JEAN OLMSTED
portfolio 2018-2021
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Jean Olmsted
Recent architecture graduate in search of an internship or entry-level position at an architecture firm.
200 NORTH GRAND AVE #206 WEST COVINA, CA 91791 +1 619 559 6023 jeanwolmsted@gmail.com
education
awards
exhibitions
2016-2021 California Polytechnic State University, Pomona / Bachelor of Architecture /GPA: 3.65
2018 featured student profile / picked by faculty to represent the College of Environmental Deisign on the school’s website
2019-2020 DIS Study Abroad Copenhagen /GPA: 3.75
2018 exemplary student award / picked by faculty for exemplary work across the 2018-2019 school year
Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2021 Cal Poly Pomona Interim Student Exhibition / showcase of artistic renderings, case study work, various models and drawings hand-picked by faculty
internships
2018 Blueprint for Functional Sustainability Competition / Honorable Mention for Spring 2018 studio project sponsored by the California Sustainability Alliance
2017, 2020 Architect Assistant at Axiom Design Partnership Ltd., HK / concept design, graphic production, leading presentations with clients, drafting interior layouts in AutoCAD, coordinating renderings and presentation drawings 2018 Modeling Assistant at Bureau Spectacular, Los Angeles /model making for YES to ADU Competition and Backyard Urbanism exhibition for Taiwan Academy 2019 Architectural Intern at Domaen Ltd., Los Angeles /exhibition prep, intensive Rhino and 3D model making, graphical production, archival and textual research for Resident Alien exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York
2019 exemplary student award / picked by faculty for exemplary work across the 2018-2019 school year 2019 Design Village / pavillion received Best In Show Award and Popular Vote Award hosted by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 2020 PCI West Studio Award / 2nd place award in the Fall 2020 precast concrete studio award sponsored by the Precast Concrete Institute West Chapter
languages English Cantonese Mandarin
native native fluent
software Microsoft Office Rhinoceros 5 Adobe Creative Suite SketchUp AutoCAD V-Ray Grasshopper Revit
fluent fluent fluent intermediate intermediate intermediate basic basic
Table of Contents studio works Chapel for the Lost Individual work/ SPRING 2020 Instructor: Jacob Nørlov DIS
Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat Individual work/ FALL 2018 Instructor: Dennis McFadden
Abenrå Boulevard Residence Individual work/ SPRING 2020 Instructor: Jacob Nørlov DIS
Tsunami Egress Tower Partnered work/ FALL 2020 Instructor: Axel Schmitzberger
Skid Row Pool and Library Senior Project/ SPRING 2021 Instructor: Andri Luescher
other works
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Vestre Kirkegaard chapel
WATERCOLOR VIGNETTES
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Vestre Kirkegaard chapel
Chapel for the Lost
Funerary Chapel in Vestre Kirkegaard FALL 2019
This is a studio project from my 4th year studying abroad in Copenhagen. Vestre kirkegård is Copenhagen’s largest cemetery. True to the Danish spirit, it is open to the public as a park where anyone can sit, have a picnic, walk their dog, run, bike, and nap, designed for the living just as much as for the dead. My intention for the funerary chapel is to allow my visitor to superimpose their own meanings onto my chapel, which is to the best of my ability free of detached rationalization and arbitrary meaning. I allow my direct experience of the site to guide the intended emotional experience of the chapel. To me, it should feel like arriving in a clearing after getting lost in a forest. To feel alone, but with the comfort of something undefined, to be allowed to sort out your own feelings and thoughts by your own pace. In result, I suspended an ambiguous white volume high up in the air by a scattering of thin columns — none of them exactly upright, seemingly grown out of the ground like uncut bamboo. This verticality accentuates the feeling of the forest and allows the visitor to become lost in their own thoughts, the chapel they’re in rarely calling out for their attention but blending into the blurred background merely as a quiet place to reflect. In the center of this clearing lies a rough hewn white marble platform, upon which lay the casket. It is the brightest point in the room, as light from above seemingly emanates its glow from this platform. After the ritual, the visitor crosses a thick horizontal volume, signaling the end of their journey and opening up into a flowery field full of life and hope.
