Jessica Steiner Portfolio 2023

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

JESSICA STEINER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01. THE SURETY Kansas City, MO Bank

Location: Troost Ave. & Linwood Blvd.

Project Duration: Ten Weeks

Year Completed: Spring 2021

In a fast-paced world of smartphones, social media, and technology banks as we know them are changing. People no longer deem it necessary to make the trip to the bank when they can do everything from the convenience of their own home. So what is the future of banks? Should they be cast out as a dead building typology? The Surety proposes a different approach to the bank we have come to know. The Surety re-imagines the bank to create a building that engages the existing community of Kansas City. The goal of the Surety is to create an environment that is comfortable and welcoming to the user, this contradicts the previous stereotype placed on banks. Banks of the past tend to overwhelm the user leading those who visit banks to associate them with anxiety

Software utilized: Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumion, Photoshop, Procreate

Professor: Torgeir Norheim

and fear. Through programmatic elements, lighting, and material choices The Surety creates an environment that feels warm and inviting to those who visit. A cafe at the north corner draws people in off the street, giving the building multi-functionality and offering people a chance to see all the building has to offer. The Surety is centered around an interior courtyard flooded with filtered light and filled with foliage. Here people can meet with bank employees in a more relaxed setting or enjoy a cup of coffee from the cafe. A large community room on the first floor can be used for small events or meetings and can also be used as a classroom to teach the community about finances. Upstairs plenty of study spaces are offered to accommodate for more of the community.

The building responds to the surrounding context by maintaining the urban edge

MAINTAIN THE URBAN EDGE

A main goal of the Surety is to give back to the community by providing opportunities for pedestrians to learn about finances and other topics.

GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

The Surety rethinks what a bank can be. It proposes a place where people can gather and connect with others.

RETHINK THE BANK

CONCEPT DIAGRAM

The parti encompasses all of the goals to the right in diagrammatic form. Clear circulation, axis, access, and proportions are formed to help achieve the aesthetics of the Surety.

PARTI

STRUCTURE DIAGRAM

LEGEND

GROUND FLOOR

1. KITCHEN

2. CAFE

3. MECH./JANITORIAL

4. COMMUNITY ROOM

5. LOUNGE

6. INTERIOR COURTYARD

7. RECEPTION

8. KIOSKS

9. CONSULTAION OFFICES

10. SUPPLY ROOM

11. TELLERS

12. ATM

13. NIGHT DEPOSIT BOX

14. DRIVE THROUGH TELLERS

15. SAFE

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LEGEND

UPPER FLOOR

1. OPEN STUDY/LOUNGE

2. PRIVATE STUDY ROOMS

3. OPEN OFFICE

4. BREAK ROOM

5. STORAGE/SUPPLIES

6. CONFERENCE ROOM

7. DIRECTORS OFFICE

8. OUTDOOR TERRACES

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OUTDOOR TERRACE

Access to the outdoors is provided through several outdoor terraces on the upper level. This allows visitors and employees necessary connection with the outdoors. The terraces are the perfect opportunity for the user to relax and recharge.

INTERIOR COURTYARD

A large interior courtyard is the main feature of the bank. Collaboration and easy conversation can occur at the winding benches among the filtered sunlight and foliage.

COMMUNITY ROOM

A large community room between the cafe and interior courtyard can be rented out to members of the community to accommodate for small events and meetings. Additionally, this room can be used as a classroom to teach the community about finances and other related topics.

CAFE

The addition of the cafe introduces multi-functionality to the bank. Additional doors to the north provide access to the cafe to those not using the building for banking purposes. The cafe creates a warm and inviting atmosphere that engages the community.

02. MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS

Manhattan, KS Art Museum

Software utilized: Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumion, Photoshop, Revit Project Duration: Fourteen Weeks

Location: Pierre and 3rd Street

Year Completed: Fall 2022

Architecture is a medium which can produce strong emotions, both positive and negative. The goal of the Museum of Emotions is to let the architecture be the art by creating a contrast of spaces to produce negative and positive emotions. The Museum of Emotions is symbolic of a journey represented through water and space. As one enters the building they cross over a large reflecting pool, the theme of water is again repeated throughout the building, both physically and symbolically, to symbolize ones journey from the negative to the positive space. The negative space lies below the reflecting pool. This placement evokes a feeling of drowning as the user looks up through the glass ceiling into the reflecting pool, and up to the positive space looming above. In contrast the positive

Professor: Cameron Tross

space floats above the reflecting pool, and feels light and airy. Water trickles down a curved wall of marble in the positive space, and channel glass filters the light, giving the space a feeling of tranquility and peace. Additional program is added to the museum to help give the building life. A restaurant to the north both serves patrons to the museum and those who are just walking by. Additionally, several art galleries are placed throughout the museum to house both local and touring artwork. To help tie the building to the outdoors sculpture gardens are placed throughout the site. This museum serves the community of Manhattan by providing a place for locals and visitors alike to appreciate the powerful impact art and architecture has on the human person.

