shallow-water coastal restoration, and a network for long-term carbon sequestration.

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02// Eelgrass Nursery Net Positive Architecture

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Breakwater device and future host of oyster reef to purify water for eelgrass meadow.

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SWIMMING PLATFORM, SNORKEL VIEWER TO UNDERWATER

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SHALLOW CONDITIONS

Attached below dock to filter water + provide community oyster garden.

Calm + clear water provides ideal swimming environment.

Protect marine habitat + create interesting snorkeling environment.

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02// Eelgrass Nursery Net Positive Architecture Capacity of 1m2 Eelgrass: Doubling CapacityDoubling of 1m2 Eelgrass: Doubling Capacity of 1m2 to Eelgrass: Nursery Natural Nursery Cycle to Natural Cycle Nursery to Natural Cycle

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576 seeds with possibility of rooting.

Total growing area: 16 tanks = 96m2 ~Planted area per year (ocean floor): 100m2

1m2 eelgrass = ~ 200 chutes Tank size: 2m x 3m x 1m (0.75m fill level) Growing area/tank: 6m2 Total growing area: 16 tanks = 96m2 ~Planted area per year (ocean floor): 100m2

1m2 eelgrass = ~ 200 chutes

1m2 eelgrass = ~ 83 g CO2 sequestered /year Of the seeds safely in sediment, let’s assume that 40% survive/year (230). That 100m2 eelgrass = ~ 8.3 kg CO2 sequestered means that approximately 230 new chutes will grow from the seeds, and repeat the cycle naturally.

1m2 eelgrass = ~ 83 g CO2 sequestered /year

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8.3 24 58 125 257 514 1045 2107 4232 8482

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By 2041: 1 264 224 819 kg CO 17 406 041 kg CO net postive: 18 4667 375kg/CO with embodied carbon of solar system (2890 kg COe)

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Shoots are grown in nursery until mature enough or the yearly emissions of for transplanting

which is the area of ~600 football fields

Pump=Energy 1m2 eelgrass ~ 200 chutes

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providing 12 seeds each, and a 70% viability rate Well insulated building with tight envelope: Tidal cistern pump: Septic re-circulation pump: in ideal growing conditions, 30 flowers will provide 788.4 kW/h/year enough seeds to produce 200 chutes per m2 Shoots are grown in nursery until mature enough 1m2 eelgrass = ~ 83262.8kW/h/year g CO2 sequestered /year

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1051.2 kW/h/year ~200 new chutes settle into ocean floor, creating

new eelgrass habitat

100m2 eelgrass = ~ 8.3 kg CO2 sequestered /year

SunPower 320W Pv panel: 1.6kW/h/day/panel 584 kW/h/year/panel = ~110 panels Standard panel = 1.5 x 1m = 165m2

Of the seeds safely in sediment, let’s assume that 40% survive (230). That means that approximately 230 new chutes will grow from the seeds, and repeat the cycle naturally.

~200 new chutes settle into ocean floor, creating As rhizome grows, up to 12 new shoots new eelgrass habitat

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emerge as clones. For calculations, we 64 240 kW/h/year will assume 6 per original chute.

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1 264 224 kg CO2 saved in operational carbon 17 406 041 kg CO2 sequestered through eelgrass meadows

net positive: 18 467 375 kg/co2 with embodied carbon of solar pv system (2890 kg/CO2)

Flowered chutes detach from rhizome, either

Original chutes from nursery will flower. Say 80% of the original 200 chutes will survive to flower - this means 160 flowers. With 12 seeds in each flower, 1920 seeds exist.

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02// Eelgrass Nursery Net Positive Architecture

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

4” Slab where not bearing R-5 rigid insulation stacked to R-25 12” x 18” 15M angles at 18” O.C. for length of ICF wall Thickened edge slab as per structural requirement PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

10” x 10“ CLT structural column @ 4m O.C. Interior finish (to be determined) 1” x 3“ horizontal furring strips @ 16” O.C. Smart vapour barrier ICF foundation wall ICF Air + Weather barrier Drainage mat to footing

4” diameter drain pipe

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2x 2” x 12“ rim joists 1.5”interior plywood sheathing Smart vapour barrier 11” larsen truss cavity fiilled with blown eelgrass insulation (R-40) 1” exterior grade plywood sheathing Air + weather barrier lapped from roof plane overtop wall air + weather barrier 6” eelgrass facade cladding nets 12” thatch roof Air + weather barrier 5/8” exterior grade plywood sheathing 12” cavity filled with R-40 eelgrass insulation Smart vapour barrier 5/8” plywood sheathing TJI roof joists @ 24” O.C. 2x 2” x 12” Ridge blocking beam (for TJI roof joists to butt up against) Engineered Glulam ridge beam

