JESSICA ELLIOTT Selected Works
Masters of Architecture Candidate Yale University
JESSICA ELLIOTT Selected Works
Masters of Architecture Candidate Yale University
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Cross Florida Greenway Rural Ecology Research Center Ocala, Florida Fall 2011
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Building Project
New Haven, Connecticut Spring 2014
Communal Separation New Haven, Connecticut Spring 2014
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Under Pressure Fall 2013
Tiber River Residential Block and Community Plaza Rome, Italy Fall 2012
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Harlem Mark 125 Harlem, New York Fall 2015
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del Sol
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Santa Barbara, California Spring 2016
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White Dragon
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Resilient Bridgeport Bridgeport, Connecticut Spring 2015
East Asia Theoretical Sketching China Summer 2012
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Parts is Chair Spring 2014
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Via dei Fori Imperiali Rome, Italy Summer 2015
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Site Study Models
Site Plan
Cross Florida Greenway Rural Ecology Research Center Design Five Critic: Stephen Bender Ocala, Florida Fall 2011
A research center focused on the land and water ecologies of the Oklawaha River Basin, incorporates structures sparsely populating the landscape through which both on-site researchers and visitors can observe and learn.
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Inclined Pathway
Intersection of Pathways
Spatial Mapping
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The raised boardwalk pathways reach out through the forests allowing for many different experiences and for movement throughout the landscape without creating a detrimental impact on the land.
Natural Canopy Enclosure
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Reception - Gallery - Conference Center
The site, once a construction area preparing for the controversial Cross Florida Barge Canal which has since been abandoned for decades, has been left to nature, becoming a mixture of natural regrowth within a damaged landscape. The research center seeks to learn from and regenerate the landscape.
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Research and Teaching Laboratories
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Teaching Laboratory - Library - Teaching Studio
Teaching Laboratory - Dining - Terraced Pathway
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The experience of the landscape through the research center intervention, causing the inhabitant to discover the site and the buildings situated within, is that which could create a lasting memory and become a destination for local residents as well as for long distance scientists.
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Physical Model
Communal Separation First Year Design Studio Critic: Amy Lelyveld New Haven, Connecticut Spring 2014
Axonometric Concept Diagram
Studying the micro housing typology for the 2014 Vlock Building Project, the program features two units on a sliver site within the west river neighborhood. The minimal dwelling considers the juxtaposition of the communal spaces outside and the privacy desired within.
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Gradients of Privacy
The larger 500 sq.ft. unit pushed towards the back of the site interacts through a shared covered walkway with the smaller 300 sq.ft. unit. Allowing for a feel of expansiveness despite small sizes, the loft-style residences allow for views and is designed for sustainable living.
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Studying the sun path on the site, the units were organized to allow for a central shared porch, with a back garden and seating area occupying a space that the entire neighborhood utilized for cookouts on the previously vacant lot. The roof also assists in bringing light in and allowing for passive cooling.
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Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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Sectional Model
Cross Section
Longitudinal Section
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Vlock Building Project Team A First Year Design Studio, Spring 2014 Partners: Richard Mandimika, John Kleinschmidt, Clarissa Luwia, Chloe Pu, Shayari De Silva, Anna Meloyan, Dima Srouji New Haven, Connecticut
Responding to the sliver site and mirco scale living spaces, the proposal for an expansive yet compacted living arrangement is anchored on to and defined by the shifting site walls and the prefabricated components. The components pinwheel on the site, allowing for the interior spaces to expand out visually.
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Second Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
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Front Yard Exterior Rendering
The front of the house is pushed back on the site, with the front storage component organizing and separating the entrances between the two units and parking for both units to the left of the front pathway. The site walls assist in creating the pinwheel sequencing of entry and interior to exterior experience.
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Back Yard Exterior Rendering
In the back yard, the ground floor unit expands out into a side porch and the site walls extend back to take full advantage of the length of the site. The second floor unit entry porch cantilevers overhead, with an unoccupiable green roof that provides a buffer and visual extension to the exterior from the bedroom.