A sculpture garden to the south of the site interacts with the discovery center across the street. An additional entrance to the south provides the opportunity for those staying in hotels across the street to easily enter the museum.

Several restaurants surround the museum several of which are located in the purple zone. Accessibility to the restaurant located inside this museum is included to add multi-functionality to the museum and to fit into the context of the surrounding buildings.

This museum is the first thing visitors see driving into Manhattan. The sculptural curve at the entrance of the museum greets visitors as they exit off of the highway into Manhattan.

Much of the foot traffic into the museum will come from Poyntz avenue. An overhanging element is placed to draw pedestrians from Poyntz avenue to the main entrance of the museum.

A simple mass is placed to the north of the site . This placement responds to the preeisting pedestrian and vehicular territories.

MASS

The split masses are rotated to respond to surrounding context.

ROTATE

A courtyard is added to create circulation and provide outdoor access.

PUNCH

The mass is split by positive and negative emotion into a upper and lower floor.

SPLIT

The form is smoothed out to mimic the concept of water.

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LEGEND

MAIN FLOOR

1. RESTRAUNT

2. KITCHEN

3. DISH WASHING ROOM

4. BAR

5. DRY PANTRY

6. FREEZER

7. MECHANICAL

8. KITCHEN SUPPORT

9. ART RECEIVING/STORAGE

10. OFFICES

11. OFFICE SUPPORT

12. OUTDOOR COURTYARD

13. DIGITAL ART ROOM

14. GALLERY

15. LOBBY

16. SCULPTURE GARDEN

UPPER FLOOR

17. UPPER GALLERY

18. POSITIVE SPACE

LOWER FLOOR

19. LOWER GALLERY

20. MECHANICAL

21. GALLERY

22. NEGATIVE SPACE

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

AREA OF INQUIRY

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UPPER ROOF CONSTRUCTION

1. WATERPROOFING

2. INSULATION

3. VAPOR BARRIER

4. CONCRETE DECK

SCULPTURE

WALL CONSTRUCTION

5. SUBSTRUCTURE FOR TILE

6. REFLECTIVE TILE

EMOTION HALLS

7. POSITIVE SPACE

8. NEGATIVE SPACE

LOWER ROOF CONSTRUCTION

9. WOODEN DROP CEILING

10. DRAINAGE

11. FILTER FABRIC

12. GROWING MEDIUM

13. ROOT BARIER

14. WATER PROOFING

15. INSULATION

16. CONCRETE DECK

TERMINATION BAR

GROWING MEDIUM

FILTER FABRIC DRAINAGE

ROOT BARRIER

WATER PROOFING

RIGID INSULATION

CONCRETE DECK

STEEL GIRDER

BRACKET CONNECTOR

PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL

CHANNEL GLASS SYSTEM

GLASS GUARD RAIL

EXTERIOR PAVERS

PAVER RISERS

WATERPROOFING

INSULATION

CONCRETE DECK

PRECAST CONCRETE PANEL

BRACKET CONNECTOR

TILE SOFFIT

REFLECTING POOL

TILE

MORTAR BOARD

CONCRETE SLAB

GRAVEL

EARTH

STEEL JOIST

HANGER

WOOD DROP CEILING

DRAIN

REBAR

WATERPROOFING

RIGID INSULATION

BATT INSULATION

STEEL JOIST

CONCRETE PANEL

DROP CEILING

WINDOW SYSTEM

CONCRETE WALL

RIGID INSULATION

WATERPROOFING

MORTAR BOARD

TILE

1. TYPICAL ROOF DETAIL SCALE: NTS

2. RESTAURANT DECK DETAIL SCALE: NTS

CHANNEL GLASS

STONE FINISH

STEEL COLUMN

TILE

MORTAR BOARD

CONCRETE SLAB

STEEL JOIST

CONCRETE PANEL

DROP CEILING

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NORTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

SOUTHERN ENTRY APPROACH

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Location: 5th and Ash Street

Project Duration: Ten Weeks

Year Completed: Fall 2021

Fire Stations are a physical representation of the safety and wellbeing of the community. They are place where people can interact with their local government and bring their questions and concerns, a place where they can feel safe and cared for. The goal of The Link is to celebrate the relationship between the public and the civic government by bringing the public into the fire station where it is deemed appropriate. This public engagement is guided by the overall form of the design which pulls the public through the building through a series of linked spaces. These linked spaces are spaces that are the resultant of carving from a large mass to create three smaller masses of program, public program , work program, and firefighter residential program. The carved void spaces link the masses together through circulation, and visual connections and expand and contract

Software utilized: Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, Lumion, Photoshop

Professor: Jongwan Kwon

as one is pulled through the building. This expansion and contraction of the carved void space allows for different types of activity, thinner spaces allow for circulation and larger spaces allow for rest and community engagement. The linked spaces start at the overhang at the front corner for the public and at a private corner for the firefighters, and pull the user through the building to a shared public/private courtyard in the back. In this courtyard events can be held that engage both the firefighters and the public. As one travels through the link spaces the user can break off to the different programmatic blocks or participate in visual connections in between each of the masses. Through these connected spaces the user is better able to engage with their local fire station, further developing a positive relationship between the fire fighter and the citizen.

