Jay C Henson II Architecture Portfolio by Jay C Henson

Jay C Henson II Architecture Portfolio

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Creating intimate moments and spacial qualities within a building program is what allows architecture to reach out to the impacted community and foster growth and evoke emotion.

PORTFOLIO CONTENTS 01 RESUME

02 BRIDGING COMMUNITIES

03 WHEAT INTORSION

04 SPATIAL SENSE

05 FOLDED PAPER PAVILION

06 LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

SOFTWARE SKILLS

2-D REPRESENTATION AutoCad Illustrator CC InDesign CC Photoshop CC 3-D REPRESENTATION Grasshopper Revit Rhinoceros 5.0 Sketchup

Jay C Henson II

10281 Horizon Lane SE Port Orchard, WA 98367

jay.henson@email.wsu.edu 360.649.3121

LEED® Green Associate

EDUCATION

Washington State University Pullman, WA Pursuing Master of Architecture Degree

05.2016

Washington State University Pullman, WA Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies

05.2015

Olympic Community College Bremerton, WA Associate of Arts Degree

08.2011

CREDENTIALS

LEED® Green Associate “LEED Green Associates have a documented, up-to-date understanding of the most current green building principles and practices, and are committed to their professional future.” -USGBC Website

11.2014

EXPERIENCE

Pickard Construction Silverdale, WA General Laborer 930 IDP Supplemental Experience Credits Pickard Construction specializes in high-end residential architecture work that can be enjoyed throughout the greater Hood Canal region. Working under owner and general contractor, Jeff Pickard, I was exposed to valuable construction site experience.

2012-2014

AWARDS

Harmon & Silliman Presidential Scholarship WSU SDC Architecture ACM

04.2015

WSU SDC Accelerated Graduate Program Acceptance

03.2014 5

02 BRIDGING COMMUNITIES IDX Mass Timber Studio

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Instructor: Colleagues: Completion: Location:

Darrin Griechen N/A Spring 2015 Spokane, WA, USA

A site located in Spokane, Washington was chosen for the opportunity to develop a connection, or bridge, between the downtown Spokane community and the WSU Spokane campus. To create the bridge, the location will be developed with the intention of fostering further growth within the established bond of urban life within the community, creating a cultural conflux. The cultural conflux will be achieved through the development of a key design aim: vertical circulation.

Programs Utilized +Revit +Rhinoceros 5.0 +Grasshopper +Adobe Illustrator CC +Adobe Photoshop CC

FLOW ANALYSIS 02

A site location in downtown Spokane, Washington led to realization of the disconnect between the urban downtown and campus life. A flow analysis through Grasshopper, a plug-in for Rhinoceros, generated walking paths of pedestrians trying to navigate between the two differing contexts.

GIVEN SITE

EXISTING FLOWS

GRIDDED SITE

FLOWS THROUGH SITE

A realization occurred that pedestrians do not always walk along the sidewalks and roadsthey take shortcuts. The new flow paths that were generated contained paths that cut through our site. The negative spaces between these paths were viewed as our zones of construction and should be looked upon for design development.

Flow Analysis

Floor Geometry

Vertical Circulation

Floor Generation

Program

Alcove Placement

Facade System

PSEUDO CODE OF PROCESS

DEVELOPMENT AREAS PHASE 01 A prime location for the studio aim of a 12-story CLT structure, this space will involve creating intermixing spaces of campus resource zones, student living, and community zones.

PHASE 01

PHASE 02

PHASE 02 This phase emphasizes WSU capital planningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expansion goals of a student academic center. PHASE 03 Creating spaces of interaction on the landscape will foster further growth between the two existing communities.

PHASE 03

PHASE 04

PHASE 04 Recognizing the historic Jensen Byrd building next to our site and creating a blank canvas for adaptive reuse will establish a more cohesive design through contextual site development.

DERIVING CIRCULATION 02

When analyzing the most successful locations for points of entry, another flow analysis occurred. Paths from buildings within a ten-minute walk of our site were analyzed. Beginning from the existing building entrances and ending in the center of our site, locations of where paths crossed the building envelop were established as building entrances. Then, paths of travel from each entrance to another were analyzed and where multiple paths crossed, locations of vertical circulation and the main core were established.

PHASE 01 SITE

ENTRY POINTS MESH

CORE CIRCULATION

From the established location of vertical circulation, paths of horizontal circulation were established, including full circulation around the main core.

