PORTFOLIOTrent Richardson

Trent Richardson

richardsontrent@gmail.com(816) 519-2910

Education

Kansas State UniversityCollege of Architecture, Planning, and DesignManhattan, KansasM.ARCH in Architecture

University of KansasCollege of Liberal Arts & SciencesLawrence, Kansas

Employment

Rothers Design BuildShop Technician Kansas City, Mo

Awards, Honors & Involvement

Ben Barnert Memorial Scholarship

Dean’s List Honor Roll

CityVision Competition

OZ Magazine

Skills

Proficient

Intermediate

Devleoping

Other

References

Available on request

2011-2016 (expected)

2009-2011

Summer 2012

2014-2015

2011-2014

Summer 2014

2014-Present

Notable architecture studio courses include a semester of urban-ism with a project in Stavanger, Norway and a semester focusing on the relationship of structure and site; with an emphasis on tectonics. Cumulative GPA: 3.82

Transferred after two years of study in liberal artsCourses taken include writing extensive subjects such as Theory in Anthropology, History of Modern Philosophy, and History of Modern Art

Shop Technician, assisted in construction of cabinetry and other carpentry work for new residential houses; experience with implementation of design work with cabinetry and other carpentry work

Scholarship in the honor of Populous Senior Principal and Partner Ben Barnert

Semesterly achievement for top 10% of class

Competion imagining Beijing as a future global city

Kansas State student architecture magazine concerned with current theoretical and conceptual issues in architecture and urbanism. Current topic: Context

Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketchup Pro

3DS Max, V-Ray, Premier Pro, AutoCad

Revit, Ecotect

Microsoft Office, MacOSX, Windows, Laser-cutting, Model-making, IMovie

INDIVIDUAL STUDIO PROJECTSMuseum of Installation Art Spring 2014

Manhattan Public Libary Fall 2013

GROUP PROJECTS

Ceremonial Act I Summer 2014

Stavanger Urban Intervention Spring 2014

MUSEUM FOR INSTALLATION ART

New York, New YorkProf. Torgier NorheimSpring 2014

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Site ResponseThe Museum of Installation Art is situated on the primarily residential 14th Street between 2nd and 3rd Ave. in Greenwich Village. For many years the large site, and the site directly adjacent (bordering 13th St.) laid vacant. An historic theatre once joined these two lots with its entrance facing the narrow opening to the vibrant 14th street. The discovery of the site’s previous condition informed the response that the museum had to the site. 14th Street was seen just as much of an entrance as 13th street, with the smaller vacant site predicted to be a four storey apartment building. Therefore, a connection was made from 14th street to 13th street at street level and through a proposed connection to the nearby subway stop. The residual space between the museum and the proposed apartment building serves the public as an outdoor auditorium. This auditorium is a “stitch” between the various urban levels.

A City within a MuseumThe museum itself is seen as an interior urban environment, a continuation of the flows from the surrounding context. These flows are directed vertically through a staggered primary staircase. Situated within the space are three volumes that contain the museums public program as opposed to the gallery space. These volumes interact with the gallery space to create a viewing environment for the art that is more akin to a public plaza than a traditional modern art museum. A diagonal void illuminates the three volumes from all levels of the museum. The openness of the space serves to create a holistic experience of the art installations, allowing the possibility for the artist to curate the museum as a single art piece.

1 Context Map showing lower Manhattan with 456 Train and L Train

2 Context Plan showing surrounding neighborhood, Greenwich Village

3 City within a museum sketch

4 Context photomontage of façade from 13th St.

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CITY WITHIN MUSEUM

Restaurant Mezzanine

Restaurant

Storage

Library Stacks

Reading Room

Cafe

Indoor Auditorium

Light/Sound Booth 5 Diagrams showing interior of “activity nodes”

6 Axon showing “activity nodes” interaction with gallery space

7 Elevation of South facade

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Library Stacks

Reading Room

Cafe

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8 Rendering showing view from upper volume looking down through the diagonal void space

9 First floor plan with immediate context

10 Cross section through the site showing a proposed connection to the 3rd Ave. L train subway stop

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11 Diagram showing “direct vs. lateral” circulation.

