Justin Kollar Curriculum Vitae Work Samples
Justin Kollar jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu
Education Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA Master of Urban Planning, Concentration in History and Theory Master of Architecture I AP (Expected Graduation: May 2017) University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture Ann Arbor, MI Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Graduated: Apr 2012)
Professional Experience Maryann Thompson Architects Boston, MA Intern Architect (May-Sep 2015) Programming, conceptual, and design development phase of various projects NHDM | Nahyun Hwang + David Moon New York City, NY Designer (Oct 2014-May 2015, Aug 2012-May 2013) Produced diagrams, design iterations, and models for the winning proposal for Chevy in the Hole Art Festival Competition Collaborated in design work and imaegry for competition entry for Nodeul Island, nominated for PS1 entry Infinite Studio | Peter Shieh Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Intern Architect (Jul 2016, Aug 2013, Apr-Aug 2011) Worked on an entry for the New Taipei City Museum Competition Produced concept designs for various residential projects BluHomes | Karl Daubmann Ann Arbor, MI Designer (Jul 2012-May 2013) Worked closely with sales and marketing in producing drawings and images for clients Produced images integral in forwarding design development Tsz Yan Ng Design Ann Arbor, MI, USA Designer (May-October 2012) Designed and produced Stereonegative: a Tribute to Tony Smith (Detroit, MI): proposal presentation, construction documentation, digital modeling, and CNC fabrication
Grants + Scholarship Fairbank Center Travel Research Grant Recipient (2016) Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation, Collective Memory and Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Penny White Research Fund Award Recipient (2016) Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation, Collective Memory and Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Dean’s Scholarship (2013) Harvard University Graduate School of Design, M. Arch I AP Program Ministry of Foreign Affairs Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (2013) National Taiwan University, Summer 2013 Studies in Huayu Leonard B. Willeke Portfolio Award Winner (2012) University of Michigan Annual Portfolio Competition (1 of 3 Winners) Alumni Board Honor Award Winner (2012) University of Michigan Annual Undergraduate Design Excellence Award (1 of 3 Awarded)
Competitions Finalist HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition (2016) w/ Omar Carillo, Miriam Keller, + Alison Stein (1 of 4 finalists nationwide) Winner of Turtle Mountain Prototype Design Competition (2016) w/ Chris Reznich Winner of Harvard GSD Loeb Library Design Competition (2015) Winning Entry of Flint Public Art Project (2013) “Perimeters, Chevy in the Hole” w/ Nahyun Hwang + David Moon Installation at Detroit Light + Art Festival (2012) “Stereonegative,” Tsz Yan Ng w/ Justin Kollar + Helena Kang
Teaching Harvard Graduate School of Design, Department of Architecture Teaching Assistant, Maryann Thompson (2016) Teaching Fellow, Maryann Thompson + Carl Sapers (2016) Software Instructor, Digital Media Workshop (2015) Teaching Fellow, Maryann Thompson + Jay Wickersham (2015) Harvard Graduate School of Design, Career Discovery Architectural Representation Instructor (2014)
Research Health and Places Initiative, Harvard GSD w/ Leire Villoria Asensio + David Mah Researcher (2016) Research on health, development and urbanization in China Landscape Colonization/Cultivation, Collective Memory and Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Independent Research Project Advisor: David Mah Investigator (2016) Traveled to, investigated and compiled information on politics and development Taiwan Sugar Corporation’s land Produced a report compiling findings from the research material
Publication Experience Open Letters, Harvard GSD Editor (2015-2016) Life-Styled China, Health and Places Initiative, Harvard GSD Editors: Leire Villoria Asensio + David Mah Assistant: Editorial Work and Graphic Design (2015-2016) + Authored photographic, graphic and written work
Skills Software: Rhinoceros 3D • AutoCAD • Photoshop • Illustrator • InDesign • ArcGIS • 3ds Max • Sketchup • Revit • MS Office Languages: Chinese Mandarin, Intermediate • English, Fluent • Python, Intermediate Page 2 of 31
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Stereoscope Detroit, MI, USA Installation, 2012 Installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dlectricity Light + Arts Festival
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Big House, Little House, Backhouse, Barn Quebec, Canada Professional Work, 2012 Proposal for a private house on a farm in Quebec
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Medellin Tower Medellin, Colombia Academic Work, 2013 The machine for social health Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Nodeul Island Seoul, South Korea Professional Work, 2014 Invited competition proposal for Nodeul Island in Seoul *Nominated for PS1 entry
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Turtle Mountain Community Turtle Mountain, ND, USA Competition, 2015 Designing homes from houses, and communities for the Turtle Mountain Tribe in North Dakota *Winning entry for the Turtle Mountain Housing Competition
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Laboritas Austin, TX, USA Academic Work, 2014 Where students are workers, and workers are students Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Superblock Community Health Songjiang, Shanghai, China (PRC) Academic Work, 2015 A plan for the management of Chinese health in the urban form Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Let it Flood New York City, NY, USA Academic Work, 2014 Recoding for an alternative high-density community that will flood with sea level rise Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Urban Reprogramming Boston, MA, USA Academic Work, 2015 Highlighting multi-party, urban interventions in Roxbury, Boston Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Wetland Redevelopment Quincy, MA, USA Academic Work, 2016 Ecological development as a catalyst Urban Planning Studio at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Monteria Village New Community Santa Barbara, CA, USA Competition, 2016 Community development and affordable housing development in Santa Barbara, CA HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition, 2016