FLOWS TO SITE CENTER

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION

BUILDING GENERATION VOLUMETRIC SHIFT A series of cuts to the overall building volume to account for sun shading on west and south facades, street perspectives, as well as cuts to exhibit the vertical circulation, created a dynamic genotype mold by which we could establish a resulting phenotype. Twelve splits were made to account for the twelve-story structure and resulted in twelvefoot high floors on every story.

MAX BUILDING VOLUME

SUMMER SOLSTICE AWARENESS

VERTICAL CIRCULATION CUT

FLOW ANALYSIS CUTS

RESULTANT VOLUME

FLOOR GENERATION

03 WHEAT INTORSION Digital Fabrication Studio

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Instructor: Colleague: Completion: Location:

Mary Polites A. Miles Spring 2014 Exhibition Installation

This seminar focused on the development of a simple component which could be aggregated to form emergent qualities toward an architectural use. At the onset of this project, students were asked to define their aims: specific outcomes which we expected to achieve through the development, refinement, and implementation of our component and the system it forms in aggregation. Wheat Intorsion is focused on finding rigidity of a component.

Programs Utilized +AutoCad +Rhinoceros 5.0 +V-Ray +Grasshopper +Adobe Illustrator CC

EXPLORING RIGIDITY 03

Moving forward, the aim was to find rigidity. Looking at any sheet material, when placed in the horizontal direction it is not rigid, but when folded in the vertical direction, it becomes quite rigid. With this exploration, model making continued to form a component that fit into these aims.

VERTICAL RIGIDITY BASELINE COMPONENT

COMPONENT FORCE APPLIED

COMPONENT TORSION REACTION

HORIZONTAL CONTOUR APPLICATION

FABRICATION TECHNIQUES

VERTICAL RAIL NO TORSION TWIST

VERTICAL RAIL 15째 TORSION TWIST

VERTICAL RAIL TORSION TWIST

ABSTRACTED COLUMN GEOMETRY

ABSTRACTED COLUMN TWIST

VERTICAL RAIL ASSEMBLY

Now that the component was going to be populated in the vertical direction, focus then moved toward determining a fabrication technique. The idea cutting contours through the model was the first idea. Doing so would allow light to refract out from the structure as well as giving it a less dense structure. Soon it was realized that cutting the contours in the vertical direction instead of the traditional horizontal fashion, would also increase the components unique element of the vertical rigidity while also accentuating its 15 degree twist.

Moving toward the global assembly, there was refinement to the fabrication of each component. To add strength to the vertical contour rails, the connection was changed to a simple dado connection that would CNC into the top and bottom chords of the component. This also eliminated the fabrication time and cost of a face connection using screws; and resulting in a more aesthetically pleasing, flowing global population.

16.5”

GLOBAL REFINEMENT

15°

COMPONENT CORD PLAN

COMPONENT CORD AXON

VERTICAL RAILS APPLIED

15° TWIST APPLIED

COMPLETE COMPONENT

ADDITIONAL COMPONENT

MATERIAL RESEARCH LOCAL MATERIAL As to further tie back to the community it was decided to fabricate the column out of a locally-based material. The rolling hills of the Palouse are an iconic symbol of the Eastern Washington landscape. Thus, the wheat board material developed by Washington State University’s Composite Materials & Engineering Center (CMEC). SEPARATING WHEAT STRAW BALES

CHIPPING WHEAT STRAW IN MILL

FINAL WHEAT STRAW FIBERS

APPLYING RESIN TO WHEAT FIBERS

WHEAT FIBERS IN PANEL FORM

PRE-PRESSED WHEAT BOARD

MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT The opportunity to fabricate the wheat board material first-hand was given and was executed through a process that began with many wheat straw bales and ended with a 1/16”- thick wheat board panel.

In an effort to tie the final installation of the component back to the community it was an idea to display “Welcome to the Palouse” in several different languages on every other vertical rail of the column structure. The above key allows visitors to locate their own language. The total number of languages that were represented in the column was seventy-seven, ranging from Afrikaans to Welsh.

Special Thank You to our Sponsors

WELCOME TO THE PALOUSE

COMMUNITY TIES

telugu (Telugu)

român (Romanian)

slovenský (Slovak)

katikati (Swahili) Svenska (Swedish)

khmer (Khmer)

Latine (Latin)

Melayu (Malay)

Latvijas (Latvian)

Malti (Maltese)

Lietuvos (Lithuanian)

Maori (Maori)

kreyòl ayisyen (Haitian Creole)

Hmoob (Hmong)

Igbo (Igbo)

Hausa (Hausa)

magyar (Hungarian)

Indonesia (Indonesian)

Icelandic (Icelandic)

Gaeilge (Irish) italiano (Italian)

