Design Portfolio Jeremy Smith 2009-2012
Mill Creek Nature Center [2]
re-Ligare Institute [8]
EPA Mid-Rise [18]
Zombie Safe House [28]
Resourced Coffee Table [32]
Kinetic Sculpture [34]
Hybridscapes: Integrated Remediation [38]
Glider Chair [48]
Mill Creek Nature Center Third Year Studio - Fall 2009 Awards, if any
Third Year Studio - Fall 2008
Design Achievement Award: Third Place: Third Year Professional Program, Spring 2009, SPSU Design Honor Award for innovative concept, systematic process, and strong design solution Exhibited in AIA South Atlantic Regional Convention: Greenville, SC Published in Polychrome Fall 2008, SPSU
The Georgia Wildlife Federation proposes its headquarters at the site of Mill Creek in the first professional studio within SPSU. The project brief required me to consider issues of sustainability, structural systems, ADA accessibility, and the building’s own engagement with nature. The site itself became the dilemna: how to manage an engagement with the wildlife sanctuary of Mill Creek in a site that is juxtaposed between the infringing Mall of Georgia to the
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west and the eastern boundary of interstate. My attempt became to counter the invasive and destructive force of the nearby expansion through an interaction with the landscape. Rather than leveling the site to grade, this
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nature center reacts to the landscape, burrowing into the earth and extending outwards, thus preserving the grasses on the hillside which prevent erosion and protect the natural watershed. These ideas were developed through study models, and became the combination of Study Models A and B. The program provides the foundation for an education through nature, with laboratories and an assembly hall for lectures, an exhibition hall for galleries and bird watching, and a butterfly pavilion to provide a nesting ground for the annual butterfly populations. In addition to aesthetics and experience, the extension of the nature center is a gesture of sustainability: the slats are designed for optimum solar shading, the roof is pitched
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[Site Map] study model c Mill Creek Nature Center
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Water Retention Construction of roof of exhibition hall allows for the passive collection of rainwater.
Solar Shading Shading cornice on exhibition hall allow sunlight to penetrate in winter, and block during summer
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Cross Ventilation During the summer, the doors of the exhibition hall can be opened to allow for cross ventilation.
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[Transverse Section] Mill Creek Nature Center
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re-Ligare Institute Comprehensive Studio - Spring 2010
Third Place: Comphrensive Studio Competition, Spring 2010, SPSU Submission into ACSA/AISC Design Competition, Spring 2010
A contemporary day spa of meditation, the re-Ligare Institute project (a competition of the ACSA and AISC) challenged a reconnection of the mind, body, spirit, and social. With a program that resembles that of a day spa combined with meditation and social spaces, my focus became an attempt to utilize the program in providing users with a sense of control. This became my re-interpretation of the meditation process: helping to rehabilitate one’s own sense of control in life. Following this logic that one’s own control fosters meditaiton, I designed the institute in a way that encourages an interaction and engagement. Spaces are transformable. Curtains can be adjusted. Doors can be opened. Senses can be unlocked. With the site located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta, adjacent to the High Museum of Art campus and neighborhoods, and a block away from the MARTA transit station, it lies near the epicenter of urban life. What the building offers is a dynamic language to this urban space: a diagram of structural steel frame with a program nestled within which is playfully intuitive. This provides a sense
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within the structural frame, the landscape navigates itself throughout the building, a gesture that extends the public social space from the sidewalk to deep within the building. Program is then collaborated to the artificial landscape, the foundation being the performance hall which acts as the center for the institute, allowing the social activity to become the nexus of the design. Elements of the spa are placed at the basement level, basked in daylight from the garden above, while the program of the institute tactfually interacts with the social, music, and silent gardens.
[Site Map] re-Ligare Institute
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C Options for engagement with outside
[Floor Detail A]] Floor detail of walkway between gardens, illustrating the passage of light as people move along space.
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[Building Section B]] Building section of social garden above restaurant. re-Ligare Institute Mill Creek Nature Center
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EPA Mid-Rise Third Year Studio - Spring 2009
Showcased at YAF Exhibition, August 2009 Nominated for Third Year Studio Competition, Spring 2009
Situated In the heart of tech square in downtown Atlanta, this green-focus mid rise was to become the new EPA headquarters. The project began with intensive daylight studies seeking an innovative solution to maximize the intake of natural light while blocking direct sunlight. What resulted was a concept of shifting plates which created a visual reaction of vertical solar ribbons which directed light. The project then developed through a series of morphology exercises, determined through precedent studies of office layouts and site conditions.
