JOURNEY OF AJ JACKSON

Journey

AJ Jackson

ST. IGNATIUS CHAPEL

ARCH 1510 Professor Brandon Pass Spring 2020 Seattle University

This studio project focused on a precedent assigned to each student. As a studio we had to recreate the precedent and understand what the architects thought process was during the design process and also why it was built the way it was. This Chapel was built for worship for the students at Seattle University. I researched and analyzed the St. Ignatious Chapel in Seattle. It was designed to create natural light throughtout the building using sky lights they like to call the bottles of lights. Each one of these ‘bottles’ are angled a certain way making light come to specific places.

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Axon/Floor Plan

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Design Workshops

ARCH 2510 Professor Joseph Choma Fall 2020 Clemson University

In the beginning of studio we started with a series of workshops that includes designing methods such as folding, lofting, bending, and hanging. These worksops required me to use both analog and digital tools. This allowed me to expand my knowledge and ability in the designing process of architecture. Allowing me to create new and unique buildings in the future.

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Lofting

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Bending

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Hanging

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Outdoor Classrooms

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Professor Joseph Choma Fall 2020 Clemson University

With the recent news of the corona virus and having to social distance, wear mask, and quarantine things have change in this world. Schools are taking a huge turn from teaching and learning in person to teaching and learning online. This project made us explore ways in creating spaces for people still learn in a traditional class way but still have the ability of social distancing.

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Floor Plan Roof Plan

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Bathroom Axonometric Site Axonometric

Cayce Art Center

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Professor Virgina Melynk Spring 2021 Cayce, South CarolinaClemson University

My design for Cayce, SC Art Center was inspired by two precendents, Tongxian Gatehouse in Beijing, China by Nadaa and Memphis Ballet in Memphis, Tennessee by Archimania. The Tongixian Gatehouse gave inspiration for the brick of the design and Memphis Ballet inspired the most of my design; taking it’s long rectangular build with a few extruding shapes and elements coming out of it making different facades. In my design, I want to create easy circulation, functionality, spactious grand areas, and facades to grab vistors attention. With my design I was able to give brick elements, keeping a cohesive look that is around Cayce, SC, as well as some modernism to continue the urban growth around the city.

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First Floor Floorplan

Second Floor Floorplan

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Side Elevation

Front Elevation

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Side Section

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Systematic Variability

AJ Jackson & Gaby Parra ARCH 3500 Professor Douglas Hecker Fall 2021 Chelsea, New York

This building is designed to create a new environment that goes against the uniformity and predictability of an office space. With floors shifted in different directions and voids created from these shifts, this building becomes a system of differentiality. Single, double, and triple height spaces creating vertical gardens allow for the natural world to come into the office space while the use of smart glass incorporates individuality, personalization, and variability to the office space while also reducing the use of energy within the building by controlling sunlight. The urban space was created using stepping planes to create different height spaces beneath the ground level of the building. The opportunity to be in multiple different spaces, whether that be underground, in the air, stepping up or down will create a feeling of serendipity of anybody who interacts with this space, never being bored to go to work. The geometry and technology combined is the foundation of the systematic variability with which this building presents.

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Perspective Light Diagram

Smart Glass Diagram

Wall Tectonic Section

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Fluid

AJ Jackson & Gaby Parra ARCH 3510 Professor Douglas Hecker Spring 2022 Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

With Los Angeles being one of the cities with the highest mortgage and rental prices, it leaves housing to be unafforadable and creates a financial burden to many. This design overcomes these high Los Angeles housing prices by taking advantage of the site. This ultimately makes a profit from the owner’s residence and profit from additional rental units on the site, introducing a new typology to Los Angeles tourism and housing.

Fluid resembles the fluidity in the curved roof design and the ongoing greenroof along the hills, the fluidity of rainwater throughout the unit, and the constant fluidity of renters in the units.

The use of greenroofs, a water reuse system, and natural pools create a sustainable environment within and around the units to make living more affordable and pollution-free. These systems allow for new ecosystems to form and avoid distrupting the exisitng ecosystem by implementing a design just like that of its site. With the new technological use of 3D printing we are able to carve into the hill for these units (to avoid disruption of the view from the hill) and reuse the resources carved out into the making of the walls and roof of the design.

Fluid’s goal is to start a new sustainable future in land and resource use and to give back to the environment with which residential design is placed.

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The roof of the residential using the material extracted These materials consist well as local California promote sustainable resource advantage of the 3D printing walls, roof, greenroof countertops, bed frames, allows for cost efficiency and avoids any waste

The greenroof consists sedum, and plant material. directly outside the vertical are from the inside of becomes the main grass as unwalkable space and lays. Sedum gathers a mudslides and flooding, the California area. Lastly bush like plants are strategically lights to allow for privacy They also outline the from step offs. Aquatic natural pools, these filter bacteria and ultimately

The exterior steps on circulation from the rental units below. These paths across the roof surrounding the site.

In the areas of the roof greenery is placed, grid greenery keep the plants them from moving around it rains.

