North Tryon Street THE ARCHITECT OF AN EDUCATION JESSICA E. MARTIN ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
CONTENTS
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, DOES NOT ALWAYS STAY IN VEGAS: RE-LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS SXSAm CHARLOTTE International Design SUMMER series: AFTER EXPO TOGS3 Competition: [P]RECYCLED TRAFFIC CONES suckerPunch: Fort Tilden Comprehensive STUDIO THE PHENOMENA OF LANDSCAPE : AN INVESTIGATION INTO RUINS + THE POST-INDUSTRIALIZED LANDSCAPE STUDY ABROAD : ROME, ITALY SHADOW BOX
JESSICA E. MARTIN
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URBAN ANALYSIS
The city is the last refuge of solidarity. I’m not expecting much from central governments. This is going to be the century of the city. - Jaime Lerner
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1. Nolli Map 2. Nolli Map Buildings 3. Nolli Map Buildings + Ceremonial Spaces 4. Nolli Map Ceremonial Spaces
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, DOES NOT ALWAYS STAY IN VEGAS : RE-LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS When it comes to cities, what happens in Las Vegas is often representative of the changes, forces, and factors at play in major cities across the country and around the globe. This project examines the architectural, urban, and cultural (both popular and academic) importance of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip in order to better understand what factors shape our cities. Based on the research of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, and Steven Izenour in Learning from Las Vegas, this investigation explores the intellectual landscape that has developed in light of their analysis of the post-WWII form of urbanism. Studying this landscape in its current
day has led to a clear distinction between private and public urban spaces. In this investigation, the objective became to analyze and differentiate between what is considered public and private spaces on the Las Vegas Strip. Here, “public space” becomes a relative term where even the sidewalks are privately owned, controlled and managed by casinos instead of the government. The constant evolution of the strip creates spaces that are currently considered private, such as construction sites, but will eventually become public, once again changing the private-to-public ratio. The final phase of this study show the Las Vegas Strip defined by categories of “Buildings” and “Ceremonial Spaces,” each being divided separately into various levels of access and use. 1.
SUMMER 2009 URBAN DESIGN ELECTIVE
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SXSAm CHARLOTTE The SXSAm studio provided an integrated, multi-disciplinary setting in which the 21st century post-industrial, post-border city became the primary focus. A collaboration of Architecture, Urban Design, Geography, and Latin American Studies students, the studio widened the discourse on emergent urban strategies- analysis, design, planning, and policy. Primarily a research studio, the studio explored the changing landscape of Charlotte, North Carolina as it transitions to a global city. Growing at a rapid pace, Charlotte’s population has accelerated in the past 20 years due to mass migration from the South American region. This
quick suburban growth draws comparison to the city of Atlanta, which has grown unsustainably in the last 50 years. Based on projections from US Census data, the US Caucasian population will decrease to 50% by the year 2050. Simultaneously, the Hispanic population will increase to 25%. This is important as we observe the Hispanic culture, but more specifically the Latin American city. Mexico City maintains half the footprint of Atlanta, but houses seven million more people. Engaging both the research and design environments of these two cities has led to an understanding of how to approach the Charlotte landscape. By identifying adaptive, fluid, nimble and responsive models that address economic, social/cultural and environmental pressures, the studio became focused on the idea of “urban acupuncture:”
quick, pinpointed interventions that release energy and create positive transformations in the city. Based on a series of figure-ground maps, North Tryon Street, South Boulevard, Central Avenue, and Downtown Charlotte were targeted for further development.