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Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation Taiwan (ROC) Independent Academic Work 2016 Collective Memory and the Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Research Project at Harvard Graduate School of Design *Penny White Fund Project • Awarded Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Summer Grant
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Stereoscope
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Installation at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Dlectricity Light + Arts Festival Installation, 2012 w/ Tsz Yan Ng Design (May-Oct 2012) Scope Design + Fabrication, Proposal Presentation (Drawings/Renderings), Construction Documents for Fabrication, Digital Model + CNC Fabrication Design Team Tsz Yan Ng, Justin Kollar, Helena Kang
Gracehoper (Sculpture by Tony Smith)
Stereoscope
Pavilion
Production/Installation Sharif Anous, Zack Boumediene, Jamie Colburn, Eiji Jimbo, Jennifer Junkemeier, Helena Kang, Joan Kee, Osman Khan, Justin Kollar, Tsz Yan Ng, Matt O’Brien, Landry Root, Andrea Springer, Bridgette Tinsley, Gregory Tom, Sabrina Yeung Description To mark the 40th anniversary of the sculpture the Gracehoper by Tony Smith at the DIA, StereoNegative is a project at once a tribute to the great sculptor and an installation project designed and produced specifically for the Dlectricity event. The Pavilion is produced as the ‘negative’ geometry of the Gracehoper. Visitors are brought into contact with the illusion produced by looking into the stereoscope which superimposes the two images ‘completing’ the sculptural form. An awareness of the simultaneous three-dimensionality of the geometry and flatness of vision is offered for contemplation. Superimposition of images
Photograph from event
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Stereonegative, Installation, 2012
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1 Top Layer Chloroplast 2”x2” Aluminum Channel Tightening Nut Lock Washer Steel Angle
2 Bottom Layer Chloroplast
Countersink Screw Choroplast Panel 1+2 = Overlayed Chloroplast
2”x2” Aluminum Channel Tightening Nut Lock Washer Steel Angle Countersink Screw Choroplast Panel
Chloroplast Skin Diagram
Photograph of Chloroplast Skin on Aluminum and Steel Structure
Angle Joint Section Detail
Photograph of Drawings near school fabrication workshop where panels were built
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Big House, Little House, Backhouse, Barn Proposal for a private house on a farm in Quebec
Big House
Professional Work, 2012 Lee / MacGallivray Architect Studio (May-Jul 2012)
Big House
Scope Research, Image Compilation, Diagrammatic Imagery, Drawing, Model Making, Iterative Design Process, Final Model Creation Collaborators Vivian Lee (Principal), James MacGallivray (Principal), Patrick Ethen, Justin Kollar
Barn Back House Little House
Proposal Diagram
Description A house for a photographer (of barns) and artist couple living in a rural area in Quebec. Big House
K i t c h e n , Wo r k r o o m Icehouse
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Sheep Shed Manure She d Multi-Purpose Sheds
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Sap House M ill s Field Barn
Hen House Pig House G ra n a r y Corncrib
Big House
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Circulation Axes Photograph of Sectional Model
Spatial Axes Photograph of Sectional Model
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Big House, Little House, Backhouse, Barn, Professional Work, 2012
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Normative Faces Clear Faces Facade DIfferentiation Diagram
Overall Intersection-to-whole Diagram
Intersecting Space Diagram
Photograph of Sectional Model
Big House Big House
Second Floor
Spatial Axes
Barn
Circulation Axes
Back House Little House
Spatial Axes
Circulation Axes
Photograph of Sectional Model
Big House
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Circulation Axes
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Big House
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Circulation Axes
Spatial Axes
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Medellin Tower The machine for social health Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design Academic Work, 2013 Maryann Thompson (Instructor) Description This academic project provides students with a range of programmatic requirements: a hotel, a public gym, pool and bath house. Thermodynamic aspects must be handled with care and according to contextual climatic conditions. Proposition The ruling class desired to have a gym in their city. In order to provide a healthier environment, after the drug lords had been brought to justice, the city planners of Medellin constructed a new program at the heart of the city. It would be an immense amount of program, necessitating a tower - one large enough to be seen from anywhere. It would become a marker from the hills and favellas on the skirts of the city. The imperative is to improve bodily health: spas for your desires, gyms for your bodies, and a massage to rub away your painful memories; ultimately, a gym for the social health of the city itself. The building operates like a machine. The meshed skin and exteriorized mechanical and plumbing system helps to temper the interior environment without much insulation, much like the health and wellness-oriented program tempers the population.
