Jake Gianni Selected Work_2020

Selected Work Jake Gianni | M. Arch 2020 | UVA SoA

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Flow State

Santa Monica, CA

02 Public SurPLUS Manhattan, NY

03 Matter Aggregation Shanghai, China

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Elementz Art Door Cincinnati, OH

05 3D Data Capture Charlottesville, VA

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Flow State Prof. Esther Lorenz Spring 2019 Santa Monica, CA The Spring 2019 studio was based in Santa Monica and focused generally around the topic of catastrophe. This project focused on the issue of water security in the event of an infrastructural failure in the aqueducts that account for the majority of LA County’s water supply.

A series of 9 sites throughout Santa Monica will hold enough water for 90,000 residents over a 14 day period.

The first of these sites (located just east of the Santa Monica pier), would utilize sea water and storm runoff as its main sources of water. In order to take on the municipal function of treating water while also housing public programming, the water treatment processes are contained within a series of trenches, creating a ‘corrugated’ section with water treatment occurring in the troughs and built programming at the peaks.

Bridging over the trenches are large platforms that serve as outdoor public space.

The site houses a museum, in addition to an education / research center focused on the issue of water security.

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Gallons per 10,000 residents, every 14 days

Gallons per 10,000 residents, per day

Gallons consumed per capita, per day What does the scale of water consumption in Santa Monica look like?

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Storm Drains / Network Sites

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Bar Screen Slow Sand Filter Settling Tank Aeration Tank Holding Tank A

2 | OCEAN WATER Bar Screen Settling Tank Aeration Tank RO Tower Holding Tank A

3 | OCEAN WATER Bar Screen Settling Tank Aeration Tank RO Tower Holding Tanks B+C

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Public SurPLUS Prof. Felipe Correa + Prof. Katie Kasabalis In Collaboration with Alex Kiehl Fall 2018 Manhattan, NY This project explored the possibilities inherent in a public-private partnership between a residential developer and the NYC Public School system. Our specific project would service Public School 138 in East Harlem. The school is separated into three components- a grade school, high school, and a public library located just north of the block.

We focused prominently on the different scales of public / semi-public space throughout the project.

Within the school program, a series of collective spaces were designed to be in contact with the elevator cores servicing the schools, shifting to the east or west as one travels up or down the building. The courtyard at the center of this block was designed to be accessible to the public and residents, but accessible to only students during the school day.

Residential programming was pushed to 3rd and Lexington avenues, allowing for larger pick up / drop off zones servicing the schools to happen along 127th and 128th streets.

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Elevator cores serve as the main anchors for open space within both the grade school and the high school. Conceptually, this creates a zone that shifts as you move up the levels of the school program. The shifting open spaces and core locations allow for classrooms to flip orientation on each level, allowing some classrooms to look into the courtyard while others look over the park or city.

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Matter Aggregation Prof. Lucia Phinney, Prof. Philip Yuan + Chao Yan In Collaboration with Qiuheng Xu + Zhenkang Zhai Fall 2019 Shanghai, China This research studio sought to merge new computational modeling tools with traditional wooden joinery techniques. Using proprietary software and KUKA effectors from Prof. Yuan’s company FabUnion, our team designed an art gallery comprised of thousands of pieces of dimensional lumber. A half-scale concept model, which tested how our system may behave in the real world, was fabricated using a series of KUKA robotic arms.

Drawings and small-scale models from this project were collected by Prof. Yuan and exhibited alongside his exhibition, “Nomadic Wood” at the Bi-City Biennial in Shenzhen, China.

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The above sketch was the initial concept for the larger structure. On the right is a section of the final building.

The cantilevered mass of aggregated wood serves not only to house the gallery artwork, but to guide patrons upward to the gallery roof.

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Elementz Art Door Prof. Stephen Slaughter Spring 2017 Cincinnati, OH The MetroLab research studio at the University of Cincinnati works with local organizations on various design projects. This studio partnered with ELEMENTZ, an after-school program for high school students in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati.

This particular project aimed to redesign an existing door within the ELEMENTZ space to create additional opportunities for students to exhibit their artwork.

Triangular canvases were outfitted with small magnets, allowing students to attach their specific canvas to the door. The end result was a collection of aggregated triangles, with each being uniquely painted by a different student.

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1 | Remove existing paneling

2 | Remove acrylic sheets

3 | CNC mill acrylic; insert magnets

4 | Replace acrylic; install canvas

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3D Data Capture Prof. Will Rourk + Prof. Andy Johnston Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 Charlottesville, VA The 3D Cultural Heritage Informatics course introduced students to various methods of 3D data capture, including structured light scanning, point cloud scanning, and photogrammetry. In my two years at UVA, I participated in the 3D CHI internship and two semesters of the larger course.

Over the course of those three semesters, I participated in the scanning and processing of over 10 projectsincluding sites at Monticello and UVA’s Academical Village, and artifacts from the UVA Library and Fralin Museum of Art. The Fall 2019 class scanned Jefferson’s home at Poplar Forest over the course of a day, breaking into three groups that took on the northern face, southern face, and grounds surrounding the house. The resulting scans were registered together over the course of the 2019-2020 school year.

This data will be used alongside scans of the UVA Rotunda, Academical Village, Monticello, and Palladio’s Villa Rotonda as a part of an exhibition in the near future.

The hope of the exhibition is to highlight the many uses of point cloud data for architectural historians and how it may be used for the general public.

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Group 1 (North)

Group 2 (South)

Group 3 (Grounds)

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Towards the end of the Spring 2020 semester, the 3D CHI class built an ESRI StoryMap site to start detailing out how an exhibition might take shape in with our data sets. The resulting website explores relationships between Andrea Palladio and Thomas Jefferson’s architecture through traditional research methods and point cloud data gathered by the class from Palladio’s Villa Rotonda, Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Monticello and UVA’s Academical Village.

The StoryMap may be viewed by clicking here.

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