Download - Portfolio_Aaron Loomans
Education University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Bachelor of Science in Architecture Graduated Magnum Cum Lade - Spring 2014 GPA - 3.78 Appleton North High School, Appleton, WI Graduated June 2010 GPA - 3.85 Design Software Familiarity: Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper (Ladybug & Honeybee among other plugins), AutoCAD, Sketchup, Energyplus, Ecotect, Therm, Window, Open Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Blender, Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Microstation
Experience Stutzki Engineering – Specializes in structural glass, light-weight structure, and building facade consulting Intern: February 2014 - Present Energy Analysis Research and Development: Provide insight to emerging technologies and energy analysis software - FocusonRhinoGrasshopper,andGrasshopperpluginswithworkflowtoEnergyplus,studyingtherelationshipofaparticularsitewitha facade/canopy/space/building design Proposal Renderings: Detail renderings of proposed engineering systems for bid proposals - JobdutiesincludeParametric3Dmodeling,basicsystemsdesign,finalimageediting
Community Design Solutions (CDS)–Providesdesignsolutionstononprofitclientsandlocalorganizations. Design Assistant: February 2013 – May 2014 Layton Boulevard West Neighbors Turnkey Intiative: Purchasing of foreclosed homes to remodel and sell back to the community. - Jobdutiesincluderemodelingdesign,multiplefloorplantypes(forcontractors,formarketing),occasionalconstructiondocuments, flyerswithhybriddigital/hand-drawnrenderingsformarketing.(Primaryclient) Home Improvement Workshops: Milwaukee neighborhood residents looking to improve their home - Job duties include in person meetings with residents to discuss their homes and give advice on improvements to be made. Hand-sketches in person.Honors and Awards - Centennial Festival of Riverboat Pavilion Design Competition 2nd place award by judges panel & 2nd place Peoples Choice award - International Design Competition open to students, architects, anddesignfirms - David Salisbury Conservatory Design Competition shortlist nominee and 3rd place runner-up - International Design Competition open to students - 2012 Kent Keagen Memorial Scholarship Award; Awarded to a UWM undergraduate architecture student based on academic merit - Frank Gehry design based birdhouse received second place award in a class of over three hundred students at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s School of Architecture
Aaron [email protected]
1541 N Farwell Ave, Apt. 3Milwaukee,WI 53202
Ameliorate Conservatoryp.1-4
Residential Collegep.5 - 8
Bronzeville Jazz Centerp.9 - 12
Paddle Flux Pavilionp.17 - 20
Hanging Systemp.21 - 24
Tectonic Matrixp.13 - 16
Stutzki Engineeringp.25 - 28
Projects
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Ameliorate Conservatory
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eProfessor - Matt JaroszArch 537 - Spring 2014
(David Salisbury Conservatory Design Competition shortlist nominee and 3rd place runner-up overall)
Project Description
Ameliorate seeks to challenge the preconceived idea of a conservatory by redefining
form, and experience. The typical conservatory is flat, rooted, horizontal, and box-like.
By raising the form on columns, the conservatory has a much smaller building footprint
which has less impact on the environment around it. The ramp spirals around a reflect-
ing pool situated on the ground set directly beneath the sphere. The journey up the
ramp and around the reflecting pool offers a calming experience, relieving stress and
transitioning the journeyer physically and mentally. Once inside the space the occu-
pant finds themselves surrounded by a garden oasis of plants and flowers. A spiral
stair case traces the interior perimeter bringing the occupant up to the second balco-
nied level. Surrounded by glass and raised up, this second level becomes not only a
conservatory but a type of observatory as well. A round glass floor centered directly in
the middle of the first floor landing offers a view down to the reflecting pool. This glass
floor also allows light from above to filter down and display on the shallow waters of
the pool. The sphered form is able to naturally take in more light at different angles
throughout the day, bringing light, warmth and revitalization to the plants and occu-
pants inside. Shelves trace the interior at varying heights, serving several important
functions. Most importantly they offer a simple platform for shelving various plants, with
their varying heights able to accompany multiple types and sizes of greenery. These
platforms are also used as light shelves. Stacked at differing heights, light is filtered
in at varying degrees to each shelf in a way that creates a controlled system. With
this controlled system, plants that desire more sunlight can receive it and plants that
require less sunlight need not be subject to over consuming.
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Entrance Ramp
Light Shelves / Planters
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Residential College
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eInstructor - Sara KhorishidifardArch 410 - Fall 2012
Project Description
A resedential college is not only a place for
living but also for learning. The design
should reflect a working relationship between
living and learning. The project should break
free from a strict simplistic approach and
become an organic composition that
shapes both interior and exterior spaces in a
fluid, cohesive manner . The site is set in
place of a parking lot on the UW Milwaukee
Campus. It is on the far western portion of
campus and embraces a large quadrangle
just to the west. The design embraces the
quadrangle while also creating smaller
exterior space courtyards. Rooms are
seperated into suites and then six suites
are grouped together to form a house. Each
house has one RA room and a lounge space
opposite of the side of the rooms. These
lounge spaces all look out onto a courtyard
formed by the organic shape of the residetial
college itself.
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Offices
Service
Storage
Lecture Hall
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First Floor - Classrooms Typical Floor - Dormitories
Cafe - 2nd Floor Lounge - 2nd Floor East / West Path
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NS Section
NS Elevation
EW Section
EW Elevation
Back Elevation
Residential College Physical Model
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Bronzeville Jazz Center
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Instructor - Kerry YandelArch 420 - Spring 2013
Project Description
Jazz is something that holds significance beyond
just music. Jazz is an art that has shaped history
and culture. The Bronzeville Jazz Center should
combine music and architecture into a unified
composition. The site is set in a primarily African
American neighborhood of Milwaukee that once
thrived with culture, personality, and jazz. Today
the neighborhood is a shadow of it’s former self
and the idea of this project is to draw people
in and help boost the neighborhood back to its
former splendor. To do this the design takes on
a self-developed concept called “spatial bleed,”
the idea that spaces can overlap and bleed into
each other and out onto the street to draw in an
audience. This concept can be seen throughout
the design layout but also through the materials.