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Medellin Tower, Academic Work, 2013
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B Carlos and Ana find the executive ballroom to have quite a fine view of the hills beyond the city.
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Julia and Juan enjoy a break from their workouts to view the plaza. Their experience of the inner city remains of these spaces.
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Nodeul Island Invited competition proposal for Nodeul Island in Seoul Professional Work, 2014 NHDM / Nahyun Hwang + David Moon (Oct 2014-May 2015) Scope Designer, Conceptual Design Development (Rhino), Proposal Drawing/Imagemaking (Illustrator, Rhino), Rendering (Photoshop, Vray, Rhino) Collaborators Nahyun Hwang (Principal), David Moon (Principal), Sylvia Choi, Justin Kollar *Nominated for MoMA PS1 Candidacy Description A proposal for the ‘temporary’ use of Nodeul Island in Soeul, South Korea. The proposal amplifies the current use of the island as an urban farming community into a community agricultural community center. The proposal also aims to use the island as territorial bridge: extending and connecting the area’s extensive network of waterfront parks and biking routes.
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Nodeul Island, Professional Work, 2014
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Existing community gardens (isolated)
Public forum and gathering underneath
“Badt” Agri-plot reconceptualized as Experimental Program Space and elevated
“Badt” Agri-plot reconceptualized as Experimental Program Space and elevated
Public forum and gathering underneath
Suspended New floating north new southbridge connects “Badt” bridge to park system
New art installation Badt
Suspended New floating north new south bridge connects “Badt” bridge to park system
New art installation Badt
Public forum and gathering underneath
Justin Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu, “Badt” Reconceptual Public forum and Kollar, WorkReconceptualized extends in various new elements extends in various gathering underneath (each different) (each diff
“Badt” Agri-plot reconceptualized as Experimental Program Space and elevated
Public forum and gathering underneath
Public forum and gathering underneath
Reconceptualized “Badt” extends in various new elements (each different)
Reconceptual extends in variou (each diff
New floating north bridge connects to park system
New art installation Badt
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Floating badts can float down the river, spreading educational and research program
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New floating north bridge connects to park system
New art installation Badt
Additional floating Badts in close proximity to the island provide additional program
Floating badts can float down Floating b the river, spreading educational the river, s and research program and re
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Turtle Mountain Community
Area planning for new settlements based on ecological considerations
Designing homes from houses, and communities for the Turtle Mountain Tribe in North Dakota *Winning entry for the Turtle Mountain Housing Competition Competition, 2015 Chris Reznich, Justin Kollar Description The competition brief called for a proposal for a housing prototype for the Turtle Mountain tribe in North Dakota. The tribe has had bad experiences with modular housing in the past, and seeks a proposal that is sensitive to its needs. People within the tribe live in a precarious position, economically disadvantaged, and call home an unforgiving environment. In the winter, multiple families often share dwellings for warmth and to save on energy costs. Proposition Our proposal calls for more than just a house, but an integrative solution that combines the house with a ‘hoop house:’ a greenhouse-like structure that acts as a heat sink and provides heat throughout the winter offering passive strategies that minimize cost, and an expansive strategy to provide a means for food cultivation and job creation, allowing for a lightening of a significant element of the tribe’s economic precarity. The strategy also takes into account the local ecological context, situating the settlements in areas with little damage to the environment while also taking advantage of superior areas for solar gain. As the houses and hoop houses aggregate, they create communities from block formations. The hoop house becomes the foundational connector of neighborhoods. Originally employed for purely horticultural ends, the thermal modulation can be employed to accommodate innumerable additional communitarian programs. While basic horticultural function scales from single-kitchen vegetable gardens or a grandmother’s flower bed up to production of boutique, value-added goods, the flexible, semi-conditioned interior can be appropriated as cafes, sports fields, swimming pools, indoor parks, etc. Thus, the system can simultaneously provide healthy, fresh produce and free space for an active lifestyle to the larger Turtle Mountain community all throughout the winter.
