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PORTFOLIO

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[INT] Curriculum Vitae

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[SW] Jane & Finch

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[SW] Media Learning Centre

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[DB] Sauna

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[SW] Maison BorĂŠal

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[PW] Facehaus

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[PW] Tribeca Loft

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[MT] The Artifacts of No-Place

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This portfolio contains studio work SW, design build projects DB, professional work PW & work from my masters thesis MT.

Selected works by Jessica Hanzelkova

[INT] Introduction

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Jessica Hanzelkova

HI! MY NAME IS JESSICA AND I AM A RECENT GRADUATE LOOKING FOR WORK*

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I have experience in a range of projects, from interior design and antique furniture restoration to commercial fit-outs and post-occupancy review. My recent thesis work centred on the intersections between critical theory, posthumanism, performance art, and wearable design. I am always looking for new opportunites to combine my interests in fabrication and theory with current architectural design. This is a collection of my work. *Contact Info: +226 341 5221 jes.hanzelkova@gmail.com

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DESIGN EXPERIENCE

KW MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS Kitchener, Canada 07.2020 - 08.2020 // Architectural Designer Brought on as a freelance designer to create preliminary visualizations for a mediumsized community theatre. Floor plans and visualizations are to be used as a marketing tool to secure funding for the project.

DASH MARSHALL LLC. EDUCATION Jessica Hanzelkova

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Master of Architecture | 2017 - 2020

LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY | 2013 - 2017

Assisted in concept design through to construction drawings on projects in the residential and retail sector. Work focused on commercial fit-outs, millwork design, client consultation, and specifications research.

DELOITTE CANADA Toronto, Canada 05.2016 - 08.2016 // Design Student

SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Scholarship | 2017 - 2020

Ontario Graduate Scholarship [OGS]

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05.2018 - 08.2018 // Design Intern

Bachelor of Architectural Studies

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New York, USA

Part of Deloitte’s Workplace of the Future design team which coordinated the design and post-occupancy review of flexible and digitalbased workspaces across Ontario. I assisted the team in booklet and presentation creation, revising drawings, and inputting data into spreadsheets.

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RICHARD KIRCHNER

VELUX Awards: Honourable Mention

05.2014 - 08.2014 // Carpentry Assistant

Northern Lights Ice Fishing Hut, featured in Architectural Review 2014 | 2014 : Team of 5

DinkelsbĂźhl, Germany

Employed under a carpenter and antique dealer over four months painting, restoring and assembling old furniture to be sold, as well as gaining woodworking experience.

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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of Waterloo | 2019

Assisted Dereck Revington and David Correa for a second-year studio course titled The Function of Affect.

TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of Waterloo | 2018

Assisted Dr. Anne Bordeleau for a first-year cultural history course titled Introduction to Architecture.

RELATED PROJECTS

RESEARCH ASSISTANT University of Waterloo & CACB 02.2019 - 10.2019 Assisted Dr. Anne Bordeleau from UWaterloo and Mourad Mohand-Said from the Canadian Architectural Certification Board on a partnered project to gather and synthesize data on architectural education and certification.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT Laurentian University 05.2016 - 08.2016 Assisted Dr. Tammy Gaber in her seminal research project titled Beyond the Divide: A Century of Mosque Design and Gender Allocations.

DIASPORASIAN FUTURES II 187 Augusta // Art Residency 07.2020 - 08.2020 Participated in a 6-week incubator & residency for pan-Asian art and space makers.