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outcome became an office setting with punctuations in the floor plate which created unique situations as well as interactive vantages. This theme carried through the georgia tech campus
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building, informing the layout of the roof gardens as well as a stepped plaza.
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As a mid rise the project encouraged me to design in section, with full consideration of systems ( structural, environmental, and mechanical).
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building is steel framed with concrete decking. The punctuations in the floor plates and the tiered section of the elevation created interesting details in which to respond to, all the while trying to preserve the conceptual integrity of the spaces.
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Integration of ventilation in floor plate allows heat to escape and draw in cool, fresh air.
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light studies: june 21, 9am
light studies: march 21, 9am
light studies: december 21, 9am
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Zombie Safe House Zombie Safe House Competition 2011 - September 2011
Amidst the devastation that lie in the wake of the zombie horde, the un-infected populations have now become a society of refugees, forced to migrate to unsettled regions. No longer are populations living in suburban neighborhoods and downtown high rises, but instead dwell in the new vernacular of this zombie-era, the zombie safe house.
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This project offers a proposal to this new typology, one that attempts to combine two aspects of survival: production and protection. Rather than a traditional home comprised
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of one family, the safe house operates more as a hostel. In this situation, Occupants tend to stay for varying lengths of time; some for days, some for years. What this allows is a changing dynamic within the safe house; it affords new opportunities as new occupants are able to offer new skills and abilities to an advantage. A modern-day castle, it is com-
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prised of multiple trades that improve the well-being of the community. Also like a castle, it is well suited to withstand a siege of the undead through its defenses that are designed to be integrated and constructed with modern building practices to become simpler for the layman. With high windows, sturdy noise-dampering walls, impenetrable doors, and intraversable levels. Effectively defendable, it is equally sustainable; a necessity during a siege. With farm production in close proximity and large storage capacities for foods and supplies, on-site water storage, abundant natural lighting, passive cooling, and low-maintenance geothermal power
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Modes of Evacuation Whether its an intrusion by a few, or a full-scale horde of the undead, there are multiple means of egress during any zombie scenario.
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Modes of Production Water is retained, stored, and heated through geothermal process. Electricity is provided via geothermal generator. Sewage and organic waste are converted into compost.
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Resourced Coffee Table
February 2012
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More of an adaptive re-use than a new construction, the concept of this coffee table was to reconstitute scrap wood collected from the ReSource Yard in Boulder. What became of this amateur project was realizing the strengths of the various typologies of woods, and redefine the uses. For example: using bands of wood flooring as shelving, wooden i-joists as the legs (which when rotated work great as shear bracing and legs), and refinishing the surface of an overglossed headboard. Total cost of materials: $5.00
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While in an elective course I began exploring kinetic expressions through the medium of modeling. Motivated by the creatures created by Theo Jansen as well as incorporated in previous studio design projects, the foundation of the series was the interaction between the user and object. Like the works of OSKA, the intention is to allow a user to have a direct influence on a space through the adjustment and manipulation. It is the initimate connection where the user’s direct cause forces a reaction (the unpredictable effect) that I find powerful in these studies.
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Hyrbidscapes: Integrated Remediation Focus Studio - Fall 2010 Chosen as Exhbitor, Spring 2011
Diogenes, by Poussin A semester-long project of Focus Studio, Hybrid-
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scapes investigated the re-imagination of the paradigm between building, landscape, and infrastructure. The idea of infrastructure became expanded into the social, ecological, and building as we were tasked to design the remediation of a site, which was once a landfill. The issues enveloped the site were social, as well as toxicity, structural, and environmental. My initial emotions to the site was a strong sense of agoraphobia; where the lanfill once stood is now a 60+ acre overflow parking lot for the Georgia World Congress Center. In exploring this agoraphobia, monsters soon developed through sketches which became my perception of the site. Pushing this sense of agoraphobia, I took the picturesque painting as a reference, citing the lot as the middle ground, the neighborhood victims of the site’s toxicity as the foreground, and the city’s skyline as the background; the desire for an escape from the situation. In a sublime-sense, I inverted the idea of the picturesque through penetration into the earth. Following this investigation, I began treating this site as a body, poisoned by the landfill; a victim.
