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YEARBOOK 2016 ARCHITECTURE THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION To be the Pioneering Force for Global Impact through Design is our school’s vision, and the work and people presented in this book represent our efforts as we move toward realizing it. In pursuing that “Fly High” Vision, we are not only fundamentally reinventing our school, but also challenging the paradigm of what a school is and can be.

We no longer see the school as a quaint ivory tower or two sitting atop a hill, far away from the world. No, a school as a nucleus that powers a global network of students, alumni, partners, and friends who work together to have a global impact even when we are engaged locally.

Design is our foundation, way of thinking, and a synthetic approach that goes beyond the vertically isolated disciplines and spreads horizontally across all walks of life. It is this T-shaped education in which we share, inspire, practice, act, and help the world discover the plentiful opportunities that lie behind the wicked challenges of the world. Our school is vivacious! Our people are dynamic! Our works are impactful! Our reach is global! Our subjects aren’t course numbers, they are the big challenges that face the world today!

This book is not just a presentation, but also an invitation to you, the reader, to join us the pioneering force, and the nucleus that operates from atop the Mount Oread, on the breathtaking campus of the University of Kansas, home of Jayhawks!

Rock Chalk!

Dr. Mahesh Daas Dean and ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture

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“A GOOD IDEA WILL SURVIVE ANY PROCESS.” STEVEN HOLL

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“THE INSTRUMENT OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AS WELL AS FOR LIFELONG ARTISTIC FULFILLMENT.”

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“ALLOWING YOURSELF THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK THINGS YOU WOULDN’T OTHERWISE THINK; ALLOWING YOURSELF TO INVESTIGATE THINGS YOU WOULDN’T OTHERWISE INVESTIGATE.” NILS GORE

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To explore making curved wooded objects by using bent lamination and vacuum bag technology. This process really allows you to make some dramatic curves that keep their structural strength. The first half of the class was spent exploring different materials and methods of bending as well as testing the limits of how dramatic we could bend each material. That’s part of what was really unique about the class was that it was sort of an exploration free for all.

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“Nothing was off limits to try.”

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Work Designed by: Alexandria Frost

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RAFAEL VINOLY BusinessSchool

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WOMEN IN TECHNICAL STUDIES (Alpha Sigma Kappa)

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AÎŁK Kappa Chapter of Alpha Sigma Kappa Women in Technical Studies

Alpha Sigma Kappa is a social sorority for women in Architecture, Engineering, Math, and Sciencerelated majors.

With focuses on academic achievement, professional empowerment, and community service, ASK aims to encourage women in generally male-dominated fields of study.

The group has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Relay for Life, and has participated in multiple conferences that promote STEM fields to middle school and high school girls. ASK aims to strengthen friendship and sisterhood between students of various STEM fields through social events and community involvement.

Alpha Class Recruitment Event, Fall 2015

KUASKWITS@gmail.com

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Alpha Class Candidate Ceremony, Fall 2015

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SPACES OF HOPE

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MISSION STATEMENT Spaces of Hope is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to improve and promote architecture and design through fostering the creative process, thoughtful design, and progressive architecture within education.

To achieve this, we provide scholarship, experience, and opportunity for students interested in pursuing a degree and career path in the fields of architecture, design, or engineering.

EXPERIENCE Immersion into architectural design experience and collaborative scenarios are essential to the education of today’s students.

Through offering unique program briefings and exploring cultural concepts, Spaces of Hope allows students to explore their design potential while offering beneficial constructive criticism.

AWARDS • Jayhawk Choice Awards “Educational Program of the Year • Received letters of support from University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & Planning, AIA chapter of Kansas City, Westside Housing Organization, and William Jewell College.

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Experience Immersion into architectural design experience and collaborative scenarios are essential to the education of today’s students.

Through offering unique program briefings and exploring cultural concepts, Spaces of Hope allows students to explore their design potential while offering beneficial constructive criticism.

SCHOLARSHIP Spaces of Hope is dedicated to helping architecture and design students succeed through academia by providing access to financial and professional support.

Continuing education scholarships and competition awards allow students to explore the potentials of architecture and design related fields of study.

Opportunity Educational outreach and community involvement serve as a staple of any nonprofit organization.