Rendering of house and ‘hoop house’ community
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Turtle Mountain Community, Competition, 2015
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Exploded Axonometric Diagram of Primary Elements of Infrastructure
Recycled Plastic Covering traps thermal energy inside the hoop house extending the growing season and relieving heating energy load
Standardized Steel Piping provides for a low-cost, standard structure for the hoop house
Aluminum Gutter for rainwater collection
Standing Seam Roof Slope to accommodate sun angle
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Hay Bales act as a thermal mass when soaked with hot water during the winter months to preserve heat inside hoop house.
Hay Bale Thermal Mass
Plaster Finish
Plywood Sheathing Wood Stud Framing
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Hay Bale Insulation Sourced locally
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Small Row Crops provide a source for craft production or as supplemental food production
Sheathing
Hay Bale/Wood Frame Wall Module
Half-operable Window Half-operable Window for cross-ventilation in for cross-ventilation in Winter Summer
Drying Rack
Extended Hoop House
Attached Hoop House
Basic House Unit
Figure 1 (Center) Section Perspective: Thermal Energy Circuit Diagram
Figure 2 (Above) Basic Wall (Unit) Assembly
Unit Aggregation and Community Formation Diagram
Additional houses are added along street
Hoop houses aggregate within the block to create social community space.
As neighbors expand, shared community spaces form between and within hoop house configurations Multiple units and hoop houses begin to form neighborly associations
Supporting programs (such as chicken coops or sports fields) in and around hoop houses can vary according to each family’s needs, hobbies, and responsibilities.
As semi-conditioned interiors grow, opportunities for new collective spaces and programs arise.
Additions easily attach to base units as the wall system is prefabricated
Community Building and Programmatic Diversification Community Building and Programmatic Diversification 1 Hobby Garden 2 Flower Garden 3 Lawn 4 Subsistence Garden 5 Swimming Pool 6 Athletic Area 7 Chicken Coop 8 Solar Drying Rack 9 Nursery 10 Root Cellar 11 Cold Storage 12 School 13 Teaching Garden 14 Restaurant 15 Shop 16 Vermiculture 17 Compost 18 Gathering Space
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Figure 7 (Above) Community formation around hoop houses
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Laboritas
Revised Value Flow for Laboritas Institution
Where students are workers, and workers are students Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design Academic Work, 2014 Florian Idenburg (Instructor), Joshua Jow (Partner) Description This academic project imagines a utopian/dystopian institution where the office and university are combined into a single landscape. It provides critique to current institutional practices and pedagogy supported by corporate sponsorship as the means to direct academic work. Proposition Universities are tailoring their curriculum to the job market, and the job market is increasingly centered around work that is collaborative, creative and based on knowledge production. As this trend moves forth, we will need to galvanize the nation’s future work force to accommodate to the future economy. A new institution is to be formed. Everyone will be their own entrepreneur. We are all capitalists, investing in ourselves, after all: students of our work, and within this vein is the competitive and cooperative spirit that will produce tomorrow’s innovations.
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Laboritas, Academic Work, 2014
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu, Workspace Types + Social Interaction Diagram
Photograph of model showing workspace arrangements
Workspace arrangements and knowledge creation types
Research Oriented Space
Workshop Space
Tactile Knowledgebuilding
Iterative Knowledgebuilding
Individualized Workspace Combination Collective Workspace
Social Knowledgebuilding
Dialectical Knowledgebuilding Photograph of ‘symbolic space’ of the library
After finishing this semester’s project for Google, Jack is ready to join another group with new credentials!
Amy loves her new life at Laboritas. Learning and working in a college atmosphere like her parents’ generation. So much variety, why ever leave?!
