Jacob Bayer Architecture Portfolio
Jacob Bayer (513) 787-2664 bayerjd@mail.uc.edu
Experience DTJ Design Boulder, Colorado Intern, May - August 2019 Produced contrsution documents for a water park and resort project. Assisted in the design development phase for multiple buildings within the water park project. Assisted in 3D modeling for renderings. Conducted in office organization.
Reztark Design Studio Cincinnati, Ohio Intern, August - December 2018 Produced construction documents for a multi-family apartment complex in order to get a stalling project out on time. Assisted in schematic design of a median park. Assisted in producing drawings during the design development phase of a retail project.
Education University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Fall 2020 - Expected Graduation May 2022 Masters in Architecture
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Fall 2016 - May 2020 Bachelor of Science in Architecture
Trinity: Planning, Design, Architecture Columbus, Ohio. Intern, January - May 2018 Produced construction documents for health care facilities including a new build surgical center and two multi-floor fit-outs in existing buildings. Conducted parking analyses to determine the need for parking at a healthcare facility that was to receive a building addition. Prepared documents for presentations with clients and consultants.
Mike Stock Cincinnati, Ohio. Laborer, May 2015 - August 2017 Constructed decks, Performed a variety of tasks including demolition, excavation, pouring concrete, cutting and installing lumber. Assisted in home renovations, perfoming tasks such as wall framing, tiling, and installing fixtures. Continually Cleaning work area and equipment.
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Rhino Revit Auto CAD Adobe Products V-Ray SketchUp Maya Grasshopper Microsoft Office
CONT
1 4
KING RECORDS
GREENHILLS HOUSING
2 5
ROWIN
POETRY
TENTS
NG FACILITY
Y FOUNDATION
3 6
TRAMMEL FOSSIL PARK
PERSONAL WORK
1 KING RECORDS
King Records was a prominent recording studio located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan, King Records was influential in creating the foundation for rock and roll music. During a time of civil injustice King Records was one of the first record companies to mix white and black musicians and styles of music that created a sound that has influeneced many musicians as well as create various genres of music and artists such as James Brown and Bootsy Collins. The record company went out of business after the death of founder Syd Nathan and the building fell into dilapidation. Recently the building was purchased by the city of Cincinnati and added to the historic register. With most of the interior of the building removed the city is currently looking to restore and rebuilding the building and turn it into an icon for the city and the Evanston community in which it is located. The objective of this studio was for multiple teams to provide different proposals in order to give the city governement and the community a reference for what the project could become in the future.
king COURTNEY SMITH / JAKE BAYER / ELIZA EHLEN / RYAN MINNICK
Student/Artist Space Public Space
Student/ Artist Zone Performance Space Exhibition Zone
GA BALCONY
RECORDING STUDIOS
ENTRANCE
BAR, CAFE, & LOUNGE
LOBBY & MERCHANDISE
MUSIC EDUCATION
GENERAL ADMISSION
STAGE
KING RECORDS EXHIBITION
The studio was divided up into nine teams of four in order to provide the city with a variety of proposals. My group was able to work effectivly and cohesively together through the design phase. My primary task was the majority of the 3D modeling and rendering. The idea for my groups project was to create a space where the community could go to learn about the history of king records as well as develop future artists. The program was divided into three portions. The first being an exhibition to represent the histroy of King Records and all of the artists who recorded there. The second was performance venue to bring in local and big name artists to generate revenue and keep the building econcomically sustainable. The third portion is a youth music center equiped with practice rooms and recording studios so local kids can learn how to make and produce music. The concept of the building was a personal journey through music. When you enter the building you would pass through the exhibition and get inspired by the King Records history and then be motivated to pursue you own dreams just like the king records artists. You would then enroll in music lessons and begin to learn how to make and produce music. After learning how to make music you would record your music and finally share it with the world in the performance venue.
As the the majority of the interior has been removed or destoryed the facade has become the last remaining icon of the King Records building As well as the Evanston community where the majority of King Records artists lived at some point in their career. Our plan for the exterior was to keep it intact as much as possible painting over the brick facade as it was dammaged by spray paint over the years it was inactive. we converted existing garage doors into store front windows so that the entry would be more open and inviting as well as open up all the windows that had been bricked up.
EXHIBITION You enter the building into the grand lobby and exhibition space. The space is very open and uses ramps and stair seating areas to utalize existing grade changes. The grade changes more than four feet from the entry to back. This space is very open and could be used as a community space for a variety of events. As you move past the lobby and up the stairs you enter the exhibition space that contains a rotating exhibit that focuses on individual King Records artists and they’re journey through music. Neon lights hanging from the ceiling mimic the conceptual journey you would take through the building.
