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Portfolio 2014
Glenn Cramer Portfolio 2014Ball State University MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
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OTRchitecturePhoenix House Solar Decathlon 2013Bioloid GT RoboticsDarwin Humanoid RoboticsFuture Blooms Low-Cost High-ImpactLocalmotion Community Transit CenterI M A I F M Artist StudioMaterial Experimental StudiesBrenner Design InternshipRender Hand Drawing
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OTRchitecture is an urban infill solution for the socially and economically changing district of Over-the-Rhine, near downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. This mixed use structure started it’s life as a Boeing 747, after service the airliner has met its second life, a color-ful and exciting mixed use building for young working professionals. The furniture and interior finishes were in-spired by the ultra efficient interior finishes of Boeing aircraft. These interior surfaces have been streamlined to maximize space and storage allowing the new residents to live comfortably using a limited amount of square footage.Featured in The Associated Press and Indianapolis Star on December 13, 2013.
OTRchitecture “AERO” Architecture Studio
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1st Floor Cafe 2nd Floor Office 3rd Floor Home 4th Floor Deck
The Phoenix House is a permanent and sustainable post-disaster housing prototype that can be quickly deployed for the families that have lost their homes to disaster. These homes will be producing their own power, and if needed their water can be deployed well before the community infrastructure is restored. When grid connected, the distrib-uted generation of sustainable power will im-prove the homeowner and community with a much more robust and “green” infrastructure.
Phoenix House Solar Decathlon 2013
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wall mockup table/ base
After the most recent natural disasters, where entire communities and their infra-structure are completely wiped out, we as architects begin to create solutions. Self suf-ficient housing that can quickly be deployed to facilitate new communities without the need for infrastructure, such as roads and power grids, will be essential. This solution utilizes robotics. As a team, we designed, 3-D printed and programed several robots to test our theory.
Bioloid GT Robotics
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team work settlement patterns
compatible terrain
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The Darwin project involved the program-ing a humanoid robot to track, navigate, and avoid objects in our built environment. As a continuation of the previous robotics project, the goal here was to get the robot to walk through a field of obstacles on its own with-out falling or hitting anything using an object tracking camera, and a Microsoft Kinect 3-D Scanner.
Darwin Humanoid Robotics
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Future Blooms is a high-impact, strategically-placed program aimed at improving the appearance of a community while creating a sense of place, thus helping it become a healthy and viable neighborhood once again. This goal is accomplished by painting doors, windows, awnings, and flower boxes on the barricaded doors and windows of abandoned buildings and by stabilizing, seeding, fencing, and maintaining vacant and blighted lots.As a volunteer I worked with a team to createthese high-impact low-cost facade improve-ments to buildings in the Over the Rhine district of Cincinnati.
Future Blooms Low-cost High-impact
before beforeafter after
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This collaborative project incorporatedAtlanta’s underground metro line andan inner city neighborhood to create arenewed community focal point. The design calls for community members to participate in urban farming, energy production and local markets, helping to make this community self-sufficient.
Localmotion Community Transit Center
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This project called for a program that con-sisted of a making studio and art gallery at the 100 Acre Woods sculpture park near the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. My solution, was to create a space that sits next to the water allowing visitors to experi-ence the natural changes that take place as the water rises and settles around the site and it’s features. With this, the artist can al-low the artwork to be directly impacted by nature, using weather as a medium for creat-ing. This concept was inspired by artist Andy Goldsworthy and his ability to create art in nature, using found and natural objects.
I M A I F M Artist Studio
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Combining different materials like wood, steel, glass and concrete with a property like texture, reflection or pervious allows for new conclusions to be reached. These conclu-sions can be applied when studying the built environment and how it can be created.
Material Experimental Studies
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During the summer of 2011, I was an Archi-tecture Intern at Brenner Design. I worked with three licensed architects and two gradu-ate architects on several institutional and commercial projects. I was responsible for producing conceptual designs as well as construction documents.Shown on the right is a concept I created of a restaurant for Greencastle, Indiana. Pages 31, 32, and 33 are concept plans I made for new clients at Brenner Design.
Brenner Design Internship
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IDOA Health ClinicIndiana Government CenterIndianapolis, Indiana
Miller School HousingOption A feasibility studyGreencastle, Indiana
Miller School HousingOption B feasibility studyGreencastle, Indiana
The first years of study in architecture em-phasize hand drafting and hand rendering. Over the most recent years these skills have translated into a very valuable and highly desired ability to quickly sketch my thoughts or what I see.
Render Hand Drawing
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