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Vestre Kirkegaard chapel
SITE PLAN
SECTION
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Vestre Kirkegaard chapel
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
SITE AND FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
Reflective Sanctum Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat FALL 2018
The focus of this semester is to understand architectural structure and to differentiate between structure, enclosure, and a meaningful architectural space. We were tasked to create a living and work space for two scientists near the peak of Mt. Wilson, Los Angeles, near by the Mt. Wilson Observatory telescope. Due to the steepness of the slope and the abundance of trees within the site, we were given contraints to only touch the ground in 3 locations, thus having the structure span and cantilever for minimum disturbance to the site. I took inspiration with the structure of a billboard, and decided to separate my program in 3 levels of privacy within a long and narrow structure. The lowest level is accessible by the public to allow for educational lectures and tours. The middle level is for the use of both scientists as their office and main living space, and the upper level is completely private, accomodating bedrooms and a restroom. I wanted the research building to blend in seamlessly with its environment and create synthesis of nature and architecture. As such, shifted planes of glass parallel to each other enclose the building and interact with the forest differently at different times of day. In the morning it becomes completely transparent, allowing for the view from the road to completely penetrate the building, leaving only the exposed structure and its inhabitants to be seen, almost invisible within the forest. In the afternoon, the sunlight reflects from the glass and it becomes a mirror that reflects the trees in front of it, hiding it within the forest in plain sight. At times it is difficult to distinguish what is structure and what is forest.
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
COMPONENTS AXONOMETRIC
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
A
B
SECOND FLOOR
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B
THIRD FLOOR
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SECTION B-B
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
MODEL TOP VIEW
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Mt. Wilson Scientist Retreat
MODEL FRONT VIEW
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Abenrå Boulevard residence
STREET FRONT ELEVATION
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Abenrå Boulevard residence
Familiehus
Multi-unit residence on Abenrå Boulevard SPRING 2020
This project is situated within the historic district of downtown Copenhagen, next to a 18th century church and an array of buildings built across centuries and various architectural styles. The Familiehus centers around the interactions between solid and void and the spatial opportunities it provides for its inhabitants. As a half-infill condition in which there are inconsistent restraints against the edges, these in turn determined the boundaries of my form. Then, voids are inserted to determine the central family space, as well as a central communal space. In the negatiation between solid and void within this building, I wanted create an interaction between openness and privacy, where the family can gather in a big airy living space, while being able to retreat into the comfort and solidity of their private spaces. My roof is gabled to echo contextual ties and to allow for better opportunities to negotiate this void-and-solid relationship, and a dark brick facade with a uniform aperture grid emphasizes the effects of the mass of my building as well as to contrast the placement of the large voids. Residents can access a common ground-floor garden, common spaces on the first three levels, a roof terrace, bike storage, and a laundry room, while having completely independently functioning units designed for four families of four.
SITE ANALYSIS DIAGRAM
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
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Abenrå Boulevard residence
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PLANS
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Abenrå Boulevard residence
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PLANS
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Abenrå Boulevard residence
INTERIOR VIGNETTES 18
Abenrå Boulevard residence
CHURCH SIDE ELEVATION
SECTION
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Tsunami Egress Tower
4TH FLOOR ISOMETRIC
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Tsunami Egress Tower
Precast Playground Tsunami Egress Tower at Venice Blvd. FALL 2020 / Project partner: Cheyenne Capener Students in groups of two were assigned to apply their research of precast modularity and construction from the first half of this studio to devise a Tsunami Evacuation Tower that primarily funcations as a community center. The site location for the tsunami tower is selected to be on Venice Beach based on safety needs for the beach-front community with a low-lying coastal area and large tsunami inundation zones. Its high traffic for tourism and mixed community demographics was also considered to determine demand for programmatic safety provisions, as well as considering local economy to support project implementation. The design objective sought to resolve component strategy, tsunami evacuation building guidelines, social design principles, egress concerns, and inconography. The resulting structure operates as a multi-storey playground for the tourist and residents of Venice Beach, with programmatic focus on the internal layout of the project. This includes a landscaped plaza area with water features and seating, an open bar, an elevated and modularized skatepark, a cafe area with storage pods containing supplies in the in the event of a tsunami, a basketball court, and a helipad on each level respectively. A tight-knit composition of shear walls and built-in moment frames accomplishES structural redundancy while offering formal opportunities for an investigation into rigor and repetition and a playfulness in composition in plan and in elevation.
