architecture portfolio

P. GRANT LARSENFOLIOA R C H I T E C T U R EU N D E R G R A D U A T E

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about me

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architectural designgraduate works

community recreation center 6chicago, il spring 2014

sit | set 12small full-scale studio, fall 2013

escuela 14monquecagua, honduras fall 2013

undergraduate works

urban visions 2012 20chicago, il spring 2012

east dundee public library 24east dundee, il spring 2010

multi-faith worship center 30chicago, il fall 2011

span + canopy 34 material study fall 2009

selected works

europe study tour 36summer 2012

experience Mohagen|HansenArchitecturalGroup Designer, May 2014 - Present Healthcare space planning and design of orthopedic, pediatric and specialty clinics for Health Partners and Allina. Aided in the design, production and administration of private and residential projects. Todd Mohagen, Mark Hansen, 952.426.7400

ChipmanDesignArchitecture, Chicago,IL Project Associate, September 2012 - Present Design and remodel work for Gap Corporation. Produce drawings from site surveys and feasibility through construction documents and construction details. Submit drawings for cli ent approval, permits and bidding, as well as construction administration. Work done in AutoCAD2014. Dan Tessarolo, John A. Chipman, 847.298.6900 eMi[EngineeringMinistriesInternational], Atenas, Costa Rica Architectural Intern, January 2011 - July 2011 Assisted in schematic and design development for a university complex proposal in Puerto Morelos, Mexico; master plan + phases 1-4; organized, coordinated and facilitated communication between design professionals; produced drawings and reports through con struction documents. Tim Clem, 719.571.9503

ExlarCorporation, Eden Prairie, MN Assembly/ Warehouse worker, June 2010 - August 2012 Assemble mechanical, electrical actuators; final testing of the units Doug Guse, 952.500.6231

languages English, Native Spanish, Conversational

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objective Seeking a design opportunity in a progressive architecture firm to contribute to creative and technical pursuits of the practice, as well as to augment my educational and professional experience.

education MasterofArchitecturein Sustainable Design

Judson University, Elgin, Illinois Completed May 2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow; Building Construction Technologies, Structures III BachelorofArtsin Architecture Judson University, Elgin, Illinois Completed December 2012 Dean’s List [5 semesters], Honor Student

proficiency autoCAD2014 RevitArchitecture2012[knowledge] SketchUp8 AutodeskEcoTect Kyrkethea[knowledge]

honors and awards AlphaLambdaDeltamember National Honor Society for Academic excellence OutstandingPerformanceAward Judson University Architecture Faculty award 2012

AdobeInDesignAdobePhotoshopAdobeIllustratorMicrosoftWordMicrosoftPowerPoint

MicrosoftExcelPreziHanddraftingModelbuildingSketching+Watercolor

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01_BUILDING elevationsouth elevatiom

LOCATIONChicago,

Illinois

FUNCTIONRec Center

SIZE34,000 sq. ft.

PROFESSORIan Hoffman

SEMESTERSpring 2014

DURATION10 Weeks

Located on a cross street between the radial and grid of north Chicago, the programmatic, volumetric requirements formed the formal quality of the building elevations.

The larger volume spaces are at the lowest level to allow for the most public spaces for community access, while the raised spaces can then be smaller scale, elevated off of the ground. The vertical elements also were used for vertical circulation and mechanical distribution.

Circulation was a critical aspect to the building, thus the building uses key concepts of stitch, hub, path, and corridor to organize the programmatic volumes while increasing the likely hood of interior interactions between the users.

*SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

In current large, corporate ‘fitness centers,’ the typical scenario is one person exercising on one machine. This builds a relationship between man and machine.

This community recreation center aims to break down this relationship between man and machine and create a community oriented building through the programmatic organization of interacting spaces. This building investigates the building of stronger relationships, interior to interior, interior to exterior, and exterior to interior.

By creating interactions with one another, rather than with the machine, the community center becomes a hub that fosters interaction, community, and relationship building.

Through the use of site lines and programmatic organization, the community center replaces the individualized workout with responsive interactions between people.

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GYMNASIUM 6050RACQUETBALL COURTS 1600

LOBBY 500ENTRANCE 240

TOTAL 8390

LAP POOL 2300DIVE POOL 750

CAFE 1030

TOTAL 4080

EXERCISE ROOMS 975WEIGHT LIFTING 1310

YOGA/ AEROBICS/ DANCE 1560

LOCKERS 200TOTAL 4045 s.f.

LOCKERS 1100SAUNA 240

STEAM ROOM 240MECHINICAL 3000

TOTAL 4580

ADMIN. OFFICES 1340CHILD CARE 850

TOTAL 2190

CLIMBING WALL 890CIRCULATION CORE 2500

MECHANICAL 900TOTAL 4290

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06_BUILDING perspective

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01_BUILDING perspectiveinterior gymnasium

S I T | S E TS M A L L F U L L - S C A L E

COMMUNITYLOCATION

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FUNCTIONend tables

SIZE-

PROFESSORThomas Frost

SEMESTERFall 2013

DURATION3 Weeks

Community equals a broken whole.

