Jacob Lee Cohen Portfolio 2015
CONTENTS
Incremental City
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Dynamics + Form: CAR. PARK. THEATRE.
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Planetarium Visitor Center & Hotel
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Time Frames
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Structural Systems
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Artifact to Architecture
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INCREMENTAL CITY Bogotรก, Colombia Fall 2015 / Core Studio IV Expanded Practice Critics: Lily Chi + Julian Palacio Team: Jacob Cohen + Bada Choi
The incremental city project responds to the local context of Barrio Santa Fe as well as the urban scale development initiatives of downtown Bogotรก. The site is at the intersection of two busy boulevards; Caracas 14 and Calle 26. The dividing nature of these boulevards and the location on the fringe of two distinct neighborhoods
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in a state of disrepair. The design focuses on this frenetic and prominent site as an opportunity for redevelopment. The program consists of 250 low-income incremental housing units paired with public programs accessible to the city as a whole. The urban analysis focused on the notions of axes and nodes along Caracas 14 and Calle 26. The new development will be incorporated as a node along the already existing axis of parks, public spaces, and the Axis of Memory initiative. The project brings the people and the city into the site by designating the meeting of Calle 26 and Caracas 14 as a daily market plaza and as a weekly recreational Ciclovia destination.
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The new neighborhood in the Barrio Santa Fe acts as a threshold between the large scale urban development to the north and the small scale urban fabric to the south. The design creates varying scales of public space; the city wide plaza, the neighborhood courtyards and the extended residential unit walkways. Porosity is used to create visual connections as well as incremental raw space for future growth.
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East elevation
Upper Floor Plan_Initial Provisions
North elevation
West elevation
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South elevation
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Plaza View, North Entrance
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High-Rise Units
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Courtyard View, South Entrance
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Low-Rise Units
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BASE UNIT VARIATIONS
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The residential unit is split between two levels to allow
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for a separation of working and living space as well as the potential for rental income. The units contains sliding partition walls increasing flexibility through indeterminacy. The home can accommodate up to three generations within 50m2 and has the potential to grow by 18m2.
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AGGREGATION SCHEME 1: no perosity
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AGGREGATION SCHEME 2: 10’ 10” Raw Space
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DYNAMICS + FORM - CAR. PARK. THEATER. DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY Fall 2014 / Core Studio III Critics: Jenny Sabin and Andrew Lucia Team: Jacob Cohen + George Distefano
The DUMBO Car // Park stems from investigations of urban networks and the differentiation of interior and exterior form. Precedent studies focused on morphology over time and differentiation between the interior and exterior of automobiles. Building
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discretization and pattern / code. Following the initial precedent studies abstract modeling focused on the creation of three dimensional form from two dimensional strips in which patterns of cuts has been applied. With this variety of
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different bending combinations a series of conditions emerged. The pallet began with only three flat forms but generated 56 three dimensional models.
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The pallets of forms were read in terms of speed, orientation, and flow and applied as both filters and generators on the site. These filters become the agent in merging DUMBO’s dynamic networks of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Two specific points of entry provide the initial input for the generation of the project. Using these shapes as reaction forces the incoming flows are interrupted and redirected on the site.
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Theatrical performances are held in the middle of the helix on differing datums created through a reconfigurable mesh surface. The mesh curtain is attached to the edge of the helix and can be drawn across to create a flat performance plane or vertical screen. Theater is watched directly from the parked vehicle along the helix as well as from the interior pedestrian space.
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Theater Configurations
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Within the merging of flows spatial and programmatic juxtapositions cause unexpected moments of tangency and collision. While pedestrian traffic is held on one helix and vehicular above, the moments of collision allow the two to come into contact and separate again. The continuous surface folds to become enclosure, service space, and lookout points while turning back to allow for circulation.
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Lookout point where vehicular traffic and pedestrians meet.
