REBUILD STUDIO | LLC
REBUILD STUDIO | LLC
architecture, planning and interior design meshing craft and ingenuity . . . with the planet in mind
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School of Leadership Studies
Kansas State University
Kansas State University – Manhattan, Kansas
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LEED Gold
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36,000 SF academic/classroom building –construction completed January 2010 after leaving Opus Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Klockeman led the project as the Architectural Manager and took on the challenging task of fitting this program into a very tight and triangular-shaped site. The interior, with its entry atrium and lobby flanked by an open Info Cafe, provides the foreground for the centerpiece Town Hall. The tiered-floor, fan-shaped Town Hall, which seats over 200, is well-suited for interactive classroom activities with built-in break out space and excellent sight lines.
The interior ramping of the floor plates outside the Town Hall allows the building to flow gracefully down the hill, keep the building mass lower to the ground and integrate the building to the neighboring campus scale. Three, 1,200-square foot meeting rooms and three 900-square foot seminar rooms round out the first floor. The second floor provides office space, staff work areas, conference rooms and scattered Open Meeting Spaces designed to encourage interaction among students and faculty while providing additional break out space to augment the first floor classrooms.
The building’s exterior utilizes the Cottonwood Limestone, found locally, and includes cast stone accents above windows, as a high belt course and other accents. One striking feature is the corner exterior fireplace (shown below) wrapped with a sloped-top pergola for shading outdoor seating. This provides yet another meeting location for students and faculty. The mission-style design serves to welcome all to the building and provides a nice fit with the adjoining creek and wooded hill to the east.
Klockeman played a significant role in program formulation, floor plan and massing layouts, as well as providing detailed technical expertise in transforming the concept into a building. Susan Scott, Director of the School of Leadership Studies, called Mr. Klockeman’s efforts invaluable in translating the school’s wish list into a tangible and cohesive project. All told the project team, which is now completing contract documents, has done an excellent job of creating an attractive and welcoming facility for the school.
The Harper Center
Creighton University
Creighton University – Omaha, Nebraska
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230,000 SF academic resource center / student center opened in Fall of 2008
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July 2008 Completion date while with Opus Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Klockeman led the project as the Architectural Manager and worked closely with the University to ensure the program requirements coalesced in this 246,000 square foot facility. The merging of student services with classroom/meeting rooms, student health clinic, fitness center, convenience store serving the east end of campus, sports bar, coffee shop, lecture hall/theater, academic department office suites, academic bookstore, multi-purpose ballroom, board room, large commercial kitchen, and lounges for informal student gathering makes this facility very unique in the world of institutional models.
Each elevation responds in its own unique way to the demands of solar orientation and campus context. Two, four-story atriums animate in two ways. First. the building’s interior space by bringing natural light far within its inner spaces. Second, the exterior is animated especially in the evening when the atriums’ four-story glow and activity enliven and secure adjacent walkways. Mr. Klockeman’s leadership in carefully banding the south-facing atrium glass with a 40% screened pattern to reduce the cooling load very subtly improves the energy performance to allow this optimal campus contextual fit to be realized. The south terraced planting on this uniquely sloping site gracefully softens the 60-foot brick-faced piers as they march to the east.
This project, which began planning in 2004, required a sure-handed leader with a resolute vision of what could and should be at the end of the day. Mr. Klockeman’s determination to incorporate effective sustainable design features rewards both the campus and the planet on this brownfield site the former home on a printing facility. Other examples of sustainable thinking include natural stone flooring in the most heavily trafficked public areas, high efficiency lighting throughout, increased air change rate for optimizing student and faculty performance, white roofing to reduce heat island effects, natural daylighting in 80% of classrooms, utilization of campus-wide steam and chilled water and the use of prominent, inviting public stairways to promote student and faculty health.
Opus Residence Hall
Creighton University
Creighton University – Omaha, Nebraska
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286 students
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100 units of on-campus apartments
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opened August 2006 while with Opus Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Klockeman led the project as the Architectural Manager and took on the challenging task of devising varying modular unit sizes to enable the project to make progress even while the unit mix and locations were still being debated. He worked closely with the client from the project’s beginning on the design of site usage and building orientation, floor planning, unit plan layouts, overall building massing and elevation studies.
