Jay Mistry
UTA
Undergraduate Portfolio Selected Works
Table of Contents
Community Construction
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Combustion
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Urban Cinema
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Excavation
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Pedagogy
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Context. Values. Goals. Duplex Housing Design
Fire Station 03 Precedent: Guangzhou Holdings
Film Institute Trinity River Urban Design Precedent: East River Esplanade
Archive for an Archaeologist Ocean Park Series
Mass-to-Frame Drawings
Community Construction 4th Year Architecture Design Studio III Professor Julia Lindgren
Students were to participate in a Design+Build studio project that we aptly named Community Construction for the design of housing on Congo Street in Jubilee Park neighborhood of Dallas. This was done so in a collaboration of UTA students and buildingcommunityWORKSHOP non-profit firm. BuildingcommunityWORKSHOP has built much along Congo Street the past decade iterating a series of affordable housing units. The corner lot site of Congo Street and S. Carroll Avenue was given to us by the firm for our studio project so we may continue in their footsteps towards an equitable development.
Adan Chavez Ashleigh Hood Alexis Gonzales Carson Lane Christopher Garduno Chris Cruz David Martinez Eivon Garcia Erick Ramirez Feras Alsafi Gehovany Vazquez Jay Mistry Jennifer Aguirre Keonjoon Lee Richard Hudson Samantha Hawkins
Site Address:
1026 S. Carroll Ave. (After Sub-Division: 4510 Congo St.) Dallas, TX, 75223
We engaged heavily over the course of the semester with the non-profit firm, residents of the street, and local city leaders to learn about this place not only in terms of design context but the importance of its history and needs as well. In the end each student had a prominent and active role in our final design which will be built during the academic semester of Spring 2021 as we finish submitting documents to the city. Fall 2020
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We spent a significant time before touching design just learning about the context and history of the community to which we would be building. Unlike many projects in the past many residents were more concerned with survival than the nuances of an architectural project and we wanted to ensure that those voices were still heard as we would progress towards a design. To stimulate this kind of activity we would visit the empty lot of the site often and go on to build a "conversation cube" in which design processes, feedback surveys, and, community meetings could be held. Over the semester we met with local leaders of the nearby churches, Jubilee Park Committee and bcWORKSHOP to gather their input on if a house would be of benefit here and posed exploring other options such as a garden, park or community center.
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Design + Build
Engagement
We studied the zoning of clustered housing which pertains to our site to explore the possibility of what is allowed which is more than most residential housing in Dallas. We also looked into the possibility of the ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) but found it to take away more in terms of zoning constraints then it would have given back in terms of density of housing units overall. In the end we decided to follow the pattern of development in the Congo neighborhood and chose to develop housing in the form of a duplex to achieve maximum density while sub-dividing a portion of our corner lot for future development only taking what we needed. From these meetings we ascertained the materiality, density of units, porch space, and just how these drivers would be transitioned to properly fit the context of a neighborhood that had in the past been systemically neglected. Most of the homes built by bcWORKSHOP end up occupied by residents already on the street as they have large families packed into smaller units to reduce down the local cost of AMI for this tight-knit community. In the midst of the COVID pandemic the dynamic of our interactions were shifted drastically in approach as well as we had to carefully maneuver design decisions whilst trying to keep in mind the limited contact we could have which slowed the work down exponentially but in the end we emerged with a strong design that had everyone's efforts poured into it.
Process/context
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Design + Build
Site plan
We began design starting in groups of two, moving to four, and so forth until we had merged into a unified group at the end. This way along the course the maximum number of ideas could be explored while retaining the strong design drivers being established each iteration to carry over into the next.
Past iterations
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West Elevation
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Design + Build
South Elevation
Plans/elevations
West Section
Sections/structure
North Section
South Section
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Design + Build
Single-Family unit Interior view
Studio Unit Interior view
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Design + Build
Congo St. View
Back of duplex view
COMBUSTION 3rd Year Architecture Design Studio I Professor Dustin Wheat
Students were each tasked with a conceptual project based upon a proposed replacement of an existing Dallas, Texas Fire Station. A fire station, often known as a fire house, is two parts; housing of the firefighters and the maintenance of the fire engines that reside within the bays. Each student was given a precedent study to help better understand what is encompassed in these programs and the nature of relationship between them to each make their own station proposal. The lot of Fire Station 03 was chosen because of its challenging triangular geometry, deteriorating state of the existing building, and it’s bay condition in relation to the street. Site Address:
500 N Malcolm X Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75226
To further our understanding of the fire house typology we visited at the time newly built Fire Station 27 in Dallas, Texas as further precedent. We also took a class trip to Seattle, Washington which had rebuilt and renovated more than half of its stations; During which we toured the stations to garner input from the fire fighters on practical design implementations to help us each in our own designs.
