quentin koopman, portfolio of architecture
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Selected Works from 2007 - 2013TRANSCRIPT
Selected Works: 2007 - 2013Portfolio of Architecture & Design
QuentinKOOPMAN
PROFESSIONAL WORK
Daniel Goldner Architects:
The Ritz TowerPlaza College
525 Clinton RenovationCentral Park South Apartment
CR Architecture + Design:
Miami Township Fire Station
Academic Projects
Pratt Institute:
East Harlem Kitchen Cabinet
University of Cincinnati:
Come Clean Art InstallationBoomtown
Personal ART & DESIGN
MuralWorks OTR MuralOTR Homegrown Urban Farm
Hand Drawing & Painting
PROFESSIONAL WORK
Daniel Goldner Architects2011-2013
THE RITZ TOWERNEW YORK, NY | 2013
The Ritz Tower is a landmarked historic Emory Roth apartment hotel tower constructed in the 1920s. The building has since been renovated into a commercial and office space. The owner of the building enlisted Daniel Goldner Architects to design a new classical lobby. Working as Assistant Project Manager for the project, I was responsible for seeing the project through design development, issuing to the Landmarks Commission and Department of Buildings in New York City, creating con-struction documents, and coordinating with engineers for the project. Construction of the lobby is currently on hold.
Exterior renovations were restricted by the Landmark status of the building, while the interior had been demolished to an empty shell. Our team designed the new classical lobby, with mirrors based on cues from the oringial tea room and restau-rant, richly stained wooden finishes, and high end pendant light fixtures. This new lobby is located at the former 57th Street entrance to the Ritz Tower Tea Room.
PARK AVENUE ELEVATION
57TH STREET ELEVATION
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
57TH STREET PARTIAL ELEVATION - NEW LOBBY ENTRANCE
PARTIAL FIRST FLOOR - LOBBY PLAN
INTERIOR ELEVATION - LOBBY
PARTIAL FIRST FLOOR - LOBBY RCP
PLAZA COLLEGEQUEENS, NY | 2013The Plaza College project includes the design of Plaza College’s campus inside the 17-story Forest Hills Office Tower. The main directive of this project was to create a “building within a build-ing” and inspire a complete campus feel for students. Serving as the Assistant Project Manager, I was involved in all stages of the project from early site surveys, tenant test fits, schematic design, tenant interviews, design development, coordination with enginners, coordination with the project expeditor, issunig to the DOB, and construction document development.
The Forest Hills Tower is located in Queens and was construct-ed in the 1980s for Consolidated Edison and later acquired by Jet Blue. After being vacated by both tenants, the building owner sought to rebrand the building and focus more on public areas to attract potential tenants to the space. Our team at DGA was successful in helping to create schematic designs for the building, including new public space, that then aided the owner in securing Plaza College as the first major tenent.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
EXTERIOR ELEVATION - TERRACE
EXTERIOR ELEVATION - MAIN CAMPUS ENTRY
525 CLINTON AVENUEBROOKLYN, NY | 2012525 Clinton Avenue was a partially completed apartment building on which work had stopped. The new owners sought to redevelop the entry and lobby in order to attract future tenants for the apartment and penthouse suites. I served as Assistant Designer for this project, surveying existing conditions, drafting the design drawings, drafting the construction documents, and also completeing material selection.
The design uses sleek lines and asymmetry to create a modern, new entryway; and colors for the design stem from the contextual buildings. The project was constructed in 2012.
PARTIAL FLOOR PLAN -1ST FLOOR LOBBY
PARTIAL EXTERIOR ELEVATION - RESIDENTIAL ENTRANCE
CENTRAL PARK SOUTH APARTMENT NEW YORK, NY | 2012The Central Park South Apartment project was design for a high-end private residence in Manhattan. For this project, I was responsible for surveying the site, completing floor plans and elevations for the apartment, and assisting with design development and bid documents. This project included the replacement of the existing glass windows with a single door to a terrace with a new wall of retractable glass doors. The design also retrofitted all exisitng rooms with new custom finishes and furniture, and the development of a modern feature wall at the entry-living room portion of the unit.
Construction for this project is currently on hold.
FURNITURE LAYOUT FLOOR PLAN
LIVING ROOM ELEVATION - EAST
LIVING ROOM ELEVATION - WEST
BEDROOM ELEVATION - SOUTH
BEDROOM ELEVATION - EAST
PROFESSIONAL WORK
CR Architecture + DesignCo-Op Student 2010
MIAMI TOWNSHIp FIRE STATION Miami Township, OH | 2010As an Architectural Co-Op student I supported a team of architects and designers working to complete construction documents on this project. Using Revit, I helped complete building plans and elevations for the Miami Township Fire Station. The project has since been constructed and is now fully occupied and operational. Photo credit: CR Architecture + Design
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Pratt Institute2011-2013
EAST HARLEM KITCHEN CABINETTHESIS PROJECT | 2013With a track record of interest in food justice which follows me back to my first internship in Cincinnati, I entered my Thesis with the intention to address the issues that currently plague our food system. As a requirement of the Design Management program I had to pitch my concept idea to clsssmates and build a team focussed upon that same research category. My concept was successfully chosen and I led a six person team to conduct research and analysis on the food justice. In our research, we identified an area of focus in East Harlem and partnered with the East Harlem Block Nursury 1 (EHBN1).
