Sustainability Portfolio - Jasmine Wright

Jasmine

Table of Content

Project Lead 01

My Sistah’s House Tiny Homes

The AMP at 16 Tech

Animation & Rendering Artist 02

Glendale Multifamily Construction & Administration 03

BIM FOR IU HEALTH

BIM Workflow Manager 04

PASSIVE HOUSE

Design/ Fabricator & Rendering Artist 05

U.S. DEPT. ENERGY

BIM Workflow Manager & Admin. 06

PASSIVE HOUSE TOWNHOUSE

Lead Developer 07

DKGR DASHBOARD APP

Rebuilding knowledge access 08

NYPL + RYKERS ISLAND CARTS

RESILIENCE - involves a type of inpulse thats found within communities that inhabit less-than ideal environments.The solutions to our climate crisis and social economic gaps exist, the question is, are we ready to listen, desconstruct, and build anew?

Project Lead

My Sistah’s House Tiny Homes — DKGR

In the face of a nationwide housing shortage and driven by a commitment to housing equity, I took the lead on a sustainable tiny house project for My Sistah’s House (MSH), an organization supporting Memphis’ LGBTQ+ community. MSH sought to alleviate both housing insecurity and blight within underserved areas by building 20 tiny homes. Our response was a onestory duplex prototype designed for affordability ($44,000 per unit) while prioritizing accessibility, privacy, and energy efficiency. We overcame budget constraints and unforeseen circumstances to deliver two 400-square-foot units exceeding local energy codes and featuring adaptable accessibility features. This successful prototype, recognized by the AIA Indiana and national media, paved the way for MSH’s Tiny House Project, empowering marginalized communities through innovative and sustainable housing solutions.

2020 - 2021 | Historic Glenview, Memphis TN | MSH Tiny Homes | 400 sf | $41,000 per unit

Key Features

• Affordable: Budget of $44,000 per unit (actual cost $53,000 due to unforeseen circumstances).

• Spacious: 400 square feet with 156 square feet of porch space.

• Energy-Efficient: Meets local 2015 IECC energy code with high-efficiency mini-split systems, R-21 walls, R-44 ceiling, and 14% glazing area.

• Accessible: First unit fully accessible, second unit adaptable for future modifications.

• Privacy and Comfort: Exterior screens provide privacy, sun control, and outdoor social space.

• Community Impact: Awarded AIA Indiana Merit Award, featured on Hulu and National Geographic.

• Communication: Presentations and article diagrams explaining the design mission and scope of work.

Software

Animation & Rendering Artist

The AMP at 16 Tech — Project description

16 Tech is an innovation district on the near west side of Indianapolis that focuses on the engagement of industry, civic, philanthropic, and community leaders in its mission to create a place that inspires and facilitates industries of all sectors, researchers, entrepreneurs, and academic leaders to pursue innovation. I was an animation and rendering artist for DKGR on this project.

2020-2021 | Indianapolis, IN | 43,000 sf | $6,000,000

Responsiblity

• Created animations and renderings for the proposed site while it was under construction to help the clients communicate the design to various stakeholders.

Twinmotion 85% | Sketchup 14% | Dropbox 1%

Construction & Administration

Glendale Multifamily — Project description

The seven-building multifamily campus that is Glendale AYR is a 267-units located in the heart of Glendale Town Center. DKGR designed AYR and the concurrent Glendale Town Center retail renovation to speak the same design language, pulling in queues from adjacent neighborhoods. A four-story building directly adjacent to retail incorporates six live-work units to continue the retail presence along that corridor.

2018-2022 | Indianapolis, IN | 245,000 sf | 267 units | Budget Undisclosed

Responsibility

• Assisted the project manager with construction documentation and administration

• Updated drawings to the set

• Created the initial permit set for the city

• Created drawings for the contractors for various shop drawings

• Coordinated all documentation with Revit Workshare

Revit 100%

BIM Workflow Manager

IU Health Pathology Lab & IU North Hospital — Project description

IU Health Pathology Laboratory and ROM was a project to track existing operations department moves and uncover leasable space information for their Indianapolis and Carmel, Indiana hospitals and laboratory centers. Cushman and Wakefield served as IU Health’s developer representatives. DKGR did the initial analysis to develop a system for tracking employee seating arrangments and departments in real-time and output reports I designed.

2019-2020 | IU Health Pathology Lab & IU North Hospital | Indianapolis, IN | ~300,000 sf

Responsibility

• Measured and modeled IU Health’s existing north hospital in Carmel, Indiana, and pathology lab in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Revit

• Developed Dynamo scripts to analyze employee station and office locations and dates

• Created Excel presentations to graphically explain the different departments, their members, and square footage usage for IU Health Cushman and Wakefield realty representatives

• Presented floor plan presentations breaking down department spaces and leasable vs. un-leasable square footage

Revit 50%

Dynamo 40%

Excel 10%

Design/Fabricator & Rendering Artist

Passive House Prototype for US Dept. of Energy — Project description

Solar Decathlon 2015, overall winner SURE HOUSE (Sustainability Resilience House), is a project by Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and now its new home at Liberty Science Center. This 40-person architectural project at Stevens Institute of Technology in partnership with Parsons School of Design and NJIT. The SURE HOUSE is a passive house design applied to superstorm resilience and serves as an alternative to FEMA’s stipulation of “Build high and build on piers.”

