portfolio of graduate work

Kayla R. KaufmanPortfolio of Graduate Work

Table of Contents

401 Wabash Avenue .......................... 1

Lake Michigan Pavilion ...................... 13

NetZero Education Center ................. 21

Off-the-Grid Hospital ........................ 35

Living Conditions

“We do not have enough money to develop our village. We have very good ideas for development,

but no assistance...” - Haji Abdullah Saleh and Rahmat Gul

Views of Gardez

401 Wabash AvenueChicago, Illinois Fall 2010 Team Project: Michelle Ryland

This project was a re-design of Trump Tower in Chicago, Illinois. Located in the heart of downtown, at the intersection of Wabash Avenue and the Chicago River, 401 Wabash was designed to maintain and enhance the beauty, culture and sophistication of this world-class city, and to symbolize the growth, energy and innovation of Chicago. The building offers an exceptional lifestyle for the building users through stunning architecture, unparalleled views, and new standards in amenities for guests and residents.

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View North on Wabash Avenue

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Site Plan

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Hotel Entrance

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Level -1: Lower Wabash Retail

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Riverwalk

The Riverwalk provides a strong connection between 401 Wabash and Michigan Avenue. Visitors can enjoy the grassy terrace and the open-air retail center along the Chicago River. As they stroll between the colonnade of trees on the upper terrace or along the river at th elower Riverwalk, they are fully engaged in the site, enticing them to explore more of what 401 Wabash has to offer.

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Levels 2-3: Retail

Longitudinal Elevation Transverse Elevation

Levels 4-5: Hotel Amenities Levels 7-22: Office (Option C)

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Required Core GSF / floor Total GSF Total NSF Occupancy Efficiency Program EfficiencyLobby As required 6,336 30,800 24,464 79.4%

Floors 1Retail 100,000 6,336 92,526 79,854 86.3% ‐7.5%

Floors 2Parking As required 6,336 454,831 410,479 90.2%

Floors 7Amenity As required 6,336 59,760 47,088 78.8%

Floors 2Office 500,000 6,336 435,840 334,464 76.7% ‐12.8%

Floors 16Hotel 450,000 5,500 477,792 378,792 79.3% 6.2%

Floors 18Condominium 600,000 3,275 639,072 521,172 81.6% 6.5%

Floors 36Mechanical As required

Lower Wabash 6336 18550 12,214 65.8%Retail 6,336 29,520 23,184 78.5%Office 6,336 25,200 18,864 74.9%Hotel 5,500 21,552 16,052 74.5%

Lower Condo 3,275 17,904 14,629 81.7%Upper Condo 3,275 14,256 10,981 77.0%

Exterior Public Space As required 0 92,500 92,500 100.0%

TOTAL 2,600,000 2,410,103 1,984,737 82.4% ‐7.3%

0 15 30 60 120 feet N

Levels 24-41: Hotel

Building Efficiency Calculations

Levels 43-60: Lower Condominium Levels 62-79: Upper Condominium

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13Lake Michigan PavilionChicago, Illinois Fall 2009 Team Project: Michelle Mantegna

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The existing site is under-developed breaking connections between the communities of Evanston and Chicago. Currently, it is difficult to navigate the site and access the beaches. The newly proposed site links the last one-quarter mile of biking and walking paths to Chicago’s thirty-six miles of lakefront. The design provides visitors with a place to enjoy all that Lake Michigan has to offer. It includes orientation kiosks, public walkways and bicycle paths, an education center, café, public restrooms, a sheltering pavilion, and market kiosks for a weekly Farmer’s Market. The proposed architecture, landscape and site design educate visitors on the value of water and encourage people to exercise, building a healthier population in the Chicago area.

Northeast View toward Lake Michigan

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Water and sun have an awe-inspiring relationship with each other. It is alluring the way the sun reflects on water, the way water reflects light, and how people are enticed to reflect on this relationship. This water pavilion experientially celebrates water and sun, creating places for observation, interaction, and reflection.

Northwest View from Peninsula

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The sun reflecting off of the stainless steel steps on the peninsula creates a mirage effect. This effect acts like a natural lighthouse drawing visitors to the end of the site and prompting them to look back and reflect on the beach. Once people arrive at the end of the peninsula, they can interact with the human sun dial. The stainless steel platforms create steps leading up to the top of the peninsula. During the winter these steps are warmed by the sun creating a warm oasis. During the summer, people can enjoy lying on the cool grass terraces.

Site Plan 0 10 20 40 80 feet N

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Park Market KioskCafe and Restrooms Patio Beach

Education Center

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Lake Michigan New Cove

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The market kiosks are located on the north side of the pavilion. The tables can be rented by local vendors and easily pulled out from the rainscreen. Passerbys can stop along the path to grab a quick snack and enjoy the sun on the patio.

