Kevin Youngenvironmentalist, designer, intellectual503.806.2726kevin.s.young@gmail.comkeviny.prosite.com/

We can’t change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust the sails.-old Hindu proverb

Sustainable Energy & Business Model

Ecological Restorative Cultural Museum

Living Small, Luxuriously

Biomimetic Kinetic Rain Awning

Commercial Urban Center Revitalization

REINVENTING how we look at waste is crucial to achieving SUSTAINABILITY

RETHINKING WASTE

25 MW+12 MW+

90%

10%

7 MW+

67% Converted

80% Converted

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN PRODUCES

4.5 pounds of waste per day

THE AVERAGE BREWERY PRODUCTION

is 80% biodegradable waste

UP TO 80% CAN BE CONSIDERED

biodegradable

THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD WILL PRODUCE

125,000 lbs of waste from drinking beer

WHAT IF there was a way to see this DIFFERENTLY?

WHAT IF WASTE was actually a COMMODITY?

30.8%

12.7%

14.7%

18.3%

18.3%

Containers/Packaging

Food Scraps

Yard Trimming

Durable Goods

Nondurable Goods

Can we translate the waste from our commoditiesand luxuries, and translate them into necessities?

WOODPRODUCTS

BEERPRODUCTS

This project focuses on the bigger idea of creating a world with out waste - where waste becomes a resource that fuels our economy, rather then a burden on the environment. By linking waste from the industrial process of making beer, to the process of energy production, a raw good can be filtered through multiple uses and businesses until the remaining waste is able to be used for ecological restoration and environmental stability.

A new business model linked to the removal of waste.

A biomass cogeneration heat and energy plant as a community center.

An industrial brewing cooperative and hop production.

A luxury hotel and spa, which features a large hot pool heated from off-heat of the connected cogeneration plant.

An urban plan vision of developing various bio-waste producing businesses to fuel the energy production.

Features

Sustainable Energy & Business Model

The entry to the site is through a historic crane shed, repurposed as a shelter for food carts.

The interior of the crane shed, framing the view of the site.

Coming out of the crane shed, a view of the restored wetlands and a prominent view of the main project.

CO2

BREWING PROCESS

INDUSTRIAL ENERGY PROCESS

SEGREGATE THE GRAINS AND WORT

BOIL AND ADD HOPS

COOL AND ADD YEAST

BARREL AGING FILTERGRIND GRAIN, ADD WATER

NATURAL PROCESS

GAS BURNER/TURBINE

WASTE COMBUSTER

HEAT EXCHANGE KILN HEATEXCHANGE/FILTER

CYCLONESEPARATOR

STACKVENTILATION

HEAT ASH+SOIL NUTRIENTS

MIXED WOODLANDS

WOODPRODUCTS

HOPS

OAK SAVANNAHS PRAIRIES (UPPER/WET) WETLANDS/RIPARIAN

Identified areas where biowaste is produced during the brewing process.

Biowaste is inputed into the industrial energy process (cogeneration heat and power). As a result, ash, heat, and CO2 is produced.

Heat and CO2 become useful inputs into natural ecosystems and growing plants, and ash helps remediate soils. This can fuel the growth of hops for brewing, or trees for wood products, that can feed back into the system.

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S.E.E.D.“...BRIGHT FUTURE.”

BIOWASTEPROCESSOR

HOP FARMING

The site itself takes on the form of fueling the potential for businesses that produce biowaste to feed into the cogeneration plant (SEED). As an entrance to this world, the historic crane shed is relocated as the new entrance to the site, becoming the beacon that represents Springfield “proud history.” As a result, the site and the SEED become the “bright future” of Springfield, translating Springfield’s motto “Proud history, bright future” into a site design.

Site Plan

STACK VENT/CARBON ORGAN

BIOWASTE SILO LOBBYROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

THE FRONTPORCH

THE WETLANDS

OBSERVATORYCAFE

MEETINGABOVE

DRINK AND MINGLELEARNING ALLEYBIOWASTE COLLECTION

The paradoxical challenge is to simultaneously create simplicity and variety, diversity and coherence. In other words, to create a city in the building.

