Work Sample Agata Jakubowska

2020

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Agata Jakubowska Works Selected Portfolio

01 Graduate 02| 05 | 07 Professional 03| 04 | 06 Undergraduate

Programmatic Type Landscape - Garden Landscape - National Park Landscape - Park Rocketship Hub Landscape - Park

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Agata Jakubowska

Table of Contents Works Selected

4 2019

Oddkins of the Halic Shipyard The Post Industrial Garden

12 2018

Galveston Bay Park A Vision for the Houston Galveston Bay

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Reappropriating the National Park Constructed / Conserved

28 2018

Constructed Grounds What is the current relationship between Los Angeles and its transportation infrastructure, and what could it be?

36 2019

Drexel University K-8 School A Strategic Urban Link

40 2017

Urbanizing the Unite d'Habitation The Infamous Prototype

48 2019

Shinsegae Mall A Beacon in Seoul

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Aerial View: Central Basin

2019

Oddkins of the Halic Shipyard The Post Industrial Garden

Studio Professor: Ferda Kolatan

Programmatic Type Landscape - Garden

The Oddkin in the post industrial garden lies somewhere between the harsh nature of the industrial basin of Istanbul’s Haliç and the soft nature of the garden.

Formally, the idea of the industrial is something which caters to objects outside of our scale, it is sublime, it is intricate and large. The industrial is about transportation. The industrial is associated with certain textures, stark, reflective and hard, yet the basin along the Haliç of Istanbul has a low variety of textures where it primarily is concrete—but we read the effects of the water with the metal and oil and we see it as stains, algae, as rust. This begins to bridge the gap into the garden.

A garden is something at the human scale, something in conversation with the occupant, constantly changing.

A garden is softness, where the effects of wind, water and light are read as experience. The scale of the garden is small enough to be in constant flux with the experience of the user.

The garden is something to be understood on a personal level, an intimate level. We find ourselves wedged or nested or in a crevasse.

At industry’s and garden’s intersection we find the two ideas intertwining, where follies throughout the basin break up its large overbearing scale, while still leaving it to be understood in its original functioning form. The kinship is exacerbated through the subtle traces that water leaves of itself. Water is used as flow, an organizer as well as a generator.

The follies follow the water formally, texturally and through vegetation. Water is read on the basin in a soft way, through formal sweeps, through varieties of textures integrated through the water, and through water’s ability to generate plant life.

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U. Penn.

Turkey, Istanbul

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2019

Oddkins of the Halic Shipyard

Early Objects of the Halic Hybridization between Ebru Painting and Basin The Halic Shipyard is a found industrial landscape where the interface between rigid and formal meets with the entropy of the informal and textural. It is a sublime landscape which is then characterized and shaped by the ecological layer of processes. Using the traditional Turkish marbling painting process, called ebru, as a vehicle, the idea became about creating artificiality of growth and weathering as an abstraction in order to comment on the ideas of the postindustrial landscape as an uncanny kind of organic character that reflects the landscape.

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Turkey, Istanbul

Ebru Study + Digital Manipulation

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Oddkins of the Halic Shipyard

Objects of the Halic Chunk study - Interiority / Circulation

Objects of the Halic Chunk study - Pocket spaces

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Objects of the Halic Chunk study - Circulation / Basin Space

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Gutter Detail

Hidden Walkway Space

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Basin Space

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Walkway Facing Caisson

ExistingImpression of Water

Halic Object Entire Landscape Intervention

Halic Object Garden of Babylon

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Galveston Bay Park Site Plan : Barrier Islands in Place

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Galveston Bay Park A Vision for the Houston Galveston Bay

Professional Work

Responisibilities: Design Input Data Gathering Visualizations Coordination between groups Book Publication

Programmatic Type Landscape - Park Concept Design Phase Softwares Used: GIS, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop

Houston Texas has recently been seeking plans for reducing the amount of impact that hurricanes cause on its coast. Hurricane Ike hit Houston in 2008, exceeding the one hundred year storm plane. Later, in 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck Houston and exceeded the five hundred year storm plane and in other places, thousand year.

The SSPEED Center, in Houston, has taken great strides in order to create simulations to measure the impact of a two hundred and fifty year storm, and how the impact could be mediated if the proposed barrier islands and mid bay gate were in place.

The Galveston Bay Park proposal is to create five barrier islands which have soft and hard edges where reasonable, in order for the water circulations to keep the bay and the islands intact, while working to prevent surges and further flooding. Since the bay lacks public program, the islands will also be an opportunity for people to come and interact with the bay through public park and educational programs. The barrier islands will also provide a habitat for the oysters of the area. The oysters will in turn clean the water and revitalize the ocean life for Galveston Bay and the surrounding waters. The studies done by SSPEED show how much damage these storms do to the edge of the bay. If these storms keep hitting, Houston will continue to flood.

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Rogers Partners

Galveston Bay

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Sspeed center surge simulations of Hurricane Ike, as existed.