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LINK Wamego, KS Firestation

The design starts with a simple mass.

MASS

A screen is wrapped around the entire complex to maintain the urban edge and define the building perimeter.

WRAP

The building extends to reach the screen to create defined spaces and views

EXTEND

The mass is carved away to create circulation and views, and to provide light.

CARVE

The carved away spaces are enclosed to protect them from the elements.

ENCLOSE

The screen is punched through to further create views out of the building as well as into the building.

PUNCH

The rear courtyard is open to both the public and the firefighters, providing a place for public and firefighter interactions. Planters can be used for either vegetables or flowers giving the firefighters something to work on during their downtime.

COURTYARD

Throughout the building windows provide views into the apparatus bay. This gives the public the opportunity to see the workings of a fire station while staying safely out of the way of the firefighters.

VIEW INTO APPARATUS BAY ENTRY COURTYARD

The entry court responds to the large park across the street. The entry court is a great space for safety events and demonstrations or can be used as a place for the public to gather.

GROUND FLOOR

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SECOND FLOOR

LEGEND

GROUND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

1. AUDITORIUM

2. ENTRY COURTYARD

3. PUBLIC ENTRANCE

4. COURTYARD

5. APPARATUS BAY

6. GYM

7. DECONTAMINATION

8. FIRST AID 9. SUPPLIES STORAGE 10. LAUNDRY 11. OXYGEN 12. BACK UP GENERATOR 13. CONTROL CENTER 14. FIREFIGHTER ENTRY

1. AUDITORIUM (2ND FLOOR)

2. EVENT/DISPLAY SPACE

3. APP BAY (OPEN TO BELOW)

4. STORAGE

5. BENCH SPACE

6. LIVING/DINING/KITCHEN

7. LAUNDRY

8. DORMS

1. MECH.

2. OPEN OFFICE

3. CONFERENCE

4. SEATING AREA

5.OUTDOOR COURTYARD

6. DIRECTORS OFFICE

7. OFFICE SUPPORT

8. TRAINING CLASSROOM

9. TRAINING TOWER (OPEN TO APP BAY)

10. ROOFTOP BASKETBALL COURT

11. ROOFTOP PATIO

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

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Project Duration:

Year Completed:

Home, its a word that evokes a variety of emotions, its a word that means comfort and safety, a place where one can build a life with their families and friends, somewhere where one can freely express ones uniqueness and individuality. A house is nothing compared to a home, so naturally the goal of the East Harlem affordable housing project is to provide homes rather than housing. The East Harlem Affordable Housing project strives to provide an environment where the individual can grow and express themselves in a safe and nurturing environment, while also providing residents the opportunity to build connections with the other residents of the building, the community of East Harlem, and the communities of the surrounding neighborhoods. The

Throughout the building large areas have been devoted to communal space to help residents engage with others and build relationships. Through careful planning and design the East Harlem Affordable Housing Project provides a home for all.

The design starts with a simple mass.

MASS

Proportions are applied according to surrounding context. Windows provide a sense of scale.

PROPORTION

Windows shrink and expand to add individuality to the units, and color is added to further define the spaces.

INDIVIDUALIZE

The mass is divided to distinguish the residential and public entrances.

DIVIDE

The mass is carved away to accommodate for communal spaces.

CARVE

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1. TWO BED APT.

4. TWO BED LOFT

7. ADA STUDIO

LAUNDRY

13. TRASH CHUTE

11. COMMUNITY PATIO 12. COMMUNITY ROOM

8. ADA TWO BED

9. COMMUNITY ROOM

2. STUDIO APT.

5. STORAGE

6. MAINTENANCE

3. STUDIO LOFT

TYPICAL FLOOR

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

FOURTH FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

LOCATION OF COMMUNITY SPACES

The two bed loft provides additional loft space. This space can be used as an office or serve as extra flex spaces for larger families.

The studio apartment contains a murphy bed that can be tucked away during the day. Ample storage is built-in to maximize storage space.

TWO BED LOFT STUDIO APARTMENT

A public market allows residents and locals to sell homemade goods and produce.

PUBLIC MARKET

Communal areas throughout the complex allow relationships between the residents to form. Planter boxes give residents the opportunity to practice sustainability

COMMUNITY SPACE

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DIGITAL HAND RENDERING

SKETCHING AND IDEATION

DRAWING

WATERCOLOR