Dense wood is used in the performace hall , then
reflected along a balcony path as a bit more
permeable with gaps and openings, and then
finally seen on the front faced as deteriorated
strips allowing light to flow out.
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Spatial Bleed Density Layers Material Layers
First Floor
Second Floor
Front Elevation
NS Section
EW Section
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Tectonic Matrix
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Professor - Karl WallickArch 320 - Spring 2012
Project Description
This was a semester long project broken into
different parts. These parts include spatial
organization, tectonic joints, the overall
construction of a field, and then a detailed
analysis through a bay model based on a portion
of the constructed field. A type of scheme is
assigned that determines how the system is to be
constructed. It is later announced that the project
is a community college campus at a 1”:20’ scale.
The program needed to be addressed includes a
large event space, classrooms, an eating area,
and offices. The field is constructed and critiqued
on a primary focus of understanding the scheme,
and developing a cohesive system of joints and
style. This must work with an exisitng context but
by no means should it take it over. A portion of
the event space is then modeled at a 1/4” inch
scale in a much more detailed and defined
manner to express style, joints, and overall
tectonics.
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Exterior Sectional Auditorium Model
Interior Sectional Auditorium Model
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Professor - Matt JaroszArch 537 - Spring 2014
(Centennial Festival of Riverboat Pavilion Design Competition 2nd place award by judges panel & 2nd place Peoples Choice award)
Project Description
The paddle wheel has powered riverboats up and down the
Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers for hundreds of years. It
is an innovation and testament to human achievment proven
by its continued use today. This design serves to honor the
paddle wheel and the riverboats it powers. The conceptualiza-
tion of the design form developed from the idea to push and
move people in symbolic resemblance to the way the paddle
wheel moves through water. A grid matrix of deep fins offered
a simple tectonic solution. The fins are notched and slotted
together as a system of peices that when assembled, creates
a powerful and elegant gestural form. Each fin is made from
two layers 3/4” plywood glued together for a total thickness of
1 1/2”. Plywood peices are CNC machined to form the appro-
priate shapes before assembly. The assembled grid is then
bolted to precast concrete blocks to provide weight. The con-
crete block rests on the ground but is concealed between the
plywood fins at various base points in the design. The flexibility
of the plywood matrix allows for this attachement. Lighting fix-
tures, audio speakers, and any other necessary systems can
easily be attached and bracketed to the plywood. In addition,
canvas or tarp can simply cover or attach to the plywood if
weather conditions deam it necessary.
Paddle Flux
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Form Conceptualization
Physical Fabrication of Form - Left
Physical Fabrication of Form - Interior 20
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Hanging SystemProfessor - Gil Snyder
Arch 615 - Fall 2013
Project Description
A detail can drive a system, which in turn can drive an
entire composition. The intent of this project was to uti-
lize the abilities of BIM software to create a design that is
dynamic and takes on a unique expression. The overall
project was a team collaboration for a masterplan of the
gateway site to Milwaukee’s Inner Harbor. The masterplan
developed was broken down so that each team mem-
ber designed one of the significant buildings. One of the
buildings was designated as the hydroponic reasearch
bar. This research bar was designed through a subtrac-
tion process in which an organic structure interupts, and
penetrates through all six floors of the narrow bar. The
organic structure is combination of timber verticals and
steel horizontals. It is penetrated by bridges that have
steel catwalks hung from them. From these catwalks hang
the aquaponic garden tubes. The organic structure is an
enclosed system which operates as a sort of living lung
suspended above large fish tanks. Large four foot col-
umns support a massive truss system on the upper floor.
Hung from this truss system are all of the floor slabs by a
series of suspension cables. The organic structure is then
clipped back to the floor slabs to be held frimly in place.
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Stutzki EngineeringMentor - Chris Stutzki
Intern - February 2014 - Present
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The idea behind Stutzki Engineering is to combine state
of the art engineering and applied science with creative
industrial design. Part of my work at Stutzki Engineer-
ing involves the research and development of new and
emerging technologies. I use Rhino/Grasshopper software
extensively coupled with environmental analysis plugins
to study building performance. By utilizing Honeybee
& Ladybug plugins developed by Mostapha Roudsari, I
analyze projects and gather data that is crucial in con-
sulting clients on the most effective type of glass to use,
and where that glass should be placed. The workflow
involves developing 3D geometry in Rhino, environmental
analysis of the location and geometry using the Ladybug,
adjusting zones and material properties in Honeybee,
inputing custom glazing properties through using LBNL’s
Window 6 software, and then running an Energyplus
simulation to gather specified output about heat gain/
loss through different glass surfaces as well as total zone
energy usage. My job responsibilities at Stutzki also
include preparing graphics to better illustrate engineering
design concepts, parametric modeling for client projects,
and fabrication drawings of custom glass connetions.
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Develop 3D Geometry Assign 3D Geometry Location / Site Analysis Radiation Analysis Daylight / Shadow Analysis Geometry into Zones Adjust Zones Assign Zone Load Schedules Develop IGU Properties Adjust Constructions / Materials Set Analysis Period Set Outputs Run Simulation Analyze
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Develop 3D Geometry Assign 3D Geometry Location / Site Analysis Radiation Analysis Daylight / Shadow Analysis Geometry into Zones Adjust Zones Assign Zone Load Schedules Develop IGU Properties Adjust Constructions / Materials Set Analysis Period Set Outputs Run Simulation Analyze
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