TREATY LANDS, GLOBAL STORIES SKILL SET 3D + 2D DIGITAL Rhino + Vray, Revit, AutoCAD, Grasshopper, SketchUp Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects

ANALOG & FABRICATION Woodworking, 3D Printing, Laser cutting, Hand sketching, Illustration

Co-Coordinator & Team Member 01.2018 - 12.2019

GALT. PUBLICATION Editor & Graphic Designer 09.2018 - 12.2019

HOT PINK NEUTRINOS Installation Artist Team Member 12.2014 - 05.2017

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JANE & FINCH

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Project Location: Toronto, ON // Team Size: 1 Instructor: John McMinn // Year: 2018

Urban Pl anning and Adaptive Reuse

This project deliberately retains the name of the neighbourhood to embody the approach this proposal takes: to not see the area as something needing to be fixed (i.e gentrified). The aim was to centralize several established community and revitalization programs by retrofiting and expanding an old Y-plan residential tower at the heart of the intersection. This also works to address issues with single-use zoning by occupying previously underutilized space on the site. This creates room for a community centre, retail frontage, office space, additional housing units, an extensive hardscaped courtyard, and a community garden. Adjustments to the

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tower prioritize biophysical synergies (i.e the installation of over-cladding).

[Software Used: Rhino, SketchUp, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign]

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[1] Axo looking northeast at the Jane & Finch intersection

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A podium housing a gym and aquatic

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[2] Residential facades

[3] Frolicking in the pool

[4] Retail frontage along Jane St.

[5] Harvest time in the community kitchen

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Administration Cafe Bouldering Universal Changeroom Squash Court 1 Squash Court 2 Gymnasium Daycare Rec Room & Kitchen Apartment Tower Entrance Art Gallery Aquatic Centre Universal Changeroom Loading & Receiving Condominum Entrance Storage Retail Unit A Retail Unit B Retail Unit C Retail Unit D Public Plaza Allotment Gardens Playground Orchard Garden Shed Retail Unit E Retail Unit F Retail Unit G Bike Storage Splash Pad & Courtyard Jane & Finch LRT Stop

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Recording Studio Makerspace Youth Lounge Work-Out Space Universal Changeroom Indoor Track Daycare Co-Working Space Resource Library Meeting Room Commercial Space Squash Court 3 Squash Court 4 Weight Room Dance Studio

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Urban Pl anning and Adaptive Reuse

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[6] South-North section cut through the aquatic centre and existing residential tower

Tower Renewal

Light Canons

The tower is renovated to increase energy efficiency and emphasize social inclusion through mixed-income incentives, prioritization of communal space, solar chimneys added to blank facades, and recladding.

The community centre features a planted green roof dotted with light canons. This allows for natural light to enter the deeper social spaces (i.e gyms, aquatic centre) while creating a pleasant roofscape for the residents.

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Youth Services

Community Garden Shed

Youth services and existing community groups are housed adjacent to the community centre.

This separate space gives these groups agency and an ability to leverage the space for their own needs.

An uninsulated shed serves as storage and allows for seasonal inhabitation for outdoor programmes amidst an allotment garden and orchard. A sloped polycarbonate roof is used to collect water and let light in.

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THE MLC

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Project Location: Cambridge, ON // Team Size: 1 Instructor: Val Rynnimeri // Year: 2017

Comprehensive Design & Det ailing

The Media Learning Centre [MLC] creates a space of cross-cultural sharing between new immigrants and an existing Ontario community. The Centre is imagined as part of a network of recent immigrant services, working as a multi-use, multi-level space for media exchange and education. It is designed to have four flexible programme spaces that mesh into each other. This is done through an interior topography that works with the natural level changes of the central theatre space. Wrapping the theatre, a daycare, bakery, and resource mezzanine are connected using large circulation spaces to promote conversation, open-to-below visual connections and movable partitions, to

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accommodate multiple use cases.