After identifying a specific challenge, the team used its diverse design background to tailor a replicable solution using EHBN1 as a model. The designed result was a business plan for the East Harlem Kitchen Cabinet (EHKC) to develop a CSA style program designed to increase access to and education about healthy food within the ethnic context of East Harlem.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
University of Cincinnati2007-2011
COME CLEAN ART INSTALLATIONJUNIOR STUDIO | 2010Come Clean was a partner project completed in the Design for Extreme Environ-ments Studio with a focus on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The studio examined how design can be used as an effective means of response to crisis. Come Clean employs architecture to create a campaign advocating for the end of oil dependency. The project included planning and programming of the campaign initiatives which included: public art installations (the focus of the built-form de-sign), response centers, and a website. These three components were specifically designed to address three different scales: person, place, and planet.
The installation engages the public and also educates them about the history, magnitude, and locations of oil spills through the scale and direction of each arm of the circle.
how the skywalk reclaims the urban
environment for an aging generation.
boomtown:
Imagine a new method of taking care of our elderly and less-abled members of society which does not involve secluding them from the rest of the population in nursing facilities. A system of integration. This is a proposal for a diverse, intergenerational community (or grouping of communities) in an urban environment connected by and centered around a pathway system as opposed to the typical roadway connections. A system based upon the scale of a person and the distances a person can easily navigate as opposed to the automobile scale found within all of America’s cities. In the City of Cincinnati this human scaled pathway system already exists as it does in many other cities. A series of walkways was constructed between the 1970’s and the 1990’s as a weather proof transportation system between a wide range of buildings. This “Skywalk” system was supposed to rede�ne the urban landscape. The skywalk system never reached the exciting prospects it had started with, instead carrying heavy discontent over the years from the people. Within ten years of completion, entire sections of the system have been entirely removed. It is along these remaining skywalk pathways that we propose an enhanced tech-nique of elderly integration into our greater community. The same user group for whom the original skywalk system was constructed is the main user group for this proposed repurposing project. This group has accumulated a large amount of wealth and represents an incredibly large percentage of the population. The baby boomer generation has begun the process of becoming senior citizens. This generation will not only be growing older, they will be growing more frail as they age. This proposal merges a couple of di�erent needs. There is the need of an increasingly elderly population for more and better eldercare. Then there is the need of a struggling city, Cincinnati in this case, to reinvent itself as it faces a continual population decline. The bulk of the infrastructure for this project is existing. The underutilized skywalk system will provide the main component of our system and the underutilized commercial high-rises provide the residential spaces. By combining these needs, the proposal hopes to create a new viable or sustainable model of city development. The main concept of this proposal lies in the idea of aging in place. This all inclusive community’s goal is to become the place to live, no matter who you are or what your needs are. This new community would re-establish the downtown neighborhood as a livable community. The downtown location of this community facilitates aging in place, in that all of the amenities and the infrastructure to support them are already there. The residential units facilitate aging in place by allowing for a wide range of adaptations. Anyone from a young professional, to an empty nester, or an individual receiving skilled nursing care can live within these residential units. In turn, the individual can start young, build a sense of home through experiences, and when forced to the point of skilled nursing not have to leave that home. The skywalk system as a community facilitates aging in place by providing a universally accessible plane on which many of the amenities needed for eldercare and wanted for a more livable experience are available.
how the skywalk reclaims the urban
environment for an aging generation.
boomtown:
BOOMTOWNSENIOR STUDIO | 2010Boomtown is a conceptual, large-scale proposal to reuse the defunct Cincinnati skywalk system as part of a new redensified Baby Boomer residen-tial downtown for Cincinnati. The main concept stems from the idea of “aging in place” and the design utilizes infrastructure and amenities that al-ready exist. Boomtown creates an urban environment that connects the user to a human scaled transportation system - a person can easily navigate around on foot or in a wheelchair rather than via automobile. The proposal addresses the need emerging from an increasingly elderly population and it also addresses the need of the city to enliven its downtown. This project was a team project with two other senior architecture students.
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Art & Design
MURALWORKS OTR MURALCINCINNATI | 2007Canal at Vine Street Circa 1900
Located on the southern facade of the historic Barlow Motors Building, this mural was created as part of the Cincinnati Artworks Muralworks program. As an apprentice artist working on a small team, I worked on all stages of production from drawing the entire mural out on large sheets of paper in the studio and transferring that line drawing onto the brick wall using charcoal powder, to painting in the details of the mural.
OTR HOMEGROWN URBAN FARMCINCINNATI | 2008-2011In 2008, I was a founding member of a team that designed and established a sustainable urban farm on a previously vacant plot in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati. I designed the garden layout and rain catchment system using entirely reused and recycled materials. I was also part of a core-team that established strong community partnerships through outreach and events, such as block parties and gardening workshops. As part of the City of Cincinnati Urban Garden pilot program, OTR Homegrown also sold produce at Findlay Market. As a group, we were awarded the 2009 Keep Cincinanti Beaitiful Large Project Award; and individually, I was awarded the 2011 National Youth Service Symposium Award for College Level Local Service.
PAINTINGCINCINNATI | 2007Musician I - Attraction, Musician II - Arousal (sold in 2012 at HVG Art Show in NY, NY), Musician III - Rapture
These paintings are a collection of work that explores the movements, sounds, and emotions of a musician’s performance. The series follows the experience of a listener as they become intrigued, aroused, and committed to listening to a musical piece. As the crescendo begins to take place, the beats and tempo increase and the song swells in anticipation of climax. The music then reaches the climatic moment when the music breaks, the voices reosund, and the listeners stand by in awe.
DRAWINGCINCINNATI | 2007Grandfather Series
These pieces represent a series of twelve artworks depicting my grandfather. The body of work utilizes a variety of media and differ-ent levels of detail in each drawing, resulting in a diverse yet com-plete whole that depicts the life and habits of his person.
Several individual pieces were put on display in 2008 at the former Media Bridges Gallery within the Barlow Motors Building.
