Jamie Marchini
[Work Samples] 2013-2014
University of Florida - Undergraduate
Fort Island Trail Beach Chapel:
Engaging building-scape with Florida’s natural landscape The open landscape and extreme weather of the Fort Island Trail Beach introduced the idea of designing a structure that is self-sustaining and adaptive to its environment. I began to study the coastal surface conditions and textures to inform the building envelope. Constructed as an adaptive parametric, the skin responds to performative criteria of controlling views, prevailing winds, and sun angles. The components open, close, and morph. The basis of the pavilion comes from the idea of folding. The surface gradient folded around a skewed volume, allowing for a collection of various lighting conditions. As I employed programmatic ideas, sections of the volume unfolded to create a semi-permeable space, allowing for a breezeway and an exterior deck. The parametric envelope
thus became a structural screen of populated components. The chapel is a singular space in response to its simple program: a meditative escape for religious practice and personal reflections. The design is about spatial clarity and animating one’s experience through internal and external relationships. The entrance therfore takes a dimensional form, celebrating the entry into the chapel. It breaks and peels away from the wrapping skin, demonstrating the duality of the skin as a structural system and environmental screen. The analysis of the pre-existing beach revealed an underlying structure of the environment and generated regulating lines that set the framework of the chapel.
The roof is a solid assemblage which floats on the structural system. This prevents solar heat gain yet allows a controlled amount of light underneath. As it follows the contour of the building, the roof peaks periodically at moments to control water pooling. Conceptually, the idea of a floating roof contributes delicacy to the divine space.
The building enclosure of the chapel is another iteration of the same parametric design. The idea of wrapping and layering of skin became the form generator. It operates strategically to environmental factors.
In creating a divine space, the lighting is generated from the morphology of the skin. In the front of the chapel, the focal point opens up, allowing for light to enter directly through the parametric components and indirectly through the reflection of body of water. This illuminates the chapel with different tonal values.
The staggering stairs playfully imitates the surrounding natural land barriers. It regulates the coastal boundary where the spatial edge is fluid and changing. As tidal changes occur, it reveals variations of the stairs. The design captures retracting water and the possibility of fish in the pockets.
decay and survival design 4 . spring ‘14 professor albertus wang Located in China’s Taklamakan Desert, this project began exploring the ever changing characteristics of the desert. The desert, as the context for an intervention, presents the challenges of measuring the immeasurable and mapping the unmapped. Its surface continuously changes and forms new dunes. A spatial narrative became the genesis of the intervention. This built structure became a refuge shelter for a group of travelers to escape the relentless winds and the bipolar
weather conditions. It includes an amphitheater for gatherings, sleeping spaces, and a gallery for cultural artifacts.My concept of decay and survival generated from the phenomenon of the desert and how life survives this decay. The context undergoes this decay, or spontaneous transformation, making navigation nearly impossible. However, the refuge becomes an anchor in the unfamiliar, boundless context. It brings human scale and protection.
D a t u m V e r t i c a l
design 4 . spring ‘14 professor albertus wang My concept begins with Sigmund Freud’s theoretical ideas on ‘the unconscious and consciousness.’ In his dream psychology, Freud interprets dreams as a revealing element of the unconscious mind. He describes two kinds of unconscious: the Unc and Forec. The Unc is ‘incapable of consciousness,’ while the Forec is like a screen that can reach consciousness. This creates one moment of detachment and another moment as a transitional space or transference into the third component. Repression and penetration act as two systems that create a network between these three localities. Occupation correlates with the domination of this system, but gives greater significance to the unconscious moments. This is because the mind is dedicated more to the unconscious than to consciousness. As a result, the moment representing the unconscious has greater hierarchy, occupancy, and articulation. The context also responds to this movement as it shifts elevations and placement similar to how emotions struggle through a series of events into order to penetrate the consciousness.
