Undergraduate Portfolio

Comprehensive Portfolio Architecture + Urban Planning 2012-2015

Culin Thompson

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Table of Contents

4 Curriculum Vitae8 Better Block35 Marvin Forum Precedent43 Crossroads Cultural Center75 Adaptive Reuse Research91 Kansas City Parklet Hub103 Axiom Center

Culin Thompson, APA, AIAS, LEED Green Assoc.

1144 West 11th St, Lawrence, KS 66044 t| 630.450.0890 e| [email protected] issuu.com/culinthompson

EducationUniversity of Kansas SADPMaster of Architecture (anticipated May 2017)Cumulative GPA: 3.93Master of Urban Planning (anticipated May 2018)Cumulative GPA: N/A

2012-2018

AchievementsLEED Green Associate Accreditation- LEED Green Associate accreditation from the U.S. Green Build-ing

Summer 2014

Academic Honor Roll - Academic Honor Roll at the KU School of Architecture, Design & Planning for five consecutive semesters from Fall 2012 - Fall 2014- Awarded top 10% of the School of Architecture, Design & Planning

Fall 2012- Present

Architectural Board Drafting Recognition- First in state for architectural board drafting in 2011 and 2012 from Illinois Skills USA- First in state for architectural board drafting in 2011 and 2012 from Illinois Drafting Educators Association

2011 + 2012

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Culin Thompson, APA, AIAS, LEED Green Assoc.

1144 West 11th St, Lawrence, KS 66044 t| 630.450.0890 e| [email protected] issuu.com/culinthompson

InvolvementTriangle FraternityMember Educator | VP of External Affairs | Scholarship Chair- Facilitated the Marketing + Sales Track for the national 2015 Leadership Training Weekend- Developed a new program as Scholarship Chair raising our house average GPA from a 2.7 to a 3.4

January 2013- Present

American Institute of Architecture StudentsMember KU Chapter- Member of the American Institute of Architecture Students at the University of Kansas

Fall 2012-Present

ExperienceUniversity of KansasStudent Ambassadors Coordinator | Lawrence, KS- Supervised a team of 90 students coordinating evaluations and helping facilitate program growth- Created the evaluation process currently used by the program- Served on the Multicultural Recruitment Team developing diversity recruitment strategies

September 2012- Present

Spaces of Hope, Inc.Chairman & C.E.O. | Lawrence, KS- Founder, Chairman + C.E.O. of Spaces of Hope - a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization- Guided company to promote experience, opportunity + schol arship for 60+ students pursuing degrees in architecture, engineering + design fields since 2014- Oversee a team of 12 staff officers to run the organization

December 2012-Present

Eco AbetArchitectural Intern | Kansas City, MO- Assisted in the organization / operation of a design charrette providing local organizations access to architectural design- Facilitated improvements to the internal structure of the organization

Summer 2014

Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryDraftsman | Batavia, IL- Developed families of parts for design + development of research technologies

Summer 2013

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ReferencesMichael M. Swann, Ph.D.University of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & PlanningAssociate Dean + Professore| [email protected]| 785.864.3167

Kindra BartzUniversity of Kansas Office of AdmissionsAssistant Directore| [email protected]| 785.864.5415

Shannon CrissUniversity of Kansas School of Architecture, Design & PlanningAssociate Professore| [email protected]| 785.766.0069

Business IncubationKansas City, Kansas

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01Better Block KC

Business IncubationKansas City, Kansas

16 Weeks | Fourth Year Studio | Project 1

Focusnig on Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, we focused on analyzing specific issues brought up by the community. First engaging the community through public events and meetings, we learned the importance of the business district of Central Avenue.

