Andrew Vargo. Architecture. Design. Innovation. www. Andrew Vargo.com

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1 Andrew Vargo Architecture. Design. Innovation www. Andrew Vargo.com

2 resume Work Experience Education EYP Architects Designed Project Bid Presentations Developed BIM Projects Produced Construction Documents PSU Digital Beehive Mentored Students on Revit Researched applications for Unity and VR Assisted student-run software classes DVA Architects Conducted Site Analysis Created Existing Condition Models Compiled Digital Archives DPZ Architects Met with Clients Prepared Presentations Contributed to Concept Development Whitetail Ski Resort Taught Classes of 1-18 People Developed Lesson Plans Contributed to Station Design Penn State University Bachelor of Architecture State College, PA Pantheon Institute Architecture & Ancient Cities Rome, Italy Penn State Global Programs Landscape Architecture Parks and People Mang ula, Tanzania School for International Training Buddhist Arts and Architecture India & Kashmir University of Maryland Introduction to Architecture College Park, MD Winston Churchill High School Potomac, MD

3 resume II References Proficiencies Paul O Connell EYP Architecture and Engineering Senior Architect at EYP poconnell@eypae.com Washington DC Office Potomac St NW, Washington, DC Autodesk Revit Revit Families AutoCAD 3DS Max Marina Khoury DPZ Architects Partner at DPZ Architects & Town Planners marina@dpz.com Washington DC Office Firehouse Lane, Gaithersburg, MD Adobe Photoshop InDesign Lightroom Illustrator Ute Poerschke Penn State University Associate Professor of Architecture at Penn State uxp10@psu.edu Penn State Stuckeman Building, University Park, PA Digital Rhino Unity Basic VR Photography Bob Vujcic Donnally Vujcic Architects Principal at DVA bvujcic@dva-arch.com DVA Professional Drive, Gaithersburg, MD Fabrication Laser & CNC Systems 3D Printing Wood Working Welding

4 Portfolio Architecture Non-Architecture Pages Settlers Ridge House Personal Residence Settlers Ridge Road, Osterberg, PA Pages Suspension Proun Sculpture Metal, Wood, String Pages Center Sky Observatory Visitors Center & Observatory Mount Lemmon Observatory, AZ Page 36 Door at Night Existing Conditions Sketch Charcoal on Canvas Pages Tiber River Museum Visitors Center, Museum, Infrastructure Via Gulia, Rome, IT Page 37 Borgo Angelico Historic Urban Development Study Graphite & Watercolor on Card Pages Discovery Center Community Center, Museum, Master Plan Allen Street, State College, PA Page 38 Roofer House Drafting of a House Graphite on Velum Pages A Living Room Museum Pavilion & Workshop Hajar Pavilion Competition Page 39 Il Uffizi Composite Plan & Projection Graphite on Velum Pages NSNP Community Center Community Center & After School Care Norris Square, Philadelphia, PA Pages Phototropism Solar Array Solar Array & Educational Display East Park Ave, State College, PA

5 Settlers Ridge House Settlers Ridge Road, Osterburg, PA 5 Months This house was my first solo project. I competed for this project in January of 2017 by providing a concept image to the client based upon their initial description. To win this job, I competed against several graduate students and other upper year architecture students. As part of the selection process, I met with the client on site where we discussed their vision for the project. After seeing the quality of my work and the style of my proposal, I was offered the job. The 8,000 square foot residence is to be built in a small wooded area on top of a hill in southern Pennsylvania. Over several months, I met with the client regularly to help put their vision for the project on paper. After completing the design, I create a bid set that was handed off to a design-build firm who are now handling final construction documents, engineering and construction administration. 9

6 Exterior View of Early Design Exterior View of Finished Concept Building Original Concept Sketch for Master Bedroom Screen Shot of VR View provided to Client Selected Page From Concept-Design Bid-Set 11

7 Center Sky Observatory Mount Lemmon Observatory, AZ 8 Days The Center Sky observatory, was designed for the 2017 Stewardson Competition. My unique take on the prompt lead me to create a smaller observatory in order to create a more profound visitor experience. I modeled my project many people s first experience with telescopes, standing around one in a dark field with full view of the sky. The point of my solution was to draw a parallel between the telescope s deep space and what you can see with your eye. This vital connection would have been lost under a typical dome structure. VR View 13

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9 Tiber River Museum Via Gulia, Roma, Italy 5 Months The concept for this project was: by creating a base system to build onto, even an infrastructural element can become an important cultural and architectural artifact. The Tiber River Museum was designed for the Pantheon Institute studio course. This project sought to provide a new perspective on the Tiber River. By occupying the space behind the river walls, this project could provide new views, better access to the waterfront, and create a modern space without interrupting the historic center of Rome. This idea was extended to create a wall way tunnel along the Tiber River behind the flood walls. This would open up a significant amount of much needed building space in the heart of Rome. Alison Robinson Team Members: Alison Robinson, Andrew Vargo

