Selected Work Jay Schwar tz
Introduction This portfolio is a selection of my work from Washington University in St. Louis as a graduate student, including an independent study project within an architecture office. The sequence of academic projects begins with a selection of comprehensive semester projects at Washington University and ends in my degree project. Every design strategy was specific to a site that was personally visited or researched to collect existing conditions, ideas, and inspiration. The ideas, sketches, photographs, and data were translated into a series of physical study models that culminated in a final model, both physical and digital, accompanied by descriptive diagrams, and sets of drawings in various scales. As every semester passed, new modeling programs, rendering techniques, and methods of design were used to create a diverse portfolio of conceptual architecture.
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INTRODUCTION
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Express
Converge
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Wildlife Obser vator y St. Louis, MO Tyson Research Center Washington University in St. Louis 1st year graduate Semester 1
Tyson Research Center is an area just outside of St. Louis where Washington University students and faculty study various flora and fauna existing in different biospheres. This specific project was located in a wooded valley. The program for “Leap� is an observatory focused on studying the surrounding animals, but specifically the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. This design expresses the balance, hovering, and delicacy of the hummingbirds flight, resulting in a structure that gently touches the forest floor. The cantilevering timber frames become convenient locations for nesting and perching of birds, allowing the researcher to be in close proximity. The hovering of the building also has low vulnerability in the flood plain.
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Rhino Model
The final product of the observatory was composed of an aggregation of one prototype that was rotated and reflected to create the most beneficial spaces that hover above the forest floor to study hummingbird.
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Community Librar y St. Louis, MO Soulard District Washington University in St. Louis 1st year graduate Semester 2
The site for the Community Library is positioned between the historic, Vincent De Paul Church and a five lane highway that divides the Soulard neighborhood. The library focuses on the homeless and the less fortunate, which forges a concept about expression and connection throughout the community and to the city of St. Louis. The inspiration for the library transpired from the church that is shrouded in murals, and currently has programs to help the needy. The idea is to connect to different tourist attractions throughout the St. Louis area digitally, and reconnect to the Soulard Neighborhood physically. The new library will be a place for people, especially the homeless, to learn, express, and unite themselves with the St. Louis area through books, text, and digital technology.
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Murals showing expression
Express Digitally
Express Physically The neighboring Vincent de Paul Church is shrouded in murals that tell a story. This same expression is brought to the new library where projections to each screen on each level tell a story of St. Louis digitally, while the building is joining the two sides of Soulard physically.
Soulard District
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Neighborhood Shelters
Tourist Attractions Live video or images from popular tourists attractions around St. Louis are projected from the multimedia spaces onto the exterior screen. The space can become interactive when locals can be seen from the library.
St. Louis Art Museum
Budweiser Brewery
City Museum
Multi-Media Space Busch Stadium
Soulard Market
The Gateway Arch
Reading Rooms
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Roof Garden
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Open air rooftop terrace with 360 views Wood book shelves, seating, tables and stairs are all combined in one structural core.
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Reading Space Collaboration Space Sound Barrier
First Floor | Entry and Public Cafe
Component Diagram
The metal mesh screen is a sound and sun barrier that becomes a surface for projections to be viewed from both outdoors and indoors; creating an interactive environment at the street edge. Green-way provides a smooth transition from outdoors to indoors, as the building becomes the site.
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Elevation B | Metal Mesh Screen with Insulated Metal Panels
During an optional course provided the semester after the “Community Library” was developed in the studio, the opportunity was available to develop the project to a hypothetical set of construction documents. The building, being developed passed the conceptual “Schematic Design” phase, granted the opportunity for the allowance of site surveys, codes, variances, etc. to create a full set of drawings, and a door schedule. After these considerations and requirements the plan was adjusted to a suitable structural strategy, and dimensioned accordingly.
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Multi-Use Housing Seoul, South Korea Dongdaemun District
Washington University in St. Louis 2nd year graduate Semester 1
The below-grade Cheonggyecheon Stream and walkway in the Dongdaemon District is a popular retreat from the bustling market above. The market is active during all hours of the day and night with both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. With bright advertisement signs covering almost every building, and dense traffic, Mixed-use housing will bridge the Cheonggyecheon and orient away from the traffic and towards the stream. The orientation converges both sides of the market with the stream walkway, but also grows vertically to preserve the openness and serenity of the stream. The housing intends to become a grand entrance to the stream, while also providing privacy for the residents. As the tower rises vertically, a screen cloaks the building creating areas for private outdoor spaces and a canopy for the plaza. “Converge� becomes permeable, transparent, thin, and layered, yet ordered; in contrast of the street level, but in harmony of the river walk.