ENTRY
EXHIBITION
PERFORMANCE From the entry bay you can either enter the performance venue which would open during the day as a cafe where people can hang out and get a drink. During performance furniture could be removed to make space for a crowd to see student concerts as well as local artists and potentially more well known artists. This space is very multi functional and could be used as a community space as well. Behind the stage is the back stage area which is a space for students to wait and hangout or do homework before their music lessons.
BACK STAGE / STUDENT LOUNGE
PERFORMANCE VENUE / CAFE
PERFORMANCE VENUE / MEZZANINE LEVEL
PERFORMANCE VENUE / STAGE
LEARNING AND RECORDING The final bay of the building is the student and artist area equiped with practice rooms to accomodate for one on one music lessons as well as group and band lessons. Behind the graphic wall are student recording studio where students learn how to record their music. to the left of that are small mixing rooms where students and artists can mix and post process their recordings and master their songs. Behind the mixing rooms is the main recording studio that can house a full band. This studio would be open to artsists looking to record there songs professionally.
RECORDING LOUNGE / STUDENT HALL
RECORDING STUDIO
2 ROWING FACILITY
This project is a study tectonics and how the mode of making can inform building design. The site is located on the Licking River just outside of Newport, Kentucky. The building is a facility where rowers can train and launch boats into the river. The site is an untouched piece of land right on the river that faces the city of Cincinnati on one side and development of Newport on the other. The site is cut in half by a levee used to suppress the flooding of the river.
The building form comes from the views from the site. From one direction you can see the Cincinnati skyline and from the other view the finish line for where boats would be racing. The views create angular geometry that is reflected in the form of the building as the building integrates with the topography and creates a courtyard that cuts through the levee and establishes a connection from one side of the levee to the other. The integration of the building with the topography creates the opportunity for the courtyard to extend directly onto the roof of the building creating a more open space and providing a high point to view the river from. The form of the building is then refined through iterations of model building at various scales that allow for the opportunity to explore different aspects of the building at a certain level of detail. At a more medium building scale of the project the mass starts to take on more characteristics of a building including glazing and openings to address issues of circulation and environmental factors such as exposure to the sun.
18 PT FONT FOR TITLES
The building then is explored on a smaller scale looking at only one space within the interior to establish the quality of experience that the user will receive. Allowing the rowers to have a view of the river while training is important so that they can establish a connection with the water. At the smallest scale I chose to explore shading devices, through a series of physical models, that control the amount and quality of the sunlight penetrating the buildings southern facade. This shading device allowed for the view out of the building to stay intact while creating an interesting pattern on the buildings facade that mirrored the ripples of the water and created a sense of visual movement across the facade.
3 TRAMMEL FOSSIL PARK
This project looked at tectonics and how a design could interact with a delicate site. The site was a fossil park in the Cincinnati area, and the design had to refrain from harming the fossils in any way. The program required an exhibition/ museum space, offices, and a space for a fossil club to conduct meetings.
Wind Direction
Circulation Path
Run off
Buildable Area
Fossil Zone
A site analysis was conducted to determine site forces that would drive the design. the exposed hillside that the fossils were buried in suggested erosion had been unearthing the fossils for years. Using this idea as a concept, the design explored how these forces that effect the site would effect the building and how the building might respond to these factors.
The programmatic aspects of the project were kept quite simple and linear in order to guide park goers up an exterior ramp that would both take them up onto the hill where the fossils were located while allowing them to access the building simultaneously. The exterior ramp would serve as a driver of circulation as well as a space for people to sit, relax and view the site. The building is separated into three subsequent buildings the first and largest being the musuem and exhibition spaces. The buildings then house the more private spaces as you go up the ramp. With the bathrooms and offices being the next building so that people on the site have direct access to the bathrooms rather than going through one of the buildings to get to them. The final building is the club house which is toward the back so that the general public doesn’t interfere with the more private club meetings.
STRUCTURE The building was design to stand on piers that would allow for low impact on the site and the fossils within it. It would also allow for water runoff to pass underneath the building to a retention pond proposed at the bottom of the hill the building is situated on. An exterior ramp travels along the north facing side of the building that creates exterior space for people to sit and look at the site. Stairs connect the ramp to the site at various points along the path to encourage park goers to interact with the site.A separate canopy structure would then encompass the subsequent buildings in order to protect the more open glass facades from the southern sun exposure and wind while allowing the exterior ramp space to be shaded. Breaks in the canopy allow for light to enter to exterior and interior spaces.
4 GREENHILLS HOUSING
This project is a housing study in the Greenhills neighborhood just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Greenhills community was designed as a sort of utopian community during the Great Depression era in order for the government to relocate people to Cincinnati to find jobs in large companies that had headquarters in the city. this community was one of three built across the contry which became known as the green belt towns, as they were all surrounded by forests. The objective of the project was to explore potential aggregation concepts that could revive the slowly withering community. The project had to be based off an assigned architectural theory, my project was based on Beranard Tschumi’s Manhattan Transcripts which argues that there is a disjunction between spaces and their use and explored how objects, movement, and events influence architecture by dispicting a murder in Manahattan. Using this as a basis I explored various aggregations from the perspective a cult, playing off the commuities very intimate social structure.
