2011 Design Portfolio

Jared S. Burt

Jared S. Burt Master of Architecture ‘11 BS - Architecture ‘08 Ball State University

4010 N. Lakeside Drive Muncie, IN 47304 (765) 760.5688 jsburt@bsu.edu jsburt.iweb.bsu.edu

Contents _Overnight Cabin _Prefab Cabin Concept _Zipp Display Wall _Condominium Renovation _Center for the Environment _National Design Factory _Transforming the Ideal _reBarn _Custom Rug Store Concept _Ponte Vecchio Museum

Awards _2008 First Place | Cripe Architects

- Center for the Environment _2008 First Place | Gresham Smith

- National Design Factory _2007 First Place | NCMA

- Affordable Housing _2007 Award Winner | ICMA

- Visitors Center

DNR Overnight Cabin

Design Build Studio

Located in East Central Indiana, this three season cabin will give its visitors a seamless connection between interior and exterior space. Whether one is in, on (deck to be added in the future), or outside the cabin, they will be immersed in the surrounding nature and activity.

The cabin is designed as two spacial volumns; a solid for the sleeping quarters, and a “void� as the living quarters. A king size bed, that also doubles as a seating area, rests below a twin loft. The living area features a custom CNC milled bench/shelf that rests in front of a floor to ceiling translucent wall. Views from inside the cabin focus the attention to the camp site and nature providing privacy from the adjacent sites.

Material selection was critical for the budget and durability. Wrapping the cabin in corrugated steel creates a modern and simple look, in contrast to the rustic wood sidewalls that bring back the traditional natural look of the first cabins. Interior spaces are clad in plywood for an affordable, clean and natural look.

Custom Bow-Tie Splines

CNC Milling

Plywood Clad Interior

PreFab Cabin Concept

Design Build Studio

The overall design of this cabin is a reaction of its program and surroundings. In this case, form does follow function. Starting with the basic cabin, simple moves were then made to morph it into a minimalistic, yet heavily designed cabin. Each move was made as a reaction to one of three main principles that make up camping; resting, nature, and recreation.

Located in East Central Indiana, this three season cabin will give its visitors a seamless connection between interior and exterior space. Whether one is in, on, or outside the cabin, they will be immersed in the surrounding nature and activity. Built in furniture that can function in multiple ways allows for a flexible, open, and efficient interior space.

Material selection is critical for the budget and durability.

Wrapping the cabin in corrugated steel creates a modern and simple look, in contrast to the rustic wood sidewalls that bring back the traditional natural look of the first cabins. Interior spaces are clad in plywood for an affordable, clean and natural look.

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Condominium Renovation

Personal Work

Personal Involvement: Design + Construction The soul purpose for buying this condominium was to completely renovate it as an investment property. Had the condo been in good shape, and up to date, we probably never would have bought it. This provided me with a great opportunity to not only get more construction experience, but also a chance to work with a limited budget, time constrictions, and a client (my parents). This process taught me more than I could have imagined, for we ran into all types of problems, which is typical when you begin to remodel, that had to be solved on the fly. Designing on paper for new construction is completely different then having to deal with existing conditions and issues that you find as you begin to uncover more and more of the space. As with all projects, you realize when you’re finished that there are certain things that you would do differently if you had to do it over, but all in all I believe the space turned out better than I imagined when I first walked through the condo.

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Zipp Entry Lobby

Consulting/Sequences Design

The entry lobby of the new Zipp headquarters is designed to show the progressive nature of the company while paying homage to the basic principles that the company functions around; speed, aerodynamics, and materials.

The initial concept was to provide a custom display wall that would allow the company to display their latest products. Understanding the nature of each product was essential to be able to create a story within the display.

As a consumer, we only see the polished exterior skin of each product, but the real beauty and intelligence lies in the interior. This idea of section and skin was carried through to the display. The “skin,” a black high density polyethylene, flows over the wall and slices open to reveal three fiberglass modules that act as a frame to house the companies products. The emphasis on aerodynamics shapes the modules as they begin to morph creating sleek provocative lines just as the air would cut through a rider.

Understanding the fabrication process allowed us to add detail to the project while actually saving money.

The black skin will be CNC milled out of 1.5” HDPE allowing us to add depth and dimension to the project.

However, milling a smooth surface would take 10-20 times longer than allowing the bit to step over nearly its full width leaving “scallops” in the surface, so we designed for this by creating our own paths so that the scallops would follow airflow pinching and expanding the lines as it reacts to the modules.

