Jamie Marchini
[Work Samples] 2013-2015
UniversityofFlorida- Undergraduate
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Jamie Marchini
15410 Leven Links Pl, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 jamie_marchini@yahoo.com 941-932-1999
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DENSITY + CONNECTIVITY
Gainesville, FL
An Urban Ex p lorat io n
08 New York,, NY
M an hattan Blo ck
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Charleston, SC
Charleston Th e ate r
CONTENT + CONTEXT
Boone, NC
Vo r no i Pav il ion
FORM + FABRICATION
Taklaman Desert, China
D ec ay a n d S u r v iva l
LANDSCAPE + REFUGE
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Crystal River, FL
Fo r t Islan d Trail Chap el
SKIN + ASSEMBLY
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Abstrac ted Tower
SPACE + MOVEMENT
01 New York, NY
URBAN + LIVING
Nine Yards Hotel
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URBAN + LIVING
N ine Yards Hotel
Design 7 Fall 2015 New York, NY Jamie Marchini + Christina Graydon
The Nine Yards Hotel operates as a controller of pace and intensity. It is an all-encompassing hotel, programmatically shifting from noisy to quiet, dynamic to static, working to relaxing. The idea of concealing dilutes the intensity and offers moments of calm and individual reflection. The idea of revealing projects views, and reconnects the individual with the city.
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Street: Calm: Rooms: Back yard
Avenue: Intensity : O ffice Lofts
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Noise
Ac tivity
Urban Backyard
Avenue 6th
Work
AVENUE
STREE T
Loud
Quiet
D ynamic
Static
Revealed
Concealed
Communal
Personal
Society
Individual
Living
Protec ting Tranquility : Back yard
Internalizing the Intersec tion: Ver tical Street
Conceptualizing the Intersec tion: Congregation
Intensifying the Ac tivity on the Street: Lobby
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Front Life: Intense
Office Units
Residential Units
Core
Rib Structure
Skin Enclosure
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Back Life: Calm
How can people experience the city from within?
Can everyone have a slice of central park?
The frontyard is invented by the idea of capturing and revealing the intensity of the city through the layering of transparencies of glass and metal fabric. It allows the program to function at the same level of activity as the Manhattan avenue. Staggering the lofts and offices present variation in the spatial composition and alter the individual experience. The vertical stacking of the concrete and glass envelope conceals and reveals view, while playfully filtering light.
The backyard is formed by the layering of structure and a pleated surface, making an occupiable skin that conceals and softens the edge between the city and the hotel. The sociological idea of the urban backyard emerges as a small gathering space, creating pockets of activity and community.
Occupiable Skin
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SPACE + MOVEMENT Abs trac ted Tower
Dubai Design 4 Spring2014 Jamie Marchini
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.
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Analytical Construc t
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Diagrammatic Process
Sec tional Study
Elevations
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LANDSCAPE + REFUGE D e c ay and Sur v ival
Design 4 Spring 2014 Taklaman Desert, China Jamie Marchini
This project began exploring the ever changing characteristics of the Taklaman 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 int9ervention. 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.
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SKIN + ASSEMBLY
Fo r t Is l a n d Trail Ch ap el Crystal River, FL Design 5 Fall 2014
Jamie Marchini
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 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.
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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 breaks and peels away from the wrapping skin, demonstrating the duality of the skin as a structural system and environmental screen. Sec tion A
Sec tion B
Roof-scape
Layered Skin
Inner Shell
Circulation
Ribbed Structure
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FORM + FABRICATION
Vo r n o i Pavilio n
Boone, NC ADV Digital Spring 2015
Jamie Marchini
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The Vornoi Pavilion is an architectural and sculptural exploration of form and function. The basis of this project comes from desire to create an inhabitable space that can adapt to contextual needs and environmental conditions. As a result, it is a refuge from the summer heat and winter winds. Apertures in the skin allow for cross ventilation. The voronoi diagram was created using a Grasshopper definition that was then applied to a manipulated Brep.
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The skin is generated from analytical studies of plant leaves, relating the pavilion to its natural surroundings. This punctured skin acts as a breathable membrane, controlling winds and sun light. A similar analysis was used to generate the vornoi primary structure and create an interesting spatial condition.
Sk in Studies Sec tion A
Form Study 1
Form Study 2
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Form Study 3
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CONSTRUCT + SEQUENCE
An Urb a n Explo ratio n
Gainesville, FL
Design 3 Fall 2013 Jamie Marchini
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 preexisting architecture. I studied his three forms of construction: scab, scar, and injection.
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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 chapel 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.
the library 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
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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.
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CONTENT + CONTEXT Ch a rl e s to n Th e ate r
Design 6 Spring 2015 Charleston, SC Jamie Marchini
Charleston is an urban fabric of varied, contained spaces that seamlessly connect to the larger whole. It is about the spatial sequence and experience as you move along, through, and in-between the city. Each of the small scaled, simple formed buildings contribute its own identity to the city and respond to the fundamental needs of the city.