2014-2015 | Hoboken, NJ | 1,000 sf | $320,000

Responsibility

• Contributed to the schematic design and design development of the SURE HOUSE

• Assisted with the construction documentation of the SURE HOUSE in Revit

• Created renderings and views of the SURE HOUSE to demonstrate its use as a beach home and refuge in a $10,000 gallery exhibition

Rhino 80% | SketchUp 15% | 3DsMax 2% | Revit 3%

BIM Workflow Manager & Admin.

Passive House Townhouse — Project description

This Park Slope Brooklyn townhouse is a Passive House EnerFit Retrofit and a pHdesign project currently under construction and has been exhibited by the Passive House Openhouse multiple times.

2022-2023 | Brooklyn, NY | 4,000 sf | Budget Undisclosed

Responsibility

• Developed 3D models and BIM specifications for openings, plumbing, appliances, trim, and casings in ArchiCAD and Rhino

• Created construction administration drawings and client options presentations for various architectural elements

• Helped develop shop drawings for unique interior stair railings and exterior guard rails

ArchiCAD 90% | Rhino 10%

Product Designer

NYPL & Rykers Island Prisons Book

There was a grave injustice with access to knowledge materials due to impassable bumpy halls. Bookcarts for the Incarcerated was a Parsons and New York Public Library collaboration to upgrade NYPL bookcarts for their prison delivery service. Total: four mobile library carts produced in three months. Durable book carts were needed to traverse the broken concrete floors and narrow halls / elevators of five Rykers’s

Collaborators

Instructor: Joel Stoehr

Institution: Parson School of Design

Course: PSCE 5031, Topics: Furniture Design, Fall 2015

prisons. The commerically available carts often delayed the spilling of books in heavy, overstuffed cardboard boxes on carts. Each time delay prevented browsing time for those in prisoned and, ultimately, no library visits. Leading to months without new book content being delivered. We set out to maximize durability and browsability by introducing removable shelves. The bookcart could hold a large and heavy volume.

Team: Takako Taniguchi, Michael Thai, Charles Andrews, Filip Forsberg, Colin Fuda, Kenneth Garnett, Christian Neuner, Maria Rico, Lisanne Rissik, Benjamin Schuetz, Mikhail Volf, Jasmine Wright, Zin Thet

We studied a variety of casters that could carry heavy loads while being easy to push by 5’2” librarians. Removable wooden shelves hang off a bar in the front and slope towards the cart’s center to use gravity to lock the books in place during bumpy travel.

The powder-coated steel frame provides extra weathering wear protection and customization. There was one flaw to the carts, which was their weight after all the books were added to them. The cumulative weight made pushing the cart a bit of a workout.

Developer

DKGR Dashboard App— Project description

In 2019, I led the development of the DKGR Dashboard, which sought to make the production of buildings from the design phase a visual and highly trackable process for their clients—inspired by pizza ordering applications, where customers watch the development process of their order until it is fully baked and arriving at their door. While there are tremendously more steps, unknown variables, and a chain of approvals involved in developing a building and its site, I sought to make this process transparent to our clients, the public, and ourselves.

The DKGR Dashboard App is a real-time progress application for the firm that is cross-platform for desktop and web. As architects, building modeling software such as Revit is rarely all-encompassing to the needs of building management. We waste time searching within file directories for examples of a specific workflow. With the DKGR Dashboard App, Tasks are accompanied by Hints, which offer insight into completing that task. Hints are clever; they recommend appropriate actions such as opening file locations, starting commands in Revit, or preparing a draft email with template text to a client with proper PDF attachments. It strived to be purposeful and one of the best communicators every step of a project’s life.

Links prototype: https://www.useberry.com/usertest/FRALWmtH/ live demo: https://dkgr-dashboard-development.netlify.com/

The home of the Dashboard project is accessible via desktop and mobile browsers. Users log in and access all the projects the company is working on. Users can also jump to projects they are assigned and manage the tasks they will work on that week. This application will help us estimate how long it takes to complete projects. Users will have visual clarity in their approval workflows based on their assigned roles and projects. Admin can do more in the application, such as adding new projects and filling out the Summary, IHCDA, and Room Data forms. They also assign project managers roles to each project and assign teammates tasks.

The project manager’s role deciphers who is on the central team and what parts of the checklist they are to complete. Through the approvals workflow, teammates can request helpers from other projects of lower office priority than theirs. All users have the helper role accessible to them. Helpers are chosen based on who has the most available time and tags highlighting special skills to complete that task.

The Tasker App is a plugin for Revit and is the primary interface used when users are working on a project. It is an application where users can track their time on project tasks and switch between projects. These task cards offer hints to complete the job, such as saving a new project if one has not already, dragging in families from the Market Family for that project, and sending notifications to users when another user makes an update in real time. Users can navigate between projects, jump to moments in a floor plan model, track their time, and get help for specific tasks.