ian f. richard portfolio 2014
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*Liberty Avenue - Pittsburgh, PA
“I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.” -Unknown
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Ian Frederic Richard
University of Detroit Mercy | School of Architecture
University of Windsor | School for Arts and Creative Innovation
ADDRESS27 27 Poplar Park Crescent |
Port Perry, Ontario CANADA, L9L 1E3
[email protected]@uwindsor.ca
Phone: (905) 985-4109 | Cell: (Cell: (519) 981-1734
*Monte Cello’s Pizza - Pittsburgh, PA
Table of Contents Contact Information 3 Detroit 6 Corktown Master plan 8 Corktown Mix-use Credit Union 12 Informatorium: Memory Maze 16 Schroder House, Rietveld: 3DsMax 20 Hermit Newsstand and Reading Room 24 Living Room Design: 3dsMax 26 Schroder House and Lighthouse Design: Revit 28 Windsor 30 Fire Hall No.6 Reuse Design 32 El Lissitzky Proun: 3D 34 Landform House 36 ROUND 2: 3rd Year VABE Exhibition 38
Visual Arts 40 Cardboard Darth Vader 42 Small-to-Large Scale Drawings 44 Monochromatic Masterwork 45 Sketches 46 Portfolio Cover and Business Card Design 48 Pittsburgh 50 Hill District Mix-Use Building 52
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“As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.” -Auguste Perret
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DETROITUniversity
of Detroit Mercy
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Masterplan design of the site on Michigan Ave., 14th St., and Wabash St. in Cork-town, Detroit.
Corktown Master planDesign
SITE PLAN
Corktown Master plan
Design The site features a
recessed park/recessed park/gathering area. Next to that is a stage and seating area that reduces the noise from Michigan Ave. and Wabash St. Small retail ststructures run through the middle of the site. In the Back of the site there is a recessed canopied space for a market or additional gathering
space. SECTIONS
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Corktown Master planDesign
MASTERPLAN MODEL
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Corktown Credit Union Mix-Use Building
Corktown Credit Union
Mix-Use Building
New CIBC BankPrecedent
Old CIBC BankPrecedent
The building is a three story mix-use
building with a Credit Union Bank on the main Floor
and two apartments. When designing the building, the tebuilding, the term ‘thrilling’ was to be kept in mind as the defining theme.
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Corktown Credit Union Mix-Use Building
Thrill verb \thril\: to cause (someone) to feel very excited or happy - Merriam-Webster Dictonary
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Informatorium: Memory Maze Design focuses on memory and the story “Funes, The Memorious” by Jorges Luis
Borges. Located on a site in Midtown Detroit
“In effect, Funes not only remembered every leaf on every tree of every wood, but even every one of the times he had percieved or imagined it.” - Jorges Luis Borges
Midtown, Detroit
Informatorium: Memory MazeProcess Composed images in relation to an assigned reading, “Funes, The Memorious” by Jorges Luis Borges, and the Midtown site. The character Funes is crippled in an accident and as a result dedevelops a perfect memory. A visual interpretation of how the character Funes sees the site.
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Informatorium: Memory Maze Final Design
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SCHRODER HOUSEGERRIT RIETVELD3DsMax Exercise
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SCHRODER HOUSE
GERRIT RIETVELD3DsMax Exercise
SCHRODER HOUSEGERRIT RIETVELD3DsMax Exercise
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Hermit Newsstand and Reading Room
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Living roomDesign: 3DsMax
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Schroder House and Lighthouse Design: Revit
“The discipline of history is a means by which we may keep from kidding ourselves about what has happened.” -William Morris
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WINDSOR
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Redevelopment strategies strategies for the reuse of the vacant heritage building, Fire Hall No. 6 in Old Sandwich Town, Windsor, Ontario. The fire hall has been redesigned as been redesigned as a café/bakery and student workspace to attract people to the area.
FIRE HALL NO.6
EL LISSITZKY PROUN
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A house designed into a landform site. There is solarium allows natural light into the underground level of the house.
Landform HouseA studio space was designed as a separate space from the house, connected by an elevated pathway to the second floor of the house.
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ROUND 2: 3rd Year VABE Exhibition
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed to light.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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Bachelor of ArtsUniversity of Windsor
VISUAL
ARTS
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DARTH VADERLife-Size Cardboard
Sculpture
Darth Vader Action Figure: Cardboard sculpture of a small object in the scale of the artist’s height (6’ 2”).
Small-to-LargeScale Drawings
A very small drawing of a chosen object and redrawn on a much
larger scale
Small Scale Drawing
Large Scale DrawingSmall scale drawing in proportion to the large scale drawing (1/70)
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The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, Hokusai: MonochromaticMasterwork
A monochromatic replica of Hokusai’s masterwork in shades
of red
original work
Sketches
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Both the portfolio cover and business cards are made of reclaimed wood
Portfolio Cover and Business Card Design
“From each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.” -Karl Marx
WINTER2013
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PITTSBURGH
PittsburghHill District
Mix-use Building
A mix-use buildng with a retail space on the 5th Ave. level, ten one-bedroom and
twenty two-bedroom apartments. The main floor
on Colwell St. has a community space, two
ooffices and a small fitness centre. The challenge was
fitting the required program into the narrow landform site as well as
allallowing natural light and pleasent views into every
room.
PittsburghHill DistrictMix-use Building
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2 BEDROOM APARTMENT
SINGLE BEDROOM FLOOR(ROOF GARDEN)
DOUBLE BEDROOM FLOOR
MAIN FLOOR (COLWELL ST.) COMMERCIAL/RETAIL FLOOR (5th AVE.)
1 BEDROOM APARTMENT
PittsburghHill District
Mix-use Building
Precedents
PittsburghHill DistrictMix-use Building
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*Bus Stop - Pittsburgh, PA
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its abiity to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein
58 | 59*Backyard Rising - Windsor, ON