By informing upcoming students of opportunities within architecture and design related fields of study, Spaces of Hope allows students to explore future occupations and gain insight into educational decisions.

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EVENTS NAPKIN SKETCH COMPETITION Open to students, educators and practitioners alike, Spaces of Hope challenges all that are interested in the topic of architecture, engineering and design to submit their very own ink sketch on a white napkin for both critique and competition. The competition encourages practitioners and students to exercise their ability to visualize both their surrounding built environments and those they design conceptually.

2020 WORLD EXPOSITION High School students were challenged to design a Worlds Fair pavilion for the 2020 World Exposition. These pavilions would represent the economic and diplomatic values of the respective countries that each team was assigned. With support from the University of Kansas, the winning team not only received an educational scholarship, but also guaranteed admission into the architecture program in the University. Students were additionally able to developing an understanding and appreciation for global cultures, apply active and passive design strategies and apply real-world firm structures towards their class projects.

PARADIGM A two-year research study culminates as the paradigm white paper analyzing the benefits and effectiveness of guided mentorship towards architectural education.

Pairing skilled practitioners with both high school and collegiate students alike, this study will analyze the effects of guided activities, workshops and educational seminars which help bridge the gap between education and practice in fields of design.

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The Open World Cause is an organization primarily focused on increased access to education and proper learning facilities in the developing world. For the past five years, the cause and its focus has surrounded an effort to assist in a rural community of Nepal in a region known as Bageshwori.

Originally achieving a goal of delivering funds for two laptops, internet subscriptions and library furnishings to the school (known as Shantideep Adarsh Vidhyasadan, or SAV), the cause has become a primary source of support for Govinda Panthy, the school’s founder and director.

Since that time, the Open World Cause has partnered with classrooms in the US, organizations abroad and its members have worked tirelessly to continue providing aid to the school. Recently, as a result of land ownership and leasing complications, the school was required to move about 10 hours away from Bageshwori, Nepal where it was reestablished in a similar rural community in the region of Narayanpur.

After succeeding in raising the funds to help begin construction on a new school by working organizations internationally, students are attending a brand new facility with access to filtered water, the necessary infrastructure for additional classrooms and a secure, creative learning environment. The school is now known as the Tripur Kinder Academy, or TriKA, and serves three residential areas in Nepal.

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The overall goal for the cause and its future surrounds an attempt to dissolve educational disparity in multiple regions of the world, including the creation of cross-cultural partnerships with students in the United States.

As an example of this work, the success of this potential program was tested when fourth grade students from Inman, KS collaborated with Nepali students to create Google Sketchup models of their new school, which were 3D printed and represent the initial push to build a brand new building for Govinda and his students.

Connor Janzen, a fourth-year M.Arch student, is a co-founding member of the cause and has worked alongside other cofounder, Benjamin Honeycutt, since his senior year of high school to mobilize the cause in various formats, from building and managing its website to making crucial organization connections and decisions.

Additionally, as a primary presenter for the cause, Connor has traveled to different educational conferences and classrooms to speak about digital innovation and the power of student-led initiatives. In the summer of 2015, Connor and the Open World Cause team traveled to various regions in Nepal, including the region where the school was built in Narayanpur.

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To those involved, this cause has come to represent something of a career and lifestyle. Connor and its other core members will continue the mission to its full extent, with hopes to establish a longstanding group at the University of Kansas.

Ben Honeycutt Founder “ What began as a simple high school project has become an effort that has reshaped my entire life. ”

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WATER CHARRETTE SPRING 2016

The Spring 2016 Water Charrette is a design competition engages students to work in interdisciplinary teams to promote a culture of collaboration and design thinking to solve global problems at the nexus of food, energy and water.

The event joins distinguished researchers and design professionals from across the U.S. with faculty and students from KU departments to study issues related to the health of interrelated food, energy and water systems and the built environment. These have been subjected to increasing pressure from climate change, population growth and resource depletion.

