Bachelor of Architecture - Carnegie Mellon Universitywww.christianwwagner.com
CHRISTIAN WAGNER
Front Cover - Room design model inspired by the Rietveld-Shroder House (1st Year)Right: Exploded axonometric drawing of a mobile library (2nd Year)
LONDON
PARIS
EDINBURGH
BRUSSELS
AMSTERDAM
BERLIN
NURNBERG
MUNICH
SALZBURG
LAUSANNE
ZURICH
STUTTGART
ATHENS
MYCENEA
OLYMPIA
DELPHI
MYKONOS
SANTORINI
CRETE
PATMOS
KUSADASI
BLUCHE
35 Days, 22 Cities, 8 Olympic CitiesTravel Itinerary, Summer 2008Robert Burdett Assistantship
S K I L L S
Computer Autodesk AutoCAD 2009, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Rhinoceros, Google Sketch-Up, V-Ray, Microsoft Office Suite, Ecotect, Wordpress
Shop Woodshop, Digital Fabrication (CNC Mill, Laser Cutter, and Vacuum Former), Fabric and Tensile Production, Screen Printing
LanguagesFluency in English, Spanish, PortugueseIntermediate French (2 years)
Living ExperienceBogota, Colombia (2 yrs)Mexico City, Mexico (3 yrs)New York, New York (2 yrs)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2 yrs)Caracas, Venezuela (2 yrs)São Paulo, Brazil (6 yrs)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (6 yrs)
A W A R D S
Robert Burdett Assistantship 4th-Year Design Award - $7,500.00 Traveling Scholarship
Best Theme IntegrationOrientation 2007 - In YOUR ElementNational Orientation Director’s Association
Dean’s ListFall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008Design Studio Commendations: 6/10 Studios
Senior Leadership Recognition AwardOffice of Student Life, Carnegie Mellon University
E D U C A T I O N
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Architecture; May 2009College of Fine Arts Honors
Chinese University of Hong Kong Design Studio Abroad; Summer 2006Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Xi’an, Singapore, Macau
Escola Graduada de São Paulo International Baccalaureate (IB), June 2004American Diploma, Honors
Human Factors in Arch. (core u-grad)|Prof. Christine Mondor|Spring 2008, Spring 2009K-12 Architecture Explorations (8-12 grades)|Advisor: Kelly Lyons|Fall 2008, Spring 2009Architecture Pre-college - Drawing | Advisor: Dee Briggs | Summer 2008
AIAS - American Institute of Architecture Students | Vice-President 2007; Forum Attendee Milwaukee, Wi 2008
School of Architecture | Carnegie Mellon | Summer 2008 - Spring 2009Teaching Assistantships
Leadership
Student Life & Student Development Office | Carnegie Mellon | August 2005 - September 2007
Resident Assistant responsible for the safety personal development, and involvement of 60 residents. Project organizer including academic sessions, trips, and social programming. 2 years
Head Designer : Orientation 2007 - In YOUR Element. Co-planned a 7-day orientation program for 1500 incoming First-Year Students. Trained a staff of 120 Orientation Counselors. Head Designer duties included design of documents varying from publications, fans, shirts, gifts, videos and weekbooks.
Orientation Counselor - Hired as a Mentor to the First-Year Class (volunteer work)
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity - Appointed Spring Carnival Float Designer | 2007 - 2009
E X P E R I E N C E
Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics | Carnegie Mellon | June 2007-Present
Integrated Product Development (elective)|Prof. Vivian Loftness & Azizan Aziz|Fall 2009
Advanced Building Systems (core u-grad)|Prof. Volker Hartkopf|Spring 2010
Performance of Advanced Building Systems (core grad)|Prof. Volker Hartkopf|Spring 2010
Environment 1: Climate and Energy (core u-grad)|Prof. Vivian Loftness|Fall 2008
Teaching Assistantships
Research Assistantships
Layout design for a GSA document entitled “Energy Savings and Performance Gains in GSA Buildings – Seven Cost-Effective Strategies.” Advisor: Vivian Loftness
Greenbuild 2008 Booth design, “10 Strategies for Living, Bioclimatic Facades for Sustainability, Human Health, and Performance.” Advisors: Azizan Aziz, Vivian Loftness
Database development for core content, theories and concepts taught at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. Advisor: Volker Hartkopf
Research grant awarded by the Green Building Alliance to design sustainable and integrated modular classroom designs under Terradime, LLC. Advisors: Azizan Aziz, George Mongell
Professional Consulting | Terradime, LLCResearch consultant for a start-up research & development and real estate company. Experience in climate-responsive, energy-efficient, sustainable designs at various scales and building typologies. | June 2009-January 2010
Wal-Mart Brazil, Architecture & Product Placement | São Paulo, Brazil | Summer 2005Intern. Closely worked with product placement architects, learned essential values regarding working in an office environment, correcting redlined documents.