CONVERGE
Leisure The housing complex began as two separate towers engaging with both sides of the market. They then converge as they bridge over the river. The ends of the tower gradually twist inward to create an iconic entrance and central stream level plaza for pedestrians to gather. Business
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The Dongdaemon district was once an area inhabited by artists, but is now a mecca for large corporations and retailers alike, such as The housing project intends to play off this local culture by appropriating “Samsung Housing” for young professionals that will enjoy the amenities of the stream, but still be connected to the surrounding business. The new housing complex would also serve locals, creating a centralized plaza with a cafe and open entertainment area at the stream level and retail spaces and terrace at the street level.
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The secondary skin consists of an Extruded Aluminum Tube system. Selective tubes on each floor will be embedded with LED lights that can be lit at night. This facade feature will add to the lively night atmosphere in the area and illuminate the stream creating an entrance to the creek level. Regenerating planters at each level give the residents privacy, covering hanged laundry, and creating private gardens.
Looking up from creek level Retail and housing units
North and south Elevator and fire stairs become central structural core for plumbing, electric, and water management. Each of the thirty Samsung housing units are a similar plan. The balcony space has options for a covered or open area. The walls on three sides of the unit can fully open to take advantage of views and cool breezes.
The Samsung retail spaces hold stores, Samsung show/test room, and lobby for the residents.
A Cafe, pavilion, and seating/gathering area is located at the stream’s level. This area becomes a focal point and entrance.
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View looking out from one unit Kitchen/ Work area, dining/relaxing, outdoor balcony
1/4 Scale physical model | Four of thirty housing units in the tower.
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View looking into one unit Kitchen/ Work area, sleeping space, outdoor space, bathroom
Shared Balcony
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Vertical Neighborhood New York City Brooklyn
Washington University in St. Louis 2nd year graduate Semester 2 Urban Design
New York City is known to continually grow and evolve. With the global sea level on the rise, 1.8 million more people are expected to migrate to the high ground of the JMZ corridor in the next 50 years; urban transit hubs must be redefined by connecting local neighborhoods, and the larger city. The design problem began by developing simple pop-ups and quickly grew to the city scale. For the rise in density at the Broadway junction, the concept aims to layer program and transit sectionally. Program will be added atop the existing industry, and specific multi-modal transportation methods will assist new layers of manufacturing, service industries and institutions, open space, and private homes; creating vertical neighborhoods within the Broadway Junction. The separated transit lines connect four zones, and retain the opportunity for growth upward. With corresponding transit and program, the junction will have uninterrupted connections within, but also to the neighborhoods that currently reside in Brooklyn and East New York.
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Mult-Tier Program Shared Public Space Vertical Circulation Bike Lane | Transit Distribution Lanes Tier 1 Program Gradual Connection to Neighborhood Existing Neighborhood Subway
A design intervention along the JMZ corridor called a “Pop-up” then lead to a “pilot” project where various amenities could be easily distributed along routes to enhance the walk-ability of the neighborhood. Amenities are interchangeable depending on transportation and program associated with the location.
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Delivery, Freight, Bus Grocery Connection to delivery trucks Manufacturing Transportation for heavy machinery Park | Leisure Leisure, urban farming
Train, Express Transit, Bicycle Office Home/work access, views, light School Access to school,sports areas. Sports | Activity Outdoor recreation, education, sports
Transit, Bicycle, Walk Housing Views, light, fresh air Park | Playground Outdoor space close to home
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Community Center Buenos Aires, Argentina La Boca Neighborhood
Washington University in St. Louis 3rd year graduate Semester 1 The Dique 0 site in La Boca is an area of great potential because of its prime position to the open sea and proximity to downtown, but it is seemingly complicated by a massive highway that is overhead, neighboring industrial sites, as well as growing informal housing. The Riochuelo river along the site has been plagued with pollution for many years, but little treatment has been done; therefore most of the city has turned away from the river. With the proximity to many popular attractions, the area is complex, and in need for accessibility, purity, and flexibility. The concept for the new building will be a hybrid link between the river and the neighborhood; the industrial site and residential informal housing. In an attempt to cross the many barriers that are already dominating the area, the site inspires new urban layers; a river-walk, riverfront recreation, educational center, city plaza, and retail opportunities. The new space will be pure, simplistic, inviting, and be flexible enough to suit many needs not only for the locals, but also for tourists.
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The community center’s form is highly influenced by the surrounding context so that a transparent connection will occur that currently does not exist. The site’s layers form a link not only form the river to different parts of the neighborhood, but also from the current buildings to the highway.
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The building begins as an extension of the existing warehouse, taking on its simplistic characteristics. This area then becomes support space for the multi-purpose space, which could be a gym, auditorium, or even Milonga (place to dance the Tango in Buenos Aires). The whole building works between the constraints of the highway’s columns, celebrating them instead of ignoring. The two spaces are bridged together at the second level, but at the ground level the plaza is open and inviting allowing a transparent connection between the north and south neighborhood.
