Architectural Design

jesse a bank

bank@uoregon.edu

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completed design projects 2010-2012

+ brand-imaging center: 20,000sf. high-end imaging center, expressive form, multi-story. urban core. winter 2010. furniture project: design for a bed + build. recycled materials sourced from childhood home, milled personally. spring 2010. wall + tower + cube: net 12,000sf. residential, three private buildings on a rural site. summer 2010. community music institute: 15,000sf. institutional, single story, urban edge condition. fall 2010. chinese cultural academy, portland: 30,000sf. cultural/institutional, multi-story, urban core. winter 2011. mobilestudio!: 320sf. live + work, portable, off-grid, variable plan. spring 2011. thermocline: 300,000sf. industrial cold storage, ecologically sensitive site, complex vehicular circulation. summer 2011 krjava satama: competition for re-design of south harbor, helsinki, finland. design assistant and digital production. summer 2011 samtchatkå käíla: 8500sf. cultural center for klamath/modoc tribes. ecologically sensitive desert museum site. fall 2011

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mobilestudio! prof. erin moore spring 2011

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The core values of Mobilestudio are of simplicity, ease of installation, flexibility, and a deep respect for the richness of material. Mobilestudio is designed to transported and set up with minimal difficulty and labor, and can be serviced from the exterior without disturbing the artist at work. As a modular system, Mobilestudio is able to configured to a variety of plan arrangements, depending on site conditions or preferential orientations.

Two separate modules, with distinctly different interior characteristics and material treatments, create a sense of “home” and “work” for the visiting artist, thereby providing valuable separation between the modes of one’s life.

Mobilestudio’s restrained formal language lends a sense of visual serenity, and facilitates the appreciation of the rich material palette. Mobilestudio, in essence, seeks to make the most from the least - without sacrificing usability or the sense of joy that surrounds the creation of art.

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wall + tower + cube prof. megan haight summer 2010

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The Wall, Tower, and Cube Houses are a trio of structures envisioned for an intellectual couple seeking respite from their daily lives at their idyllic lakeside retreat. Built in stages, each of these structures are at once utilitarian, simple, and elegant, emphasizing a connection to one another, as well as to the raw beauty of their surroundings. Points of emphasis for this project included the poetry of natural light, structural ingenuity, and the sensitive employment of various materials.

This project is the product of my first graduate-level studio at the University of Oregon. All drawings were hand-drafted without the use of digitally-created underlays.

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prof. johnpaul jones fall 2011

Native Americans, throughout history, posessed a unique intuition about how one should live with the land - not merely on it.

Their keen awareness of their surroundings was borne of observation, and of an understanding rooted in the accumulated knowledge of millenia.

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We live in an era when it is more important than ever for Americans as a whole to understand these principles. Therefore, the goal of Samtchatka Kaila is duofold - to re-connect native cultures with the teachings of their ancestors, as well as to share those teachings with the widest possible audience.

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strucutral design

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profs. steven duff + mark d’onofrio fall + winter 2011

The functional needs of structural design are deeply appealing to me - the process of grappling with forces generates an order or hierarchy, giving a project’s formal characteristics a sense of purpose.

The projects here result from structures coursework at the University of Oregon. They represent initial explorations into wood and steel systems, focusing on member capacity, connection design, and the use of structural elements as space generators. Critically, though, they represent a multi-modal approach to structural design and understanding, from hand calculations to finite-end analysis, from physical models and sketches to 3d digital modelling and visualizations.

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furniture design personal work spring 2010

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The bed is the most personal of spaces. It is a center, a home, a place you return to each night to be recharged. It is the place that is most ‘you.’

I grew up as an only child, on a farm in upstate New York. I had a close relationship with my surroundings - the weathered, hand-hewn beams of the barns literally represent home for me. As I prepared to re-locate far away from this place, it was clear that I needed to preserve a piece of it, to remind me where I’m from. I hadn’t planned on building a bed. It’s just what the material wanted.

The project was a labor of love. 500+ hours of hard work salvaging, milling, and finishing lumber, combined with clean, simple lines, and the patina unique to historic lumber, to produce on object in which I take a great amount of pride.

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jesse a bank

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2980 ferry st. eugene or, 97405 p. 541.777.7071 e. bank@uoregon.edu w. jessebank.wordpress.com