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MOST SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION

Public landscapes that substitute ornamental landscape for edible plantings

Latiesha Lee Tessneem Elkhateeb Scott Harrison Mohammed Alsinan

Hydrogen + Oxygen Electrolysis of Water

Blackwater is sent to septic type system and waste slowly decomposes over time

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MOST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION

SOLUTION TO PARTNER WITH SUSTAINABLY PRODUCED PRODUCTS

Nolan Hazard Taylor Liles Jack Pearson Shiqi Zhang Perry May

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PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Chris Roybal Mathilde Beuvant Robyn Payne Sean Herrmann Thomas Niemann Ghita Rhmari Matt Primovic

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JORDAN COSLETT - ARCH 208 - R CASTILLO

CHILDREN’S LIBRARY AND LEARNING CENTER KANSAS CITY, MO

The expansion was to include a children’s library and multi-purpose learning spaces. After an initial site visit, I was inspired by the sweeping view of the Kansas City skyline. This led to the building being angled toward downtown giving visitors a perfectly framed view. The building extends out of the slope at the KCM campus, almost reaching out toward the city. Louvers along the ceiling emphasize the graceful, curved roofline, and a double layer curtain wall system with horizontal louvers along the south wall mitigates summer sun while allowing for winter penetration.

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MATTHEW BELLOMY - ARCH 208 - R. CASTILLO

UNIVERSITY CITY VISITOR’S CENTER CARACAS, VENEZUELA The UNESCO World Heritage site, University City, is a large ensemble of open dynamic spaces which is highly contextual to culture and the environment. Villanueva, the master planner and architect, used the technological development of the time, reinforced concrete, for the forms and structures and in addition he included modern interpretations of traditional forms and cultural concepts such as patios, latticed windows, and open air structures as a solution for cooling in the tropical environment. The proposed building is a center in which people can learn the history of the campus, especially focusing on the art and architecture aspects. The plot is nestled between three covered walkways and sits across from the engineering building. The form, massing, and detailing is a result of examining the context and incorporating three important motifs throughout the campus: nature; scale; and contrast.

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SEAN HERRMANN - ARCH 208 - S. PADGET

AMELIA EARHART MUSEUM ATCHISON, KS Located on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri River, the Amelia Earhart Museum serves as an extension to the existing Birthplace Museum across the street. Housing two full-scale replica planes, the main exhibition space features an open and airy design with a suspended ramp system, allowing visitors unrestricted views of the airplanes. Other design highlights include a space frame structure and a double-envelop glass curtain wall which serves to both aid with natural ventilation and provide scenic views of the surrounding landscape.

This project remained challenging in the sense that I needed to create a flexible, unobstructed space large enough to house several airplanes, while also keeping in mind the importance of human connection and interaction. Additionally, this was my first time working entirely in Revit, which brought its own unique set of challenges.

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My project was an Amelia Earhart Museum. We were given the task of creating a new structure to house artifacts from Amelia’s time period, such as scale model planes and documents. The site location was in Atchison, KS at the current museum, which is Amelia’s birth home. Our design needed to accommodate areas for visitors such as restrooms, galleries, retail, café, parking stalls, etc. One twist to our design was that we needed to implement natural lighting, natural ventilation, and a complex structural design.

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AMELIA EARHART MUSEUM ATCHISON, KS Anyways the project I sent you was the Amelia Earhart Museum located directly across from her old childhood home at 223 N Terrace St, Atchison, KS. The purpose of the project was to highlight Amelia Earhart’s career as a pilot but to more importantly display two real airplanes that she would frequently use. The design stemmed from the desire to display the airplanes in a fashion that would make them appear as if they were flying. The visitors would be able to view the airplanes from above and below their hanging positions allowing for all angles of the plane to be viewed. I wanted to expose the structure to reinforce the look of a airplane hanger as well as creating a didactic environment for how the building functions especially in the case of the reflector panels on the roof. The large angled glass facade on the east side allows visitors to view out on to the outdoor displays as well as the Missouri river. As an architect I tend to use the structure as a ordering technique as well as a way to frame views and curtain walls. If you would like any more information on the project or me personally just feel free to email me again, hopefully I will reply faster next time.

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HANNAH KROLL - ARCH 280 - T. ACHELPOHL

DISPLAY CUBE

Our project was to create a space in which a given piece of artwork could be displayed. The space had to fit within a 12 ft^3 cube, modeled at half-scale. It had to include three spaces: an entrance, viewing space, and contemplation space. Within this space also had to be places for people to rest. The artwork we were given was a geometric design and the space we were designing was supposed to reflect that in some way. The specifications said we could display the piece however we wanted within the space. My approach was to take

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the geometry within the piece and use that to divide the space. I wanted to make unexpected divisions without using walls, so I did it with the change in elevation within the viewing space.