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Classrooms Steel Structure
Private Space Classrooms | Lounge Space
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GLAZING
SHEATHING BATT INSULATION METAL BEAM
ALUMINUM FLASHING ALUMINUM MULLIONS METAL BEAM POLYCARBONATE PANEL METAL TRUSS
METAL TRUSS METAL PANEL RIGID INSULATION METAL STUD
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South Entry Courtyard | Daytime Gathering
North Urban Plaza | Night Illumination Vray Render Photoshop Overlay
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Transitional Housing Santa Monica, CA Santa Monica Beach Washington University in St. Louis 3rd year graduate Semester 2
The psychological journey of a veteran is complex as they face many dualities including peace and war. Treating PTSD through methods of physical activity, and the more ephemeral, meditation, can aid the body and mind in achieving flow; the optimal experience. Music, water, and the labyrinth have ways to achieve both sensations at once. Transitional housing for veterans is meant to serve as a home after their deployment and before moving home. The center is also focused on “surf therapy� a more contemporary method to treating this disorder. The concept is about studying the dichotomy between activity and meditation, and how this can form space, which, in turn, would become more than a house, but space focused on living and healing. Transitional housing for veterans is sited at Santa Monica Beach adjacent to various context conditions; the beach, park, parking lot, and street, offering opportunities for various activities in which the architecture will respond to.
REVEAL
In this project, to “Reveal� is to extend the usual activities and meditation zones within the home outward to face the challenges veterans would confront in public. Physical, as well as social activities address the site context directly. The idea stemmed from the characteristics of Flow, the euphoric sensation reached when there is a balance between challenges and boredom.
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Site Strategy Drawing Spatial Study models and concept drawings
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Sports Medicine Center & Medical Office Building Boulder, Colorado Boulder Community Health Campus Boulder Associates Fellowship Independence Study project, Summer 2016 The medical office building and sports medicine center within the BCH campus will have a direct connection to its users; the recreational and professional athletes that consider Boulder as their playground. Boulder, adjacent to the front range of the Rocky Mountains, which are accessible through winding canyons, lead to the cities many creeks. They carry with them layers of plants and animals, dirt trails, and pedestrian walking and biking paths, which cut through the organized city grid created by vehicular traffic, and continue along their natural path. The cities flowing creeks split in many directions as they lead to the plains of east Boulder merging area parks, recreational centers, and lakes along the way. The project will make this local identity part of the program to assist in “preventative care� techniques for the users.
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Natural Corridor
The organic pedestrian paths along the creeks are a healing environment for the patients and users of this new center, so it too will build on the concept of a “living corridor� to reduce stress of patients and visitors, containing pockets that integrate medical spaces with outdoor therapy and natural elements. The campus addition will build on views, sounds, discovery, and comradery that are typical along trails of Boulder.
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Transient Market, Daycare & Fitness Center St. Louis, Missouri Earth City Business Park Washington University in St. Louis Degree Project The business park is a recognizable district amongst almost every village, town, or city in the world. As a series of physically isolated businesses that require a flexible buffer space for functionality, these areas are mostly accessible by vehicle, which, in turn, lack a social identity. Working within the interstitial spaces of Earth City Business Park in St Louis, where many undergo the same routine daily, the concept of “scattered intervals� will mediate between the public and private realm in otherwise lost spaces. A program of services and retail will be mobile, but occupy a semi-permanent structure consisting of interchangeable modules along a discontinuous site. With a mobile program employees within the business park will have the opportunity to access a different service before, after, or during the work day on a weekly bases; services that are not currently available due to the vast distances between businesses’ and the city. Scattered intervals is not only a concept for the program, but the way in which the modules will be oriented toward the surrounding natural site; allowing for a flexible enclosure, and promote a meandering circulation creating a variety of focused views, experiences, and points of interaction.
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SEARCH FOR NATURE
PLAY OF LIGHT
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Hub Site
A program’s mobility will allow the basic services consisting of a grocery store, shop, gym, restaurant, and cafÊ, to travel to five equidistant bus stops during the week, and return to a hub at the Missouri riverfront, just adjacent to Earth City business park, during weekends. The Hub at the Riverfront will not only be the base for the program during the weekends, and become a marketplace for visitors, but will also service a daycare and fitness center during the week. The business park will then be activated everyday by multiple generations of visitors, creating its new identity.
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Existing Conditions 100’
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Park 100’
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Canopy The roof canopy consists of polycarbonate and solid metal, using transparency and light to direct circulation
Semi-Permanent Structure Wood beams and secondary structure are supported by steel pipe columns to allow for a flexible enclosure to adapt to various module connections.
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Grocery Store Grocery store section of the Riverfront Market at the Hub Site.
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Mobile Program Trailers containing the program plug into and distribute program elements. Vray Render Photoshop Overlay
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