TODD SPARKS

ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN PORTFOLIO

UNIVERSITY

SCREENED INARC 572 | Spring 2010

LEWERENTZ GRAND TOURARC 501 | Summer 2010

MONTCASTLE PARKARC 281 | Fall 2008

FAN OUTSelf-Directed | Summer 2010

UT RESEARCH PAVILIONARC 282 | Spring 2009

NEW SOUNDS STADIUMARC 583 | Fall 2010

INDEPENDENT TRAVELSelf-Directed | 2005-2010

ROOTED IN PLACEGraduate Thesis | Spring 2011

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SCREENED INARC 572 | Spring 2010

Inspired by the secluded courtyard

gardens of downtown New Orleans,

"Screened In" combines the shaded,

functional and private features of

those urban areas with the everyday

ammenities of a typical Broadmoor

home, creating a suburban oasis for

its residents.

The design is anchored by an

aluminum louvered structure, which

provides shading for both the interior

and exterior during the long, hot

summer months in New Orleans,

as well as privacy from nearby

neighbors, while still maintaining an

inviting appearance. Shielded from

both the street and from adjacent

houses, the east wall folds away to

create over two hundred square feet

of usable indoor-outdoor space and

an opportunity for substantial passive

cooling. Special attention is also

paid to the project's accessibility--

from ramps and grab bars to custom

casework--resulting in a home ready

for all users.

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Contemporary in its style

and function, "Screened

In" stands as an important

step forward for the

Broadmoor neighborhood-

-simultaneously integrating

itself with existing tradition

and embracing the the

advances of 21st century

New Orleans.

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The indoor/outdoor space runs along

almost the entire east wall, providing

several options for various climate

conditions. Here, the operable doors

to the master bedroom are closed

in the morning and opened later

in the day, when the sun is fully

shaded by the overhang. Passive

cooling strategies such as cross and

stack ventilation can be utilized in

the house, regardless of the home's

orientation.

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The roof is designed with a slight slope

in order to gain light through the west

clerestory windows and to gather rain

water for storage and future use in the

cistern, located beneath the house.

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LEWERENTZ GRAND TOURARC 501 | Summer 2010

By experiencing architecture through

the senses--touch, sight, sound--,

one begins to understand a building

as an intimate extension of its

designer, a relic from a distant time

and place. The Lewerentz Grand Tour,

a three-week trip through Sweden

visiting works by Sigurd Lewerentz

and several of his peers, provided

this intimate knowledge of a master

builder that can only come from

visiting a particular place.

Extensive visits to powerful sites such

as Woodland Chapel in Stockholm,

St. Peter's Church in Klippan, and the

Eastern Cemetery in Malmo provided

opportunities for contemplation, field

sketching, and photography. The trip

culminated in the documentation of

Lewerentz's flower kiosk in Malmo,

later exhibited in the CoAD's exhibit

space.

ST. KNUT'S CHAPELMalmo

WOODLAND CREMATORIUMStockholm

CHAPEL OF THE RESURRECTIONStockholm

MONTCASTLE PARKARC 281 | Fall 2008

This Montcastle Park redevelopment

project is a mixed-use building

designed to serve the neighboring

area and accommodate short-term

visiting scholars. A restaurant/

bar area located on the first two

levels provides a large-to-intimate

seating gradient and fosters visual

connections throughout the interior

and the adjacent outdoor area. A

community area compliments the

scholar apartments, cultivating group

interaction and resource sharing.

This first semester project promoted

numerous study models and detailed

hand renderings.

NORTH ELEVATIONHand Rendering

WEST ELEVATIONHand Rendering

FAN OUTSelf-Directed | Summer 2010

Williamsburg has always been a haven

for production and export. What was

once an exporter of goods is now an

exporter of culture for greater New

York and the world. Like the site's

original docks that harbored and sent

out products, this new park seeks to

reclaim its industrial past, and does

so by producing and distributing

Brooklyn's greatest asset: culture.

This design proposal takes from the

infrastructure of what was once there

to reflect this exchange as the site

extends outward to the river and

the Manhattan skyline in a series of

terraces which encourage visitors to

slow down as they move further into

the site and further off the city's grid.

This topographical manipulation

creates multiple unique zones within

the park at various levels of intimacy,

responding to the site's multiple

programs and need for flexibility,

throughout the day as well as the

year.

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UT RESEARCH PAVILIONARC 282 | Spring 2009

Research is an integral part of both

the development and direction of any

university. Due to the nature of this

research, especially in specialized fields,

it often never receives recognition

outside of a particular department or

building.

The goal of this project was to provide

a physical presence to broadcast the

valuable research of university scholars

and students to campus counterparts

as well as the greater community. The

building houses two versatile exhibition

spaces and a high-tech "black box" for

audio/visual presentations.

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Located on Cumberland Avenue along

the east edge of campus, the pavilion

stands at the front door of the University,

highlighting the potential to display the

school's research efforts to the greater

public in an open manner. This design

focused especially on this asset of visibility

by creating one opaque (black-box) and

two transparent exhibition spaces as

"display cases" for passing traffic and the

surrounding area.

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THE OLD BALLGAMEARC 583 | Fall 2010

Once dependent on just peanuts

and Cracker Jacks, today's American

baseball parks tend overwhelm the

fan with electronic music, mascot

sideshows, and omnipresent televesion

sets, all the while distracting viewers

from the game itself. This design for the

new Nashville Sounds stadium attempts

to reward the fan with a more authentic

experience by focusing solely on the

game, its historic traditions, and the

important urban fabric in which it sits.

Specifically sited in an idiosyncratic

location--abutting elevated railroad

tracks in "The Gulch" area of Nashville

where an industrial warehouse once

sat--the Sounds' Greer Field recalls

the purity and excitement of America's

great pastime.

