Portfolio of Architectural WorkAndrew Younger, M. ARCH 2011

selected worksCenter for Design Research (CDR)

Strawberry Hill Residence

New Orleans Community Center

Kansas City Forum

Design-Build Studio

Lamborghini Museum

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Center for Design Research2544 Westbrooke Circle | Lawrence, Kansas | Studio 804

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Studio 804, Inc. is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, sustained by support from industry leaders. The program is led by Dan Rockhill, JL Constant Distinguised Professor of Architecture at the University of Kansas and has completed sex-teen design-build projects going back to 1995. Through industry collaborations Studio 804 has prospered immensely, receiving recognition in countless journals and magazines, winning nu-merous design awards, and producing three LEED Platinum buildings. This year, 804 had the op-portunity to create an addition to the Center for Design Research on the University campus. It is a platform for showcasing, interacting with, and educating about sustainable design technologies and new innovations in design research.

The Center for Design Research is the sixteenth student-built project by Studio 804. The build-ing was designed and built to both LEED Platinum and Passive House standards over the course of two semesters by a group of twenty-three grad-uate students at the University of Kansas. Be-ing on the university campus, the CDR project is a unique concept in that it will be a platform for showcasing, interacting with, and educating people about sustainable design technologies and new innovations in design research.

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Sustainable Features:

• 33-Panel, 7.4 Kw Photovoltaic System• 2.4 Kw Wind Turbine• Self-Tinting Electrocromic Glass• Energy Management System with Net-Metering• Reclaimed Limestone Facade• Living Wall Comprised of 10,000+ fern plugs• Extensive Green Roof System• Electric Vehicle Charging Station• R50+ wall insulation, R80+ roof insulation• LED Lighting Throughout the Building• Water Reclamation, Water Stored in a 1,100

Gallon Underground Cistern• Greywater Used to Irrigate the Living Wall and

to Flush Toilets• Concrete Contains 20% Fly Ash Content

Above: View of the green roof and solar panels

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Top: Pouring the foundation

Above: Removing the existing addition to the farmhouse to prepare for construction

Above: Concrete pump pouing the basement foundation

Above: Setting formwork for the basement foundation walls

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Clockwise From Top: Setting the structural steel columns. Raising the building’s west wall. LVLs are set onn the steel columns. Coursework for the limestone veneer begins. Framing of the building is completed. Mechanical components of the HVAC system in the basement.

Architect Magazine Publication: (portfolio p. 7-9)By: Edward Keegan, AIA and Nathan KirkmanOctober 2011, p. 106 - 110

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“The jury acknowledges the project for its particular educative concept and the engagement with issues of sustainable construction illustrated in the program. The in-depth participation of students in the construction process is demonstrated as a successful component in the curriculum, substantially amplifying the learning outcomes beyond the pure experience of being a construction worker. Through the openness of the building’s function, this experience is shared not only with the few students who participate in the project – but is also transferred to the community and future students. The adoption of the building’s approach within the community is grounded by its integrative financial concept.”

- Holcim Awards Jury

Awards:Holcim Awards Acknowledgement Prize: 2011, North America

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR DESIGN RESEARCH

TEXT BY EDWARD KEEGAN, AIA PHOTOS BY NATHAN KIRKMAN

LAWRENCE, KANSASSTUDIO 804

THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS’S Center for Design Research (CDR) is located on the rolling hills of the former Chamney Farm property on the school’s West Campus in Lawrence. The center, part of KU’s School of Architecture, Design & Planning, was created as an incubator for innovations in building products and services, incorporating interdisciplinary studies in mechanical and computer engineering, business, design, biosciences, health and wellness studies, and the social sciences.

The site is occupied by two existing buildings that are remnants of the old farm—a stone, gabled farmhouse at the northern edge of the property and a stone barn to the east—but neither fi t the bill for the center. For its new building, the CDR didn’t have to go far to fi nd an architect: Dan Rockhill, the school’s J.L. Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture and his 23 students in the 2010–2011 design/build Studio 804 program were up to the challenge.

“The design brief was pretty simple,” says Gregory Thomas, CDR director and a design professor at KU. “It had to serve a dual purpose as both a meeting and presentation venue as well as a working laboratory, and be a place that is shared with the public to inform about matters of sustainability.” Sustainability is a familiar sandbox for Rockhill, who notes that the resulting 1,820-square-foot pavilion is Studio 804’s fourth building designed to LEED Platinum standards and that the CDR will most likely be the fi rst commercial certifi ed passive building in North America.

