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Roger C. Bost

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kunsthalle ChicagoSandnes, NorwayA Ceramicist’s StudyHouse for a MusicianC4 BoathouseA Semester AbroadRebecca Horn GalleryUrban PeachesFurniture Design & FabricationGraphic Design WorkA Water Vessel

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KUNSTHALLECHICAGOWicker Park1482 N. Milwaukee Ave.Chicago, ILCompleted: Fourth year

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The Kunsthalle is located in the Wicker Park neigh-borhood of Chicago, Illinois. During the 1980’s an influx of artists amassed in the neighborhood due to abandoned factories being converted into low cost lofts. Gentrification has made the neighborhood into what it is today - a neighborhood immersed in art, culture, and entertainment. The notion of gentrification as well as the history of the neighborhood became integral to the project. I became intrigued in how the project could be mod-ern, but also relate to the context. Materiality was the avenue that came to mind, the mixture of brick and steel became the way to express that thought.

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Programmatically, the multiple brick volumes are the gallery spaces with other secondary and administrative spaces inbetween. On the entry level, the lobby, cafe, bookstore, and exhibition spaces are all freely placed and easily moveable. The open floor plan allows differing exhibitions to be displayed anywhere on the entry level. On the second level, there are three brick volumes: the two smaller ones are secondary galleries and the larger volume is a multi-purpose space. The space inbetween each volume allows a visual connection down to the lobby space. The third level consists primarily of administrative space and a

library/archive. The top level holds the main gal-lery, placed there to access day lighting from the north as well as views of the city. The overall space was designed to be intentionally open to allow for a very diverse selection of art to be displayed from up and coming international artists.

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Basement Level Plan Entry Level Plan Second Level Plan

Longitudinal Section

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Floor Key

1 Bookstore2 Lobby3 Secondary Gallery4 Multi-Purpose Space5 Elevated Train Track6 Administration7 Archives8 Main Gallery

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Third Level Plan Fourth Level Plan

Cross Section

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The organization of the semester was divided into three parts: schematic design, design development, and con-struction documentation. A few pages from the set of construction documents are shown above.

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A photograph of the physical model, showing the main gallery.

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SANDNES,NORWAYGraduate Thesis StudyCompleted: Fifth year

The development of the master plan of Sandnes, Norway was a collaborative effort of my 12 member graduate studio. Visiting Regnier Chair faculty members, Reinhard Kropf and Siv Helene Stangeland, of Helen & Hard Architects of Stavangar, Norway were very beneficial in the two semester long process of developing the master plan, as well. Over the course of the Fall semester of 2010, we re-searched and visited the city of Sandnes and developed the core of our theory and strategies. We used these ideas to reactivate the coastline and examine the interactions between people, systems, and urban space. Also, we became quite intrigued with how the city could develop into a self-sustaining environment and develop into the future. We developed many questions and found few answers, but to us the questions were more important - they gave us the direction that we needed in order to move forward.

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The Stitch

The Urban Fabric

The Urban Floor

The Ground Plane

During the Spring semester the overall master plan was divided up into districts, allowing each mem-ber of the studio a chance to develop a scheme at the urban scale. Population numbers were calculated for 150 years into the future and utilized for the development of each district. With a certain density in mind, each district began to develop at the urban scale. Utilizing the ideas and theories generated during the Fall semester. Such as the urban floor, the stitch, and the urban fabric.

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Existing Structures

Nodes, Flows, and Parks

Urban Stitch

Roads and Parking

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Diagram of the urban floor.

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Throughout the semester we kept in mind five terms when working at the urban scale as well as the architectural scale: Permeability, Harmony, Imagination, Diversity, and Adaptability. We believe that if the environment contains these elements, it will allow the opportunity for human interaction and the exchange of knowledge.

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The exchange of human knowledge is what we came to understand as the only renewable resource, and it should be fostered by the design of space, at all scales. As a studio, we discovered that the end product was important, but we felt what was most important part was the process - the journey. The process was how we learned; it is how we came to the realization that we became the inbetween factor of our process, our theories, our thoughts, our conversations, and our questions. All in all, we found that we always reverted back to three ques-tions that gave us direction: - What is it? - Why is it important? - How does it move us forward?

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A CERAMICIST’S STUDY*

* location: out in the woods somewhere

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Completed: Second year

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The ceramicist’s study project was developed by means of a subtractive process, through a series of charcoal drawings and a foam model. The rather small interior space opens up directly to the surrounding land-scape to the north, and south to the stream. The uninterrupted connec-tion between interior and exterior space allows the interior space to seem much larger than it appears.

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HOUSE FOR A MUSICIAN

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1 Foyer2 Library3 Kitchen4 Dining Room5 Living Room6 Pool House7 Master Closet8 Master Bathroom9 Master Bedroom10 Private Terrace11 Roof Terrace 12 Green Roof

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Every few years a visiting professor is invited to be a part of the department of music at Kansas State University. During their tenure, this house is meant to be their place of residence as well as a place for entertaining their guests. With this in mind, the dialogue between public and private space became very important to the house. The placement of the private living quarters on the second level separates the public space from the private space, yet all spaces are connected by views. The house itself is placed around a central courtyard intended for garden parties and the entertainment of guests.