[Software Used: Rhino, Vray, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign]

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[1] Axo looking southwest to show the main entrance

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L0 | DAYCARE

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EAST ELEVATION Cafe Entrance & Screen

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Level 1 | At grade

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[2] Lower level daycare and play space

[3] Terraced cafe seating along Grand Avenue

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L2 | THEATRE

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NORTH ELEVATION Main Entrance

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Level 2 | 1/2 Storey above grade

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SOUTH ELEVATION Back Door & Roof Terrace

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Level 3 | Mezzanine

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[4] Theatre as a public living room

[5] LED facade on Grand Avenue as an exterior gathering space

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[6] A | East-West section through daycare & atrium

[7] B | North-south section through theatre & mezzanine

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Vertical cedar siding gives a soft texture to the exterior of the building

WINDOWS

Comprehensive Design & Det ailing

Operable windows allow for passive ventilation from the mezzanine level in the classroom

LED SCREEN MediaMesh Screen brings the media outdoors allowing the facade to be used as another surface to bring the community together

Thermomass CIP Wall Assembly gives a clean concrete finish to the foundation wall at grade

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[8] East facade elevation and cross-section along Grand Avenue

Non-planted parts of roof are high albedo and are used to collect rain water

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SILL, ROOF & FLOOR ASSEMBLY

wood construction w/ concrete base

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HEADER & SCREEN DETAIL

[9] Exploded structural axonometric

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SAUNA

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Project Location: Sudbury, ON // Team Size: 18 Instructor: Thomas Strickland, Ted Wilson // Year: 2016

The sauna was a collaborative designbuild project imagined with relaxation, wellness, ergonomics, and ecological sustainability in mind. The simple form

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complies with CSA standards for hybrid combustible and non-combustible design, while also maximizing air flow, comfort, and cleanliness. Attention is paid to the exterior which includes a unitized green roof with a staircase integrated into the porch for easy maintenance. As well, reclaimed wood from another student project was incorporated into the facade. The interior of the sauna features curved benches, generated using imprints of reclined people in snow, documented through photogrammetry to optomize comfort for

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a range of individuals.

[Role: Collaborated in the design and construction of the interior benches and the full sauna, made project schedule, managed material lists, & coordinated construction team.]

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[1] Exterior render of sauna

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NORTH WALL ASSEMBLY

ROOF ASSEMBLY

Curved wood benches Interior cedar boards Wood strapping Radiant barrier 2”x 6” window header Roxul batt insulation 5/8” stained plywood Glass sheet Red cedar window frame 2”x 2” reused cladding

Barnmaster metal roof Blueskin roof membrane 3/4” exterior grade plywood 2”x 6” notched rafters 2”x 6” cantilever rafters Bug mesh above soffit Wood strapping Interior cedar boards

EAST WALL ASSEMBLY

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2”x 2” reused cladding 5/8” stained plywood 2”x 4” top plate Radiant barrier 2”x 4” wood studs, 16oc Wood strapping Interior cedar boards

SOUTH WALL ASSEMBLY 2”x 2” reused cladding Interior cedar boards Wood strapping 2”x 4” wood studs, 16oc Cement boards 2”x 4” light steel studs Structural pole 2”x 2” screen & handle Glass sheet Red cedar door Red cedar door frame 5/8” stained plywood WEST WALL ASSEMBLY

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2”x 4” screen & structure 2”x 6” wood staircase 2”x 2” reused cladding 5/8” stained plywood Cement board 2”x 4” light steel studs 2”x 4” wood studs Radiant barrier Cement board Wood strapping Interior cedar boards

[2] Exploded axo of sauna assembly

FLOOR ASSEMBLY Wood sauna heater Non-combustible plinth Modular cedar planks Waterproof membrane Plywood subfloor 2”x 4” angled joists Exterior wood decking 2”x 4” structural joists 2”x 10” wood skiis w/ metal

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[3] Interior render of sauna with curved cedar benches

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[6] Exterior under construction

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MAISON BORÉAL

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Project Location: Chapleau, ON // Team Size: 1 Instructor: Émilie Pinard // Year: 2016

Comprehensive Design & Landscaping

Maison Boréal is a 20 unit retirement home and mixed-use facility. The design centres on the remediation of a vacant riverfront site and incorporates aspects of wellness design for an aging population in the small northern Ontario town of Chapleau. There are several distinct programmes split between the facility’s four buildings: a pair of rentable retail units, townhouse units for families, retirement apartments which include a greenhouse and a space for assembly that services the retirement complex and the broader community. The buildings are configured as two offset u-shapes that flank a planted wet retention pond.

