kevin vandeman | architectural portfolio

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Kevin Vandeman

selected works

Textile Artist Studio and Residence

Classical Facade Studies

Solar Decathlon 2011, WaterShed

Master’s Thesis

Ballston Substation

Architectural Portfolio

Early Studio Work | Textile Artist Studio and ResidenceCollege Park, Maryland

2008 Drawings in Ink on Mylar

The idea behind this textile artist studio, gallery, and residence in College Park, Maryland is to create a series of adaptable spaces which can be customized to the need of the user. Large moveable screens and pivot-panel doors flank the inner courtyard to adjust for light and air, providing for a transition from private studio to a gallery for public events.

Parti: Solid/VoidRotated Forms

1 Interior studio perspective

Residence study models

Elevations

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Ground Floor Second Floor

Sections

Exterior perspective, above Massing study model Section ModelSite plan with context, below

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Early Studio Work | Classical Facade StudiesWashington, DC Site of old covention center

2009

This project was designed as an academic

excercise in breaking up the design of a long facade

into rational pieces using classical methods of scale

and proportion. Rather than simply an exploration

of an architectural style, this project focused on the

rationalization of a facade both horizontally and vertically,

teaching lessons that can be translated to multiple

building typologies and architectural styles.

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Long facade study, below

Diagram of proportional relationshipof architectural elements, right

Site Model

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SOLAR DECATHLON 2011 | WaterShed1st Place Overall + 1st Place Architecture

Maryland AIA Design Award

2011.solarteam.org

RoleStudent Team Leader, Architecture and Construction

Project Description WaterShed, the University of Maryland’s entry into the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, is a solar-powered home that comprises systems which interact with each other and the environment. A home that harvests, recycles, and reuses water, WaterShed not only conserves but produces resources with the water it captures. Inspired by the rich, complex ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the home displays harmony between modernity, tradition, and simple building strategies, balancing time-trusted best practices and cutting-edge technological solutions to achieve high efficiency performance in an affordable manner.

7Annotated drawings from Construction Documents

Construction DocumentsRevit Architecture and Revit MEP

The 101-page construction documents were produced exclusively with Revit Architecture and Revit MEP in a colaborative effort between architecture and engineering students. The thoroughness of the drawings allowed for construction issues to be identified and solved ahead of time, and significantly reduced the amount of changes made during construction. The drawing set was accompanied by a 100+ page project manual with detailed specifications.

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WaterShed Scale Model1/2”=1’ Basswood

RoleHead Model Builder

As part of a competition deliverable, WaterShed was created in a highly detailed scale model, showing the entire site and all of its landscape context. The model was displayed as part of the 2011 International Builders Show in Orlando, Florida.

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LightingScale Model, 1/2”=1’ Basswood

The scale model was used to simulate the lighting of the house of night using strategically placed LEDs. While LEDs were used for lighting model due to their small size, many were used in the final lighting plan of the house and proved to be critical in saving much needed energy in the competition. WaterShed’s design includes passive and active strategies to create efficient methods of lighting and air circulation, maintaining a comfortable and attractive living environment with minimal energy consumption.

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WaterShed Exterior

Exterior design developmet drawings

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WaterShed Interior

Revit drawings of interior spaces

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AIA Citation for Excellence in Design

This project explores the parallel relationships of how architecture and sculpture inhabit the landscape. Using Storm King Art Center as a case study, three relationships between object and landscape are analyzed and used as the basis for the design of artist workshops and living space, allowing for the creation of large-scale outdoor sculpture as part of an artist fellowship and residency program. The three comparisons analyze different ways an object relates to its context, using the categories: Object In Landscape, Object As Landscape, and Object From Landscape. These comparisons are translated from precedents in sculpture to architecture, and then further into the structure and construction details of the design. The culminating proposal brings together concepts from site history, site precedent, and an analysis of the relationship to site in a proposal designed to test these theories.

MASTER’S THESIS | A LANDSCAPE FOR MAKING: WORKSHOP STUDIOS AT STORM KING ART CENTER Mountainville, NY

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Site Plan, left

Diagrammatic perspectives of building details, “Object In Landscape” as Red, “Object As Landscape” in White

TOTAL PROGRAMMED SPACE 41,710 sq. ft.

WORKSHOPS 10,240 sq. ft.

=The workshops act as “object in landscape” and the supporting functions act as “object as landscape” with three terraced retaining walls that follow the outline of the workshops and objectify the voids.

THE LIVING SPACES 6,730 sq. ft.

The relationship of object and landscape is explored in the living spaces for one established Artist-In-Residence and four promising fellows, with private lofts and studios for each artist and communal space for cooking, washing clothing and sharing meals together.OUTDOOR SPACES 15,100 sq. ft.

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Workshops, Ground Floor Workshops, Second Floor

Workshops, Second Floor

16Entry courtyard and Office, above Bridge through Metal Workshop, below

17 Metal Workshop

18Section through Open Workshop

19 The Workshops at Storm King Art Center

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21 Living Spaces, Ground Floor

Living Spaces, Second Floor

22Section through the Living Spaces

23 Fellows’ unit, above Outdoor recreation and cooking space, below

24The Artists’ Living Spaces

This public art project was commissioned by the Arlington Arts Council and Dominion Virginia Power company to provide an enclosure to an urban power substation. The enclosure is uses a robust steel frame to hang a smooth surface of vertical of IPE lumber. Additional vertical steel cables behind sections of the wall are manipulated by heat-sensitive actuators that change the angle of the cables, creating a changing moire’ pattern on the exterior.

Photos taken during construction showing interior structure, the mechanism for moving the steel cables, and shadows projected on the exterior

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION | Ballston SubstationArlington, Virginia Ben Fehrmann, Architect

Design Proposal, Ben Fehrmann

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Design Proposal, Ben Fehrmann

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Preliminary photographs, Ben Fehrmann

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KEVINVANDEMAN

University of Maryland, College ParkMaster of ArchitectureMaster of Real Estate Developmentkjvandeman@yahoo.com

Thesis presentation May 8, 2012