Andrew Jennings Work Sample
Andrew Jennings
1819 N Washtenaw, Apt 1, Chicago, IL 60647
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Education
Master of Architecture / Master of Arts in Design Criticism University of Illinois at Chicago (August 2014 - May 2018)
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (August 2006 - 2010)
University of Illinois Versailles Program
L’ École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V) (2008/09)
Professional Experience AECOM Designer I
Performed planning, design, construction documentation and administration on large scale international and domestic airport terminals and rail facilities (May 2012 - August 2014)
Steckel Parker Architects Intern Architect
Delivered multiple commercial, office, residential, and institutional projects from schematic design through construction documentation (Januaray 2011 - May 2012)
Academic Experience
University of Illinois at Chicago Arch 105 Studio Instructor Led studio section of sixteen students and worked within a team of seven studio professors to develop the syllabus, assignments, and lectures for first year undergraduate design studio (Fall 2017)
Teaching Assistant: Arch 200, Arch 251, Arch 372 Managed class records, led discussions, and evaluated written and visual work for undergraduate courses in Architectural Theory and History (August 2015 - May 2018)
Free School of Architecture
Inaugural member of the FSA post-graduate program. Participated in lectures and discussions on architecture and education while working to define approach for future orchestration of academic sessions (Summer 2017)
217.414.0768
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ajennin4@uic.edu
Additional Design Experience
Los Angeles Design Group (LADG)
Fabricated custom millwork for exhibition “A Cast of Things” presented jointly by bulthaup Chicago and THIS X THAT (2017)
Zago Architecture
Participated in the planning and installation of a full size building facade mock-up as submission to the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Independent Project Lab
Provided architectural consult on the design of public arts commission (ongoing)
Design w/ Company
Participated in the design and fabrication of several projects since 2008 including “A Doll’s House”(2016), “Treatise: Midwest Culture Sampler”(2014) and “Shawtown”(2015) which included participation in a month long artist residency at the Ragdale organization in Lake Forest, IL
Bair/Balliet
Fabrication design, implementation and install of physical models for BairBalliet’s 2016 Venice Biennale submission “The Next Port of Call”
Greenwald Visiting Professor Workshops
Participated in week long design charettes with Michael Meredeth of MOS in 2016 and Espen Vatn of Studio Vatn in 2018
Fabrication Lab Operator
Managed students’ operation of Universal and Trotec Laser Cutting Equipment (2014-2017)
Facilities Management Intern Architect
Provided drawing support on univeristy interior renovation projects (Summer 2015)
FM Magazine
Curated and edited written and visual content as Production Editor of UIC’s independent student run publication
Awards/Recognition 2017 AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit, 2015/2017 UIC Year End Show, 2015 Portfolio Faculty Choice Award, UIC Board of Trustees Scholarship for Spring 2016, WALF Scholarship 2016
LEGO 601
Spring 2016 • UIC SoA • MSI Brick by Brick In the spring of 2016 I co-led a group of graduate and undergraduate students to design and build UIC’s submission to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry’s LEGO Brick by Brick exhibition. Other participants included SOM, David Adjaye, and Kengo Kuma. We were provided with a kit of white LEGO Architecture pieces and tasked with designing a forward looking proposal to be ‘part utopian vision and part commentary on the contemporary city.’ We quickly ditched the white LEGOs in favor of the larger more colorful kids’ DUPLO variety to develop a more radical and playful proposal. Co-Lead: Spencer McNeil Team: Tyler Boyett, Jamie Evelyn Goldsborough, Andrew Lang, U Kei Long, Preston Welker Photography: Spencer McNeil
“...the most radical proposal came from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture, which broke all rules by ditching the ivory pieces for chunky Lego Duplo...” -Fast Company 3/18/16
University of Illinois at Chicago Visual and Performing Arts Center Fall 2019 • Zago Architecture • CAB After participating in a technical seminar with Andrew Zago focused on the use of digital color processes in determining the form of mutli-layered façade systems, I became part of the project team for Zago Architecture’s submission for the Chicago Architecture Biennial where we were able to play out such operations at full scale. As part of the Chicago installation team I was responsible for the fabrication of custom millwork assemblies, the acquisition and coordination of CNC milling fabricators, and the installation of a laser-cut aluminum panel system. Team: Andrew Zago, Laura Bouwman, Cody Miner
A Doll’s House
Summer 2016 • Design with Company • Chicago, IL In the Summer of 2016 I joined Design with Company in the design of a product to appear as part of their commission for an installation at the NeoCon design trade show. After considering an array of product ideas (lamps, tables, bookends, etc) we decided to stick with what we knew best and make something more directly architectural: a dollhouse. Rather than follow precedent by creating a typical sectional dollhouse we decided to make something that played more fast and loose with the relationship between interior and exterior. Team: Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Jana Yeboah Photography: Stewart Hicks
Spring Break Forever
Spring 2016 • UIC SoA • MOS Workshop In the spring of 2016 I was selected to participate in the UIC Greenwald Visiting Critic Workshop led by Michael Meredeth of MOS Architects. The prompt for the week long project was to engage an “aesthetics of indifference” in designing a temporary, economical, and repeatable aboveground swimming pool able to be used on a variety of sites by a diverse range of small communities. Team: Tyler Boyett, Spencer McNeil, Juan Suarez Photography: Spencer McNeil
Gridscapes
2016 • UIC SoA • Fall studio led by Sam Jacob In my final graduate studio the task was to develop a radical urban proposal through a process of collecting, re-drawing, and hybridizing found grids. These were used as a framework for reorganizing a collection of precedent images whose drawing parts and styles were appropriated and mixed into new compositions. Right: James Stirling’s Flory Building hybridized with the Gardens of Versailles on a 9-square grid. Published in the March 2017 issue of Metropolis Magazine.