Bjarke Ingels, architect

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil, and power - economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed.

William McDonough, architect

STACK VENT/CARBON ORGAN

BIOWASTE SILO LOBBYROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

THE FRONTPORCH

THE WETLANDS

OBSERVATORYCAFE

MEETINGABOVE

DRINK AND MINGLELEARNING ALLEYBIOWASTE COLLECTION

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

Malcolm Gladwell, writer

Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

David Suzuki, environemntalist

The building itself embodied the previous diagram, attempting to encapsulate all of the relationships between brewing, energy, and ecology within a single structure. The off-heat from energy production is used to create a 300’ long hot bath on the roof that occurs above a grand open space where the relationships between different elements become apparent, with pipes flying overhead from the brewing process to the energy process. The top two floors are conerted into a luxury hotel and spa, turning heat and water into a valuable commodity, and the mineral bath creates beautiful filtered light through the frosted glass floor, washing the grand open space in animated blue light.

50.9 inchesannual rainfall

WATER RAKE

549,720 gallonsstored per year

WATER STORAGE

HOPS GROWTH

UP TO 70-90% OF CO2 REDUCED

CO2 RELEASE VENT

INCREASED GROWTHVIA CO2 INTAKE

PARTIAL CO2 ABSORPTION

MEDIOCRE CO2 ABSORPTION

FULL CO2 ABSORPTION

1 MW

12.5 MW

25 MW

BIOMASS MOVEMENT INDICATOR

ENERGY PRODUCTION INDICATOR OFF HEAT FROM COGENERATION

ROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

HEAT ABSORBEDBY TREE

LIVING LAYER: HOP FARM

BREWING POD

HOTEL SUITE

DOUBLE SKIN FACADE

ROOF DECKROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

ENERGY MACHINES

BIOWASTE PIPES

LEARNING ALLEY“MIXING AND EXCHANGE”

DAYLIGHT18.6 watts/sf334,800 total watts(13 homes)

5.6 watts/sf100,800 total watts(5 homes)

AMBIENT INDOOR LIGHTCO2

CO2

CO2 CAPTURECHAMBER

PRESURRIZEDPISTON

ACTIVATEDPISTON

AUDIBLE SOUND RELEASED (CO2 PIPE ORGAN)

HATCHES OPEN

CHAMBER SHUTS

WATER HARVESTER

MODERN DAY CLOCK TOWER

FEEDBACK LANTERN MINERAL BATH OFF-HEAT ROOF ECOSYSTEM

SOLAR HARVESTER

50.9 inchesannual rainfall

WATER RAKE

549,720 gallonsstored per year

WATER STORAGE

HOPS GROWTH

UP TO 70-90% OF CO2 REDUCED

CO2 RELEASE VENT

INCREASED GROWTHVIA CO2 INTAKE

PARTIAL CO2 ABSORPTION

MEDIOCRE CO2 ABSORPTION

FULL CO2 ABSORPTION

1 MW

12.5 MW

25 MW

BIOMASS MOVEMENT INDICATOR

ENERGY PRODUCTION INDICATOR OFF HEAT FROM COGENERATION

ROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

HEAT ABSORBEDBY TREE

LIVING LAYER: HOP FARM

BREWING POD

HOTEL SUITE

DOUBLE SKIN FACADE

ROOF DECKROOF TOPMINERAL BATH

ENERGY MACHINES

BIOWASTE PIPES

LEARNING ALLEY“MIXING AND EXCHANGE”

DAYLIGHT18.6 watts/sf334,800 total watts(13 homes)

5.6 watts/sf100,800 total watts(5 homes)

AMBIENT INDOOR LIGHTCO2

CO2

CO2 CAPTURECHAMBER

PRESURRIZEDPISTON

ACTIVATEDPISTON

AUDIBLE SOUND RELEASED (CO2 PIPE ORGAN)

HATCHES OPEN

CHAMBER SHUTS

WATER HARVESTER

MODERN DAY CLOCK TOWER

FEEDBACK LANTERN MINERAL BATH OFF-HEAT ROOF ECOSYSTEM

SOLAR HARVESTER

The interaction of the multiple different elements and how they relate to each other, forming complex and symbiotic relationships.

