Jasper Gregory Selected Works by Jasper Gregory

JASPER GREGORY SELECTED WORKS

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URBANISMO PSICODELICO - Social Housing VANISHING INDEXICALITY - Flagship store for Issey Miyake

DELEUZIAN BIG DATA - Technology for Theory

SUSPENDED TENSEGRITY - Ceiling Sculpture

THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY - Plexiglass Model

ENTREMEDIO - Community Workspace

ATELIER MANFERDINI - Professional Work

RESUME

01 U R B A N I S MO P S I CO D E L I CO SOCIAL HOUSING Third Year Studio / Prof. Livia Loureiro Collaboration with Alexia Hix, Michael Carroll, Judith Huerta, Jacqueline Mendoza Texas A&M Univerisity / Spring 2018 Our objective was to design social housing that is architecturally beautiful as well as cost-effective and efficient. Our site is located in Ceilandia, Brazil where there is a strong culture of the arts and music. The citizens especially use street art as forms of expression and we wanted the design to be accepted and express the local culture. We were inspired by Eduardo Kobra, a Brazilian street muralist who uses color and a “kaleidoscopegrid” overlay to produce a unique style to his art. Using a 3Dimensional grid of the master plan viewpoint, we extruded lines to create forms. From these forms, the “fins” were utilized as structural concrete beams and guidelines for the inhabitants to personalize the interior of their home. Brick is used in transitioning from public to private space. Street art is incorporated throughout the entire design and the residents are encouraged to create vertical gardens within the brick walls. The public space contains a skate park where self-expression through art is highly encouraged.

02 V A N I S H I N G INDEXICALITY Flagship Store for Issey Miyake Indexicality Studio / Prof. Gabriel Esquivel Texas A&M Univerisity / Fall 2016 The Creek Vean House by Norman Foster and Richard Rogers and the Pleats Please collection dress by Issey Miyake were the two references that I indexed to begin this process. The project is about the expansion of a system via the implied vanishing lines. From indexing these lines, I constructed a scaffolding becoming the basis for the construction of the new figures that were created. The final drawings and renderings are the combination of the model and the dress. The warped surfaces mimic the articulation of the corrugated fabrics and become reminiscent of Miyakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s designs. The project addresses the lack of public space in the Houston Galleria area. It allows full usage both above and below ground by activating space in various ways.

Hand Drawn Diagram

Analog Model Creek Vean House by Norman Foster & Richard Rogers

Hand Drawn Diagram

Digital Model Pleats Please collection dress by Issey Miyake

03 DELEUZIAN B I G D A T A Technology for Theory T4T LAB / Prof. Casey Rehm + Gabriel Esquivel Collaboration with Hannah Galbraith, Aaron Rosas & Ezequiel Campos Texas A&M Univerisity / Spring 2017 We can use the machine as an interface to produce repetition and repetitive geometry drawn out of context images to then organize public and private spaces in the architectural manifestation, creating different interfaces inside and outside the building. This residential apartment in downtown Los Angeles accepts these new truths and provides spaces driven by our usage and interaction with big data. Driven by rules of perception, it allows the user to always feel connected back into the public collective, while simultaneously being in a private space. The use of mirrors and column spacing allow separation of spaces without complete enclosure, thus allowing the user to feel simultaneously in two places at once, while still being able to observe themselves interacting with others. The private spaces in the home like the bedrooms and bathrooms as figural entities can become interactive screens, updating social media content and allowing personalization and mixture across the media-scape. As the user update their own feed, their data can likewise be mapped on the outside of the building, thus completing the circle of interaction of the perceiving and the perceived.

04 SUSPENDED TENSEGRITY Ceiling Sculpture Honors Studio / Prof. Alireza Borhani Collaboration with Arialle Dempsey, Nicholas Houser, Benjamin Hergert, Jack Morahan, & Madison Wilson Texas A&M Univerisity / Spring 2016 This project was a commision from the Texas A&M College of Architecture for a ceiling installation using the method of tensegrity. The structure of the sculpture is maintained through the process of equal tension and compression. The use of fishing line as tension members is to give the sculpture a floating effect and allow the curved compression plywood elements to dance through space. The sculpture still hangs in the college of architecture review space today.

05 T H E IMPOSSIBLE C I T Y Plexiglass Model Freshman Studio / Prof. Rene Graham + Mehdi Azizkhani Texas A&M Univerisity / Fall 2015 My design inspiration was taken from a drawing of The Seattle Central Library. I highlighted the important structural elements in my diagrams which I then constructed into a 3D model. I kept a sense of order with the grid while combining disruptive elements through a series of operations - translation, rotation, reflection, and dilation. The red line that runs along the cardboard model represents the circulation path that defies gravity throughout the futeristic building.