1. Mecklenburg Population Density, 1980 2. Mecklenburg Population Density, 1990 3. Mecklenburg Population Density, 2000 4. Mecklenburg Population Density, 2010 5. MSA Population Density, 1980 6. MSA Population Density, 1990 7. MSA Population Density, 2000
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By the year 2050, Mecklenburg County will have reached a total population of 3,314,883 people. 1. Mecklenburg Population Density, 2050 Projection
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North Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road : SITE INTERVENTION 3. Phase I: Re-appropriate Existing Asian Mall, Remove Under-utilized Buildings, Extend Future Greenway
4. Phase II: Redefine Vehicular Patterns 5. Phase III: Introduce Mixed-Use Buildings 6. Phase IV: Implement Raised Walkway to Connect Residential Community 7. Phase V: Commercial Buildings Connect the Site 8. Exploded Axon
The intersection of North Tryon Street and Sugar Creek Road became the focus for the remainder of SXSAm due to its potential to not only better serve local residents, but also to become a major attraction for the future of the city. The site is currently a vast parking lot flanked by an under-utilized shopping strip and grocery store. Despite its lack of building density, the site does provide a diverse commercial environment. Existing businesses serve a predominately East Asian and Hispanic community. The entrepreneurial spirit of the site is evidenced in the informal mobile businesses that accrue throughout the week. Expanding the idea of the informal, unregulated market, the goal for the project became to create a space that catered to the local culture and economy.
Establishing a grid on the site will become a primary step in developing the site. To preserve the informal market space, vehicular and pedestrian pathways will be used to connect the larger site to the urban fabric. Once a network of pathways has been created, increasing building density will promote the viability of the site. Mixed-use buildings will create both residential and commercial space on the site. Additional buildings geared toward community building can be used to connect the site, the purely commercial to the residential. Presently there is an under-utilized ecological park on the opposite side of North Tryon Street. Expanding the planned greenway and connecting it to the ecological park will both increase residential accessibility and decrease vehicular dependence on the site.
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International Design SUMMER series: After Expo Tongji University, Shanghai Located in Shanghai, World EXPO 2010, themed “Better City, Better Life,� featured the Urban Best Practice Area (UBPA) as its exhibition partner. The UBPA became a global platform for the exchange of information and ideas on the habitable city, with a focus on sustainable urbanization and historic conservation and development. The land area for the UBPA is 15 hectares, with a total building floor area of 100 thousand square meters. The College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji
University hosted the 2010 International Design Summer Series competition to conduct a multi-disciplinary and cross-culture planning workshop in a bid to redevelop the UBPA as an integrated part of Shanghai. While most of the UBPA would remain intact, reappropriating the urban landscape would ensure the future success of the site in its surrounding community. As part of the winning design, the goal for this project was to return the site to the people of Shanghai post-EXPO. While EXPO was deemed a success for China and the design world, its arrival had abruptly displaced thousands and negatively affected the remaining community. Despite significant pressure to produce an area that would generate income, the project focused on improving the quality of
life for the surrounding area. This first meant improving accessibility onto and around the site through connectivity. In order for the site to be given back to the people of Shanghai as a public space, built spaces would need to be programmatically flexible, allowing us to focus on vehicular and pedestrian circulation. Ultimately, people could gather here and interact with the space freely, regardless of socio-economic status or nationality.
1. Phase I: Deconstructing Existing Pavilions for Adaptive Reuse 2. Phase II: Improve Accessibility onto Site 3. Phase III: Improve Accessibility within Site 4. Final Proposal
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The view of the world and the mission of architecture that had appeared unquestionably grounded in the concepts of truth and ethics, as well as in a social vision and commitment, have shattered, and the sense of purpose and order has faded away‌ Why is it that architecture seems to turn away from social reality and become self-referential and self-motivated? Why are narcissism and self-indulgence replacing empathy and social conscience?
- Juhani Pallasmaa
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TOGS3 Competition: [P]RECYCLED TRAFFIC CONES Hosted by the Art Alliance Austin, the third annual Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space Ideas Competition sought to enhance the global dialogue between art and architecture, while challenging the visual and conceptual boundaries of the outdoor gallery space. The temporary outdoor structure was meant to function simultaneously as an exhibition space and as an architectural exhibition. As one of the finalist, the [P]RECYCLED unit proposed implementing the traffic cone as the primary faรงade of the gallery space. Using the cone in this manner provided an opportunity in which to test the limits of the cone itself. This became
SPRING 2010 COMPETITION STUDIO
an investigation in creating a customized connection plate that would physically connect the cones to each other and the structural unit, while allowing enough flexibility to rotate to specific angles.