The cafe, located directly below the main boardwalk, is like an oasis within the wave. Continuing the tensile wave form, the interior is completely white, creating a blank canvas for nature to paint.

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North Park and Market Kiosks

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Park Market KioskCafe and Restrooms Patio Beach

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Viewing platforms on the south side of the boardwalk provide a space for passerbys to sit and reflect on the lake’s relationship with the sun. Sunrises can be seen from this space, as well as views of the peninsula and surrounding sites.

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The patio is made of white concrete, conceptually completing the tensile wave form. It wraps around and underneath the building, paralleling the movement of crashing waves. The concrete is coated with titanium dioxide, which captures sunlight, triggering a catalytic reaction and virtually cleaning the air around the patio.

A major means of circulation throughout the space is a boardwalk, an iconic means of circulation on a beach. Made of Juniper wood, it creates a nice aroma when abraded by sand and holds up to the elements. The tensile structure above frames eastern views of Lake Michigan and creates shelter from the elements.

The education center, located on the north side of the boardwalk, has an open floor plan for flexible art, interactive displays and educational activities. The education center overlooks the north park and market kiosks, providing a different view of Lake Michigan.

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The orientation kiosks are located on the north and south sides of the site welcoming patrons to the beach. Announcements and orientation maps are displayed on the tensile shade structures. Their materiality provides a visual link to the main boardwalk, providing a means of wayfinding throughout the site.

North Orientation Kiosk

South Orientation Kiosk

NetZero Education CenterLong Beach, California Spring 2010 Team Project: Justine Kane, Howard Yu & Geoffrey Clarkson

This project was part of The Leading Edge Competition held in Long Beach, CA. An awareness of the need for energy efficiency can only be conveyed through education, demonstration and practice. The goal of the design was to create a community center, both for education in energy efficiency and employment training. This education center creates an educational and sustainable atmosphere, while emphasizing affordability, constructability, and versatility through its various forms of sustainable strategies and design features. The building is designed to be a net-zero building by utilizing various passive strategies.

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Entry Sequence Our team studied the design of the Getty Villa in Pasadena, CA, paying close attention to the way it draws visitors in and leads them through the spaces. As visitors approach our site, the building slowly reveals itself behind the rolling hills along Long Beach Boulevard. The hills gradually decrease in size and intensity as the visitors approach the en-trance. Once they discover the entrance, they cross a bridge, giving them a glimpse of the site that was hidden from the street. The entrance lobby displays a 2-story wall of falling water, collecting in an elongated, narrow pool. The overflow from the pool travels beneath a glass floor, leading the visitors onto a crosswalk that reveals an open-air courtyard. Visitors follow this axis, bringing them to the vertical circulation. From this point, they are able to discover the rest of the building in any combination of ways through physical exploration or through the dnamic versatility of the building.

West Entrance

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West Entrance

Site Plan 0 5 10 20 40 feet N

The center will be powered through the use of 7,100 ft2 of photovoltaic panels which will provide up to 640 KwH per day. The panels are also part of a solar tri-generation system which will generate power and hot water simultane-ously. When necessary, the hot water will be used to condition the spaces with anabsorption chiller and radiant heating system.

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61° 61°Sunset Azimuth June 21st

Sunrise Azimuth June 21st

The education center’s form was driven by the optimization of natural ventilation and daylighting. The use of two narrow masses, as compared to one large mass, allows daylight to penetrate every space and channels the prevalent winds from the northwest to naturally ventilate the building.

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South Elevation

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An increasing condern in the Long Beach area is the growning number of shipping containers. The exterior of the building uti-lizes recycled shipping contain-ers from nearby shipping yards. The shipping container’s modular design allows the center to use nearly 75% of each container, minimizing on waste material. The panels will also double as ver-tical shading along the east and west facades. Horizontal shad-ing devices and light shelves, also cut from recycled shipping con-tainers, are placed on the south façade, reducing solar heat gain throughout the day while still reflecting natural light into occu-pied spaces.

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The south curtain wall incorporates an LED curtain system for showing movies at community events. The south end of the site is terraced from grade up to the railroad embankment, creating natural seat-ing for picnics, performances, or screenings. To increase daylighting to the lowest level of the building, the land around the building will be terraced down four feet. The excavated dirt will be re-used for the rolling hills along the Long Beach Boulevard entry path, which dramatically reduces the need for energy by eliminating the need to transport the excavated soil.