The roof top mineral bath and green roofs.

Sitting in the mineral bath, looking out.

The brewing production.

The open space below the bath, with pipes flying over head

LEARNING ALLEY - “RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL”

GRAND APPROACH

BURN/COMBUST

HEAT EXCHANGE

AIR FILTER

BREWING POD

BREWING POD

BOTTLECORNER

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PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

RELAX UNDER THE STARS/SKYMEN CHANGING ROOM/SPA WOMEN CHANGING ROOM/SPA

GRAND COMMUNAL MINERAL BATH

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OBSERVATORY CAFE

BREWING POD

MEETING ABOVE

LOBBY

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3rd FLOOR

4th FLOOR

ROOF

Final floor plans, showing the details of the various relationships.

LEARNING ALLEY - “RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ALL”

GRAND APPROACH

BURN/COMBUST

HEAT EXCHANGE

AIR FILTER

BREWING POD

BREWING POD

BOTTLECORNER

BOTTLECORNER

BIO

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BREWING POD FOOD HUB

PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

PEOPLE WATCHING BALCONY

RELAX UNDER THE STARS/SKYMEN CHANGING ROOM/SPA WOMEN CHANGING ROOM/SPA

GRAND COMMUNAL MINERAL BATH

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OBSERVATORY CAFE

BREWING POD

MEETING ABOVE

LOBBY

2nd FLOOR

3rd FLOOR

4th FLOOR

ROOF

Final study model and site model.

Ecological Restorative Cultural Museum

The north end of the Tiber Island (our site) is healthy, and is used for various public events. This area has very little need for site repair.

The middle bulk of the island consists of historic buildings and grand pedestrian walkways over and by the water. This area also does not need much help.

The southern tip is barren, with an odd pointed tip meant to resemble a ship. Nothing happens here, and there are walls blocking off the existing buildings with this area. This area needs site repair.

The task of this project was to create a museum dedicated to the history and importance of this island, ecologically and culturally, to the city of Rome. Yet, this project strives to do something more, by going beyond just dusty exhibits, and attempting to restore the entirety of the Tiber River to its former ecologically glory from centuries ago. Originally, the river was the benefactor to various creatures, many of which are endangered today. By expanding the scope to the entire river, a river restoration project can occur, which builds up to the site, the Tiber Island, where a pivotal building can be constructed in dedication to the purifaction and healing of the river’s ecology. This revival of the river will allow for a more seamless interaction between humans and non-humans, and encourage the care-taking and appreciation of ecological systems in an urban context.

Birds, frogs, and fish, are just some of the various animals that originally thrived in the Tiber River, and are now either endangered, or will be very soon.

Pedestrian Pocket

Pedestrian Pocket

PedestrianBridge/Weir

PedestrianBridge/Weir

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A sliver of the river is used to show the details of the strategy. Essentially, the river will be divided in two - one side primarily for humans, and the other for non-humans. At key points, there will be bridges for pedestrians to cross over and interact with the ecological habitats, and at each of these bridges, a weir to filter and cleanse the river will be established. The formation of eddies will also help slow down the speed of the river, allowing for habitats to more easily thrive. By creating a continuous bank of ecological interactive habitats, the Tiber River has the potential to be a green vein that courses through Rome, leading to Tiber Island, which can become the new “green lung” of Rome.

Section of the filtering weir

A sketch of what the finished river will look like, with pedestrian bridges, habitats, and small pockets of open space for people to inhabit made up of permeable pavers. The water will be slow moving, instead of a rushing tide of water that floods frequently. And there will be fishes, birds, and frogs for people to see.

LOBBY/MAIN GALLERY

BRIDGES EXHIBIT

CHANGING EXHIBITS

ART GALLERY

LIFE BY THE RIVER EXHIBIT

RIVER HEALTH EXHIBIT

The building inhabits the southern tip of the island, and takes on the form of a traditional Roman tower, maximizing the surface area exposed to the rain, preferencing form over complexity of spatial functions. As a result, the tower itself becomes a vary simple organizational diagram (left), each floor taking on a single exhibit, with a large atrium cutting through the center of the structure.

