jamie kruer
selected works 2018-2020 1
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plans: p.g 4-9
stacks: p.g 10-15
volume: p.g 16-25
ins&outs:
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one rusty iron heart:
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roboculture: cabinet & a room: p.g 50-59
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01 Plans
Professor: Kelly Bair Semester: Fall 2018
Plans are extensions and continuations of space. Extensions add to something to enlarge or prolong it. This exercise began with Hejduk’s Diamond Houses but zooms into his third floor plan of Diamond House A. In Hejduks’s original plan, walls do not interact with other walls and the curved walls do not close off spaces from one another. By applying the concept of extension to the Hejduk plan, spaces find complete enclosure. When three-dimensionality is introduced, two-dimensional shapes are translated to their three-dimensional counterparts, and ‘walls’ extrude towards a bounding sphere. When the ‘walls’ meet with the bounding sphere, their three-dimensionality is lost and the edges are read as projected surfaces. The plan can roll and change itself. It ends at the bounding sphere, but continues to create variable iterations. The plan has no orientation and therefore plans, sections, slices, and moments can be made continuously as the plan rolls through a stagnant cutting plane.
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walls are extended to perimeter and curved walls are continued to create a full circle.
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Multiple images overlaid to show the movement of the object as it rolls and rests at certain points.
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02 Stacks Professor: Kelly Bair Semester: Fall 2018
A stack is a single object, typically a line, pipe, or coil, that is misaligned tangentially. The following is an exploration of misalignment of a rather difficult thing to align: a coil. A coil that wraps itself into a spiral to reach a certain elevation. To stabilize itself the layers need to be as close to alignment as possible. Otherwise, the coil is unstable and prone to falling. To reach alignment one layer must sit perfectly on the tangent line of the layer below and above. Where near alignment occurs, a sheared and distorted swatch is applied. Where alignment of the coil is far from perfect, a perfectly gridded swatch is applied. The legibility of a single, continuous coil is undermined with alternating swatches along the length of the coil. The end result is a physically and visually aligned, misaligned stack, making the eye perceive a false reality.
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A segment of a bas relief model of the misaligned stack. Aluminum conduit was bent and stacked within a plywood rig. PETG that was spray painted with an assortment of grids, then vacuum formed onto to conduit, causing distortion.
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03 Volume Professor: Kelly Bair Semester: Fall 2018
Volume is a divisible space that can be read differently based on the rotation about a centroid. The original volume modeled for this
exercise was San Giovanni by Botta. To create new forms san giovanni was intersected with Hirshhorn Museum by Bunshaft as wall as San Lorenzo by Brunelleschi. New volume is made with the intersection of quadrants based from their centroids shown in the diagram on page 19. The sequence of rotations around its centroid can alter the way the volume is perceived. Volumes can make the user feel contained or expansive depending on the proximity of the walls. The following exercise shows one space can have multiple readings based on the orientation of the space. Elements like stairs and railings are used to give the eye a sense of scale of the space. bird’s eye
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volume a, horizontal
volume b, horizontal
volume b, vertical
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volume b, vertical
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volume a, vertical
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04 ins&out Professor: Kelly Bair Semester: Fall 2018
The following project is an exploration playing with the orientation and sequences of space to create a tumbling effect while entering or viewing into rooms. The typical grounding elements that denote what is up or down has been reconfigured. The material of the space is askew by 45 degrees, creating confusion where surfaces meet. Thresholds and railings which are associated with walls or floors are misplaced to make the occupant feel as in their feet should be on the walls and their backs on the floors. When the horizon is hard to distinguish, what is the affect on the viewer? The following images are views taken within the volume project. Instead of the eye rotated around a point, the object rotates around the centroid camera. A new 3d model of rooms were created based on these views. The new rooms were then arranged in a sequence aware of how an user would walk through the space. Careful attention was made for intentional casualness of the arrangement. Some forms were canted, while others kept their orientation almost orthogonal. The box distinguishes what is in or out is rotated 45 degree. The results are spaces and views to confuse ones’ perception while navigating the five rooms.