Jim Vlock Building Project - Team A
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Physical Model ARCH 1012
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BIOLOGICAL VENTILATION WASTE MANAGEMENT HEATING POTABLE WATER
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SYSTEM CORES COMPACT TECHNICAL WALLS WITH INTEGRATED SYSTEM EMBEDDED FLOOR JOISTS INSULATED FOAM 1/2” PLYWOOD FINISH AIR/VAPOR BARRIER
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WITH EMBEDDED STRUCTURE INFILL CABINETRY TO DETAIL
MASS PRODUCTION LOGISTICS PREFABRICATED CUSTOMIZED FURNITURE WALL MODULAR TRANSPORTED TO SITE ON FLAT-BED TRUCK
STRUCTURAL PLYWOOD SIDE /BACKBOARD INSULATED FOAM PLYWOOD FINISH AIR/VAPOR BARRIER 1/2” CEDAR SIDING
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STAIRCASE FUTURE ADAPTABILITY CONFIGURATION STRUCTURAL PLYWOOD INSULATED FOAM PLYWOOD FINISH AIR/VAPOR BARRIER 1/2” CEDAR SIDING
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INFILL FURNITURE MODULES INSULATED FOAM 2x6 LOADBEARING STUD WALL GLOSSY PLYWOOD FINISH AIR/VAPOR BARRIER 1/2” CEDAR SIDING
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ISOLATED PAD FOOTINGS TO MINIMIZE IMPACT ON SITE
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Physical Model Assembly Sequence
Physical Model
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Piazza Del Popolo
Large Scale Public Plaza
Spanish Steps
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Piazza Polverone
Small Scale Residential Plaza
Piazza Arenula
Small Scale Private Piazza
Typologies of Urban Public Space
Tiber River Residential Block and Community Plaza Design Seven, Fall 2012 Critics: Alfonso Perez-Mendez Partner: Christopher Franco Rome, Italy
The city of Rome offers a considerable amount of urban public space, providing both urban city residents and tourists with spaces to interact and become integrated within the city culture. After studying the ranges of intensities and scales of urban community spaces, the residential block and community plaza was developed to become an attractor within the city, but to also remain a moderately intense place for interaction between residents and visitors.
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Site Densities
Studying the relationships of people within urban community spaces, a list of desired spaces was developed surrounding the needs of each group of people and how they would interact within the spaces, forming a composition for the building arrangements and providing a number of amenities, such as a school, library, offices, commercial shops, a market place, as well as a viewing platform that connects the site to the Tiber River.
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Operating on a sloped ground condition, the public space lifts up to a platform with a connecting bridge that links the site to the water. Underneath the slope is a commercial space that allows movement through underground and then up into the public space. The floor planes are perforated to provide a canopy for the spaces below while the bridge offers a space to rest just above the river.
The main programmatic elements: the library, school, and the residential towers, provide the main organizational gestures surrounding the sloped plaza, which is intended to be the most intense space and an attractor for the city. The oasis within the plaza space is contrasted with the viewing platform, a belvedere space with linkage to the river.
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The two systems of building construction, shell and blades, create an integrated system with the exterior glass and assist in the joints between each floor. The buildings are also interlocked, providing a distinction between program within a cohesive structure. Linked together by a system of columns, floor plates and an exterior grid system, the two systems collectively define the individual buildings and allow for dynamic interior and exterior spaces.
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Sloped Plaza Interior View
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Overall Aerial View
The urban plaza space becomes the most important space within the Residential Block, providing an area within the built environment where both visitors and residents can come to relax, interact and enjoy. The slight slope of the plane that creates the plaza allows for a gradual incline leading to a viewing platform that extends out of the site. Across the glass bridge, the double layer viewing platform allows access to the street and to the river below.
The overhead canopy and platform mimic the sloped plaza and blade construction. Underneath the plaza, there is a commercial space that is penetrated by light through the perforations in the floor of the plaza and allows for an entrance to the plaza from the street. The space becomes a place for social interaction, shopping, eating and enjoying the view of the Tiber River.
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Section A
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Under Pressure First Year Design Studio Critics: Joyce Hsiang New Haven, Connecticut Fall 2013
Section B
As a response to the angled surface, the shifting and undulating planes echo the movement and experience on, above, within, and underneath the surface. The language of the topology under pressure yields platforms for views, shifts in elevation for ascension, and alcoves for resting. The horizontal striations across the vertical surfaces translate the sense of motion and transiency.
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Model Photos
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Harlem Mark 125 Third Year Design Studio Critics: Sara Caples, Everardo Jefferson, Jonathan Rose Harlem, New York Fall 2015
Site Plan
Across from the iconic Apollo Theater in the new 125th Special Zoning District of Harlem, the project re-imagines the Mart 125 site as a distinct cultural marker with community and cultural tenant programming, co-working office space, affordable housing, and a restaurant.
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Section Perspective
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125th St. Elevation
Working within strict zoning laws, the building seeks to represent and support the shifting cultural identity of Harlem. On the 125th Street frontage, the transparency of the double height ground floor restaurant and lobby to the cultural and co-working office spaces above invites discovery from the street.
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124th St. Elevation
On the quieter and smaller scale side of 124th Street, the entrances to both the affordable housing for retired jazz musicians and the intergenerational daycare center can be found. This south elevation incorporates sun shading devices and reflects the interior program of the building in the facade.
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Residential Interior Renderings
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Residential Plans
The intergenerational daycare connects through to the cultural lobby on 125th St, passing underneath the dicroic glass skylight to the residential courtyard above. The residential apartments are accessed through the ground floor lobby, with 27 units total and interiors that break the orthogonal site walls.
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124th Street Lobbies
There is a gym and community kitchen to promote health and wellness, looking out to the private residential courtyard. The courtyard is raised above the restaurant to provide privacy and allows for community gardening both here and on the accessible residential roof top.
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Restaurant Interior Renderings
Study Model
Sectional Model
Co-working Office
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Two floors of table dining and bar spaces. Basement kitchen 40 also serves the screening room. 125th Street Lobbies
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The restaurant occupies much of the street frontage, with a bar set at the entrance to enhance visibility and to bring in patrons exiting the Apollo Theater. The main seating area allows for a stage for small performances, underneath the dicroic skylight. Controlling the desired connections and necessary
separations between program, the dicroic glass skylight emulates the beauty of diversity and unpredictability. The program above includes Firelight and Futuro, community organizations focusing on radio and stage productions featuring radio and stage productions focusing on minorities, and a WeWork above.
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Villa del Sol HUD Affordable Housing Competition Partners: George Hajjar, Nick Wilde, Parth Shah Santa Barbara, California Fall 2015
Site Plan and Programming
Villa del Sol is a development that embodies innovation in sustainability, design impacting family dynamics, and creative and viable finance structure. Reimagining the existing property in need of redevelopment, the design mixes market rate and affordable housing, creating a heightened sense of community
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Site Section
Exterior Rendering
through shared amenities and programming. The buildings are inspired from the context of Santa Barbara and are organized on the site along a permeable pedestrian friendly street, linked together through interwoven pathways lined with colonnades and plants that bring residents to their shared front porches.
The site also incorporates a KinderCare learning center to provide both funding to the development and resources to the families of the community. The focus of the design centered on inclusivity and connectivity while maintaining a sense of privacy and security, expanding upon the communities needs and desires.
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Streetscape Rendering
Building Unit Axonometric
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1 Bedroom - 600 sq.ft.
2 Bedroom - 750 sq.ft.
3 Bedroom - 1000 sq.ft.
4 Bedroom - 1200 sq.ft.
Unit Floor Plans
While parking was a necessity on the site, the desire to create more than a parking lot yielded a design for a central street inspired by Dutch woonerf designs. Parking is found covered underneath the cantilever of the residential units, with the entryways at the shared front porch on the opposite side.
The residential units stack, creating no differentiation between market rate and affordable units. They are connected through a central covered staircase open to the exterior. The units have daylight from three faces, allowing for cross-ventilation and the ability to include solar panels and water storage.
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Determining that the property was eligible for the AUD bonus density program, we increased NOI and the number of affordable housing units, blending market rate units into our design bringing our development to an 80:20 ratio reflecting primarily affordable rate units.
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Community Center and Park Rendering
Community Center Ground Floor Plan
Community Center Second Floor Plan
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Studio Diagram
Resilient Bridgeport Second Year Design Studio, Spring 2015 Critic: Alan Plattus Partner: Samantha Jaff Bridgeport, Connecticut
Re-imagining the South End neighborhood as part of a studio-wide master plan for the city of Bridgeport, the urban studio focused on how to reconnect and improve the flows of waterways, highways, railways, and their hubs for transportation that is utilized far beyond the city limits of Bridgeport and has been a major source of congestion and currently divides the entire city into fragments.
Existing Street Grid
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Connection to Greenway
Water Management Diagram
For our portion of the site, the focus narrowed in to the low-income housing blocks in the South End, Marina Village set to be demolished and redeveloped. The challenges of vacant and dilapidated housing within the 100 year flood plain allowed for a restitching of the roadways and a renewed focus on the exterior public spaces and street scapes of the residential areas adjacent to historic Seaside Village.
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Street Typologies
Through a consideration of both community use of the street scapes and the ability to manage and reroute water which currently renders streets unusable in heavy storms, the three typologies of streets reorganize and reconnect the existing fabric into a system of permeable pedestrian streets and communal front porches to build a sense of ownership and to strengthen community while also providing usable public parks and open space.
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Raised Level Floor Plan
Ground Level Floor Plan
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Sectional Model Photos
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Complete Neighborhood Street Rendering
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Community Park Rendering
Viz III: The White Dragon
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Visualization III, Spring 2014 Critics: Ben Pell, John Eberhart Partners: Elizabeth LeBlanc, Anne Householder, Lisa Albaugh, Sarah Kasper, Caitlin Thissen 18
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Testing methods of fabrication at full scale, the While Dragon is situated impermanently at the monumental entry stair at Paul Rudolph’s Art and Architecture building at Yale. The installation consists of wood hinges that lock into the stair treads and an undulating paper insertion that offers a space to sit underneath, reinforcing the verticality of the space.
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Installation Site Photos
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Connection Variations
Hinge Diagram
Parts Is Chair Parts Is Parts Critic: Ben Pell Partner: Grant Scott Spring 2014
Model Photos
Aggregating, variable parts combine to form an adjustable, differentiable bench system which can expand or contract, based on the constituent parts and their internal configuration. The seat members align and connect through a connective sinue, friction fit into each part, acting as a surface and as a connector. With three variable widths, each HDPE unit generates the form and flow of the bench in its entirety as it weaves together.
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Aggregation Diagram and Full Scale Assembly
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Unfolded China Sketchbook
East Asia Sketching UF in East Asia Critics: Albertus Wang, Hui Zou Throughout China Design Eight, Summer 2012
Forbidden City, Beijing
Experiencing China through sketching and analysis of architecture and public space assisted in providing a more in depth grasp of the culture while studying abroad during the East Asia Program. Exploring both modern and traditional architecture, public space, and gardens, the Chinese sketchbook unfolds to reveal the experiences as felt and discussed throughout the study abroad experience. The essential interaction between the people within China’s urban
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Water Cube, Bird’s Nest, Beijing
cities is of extreme importance in order to maintain strongly interconnected communities and social and cultural expression which these public gardens, parks, courtyards, and squares help to provide. Problematically, the availability of urban public spaces is growing smaller and more inadequate in many Chinese cities, as the rapid achievements of urban development and display of government power overshadow the necessities of the citizens. As
cities expand and skylines grow ever taller, the place for respite and reflection within an urban setting is forgotten. The memory of the sense of peacefulness and connection to the metaphysical begins to diminish and the struggle to preserve and develop new spaces for public enjoyment has become a main consideration and challenge for local Chinese architects and international architects alike.
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Via dei Fori Imperiali Rome: Continuity and Change Critics: Bimal Mendis, Joyce Hsiang, Stephen Harby, Alexander Purves Rome, Italy Summer 2015
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The final on-site drawing exploration in Rome focused on the urban fabric created and destroyed by the introduction of the Via dei Fori Imperiale. Connecting piazza Venezia to the Colosseum through a new axis, the connection and separation of the ancient adjacent sites creates a layering of time and space. Through a palimpsest axial perspectives and sectional connections through the adjacent forum of Trajan, forum of Augustus, and forum of Nerva,
Sectional Study of Via dei Fori Imperiali the drawing displays the juxtapositions of ancient ruins and modern thoroughfares both displaying and concealing the history which lies just below the surface. Revealing the adjacent connections and disruptions, as well as the forceful linkages of space brought by Fascist urban planning, the final drawing project focuses on the effects introduced to the urban fabric that have been created by the introduction of this clearance for a new axis.