Jeremy Forman

Portfolio

A Compilation of Architectural Projects

By Jeremy Forman

Education

Jeremy@ku.edu | Forman.M.Jeremy@gmail.com | 314-724-6016 www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-forman

Exp. Spring 2026 2021

Experience

Sept 2019-Aug 2024

Activities

Dec 2024-Jan 2025 Spring 2024

The University of Kansas School of Architecture Lawrence, Kansas Master’s Degree in Architecture, expected Spring 2026 3.93 GPA Certificate in Entrepreneurship, Expected Spring 2025

Brentwood High School St. Louis, Missouri

4.03 GPA, National Honor Society Yearbook, Varsity Tennis, Speech and Debate, French Film Club Founder

Crew Member, Trader Joe’s

Customer service centered retail in one of the company’s busiest and most profitable locations nationally. Experience with customer satisfaction, professional communication, product display layout.

Architecture In Asia Study Winter Break Study Abroad Program

Four-week program examining architecture and culture in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan

First Year Mentor, Studio Mentorship Collaborative

Mentoring first-year architecture students with feedback on design choices, graphics, and presentation

2024-Present

2021-Present 2020

Proficiencies

Member, AIAS

Jeremy’s Hot Sauce Entrepreneurial side business producing handcrafted hot sauce

Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

Service Project management, Leadership (patrol leader)

Sketchup, Revit, Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Rhino, Grasshopper, Microsoft Office

References Francesco Carota

Assistant Professor of Architecture | University of Kansas

Partner | Calibro Zero Francesco.carota@ku.edu

Nils Gore

Professor | University of Kansas ngore@ku.edu

Anne Patterson

Architecture Foundations Coordinator/instructor | University of Kansas annepatt@ku.edu

Works

and Masterplan 01

Shenzhen, China

ARCH 608 Fall 2024

Instructor: Francesco Carota Group Masterplan + Predesign Individual Building Design

Shenzhen’s urban fabric is defined by its large scale, high population, and bustling tech industry. This poses unique challenges and opportunities for housing design.

After group pre-design to understand local context, partners were given a conceptual prompt to masterplan one of the five lots provided for the project.

This masterplan and building follow an Urban Village prompt. This idea permeates from the site design to the building itself with the goal of providing a different pace of life in the hightech urbanity of Shenzhen.

Footprint and square footage determined by Shenzhen’s zoning requirements.

Complexifying Spaces

Footprints accommodate program such as courtyards, public market, and retail.

Mass is moved to the site’s perimeter, providing a central community space. Context Connection

Thresholds are created to form a plaza between a nearby lot and green space.

Fragmentation and Setbacks

Subtractions

Shading

Environmental Strategies

Site and building design took a holistic approach to working with Shenzhen’s environment. Research in climate, sunlight, permeability, and local flora synthesized into multiple environmental strategies.

Programming + Vision

Buildings were programmed to provide resources to residents and the public while fitting circulation and site context. Conceptual plans, sections and renderings established a vision for later individual buildings.

Green Space

Jeremy Forman

Graphic: Jeremy Forman

Site Permeability Plan

Graphic: Julia Christensen

Urban Village | Form + Residential Spaces

Community Circulation

Internal, open-air circulation creates shaded, dry outdoor community space. It also allows for cross ventilation in units.

Housing blocks extend outward from the building’s footprint. This creates a separation between the private residential spaces and the ground floor. It also creates denser, more efficient housing.

The Façade is pushed and pulled to create porches and create the feel of an intricate village scale. These become personal outdoor space for residents, encouraging cross-ventilation and access to views.

Residential Articulation

Village Intricacy Façade

User 1: City needs, Traditional inclinations

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The Proletarian Rural Transplants It Takes a Village The Traditionalists

User 2: Village Transplants

User 3: It takes a village

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After several years of work in

With both parents working busy corridor, their kids have grown

that removes him from the anonymity of being another

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This couple moved to Shenzhen got lucrative tech jobs, leaving their home village. They want a place that caters to their village lifestyle and is still close to their family. They want a majority of their daily activities to be available in the complex. This includes physical activity, gardening/agriculture, and visiting the market.

