Thomas Vanderkruk Architecture Portfolio - 2021

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Thomas M. Vanderkruk undergraduate architectural design selected works: 2021

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Thomas Vanderkruk

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2021

/ I am a Architecture student in search of work! /

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It is my belief that as designers we have a great responsibility to create, shape, and imagine better environments for ourselves, others, and our planet.

Attending a school of three cultures, my design emphasis is on place-based design, where it is my belief that a deep understanding of a project’s context is the threshold for phenomenalogical spaces. An education based in hands on learning has developed my skills of craft from the scale of the model to real world applications, as well as shaped my passion for sustainability. I believe the best designs evolve from a collaborative process involving multiple iterations and perspectives. Most importantly I look forward to making new connections while creating impactful spaces along my journey!

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/ curriculum vitae / Thomas Mateus Vanderkruk Architecture student connect now!

175 Tanguay Ave. Sudbury, ON, P3C 5G4. tvanderkruk@laurentian.ca +1 (705) 562-9968

Education 2021/08 - Present (MArch) McEwen School of Architecture, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON Unique pedagogical education highlighting environmental stewardship and sustainable community practice with an emphasis on wood design and sustainable materials.

2017/9 - 2021/4

(BAS) McEwen School of Architecture, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON Dean’s Honours List

Graduated 2017

(Secondary) St. Mary’s Secondary School, Hamilton, ON

Work Experience 2021/8 - Present 2021/4 - 2021/8

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), MSoA, Sudbury, ON, Canada Carpenter’s Apprentice, Hamilton, ON

Design, construction, and renovation of a small residential unit in the industrial district of Hamilton, ON.

2020/4 - 2020/8

Canadian Wood Council (CWC), Remote work Research Assistant - Graphic Contributor - (Co-op Intern)

Written and graphic development of CWC’s newest curriculum “Introduction to Wood For Architects.”

2019/4 - 2019/6

Manfred Weihman Architect, Dinkelsbühl, Germany

Two weeks of design-build experience involving drawing, deconstruction, and construction for a 14th Century house and 14th -15th Century Barn turned studio office.

2018/4 - 2018/8

Atlas Creative Group, Cebu, Philippines Assistant Designer - (Co-op Intern)

Web design, branding, and renovation design schemes for the new Philippines headquarters of the multifaceted design group.

2015/5 - 2017/8

Hortico Nurseries, Hamilton, ON Horticultural Assistant

Horticultural work specializing in the growing and selling of Canadian native plant species.

References Tammy Gaber, PhD

Randall Kober, B.Arts, M.Arch

Director of MSOA McEwen School of Architecture

Master Lecturer/Maître de conférence McEwen School of Architecture

tel: +1 705 675 1151 x 7204 tgaber@laurentian.ca

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tel: 705.675.1151 x7206 rkober@laurentian.ca

Steven Beites Assistant Professor & Graduate Coordinator McEwen School of Architecture tel: 705.675.1151, x7263 sbeites@laurentian.ca

/ cv / Extracurricular Contributions 2021/10 2021/9 2019/9 - 2020/9

Desing Critic | McEwen School of Architecture, Sudbury, ON Panelist | McEwen School of Architecture, Sudbury, ON Lead Coordinator | Sudbury Nuit Blanche 2020, Sudbury, ON

2018/10 - 2020/4

Editor - Photographer, Writer | The Telegraph, Sudbury, ON

2019/12 - 2020/1

Artist - Installations, Exhibitions | Nuit Blanche 2020, Sudbury, ON

2019/4 - 2019/12

Treasurer - Executive role | Laurentian Architecture Student Association (L.A.S.A.), Sudbury, ON

2017/11 - 2018/11

Student Representative | (L.A.S.A.), Sudbury, ON

Technical Skills

Rhino 3D Modeling Revit Adobe Creative Suite Grasshoper Photogrammetry Lumion 10

Analog: Ink Charcoal Collage Watercolour Workshop: Laser-cutter

Personal Skills

Sanity

Communicative

Music

Adaptable

Woodworking

Curious

Canoeing

Personable

Football (Soccer)

Organized

Art

Physical Modelling

V-ray eQuest Energy Modeling

CNC Workshop Tools

Accolades

2021/4

Scholarship | Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Awarded by Jury of local cultural event Nuit Blanche 2020 based on artist instillation.