Community is the gathering of people, all unique and different in every way. Each has their own past that has shaped them to who they are today.

This set of three side tables are driven by this idea of community as a broken whole.

The use of plywood was a choice driven by the variety of types, each with different layers, quality, and thicknesses. The form of a circle, yet broken, was chosen because as humans, in community we drive for perfection and wholeness. It isn’t until we come together that there begins to be some essence of completion. However, there are still cracks and imperfections in who we are that allows the inside, and not so perfect, to be seen and experienced

*materials: plywood, acrylic

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LOCATIONMonquecagua,

Honduras

FUNCTIONSchool

SIZE1,800 sq. ft.

PROFESSORJae Cha

SEMESTERFall 2013

DURATION5 Weeks

HONDURASE S C U E L A

S C H O O LP R O T O T Y P E

This school design seeks to use the same means and methods, as well as building footprint of the existing building on the site. Using a poured concrete structural frame with in fill concrete masonry unit blocks, the school acts as a module system that uses available materials with simple connections.

Using a customizible perforated screen system that controls the intense sunlight as well as allow for natural ventilation in the Honduran mountains, this module can be replicated in various configurations that will best suit the intended use.

This modular designed system increases flexibility in plan layout, future growth, aesthetic customization, and climate adaptation.

*SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

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perforated metal panel

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05_ASSEMBLY kit of parts

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02_DESIGN development

LOCATIONChicago, IL

FUNCTIONMixed Use

SIZE100,000 sq. ft.

PROFESSORThomas Jaeger

SEMESTERSpring 2012

DURATION9 Weeks

U R B A NV I S I O N S

2012Urban growth has significantly changed in the past two centuries. As cities become more dense and land less available. The increased number of construction and commercial development along major expressways and interstate highways has consumed prime land within reasonable commuting times.

Urban Visions seeks to explore the development of potential new office, commercial, and residential construction in the air rights over major suburban or urban routes adjacent to and in Chicago.

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) Desires to explore the development in the air rights over major suburban or urban routes adjacent to and in Chicago [55, 90, 94, 290, 294].

This prototypical design targets a typical six-lane expressway that is adjacent to on/off ramps, cta train line, and growing communities in order to create new employment opportunities and related economic benefits.

*Revit, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

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01_SITE analysis

Natural Ventilation

Located on the 290 corridor, Urban Visions seeks to create a connection to the suburban communities to the city center through economic stimulation. A node, Urban Visions links two adjacent communities of differing races and low income. Acting as a “city center” this prototype will be a catalyst to a radial growth to the surrounding communities. Through connection of green space, retail spaces, employment opportunities, Urban Visions will spark a new, flourishing community.

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winter 24.5

T.O. Slab26’-0”

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T.O. Slab26’-0”

T.O. Slab13’-0”

T.O. Slab39’-0”

T.O. Slab52’-0”

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winter 24.5

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summer 71.5

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04_PROGRAMMING building uses

Natural daylighting was a major concept that drove the design of this mixed-use building program. With an east to west orientation, thus having large facades to the north and south, this created an opportunity to explore the exterior enclosure of the building. Because the sun needs to be treated differently on all sides of the building, this called for various wall construction methods. The north facade is a modular double-skin construction that provides large amounts of ambient light while reducing the solar heat gain in the building through natural air convection within the air cavity. The east facade uses a double-skin construction method that uses vegetation on the exterior of the structural support members to diffract harsh eastern sunlight, along with vertical louvers in the cavity to help control direct sunlight. The south facade uses a combination of both the north and east through a double-skin wall with a modular photo voltaic system accompanied by a louver system that treats the harsh and direct southern sun throughout the calendar year.

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Urban Visions

LOCATIONEast Dundee, IL

FUNCTIONPublic Library

SIZE15,000 sq. ft


SEMESTERSpring 2010

DURATION7 Weeks

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As West Dundee began to grow across the river, East Dundee began to suffer. Once support by the train line, business moved to the west side of the river where residential development was occurring. The East Dundee library, located on the site of the old train station, seeks to revitalize the once thriving community.

Located along the river front, the new community library addresses the needs of the east and also connects the east and west communities together. The new library is designed with a transparent west facing façade that allows for honesty and openness to the communities.

By creating a campus-like complex, the library contains a serious of ancillary buildings [lecture hall, gallery, café, and research facility that is accessible after hours] in addition to the main library. Rather than connecting all the building programs together, the complex forces users to interact from the interior and exterior spaces.

The East Dundee library provides the needs and foundation as a catalyst for the revival of the community as it addresses both the riverfront to the west and the current city fabric of the east.

*Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

E A S TD U N D E EP U B L I C

L I B R A R Y

02_PARKS + PARKING 03_SITE CONCEPTS

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WRAP

AXIS

Connecting two communities and a catalyst for new growth, the East Dundee Library In responds to the site in a manner that utilizes greenery as a key link between the adjacent communities.

Green spaces are distributed throughout the exterior of the building, creating places for interaction. In juxtaposition to the geometric, formal quality of the program, the organic green spaces acts to soften the impact of the building by flowing with the current vegetation and streetscape of the surrounding context.

Using the current topography of the site, the Library sits above the floodplain creating a usable green lawn intended for community events.

The East Dundee Library developed from three underlying concepts:

Riverfront: The Library sits on the east bank of the Fox River oriented to utilize the southern and western sunlight. Addressing West Dundee, the Library seeks to connect to communities split by the river.

Wall: An organizing principle for the campus complex, the wall acts as a path or orientation for the user of the building. With the public aspects of the building to the western, lit portion of the building, the wall provides a barrier to the private aspects of the library separating the study rooms, offices, and administrative portions of the program.

Axis: In addition to responding to the green spaces, the Library responds to the current building fabric as it creates an axis through the complex to the riverfront, again linking East Dundee to the west.

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06_WEST SECTION

07_BUILDING PLANS

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LOCATIONChicago, IL

FUNCTIONWorship Center

SIZE42,500 sq. ft.

PROFESSORThomas Jaeger

SEMESTERFall 2011

DURATION9 Weeks

M U L T I - F A I T HW O R S H I PC E N T E RC H I C A G O , I L L I N O I S

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How can different faiths come together and worship under one roof? A juxtaposition of liturgies, faiths, beliefs, religious practices, holidays, and architectural precedents, what kind of building can meet these diverse needs?

The overall concepts for the building’s design lies within a traditional church design plan. With different religions, two entries are present, both with different languages that seek not to segregate beliefs, but allow for two difference to converge. Where these two paths converge becomes a critical point of coming together and unification of not only space but of experiences between people.

Entry from the west forms a long axis that is emphasized by the long structural glulam members. This long axis directs the user directly to the main assembly space. The second entry from he north has a short, rhythmic structure allowing for glimpses of the side chapel and exterior courtyard. Both entry languages create a sense of journey as one moves through the building to the destination point, the assembly space.

Through elevated and volumetric spaces, the essence of the building occurs in the overlapping of planes, the wrapping of programmatic elements are unified, communicating with each other as differing religions seek to use common spaces.

*SketchUp, AutoCAD, EcoTect, Photoshop, Illustrator

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Choir Room

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Classroom

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The building’s orientation is both liturgically and sustainably organized. Orientated East-West, the Worship center harvests the sun’s energy and light providing both passive heating and natural day lighting.

Controlling the Southern sun is considered through the location of windows, appropriate shading devices, as well as wall depths. The diagrams show the building’s ability to control harsh, hot summer sun, yet allow for winter light to penetrate the building skin.

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WINTER_SOLSTICE

04_SOLAR STUDY

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A space that is well ventilated and has a constant cycle of outside air is necessary to provide for comfort and air control within a building. Using the natural air flow from the South, a louver system is placed at the intersection point of the two entries, to allow for natural suction and air flow. As cool air warms, it rises towards the high, isolated

ceiling where due to change in pressures and natural air movement, it is carried out of the building. This creates a regenerative process as outside air is circulated low throughout the building. Using the natural occurrences of the earth, the worship center can maintain a natural, pleasant, comfortable environment for all of its users.

05_SUSTAINABLE CONCEPTS

REFLECTIVE PANEL

ABSORPTIVE PANEL

07_ACOUSTIC CONCEPTS

Continuing the building concept of wrapping for integration and connection, this is applied to the acoustical tuning of the main worship center. Forming the unique building section, these acoustical panels

emphasize the building’s layering and complexity, along with fine tuning the sound quality while creating a unique worship experience.

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LOCATIONUndetermined

FUNCTIONPavilion Covering

TIME FRAME2 Weeks


SEMESTERFall 2009

MEDIUMBirch Veneer+10 guage wire

CANOPY +S P A N

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How do specific materials want to respond when manipulated? Why are they used for specific purposes? Can you adapt certain materials to do something it was not created to do? These are a few of the questions this short project sought to answer.

Given a 4’ x 4’ sheet of birch veneer the task was to create the longest span, largest canopy, or tallest tower without using any adhesives [i.e. glues, tape, etc.], though tension members were allowed.

This project concluded with a ‘spanopy.’ As it spans the greatest distance allowable [the diagonal] it also creates a canopy that shades the space below it.

In its elegant form and lightness as it touches the ground, the veneer responds tot he structural manipulation of the material. By creating a convex, dual curving form through different sized radii and folding the edges inward, the material takes a rigid form. Adding a tension member to the underside, both essential and aesthetic, this ‘spanopy’ succeeded in more than one function.

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