Central Avenue has the potential to be the heart of Kansas City, Kansas business. Lined with historic storefronts and small businesses, Central Avenue could be transformed from its current state to support walkability, community engagement, ease of parking and transportation, and environmentally sustainable design features encouraging safety, health and economic prosperity. Investment in the streetscape of Central Avenue would not only improve the safety of pedestrians walking down the economic corridor, but would also generate growth and development for the businesses lining the corridor. Integration of trees, bike paths and benches would encourage

Project Narrative

neighborhood use and would create a zone of comfort, walkability and family engagement. The generation of a new branding policy would allow for the corridor to embrace its full economic value through the creation of a business and arts district. This branding would utilize signage, zoning policies and a new economic strategic plan to combine architecture, urban design and business to form a new image, perception, and reality for Central Avenue.

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Parking is not unified along Central Avenue, with street-side meters at 30 minutes, 2 hours and unrestrict-ed parking. The vast amount of sur-face lots contribute to this facade break and discourage walkability. By removing lots and introducing strategic garages long-term parking and walkability can be improved within the distict and increase busi-ness revenue by increasing street-side availability.

Central Avenue features vacant parcels, parking lots, homes and other property abnormalities which break the facade of the buildings on Central Avenue. This break creates an undesirable break of security and placemak-ing which would help create a centralized business district and further the human scale of the avenue.

Parking Along Central

Voids Along Central

“to provide a conceptual development that

promotes a safe walkable business district,

facilitates community interaction and develops

entrepreneurship to provide business

development and sustainable communities.”

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The concept of business incubation took form in an idealized business development block - the Better Block. Beginning within the business incubator building, new owners would have the option to expand into Office Spaces, Maker Spaces and Cooking Spaces to continue their business model - funded by non-profits such

as Bread KC, Launch KC and the Kauffman Foundation. This culminates in their own brick and mortar infill building.

Business Incubation Plan

By utilizing the developed block facade of the northern section of 18th and Central, a contin-uous facade can be built along the southern side to construct a full continuous block. Improving density, human proportions and scale and pedestrian expe-riences can help to create a destination for the KC metropolitan area.

Perhaps the most important element to a walkable district is the re-lation to the human scale and the provision of safety

for the pedestrian within the built context. Mid-block cross-walks, bike lane and diagonal parking buffer zones and a mid-street median all provide for security from cars for the pedestrians. Reduced width car lanes generate slower traffic as vehicles enter Kan-sas City and Central Avenue from 18th Street and I-70. Strategically placed parking garages replace voids along the district with centralized parking - encouraging walking and density to be developed.

Minnesota Ave. Plan

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15’ Sidewalk 10’ Two-Way Bike Lane 10’ Car Lane 8’ Median 10’ Car Lane 18’ Diagonal Parking Lane 15’ Sidewalk

Central Avenue Streetscape Plan

Central Avenue Streetscape Section

The corner of 17th Street and Central Avenue is an important corner alongside the introduction of the parking structure along 17th Street. This corner thus relates the pedestrian scale and pe-destrian to Central Avenue. The main parti for the project involves rounding the corner of 17th and Central to further relate the site and context to the integral bend and cross of roads. The focus of circula-tion around the courtyard requires the inner focus of all aspects of the project - business incubation and housing - back centrally to the inner courtyard.

The carving of the corner and push/pull of volumes creates

an inter-personal space upon which interior/exterior relationships can be gen-erated. This public space can be utilized for outdoor coffee and dining space or retail - a strong relationship tie between the program of the building interior and the community surrounding the project.

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BUSINESSBUSINESS

PUBLIC SPACEGREEN

Massing Models

Site Plan

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Facade Elevations

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The wooden rain screen facade operates in 30” panels gliding along track channels. The screens can operate individually be-tween their fully closed and fully open position to max-imize views or encourage total privacy along Central Avenue or 17th Street.

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The third floor features a residential housing lobby and flexible business zones. This flexible and multipur-pose zone allows for large business presentations, con-ference meetings and com-munity events/parties. The focus of views to the inner courtyard provides a focus towards community events and planning.