analytical construct
diagrammatic process
sectional study
elevations
an urban exploration design 3 . fall ‘13 professor albertus wang Urban fragment is a study between multiple programmatic components. Its explores both the conceptual and physical connections of the fragments through the development of systems of space and site construction. I approached the project by studying
the experimental constructs of Lebbeus Woods. His designs relate architecture to war by weaving new architectural installments into sites of destruction or pre-existing architecture. I studied his three forms of construction: scab, scar, and injection.
site analysis and intervention The wall becomes an armature that dictates the overall composition of the fragments and site. It is anchored into an orthogonal and dynamic grid system to give order and measure to my design. Two primary armatures extend from my moments and shift to formulate a courtyard between the two fragments
The private space is an area enclosed by linear elements and planar transparencies for individuals or small congregations of people.
the library
the chapel
The library space is formulated by the term scar. A scar interferes yet fuses the old to the new. The public and private spaces of the library adopt this interfering relationship through the intersecting of architectural elements and voids. The public area is a larger volume of space with higher overhead conditions to give hierarchy. It is also interrupted with lower overhead conditions in order to maintain human scale.
Scab shields exposed interiors. This became the driver of my reflection space, because it became an enclosed spatial condition for meditation. I explored the idea of "release" through the compression and expansion between two meditation spaces. This allowed for private areas of security and isolation, while the more open spaces became an area to observe and reflect. Architecturally, the two mediation spaces are connected by a ramp, stairs, overhead plane, and a wall.
Jamie Marchini
15410 Leven Links Pl, Laewood Ranch, FL 34202 jamie_marchini@yahoo.com 941-932-1999
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JAMIE MARCHINI
15410 Leven Links Pl, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 941-932-1999 jamie_marchini@yahoo.com [matrix]
Objective
To obtain an internship position to further my architectural skills in a real-world setting and gain hands on experience.
Education
B.A. of Arts in Architecture
2016
GPA: 3.7; Dean's List ranking Minor : Business University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
[DWS]
Accomplishments and Involvement Nominee for the 2012-2013 NCARB Accreditation Process During the 2012-2013 school year, my architectural designs were selected to represent the Design 1 studio during the NCARB accreditation process at UF.
[DWS] [grafting]
2014
Teaching Assistant to Professor Tony White I played a key role in teaching the Design 2 summer studio, assisting students in design analysis, concepts, and principals. My focus was to promote architectural discoveries and speculative thinking through diagramming and drawing. Selected work samples for S.O.A. gallery and Architrave publication Several of my projects from Design 4 and 5 have been picked for the primary School of Architecture display. A few of my projects were chosen and published in the 2014 edition of Architrave and the upcoming 2015 edition. Explorations at the University of Miami I participated in an intensive summer enrichment program for architecture, earning three college credits. The curriculum consisted of several studio projects, history, theory, and digital classes. I was furthered my knowledge in AutoCAD and began accustoming myself with Revit.
2014
2014
2010
AutoCAD, Photoshop, Rhinoceros, Maxwell Render, Brazil, Sketch UP, Illustrator, InDesign, laser cutter -I am currently taking an advanced digital course focusing on Grasshopper for Rhinoceros.
Awards
Recipient of the Florida Medallion Scholarship Recipient of the Joe Martin Bank of America Scholarship Editor of the student architecture publication, Architrave Member, AIAS, American Institute of Architecture Students Member, NOMAS, National Organization of Minority Architecture Students
Career History
[betwixt & between]
Top Ten Recipient of the 2014 Pin-Up Procedure After completing two years at the University of Florida, we are required to go through a "pin up" process and display our best work on a 4' x 8' board. The professors then judge the boards and decide whether to accept the student into upper division. I made top ten for the 2014 class.
Skills
Memberships
[DWS]
2012-2013
Customer Service Representative, Domino's Pizza Server, Applebee's Employee of the Month - November 2014 Cashier and Stylist, Levi Strauss & Co.
02/2011 to current 04/2013 to current 10/2010 to 02/2011