The modest structure sits directly south of the existing farmhouse and is accessed via a concrete-and-glass ramp from a small parking area next to the barn. The exterior stonework was created from cottonwood limestone tailings—the waste product from manufacturing stone. Between March and May, several students cut each of the tailings down into smaller blocks. “I don’t know if they had done something bad,” Thomas jokes of the labor-intensive task. But the material and process are a good example of Studio 804’s strength—the ability to transform an otherwise useless scrap into an aesthetically pleasing material through a combination of inventiveness and cheap labor. “We imbue it with design and the sense of the hand,” Rockhill says.

Although the building is clad in masonry and glass, it’s framed in wood and steel. The masonry exterior walls are supported by 12-inch joists, while the roof is spanned by 20-inch joists. The cavities are fi lled with blown cellulose insulation. “We kept the envelope clean and taut,” Rockhill says. “There’s not even wiring in the walls in order to maximize insulation and prevent thermal leaks.” Additional roof mass, in the form of plantings around the edges and a solar array in the center, helps insulate from above.

The entrance, on the west end of the building, leads directly to a reception area and adjacent restrooms. Here, glass cases house monitoring equipment that displays the building’s energy performance in real time. A short walk down a ramp leads to a multipurpose conference area, which has a living wall that improves indoor air quality and is kept lush using rainwater for irrigation.

Natural light fi lters through an electrochromic, butt-glazed curtainwall that forms most of the building’s south façade. A 10-inch-thick trombe wall—composed of 6-inch-thick concrete masonry units fi lled with sand and clad on both sides with 2 inches of limestone—sits 2 1/2 feet behind the glass and provides much of the building’s heat during winter. From the exterior, the trombe wall appears to be just a continuation of the building’s envelope under glass, but it takes on a completely diff erent character on the interior. Between every other course, there are thick sheets of laminated glass laid horizontally within the joints. From the meeting area inside, these give an otherwise heavy feature a glow when it’s backlit by the sun.

“We couldn’t do this based on the university’s shoestring budget,” Rockhill says of the project, which counts over 100 companies as sponsors or donors. This sponsorship allows for opportunities that might not exist otherwise. “You don’t have to take something off the shelf,” Rockhill explains. And that ability to customize materials is explicit in detail after beautifully wrought detail. From a steel-plate fl oor to the custom-fabricated curtainwall to the hand-hewn recycled limestone skin, the CDR plainly makes the case for an elegantly and simply composed architecture that’s also up to the highest standards of sustainable design.

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TOOLBOX: STUDIO ��� Dan Rockhill started teaching the terminal graduate studio—which was assigned the course number 804—at the University of Kansas more than 20 years ago. It was conceived as a conventional design studio, a format that Rockhill found uninspired. “I hated it,” he says. To alleviate his frustration, Rockhill began introducing construction projects. “The students reveled in the opportunity.”

Lawrence, Kan., saw a construction boom in the 1990s and a growing need for aff ordable housing. Seeing an opportunity—and armed with his own design/build experience—Rockhill took the course in a new direction in 1995. Since then, the now-yearlong class has produced a building each year.

“I do whatever comes through the door,” Rockhill says of choosing the projects. “But it needs to be a holistic experience—from idea to building.” Last year’s opportunity to design the Center for Design Research (CDR) was serendipitous—especially since the program’s mission coincided with Studio 804’s commitment to sustainability. “We need to engage others in this … [green movement], but you have to plant the seeds in young kids,” Rockhill says. It also presented a diff erent challenge for the students: The CDR’s public program was a departure for Studio 804—which until now has focused largely on single-family houses (with the exception of the 5.4.7 Arts Center in Greensburg, Kan.).

Yet, despite the studio’s impressive portfolio of built work, “He [Rockhill] prides himself on the design and the details more than the construction,” current student Seamus McGuire says. But it’s also about imparting lessons about real-world architecture. “They’re so used to doing projects that are moving and gyrating,” Rockhill says of students’ predilection for the swooping forms of parametric design. “The subtlety of an elegant box needs to be understood.”

Project Credits

Project Center for Design Research, Lawrence, Kan.