Existing Bridge

Seasonal Flood Plaza

Refuge Flood Island

Water Purification Temple The form is advantageous for cleansing rain water, utilizing the thickness of the structure as a potential to contain gravity sand filters, catching rain that hits the surface and filtering it through multiple layers of sand to cleanse it, until it becomes potable, drinkable water at the basement. Here, the river health exhibit takes place, allowing people to learn about water cleansing, and to make the connection between how to cleanse water, and actually drinking water that fell from the sky.

The entrance to the site

Looking up at the tower

The entrance to the museum

Looking down the tower

Living Small, Luxuriously

Satellite Views View of the sidewalk

As population grows, and the relationship between family size and square footage of home becomes more skewed, it has become vital that smaller homes be seen as places of luxury that can provide the same level of quality of space that a large home does. This project focused on the design of a very small house, on a very small lot, and taking into account how precious space is, designing a deeply poetic and meaningful home in a typical residential area in Eugene, OR. There was a study of multiple contextual issues, such as zoning laws, climate, neighborhood communal unity, and relative aesthetics.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed, and a context which we cannot properly describe.

-Christopher Alexander

Roof Form and Height

minimum slope 6:12 maximum building height

exceptions: p orches under 100 sf or a way from the street front g arages under 200 sf d ormers

30 ft allowable height for buildings meeting minimum 6:12 slope and at a distance of at least 60 ft from the streetOtherwise maximum 18ft height

At least 25 ft of the main facade must be within 30 ft of the street or lot line it faces

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street

30 ft

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25 ft

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5 ft

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minimumsetback

from lot line

minimumsetback

maximum setbackSetbacks

Alley viewLooking at the site

The zoning laws (summarized to the left) were created as a reaction to many of the tall, multi-story apartments that were being built in low-rise residential areas. This studio project also acted as a test of new, recently enacted zoning laws put into action by the neighborhood community. There were multiple restrictions put into place, some key ones being the elimination of flat roofs in favor of pitched roofs, the push for smaller foot prints on the lot, and a height restriction, to improve daylight access to other lots. This has become a key issue in Eugene, OR, and this studio project acts as an exploratory tool as to whether or not the neighborhood’s planning policies were positive. The poetics pursued in this particular project follow the readings and teachings of Christopher Alexander, as guided by the professor. Each student was tasked to read and interpret at their own will what his theories meant. By latching on to Alexander’s powerful aesthetic theories, this project was able to study what it means to make truly beautiful and poetic spaces to live in.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

-Christopher Alexander

First Draft - Pencil

Second Draft - Pen

Third Draft - Monochrome

Final Draft - Color

In order for the design process to remain fluid and flexible, the use of hand media became essential as an exploration tool. By ensuring the media matched the level of exploration, I was able to transition smoothly from pencil, to pen, to ink (black and white), to the final rendering in color. In addition to the hand media, a 1/2”=1’0” large model was completed in order to fully explore the design of the main room and how it relates to the garden. The connetion between the room and the garden was meant to be fluid and seamless. The model also served as a means to express the poetics of the space in a detailed manner for presentation, and to also fully understand the details of how structural members connect with each other and create a supporting structural system that is expressive and appropriate to the design.

Entrance Hall/Library

The Gathering Space

Dining Nook

Gathering Space

Biomimetic Kinetic Rain Awning

This project was a collaboration between three University of Oregon architecture students, and one industrial design student from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. We were challenged to create a functioning prototype of a kinetic design solution for Granville Island’s alleys. This design provides a translucent canopy for Railspur Alley, on Granville Island in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its primary purpose is to protect pedestrians from precipitation. A kinetic rain canopy is an appropriate design solution because it can provide rain protection when needed, but can also move in such a way as to admit maximum daylight when the weather is dry.

Credit: Erik Bonnett, Emi Day, Alysha Paiaro

Brainstorming (notebook snapshots)

Studying Movement (rough model)

As a team, we created the following design criteria:

2. Canopy provides a covered path to major building entrances and displays a continuously covered path for the length of the alley (except the Old Bridge Road intersection).