I also used tracing paper as screens instead of walls. I wanted people to be able to enter into the cube while also using transparent barriers and windows for people to get a glimpse of what could be inside. I chose to put the artwork on the corner and have it appear to float, just like the platform of the viewing space. I wanted it to stand alone because the

design is already complex by itself. To connect the space and give it more geometric dimension, I pulled up one triangular prism and connected it down to the corner with the artwork, forming pavilion over the viewing space. This also contributed to the floating feeling. For resting places, I included smaller, movable triangular prisms inside. I wanted the seats to be abstract while still clear in function to match the rest of the space.ad conentr avesis mentiss ilisque dit auctuitam ta dum.

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SPENCER REED - ARCH 508 - N. VAKIL

DONALD JUDD MUSEUM KANSAS CITY, MO The Crossroads District in Kansas City, Missouri is a very unique place. It survives on the idea that creation reigns, and that curious exploration is the only way to truly discover the world. On First Friday’s, artists’ work pours out into the streets, offering a direct interaction with their creations, though lacking the ability to push their visitors to search for, discover, and create their own experience. The Donald Judd Museum seeks to reinvent the way that explorers of the Crossroads find and view artwork. Ultimately, this project offers a disruption to the way that users of the Crossroads District find the art that they adore, and something new and disrupting might be exactly what such a quickly growing grassroots district needs.

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TANNER HYLAND - ARCH 508 - N. VAKIL

DONALD JUDD MUSEUM OF ART KANSAS CITY, MO The overarching vision for this project was to create a central destination that would unify the Crossroads district, establishing a clear connection between the vibrant Southern end of the district and the nearby Kauffman Center and downtown skyline. From this vision came the idea of truly embedding the project within its site, both through the building’s form and the surrounding green spaces.

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acknowledge the Kauffman Center and downtown skyline through the cantilevering of the upper volume, while the angled wall on the building’s ground level acts to create a dialogue with the neighboring Sullivan HIgdon & SInk building.

The sculpture garden at the site’s Southern end features landscaping that aligns itself with the bays of the adjacent 310 building, and doubles as a prominent public space as well as an outdoor exhibition space

for both permanent and temporary works.

This project presented a unique design challenge in the sense that it necessitated a delicate balance between acknowledging the surrounding urban fabric while also maintaining an attentiveness to Judd’s work. I feel that the design solution that I arrived at communicates the potential of the Crossroads District while also embodying my personality as a designer.

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CAITLIN MCKAUGHAN - ARCH 508 - K. SILVA

MUSEUM OF AGNOTOLOGY DALLAS, TX When designing the museum of agnotology, my thought process began with the idea that ignorance and awareness are both two sides to the same whole; one side being more constrained and obscured while the other side is more clear and exposed. I then went to the idea of having a choice; a choice where users are forced to decide between entering into either the obscured or the exposed side of the galleries. I believe people would be more inclined to enter into the exposed side because they generally like to have an idea of what is going to happen. For this reason, I had the idea that users who choose to enter into the exposed side of the museum would actually be entering into the side that exhibits a more constrained/ ignorant side of thought within the permanent galleries, and the users who chose to enter into the obscured side of the museum would actually be entering into the side of the permanent galleries which exhibits a more thought provoking/ open type of gallery.

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ZACHARY LUNDGREN - ARCH 508 - K. SILVA

MUSEUM OF AGNOTOLOGY DALLAS, TX Our prompt for my Arch 508 studio with Prof.

Kapila, was to design a Museum of Agnotology, or a museum dedicated to the study of ignorance.

Ignorance is a broad subject, so I decided to focus on a more specific area of ignorance called slow violence. Slow violence is a negative phenomenon in which small-scale violent activities occur over a large extent of time, resulting in an accretion of violence over time. The goal of this project was to design a museum that lets its visitors be informed of the notion of slow violence, through a gradual transition of conditions in the gallery spaces. Having such a conceptual project required me to loosen up my pre-decided notions of what a museum is, and taught me how to look at non-architectural precedents for inspiration.

