PORTFOLIO 2023 - Jonathan Schäfer

PORT FOLIO 2023

Jonathan Leo Schäfer Achitecture Bachelor of Arts Candidate

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HELLO,

my Name is Jonathan Schäfer, i was born and raised in Stuttgart and I am currently studiyng architecture at the Stuttgart State academy on Art and Design.

Born as a child in a family of arcitects, the subjecs was omnipresent in day to day life. Be it discussions of ongiong projects or standing behind the desk in the office as a kid, the experiences i gained greatly shaped my thinking.

13.08.2000

Stuttgart, Germany

Wiesbadener Str. 26 70372 Stuttgart

+49 173 3435076

jonathan@2-box.de

Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design

While others view architecture as a engeneering and practical field, my thoughts always viewed architecture as a form of Art.

Hobbies

Abitur (GCE-A eq.) Bachelor of Arts Candidate Photography Oldtimers Making Music Road Biking

Thinking architecture from ground up as a prosess of shaping a part of every day life of poeple brought me to the question, how can we provide architecture for humans and not investors or optimized for profit.

Studying at an Art acedemy greatly improved my view of Architecture. Working with people that have the same toughts as i do and trying to achieve or goals together is a process I happily adapted and plan to follow in the future. If we want to improve things, we have to work together.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ZELLKERN

The First Year at the Acedemy aims to sharpen our views of developing and creating. With the playful process of abstract thinking and experimenting, we gained our own views ans experiences enclosed in a creative process, „Inqubating“ os perceiving reality.

MICRO HOUSE

The small architectural roject in the second Semester tries to sensitize our spatial thinking and how we view living on in Small spaces. With a retstriction in size, this project leads us into developing floor plans and appearance.

BIKE HUB

Living and mobility is long overdoue for a change, the needed infrastructure is vital for rethinking our future urban planing.

Bike Hub“ is about creating the Bike Garage of the Future, with all the parts needet to become a functional part in day to day 14/ 10/ 6/

HELENE SCHÖTTLE QUARTIER

Space is a rare good in an urban Context. Recompaction therefore is a crucial act tohouse all the citizens trying to move in to the greater city areas. The Project is about using the urban mass already on hand and creating new living space on the foundations of older buldings.

CONCRETE CANOE CHALLENGE

In a cooperation between cvil engineers and architects, we designed, manufactured and raced a canoe made out of concrete in a netional race with over 80 participating universities.

ZELLKERN

first year project

The„Inkubator“ is the Programm of Firstyear Architecture and Industrial design Students at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Aiming to change the way we view the world, the project leads us into exploring previously unexplored terretories in our own creativity.

The curriculum is divided into 4 Phases, in which different parts

of the process are illuminated and trained. The main Goal is to sisitize the students for creative processes.

In the first phase, the students try to collect as many thingy as they find interesting. The limit is just tieir creativity. I made the addition to set a parameter, on which i went on my journey: Open and closed. I wandered around thy city and started to

collect everything that came to my mind, based on my parameter. The penomenon i caught the most interest in were the supply areas of big building ins the Cits. The couryards in the middle of larde complexes, where the delivery vehicels unload the supplys, the rubbish containers are located and where the vents for the air supplies are. These areas emit a strong and eerie feeling.

the place i chose was a back alley near the main railway Station in Stuttgart

Inthe second phase, i tried to deeply analyse these places. I tried to record my feelings when im at these places and to manifest them in something other persons can expirience, somthin that let them feel like i di, when im at these places. The timestamps on which certain feelings occured were measured and on this basis i sterted wtith the object. The Object consost of a hollow foam cube, which is plyable and can be sqished. Through a small opening you can put your finger inside the cube, which in itself is a process that caused inhibition by the person holding the cube. Inside is a smaller Cube made out of concrete, which is slightly sticky. That causes a strange feeling of disgust, just as when entering these back alleys. Once discovered, the cube on the inside looses its interest. The inside can be felt from the outside, but once discovered, the magic and interest is lost. Thats where the name Zellkern originated. Zellkern is the german word for nucleus, the core of a human cell. It controlls the processes inside the body and is responsible, that everything goes within a certain structure. Just like the human nucleus, the nucleus of the urban context is respolsible of coordinating the process inside the buildings. Viewed as a blck box, we see the input and the output, but not the sequences within. Once we overcome our inhibition, the reality is often disappointing, as the exposed componets lose their magic.

