L U K E M c E L W A I NSELECTED WORKS

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18th and Central Mixed Use

ULI Hines Competition

Donald Judd Museum

Glass Blowing Workshop

University of Kansas West Campus Church

KCUR Public Engagement Design Build

Study Abroad -Germany, Prague, Italy, Switzerland, BarcelonaL&M Design + Services

Selected Works

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Luke McElwain 2728 Crestline Drive, Lawrence, Kansas 66047lukesmcelwain@gmail.com 913.669.1580

University of Kansas / Lawrence, KansasExpected Graduation: December 2017 GPA: 3.14 -Master of Architecture and Master of Construction Management

University of Kannsas / Lawrence, KansasLab Technician - Code fi les for cuts on the CNC and manage the stock and bit changes/selection. - Monitor and operate the 3D printers and laser cutters.

L&M Design + Services / Gravois Mills, MOCo-Owner - Produce bids and creative design solutions to clients. - Create construction and shop drawings. - Provide construction services to clients. - Completes buisness operation tasks and accounting tasks.

Spaces of Hope / Lawrence, KansasDirector of Operations -We are a non-profi t architectural design competitions group for high school and collegiate level competitions whom focus on sustainable public outreach design and implementation.

Information

Experience

Education

August 2014-Present

March 2013-Present

December 2012-Present

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Yaeger Architecture/ Overland Park, KansasArchitectural Intern - I created fi nal drawings and presentation boards to present to clients. - Member of the building design and concept team that creates custom design solutions to fi t the client’s needs. - Select products and obtain samples to provide to clients. Anna Mae Farms / Drexel, MissouriGeneral Contractor - Coordinated and managed members of a team that constructed a Hydroponic Greenhouse with a 1,000 gallon submurged water collection tank, over 350 hydro ponic trays, a computer controlled nutreint management system, a heating system, and a wet wall.

Design, Scheduling, Construction, Project Planning, Team Management, Product Specifi cation, Revit, AutoCAD, Rhino, Rhino-CAM, Sketchup, Kyrkythea, Podium, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign.

Eagle Scout

SkillsSkills

Distinctions

Summer 2011 and 2013

May - August 2013

Summer 2009

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Our project is the KCK Building Block that consisted of a throughout our in-vestigations this semester we found that the central Avenue corridor is an important thoroughfare for commerce and social interaction in the Kansas City Kansas area. There is a very unique variety of ethnicities and nation-alities. The success of this community is supported by local business’s suc-ceeding and creating new jobs that support the area. It became evident to me after the La Placita event that the community really needs support to create new businesses and foster the success of current local businesses. This bustling area of commerce led me and a couple of students to create a block of buildings that will present a unifi ed street front that will serve as an example to the rest of Central Avenue to create an area that will foster commerce and interaction from the community that will help elevate the business development and create a stable community. We are also pro-viding a new street scape that will provide street parking on one side, bike lanes on another, and a median that will provide for a more friendly area for people to walk through the district and help promote commerce. This block zone will create an area that will be considered an incubation zone. These buildings will create several buildings in the Central Avenue that will help develop business, maker, and food businesses that will help create new businesses that will create new jobs in the area that will help revitalize the area through higher wages and more commerce.

“A space for creative development and business and personal growth for all members of the community”

KCK FABLAB

ARCH 608 | 18th and Central, KCK

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The ULI Hines Competition is a two week long urban design and develop-ment project that is geared towards multidisciplinary graduate students. The team of fi ve students were tasked to complete fi nancial feasibility plans, renderings, site plans, concepts and site integration on a 14 acre site in Atlanta Georgia in the Midtown District. We proposed an entertainment, housing, retail, and offi ce space district that is just east of Georgia Tech University. Our plan included over 3 million square footage and close to a billion dollars in revenue spent in the devel-opment. With our fi nancial planning and estimating and planning, our pro-posal is profi table starting at the end of year one, according to our plans. I was responsible for designing, modeling, and fi nancial planning of the project.

ULI Hines Competition | Atlanta, Georgia

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Phasing Diagrams

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Donald Judd’s art pieces are pieces that require a large variety of spaces to install the art pieces in but they all require interaction from the audience. The premonition of my building is to mimic the interaction of Judds pieces. The piece of Judds work that is in the museum of modern art with the metal boxes welded together is the ratio that I used for the building. This ratio is projected onto the site and then extruded to make the building. The build-ing is created by the voids in the grid system that is projected onto the site. The absence of solid space can be used to create a natural path of circu-lation not only through the building but also through the site. The work of Donald Judd can be displayed in direct lighting situations so a building that can provide an area for Donald that can receive direct light and allocate a core of Donald’s space to other artists to display their work. As where art can be pushed to new levels because there are very few limitations since it is expression of the person. I want the building to be pushed as far as the art but on the other hand I feel that the building should be toned back and fi t into the urban context so that the building can be a part of the histori-cal downtown district. Pulling lines from the MoMA piece made of colored metal can create a grid system that can be pushed and pulled to create a group of spaces that create fl ow and a natural path of progression through the building that the pieces of art refl ect. This natural progression can be vertical, horizontal, diagonal, transition from inside to outside spaces mak-ing the occupants naturally guide themselves through the building like the Bloc addition to the Nelson Adkins Museum in Kansas City. The entry to the building should engage Central Street but does not necessarily mean that it is on Central Street. Pulling the entry back from the street isn’t standard practice in the downtown district but if there is a feature that is physically on Central to pull people from the street into the building can create a new style of entry that is different from the standard that creates a level of inter-est that can bring people into the building without the storefront actually being on central street.