C H R I S T I A N W W A G N E R @ G M A I L . C O MW W W . C H R I S T I A N W W A G N E R . C O M
C H R I S T I A N W A G N E R
Foundations: 1st Year, Carnegie Mellon University1. Drawing I - Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA2. Digital Media - Astor Piazzola’s Libertango Interpretation3. Furniture Construction: A Bench for Two
Designing Through Image
Urban Design: Promenade Framework
Canopies over Hong Kong
Mapping Las Vegas
Static-Dynamic Rowing Facility
Path in the Woods
Sigma Phi Epsilon Yearly Community Service Floats
Center for Regenerative Landscapes
Star Trailer
Construction Trailer
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Above: Building Plansa. Exhibition Image - Conceptual Mappingb. Site Planc. Occupancy Diagramd. Exterior Rendering
Spring 2008 - Designing through ImageInstructor - David Burns
When focusing on completing a task, all else is blurred away. The initial design response to a Movie Production Studio became an exploration in definining the interlude between moments with form. This notion was then carried further as an opportunity for architecture to blur disciplines with hopes that the built environment could provide for stronger opportunities in innovation.
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East Liberty Boulevard has a width of 80’. It is uncomfortably wide for pedestrian travel.
East Liberty dead ends at two important throughways, Negley Ave and Penn Ave.
Since fast traffic occurs on Penn Ave., crossing Penn at Larimer’s border is difficult.
Larimer Ave is currently too narrow for it to be a main through-way and dead ends just beyond Larimer.
Historically, Larimer was connected to the neighborhood of East Liberty. Through the creation of Penn Circle and East Liberty Boulevards (Urban Renewal Schemes) the entry into Larimer was cut off from the city, and low-income high rise buildings served as physical walls into the neighborhood.
Currently, there are only 3 existing crosswalks in the entire stretch of East Liberty Blvd. Making East Liberty Boulevard into a more pedestrian-friendly avenue would mend this interruption.
The City and the URA currently own a large number of parcels within the edge condition. Devising a plan that unifies these vacant lots would increase the desirability of the land within Larimer.
Any decrease to the vacancy rate within Larimer would be beneficial to the community. A vacant lot strategy is considered in one of the student projects.
Cleaning out empty lots along the edge will provide the youth with jobs and opportunities.
There are 10 gateways into Larimer.
Of those: 3 are bridges2 are interrupted by underpasses3 intersect East Liberty Boulevard1 is East Liberty Boulevard 1 intersects Washington Boulevard
Most criminal acts occur at night around these gateways. Most criminal acts occur along the bus routes.
The existing hillside provides a natural barrier to the northwestern and northeastern parts of Larimer.
The Martin Luther King Expressway further provides a drastic change in topography on the southern edge of the site, creating two underpasses for vehicular access to and from Larimer.
With only 21.33% of available flat land area and 3 connecting bridges, the notion of entry and arrival into Larimer is important.
Vacancies typically occur towards the edge of the site or at the intersection of Meadow Street and Frankstown Avenue.
Areas are less vacant in the region adjacent to Lincoln and Frankstown Avenues.
Vacant lots make areas undesirable for business and housing developments.
There is a 24.2% Vacancy rate within Larimer.
