Architecture. KRISTIAN MIZES
SCHOOL.
CONTENT :
OFFICE.
EXTRAS.
NEWSWEEK: Future of Work - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - Examining how New Orleans will live, work, play, & commute in 2030
Make It Right NOLA - Coleman Coker | buildingstudio - Affordable residential duplex in flood prone area of New Orleans
Cafe Hope + Hope Farms - Tulane City Center - Interior renovation + community garden proposal for local non-profit
USGBC Models - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - 4 basswood models for display at Greenbuild 2010 conference
Public High School - Thesis Design Studio - Re-centralizing New Orleans charter schools
Dutch Dialogues: Urban Sustainability - Architectural stormwater control strategies for existing urban fabric
Convention Hotel - A 450 room business hotel located in downtown New Orleans
Bath House - Bathing complex in Romes historic district along banks of Tiber River
Architects Week: Bench - Annual 1 week, student-led design/build project w/visiting architect
Sketches - Pen and marker sketches completed during semester abroad in Italy
OFFICE!Professional work done with the following organizations:
ESKEW+DUMEZ+RIPPLE Aug - Dec 2010 New Orleans, LA
Coleman Coker | buildingstudio Summer 2009, 2010 New Orleans, LA
Tulane City Center Mar 2009 - May 2010 New Orleans, LA
NEWSWEEK - Future of Work - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - August 2010
Cafe Hope + Hope Farm - Tulane City Center - Spring 2009, 10
Make It Right NOLA - Coleman Coker | buildingstudio - June - July 2009
USGBC Models - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - November 2010
NEWSWEEK - Future of Work :As part of a NEWSWEEK feature series imagining how major cities will deal with urban issues in the near future, EDR was asked to address how New Orleans will live, work, play, and commute in the year 2030.
In order to encourage healthy interaction and appreciation for the citys natural geography, our response focused on reclaiming unused undustrial areas along the nearby river, lake, bayou, and canals.
COMMUTE : This proposal suggests upgrading the fl ood control devices along Lake Pontchartrain to allow for boat traffi c down the citys inner canals as was historically the case. Doing so could also provide a more pedestrian friendly thoroughfare along the lakefront.
Connecting existing green infrastructure with key additions creates park loop through city.
GreenNecklace
Examining how New Orleans will live, work, play, and commute in 2030.
WORK@ the river.
Development connects to park along riverfront.
NEWSWEEK - Future of Work
LIVE : Located along the industrial canal, an out-of-date and under-utilized port area, this location is on high ground and is centrally located. The form of the housing employs the traditional shotgun profi le, but stacks it in varying orientations for different unit types.
WORK : Situated along the Mississippi River and connected to the CBD via the Convention Center, this area is ideal for large developments. Our proposal spans across the train tracks and fl ood wall to provide the neighborhood with waterfront access.
PLAY : Bayou Bienvenue, a huge and dying wetland area very near downtown New Orleans, could be revitalized through encouraged freshwater intrusion from the Miss. River. Adding program allows the Bayou to become New Orleans 3rd City Park.
@ the canal.Reclaimed port providesspace for housing
LIVE
Professional Work: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
COMMUTE@ the lake.
Floodgate serves aspedestrian bridge.
NEWSWEEK - Future of Work
Professional Work: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple
PLAY@ the bayou.
Linear building actsas literal gateway.
NEWSWEEK - Future of Work
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Partnered with a local transitional housing non-profi t, theTulane City Center, the architecture schools community outreach program, was asked to provide proposalsfor a community garden and the interior renovationof an on-site teaching-cafe. Located in a suburbanNew Orleans area, the site offers suffi cient space fora substantial farming endeavour. The farm & garden consists of modular herb garden/market structures adjacent to the cafe, as well as a large space set asidefor row planting.
My role in this 4 person collaboration involved schematicdesign as well as 3d modeling and graphics for both presentation and publication uses.
CAF HOPE
MARKET +HERB FARM
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CAFE HOPE + HOPE FARM :
Professional Work : Tulane City Center
InteriorUndulating screen fi lters natural & artifi cial light
Proposed community garden and interior renovation of teaching-cafe for New Orleans non-profi t..
Seating organized in linear bands defi ned
by colored fi n screens
Cafe Axon
Cafe Hope + Hope Farm : Sring 2009-10
Set within the 1st fl oor of a 100 year old 3 story building, the cafe space receives day light form both the exterior garden side and an internal courtyard.