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Community Health A plan for the management of Chinese health in the urban form Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design Academic Work, 2015 Leire Asensio Villoria (Instructor), David Mah (Instructor), Ali Karimi (Partner) Description This academic project focused on the Chinese large-block model and subsequently centered in on smaller-scale strategies in order to improve citizen health. Within the studio, various models were devised ranging from residential aggregation to policy objectives. Proposition As China’s development model of superblocks has outpaced the party-state’s social goals, the Chinese Communist Party has placed its focus back into the community. To increase the capacity of the new community administration model, social programs and amenities will need to enter the block. By dispersing social programs such as party offices, health clinics, and healthy spaces, the community center is aggregated throughout the community, instantiating a physical presence in activated space. With dispersion and the removal of block walls, the administrative capacity of the party may enter daily life and provide much needed social harmony to a ruinous marketized system. The method of aggregation would grow to fill out other portions of the community, crossing borders of the xiaoqu development in order to instantiate and link the larger community within itself. The proposed method of service distribution would become the model for ‘community building’ - in an effort to tie many (dispersed) neighborhoods together in a more effective administrative framework. Civic services typically occupy the exterior of the block
Disperse services and recreational facilities on the interior
CivicCivic services services typically typically occupy occupy the the exterior exterior of the of the block block
Disperse Disperse services services and and recreational recreational facilities facilities on the on the interior interior
Extension of different services to supply need of new administrative unit
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Superblock Community Health, Academic Work, 2015
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu, Community Administrative Organization Diagram
Heirarchy
Community Mobilization Structure (Main Area of Focus)
Central Government
Message
Mass Line
Provincial Government City Government Urban District Government
Full-time Cadres (Half CP Members)
Community
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Compound Leader
Local Implementation in accordance with ‘Community Pacts’ (Community)
Building Leader
A community cafeteria may foster closer ties as a gathering place for those throughout multiple blocks
New Program Insert
Take Floor
Structural + Circulatory Negotiation
Activate Space
Community gardens are given surface through the newly introduced community prgram structures that may facilitate inter-community interaction and cooperation.
Yi Li plants some vegetables in one of her plots in the roof garden that her building community shares.
Liu Dehua stops to sing at a karaoke scooter on his way to work and attracts quite a local crowd.
Wang Ruofang and Yen Jidan of the local party comittee promote healthy lifestyle awareness in the community.
Smaller, more flexible active spaces are also scattered throughout the community.
The community health center and elderly care center take a central role within the spatial framework of the block, providing a closer connection between young and elderly community members.
Community and health administration offices are scattered throughout the community’s space for closer connection to the activities and members.
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Let it Flood Recoding for an alternative high-density community that will flood with sea level rise Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Diagram of ‘New Ground’ and Infrastructure Service Core Mechanical Space @ 105’ Level Elevation
Movement Over Train
Academic Work, 2014 Timothy Hyde (Instructor) Description The task of the studio was to analyze and ‘peel back’ layers of urban code in order to devise a new rule-set based on a perceived need. A rule-set for this project was devised based on perceived flooding of an area. A new ground is to be made to allow for flooding below, and program to be spread above the old ground, reimagining how life may be organized in such a system.
Station - Smith 9 Sts
Proposition Sea level rise and climate change aren’t just a collective crisis, it is a crisis of the collective. How can we collectively act on our responsibility to these issues? Without a meaningful idea and investment in spaces of the commons, what could compel any individuated person to do anything about it? The following projection poses a practical dilemma (dealing with our flooded infrastructure) as one that is a collective crisis, but highlights something much more serious: a crisis of the collective.
Flooded Ground
Photograph of Model
Rendering of Interior Courtyard During Flooding
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Let it Flood, Academic Work, 2014
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu, Exploded Axonometric Diagram of Primary Elements of Infrastructure
Rendering of Rooftop/’New Ground’
Core Detail @ Roof + New Infrastructural Network, 1:400 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Mechanical Space New Infrastructural Network Circulation Shaft Entrance Core Address (Cross) Ventilation Exhaust Extensive Roof Structure Vent Space for (Stacked Jennifer and Matt are going to tower Balcony) Buffer Zone 23 to watch the tide come in from the
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Urban Reprogramming Highlighting multi-party, urban interventions in Roxbury, Boston Studio Provocation at Harvard Graduate School of Design Academic Work, 2015 Ana Gilbert (Instructor)
Community Building Implementation Process 3 Developers, Businesses are approached or come in to capitalize on new value. 2 Planners, Institutions can be utilized as a key foundation in community building. 1 Community Members are engaged to build assets and ownership of space.
