Jessica Jennings Design Portfolio
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BIKE KITCHEN Located on a corner site in the Arts District of Kansas City, the Bicycle Kitchen is designed to engage both street fronts and allow a unique experience for the everyday users as well as people just visiting the project.
COMMUNITY FOR AN AGING SOCIETY As the world’s elderly population continues to grow, and will grow within the next fifteen years, more needs to be done to accommodate this new group of people. Everyone will eventually be at that stage of life and the Community for an Aging Society aims at addressing all different stages of the aging process, with an emphasis on people with Alzheimer’s.
PHOTOGRAPHY With traveling abroad and visiting new cities in the US, photography has become a new interest of mine that I never knew I had a passion for. To see and experience these different places through color and light is a remarkable experience.
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Bike Kitchen
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Kansas City Bicycle Kitchen Located on a corner site in the Arts District of Kansas City, the Bicycle Kitchen is designed to engage both street fronts and allow a unique experience for the everyday users as well as people just visiting the project.
create and put together construction documents.
A perforated screen allows select views both out and in. This is to draw people in off the street, while at the same time allow the everyday users some privacy but still views to the district. This project was a study of how to
SITE PLAN 6
BASEMENT
ADA BATHROOM DETAIL 7
GROUND FLOOR
GARAGE DOOR DETAIL
GARAGE DOOR - PLAN 8
SECOND FLOOR
GARAGE DOOR ELEVATION 9
THIRD FLOOR
GLASS CURTAIN WALL
SPIDER CLIP GLASS PANEL SYSTEM - PLAN 10
ROOF PLAN
SLOPED ROOF DETAIL 11
18TH STREET ELEVATION
COPPER PANEL SYSTEM
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MAIN STREET ELEVATION
SPIDER CLIP DETAIL 13
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Community for an Aging Society: Alzheimer’s Design
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Community for an Aging Society “THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE SOCIETY FACES IS PROVIDING GOOD, SAFE AND EXCELLENT CARE TO OUR AGING POPULATION. VERY SOON WE WILL ALL FACE IT.” - UNKNOWN
“EVERY INDUSTRY IS GOING TO BE AFFECTED (BY THE AGING POPULATION). THIS CREATES TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITIES AND TREMENDOUS CHALLENGES.” - PAT CONROY
“THOSE WITH ALZHEIMER’S ARE STILL PEOPLE AND THEY STILL HAVE STORIES AND THEY STILL HAVE CHARACTER AND THEY ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS AND THEY ARE ALL UNIQUE. AND THEY JUST NEED TO BE INTERACTED WITH ON A HUMAN LEVEL.” - CAREY MULLIGAN 16
AGE DEMOGRAPHICS - SPAIN PRESENT DAY
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2017 - PRESENT DAY
Currently, the data for Spain shows that the population of ages 65 and older stands around 17 percent, which is over 7 million people.
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FUTURE POPULATION By 2050, the 65 and older generations will make up more than 30 percent of the total population of Spain, which is almost 13 million people.
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AGING POPULATION - VALENCIA, SPAIN
With a growing 65 and older population, a vast array of senior housing options are now available.
POPULATION OVER 65
Senior Village Communities
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The senior village community is a type of housing arrangement that allows seniors to live among other active people their own age, thereby providing them with a sense of community and camaraderie.
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Independent Living Communities Independent living communities are designed for seniors who need a minimal amount of assistance with activities of daily living (ADL). These are specifically for seniors and may be called retirement communities, retirement homes, senior apartments, or senior housing.
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Assisted Living Facilities Assisted living facilities, also referred to as residential care, adult care homes, and alternative care facilities, are elder care homes for seniors who need daily help completing their activities of daily living. This facility has a full-time, on-site staff. Nursing Homes These provide the highest level of care for residents. Nursing homes help seniors complete there ADLs, but the main function is to provide a high level of medical care.
