Jessica Nemczuk M.ARCH
CONTENTS SCHOOL DESIGNS: 1. Cultural Courseway
an educational passageway between venues at the proposed 2016 Chicago Olympics
2. Planar Convergences
a high-rise in Chicago’s Loop consisting of a hotel, office space, lobby, and parking
3. Twisting and Spilling
a tower comprised of one small unit that has been “twisted” and “spilled”
4. Colonia Sedó: A Creative Factory
a complex on the outskirts of Barcelona where artists can produce, exhibit, and live
5. A Window is a Window is a Window
a look into design possibilities if both structures and cities were based on one element
6. Librarius Bands
a library in Chicago’s South Loop based on the concept of the Möbius Band
7. The Metropolitan Village
a 19-unit housing complex that offers residents the best of small-town and urban living
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PHOTOGRAPHY SAMPLES:
a collection of photographs from travels in Europe
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Time Period:
Fall 2007
Studio Design I at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Doug Garofalo and John Manaves
Course:
Professors:
Assignment:
Create a structure that will be placed between the venues of the 2016 Chicago summer Olympics.
By first studying arrays and swarms, I used these ideas in order to hypothesize how swarms of visitors to the Chicago olympics would react with each other and their environment. In order to facilitate circulation, as well as educate visitors on the history, culture, and athleticism of the participating countries and the host city, I designed pathways to be located between the venues that would layer all of this information together.
Cultural Courseway
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Cultural Courseway
Circulation studies
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Swarm study: children’s soccer game
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Swarm model: the red vs. the blue
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Swarm model: the red vs. the blue
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Location and density: possible locations, connecting major venues
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S. King Drive
E. Garfield Boulevard
E. 55th Street
Chart depicting location vs. venue density and Site plan
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International Culture: Chicago and the world’s history and athleticism
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Model depicting four possible walkways
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Sectional perspectives of intersecting and overlapping paths
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Time Period:
Spring 2008
Studio Design II at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Penelope Dean and Juan Rois
Design a multi-use high-rise in downtown Chicago consisting of space for a hotel, office, lobby, and parking.
Course:
Professors:
Assignment:
Starting with volumes of foam cubes, they were expanded upon by adding circulation, the interior, and finally, the site. Through extruding, subtracting, and shifting intersecting planes, volumes, and voids in three dimensions, towers were created. This in turn created circulation among the various programs.
Planar Convergences
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Planar Convergences
Plan A
Plan B
Section A
Section B
Initial sections of foam cubes
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Volume studies
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Initial computer model
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Paths are drawn, connecting highly-used areas
Paths of circulation
Paths are placed within model
Paths are extruded to the outermost limits
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Planes of circulation
+ Diagonal
+ Parking
Lobby
Breakdown of programs: circulation, volume, and location
+ Horizontal
Vertical
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+ Office
Hotel
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Plan: Floor 21
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Plan: Floor 27
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West
Sections
South
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Model of high-rise
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Time Period:
Summer 2008
Introduction to Techniques in Digital Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Course:
Professor:
Paul Preissner
Assignment:
Create a tower using Maya that uses one altered component through- out
Using the actions of twisting and spilling, I altered a single component in Maya in order to create a tower. From this tower, line drawings were extracted in Rhino and animations were created to show the composition of the tower and various scenarios for its shape. The tower was then situated within an image of a landscape using Photoshop.
Twisting and Spilling
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Twisting and Spilling
Plans and sections
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Elevations and axonometric
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Creation of component
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“Strands� comprised of multiple components and completed tower
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Time Period:
Fall 2009
Course:
Studio Design V at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain - part of the University of Illinois at Chicago abroad program
Professor:
Sergi Serrat
Create a master plan for a creative factory in or near Barcelona, fol- lowed by a more detailed design of a smaller portion of the factory.
Assignment:
This creative factory is to be used by all types of artists, as well as industrial workers. In this “factory,� work is produced and exhibited. Collaboration among various types of artists is key and work between the designers and the industrial workers on the site is encouraged. This factory also includes a residential aspect: long-term for residents and their families and short-term for visitors.
Creative Factory
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Creative Factory
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Site plan: presently Colonia Sed贸, near Barcelona, Spain
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Wall and Walkway Details Brick Setting bed Setting bed Base Rigid insulation insulation Waterproof membrane Waterproof membrane Topping slab Suspended structural structuraldeck deck
Creative Factory Factory
Esparreguera Esparreguera
Wall from11m tall Wall ranging ranging from m --22m m tall
Details: outdoor wall and walkway
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Through wallflashing flashing Through wall Cavity seal Cavity seal
Wall and Roof Details
Weep hole Sealant Sealant Backer rod rod
Perimeter windowsealant sealant Perimeter window Mortar Mortar Flashing and and weep weepholes holes Cavity seal Cavity seal Metal anchor anchor Brick
Anchor bolt Anchor bolt
Air space space
Bond Bond beam beam
Metal wall ties ties Metal wall
Hardware cloth Hardware cloth
Rigid board board insulation insulation Brick Brick
Details: indoor wall and roof
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Time Period:
Spring 2010
Studio Design IV at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Alex Lehnerer
Course:
Professor:
Assignment:
Design a structure, which leads to the design of a city, in which the basis of said design is one element, be it a window, corner, roof, or stair.
