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A COLLECTION OF CREATIVE DESIGN BY

JOHN DAIKNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

02. BERNARD VAN DER LLOYD CORBUSIER

03. TO BE CONTINUED

01. BROTATION

04. THE BLACK HOLE

06. 5900 ALPINE ROAD

07. PYRAMIDENS TRAVELS

CONTENT

05. GLACTIC BASIC STANDARD

08. FADING

J. P. Rapp, AIA, NCARB Sr. Project ManagerFacilities Operations and Development Design and ConstructionRoom 223, 660 Ackerman Road, Columbus, OH 43202614-293-8288 Office / 614-519-8632 Mobile [email protected]

The Ohio State University | Knowlton School of Architecture Bachelor of Science Architecture, expected May 2016 Relevant coursework includes Building Construction I & II, Structures I, Systems, Graphic Design, Architectur-

al Theory, Architectural History, Architectural Design Studios Minor in City and Regional Planning, expected May 2016

GUNZELMAN architecture + interiors | Intern Architect Drafting building designs and remodels using AutoCAD Documenting, dimensioning, scheduling and creating sheets for submissions Assigned to design a two story hunting cabin

Knowlton School of Architecture | Student Administrative Assistant Curate the archive at KSA, organize historical archive and current student work submissions Coordinate student work archive submission, scan and edit historically archived drawings, record and edit

videos of Baumer Lecture Series, which is a guest lecture series sponsored by the KSA

Home Force, LLC | Construction Worker| East Greenwich, Rhode Island Worked on wood-stud construction, interior finishing, wood-strip flooring, and plumbing AIAS | Event Coordinator |The Ohio State University Chapter Plan and organize events and deal with public relations and sponsorships Undergraduate Student Academic Committee | Representative |The Ohio State University Represent the class and discuss current class schedule and setups with faculty members Study Abroad | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Focused on the contemporary architecture in Brazil and urban planning strategies and solutions Study Abroad | London, England Focused upon the architecture, landscape and urban planning developments from the historical to modernist

and contemporary

COMPETITIONS & AWARDS First Place | Knowlton School of Architecture 5th Fashion Schau Entry | AIA Ohio Schools of Architecture Competition Charrette Third Place| Knowlton School of Architecture 4th Fashion Schau Entry | 120 HOURS International Architecture Student Competition

EDUCATIONAug. 2012

2016

EMPLOYMENT Jun. 2015

Sep. 2015

Apr. 2014 Current

Aug. 2010 Jun.2012

EXPERIENCE

Mar. 2015

Mar. 2014

SKILLS

DISTINCTIONSFeb. 2016Mar. 2015 Feb. 2015Jan. 2015

REFERENCE

https://issuu.com/johndai(401)-441-2884 | [email protected]

5001 Olentangy River Road, Apt 405, Columbus, Ohio, 43214

Laurie A. Gunzelman, AIAGUNZELMAN architecture + interiors88 N 5th St Suite 202, Columbus, OH 43215o l [email protected]

Digital Technical ConstructionRevitRhinoCadMaya

SketchUp Grasshopper Vray Keyshot

PhotoshopIllustratorInDesignPremiere

Laser CuttingCNC Milling3D PrintingCNC Drag Knife

Woodstud ConstructionMasonry and CMU Construction Woodcrafting / Furniture BuildingFlooring, Plumbing, Painting

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01 BROTATION HIGH RISE APARTMENTS

This is a high rise apartment in downtown Manhattan that features four square units on each floor. It is intended to combine basic geometrical forms, the square and circle, and reinforce it with architectural design concepts.

Each floor has its own local symmetry while the overall form of the building is asymmetrical as a result of rotating of each floor plate. While the floor itself ro-tates, the core of the building maintains the same form on each floor. This grants a different first expression once people leave the elevator on each floor. There are two floors in each individual unit dou-bling the height in each floor lobby. The building itself is open thus the huge lob-by area and the balconies on each floor can be used as a public leisure space which has an incredible three hundred and sixty degree view of the city. There are also private balconies in each unit that would provide a different experience from the public ones. In addition, some individual balconies have wide open city views while some are designed more to-ward inner lobby.

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Lobby floor is also a double height space except it has a unique but relative form to the overall shape of the tower. It connects to both Leonard and Church streets, and the angle is intended to open the lobby up and invite people to come in. This way a large front plaza is created, and the overhang keeps it a private space only welcom-ing the owners of the apartments.