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RETIREMENT HOME LOCATIONS
With the district having such a large population over the age of 65, the next problem identified is the number and location of retirement homes in the area. Upon further research, not only are there not many retirement homes located with the Poblats Maritims district, but there also is no place for seniors to live who do not need assisted living.
RETIREMENT HOMES RETIREMENT HOMES/MEDICAL CENTERS
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ALZHEIMER’S DEMOGRAPHICS - SPAIN
Alzheimer Europe estimates the number of people with Alzheimer’s in Spain in 2012 as being 818,347. This represents 1.75% of the total population of 46,771,596. The number of people with Alzheimer’s as a percentage of the population is somewhat higher than the EU average of 1.55%.
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COMMUNITY FOR AN AGING SOCIETY Within 20-years, The Community for an Aging Society will have grown to be an integral part of the existing community. With it’s unique program that caters to an elderly population, while still interacting with the younger people in the community, this design will become the model for future senior living communities.
GREEN SPACE
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RESIDENCES
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PROGRAMING MOTIF Mission: To maintain and/or improve their quality of life.
The goal is to provide seniors with Alzheimer’s disease an environment that promotes them to be in touch with nature, the sun, but also enhancing the close relation between inhabitants of the building and the neighborhood.
ALZHEIMER’S
The goal is to design an environment that can combat mostly, if not all, of these issues presented to seniors with Alzheimer’s and help slow the progression of the disease.
SAFETY
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RELATIONSHIPS
SECURE BUILDING
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RESIDENTS OF THE BUILDING
OUTSIDE COMMUNITY
BUILDING
HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
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NATURAL VENTILATION
NATURAL LIGHT
POBLATS MARITIMS MASTER-PLAN
The Poblats Maritims master-plan shows the build out of the district over a 20-year period. The future plan is to include the different senior living facilities, more commercial and residential buildings, mixed use complexes, green spaces, and restoration of the historic district to the east.
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RESIDENCES
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SITE PLAN
Within 20-years, The Community for an Aging Society will have grown to be an integral part of the existing community. With it’s unique program that caters to an elderly population, while still interacting with the younger people in the community, this design will become the model for future senior living communities.
COMMERCIAL
GREEN SPACE
RESIDENCES
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PROGRAM MASSING
Moving forward, this project will focus on the design of a building that focuses on the more serious issues of aging, Alzheimer’s. With a disease that affects memory, certain programmatic elements were required to make this an effective design. With the research done, it was determined that these particular programs were necessary moving forward.
MAINTENANCE
MEDICAL SPACES
RESIDENTIAL ROOMS
PUBLIC INTERACTION SPACES
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ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC GREEN SPACE
STAGES
With all the advancements in the medical field to allow the elderly population to live longer, there is still not a lot known about the different diseases that can affect them, specifically Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. At first, someone with Alzheimer’s disease my notice mild confusion and difficulty remembering. Eventually, people with the disease may even forget important people in their lives and undergo dramatic personality changes. There are three stages of Alzheimer’smild, moderate, and severe. Understanding these three different stages and how patients daily lives work, depending on the stage of their disease, is a driving factor behind the design of this project.
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THRESHOLDS
The buildings thresholds are also a very important element within the design. As one progresses through the different stages of Alzheimer’s, the need for separating patients at different stages is not necessary until they reach the third stage. At stage three, patients tend to wander more than patients at earlier stages. Therefore, the need to separate them, while still creating an open environment for other patients is crucial. With this, the use of thresholds as a transitional element between the different spaces allows for the separation needed for stage three patients, as well as a way for patients in stages one and two to understand that they are moving from one space to another.
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NEIGHBORHOODS
The residential spaces with be the most distinctive element within the design. The rooms are divided into different neighborhoods, allowing for residents to be placed with people at a similar stage of Alzheimer’s as them. These neighborhoods also relate to the resident’s old urban context. Sized from the existing buildings in the historic district, the residential rooms reflect what residents are familiar with, making this transition easier.
