JHETT JOHNSON
Contents
Studio
Diaphanous: Federal Courthouse in Toledo, OH
Soaring Contrivance: Aviation Musuem in Bozeman, MT
Bloom: Recreation Center in Bozeman Montana
Graphics
Fall 2022: Analog Techniques, Photoshop and Illustrator
Bloom: A recreation center apart of a larger masterplan, Bozeman, MT
Jhett Johnson, Devinn Paine, Katie Ragsdale
Spring 2024
ARCH 356: Library Masterplan
Steve Juroszek, AIA School of Architecture Montana State University
My partners and I were tasked with creating a complex of buildings for the Bozeman Public Library adjacent to the Gallatin High School located in Bozeman, Montana. The buildings consisted of a gym/recreation center, a library and a swim center. The three buildings were meant to collaborate with each other and be as sustainable as possible. I was tasked with the gymnasium, which sat directly south of the swim center. We were able to sustainably share water between the two buildings and filter rainwater, grey water and pool water through a filtration pond located between the two buildings. This project was driven by COTE design parameters.
Diaphanous: A new annex of the Toledo United States Courthouse, Toledo, OH
ARCH 355: Shaping Justice James Park, Ph.D.
Being built in the early 1900s, the existing courthouse lacks adequate security and space (especially in regards to the public). It was at this point that the design wanted to create a celebrated public space in the annex building. The turning of courtrooms started to create voids of space that could be populated to show the existing courthouse as well as create a public level that was very delicate and open. If not for this step, most of the design could not have been pushed further due to the lack of space. In regards to the ground floor plan, the lighter gray shows the restricted circulation and an explanation of the different types of elevators, their need, use, and reasoning behind it. For the courtroom floor plan the big emphasis is on the public circulation (colored in a lighter gray) and how you are able to move through this building as a public person, restricted person, and secure person. The idea of shaping justice, as an architect, is the idea of allowing all types of people to feel less intimidated and a space that isn’t necessarily just a courthouse. A public space that can be celebrated as architecture as well as serving the purpose of being a legal space that follows rules and regulations. It is a dance that is very methodical but also has glimpses of allowing for free design.
Jhett Johnson and Devinn Paine
Soaring Contrivance: An aviation club for aircraft enthusiasts, Bozeman, MT
Jhett Johnson and Devinn Paine
Spring 2023
ARCH 255: Figuration and Ornamentation
James Park, Ph.D.
School of Architecture
Montana State University
Study was done on Italian ornamentation, tracings were created to emphasize tiled and continuous radial patterns. Shapes were taken from the tracings to be put into a series of matrices looking at 2D transformable variation. 6 variations were further iterated and paired to create linear, corner and enclosed modules. The 3 modules were integrated into a number of sheets. Color was embedded to constitute foreground and background. These sheets were laser cut and used in analog modeling. Sheets were modified to begin looking at space and light qualities. The transfigured sheets were then used as walls, windows, and openings for the form of the aviation museum. Program was introduced and the spatial analysis was conducted to begin to meet square footage requirements. An airplane was incorporated into the building as an art installation and creates a scope of scale between human and plane. The design was geometrical and rhythmic and allowed for compelling space, light and experience in the design.
Diagramming of program using massing and spatial relations from one space to another.
Studio Design was an investigation into programming for a club of our choice. This Aviation Club design is an all-purpose site featuring a café, flight simulators, viewing space, and classrooms. An airplane was incorporated into the building as an art piece and also creates a scale of space between people and plane.
Photoshop and V-Ray through Rhino were used to assign material to the Studio Design project. The exterior is ivy stone and the interior features concrete and wood. The interiors intent is to feel airy and modern while the exterior is a heavy brutalist aesthetic.
Graphical Design
Course Decription...
Course utilizes observation and design drawing studios supplemented by design drawing lecture/demonstrations sessions. Topics include freehand observation drawing and constructed multi-view, paraline, perspective and shade/shadow drawing leading towards the formal graphic presentation of architectural intentions.
Studies done on perspectival drawings of my studio design and boxes.
Hand drawn compilation with the primary focus on composition regarding line weights, shifting the overall feel of a drawing with a target of highlighting main parts of the design in relation to orientation.
Compositional pieces for graphics class that used different mediums.