Jacob Leuck Portfolio by jleuckarchitecture

Jacob Leuck

SELECTED WORK 2022 - 2024

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN

Resume

Jacob Leuck

EMAIL : personal: jacobleuck13@gmail.com

school: jleuck4@huskers.unl.edu

PHONE: 402-301-1531

Location: Lincoln, NE

Education

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN 2021-CURRENT GPA: 3.895 // Major: Architecture

Minor: Community & Regional Planning

Involvement: The Gallery, Big Red Singers Show Choir, Varsity Men’s Chorus

PAPILLION LA VISTA SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL 2017-2021

Standard GPA: 3.981 // Weighted GPA: 4.472

Experience

Honors & Awards

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN-CLARK & ENERSEN JUNE 2024-CURRENT (LINCOLN, NE)

My responsibilities as an intern include aiding in conceptual and schematic design, post-processing of drawings and images, creating models and drawings in Revit, and revising as-builts and record documents.

ARCHITECTURAL INTERN-EMSWILER ARCHITECTURE SUMMER 2023 (MISSOURI VALLEY, IA)

My responsibilities as an intern included drawing and revising construction documents with AutoCAD LT for new homes and home renovations across Nebraska and Iowa.

ARCHITECTURE HALL MEDIA CENTER WORKER AUGUST 2022-CURRENT (LINCOLN, NE)

This job requires aiding students in printing, laser cutting, 3D printing and purchasing media center/shop products. It also includes taking quarterly inventory of media center items, replacing ink, paper and 3D printer filament, as well as daily maintenance of all printers.

SARA NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS 2024 - MERIT AWARD (KCAI DoARC)

FIRST PLACE- BVH ARCHITECTURE-NORMAN OCHSNER DESIGN EXCELLENCE PRIZE (2024)

ALEX MASTERA MEMORIAL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP (2024)

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN REGENTS SCHOLARSHIP

GARY LEE HANSEN RECOGNITION AWARD (2023) UNL College of Architecture

DEAN’S LIST (2021-2024)

Skills Photoshop

Rhino 7/8 Revit

AutoCAD

Enscape/V-Ray/Twinmotion

1.KCAI DoARC

7 WEEKS - KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - 2024

Group Academic Project - ARCH 311 - Instructor: Peter Olshavsky

IN COLLABORATION WITH GABBY

VAN NURDEN & LONDON FORSBERG

The KCAI Department of Architecture explores architecture’s role in engagement by creating multifunctional learning environments in formal and informal settings, partnering with local organizations to employ sustainable and durable building methods, and utilizing differing levels of transparency to bring about visual and auditory interactions. The project’s emphasis is inspired by our experience on the “Dividing Lines” tour through the neighborhoods of Kansas City. The tour shed light on the history of redlining that explains why Kansas City remains one of the most segregated cities in America. From this point, we made it the objective of our school to inspire future architects to create innovative designs that are accessible to a diverse population. The architectural movements of pushes, pulls and multi-directional voids extend from the surrounding context, through the naturally sloped site and into the building, creating a system of circulation on the exterior and interior that invites members of the surrounding community in. Views into and out of the school are obscured and framed using different opacities of brick screening, deliberately choosing what to reveal to the public. My individual contributions to the final deliverables of this project included detailing the Rhino model, all renders and all floor plans.

2.Rockbrook Elementary School

11 WEEKS - OMAHA, NEBRASKA - 2023

TOPOGRAPHY/FORM

DRIVE

WALK

BIG PAPIO CREEK

CONTEXT

Individual Academic Project - ARCH 310 - Instructor: Matthew Miller Partnering with Project Advocates, this project’s objective was to develop ideas for a complete demolition and redesign of Rockbrook Elementary School in Omaha. The design responds to the surrounding geographical and historical context, as the form was inspired by the curvatures in the Big Papio Creek nearby and the steep incline of the existing site. By sculpting spaces to circulate and gather both above and below the building, many opportunities are created for students to explore and learn while immersed in nature. The building embraces a community-oriented design while preserving a secure and effective learning environment. The curvatures in the building’s organization respond to time and the growing population by allowing for future additions, leaving space for another modular curve to be added.

4. Breaking Down Architecture

3 WEEKS - LINCOLN, NE - 2023

Group Academic Project - ARCH 310 -

Instructor: Matthew Miller

This mini-project presented us with the task of creating a temporary learning space in Lincoln, NE that responds to time architecturally. This task inspired a connection between architecture and storytelling, allowing us to embrace an ever-present challenge to desginers; deterioration. During unprecedented times, we must find unique solutions to solve temporary problems. This project took the approach of a flexible outdoor learning space sculpted only by cotton sheets that are stretched between concrete posts. As years pass, the space will take on en entirely new form as the materials deteriorate and vegetation flourishes.

As this is a busy circulation path on campus, the pattern of movement is only loosely guided by the cloth, forming semi-private pockets within for any type of activity. The flexibility of the space also allows for varying activites to inhabit a space that was previously underutilized. The floor is made of metal grate, allowing for vegetation to overtake in spaces where people do not walk. This allows for the path through the space to be formed naturally by the circulation patterns that students take. This vegetation would also overtake the most deteriorated sections of cloth, weaving its way through the holes and creating a unique experience each year. Using materials with varying timelines of deterioration required extensive studies of their qualities and life cycles. Once the cloth is completely decayed, the space would be a campus garden that is open to all students, showing ther there is not only loss but also growth and possibilities within the idea of deterioration. My contributions to the final deliverables of this project included completeting the Rhino model and taking/combining renders to show the passage of time.

BREAKING DOWN ARCHITECTURE

CONSTRUCTION & EDUCATION

DETERIORATION & GROWTH

IMPACT & POSSIBILITIES

SCALE: 1’=1/8”

IN COLLABORATION WITH GABBY VAN NURDEN & LONDON FORSBERG

LONDON FORSBERG

JACOB LEUCK

GABBY VAN NURDEN

INTERIOR-DAY INFORMAL CLASSES

INTERIOR - DAY

PRIVATE SEATING RECREATION/REST AREA

LOCALIZED SPACES

EXTERIOR-EVENING GUIDED TOURS/EDUCATION FOOD TRUCK/VENDOR AREA CAMPUS EVENTS

EXTERIOR - EVENING

INTERIOR-NIGHT PRESENTATIONS/SPEECHES

INTERIOR - NIGHT

LIVE MUSIC/PERFORMANCES MOVIE SHOWINGS

5. Physical Modeling: Lycee Schorge Secondary School

4 WEEKS - BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA - 2023

Individual Academic Project - ARCH 211 - Instructors: Hannah Schafers & Will Cox

For this project, I was tasked with physically modeling five features that I found to have significant importance in a real building of my own choosing. Designed by Francis Kere, Lycee Schorge Secondary School in Burkina Faso, West Africa utilizes numerous locally sourced materials to create a functional learning space with ample light and airflow. The construction details that I found to have significance all serve multiple functions, whether it be airflow and light or comfort and structure. The project pushed my modeling skills to the limit, working with a number or new materials and methods to replicate the functionality, flexibility and true materiality of the school’s elements.