ARCH 408 | 20th and Central, KCMO

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The Glass Blowing Workshop project tasked me to design a two story space on 11th and Massachusetts Street. The fi rst fl oor is the Freestate Glass Blow-ers and I chose to bring Jack Stack Barbeque to Lawrence for the second story retail space. This is the building that most people will see fi rst as they go down Mass Street so I wanted to make the corner attention grabbing. I made the corner a focal point by elevating the roof line and placing the kitchen and hot shop on the corner; the shop will throw a soft light from the glass furnaces that will illuminate the space. The restaurant has a full bar, smokers, and 148 seats. The entire building is ADA accessible. There is a two story display area for the glass into the restaurant seating areas.

ARCH 208 | 15th and Massachusetts St, Lawrence Kansas

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First Floor

Second Floor

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This project my studio was tasked with designing a nondenominational chapel. The site is on 17th and Iowa just south of the Pioneer Cemetery. I took the route of building a chapel that has a lot of light and is a beacon as you drive up Iowa Street. The roof of the Chapel is a standing seam metal roof thus creating a shining beacon that will draw attention to this new chap-el. The roof is intentionally very tall because I don’t want people to notice the roof; I wanted them to feel like they are in a heavenly space. I placed louvers on the sides of the windows so that the building does not put too much load on the HV/AC units. The building is 800sf, seats 48 people, a restroom and a dressing room with complete ADA compatibility.

ARCH 208 | 17th and Iowa, Lawrence Kansas

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I was a project manager for the KCUR design build project in Matt Klein-man’s Arch 409 studio. My responsibilities included designing, estimating, team management, material ordering and acquisition, and building of the project. KCUR-FM, the Kansas City NPR affi liate, invited architecture stu-dents from The University of Kansas to collaborate with them in developing a fl exible and mobile platform from which they could more readily engage local-area residents in situ, while also conveying the brand of KCUR’s pro-gramming. Conceived of as an extension of KCUR’s storytelling capacity, we created prototypes with the intent to support new and innovative forms of journalism that take a ‘boots-on-the-ground’ approach to reporting on issues that aff ect our communities today. The future of the prototype is intended to continue and evolve as new events and opportunities for KCUR to engage the community arise. For the studio, this process of participatory design/build exercises coupled with rapid prototyping and client interaction allowed for collaborative environments in real world design challenges.

ARCH 409 | KCUR

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Prototyping

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ENGAGEPAMPLETING & TABLING- Stackable units that can act as a table themselves or simply support banners in a small space.

DISCUSSIONS- Units that can be ar-ranged differently to encourage discus-sion between strangers.

Events- Area with plenty of seating and stage-like area where an event to bring people out can occur.

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36 ARCH 690 | Europe Study Abroad (Grabow and Gore)

Berlin Prague Berlin Hamburg Munich Venice Florence Rome Luzern Barcelona(Study Abroad Family Extension)

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Nordic Embassies Jewish Museum Slopped Seating

Boating Tour Berlin University Library Bundestag

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Vatican Coliseum

Luzern Gate Hotel Hertenstein- Lake Luzern

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Berlin Olympic StadiumVenice River Boats

Venice Flood Gates

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Museum of Transport Museum of Transport

Sagrada Familia Barcelona Pavilion

Museum of Transport

KKL Luzern

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Vatican Mount Pilatas

National Art Museum of Catalonia Mount Pilatas

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Matt Kenney (another University of Kansas Master of Architecture program) and I started a design and construction company in the spring of 2013. We remodel everything from small projects to full kitchens. We have worked in multiple disciplines and scales such as; residential design, commercial de-sign, construction, general contracting, bidding, estimating, fi nishing, cus-tom furniture, design consultations, material specifi cation, material acquisi-tion, and installation of custom products.

L&M Design + Services

DESIGN + SERVICES

45L&M Design + Services | Kitchen

Before and Aft er Kitchen Remodel

This project included demolition of the existing kitchen and main fl oor bathroom, design of the new main level, and a com-plete overhaul that included managing the material specifi cation, material acquisition, estimating, scheduling, sub-con-tractor management, installation of fl ooring, cabinets, counter tops, appliances, electrical, and plumbing. The entire proj-ect took approximately 6 weeks and it came in under budget.

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Tiled Shower Tiled Showers Travertine Backsplash

Island Kitchen Cabients Entire Kitchen

47L&M Design + Services | Walbrandt Technologies Showroom Design

We provided alternate ideas and solutions to the showroom that is a different take on the design of the showroom than the interior architect that our client originally hired to complete the redesign of the showroom. We felt that with the industry that our client is in, it is important to show his clients the capacity and capabilities of the technology that is available in a space that is completely tailored around the technology that he is selling. We provided renderings and construction documents with the aid of a registered architect for the client that allowed the client to complete the remodel of the showroom.

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Kitchen Photo

Front Living Room Photo

Th eater Photo

Showroom Rendering

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50 L&M Design + Services | Walbrandt Technologies Showroom First Floor Plan

51L&M Design + Services | Walbrandt Technologies Showroom Second Floor Plan

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Dimensioned Pin up Board Rendered Table and Pin-up Board Pin up Board

Accreditation Room

L&M Design + Services | University of Kansas Accreditation Pin-up Boards

We designed accreditation display boards for the University of Kansas School of Architecture. We designed and built steel pin up boards that are space and material effi cient to display materials for the accreditation visit by NCARB.

Accreditation Room Accreditation Room

53L&M Design + Services | Andry Basement Rendering Package

We provided this client a rendering and drawing package for his future plans to remodel his basement.

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