THE GREENBELT The site was on the outside of the community right next to the greenbelt which has been an improtant part of the community for years and has recently started to shrink duue to development around the community. Since this was an important aspect of the community I felt it was important to pull the green belt into the community. This would alllow the architecture to become a vessel between the predisposed idea of a suburn neighborhood on the front facade of the houses and the social park space in the back that stitched the houses together. The form of the architecture reflected this idea of the vessel or bridge between the two as the lower portion facing the front facade became the more private space and the upper portion of the house facing the social areas was more open and public. The overall layout of the site was influenced by the idea of the cult inhabiting the space as the architecture is very simple and repeated throughout to place more emphasis on the more intimate social events taking place in the park spaces and less emphasis on the archtecture itself.
1ST FLOOR PLAN 1/8” SCALE
2ND FLOOR PLAN 1/8” SCALE
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
CROSS SECTION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1/8” SCALE
CROSS SECTION
The social park space would provide an area for people to relax and hangout with other members of the community while enjoying the greenbelt bleeding through the architecture. There would be the oppurtunity for community gardens to encourage social interaction as well as provide productive landscape for the community.
5 POETRY FOUNDATION
The objective of the project was to design a poetry foundation containing a specific program while keeping the design within 8,000 square feet. The site is small community park within Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine area, a large historic district that is slowly being restored and renovated to meet the needs of the growing urban community. The park sits in between two multistory row houses and is widely used by residents of the area.
The site is situated in the center of an urban area with lots of activity and pedestrian traffic as people visit the nearby restaurants and shops. It was important to pull in pedestrian traffic but to also provide spaces where people could escape all of the activity on the street. The building form was developed through iterations of massing models that were slowly refined to produce a solution that would provide the occupants of the building with a usable space and unique experience. It was important to maintain aspects of the park that was there by creating a space that could be utilized and enjoyed by all memebers of the community.
The building contains green roofs that reside at different heights in order to create pockets of space above the busy urban scene on the street below. The green roofs create a sense of nature in a very urban area that has a lot of vehicle and pedestrian traffic. It is important to provide users of the building with spaces where they have the opportunity to relax and study poetry while getting away from the hectic activity on the street level. A study of plan and section was conducted to begin to place the program in an interesting yet functional way that would enhance the experience of the user of the building.
The concept of the building is how it reacts to the context of the site and the surrounding area. The street in which the site is located contains many traditional style row houses that create a wall of facades from the street view. Rather than placing the entrance of the building along the street like its neighbors, a cantilever reaches out to subtly suggest there is a building within the void that would be seen from the street when passing by. The rest of the building then recedes back into the site. The front of the site opens out onto Vine Street which contains many shops and restaurants and is a high foot traffic area. The program of the building required an entry, multipurpose space, library, archival space, gallery, offices, classrooms, and an auditorium. After blocking out the program I used glass boxes that run from floor to ceiling to guide people through the spaces and reach exterior terraces on the roof. The interior of the building has a more open floor plan in which the entry, library, and gallery overlap divided only by the glass volumes that create the sense of a wall but are transparent. The glass boxes are open at the roof level and have plants on the ground floor as to let the exterior gardens seep into the interior spaces. The glass boxes also allow for soft lighting to get into the building from above due to the narrow site being wedged between two buildings.
6 PERSONAL WORK
During the summer in between graduate school and undergrad I decided to make an electric guitar. I had toyed with the idea for months prior and once I had graduated from undergrad I finally had time to give it a go. It was constructed entirely out of scrap wood I had accumulated over the years from architectural models and frequent trips to the wood shop. All of the electronic components I got from a local music store and was able to solder everything together. Despite being made from wood that does not have “proper� tonal properties it still sounds good and plays nicely!
The wood for the body was mostly pine collected over the years from building architectural models. The neck of the guitar was made from various pieces of wood, That I believe are oak, that I collected from the University of Cincinnati’s Woodshop. The fret board was made from poplar wood left over from a structures project during undergrad that I laminated together to achieve the proper thickness. It took about a month to route out the body and shape the neck. Once the wood worker portion was complete I began researching finishing methods and came across fabric topped guitars . I did a series of tests and finally applied a fabric to the body and then sealed it with many layers of polyurethane to build up a semi gloss finish. Once the finishes were on I installed the electrical components and strung it up. It plays very nice and sound good despite being made from scraps. There were many things that I learned over the construction of the guitar that I would like to work out in future iterations. I currently produced drawings for a second iteration that I plan to start building soon!
Jacob
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