PORTFOLIO of BFA Architecture+Design SAM JOHNSON UMass Amherst 2012 This is the
Samuel A Johnson sam.adams.johnson@gmail.com 908-591-4872 288 Belchertown Rd Amherst, MA 01002
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A New Community Center . . . . . . . . . . .05 Window Deconstructed . . . . .13 Cities & The Sky . . . . . . . . . .19 Community Engagement . . . . . .23 Work Samples . . . . . . . . . .27 Personal Works . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Spring 2012 Design 6 Joseph Krupczynski Project Team: Angela Degeorge and Jenn Levy
2383 Main St Springfield, MA
A New Community Center
The New North Citizen’s Council is a non-profit who advocate for the rights of the predominantly Latino population of Springfield, MA, where the organization is located. This design proposes a new headquarters where their current offices are now located. It provides a larger amount of office space than their current building, an open and accessible lobby, spaces for retail and small business, a large space for the community to host gatherings, paired with a kitchen, and an outdoor plaza. Additionally, facing the plaza are enclosed spaces for stalls, to promote the development of a farmer’s market. If implemented, the design would ideally achieve LEED Silver.
First Floor Plan
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Lobby Reception NNCC Offices Showers Market Stalls Retail Cafe Business Incubator Conference Room 4 3
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Second Floor Plan 10 11 12 13 14
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NNCC Offices Community Space Terrace Kitchen Small Group Room
West Elevation
North Elevation
South Elevation
East Elevation
N-S Section
E-W Section
Spring 2012 Design 6 Joseph Krupczynski Western Massachusetts
Window Deconstructed
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Tobacco Barns inWestern Massachusetts
Deconstruction of New England Style Window
A traditional New England colonial-style window consists of three distinct elements: aperture, framework and shutter. This design isolates each element and attempts to redeifine its usage. The framework is removed from within the aperture, no longer serving to divide it but instead to define it and the shutters are replaced with solar panels, giving function to an element that had been purely aesthetic.
Spring 2011 Design 4 Kathleen Lugosch Project Team: Kevin Sheehan
Fort Point Channel Boston, MA
City & The Sky
The night sky over Boston at the time of the installation.
Constellations are abstracted into geometries. It is a common sentiment that the city skyline at night can reflect the glow of the stars. This notion shaped the design of my submittal to the shiftBOSTON BARGE 2011 Competition. Using the positions of the stars visible at the time and location of the installation, a web of abstract geometric walls creates a maze atop the barge. Fabric meshes serve as the walls of the piece and while defining the spaces of the barge, also layer and mask the views the city. Simultaneously documentation, mapping and screen, the project serves to create an array of unique spaces atop the Boston waterfront.
The geometries are reduced to create barriers.
Barriers create a network of paths along the barge.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 Independent Study Joseph Krupczynski Pioneer Valley Region Massachusetts
Community Engagement
Demographic Information was provided by 176 of the 215 people who participated in the 22 Community Dialogues conducted throughout Hampshire & Hamden Counties
My Community is Sustainble When...
PLAIN FIELD
CUMMINGTO N GOSHEN
WORTHINGTON WILLIAMSB URG
CHESTERFIELD
HATFIELD PELHAM
This project was a collaboration between UMass Amherst, the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and United Way. The goal was to create a master plan for a more sustainable Pioneer Valley Region, a plan which would be guided by input from the people living in the region, specifically communities who were not typically engaged in planning processes. Our task was to design, run and record a series of engagements with these communities and compile their feedback for use by the PVPC and United Way.
MIDDLEFIELD HADLEY AMHERST
NORTHAMPTO N WESTH AMPTO N
CHESTER EASTHAMPTON
BELC HERTOWN
HUNTINGTO N
WARE
GRANBY SOUTH HADLEY
SOUTHAMPTON
M O N T G O M E RY
HOLYO KE
BLANDFORD
REGIONAL PRIORITIES
LUDLO W PALMER
CHICO PEE RUSSELL WESTFIELD
WEST SPRIN GFIELD SPRINGFIELD
WILB RAHAM
TO LLAN D
BRIMFIELD
MO NSON
GRANVILLE SOUTHWICK
AGAWAM
EAST LO NGMEADO W
HAMPDEN
WALES
HOLLAN D
LONGMEADOW
QUABOG/QUABBIN Local Priorities + AFFORDABLE HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION + MORE JOBS
HILLTOWNS
SMALL CITIES
URBAN CORES
VALLEY
Local Priorities + AFFORDABLE HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION + RENEWABLE ENERGY
Local Priorities + AFFORDABLE HOUSING + TRANSPORTATION + LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD
Local Priorities + AFFORDABLE HOUSING + BETTER SCHOOLS + TRAINED WORKFORCE
Local Priorities + MORE JOBS + BETTER SCHOOLS + LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD
SOME COMMUNITY IDENTIFIED SOLUTIONS + ACTIONS LIVE • Develop tools to educate the wider public on the benefits of Affordable Housing • Hold workshops on tenant rights, access to affordable housing, section 8 vouchers and alternative rental options
PROSPER • Create more job training programs that meet the needs of the current job market • Create programs for more parent involvement in schools • Support more culturally relevant school curriculum
For more information on this project please visit us at:
www.SustainableKnowledgeCorridor.org
CONNECT • Establish a Regional Citizen Advocacy Group for Transportation • Advocate for lower bus fares and push for more transit equity • Develop community-based car sharing programs
GROW • Work with farmer’s markets to have them accept EBT (food stamps) • Start gardens at schools and in the community • Develop educational programs on healthy cooking
Values in this chart represent the percentage of participants who selected these priorities
21%
DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES
25%
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
39%
TRAINED WORKFORCE
50%
BETTER SCHOOLS
& WALKABLE 25% SAFE COMMUNITIES
18%
75 %
50%
46%
36%
LIVE
PROSPER
CONNECT
GROW
Housing Healthy Communities
Economic Development Education / Training
Transportation Civic Life
Environment / Energy Food Security
LIVE: While “Diverse &
PROSPER: Nearly everyone saw the issues in this category as connected, explaining that better schools lead to a more trained workforce, which will hopefully mean more people can access good jobs.