LOBBY FLOOR PLAN

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02 BERNARD VAN DER LLOYD CORBUSIER

MUSEUM / GALLERY

This project examines different modernist languages at once and selectively imply architectural strategies that were used historically and contemporarily to the de-sign. The museum settles in downtown Columbus as an addition to the Colum-bus College of Art and Design.

The West and South facades address the two major streets it meets. The West faade makes a long but interchangeable elevation that has some transparency to respond to Cleveland Ave thats a com-parably smaller street. The south faade, creates a pylon condition which invites people to come into the courtyard upon Broad Street, which is a major axial road in Columbus, Ohio.

The west side of the building is the gallery which consists three major levels. Each floor has a different proceeding strategy: move up via ramp on the ground floor, then its a flat elevated garden level that overlooks the courtyard, then the visitors overlooks the gallery from a terrace and move down a gentle ramp to the end of the museum which is a glass face look-ing at the city of Columbus.

COLUMBUS MUSEUMOF ART

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SITE PLAN

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BARS TO ORGANIZEPROGRAMS

PYLON ENTRANCE

FIGURE vs COURTYARD CIRCULATION

AUDITORIUM

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WORKING DECK

PARKING

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AUDITORIUM

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Another major argument is garden. The project pro-poses an idea of landscape within the dense urban fab-ric in downtown, and makes a joke of the ground surfac-es there were unthoughtfully used for parking lots. There are also gardens on differ-ent levels of the building, as well as the occupyable roof that is used as a sculpture garden.

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ROOF GARDEN

There are also other programs in the building including three apartments for visiting artists, a hundred-man audi-torium that opens to the public for symposiums and exhi-bition openings. The apartments and auditorium has their own entry way which avoids traffic crossing each other or overloading the gallery. The apartments are two levels with a balcony that grants access to roof top working space that are only accessible by the artists. Visitors can overlook the working process on the red roof top sculpture garden.

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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TO BE CONTINUED... 03SMALL ACADEMIC PAVALIONThis is a charrette competition project that was meant to be completed in a weekend. All the drawings and renders were done within 24 hours. The site is at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The building is a small architecture building thats roughly 15,000 square feet de-signed for visiting researchers and archi-tecture gallery.

The idea for the design is to run a con-tinuous circulation which is formed to frame the view of three local monuments on campus: the chapel, the lake, and the museum. It is designed to be circulated through as a sequence of different pro-grams, during which one is also able to overlook other activities.

The sequence begins at the north-west faade which opens up to the campus academic buildings while the other end embraces the nature as a court-yard. The interior circulation sequence ends at the bottom of the big stairs for architecture symposiums, which is also the beginning of the buildings ex-terior circulation. The courtyard then gently slopes down to the lake which embarks on the adventure of the natu-ral world. Theres no real beginning or end: always a discussion to be con-tinued.

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SECTION C

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OFFICE AND LIBRARY SPACE

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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

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04 BLACK HOLE FORM STUDY

This is a product of the Tom Wiscombe work-shop in Spring 2015 done in Maya. The proj-ect focused on the problem of near-figuration, which is a form of resolution of the polarizing discourse of form versus shape of the last ten years. The discussion about near figuration is defined as the appearance of distinct, leg-ible objects from illegible or fluid conditions, resulting in a sense of mystery in relation to the extents, interiority, and origin of the thing.

This form study particularly focused on invo-luted figures, which simultaneously creates exterior depth effects but also interior spa-tial figuration. We simply start from gener-ic forms of Jacks, ziggurats and crystals in particular for my project, and boolean them in way that maintains each forms individ-ual identity. Its about forms responding to both the exterior and interior, and creating a threshold that characterizes the space in be-tween which is called the liner.

Once the form is determined, we used black and chrome renderings to determine the surface strategy for our forms. For instance, the shadowy areas in the rendering would become actual dark graphic pattern on the skin of the form, which we call tattooing. In the end, we divided the form into panels in respond to the tattoos to show construction joints and how they are assembled.

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CRYSTALS SHELL

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LINER NEAR FIGURATION

GALACTIC BAISC 05STANDARD LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY

A long time ago, in a galaxy far,far away....

It is a period of sustainable design. The new Public Library, rising upon the park next to City Hall, have revolutionized the imperial building technology in London.

