Jack Collins, Assoc. AIA

jackrc@umich.edu | +1 (614) 315 - 9224

Ann Arbor, Michigan | Feburary 2023

Atelier HAY | atelierhay.com

Education

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Architecture (Advanced Standing)

Bowling Green State University - Bowling Green, OH

Bachelor of Science in Architecture and Environmental Design

Honors College | Dean’s List

Experience

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI

Stamps School of Art & Design Equipment Staff

Work Study in the STAMPS DigiFab Lab responsible for operating equipment and helping students. The equipment includes our FDM, SLA, and SLS 3D printers, CNCs, Laser Cutters, Vinyl Cutter, and Embroidery machine.

OakBridge Timber Framing - Loudonville, OH

Architectural Designer

As a summer intern I was responsible for leading two residential projects from conceptual floor plans to construction drawings. My work included frequent client meetings, 3D modeling, heavy timber structural model, elevations, sections, floor plans, and details.

GreenScapes Landscape Company - Columbus, OH

Landscape Architecture Intern

Summer interns rotated around several sectors of their business including landscape design, project management, landscape maintenance, construction, and their nursery with a comprehensive hands-on approach.

Involvement

Hybrid Mass Timber + Additive Construction: Projecting an Urbanistic Building System for Social Housing

Mass timber construction has been cultivated as an environmentally sustainable and cost effective approach for housing typology. However, repetitive and regularly shaped timber structural systems for larger scale affordable housing applications tend to be homogeneous, lacking unique and personalized spaces for both individuals and the collective, hindering the progress of more diversified and inclusive living communities. Concurrently, rapid additive (3D-printed) building construction has begun to emerge in the single-family housing market due to its benefits of mass customization, reduced onsite labor costs, and time efficiency. However, present production and building typology at a singleunit-scale are still limited for complex social housing projects. This research aims to integrate mass timber and rapid additive construction into a hybrid system. Hybrid affordable housing, through mass timber construction and additive manufacturing processes, is intended to evolve into environmentally conscious architecture as an extension of nature. It not only provides healthy and adaptable physical spaces but also supports everyday urbanism as a response to diversified personal needs and desires for a more sustainable future.

Topological Transmutation of the Urban Heat Island: Experimenting Ecological Urbanistic Intervention of Public Space in Toledo

The exodus of urban dwellers to suburbs and the countryside, dramatized by the pandemic, has both escalated the UHI effects of cities and expanded the carbon footprint at a greater pace, further contributing to the climate crisis. Traditional remedies to mitigate UHI are reactive to existing urban conditions and less well equipped to address the complex urban issues holistically at multiple levels. This design-based research explores topological transmutation as a twofold design approach. It aims at testing alternative design approaches of urban environments that will address UHI issues based on a holistic attitude toward ecological urbanism, while simultaneously investigating mutation as a design strategy that could renegotiate, reconnect, and recreate new centers of public space. Toledo, a legacy city in the Midwest, was selected as the model for this design-based research due to its intensifying social inequality and urban decay and climbing UHI effects. Prototypes of adaptable and sustainable design concepts were tested in selected sites representing typical urban situations. Urban interventions to the public space are envisioned to enrich everyday spatial experiences in the streets, neighborhoods, and the city.

ScholarWorks@BGSU

Architecture in Anime: Miyazaki’s Motifs

Internationally known, celebrated, and respected, director Hayao Miyazaki has become a household name by transforming an industry through his films. This research focuses on Miyazaki’s process and the similarities he shares with architects, both in and out of his works. By initially examining his background, the three motifs of architecture, inspiration, and sustainability are explored through works like Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and more. The results of this research are to inform fans of both architecture and anime about the connection between someone who designs and builds the world, and one who designs and builds worlds.

Co-Author

Volume 7 / 2022

Issue 2

[The Right to Housing] https://www.doi. org/10.15274/ tpj.2022.07.02.15

Volume 7 / 2022

Issue 1 https://www.doi. org/10.15274/ tpj.2022.07.01.10

Author

Honors Project 4 / 27 / 2022 https://scholarworks.bgsu. edu/honorsprojects/690/