Hand Drawings

Birds Eye Perspective

Plan

Section Elevation

06 E N T R E M E D I O Community Workspace Third year studio / Prof. Miguel Roldán Collaboration with Diego Bazzani Barcelona Architecture Center / Fall 2017 In explaining our project, we begin in examining how the massing interacts with the immediate site, and how our massing strategy relates to the city’s composition. One successful feature of the Eixample district is the open public spaces found in the interior of some of the district’s manzanas. Our aim with the concept of the central courtyard within the site is to draw pedestrians that are approaching the site into our defined boundaries. The public space serves multiple uses, at its core even defining the interior vertical space as the programmatic “spine” of the mass. This void allows for vertical communication between the, separated floors while also visually connecting the interior to the existing neighborhood. With our massing strategy of pulling back from the existing arcade on Ronda Sant. Antoni, we allow for the addition of two new facades to the building. Where the two existing streets of Ronda Sant. Antoni and Carrer de Valldonzella front the two traditional facades, and the “pulling” motion of the courtyard creates an additional two facades. With these two new facades, we apply a glass material to give the faces a transparency that acts against the visual density of the two existing facades. With the newly introduced transparent faces of our mass, the interior slabs are put on display and the vertical circulation between the floors is forced to the forefront of the pedestrian’s view. The main form of vertical circulation is the cascading staircase which runs along the hyper-transparent facade. The main form of horizontal circulation are the interior corridors. These corridors were created by locating the points of entrance and exit, thus producing paths which were then transgressed into walls (builtin furniture, half-walls etc.). These forms divide the spaces on each floor according to private and public spaces. The structure consists of floor plates cantilevered from the “spine” and “arms”. The “arms” are the load bearing walls encompassing the floor plates.

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TERRACE 1. Bar 2. Outdoor Seating

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1. Open Work Space 2. Reservable Desks 3. Private Offices 4. Meeting Room

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1. Open Work Space 2. Reservable Desks 3. Meeting Room

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1. Courtyard 2. CafÃ© 3. Reception/Office 4. Supplies Store

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1. Auditorium 2. Gallery Spaces 3. Fabrication Studio

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Plexiglass Model

07 A T E L I E R MANFERDINI Summer Internship Professional / Elena Manferdini Los Angeles, California / June - Aug. 2017

Elena Manferdini + Urban Fabric Scarf Promotional Video

“This limited edition collection of scarfs is an adaptation of Manferdini’s drawings and images from her body of work entitled “Building Portraits”. Manferdini’s drawings blur lines between fashion and pattern in an architectural context and introduce new contemporary landscapes.” As an intern I was given the task to model and compose promotional videos for selling the scarfs.

Chicago Architecture Biennial Video Animation

“Atelier Manferdini’s dimensional wallpaper builds from an earlier set of works titled Building Portraits. These portraits—ranging from small acrylic objects to fully immersive wallpapered environments—all originate from frontal photography of renowned Chicago buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe.” I gave the drawings life by creating animations and compiling them into a video for the exhibition.

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EDUCATION TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Environmental Design Architecture Major Art Minor Classification U4 / 3.7 GPA BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE CENTER Study Abroad Program / Fall 2017 Classification U3 / 4.0 GPA

SOFTWARE + FABRICATION Rhinoceros Grasshopper Vray SketchUp Revit AutoCAD Maya Processing Keyshot Illustrator Photoshop InDesign AfterEffects Microsoft Office Apple iWork 3D Printing, CNC Milling, Laser Cutting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE GENSLER Houston, TX / Professional Intern / June - Aug. 2018 Projects worked: Del Mar College South Campus Intern Project - Reimagining Houston Public Transit ATELIER MANFERDINI Los Angeles, CA / Architectural Intern / June - Aug. 2017 Projects worked: Chicago Architecture Biennial Exhibition Elena Manferdini + Urban Fabric Promo Videos BOURNE JEWELRY & DESIGN Houston, TX / Design Assistant / Aug. 2014 - May 2017 Jewelry Designer & Crafter, Organizer, Social Media Account Manager, Web Designer

HONORS & AWARDS Department of Architecture Honors / 2016 - Present Selected for Freshman Honors Studio / Spring 2016 IEFS Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient / Fall 2017 Houston Hispanic Architects & Engineers Scholarship Recipient / Spring 2015

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS thearchiologist.com / Vanishing Indexicality / Feb. 2017 https://thearchiologist.com/student/jasper-gregory