Above: Developing a Casea. 6’x9’ -Physical Model, Larimer (group)b. Site Plan - Designing a Promenadec. Swatch Perspectives of Promenaded. Change over Time (1-5-10-20 years)
Fall 2008 - Urban Design: Promenade FrameworkPartners: Tim Thianthai, Alison Schloemer, Diana MillerInstructors - Rami El Samahy & Jonathan Kline
Larimer’s dominant edge in the northern region of the neighborhood impedes connections to the rest of Pittsburgh. This study analyzes the edge condition as a source of great liability and seeks opportunities for growth through the creation of a promenade that relinks Larimer to its surrounding context.
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Above: Hand Sketches - Hong Konga. Diagram - Re-imagining Tents along Hong Kong Skylineb. Experiential Renderingsc. Proposed versus Existing
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Fall 2007 - Canopies over Hong KongInstructor: Khee Poh Lam, Edward Ng
With China’s emergence as a economic superpower, the balance between rapid modernization and maintaining cultural heritage is a challenge. Graham Street, a traditional market district in the heart of Hong Kong, will host a canopy that would protect produce below, and hover through the Hong Kong skyline like a dragon.
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Above: Trends - Las Vegas 1970-2006a. La Vegas Amenities Mapb. Proportional Population Growth between Las Vegas, Clark County, and Nevadac. The Las Vegas Strip: 1985; 1995; 2006 and beyondd. Emotional response diagram to risks associated with the built fabric of Las Vegas, superimposed to Maslow’s heirarchy of needs.
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Fall 2007 - Mapping Las VegasInstructor: Kelly Hutzell
In the past 50 years, the introduction of amenities outside of the Las Vegas core have encouraged urban sprawl. Influenced by Robert Venturi’s “Learning from Las Vegas,” this study analyzes the landscape beyond The Strip in an attempt to understand future developments of this city.
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Love/Belonging
Esteem
Self Actualization
Proportional Population Growth: Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada
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Above: Immediate Contexta. View from the Waterb. Perspectivesc. Site Sectiond. Immediate Site and Surrounding Contexts
Fall 2006 - Static-Dynamic Rowing FacilityInstructor - Vivian Loftness, Partner - Diana Lui
Pittsburgh is blessed with its rivers. In an attempt to revitalize the city’s river systems, a series of barges containing rowing equipment could be placed around Pittsburgh. The new dynamic rowing facilities could be pick-up and drop-off sites for future rowers.
Context: Pittsburgh
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Site: 9-Mile-Run Watershed
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Above: Hand Drawn Site Plana. Concept Modelb. Progression Renderingsc. Physical Model
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Fall 2004 - Path in the WoodsInstructors - Kent Suhrbier; Lee Calisti
The site forces of sun, wind, and rain in an east-west swatch of land in Schenley Park gave form to this path in the woods. The planar definitions overlap to develop a sense of implied space. As a result, shadows obscure and reveal as an occupant progresses through the varying suggested enclosure.
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Above:Booth Build Week (4 days)a. Structure - Star Warsb. Structural Analysis - The Gooniesc. Booths - 5 yearsd. Completed Goonies Interior Snapshot
Sigma Phi Epsilon Yearly Community Service Floats Appointed Float Designer - 2007-2009
Each of these booths have the same dimensional footprint - 18’ x 24’ - and each uses the same lumber as its predecessor. The thematic nature of each tells a different narrative, and the progression between the rooms all depict a unique experience. This community service booth serves yearly its purpose to the greater Carnegie Mellon Community during the Spring Carnival.
Rock & Roll - 2005 Star Wars - 2006 Nintendo - 2007 Titanic - 2008 Goonies - 2009
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Above: Systems Diagram - Sectiona. Site Birds-Eyeb. Building Plansc. Greenhouse Sectiond. Interior Perspective
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Spring 2008 - Center for Regenerative LandscapesInstructor - Vivian Loftness, Partner - Annie Bodhidatta
Phipps Conservatory’s new office and classroom annex capitalizes on passive solar systems and state-of-the art mechanical systems that close the loops commonly associated with buildings (waste, water, and energy). Understanding climate, site, and technological forces was necessary to the design of this center.
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Left: Pittsburgh is situated in a unique region that forces the built environment to adapt to difficult topographic and geomorphic variations. (Topography, Building Footprints, and Streets)
Back Cover: Model 2, Larimer - Transect of Promenade
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