kristian.mizes_portfolio

Architecture. KRISTIAN MIZES

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OFFICE.

EXTRAS.

NEWSWEEK: Future of Work - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - Examining how New Orleans will live, work, play, & commute in 2030

Make It Right NOLA - Coleman Coker | buildingstudio - Affordable residential duplex in flood prone area of New Orleans

Cafe Hope + Hope Farms - Tulane City Center - Interior renovation + community garden proposal for local non-profit

USGBC Models - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - 4 basswood models for display at Greenbuild 2010 conference

Public High School - Thesis Design Studio - Re-centralizing New Orleans charter schools

Dutch Dialogues: Urban Sustainability - Architectural stormwater control strategies for existing urban fabric

Convention Hotel - A 450 room business hotel located in downtown New Orleans

Bath House - Bathing complex in Romes historic district along banks of Tiber River

Architects Week: Bench - Annual 1 week, student-led design/build project w/visiting architect

Sketches - Pen and marker sketches completed during semester abroad in Italy

OFFICE!Professional work done with the following organizations:

ESKEW+DUMEZ+RIPPLE Aug - Dec 2010 New Orleans, LA

Coleman Coker | buildingstudio Summer 2009, 2010 New Orleans, LA

Tulane City Center Mar 2009 - May 2010 New Orleans, LA

NEWSWEEK - Future of Work - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - August 2010

Cafe Hope + Hope Farm - Tulane City Center - Spring 2009, 10

Make It Right NOLA - Coleman Coker | buildingstudio - June - July 2009

USGBC Models - Eskew+Dumez+Ripple - November 2010

NEWSWEEK - Future of Work :As part of a NEWSWEEK feature series imagining how major cities will deal with urban issues in the near future, EDR was asked to address how New Orleans will live, work, play, and commute in the year 2030.

In order to encourage healthy interaction and appreciation for the citys natural geography, our response focused on reclaiming unused undustrial areas along the nearby river, lake, bayou, and canals.

COMMUTE : This proposal suggests upgrading the fl ood control devices along Lake Pontchartrain to allow for boat traffi c down the citys inner canals as was historically the case. Doing so could also provide a more pedestrian friendly thoroughfare along the lakefront.

Connecting existing green infrastructure with key additions creates park loop through city.

GreenNecklace

Examining how New Orleans will live, work, play, and commute in 2030.

WORK@ the river.

Development connects to park along riverfront.

NEWSWEEK - Future of Work

LIVE : Located along the industrial canal, an out-of-date and under-utilized port area, this location is on high ground and is centrally located. The form of the housing employs the traditional shotgun profi le, but stacks it in varying orientations for different unit types.

WORK : Situated along the Mississippi River and connected to the CBD via the Convention Center, this area is ideal for large developments. Our proposal spans across the train tracks and fl ood wall to provide the neighborhood with waterfront access.

PLAY : Bayou Bienvenue, a huge and dying wetland area very near downtown New Orleans, could be revitalized through encouraged freshwater intrusion from the Miss. River. Adding program allows the Bayou to become New Orleans 3rd City Park.

@ the canal.Reclaimed port providesspace for housing

LIVE

Professional Work: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

COMMUTE@ the lake.

Floodgate serves aspedestrian bridge.


Professional Work: Eskew+Dumez+Ripple

PLAY@ the bayou.

Linear building actsas literal gateway.


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Partnered with a local transitional housing non-profi t, theTulane City Center, the architecture schools community outreach program, was asked to provide proposalsfor a community garden and the interior renovationof an on-site teaching-cafe. Located in a suburbanNew Orleans area, the site offers suffi cient space fora substantial farming endeavour. The farm & garden consists of modular herb garden/market structures adjacent to the cafe, as well as a large space set asidefor row planting.

My role in this 4 person collaboration involved schematicdesign as well as 3d modeling and graphics for both presentation and publication uses.

CAF HOPE

MARKET +HERB FARM

CITRUS GROVE

HOPE HAVEN FARM

CAFE HOPE + HOPE FARM :

Professional Work : Tulane City Center

InteriorUndulating screen fi lters natural & artifi cial light

Proposed community garden and interior renovation of teaching-cafe for New Orleans non-profi t..

