Architecture Portfolio 2015

SERGEY KAHNArchitecture 2015

Table of Contents

Resume

Architecture Projects

Professional Practice

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SERGEYK A H N

Education | Experience | Software | O

ther Specs | Language | Travel | Interests

University of Cincinnati

Pentago

UD DESIGN

Operation: TEA

Ohio University

Architecture Design

Architecture Design

HCMC, Vietnam

Dalian, China

Vietnam

Intern

Intern

Founder/ManagerTea Retail/Training

Masters of Architecture 2017 {Expected} Cincinnati, OH

BFA Photography 2008 Minor in FilmAthens, OH

Rhino | Revit | AutoCAD | Grasshopper | Maya | 3DS Max Premier | Final Cut | Ecotect | Vasari | Photoshop Illustrator | InDesign | HTML | CSS | PHP | Showcase

-LEED GA certified -Ran for Mayor of Athens | 2007 -OU Dean’s Creative Research Award | 2008 -Published Travel Writer + Photographer

English | French | Russian |

Fluent Conversational Conversational

27 4Visited or lived in

Proficient on both Mac and PC.Quickly adaptable to new hard and software.

Currently learning Mandarin Chinese.

different countries on continents

France, China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, UK, Ireland, Costa Rica, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Greece, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Morocco, Hungary, Czech, Laos, Cambodia, Austria, USA.

[email protected] | +1 (513) 501 3891

rock climbing | skiing | yoga movies | biking | reading writing | drawing | pottery photography | cooking camping | traveling

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Professional Practice

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{UD Design} | Wedding Hall AdditionJinzhou, China | Blue Ocean Golf Club

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Bird’s Eye View

North Elevation

West Elevation

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The country club wanted to build a wedding hall addition but only had five years remaining on their landlease. Unsure whether the government would renew their lease, they asked for a temporary canvas structure that could later be fitted with walls and made permanent.

Our firm offered a few design options to the client and they selected to go with mine.

My solution was inspired by the Cutty Sark Pavilion by Bokoko

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{UD Design} | Designed and Built for the Annual Company PartyDalian, China | Tensegrity Placards

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The company wanted an innovative way of honoring their employees during the annual party. Rather than using traditional posters, we designed tensegrity structures using digital physics modeling and scripting to create placards that were architectural instead of flat.

Different components and

joints were experimented

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solution for a clean finished

product.

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Architecture Projects

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Entry for 2014 CTBUH International Student Competition

Cincinnati, OH | Generation 21 Tower

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Rules for Game of Life

{3} Reproduction

{2,3} Life Goes On

{1} Death by Loneliness

{4+} Death by Overcrowding

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(Growth of tower based on Rules)

For this contest, I explored the ability of a predetermined algorithm to inform the design of a skyscraper. Using the Rules for Jeff Conway’s Game of Life, the tower grows based on the initial cells that exist at ground level.

GENERATION 100

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The tower can continue to grow organically as the need for more units arises.

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Design a martial arts center on the border between two divided communities.

Cincinnati, OH | Aikido Community Center

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The site for the Aikido Community Center is wedged between the derelict Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and the more affluent Mt. Auburn. The goal of choosing this site is to explore the potential of uniting and healing the divide between these two neighborhoods.

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Tea Room

LivingArea

WC Kitchen

Bedroom

Scale 1/16” = 1’ L1

Dojo

LockerRoom

LockerRoom

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LivingArea

WC Kitchen

Bedroom

PrivateDojo

Lobby

Scale 1/16” = 1’ L2

Viewing Gallery

Scale 1/16” = 1’ L4

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(Interior Zen garden transitions from lobby to dojo)

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The design was informed by sacred geometry associated with the art of Aikido, as well as the implications of building on the border between two different neighborhoods. The square site is sliced, as though by a sword, and through the healing creates a compelling interior and exterior connection between the two neighborhoods.

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Conduct a path-finding analysis using Depthmapsoftware on a portion of UC’s Uptown campus.