Sspeed center surge simulations of Hurricane Ike, as existed with an additional 15% increase in order to simulate hurricanes that could potentially hit the area

FEMA 36 250 Year Storm

FEMA 36 250 Year Storm FEMA 36 + Sea Level Rise in 2085

FEMA 36 250 Year Storm with Mid Bay Gate in Place

FEMA 36 + Sea Level Rise in 2085 with Mid Bay Gate in Place

Existing Conditions in the Bay Dredge Lines Points of Boat Access

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Phase 01

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What is at stake?

Houston has a population of 2.3 million, and Galveston has a population of 0.5 million. 13% of the population lives below the 100 year flood line and another 13% lives under the 500 year flood line. The most vulnerable population, the industry workers, are located in areas below the 100 year flood plane.

Additionally, the heavy industry renders tanks vulnerable: 0.00 - 0.01 0.02 - 0.05 0.06 - 0.10 0.11 - 0.20 0.21 - 0.25 0.26 - 0.50 0.51 - 1.00 urban areas 16

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Houston Galveston Bay

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Open Mid Bay Gate >

Closed Mid Bay Gate - Emergencies > Hard Edge Soft Edge

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Site Plan Showing Hard and Soft Edges

Site Plan Showing Mid-Bay Gate

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Roof Plan

2016

Reappropriating the National Park Constructed / Conserved

Studio Professor: Dragana Zoric

Programmatic Type Landscape - National Park

The goal of Pier 14 is to create an intervention on the edge of Manhattan which acts as a found preserve thusly reappropriating the idea of a National Park. National Parks lend themselves to the conservation of a scape, protecting it in time. It adapts national park programs through means of artificially constructed concrete forms. These forms respond to the question of "what is an icon and a monument?", and build on a juxtaposition between urban living and its relationship to nature.

Placing a constructed thirteen acre pier would not be considered a found landscape by any circumstances and so a dialectic forms between the ideas of constructed and conserved. This project argues that a space can be created with the purpose of preservation within the future. Architecture can be created in order to be preserved. Manhattan is a changing island, with boundaries blurred through each added space. A pier can become a commentary on how the edge of a city is being used and it can become a means to gage how it will be used in the future.

As the pier meanders from urban edge to water's edge its experiences progressively change from pastoral rolling landscapes and parks into more porous and open landscapes with a direct relationship to the water and then back into cavernous and sublime landscape as the hiker begins to experience more intense and rigorous landscape, and is presented with many different paths.

Studio Collaborator: Jonathon Koewler

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Pratt

South Street Sea Port, Manhattan

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Model Shot

Entrance of Pier - Shallow Typology

Middle of of Pier - Porous Typology

End of of Pier - Deep Typology The national park seeks to create measured experiences through these simple icons, where no path between each marker is the same. The 'markers' put in place are deemed follies which can be interacted with and lead the conscious experience from one marked point to another. Meandering from folly to folly leads to a certainty in the users observed experience. The registration of ‘I am here’ impacts the occupant into measured space, as she proceeds from one folly to another.

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South Street Sea Port

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[A] "The Bottle Opener"

[B] "The Bow"

Icons of the Pier The national park seeks to create measured experiences through these simple icons, where no path between each marker is the same. The 'markers' put in place are deemed follies which can be interacted with and lead the conscious experience from one marked point to another. Meandering from folly to folly leads to a certainty in the users observed experience. The registration of ‘I am here’ impacts the occupant into measured space, as she proceeds from one folly to another.

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South Street Sea Port

[A] Folly Intervention

[B] Folly Intervention

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Roof Plan

Render from End of Pier Interior

Render from Entrance of Pier

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Site Plan : Rocket Ship Hub and Surrounding Island

2018

Constructed Grounds What is the current relationship between Los Angeles and its transportation infrastructure, and what could it be?

Studio Professor: Dragana Zoric + Evan Tribus

Programmatic Type Rocket Ship Hub

Reflecting the way the highway dictated the urban sprawl of LA, the rocket will drive the new urban condition.

LA’s growth and densification pushes its borders further and further. One border which remains unbroken in the age of the car is LAs coastline, which will be broken with new technologies. The rocket, placed in the Santa Monica Bay will become an extension of the city fabric, a new neighborhood, a future development of Los Angeles. It will be connected by boats and helicopters as well as the hyperloop, and will be just as accessible as any other neighborhood within LA.

Santa Monica West infill’s the spaces in between the launch radii, creating an island. Here we find a ground plane freed from ground transportation, allowing for a topographic play, a radical wildness, without rigid boundaries that are found in current LA: the house plot, garden plot, sidewalk, and so on. The constant adjacency is now to the topography with the experience of each condition (peaks, vallies, inside, outside). This means a thick three dimensional experience of the porous ground rather than a surface treatment even in LA’s more topographical locations.