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Description The task of the studio was to engage in urban planning-related analysis and propose solutions to identified problems. The area identified for proposals was Roxbury, Boston which has been subject to racial discrimination in zoning practices and several failed development plans in the recent past. Proposition The thesis holds that through the reprogramming of physical space where boundaries do not permit freedom of movement and a sense of ownership, communities can be built around the exterior, solidifying social networks and allowing networks to expand outside of the neighborhood and for institutional links to be made within. A neighborhood that has this kind of network is less vulnerable and more apt to handle development pressures without outright rejection. From this, networks of spaces and communities may be formulated through sharing of resources and institutional foundations and extensions of services. The community as a unit is integral in the building of a larger group within Roxbury and the city itself that could play a larger and more powerful role in directing development and pooling knowledge and resources within their respective communities.
Urban Interventions Strategic Map
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Urban Reprogramming, Academic Work, 2015
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W Washington Mall +Charlame Park: Illustrated Reprogramming Community classrooms for arts and recreation
X Warren Gardens South: Illustrated Reprogramming Reconnect neighborhoods and mall with recreation-programmed path
Build access toward street front for improved connection to community
Create frontage for commerce and social activity to expand
Extend sidewalk and remove median to mitigate effects of adjacent wall
Social spaces and exhibition areas built within the horseshoe area
Introduce community kitchen or culinary program
Expand median for housing arts and recreation-related programs
Y Washington Mall Lot: Illustrated Reprogramming
Develop empty/vacant parcels in area
Z Warren Gardens North Extend pedestrian and bike-able infrastructure at intersections
Develop empty/vacant parcels in area with sensitivity to connection
Utilize large open space for visibility of events Connect Parking lots and place sitting hardware + plantings
Redevelop areas for connection to Warren Street
Extend sidewalk and remove median to develop cross-street connection
Establish garden network with extension to markets and enterprise
Add crosswalks within reduced street width to establish cross-connection
Develop botanical gardens for education and recreation within area
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Wetland Redevelopment
Map of Quincy: Shows diminished wetlands near area of flooding and the Neponset River Estuary Area of Critical Concern.
Ecological development as a catalyst Urban Planning Studio at Harvard Graduate School of Design Academic Work, 2016 Stephen Gray (Instructor) Description The task of the studio was to analyze various aspects of the urban planning environment in Quincy. Through the analysis, the project focuses on 3 major metro stations that connect Quincy to downtown Boston. Students are to propose an urban design along with an implementation plan in the form of a transportation-oriented-development (TOD). Proposition In the late 1960s, the wetlands around North Quincy were paved over, impairing their function to protect the area from flooding and filtering pollution before entry into the Neponset river. This project investigates the idea of a revitalized wetland park as a catalyst for redeveloping there area with a mixture of uses by increasing the real estate value of the land around it. In beautifying the area and providing a crucial infrastructural function, the idea is to project a vision for its potential for transforming the area into an transportation oriented development and urban office campus. The proposal would begin with State Street Corporation, whose property lies between two parts of the Neponset River Estuary Area of Critical Concern. By highlighting State Street’s profile as a community- and ecologically- oriented developer, the opportunity to rebuild the suburban campus as a more-integrated and dynamic urban campus can yield benefits to both the city, the community, and State Street itself.
