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Jaedun Wilson

Aspiring architecture designer Virginia Tech

Norfolk, Virginia, 23502

Contact

Phone: 757-971-2364

Email: School: jaedunw@vt edu Personal: jaedunw4@gmail com LinkedIn: Jaedun Wilson | LinkedIn

Education

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Pursuing a B A in Architecture

August 2019 - Present 3.41 GPA

Norview High School, Norfolk, Virginia Advanced Diploma September 2015 - June 2019

The Leadership Center for the Sciences and Engineering Program 4 19 GPA

Work Experience

Clark Nexsen, Virginia Beach, Virginia Mentee to Senior Architect Willie Copper May 2022 - Present

IKEA, Norfolk, Virginia Customer Service

Projects

A House for a family of 4 Blacksburg, Virginia 2022

Virginia Tech Rowing Boathouse Blacksburg, Virginia 2021

Montessori School Blacksburg, Virginia

2021

Awards

Academic Dean’s List- 2020-2022 Virginia Tech

Skills

Used Sketch Up Pro and Enscape to design a variety of projects.

Used Adobe Indesign to create my portfolio to showcase my projects throughout my career.

Used Adobe Photoshop to trim and touch up my studio projects for my portfolio

Used Adobe Illustrator to touch up line drawings

Expanded my use of mediums in which I am experienced using watercolor Watercolor has helped me visualize nature and landscape from a different lens

Confident public speaker as I’ve presented multiple projects to my colleagues and my professor.

A team player who values everyone’s opinion and ideas. I understand the importance of teamwork especially in this field.

Great listener and communicator, which helps prevent any confusion and misunderstandings.

Involvement

-National Organization of Minority Architects

-Resident of Ujima -S.O.A.R. Member

-VT Black Student Alliance

1. Barnett Newman Art Gallery

2. Project Life

This art gallery desgined for a local art collector, wanted to exhibit paintings and sculptures from artist Barnett Newman. Located in Christiansburg, Virginia, the gallery holds 59,000sqft. These paintings are displayed to be sold, thus the layout of the space was designed to accomodate these frequent changes. The client wanted the spaces to be lit through natural lighting thus the use of skylights and high windows were able to accomplish those wishes.

Apart from the exhibition rooms, the gallery inludes the following: entrance/foyer (including an area with lounge chairs); a counter that includes the cashier’s desk and a coffee corner; a small coat room or a coat closet; a small administrative office (in proximity to the cashier’s desk); restrooms; a torage room (for chairs, tables, temporary walls, projection equipment etc.); a janitorial room; and a mechanical room (subdivided into areas for electricity, communication, water, heating, AC-system). It is a requirement that there is one opening to the outside of the building that measures at least 20 ft. by 20 ft. (for the transport of art work), as well as vehicular access to the building for delivery purposes. No parking spaces need to be planned as the gallery is easily accessible by public transportation. Additionally, the public parts of the building are to be handicap accessible (e.g. wheel chair accessible).

These set of iterations helped to finalize the overall design. It was important to capture lighting throughout the day with the use of skylights and high windows. The circular windows serve a few different purposes. The circular windows closes to the top of the facade are used to capture sunlight, the circular windows closes to the bottom of the facade are used for views and the use of the windows adds dynamic to the overall facade and the concept. The material palete consist of an aluminum facade with hints of wooden panels. The wooden panels are positioned in locations defined as “transitioned spaces” in whcih vistors transition from space to space. The two materials and color paletes cooresponds well to one another, providing necessary contrasts. In addition the white glossy walls to provide complete focus on the paintings and sculptures. Track lighting and recessed lights will also help to illuminate the space and focus attention on the artwork.The form of the building is elongated to fit the site and provide an easy flow for vistors.

