RYAN SCANLAN

PORTFOLIO

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Design Studio 3 Spring 2011

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Design Studio 1 Spring 2011

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Le Corbusier Sculpture

For my sophmore year studio, I created a sculpture from Le Corbusier’s painting and a structured grid.I took elements from the painting and the grid, and reinterpreted them into a two dimension drawing.From the drawing, I extruded three dimensional formsto shape the sculpture.

The Einstein House

The intent of this project was to design a house for Albert Einstein. The design of the house was to reflectwhat made Einstein famous, and how to reflect that into the design of the house. All design aspects reflected Albert Einstein, theory of reletivity, Big Bang Theory and his personal taste and home life.

Whole Foods Analysis

For my Junior year studio, I created a big box analysismapping of the grocery store Whole Foods. Studyinga suburban whole foods in Ann Arbor Michigan and analysing and mapping out the store. Then we took a trip to Chicago Illinois to study the big box cultureof Whole Foods in an urban environment.

WHOLE FOODS, WHOLE PEOPLE, WHOLE PLANET

EaTERS GUILD

Long-term relationships are nurtured through education and shared organizational values not through buying and selling.

CINZORI FARMS

TREE MENDUS FRUIT

SMOKEHOUSE, SUSHI/NOODLE BAR, WOOD OVEN PIZZA, FRESH PRODUCE, GROCERY, NATURALLY RAISED BEEF AND POULTRYSUBURBAN

We define quality by evaluating the ingredients, freshness, safety, taste, nutritive value and appear-ance of all of the products we carry.

WHERE GREAT TASTING FOOD IS ONLY NATURAL

Z-BEST BAKERY

whole body, wine/beer, seafood, produce, prepared foods, meat/poultry, grocery, coffee, cheese/speciality, bakery

catering, hearth baked pizza, delivery

URBAN

Modular Connections

The intent of this project was to design a multi-purpose building in downtown Detroit. Combiningthe big box analysis project with the idea of bringingpeople back to Detroit. Bottom floors combining big box stores consisting of Whole foods and Sears. The middle floors with apartments to bring people back downtown and the top levels have leaseable office space.

The site of the design is located on the remnents of the original woodward plan of Detroit, designed by AugustusWoodward. Detroit was shifting its attention from the river to the roads. Woodward proposed a system of modular hexagonal street blocks, that can be added onto with the Grand Circus at its center, . Creating the main “spokes” of Woodward’s plan.

The Design focuses on that of modularity, uniform blocks being build on top of each other always with the idea of growth. Rising up from the ground the design emulates Woodward’s plan of modularity and further growth. Staying with the plan of Woodward’s design, there is a central courtyard with modular blocks around it forming an oasis from urban life. The form is dictated by axis lines of prominent roads and shaped liked a wedge like Woodward designed the city blocks. Raising the building on one side and lowering the other reflects Woodward’s theory that “we hope for better days , it will rise again from the ashes” raising the building signifies the raising from the ashes, it also creates desired views uninhabited by the taller building to the south of it and provides sunlight into the courtyard and apartments.

Toledo Urban Design

This project asked for a redevelopment of an urban site in Downtown Toledo, Ohio. A dying city, Toledo offered a unique challenge to an Urban Studio. Upon completion of agroup masterplan each individuals in my group was then asked to design a building that fit within our masterplanand the ideas that we are trying to express through our masterplan design principles.masterplan design principles.

Gateways Bridges and Water Green SpaceFocal Points Grids Eastside Grid Extension

Cherry Street Entrance Axis Shift

Our site is on the east side of Toledo next to the Cherry Street Bridge. We are bringing the density of downtown Toledo over the bridge and into the east side. In order to connect all parts of Toledo into our master plan, we have brought the Cherry Street axis, which signifyed a historical shift in the Downtown grid, across the Maumee River as a pedestrian bridge creating an urban boulevard unifying our site, the raised boulevard ends in a focal point midlevel skyscraper. The skyscraper acts as an anchor of the edge of our site skyscraper. The skyscraper acts as an anchor of the edge of our site and the bridge, bringing the skyscrapers across to the east side of the river. In order to bring up the East side residential grid connecting our site with the concept of merging the downtown and eastside grids. There are finger-like buildings that are positioned on the extended eastside grid axis that will be for retail and entertainment extended eastside grid axis that will be for retail and entertainment use. Since Mainstreet is the main entry into Downtwon from the east side, we created a gateway, in which our finger -like buildings extend over the road and the road lined in greenery welcoming pedestrials into downtown Toledo through our site. To connect to pedestrials into downtown Toledo through our site. To connect to the river and downtown again, we designed a multiuse building along the river reflecting a focal point building on the other side of the river, to be used as the new row housing and new docks. To further integrate the Maumee river with our site we created a canal that funs through our site parallel with the raised boulevard, running through buildings creating a urban landscape that everyone running through buildings creating a urban landscape that everyone can experience and enjoy.

Bridging the Gap of a split city.

Anchored ShiftThe design of a tower wasimplimented into the east side, creating a focal point and bringing downtown across the bringing downtown across the Maumee River. It is located at the end of a raised urban boulevard anchoring it to our boulevard anchoring it to our site. The boulevard is derived from the grid shift downtown. In order to represent this shift, the tower is split into two seperate towers perpendicular to the boulevard, while one tower remains rectilinear the other remains rectilinear the other tower has a dynamic shift rotating and cantilevering over the boulevard. With connecting bridges between the two towers this further connects to the idea of bridging a gap.

Design Build Competition

Innovation in concrete masonry was the underlying themeof this design competition. My team and I collaborated indesigning a structure to not exceed an 8 foot cubic volume. The team and I also had to impliment another material intoour design on top of the concrete masonry in a unique and original way.

Fine Art 2006 - 2012

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