Justin Jennings M.Arch Candidate Rhode Island School of Design ‘12
Justin Jennings Selected Projects Fox Point Dementia Housing Elmwood Community Garden Wave Ceiling Installation Quichua Cultural Museum Garden Ramp Housing Community MusicWorks 1� to 10,000’ Urban Mapping Marionette Theater Manual Represenation Selected Artwork
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Fox Point Dementia Housing - Masterplan Providence, RI Urban Design Principles - Fall 2010
The project responds to a growing demand for elderly care, especially for those with neurodegenerative diseases such as alzheimer’s and parkinson’s. The masterplan builds familiarity with the residents over the course of their lives, from elevated jogging paths that cut through the central space to a community garden for older residents to the elderly care and nursing facility. Building masses are arranged to encourage interaction and understanding between the elderly and the public, while at the same time isolating the patients who may be prone to wandering and disorientation. Building forms maintain a planar urban edge to the ctiy’s surrounding fabric, but become more transparent and disrupted on the interior to create human scale spaces that residents identify with.
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Residential Program Community Gardening Tower
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High End Residential Gym (2 Levels) Public Program Auditorium/Performing Arts Restaurant Market Library / Community Memory Center Health Care Program Patient Independent Residences Health Clinic Exterior Protected Space Day Care Center Humane Society Transitional Family Housing
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Site at intersection of semi-major East-West and North-South Routes Continuation of Wickendon St. Commercial/Public Corridor
Public/Park Space Carried through site - builds continuous pedestrian access along water edge from Downtown to East Providence
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Fox Point Dementia Housing - Elderly Care Facility Providence, RI Urban Design Principles - Fall 2010
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The nursing facility accounts for the changing needs of the residents as they age. The units on the ground and second floors are conceived as group residences where people share common spaces with three or four roommates. Each group unit has an adjoining apartment where a caretaker can live full time with immediate access to the patients. These floors have greater access to the outdoors as these patients are assumed to be less of a wandering risk. The upper floors consist of patients rooms clustered around group spaces in the corridors. These rooms are provided access to balcony spaces that connect the space to the outdoors while maintain security for the patients.
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Adaptive Growth Hut Community Garden Design Build Providence, RI Architectural Design - Spring 2010
This proposal for a new community garden in Providence’s Elmwood neighborhood began with the invention of the term “adaptive growth hut.� In coining this phrase, as a studio group we set for ouselves the challenge of building an architecture that would respond to, register, and change with the garden as it grows and adapts over time. We chose to work with bent wood forms as a way to express the organic nature of the material itself and to communicate directly the link between the building material and the program of the garden. The design focused on four governing ideas - growth, community, adaptation and earth. In these four realms, we sought a design solution that could provide an identifiable consruction and plan that could build on the ideas of growth, adaptation and build a sense of community, while at the same time operating in the background of a very simple and timeless relationship of the gardener to the earth. This project was designed and built cooperatively within our studio. I served as project manager and was responsible for ensuring that the project was completed on time and on budget, and I held the final determination over every detail and design feature in the final construction.
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Wave Ceiling Installation - BEB Gallery
Providence, RI Digital Constructs - Spring 2010
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This installation in RISD’s Bayard Ewing Building’s gallery was conceived from interfering wave patterns. Mulitple wave functions were written and analyzed using Microsoft Excel, which were then imported to Rhino to create a 3D surface. The invented surface was placed within the gallery to divide the space into into a circulation zone and a discussion zone. The surface was then cut according to local constraints, such as sprinkler pipes or ceiling conditions. The resulting form was built from laser cut OSB ribs and coated with fiberglass on a portion of the surface. This project was a joint effort with my peers Andy Wise and Josh Ingold. Justin Jennings
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Digital Constructs Spring 2010
Quichwa Cultural Museum Design Build Outside Tena, Ecuador
Travel Studio, Winter 2011
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In a wintersession travel studio, I travelled with 13 RISD students to Ecuador to immerse ourselves in the indigenous culture within the rainforest. While living in the local enviornment, we designed and built a museum to house artifacts recently discovered by the local Quichwa people. The museum is meant to help maintain a rich cultural history while the effects of modernization are rapidly changing the environment. With the help of several local residents, the structure was designed and built in the traditional Ecuadorian style, with several key variations. In place of bamboo cross bracing, which would interupt views of the river on which the site resides, a steel cable system was impletmented to stiffen the structure. The tradtional method of seperating the roof structure from the roof surface was maintained around all sides to create a more coherent system, as opposed to the traditional method of collapsing these surfaces at the shorter ends. Justin Jennings
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Ramp Housing Complex
Courtyard
Private Balcony
Urban Design Principles, Fall 2010 Bedrooms
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Bath/Closet
Living/Dining
Kitchen/Gathering
Circulation
Public Garden
River
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First Level
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Site Plan
1/16” = 1’
1/32” = 1’
This project consists of implementing principles of urban agriculture into a vertically stacked structure. A ramped circulation route switch-backs up the front of the building, with apartment units stepping back at each level. The circulation space is meant to provide a front yard to each apartment, with space for gardening and enjoying the outdoors without going down to street level. Program within each apartment is orgranized from most public at the front to most private at the rear.
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Community MusicWorks Education and Performance Space Roger WIlliams Park, Providence, RI Architectural Design, Spring 2010
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Outdoor Performance Space Indoor Performance Space Large Classroom
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Small Classroom Lounge Cafe Office
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Small Entry Botanical Center Greenhouse
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Bus Home School
Student Teacher Audience Parks Department Staff
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Community MusicWorks is an organization based in Providence that teaches classical music to underprivelidged children. This proposal for a new education and performance space seeks to maintain the openness of their current location in a store front on a busy street in downtown Providence while also adapting to the new location, an isolated riverbank in Roger Williams Park. Through carefully constructed moments of revealing site lines, the structure pulls a visitor from the street, through the building which acts as a circulation hub for the site, and down to the water’s edge where exterior performance space is located. Justin Jennings
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Urban Analysis and Mapping 1”=10,000’ to 1”=1”
10 miles local farm preserved park water body suburban urban interstate route
Providence, RI Urban Design Principles, Fall 2010 In this mapping exercise which served as our introduction to urban analysis and design, I worked with a group of three other students to track the infrastructure related to the distribution of milk at the Munroe Dairy. I produced the two large maps showing residential proximity to food supplies below, and the artificially cooled environment of the dairy as it sits on the stepped site, to the left.
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Residential Industrial Munroe Dairy Property Riverside Green Space Controlled Distribution Environment Truck Circulation
500 Feet
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Marionnette Theater Providence, RI Design Principles, Fall 2009 Work in our introductory design studio focused on investigating spatial and structural properties of a specific knot, then developing these principles into a mass, then an enclosure and finally a marionette theater.
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Selected Hand Drawings Manual Representation, Fall 2009
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Aurora Borealis Sculpture Sculpture II, Srping 2004
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Rebar Hand Sculpture I, Srping 2003
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Snowpath Sculpture I, Srping 2003
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