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Tsunami Egress Tower
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PLAZA
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BAR
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SKATE PARK
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CAFE & STORAGE
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BASKETBALL COURT
PLAN AND AXONOMETRIC VIEW 22
Tsunami Egress Tower
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PRECAST COMPONENTS AND STRUCTURE
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Tsunami Egress Tower
Figure 11a-b: Interior Perspectives, The perspectives depict eye level views of the ground level bar and elevated skatepark.
SKATE PARK & BASKETBALL COURT VIGNETTES Figure 12a-b: Interior Perspectives, The perspectives provide eye-level insight on the cafe space, and sports center.
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Tsunami Egress Tower
BUILDING SECTION
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Skid Row Pool snd Library
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
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Skid Row Pool and Library
Pool + Library
Skid Row Public Pool and Library SPRING 2021 / Senior Project My project situates a library on top of a public pool within Skid Row, Los Angeles intending to provide equity in public space, resources and recreation for the residents and surrounding communities of Skid Row. By aligning administrative and circulation spaces in a L-shaped core on the inner infill condition of the site, the rest of the building is freed up to correspond to short-term and long-term programmatic configurations. The core and the free plan operates between lightness and heaviness and centers upon the public experience of the library and pool, while the L-core is concealed with reflective metal. The exterior is wholly clad with translucent and reflective polycarbonate and acrylic, giving the effect of a sheer or implied volume and an ambient, diffused interior. The programmed volumes within the library are similarly dissolved by use of glass and reflective metal. My project emphasizes the clarity and hierarchy of circulatory, structural and operational systems and explores various types of thresholds to merge and delineate space. The surface and material manipulation of the perceptive experience is meant to be a generator of a new architectural language of public space, serving those who are arguably in need of public space, proper resources, and recreational opportunities the most.
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EXTERIOR VIEW & MODEL PHOTOS
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SITE COLLAGE AND ISOMETRIC PROJECT VIEW
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PLANS 30
PLANS 31
MASSING AND AXONOMETRIC PLAN OF FLOOR 3+4 32
VIGNETTES OF POOL, PUBLIC LIVING ROOM, POOL HALLWAY, AND MEZZANINE 33
SECTIONS & ELEVATIONS
DETAILED SECTION & ELEVATION
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Other Works
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Axiom Design Ltd., 2017
concept design for Beijing retail space, graphic production, leading presentations, drafting interior layouts in AutoCAD, coordinating renderings
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Axiom Design Ltd., 2020
project lead for interior renovation, budget negotiation, creating and leading presentations, coordinating CAD drawings and renderings
REV.
axiomdesign partnership INTERIOR DESIGNERS UNIT 405, 135 BONHAM STRAND, HONG KONG TEL FAX
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CLIENT
JOB
LOCATION
FILE NAME
DRAWING DESCRIPTION
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DRAWN BY
APPROVED BY
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DRAWING STATUS
CHECKED BY
REVISION
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Domaen Ltd., 2019
exhibition planning, graphic production, model production, 3D modeling on Rhino Resident Alien exhibition at ACFNY, 2019
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3D MODEL AND 2D GRAPHICS OF DOMAEN’S PAST PROJECTS
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