UNIT 1 3RD FLOOR 2 BEDROOM + 2 BATHROOM UNIT 2 | TOP FLOOR 2 BEDROOM + 2 BATHROOM UNIT 2 | 2ND FLOOR KITCHEN + DINING AREA UNIT 2 3RD FLOOR 2 BEDROOM + 2 BATHROOM PUBLIC STAIRS SKYLIGHTS LAWN MATERIAL TREES | PRIVACY PLANT MATERIAL | PRIVACY AQUATIC PLANT MATERIAL | FILTER NATURAL POOL SEDUM | UNACCESSIBLE AREA

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NATURAL POOL FILTER

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POOL WATER FILTER Filters are placed in the poshe of the roof. These filters take excess rainwater collected from the natural pools when they begin to overflow and filter them to ultimately be reused within the residencies. WATER STORAGE Excess water from the natural pools is stored in IN-UNIT WATER REUSE EVAPORATIVE COOLING Hot air is forced down into an area where it is again pushed over the overflow water area to cool down the house. This happens when the water in this overflow area evaporates, which removes heat from the air while also adding moisture. When water evaporates, it draws energy from its surroundings which produces a cooling effect. WATER LILLIES SPARGANIUM BAMBOO CATTAILS FROGBIT SEDUM GREEN ROOF LAYERS GREEN ROOF PLANTS SOIL MOISTURE PORTALS STANDARD MODULES TEMP. STORMWATER DETENTION WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE BONDING ADHESIVE INSULATION 3D PRINTED SANDSTONE/SOIL BENEFITS GREEN ROOFS PROTECT THE ROOF FROM UV DECAY AND TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS THUS REDUCING THE COSTS OF MAINTENANCE AND RE-ROOFING GROWING MEMBRANCE IS GREAT INSULATION, WHICH REDUCES THE AMOUNT OF HEAT ENTERING THE HOME GREEN ROOFS DECREASE STORM RUNOFF FOR WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT AT A LOWER COST INCORPORATE URBAN LANDSCAPE TO THE HOME AND PROVIDE NEW HABITATS FOR DIFFERENT PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES IMPROVES THE MICROCLIMATE THE ROOF DESIGN IS 1 FOOT THICK, THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE ROOF WOULD BE 3D PRINTED MATERIAL, WHILE THE TOP HALF WOULD BE GREENROOF TECHNOLOGY. THE ROOF THEN THINS AT THE END FOR A MORE ELEGANT TRANSITION AND EXTRUDING AN EXTRA HALF OF A FOOT. THE WINDOW IS PLACED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TRANSITION FROM GREEN ROOF TO THE EDGE OF THE CURVE.

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from the bottom 3D printed material to transition the greenroof sedum/ grass material to the natural pool. The protruding material keeps aquatic plants that naturally filter the pool. Pumps keep the water in the natural pool moving to prevent the growth of insects and algae, keeping the pool clean, while the aquatic plants balance good and bad bacteria.

Evoluzione (Public House)

AJ Jackson, Gaby Parra, & Will Nickles ARCH 3530 Professor Julie Wilkerson Fall 2022 Genoa, Italy

The Public House orchestrates a journey by harmonizing the private and public realm, the palazzo and villa typology, as well as the garden and streetscape of Genoa. To continue the evolution of the palazzo and villa, we took the function of the palazzo and expanded it horizontally to be absorbed by the garden and tranformed the singular palazzo into compartmentalized buildings with dedicated programs.

The layout consists of five buildings surrounding a centralized plazza, designed to transition between Genoa’s garden chain and the urban grid of plazza Colombo. the expanded organization of the site invites users to journey throughout each compartmentalized building through the central plazza.

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design allows for free external circulation without violating the privacy of building interiors, while also creating serene spaces for users to step out and view the garden.The wood symbolizes the relationship between the public house and the garden as it resembles the trees that fill the garden. The journey is evident through these thresholds from the outside carapace to the lush interior, the loggia to the indoors, and from building to building.

HORIZONTAL and VERTICAL AXIS are introduced. Cuts are made from these axis to create internal grids A rectangular VOID is cut out of the center for the addition of a PUBLIC PIAZZA that will face the west side of the site, creating views of the garden Remaining ‘U’ shape is SPLIT into five different blocks, with the northern middle block being center with the split of the southern blocks. This defines where the salone will be. An additional ‘U’ piece is added to CONNECT each of the blocks. This will be the loggia + arcade, which makes CIRCULATION the UNIFYING factor of the design.

THE URBAN GRID The form of the design came from existing urban grid. The irregular shape of the design is a response of the combining of three different grids in the surrounding area, in which the design becomes an intersection of all surrounding programs and thus becomes the hub for public gathering, community conversation and integration. THE EVOLUTION OF THE PALAZZO + VILLA By combining elements of the palazzo + villa such as the form of the palazzo (a block with a central void, usually a quadrilateral) in an urban grid and the garden of the villa, a new evolved palazzo + villa is designed; bringing on a new typology for urban design in Genoa, Italy. Above are the precedents that went into inspiring the understanding of a palazzo and a villa and how they are used in the design of the Public House. On the top left is Palazzo Doria Tursi with Villa Zerbino on the bottom left. On the right shows the design of the Public House, highlighting what was taken from each precedent. MASTERPLAN

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MEDITERRANEAN PINE FORREST LIGURIAN WETLANDS MAQUIS SHRUBLAND MEDITERRANEAN GREEN ROOF

AERIAL VIEW TOWARDS THE EAST VIEW INSIDE THE LOGGIA EXTERIOR VIEW OF LOGGIA 1:50 DETAILED SECTION LOGGIA CIRCULATION + EMERGENCY EXIT TRAVERTINE PLASTER LOGGIA + ARCADE Signifying the urban artifact of the design, the Loggia + Arcade offers a unique circulation experience from the first floor of the building. The Loggia + Arcade is what unifies the building vertically and horizontally. 37