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plan @ 6’ - 0”
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plan @ 20’ - 0”
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worms’ eye
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1/4” = 1’-0” scale base: 12”x12” mdf base with a green gradient model: 140 lb folded paper with printed graphics. eighth inch acrylic box, engraved
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05 One Rusty iron Heart Professor: Francesco Marullo Collaborators: Destiny Cassano, Chase Freeman, Summer Hofford, Jeffri Jacobe, Alexandra Madsen, Shamsedin Mokhber, Sivamalini Valayapathy Semester: Spring 2019
The deliverable of the studio was to produce a productive building in Chicago. To do so, one must understand the root of productivity and the facets that made Chicago the busy epicenter of the Midwest the 19th century. William Cronin’s Nature’s Metropolis was a guide to abstract Chicago’s industry into components such as land, water, lumber, grain, meat, exchange, and transportation. This breakdown was later used as the foundation for a collective drawing which pulled themes from Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry mural (c.1932) to represent the narrative of Chicago industry. Rivera’s mural celebrates the collective nature of labor and the emancipation of industry when at the service of many rather than for the profit of few. Our collective drawing is a narrative image of the history of production in Chicago moving forward from the glaciers, the forests, the prairies and proceeds into the 19th century metropolis. Seven stories coexist on the canvas which begins a dialogue between different paths that brought us to the present. Each of the stories was then paired with a surrealest machine assembled from true historical components to hide an rational logic behind their apparent veil of absurdity.
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People walk down and up the street, not really recognizing what it is.1 On the occasion, it catches some eyes and you can see how puzzled they are. Some stop others to point at the ‘building’ but the other person shrugs. Sometimes people walk by, and only notice the storefront to admire the pretty dresses and the fancy jewelry.2 They look up towards the top of the structure –their eyes follow the profile of the form. If something seems out the ordinary, you cannot read it on their faces. The windows on the facade protrude outwards and appear like buttons.3 Sidewalk in front of the ‘building’ extends six feet from the storefront and then abruptly ends. What’s below the sidewalk is a network of trains4 coming in and out on one half and a drawer of cash5. You see men buzzing about like bees, emptying the contents of the train or loading them up. On closer inspection, through the button windows you see separate worlds are behind them6. You see men cleaning shoes, bread being kneaded, and shirts being sewn. Towards the top, less production takes place and instead workers are hunched over phones with papers scatter about7. You hear faint music from the story above and see lights escaping the windows. It seems like a gala of some sorts is happening. Men and women dance in circles and celebrate in their luxury, oblivious of the networks that make possible their lifestyle.8 Layers of life take place in this ‘building’, some enjoy the benefits and others just work to make life possible.
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Its hovers over you beckoning you to come forward, this contraption of living creatures doesn’t care that you are man or if you are animal– it wants only life. You see pigs fly1 above you towards a ring surrounded with sharp metal. As the pigs emerges from the other side, their fur has disappeared2, similar to how an apple looks when it is peeled. The pigs begin to shriek and then yelp, is that tears in their eyes? You want to look away, but this is a spectacle and it has a hold on you. The pig bodies are gravitating towards intestine-like tubes3 which are attached to a bicycle with a man peddling away4. Sweat is on his brow as his leg muscles pump to make kinetic energy. You can see the indentation of the pig bodies slowing move down the tubes, which maneuver around gears5. These gears are turning slowing. Your eye follows the gears to find the source of their movement. Men with their might crank the wheel slowing6. You can see wornness in their eyes, in their shoulders, in their being– but they persist. Eventually the silhouette of the pig disappears, and a long squeal penetrates your ears. As the sound reverberates in the air, buttons pour out of the funnel shaped column into a bucket on the platform7. Workers move about this level fetching the buckets so they can pack the contents in tin cans or boxes. The items, cans, boxes move from hand to hand, until someone places the products into a conveyor belt8 which then goes below to be loaded onto a train9. The train departs the contraption and goes off into the distance, the essence of the pig is sent off.