CONNECT: Many people noted how poor bus service was keeping people from accessing jobs and healthy foods. Solving transportation issues are key to improvements in personal health & the local economy.
GROW: Community gardens
HOUSING THAT IS AFFORDABLE
To garner useful feedback from the communities, we provided them with twelve priority cards, which they were asked to rank (above). The cards were split into four categories: Live, Prosper, Connect and Grow. The input from over 200 participants was quantified and displayed in graphics (top right). In order to verify that our work had targeted underrepresented communities, we compared the demographics of our particiapants to those of the Pioneer Valley region (right).
CLEAN, SAFE, RENEWABLE ENERGY
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
OBSERVATIONS + CONNECTIONS
IMPORTANT “WRITE-IN” PRIORITIES HEALTH SERVICES:
Equal access to affordable health care--particularly in local communities
LOCAL CONTROL:
Provide more opportunities to participate and contribute to local planning decisions
COMMUNITY BUILDING:
Connecting with neighbors and families to promote healthy communities
ADDRESSING RACISM:
Develop local strategies to combat racism in all its implicit and explicit forms
MORE TRANSPORT OPTIONS & SERVICES
Inclusive Communities” was not always selected as a top priority, many participants mentioned that diversity in communities is often dependent on access to affordable housing.
ACCESS TO LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD
and youth development were important parts of the Food Security conversation. Many participants also noted how successes in the other categories would have positve impacts on the environment.
May - July 2012 ADP Bodega Studio Projects Holyoke, MA
Work Samples
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FUTURE ELEVATOR
CHECKOUT
CAFE
Proposed First Floor Plan
center for design engagement
www.designengagement.org
DELIVERY STATION
The Alliance to Develop Power, a nonprofit organization based out of Springfield, MA, hoped to reopen a foreclosed supermarket in nearby Holyoke, MA as a local, organic food market for an area considered a food desert. My work for this project involved measuring existing site conditions and dimensions, drafting existing and proposed conditions and creating promotional graphics.
Scale: 3/32” = 1’0”
ADP Bodega
DWIGHT STREET
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GROCERIES
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Refrigerated Units
Custom Casework
Manufactured Shelving
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COOLER
STORAGE EXISTING SERVICE ELEVATOR
Existing First Floor Plan
FREEZER
F Meat
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OFFICE
B Produce
A Produce
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Sandwich Prep Table
C Produce
Frozen & Dairy
D Frozen Prepared Foods
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573 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE MA
PRELIMINARY DESIGN / ADP BODEGA
Existing Basement Plan
Proposed First Floor Plan
2009 - 2012 Urban Earthworks Experiments in Wood FPM // FM
Personal Works
Urban Earthworks
Dirt and other materials are removed from a site and used, along with spray paint, to create abstract patterns upon the canvas. The detritus used in a piece is unique to a single site and is used for only a single painting. In this way the work serves not only as abstraction but as documentation of the site and time at which the work was created.
Experiments in Wood
Sculpture is, inherently, a destructive act. The artist cuts, sands and carves the wood until it resembles a form they deem “more aesthetically pleasing�. These works attempt, hypocritically, to express sympathy for the material they destroy, to allow the processes applied to the wood to leave a mark.
FPM // FM Feet Per Minute (below) is a piece created through the process of photographing my own foot, once every hour, for two days. To create Fan Mail (left) a hundred people were given envelopes containing instructions to fill them with whatever they wanted and were able to fit in the envelope, and then return them. The plastic bags contain the contents of each envelope.
Bonus Game: Search for Sam I appear four times in this portfolio! Can you find them all?
Samuel A Johnson sam.adams.johnson@gmail.com 908-591-4872 288 Belchertown Rd Amherst, MA 01002