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C4 BOATHOUSE

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Cambridge, MACompleted: Third year

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The boathouse is meant to serve both the M.I.T. rowing team as well as the surrounding Cam-bridge community. The challenges of this project revolved around the sectional relationship of the boathouse to the land, as well as the rela-tionship to the campus and community.

Most importantly though, became the idea that the boathouse should function as a transition between land and water. Explorations in tec-tonics and the sequence of construction became relevant to the project, as well.

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A simple ramp serves as the connection between land and boathouse.

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A SEMESTER ABROAD

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January 2010 - May 2010

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During the Spring semester of my fourth year I was given the opportunity to study abroad in the Tuscan hill town of Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. I spent four months immersed in the Ital-ian culture. That experience of living in Italy has become significantly influential on not only my education, but my life.

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REBECCA HORN GALLERY

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Cambridge, MACompleted: Third year

This project gave me the opportunity to examine the life and art of Rebecca Horn. Through the study of her work I discovered an art of movement.... This idea of movement became essential to the project. I thought of not only how the movement through the gallery could be experienced, but also how the movement outside of the gallery could be experienced. Located across the street from Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center on the campus of Harvard University added a unique element to the project. Through the process, a very public gallery developed that allows for multiple interactions between the art and the viewer.

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Interior view of the day lighting study model for the main gallery.

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Section perspective integrated with a photograph of the day lighting study model.

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Entry Level Second Level Third Level

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Fourth Level Fifth Level

Due to the site dimensions, the program needed to be stacked vertically. This problem allowed for the unique moments to develop sectionally throughout the project. For instance, one can be standing on the street outside and actually be able to look up into the main gallery, and vice versa.

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URBANPEACHES

Stavangar, NorwayCompetition Work

Completed: Fifth year

Urban Peaches was an entry for the 2020 Park competition, that developed in tangent to the master plan of Sandnes, Norway. This project became a way to test our strategies that were developed for the master plan. The site is located in Stavangar, Norway, just North of the city of Sandnes, and covers roughly 200,000 square meters. The objective of the team working on the project was to produce a healthy, self-sustaining and synergetic urban ecosystem by nurturing a balanced relationship between the community and the surrounding environment.

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FURNITUREDESIGN &FABRICATIONManhattan, KSCompleted: Fifth year

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This table was designed and fabricated as part of a history of furniture design seminar course during my final semester of architecture school. For this portion of the course, I was given a 5’ x 5’ birch plywood sheet and the task of designing a piece of furniture that could be altered and adjusted. The idea of the coffee table was that the top three layers of plywood could be interchangeable and rest on the bottom two layers of plywood that are actually connected to the steel angles. The steel angles connect all five layers of plywood and give rigidity to the overall table. The pockets for magazines at both the middle and at the ends of the table became the focus of how the coffee table could become something more than just a table.

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GRAPHICDESIGNWORKManhattan, KSCompleted: Fifth year

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BILL HANUS

“Disney Imagineering”

*director of development, resorts division, walt disney world

forum hallstudent union

WednesdaySeptember 297:30 p.m.

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CAPD STUDY ABROAD EXHIBITCHANG GALLERY AND EAST WING

SEATON HALL09.13.2010 € 10.08.2010

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CENTRO STUDI CITTA DI ORVIETOITALART CENTRO STUDI SANTA CHIARA

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS INTERNATIONAL, LORENZO DE MEDICI

CZECH TECHFACHHOCHSCHULE COBURG

DESSAU INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE SCHOOL AT ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

DENMARK INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAM

Poster designs for lectures and exhibits of the College of Architecture, Planning,and Design at KansasState University.

KANSAS CITY DESIGN DISCOVERY JUNE 6 – 11, 2011

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Kansas City Design Discovery is a one week intensive studio-based program for students interested in the design professions of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Architecture and Planning. If you are considering undergraduate stud-ies in the design professions, this is your opportunity to fi nd out more about what design professionals do. You will learn the basics of design, start developing the skills needed for success and get the answers you are looking for about design education.

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DATEJune 6 – 11, 2011

The Kansas City Design Discovery program is for high school students who are interested in attend-ing architecture school. Matthew Knox, Associate Professor and Associate Head of Architecture, Col-lege of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kan-sas State University leads the program. As a part of a graphic design seminar, each student designed a 5.5” x 8.5” handout intended to be distributed by high school counselors to high school students. My entry was selected out of the 13 entries to be used for the KCDD program during the Fall and Spring of 2011.

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A WATER VESSEL

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Manhattan, KSCompleted: Third year

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This three day project is one that may be more important to the development of my education than any other. This is when I learned about how hard it is to actually make something work. This is also where I learned about failure, and what one can gain from the experience. For the project, each member of our studio were presented with a problem: develop a vessel that could hold a gallon of water for a minute, and then empty itself only through the ability of the contraption (similar to a Rube Goldberg device). Essentially once the water has been poured into the vessel, a series of events would be set in motion, and the ending result should be that of an empty vessel...mine failed.

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Roger Cody Bost

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