Using “the window” as my starting point, my structure and city are based around the window’s ability to provide views. Windows provide this feature, but later developments often hinder that view. This city is built around the idea that no structure should hinder the view a pre-existing structure already has of the ocean, mountains, or forest. As a result, newer buildings are forced to “float” above pre-existing ones, as the preservation of views is the only building code in this city.
A Window is a Window is a Window
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A Window is a Window is a Window
dining table still best-suited close to the kitchen? Is the door still the best means for entry?
Passage
Light
Aesthetics
Window benefits
View
Air
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View-blocking diagrams
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View-blocking render
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View-blocking model
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View 1 of 4: Transportation For es t
For es t
Ocean
Tra ns p or tati on
Ocean
M ou n t a i n s
Mo u n t a
Ori g i n al : Un i n t erru p t ed Vi ew s
O ri g i n al : Un i n t erru p t ed Vi ew s
Or igina l: U ninte r r upte d V ie ws
Progression of new construction
Ne w Con s t r u c Uninterrupted
Ocean
M ou n t a i n s
N ew C o n s t ru c t i o n : Un i n t erru p t ed Vi ew s
For e st
Tra n sp o rt at i on
For e st
For e st
M o untains
Mo u n t a
N ew C o n s t ru c t i o n : Un i n t erru p t ed Vi ew s
Ocean
Tra n sp o rt at i on
Oce an
View D: Mountains
M ou n t a i n s
Tra n sp o rt at i on
View C: Transportation
For e s t
For e s t
For e s t
M ou n t a i n s
Ocean
Tran s p or tati on
Ocean
Tran s p or tati on
Ocean
Ne w Con s t r Uninterrupt
M ou n t a i n s
N ew C o n s t ru c t i o n : Un i n t erru p t ed Vi ew s
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Progression of new construction
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Vo l u m e o f B u i l d i n g s
Height
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Viewing Surface Area
Va r i e t
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Method
Progression of new buildings over time
s
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Progression of new buildings over time
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A Window is a Window is a Window model
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A Window is a Window is a Window model
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Time Period:
Fall 2008
Studio Design III at the University of Illinois at Chicago
David Brown
Course:
Professor:
Assignment:
Design a 400,000 square foot library on the current site of the Chicago Public Library and the vacant lot across Van Buren Street.
This design is driven by the idea of having various types of information easily accessible at all times. The programs that are most popular and used for the longest amounts of time are placed in the most accessible locations. Using the concept of the continuous flow of the Mรถbius Band, two ramps along the exterior of the library circulate visitors to their destinations or to new discoveries.
Librarius Bands
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Librarius Bands
BUSINESS
LEISURE
Entrance, inforYoung adults’ Coffee house / mation & borPublic forum center Coffee house Entrance, Young Public Performance bar rowers’ services adults’ / Performance information forum bar
& borrowers’ services
Coffee house Entrance, / Performance information bar & borrowers’ services
center
Young adults’ center
Coffee house / Entrance, infor- Readers’ Performance bar mation & bor- forum rowers’ services
Program distribution with circulation
Public
forum Publ ic forum
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Mobius Bands as circulation: towers are connected by interspersed ramps
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Models depicting circulation
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Open to Below
Meeting Rooms and Group Study
Periodicals
Non-Fiction
2nd Floor
Storage Auditorium Operations
Collection Services
Collection Services
Basement
Plans
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East
Sections
South
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East
Elevations
South
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Ramps and stacks
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Ramps and stacks
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Library models
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Time Period:
Spring 2009
Studio Design IV at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Dan Wheeler
Course:
Professor:
Assignment:
Design a housing complex on a typical Chicago lot that adheres to current codes and regulations.
This housing is a 19-unit apartment complex that is geared towards young professionals, families, and graduate students who would like to live in the city, but still have attachments to portions of the towns that they left behind. In this way, the best of both small town and urban life can be experienced. The exterior of the complex offers the urban, anonymous, and regularized life while the interior is more rural, unique, and the residents know their neighbors.
The Metropolitan Village
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The Metropolitan Village
Unit parking Unit parking
Communalcourtyard courtyard Communal Communal walkways Communalinterior interior walkways
Individual units Individual units
Flexible ext. Flexible private/public exterior balconie balconies
Programmatic breakdown
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2nd Floor
3rd Floor Ground Floor Ground Floor
2nd 2nd Floor
Interior walkways and exterior balconies by floor
3rd Floor Floor
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Framing plan
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North
East
Sections
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Ground floor plan
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Third floor plan
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Interior and Exterior Elevations
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Interior and Exterior Models
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Cultural Courseway
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Cultural Courseway
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Time Period:
Fall 2009
Various sites around Europe
Location:
While studying abroad my final year of graduate school, I encountered many sites, both natural and man-made, that were fascinating. Taking photographs of these views was my attempt to remember, re-produce, and to see these spectacular visions in a different manner. Some of the most beautiful sites I came across were in London, Interlaken, Rome, Paris, Valencia, Delft, and Florence.
Photography Samples
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