Centered around a courtyard connecting the business incubation building to the MakerSpace building - this courtyard serves as both a place of business and community for the building residents.

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Structural Plan

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Emphasising a flexible and open plan, the incubation center offers residents a place to live and work to start a business within a highly collaborative environment.

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Roof Assembly:1/2” Drainage MembranceVapor BarrierSloped Rigid Insulation1.5’ Concrete Roof

Wall Assembly:5/8” Gypsum Wall BoardMetal Stud Wall2” Rigid InsulationBatt Insulation Filler2” Rigid InsulationVapor BarrierWooden Rain Screen

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Roof Assembly:1/2” Drainage MembraneVapor BarrierSloped Rigid Insulation1.5’ Concrete Roof

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Wall Assembly:5/8” Gypsum Wall BoardMetal Stud Wall2” Rigid InsulationBatt Insulation Filler2” Rigid InsulationVapor BarrierWooden Rain Screen

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Precedent Study ProjectLawrence, Kansas

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02Marvin Forum Precedent

Precedent Study ProjectLawrence, Kansas

2 Weeks | Third Year Studio | Project 3

The precedent study for second semester of third year studio focused on studying how wall sections are put together including the building envelope, daylighting, and structure.

My group selected the Marvin Hall Forum addition designed and constructed by Studio 804 at the University of Kansas. We were asked to develop plans, drawings, diagrams, and to construct a wall section model of the building which we studied and analyzed.

Project Narrative

The Forum - Studio 804University of Kansas | Lawrence, Kansas

Culin Thompson | Chad HemmerlingARCH 408 | Castillo | Spring 2015

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Copyright © 2013 studio 804, inc.

Architect of RecordRockhill + Associates1546 East 350 RoadLecompton, KS 66050(p) 785.393.0747

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Structural EngineerBartlett & West1200 SW Executive DrTopeka, KS 66615(p) 785.272.2252

MEP EngineerHenderson Engineers Inc.8345 Lenexa Dr Suite 300Lenexa, KS 66214(p) 913.742.5001

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CEILING ASSEMBLY:2” ACOUSTIC GLASS FIBER BOARD2X6 CEILING JOIST2X4 PURLINSACOUSTONE STRETCH FABRIC2X6 WESTERN RED CEDAR

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FLOOR ASSEMBLY:3/16” STEEL PLATE FLOORFLOOR TIERS PLACED ON TOP OF HARDIE BOARD5/16” HARDIE BOARD3/4” SUBFLOOR SHEATHING14” FLOOR JOISTS 12” O.C.5/16” HARDIE PANEL SOFFIT

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These studies of daylighting, structural systems, thermal massing, and moisture barriers allowed us to analyze how building envelopes are put together and function as a tectonic system.

These studies, added alongside a detailed wall section and perspective wall section gave us additional opportunities to study how walls and double skin facade systems are constructed to achieve their designed purpose.

This information allowed me to integrate a double skin wall system within my next studio project, the Crossroads Cultural Center.

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03Crossroads Cultural Center

Community Center | AuditoriumKansas City, Missouri


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The Crossroads Community Center will serve as the cultural hub and catalyst for the arts and educational engagement withn the Kansas City Crossroads District. The building is located at the corner of W 21st St and Wyandotte St just north of Union Station and south of Southwest Blvd.

The building features an auditorium, office spaces, underground parking, meeting rooms, multi-purpose flexible space, and outdoor plaza zones to allow the community to begin to engage within the building and on the site. South of Southwest Blvd, the Crossroads District severely lacks a central civic, public space (for example the Power and Light District) in which the community can rally behind and gather around. This provision of community space and professional performance within the southern Crossroads will provide the necessary space for urban renewal and community integration

Project Narrative

uniting the Crown Center and Union Station areas to the revitalized Kauffman Center Crossroads area.