2021/4

Award | J.L Richards & Associates Limited Design Excellence Award, Systems Integration Awarded by Jury of local cultural event Nuit Blanche 2020 based on artist instillation.

2020/1

Recognition | Jury’s Choice Award

Awarded by Jury of local cultural event Nuit Blanche 2020 based on artist instillation.

2019/9

Photography

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Award | McEwen School of Architecture Founders’ Award In acknowledgment of exceptional care, thought and effort.

2018/9

Scholarship | J.L. Richards Architecture Design Prize Awarded on behalf of distinctive design sense and achievement.

2018/8

Award | Dominic Vidmars Speaker’s Award

2017 2021

Scholarship | Laurentian University In-Course Merit

Awarded to a student demonstrating leadership qualities and active in extracurricular endeavours.

Awarded to Student demonstrating academic excellence, maintaining an outstanding GPA.

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/ contents / Design work.

01 Symbiosis Mixed-use Residential

02 Art Gallery

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Addaptive Re-use

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Lake Laurentian Ecology Centre

Live / Search 04

Hypothetical Workspace

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Design builds.

Unit 238 Ice Station

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Child Play Structure

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Additional work.

Image Overlay Connections Craft

Canadian Wood Council

Technical Knowledge

“Introduction to wood for architects”

Energy Efficient Tiny Home

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Cubescape

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2021

Dinkelsbuhl, Germany

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Symbiosis

Mixed-use Residential.

Location | Downtown Sudbury Team Size | 2, Lejla Sejdinovic, Thomas Vanderkruk Supervisor | Aliki Economides Course | 4th Year Studio Tools | Rhino, Adobe Suite, Hand modeling Timeline | (2020/08 - 2021/04)

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Symbiosis

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To foster a sustainable and inclusive revitalization of downtown Sudbury, the creation of a stronger sense of place grounded in community is essential.

A symbiosis through the weaving of users, program, and natural elements enrich mutually dependent relationships and encourage the desirability of the downtown community.

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ARCHITECTURE

HUMAN

Within the mixed-use program, a variety of unit sizes brings together a diverse multi-generational community, while the construction of a productive and generous cycle is encouraged through the integration of public commercial programs grounded in food security, job integration, and community services. In this way, the project works as a series of visible and invisible networks as individual parts combine to form the whole, creating a symbiotic relationship between its inherent parts and the greater community.

All work was divided and managed equally between partners.

Hand sketches

Historical site context

ECOLOGY

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Existing civil space

Site network diagram

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Access diagrams

10 Unit stacking axonometric

Ground floor plan

Site plan

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3rd plan

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4th plan

Precedents

Site material study 2nd plan

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Street side elevation (south)

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Passive section AA’ / summer

12 Courtyard elevation

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Passive section BB’ / winter

Nolan creek bioswale render

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Grocery market interior render

14 Perspective section CC’

HVAC floor plans / radiant floor heating

ERV unit plans (all residential units)

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HVAC system plans

HVAC systems

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Structural exploded axo

16 3d structural 15m x 15m axo

Structural stabilization diagrams

Precedents

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Ground floor / structural plan

Parking floor plan / structural plan

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Unit axonometric

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Unit floor plans

Unit interior render

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Winter exterior render

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Atrium dalylighting model

Daylighting diagrams

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Dalylighting study model / soltices

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Dalylighting model / interior ambience

Lighting reflected ceiling plan / residential unit

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Natural lighting plan / residential unit

Grocery store / lighting reflected ceiling plan

Cafe mezanine / lighting reflected ceiling plan

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2021 Symbiosis

Detail elevation

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The detailing of the building facade focuses on the atmospheric implications to both the street and courtyard experiences. An equal focus was also given to the inhabitation of intended portions of the building facade by, non-human, plant and animal species.

