jessica misak portfolio
2017
blanket & trail 2016 Located above an ancient ruin site in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Blanket & Trail is a design for a museum that carries the visitor along a disorienting path under a sculptural, intricate ceiling. The roof pattern is sculpturally derived from oragami techniques of scoring paper and inversing a curved surface along this score. Layered panels of glass and concrete slice into the ceiling pattern following a hexagonal plan so that as the visitor circulates throughout the trail, familiar views of the ruins, the gallery spaces and the ceiling are collaged together.
They/Them House 2017 They/Them House is an exploration of a house for two occupants that avoids dicotomies and dualities of gender. It aims to discover transitory spaces through different porous thresholds. This porosity builds upon concepts of un-prescribed space by Cedric Price and concepts of redefined body/space relations by the material feminists such as Donna Harroway. The house aims to question our concepts of solid gender roles and to redefine the body (and gender) as fluid in relation to the space it touches.
Solid Void Excercise 2016
An exploration of solids and voids based upon the rules that three voids intersect a solid in order to create a bridging space between two buildings. The solid is formed by three choped conics, that becomes intersected by two arteries and one void at the exterior seam.
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Commodity Fetishism 2017
Marx Developed a concept called Commodity fetishism where the object/commodity is perceived in capitalism as having a highly charged social value. This project creates a landscape and architecture for fetishizing the commodity of food. Raised above the working class realm of the Ontario Food Terminal, this project is a surreal landscape for bourgeois food purchasing and consumption.
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organic dog food
Restaurant berries
Toilette
salt n pepper
Vegan Junk food
Kale & Friends
Oysters
French Bread
more meat
forraged
Gluten Free Suddenly overpriced cauliflower
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Spreads A million different ways to Yogurt
420 blended by Dave Franco
Stage for demostratrions Grassfed Meat
citrus
Lobby
Ontario Fruits
Garden
Cheese
Coat CHeck
Milk & Soy
MuShroom Room Patio Wine Bar
Honey Products
ancient grains
Herbs
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Jessica Misak ARC 1042H | Site Ecology For Francesco Martire
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Grading Plan Selection Site Softscape
Manicured Softscape Note: The Project is a raised, surreal landscape and building above the OFT site
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