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Jennifer Harrison
academic2007-2009 work
veterans cemetery of manhattan For my senior capstone project, I wanted to make an architectural statement about America’s societal tendency to supress the notion of death from contact with everyday life and how this presdisposition is reinforced through our nation’s cemetery designs. Through a new cemetery typology, I proposed that such proclivity could be changed. My design consisted of a ceremony and waiting space that were surrouded by walls of falling water, administation and public information buildings, a celebration courtyard, and 13 vertical towers that held over 500,000 interments - all on a Manhattan site less than 7 acres large, creating a powerful, yet calming and comfortable experience for the visitor.
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one hundred percent submission 12.13.2007 FOR CONSTRUCTION
1414 north first avenue, tucson arizona 85719
*These documents were a collaboration between myself, Patrick Bradley, Velen Chan, Emily Formentini, and Timothy Thorpe.
the COR
Using Revit Architecture 2008 and AutoCAD, we complied demolition as well as construction documents. The full set is availale upon request.
center for optical realities
For this project, groups of five students were responsible for putting together a complete set of contruction documents for an adaptive re-use project to transform an abandoned laundromat in Tucson, Arizona to a Center for Optical Realities - a small art gallery with an outdoor theater.
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the COR
urban arid institute This project focused on architectural systems, such as structural, mechanical, circulation, and skin. The major goal of the building was to efficiently utilize solar energy to not only power the needs of a mixed-use building that included work shops, exibition spaces, classrooms, and residences, but to artistically incorporate it into a building skin system for downtown Tucson, Arizona. I devised a narrow, but wide plan that utilized solar panels on the north and south facades and evacuated solar tubes on the roof. This design also minimized solar exposure on the east and west sides of the building. I designed the south facade to maximize solar exposure by creating an open breezeway covered in transluscent solar panels, and on the north facade, I employed a fin system that consisted of rotating panels that not only shaded the building and collected solar power, but also supplied privacy to the residences above.
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skin
mechanical
circulation
southern facade recieving high levels of solar exposure
fins providing shade for the northern facade
office building in estonia Here, teams were assigned, at random, a city and an architect for which to design an office building. The goal of the assignment was to create an enclosure system reflective of the architect’s work that was also appropriate for the climate in which it would be built. The group in which I worked was assigned to design the offie building for Tallinn, Estonia, which has severe winters and temperate summers, and the architect we were to “work” under was Zaha Hadid. We attempted to mimic Zaha’s popular design aesthetic of portraying sleek movement and art through a polygal skin that whose transparent cuts were formed by overlaying an abstract map of the city over the building itslef. By ultilizing both transluscent and transparent pieces of polygal to surround an open air walk and breezeway, we hoped to provide small exterior spaces for the workers that would also help ventilate and expose the building to as much natural heat and light as possible. *This project was done in collaboration with Ashley Harrison, Jenelle Hoffmann, and Renee Vanegas.
(used to seal or release semi-conditioned air) (used to seal or release semi-conditioned air)
(used to seal or release semi-conditioned air)
Facades as an Abstraction of the Roads of Tallinn
swap meet shade structure This project focused on tectonic assembly and spatial integration. Using a ruled surfaces made from a thin concrete shelled structure, students had to design a shade structure for the vendors at one of Tucson’s outdoor swap meets.
During the site analysis, my partner and I noticed that while the vendors currently had shade structures, the parking lot did not. We decided it would be more beneficial to create a new notion of the temporary marketplace by designing a shade structure for the parking lot so that not only would customers have a cooler car to return to in the hot summer months, but any overflow of vendors could essentially set up shop right from the back of their car or trailer. *This project was done in collaboration with Velen Chan.
scaffolding
elevation
mapping of car movements
sections
plan
Jennifer Harrison
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