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a design portfolio

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contents

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prologue

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the house on anderson avenue

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interpretative center of the six nations

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chelsea whitebox theatre

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a gathering place in west baltimore

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epilogue

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prologue

We move so fast in this beautiful world.

We fail to observe the beauty around us.

We search for beauty elsewhere and elsewhere.

We forget we are beauty itself manifested.

So I ask you,

Yo u w a n t t o g o s o m e p l a c e e l s e ?

Yo u d o n ’ t e v e n k n o w w h e r e y o u a r e .

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the house on anderson avenue

An adaptive reuse From office to apartment In Manhattan, Kansas Completed in 11 weeks Of the fall semester of 2024

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Existing Non-Academic Housing

Existing Academic Housing

Homes are adjacent to one another along a street

Units are stacked on one another to house as many

making up a neighborhood.

students as possible.

Existing Building The Unger Complex serves as an office space with its fixed structure and form.

A House of Houses The proposal is an amalgamation of the two housing typologies and the existing structure.

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Floors Are Neighborhoods Each

typical

unit

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existing housing typologies connected by streets.

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Neighborhood Floor Plan

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Street Elevation

Entry Elevation

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West Section

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Detail Notes Western States Metal Roofing

Wall Panel

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Vertical 7/8” Western Wave® Wall Panel

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Western States Metal Roofing: Window/Door Head Trim Western States Metal Roofing: Z-Metal Trim

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Horizontal 7/8” Western Wave® Wall Panel Western States Metal Roofing: Window/Door Jamb Western States Metal Roofing: Window/Door Sill Trim Western States Metal Roofing: 7/8 Transition Trim Construction Layers Cavity Insulation Gypsum Sheathing Rigid Insulation Wood Substrate Vapor Barrier Gypsum Board ClarkDietrich Steel ClarkDietrich: 3” Cold-Formed Steel C-Stud

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15. ClarkDietrich: 3” Z-Furring Channel 16. Box Header Framing 17. ClarkDietrich: 3” U-Channel

18. ClarkDietrich: 7/8” Hat Furring Channel

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19. Hidden #10x1” Pancake Woodgrip Screw 20. Manko: Window Head System

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Metal Wall Panel Detail

Facade Exploded Axonometric

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the interpretative center of the six nations

A culture center For the six Native American nations I n To p e k a , K a n s a s Completed in 8 weeks Of the fall semester of 2023

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D i s c o v e r y o f Te n s i o n C o l l a g e A study in the hidden narrative between site context and project proposal. Adjacent structures were symbols of assimilation on Native American culture.

Award of Distinction, Design Communication Assoc. 2024 Architectural Drawing Exhibition

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Reversing Methodology of the Built Environment

A b s t r a c t i n g Fo r m a l Ty p o l o g y o f To p e k a

This diagram became a conceptual baseline, the

Surrounding

question, “what would architecture have been pre-

assimilation which are then abstracted to become

European conflict?”

echoes of the past.

building

context

Earth

Nestle

Migration

Integration

Growth

Discovery

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Floor Plan

North Section

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Key 1. Entry 2. Lobby 3. Cafe 4. Cafe Kitchen 8

5. Council Chamber 6. Classroom 7. Apartments

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8. Archives 9. Open Office 10. Conference Room

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11. Director’s Office 12. Office 13. Performance Hall 14. Outdoor Amphitheater 15. Gallery 16. Outdoor Gallery 15

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Entry

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the chelsea white box theatre

A whitebox theatre Appreciating the context In Chelsea District, Manhattan, NYC Completed in 8 weeks Of the spring semester of 2024

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The Flux of Chelsea Collage A study of the Chelsea neighborhood’s inherently theatrical character. The history of the site is investigated to understand the construction of the well-known project the High Line. The prospected design situates adjacent to the high line and resides between communities prominently divided, a middle ground.

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Missing Coexistence

Settled Residence

Leveled Connection

Punctured Stage

Nestled Stage

Framed Context

Parti The theatre serves as a middle ground between interactions as the stage of Wrapped Services

the Chelsea district.

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Te n t h S t r e e t E l e v a t i o n

Punctured Section

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Approach

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High Line

Performance

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a gathering place in west baltimore

A Park and Transit Hub For the community In West Baltimore, Maryland Completed in 8 weeks Alongside the fall semester of 2024

This project was an entry in the 2024 BGL NOMA Student Design Competition. This project was completed with other s t u d e n t s ; B r i n l e e D e e t e r , H e n r y R o h r s , C o o p e r S a n d h e i n r i c h , S a m u e l N i c ko l s , J o s h G a d d y, C h r i s Ta p i a , a n d R y l i e Va r d i m a n

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The Highway to Nowhere Collage The Highway to Nowhere underwent construction as a response to migration with a priority on moving cars rather than people. The plan was to create a space that would patch and heal the wounds of the highway through a place of gathering

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Issue People migrated from the urban to the suburbs, the incentive to connect and bridge the gap between the spaces emerged.

Existing The Highway to Nowhere was constructed in efforts to connect the suburbs to the urban but destroyed communities in the process.

Proposed Opportunities exist for a new park in hopes to revitalize the communities and connect the urban and suburbs in the form of designed green space.

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Masses

Link

Pivot

Above

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Extrude

Response

Gathering

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epilogue

My first three years in architecture school was approached with an attempt to express my love for hand drawing. I completed the projects drawn, processed, and visualized through the hands. I went back and forth with the digital process, of course, but the hand was always my ambition, and it preceded that of the computer.

It was not until I entered my fourth year in school that I finally began to appreciate the computer. It was a sharper pencil, no different than an unfamiliar medium to hopefully become better with.

Although our works as architects (students) emphasize speed, I wish to communicate the beauty of slowness. My projects, I hope, wish to tell stories of the undiscovered beauty in the context of the project.

Only when moving slow, can we fully see.

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i am vance lor

a fourth year architecture student at the college of architecture, planning and design of kansas state university

email me at vance8@ksu.edu

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to my parents.

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a design portfolio

discovered beauty

Do you see the beauty around you?

If you do, show me so I can too experience.

vance r. lor