Portfolio - Jared Barak

Jared Barak, B. Arch

Portfolio Selected Work 2009|2014

Jared Barak

Bachelor of Architecture - University of Oregon barakj@gmail.com (503)891-6248 Objective: Professional development as an intern architect seeking licensure in the state of Alaska

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Lawrence H Peek Architects Architectural Intern

Lynden Transport Terminal and Offices

I conducted a preliminary LEED feasability study during the early schematic design for this project. I also assisted the architect in generating specifications and window/ door selection.

Galena Senior Residence Center

This project was well into construction when I worked with LH Peek. I had the opportunity to visit the jobsite with the architect, where I helped document progress and prepared images and diagrams for a client update package.

SR Bales Construction Laborer

Nikiski Senior Center In the summer of 2012 I had the opportunity to work as a laborer with SR Bales Construction, erecting this senior center. This project was especially exciting due to the variety of construction systems employed. The primary volume is framed with heavy timber. Above ground walls are formed by pre-fabricated structural insulated panels, and the basement bearing walls were built using insulated concrete forms. The systems employed resulted in a remarkably tight building with exceptionally low heat loss.

Otis Construction

Apprentice Project Supervisor

Since graduating from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 2013, I’ve spent the last 8 months working for Otis Construction, a general contracting firm specializing in high-end residential remodels, new homes, and light commercial construction in and around Portland, Oregon. They are a tenacious group of individuals whose committment to customer service and attention to detail is unparallelled.

In my time with Otis, I had the pleasure of working on almost a dozen active projects, contributing and growing my skills in hands-on carpentry as well as supervisory tasks such as shop drawing review, material take-offs, layout, and construction document conflict checks.

As a student of architecture I am continually amazed at how much ingenuity and creative problem-solving is required to realize the vision of a building. Transforming drawings into homes is a process rife with hazard, but also full opportunities for improvement. While reviewing the structural and assembly details of an acoustically sealed room, I recognized that with a few structural and detail modifications, the room could perform better acoustically and be constructed more precisely.

Design by Olson Kundig Architects

Rendering by Scott Edwards Architecture

Design by Olson Kundig Architects

Design by Scott Edwards Architecture

A Place to Make How can architecture support the creative and economic aspirations of a community of entrepreneurs D

Today’s passion-driven hobbyists breed many of tomorrow’s small businesses. Stemming from the “Maker” movement, and enabled by technology, industrious hobbyists are leading a new generation of enrepreneurs who sit at the confluence of technological, economic, and social trends. By all accounts they are ready to stand and turn their passion into product. All they lack are the facilities and business-support services to help them develop and deploy their ideas.

The low-hanging fruit of product design lies in cross-field collaborative design. The most competitive, highest quality products are designed by teams with diverse skill sets and brought to life by individuals skilled in the manipulation and assembly of a variety of materials. This project aspires to be a place that provides amenities that make this collaborative, fabrication intensive design process viable and natural. This is a place where designers are put in close contact with the means of production, and where these means can be shared with a larger community of hobbyists and students. Click here for a closer look at this project.

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Collaborative Many Hands The most most competitive, highest quality products are designed by teams with diverse skill sets and brought to life by individuals skilled in the manipulation and assembly of a variety of materials.

Sustainable Strategies A weekday workyard and weekend farmer’s market is framed by building and site-level rainwater strategies to the north and south, and raised bed cultivation space to the east and west. Within the building, CLT mass walls help stabilize diurnal temperature swings in the main atrium while permitting corss-ventilation and night flush cooling of the northern office block.

Winter Trombe Wall

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT

Summer Night-Flush Cooling

A Not-so-big City Hall Eugene, OR

The City of Eugene’s current city hall facilities are not seismically sound or energy efficient. To address the need for offices and council chamber, this project proposes demolishing the existing, obsolete city hall and constructing a new facility with bright, open office space and a street-oriented council chamber. The major tectonic definition of the building is formed by a system of light wells and mass walls that permit natural light into the offices while also providing passive ventilation and acting as hydronic distribution manifolds for a ground-source heat pumpsystem.

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Vent/Light/Brace Stack

Enclosed lightwells divide the three office nodes, admitting daylight to open bays and closed offices. The stacks, as I call them, facilitates stack ventilation Geothermal circulation through concrete wall

15 years

2 years Mayor and Council Member Offices

Rainwater and Sun Management

Poplars on the west side of the building like water and sun.

Office occupants don’t like late afternoon glare.

In this case, trees make exceptional deciduous shading devices

Meeting Room

Meeting Room

A small, right-sized City Hall

Floor Plan 1/16” = 1’

The small stature and conservative northwestern aesthetic of the city hall expresses Eugene’s humble and ecologically sensitive nature, while denser urban development permits rental of office space should the city require it.

14th|Kincaid

Live Learn Eat

The University of Oregon is in need of additional student lodging facilities and academic lecture and classroom spaces. This project provides auditoria, office spaces, and a cafeteria in the plinth, with 550 student residence rooms in the tower.

A primary design consideration was addressing the Johnson axis, which runs East-West through the heart of campus. Additionally, special effort was taken in designing the enclosure system of the dorm rooms for rapid construction.

Student Rooms The repeated nature of the residence tower lends itself to standardized, pre-fabricated components. The unitized wall assembly consists of enclosure, shading structures, and interior cabinetry mounted to metal framing and fastened to the floor slabs in a manner similar to unitized curtain wall systems. This component can be manufactured off-site and installed (quickly and safely) via crane to form the exterior enclosure and interior finish of the residence rooms. Rapid installation minimizes disruption to ongoing campus operation.