This couple moved to Shenzhen recently after their children got lucrative tech jobs, leaving their home village. They want a place that caters to their village lifestyle and is still close to their family. They want a majority of their daily activities to be available in the complex. This includes physical activity, gardening/agriculture, and

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Single mother and a child

Working long hours in education and raising a young child, this mother needs a living situation that helps give her balance. She wants a strong community community connections to form an accesible support network. She has a DIY spirit that isn’t easy to balance with raising a child in typical Shenzhen

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User 4: The Proletarian Single household Late 20s

User 4: The Proletarian

40s, teen, preteen

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Industrial labor

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household Late 20s

Both parents working as tech professionals

With both parents working busy tech jobs in Shenzhen’s tech corridor, their kids have grown up only knowing their urban

User-Informed Units

have realized they want their family to be able to engage in more traditional, tactile activities tech professionals, they want

After several years of in Shenzhen’s tech industry, this man wants housing that removes him from anonymity of being another factory worker living in rise block. He uses transit bicycling to live frugally. the physical, monotonous nature of his job. He wants outdoor space for hobbies without requiring constant

After several years of work in Shenzhen’s tech industry, this man wants housing that removes him from the anonymity of being another factory worker living in a highrise block. He uses transit and bicycling to live frugally. given the physical, monotonous nature of his job. He wants clean outdoor space for hobbies without requiring constant

Unit designs were inspired by users that would seek the different lifestyle offered by an Urban Village. Each unit appeals to practical needs and conceptual offerings for each hypothetical resident.

User 4: The Proletarian

Shenzhen’s tech industry,

Urban Village | Program Organization + Environmental Considerations

Program Development

The program was developed from the masterplan’s guidelines. Mixed-use program sits on the ground floor to make it public facing. The market extends upward along the plaza to capitalize on heavy foot traffic.

Residential Units sit above the mixed use program for privacy. Their form subtracts as modules are removed, creating community gardens in the form of green cuts.

Residential: 52,431 sq.ft

Public Market: 20,000 sq.ft

Retail: 3,400 sq.ft

Resident Service: 8,663 sq.ft

Café: 1,575 sq.ft

Green Cuts: 5,250 sq.ft

Circulation

Egress cores and elevators allow for accessibility and circulation. Residents and visitors are mostly kept apart for privacy.

Environmental Systems

HVAC takes the form of rooftop units with their energy offset by solar panels on the roofs they are placed on.

The building’s ground floor has openings to allow its central agricultural court to connect to the surrounding site.

1. Public Markets 6,250 Sq.Ft

2. Retail spaces 3,412 Sq.Ft

3. Cafe 1,575 Sq.Ft

4. Laundromat 1,575 Sq.Ft

5. Agriculture Storage 1,312.5 Sq.Ft

6. Mail Room 788 Sq.Ft

7. Rec Room 788 Sq.Ft

8. Community Art Gallery 900 Sq.Ft

9. Building Admin Office 1,575 Sq.Ft

10. Coworking Space 2,100 Sq.Ft

Community Green Cuts

Community green cuts occur on multiple floors and provide outdoor space that would be developed in community gardens by residents.

Environmental Strategies

In addition to green cuts, the building uses solar/rain collection, urban agriculture, and cross ventilation.

Urban Village | Materiality + Tectonics

Tradition

Beige ceramic cladding as primary façade material

Invitation

Red powdercoated metal cladding on thresholds

DIY Community

Agriculture-influenced galvanized corrugated metal in green cuts

Jade powdercoated metal cladding on residential cutout frames.

Natural Ceramic Vase Chinese National Gallery

Natural Beige Ceramic Cladding

Red Paifang Gate

Red Metal Cladding

Vernacular Agricultural Structure

Galvanized Corrugated Metal

Jade Vessel Chinese National Gallery

Jade Green Metal Cladding

Tectonics and Structure

Tectonic considerations were made carefully throughout the design process. The structure consists of concrete with 15’ bays for apartments and steel with 25’ bays for the public market.

The wall assembly considered meaningful materiality and efficiency, using the ceramic cladding as a rain screen for environmental benefits.

