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Personal Profile
PROFILE Jacob is a Toronto-based designer specializing in institutional buildings and P3 pursuits. His passions lie in the cross-over between the fields of architecture, service innovation, and user experience design. Having worked at NORR Architects & Engineers since 2016 he has been involved in multiple courthouse projects most significantly the New Toronto Courthouse where he forms part of the design team alongside Renzo Piano Building Workshop. He has collaborated with studios in London, Madrid and Toronto. In 2018 he was awarded the AAJ (Academy of Architecture for Justice) Emerging Professional Scholarship from the AIA. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from IE School of Architecture & Design (Madrid, Spain) and his final thesis project “Breakwater” won the Best Final Project in Architecture award for 2016 and has been nominated for both the Young Talent Architecture Award and the RIBA President’s Silver Medal. Jacob also serves on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ).
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In Motion
1. IN MOTION [architectural design + urban strategy] 2015 1st Prize. Europan 13: The Adaptable City II Location: El Prat, Barcelona, Spain
We propose an urban strategy which allows both the city and landscape to coexist. By bringing the landscape back into our everyday lives it can become part of our cultural heritage and activate the need for its care. However, the landscape has not been destroyed by the advancing city: it waits patiently underneath the pavement. The current state of the neighbourhood shows tension between the scales of urban models, the one which was and the one that is yet to come. The project seeks for both scales to coexist. The stacked plots adhere to the high-density volume of the new neighbourhood whilst the interior of the building seeks to replicate social relations of the previous city. It is important that the building can adapt over time without costly changes. To do this the terrain and structure are built for the long-term whereas the facilities, envelopes and spatial distrubution are considered in the short-term and built with soft-technology. Part of the ground that we have given back to the landscape can be stacked into slabs equipped to act as plots ready to be developed by the neighbours.
CIRCULATIONS Limited to the bare minimum.
BUILT CITY Allow for the coexistance of cultural heritage
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
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Realized project under development
Part of our cultural heritage must be preserved.
NON-PLAN PAVEMENT To remove nonplan pavement and let the landscape
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Rainwater collection
Urban orchards/ allotments Mixed uses for the land incl. cycle path.
SITUATION PLAN IN LONG TERM This plan shows the hypothetical future of the El Prat neighbourhood. The hard pavements have gradually been erased away by the successive transformations of the city. The previous landscape is revealed once again.
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Mediterranean landscape, small woods, pastures, green belt.
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Present state. 20th Century. Roads, industrual buildings. Brownfield sites
Revealing the landscape. “Peeling” back the hard layers.
Landscape revealed. Mixed-use result.
SAMPLE FLOOR PLAN On the slabs/plots will be located the heterogeneous programs of houses, house/workshops, shops, businesses, and recreational areas. The occupants can take advantage of the open-source construction systems and create their adaptable space to suit their needs at a given time.
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Itinerary Studio
2. ITINERARY STUDIO [design + fabrication] 2015 Anywhere
This project set out to create a 1:10 replica of the studio depicted in St. Jerome in his Study by Antonello da Messina (1475). St. Jerome, the protagonist of the painting, was responsible for the translation of the Bible into Latin. This task would have required St. Jerome to travel to specific points of Christian history to retrieve Holy Scriptures. In the painting only one side of the study is shown and therefore we reimagined what was on the other side and created an elevated private prayer room. We recreated the studio to be a flat-pack piece of furniture that can be easily mounted and dissassembled for transportation.
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St. Jerome in his study, 1475 Antonello da Messina
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Fully erect study of St. Jerome
Ability to flat-pack the study for transportation
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Lyons
Marcion fl. c 144 Arles 314
Sinope Rome 313
Tatian c 152 Justin Martyr fl. 155 Theodotus fl. c 190 Praxeas fl. c 190 Zephyrinus fl. c 198 Sabellius fl. c 215 Hippolytus 160/70 - c 235 Novatian fl. c 240-250
Nicaea 325 Athens
Carthage 256
Quadratus fl. 125 Athenagoras fl. 177 Aristides 2nd Cent.
