Portfolio 2015

Rome, Italy Second Year Individual Project (2013)

Route 66 through Tulsa, Oklahoma Third Year Group Project (2015)

Meghalaya, India Independent Group Project (2014-2015)

S Project 1

MASCHERA DI EQUILIBRIO Semi-Permanent Scaffolding Project Property: Individual Project Rome, Italy

Second Year Studio Project (2013)

Palazzo Della Cancellaria

The American Folk Art Museum

Random Reduction

Random + Nth

Cull Grid

Columns + Grid

Cull Columns

Columns + Nth

Cull Nth

SCAFFOLDING MASK PATTERN DEVELOPMENT

Grid + Nth

Grid + Random

Random + Columns

Pattern Development Script

Circulation

Blow Apart

Mask and Display

M Project 2

L I B E R AT I N G T H E MOTHERROAD Route 66 through Tulda Redesign Competition 2015 Project Property: Group Project

Team Members: Victor Trautmann, Yvan Tran, Amanda Hood, Anika Saynyarack, Fatima Alabdullah Third Year Studio Project (2015)

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Original Site

Engaging Street Corner

Repurposed Buildings

Pedestrian Green Space

Re-Imagined Site

Route 66 through Tulsa is in desperate need of a cultural rebirth; a reevaluation of the road, and of the journey. The age of the automobile is nearing its end. Young people’s desire for convenient public transportation is on the rise, and in this day and age walkable cities reign supreme.

This plan seeks to liberate the Mother Road from the its car-centric urban fabric while still remaining connected to its historic regional identity.

DESIGN MISSION We must acknowledge that our culture has outgrown its dependence on the automobile. No longer should urban sprawls be dictated by parking lots and traffic flow. We must re-design the road, not for the drive, but for the journey. To achieve this end we must re-engage route 66. Designing narrower roads with fewer lanes is a vital first step towards encouraging caution and cooperation among drivers, while leaving more room for pedestrian traffic on either side. Additionally, offering a rapid public transit system to pedestrians at key locations along the route will encourage the development of a pedestrian oriented streetscape. With wider pedestrian traffic lanes, easy access to public transit, and buffers to separate street from sidewalk, the Mother Roads street scape begins to offer people a much more accessible way to experience route 66. Re-imagining buildings currently facing away from 11th street is also crucial. Re-designing buildings to engage street corners and sidewalks fosters the development of a streetscape that will bustle with activity. These pedestrian focused environments strongly encourage social interaction and interconnectedness within communities, and promote positive cultural development.

The proposed architecture along 11th street celebrates the ethos surrounding the automobile, and its profound impact on route 66’s development. The architecture draws precedence from the cultural identity of Tulsa, which is firmly rooted to the history of the automobile, while at the same time offering a new esthetic vocabulary by which to identify route 66. Buildings represent the idea of repurposing the past to accommodate for the future. Forms are derived from the automobiles that once ruled the road to give the intersection clear ties to its past.

Buildings and signage are connected architecturally to the past, but are defined through unique material expressions that pull from modern esthetic. With these strategies in place, this plan creates a brand new architectural vocabulary to represent the revitalization of the Mother Road.

L Project 3

C L O U D C AT C H E R eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2015 Project Property: Group Project Team Members: Victor Trautmann, Willy Burhan, Farshid Motian

Third Year Independent Project (2014 - 2015)

CONCEPT FOG CATCHER proposes a passive way with which to easily and effectively capture and store water. The construction of these megastructures would be accomplished by the assembly of modular parts offering flexibility of design, ease of maintenance, and efficiency of economy. The fog harvesting mesh would be stretched across the structure to provide a massive surface area for absorbing incoming clouds. CLOUD CATCHER seeks to provide a passive and efficient water collection solution for the modern era.

PRECEDENT

Living Bridge

Living Bridge Components

FOG CATCHER Components

ISSUE Meghalaya is a state in India where the Indian and Eurasian continental plates collide creating a huge plateau. The drastic change in elevation provides a perfect location for orographic precipitation to take place. Subsequently, the region of Meghalaya has long held the title of “Wettest Place on Earth� with an average yearly humidity of 84 percent, and average rainfalls of up to 1200cm annually. However, the geography of the region is also its curse. The region is comprised of 70 percent uninhabitable dense forest, while the tops of the plateaus are flat and barren with shallow soils that do not provide good water absorption. With no adequate means by which to collect this water, it simply becomes runoff.

TECHNOLOGY Researchers at MIT’s School of Engineering are developing a “Fog Harvesting Mesh” that holds great promise as an easily deployable and scalable alternative to other energy-intensive desalination technologies.

These mesh systems are passive, inexpensive to fabricate, can be deployed in a number of environments throughout the world and have almost no operation costs. Recent tests have shown increases in efficiency by upwards of 500 percent when compared to other Mesh harvesting technologies.

Fog Harvester Mesh

Cloud

Mesh 1m2

100 L/Day

The fog harvesting mesh is a weave of hydroscopic polypropylene fibers. As clouds pass through the fabric, moisture is extracted and condensed on its surface.

The mesh is applied in thin strips between tension cables ensuring mesh remains in constant tension to maximize efficiency.

Water condenses on mesh and gravity pulls the water down, where it is filtered into the transportation pipes.

The larger pipes transfer water from mesh to large vertical storage tanks.

The pipe components allow easy assembly, repair, and expansion.

Storage tanks are stacked via coupling devices providing flexibility of design.

The water that collected in the tanks is filtered and treated.

X Selected Supplemental Wo r k s

Extra Works Dreamer Concepts Exterior Re-Design

Creating_Making Forum, University of Oklahoma Project Property: Group Project Third Academic Year (2014)

John Rex Elementary School AIA Central States Region Annual Design Competition 2013 Awarded Second Place Project Property: 16 Hour Group Charette Second Academic Year (2013) <http://www.aiacsrep.org/student-design-competition/4582392218>

Monestary Warr Achres, Oklahoma Project Property: Individual Project Third Academic Year (2014)

V Personal Information

Victor Trautmann Address: 2221 NW 59th Circle, Oklahoma City, OK, 73112

Email: Victor.F.Trautmann-1@ou.edu Phone: 1 (405) 593 - 3151

Victor Trautmann Email.

Tel. Web.

Victor.F.Trautmann-1@ou.edu 405.593.3151

http://issuu.com/victortrautmann/docs portfolio_2015__issuu_

Education 2012 - Current:

2014 - Current: 2014 - Current:

University of Oklahoma College of Architecture Bachelor Program: Expected Date of Graduation 2017

Major - Architecture

Minor - Business Presedent’s Honor Role for the University of

Oklahoma’s Fall Semester Dean’s Honor Role for the College of Architecture

Student Involvement 2012 - Current: 2012 - 2013: 2013 - 2014: 2013 - 2014: 2014 - Current:

American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)

Member at Large AIAS First Year Chair

Position required representation of the first year arcitecture class within the AIAS organization at OU.

AIAS Mentorship Chair

Position required communication between students of

different year levels.

Freedom By Design Member at Large Design Build Society Member at Large

Competitions 2012: 2013: 2014:

AIA Central States Conference First Place

http://www.aiacsrep.org/university-of-oklahoma-1/4582392188 AIA Central States Conference Second Place

http://www.aiacsrep.org/student-design-competi tion/4582392218

Creating Making 2014 Forum Workshop

Computer Literacy Rhino/Grasshopper, Revit, SketchUp, V-Ray Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Microsoft Office Suites