Urban

Central Agricultural Courtyard and Circulation

Green Cut Community Garden

Southwest Façade with Paths, Thresholds, and Shenzhen’s Urban Context

Dallas Assembly Hall | Performance and Gathering

Gathering Space

02

Dallas, Texas

ARCH 608 Fall 2024

Instructor: Eddy Tavio

Individual Studio Project

The Dallas Arts District is a shining example of how architecture can be used to create meaningful places to enrich cities. The Assembly house seeks to add an iconic Venue to contribute to this arts-focused area.

The concept for this design is to create a venue that augments Texan vernacular architecture to create a venue that is uniquely and unapologetically Texan.

The venue houses a 1,200 seat performance hall, 800 seat black box theatre, 500 seat banquet hall. Other program includes a food hall, market, sculpture garden, gallery, studios, and education spaces.

Assembly Hall | Concept + Program

Texan Archetypal Values

Site research and a class visit were conducted to better understand Dallas and its arts scene.

From this research, the idea of pulling values from archetypes emerged. This led to comparing Texas’ cowboys and artists to find shared values to inform project vision

Core Concept + Massing

Growth is an important value for artistic evolution and the agricultural tradition of Texas. Applying growth to traditional texan typologies symbolizes artistic growth through embracing Texan Culture.

Determination

DIY Spirit Creation

Technical abilities

Pride in their work

Societal outsiders

Focused on Growth =

SHARED VALUES

The Cowboy John Wayne

The Artist Erykah Badu

Aesthetic/Program Development

Form and program are used to support the building’s concept. Texan vernacular forms, an inviting facade, and creativefocused program offer community value.

Assembly Hall | Plan + Façades

Ground Floor

Form + Façade Materiality

The building’s angular form and corrugated metal cladding pull inspiration from Texan’s rich agriculture history and its vernacular architecture.

Entries welcome visitors by appearing more open, casting light through large windows in the evening when major events would be held.

Assembly Hall | Technical + Event Hall Development

Structure

Consistent grids within masses for organization. Long-span members when needed in large spaces. Expressive metal frames in central corridor.

Egress

Necessary egress cores and doors for the safety of the public and crowds in emergencies.

Mechanical

Supply and return air to every space in the building, keeping gatherings healthy and comfortable.

Banquet

500 seat venue for large gatherings and events such as weddings, dinners, and fundraisers.

800 seat venue for theatrical performances, public speaking and smaller musical performances.

Performance Hall

1,200 seat venue for large performances including concerts, orchestra, and large theatre productions.

Black Box

Performance Hall | 1

Warm materiality creates a rustic feel. Ceiling acoustic form incorporates ambient lighting.

Grand Lobby | 2

The main lobby and vertical circulation for the primary performance hall.

Its monumental stair connects to the artist studios across the corridor.

‘The Trough’ Market | 2

Referencing troughs used in raising livestock, this outdoor farmer’s market invites the public to support local small businesses. 2 3

Central Corridor | 3

Primary circulation space housing a food hall with lofted seating, modular art gallery, and education/studio space.

Lined with structural frames referencing vernacular metal buildings.

Design-Build | Mosaic Fence at Grandview Park

Kansas City, KS

ARCH 509 Fall 2023

Instructor: Nils Gore

Whole Studio Design Build Project

Design-Build classes see students work with their studio to achieve their first contribution to the built environment. Students get to participate in every part of the process from schematic design to construction.

Our client, Grandview Park Presbyterian Church, operates in a majority Latino neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. They have a strong focus on community service, notably their food pantry and summer child care programs. The fence provides them with the practical purpose of surrounding their yard, used by children for soccer. Latin inspired mosaic tiles provide a visually interesting curb appeal while juxtaposing a utilitarian fence that considers their budget and terrain.

While our class decorated 100 tiles, there are 200 more to be decorated by local children, providing involvement and arts education to their community through their childcare program.

Design-Build | Process

Project Overview

The client, Grandview Park Presbyterian Church, wanted a way to enhance their church’s service to its community through its food pantry and summer care programs. Multiple concepts were designed with the Mosaic Fence becoming the project of choice. It uses low-cost materials and handmade, Latin-inspired tiles to give the church a community-oriented first impression within a tight budget.