English (English)

suomalainen (Finnish)

Georgian (Georgian)

Esperanto (Esperanto)

français (French)

Deutsch (German)

eesti (Estonian)

Galego (Galician)

Pilipino (Filipino) Afrikaans (Afrikaans) • • • • •

CMEC Inland Lighting Modern Millwork NVSD Woodworking Pomeroy Fairgrounds

shqiptar (Albanian)

Cebuano (Cebuano)

CLOSING ANALYSIS ENDING DISCOVERIES As we approached the end of our exploration, we realized the organic nature that the columnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior produced. In plan view, produced a phyllotaxis condition which is a spiraling arrangement of leaves in some plants. This characteristic obeys as a number of subtle mathematical relationships that can inherently be seen in the column. We were unaware of this factor until final construction was complete. EXHIBITION OPENINGS The column was featured in multiple exhibitions located in Spokane, WA, Moscow, ID, and finally Pullman, WA.

04 SPATIAL SENSE Furniture Design

Body

Drawer

Base

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Instructors: Colleagues: Completion: Status:

David Drake, Mary Polites N/A Spring 2014 Constructed

The aim of this project was to break away from the traditional method of dedicating excessive area in the dresser created by an overlap between faces of the drawers. The sole purpose of the dresser is intended for storage, the concept of maximizing this capacity through side shelving was conceived and executed. In traditional furniture design, the faces of the drawer are over-set passed the functional space of the drawer. This creates a space that is wasted and defeats the overall purpose of the dresser as a space for storage. This wasted space will be looked upon to take advantage of through a new dresser design.

Programs Utilized +Revit +Adobe Illustrator CC +Traditional Woodworking Tools 21

DRESSER INTENTION

DRESSER FOR CHILDREN The decision to proceed with a child’s dresser then provoked the notion to design the overall dimensions of the dresser to fit accordingly to an average size child who is four feet tall. The dimensions of the drawers were directly correlated with the dimensions of clothing for a child of that size. THE CONCEPT OF ‘FIT’ Items that fit within the context of the home are those that address the parameters necessary in order to become a successful accessory. If one thing were to change within the context, then the object itself may no longer fit. By acknowledging the items that will be stored on the interior of the dresser, as well as the user on the exterior, this dresser becomes an ideal furniture piece in a child’s room.

REFINEMENT + EXECUTION TERRACING The overall geometry of the terrace is a playful form that will result in the culmination of organization and maximum storage capacity. The cautious decision to not exceed a height of thirty inches was in correlation with the chest height of the child in order to accommodate the limitations children have when trying to access clothing located in the top drawers. The depth of twenty inches allows the reach of a child to reach items located in the back of drawers.

DRAWER ASSEMBLY

DRAWER SLIDES

SIDE SHELVING

EASY-ACCESS PINNED TOP

05 FOLDED PAPER PAVILION Parametric Design Studio

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Instructor: Colleagues: Completion: Location:

Mary Polites S. Chimonas, E. Moneymaker, B. Zubiate Fall 2013 Moscow, ID, USA

The focus of the studio was to produce a surface system to act as a pavilion for the Moscow, Idaho Farmers Market. The intervention is defined as a material system which does not exceed a 500 square feet footprint. The design should be deployable and disassembled to address the 8-hour cycle of the market. The pavilion should address the flows and access points of the market and act as a generator for new programs. The material system will be structurally effective and produce, negotiate or intensify at least one environmental condition.

Programs Utilized +Rhinoceros 5.0 +Grasshopper +Adobe Illustrator CC +Traditional Woodworking Tools 25

COMPONENT

The individual component that aggregates upon itself to form the overall pavilion utilizes a tab connection for ease of constructibility. The tabs also allow space for eyelets to be inserted; which would be the main points of connection onto future components or canvas. The canvasing option allows the pedestrian traffic inhabiting the pavilion to escape the harsh Palouse summers. Ceiling

Wall

CEILING

6’

Horizontal Panel

TAB CONNECTION 1/4”

TAB EYELET

VERTICAL PANEL

Light-weight panels cause less stress on legs

Provides support for roof

-Light-weight panels cause Five components less stress on legs in a pentagon are

-Provides support for the Five components roofin a pentagon are

-Fivehorizontally components in a pentagon are then paneled horizontally Three in com-

-Five components in a pentagon are then paneled vertically Three in com-

-Three in complete assembly

-Three in complete assembly Allows arching

plete assembly

1/2”

TAB CONNECTION DETAIL

4’

HORIZONTAL PANEL

then panelled

LANDSCAPE

4’

6’

8’

Landscape

WALL

then panelled

plete assembly

4’ Dodecahedron

DODECAHEDRON

for shelving and habitat-

-Provides stability for legs

weigh the structure down

-Bears the total load of pa-

30 total vilion components in dodecahedron

-30 total components Provides stability for legs decahedron

in do-

MATERIAL RESEARCH CARTON PAPER There are many benefits to the local economy, the local community, and the livelihoods of producers when products are manufactured and purchased locally. 34 miles from Moscow is a paper mill in Lewiston, Idaho.