Paul of Samosata fl. c 260-72
Smyrna Samosata
Ephesus
Apollinaris c 175 Melito c 175 Noetus fl. c 180-200
Antioch 264 268
Jerusalem 49 Alexandria
Dionysius fl. 259-68
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Map of Christianity with potential route for St. Jerome (adapted and edited version of MacMillan Atlas: History of Christianity) Boundary of Roman Empire 200 AD
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Plan with secret prayer room addition
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1. ITINERARY STUDIO Laser Cutting CNC Routing 2015
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LiveSegovia App
3. LIVESEGOVIA APP [user research + UI design] 2015 Segovia, Spain
LiveSegovia is an events communication app that transmits information from event organizers to university students in a simple yet effective way. The project was developed during an urban-focused workshop during my last year at IE University. The aim of the workshop was to research and discover the reasons why the university students were not integrated into the city life. We discovered that Segovia has a rich cultural agenda that students are unaware of and that event organizers in the city were out of ideas on how to reach the students. This led to a thorough research on the existing platforms available and what the best wayis to reach the younger generation and what could be the most effective way to get this information across. The result was a tablet application which only lets the students know about events that they would be interested in. It doesn’t overload the user with information and it allows students to be selective with the categories. The application is expected to available for Fall 2016 incoming students.
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1. Log-in to the tablet application
2. Initial event categories of interest selection
3. Home screen
4. Notification settings
5. Event feed
6. Events calendar
LiveSegovia App
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Breakwater. Port d’Eivissa
4. BREAKWATER [architectural design + final thesis project] 2016 Port of Ibiza, Spain
Breakwater is a multipurpose arrival infrastructure that reintegrates the “safe-haven” back into Ibiza. It primarily provides a safe-space where LGBTQ Asylum Seekers can carry out their transition process from their initial arrival to their integration into society in a supported and safe transitional environment. It inhabits the protective wall of the Port of Ibiza and intervenes into the conflictive neighbourhood of Sa Penya. This strategic location sits at the entrance of the port and is the first sight seen by anyone who arrives to Ibiza Town by boat. The complex existing condition of the site is integrated into the project, improving and enhancing the arrival experience of the locals, fishermen and tourists too.
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Best Final Project in Architecture. IE University Nominee. Young Talent Architecture Award. Nominee. RIBA President’s Silver Medal
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Breakwater. Port d’Eivissa
SITUATION ANALYSIS
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BUILDING LAYERS ONTO EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
Phase 1 of Breakwater is constructed in layers along the existing Port Wall. It uses dry constructon methods which allow for the constantly growing and adapting nature of the program. The structure has to be flexible, but braced. The natural climatic conditions will expose the Port Wall to wind and big differences in temperatures and therefore the construction has to be able to breathe, expand and contract. The use load of the Upper Deck will be variable at different times. In the Summer months, when boats arrive, the loads from disembarking passengers will be high and therefore it has to be flexible. The Prefabricated units are made from Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) which allow for the quick manufacturing of the units for quick reactions to incoming asylum seekers. The materials used in the project have been selected to be suitable for the environmental conditions of the site.
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6. & 7. PREFAB PROGRAM 1150 sqm Material: CLT Panels, glass “nana” folding walls.
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5. UPPER DECK 3850 sqm Material: Galvanized steel structure, with wooden joists and decking.
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4. PRIMARY STRUCTURE +3.80m
Material: Galvanized steel profiles, varying thickness, tensegrity cables.
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REORGANIZED TRAFFIC & SUNKEN PLAZA
3. WALL Material: Reconstruction of existing wall, part in prefabricated concrete sandwich panels and part glass blocks.
2. LOWER DECK 5400 sqm Material: Post-Stressed concrete slab, Split into 18 sections
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1. THE EXISTING 206m length Material: Concrete Box Caisson foundation, with existing wall.
Formentera, Denia, Mallorca
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LGBT Asylum Program +1.50m
Ramp Access to Upper Deck +1.50m
Fishermen Deck +1.50m
Posidonia Cultivations -1.00m
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Formentera,Denia (Ramon Llul) 477 pp. 90 veh.
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In some parts of the program the prefabricated concrete wall has embedded acoustic insulation. This is to prevent noise coming from the port to the accommodation areas. The Upper Deck is an independent element with urban fixtures forming an extension of the existing public space and an attractive viewpoint.
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5. CALALGA HOUSING REFORM 2. LIVESEGOVIA [architectural design + model fabrication] 2015[design + fabrication] Alicante, 2015Spain Location: Anywhere
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2. LIVESEGOVIA [design + fabrication] 2015 Location: Anywhere
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Calalga Housing Reform
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Internship at Langarita-Navarro Arquitectos (Madrid, Spain)
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Assisting with 3D Visuals for Yahoo London HQ during internship at Jump Studios (London, England)
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CONTACT 125 Western Battery Road Toronto, ON M6K 3S2 jacobmkummer@gmail.com +1 647 298 1935 34
Breakwater. Port d’Eivissa
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