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06 Roboculture
Professor: Francesco Marullo Collaborators: Destiny Cassano, Chase Freeman, Summer Hofford, Jeffri Jacobe, Alexandra Madsen, Shamsedin Mokhber, Sivamalini Valayapathy Semester: Spring 2019
Roboculture is a controlled environment facility that has an agriculture school to support the growth of the produce as well as cooperative community composed of students and workers. The produce grown in the facility is harvest by robots which are delivered to patrons via a building scale vending machine. The school and its circulation snake through the artificial landscape and is surrounded by pink/red light to remind the students that this isn’t a typical agriculture school. As the school traverses through the multiples of racks filled with produce, it culminates in a cooperative dining utilized by the students as well as the workers. The residences are located on the upper levels but has moments when their program is buried in the artificial ground. There are 3 entrances to the building. One for the patrons who can be completely unaware of the mechanics of this building and associated with the lobby and the interface to order thier prouce. The second is the grand entrance to the school, which spills out into a hallway meandering up and through the entirety of the building. The third entrance is for the workers located off-centered from the grand entrance. It is discrete and stays towards the perimeter.
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Legend 1. The Meat Packing Industry has altered the landscape and has destroyed some parts in the name of money. 2. People can cohabitat with nature that is beneficial for all sides. 3. Plants can be alligned in rows on racks. Their location is tracked. 4. Wires are connected to the plants to collect data,which is then studied. 5. Robotic arms assist with harvest to reduce physical labor. 6. Robots manuver around the racks to fetch what the machine has commanded them to get. 7. Ramps connect the high-tech machine, research, and the people into one self-supporting machine. 8. A friendly interface greets the consumers and helps them make their fresh produce choices. 9. A consumer who chooses to buy high-tech local.
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07 Cabinet & a Room Professors: Penelope Dean and Grant Gibson Semester: Fall 2019
The traditional home is a series of rooms with furniture scattered for our needs (A.) It results in duplicates and can clutter living spaces to prevent the peace of mind that minimal living can allow. Cabinet and a Room imagines minimal living as inhabiting a super-sized piece of furniture in a room (B.) The cabinet offers highly compact space to live which is offset by uninterrupted views and a generous sized room where one can spread out.. The room associated with the cabinet changes form with the intersection of the ground plane and the functional aspect of the cabinet (C). The cabinet contains all functional needs of the houses including vertical circulation. Doors and drawings can be open to reveal the models of living behind the clean wooden elevation of the cabinet. Cabinet & a Room is located in the neighborhood of N Lawndale, along the CTA pinkline. The site is a traditionaly Chicago lot (25’ x 125’) and is composed of three houses approximiately 1000 sf arranged in a line.
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Each house contains one generous room that relates to one function. Cabinet 1 has a sun room with a shed roof oriented east for morning light. Cabinet 2 has a dining room which is sunken 3 feet so the counter-tops are the same height as the ground. The profile of the dining room mimics ceilings typical found in dining
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halls. Cabinet 3 has a detached garage and the cabinet is weatherproofed since it is part of the entry sequence. The cabinets are oriented along a line, the same as the line of the CTA - This is done so views of the CTA can be seen through rooms, cabinets, and glass of the houses.
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extends further into the ground. Cabinet 3 is lifted from the ground and one must ascend a flight of step to arrive in the home. Each house uses the cabinet as part of the entry sequence, either by visual awareness or actual movement.
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Within the cabinet, function and circulation is placed behind a drawer or a door. The cabinet is approximately 8 feet wide and 11’-6” in length. Within the width of the cabinet, 3 feet is dedicated towards program that require more depth, such as sleeping, cooking, bathing, and lounging. On the opposite side, 2 feet allows
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for storage of clothes and book as well as a place to study for the inhabitant. The middle layer of the cabinet is for vertical circulation. Beyond the cabinet are platforms 3’ wide that allow one to circulate.
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