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1. Black Scalloped HDPE 2. White Gloss Fiberglass 3. White Stand-Off Lettering

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Center for the EnvironmentDesign Studio The Center for the Environment is another commitment

by Ball State to improve the environment by devoting a new facility focused on environmental studies. Located between the Arts and Journalism Building to the north, and the Teachers College to the south, the building will be the last piece in completing the “interior street� from Petty to Riverside. This Proposal for the Ball State University Center for the Environment is based around two major concepts driven by the site: Activity and Sustainable Practices The Center for the Environment is a facility to educate others about sustainable practices in and outside the classroom. This building uses itself as a sign expressing and addressing sustainability. As one enters the building they pass directly under and next to the Living Machine that acts as a centerpiece for the entrance and atrium. The skin of the building becomes an iconic piece that addresses daylighting and viewing specific to each space inside. On the east and west facade the skin acts as vertical louvers to block out direct light that causes glare. Multiple spaces within the building (Library, Atrium, Office Complex, Exhibit) utilize the skin as a skylight to bring daylight deep into the space. The facility is protected by a green roof, and rooftop garden that provides a place for students and staff to break and relax above the congested sidewalks of campus.

Informal Surveillance

Vertical Louver

Glass Curtain Wall

Informal Surveillance

Eye Level on Second Floor

Eye Level on Landing Eye Level on Staircase Eye Level on Ground Floor

Atrium Elevation Atrium Plan

“Vertical louvers wrap the building opening at various levels reacting to the space within.�

Sawtooth Skylight

Occupants View

Visitors View Typical Office Plan Library Section

National Design Factory

Design Studio

What once was a prospering community situated around The National Motor Vehicle Corporation has become abandoned and broken away from Indianapolis.

The potential to renew life and energy is within the development of the abandoned factory. The design extends from the existing factory to make a direct connection with the Monon trail, bringing people into galleries, stage performances, recreational space, and markets selling locally grown plants. The front faรงade references the history of the factory through the use of similar materials and pattern language, while new fabricated steel forms accelerate though the existing structure and reach out into the community. Exterior spaces flood the site giving walkers, bikers, runners, and roller blades direct access to all aspects of the design.

The Design Factory is not only setting an example for art and design, but the integration of environmental efforts. Photovoltaic Panels line the large flat roof of the existing factory helping to reduce the large energy loads of the facility. Covered courtyard spaces provide areas for art sales and markets of locally grown crops, while shading the interior galleries. Rainwater is collected off of the large sloping roof of the auditorium, and is reused for the urban garden. Large sliding doors open the galleries and auditorium to the exterior creating passive cooling and blurring the line between the interior and exterior. This blurred division is what unites the community and the design.

Monon Trail

22nd Street

22nd Street Section

Transforming the Ideal

Design Studio

Over the past few decades East Washington Street has gone from a thriving community full of industry surrounded by small neighborhoods, to a community starving for business because the industry has started to move further outside the city to expand on cheaper ground. Located less than a mile outside of Indianapolis’s downtown, East Washington has a huge amount of potential to revitalize its identity in the twenty first century. Its existence and condition has always been based around the new ideals for living and working which makes it logical to be a candidate for a new type of living. For the first time we now have more people living in cities across the world than any other place. This shift has caused an increase in high-density living making our methods and forms of living and transportation. Currently an increase in population would mean an increase in automobile traffic.

However, as we move closer to the city and farther from the suburbs, there becomes more opportunity for sustainable forms of transportation. The proposed development for East Washington Street address its rich history in transportation and living around your workplace as they did originally when the area was thriving, while integrating flexibility for current and future needs.