Research + Concepts

Detailing + Mock-ups

Fabrication

Installation + Continuation

Tile Fence Mock-up by Jeremy Forman, Cole Salisbury, Julia Christensen, Olivia Measells

Mosaic Fence Sketch: Jeremy Forman

Continued Program Guide: Jeremy Forman

Tile Fabrication: Jeremy Forman, Kate Hallman, Julia Christensen, Olivia Measells, Tyler Merchant

Mosaic Fence Ideation

One proposed project by the client was a new fence. The fence surrounds their front yard, which acts as a kids play area, primarily for soccer, as well as a waiting area for their food bank program.

We decided to add a decorative element a utilitarian fence. This adds aesthetic interest to a fence that would be cheaper and easier to produce.

While looking at potential decorative elements, we focused on motifs relating to the Latin community that lives near and attends the church. Latin Mosaic tiles stood out to me, Cole Salisbury, and Julia Christensen. In this concept, tiles would be mounted to the fence panels. Another core part of this concept is community involvement, with plans for the tiles to be decorated by local children as an activity at their summer childcare program.

Other Concepts

Ideas for other potential products were considered. These include a patio, multipurpose room, and play-box structure.

Mosaic Fence Render: Olivia Measells

Initial Mosaic Fence Concept Sketches: Jeremy Forman

Design-Build | Mosaic Fence Fabrication

Steel Fabrication

The utilitarian steel fence is designed carefully to accommodate the terrain. Its frame shapes and fasteners make it easy to adjust with the slope of the site.

Square steel tubing was welded into an “L” shape for the majority of the frames. The bottom horizontal element and panel were to be installed onsite. Brackets and self-tapping screws allow for on-site assembly, accommodating topography.

The whole class took part in cutting, welding, grinding, and drilling holes in the steel elements.

Tile Fabrication

The fence tiles were fabricated by a team of 5 people consisting of Julia Christensen, Kate Hallman, Tyler Merchant, Olivia Measells, and myself at KU’s interdisciplinary ceramics facility. Tiles were detailed considering durability, clay behavior, and mounting. Slabs were rolled and cut. The tiles were dried slowly between gypsum board. Once partially dry, holes were drilled and tiles were trimmed and smoothed.

~300 tiles were made. This was enough to cover the fence in a randomized gradient based on our calculations. After bisque firing, our class decorated 100 tiles to start of the fence. 200 tiles, a set of glazes, and mounting tools were left with the client.

The items left with the client allow them to continue glazing tiles as an activity in their Summer childcare program. This provides community engagement and education for years and is built into the original mosaic fence concept.

Mosaic Tile Detailing and Fabrication: Jeremy Forman

Film Row Arts Center

Kansas City, MO

ARCH 209 Spring 2023

Instructor: Marianne Remboldt

Individual Studio Project

Kansas City’s Crossroads district is bursting with history and art. This project is based around creating an institution to embrace this. The Film Row Arts Center houses gallery spaces, education facilities, offices, archives, and a theater. An amphitheater is also situated on the site. A costume design program was chosen as the choice educational program within the center.

The building was designed to work with the site to create versatility and purposeful relationships. The topography is used as a plinth for the gallery wing of the building, creating a civic feel by raising it above the theater, sewing/office wing, and amphitheater. Outdoor features are integrated into the landscape as well. The building serves as a showcase of the Crossroads District’s history and a catalyst for its future.

Film Row Arts Center | Spatial Relationships with Context

Privacy Gradient

Masses are arranged with privacy considered. The detached theater can host events around the clock, the gallery and education wings are connected but maintain some autonomy.

Site Engagement

The building uses a difficult sloping site to create compelling spaces through environmental engagement.

A prairie lounge at the end of the gallery loop lets visitors relax, gather, and watch prairie grasses blow in the wind.

The outdoor collab zone is created by pulling the grand stair away from the building’s lower floor, creating a gathering space for the costume design school.

The costume design school’s runway sits above it on a green roof that connects to the hill at to its North, exalting the runway over its surroundings.