Aluminum head flashing lapped over and under air+weather barrier

1.5” interior sanded plywood sheathing Smart vapour barrier 11” deep larsen truss wall @ 16” O.C. (commercial grade Tyvek stapled vertically to trusses to allow for blown eelgrass cavity insulation, ~R-40) 1” exterior grade plywood sheathing Air + Weather barrier 6” eelgrass facade cladding nets

6” TCC floor plate - 3 ply CLT with 2” concrete topping 14” x 6” Glulam bearing beam

10” x 10“ CLT structural column @ 4m O.C. 1.5” interior sanded plywood sheathing Smart vapour barrier ICF foundation wall Air + Weather barrier 6” eelgrass facade cladding nets

12” x 18” 15M angles at 18” O.C. for length of ICF wall R-5 rigid insulation stacked to R-25 Thickened edge slab as per structural requirement Air +Weather barrier lapped over 6” aluminum flashing and ICF Air + Weather barrier

Minimum 8” foam overlap at base of ICF (cut from scrap rigid insulation) Drainage mat w/ concrete board Frost skirt extends 24” from edge of slab 4” diameter drain pipe PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Triple glazed thermally broken window (Innotech Defender 76TS)

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03// Botafumeiro Secular Society Theatre + society space

A completely virtual design studio in the summer of 2020, this project adapted a long and narrow site near a major stop on Spain’s Santiago de Campostela pilgramage into a theatre and headquarters for a local secular society.

In an effort to keep the site open and accessible, the theatre was placed underground below a reflecting pool, which allowed light to spill into the space.

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03// Botafumeiro Secular Society Theatre + society space

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BASEMENT LEVEL -2 PLAN

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Bar + Indoor Lounge area

Approach from street

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Courtyard, view toward street entrance

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04// Teatro Oficina Lina Bo Bardi Case study model 1:200

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05// Tensegrity Exploration + Installation with Sam Beckley and Peter Lombardi

Beginning with a Dalhousie University Freelab in July 2021, this self-guided exploration scaled up from handheld models to 8’ modules, 16 of which were assembled on October 16, 2021 for Halifax’s Nocturne: Art at Night festival.

The final pavillion design incorporated interactive visual and audio components that reacted as users enaged with the installation.

Project funding renders - Credit to Sam Beckley

Initial models + 8ft module protoype

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05// Tensegrity Exploration + Installation with Sam Beckley and Peter Lombardi

Constructed from simple materials (2”x3” lumber, agricultural frost protection fabric, 400lb test tuna line + crimps), 16 modules were assembled into a pavillion where the auditory landscape was created by interactions with the structure itself.

16 piezos microphones were attached to compression members which channeled vibrations from touching, tapping, and plucking all parts of the tensegrity structure through a series of distortion pedals and mixer effects.

The resulting sounds were amplified in real time throughout the pavillion, creating an engaging art installation that was accessible to all users, including the visually impaired.

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06// Steam bending: Twist prototypes with Peter Lombardi, October 2021

First prototypes testing steam bent twists and braids with different types of wood, each species being a uniform size and remaining 40 minutes in the steam box.

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e was built entirely with reused, donated materials, gle fastener was attached into the trees.

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07// Zugvogel Treehouse with Minha Galera

Designed and constructed over a three-week period for Zugvogel Music Festival near Bonne, Germany.

Personal Pursuits

The structure was built entirely out01 of recycled materials. Not a single fastener Zugvogel Treehouse was driven into a tree.

Its primary function was as a coffee bar and a rest area for a nearby stage.02 Over the course of four days, approximately Analog Photography 4000 people passed through its three levels.

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Designed and Constructed with friends over 3 week period for Zugvogel

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Zugvogel Treehouse 2019 07// Zugvogel Treehouse Bonne, Germany. with Minha Galera

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08// Analog Photography Shoot + Develop

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08// Analog Photography Shoot + Develop

Analog photography shoot + develop

Thank you!

Stefan Gagnier Ruckert Dalhousie University M.Arch Candidate stefangagnierruckert@gmail.com 250 299 6493

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