Seating organized in linear bands defi ned

by colored fi n screens

Cafe Axon

Cafe Hope + Hope Farm : Sring 2009-10

Set within the 1st fl oor of a 100 year old 3 story building, the cafe space receives day light form both the exterior garden side and an internal courtyard.

The proposal replaces a heavy masonry wall with a glass wall that alternates between clear and translucent. An interior screen of undulating, colored wood fi ns divides the dining area into distinct zones, thus organizing an otherwise directionless space.

Screen wraps cafe space between garden and

inner courtyard

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PAVILLION MODULES

HOPE CAFLearningTeaching

GreenwallShade

Restaurant

LearningTeaching

MarketGreenwall

SeatingHerb Farm


Pavilion, cafe, and herb farm/market together create learning environment

Program


PavilionFolding structurallogic allows for minimal support

Raster-Perforated Metal Screen

Colored Polycarbonate Panels

Vegetation

Chainlink Screen

Steel Tube Structure

Colored Polycarbonate Panels

Mesh, polycarb., sheet metal, & plants overlay

to create visual depth

Components


Market


LightingAlternating translucent & clear glass offers variety of day-lighting

Initiated by Brad Pitt following Hurricane Katrina, the Make It Right Foundation formed in order to ensure that rebuilding in low-lying residential areas was done properly. A consortium of local, national, and international architecture fi rms were asked to provide affordable, effi cient alternatives from which returning residents could choose as a replacement for their destroyed homes.

The design is shaped with 2 goals in mind: First, the scheme is intended to benefi t from the area beneath the house to provide comfortable outdoor living spaces. The second approach is meant to offer maximum fl exibility for various family groupings.

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MAKE IT RIGHT (renderings) :

Professional Work : buildingstudio

FrontageStriped facades

reference traditional quilting patterns

Residential duplex encouraging outdoor living in fl ood prone area of New Orleans.

split units tilt units vertical separation creates courtyard lifting provides porches

Make It Right : Summer 2009

Living RoomFull height windowslight space

My role in this 5 person collaborative effort focused on 3d modeling and rendering for study, presentation, and publication uses.

Courtyard stairs as vertical circulation

between front & rear

Professional Work : buildingstudio

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Courtyard

USGBC Models :EDR joined with the USGBC and the Salvation Armys EnviRenew affordable housing division to serve as the Architect of Record for the 4 winning designs of the USGBCs 2010 Natural Talent Design Competition. The open competiton asked participants to design an 800sf LEED Platinum house for the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans that could be built for (or close to) $100k.

In addition to producing Construction Documents, EDR was asked to build presentation models of the 4 winning entries for display at the annual Greenbuild conference. Leading a team of 3 for a two week period, I planned and led the construction and successful shipping of the models. I also produced the 75% CDs for all 4 houses. The houses will be built in Spring 2011.

E.A.S.Y House

Greenboy

The Little Easy

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4 basswood models for display at Greenbuild 2010 conference in Chicago.

basswoodbirch bases

plexiglass

Construction

USGBC/Salvation Army Models

Selected works span design studios from the 3rd to 5th year at Tulane. Studio projects focus on comprehensive design proposals while taking into account existing contexts. Additionally, studio design often incorporated paired projects, thus encouraging collaboration & constructive peer-to-peer critiquing.

SCHOOL!

Public High School - Thesis - 5th year, Spring 2010

Dutch Dialogues - 5th year, Fall 2009

Convention Hotel - 3rd year, Spring 2008

Bath House - 4th year, Fall 2008

PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL :

Student Work : Thesis Design Studio

EntryColored public

elements protrude to sites edge

THESIS STATEMENT: Acknowledging architectures role of providing for society what society values, the participatory process substantially increases architectures social accuracy. Through isolating for thearchitect which features of a design are most relevant, the stakeholders of the project come to acquire a sense of ownership that otherwise would not have arisen. The architect consequently aids in decentralizing the dearchitect consequently aids in decentralizing the defacto ownership of the building, thus ensuring that allstakeholders will begin to regard and treat the buildingas their own. Via decentralized ownership as a result of increased social accuracy, an architecture that is truly public can occur.

Re-centralizing New Orleans disparate charter schools to share amenities + increase community interaction.

