Jackson Key Theatrical and Architectural Portfolio

The Simon Suites CUPAL, 2023

Photo Credit: Emily Lord

ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST

Live Arts Theatre - Gibson Theatre

Spring 2022

Role: Scenic & Lighting Designer

Director: Susan E Evans

Photo Credit: Will Kerner

Photo Credit: Will Kerner Act 2 Sketch

Preliminary Collage Rendering

Developmental Isometric Sketch

Selected Scenic Drawings

Annotated Groundplan, Elevation, Section

Lighting Design Paperwork Plot (upper grid level and lower balcony level) and Magic Sheet (Schedules Not Shown)

16 Winters, or the Bear’s Tale

UVa Drama Department Mainstage - Culbreth Theatre

Spring 2022

Role: Scenic Designer Director; Kathleen Morris

The play, located in the 16 year act break of “A Winter’s Tale” is a play across numerous locations, yet outside of time -it is a play about waiting located between the woods and the theatre and is told by a Bear. The process required many iterations through sketches, collages, models, and drawings.

Photo Credit: Tom Daly

Second Design Iterative Collage

First Design Study Model

Preliminary Study Sketch

Second Design: Perspective Sketch - Base

Bohemia Wagon

Bear's Clock

All decks walkable. Unit needs to be able to move/rotate, and able to lock in place.

Consult with TD regarding safety. (Note that the unit is <30" tall)

Unit will have dressing including a couch. TBD with Props Master.

Hard facing as noted in Red.Otherwise vertical surfaces "exposed." Facing dimension not shown. Deck Surfaces covered in 1 4" MDF not shown. Treatments TBD.

Christmas lights practical to be determined with the LD.

16 Winters

Hat-rack may be built or if we have on in storage borrowed.

FOR BID v3,

16 Winters

02.24.22

UVa Department of Drama: Culbreth Theatre.

Scenic Designer: Jackson Key

Director: Kate Norris

Technical Director: Casey Horton

Props Master: Sam Flippo

Bid Drawing: Bohemia Wagon 3

Scale: 1 2" =1'

The Simon Suites

Columbia University Performing Arts League - Glicker | Milstein Theatre at Barnard College

Spring 2023

Role: Scenic Designer / Co-Technical Director

Director: Julia Ruth Patella

The Simon Suites was a new work framed as a experiment to tell a narrative theatrical story through the medium of dance. Set to the music of Paul Simon the dance followed two couples and the course of their relationships. The scenery formed a backdrop of fragments of the several locations across 1970s New York: a club, the sidewalk, each couple’s apartment, and a doctor’s office while giving the maximum amount of floor space to use for dance. Walls pivoted, and beds rolled from under the stage to allow for seamless transitions.

The project was executed on minimal time and budget, being explored started with the sketch into a series of renderings before moving into construction.

Photo Credits: Emily Lord, Josh Halvei, Jackson Key

Typical Construction Plate

Final Composite Render

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UVa Drama Department Mainstage - Caplin Theatre

Fall 2021

Role: Lighting Designer Director; Michael Jerome Johnson

The play, located in a college office, followed an ensemble cast each other contrasting moments of gathering, tension, and monologues mind of each character under a giant clock “pulling the scenes moments to help the audience follow the focus moment to moment.

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cast as they grappled with themselves and monologues that took the audience into the scenes forward”. The lighting supporting these moment.

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Macbeth: the Southern Play

Lighting Designer

Shakespeare on the Lawn, 2019

Notes on Transition Fall Dance Concert

University of Virginia Drama, 2020

SELECTED LIGHTING DESIGNS

Photo Credit: Sanjay Suchak

Photo Credit: Tom Daly

The Humans

Live Arts Theatre, 2020

Photo Credit: Martyn Kyle

Lighting of the Lawn 2021

Co-designer: Silas Hayes,

Faculty Advisor: R. Lee Kennedy

Photo Credit: Sanjay Suchak

Video URL:: https://youtu.be/LrxSm7OOXPY

Rent

Live Arts Theatre, 2019

Photo Credit: Martyn Kyle

(un)furled, Fall Dance Concert 2021

University of Virginia Drama, 2021

Photo Credit: Tom Daly

Photo Credit: Martyn Kyle

FOLLIES - LIVE ARTS: Gibson Theatre, 2019 ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER / DRAFTSPERSON FOR DAN FEIGERT