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PLANETARIUM VISITOR CENTER & HOTEL Buffalo State College, NY Spring 2014 / Core Studio II Critics: Caroline O’Donnell + Arthur Ovaska
Conceptually driven from the radial city planning of the city of Buffalo, the Planetarium visitor center and hotel is designed as a new center to the Buffalo State College Campus. The height of the tower creates a focal point on campus, drawing people in through its visibility, while also drawing the gaze out through its views. The volumes are angled so as to gesture towards other landmark buildings on campus as well as downtown Buffalo.
Buffalo, Radial City Planning
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Power Plant
The Olmsted Richardson Complex
Rockwell Hall
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The tower is perched above the already existing science center and planetarium. The center’s lobby is appropriated as an exhibition space and contains a core leading up to the hotel and conference center. The volumes themselves can be accessed from an outdoor staircase leading up the sides of each volume. Not only a visual monument the tower becomes a traversable landscape of terraces with views across campus and the city of Buffalo.
Lobby and Exhibition Space
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Hotel & Classroom
Hotel & Conference Room
Hotel & Cafe
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TIME FRAMES Spring 2014 / Exposures in Visual Thinking Instructors: DBOX - Mathew Banister, Leah Wihte, Christa Hamilton
We trust photographs as they allow us to a window of comprehension into history. We naturally subscribe to the idea that seeing is believing.
The evolution of
photography has gradually shifted from documenting and perfecting truths to the construction and fabrication of alternate ones. Today’s tools enable us to simulate and composite a reality from disparate times and spaces. The following images are narrative visions of possible realities:
FOCUS 1: INTERVENTION Day to Night
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FOCUS 2: TIMELAPSE Battery Park City
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Original
Subtraction
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Intervention
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Structural Systems: The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Fall 2014 / Structural Systems Instructor: Mark Cruvellier Team: Jacob Cohen, Christine Jieun Kim
A semester’s long research investigation culminated in a structural model of Zaha Hadid Architect’s Eli and Edyth Broad Art Museum. The structure consists of a hybrid of concrete and steel. The model is at a 1/8” = 1’ 0” scale and was fabricated using brass, plexiglass cast concrete and a walnut wood base. A hierarchy of 4 brass beam sizes were used to demonstrate the varying scale of the steel structure. In addition the castellated beams were cut and fabricated using brass sheets.
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3d model by Integrated design solutions
Casting Process
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ARTIFACT TO ARCHITECTURE Ithaca, NY Fall 2013 / Core Studio 1 Critics: Vincent Mulcahy & Katie Kasabalis
1. Drawing A series of large-scale hand drawings were completed to document and understand the assigned human artifact. Through abstraction the drawings progressed from documentation towards an understanding of the object's intrinsic nature. This drawing emphasizes the dichotomy of the ‘grabber’ through splitting.
Graphite on Vellum, 72" x 24"
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2. Interface Assigned a second artifact, the golf shoe, an interface was created between the two objects. Placed in face-off position each artifact extends its reach meeting in the middle. The striated panels of wood separate this interaction into equal parts. In both cases the artifacts slice the panels of wood marking their imprints through their extensions.
2' x 2' x 10', Birch Plywood + Steel
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3. Vessel The vessel was designed to extend the reach of the grabber artifact. A concrete block at each end bears an imprint of its trigger and suction cups, while the steel track extends the line of its metal body. The cut windows act as viewing ports to the artifact’s rivets, bolts and hinges. The installation was sited at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art a large scale vessel with gaps used to view the surrounding landscapes.
5” x 5” x 72”, Steel + Concrete
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4. Dwelling Through collage and photomontage the artifact's vessel informed the single person dwelling. The space remained linear like the grabber while sited in a corn field splitting the lines of the crops. The sliced steel causes striated patterns of light that is used as a medium in creating and delineating space.
Collage Process 54
Lighting Studies 55
2’ x 6’, Plywood + Steel
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Jacob Lee Cohen M.Arch ‘17 Cornell University BA ‘11 McGill University 304 Thurston Ave | Ithaca, NY jlc539@cornell.edu | 607-793-7854