During the construction, the architect man-aged to maintain an open plan for the exist-ing greenspace and drew axial relation from the streets and the tower bridge to create a series of picturesque view at different an-gles of the river front.

Passionate about both digital modeling and formal analysis, John Dai builds his starship based on the concept from Tom Wiscombe in the previous project, custo-dian of the merge of ideas that can bring balance to the contemporary architectural design...

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VIEW FROM TOWER BRIDGE

MOTION SYMMERTY AXIAL EQUALITY CONTINUITY BAR PLAZA PLAZAZO

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VIEW FROM ROOF GARDEN

VIEW FROM ELEVATED GARDEN

VIEW FROM RIVER FRONT

5th29 VIEW IN THE READING ROOM

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10TH FLOOR PLAN 7TH FLOOR PLAN

5TH FLOOR PLAN 3RD FLOOR PLAN

HOT AIR EXHAUST

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MICROCLIMATE:ROOF GARDEN

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This project thinks about innovation in construction mehods: therere these pre-fabricated small panels that can be assemble on site to make these mega-panels which can be held almost like curtain walls from the building frame. The light weight panels allow in-between space for

HOT AIR EXHAUST

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HVAC system, which thinners the interior floor plates and over-all feel by a lot. There are also opening on the exterior of the panels that would allow warm air from inside to ventilate. Everyone thinks sustainably today but its not a driving force in design. Im interested in sustainable de-sign and want to see what new ideas can bring to the table for green buildings.

5900 ALPINE ROAD A SMALL CALIFORNIAN HILL HOUSE

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This was a conceptual design to mar-ket a 4.5 acre property in Portola Val-ley, CA near San Jose and Stanford. The owner of the land wanted to help potential buyers visualize what they can do with the property and was hop-ing some renderings and schematic plans could draw more interest on the Internet. A site plan including potential well location and septic field was also requested.

Theres limited amount of bed rock on the site, thus it wasnt too difficult to locate the house. The design approach was to embrace the sloping site and build the sequence of a typical Amer-ican suburban house in reverse order: You still drive into the garage except its on the roof top; you walk down into your living room, where theres an open plan; then your three bedrooms are at the bottom floor, which is actu-ally the most private level in the house.

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The design allows much outdoor porch/balcony space and takes advantage of the slope which opens up for lots of sun light in the woods. The kitchen and living space flow together in the open concept floor plan while the balcony could be open up to have an outdoor dining space.

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LIVING FLOOR PLAN

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07 PYRAMIDENS TRAVELS ARCHITECTURAL PRESERVATIONAL PROPOSAL

A competition entry for 120 HOURS international architecture student competi-tion in 2015. The goal of the competition was to repurpose an old Soviet-Union mining town in a responsibly radical way in the disciplines of architectural pres-ervation. A good example of what kind of ideas they are looking for is Super Studio projects in the 60s such as sinking Florence, Walking City and building over New York and so on. Our proposal was essentially letting the site break off the shore and float around the world.

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Svalbard is an island of impermanent inhabitants. Glaciers, people, towns; ev-erything wants to leave Svalbard at some point. People left as Soviet Union fell. Then glaciers started parting as the planet warmed up. Now Pyramiden is almost like an abandoned child that doesnt seem to be pleased with its sur-roundings but has no home to return to. It wants to get on the ocean.

The amount of ice in the arctic-circle has seen a significant drop because of the increasingly critical global warming situation. Svalbard has been no exception to this. Why couldnt Pyramiden break off like an iceberg and just float away? Why couldnt Pyramiden slowly drift away with the support of some advanced energies? It seems to be a somber reminder of the damage that humans have done to the planet and the significance of green energy.

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LAYERS THICKEN & THIN RAISE & DROP SHUFFLEVERTICALLY

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08 FADING PARAMETRIC DESIGN This project is done in Rhino with a paramet-ric plug-in Grasshopper. Essentially the goal of this project was to use parametrics to gen-erate and manipulate a field of columns that share similar identity but each has its own character. Each individual panel is started with few thin blocks stacked and started shuffling them up and down, left and right. In the end, each block on the panels has dif-ferent length and thickness. These panels are then applied to the field of columns that are also manipulated repetitively to create the aesthetic quality for the final rendering.nto panels in respond to the tattoos to show con-struction joints and how they are assembled.

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