South Terrace

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Water shortage is an issue that has made itself evident in recent years, especially in Southern California. Eco-Machines cleanse collected wastewater through a series of cleansing cycles, beginning with the anaerobic stage within a septic tank below grade. It is then pumped up to the third-floor Eco-Machines for the aerobic stage, where the water

is filtered through ten 150-gallon tanks and cleansed by plants, algae, and fish in a 50-hour natural process. This cleansed water then becomes a water feature that falls into the narrow pool in the lobby, then into large pools in the courtyard. This is where the final stage, the polishing stage, occurs as the water is further cleansed by plants and other natural processes. The clean product can then be reused for flushing toilets, irrigation and exterior washing.

Interior Courtyard

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Transverse Section

Section Callout

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Section Callout

Longitudinal Section

A NanaWall system is used on the lowest level to open the student lounge, and all windows will be operable to enhance natural ventilation.

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The cladding for the building is corrugated steel, salvaged from used ship-ping containers found at local shipping yards

The vertical shades along the east and west facades are cut and bent out from the corrugated steel cladding, reducing valuable time and resources

Insulation slows the transfer of energy between the interior and the exterior, maintaining a relatively constant indoor temperature

Concrete is used as the primary structure for the building, doubling as a thermal mass to help control variations in temperature

Fly ash, a byproduct of the coal industry, is used in place of portland ce-ment to reduce the embodied energy of the structure

Full Wall Section

33Light-colored walls reflect natural light deep into the space

Glazing on the west side provides natural light from the courtyard Reflective shades

block direct sun-light, but reflect dif-fused light into the space

Thick concrete walls provide thermal mass

PowerLeap uses sensors along the edges of the floor to capture energy from vi-brations as peo-ple walk

The angle of the vertical shades on the east and west facades are based on the sunrise and sunset azimuths of June 21st. This shields the building from harsh morning and evening light.

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Summer Radiant Cooling

Winter Radiant Heating

Drains collect rainwater to be reused throughout the building

Frosted glass walkways allow diffused light into the classrooms below

Terraces bring natural light into the lowest level of the building

Warm air is pushed out through operable clearstory windows

Cool air is pulled in through large operable windows

Classroom Section

Classroom Plan

Education for FemalesHistory & Reasons

Living Conditions

“We do not have enough money to develop our village. We have very good ideas for development,

but no assistance...” - Haji Abdullah Saleh and Rahmat Gul

Views of Gardez

Off-the-Grid Hospital Gardez, Paktya, Afghanistan Spring 2011: Current Team Project: Angeline Stimpson

Access to essential medicines� Improve the health of women and children by implementing

the basic package of health services (BPHS)� Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) ensures that Afghan

population has access to safe, effective and affordable medicines

Source: Royal Society of Medicine

Implications for Architecture�Water for religious reasons�Water well for local

communities�Sanitation facilities for local

communities�Dental facilities and supply

distribution center

ProgramA. AdministrationB. Emergency, Imaging & LabsC. Pharmacy, Dental, & RehabilitationD. Outpatient ClinicE. SurgeryF. Labor & DeliveryG. Men’s WardsH. Women’s WardsJ. Religious CenterK. ServicesL. Guard HouseM. Incinerator

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Kayla R. Kaufman 8815 Arborway Court #125 • Indianapolis, Indiana • 46268 • 217.530.2472 • [email protected]

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EDUCATION University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Master of Architecture (expected May 2011)

Current GPA: 3.8 Chicago Award in Architecture - Honorable Mention (Fall 2009) Women’s Architectural League Foundation Scholarship (Fall 2010)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (May 2009)

Graduating GPA: 3.4 Dean’s List (Fall 2008) Member of Alpha Rho Chi, architectural society

Philanthropy Chair (Spring 2009) Active member of the American Institute of Architecture Students Member of the Society of Business Management in Architecture Freedom By Design and ESLARP participant Member of the National Scholar’s Honor Society

Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois Pre-Architectural Studies (May 2006) EXPERIENCE Cornice & Rose International, LLC, Barrington, Illinois Architectural Intern (2006 – 2010)

Researched products and materials for multi-million dollar residences Communicated with product representatives Designed presentations for clients Detailed drawings of architectural elements

Army Corps of Engineers, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois

Research Assistant (September 2010 – Present) Research the benefits of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Compose a paper persuading the Army Installation Management

Command (IMCOM) to adopt BIM on a larger scale Prepare presentations for a NetZero Energy Installations project

PROFICIENCIES • AutoCAD • Adobe Photoshop • Autodesk Revit • Adobe InDesign • Google SketchUp • Adobe Illustrator • Climate Consultant • Microsoft Office

portfolio of graduate work

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