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ELEMENTS WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOODS
Each neighborhood offers different elements to allow for some sense of the outside world. These different elements will also be used as way-finding tools for residents in stages 1 and 2. The main community space would act as the town square of the building. This is a place where residents can meet up with visiting relatives or other residents for a variety of activities.
STAGE 1 NEIGHBORHOOD
MEDICAL SPACES COMMUNITY SPACE MAINTENANCE
ADMINISTRATION
PUBLIC INTERACTION SPACES
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ACCESS TO NATURE Access to nature is a big step in improving the health of everyday senior citizens and is extremely important for people with Alzheimer’s.
So residents won’t wonder, and so staff can keep an eye on patients, an interior courtyard allow access to nature while still providing a safe and secure place for residents. The complex also has a perimeter fence located within a hedge to allow residents’ access to exterior spaces while still keeping them safe.
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LANDSCAPING
Each neighborhood offers different elements to allow for some sense of the outside world. These different elements will also be used as way-finding tools for residents in stages 1 and 2. The main community space would act as the town square of the building. This is a place where residents can meet up with visiting relatives or other residents for a variety of activities.
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ORIENTATION THROUGH VISUAL CUES EXTERIOR SPACES
spaces. This also means that the exterior spaces are just as important as the interior ones, so design continuity between interior and exterior is very important.
Because of the changes to the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, remembering places and connections between them, is extremely difficult. With these concerns in mind, Kevin Lynch’s five elements of design that, he claims, people use for orientation and way-finding became particularly useful when applied to building and garden design, they relieve the user from having to organize a mental cognitive map. Spaces, both interior and exterior, designed with these principles make people with Alzheimer’s disease more competent in their use of the
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FLOWER GARDENS
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Like the exterior spaces, great care has been made to make the interior spaces as easy for the residents to understand as possible. Continuous flooring material and similar layouts create continuity that is needed for residents, while each neighborhood as smaller elements that make each place different enough for residents to recognize when they are not in their own neighborhood.
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ENLARGED UNIT PLAN
There is much more evidence now that seniors with Alzheimer’s are much more comfortable and relaxed in a small, homelike environment. A large setting, where seniors must cope with extensive space, widely scattered areas, and many people, can increase confusion and disorientation. This project is designed to a more intimate experience, with only twenty residents, five of which are in the third stage of the disease. This need for a more homelike environment is the driving factor on what materials are being used, as well as what residents experience throughout the building. Each resident is encouraged to decorate their rooms with furnishings, pictures, family snapshots, and memorable possessions from their former homes. Warm colors,
instead of white walls, add to the homier feeling. Berber carpet is used within each resident room to distinguish them from the more private rooms to the public living spaces with their hardwood flooring. Berber carpet, as apposed other types of carpet, is used because of its high stain resistance, unique handcrafted appearance, relatively inexpensive style, and it works well with wheelchairs and power chairs.
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ORIENTATION THROUGH VISUAL CUES INTERIOR SPACES Because of the changes to the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, remembering places and connections between them, is extremely difficult. With these concerns in mind, Kevin Lynch’s five elements of design that, he claims, people use for orientation and way-finding became particularly useful when applied to building and garden design, they relieve the user from having to organize a mental cognitive map. Spaces, both interior and exterior, designed with these principles make people with Alzheimer’s disease more competent in their use of the spaces. This also means that the exterior spaces are just as important as the interior ones, so design continuity between interior and exterior is very important.
AROMATHERAPY
SOUND THERAPY
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DIFFERENT COLORED WALLS AS A WAY-FINDING ELEMENT
INTERIOR COURTYARD
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SPACIAL SECTION THROUGH INTERIOR COURTYARD
Because an interior courtyard is such an unique and important element to the design, care has been made to showcase the different ways this space can be used as well has how the residents rooms become an extension of this large living space.