the final object and the multiple ways to get to the inner area

ZELLKERN

Thethird phase was about greater abstraction of the place and the system we developed, in order to create the physical object. With all knowledge we gained through the analysation of our system we durated an art performance, where we a a protagonist perform our system. In a short performance of 2 minutes, we tried to „play“ our scene. My performance consisted of a creature, trying to lure the bystanders into their lair, slowly becoming more and more comprehensible and thin. Starting with complicated speech and terms, the language of the creature becomes more and more comprehensible and clear as the person interacting with it slowly discovers the secret, that the creature holds an why it is there. Once the curtain is lifted, the creautre collapses. Without its secter, the creautre has no reason to exists and therefore disappears.

The performance is a part of the first year project in order for us to experience different scenarios in the context of the art driven studies. To emphasize the difference between the conventional and technical education and the artistic and free education the students encounter at the art acedemy.

It is also a way to eliminate inhibitions in the personal deveopment as an architect. Ther Performance is a great way to step out of ones conort zone and try out new ways of expression.

The fourth and final Phase was named „hybrid intervention“. The goal was to cooperate with a fellow student and merge our system into one, trying to generade a hybrid system that has faccetes of both. With this hybrid, we went on the journey of looking for a place, where our system fits. My fellw student system was about places, that are weird and uncompre-

hensible on first sight, making no sense to the beholder. My system was about places, that keep the cits alive but are often overlooked. The hybrid was a place, that was only used for transit in the urban network. Without it, the pedestrian traffic wourld collapse, but the place in itself does not accour as a place to stay. We tried to change that, irritationg the people using the

Plase and therefore creating interest in it. We remembered the point to point images, where you connect numbers and end up with an image. Just as the urban network, we overlayed our own network out of numbers on the place and everyone who connected the numbers ende up staying there. Thus we created awareness for a otherwise overlloked urban node.

The points are colored in a bright orange to make them visible enough to get noticed

first year project

MIRCO HOUSE

Parallel to the lecture „Structural Design“ there is a small project, in which the Students try to sensitize their spatian thinking by conceptualizing a small living space for two persons. The exercize focuses on both the strutural design and the over all aesthetic of the building. As a student, this was the first real enciunter with conventional architecture at the art acedemy.

The concept i visualized was modular, easy to build up and transport. Following the principle of folding buildings and the resulkting structural capabilities, the micro house in itself is a foldet structure which gains its integrity by coupling different modures. The basic mudule is a frame, is a frame with angled sides, that gets turned around and thus akes up the folded

structure, thats visible from the outside. The modules are constructed from timber frames and are attached to each other via fittig used in the prefabricated housing industry. All of the Frames are light enough to be transported on a normal sizes Trailer and are assembled on site. Because of the modular construction, the house can be expandet or reduced.

Rendering of the Micro house locarted beside a body of water

Isometric drawing of the Micro House

Diagramm of the modular Design the micro house is build of

Themain floor plan can be devided into three sections, the front which contains the kitchen and living room, the middle section where the bathroom and technical closets are and the rear section, where the sleeping area in located. The bathroom section functions as a technical module which contains everything needet in terms of water supply and electeical installation. The Kitchen in the front section attaches to the middle section, so no piping is required in between the modules. The whole construction is lifted from the ground to withstand moist evironments better and to minimize the impact done to the invironment. The House rests on six pillars with a concrete foundation.

On each side of the building is a terrace, which allows the inhaitants to extend the floor plan outwards. The glass elements on the front and rear open up to create an airflow through the bulding in the summer. In the Winter, the house gatheres some heat from the black fassade, therefore saving on heatign recources. The Roof is layed with solar panels, which allow the mirco house to be electrical self sufficient.