The neighborhood has an overarching organization of an adjusted topographical network, that forms a hill that becomes a base for occupation strategies, the hills become nodes. The neighborhood is organized in a series of sectors, two or three nodes form a sector, which has a variety of programmatic spaces on various levels of enclosure; a selectively penetrable skin. For example in sector five the cont. pg 36>

Studio Collaborator: Sasha Chechel

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Pratt

Los Angeles

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Changing the Landscape with Transportation: Car (top left + right) vs. Rocket (bottom left +right)

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Physical Model : Rocket Platform + Occupiable Topography

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Ground Studies

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theater is located within the volume while the swimming pool here is half enclosed. Rather than a flattened adjacency, the fabric of the ground folds onto itself to form unexpected conditions; the tree can now be located under the house, the pool can be above the hiking path. The traditional architecture to ground relationship begins to blur, there is a merged relationship between inside and outside, the figure ground no longer exists.

Each sector will be idiosyncratic in its use, adapting to the types of programs needed. Most likely the type of user will be one who needs quick access to the rocket, such as a businessman or a corporate user. The adjacency to the rocket will be desirable for people operating on the globalopolis scale.

Another sector will be designated as the rocket ship hub, meaning that people would arrive on at Santa Monica West and then access the launch pad from the rocket sector.

The sectors and continental LA are connected by underground and over ground transportation, such as the hyperloop and its offshoots and helicopter, drones, and other proposed transportation types such as perhaps the flying car or jetpacks.

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Pratt

Los Angeles

Render of Rocket Hub From Santa Monica

Plan of One out of Four Wings - Occupiable New Ground

Render of Rocket Hub From Hollywood Hills

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Approaching Island (top left) Occupying Island (top right) and Section of Occupiable Ground (bottom)

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Render of Shared Entry Space

2019

Drexel University K-8 School A Strategic Urban Link

Professional Work

Programmatic Type School

Responisibilities: Design Input Visualizations Material Selection Final Renders

Construction Document Phase Softwares Used: Rhino, Enscape, Revit, Photoshop

This project is an Elementary and Middle school done in accordance with Drexel University, as a part of their 14-acre science and technology development. The Middle School is on the second floor while the Elementary School is on the ground floor, surrounding a playground. The two flanking wings of the project hold shared spaces for all the children.

Pairing one of the city’s most beloved elementary schools, Powel Elementary, with Philadelphia’s most recognized innovation school, the Science Leadership Academy Middle School, the design allows each distinct institution to operate autonomously while sharing select spaces and programs with one another and the community. The site acts as a strategic urban link , asthe new building’s two-acre site is positioned between the current Drexel University campus and a new Wexford Science and Technology Center.

Duties for this project included interior and exterior render visualizations for the construction document phase of the project.

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Rogers Partners

Philadelphia, PA

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Axonometric and Cut Axonometric of proposed Building

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Urbanizing the Unite d'Habitation The Infamous Prototype

Studio Professor: Andrew Lyon

Programmatic Type Dormitory

The Unite d'Habitation is located on the spacious green pastures of Marseille, France., but, what if it was located in the grimy packed streets of Brooklyn, and used as a dormitory? How do we urbanize an infamous prototype?

The Unite d'Habitation is known for its skip-stop organization which allows for a decrease in space used for circulation and increases the space used for living. allowing for units to fully span the building, and double height spaces allow for more light. Additionally, this makes space for public corridors along the 7th and 8th floors which can be used as spaces of community.

Hybridizing the Unite involved applying a program of art student dormitory and creating seperate public streets that interwove studio spaces and pseudo-living room spaces. Each of the public streets is located every other floor on the stop levels. The density of the public spaces creates a townhome typology; blended private and commnal spaces with microcommunal pockets.

Studio Collaborator: Ardon Lee

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Pratt

Brooklyn, New York

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Long Section

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Northeast Elevation of Front Facade

Section through units

Section through units

Northwest Elevation Short Street Elevation

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Typical Skip Plan

Plans and Sections through Unit

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Facade Section and Elevation

Typical Stop Plan

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Renders - Visualizations

2019

Shinsegae Mall A Beacon in Seoul

Professional Work

Programmatic Type School

Responisibilities: Model Making Design Input Visualizations Material Selection Final Renders

Concept and Schematic Design Phases Softwares Used: Rhino, Enscape, Revit, Photoshop

Shinsegae Mall is a cultural landmark where the clients want to implement a circulation space for the vast mall complex that will create an open â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lanternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the community to have a beacon. Formerly a bank building, this facade will be completely renovated into a more porous and visible space. This beacon bridges exterior open public space with interior open public space, to create a more open plaza where interior and exterior are blended and bridged into a transparent in-between space. The lantern will light up the seven story open height circulation void at night, like a paper lantern, a Hanji, a traditionally Korean concept at heart. Hanji is a traditional Korean paper that is used to make windows, doors and room dividers, with geometric patterns. This paper is translucent and when lit from the back -- it glows to create a type of paper lantern. This was the concept used for the newly renovated Shinsegae plaza.

This schematic design proposal won the competition, along with landscape designers, and has progressed into the concept design phase were variations of the glass box have been designed, along with variations of the entryway vestibule and façade details. These visualizations are communicated with the client.

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Rogers Partners

Seoul, Korea

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2020

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Agata Jakubowska Works Selected Portfolio

01 Graduate 03 | 06 Professional 02 | 04 | 05 Undergraduate

Programmatic Type Landscape - Garden Landscape - National Park Landscape - Park Rocketship Hub Landscape - Park

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