The proposal replaces a heavy masonry wall with a glass wall that alternates between clear and translucent. An interior screen of undulating, colored wood fi ns divides the dining area into distinct zones, thus organizing an otherwise directionless space.
Screen wraps cafe space between garden and
inner courtyard
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Professional Work : Tulane City Center
PAVILLION MODULES
HOPE CAFLearningTeaching
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SeatingHerb Farm
Cafe Hope + Hope Farm : Sring 2009-10
Pavilion, cafe, and herb farm/market together create learning environment
Program
Professional Work : Tulane City Center
PavilionFolding structurallogic allows for minimal support
Raster-Perforated Metal Screen
Colored Polycarbonate Panels
Vegetation
Chainlink Screen
Steel Tube Structure
Colored Polycarbonate Panels
Mesh, polycarb., sheet metal, & plants overlay
to create visual depth
Components
Cafe Hope + Hope Farm : Sring 2009-10
Market
Professional Work : Tulane City Center
LightingAlternating translucent & clear glass offers variety of day-lighting
Cafe Hope + Hope Farm : Sring 2009-10
Initiated by Brad Pitt following Hurricane Katrina, the Make It Right Foundation formed in order to ensure that rebuilding in low-lying residential areas was done properly. A consortium of local, national, and international architecture fi rms were asked to provide affordable, effi cient alternatives from which returning residents could choose as a replacement for their destroyed homes.
The design is shaped with 2 goals in mind: First, the scheme is intended to benefi t from the area beneath the house to provide comfortable outdoor living spaces. The second approach is meant to offer maximum fl exibility for various family groupings.
--building studio
MAKE IT RIGHT (renderings) :
Professional Work : buildingstudio
FrontageStriped facades
reference traditional quilting patterns
Residential duplex encouraging outdoor living in fl ood prone area of New Orleans.
split units tilt units vertical separation creates courtyard lifting provides porches
Make It Right : Summer 2009
Living RoomFull height windowslight space
My role in this 5 person collaborative effort focused on 3d modeling and rendering for study, presentation, and publication uses.
Courtyard stairs as vertical circulation
between front & rear
Professional Work : buildingstudio
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USGBC Models :EDR joined with the USGBC and the Salvation Armys EnviRenew affordable housing division to serve as the Architect of Record for the 4 winning designs of the USGBCs 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition. The open competiton asked participants to design an 800sf LEED Platinum house for the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans that could be built for (or close to) $100k.
In addition to producing Construction Documents, EDR was asked to build presentation models of the 4 winning entries for display at the annual Greenbuild conference. Leading a team of 3 for a two week period, I planned and led the construction and successful shipping of the models. I also produced the 75% CDs for all 4 houses. The houses will be built in Spring 2011.
E.A.S.Y House
Greenboy
The Little Easy
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4 basswood models for display at Greenbuild 2010 conference in Chicago.
basswoodbirch bases
plexiglass
Construction
USGBC/Salvation Army Models
Selected works span design studios from the 3rd to 5th year at Tulane. Studio projects focus on comprehensive design proposals while taking into account existing contexts. Additionally, studio design often incorporated paired projects, thus encouraging collaboration & constructive peer-to-peer critiquing.
SCHOOL!
Public High School - Thesis - 5th year, Spring 2010
Dutch Dialogues - 5th year, Fall 2009
Convention Hotel - 3rd year, Spring 2008
Bath House - 4th year, Fall 2008
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL :
Student Work : Thesis Design Studio
EntryColored public
elements protrude to sites edge
THESIS STATEMENT: Acknowledging architectures role of providing for society what society values, the participatory process substantially increases architectures social accuracy. Through isolating for thearchitect which features of a design are most relevant, the stakeholders of the project come to acquire a sense of ownership that otherwise would not have arisen. The architect consequently aids in decentralizing the dearchitect consequently aids in decentralizing the defacto ownership of the building, thus ensuring that allstakeholders will begin to regard and treat the buildingas their own. Via decentralized ownership as a result of increased social accuracy, an architecture that is truly public can occur.
Re-centralizing New Orleans disparate charter schools to share amenities + increase community interaction.