14/ BIKE HUB

second year project

Out urban traffic is long oderdue for a change, the car as way of indivudual traffic causes unheallthy urban environments, traffic jams and occupy space, that could be used for recreational purpuses thus making the city much more livable. One of the ways, the traffic could be changed in favour of greener and healthier citys in to travel by bike. For this change

to happen the city is in need of special infrastructure, that the inhabitants in their daily comute. One of these componets are bike hubs. A place where commuters can park their bike, maybe do some kind of repairs and grab a snack, before continueing their commute. These bike hubs are strategically places at major bike routes. One of thesebike routes leads from

Stuttgart to Waiblingen through Stuttbart Bad Cannstatt, a district of Stuttgart. Located near the train Station, the fairground and the stadium, the spot is ideal for a checkpoint along the bike route.

The bike hub should provide space for at least 700 bikes, a repair shop. bathrooms and a café. The construcion has to be of renewable materials.

Isometrical drawing

The building should be self sufficient in elecrtrical and heting terms via solar panels on the roof and activated foundations gathering the higher temperatures in the ground, as Bad-Cannstatt has warm springs in the ground.

With these parameters in mind, the diesgn process of the building followed a certain pragmatism, where a all the amenities and the required space where listes and then arranged, to fabricate a modular, expandable or reducable overall package, that can be assembled along the major bike routes. The building is based on a modular structure derived from the space occupied by one of the bike racks in which the bikes are parked. These racks are stadardized in europe abe therefore have fixed dimensions. One module contains two bike racks and the needed traffic area to get the bikes to the racks. The Modules are attached to each other in a zig zag like pattern, where the roof of one module becones the traffic area in the upper floor. Therefore no special floor structure is needed and the bulding can be assenblem on site in a few days. In the cefé and repair shop area, the modules are roughly the same, insulates and with the necessary elecrical and water supplies, they can be attached to each other in the same way.

The building consists of two floors, the first floor is accessed by bike via the ramp in the rear of the bulding and by foot with the main stairwell which doubles as a stiffening core to privide sturctural entegrity. In the main section the modular principle gets visible.

The Insulated indoor area has slights varied wall plan as the parking area, to provide enough

space for the visitors. With the modular priciple, the transition between the parking area and the indoor area is not visible, the rectangular gaps are closed with glass elements which can be opened in the summer in order to expand the cafe´to the outdoor area surrounding the bike hub. The most challenging part of the project stood out to be the

connection between the modules. To achieve the desired srructure, the modules hab to be ounted in between each other and therefore a completely new designed connection had to be developed. The connection between the uninsulated parking area and the insulated indoor area can be seen in the detail drawing.

Main section

Ground floor plan

Night rendering of the front view

Transitional detail drawing

1:100 scale model

third year project still going

Nominated

BAKA National architectural Student competition

2023 Results in February 2023

HELENE SCHÖTTLE QUARTIER

In todays time, the context of the urban environment is on the edge of a few major changes. The first change is the question regarding mobility and comuting inside of the city. The second change is a twist in thinking livable space, as spce is becomeng more and more of a rare good in modern citys, therefore the housing costs exponentially rise of to a level on which houseing becomes a luxury good only achievable by the ones who can afford it. All other inhabitants get forced out of the city and have to arange thanself in the greater city and suburb areas. To tackle these challenges, new ways of housing and and urban planning have to be developen. The most important part of which is to use the structures, that are already on hand to keep the overall cost down, both in financial and environmental terms.

In this project we tried to achieve a new form of urban housing by repurposing vacant building and creating a new urban quarter in which housing, cultural opportunities and crafting is possible. The building site, that we choise was in Stuttgart Heslach, it is currently used by the University and the state statistical office. Both buildings are planned to go vacant by 2035 and are then due for repurposement in favour of cheaper living and cultural projects.

