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
UNIVERSITY
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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PRELIMINARY SKETCH
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.
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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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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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TODD SPARKS5614 Far Vista LaneKnoxville, TN 37914E | [email protected] | 865 235 2228