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Nick Ruggeri

Rhinoceros. SketchUp Pro. AutoCad.

Revit. V Ray. 3DS Max. PhotoShop. InDesign. Illustrator. Ecotect.

Robert CondiaProfessor, AIA Architect(785) [email protected]

Anthony R WebbArchitect, ARW Architects(610) 363-0445

Ray OttUrban Planner, Ray Ott & Associates(610) [email protected]

Eagle Scout Marine Corps Scholar Athlete AwardNational Honors ScholarKansas State Honors Scholarship

Canada. Italy. Spain. Greece. Croatia.Turkey. Morocco. Portugal. Honduras.Belize. Mexico.

Kansas State UniversityCollege of Architecture, Planning, and Design2009 - 2014 graduation

Master of Architecture Minor Urban Planning

ARW Architects: 2007- 2009Performed site analysis, preliminary designs, hand drawn plans and renderings, tectonic systems, client/contractor interactions.

Ray Ott & Associates Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture: Summer 2012 Developed Form Based Code for Phoenixville,PA. Produced visual graphics to enhance Comprehensive Plan Renewal.

Benoit & Czarneckie LLC_Summer 2010 Residential and commercial construction of

with dimension lumber framing, masonry and concrete systems, and carpentry.

Tucker Property_ Summer 2011 Managed residential complexes.

University of VirginiaSemester at SeaSummer 2012

Sketching. Hand drafting and rendering. models. watercolor. carpentry. welding. metalworking.

References

Travels

ResumeNick Ruggeri M. Arch (2014)

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Kansas City Ptramdactyl

Marine Research Center

SoHo One Artist Gallery

Chicago Affordable Housing

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Marine Research CenterVertical studio project that incorporated a one week site visit to the island of Roatan, Honduras.

Project focused on a sustainable marine research facility to study and monitor the ecological biodiversity of the island of Roatan, while also serving as a resource for the local community. The design responds to the urgent need for a population of rapidly modernizing, developing islanders to coexists with endangered ecosystems including coral reef, mangrove forest, and tropical jungle.

8WorksKansas State Undergraduate


Roatan ecology Site


Garifuna life

Thermal shield H2O collection

Island breezes

Spatial organization14WorksKansas State Undergraduate

A double roof shade system protects the complex from the intense equatorial sun. An organization of open, exterior oriented spaces promotes natural ventilation and comfort.


Tectonic Detailing

Systems incorporating locally sustainable materials such as bamboo were explored in detail. Design constraints included ease of construction and resilience against the harsh island elements.

11 gauge corrugated aluminum

Vapor barrier4” diameter bambooEco-foil reflective insulation

Steel ties attached with 3/16” boltsVapor barrier1” R 30 rigid foam insulation

Drywall finish4” bamboo column bundle (4)Column tiesWoven bamboo cladding panel

1” diameter bamboo reinforcementWoven bamboo panel

Copper flashing2” x 12” dimensional lumber joists

Tongue and groove flooring8” x 8” wood post2’ diameter concrete footing

4” concrete

Wood sub-floor

11 gauge corrugated aluminum


Shading, natural ventilation, and louvers passively adapt to local climate. Scuba, Community gathering dock, continuation of vernacular tribal space.


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Human beings are dependant on natural forms for physical, mental, spiritual, and social health. KC Fitness fuses nature and Active architecture creating an environment for holistic fitness. Fitness un-boxed: it is architecture designed as exercise equipment to climb up, run on, and be mindful within...

Kansas City Fitness

The site in downtown Kansas City is a corner lot across from a community park/garden.

Views to the Kaufman Performing Art Center are on axis with Central Street.

An “empty lot syndrome” of excess parking afflicts downtown Kansas City creating a hospitable pedestrian environment and torn urban edges. The building conceals parking and wraps program around a courtyard for holistic fitness.

An extension of the park into and on top of the urban fabric, this typology reinforces the community interests of health, place making, and an appreciation of nature.

Shading, day-lighting, and views shape the form.

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Studios, climbing walls, and exercise spaces form a perimeter around the fitness courtyard. Nature and health coexist throughout these spaces:

- yoga. - swimming.- meditation. - aerobics class. - bouldering/climbing.- rooftop aerobic course.

