JENNY RENN KEY architecture / interior design / public interest design
Chicago 2010
New York City 2011-2012
san fransico 2011 Charleston 1989-2008
cincinnati 2008-2013
New Orleans 2013-2016
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ARCHITECTURE P U B L I C I N T E R E ST INTERIOR DESIGN
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
SKILLS
Concordia LLC New Orleans, LA
Tulane University New Orleans, LA
Tulane City Center New Orleans, LA
Thesis 2015 – 2016 Beyond Placelessness : Broadcasting the Story of a Toledo Neighborhood
- Modeling Programs Revit Architecture AutoCAD SketchUp Rhinoceros - Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere - Microsoft Office Word Excel PowerPoint - Mac and PC Proficient - Scale Model Construction General Shop Practices V-Ray Rendering Software AutoDesk123D Make - Hand Rendering - Hand Drafting - Photography MIG Welding - iMovie
MAY 2015 – AUGUST 2015, 3 months - headed FF&E selection, compiled interior packet for approval and purchasing, completed construction docs for the community center, Tribune Building Renovation, Wisconsin Rapids. JUNE 2014 – AUGUST 2014, 3 months - public interest design fellow for the Mardi Gras Indians, produced neighborhood analyses, led capacity building workshops and published visionary booklets for community partners.
GBBN Architects Cincinnati, OH
AUGUST 2012 – AUGUST 2013, 7 months - interior design intern, produced programmatic studies and articulated schematic designs for Miami University’s Residence Hall renovations, created test-fits & adjacency diagrams for MU’s Union, conceptualized design renderings for Children’s Hospital, developed material palettes and drew construction details for non-profit, commercial, and healthcare projects.
M Moser Associates New York City, NY
SEPTEMBER 2011– JUNE 2012, 6 months - design intern, selected various FF&E palettes, compiled budgets, performed site surveys, contributed to drawing sets for corporate interior projects throughout all design phases.
Gensler San Francisco, CA
MARCH 2011 – JUNE 2011, 3 months - academic intern, assisted on presentations, renderings and drawings in retail design projects.
HOK Chicago, IL
MARCH 2010 – DECEMBER 2010, 6 months - interiors intern, collaborated with Chicago & St. Louis offices on corporate / healthcare projects, met with sales representatives, managed materials library.
ArchiTextures Mattoon, IL
JULY 2008 – SEPTEMBER 2008, 3 months
School of Architecture, Master of Architecture - Master’s of Architecture August 2013 – Spring 2016 - GPA: 3.64 / 4.00
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning - Bachelor’s of Interior Design - Sept. 2008 – April 2013 - 5-year Program* - GPA: 3.58 / 4.00 Achievements 2016 T.A., Integrated Building Systems 2015-2016 Initiated, Led Student Mentoring Program, School of Arch. 2015 Awarded Top Student for Comprehensive Semester’s Work - 2015 Graduate Research Assistant 2014 Attended Design Futures Conf. 2014 T.A., Site Strategies 2014 Participant in Fast 48 (a human centered & social innovation charette for a housing neighborhood partner) 2013 Director’s Choice Award for Interior Design, DAAPworks UC Dean’s List 10/10 Quarters - 2012 Participant in the RDI Student Competition, Work Shown for DAAP - 2012 Selected FF&E for Nucraft Showroom, subsequently nominated for Interior Design Magazine’s Honoree, Category: Small Showroom - 2011 Traveling Team for Collaborative Restaurant Design Charette at Cornell - 2011 Participant in the Indianapolis Museum Island Residency Competition - 2011T.A., History of Modern Architecture - 2009 Work represented in DAAP’s Accreditation Review for NAAB - 2008–2010 IIDA Class Representative
jennyrenn.key@gmail.com 217.549.6452 4422 Iberville Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
*Participated in the Professional Practice cooperative learning program, alternating college study quarters with quarters of internships in the field of interior design while studying under the University Honors Program. Graduated with Honors.
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page 6-11. 2015 DANCE ARTS ACADEMY. COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO. page 12-13. 2013 MUSEUM OF THE CITY. URBAN ANALYSIS. page 14-17. 2014 BUILDING ARTS INSTITUTE. MATERIAL & TECTONIC STUDIO. page 18-19. IN PROGRESS BEYOND PLACELESSNESS. THESIS STUDY.
INTERIOR DESIGN
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page 20-23. 2013 SYNC OTR: GROW YOUTH CENTER. OUTREACH ORGANIZATION. page 24-27. 2012 EDGE: ART & ACCESSORIES. RETAIL DESIGN COMPETITION. page 28-31. 2011 THE PEOPLE’S MUSEUM. REHABILITATION STUDIO.