1. Strap Connection to Structure 2. Section Diagram 3. Section Diagram 4. Section Diagram 5. Rendered Perspective 1.
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1. Diagrammatic Intent 2. Seabeach Amaranth 3. Wood Dune 4. Grass Dune
suckerPunch: Fort Tilden
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Fort Tilden [History and Today]
ecologically sensitive driving force for this site proposal. This annual plant is native to Atlantic Ocean dunes and was federally listed as a threatened species in 1993. An important function of the amaranth is the way in which the plant furthers the stability of the dune, lowering chances of erosion. As this non-rooting plant grows, the dune becomes stable and other ecological species can infuse the area.
Once a military base, today Fort Tilden stands mostly abandoned. The few remaining buildings on the site are primarily deserted, with minor occupation by an art gallery and studio. Fort Tilden presents a tumultuous military background, in which the landscape has been formed and reformed in order to accommodate human occupation. The ever-expanding shoreline reflects the unnatural condition of Long Island. Seabeach Amaranth [Endangered] Capitalizing on the ecology of the site and its natural wildlife, seabeach amaranth is a restorative plant that can create a more
SPRING 2010 COMPETITION STUDIO
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Habitat [Today and Tomorrow] Given the site for the suckerPunch competition, very little area currently exists to promote the growth of the seabeach amaranth. To further both the growth of this plant and perpetuate the existence of the dunes, this project proposes to bring both the plant and the dunes further into
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the site. Once the dunes have been established in the landscape, they will become inhabitable for other species to live and grow. A progression of vegetation types will attach itself to the dune, each changing the substrate’s characteristics and structure, gradually making the dune suitable for the next vegetation type. These plants will also help reduce erosion. The dune placement and direction will have programmatic implications for the site, both in terms of building placement and circulation through the site. The dunes will serve to protect the program from wind, rain, and sunlight. The interaction of man and nature will be explored through materiality, in hopes of uniting man with an endangered species, while still protecting its habitat.
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1. Rendered Perspective, Covered Seating 2. Rendered Perspective, Covered Seating 3. Section Diagrams 4. Rendered Perspective, Recreation Center 5. Rendered Perspective, Covered Seating
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APPROACHING PHENOMENOLOGY
Authentic architecture is constructed from collective memory, imbedded with symbols and totems recognizable by the culture it serves. Authentic architecture has a rich legacy created through a perspective of its own time and locale. Each successive generation builds on this collective memory. In this continued nurturing, a moral sense of duty to place- a sense of stewardship- is achieved. - Samuel Mockbee
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Comprehensive STUDIO Rag Apple Lassie is a vineyard and winery located in Statesville, North Carolina. This project seeks to understand the nature of the found object and its relationship with the ground. Often represented by abandoned and discarded farming implements, the found object gives voice to a life left behind. These images force a sense of nostalgia on the landscape. Nature claims and absorbs these objects, allowing them to act as ruins in the landscape. In seeking to understand the connection between ground plane and the built object, a building “wrapper� allows the newfound object to communicate directly with the landscape. A concrete datum wall anchors the transparent ruins in the landscape. These objects are placed serially in the ground, connected underground to maximize efficiency in the winemaking process.
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THE PHENOMENA OF LANDSCAPE : AN INVESTIGATION INTO RUINS + THE POST-INDUSTRIALIZED LANDSCAPE Introduction Architects and architectural theorists have often referred to ideas of ground and landscape as a way of understanding and exploring an architectural design approach. In the architectural profession, there has been a very real attempt to engage the landscape to mediate the relationship between object and ground. Understanding this connection has instigated a discourse that has involved not only theorists and architects, but also landscape
FALL-SPRING 2011 THESIS STUDIO
architects and landscape urbanists. This need to understand and interpret the ground is rooted in the desire to allow any subsequent architecture to engage the land, to be affected by and interpretive of the land. As a part of the study of ground and landscape, ruins are often cited for their innate ability to engage the individual. Discarded artifacts, such as rusted farming implements or an abandoned chimney, become picturesque objects in the landscape, serving as a narrative for previous habitation. As time passes, nature reclaims the found object. Weathered and deteriorating, these objects give a sense of familiarity and history to site. It is this relationship- between object, time, and place- that becomes indicative for architecture and landscape.