FOLDED RIGIDITY OF PAPER

FOLDED RIGIDITY OF COMPONENT

Carton paper is used in the production of milk cartons and is a specially manufactured paper containing two laminations on either side to create a water-proof seal. When the mill gets towards the end of the paper roll, the lamination is no longer acceptable for milk carton production. Rather than the paper being wasted in a land fill, the paper is reused in component production.

FABRICATION

To avoid paper fraying and have the ability to mass-produce components, the carton paper was sandwiched between two 1/2â&#x20AC;? thick layers of medium-density fiberboard. A flexible moment of connection material was essential to assist in the program assembly process. Zip ties warranted these considerations and further aided the design process. Because the pavilion will not be able to be located in the same spot every week, the pavilion needed the ability to change every week to respond to the specific site conditions. The white zip ties represent the connections within each program. The black zip ties signify connections from one program to another, and when disassembling, are cut. The end result, when leaving the site after disassembly, is multiple ceiling, wall, and landscape programs that will then be constructed the next week in a new configuration with black zip ties.

CARTON PAPER+MDF

BOLT CONNECTION

JIGSAW CUTOUT

EYELET GUIDELINES

COMPONENT CUTOUT

FOLDING TABS

COMPONENT FOLD

EYELET CLAMPING

COMPONENTS

ZIP TIE CONNECTION

2.5 Hrs

Template Tracing MDF/Paper Stacking

1 Hrs 1.5 Hrs

Template Cutting 1 Hrs

Drill Guidelines 3 Hrs

Component Folding 5.5 Hrs

Eyelet Clamping 0.5 Hrs 1.5 Hrs

2-Man Crew

3-Man Crew

Sand Insertion Final Assembly

PAVILION TRANSLATION Due to the flexible design opportunities, the pavilion is always responsive in relation to the site conditions. In the optimal site setting, the assembly will feature an asymmetrical design that accommodates the flow of the farmers marketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pedestrian traffic. The large entrance areas create vibrant access points that open up to an easily habitable space for multiple people at one given time. The heavy base that supports a lighter ceiling allows for the creation of interesting shadows on the ground for individuals inhabiting the space as well as passerby that will be drawn into the structure. Each week, patrons will be eager to see where the pavilion is located and the corresponding form that arose from such site. Creating a more vibrant farmers market in Moscow, Idaho and giving back to the community that provided the material for such a possible assembly.

PAVILION PLAN VIEW

06 LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION Mary Polites

Part of the Weller fellowship, Mary Polites taught a year of design studios and seminars related to digital fabrication, logic of materials, and the geometries of complex systems at Washington State University. She is a graduate of the Architectural Association with a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in architecture. The focus of her work while at the AA was on emergent cities in developing countries and how to integrate design at a global scale to reinforce the cultural aspects of the community. For five years she has worked in New York and Philadelphia on a range of projects and at a variety of firms which include Foster + Partners NY and Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.

Research Methodology: Urban Fluctuation | Mary Polites, et al.

September 9, 2014

May 10, 2015

Dear Search Committee: ITo amWhom writing in regards to Jay Henson in support of his application for your office. I have had the pleasure of working closely with Jay for his third It May Concern, year in the Architecture program at WSU as his studio and seminar instructor. He was seminal to the research and development of our course work at WSU. I'm writing on behalf of Austin Miles who was a student in my architecture studio and seminar last year, 2014, at Washington State University. My position at WSU was for a research fellowship in the architecture program for a one year

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I would like to offer a high recommendation for him to be part of your team. He is a great collaborator and can handle anything that comes his To conclude, beyond Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abilities as a designer, his personality and self-invitation clearly make him a leader and way. wonderful person to work with as a student and team member. He is incredibly talented and will make an indispensable

Please me with further questions if needed. Email is preferred as I am now located in Shanghai China and the time difference is a bit of membercontact of any project. a challenge. Sincerely, Sincerely,

Mary Polites Mary Polites Mpolites@marthaschwartz.com email: 2940487109@qq.com mobile: +86 150 0054 3474

Thank You