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PATRICK GRIFFIN - ARCH 508 - K. SILVA

MUSEUM OF AGNOTOLOGY DALLAS, TX A museum which challenges ignorance must do so with the tools that people use to direct it; to sell a lie, a magic trick, or simply convince someone of the lie that you believe. In order to do this, ignorance must be established from the start of the relationship between the visitor and the space. A perfect parallel for this is the iceberg, 90% of the volume lies invisible below the surface. A building to do this would direct ignorance in the same way, by hiding most of the volume below the surface. At the same time, any successful building must have a presence, otherwise there can be no economic prosperity for whatever it is home to. The challenge then must be such that an invisible building has a presence in an urban fabric, and is completely considerate of the environment.

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STEPHEN MCENERY - ARCH 508 - K. SILVA

MUSEUM OF AGNOTOLOGY DALLAS, TX

This project proposes a Museum devoted to the exploration of social injustice in Dallas from its founding in 1841 until the present day. The form of the museum is informed by its mission to recount the scarred history of the city and to present the path to reconciliation and knowledge. The museum is organized chronologically; in order to recount the largely neglected history of strife and injustice in Dallas, the exhibits are organized in a highly directed fashion. This presents an architectural vocabulary that reinforces the purposeful and ongoing nature of the injustices described in the museum.

The statement of the museum is both that injustice has existed with little recognition for nearly two centuries, and also that recognizing this conflict is essential to realize the potential of a great American city as a place of reconciliation and peace.

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YIYI ZHOU - ARCH 608 - C.KRAUS

THE TIMBER CITY NEW YORK, NY

New York is a city build with stone, concrete, nature has been demolished as the city grow. My design approach is to bring nature back to life, create a place where people can access nature, breath fresh air, and play with nature for the community and the city. Timber is an ideal green building material, it well suited this idea both structurally and aesthetically. In addition, I inspired by Garden City movement, I designed a�green-belt� inside the city, provide to people a chance to interact with the nature . Creating a livable environment for the local communities. The residents will be able to use the green space to cultivate their own foods. Thus a micro living circle will be created inside the timber city.

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FATIMA PACHEDO - ARCH 608 - C.KRAUS

135 Delancy Street is a 300,000 square feet mass timber construction mixed use complex in the heart of the Lower East side in NewYork City.

Apartments, a museum, and a market occupy the same site creating a hub that reflects the diverse cultures that exist in the Lower East side. The courtyard allows for the user to escape form the city to an intimate and calm space. The rectangular tubes, where the museum is housed, break the formal shape of the courtyard allowing for air to flow through and creating an inside outside relationship between the busy New York streets and the public courtyard. The market faces Essex Street to preserve the historic nature of its original location.

Overall 135 Delancy Street creates special interactions amongst people that occupy it.

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JULIE DUVAL - ARCH 608 - MA L’HEUREUX

OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY CHICAGO, IL. As a presidential library, the building has to be a symbol. Being built in South Chicago is the first step, and the design of the building aimed to open itself to the city, the park and to everyone.

Facing Washington Park, the building is organised in three main wings around a public and pedestrian plaza. The first two are host to public areas: galleries, forum, lobbies, and reading rooms. The last wing can be called the “service wing”, connecting the two other wings with storage and delivery areas.

As an extension of the public space and the park, the plaza is meant to be inhabited by people and will preserve the different spaces of the building with a reflecting pool, sculpture, grass, trees. The roof is accessible as well and offers an additional public area and a restaurant with views of the park and the Loop.

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JOHN SCHWARZ - ARCH 608 - MA L’HEUREUX

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY CHICAGO, IL.

Giving an aura to a library dealing with a rational building has been my main goal during the whole design process. The relationship to the city, to the neighborhood and to the citizen is a major point or the program which gives the façade a main role. Light becomes a real tool and revealer of each material. The exterior space is a public area to open the building to the neighborhood.

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L.FENG, M.NEWCOME, J.CROOKHAM - ARCH 608 - S. GRABOW

OPERA HOUSE, CHICAGO, IL.