FEMA Flood Map
Wetland Extents North Quincy
Neponset River Estuary Area of Critical Concern
Ecological Map and Hydrological Systems of Quincy Neponset River Estuary
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Wetland Redevelopment, Academic Work, 2016
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Ecological Map and Hydrological Systems of Quincy
Diagram of potential process of redevelopment after creation of wetland
State Street Bank
Neponset River Estuary Area of Critical Concern
Mobilize Natural System
Mobilize Transit System
Drainage Catchment
Establish Public Program
Connect Residential and Commerial Areas Plan Redevelopment in Tandem with New Campus
Create Central Campus Axis
Surface Parking Lot Plan Residential Integration Revitalize Wetland Expand Office Space
North Quincy Area of Project
0’ 1000’
0.5
Redevelop with Mixed-use and Residential
Expand Flagship Office
1 mi
Imagined Redevelopment Potential
Plan Mixed-use, Commercial and Residential
Improve Ecological Performance of Street
2 Breakup and redevelopment of State Street parcels. Program: Mixed-use, Residential
6 Redevelop MBTA parking lot. Program: Mixed-use, Publicuse, Residential, Retail
1 Construction of wetland park and revitalization of existing wetlands
4 MBTA station platform Program: Mixed-use
5 State Street flagship office building extension
3 Expansion of office space, creation of publicprogrammed building
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Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Monteria Village New Community
B
A
(Near Santa Barbara City College)
Community development and affordable housing development in Santa Barbara, CA HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition, 2016
25% Land Value to SBHA
Student Housing
Competition, 2016 Omar Carrillo (Student), Miriam Keller (Student), Alyson Stein (Student), Justin Kollar (Student), Chris Herbert (Advisor, Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies) *Finalist (1 of final 4 nationwide)
Strong Families Fund and ground lease payments support resident services
Scope Architectural Design, Graphic Design, Community Development Research, Sustainability Research, Cost and Financial Analysis Description In a cross-disciplinary team of 4, we submitted an entry to the 2016 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Competition. After two rounds we appeared as a finalist in Washington D.C. to present our final design to a panel of judges. The competition identified a specific site in Santa Barbara, CA that will be redeveloped in the future and asked students to propose a scheme under criteria of innovation in sustainability, community, and financing. Within our proposal, each aspect is interconnected: ample exterior space bring private space into a comunity setting while also utilizing passive strategies, common spaces are sustainably managed, solar-thermal energy provides more than enough energy for the entire development, and creative financing mechanism bring all age-groups into the community from students, to families and aging persons with community support for each demographic.
Community Partnerships
C
United Way of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara City College Santa Barbara Housing Authority 60% Decrease in Utility Allowance
Monteria Village
DASH CenCal Health City Parks and Recreation
Courtyard-Facing Balcony
Solar-Thermal and PV Panels Student Housing Cross-Subsidy
Sun-Room Access
Drought-Resistant Planting
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Monteria Village New Community, Competition, 2016 Axonometric Diagram
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
We st
Unit Mix + Types Mo
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(19) Student Units
to
Student Housing
Santa Barbara City College
(34) Family Units
(18) Aging Units
Family Housing (4) Studio (B) Subdivided Parcels
Family Housing
St re
et
Elderly Housing
(18) 1 Bed (ADA)
Ra nc he ria
Solar-thermal and PV Panels (C)
(2) 2 Bed
(10) 2 Bed
(8) 3 Bed
(20) 3 Bed
(5) 4 Bed
(4) 4 Bed
Bike Parking
Expanded Community Garden
77 Parking Spaces
Opportunity Center (A)
Car Share
Driveway
Courtyard-Facing Balconies connect the interior to social space
Sun-Rooms provide private exterior space, and warmth during winter
Opportunity Center (4,000 gsf) multi-purpose space, two classrooms, office space for four staff, clinical room, conference room, and community kitchen
Drought-resistant planting requires low-maintenance
A Typical Day at Monteria Village Elderly
Youth
Parents
Activity
Students
Tai Chi
Health Checkups
Meals on Wheels
Homework Help
Everybody Dance Now!
Gardening Club
Financial Literacy Class
Cooking Class
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Monteria Village New Community, Competition, 2016
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Sustain Design Measures
Rainwater Collection Solar-Thermal and PV Panels
Sun-Rooms and Thermal Massing
Balcony from Kitchen
Drought-Resistant Planting and Rainwater Catchment
Thermal Storage Tank Intake Storage
257,176 kWh produced by PV Panels annually. This represents a savings of $41,000 annually, and reduces fossil fuel energy demand in an amount equivalent to:
To Water Storage Handling
Graywater Storage
taking 37 cars off the road planting 4,500 trees
Drought-Resistant Planting and Rainwater Catchment
Financing
conserving 20,000 gallons of gasoline
$327k Garden Acquisition