Continuing the Hill

The topography of the site slopes down to the Southeast. The green roof of the costume design wing juts out from the slope, exalting a fashion runway over the site.

Circulation

The building encourages circulation through itself and around the outdoor amenities on the site. This embraces the community and creates engaging experiences.

Prairie Grass Lounge. Situated at the end of the gallery wing.

Costume Design School Outdoor Runway

Entry Lobby with Info Desk, Cafe, and Views of the Crossroads District Grand Stair and Outdoor Collab Space.

Shows site topography, volumetric composition, and site design.

South Elevation | 2

The hill is used as a natural plinth to give the upper gallery wing a civic feel. The floating roof plane makes the interior gallery walls a more pronounced element.

Runway | 3

The runway is adjacent to the galleries. It sits on a green roof that justs out from the hill to form a unique outdoor space.

Grand Stair + Collab Zone | 4

A monumental stair leads up to the gallery lobby. The gap between it and the costume design wing creates an outdoor collaboration space.

The Folly on The Prairie Acre

University Of Kansas Campus ARCH 209 Spring 2023

Instructor: Marianne Remboldt Individual Studio Project

The KU Prairie Acre is an on-campus prairie restoration project and educational resource. It is situated on a hill behind the Watson Library. It is home to a prairie, an outdoor classroom pavilion, and a demonstration garden

This project exercised the possibilities of conceptual work at small architectural scale and small time frame.

This folly gives visitors a unique way to experience the prairies of Kansas through curating sensations.

Prairie Acre Folly | Conceptual at a Small Scale

Inspiration

The folly’s main concept is continuing and piercing the hill. Its form is inspired by animal burrows, portholes, and microscopes.

Motion Path

The folly connects to an existing path on the site. Users would walk off the path and into the folly’s dome, where they could then explore one of its curated experiences.

Curated Experiences

The folly’s three ports provide experiences normally inaccessible to people on the prairie. These feelings are leaving a burrow, looking into the sky from underground, and watching sunsets and wind above prairie grass

The Light Box

Sequence A: The View From Behind The Screen

Sequence B: Light Interacting With Internal Elements

Lissitzky

ARCH 108 Fall 2021

Instructor: Alejandro Aptilon

Individual Studio Project

The light box is an object designed to interpret El Lissitzky’s “Proun” in a way that it interacts with light in unique ways. This project was the first introduction into the way that outside factors can interact with an object. Given that the Proun is a constructivist art piece, deconstruction was used to break it down into elements that could be rearranged in the third dimension. These elements were interpreted and expandedto provide unique interactions with light. A screen is incorporated for shadows to cast onto, providing a lantern effect that shows shadow without the rest of the object visible. This creates a self-contained light box where interaction with light can take place in a void.

Jeremy’s Hot Sauce | Brand Design+Promo

Branding/Logos

February 2021 Onward

As someone who enjoys food, especially spicy food, I started making my own hot sauce. After a while, I started providing hot sauce to friends, coworkers, and other culinarily inclined individuals.

When branding Jeremy’s Hot Sauce, the sometimes extreme and gaudy direction that many hot sauces go with their branding was avoided. It instead relies on norm-core aesthetics emphasizing the human hand. Culinary nods let consumers know this hot sauce is informed by notable food traditions. The branding is authentic, straightforward, and centers a personal connection to the hot sauce.

Promo Materials

Summer 2022 to Current Day

Social media advertisement graphics and a recipe zine were designed to provide publicity and establish a strong brand image. Ads are meant to be aesthetically pleasing and shareable.

The recipe zine focuses on non hot sauce recipes was given for free to customers, providing recipes and even unfolding into a decorative poster.

Tonal Productions | Brand Design

Branding/Graphics

July 2023

Tonal Productions is a full spectrum media project led by Chaim Nazeer. Tonal offers services for photography and video editing. It is also used to brand Chaim Nazeer’s personal photography work.

Upon being approached for this branding, deliverables included a logo, watermarks, an end credit screen, and social media promo materials. The gradient concept was chosen to reflect the full spectrum nature of the brand.

White watermark used on Photograph by Chaim Nazeer

Primary Logo

Black watermark used on Photograph by Chaim Nazeer