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Details

Detail section

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Site axonometric

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Sudbury Art Gallery

Adaptive Reuse.

Location | Downtown Sudbury Team Size | 1 Supervisor | Steven Beites Course | 3rd Year Studio Tools | Rhino, Adobe Suite, Hand modelling, Graphite Timeline | (2020/01 - 04)

Sudbury Art Gallery

2020

Located in the downtown core of Greater Sudbury, the demands for a new Art Gallery exist to engage the community and respond to the rising arts culture within the downtown. Balancing the public and non-public attributes of the gallery the design works to create accessible public nodes and spaces that support a gallery oriented in public engagement.

A stepped atrium spans through the old brick building physically connecting both streets as well as providing a social interior before entering the gallery.

Throughout the galleries, moments of transparency create visual and physical connections between the public and the inner workings of the gallery. Finally, the

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Perspective section CC”

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Sketches

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2020 Sudbury Art Gallery Thomas Vanderkruk

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Creative mapping / downtown Sudbury / history, art culture, future possibility

Durham st massing

Parti collage / durham st re-vitilization

Elgin st massing

passageway

recconection

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Site strategy diagrams

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Concept models

Section AA’

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Sudbury Art Gallery

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Ground floor plan

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2nd floor plan

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3rd floor plan

Basement plan

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Selected works

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Sudbury Art Gallery

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Lake Laurentian Ecology Centre.

Ecological centre.

Location | Lake Laurentian Conservation Area Team Size | 1 Supervisor | Dr. Tammy Gaber Course | 2nd Year Studio Tools | Rhino, Adobe Suite, Collage, Laser Cutter Timeline | (2019/01 - 04)

2019

The Lake Laurentian Ecology centre aims to mediate the relationship between humans and the natural environment.

In a response to remediate the site’s existing hardscaped features, the design strategy aims to balance and connect the four surrounding ecosystems (wetland, deciduous early growth, lake, and coniferous forest). Spanning the existing footprint of the man-made dam, the irregular building form creates unique micro climates for learning and interaction amongst the site’s natural surroundings. A central interior corridor spans the length of the existing dam with both interior and exterior learning spaces branching from within. An intensive roof strategy works to resolve the public circulation of the site as well as filter the

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Ecology Centre

Wet roof concept

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Selected works

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Site analysis sections + plans / medium: mylar / analog

Site model accompanied by 3d section models. Each sectional model highlights an identified hardscape moment to be re-mediated through the architectural intervention.

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Ecology Centre

hardscape dam Site model / 3d section models / building with the landscape

concrete overflow chanel

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hardscape edge

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Interior render

Outdoor classroom render

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Ecology Centre

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Wetland classroom render

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Building exploded axonometric

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Live / Work.

Location | Hypothetical Landscape Team Size | 1 Supervisor | Randall Kober Course | 1st Year Studio Tools | Hand modelling, Graphite, Drafting Timeline | (2018/01 - 04)

Exploring the process of design by creating a series of models and drawings for a hypothetical live/workspace, this design was created and styled for a client with a specific background as an Astrophysicist. The space is divided into 3 stacked programs allowing the form and structure to follow a vertical axis.

Four cardinal windows provide light to all three levels guiding the eye along the vertically oriented CLT interior, upwards, past the skylight, and into the celestial.

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Live / Work

2018

Parti:

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Hypothetical living & reseach space.

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Massing model

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Site plan

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Live / Work

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Unit 238

Ice Station.