Because of it’s unique location, the Crossroads Community Center focuses on maximizing the views to the Kansas City skyline through the elevation of the auditorium above the functional zone of the building. By floating the auditorium it is able to become the central focus of the building - additionally highlighted by being cladded in a wood veneer. This optimizes the amount of the site which can then be utilized for public gatherings including farmers marketings, outdoor performances and gatherings, and various community events.

Left: Map showing community connectivity via walking and biking

Our semester project started off by designing a “dumb box” scheme for our auditorium space.

This box allowed us to gain an understanding for the scale of the auditorium and allowed us to begin to explore our parti design philosophies for the auditorium - the main form shaper for the building.

Because of the nature of the Crossroads and how I envisioned the space being utilized, I wanted to develop an auditorium which created a more intimate setting and performance venue than traditional auditorium which

“Dumb Box”

feature long, horizontal designs and formal, removed views.

My take on this approach meant emphasizing the vertical aspect of auditorium design through a small footprint for the auditorium, but emphasizing the vertical aspect through spatial volume and physical seating. This resulted in the auditorium becoming a high vertical space with hanging accoustic clouds and a psuedo-balcony level directly above the secondary tier of seating.

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removable seating to allow for maximum flexability and despite its reduced size, exceeded the requirement for the number of seating provided.

The auditorium additionally focused on framing the views of the Kansas City skyline through a picture window - a parti later expanded upon to embody the entire building design.

This idea of framing the skyline embodied itself in a vertically-oriented building design. Seen to the right, I began experiementing with how the physical design of the building could not only frame Kansas City but also incorporate public spaces and puyblic plazas.

Process

The elevated auditorium at the peak of the building became the focal point of the design. Highlighted in wood, this space emphasized itself through a physical and material separation from the rest of the building program.

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Seen through this mid-review perspective cut of the building, the auditorium was physically pulled away from the remaining program of the building. The void generated below the auditorium was to be utilized to host outdoor community events including farmers markets, outdoor performances, gatherings, etc. to allow the southern area of the Crossroads to gain a public community space which it currently lacks.

Additional design consideration was given to highlighting vertical circulation throughout the building to emphasize the journey as one descends down below grade to enter the first level and is then

guided four levels up to enter the auditroium of rthe buiding.

This physical and spatial journey is meant to highlight the views of the Kansas City skyline and help create an experience while one occupies the building, rather than having the building serve as a backdrop to the experience.

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By incorporating a ramp and stair structure to guide this vetical descent below grade, the person is able to expeirence a journey through a spatial volume - similar to that experienced at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C.

This ramp terminates at the public plaza of level 1, but will also serve as outdoor amphitheater seating during summer months.

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Roof Assembly:Membrane LayerRigid Foam Insulation5” Concrete DeckingI-Beam Custom Joists8” Bat Insulation Infi llStructural TrussGypsum Board

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The building design finalized in a wood-cladded glass auditroium hovering above the public plaza space. This auditorium, as seen in the rendering above, highlights the views of the Kansas City skyline and other cultural instituttions thorugh the double-skin glass facade. Incorporation of wooden louvers and natural ventialation allows the building to help to passively cool and ventilate the space.

Accoustical drop-down clouds, offset angled glass panes, and operable

curtains additionally help to proivde methods of accoustical control and variation in the space designed to be flexible with its performances.

Envisioned to host TED Talks, small musical performanes and lectures, the space was designed to be informal, intimate, and flexible.

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04Adaptive Reuse Research

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Our research project tested utilizing plastic bottles as adaptive reuse construction systems and assemblies. We focused on how we can integrate the bottles into a wall system: considering structural forces and material compositions inside the bottles. The wall systems were tested to determine the maximum strength of empty, sand, and straw filled bottles. Additionally, bonding agents were tested with pure concrete mixes, clay mixes and a combination of concrete, clay and straw. Through a series of combined tests it was important to determine the bottle strength and the structural role they played in the wall. Bottle strength was tested with empty bottles, sand-filled bottles, and straw-filled bottles and compared. It was also important to determine if the bottles served a structural purpose.