12 Section through main staircase facing the courtyard

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MANHATTAN PUBLIC LIBRARY EXTENSION

Manhattan, KansasProf. Bruce WrightsmanFall 2013

Site ResponseThe focus of the Manhattan Library Extension was to explore the relationship of architectural form and site. Located on the outskirts of the university campus, the site is located adjacent to a technical school to the East and a park to the south. To the west, the site slopes down to an old growth forest. In response to the site, the library directs the movement of library-goers from the North-South to the East-West by using a long volume floating above the site. The directionality of this volume places emphasis on the forest to the west by seeing this face of the volume as the terminus.

Formal ResponseAs a whole, the library uses this act of procession as a theme to mimic the process of gaining knowledge or attaining enlightenment. The entry begins in the most public area of the building, in the large plinth. This plinth, along with the smaller plinth are inferior in their importance of function and experience to the “bar” above. They are merely support, structurally and programatically, for the second floor. The subject then ascends into the long white bar that houses the spaces of knowledge; spaces that increase in their importance as the subject moves towards the west through a long corridor lined with books. This corridor is marked in its importance by a dramatic skylight on the southern side of the space. The light increases in its intensity as the subject moves towards the last space.

1 Conceptual sketch showing bar volume resting on plinth

2 Site plan

3 Picture of physical model

4 Night rendering view from outdoor auditorum space

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5 Interior renderings showing progression of spaces from dark to light

6 Structural diagram showing truss volume resting on lower plinths

7 Conceptual diagrams

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As the subject enters the library, they are put directly on a circulation route that leads them to the primary staircase of the building. The path then leads up into the floating volume. A sequence of spaces unfolds as the subject passes through a series of gateways that mark the discrete spaces. The circulation path culminates in the library stacks, the most significant space in the building, where views are directed to the forest beyond.

Resting on the two public volumes that make up the plinth, the long bar volume is organized in a way so that the sequence of interior spaces grow increasingly more private as the subject moves through the volume. Terminating at the end of the volume is an overlook. The library is seen as the progression form the plural to the singular.

A massive, stereotomic plinth is carved into the landscape. This base element upholds the light tectonic volume that houses all program associated with “knowledge.” The plinth serves as structural support but also a support programmatically. It houses all public program and storage ares serving the spaces above.

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9 First and Second Floor Plans

10 Longitudinal section through elevated volume and site

11 Third Floor Plan

12 Detail axon of façade, roof, and plinth

13 Cross section through elevated volume and outdoor auditorium

Frosted Glass Panels

Zinc Plate

Roof InsulationLightweight Concrete

Drip GutterAir/Vapor Barrier

Concrete SlabSteel Truss

Stainless Steel Frame

6 in. Stone Panel8in. Poured Concrete

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One city, one nation? Which population can become the “world future citizenship” becoming “Darwinian” the dominant one?

Cityvision imagined, in continuity with the contemporary history, that this place must be “entitled” to China. As we know China is a country that is imposing itself at all economic and social levels (its resident population is already the 20% of the global total).

Taken from CityVision Evolution brief

CEREMONIAL ACT ICityVision Magazine Beijing Competition Entry

Jury: Ai Wei Wei, Sou Fujimoto, Greg Lynn, Eric de Broche des CombesSpring 2014

1 Map of Beijing showing “lanterns” docked over the Second Ring Road

2 Diagrams showing interior and exterior of “lantern” structures

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Amidst the uncertainty of the future, in a city, constructions of ‘towers of Babel’ come to another halt when falling impotently short in the horror of Man’s vanity. A new moon approaches as life comes to another point of consummation, dignified in its own serenity and seemingly unaffected by the egoist’ hysteria.

In the Chinese capital of Beijing, migrant workers hastened their steps in preparation for the annual departure of the city and the long-waited trip home. In the crowded streets, the disappearance of familiar history and culture trailed closely behind them. Their homes are now laden with anticipation and festival goods, ready to be set upward into the sky and, with the passing of clouds, soon be greeted by villages that raised them.

Docked above the second ring road, migrant workers now could occupy within the city housed in between a diaphanous membrane and an inflatable, balloon like, core that contains a void, based on the traditional typology of the Chinese courtyard homes.