Prefabricated Hollow Core Slab

Steel Beam

HVAC System Drop Ceiling

Green Wall / Living Machine

Stack Ventilation Living Machine

Exterior Glazing

Business | Industry Residential Circulation Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Commercial | Retail

Drip Irrigation / Living Machine

Wind Turbine Removable Canvas Light

Electric Outlets

Removable Aluminium Pole Attachment to the Electric Grid Base Key Grass Lawn

Permeable Paver Support Base

Rain Water Collection

- Minimizes Storm Water - Filtered Through Living Machine - Reused for Grey Water

Operable Shutters

- Provides Privacy - Blocks Sound and Light - Resident Controlled Facade

Flexible Plaza

- Farmers Markets - Concerts - Picnics - Festivals

Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)

- Nonstop Service - On Demand Loading - Access to Downtown and Surroundings

Underground Parking

PRT

Circulation

Farmers Market

Festivals | Concerts

reBarn

Institute for Digital Fabrication

Personal Involvement: Fabrication + Installation The reBarn project aims to enhance a public park along the White River in Muncie, Indiana. By providing a new semi-programmed platform for activity and reflection, users are connected to the landscape in a tactile and visual manner. Rejecting the over-simplified archetype of “bench” or “platform”, reBarn purposely anticipates many different programmatic and ergonomic moments by engaging park users with a formal ambiguity. Without a predetermined and easily read use, users are invited to invent uses for sitting, reclining, climbing, etc. reBarn is composed of reclaimed barn wood (275 unique pieces for a total of 300,000 board feet) donated by a local family. Each piece of barn wood was de-nailed and power washed, numbered and inventoried by species, length, width, depth, and other physical characteristics.

This catalog of available stock was used to efficiently nest reBarn components which were unrolled from a digital Rhino model. Each wood component was custom milled using a 3-axis CNC router. Connections between individual wood components and panels were informed by a partnership with Zahner Metals in Kansas City. Our team discussed this project very early in the process in order to effectively design and engineer reBarn according to the many fabrication and structural constraints. This collaboration included online meetings, phone calls, and a visit to Zahner’s headquarters in Kansas City.

Zahner generously supplied materials and fabricated all of the aluminum components for reBarn including five water jet cut aluminum surface panels and over 350 variable aluminum joints.

Dovetail Connections

CNC Milling

Reclaimed Barn wood

Custom Aluminum Joints

Custom Rug InteriorMSKTD & Associates, Inc Personal Involvement: Conceptual Design + Visuals This concept for the interior of an oriental rug company was developed while I interned at MSKTD & Associates, Inc. The client was looking for a modern space that would act as a design center for professionals. The center was to include ample storage and displays of sample rugs, as well as an area for consulting.

The initial concept was to develop a display case that would make use of the large two story space while still being easily accessible. This design was inspired by older libraries, especially home libraries, that used ladders on a track to access books that were higher on the wall. Playing off that concept we designed a display that would follow the lines of the ladder while fanning the rugs toward the customers eye. Large windows lined the back of the store while clerestory windows surrounded the perimeter allowing day light to penetrate deep into the store. Working with the “T” shape of the interior, we were able to tuck away the office and consulting area devoting all the attention to rugs within the main space. The one side of the “T” became a consulting area with space for the professionals to lay out drawings, or digitally display drawings on a screen. The other side was devoted to the small office space for one or two employees that would run the design center.

Simple and clean materials were proposed not only to provide a more modern feel, but also to balance the busy designs of the rugs that would be displayed. The rugs were to be the main focus of the store, and therefore the material within the store needed take backstage to them. Rich dark woods were used on the displays and trim to give the space a warm and elegant feel.

Ponte Vecchio Museum

Study Abroad

Ponte Vecchio is one of the oldest ruins within Florence, IT that has continuously changed over the years. Today the bridge is a huge tourist spot offering high-end jewelry stores along both sides of the bridge. The addition of the Ponte Vecchio Museum will allow people to understand the history of the bridge, and the changes that it has gone through. With such a narrow lot, the museum’s space must be very adaptable. The main level, which addresses the street, features a gift shop drawing in window shoppers. Built in folding shelves line the wall allowing shelves that are not in use to be folded away giving extra height for those below. With all the shelves folded up there is the opportunity to use the main level as an open exhibit, or gathering space.

The second level becomes a private exhibit space for people to be able to escape the crowded street and read about the history of the bridge. The exterior of the Ponte Vecchio Museum is clad in COR-TEN Steel Panels. This allows the museum to a have an “aged” affect while still giving it a modern look. The dark brown rust that the panels will take on over time is contrasted with a light Venetian plaster that wraps the elevator shaft.

Perforated Steel Panels act as modern shutters allowing for various amounts of shading while in the open and closed position. Operating windows illuminate the stairs while providing multiple levels of ventilation throughout the museum. The interior takes on a minimalist feel using hardwood floors and light materials to help make the space seem larger than it is.

Cinque Terre, IT 2008

San Francisco, CA 2008