Client University of Kansas Endowment Association

Architect and Contractor Studio 804, Lawrence, Kan.—Dan Rockhill; Gerard Alba,

Ashley Banks, Sarah Brengarth, Cade Brummer, Matthew Holderbach, James Ice,

Andrea Kirchhoff , Jenny Kosobud, Michael Mannhard, Justin McGeeney, Amanda

Miller, John Myers, Kirsten Oschwald, Kate Penning, Allison Pinkerton, Michael Prost,

Dan Schaeffl er, Ben Shriplin, Mariah Tooley, Ben Welty, Brian Winkeljohn, Andrew

Younger, and Giannina Zapattini (project team)

Structural Engineer Norton & Schmidt Consulting Engineers

M/E/P Engineer Hoss & Brown Engineers

LEED Consultant Henderson Engineers

Environmental Consultants Cromwell Environmental, Lawrence, Kan.

Design and Construction Consultant Rockhill and Associates

Size 1,820 gross square feet

Materials and Sources

Structural Systems Pacifi c Woodtech Corp. (FSC-certifi ed lumber)

pacifi cwoodtech.com

Exterior Cladding Lardner Stone (drystack, cottonwood ledge, limestone

tailings); U.S. Stone Industries (drystack, cottonwood ledge, limestone tailings)

usstoneindustries.com; Doherty Steel dohertysteel.com

Glazing Sage Electrochromics sage-ec.com; Velux America veluxusa.com

Vapor Barrier Tamko Building Products (exterior foundation wall vapor barrier)

tamko.com; CertainTeed Corp. (interior vapor retarder) certainteed.com;

W.R. Grace & Co. (above-grade vapor barrier) grace.com

Concrete Midwest Concrete Materials 4mcm.com

Finishes ITW TACC (mason bond epoxy adhesive) itwtacc.com

Roofi ng Carlisle SynTec (white EPDM) carlisle-syntec.com; Green Roof Blocks

(green roof) greenroofb locks.com

Windows Sage Electrochromics (glazing) sage-ec.com; Velux America (skylights)

veluxusa.com

Doors Assa Abloy (entrances) assaabloy.com; Ezy Jamb (interior doors)

ezyjamb.com.au

Hardware Häfele America Co. (mechanical display hardware) hafele.com/us

Cabinetwork Valcucine valcucine.com

Paint Benjamin Moore & Co. benjaminmoore.com

Special Surfacing National Gypsum nationalgypsum.com

Acoustical System Onsia (in-ceiling speakers) onsiaideas.com

Flooring H.B. Fuller (self-leveling gypsum) hbfuller.com; ISC Surfaces (self-leveling

gypsum) iscsurfaces.com; Dur-A-Flex (epoxy fl ooring) dur-a-fl ex.com; Fry Reglet

(base reveal) fryreglet.com

Lighting Prescolite (LED can lights) prescolite.com; Cooper Lighting Halo (LED can

lights) cooperindustries.com; Sunlite Science and Technology (LED strip lights)

sunlitest.com; Vibia (pendant fi xtures) www.vibialight.com; Tech Lighting (track

lights) techlighting.com; Five Oaks Marketing (solar lights)

Plumbing Smedbo (faucets) smedbo.com; Caroma (fi xtures) caromausa.com;

Filtrine Mfg. Co. (drinking fountains) fi ltrine.com

Building-Management Systems Schneider Electric (lighting controls) schneider-

electric.com; Johnson Controls (global controller) johnsoncontrols.com; Rainwater

Technology (rainwater system controller) rainwatertechnology.org

Insulation Central Fiber (dense-pack cellulose) centralfi ber.com; Hunter Panels

(roof and cavity insulation panels) hpanels.com

Cistern BRAE braewater.com

Grass Drought-resistant Fescue landscaping

HVAC Zehnder America (energy-recovery ventilator) zehnderamerica.com;

Mitsubishi Electric (minisplit) mehvac.com; Titus (grilles and diff users)

titus-hvac.com; Custom grilles

Furniture Pohlenz Cucine Moderne (kitchenette and reception casework and

countertop) pohlenzcm.com; Valcucine (kitchenette and reception casework and

countertop) valcucine.com; Haworth (stacking and task chairs) haworth.com

Car Charging Station Schneider Electric schneider-electric.com

Greenwall System Mundo Ortega Verde mundoverdeortega.com

Skystream Wind Package Southwest Wind Power windenergy.com

Photovoltaic Panels Yingli Solar yinglisolar.com

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Mechanical System:One of my areas of responsibiliy for the project was working with designing and installing the mechanical system for the CDR. In the project there are three systems, which all work together to achive specific HVAC goals listed below:

• Mitsubishi VRF (Variable Refrigerant Flow) system - The VRF system works to provide space heating and cooling for the building and is connected in two zones to a high efficiency condenser/heat pump.

• Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs) - The Zehnder ERVs provide ventilation for the building by exchanging heat between the incoming and outgoing air flows so that minimal conditioned air is lost while providing a fresh air supply to the inside of the build-ing. One of the ERVs is intended to provide constant ventilation and is connected to a geothermal pump, which uses a mixture of glycol and water flowing through 500 feet of underground piping to pre-treat incoming air so that in the summer the air is cooled and in the winter that air is warmed. The second ERV is run off of a CO2 sensor placed in the classroom space, so when there is a large group of people in that space, the fan speed will automatically be turned up so that the amount of fresh air will be increased.

• Trombe Wall - The ventilated trombe wall be controlled based off of a temperature sensor which is mounted inside the wall, so that when in the winter, the temperature inside of the trombe wall cavity is greater than 80 degrees, it will engage a circulation fan in the basement. This fan will provide air through the floor registers and also while the fan is running, mechanical actuators will open dampers at the top of the wall so that the heated air from within the air cavity will be circulated throughout the build-ing. The trombe wall also works as a passive heating strategy, besides from the mechanical operation, heat that accumulates with the thermal mass of the wall from the sun warming the stone during the day and radiating that heat at night.

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The Strawberry Hill project was part of the first semester conceptual design exercises of the Studio 804 experience. This is a design for one of six other sites and projects that were being explored as possible design-build opportunities for Studio 804. This project was an individual design exercise for a potential live/work project in an up-and-coming urban area near the city hall and main city center of Kansas City, Kansas. Studio 804 had pursued funding through the project through the Community Housing of Wyandotte County (CHWC), whom had provided funding for 804’s past two residences in Kansas City, Kansas.

Strawberry Hill ResidenceKansas City, Kansas | ARCH 803 | Fall 2010

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The program for the building is for there to be storefront along Sixth Street, which is a main commercial street through the area with small restaurants, stores, of-fices and warehouses adjacent to the property. Incorporating a live work aspect to the site, a small studio residence was added along Tauromee Street, which is the beginning of a residential neighborhood. The design incorporates two “modules” that can be built off-site and then transported to the site. Both are flexible, open-space plans that can accommodate a wide range of programmatic functions. The residence has movable cabinets that can divide the space into two bedrooms be left open for a studio style floor plan.

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A night-time rendering showing the entrance to the storefront unit. The vegetated screen would be lit up at night to high-light the texture of the vines behind the glass.

View from the south of the res-idential module. South-facing glazing with louvers are de-signed to take advantage of the southern exposure for passive heating with clearstory win-dows on the north to maximize cross-ventilation.

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Project Narrative:

The EATS (Empowerment through Agriculture, Transportation and Sustainability) Community Center is a place for the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans that incorporates aspects food production, consumption and education for the benefit of the surrounding community. These aspects are incorpo-rated through a bi-weekly farmers market, café, daily market and educational classrooms. The site is at the corner of Claiborne Ave. and Caffin Ave., which are both tree-lined divided streets. The goal of plac-ing the primary café and market on this corner was to provide a strong corner for the retail aspects of thethe program as well as a way to engage both pedestrian as well as vehicular traffic along these major roads. Parking and the Multi Purpose room are located along Derbigny St. at the north of the site, in re-lationship to the future development of the pool, etc. on the adjacent site, so that these spaces could be shared between the two facilities.

On the southwest corner of the site, there are a series of terraces both for the gardens. The orientation of these terraces provides southern and western exposure for the planting beds, and makes them a vis-ible part of the community. The garden terraces also act as a stairway which leads you up and provides a connection to the rooftop gardens, which starts out on the single story part of the building and then leads up to another second floor rooftop garden, which takes you upward as you progress around the site.

Since most of the surrounding community is flat, raising the building both protects it in the event of a flood as well as providing for views of the surrounding neighborhood. The only part of the building which sits at ground level is the multipurpose room, which allows this room to be easily accessible by large numbers of people at a time, as well as limiting the overall height of what is the tallest part of the building. An east-west axis cuts across the side to create a main pedestrian artery across the site which ties back to the main entrance of the adjacent school which encourages the interaction of the students withwith the gardens. This also creates an interior corridor which, covered by a trellis, will provide a shaded area for people to come and conduct an outdoor farmers market that would be held twice a week.