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Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010
HousingDevelopment
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Existing AthleticFacilities
TerraceOn 3rd fl oor, provide gathering spaces & views
glass incourtyard
steel facadebeyond
NEW ORLEANS high school school spirit has long beenrampant. As large public schools close in the shift toward smaller charter schools, notions of collective identity are rapidly altering, and in some casesdisappearing. Formally infl uenced by the urban context, the proposed school addresses the emergence of new school identity structures. Re-centralizing charter schools serves to create a framework for multple identities, andconsequently, multiple relationships with the new school building.
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Housing Projects
New Housing Develop.
Site Creation
High School
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for 200 spans & dramatic views
Student Work : Thesis Design Studio
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END-USER interaction in the design process, although ft fi i l l i l d tioften fi nancial, may also include time, energy, or
opinion. Increased public input establishes a user-to-building relationship, allowing a collective to identify with a piece of architecture.
Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010
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Student Work : Thesis Design Studio
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EntryProvides busing,
pick-up, & drop-off areas
The school provides space for 1100 students. Through organizing the classes into a 50 wide ring around the
site, the building allows for the easy expansion and contraction of different academic departments.
Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010
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The shared amenities span across the site and servve as shortcuts, encouraging social mixing that otherwisee would not happen. These amenities, such as the library aand thehealth center, are open to the public and consequently allow for the school to develop a stronger relationnship with its surorunding community.
Student Work : Thesis Design Studio
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slotted windowwall
brick facade& screens
FacadesInner louvers
& outer screens contrast opacities
Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010
Student Work : Thesis Design Studio
Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010
CafetoriumSkylit cafeteria with track and library beyond
Extending the research started by design professionals and engineers during the Dutch Dialogues, a collaborative effort between Amsterdam & New Orleans aimed at enhancing fl ood control strategies, this platform studio focused on integrating stormwater control devices into the existing urban fabric.
Due to the low-lying natue of the site, reducing density while providing stormwater storage so as to relieve the pumping system became the top priority.
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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY :
Student Work : Design Studio
Full SiteReduced density terraced blocks
lead to urban lake
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Integrating architectural stormwater control strategies into existing urban fabric.
Working in a pair, we proposed that New Orleans purchase all vacant and blighted properties in the neighborhood, and then excavate the blocks in a terraced fashion leading to a large man-made retaining pond adjacent to a major pumping station.
The neighborhood would thus encourage interaction with water and be more capable of protecting itself form future fl ood events. Referencing coastal living typologies provides a solution for living safely near rising waters.
Urban LakeCoastal living typologyintroduced to urban residential context
excavation createsterraced blocks
Dutch Dialogues :5th year, Fall 2009
Applying the preceding urban research at an architectural scale, the task became to create a building that responds to the substantial water fl ow across the front, and highest, block of the neighborhood. Additionally, we proposed that all development along the sites edge would need to transport stormwater into the terraced block system.
The chosen apartment building brings a surface canals edge deep into the site, allows for habitable stormwater storage, and employs earthen ramps that both funnel water and provide raised parking access. Thus, all design moves result directly from water fl ow.
Initial Sketch
Water FlowSite & building collect& direct storm water
to retension pond
Student Work : Design Studio
raise building mass 2nd fl oor parking cantilever defi nes fl ood space
roof slopes control rainwater
Frontage
Dutch Dialogues :5th year, Fall 2009
Pixel courtyardallows interaction
with water
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Student Work : Design Studio
Roof GardenSloped gardens catch rainwater
The habitable concrete pixel pond on the ground fl oor encourages indeterminate use while allowing for the passage of stormwater. It also steps up to provide 2nd fl oor parking access.
The apartment units over the pixel pond step down from the 4th to the 3rd fl oor. The sloped, terraced green roof above collects stormwater in a simi-lar manner as the entire neighborhood does on a larger urban scale.
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Dutch Dialogues :5th year, Fall 2009
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stepped apartments to rear of site
Student Work : Design Studio
Dutch Dialogues :5th year, Fall 2009
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provide indeterminate use & fi lter stormwater
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The program called for a 450 room convention/tourism hotel located in downtown New Orleans near the Mississippi River. The proposed massing solution separates the hotel rooms into 2 distinct leaning towers that decrease solar gain and imply a sense of street frontage despite setback codes.
Through aligning the 2 towers perpendicular to one another, the building maintings the urban edge while providing maximum views toward the nearby river. Spanning the base of the 2 towers are public program, convention spaces, and parking.
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CONVENTION HOTEL :
Student Work: Design Studio
FrontageStreet view down
Convention Center Blvd. to CBD
Reducing scale and increasing street presence in response to contextual proportions.