Final Thesis Drawing. A little bit of Corb, Mies, Stirling, and Tigerman on a Vignelli Grid. Published in the February 2018 issue of e-flux (#88).
Last House/Lost House
2014 • UIC SoA • Fall studio led by Kelly Bair and Thomas Kelley In my first graduate studio at UIC we spent the semester performing formal studies in three axes (X,Y,Z), extracting three-dimensional forms from a two-dimensional roof profile. My chosen roof shape was the simple gable, chosen for its simplicity and iconic quality. My studies ultimately found their focus in the modulation of surface as a means of amplifying scalar ambiguity. As this modulation increases the legibility and iconography of house and home become lost.
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Library/Museum
2015 • UIC SoA • Spring studio led by Stewart Hicks and Julia Capomaggi In my second graduate studio at UIC we spent the semester exploring ideas of character and narrative within architecture using various model making methods and collage to bring past architectural references into new relationships and scenarios. My project considered the Villa Savoye, the Bibliotheque St. Genevieve, and Boulee’s Cenotaph for Newton as prototypes within their respective categories (home, library, monument) and used their idiosyncratic or identifying features in ways different from their original context (eg. the V.S. ramp transforms from centrifugal to centripetal forcing ribbon windows to bend and distort, its roof garden becomes interiorized, and the facade of the BSG hangs freely from its structure).
Planetarium Library/Reading Room
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Furniture House
2015 • UIC SoA • Fall studio led by Penelope Dean and Grant Gibson In my third graduate studio we were prompted to design a house from the ‘inside out’ beginning with objects and furniture before expanding into decor, built-ins, walls/structure, and finally the envelope. Through this the design and objects of the house would be essential to organizing the domestic life within it. My project developed to imagine a scenario where affection for commercial furniture objects results in their repeated purchase and accumulation. Once in place these surplus objects become the architecture of the home, taking on ulterior architectural functions (thresholds, windows, staircases, ramps). At the same time architectural elements mimic the identities of certain furniture (e.g. waffle slabs in the proportion of IKEA KALLAX shelves, skylights in the shape of BILLY bookcases).
drainage channel
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block framing
wood framed skylight system (typ.)
closure plate
mullion cap (typ.)
insulated glass (typ.)
concrete column furred, sheathed, match furniture bedroom
joist hanger
bathroom
courtyard two way concrete slab
assorted shelving
mud room porcupine grass
2” rigid insulation
Flashing
stepped 8” slab 4” Permeable drain
paver sealed and insulated isolation joint (typ.)
concrete slab t= 8in
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Drainage Channel
Timber Cap
Operable Window
Plant
Fiddle Leaf Fig
Bench
Moby-Dick
Subfloor/Flooring
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Sill Plate
Rigid Insulation 4� Permeable Drain
Flashing Footing
Gravel Rigid Insulation
Park/Clinic
2016 • UIC SoA • Spring studio led by Sarah Dunn and Sean Lally In my second year spring semester graduate studio led by Sarah Dunn and Sean Lally we were prompted to design an urban scale proposal for a multiprogrammed community center focused around the activities of a health clinic, sport facility, spa, and hotel. Within the project these programs bleed into one another and share infrastructure so that spaces can be simultaneously used by spa-goers, patients, and the general public alike, thus blurring the distinction between what it means to go to a gym, or a spa, or in for a medical check-up. While program becomes more ambiguous so does the distinction between each facility and the public parkscape it’s embedded within.
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1 Running track is connected to larger lakefront running trail and is utilized simultaneously by the general public and clinic members undergoing physiological monitoring/rehabilitation
2 Building mechanical carried within grid 3 Occasional topiary creates ambiguity as to what is and isn’t inhabited to approaching parkgoers 4 Public park space above
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Percent clinic: 10% Percent park: 90%
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1 Program requiring more privacy such as hospital rooms, hotel rooms, hidden below with individual parklets
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3 At gradient margin similar landscape elements blur reading of private and public space 4 Public park space above
3 All necessary parking hidden within hill
5 Public park space below Percent clinic: 30% Percent park: 50% Percent other (hotel): 20%
4 Public park space above 5 Occasional planted square creates ambiguity as to what is and isn’t inhabited to approaching parkgoers Percent clinic: 80% Percent park: 20%
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Logan Airport: Terminal B Expansion 2014 • AECOM • Boston, MA Client: Massachusetts Port Authority
While working for AECOM in Boston, MA I was part of the design team for the expansion and improvement of Logan Airport’s Terminal B from design development through construction administration. During my time on the project I worked on weekly design proposals for all parts of the terminal, attended regular client meetings, and managed the phased relocation of the terminal’s primary security checkpoint. Before departing for graduate school I was part of the small design team that successfully won the contract for another expansion of Massport’s international Terminal E which features the first A380 capable gates at Logan Airport.