24WorksKansas State Graduate

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Kansas City PtramdactylConceived as a medium for urban revival and connectivity in Kansas City, the Ptramdactyl project restores balance to the auto dominated downtown. A hub bridges the 1-670 corridor providing pedestrian connectivity and a reclaimed urban fabric to a city currently expanding yet segmented by an urban chasm.

I-670 corridor_ Noise and scale both create an environment of pedestrian discomfort. A sea of under used lots.

Unaccommodating and hostile to the human scale.

Currently, minimally addressed by design.

Lack of pedestrian infrastructure severs the city. Expanding areas such as the Power and Light District, Sprint Center and Crossroads Art District are cut off from one another. The opportunities for economic and social growth of Kansas City’s downtown lie in wait.

I-670

KC Star

Sprint Center and Power and Lights District.

Crossroads art district and Kauffman Performing Arts Center.

Sprint Center


Three parking lots are transformed into green and shaded usable urban space adapted to sporting, leisure, transportation, nature, and art.These parking spaces are consolidated (and added to) with a parking structure. Roofed as park and pedestrian boulevard, it serves as a Southwest means of connectivity over the steep typography.

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A central hub was needed, turning a pedestrian infrastructure, into a network conducive to urban growth.

An icon, providing this rapidly developing urban area with an identity and sense of place.


Amphitheater

The concept of a unifying element bridging the 1-670 chasm and connecting the downtown.

Hub.Landmark. Urban hill.Shade.Stage.

Water elements in the hub act as skylights.

Bringing ambient daylight down to 1-670, while acting as storm water basins, seating, and a central place.

From Southwest

Amphitheater_ Reclaimed urban fabric, transit hub, shade, connector.

I-670 .. binding element unifying the Sprint Center, Power and Light District, Kauffman Performing Arts, and Crossroads Art District of Kansas City.


SoHo One-Artist Gallery

Displaying the work of Joseph Beuys, one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. His pieces of performance, sculpture, painting, and installations cumulate to a diverse and complex portfolio.

Infill of existing parking lot on the corner of Broome and Crosby St. in SoHo New York.

A vegetated public sculpture garden and recessed plaza to reinforce the urban pedestrian experience.Daylight control drives the form.

Programmatically organized as galleries, with temporary exhibitions and public functions on the ground floor around a central atrium designed for performance pieces. The installation galleries are vertically stacked.


South east elevation South east section


How does one begin to orchestrate perception in a space for art?

Structural ribs compartmentalize the space into galleries while providing rhythm and movement.

Light and form create a uniquely guiding viewing experience tailored to Beuy’s many mediums.


Ground floor exhibit space

Structural bays divide space, while providing unity through rhythm and light.

This system guides the viewer through the sometimes disorienting psyche of this abstract artist.

Clybourn St.

Mohawk St.

Affordable housing in Chicago’s near north side that addresses a dynamic spectrum of human needs. Security, views, nature, community, and cost control were all critical design factors. The corner site meant the design must relate to and enhance residential neighborhood and commercial development.

Chicago Affordable Housing

Architecture meets nature, creating a habitable urban park-scape.

Focusing on affordable and sustainable design, re-purposed steel shipping containers compose the building envelope. Stackable, readily available in Chicago, and modular they engender a ordering system highly adaptable to the site and client’s needs.

- A system known as SG Blocks allows containers to be re-purposed for 1/20 cost of recycling a comparable weight in steel, and has one of the lowest embodied energy utilization of any construction method.

Treating the site as a connection between mixed use Clyborn St. and residential Mohawk St. meant the design of a pedestrian thoroughfare. A shaded park-scape divides the vertical neighborhood, fostering community and nature.


utility living

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Circulation CirculationResidential privacy and view. Stack and offset to create vertical neighborhood of outdoor terraces.


Mohawk St.

Entry from Clyborn St. View from terrace.


3 Bay Timber Frame _ Type: Residential. Summer 2011

Phoenixville PA, Comprehensive Planning _ Type: Master Plan. Summer 2012

50WorksEmployment Summer 2011, 2012

Chapel in the Rock _ Type: Sacred. Second year52WorksKansas State Undergraduate

Charcoal rendering _ Type: Study. Second year

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