Student Work: Design Studio
LobbyInterior furniture refl ects massing.Sweet iMacs.
The lobby and convention spaces spanning the 2 towers occupy the several levels beneath the gym, pool, and spa. A large third fl oor terrace provides ample break out space for conventions as well as the opportunity for on-site outdoor events.
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Convention Hotel : 3rd year, Spring 2008
Special attention was paid to the facade, which consists of a double-layered glass system that alters its orientation depending on solar orientation. An inner, butt-jointed layer rests behind a light truss system which supports the outer photovoltaic glass. The angled trusses, which vary in scale for public and prvate program, reduce the monotony of the large facades.
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Facades
Student Work: Design Studio
Photovol Facade Adaptations:
Vertical louvers onEast and North
Horizontal louvers onWest and South
De-emphasis of orthogonalstructure and denotation
of public program
Vertical and Horizontal louvers combine/deepen on
West to create balconies
Photovol Facade Adaptations
Section BBHotel fl oors step 2/fl oor toward street
Convention Hotel : 3rd year, Spring 2008
The project called for a bathing complex located in Romes historic district along the Tiber River. Working in a pair, our proposed response integrates a triangulated & multi-purpose parkscape with the built form while architecturalizing the fi ltration of river water for use in the entirety of the project.
The triangulated parkscape allows for a continuity in form between the exterior and the interior spaces below, and indicates that the space, although natural in material, is indeed constructed.
Triangulated green roof covers bathing
spaces below
BATH HOUSE :
Student Work : Design Studio
Parkscape
talking wall along embankment
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pull apart across site
elevation shift to reach river
integration of triangulated park
Referencing the historic bathing process while architecturalizing the fi ltration of river water.
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secondary filtration corridor
saunas
hot baths
service hall
cold bath
tepid baths
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finish materialgrass & soilballastaeration & root barrierinsulationvapor barrierroofing membraneconcrete slabmetal deckingopen web joistdrop ceilingwide flangetrussconcrete ribsconcrete column
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Roof Details
Differing proportions provide varying
bathing environments
Baths
Connecting the 4 major groups of spaces are corridors and hallways that spatially employ different water fi ltration processes. Spatializing the fi ltration of water mirrors the clensing sequence experienced by the users themselves within the bath house.
As the project spans across and down the site, the interior spaces become less a part of the triangulated park language and emerge in their own orthogonal
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Bath House : 4th year, Fall 2008
Student Work: Design Studio
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Bath House : 4th year, Fall 2008
Hot BathsBoard-formed
concrete walls refl ect triangular language
of green roof
Included projects cover several media not addressed in the preceding project sections. Although not studio projects, these student works allowed for varied design-oriented experimentation and exploration. The work shown here places a stronger than usual emphasis on design process while allowing results to become less of a priority.
EXTRAS!
Architects Week - March 2009
Photography - night, 2010
Sketches - 4th year, Fall 2009
1 2 3Working with a budget of $400 and a timeframe of 1 week, our 8 person team designed a curving form that combines several common seating types. As the team leader, I oversaw the development of the project from coneption through fi nal construction.
To build the decided upon form, we employed a construction method consisting of a plywood rib frame fi lled with expanding foam, that was then covered in layers of dyed fi berglass to create a smooth surface.
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ARCHITECTS WEEK :
Construction
Extras : Design/Build
Providing for multiple seating positions and group arrangements.
steel frame
plywood ribs
expanding foam
fi berglass
Architects Week : March 2009
BenchWave form at home
under the oaks
PHOTOGRAPHY :
IndustrialCanal
Extras: Photography
Taken at night in urban and industrial areas around New Orleans. Canon xTi. 28-105mm.
ChampionsSquare
pm, New Orleans, LA
NOLATrain
Extras: Photography
Halloween
pm, New Orleans, LA
Miscellaneous : Semester Abroad sketches
Romeblack felt pen30 minutes
TuscanyGray marker15 minutes
HAND SKETCHES :Colosseum San Gimignano
Extras : Sketches from Abroad
During semester abroad, pen and marker sketches effi ciently capture essence of a view.
Romeblack marker
10 minutes
St. Agnese
Hand Sketches : 4th year, Fall 2008
CONTACT. Kristian Mizes, LEED AP3408 Dauphine St.New Orleans, LA 70117
EDUCATION.Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA2010
Master of ArchitectureBachelor of ArchitectureMinor in EnglishCum Laude
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