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INTERIOR COURTYARD
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RESIDENTIAL WALL SECTION
The use of different materials on the façade and the interior walls helping residents recognize where they are, or at least act as a mental cue for their location. For the exterior façade, like with the interior, different colors will be used as a wayfinding tool. Basic colors such as reds, greens, blues, and yellows, if tastefully used, are appealing and easily visible. The residential facades will be using local materials, either mosaic tiles or col-
ored brick, as a way for residents to still relate to their pasts. This use of color is used for the elderly who have visual problems. Simplistic floor patterns will be used and the lighting will come from multiple sources in the bedrooms. Each room will have two operable windows as well has a clearstory window to increase the natural light into the space. This sunlight, though, will be controlled to avoid glare issues SCALE: 1/2” = 1’ - 0” 0 5 15
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ROOFING MEMBRANE 2” INSULATION 1” WATER MEMBRANE
STEEL ANGLE 1/2” WOOD SHIM 1” METAL FASCIA PANEL
6” CONCRETE 1” FINISHED SKIM
1”GYP. WALL BOARD 1/2” FURRING CHANNEL 8” CMU BLOCKING
VAPOR BARRIER 2” INSULATION 1” AIR GAP BRICK EXTERIOR CLADDING
SECONDARY SEAL ALUMINUM SPACER INSULATED GLASS 1/2” FINISHED WOOD TRIM
2” FINISHED WOOD FLOORING 1” SOUND INSULATION TWO LAYERS OF 1/2” PLYWOOD NAILED TOGETHER 1/2”X1” WOOD SUB-FLOOR FRAME
6” CONCRETE 1” POLY VAPOR BARRIER 2” INSULATION 4” GRAVEL
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BRICK SILL
FLOORING DETAIL
RESIDENTIAL ROOM
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THRESHOLD WALL SECTION
The buildings thresholds are also a very important element within the design. The materiality of these spaces will consist of the same smart glass used in the residential rooms. With the use of glass in these transition spaces also creates a connection to the people in the community by allowing them to see into the building and beyond into the garden spaces of the buildings.
ROOFING MEMBRANE WATERPROOF MEMBRANE 2” INSULATION METAL DECKING
METAL CAP 3 5/8” INSULATION 1/2” PLYWOOD SHEATHING
STEEL STRUCTURE DROP CEILING
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2” FINISHED WOOD FLOORING 1” SOUND INSULATION TWO LAYERS OF 1/2” PLYWOOD NAILED TOGETHER 1/2”X1” WOOD SUB-FLOOR FRAME
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6” CONCRETE 1” POLY VAPOR BARRIER 2” INSULATION 4” GRAVEL
DETAILS
You can’t make an older person warm and comfortable by blowing hot air at them. It just makes them colder because air blowing across their bodies fails to penetrate and make them feel warmer. The only way to bring warmth and comfort is with electric radiant heat. Electric radiant heat warms objects and people in the room, not the air. This detailed floor section is to show how the radiant flooring system would work. This flooring would be throughout the complex, with the finished material of hardwood, carpet, or tile being the only difference.
INSULATED GLASS ALUMINUM SPACER SECONDARY SEAL 1/2” FINISHED WOOD TRIM
1”GYP. WALL BOARD 1/2” FURRING CHANNEL 8” CMU BLOCKING
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VAPOR BARRIER 2” INSULATION 1” AIR GAP BRICK EXTERIOR CLADDING
1/2” FINISHED WOOD TRIM
2” FINISHED WOOD FLOORING 1” SOUND INSULATION TWO LAYERS OF 1/2” PLYWOOD NAILED TOGETHER 1/2”X1” WOOD SUB-FLOOR FRAME 6” CONCRETE 1” POLY VAPOR BARRIER 2” INSULATION 4” GRAVEL
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Photography With traveling abroad and visiting new cities in the US, photography has become a new interest of mine that I never knew I had a passion for. To see and experience these different places through color and light is a remarkable experience. Some shots happened by chance, where as others were just taking the time to stop and admire the small details that these places had to offer.
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