Opera is an art form characterized by the duality between the hours of preparation and factory-like functions required to produce a show and the show itself, which creates an opulent environment for operagoers to experience. Our opera house emphasizes the duality inherent in operatic production through the creation of a two faced building. While the entire building shares a sense of harmony and inspiration from Constructivist architectural principles, there is formal and aesthetic distinction between public audience spaces and private performer spaces. Performer rehearsal and preparation spaces take a more geometrically simple and almost industrial aesthetic, while public lobby and performance spaces make grand gestures that shape a dramatic interior procession and sweeping views of the Chicago skyline. dendam ad conentr avesis mentiss

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PATRICK WITTHAUS - ARCH 608 - K. VANDERIET

FRAMING THE CORRIDOR, KANSAS CITY, MO.

Incorporating the existing historicity and the existing scale of development were critical factors that drove the concept and design of this project, which takes up nearly an entire city block. Two historic structures on the site, as well as the immediate surrounding urban context, inform every dimension and detail of the buildings and landscaping plan. A formal familiarity is married with modern materiality, digital environmental graphics, and accessible public green space, producing an architecture that responds uniquely and emphatically to its site.

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FRAMING THE CORRIDOR, KANSAS CITY, MO.

This project focused on preserving visual connections to cultural public spaces in Kansas City such as the Kauffman Center, Sprint Center and Union Station.

Furthermore, the carving and shearing of the existing edges and building masses allowed for potential urban connection to specifically the Spring Center. Moreover, the fragmentation allows for a shifting experience from Main Street to the cultural icon of the Sprint Center.

This movement allows for space to break away from the restricted grid structure. Therefore, a series of profile frames was used to understand the relationship between a pedestrian on Main Street to the cultural icon.

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MOHAMMED A BAKARMAN - PHD CANDIDATE

THE WESTERN GATE DEVELOPMENT THE PASEO GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD, KANSAS CITY, MO. The development is guided by the principles of a theory by Jane Jacob called “Eyes upon Streets.” This theory aims augment the relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces, which acts as a surveillance system to enhance safety. Adopting the principles of Jacob’s theory is to tackle the significant issue of safety in the site. Thus, the Western Gate Development proposes a mix of land uses as well as a variety of housing typologies to attract diverse people who have different ages, needs, incomes, and backgrounds (ethnic, educational, etc.).

The main goal of the design scheme is to generate a dynamic, pedestrian-oriented, and connected development by establishing a welldefined urban wall. The development focuses particularly on how to optimize the density of the existing blocks by proposing different housing typologies. It also intends to locate the various housing typologies appropriately in a way that accomplishes the main goal of the project, which is “the establishment of a mixed-income and mixed-use development”. Other aspects around the selected area are be taken into consideration in the development scheme which are considered as great existing assets in the neighborhood. These assets are the Central Business District (CBD) to the west, Belvidere Park to the north, and the Memorial Fountain to the south, on the Paseo.

The development contains variety of uses that complement each other. In addition to residential land use, hotel, recreational and commercial buildings are involved in the development. Each block has its own parking spaces whether in the center and/or on-street. Commercial buildings in the new proposal involve retails in the ground floor and offices in upper floors. In areas where public activities take place (e.g. the amphitheater in Belvidere Park, uses rather than residential must be adjacent to those spaces, such as a hotel.

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Residential Mixed-use Hotel Recreational Sidewalk Road

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ARCH 509 - N. GORE

LEVEE TRAIL PUBLIC DESIGN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS ALEX TACKES TESSNEEM ELKHATEEB LATEISHA LEE MOHAMMED ALSINAN AUSTIN BOSECKER

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By encouraging an increase in the use of bicycle transportation while providing an interractive experience for the community, we were given the opportunity to invite the public to contribute their own “perspective” on innovative, conceptual design. Developing our design as a “nonverbal communication device” while maintaining functional use, the overall design is given a more dynamic outlook at the trailhead. Due to a lack of bike racks around the Levee Trail area, it was clear that bikers needed to be considered in our design and added to the site.

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ARCH 509 - J. WILDE

BATHROOMS FOR THE CITY OF LAWRENCE DEVELOPING A NEW DESIGN STANDARD LAWRENCE, KS For this project, we were working for the City of Lawrence to develop a new design standard for their stand-alone bathrooms. This project will have a broad impact across the city and the success of our project would mean that many more bathrooms using our design would continue to be built in sport complexes and parks throughout the city.

Our site is at the Youth Sports Complex at 4911 W 27th St near Clinton Lake.