GLENDALE MILLS SITE PLAN
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A Thesis Endeavour
This thesis investigation addresses the potential for the phenomenological experience within the post-industrial ruin, focusing on the engagement of memory and meaning attached to a particular site. The research gathered this semester argues that the identity of a site can be enhanced through landscape and, more specifically, through the memory that a landscape holds. An intuitive design approach will be used to test a series of site interventions, in which multiple scales of the site are addressed in order to engage the senses. Christophe Girot’s Trace Concepts will be utilized as a highly intuitive and experiential approach, in which the designer is able to
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accurately distill meaning from the site. The Trace Concepts include: [ Landing ] Landing is the first act of site acknowledgement and describes the specific moment when the designer still does not know anything about the site, but is prepared to begin research and discovery. [ Grounding ] Grounding is the second step and has to do with orientation and research to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the site. This understanding also comes through repeated visits and an analysis of the area.
[ Finding ] Finding entails the act of searching as well as the thing discovered. It is not limited to the discovery of objects, but encompasses the experience of relating ideas, places and themes. Finding usually discloses the evidence to support the initial intuitions about a place. [ Founding ] Founding, the final step, is when the three previous steps are synthesized into a new construction. Something new is brought into place that aims to change or redirect the existing site.
This methodology will be tested on the postindustrial landscape as a means of analyzing its ability to recall the past and invoke the phenomenological experience. While the first three phases of the methodology become apart of site analysis and will largely fall in the early part of the spring semester, Founding will become the focus of the Thesis Studio, serving as the design investigation for the post-industrial ruin. The imagery of both the dwelling and the tree will be further analyzed in order to fully understand the relationship between object, man, and nature and its impact on architecture and landscape.
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GLENDALE MILLS REPRESENTATIONAL TIMELINE
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GLENDALE MILLS SECTIONS
STUDY ABROAD + SHADOW BOX
The fragment cannot be grasped in a single intuition; it relies on a sequence of stages bringing together individual phenomena and the universal ground in a process that may be described as the restorative mapping and articulation of the world.
- Dalibor Vesely
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PHOTOGRAPHY : THE COLOSSEUM ROME, ITALY
After my second year of graduate studies, I opted to spend four weeks in Rome, Italy to broaden my cultural perspective and understanding of architecture. It was during this time that I chose to focus on sketching and photography and its relationship to Ancient Roman architecture. In sketching, I learned the necessity of slowing down, of learning to look
SUMMER 2010 ROME
at that which I most often failed to see. It was an endeavor of analyzing and understanding, of looking at connections and details, large scale and small. This personal experience helped me to not only analyze the space I was in, but also my cultural surroundings. As part of the representation component of the trip, students were asked to create a large-scale group drawing of various piazzas across Rome. My group chose to work on Piazza Navona, a city square rich in history and culture. An assignment in teamwork and hand representation, the group created a set of working drawings that included a site plan, section perspective, and perspective collage capturing the daily life of the piazza.
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PHOTOGRAPHY : PIAZZA NAVONA ROME, ITALY
SUMMER 2010 ROME
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DRAWINGS + PHOTO COLLAGE : PIAZZA NAVONA ROME, ITALY
SUMMER 2010 ROME
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SHADOW BOX As part of an annual ritual at the School of Architecture at UNCC, the Shadow Box assignment takes place during the second semester Structures course taught by David Thaddeus. Inspired by Joseph Cornell’s boxed assemblages, the project is an investigation of the found object- its materials, connections, and form. Exploring the implication of gravity and sound, the goal for the object was to exploit the potential for sound as an object travels through space and time. The design called for a rotating enclosed appendage, capable of housing both fixed and free-falling conditions. The required material palette consisted of concrete, steel, and wood. Understanding the limits of these materials became a challenge of dexterity
and connection as the object was asked to both suspend from and rotate around a given point. Both the precision of connections and measurements became crucial to the success of balancing the object, thus allowing the falling object to create sound as it moved through space.
1. Initial Design Intent 2. Acoustical Component 3. Steel Connection Reveal 4. Completed Project 5. Rotating Feature
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