Design Portfolio

James Robert Lutzke

James Robert Lutzke231.250.4419

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Belmont Branch Library Uof Oregon Spring 2011

Burnt Box U of Oregon Winter 2012

Preservation as Provocation Lawrence Tech Spring 2007

Construction Documentation Lawrence Tech Fall 2006

Professional Work Contracting Resources 2006 - 2009

Lillis-Albina Alternative Highschool U of Oregon Winter 2011

ALO[e]TERRA Lawrence Tech 2005 - 2007

Portland Ecological Aquatic Center U of Oregon (thesis) Fall 2011-Spring 2012

Projects

Belmont Branch Library

Spring 2011 studio titled Civic Space: Community Architecture. An empty lot located in a former town center not far from downtown Portland was the site for a branch library. The design intentions focesed on providing much needed gathering space for the community both within the library space and through an outdoor plaza. Programatic organization with the community room and plaza on the East and the library on the West. The library is essentially one large room with the col-

lections along the west wall floor to ceiling. Reading spaces primarily use daylight from a translucent curtainwall that is clear where circulation occurs.

Burnt Box

Fall 2011 group design/build studio in collaboration with the Oregon College of Art and Craft and workshops by Mark and Peter Anderson of Anderson Anderson Architeture. A new building at OCAC had shifted the entrance and campus center. OCAC looked to add a covered structure for student gathering, an object to assist in visitor wayfinding, and a safe route up a hill. Working with the OCAC students as both client and design partner the group looked to create a structure both open and closed to the parking lot from a simplicity in construction

methodology and material. 4x4 lumber alternately stacked form the structure.

Preservation as Provocation

Spring 2007. Group design competition for an addition to the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Personal work included whole process: schematic design, 3d modeling, rendering, and presentation design. The project serves as a critique to the axial relationships throughout the campus. The addition focuses around Saarinen’s propylea and orpheus fountain, emphasizing the way the campus uses architecture to

frame views and create exterior spaces. Stranded space relates to the integration of program through circulation and visual connections in plan and section. The addition creates a formal entry for what was considered as the back door.

Spring 2006. Building systems course geared at teaching students commercial building construc-tion methods and annotation. The class included students touring a building under construction,

preparing a book of hand drawn details, creating construction drawings, and writing specs.Construction Documentation

Professional WorkExamples of professional work done with Contracting Resources, Inc, 2006-2009. Work included site playout, planning, construction

documentation, estimating, scheduling, defing scope of work, and bidding. Left, an interior build-out, in a CRI owned office building, for a data management company, drawings done inhouse. Right, a remodel of the public corridors for Beaumont Hospital Grosse Point.

Work inclded developing finish plans and documentaiotn of all wall items for removal and reinstallation.

Lillis-Albina Alternative Highschool

Winter 2011 studio to design an alternative high school in Portland, for students disenfranchised by the typical highschool. Design concept came from student mentaility of wanting to fit it yet still retaining their individuality . This student driven concept transformed into building form with a structured bar of classrooms

fronting the community edge and an expressional fan for the commons area opening up to the park and downtown beyond. On a smaller scale the classroom was designed to accomadate different learning styles of : classroom proper, small group space, and a dwelling zone with softer seating near the window.

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ALO[e]TERRA

ALO[e[TERRA, Lawrence Technological University 2007 Solar Decathlon team. Interdisciplinary design and construction competition to create a 800sf self-sufficient solar powered house, project spanned from 2005-2007. I was involved with house design (mainly the deck), CDs, construction, and display in DC. The ALO[e]TERRA

house was based on enlarging the living space by blending outside with a courtyard that can be closed off and a large deck and low-sloped ramp which doesn’t need handrails. Houses were judged in categories ranging from energy performance and architectural design to marketability.

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Portland Ecological Aquatic Center

PEAC is a public oriented research facility for aquatic habitat. The project brings together Portland’s Eastbank with the Willamette River and public interation with aquatic research. PEAC is specifically focused on the synthesis of research and habitat restoration along the rivers edge intertwined in public education and interac-

tion. As part of Portland’s waterfront scene with; views of habitat: natural, restored, and artificial; PEAC is a prominent building and an ecological urban site with down-town as its backdrop. The building, read in series, is composed of related objects connected in a row; each taking on a different aspect of an ecological aquatic center.

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ROOM LEGEND 1. Marquam Bridge Overlook Plaza 2. Ticketing 3. Receiving 4. Employee Lounge 5. Pump Room 6. Mechanical 7. Electrical 8. Northwest Exhibit 9. Large Tank10. Life Support11. Storage12. Research Laboratory13. Ecology O�ce Siute14. Toilet15. Shoreline Tank Support16. Shoreline Construction Tank17. Experimentation Terrance

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