Jana Yeboah | Academic Portfolio
Fall 2009 - Spring 2014
Academic Work Gallery of Forms | p.03 Performing Arts Center Floating Park | p.17 Re-design Navy Pier Frankenstein | p.27 Part-to-whole Urban Oasis | p.39 Tower Friendly Intruders | p.49 Big Dumb Objects Interactive Weave | p.59 Stage Set Design
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Spring 2013
Gallery Gallery of of Forms Forms Professor: Laura Fehlberg | Arch 366
The Gallery of Forms is a performing arts center that serves as an incubator where process and performance are joined into a single complex. The design strategy was an inside-out approach. Four theaters that vary in size are situated in relation to each other, then enclosed with an envelope that expresses similar formal qualities as the theaters. The remaining space holds lobbies, galleries and a dining facility as well as private program including classrooms, rehearsal space, storage and backstage support for each theater. A pattern decorates the public spaces and guides visitors through the building.
Gallery of Forms | Project Rundown | 03
04 | Rendering: Third Floor | Gallery of Forms
06 | Ground Plan | Gallery of Forms
Ground Plan
Gallery of Forms | Ground Plan | 07
The layout of the ground level was inspired by the meandering circulation seen in zoos and encourages visitors to engage with various outdoor activities such as parks, sport facilities and beaches.
Cars, motorcycles, buses and delivery trucks travel on an elevated path that visually reflects upon WW’s Toronto Waterfront proposal Loops and Lilies.
Three buildings hover above the pier that from a distance appear to be large ships. Their spiky geometry creates a visual juxtaposition to the curved landscape below.
Floating Park | Model Photograph | 21
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The bodies provide occupiable space.
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Fall 2010
Urban Oasis Urban Oasis Professor: Bruno Ast | Arch 205
The Urban Oasis acts as an urban condensor in which one can work, live and socialize. The lower portion features retail space as well as offices while the upper portion holds residential units. The Urban Oasis is further sectioned off to create open sky lounges, a sanctuary for residents and workers to relax. A topography of stairs emerges from the ground leading up to the lobby, inviting visitors inside or lounge on the exterior steps. Being situated within the city center, the tower spirals up without favoring any particular side to be its front or back.
Urban Oasis | Project Rundown | 39
42 | Context Rendering | Urban Oasis
44 | Renderings: Residential Unit & Sky Lounge | Urban Oasis
46 | Rendering: View of Balconies | Urban Oasis
Sky Lounge
Residential
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Sky Lounge
Office
Sky Lounge
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Sky Lounge Retail Lobby Parking
Urban Oasis | Section & Rendering | 47
60 | Axonometric View | Interactive Weave
Midterm Project: Scott Bernacki, Jana Yeboah
Natural State
Thrust
Traverse
Prosinium
In-the-Round
Movement: Global control points allow the system to seamlessly shift between five different stages in no particular order. During the first stage, the natural state, all catenaries are collected in the center to cause curiosity in the viewer. When the system is in its last stage, all catenaries are fully expanded to occupy the entire cube.
Interactive Weave | Movement Diagrams and Photographs | 61
Version #1
Version #3
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[team a] Scott Bernacki, Jana Yeboah
Version #1
Version #2
[team d] Walter Dezir, Gabe Ybarra
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[team b] Lauren Campbell, Samra Pecanin
Version #1
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[team e] Emily Hahn, Roy O. Mwale
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[team c] Nina Cimino, Elizabeth Farias
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62 | Hybridize | Interactive Weave
[team f] Alyssa Sullivan, Francisco Salgado
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Teams of two developed independant strategies for deploying catenaries within a cube. Each set was capable of producing at least four distinct Versions.
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Perimeters and systems of teams A, F and E were hybridized to create the final stage assembly.
F Elevations and axonometric view of hybrid system.
Interactive Weave | Full-scale Model during Performance | 63