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11 Discovery Center Allen Street, State College, PA 4 Months Not to Scale N This project was developed for the Discovery Space, a children s science museum in State College, PA. The clients wanted to see what a possible expansion to their program could look like. Their original plan was to renovate a smaller building. Our proposal was far more ambitious. We created a new master plan that would create a more developed mixed-use zone that would help the community afford a larger, more effective learning space. We also saw this as a great opportunity to create new civic area for downtown State College. We immediately fell in love with this idea of using learning and education as the core of the new civic district. The project was developed around the three main types of learning: Visual, Auditory, and Physical. Each style of learning was incorporated into both the building and through smaller installations throughout the space. Team Members: Alison Robinson, Andrew Vargo Story Boards: Each card had drawings of the project, short descriptions, diagrams, or precedent images to help give a fuller image than is possible through renderings alone. The physical nature of the cards also helped draw the clients into the presentation. The Network: In addition to conducting classes and hosting shows, we decided that the Discovery Space could serve as a center for people to learn about other learning opportunities in the community. 21

12 Passive Heating and Cooling Using a few simple technologies, like passive solar heating, thermal mass walls, earth tubes, and a few air fans, this design removes the need for typical heating and cooling systems. Activity Space Support Space Like any large building, there were a lot of things that went into making this building functional. Spaces like storage areas, elevator shafts, bathrooms, and fire stairs all take up a lot of space and make it hard to create open space. In our design, we managed to separate these spaces to give the activities areas the room they needed. Public Private Partnership In order to help pay for this civic learning hub and achiever the higher density goals of the county, we created a solution that would allow for the inclussion of up to three additional floors of Class A offic space. These spaces would help offset the cost of the Discovery Center and help build up downtown State College. 23

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14 A Living Room Hajar Pavilion Competition 3 Days To be intimate with nature in its multifaceted moods is one of the greatest experiences of life. -George Nakashima By partially burying the building and aligning it with the grain of the hill, I was able to create a smooth transition between different levels of exposure. At the front, the floor rolls out onto the hillside, allowing for more natural access and a directed view. Then, as the ground rises, the building transitions from a gallery space where guests can interact with the furniture, to a kitchenette with eye level views of the ground, to a secluded workshop with clerestory views. 27

15 Norris Square Neighborhood Project Norris Square, Philidelphia, PA N 5 Months The Norris Square Neighborhood Project is a youth focused community center in Philadelphia. My project focused on creating more open social spaces while still maintaining respect for the historic row house architecture of the neighborhood. To do this, I developed my project in the form of a vacant lot, or, an open space flanked by a pair of row-houses. The open space was used for community functions while the two row-houses housed the more private parts of the center. The large slat-work style auditorium bridges the two row house blocks. N On top of the community space, I designed a very large urban garden. This garden was designed to recreate the vacant lots that NSNP cares for, while raise the farming space into better light. N 29

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17 Phototropism Solar Array East Park Ave, State College, PA 5 Days Phototropism: The movement of an organism in response to light. Our proposal for the Penn State 2015 Class Gift Solar Array focused on this idea of phototropism and drawing from nature as inspiration. We proposed that instead of building a standard car cover array in some out-of-the-way parking lot, this array should be something visible, beautiful, and educational. The arboretum, with its reputation as an outdoor classroom and its abundance of phototropic organisms, provided the perfect space for our array. The array was a series of single panel rows, supported by a compound arc rail and single posts every 30 feet. The arc of the rail held the panels up at a 30 angle and then tilted the row of panel so that each panel would be optimized to a different time of day during the equinox. This allows visitors to track the sun across the panels and learn about how the sun moves across the sky and the effect this has on solar energy, both in photovoltaics and in plant life. Team Members: Andrew Vargo, Chris Frey, Melanie Ray, Kirk Diamond, Jordan Crolly 33

18 Suspension Proun Sculpture 2 Weeks A Proun is an installation style developed by El Lissitsky and can be a painting or a sculptural installation created with social or special inspiration. This is the Proun I developed for the first project of Second Year studio. I was interested with the idea of defying gravity and exploring the tension between two opposing forces. My Proun is a set of opposing arcs between which three large metal objects are suspended. Originally, the Proun was an experiment with the possibility of weightlessness; the result shows how difficult it is to show true weightlessness. My hope was for the three solids to float miraculously between the arcs, existing in spite of gravity by using the tension of the arcs. However, the web of cables became the dominating visual focus of the piece. The intricate web of suspension cables creates a very real expression of how all things are, and must be, connected in order for a structure to be a functional whole.

19 Borgo Angelico Graphite and Water Color on Card 3 Hours This water colored sketch was created for a postcard project in Alan Ceen s Cartography course. Given the card on the bottom right, I was tasked with finding that location in Rome and recreating the modern image of it. Door at Night Charcoal on Canvas 30 minutes The Post Card is part of Ettore Roesler s Disappeared Rome series from the late 19th Century. This particular card depicts a plaza near on the Borgo Wall gates in Borgo Angelico.

20 Roofer House Graphite on Velum 2 weeks Il Uffizi Graphite on Velum 3 Months

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