3. When the weather is rainy and the canopy is extended, as much daylight as possible should be transmitted through the canopy.

4. When the weather is sunny and the canopy is retracted, as little sunlight as possible should be blocked

5. The canopy should have aesthetic value both when extended and retracted.

6. Must be able to resist wind load when extended, retracted, and operating.

7. The array of rain canopies operates in one sequence, as opposed to providing autonomous control over each component.

1. Canopy activates quickly once it starts to rain.

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3

In order to fully understand the relationship of various forms, we studied various forms, and how they would intearct with each other. We also studied the possiblity of primary and secondary forms, smaller and larger forms, and so forth. It became important to understand how forms relate to each other in plan, and also how they over lap and create cover over the alley.

Biomimicry Studies

Daytime Perspective

Nighttime Perspective

Animation Stills

Solid Works Construction Drawings

Final Model

Commercial Urban Center Revitalization

Granville Island in Vancouver BC has been met with great amounts of success over the years due to its popularity as a tourist attraction, but it has become a less desired place to visit for local Canadians due to the massive inflow of tourists, and the lack of night time activities that relate to the local lifestyle. This project is challenged to create a place that is attractive to both tourists and locals of Vancouver. The Sour Kettle Brew Pub becomes a place that is focused around the traditions of brewing and grand beer halls and gardens as a place for locals and tourists to gather and enjoy each others company.

The process began with this concept collage, focused around a vision for the beer hall and beer garden. Embracing the industrial aesthetic of the island, the brew kettles become the back drop to the dining and drinking experience, with hops growing on the edges, so that people can make the connection between hops growing, beer brewing, and drinking.

Concept Collage

By creating a brew pub that opens out to an adjoining open space that has become detrimental and under used, there is the potential to create an “urban food plaza.” A place where, on nice days, people can grab food and eat outside, like an outdoor food court.

The main focus of the project is the beer hall/beer garden. As a result, it becomes the central anchor to the entire building, and everything else is organized around it. As the main feature of the building, people are able to see it from every main entry to the building.

The circulation also becomes fairly simple. Through every entrance, there is a connection to the main beer hall/beer garden. Whehter you are accessing the teaching kitchen to the east, or the brew pub to the west, you will always be connected to the main space.

Water Conservation: Condensation collection systems and steam traps for the steam will recycle the use of water in the mash turns at the start. Cuts back water by 40%.

This project also follows the belief that a brew pub is the perfect system to foster a re-thinking of how commercial products are used and consumed. By implementing high-efficient, sustainable, brewing methods, and by making the process as transparent as possible, the hope is that the average beer drinker can understand not only how the process works, but how the process can be done sustainably.

Grain Repurpose: Wort separation results in unused grain -- this grain will be reused as cattle feed, which is high in nutrients, and generates revenue.

Energy Reduction: High amount of nutrient rich water waste, resulting in a need for water re-use, or working towards creating an off-site Bio-Energy Recover System.

Efficent Ventilation: Most breweries use energy intensive electrical ventilation for CO2 emissions; a traditional stack ventilation reduces energy use.

Reuse, Recycle: Barrels are able to be reused at least 6 times before they begin to disintegrate. Then they are sent to a landscaper to be blended to make mulch. Photos of the Site

This is a model showing the relationship between two different projects. My own on the left, and a fellow classmate’s on the right. The intent was to show a connection across the alley between our two main spaces - the beer hall to the main jazz performance space.

Another view of the model, this time showing how the top floor of the beer hall/beer garden, has a kinetic roof that can slide open on sunny days, allowing for the space to remain flexible.

The main beer hall space, first floor, showing the full realization of the original concept collage - filtered light, industrial gritty aesthetic, with brew kettles as the backdrop to the dining/drinking experience. Beer Hall

The second floor of the main space, the beer garden. When the kinetic roof is pulled back, it reveals a trellis of hops that hang over head. And the open air feeling of the space turns this into an urban garden. Beer Garden

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney