JESSE HONSA Professional/Academic Architectural Portfolio 2011 jfhonsa@gmail.com
Maaghof Housing Estonian Academy of Arts Quarry Laboratory Soho Loft/Harlem Townhouse Citadel of Art Field Housing Retroactive Arcology Flex Bench
Maaghof: Aparment building in Zurich Project Architect, 2009-2011 Rutz Architekten/AGPS Architecture, Zurich
This 41,300 m2, 211-unit apartment building wraps around three sides of a park in the core of a developing central business district in Zurich. Sharing one side with another developer and architect, the building’s ambiguous form is conceived in three separate masses that incorporate the neighboring building into a reading of four volumes arranged around the park.
The facade materialization is an ‘approximation’ of the neighboring building’s yellow brick: glazed ceramic and metallic-gold plaster gives the overall impression of a unified courtyard while maintaining subtle differences.
The flat mix features 44 different apartment typologies. The east and west wings are organized with flats that occupy the 18 m depths. The 12,5 m northern wing features southfacing, flexible typologies, accessed from a corridor along the north fassade.
High-end Flats
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High-end flats occupy the top floor, with spacious terraces and views over the city. The lower two floors feature office space and smaller “business flats.”
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Office/ Retail Space
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Treppenhaus F
30 Wohnungen
Treppenhaus E
20 Wohnungen
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Otis 1000 Kg-13 Personen CLD 800mm
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Herag Delta 75 cm 286x750mm
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FA Otis 630 Kg-8 Personen CLD 800mm
Otis 1000 Kg-13 Personen CLD 800mm
FA Otis 630 Kg-8 Personen CLD 800mm
Otis 1000 Kg-13 Personen CLD 800mm
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Herag Delta 75 cm 286x750mm
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Otis 1000 Kg-13 Personen CLD 800mm
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Elektroschacht
26 Wohnungen
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Otis 630 Kg-8 Personen CLD 800mm
Otis 1000 Kg-13 Personen CLD 800mm
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Treppenhaus D 27 Wohnungen
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On the southern end of the building, the section opens up into generous 3,90 m tall spaces with a special “splitlevel� flat typology.
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Stebler 90b Breifkasten (3x8) 968 x 3991 x 275 mm
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Stebler 90b Breifkasten (3x9) 968 x 3991 x 275 mm
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+26.35
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Treppenhaus B +26.37
+26.35
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Heizung 25x45
+26.37
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+26.35
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+26.37
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+26.35
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Necessity of Ruins: The Estonian Academy of Arts Competition, 2008 RISD Advisor: Peter Tagiuri 1st Place, RISD Alumni Travel Grant 2008
The school of art is imagined as an enduring ruin reinhabited: mediating between an institution as eternal terra firma, and an unbounded, adaptive space for invention. Sited in a radically transforming Eastern European capital city, the ruin is considered an extension of the “geologic� medieval town of subterranean passages.
Unrolled section and corresponding plan: a reading of “Geologic� Tallinn
The façade exemplifies the diversity within the school of art: framed by monumentally large apertures in the concrete ruin, classroom facilities are built from corporeal, impermanent wood species.
As a school of art, a place for the exchange of ideas, the ruin is considered a stratified “campus� of atria, arcades, and terraces.
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1. 2. 1.Underground Passage (to Bus Terminal) 2.Gallery 3.Cafeteria 4.Auditorium 5.Mediathek 6.Library 7.Lecture Halls 8.Classrooms 9.Studios
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Quarry (Labor)atory
“Architecture of Trees� RISD Advanced Studio Critic: Peter Tagiuri, 2007
Deep within a state park in Rhode Island, the quiet remnants of a longabandoned quarry are absorbed into the lusciousness of the forest. A laboratory mines the forest for resources and information: slowly moving along the quarry walls as it excavates granite, mills lumber, and cultivates new growth in greenhouses that ultimately reforests the void.
Plan: Greenhouse Laboratory, Library, Lumber Mill, Drying Racks, Quarry walls
“Quarry-grown Lumber�: irregularly situated trees in the quarry develop concentrations of tensile and compressive fibers, much like reinforced concrete. Early experiments with splitting, reversing, and binding tree trunks neutralizes irregularities.
Derrick crane-like roofs, suspended from the quarry walls
Small, enclosed programs, such as the library, hover above the cold, wet quarry floor; nestled within the large, industrial space formed by stacks of drying lumber, quarry walls, and the canopy-like roof.
Soho Loft
Designer, 2008 Aardvarchitecture, New York City
Design development, construction details, project managing. A conversion of a 2,400 square foot loft for a photographer. The several distinct, intimate spaces open up to the larger loft with pivoting doors.
Harlem Townhouse
Designer, 2008 Aardvarchitecture, NYC
A single-run stair, extending from entry to building rear, accesses the main four floors of the house. The resulting 50 foor long interrupted spaces are services by baths and storage “tucked-in� above and below the primary stair.
Citadel of Art: Lugano
RISD Advanced Studio/ Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio Switzerland, 2006 Critic: Lynnette Widder Published in Empathy and Abstraction
The isolated character of a 19th century slaughterhouse in a modern, urban setting is preserved as it becomes a “citadel of art�: an extended promenade leads patrons around and through the complex.
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7. 1.Performance Hall 2.Foyer 3.Gallery 4.Administration 5.Mediathek 6.Artist Studios 7.Restauraunt 8.Cafe 9.Sculpture Garden
Like the art center itself, the reception of art is understood as a “4-dimensional� procession: patrons often have the ability to view works from multiple vantages. Three volumes orbit the large performance hall as part of this procession.
Field Housing: Millbury, MA RISD Urban Studio, 2005 Critic: Anne Tate
A former textile mill with an extremely deep footprint is converted into a “mat� of housing. A system of courtyards and terraces are carved out of the roof, like an extension of the skylights endemic to deep industrial buildings.
Units are arranged vertically: -south-facing living areas adjacent to garden terraces -sleeping quarters at a “stoop� level, arranged around courtyards -public circulation running through courtyards -parking at the basement level
De/Motown: A Retroactive Arcology for Detroit 1st Prize, Think-Space “Urban Borders� competition Collaboration with Filmmaker Greg Mahoney
Decentralized Network
Distributed Network
This proposal uses the Central Business District of Detroit, already largely abandoned, as a found-object for an investigation of the skyscraper as a typology. Recognizing that skyscrapers have remained largely single-use because of a de-centralized system of circulation dependent on the elevator, this proposal hinges on a ramping, viaduct that connects the towers at multiple levels. It takes the form of a helix, intersecting itself to create a lattice-work of movement.
Unrolled Section
Sky Farms
Flats/ Offices
Civic/ Commercial (Viaduct)
Industrial Belt
The shrinking population of Detroit is concentrated around a series of urban nodes.
Viaduct Map
Geothermal
Flex Bench
RISD Furniture Studio, 2007
A play between monolithic and tectonic forms of construction. Dimensioned wood rests between the continuous steel armature. A bolted plate allows an adjustable tolerance to the ash slats’ movement: the steel bends and allows the ash to respond to additional weight.