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The site [Commons] itself lies as the center of a complex relationship of adjacencies. The neighborhoods of Vine City and English Avenue are being imposed and
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Hybridscapes: Integrated Remediation
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IV. The Remediation: [reparations to Commons] The City of Atlanta will follow a designed phasing strategy to remediate the site, and nurture the Commons as a
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site of valuable resource to both Habitat and Community. 1. Phase I (2-4 months): A system of lances is injected into the site, managed by the EPA in collaboration by the Environmental Office from UGA. Operating through In-Situ Vapor Air Stripping process, the Site will be disinfected of its present toxicity as a result of the landfill waste and Leachate.
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4. Phase IV (On-going): Infrastructure is installed by the City of Atlanta, comprising of the structures for the hatchery, sluice gates, and water retention canal allowing the site to function as an effective watershed. The water is filtered and collected, stored for the community use, as well as to supply irrigation for the terrace farming. The City also installs the pathways and structures to house the necessary programs taking place on site. Care is taken here by the City to keep the built environment from not damaging or being invasive onto the biological environment, preserving healthy growth of the Habitat. Once the infrastructure and remediation is complete, the City of Atlanta will turn possession over to the community... as a means of reparation to the community. A Scientific Board of Trustees (SBT)... This Community Advisory Board (CAB) will manage the site, with the power to:
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2. Phase II (2-3 years): Continued by the EPA and UGA, this phase operates as a metaphor for the site. The site itself represents a body, poisoned by the landfill, and the process of remediation requires surgical precision. The site will be opened up by a series of incisions, further investigating the damage, and removing the larger contaminants from the earth, recycling those viable. Organic matter could be used as composting, while harder particles could be used as aggregate for constructions, the largest components could be used for fish habitat, creating artificial reef.
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3. Phase III (6 months): Removal of toxins is complete, and because of the incisions into the site, oxygen is present within the soil, transforming it from anaerobic process, to aerobic process, stimulating growth and healthy soil. To heal the site, and make reparations to the Habitat, the gashes resulting of incisions will collect rain water and be flooded acting as a water-shed for the area, and vegetation (wildflowers, legumes, rye) will be planted to prevent erosion and re-deposit nutrients in the soil and cattails and algae planted to add nutrients and oxygen into the water, further integrating the Habitat into a cohesive network. Areas that require further attention will have additional, specific plantings to address toxicity; such as Azalea for concentrations of Formaldehyde, Peace Lily for Benzene, mushrooms for traces of metals, and Cattails for Arsenic contamination. Bees and other insects would aid in pollination, and earthworms would aid in enriching the soil.
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V. The Commons: This Habitat exists as a delicate part of the urban fabric, one that must be nurtured and protected. It shall provide sanctuary for varieties of fauna and flora, as follows: 1. Fish Hatchery, for both consumable and endangered fishes, as well as crayfish (whose ability to inhabit the lower wetlands will provide food for fish and humans). The fish will be .4 fed from food both grown on site (corn, wheat), and naturally occurring (algae, insects) 2. Sanctuary for displaced urban animals (such as stray dogs, cats, raccoons), for rehabilitation, acting as an animal shelter to aid in adoption, as well as recreation (dog-walking). 3. Sanctuary for birds, migratory (pigeons, geese) and local species (sparrows, doves, osprey). 4. Terraced farming, for food consumption. 5. Sanctuary for numerous endangered wetland species, such as salamanders, frogs, etc. 6. Populations of wildflowers, for stimulation of bee populations, aiding in the growth of the areas horticulture.
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Glider Chair
Furniture Design - Summer 2010 Published in Polychrome
With the chair as the intimate negotiator between the body and the earth, a confident relationship exists between a chair’s embrace and the relaxed body. A chair does not have to remain static to offer this support; by becoming kinetic and offering the ability to move the role of a chair as the delicate levitator is further emphasized. Thus, this bricolage model is a study of the see-saw, whose simplicity is both interactive and enjoyable. Interested in this engagement, I gave the chair the potential to surprise and excite. The “fabric� of the chair was the reconstitution of a discarded, heavily aged section of cypress lumber. The construction of the chair was the process of reclaiming and restoring the wood and fabricating the actual mechanics of movement using wood-working techniques.
The Bricolage Glider Chair
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