JENNIFER GAIKO Graduate Portfolio Spring 2017
Master of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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JENNIFER GAIKO
270.535.8033 jennlg14@vt.edu
Master of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
EDUCATION MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia August 2015 - May 2017 3.82 GPA Graduate Teaching Assistant, AIAS Member
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURAL SCIENCE | Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky August 2011 - May 2015 Summa Cum Laude Honors College Graduate Distinction 3.98 GPA OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDY AWAY | Stillwater, Oklahoma Spring 2014 University Dean’s List 4.0 GPA / Top Studio Student Award HARLAXTON UNIVERSITY FOR STUDY ABROAD | Grantham, England Spring 2013 University Dean’s List 4.0 GPA EXPERIENCE ODELL ASSOCIATES | Charlotte, North Carolina Summer 2016, Winter 2017 Architectural Summer Intern Programming & Analysis, Project Planning & Design, & Project Development & Documentation
VIRGINIA TECH ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN GRADUATE SCHOOL | Blacksburg, Virginia Fall 2015 - Spring 2017 Graduate Assistant Architectural Sketching, Digital Modeling, & Architectural Collaboration
WKU ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCE CENTER | Bowling Green, Kentucky
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Architecture Intern Project Management, Programming & Analysis, Project Planning & Design, Project Development & Documentation
SKILLS DIGITAL | AutoCAD, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, SketchUp and Kerkythea, Unreal Engine, Revit, Laser Cutter, CNC Route, 3D Print, Screen Printing, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Photography
ANALOGUE | Graphite + Color Pencil, Pen & Ink, Charcoal, Watercolor HONORS ARCHITECTURAL BRIDGE CONSEQUENCE | Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky May 2015 Capstone Experience/Thesis Project Honors College Graduate Distinction
REUSE THE BOX PROJECT | Branch Museum, Richmond, Virginia Fall 2016 Graduate Studio Exhibit OBJECTIVE To learn and grow as an architectural designer and become a leader in design innovation, while pursuing God’s call in my life.
CONTENTS
SELECTED WORKS 2016-2017
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Thesis Beginnings Rose Window
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Graduate Spring Studio Live, Work Sell
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Digital Workflows Duck Pond “Bridge”
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Professional Work Florence Conference Center
ROSE WINDOW
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fall 2016 - Spring 2017 Professor Bill Galloway Dr. Rodriguez Professor Scott Gartner Pembroke, Virginia In Progress
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Workflow: Photoshop>Screen Print
Rose Windows by Painton Cowen “Let us make a thing of beauty That long may live when we are gone; Let us make a thing of beauty That hungry souls may feast upon; Whether it be wood or marble, Music, art or poetry, Let us make a thing of beauty To help set man’s bound spirit free.” Edward Matchett (6)
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO GRADUATE THESIS
Rose Windows by Painton Cowen Light into darkness: a present from the past +“The ability to create beauty is God’s greatest gift to man. And the appreciation of beauty—whether man-made or natural—is not only a joy but an active call to something much greater than oneself. At rare intervals in our lives we may experience moments of magic, when a person, a place, a view, an object or a situation seems to transfix us, and we suddenly see the world in a quite different light. Such moments are often accompanied by an equally sudden ‘inner expansion’ and the realization that there is much more of life to be experienced, much that is unfulfilled. However unexpected the moments may be, they have a feeling of the Absolute about them. They are rare and elusive but leave us with a sense of awe and wonder which we feel is our birthright.” (7)
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Workflow: AutoCAD>Laser Cut>Hand assembly
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Workflow: AutoCAD>Laser Cut>Hand Assembly
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+Fay Jones primary principles: order of mystery, building is an art form, tension to resolution, rational geometry vs. sculptural geometry, earth and sky, transparent boundaries, organic architecture, landscape, relationship parts to pattern/form, geometry, structure, ornament, textures holistic attention, seed/kernel/nucleus manifests, design grows, and nature harmony.
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Arcology of Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri +“Arcology is Paolo Soleri’s concept of cities which embody the fusion of architecture with ecology. The arcology concept proposes a highly integrated and compact threedimensional urban form that is the opposite of urban sprawl with its inherently wasteful consumption of land, energy resources and time, and tendency to isolate people from each other and the community. Miniaturization creates the Urban Effect, the complex interaction between diverse entities and individuals, which mark healthy systems both in the natural world and in every successful and culturally significant city in history” (archosanti.org).
JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO GRADUATE THESIS
Workflow: GIS>Sketchup>Photoshop
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO GRADUATE THESIS
Rose Windows by Painton Cowen +“Rose windows thus symbolize man’s highest aspirations: to know God’s order, to become at one with Him, and ultimately to become co-creators with the Creator. As mandalas they perform the first task imposed on those who set out on this quest; they enable them to obey the injunction of Psalm 46: ‘Be still and know that I am God.’” (10) Mandala: symbol in a dream, representing the dreamer’s search for completeness and selfunity (Google) +“To unite the finite with the infinite through the square and circle is an aspiration, common to Christian and Islamic symbolism, which is embodied in a number of rose windows. (Clermont-Ferrand south, 14th c., Glass restored 1903)” +“Light, to the medieval mind, was a magical substance which contained the power to transform the soul. (Strasbourg west, c. 1318, glass much restored after storm in 1840).” (20)
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Workflow: Sketchup>AutoCAD>Laser Cut>Hand Assembly
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LIVE, WORK, SELL ARTIST STUDIO Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Graduate Studio Spring 2016 Professor Kay Edge Blacksburg, Virginia
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Workflow: Fusion360>CNC Route
+The main idea of my live+work+sell building stemmed from inspiration of graffiti murals in Blacksburg and California as well as Renzo Piano’s concrete wall in his California Academy of Sciences that had incredible adaptability and potential with construction technique considerations. I envisioned a muralist to live in my live+work+sell building with large concrete wall expanses that could be transformed by the muralist and constantly changing. I considered that light might be the key to transform a concrete form into something beautiful and inspire the artist concurrently. This is where the screen studies came into play; I studied how different geometric forms could captivate light on the monolithic floor planes of my building.
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO LIVE, WORK, SELL
+Land form is modeled here: drastic contours define the project parameters. A twenty-foot difference in elevation occurs from the Clay Street elevation of the building (southeast) and drops to the north corner of the site. Addressing this site limitation and opportunity is important in the building form that resulted in my project. The form began as a cube, was extruded and subtracted in many ways and allows a cantilevered portion of the building over the northeast elevation.
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Workflow: Sketchup>AutoCAD>Laser Cut
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+The first floor plan exhibits the public space denoted by the lightest shadows on the floor plan and divided by cabled systems for more paintings. The darker area in the north corner is a creative and work space for the muralist.
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Workflow: SketchUp>AutoCAD>Photoshop
+The second floor plan is the private living space for the muralist. This space is open to below, except for the enclosed bedroom and bath space in the north corner. The vision is for the kitchen space to be oriented by the north-facing window to allow beautiful diffused light all day long, with living spaces near the first floor overlook and railing. Note there are also stairs to the roof terrace.
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO LIVE, WORK, SELL
+The rendered section gives excellent spatial representation of how the public and private spaces are envisioned with the murals and vertical cabled system. Also, the crawl space could become a mural area as well.
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Workflow: SketchUp>AutoCAD>Photoshop
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Workflow: AutoCAD>Laser Cut
+This final model exemplifies the modifications and considerations made with the sun and screen of the design. +The screen is a secondary element on the facade now, detached from the building envelope, with the envelope using a glass wall here. +The nature of the material of the screen would be a metal sheet, allowable to rust over time, and with a few technical considerations: the screen would be thermobimetal that is two metals laminated with thermal expansion coefficients to reduce heat admission into the building here; the screen would also be composed of titanium dioxide to clean the air around the site. +Light is addressed to allow diffused northern light into the kitchen and public spaces, the south light would be diffused by tinted/shaded windows, and the direct light of the morning sun through the screen allows floor plane pattern as designed, but less directly with the twoscreen system of a glass wall and screen system.
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DUCK POND “BRIDGE”
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Digital Workflows Course Spring 2017 Professor Edward Becker Blacksburg, Virginia
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+Atmosphere, circulation and tactility are addressed in this “bridge” narrative that strives to focus on the rule of thirds with a cool color pallet for representation style. +Atmosphere is explored in the first rendering with depth composition and hierarchy in image composition of the ‘spatial object.’ This view allows a perspective as if a boat were approaching the design of form.
Workflow: SketchUp>Kerkythea>Photoshop
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO DUCK POND “BRIDGE”
Workflow: SketchUp>Kerkythea>Photoshop
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+Circulation of design in the second rendering allows a closer look at the proposed design. The “bridge” hints at Virginia Tech campus architecture—Torgersen Bridge and Gothic arches in various buildings—and allows structure and nature to intersect without imposition of program.
+Tactility in the final rendering allows an impossible view from above to experience material texture against the water of the duck pond.
Workflow: SketchUp>Kerkythea>Photoshop
JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO DUCK POND “BRIDGE”
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FLORENCE CONFERENCE CENTER Odell Associates Summer 2016
Brad Bartholomew, President & Director of Design Gaurav A. Gupte, Principal Associate & Project Architect and Designer Florence, South Carolina
+The Florence Conference Center addition and renovation is striving to reconnect with the contextual history of Florence, South Carolina. A strong history of railroads allow for a concept of railroads in an abstracted railroad pattern to expand throughout the project. The concept is evident in the dramatic roof line and paint job of the existing building, exterior plaza, interior wood slat ceiling, entrances to meeting rooms, carpet patterns, and much more.
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JENNIFER GAIKO PORTFOLIO FLORENCE CONFERENCE CENTER
+This project was an excellent learning experience at Odell. I participated in client and contractor/engineer meetings and a collaborative office setting. My responsibilities included digital modeling (Sketchup, Rhino and Revit), concept development, presentation production (Adobe Suite), and continuous learning and collaboration with my team. Note final rendering was outsourced.
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Thank you to my family, friends, and professors for making my educational studies successful. All glory goes to God.