This allows the building to sit lightly

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on the land, rejuvenating the site both environmentally and socially.

[Software Used: Revit, Rhino, Vray, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign]

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[1] Axo looking northwest showing the town and the building

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Green Roof Retirement Apartments

Comprehensive Design & Landscaping

Townhouses

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RETIREMENT APARTMENT North-facing 1 bedroom

RETIREMENT APARTMENT South-facing 1 bedroom

RETIREMENT APARTMENT North-facing 2 bedroom

RETIREMENT APARTMENT South-facing 2 bedroom

TOWNHOUSES Main floor

TOWNHOUSES Upper floor

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[3] Communal greenhouse // retirement apartments

[5] A | South-north section showing townhouses, courtyard, and retirement apartments

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[4] Multi-purpose dining hall // assembly space

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[7] Model of north facade & wetland

[6] Sectional model with cladding

[8] Sectional framing model without cladding

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VEGETATION Native plants & wetland species

FIRE, PHASING & BUILDING SEPARATIONS Four occupancy types Sprinklered [mercantile occupancy]

EXTERIOR GROUND FINISH

PASSIVE VENTILATION

Wood Boardwalk

Permeable Pavers

Opening w/ maximum solar gain

Stamped Concrete

Standard Sidewalk

Passive ventilation vectors

GEOEXCHANGE SYSTEMS System 1 [residential] - 3 boilers System 2 [retail & single-family] - 1 boiler

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS Standard light framing topped w/ custom exposed trusses in the greenhouse & dining hall

System 3 [assembly] - 1 boiler

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Dash Marshall LLC.

FACE HAUS

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Location: New York City, USA // Year: 2018 Project Type: Commercial // Team Size: 5

During my internship with Dash Marshall LLC. in New York City I was fortunate enough to work on a range of projects, Professional Work

assisting with everything from conceptual design development to construction drawings. The next three spreads capture some of this work.

Face Haus is a facial bar company with roots in California and plans to expand to NYC and Dallas. In a team I helped develop early-stage design propositions and visualizations for their New York location*. The design centred on a modular shelving unit that could be used for display and spatial separation. The modules are a unique design feature that communicates the brand and the style of

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Face Haus in its various locations.

[Software Used: Rhino, Vray, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign] *All photos of final space by Mark Wickens for dashmarshall.com

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COMMUNITY & SELF-CARE

[1] Photo of main entrance and communal table

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[2] Render of main space with workstations

[3] Front window swing

[4] Render of communal table and display shelves at entry

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[5] Photo of retail space & entry to facials bar

[6] Retail shelf detail

[7] Section cutting through main entry space to facials bar

[8] Floor plan with main entry space to the left

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TRIBECA LOFT

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Location: New York City, USA // Year: 2018 Project Type: Residential // Team Size: 5

This project was a fit-out for a privately owned residential unit in an old Tribeca building. I assisted the team at the tailProfessional Work

end of the project, researching specs, detailing, and producing a drawing set for tender. A key task in my research was finding a finish for the millwork that could smoothly curve. After researching the construction of breadboxes we settled on using tambour [halfcylinders] to face the cabinetry, pictured on the left. The project is currently under construction, all progress photos are

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from Dash Marshall’s instagram page.

[1] Tambour finish [Software Used: AutoCAD, Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop]

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[3] Building a curved pantry [2] Shower stone texture

[4] Kitchen millwork under construction

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THE ARTIFACTS OF NO-PLACE

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Shooting Locations: Cambridge, CAN; Seoul, KOR; Tokyo, JPN Supervisor: Dereck Revington // Year: 2018-2020

Using a series of 8 artifacts my masters thesis explored ideas surrounding cultural, Masters Thesis

racialized, and gendered identity as they relate to the built environment and feelings of belonging in space. Through a practice of performance art, each prototype-artifact [a version of a white mask] disrupted identitification and played with the boundaries of my body. These performances and artifacts had a sci-fi-fever-dream vibe that visually connected my work to larger discussions in critical theory and feminism

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about posthumanism and ‘the gaze’.

