Daniel Karas Architecture portfolio

University of Illinois at ChicagoArchitecture Portfolio

Daniel Karas

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Wynd

Space

Xeum

NodeThere exists a growing pressure on the Chicago airports of OHare and Midway to expand into

neighboring communities destroying local houses and businesses. In order to alleviate this pressure there is a need for an interconnecting route that

manages to condense the extraneous functions of the airport in an exterior infrastructural connec-

tion. By establishing a building that can compress the growing programmatic stresses of the Chicago

airports, an infrastructural node can be established that connects the Airports by modifying and

expanding the preexisting Chicago CTA blue and orange lines into an optimized high speed rail

system. By extending the orange line from midway to Halsted and building an above ground blue line rail from the UIC- Halsted stop comes an unbroken

high-speed rail in-between both airports which provides 7 minute airport transfers. By establishing

the only stop at the famous circle interchange of I-90 and 290 a plinth can be built atop the preex-

isting highway infrastructure that creates an interconnected system of roads and rail that allow the inhabitant to reach any location of the city at ease. Node integrates the idea of the kiss and drop that exists within airports which allows car riders to drive into the building from the existing highways and drop off or pick up their love ones from a mobious line that connects with the rail

station as well as convenience or overnight parking meaning you will never have to drive your friend to

the airport at 5am ever again.1

Year 4 Semester 1Professor: Juan Rois

Awards: Year End Show, Pella Fellowship for best undergrad project, Best drawing ever- UIC Publication, Honorable mention- Van Allen Institute- Life at the speed of Rail

2Awards: Year End Show, Pella Fellowship for best undergrad project, Best drawing ever- UIC Publication, Honorable mention- Van Allen Institute- Life at the speed of Rail

3There exists a growing pressure on the Chicago airports of OHare and Midway to expand into

neighboring communities destroying local houses and businesses. In order to alleviate this pressure there is a need for an interconnecting route that

manages to condense the extraneous functions of the airport in an exterior infrastructural connec-

tion. By establishing a building that can compress the growing programmatic stresses of the Chicago

airports, an infrastructural node can be established that connects the Airports by modifying and

expanding the preexisting Chicago CTA blue and orange lines into an optimized high speed rail

system. By extending the orange line from midway to Halsted and building an above ground blue line rail from the UIC- Halsted stop comes an unbroken

high-speed rail in-between both airports which provides 7 minute airport transfers. By establishing

the only stop at the famous circle interchange of I-90 and 290 a plinth can be built atop the preex-

isting highway infrastructure that creates an interconnected system of roads and rail that allow the inhabitant to reach any location of the city at ease. Node integrates the idea of the kiss and drop that exists within airports which allows car riders to drive into the building from the existing highways and drop off or pick up their love ones from a mobious line that connects with the rail

station as well as convenience or overnight parking meaning you will never have to drive your friend to

the airport at 5am ever again.

Awards: Year End Show, Pella Fellowship for best undergrad project, Best drawing ever- UIC Publication, Honorable mention- Van Allen Institute- Life at the speed of Rail

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Node seeks to combine the necessities of the Chicago airport through one central building.

Node combines the blue line to the orange line while taking in the parking demands of ohare. Absorbing the commercial sectors Node also takes in businesses and profit making ventures, while creating a much

needed green area for the new international travel icon

4Awards: Year End Show, Pella Fellowship for best undergrad project, Best drawing ever- UIC Publication, Honorable mention- Van Allen Institute- Life at the speed of Rail

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commercial casinoconvention

parking blue linehousing

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By seeing the building as a vertical subway map it is easy to guide circu-lation from the exterior of the building

to any part Nodes program. The interior is designed to give a

mounumental feeling of scale while still allowing large open air systems to

give the inhabitant the feeling of scope.

Convention Commercial Casino Housing

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3WyndChicago is now facing a growing deficit that

requires major action to solve. Mayor Daley has been trying to bring a casino to Chicago but the

law still stand that the people of Chicago can only gamble on the water.