Current arangement

The typological strucutres of the buildings is very intrecate on first site. The university (orange) was built in the late 18th century and has a narrow pillar kit in the interior, which made houring floor plans difficult to develop. The statistical office was built in the 1960s and therefore has very deep floor plans which count on artificial lighting in order to provide enough light to

work in the interior. Therefore, drastic changes had to be made to both duildings including the demoliton of certain parts, which were either no longer necessary or stood in the way of the construction of new buildings.

The first mesurement was the decision what to du with the front of the quarter. The Steet in Stuttgart more or less are made

up of blocks with courtyard in the middle. We wanted to adapt this principle, by visially clossing of the front side, while driving by with the car or train and opening the front for pedestrians by locating a café and a small shop in the front. Walking around brings the pedestrian into the public couryard, where they can relax and access the offices and living quarters.

Visible in the image above is he current structure as used by the university and statiscucal office. In the isometric drawing our proposal for the space usade is visible, the most important parts are the large new building in the front, the stairway that is set in front of the university building and the greenhouse on the statistical office. All of these parts where carfully laid out in

order to keep the open structure of the area and to help the new developed space to get its own unique selling point. The building in the front rests on two squared indoor areas and a stairwell in the middle, which also provides structural integrity. The first and second floor house social opportunities such as workshops, meeting etc. On top of the building a recreational

area is located complete with a besketball court and greenery. The section, that is set in front of the narrow university building enabled us to use the entire building for housing instead of sacrificing space for traffic. Besides that the section provides the area with a modern design, that helps replacing the dated look. The fassade can be usen to groß plants or to mount solar.

Birds eye view of the site

Day/Night rendering of the front building

The slamm house on the corner is the aftermath of a bomb detonation which destroyed the house. After the war is wasnt reconstructed ans the rest sits umcompleted. The corner house gets rebuilt and topped up in a similar design as the other building, to keep a cinsistency around the quarter. diagonaly on top of the building is a completely new structure, which

purposefully interfeirs with the context by introducing a levitating corpus that is visible from all sides. This structure provides visibility and a modern tough to the area and hosues social activities and offices. The roof next to the structure is intended to be public and thus eliminating the prejudice regarding penthouse cultures with the connected sitgma and prize points. Because

of the noise levels which are too high for residantial sections, the corner building is intendet for office and coworking areas. The needed technical and electrical area is in the basement of the old university building, where also the besament area for the residents are located. The Ungerdround real estate even allows fo workshops etc which emit higher noise levels.

Isometrical drawing to issultrate the project

Main Section through the different areas

With this project we tried to tackle all the challenges that the side gave ofm from old floor plant which are difficult to rething, over difficult lighting and pedestrian sitoations all the way to size and available space for our ideas.

With the resukt we hope to create at least small impact in order to let the rethinking procedure in the urban context kick in and thus creatingg much needed space and less finincial struggle for many people. Therefore we are really glad to be nimonated in a national student competition trying to do exactly that, create room for speculations and ideas regarding these problems. The final presentation and critique is due in february 2023 and we hope that our project can make a difference.

Inner courtyard

Inner courtyard

Transition between the statistical office and the university

Rendering of the renewed statistical office

Ground floor plan

CONCRETE CANOE CHALLENGE

The collaboratioin between students is equally as important to me as the collaboration between diciplines. Therefore I happily involved in the concrete canoe challenge together with a fellow student and civil engineering students from the university of stuttgart. The design process of the canoe was done by us in Rhino and grashopper. We designed the

shape of the canoe mostly via simulating the water flow and streamlines, where the canoe sits in the water and how heavy it is going to be. The Hull was fabricated from a concrete mix that the civil engineering students developed and designed to be both strong and very light. The reinforcment was done with carbon fiber matts, which provide structurel integrity to a

point, where the reinforcment is physicalls unablee to rip under normal conditions. The race took plate in Brandenburg an der Havel and out ouf the 88 Teams we scored third. The whole process was extremely interesting to follow and perform, because of thecollaboration i gained both friends and mentors, a learned a lot along the way.

Rendering of the renewed statistical office

Rendering of the renewed statistical office

Rendering of the renewed statistical office