Each prototype-artifact combined digital fabrication methods, microcontrollers, and sensors to further connect the wearer to their body and to their immediate surroundings.

The published work can be found at: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/15924 [Software Used: Rhino, Grasshopper, Simplify 3D, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects]

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PROTOTYPE

4.0 [1] Feeling expansive space in the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea

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[8] Thesis document showing spread design and illustrations

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Excerpt from pg. 14: This thesis assembles within it a glimpse of ‘a life’. It traces a path of disillusion to dissolution, in navigating a search for identity in an increasingly globalized world. Simply put, it records a conflicted discarding of fixed personal identity.

This book is a musing on my desire for dissolve and reconstitution.

Capturing a multitude of seemingly fragmented threads of thought and movement, they are arranged as an assemblage within the space of the following pages. This book is a vessel for stories of scale, between global and local; stories of home, between body and place; and stories of becoming; between the I and she.

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PROTOTYPE

Masters Thesis

4.0 [2] Crowds in Shibuya Crossing, JPN

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2.0 [3] Exploring underutilized space at the Waterloo School of Architecture

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Excerpt from page 148-149: In a world which continues to struggle with the relentless formation of arborescent structures, looking for ways to play with the boundaries of the body is an accessible technique for nonconformity.

Historically, the space of the head has persisted as a location for identity and rationality, while also a site of narrative, empowerment, and individuality. As an integral element to our transitive lives, our histories are thus littered with curious artifacts that play with the exteriority of the face and the liminal conditions this affords. Masks allow an individual to become visibly hybrid and is a clear means of invoking liminality through a transformation the face. They tap into our imaginations, transforming the wearer into anything and everything, but also separating the wearer from anything and everything.

Through various means, the communicability of the face can be disrupted. This disruption marks a power struggle between the interior-

exteriority of the individual and the forces of the world surrounding them. While a dualism to be dismantled, the interiority/exteriority of the face best illustrates the struggles of identity in confronting the performative action of identification and the latent act of appearance. In covering the face (your identity) you lose a form of identification.

This affords simultaneous anonymity and liberation.

But while anonymity can be empowering, it is typically considered disruptive from the position of the state.

Anti-mask laws exist in many countries 1 often in the interest of public safety or ‘religious neutrality’ 2 . Extending from the implications of identification, privacy of the individual and surveillance by the state cycle as sources of lively ethical debate.3 Such concerns about identification, privacy, surveillance, and safety are the exterior forces which regulate the appearance of the face and the space of the head.

This regulation demands disruption.

1 There is a fairly extensive Wikipedia page on this, though I acknowledge the unreliability of this source. “Anti-Mask Law,” Wikipedia, last modified on March 18, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law 2 ‘Religious neutrality’ is what the Québec government argued in response to criticism surrounding Bill 62 regarding face coverings and public services.

3 Avidly explored in dystopian fiction; notably queried in the book 1984 by George Orwell. Just recently our own digital-Orwellian reality was exposed, in the form of Clearview AI. An app used by law enforcement agencies that employed facial recognition technology across online platforms, first reported on in the New York Times.

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PROTOTYPE

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[9] Portrait images of four participants in prototype 8.0

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[10] Group session in prototype 8.0 - individuals sharing heartbeats [red flashes]

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[11] Activating Prototype 8.0’s cloaked platform space by playing with movement & shadow

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Goodbye

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THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT MY WORK!

jes.hanzelkova@gmail.com +226 341 5221 Find what I’ve been up to: @jes_hnzlkva