We explored various building methods and responded to the criteria identified by our client, the City of Lawrence. We had $14,000 dollars to complete the design and construction of a stand-alone bathroom with one woman’s and one man’s bathroom, similar in program to the existing bathroom pictured above. There will not be any electricity in the bathrooms.

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@studio804_16 Studio 804

STUDIO DESCRIPTION Studio 804 is a year-long comprehensive design build studio. It is a final studio year option that students can take at the University of Kansas before they graduate the following spring. What sets Studio 804 apart from typical studio environments is students are not only the designers, but they are also the contractors, project managers, and 'firm' liaisons. Studio 804 is also very passionate about sustainability and is currently pursuing it's 9th LEED Platinum building.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION This year's project is located at 1200 Pennsylvania Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It sits on one of the largest residential properties at a lot-and-a-half. What makes this house unique is it's primary focus is centered around a courtyard. Large picturesque windows allow for occupants to see the courtyard from any room in the house. The wood facade of the building is made from re-purposed Northwestern train trestles. There are 20 solar panels that are positioned on the south side of the roof to allow for maximum sun exposure. Even the HVAC systems down to the appliances and fixtures are all ultra energy efficient and highly rated.

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Kashish Naviqu M.Arch II, International student

Max Wurster M.Arch II

Ragan Allen M.Arch I

“ Some key learning points from this project I’ve learned are: designing while considering the budget, team work, taking initiatives, workshop / construction skills as I don’t have a construction background. ”

“ Studio 804 is an experience unlike any other that taught me how to bridge the gap between architecture and construction. I am glad to have gone through it and made 18 friends for life along the way. ”

“ My favorite thing about the project is the concept of the courtyard and focusing life around nature... It’s something that hasn’t been done yet on an 804 project. ” 149

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JULIE DUVAL

TESSNEEM ELKHATEEB

LUCIE DUTHEIL

As an exchange student, being part of the yearbook team has been a rewarding experience, as well as discovering the variety of student work and conceptualization process.

I am a French student from Paris, passionate about art, architecture and travelling. I have really enjoyed my year at the University of Kansas which has been a great occasion to travel to amazing places, discover a new culture and a new ways of life.

From early on in my college education, I chose a track which required strong problem solving skills, time management, and a great deal of self-motivation gained through independent learning. I am currently an Advanced Instructor at Kumon Math and Reading where I enjoy working with people to advance their math and reading skills. I am also a freelance graphic designer and painter based in the Kansas City Area.

Being from France, I really enjoyed working on the Yearbook for the School of Architecture. All of us involved in the process worked to find a way to take what the students had submitted and improve upon it. I worked mostly on the layout of the book, organizing and laying out the project pages. I also worked to develop color scheme and graphic style that was used throughout the publication.

This process helped teach me how to work in a group, especially when there were many differing opinions among the team.

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MEVA RAZA

LATEISHA LEE

I am an exchange student from Paris Val de Seine, currently completing my master’s degree. My parents are from Madagascar, a beautiful island off the southeast coast of Africa, where I would like to go back to help build a sustainable future for the country, learning from the mistakes that developed countries have made. I am also passionate about music.

I have a piano degree and love singing. I compete for KU’s boxing team and enjoy playing volleyball.

With art and architecture being my go-to when it comes to expressing myself visually, I enjoy coming up with new ideas that spike my imagination.

Architecture gives me the opportunity to gather my interests and place my thoughts in my designs.

I currently work with people every day in finance and business in order to mature my knowledge and eventually own an architecture firm. I also love to draw and display my work in the Kansas City area.

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O BAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY

WASHINGTON PARK, CHICAGO, IL. JULIE DUVAL DECEMBER 2015

The illusion of the bike rack becoming a bike was quite successful after building the design. Using 1.5” diameter steel pipes, teamwork was put into play to make sure that all aspects of making the illusion as successful as possible. With that, each shape was carefully measured, cut, welded, and bent in order to create the shapes we needed out of metal.

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RESTAURANT + VIEW ON THE PARK

SERVICES - PRIVATE SPACE

ARCHIVES + PREPARATION + DELIVERY

MUSEUM

SPACES ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC OFFICES + AUDITORIUM + READING ROOM

MAIN ENTRANCES

WATER + TREES + SCULPTURE