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Public High School: 5th year, Spring 2010

HousingDevelopment

Proposed HighSchool Site

Future Elem.School Site

Existing AthleticFacilities

TerraceOn 3rd fl oor, provide gathering spaces & views

glass incourtyard

steel facadebeyond

NEW ORLEANS high school school spirit has long beenrampant. As large public schools close in the shift toward smaller charter schools, notions of collective identity are rapidly altering, and in some casesdisappearing. Formally infl uenced by the urban context, the proposed school addresses the emergence of new school identity structures. Re-centralizing charter schools serves to create a framework for multple identities, andconsequently, multiple relationships with the new school building.

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Housing Projects

New Housing Develop.

Site Creation

High School

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for 200 spans & dramatic views


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study spaces

END-USER interaction in the design process, although ft fi i l l i l d tioften fi nancial, may also include time, energy, or

opinion. Increased public input establishes a user-to-building relationship, allowing a collective to identify with a piece of architecture.


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The school provides space for 1100 students. Through organizing the classes into a 50 wide ring around the

site, the building allows for the easy expansion and contraction of different academic departments.


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The shared amenities span across the site and servve as shortcuts, encouraging social mixing that otherwisee would not happen. These amenities, such as the library aand thehealth center, are open to the public and consequently allow for the school to develop a stronger relationnship with its surorunding community.


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slotted windowwall

brick facade& screens

FacadesInner louvers

& outer screens contrast opacities



CafetoriumSkylit cafeteria with track and library beyond

Extending the research started by design professionals and engineers during the Dutch Dialogues, a collaborative effort between Amsterdam & New Orleans aimed at enhancing fl ood control strategies, this platform studio focused on integrating stormwater control devices into the existing urban fabric.

Due to the low-lying natue of the site, reducing density while providing stormwater storage so as to relieve the pumping system became the top priority.

Bowl Topography

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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY :

Student Work : Design Studio

Full SiteReduced density terraced blocks

lead to urban lake

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Integrating architectural stormwater control strategies into existing urban fabric.

Working in a pair, we proposed that New Orleans purchase all vacant and blighted properties in the neighborhood, and then excavate the blocks in a terraced fashion leading to a large man-made retaining pond adjacent to a major pumping station.

The neighborhood would thus encourage interaction with water and be more capable of protecting itself form future fl ood events. Referencing coastal living typologies provides a solution for living safely near rising waters.

Urban LakeCoastal living typologyintroduced to urban residential context

excavation createsterraced blocks

Dutch Dialogues :5th year, Fall 2009

Applying the preceding urban research at an architectural scale, the task became to create a building that responds to the substantial water fl ow across the front, and highest, block of the neighborhood. Additionally, we proposed that all development along the sites edge would need to transport stormwater into the terraced block system.

The chosen apartment building brings a surface canals edge deep into the site, allows for habitable stormwater storage, and employs earthen ramps that both funnel water and provide raised parking access. Thus, all design moves result directly from water fl ow.

Initial Sketch

Water FlowSite & building collect& direct storm water

to retension pond


raise building mass 2nd fl oor parking cantilever defi nes fl ood space

roof slopes control rainwater

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Pixel courtyardallows interaction

with water

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Roof GardenSloped gardens catch rainwater

The habitable concrete pixel pond on the ground fl oor encourages indeterminate use while allowing for the passage of stormwater. It also steps up to provide 2nd fl oor parking access.

The apartment units over the pixel pond step down from the 4th to the 3rd fl oor. The sloped, terraced green roof above collects stormwater in a simi-lar manner as the entire neighborhood does on a larger urban scale.

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Section BBRoof garden follows

stepped apartments to rear of site


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TOWER MASSING

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PUBLIC/TOWER OVERLAY

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The program called for a 450 room convention/tourism hotel located in downtown New Orleans near the Mississippi River. The proposed massing solution separates the hotel rooms into 2 distinct leaning towers that decrease solar gain and imply a sense of street frontage despite setback codes.

Through aligning the 2 towers perpendicular to one another, the building maintings the urban edge while providing maximum views toward the nearby river. Spanning the base of the 2 towers are public program, convention spaces, and parking.

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CONVENTION HOTEL :

Student Work: Design Studio

FrontageStreet view down

Convention Center Blvd. to CBD

Reducing scale and increasing street presence in response to contextual proportions.


LobbyInterior furniture refl ects massing.Sweet iMacs.