Team Members: Cat Heneberry, Oliver Church, Caitlin Kreinheder, Tim Victorio

Advisors: ASTC Mentor: Kimberly Corbett Oates, ASTC; Faculty Advisor: Steven Warner

Personal Responsibilities: Team captain/design direction, stage/technical systems, lighting analysis, 3d modeling

“The objective of this project is to revitalize the 1920 McIntire Amphitheatre, located on the historic grounds of the University of Virginia, from a public ruin rarely used formally or informally into a thriving public intersection by day and a working student performing space by night. This will serve to fill a deficiency of student performing spaces for theatre, dance, and music groups on Grounds by providing a spatial hub for student performance groups with a venue of flexible capacity and usability, production support infrastructure, and company spaces for storage and rehearsal.”

Consultants Venue Renovation Challenge: Winner: Edgar L Lustig Award (1st prize) April 2021

1. Existing Conditions

2. Deepen Stage and Enclose Backstage

3. Optimize Sightlines

4. Excavate & Grade Landscape

5. Add Circulation Routes

6. Add Overstage Systems

Two Roofs: Frictional Speculations at South Seaport

CORE 2 Studio: Damage Control | Alternative Presents Site: South Seaport, New York, New York

Studio Professor: Esteban De Backer

Review Critics:

Mario Gooden (Columbia University)

Benjamin Cadena (Columbia University)

Valeria Paez Cala (Columbia University)

Claudia Tomateo (Columbia University)

Andres Macera (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)

Antiono Cantero (Princeton University)

Rosana Ekhatib (Columbia University)

Annya Ramirez (Marvel Architects)

Fulton Market Building:

Upper and Lower Commons showing exhibition on unbuilt projects in the South Seaport. Both volumes provide a new public center for the district.

Pier 16:

A new roof over Pier 16 allows the site to continue as a crossing between the district, the Brooklyn Esplanade, Pier 17, and the SS Wavertree while providing infrastructure for new events year round, day and night and providing spatial delineations in the grid.

(Im)permanence: explorations beyond

memory

“Knowledge does not endure but must be recreated anew by each person, by each generation. Knowledge is created and dies with the knower.”

As described by Alan Wiseman in World Without Us -The city exists in ruin -the population having left the city’s 2,000+ blocks and the ancient path once called Broadway lies quiet. The waters of the Hudson have risen over 70 feet and the upper west side is covered in water.

This story of reoccupation of the urban landscape is told over the following day, perhaps a rotation, a revolution (solar or lunar), or a century following three groups of explorers of memory -distant and invisible, human and natural -between observer and the cartographer acting as constructor in one moment operating in contrast to the maker at the haptic scale building the individual plurality of fragments whose layers over ages build the urban anew.

Each of the three acts exists at this frontier of memory with their own understandings of space, distance, and time: What do they derive from the site, from purpose, and from the preceding echo of memories? What do they ignore? What fragments of knowledge do they leave behind?

CORE 1 Studio: Broadway Stories | Nature-works

Site: 72nd & Broadway, New York, New York

Studio Professor: Christoph a. Kumpusch

Review Critics: Dean Andres Jaque (Columbia University)

Dr. Anthony Titus (Titus Studio)

Patricia Anahory (Storia na Lguan)

Tatiana Tararintseva (Melamed Architecta)

Dr. Patrice Derrington (Columbia University)

Leah Meisterlin (Columbia University)

Khea Vu (OXMANN)

Dimitra Tsachrelia (Steven Holl Architects)

Cory Archie (MACRO)

Osvaldo Delbrey

Alesandra Raffone (Ealain Studio)

Graham Drennan

Deepa Gopalakkrishnan

Reem Makkai

Kevin Hai Pham (Space Exploration Design)

Samantha Vesseur (CetraRuddy)

THE TEXAS & PACIFIC WAREHOUSE: A RAILROAD MUSEUM FOR DOWNTOWN FT.