Project Aims Project Conclusion

After testing the assembly systems for strength, we concluded that the best system was using pure concrete as the bonding agent with empty plastic bottles. By leaving the bottles empty, natural light was transfered through the wall.The empty bottles surrounded by concrete additionally provided 15 times more strength in comparison to the wall constructed with clay bonding and sand-filled bottles. We found that while the bottles do in fact carry a portion of the load, the concrete was able to support a sufficient load without the need of the bottle filler providing support.

This conclusion supports the integration of bottles within flooring and foundational elements to reduce the amount of concrete without compromising structural integrity.

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Clay wall block with straw filled bottlescrushes under the compressive force.

We wanted to understand how the plastic bottle construction system operated as a sub-element of a larger construction methodology. This meant understanding how the forces within the system worked (if the bottle held any structural load) and which combination of bottle filler, if any, and bonding agent worked best. We also explored how to best optimize the system through cost and structural analysis.The resulting testing system we utilized was a construction and testing methodology that involved numerous steps to accurately understand how the plastic bottle walls worked and how we could optimize the system. The steps to construct these systems were: (1) sort through and clean recycled plastic bottles (courtesy of KU Recycling), (2) fill the bottles with their respective test filler [sand or shredded straw], (3) construct the wall assembly system, and (4) test the systems for their compressive strength.

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Our tests revealed valuable information that can be taken and expanded upon in the future. These tests demonstrated that the concrete was far superior in its compressive strength as a bonding agent for the bottles being nearly fifteen times stronger in compression than any of the clay mortar mixes.

The concrete in our test samples reached 767 PSI while the clay mortar mixes only reached a value of 26 PSI. In addition to the concrete being stronger, it was found that the cost of building a wall out of the clay mix would be more expensive than using concrete. Additionally, a finish coat of adobe would not be

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Economic system of construction

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required to protect the wall system with concrete and would require less up-keep when compared to the clay alternative. The concrete also provides sufficient strength alone, in the application of affordable housing, for empty bottles to be used to allow natural lighting and natural ventilation through holes in the wall. This is one of the key benefits of using concrete as the bonding agent.

It was also proven that while the structural properties of the filler material was neglible. Looking at the insulation values, it is also clear that the straw holds a better insulation value over sand if a filler material was to be utilized as insulation. This thermal value does not, however, take into account the properties of thermal massing which would allow the sand filled bottles to hold a significant advantage over the straw compacted plastic bottles. Structurally the sand filled bottles performed the best with all of the mixes and tests closely followed by the straw bottles and then the empty bottles. Over the course of testing the sand bottles against the straw bottles with any mix of the

bonding agent, the sand bottles were able to support 53% of the total load in comparison to the straw only supporting 47%. While this differential may seem insignificant, it is important to note the total load value of 51,050 lbs - making the 6% difference a value of 3,063 lbs, see Figure (6).

After testing the value of the sand bottle , we determined that the best method of testing the value of the structural filler would be to compare the values of the best structural filler and clay with concrete and empty bottles. Between the two tests held which placed a clay mixture against a concrete mixture, the concrete supported 96% of the total load in a stark contrast to only the 4% held by the clay with a total load value of 33,246 lbs. This means the concrete held a total of 31,900 lbs compared to the clay assembly’s 1,346 lbs - see Figure (7).

The eventual failure of the concrete wall assembly system at 7,350 lbs far exceeds the compressive force applied to the system, and the failure point for the

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single bottle assembly at 767.2 PSI again far exceeds any small-scale residential application in which this method of construction is intended.