Rising in unison to greet the night sky, a ring of lanterns traces the outline of the full moon onto the city below. They stand at midpoint between the second ring road and the moon itself. In an instant, they are set free to float over the neighborhoods of Beijing to begin their journey home. Housed inside are the stories gained by another year of urban life. Tales transported home to villages eagerly waiting to receive them. Beijing is woken by the sounds of firecrackers, lighting up in red.

An exodus composes an extraordinary image – a new way of life begins with a fundamental act. Inspired by the phenomenon of Chunyun (Spring Festival travel season) and the lives of hundreds of millions of migrant workers, this flow of people, unparalleled in scale and magnitude, is captured and transformed into an act of celebration. As their homes are set afloat for the first time, they are relieved from the anxiety that once burdened them during this annual travel.

This event is seen as an exemplar of the global city, democratic in essence and almost anti-architecture. In a sense, it is the events and acts of life that create architectural space and the city. Migration becomes a permanent flow that marks the Beijing sky.

The migrant workers of China are the first to become the future global citizens. Nomadic in lifestyle and free to travel and dwell in the open sky, they are unbounded by the limitations of social class and urban space. With the flight of the first kite, the Chinese have long ago begun the exploration of a dream. The ideal has always lived within us. A combination of housing and infrastructure, new urban villages are dynamic and temporal, animated by natural forces and their ephemerality. They fulfil not only a dream but also the response to a lack of urban space and inefficient transportation systems.

Set above the second ring road, the floating structures link together to connect Beijing’s historic central district with the outer areas of new growth. Metaphorically seen as the reconstruction of the old city wall, the workers sojourn in these floating villages above the road where the old city wall used to stand. They will act as links within Beijing to greater China and the world by providing culture a new means of mobility.

To the world, rapidly urbanizing cities in China are symbols of a new prosperity. But, for the citizens of these new cities, survival in the neurotic urban environment and the residue of ‘progress’ is pushed to an unprecedented limit. More specifically for the migrant workers, this urbanization offers them merely a fragmented dream, an unattainable one that often led to social and economic rejection. In order to evolve, there cannot be a refusal of the past or a worship of the projection of the future.

Combining the scenarios evolution and involution, the concept calls for a type of humility and optimism that recognizes the failures of contemporary times and the power of culture and history that has led us thus far.

THE MIGRANTS JOURNEY

“My utopia is life at this moment, here or in any other place, taken to the limits of its ideal possibilities.”

LEWIS MUMFORD

STAVANGER URBAN INTERVENTION

Stavanger, NorwayProf. Torgier NorheimSpring 2014

Urban AcupunctureTraditional acupuncture is used as Chinese medication in order to correct imbalances in the flow of qi. Placing a needle in one point of the body will help balance out the flow of energy in another part of the body. Urban acupuncture uses this methodology for balancing and regulating flows of urban spaces. In relation to the Stavanger Intervention, this response provides a sustainable infrastructure for city. It choreographs space and the human response to create often overlooked developments and interactions that encourage a healthy economic and creative growth for the region. The idea is that individual architectural projects become needles in a large connected web is what we give name to the “urban floor”.

The Urban FloorThe urban floor serves as the fabric that connects the public realm of Stavanger. As a result, the city’s urban flow is reconfigured to connect the primary nodes of activity around the market. The focus was to engage an underground strata so as to not interrupt the existing environment of Stavanger. This solution produced a diversity of opportunities between various vertical dimensions. As it serves as the framework for the campanile and the cultural armature, the urban floor establishes a unity between the three elements.

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1 Context Maps of Region

2 Intervention Diagrams

3 Ground level program

2 Rendering of the underground

The Bridge

Waste

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5 Underground level program

6 Concept diagram showing movement from water to light

7 Longitudinal section through main underground realm

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The flow of energy is directed through the underground by creating a connection between the lake and the harbor which channels water through the subterranean realm. Water is used as a primary ‘sensory magnet’ that guides people into the space while light is used to pull people back to a higher strata. Represented by light, balance is established by connecting vertical stitches through the various strata.