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ARCH 4020: Thesis Studio: Global Sites | Fictional Sections

Fort Worth, Texas

Spring 2022

Advisor: Peter Waldman

Review Critics:

David Turnbull (ARUP)

WG Clark (University of Virginia)

Bill Sherman (University of Virginia)

Shiqao Li (University of Virginia)

Erin Putalik (University of Virginia)

Sanda illuiesu (University of Virginia)

The project explored adapting an monolithically enclosed, derelict railroad inbound freight warehouse -designed in an Art Deco style by museum and cultural center for the city at the juncture of light, shadow and interior and exterior public spaces functioning day and night tonic frames juxtapose the vertical facade where a doorway meets the oblique of the city, inviting one in. A locomotive, like Scarpa’s Cangrande, reaching out looking down the river and towards the bluff -reaching radial spokes through the bones and bays of the warehouse and bridges transposing a roundhouse’s open circle to illustrate the mechanical and the geographic. Through the facade what was singular embraces ater, or dining, or take in a showing of Giant. Perhaps they will look to the north or east into the city to the bluffs seeing in the lights the Army rails, and the setting sun.

Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick in 1930 for the Texas & Pacific Railroad in Fort Worth Texas. This exploration sought to develop a railroad seeking to revitalize the south downtown area between rails, highways, and urbanity in five phased interventions. Light frames all - tecCangrande, greets the door leading down the spokes of a ghostly roundhouse superimposed on the orthogonality of cardinal cartography bridges seeks west above. Locomotives and Cabooses return as sculptural artifacts in garden-like radial maze -archaeological rotations embraces multiplicity, and what was closed opens. Grotto and garden reveals a stage set. In the evening, the visitors return to gather for thetheArmy and Comanche campfires long extinguished, or to the south over the garden walls, or perhaps to the west following the river, the

STAIR THEATRE

The project focused on a 14’ wide urban infill site on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. I developed a theatre venue framed around a central stair and landings developing a flexible processional space connecting the public space of the mall with a lobby and intermission space leading to the two theatres: one open on the roof, one intimate inside. Private space for performers and staff climb directly up the back of the building allowing rapid access removed from the public sphere of the audience.

Arch 2020 Responsive Space

From Rural to Urban: Assemblies in Context

Exercise 4: Urban Additions

Site: Charlottesville, VA

Studio Professor: Katie Stranix

Review Critics:

JT Bachman (University of Virginia), Brittany Utting (Rice University), Shiqao Li (University of Virginia), Dean Illa Berman (University of Virginia)

Roof Theatre

Lower Theatre

Lobby/Entrance Space

Intermission Space

Public and Private Circulations

ARCH 4010: RESEARCH STUDIO

Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

Fall 2021

Studio Professor: W.G. Clark

Review Critics:

Dean Malo Hutson (University of Virginia), David Turnbull (ARUP Group), Ines Martin Robles (University of Virginia), Alessandro Orsini (Columbia University), Adam Frampton (Columbia University), Peter Waldman (University of Virginia), Devin Debrowolski (University of Virginia)

TRANSVERSE SECTION (LOOKING EAST)

THE PAINTED BRIDE: an Artist’s Collective

The project, located adjacent to the north edge of the Ben Franklin Bridge’s descent into Philadelphia in Northern Liberties, is a residency collective for 12 artists to live and work for a period of months. The project’s intent is to respond to each side of the site: bridge, churchyard, brick, and street providing volumes for the artists to live and work, and space for the public to view exhibited work and engage with informal performances.

PERGOLA FOR A BUNGALOW

Design / Build Project

Mistletoe Avenue, Fort Worth TX

Summer 2021

I designed and built a cedar pergola carport addition onto a 1918 bungalow. I used to architectural tradition of the arts and crafts styling carrying the meter of the columns of the porte-cochere into a lighter language of double beams and columns supporting the trellis top. The site proved challenging as it was between the original house and a 2010 addition going through a number of iterations. The objective was to create a protected parking space that remained open to light and did not obstruct the architectural rhythm of the house. I designed, determined method of construction, and estimated the project beforehand and then constructed the project on site over the summer.

Jackson Key

jpk2161@columbia.edu

Masters in Architecture, Class of 2025 Columbia University, GSAPP

BS Architecture, Class of 2022 University of Virginia

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