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Unitized Wall Detail

Timber-Roof Hall This structural inquiry explores using connection design to achieve striking spatial qualities. Verification calculations were performed for each connection in the roof design, accounting for wind and snow loads.

The geometry of the primary structure arose from investigations of curved laminated wood. This timber roof takes advantage of the expressive possibilities afforded by engineered wood, Bracing each pair of glulams is a truss composed of simply connected lapped members which restrain and mitigate some of the bending forces in the assembly. The global system behaves as a three-pin arch, allowing for a continuous skylight at the ridge.

5 1/8" x 10 1/2" GLB

6" x 8" x 1/4" STEEL PLATE w/ 1" dia. TUBULAR STEEL WELDED

1" dia. THREADED STEEL ROD

SCALE: 1" = 1'‐0"

highlighted in blue are the baseboard heater yellow gradient shows the heat output from the heaters

Temperature (degrees F)

Interior Temperature trend with and without reflector 65º

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with reflector without reflector

Difference in Temperature: Existing Conditions vs. Reflector Installed

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Redirecting Daylight

In hopes of increasing the solar heat gain and temperature of the space, an adjustable reflector was assembled to reflect sunlight that would otherwise pass over the skylight. The reflector is adjustable, Many homes, particularly barely maintained rental properties, contain rooms allowing the angle of incidence, and thus reflection, to be tuned that are simply uncomfortable environments. One such home in Eugene, for individual applications, conditions, and times of year (for this Oregon was built with a skylight that remains shaded most of the day during experiment the refl the winter months byector a tallangle gabledremained roof to thefixed). south. As a result, the bathroom To measure theiseffectiveness of the reflector, 3 Onset HOBOwater beneath the skylight underlit and uncomfortably cold, with chronic U12 units wereon positioned in the bathroom, 1 beneath the skylight, 1 condensation several surfaces. against the interior wall, and one against the exterior wall. To track To address this issue, a solar ector wasU12 designed and constructed from external temperatures, an refl additional was positioned outside in recymaterials. intention was to redirect solar radiation to raise the temperaacled shaded area.The Each unit captured temperature and light intensity ture and light levels in thethe space. units were placedonly throughout data continuously, but dataData usedcollection was isolated to include the bathroom to monitor and record conditions before and installation. sunny days, between the hours of 11:00 AM and 2:30 PMafter (thethe time of The refl ector in isan average interior temperature increase of approxiday that theresulted reflector redirecting sunlight through the skylight). mately 1 degree and a significant increase in light levels throughout the day.

Temperature and light intensity data was recorded prior to the installation of the reflector to establish a control dataset. This was then compared to data collected after installation of the relector..

Observing the temperature trends from the testing period (11:00 AM to 2:30 PM on sunny days), the difference in internal temperature of the space with and without the reflector installed was determined.

With the reflector installed, the temperature of the space increased

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2:30pm temp difference trend line

This graph indicates that, based on composite temperature values, the space increases in temperature about 1.3 degrees more with the reflector in place.

With the reflector installed, the temperature of the space increased 1.34 degrees more than it did without the reflector. This fails to meet the hypothesized performance requirements of the retrofit.

However, the light intensity within the bathroom was observed to be significantly improved. composit Measurements taken during testing periods (11:00 AM - 2:30 PM on sunny days) indicate that nearly 90% more lumens/ft2 illuminated the space.

Temperature (degrees F)

Hedging your bets: Comparing External Temperature 70 60 60 50 40

11:00am External Temperature Comparison X-axis: 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM Y-axis as shown (you can crop it to remove the axes, seemed less confusing

2:30pm reflector installed existing conditions

Yellow Line = Composite of 3 Sunny Days in march 3, 7, 9

Greentemperature Line = One sunny day February 20thduring the initial, existing The ambient condition data recording was notably lower than the ambient temperatures after installation of the reflector.

Long story short, the 1.34 degree difference between the original conditions and conditions after the reflector was placed could be attributed to the different delta t

plan of east section of house with area of study highlighted in blue plan not to scale

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Urban Habititat Repair

International Finalist - In collaboration with Jennifer Huang WaterWise - Biomimetic Solutions to Water Access and Mgmt.

Biomimicry 3.8 Institute Student Design Competition

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This competition asked students from around the world to use strategies found in nature to address issues related to water access and management. My team chose to focus on the Willamette river, an urban waterway in Portland, Oregon.

This channellized waterway is at present a homogeneous microhabitat with few ecological niches and a truncated food-chain, in stark contrast to natural channel sections, which have a variety of widths, depths, substrates and velocities that produce a well developed rife and pool sequence conducive to inhabitation by aquatic species.

Dense urban developments have stripped rivers of their natural riparian habitats. Basing our approach on the aerodynamics of birds at the individual and flock scales, we designed a dock which supports inhabitation by both humans and wildlife.

RUN POOL

RIFFLE

We proposed a dock that creates a variety of flow conditions at multiple scales. These diverse conditions are conducive to more abundant life and a more complete riparian ecosystem. We arranged the dock system to emulate the conditions of the rife, the pool, and the run, as found in undistrubed streams. This design is intended to install a greater diversity of physical and biotic conditions in order to provide a more multi-dimensional environment for plants and animals, bringing the stream into the city

Craft

I enjoy DESIGNING and MAKING useful items, such as tables, chairs, and simple products. The fabrication process can be quite instructive and never fails to enrich the design of the product piece. Furniture also offers a unique opportunity to play with, and push materials.

I have a special affectation for working with bent laminated wood, as it characterizes some of the most compelling physical properties of the material.

barakj@gmail.com