The lobby and convention spaces spanning the 2 towers occupy the several levels beneath the gym, pool, and spa. A large third fl oor terrace provides ample break out space for conventions as well as the opportunity for on-site outdoor events.

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Convention Hotel : 3rd year, Spring 2008

Special attention was paid to the facade, which consists of a double-layered glass system that alters its orientation depending on solar orientation. An inner, butt-jointed layer rests behind a light truss system which supports the outer photovoltaic glass. The angled trusses, which vary in scale for public and prvate program, reduce the monotony of the large facades.

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Photovol Facade Adaptations:

Vertical louvers onEast and North

Horizontal louvers onWest and South

De-emphasis of orthogonalstructure and denotation

of public program

Vertical and Horizontal louvers combine/deepen on

West to create balconies

Photovol Facade Adaptations

Section BBHotel fl oors step 2/fl oor toward street

Convention Hotel : 3rd year, Spring 2008

The project called for a bathing complex located in Romes historic district along the Tiber River. Working in a pair, our proposed response integrates a triangulated & multi-purpose parkscape with the built form while architecturalizing the fi ltration of river water for use in the entirety of the project.

The triangulated parkscape allows for a continuity in form between the exterior and the interior spaces below, and indicates that the space, although natural in material, is indeed constructed.

Triangulated green roof covers bathing

spaces below

BATH HOUSE :


Parkscape

talking wall along embankment

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3 program groups

pull apart across site

elevation shift to reach river

integration of triangulated park

Referencing the historic bathing process while architecturalizing the fi ltration of river water.

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secondary filtration corridor

saunas

hot baths

service hall

cold bath

tepid baths

mech.

finish materialgrass & soilballastaeration & root barrierinsulationvapor barrierroofing membraneconcrete slabmetal deckingopen web joistdrop ceilingwide flangetrussconcrete ribsconcrete column

Parkscape Detail

Roof Details

Differing proportions provide varying

bathing environments

Baths

Connecting the 4 major groups of spaces are corridors and hallways that spatially employ different water fi ltration processes. Spatializing the fi ltration of water mirrors the clensing sequence experienced by the users themselves within the bath house.

As the project spans across and down the site, the interior spaces become less a part of the triangulated park language and emerge in their own orthogonal

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Bath House : 4th year, Fall 2008


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Bath House : 4th year, Fall 2008

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concrete walls refl ect triangular language

of green roof

Included projects cover several media not addressed in the preceding project sections. Although not studio projects, these student works allowed for varied design-oriented experimentation and exploration. The work shown here places a stronger than usual emphasis on design process while allowing results to become less of a priority.

EXTRAS!

Architects Week - March 2009

Photography - night, 2010

Sketches - 4th year, Fall 2009

1 2 3Working with a budget of $400 and a timeframe of 1 week, our 8 person team designed a curving form that combines several common seating types. As the team leader, I oversaw the development of the project from coneption through fi nal construction.

To build the decided upon form, we employed a construction method consisting of a plywood rib frame fi lled with expanding foam, that was then covered in layers of dyed fi berglass to create a smooth surface.

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ARCHITECTS WEEK :

Construction

Extras : Design/Build

Providing for multiple seating positions and group arrangements.

steel frame

plywood ribs

expanding foam

fi berglass

Architects Week : March 2009

BenchWave form at home

under the oaks

PHOTOGRAPHY :

IndustrialCanal

Extras: Photography

Taken at night in urban and industrial areas around New Orleans. Canon xTi. 28-105mm.

ChampionsSquare

pm, New Orleans, LA

NOLATrain

Extras: Photography

Halloween

pm, New Orleans, LA

Miscellaneous : Semester Abroad sketches

Romeblack felt pen30 minutes

TuscanyGray marker15 minutes

HAND SKETCHES :Colosseum San Gimignano

Extras : Sketches from Abroad

During semester abroad, pen and marker sketches effi ciently capture essence of a view.

Romeblack marker

10 minutes

St. Agnese

Hand Sketches : 4th year, Fall 2008

CONTACT. Kristian Mizes, LEED AP3408 Dauphine St.New Orleans, LA 70117

[email protected]

EDUCATION.Tulane UniversityNew Orleans, LA2010

Master of ArchitectureBachelor of ArchitectureMinor in EnglishCum Laude

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