Spatial Density + Organization
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Urban Fabric + Composition
The Charleston Theater is a contained response, operating around receiving Charleston’s contextual and cultural qualities The dialogue between the theater and the city produces a design that holds its place in the context, but becomes more about what is happening within the space. The structure receives the urban edge, responding with a simple, quiet facade and an accentuated architectural form that jumps off the ground, declaring its presence in the city-scape.
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Spatial Experience The spatial experience emerges as a response to the pocketed green space and pedestrian passageways of the city. The wrapping ribbed structure creates interesting light conditions as the day progresses and activates transition through this interior public space. The two-storey waterfall and green wall captures the calming qualities of Charleston’s in-between spaces and sets a relaxing tone.
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DENSITY + CONNECTIVITY
138,240 Total SQ FT
M a n h at t a n B l o c k
Design 7 Fall 2015 New York, NY
138,240 Total SQ FT
Jamie Marchini + Christina Graydon
Office Density: 24 ft X 48 ft = 1,152 sq ft 4 FAR X 1,152 sq ft = 4,608 sq ft 4,608 sq ft/ 144 sq ft = 32 Dwellings 32 Dwellings X 1 Person = 32 People 32 People x 30 Office Buildings = 960 Total People
Brownstone District: To Live
Residential Density: 68 ft X 68 ft = 4,624 sq ft 20 FAR X 4,624 = 92,480sq ft 92,480 sq ft/ 1,156 sq ft = 80 Dwellings 80 Dwellings X 2 Person = 160 People 160 People x 10 Towers = 1,600 Total People
Residential District: To Gather
The Manhattan Block: 200 X 800 = 160,000 sq ft
Gallery District: To View
104,000 Total SQ FT
My partner and I analyzed the historic brownstones and gallery buildings of the Chelsea District in Manhattan. After studying the Manhattan Transcripts from Bernard Tschumi of space and event, we used a similar method of clashing building typologies. We clashed residential towers, galleries, and the brownstones to generate a context influenced block that allowed for work and living. We introduced a fourth element that marked seven intensities and points of entry. This method produced a design that celebrates the unpredicted spaces above the brownstones and beneath galleries.
Site Analysis Studies
Residential Towers Brownstones
Gallery Density: 800 ft X 65 ft = 52,000 sq ft 1 FAR 52,000 sq ft/ 1,280 sq ft = 40 Galleries 40 Gallaries X 2 Wings = 80 Total Galleries
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Circulation Vessels Building Strategies
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Lower Offices
+ increased sun + decreased building shadow
Context Influenced Block
Thinner Housing
+ increased sun + decreased building shadow + optimized views
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Offices
Gallery Buildings
Nodal Insertions
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Outer Envelope
Unit Shells
Primary Structure
Screened Mesh
Metal Framework
Column Structure
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Two megacuts slice through the center of the block and reveal the activities happening within the buildings and allow for natural light. The courtyard is a dark, hard space , artificially lit, but celebrates this fact with glowing lights that highlights the intensity of the block.
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worker
single family
student
private
semi-public
semi-private
unit space
backyard space
pocket space
reserved
calm
intense Family
Family
Worker
Worker
Student
Student
Worker
Family
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O t h er Wo rk s
Jamie Marchini
15410 Leven Links Pl, Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202 jamie_marchini@yahoo.com 941-932-1999
[Matrix]
[Matrix]
Education
Acomplishment + Involvement
University of Florida 2012-2016 Bachelor of Design in Architecture College of Design, Construction, and Planning
Top Ten Recipient of the Pin-Up Procedure 2014 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.
Minor in Business Administration
Heavener School of Business
[DWS]
Skills
Proficient: Rhinoceros, AutoCAD, VRay, Revit, Maxwell Render, Brazil, Sketch UP, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bluebeam, and laser cutting Basic Knowledge: Grasshopper with associated plug-ins [DWS] [Graf ting]
[Betwix t & Between]
Nominee for the 2012-2013 NCARB Accreditation Process 2012-2013 During the 2012-2013 school year, my architectural designs were selected to represent the Design 1 studio during the NCARB accreditation process at UF.
Recipient of the Florida Medallion Scholarship Recipient of the Joe Martin Bank of America Scholarship
Memberships
Professional Work
[DWS]
Selected work for S.O.A. gallery and Architrave publication 2014 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 2010 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.
Awards
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Teaching Assistant to Professor Tony White 2014 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.
Architrave Editor of the student architecture publication
Sweet Sparkman Architects 2015 Sarasota, FL
American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Member
Barker Rinker Seacat Architecture 2015 Denver, CO
National Organization of Minority Architecture Student (NOMAS) Member
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