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Dallas, Texas Proposed Fire Station 03 seeks to develop a synthesis between two very differing programs. Combining work and play the building circulates around an open-air atrium with a divide of public functions to the north-east and private functions in the south-west.
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As the building ascends so does permeability through diffused light to bring life to the recreational functions of the firefighters. Roof terraces, climbable trellises alongside a usable roof for rappelling provides training facilities for these servicemen and servicewomen as well.
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The existing station has only a single bay aligned to Nussbaumer Street although even the one is still slightly skewed. In the proposed station this is resolved by positioning the bay so that Nussbaumer Street terminates into the bays creating a datum of return. Theoretically making it more practical in the return of the fire engines as they would not have to turn off midstreet and impede the flow of traffic.
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Fire Station 03
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The project began with a analysis of the initial site and it's surrounding context. Carrying the grid structure of the opposing green-field to formulate the pathways, geometries and landscape of the site to create continuity across the area. A triple bay was aligned with the street in a rectangular block that contains all hot zone activities with airlocks to separate the cold zones on the other side. The fire-station took on it's U-Shape form from this with two bars extruding out containing the private and public functions on each respective side with a courtyard nestled into the center opening up to the adjacent park.
Site Plan
The final design emerged through a series of trace paper iterations, study models, and strong design moves taken from the research precedent. A public datum line was carried through the site and terminated into a reflecting pool so the firefighters can easily monitor entry traffic to the site traffic. A network of pathways also formed in the grid linking areas of parking, entry, bays, and courtyard together.
Study models
Schematic Design
Tower
Third Floor
Section
Fourth Floor
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Fire Station 03
Ground Floor
In developing the program I spoke to Dallas firefighters and learned that they have 3 shifts of 7-9 firefighters with an extra night watch but that the most essential aspect being the isolation of the sleeping zone due to the unpredictable schedule firefighters face. This portion of the program was nestled into the lower bar with public functions in the parallel bar to the north. A fire station isn't just a place of work but is a home to these firefighters and this was harkened upon by the fire fighters every visit we made to a new station, and prioritizing this the courtyard not only provides respite but also acts as a mediation zone so that any activity in the public zone will have a mitigated effect on any ongoings to the south bar.
Second floor
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Fire Station 03
Courtyard View
The building materials were chosen as cast-in-place concrete, steel framing, wood furnishing, and resilient glass to provide a durable station that also felt inviting in demeanor with a natural touch. Glass is utilized in the second story shielding the private functions in a deep layer underneath while still bringing in substantial light for public, training, and administrative functions above. Taking from the classic fire station typology a tower was erected at the core to attempt a modern take on a traditional form of a fire station without just linear extrusion becoming too dominant a feature aesthetically. The tower serves purpose as well allowing for easy drying of the houses and another obstacle to rappel off of for the fire fighters. These elements are blended together to create a homogeneous base that meets the spectrum of needs that home and work demand while preventing one from infringing on the other.
Courtyard entry view
Fire Station 03
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Fire Station 03
Bay Entry view
The final model was layered to give a dense earth-like depth and prominent weight to the atmosphere reflecting the heavy life of the firefighters. Bold red beams were chosen to extend over for training use but also to act as a distinct heroic feature of the station bearing over the entry pathway.
Physical model
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Trinity River Urban Design
Urban Cinema 3rd Year Architecture Design Studio II + Urban Design Professor Bijan Youssefzadeh
Three projects were encompassed in this studio all hinging on the one before through continuity as the scale decreased. The goal was to establish in the end a film institute that would reside in our own urban design of Dallas which would find it's origin's of design drivers through precedent. Each student was given a precedent in a differing region to see despite however radically different each one may be, how inspiration can be taken to Dallas itself, as the urban analysis would serve as a catalyst to stimulate the next project. In this urban design of a Dallas area near the Trinity River, a site would be chosen for the building of a film institute housing a range of functions from a theater to an art gallery.