PUBLIC INTEREST
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page 32-35. 2015 NON-PROFIT SANKOFA’S TRUCK REDESIGN. DESIGN+BUILD. page 36-39. 2014 MARDI GRAS INDIANS AT TULANE CITY CENTER. FELLOWSHIP.
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page 40-47. 2010–2016 CONCORDIA, TCC, GBBN, M MOSER, GENSLER, HOK.
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DANCE ARTS ACADEMY. Graduate Comprehensive Studio. Won Comprehensive Design Award Warehouse District, New Orleans 12 weeks, 2015
The graduate comprehensive studio’s goals encompass all of the student’s skills to date, thinking about the building’s program, site, users, intention, circulation, structure, mechanical systems, sustainable practices, methods, facade, skin, life safety, occupation calculations, and materials simultaneously function together. This scheme explored the critical “space between”. As dancers perform, their awareness of their bodies is equal to the sensitivity to the space around their expressions, their kinesphere. As architects, we also intend to capture space in between our forms, to create the most impactful spaces.
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COMPREHENSIVE
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SCHOOL STRG 3 370 SF
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MECH 242 SF UP
LEVEL 3_1.8 1/8" = 1'-0"
SCHOOL STRG 1 113 SF
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SCHOOL STRG 2 82 SF
MECH 110 SF
OFFICE 1+2 264 SF
ADMIN SUITE 742 SF BOILER & CHILLER Not Enclosed
OFFICE 3+4 274 SF UP
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EVENT BAR 424 SF
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CAFE BELOW BB A302 UP
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FIRE PUMP ROOM LEVEL 2_1.8 121 SF 1
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GREEN ROOM 226 SF
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Scale LOADING ZONE
SCENE SHOP EXTERIOR 327 SF
ELECTRICAL 82 SF
INDOOR BIKE STORAGE 71 SF
BIKE PARKING
SCENE SHOP INTERIOR 770 SF
DRESSING ROOM 535 SF
SCENE STORAGE 424 SF
DRESSING ROOM 563 SF
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BOX OFFICE 300 SF
THEATER + STAGE 2727 SF
JANITOR 61 SF
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UP SUPPROTING MECH FOR THEATER UNDER RAKED SEATING
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URBAN MAPPING
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CITY & TECTONIC STUDIES Graduate Introduction Studio. New Orleans 8 weeks, 2013
The scrutiny performed by students upon the city produced a two-tiered semester project. Diagrams at varying scale were produced to show examinations of the city. Land versus water, open space, setbacks, building fabric, directionality of block hierarchy, movement, neutral ground, river connectivity, and topography are a few of the topics discovered through the analysis of these maps. After this greater context was studied, students took their findings of the city, and applied their intrigue to architectural, tectonic language in a museum of the city. To the lower right, this Marginy site holds the design of such a museum on an irregular block with a courtyard entrance.
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MATERIAL INVESTIGATION Graduate Tectonic Studio. Uptown, New Orleans, LA 12 weeks, 2014
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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION
1. ENTRY 2. ENTRY LOBBY Y...............................................1100 SF 3. VEHICULAR USER ENTRY 4. AUDITORIUM................................................4000 SF 5. TEMPORARY EXHIBIT................................850 SF 6. MASONRY SHOP........................................1650 SF 7. KILN......................................................................1000 SF 8. PLASTER SHOP.............................................1650 SF 9. COMMON WORK SPACE.....................2600 SF 10. MAINTENANCE SHOP.............................600 SF 11. WOOD SHOP..............................................1600 SF 12. METAL SHOP...................................................600 SF 13. OUTDOOR FABRICATION 14. OUTDOOR PORCH SPACE 15. LOADING ZONE / WASTE & RECYCLING 16. TOOL STORAGE 17. MATERIAL STORAGE 18. GALLERY..................................................6000 SF 19. OFFICE.....................................................2000 SF 20. CLASSROOM.....................................3400 SF 21. LIBRARY..................................................2100 SF 22. MEN’S RESTROOM 23. WOMEN’S RESTROOM 24. SHOWER / LOCKER 25. JANITOR / STORAGE
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This studio’s premise taught, “the materials and methods employed are embodied in the physical reality. They reflect the technical, cultural, historical and economic context of the building.” The New Orleans Building Arts Institute created spaces where an artisanal community could research and create under a single roof. Students were challenged to derive a clear concept based on site and program analysis, strategically locating the design on a completely open block in Uptown.
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This scheme incorporated a building dialogue across the block, relating the stretch to the many existing power lines from the old Entergy plant on site.The extensions bridge two wings of the building, and allowing the layers of the main wing to reflect the layered transition from outside to inside that can be experienced in many New Orleans homes. In this culture, we don’t experience street and interior as two different spaces and the building’s large porches represent the transparency of this city blurring street to interior activity.
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BROADCASTING A STORY OF A TOLEDO NEIGHBORHOOD M.Arch Thesis UpTown, Toledo, OH 6 months (In Progress), 2015-2016
Many American cities bury their identity as they evolve. When our cities surge, neglecting appropriate cultural conservation, our communities lose human quality and dishonor historical advances. Sustainable, ethical, and preservation movements establish guidelines for architects to embed deeper responsibility to their design decisions. Additionally, architects today are tasked with the duty to alter decaying or homogeneous landscapes. When we disregard all narratives embedded into a site’s cultural or climatic history, we fail that place’s accumulating identity, potentially hiding vibrancy under ubiquitous confinements. Architects have the responsibility to reveal a site’s aggregate of both visible and invisible forces to cultivate those qualities into physical reality.This mindfulness will help alleviate the genericism of our neighborhoods beyond placelessness.
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A YOUTH CENTER Interior Design Senior Capstone Awarded “Designer’s Choice” Interior Design Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 6 months, 2013
This conceptual outreach organization “Sync OTR” advances the community of Over-the-Rhine, an impoverished and historically rich neighborhood in Cincinnati with a high percentage of lower-income youth. Our group’s design contains three facilities that work together to better connect the neighborhood. They include a Homeless Shelter and Recreational Facility (classmate Paul Heintz), a Restaurant and a Job Training Facility (classmate Monica Blair), and my focus, a Youth Center for creative development and early learning. These outreach organizations span across three locations, bringing interaction between a larger network. Historic neighborhood, Over-the-Rhine. Our designs were presented at the 2013 DAAPworks senior show where they were awarded with Designer’s Choice, the top award for Interior Design seniors.
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CENTRAL COLUMN NEEDING POWER TO DISPLAY IMAGES, TEXT, AND NAMES OF MEMBERS. ALSO A SOURCE OF LIGHT.
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DRAWER TO BE INSERTED UNDER SECONDARY STAIR. DRAWER TO BE PL-3 & PL-4 & LINED WITH THE NECESSARY MATEIRAL.
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EDGE: ART & ACCESSORIES Retail Design Competition. Conceptual Building Shell, Toronto 10 weeks, 2012
RDI’s 2012 Retail Design Competition called for entries to “re-think high-end retail during an economic strain”. E.D.G.E. attracts fashion forward consumers by exposing artistic accessory collections through the “Exceptional, Distinctive, Gifted and Engaging” talents of luxury designers. The store promotes artists through creative product displays and unique technology opportunities including digital fitting rooms and an interactive product database. Overall, the interior design and lighting strategy is a vital contributor to E.D.G.E.’s entire sales through effective display.
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METAL CLADDING WALL APPLICATION GALLERY LEVEL WALL APPLICATION TEXTURED ACCENT WALL TREATMENT
ONYX FLOORING GALLERY LEVEL RUSTED METAL STOREFRONT & ENTRY CANVAS & PLASTER STUDIO FINISHES
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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
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REFLECTED CEILING PLAN
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NEIGHBORHOOD REHAB. Renovation Option Studio. Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, OH 9 weeks, 2011
What is a museum? A place for viewing artifacts? This museum is about the people and their stories, learning history through ways in which we share. In my experience, we share through correspondence, through photographs, through our voices, and by capturing media and the spaces reflect these ways. Stories told through first-person recordings bring intimacy to history. Visitors can use kiosks to write / draw their own stories to be displayed on suspended display screens in the entry.
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The People’s Museum explores virtual storytelling versus tactile storytelling. Memento boxes along the grand stair allows patrons to physically explore a former Over-the-Rhine resident’s life through documented possessions, photographs and recorded stories. Interactive tablets transfer stories of visitors to projected screens at the entrance. Within the boxes, pieces of a story make a whole. It’s by layering different artifacts and collections of words to compile together a vision of what Over-the-Rhine would look like during that time period. It’s the stories, the narratives, that truly shape a neighborhood.
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TRUCK TRANSFORMATION Tulane City Center’s Design + Build Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA 12 weeks, 2015
Sankofa approached Tulane City Center to improve their grocery delivery / food stand process. After an intensive 6 week design + 6 week build, 14 students took the 42 square foot bed of a Tacoma Toyota truck and transformed it into a beautiful, movable, compact, fresh food storage and display. The studio allowed me to appreciate the true collaborative process, when no one person had ownership over a certain aspect of the design. The project was truly unique as each component passed through the design minds and building hands of the students. I was exhilarated to sketch something and then bring it into the shop to test.