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The new stadium takes advantage

of the adjacent railroad tracks by

planning for a commuter railway

stop. Exiting passengers and passing

pedestrians are given direct views

onto the field from the greenway

running beneath the left field

bleachers through the outfield wall.

INDEPENDENT TRAVELSelf-Directed | 2005-2010

American novelist Henry Miller once

said, "One's destination is never a place,

but a new way of seeing things." I have

been blessed during my time in college

to be able to encounter many different

places and the cultures waiting silently

within them. Without doubt, these

visits have provided valuable insight

about different peoples, landscapes,

and customs very different from my

own. But they have also--and, I think,

more importantly--broadened my

perspective of my own homeland in a

deeply meaningful way. Moreso than

just visiting acclaimed buildings and

beautiful sites, this new understanding

of place has penetrated my work in

school and, I trust, will continue to be a

positive force in my life, both inside and

outside of architecture.

MUSEE DU LOUVREParis

GERMAN PAVILIONBarcelona

GERMAN PAVILIONBarcelona

HAGIA SOPHIAIstanbul

PANTHEONRome

ROOTED IN PLACEGraduate Thesis | Spring 2011

Wynne, Arkansas, is a small farming

community in the northeast portion of

the state, less than fifity miles west of

the Mississippi River. The city, initially

settled at the crossing of north-south

and east-west railways, now finds itself at

a much different crossroads--the crucial

juncture of change and tradition. In rural

communities like Wynne, the land has

always played an integral part of people’s

lives. By recognizing the powerful

connection between place and society

and the dependence a community has

on this interrelationship, this project

attempts to look back at a rural history

not with nostalgia, but rather as a

blueprint for the sustainable future of

rural communities.

A sense of community needs to be

rooted in a place, and in the long-term

relationship of people to that place-- an

immediate linkage between the land’s

fertility and the community’s prosperity.

For this to take place, the agrarian

landscape and the developing urban

environment must begin to negotiate

their presence in rural communities

across the country.

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Two main programs in this design are

an oral history archive and a large,

cooperative gardening landscape.

By reinforcing the social, political,

and psychological distinctiveness of

Wynne, the architecture attempts to

fuse the personal experience of self-

revelation with the social experience

of strengthening one’s bonds to the

community.

The archive complex nurtures the

community’s distinct identity by

spatially encouraging users to develop

connections with the city, its citizens,

and the place’s history, while inviting a

community to project onto the buliding

an idealized, symbolic image of itself.

Thus, while the monumental archive

becomes a symbolic receptacle for

communal identity, it works to foster

agency and individual participation. The

spatial layout not only situates the user

in relation to the constructed object but

also personally in relation to the site,

enhancing their sense of place.

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PROFESSIONAL

GIA MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDINGBarberMcMurry architects | 2015-present

JACKSON RESIDENCETodd Sparks, LLC | 2011

FAR VISTA LANE RESIDENCETodd Sparks, LLC | 2013-present

CHEROKEE 5TH AVENUEredChair architects | 2014

PUTNAM COUNTY SCHOOLSredChair architects | 2012-present

KRAMER RAYSONredChair architects | 2014

PROFESSIONAL

GIA MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDINGBarberMcMurry | 2015-present

State-of-the-art medical office building

for a growing gastrointestinal medical

practice; currently under construction.

Designed utilizing best practice

sustainable design features, the

building contains a public lobby, weight

management, and IBS treatment areas on

the first floor, an outpatient endoscopy

suite on the second, and exam rooms,

doctors' offices, and administrative

functions on the third floor. The upper

level also features a large waiting room

with floor-to-ceiling glass to create a

hospitality atmosphere, allowing views

and natural light to bathe the space in

warmth.

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JACKSON RESIDENCETodd Sparks, LLC | 2011

This extensive renovation project in

northeast Arkansas brought a classic

1960's residence up to the clients'

contemporary standards. Work included

a total kitchen overhaul, installation of

new terrazo floors to match existing,

and a reconfigured Master bath suite.

New finishes and furnishings were also

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FAR VISTA LANE RESIDENCETodd Sparks, LLC | 2013-present

This renovation project is currently

underway in Knoxville, TN. Built in 1969,

the home sits atop a large hill, overlooking

the Smoky Mountains and the Holston

River. Major interior alterations, as well as

a vertical exterior addition provide more

efficient and sunlit space throughout

the house. Additionally, access to a new

roof deck increases the usable [outdoor]

living area by a third and allows even

better views toward the scenery beyond.

All new plumbing, electrical, and

mechanical systems, as well as thermally

insulated windows will ensure the house

functions even better the next forty

years than it has the last.

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CHEROKEE HEALTHredChair architects | 2013

This downtown Knoxville project

transformed an existing appliance

warehouse shell into a mental and

physical health clinic in an under-

served area with a highly-concentrated

homeless population. The design utilizes

much of the existing structural framework

and incoporates a massive brick facade,

which highlights the building's renewed

purpose.

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PUTNAM COUNTY SCHOOLSredChair architects | 2013-present

Now in the construction administration

phase, redChair was recently charged

with the opportunity to create two new

public school buildings for Putnam

County, Tennessee. Both schools employ

natural daylighting for classroom and

communal learning environments and

are efficiently planned to work within

given site contraints.

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KRAMER RAYSONredChair architects | 2013-2015

This tenant fit-out project was part

of a larger redevelopment of three

derelict buildings on Knoxville's historic

downtown corridor. The three original

buildings had been opened up on

the interior into one large space for a

department store during the mid-20th

century. Our client required an office

design for the top two levels, while the

first two floors would accommodate

office and retail spaces, as well as a

bowling alley in the basement below.

The final proposal incorporated strategic

daylighting techniques and a roof-top

deck above the smaller three-storied

building.

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