This is a 286-bed student housing/apartment building on the east edge of the Creighton University campus. Mr. Klockeman devised the u-shaped plan opening the courtyard to a refreshing southern exposure, especially during winter, spring and fall months. This is one of many features of the building responsive to environmental concerns. The brick which has become the new campus standard is locally produced, as are the windows. Architectural precast trim elements were also locally produced. The construction was expedited using local shop-fabricated componentized framing for both exterior and interior walls.
This is a wood framed, load bearing brick building structure. The semi-circular community room utilizes carefully placed shading devices and broad overhangs to reduce the heating load on its welcoming glass surfaces. The units include full kitchens and multiple private bathrooms. The four-story facility, which encompasses 155,000 square feet, houses 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom units plus some 4-bedroom lofted units. The exterior treatments are meant to evoke turn of the last century row houses in an effort to break down the long mass of the block-filling building. The facility opened in the Fall of 2006 and has been a huge success for the University in enticing juniors and seniors to reside on campus and add to the richness of the campus experience.
Interfaith Peace Chapel
Dallas, Texas
Cathedral of Hope, Dallas, Texas
Philip Johnson, FAIA, Design Architect
Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects
Cunningham Architects, Architect of Record
From the Chapel's Website:
The Interfaith Peace Chapel includes over 8,000 square feet, is 46 feet tall at its highest point (the height of a four story building) and measures over 106 feet long. It seats 175 people and is designed for conferences, seminars, small interfaith services, weddings, memorial services and other intimate chapel experiences. The Interfaith Peace Chapel provides a sacred place for people of all faiths, and for people who profess no faith, to come together in unity and love. No matter the headlines or conflicts outside, within the walls of the Interfaith Peace Chapel all faiths, nationalities and ethnicities are welcome. The Chapel is an example of inclusive spiritual cooperation for the rest of the world.
While working with Radius Track Corporation at their Design Manager, Klockeman designed and documented the light gauge steel framing required for this unconventional, sculptural masterpiece by Philip Johnson also with Cunningham Architects of Dallas. The curved surfaces were each unique and were modelled using Rhinoceros 3D software, which allowed for very precise and clean curvature. Klockeman worked closely with the design team to produce a stunning testament to the transformational power of God's feeling hand.
As Philip Johnson, FAIA, Project Designer, put it, "I’m the world’s luckiest man, I’m getting to do, at last what I’ve dreamt of all my life.” “This is a building I’ve waited all my life to build. It will be my memorial." “The building will be built of simple and common materials, which I understand God is rather fond of.” “When you work for God, you have to elevate your sights. There’s only one client that can give you that feeling.”
Each framing member of the chapel was unique in length and curvature creating smooth and continuously curving interior and exterior surfaces. This one-of-a-kind project was made affordable and accomplishable by the innovations of Radius Track Corporation and the genius of their founder, my dear friend, Chuck Mears, FAIA.
Ten West Corporate Center
Houston, Texas
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258,000 SF, five-story commercial office building
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Completed while with Opus Architects & Engineers, Inc.
Klockeman led this 258,000 square foot, five-story commercial office building project as the Architectural Manager and took on the challenging task of updating this Phase 2 building which is adjacent to the earlier phase completed in June of 1999. The challenge of updating, for the second phase, a commercial office prototype in a very warm climate was achieved through diligence and creativity.
Each floor provides 50,000 rentable square feet with a very open floor plate. Only the linear core walls of the center bay are used for restrooms, stairs, mechanical space, and structural brace frames leaving the remaining floor as very flexible space ready for varied office tenants. Each floor is arranged for flexibility to service single or multiple tenants.
The building uses high performance glazing and high efficiency cooling tower components to improve the energy numbers. White roofing reduces the heat island effect and the top level of the adjacent parking garage incorporates canopies for shading of the hot, Texas sun. An arch-covered walkway connects the building with the parking structure.