The gallery is located on a topographically flat site. The site is located in a quiet suburban neighborhood of a large city in the United States. The climate is characterized by four distinct seasons of cold winters, temperate springs and fall, and hot and humid summers. The lot is adjacent to large private villas and park-like setting of mature birch trees and poplar trees. The site for the gallery is directly accessible from the street (including sidewalks). There is a bus stop of the city’s public

The diagram to the right displays a small foot pattern for vistors highlighted in red. Designed to create a continuous flow, there is an entrance and an egress door. The entrance gives access to the gallery spaces as well as the front desk, seating, and the co This is to help with the flow of traffic for vistors. Also the gallery has four different vestibule entrances

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Project Life is loacted west of Downtown Roanoke and in an effort to revive this urban setting, this mixed use building brings an abundance of lively amenities. The building consist of a community hub, an outdoor terrace, a gym, a food market, an urban farm, private study rooms, and 20 studio apartments. This project seeks to provide a space where residents and citizens feel inspire to “create”. This building will be a part of Roanoke’s master urban development plan. The focus is to bring together the city of Roanoke through community gatherings and art. The site is loacted in the Light Industrial District of Roanoke, Virginia and is west of Downtown Roanoke and south of Norfolk-Southern railway.

The site used to be home of a steel and concrete production company leaving behind a solid foundation of conrete. This existing concrete will be used for parking which is loacted on the west side of the building. The existing concrete will also be used asfoundation for the building. The site gradually slopes down towards the train tracks, creating a 10ft drop from the edge of the street onto the site. The site currently has no sidewalks and no street lights, so for the safety and comfortability of pedestrians and residents, sidewalks and street lights will be added. In addition, the surrounding buildings and the previous steel manufacturing company will influence the material palette for both the exterior facade and the interior finishings.

Roanoke

CONCEPTUAL STUDIES

These set of iterations helped to finalize the overall design. To hide the train tracks as much as possible, the market sits south of the train tracks. Also pushing the market to the northen part of the site allowed vistors to get a perspective view as they passed Chandler concrete masonry shop. This also allowed for the possibility explore the plaza. The plaza helps to create a welcoming grand entrance from both Norfolk Avenue and 7th street. The axis that cuts through the space creating a passage between the community hub and the market helped to allow a smooth transition from the parking lot onto the plaza. With the exisiting concrete slab, it was useful to use that to create parking which required for additional concrete to be poured to provide the foundtion for the ground level floors. It was important to thoroughly examine the room adjacency. Residents should feel like they don’t have to leave the space and everything they could possibly need is right downstairs.

Apartments

Community Hub Market

Lobby West Elevation/ Parking Plaza

The barren site sits along Norfolk Avenue SW and in between 8th street to the west and 7th street to the east. With a railroad north of the site, it was important to consider the loud noises from the trains throughout the day and especially at night. The brick veneer and the previous metal manufacturing company, influenced the sand lime grey bricks and aluminum facade. To rejuvenate the site, there was a huge focus on an inviting public plaza and an outdoor terrace. These two create grand entrances onto the site providing lots of green spaces, trees and seats. As indicated with the red arrows, residents and vistors will have four entry ways unto the site from 8th street where parking is, Norfolk Avenue where the lobby entrance is and 7th street where the plaza.

The site is roughly a 7 min drive and a 20 min walk from downtown. Residents have plenty amenities as the city of Roanoke is continues to develop the downtown area.

Sheathing

Interior

Ceiling

Sub Flooring 2x4 floor joist CLT Timber Beam

8 gauge Aluminum panels around 3” thick. This compliments the previous metal manufacturing company, giving back to the site what once was. Grey “sand lime” bricks made to fit your hand. The choice of these bricks were influenced by the surrounding buildings and gave an industrial/urban feel.

Laminated glass with a SGP interlayer with 3/16in thickness. For acoustical purposes, this glass helps reduce the transmission of sound made by the passing trains.

CLT structural columns 3 2x4 creating a 6” thickness will be held togther with adhesives or even welded. The columns will be exposes throughout the space to acknowledge the crisp wooden material

LONGITUDINAL SECTION