Cincinnati, OH | Path-finding Analysis

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Using ArchMap and Depthmap software, I did an agent and path-finding analysis of a portion of UC’s campus. I then visualized the data using Rhino and Grasshopper.

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Conducted a Post Occupancy Evaluation with a team.Produced a book with our findings and proposals.I was tasked with the kitchen and cafe area.

Cincinnati, OH | Mayerson JCC

SUCCESSES CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIESA Post-Occupancy Evaluation of the Mayerson JCC Facilities

UC-DAAP School of Architecture and Interior Design Graduate Architecture Students

Associate Professor Michael Zaretsky

Summer 2014

(Cover by Kuang Li)

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Bar Window

Banquette

Comfy

Flexible

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Right (Original)Bottom, Left (Proposal)

During the P.O.E. I was tasked with examining the food services and cafe. Through my investigations I identified several challenges that were preventing the cafe from achieving full success. After noting these challenges through evidence gathering, I presented a new proposal that took advantage of the opportunities presented in a financially sensitive manner.

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A construction study and Revit practice.

Jacksonville, FL | Half House

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top plate mas7' - 6"

top parapet mas10' - 6"

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Create a scripted paneling system that responds to solar conditions.

Environment | Responsive Skin

This project in adaptive skin was created using Ecotect and Grasshopper, as well as Maya for developing the actually panels. Based on weather data, panels are placed automatically in a manner that provides optimal shading when most needed.

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Conduct a case study and design a guest house

Harbor Springs, MI | Douglas House

This project was a case study on a significant work of modernist architecture, Richard Meier’s Douglas House in my case, followed by designing a guest-house addition. We were also required to incorporate a Supple Form from a previous project within the new addition. In order to consolidate the incompatibility of the Supple Form with the Meier’s house, I played on the parallel with Douglas House’s own invasion on an otherwise wild, undeveloped terrain.

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Circulation flows from the rear and top of Douglas House towards the bottom and front, all the while staying clear of the views towards the lake.

Because the Douglas House is a place for entertaining, the Public spaces are towards the front, where the view is, while the Private is in the rear. The guest-house is imagined as a space for the newlyweds of the family, for whom privacy would be of greater importance.

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Other Projects

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Founded and managed a tea business.Designed promotional material.Conducted tea events.

HCMC, Vietnam | Operation: TEA

From 2011 to 2013 I opened and ran a small tea business in south Vietnam. I took responsibility for the importing, packaging, and marketing of a range of tea and tea products. I also trained staff and ran tea tasting events.

Thesis exhibit for BFA in Photography.

Athens, OH | Dreamcatchers

This project explored the relationship between reality and dreams. Using digital photography as well as traditional darkroom methods I recreated scenes from my dreams on the surfaces of deer hides coated with photosensitive emulsion. Contrary to traditional Dreamcatchers, these are meant to preserve dreams rather than avoid them. Funded by Ohio University Dean’s Undergraduate Creative Research Award 2008.

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Ceramics | Teaware

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This project was the brainchild of John Sabraw and realized through the collaborative efforts of several artists and astrophysicists. The exhibition is intended to give viewers the ability to visualize the universe and their relative place within it. Pieces include a 10.5-by-85-foot charcoal drawing of the Milky Way galaxy and a replicated 11-foot-diameter telescope that demonstrates how a single grain of sand lodged in the eyepiece can obscure 25,000 galaxies.

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Two collaborative projects that I took part in.

Collaborations | Installations

This was the first of four Biomodd versions conceived by Belgium artist Angelo Vermeulen. The project challenges the notion of nature vs. technology by creating a symbiotic relationship between the two. For example, algae are used to cool computer processors so they can run faster, while the heat that is generated by the computer electronics is used to create ideal growing conditions for a plant-based ecosystem, including goldfish.Nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica Hybrid Art award in 2008.

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Photography | Travel

For more, visit www.flickr.com/photos/sergeykahn

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Thank You.

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