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Precedent
- East River Waterfront Project by shoP Architects - 14 Million Sq Ft. 2 Mile Stretch New York was initially founded as New Amsterdam by the Dutch and just as they had arrived by the water they traded by it leading to a series of piers along the eastern waterfront of Manhattan inadvertently becoming a strictly industrial area. Eventually as time progresses this method of use declined leading to a now a series of defunct piers rendering a disconnect between the urban fabric of Brooklyn and Manhattan and within Manhattan itself, as though they were almost trapped. New York, similar to Amsterdam and Denmark in geography being along a variety of waterfronts enacted the development of a 2 Mile esplanade to reinvigorate this area and transform it into a mixed use area and in turn drawing the people of the cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn closer to one another. shoP Architects rehabilitated old defunct piers as well as JFK highway by creating green spaces, parks on the piers, restaurants, cafes and retail shops under the highway. - Connecting Battery park and other pre-existing parks to the riverfront and bringing the pedestrian traffic of the financial district. - Bike and pedestrian lanes were added as well as waterfront seating and activity/exercise play areas. - Parks have folded topographies almost like a fabric or blanket to push the landscape further into the river In turn returning the area back to its ancestral roots following the urban typology of construction along a waterfront creating a symbolic representation of the kind of architecture exists in the lands of their ancestors.
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East River Esplanade
Landscape PLAN
The precedents were analyzed to better grasp the perspective of an urban scale in preparation for our project which would be the revitalization of an area along the Trinity River of Dallas to better encompass back to city center. For my urban design project the Trinity Groves area of Dallas where the Margaret McDermott Bridge terminates into from the denser part of Dallas. The current Trinity Groves area is encompassed in small scale food destinations and residential housing so applying a large urban overlay piqued my interest as a research methodology moving forward. Taking notions of esplanade from shoP Architects despite how little the Trinity River plays in defining the city fabric, I attempted elevate this condition by raising the river to the levees and building a network that extends out to the riverfront with a promenade acting as the major axis down from it.
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East River Esplanade
Precedent Context Model
Physical urban context model + Figure/ground diagrams
Trinity River Urban Design
The site of the film institute was chosen based on the terminus of two major axises in the Dallas grid that collide alongside the promenade that carries into the "downtown" portion of the urban sector I designed. The grids of Dallas were ascertained through a series of grid studies done overlayed on trace on a 1:400 square mile ratio version of Dallas which is what the city was originally concocted through. The site for the film institute is shown highlighted in red on the urban site plan.
Trinity River Urban Design
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Film Institute
Process
Administrative Level view to Art Gallery Below
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Film Institute
Plaza/Site Plan
Roof Plan
Ground Floor
Plans
Third Floor
Second Floor
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Film Institute
South Section
Section Interior View Theater
South-Facing
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Film Institute
Cinema entry view
Aerial View
Excavation 2nd Year Architecture Design Communications II Professor Heath Macdonald
This design communications class performed more like a studio in which we would build multiple models each adapting from the last emphasizing hierarchy through the golden rectangle and modular dimensions to achieve a mass to frame like transition between planes. This would lay the foundation for our final project which would be an archive for a fictional archaeologist named Diggman. Diggman had an affinity for art and throughout the semester we analyzed Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park Series to formulate grids that would be the proportions of the modular, acting as a guide for our designs. The Ocean Park Series represents the topography and landscape of the Santa Monica bay area and as we developed each "frame" in our mass-to-frame project each plane was representative of the landscape we were building for the later site given for Diggman.
Fall 2018
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Ocean Park Series (#54) was selected and analyzed through a series of drafts to finally establish the grid seen below. Through that grid planes were developed that would become the walls of the Diggman house and how we would think sectionally about each relationship.
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Archive for an Archaeologist
West Elevation
East Elevation
North Elevation
Schematic design
Ground Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
Plans
Axonometric
Fall 2018
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Mass-to-Frame
Pedagogy
Archive for an Archaeologist
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