Strong Families Fund Program (A) $1.6m
9% LIHTC equity
$1.8m allocation; $1.15 pricing; $20.7m total equity
Sources $25m ($489k/unit)
$1.8m
$3.1m
$988k $484k
Income
Expenses
Developer’s Fee
$200k
1st Mortgage Debt
Uses $25m ($489k/unit)
Student Housing Ground Lease (B)
$3.3m
Deferred Developer’s Fee $231k Reserves supported in part by SFF
Rent
$200k Deferred Developer’s Fee
Construction
$1.8m
Administrative
15%
Resident Services
7%
Utilities
Soft Costs
$200k $18m
Utility Savings SubDebt (C)
29%
Construction Contingency 10% Premium for sustainable design & construction
(vacancy) Ground Lease Payments
25%
Maintenance
19%
Taxes & Insurance
5%
Replacement Reserve Deposits
$204,090 NOI ($3,925/unit)
Community Center + Partnerships
Extended Opportunity Programs led by Santa Barbara City College
Just leaving their ‘Everybody Dance Now! Program
Gardening classes led by Parks & Recreation
Clinic Rooms used by DASH and CenCal
Financial literacy classes offered by United Way
Pursuing a GED
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Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation Collective Memory and the Politics of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Research Project at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Taiwan Sugar Corporation Factory District Map c. 1980 Data Sources: Ho 1978; Taiwan Government Village Data; TSC Database; National Land Survey and Mapping Center Database; Taiwan Hundred Years History Map System
*Penny White Fund Project *Awarded Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Summer Grant Independent Academic Work, 2016 David Syn-chee Mah (Advisor) Description This project investigates various sites where Taiwan’s sugar industry had operated under Japanese colonial rule and was consolidated into the state-owned Taiwan Sugar Corporation (TSC) under Chinese Nationalist rule. These sites are located within factory districts where land has been redeveloped and undergone planning processes in recent years; preserved in “cultural parks,” biotechnology parks, museums, and artistic hubs. The project has cataloged various sites, landscapes, and surrounding communities around the old sugar factory districts in order to make legible complex political processes and a project of governance through an institutional lens. Furthermore, the documentation highlights the process through which landscapes of production have been transformed into landscapes of culture, making visible the histories of extractive industries, agriculture, and the relationship between the state, concepts of the nation, and its people. The following representations are a portion of the graphic production within the research project, comprised of photographic work, mapping, and diagrams. TSC-owned Plantation Land Sugarcane Cultivated Land Active Factory
Railroad City/County Division District
Inactive Factory
歷 史 記 憶 與 政 策 治 理
台 灣 糖 業 公 司 的 地 理 文 化 、
Photo by Justin Kollar, in possession of author.
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Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation, Independent Academic Work, 2016
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu, Diagram of Sugarcane Agricultural Infrastructure Change
Sugarcane Fields
“Natural” Village
(1905-1940) Expansion of sugarcane cultivation and factory infrastructure including factory town and integration into “Natural” Village Hoko unit.
Privatized, Variegated Plots/Fields
Controlled Urban Development
Organic Rice Fields
Urban Extension Cultural Park
(1949-2016) Variegation and privatization of plots to local farmers, extension of urban areas controlled by local municipality and influenced by policy through TSCcontrolled land leases. Cultural development/preservation throughout 2000s.
(Left) Photographs taken by Justin Kollar for an annotated photograph portion of the final project report. Page 28 of 31
Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation, Independent Academic Work, 2016
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Kaohsiung Qiaotou Area 2016 Data Sources: Taiwan Government Village Data; TSC Database; National Land Survey and Mapping Center Database; Taiwan Hundred Years History Map System
120°12’ 4
120°14’ 8
120°16’
120°18’ 12
120°20’ 16
120°22’ 20
120°16’ 24
E km
N km
32
22°38’
28
22°40’
24
22°42’
20
22°44’
16
22°46’
22°48’ 12
22°50’ 8
22°52’
4
22°54’
0
0
Scale: 1:200,000
TSC-owned Land (2016)
Sugarcane Cultivation (1980)
Sugar Factory
Existing Railroad
Plantation Land 1980
Water-body
Cultural Development
Destroyed Sugar Railroad
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Landscape: Colonization/Cultivation, Independent Academic Work, 2016
Justin Kollar, Work Samples, jkollar@gsd.harvard.edu,
Kaohsiung Qiaotou Sugar Factory Area Map 2016 Source: Google Maps; TSC Database; National Land Survey and Mapping Center Database; Taiwan Hundred Years History Map System
120°18’30”
120°18’00” 1
120°18’30” 2
120°19’00” 3
120°19’30”
120°20’00” 4
5
120°20’30” E km
22°46’00”
2
1
0
0
22°45’30”
3
B
5
22°45’00”
4
A
F
C
6
E
N km
7
D
Scale: 1:40,000
(A) Qiaotou Tourist Sugar Factory + Museum; (B) Community Redevelopment Masterplanning; (C) Cingpu Community Redevelopment Masterplanning; (D) Kaohsiung Metropolitan Park; (E) Community Development Project; (F) TSC Recreation Park
Development Project Highlight
Railroad
Recent Sugarcane Field (Before 1990)
TSC-owned Land 2016
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