Alas the Wynd casino is located on Lake Michigan and uses multiple sources of wind energy to create

a zero footprint building off the lake shore. The building becomes a blur on the lake shore as it is covered in wind belts which vibrate and create an atmosphere to the building that translates all the way to the interior. The core of the building is the main circulation of the building and is superheated

or supercooled based on the exterior tempatures creating a weather conflict resulting in actual

weather atmosphere inside the building.

The building becomes the ultimate tourist trap with an innovative new concept. The wind tunnels that run through the building allow this energy transfer and create the programmatic organization based

on noise resulting from the fans. The casino has a constant ramping exterior that takes the traditional horizontally of casinos and stretches it over thirty

stories. This becomes the first casino ever designed around the draw of interior and exterior

sound waves.

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Year 3 Semester 2Professor: Bob McAnulty

Awards: Year End Show

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wind moves around mass wind tunnels added air is harvested in wind tunnels

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air is harvested in wind tunnels

form is shaped to utilize wind flow

wind belts are added as an exterior skin

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the casino uses energy gained from wind turbines to create energy as well as manage location of program based

on sound intensity. The gradient oraginzes program based on the draw of larger noise gambling and the need

for silent table games creating a organic organization of program that works in hand with energy creation

energy created Section Program Location Section

Program Location Plan

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Program Location Section

Program Location Plan

Sound Waves Section

Sound Waves Plan

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2nd Floor

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Section Catalog

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18th Floor

30th Floor

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gambling floor A floor in the core

RelaxingStadium Venue

Growth in the Core

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A floor in the core

Relaxing

Inside a wind tunnel

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Lobby

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Building Section

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spaceSpace seeks to take the spectral

experience of the marfa lights and translate it into a sustainable 10 by 10

cube for the desert. Space was given two characteristics and 1 material to create

the feeling of heaviness and warmth By optimizing a custom block of CMU Space is able to create a unique experience that

differs from interior to exterior.

The exterior has a built in planter that allows for the desert to take over the

facade and blend into the environment making a statement about the solidarity of

the monument. This project creates a unique experience for the inhabitant and would consequently turn into another arts attraction for the visitors of Marfa, Texas.

Year 3 Semester 1Professor: Dan Wheeler


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The CMU module is created as to allow rebar and insulation installa-tion. The planter on the exterior is rated for desert plants and is water

tight as to prevent leakage into the interior. The blocks are light enough for 1 man to carry and are about 5 times the size of normal

cmu blocks. These blocks would be poured on-site and the plexi glass would be the horizontal mortar that allows the thin beams of light in

an otherwise strong concrete building. Overall the cost of the project would be very minimal other than the labor

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1/2 THICK PLEXI GLASS

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xeumXeum seeks to adapt a park on the chicago river into a new budding arts center. The

mueseum is developed around the arts and personal discovery. The form seeks to inter-twine multple artists through intersecting

planes.

By blurring the definition between interior and exterior the building becomes a performance piece rather then simple architecture. The iconic form was developed from multiple

sculture studies seeking to depict gravitational attaraction.

The exterior skin uses colored glass as a way of changing the interior atmosphere of the rooms to accomodate for different artists as well as experiment with color in architecture. Xeum

acts as a new way to revitilize what was once a simple meat packing district into a budding arts scene off of the typical Michigan ave

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year 3 Semester 1Professor: Iker GIl


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Model Development

CROSS SECTION

SHORT SECTION A

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Model Development

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Nodes connecting pre-existing circulation paths

modular ribbing is created to give the building a tensile structure

The seemingly random pattern creates a skin system with originality but easy

construction

Tubes created intersecting and connect-ing circulation paths

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The seemingly random pattern creates a skin system with originality but easy

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The final result creates a unique beacon on the chicago river for a new art scene

Tubes created intersecting and connect-ing circulation paths

exterior and interior circulation allow multiple path orgins and exits

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public and private circulation

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program distribution

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