Virginia Military Institute, Indoor Training Facility, Lexington, VA Atlanta Falcons NFL Stadium Proposal, Atlanta, GAUrban Ribbon, Richmond, VAChildren’s Hospital of Richmond , Richmond, VADC Multipurpose NFL Stadium Proposal, Washington, DCNew Vikings Stadium, Minneapolis, MNBurr and Burton Academy, Performing Arts Center, Manchester, VTGuangzhou Rugby Stadium, Guangzhou, ChinaNew Mosaic Stadium, Regina, Saskatchewan

Selected Projects

Prior to founding KaTO, Kyle worked with HKS as a sports designer for NFL, MLB, NBA, and collegiate stadia and arenas world-wide. After departing from corporate architecture, he founded KaTO as a response to the tremendous opportunity for architects and engineers to confront the international need for education. Kyle has been active as a visiting instructor for hand delineation seminars at Virginia Tech.

Biography

School of Architecture + Design, Virginia TechStudy Abroad, European Travel Program, Virginia Tech

08.2007 - 05.201208.2010 - 11.2010

Education

Academic Visiting InstructorSchool of Architecture + Design, Virginia Tech“Drawing without Calculation”

09.2012 - Present

Atlanta Falcons Stadium Competition, 2nd PlaceKROB Delineation Competition, FinalistHKS Design Fellowship WinnerAlice Lehmen Sunday Prize WinnerDesign Collective Inc. Scholarship WinnerG.T. Ward Scholarship WinnerW Wyatt and Annette Hibbs Award FinalistWadsworth Art Scholarship WinnerThomas Reilly Dibble Art Scholarship WinnerCongressional Art Competition State Representative

Awards

Kyle Thomas Murphy

Exhibitions “Body, Water, Room”

“Pedagogical Transparency: Inverting Educational Typologies”

04.2012

12.2013

Nationally Certified Personal Trainer, American Council on ExerciseMusical Instructor, composer, and performer

Personal

The Washington DC Mall is the world’s most formal axis. One end is anchored by the Lincoln Memorial, and the other end remains unclear after passing underneath the existing RFK multi-purpose stadium.

A proposal to replace the existing RFK stadium serves three distinct purposes. The first, to bring specific sports franchises back into the District of Columbia, will stimulate new economic development around the site of the stadium. Secondly, a translucent skin, which places the seating bowl on display, will foster inside-outside reciprocity between the architecture and the surrounding public spaces. Finally, the architectural expresses a clear continuation of the axis of the mall to the sky.

Contrary to a placed object, the stadium emerges as an extension of the landscape. Two symmetrical curves define the shell which contains the seating bowl, and a central truss rises above the bowl to carry the retractable roof and anchor the load via cables to the ground along the axis.

The stadium offers a new architectural position to the District of Columbia, and a departure from the vernacular which defines the masterplan.

DC Multi-Purpose StadiumWashington, DC

The revitalization of Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond re-examines the relationship of mixed-use program around a vertical “street”. Retail, residential, commercial, and entertainment spaces will be lifted from conventional storefront within a continuous shell.

The shell will be completed by a photovoltaic array and multi-level green roof, which will transfer solar energy and clean water downward into the building to the lower program. Growing medium will be embedded within the shell bounding residential and commercial spaces, allowing vegetation to be grown to supply food, promote indoor air quality, and provide insulation.

The architecture will re-energize an inactive region of downtown into a thriving epicenter for living, shopping, working, and entertaining.

Urban RibbonRichmond, VA

Derived as a thoughtful, modern interpretation of the region’s architecture, this stadium’s form is a symbolic representation of Atlanta’s rising from the ashes of the Civil War. The Phoenix, and the implied notion of flight, ascension, or “Rising Up”. Analogous to the restructuring of the city amidst a lush Georgian landscape, the stadium, located adjacent to both of a dense urban fabric and neighborhoods to the west, takes its place as a “pavilion in the park”.

The new “Falcons Landing” to the west provides a sense of arrival and inviting space for large gatherings. Translucent roof canopies, reminiscent of the old plantation southern porch, provide shade to surrounding grounds. Large apertures in the superstructure frame views to and from the city. East and west structural glass walls retract horizontally to enhance the sense of an open air pavilion. The majority of direct sunlight is blocked via an operable roof with large translucent louvers that pivot to increase opening to sky, control daylight reaching field of play and seating bowl, and assist with ventilation. Spacious and well-lit concourse spaces are activated via borrowed light from large expanses of structural glass.

The design solution strives to reinforce a connection with community and evokes an expression symbolic of Atlanta’s forward-thinking mindset, diverse culture, and rich history.

Atlanta Falcons NFL Stadium ProposalAtlanta, GA

International Competition, 2nd Place

The new center for the arts at Burr and Burton Academy will be a “stage to the campus”, not only in the physical presence of a semicircular cantilever in form, but in a new outlook on campus and beyond. The growing needs of one of the nation’s premier private secondary schools, including: a running track, an arts building, and additional parking, will be addressed in a single architectural intervention.

By raising the ground plane, re-orienting the field, extending the ground beyond the existing hill, installing a running track at this level, and extruding the profile of the track downward into a building, these three programmatic “ingredients” will culminate in a multi-faceted facilitation of future growth for the campus. The architecture is defined by inverting the conventional typology of the performance hall. The curve of the track informs the opportunity

to remove rehearsal spaces from the hidden and dark leftovers of a theater, and organize these spaces around the theater in semicircle. As a result, the high performance curtain wall system will, in addition to introducing a new level of environmental responsibility through daylighting and thermal enveloping, present the arts to the campus in both process and product. Students who may have never considered the performing or fine arts will be given daily exposure to classmates working and rehearsing in instrumental, vocal, dance, drama, film, digital art, technology, drawing/painting, and ceramics classes, through the transparency of the glass skin.

The architecture will be a respectful departure from the parameters which define the historical and physical context of the campus, and will reflect a new level of innovation and sustainability, which are at the core of the school’s pedagogy.

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Performing Arts Center, Burr and Burton AcademyManchester, VT