Location | Ramsey Lake Skate Path Team Size | Group Project Supervisor | Randall Kober Course | 1st Year Studio Tools | Sketching, Hand modelling, Fabrication Lab Timeline | (2017/11 - 2018/02)

An iterative design-build project, the task was to create a pavilion located along the annual Ramsey Lake skate path. The use of bentwood modular units enabled a flexible structure mimicking the movement and flow of its context. A vital parameter, the structure exhibits a series of natural wood-to-wood connections with twine and milk-based glue as binding agents.

Personal contribution: design leadership, modelling, fabrication, assembly, and documentation.

Site Plan: Ramsey Lake

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Ice Station

2017

Process Video:

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Final Project Film:

Team | Yuffie Chen, Andrew Dolomont, Emma Watkinson, Bruno Battiston, Drew Howlett, Reese Babcock, Lejla Sejdinovic, Saba Ali, Catherine Daigle, Cassey Oulette, Elizabeth Gendru, Kiana Modeste, Vince Pissokas, Jordan Burkitt

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Photograph by The Telegraph

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2017 Ice Station Thomas Vanderkruk

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Designing the entirety of the pavilions life cycle, locally sourced timber, and natural fasteners were considered during the design and construction phase.

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Ice Station

2017

Material miximization (1/8”)

Geometric configuration

Natural fasteners

Cyclical life-cycle

Photograph by Cathrine Daigle

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After the pavilians life span, the two systems detach and are returned to the earth, replenishing Sudbury’s depleted soil levels.

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Cube-scape

Children’s Play Structure.

Location | Downtown Sudbury Supervisor | Steven Beites Course | 3rd Year Studio Tools | Rhino, CNC, Hand Models, Design Charetes Timeline | (2019/04 - 05)

Fostering imagination through the use of exaggerated scale and space, the design premis of this as-build project encourages the child to explore curated areas in a collaborative way that activates their developmental domains through various activities. The use of local aroca ply and select highlight colours promote a modular form and pre-fabricated methedology. While the construction of the structure is optimized with the use of the CNC this playspace offers specific handcrafted instances that cater to the learning experience within, overtop, and around the structure.

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Cube-scape

2019

Personal roles included designing, modeling, graphic representation, and building fabrication and assembly.

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CTV Sudbury Interview: https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/ Team | Saba Ali, Reese Babcock, Nicole Brunet, Fayez Dajani, Nathan Gauvin, Muskan Goel, Tiffany Hodgins, Nick Irvine, Yasamin Sana, Lejla Sejdinovic, Brett Walter.

Selected works

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Designing for childhood development domains

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Cube-scape

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CNC Perforations

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1:1 Model

Mattboard models

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Rendered Section

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2019 Cube-scape Thomas Vanderkruk

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Playhouse day photo collage - photos by Author

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Staircase - Germany

Two weeks of as-build experience, renovation and construction for a 14th Century house and 14th-15th Century Barn turned studio office. Work included preparation of as-built drawings for the local building history expert, as well as the construction of wooden formwork and pouring of the sculptural concrete staircase within the barn studio. Projects were alternated between group teams of 8 students over the course of the two weeks.

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Staircase-Germany

2019

Location | Dinkelsbuhl, Germany Team Size | 16 Supervisor | Randall Kober Course | Study Trip Tools | Rhino, Adobe Suite, Hand modelling, Graphite Timeline | (2019/06 - 08)

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Selected works

International Travel.

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Staircase-Germany

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Additional Works

Art Instillation - “Disconnected connections”

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2017 - 2021

Art Instillation - “Image overlay”

Wood Door 62

Spoon carving

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Section Model - Gallery case study

Arch. Communications 63

Canadian Wood Council (CWC) Sample of work done for “Introduction to Wood for Architects” a new curiculum in the works by the CWC.

LWF:

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Additional Works

2017 - 2021

Historic wood typologies:

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Selected works

Energy Efficient Tiny Home

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Detailed Passive section at critical roof, window, floor, and foundation building connections/moments. Details created for proposed energy efficient remote home in North Bay, ON.

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