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The shop skills produced in this class including welding, measuring, cutting, sanding, grinding, prepping, finishing, etc. where as the shop time allowed me to become more bold in model making skills and in life. Another level of clarity needed to be achieved when communicating during this design+build studio. When you are trying to express your thoughts to the whole studio, needing approval from 14 different minds to understanding a certain item.
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TRADITIONS & CULTURE Public Interest Studio, Spring Tulane City Center Fellowship, Summer Central City, New Orleans, LA 7 months, 2014
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suit display
gathering hall
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artist-in-residence living, kitchen, dining
outdoor event
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suit display
wild creation studio
library & archives
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material library & donation / suit storage
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During the Spring’s service studio, Tulane professors urged students personally witness the Mardi Gras Earnto & invest $$ toward suits Indians during parading events. Across New Orleans, residents emerge from their homes to follow different payoff masking tribes. The Indians march in the streets, displaying their5. labor-intensive designs. They mask as materials takeduring on tradition to express their African-American heritage, filling the backstreets Mardi Gras celebrations. 1. donate 2. honor 3. disassemble 4b. Create new another life the suit suit suit Neighborhood mappingthe analysis helpedthedeveloped thiscommunity Mardi Gras Indian Headquarters. The three building with involment scheme allows for a public market in the center, supporting the arts and studio program inside. community
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Neighborhood Development
Vacant Lot
New Zion Baptist Church
Vacant Lot
Vacant Lot For Sale Property
For Sale Property
For Sale Property
Friendly Supermarket
Vacant Lot
Soul’s Seafood Market
MGI Walk of Fame
First House of Prayer Baptist Church
Beauty Salon
Dew Drop Inn
Vacant Lot / Shotgun Rehab
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Louisiana Seafood
Owner, Mrs. Jones
Transitional Housing
Exodus House
Fast Income Tax
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Washington ave.
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Residential Rehab Housing / Retail
Market on Lasalle
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Designz 59 Open Hands Sandwich Shop Woods Barber Unused Residential: Upper Floor Yaya Arts Center
Church: Greater Bright Morning Star
Unused Firehouse Brown Sugar Records
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The conceptual studio focused on designed for a headquarters for the MGIs. In the summer, I continued the work for the Tulane City Center team and produced a thorough analysis of Central City, Lasalle Street, to develop schemes for a Mardi Gras Indian Cultural campus. Conceptual research in the spring allowed me to better understand the MGI culture and to lead design and development meetings for select members of this community.
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GBBN, Cincinnati Internship, 7 months, 2012-13 HOK, Chicago Internship, 6 months, 2010-11
The fulfilling and learning intensive internships at Concordia, GBBN, M Moser, Gensler and HOK allowed me to contribute in design teams through professional practice. Left Spread : GBBN’s design for the Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital, Family Resource Center; FF&E Placement, Selection & Rendering by JRKey, Fall 2012; Architecture & Photography by GBBN. Right Spread Top : HOK’s Design for the University of Missouri Hospital’s Patient Room; FF&E deliverable package by JRKey, Fall 2010, Rendering by HOK. Right Spread Bottom : GBBN’s Chair Centric Area for Charity Hospital. Design, FF&E, & Rendering by Megan Mershman and JRKey, Fall 2012.
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Concordia, New Orleans Internship, 3 months, 2015 Volunteer Work, Spring 2013
Left Spread : Concordia had developed designs for Wisconsin Rapid’s renovation of their historic Tribune Building to become a new Community Center. The challenge was to create a holistic design with very different programs assigned throughout the structure. The FF&E selection must reflect their goals for an inviting, future-thinking space, yet honor their Wisconsin culture. I spent the summer selecting actual products to fit the firm’s design direction and client’s wishes. After selection, the finishes and furniture were compiled in the construction documents, budget, and a separate packet; all by JRKey. Right Spread : drawing edits by JRKey, Design by Humanure Power & Emma Jansinki.
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Independent Venture, Fall 2015 2418 Laperyouse St. A. VanHorn’s Residence
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M Moser, New York City Internship 6 months, 2011-12
Left Spread : Nucraft Showroom NYC & Chicago, FF&E Selection assisted by JRKey under Project Management of Charlton Hutton. Interior Design & Photography by M Moser. Right Spread: Houston Law Office, Sketch-up model created by JRKey, Design M Moser. FF&E Selection assisted by JRKey under Project Management of Jessie Bukewicz. FF&E packet designed, selected and compiled by JRKey and Jessie Bukewicz. Renderings by M Moser.
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JENNY RENN KEY architecture / interior design / public interest design 217.549.6452
jennyrenn.key@gmail.com
4422 Iberville Street, New Orleans, LA 70119