The goal with the form of the overall building is for it to begin to grow out of the ground, where the terraced gardens and sloped roofs are all green aspects starting and ground level and progressing up-wards.

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The EATS (Empowerment through Agriculture, Transportation and Sustain-ability) Community Center is a place for the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans that incorporates aspects food produc-tion, consumption and education for the benefit of the surrounding community. These aspects are incorporated through a bi-weekly farmers market, café, daily market and educational classrooms. The site is at the corner of Claiborne Ave. and Caffin Ave., which are both tree-lined di-vided streets.

The goal of placing the primary café and market on this corner was to provide a strong corner for the retail as-pects of the program as well as a way to engage both pedestrian as well as ve-hicular traffic along these major roads. Parking and the Multi Purpose room are located along Derbigny St. at the north of the site, in relationship to the future development of the pool, etc. on the ad-jacent site, so that these spaces could be shared between the two facilities.

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Kansas City ForumKansas City, Missouri | ARCH 608 | Fall 2010

This site in Downtown Kansas City, MO had previously been a strong part of Kansas City’s urban core. The building fits within the urban context, responding to surrounding building heights to fit in to the urban environment. Besides this the overall form for the building comes from the idea of movement throughout the site, with the angled pieces opening up the courtyard to the street while still keeping with the grid of the city. The different forms of the building are accentuated by material choices, with the rectilinear elements clad in a wood rain screen, stone on the diagonal elements at street level, and channel glass for the “links” between the separate parts of the structure.

At street-level, the plaza is linked to the rooftop contemplation garden by a glass water wall, where this connection is intended to draw people up to the rooftop garden in search of the source of this water that cascades down the wall. The overall form comes from the linking of elements, the forum and res-idential elements of the program are linked by the atrium space, as well as the north and south wings of the resi-dential units linked by the vertical cir-culation and lobbies for the residential units. At night, the channel glass will be lit up and the eight-story tall glass façade of the residential element will be visible from several blocks away down Wyandotte and will become a marker for people making their way to the site. Also at night, the atrium would become the beacon intended to draw people into the courtyard and promote a live-lier atmosphere.

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Above: scale builing model, view from the northwest

Design-Build StudioARCH 608 | Spring 2009

Design-Build Stool:

The program for this project was to design and build a stool that would fit within a 2’ cube and be constructed exculsively out of a given material. The material I chose to explore was steel, and the stool I designed is built out of 1”x1” and 1”x1/2” tube steel.

The design for the stools came from the idea of having two stools that could work separately or come together and be one piece that could have more than one func-tion. The size of both of them together form the 2’ cube and as they are taken apart, they have a sense of balance with the vertical supports being close to the corner of the stool.

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Modular Cafe:The program for the modular cafe is to create a struc-ture that is the size of a parallell parking space that can be moved around that is intended to be placed outside a restaurant and serve as an outdoor dining and gather-ing space. The design takes into account social interac-tion and various activities that will happen in the space, whether an individual is going there or a large group is gathering. Visually it should serve as a way to identify the restaurant it is associated with and be a billboard or signage for the establishment.

“A mobile gathering space promoting unity and concen-trated social interatcion through performance, inspired by the art and culture of small plate dining. Layers of structure visually relate to the culinary process while in-tegrating form and texture of the food itself. An informal setting where participants can engage in the culture of food, creating their individual moment.”

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Lamborghini MuseumSaint’Agata, Italy | ARCH 408 | Fall 2008

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The program for this design, is a museum and office addition onto the existing Lamborghini factory building in Saint’Agata Bolognese, Italy. The total building program is divided into 80,000 square feet of office space as well as a 30,000 square foot museum, to triple the square footage of the exist-ing Lamborghini museum. The offices are intended to connect to the adjacent research and design building that was recently built. The overall design is intended to reflect the Lamborghini image and brand through a sleek, mod-ern structure that appears to be in motion.

Above: Scale building model, view from the north with factory building in background.

Below: North elevation

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Above: Scale model photograph

Right Top: Rendering of the western portion of the museum

Right Bottom: Rendering of the interior of the museum