The cost analysis, when added with the other outstanding conclusions made of the concrete wall systems, provides sufficient support to elect the integration of a concrete wall system within a project. When analyzing our 10’x10’ wall assembly, we found that the construction of the concrete wall in contrast to the clay wall allowed for a 14% reduction in price of the materials for the wall system - see FIgure (8). In conclusion of our research, we were able to answer our initial questions posed within the Executive Summary of this research document: - Which bonding agent is best?- Which filler is best?- Do the bottles support the load?- Can the bottles be removed?- Is this method a feasible construction model?

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Clay wall with sand filled bottles crumbles under compressive foces.

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Urban CatalystKansas City, Kansas

3 weeks | Fourth Semester Studio | Project 2

Project Precedents:Top: Folding RedMiddle: Grow Dat Youth FarmBottom: Parklet Precedent

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Parklets are deployable, pre-fabricated spaces that serve as extensions of the sidewalk and public road spaces. These extensions of civic and public spaces act as nodes for community activity, involvement and unification; they can raise awareness in their respective communities by helping citizens to realize the lack of environmental parks and opportunities in their own communities. Additionally, because these parklets are not owned by any one organization besides whomever constructed them, they have the ability to become park extensions after hours of these semi-public spaces. They can to serve as nodes of gathering space, community involvement projects, and landmarks for community events.

Developed as the Kansas City Parklet Hub (KCPH), our prototype begins to grow upon Guerilla Gardening

and Environmental Justice. The KCPH envisions the community to become a population focused on improving Kansas City, Kansas and its larger metropolitan area through the development of parklets and the introduction and integration of programs to assimilate the community to parklet design and incorporation. By integrating programs such as a residency program and community integration program, we can begin to form communal relationships that do not exist currently, generating a sense of belonging and security iwith defensible space principles. The KCPH can inspire individuals to begin their own movements and actions towards a more equal distribution of environmental assets and healthy food.

Designed as the first phase of a multi-phase project, the KCPH serves as a prototype to build into the Axiom Center.

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The Kansas City Parklet Hub featured a demonstration kitchen, workshop, and tool rental shed on the first levels. These spaces on the first level serve as public zones to be utilized to unify of the community.

The second level features a conference room, offices, and presentations zones. This semi-private levels offers the center and other community organizations a space in which to begin operations and kick start community projects.

The exterior incorporation of industrial materials embodies the maker culture which the KCPH embraces. Encouraging community members and organizations to become involved in rebuilding their neighborhood, the center utilizes its architectural language to convey this maker language.

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Rendering showing the occupation of the KCPH including the parklet hub, demo kitchen, and speaker podium serving as the urban catalyst for guerilla gardening and urban famring within Kansas City.

Community Center | Urban FarmKansas City, Kansas

06Axiom Center

Community Center | Urban FarmKansas City, Kansas

12 Weeks | Second Year Studio | Project 5

Serving as a community center and a film studio for the Kansas City, Kansas community, the Axiom Center is an urban catalyst to encourage community unification, sustainable development, and urban farming.

The central parti of the Axiom Center was the idea of the shotgun view formation upon which the cantilever of the building fed a view overlooking the topography of the site to Kansas City, Missouri. The placement of the project from the top of the hill framed the view to the futsol fields, urban gardening plots, and community gathering spaces surrounding the west bottoms in addition to downtown Kansas City.

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This idea of the “shotgun formation” materialized in the overhang and cantilever of the flexible multi-purpose space of the building (shown in red). Seen in the diagrams to the left, the form of the Axiom Center evolved iwth an angled roof to direct and collect rain water in a sustainable way. The collected rainwater is distributed to the urban garden terraces to reduce water consumption and encourage sustainable practice and education to the community. The program of the building was divided into three zones: public (red), mixed-use (blue), and private (black), serve to promote distinct and clear divisions within the building. The ground floor (red) supports flexible uses, while the lower sub-grade levels support lecture spaces, computer labs and film studios to be utilized by the community.

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The cantilevered public flex zone provides a shaded publc plaza underneath the building which can be utilized for public events. This plaza offers views over the landscape including the futsal courts, urban gardens, and Kansas City skylines.

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