justin jennings portfolio spring 2011

Justin JenningsM.Arch Candidate

Rhode Island School of Design ‘12

Justin JenningsSelected Projects

Fox Point Dementia HousingElmwood Community Garden

Wave Ceiling InstallationQuichua Cultural Museum

Garden Ramp HousingCommunity MusicWorks

1” to 10,000’ Urban MappingMarionette Theater

Manual RepresenationSelected Artwork

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Fox Point Dementia Housing - MasterplanProvidence, RIUrban Design Principles - Fall 2010

The project responds to a growing demand for elderly care, especially for those with neurodegenera-tive 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 interac-tion 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.

2 M.Arch 2012 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Program

Restaurant

Market

Health Care ProgramPatient Independent Residences

Library / Community Memory Center

Health Clinic

Day Care Center

Humane Society

Transitional Family Housing

Residential Program

High End Residential

Gym (2 Levels)

Auditorium/Performing Arts

Community Gardening Tower

Exterior Protected Space

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B

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Site at intersection of semi-major East-West and North-South RoutesContinuation 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 FacilityProvidence, RIUrban Design Principles - Fall 2010


Ground Floor Second Floor

Third Floor Fourth Floor

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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 fl oors 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 fl oors have greater access to the outdoors as these patients are assumed to be less of a wandering risk. The upper fl oors 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 HutCommunity Garden Design BuildProvidence, RIArchitectural Design - Spring 2010

This proposal for a new community garden in Providence’s Elmwood neigh-borhood 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 mate-rial 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, adapta-tion and earth. In these four realms, we sought a design solution that could pro-vide an identifi able consruction and plan that could build on the ideas of growth, adaptation and build a sense of communi-ty, 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 co-operatively 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 fi nal determination over every detail and design feature in the fi nal construction.


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Wave Ceiling Installation - BEB GalleryProvidence, RIDigital Constructs - Spring 2010


This installation in RISD’s Bayard Ewing Building’s gallery was conceived from interfer-ing 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 dis-cussion zone. The surface was then cut according to local constraints, such as sprin-kler pipes or ceiling conditions. The resulting form was built from laser cut OSB ribs and coated with fi berglass on a portion of the surface. This project was a joint effort with my peers Andy Wise and Josh Ingold.

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Quichwa Cultural MuseumDesign BuildOutside Tena, Ecuador

Travel Studio, Winter 2011

Digital Constructs Spring 2010


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.

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Ramp Housing ComplexUrban Design Principles, Fall 2010

River

Courtyard

Private Balcony

Bedrooms

Bath/Closet

Living/Dining

Kitchen/Gathering

Circulation

Garden

Private

Public


Ground Floor Plan 1/16” = 1’ First Level 1/16” = 1’ Upper Level 1/16” = 1’

Site Plan 1/32” = 1’Section A-A 1/8” = 1’

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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.

Community MusicWorksEducation and Performance SpaceRoger WIlliams Park, Providence, RI

Architectural Design, Spring 2010


Ground Level

Second Level

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B

C

C

D

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B

C

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D

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Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

Section D-D

Outdoor Performance Space

Indoor Performance Space

Large Classroom

Small Classroom

Lounge

Cafe

Office

Storage

Parking Lot

Entry

Exit

Botanical Center Greenhouse

Outdoor Gathering Space

Boat Dock

8:00am 12:00pm 4:00pm 8:00pm

Student

Teacher

Audience

Parks Department Staff

Botanical Center Employee

Bus

Home

School

Interior/Exterior Boundary

SmallLounge

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OutdoorPerformance

Outdoor Gathering Space

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.

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local farm

preserved park

water body

urban

interstate

route

suburban

10 miles

region

building

wall

actual

Urban Analysis and Mapping1”=10,000’ to 1”=1”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 artifi cially cooled environment of the dairy as it sits on the stepped site, to the left.


Residential

500 Feet

Industrial

Munroe Dairy Property

Riverside Green Space

Controlled Distribution Environment

Truck Circulation

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Marionnette TheaterProvidence, RI

Design Principles, Fall 2009

Work in our introductory design studio focused on investigating spatial and structural properties of a specifi c knot, then developing these prin-ciples into a mass, then an enclosure and fi nally a marionette theater.


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Selected Hand DrawingsManual Representation, Fall 2009


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Aurora Borealis SculptureSculpture II, Srping 2004


Rebar HandSculpture I, Srping 2003

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SnowpathSculpture I, Srping 2003


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justin jennings portfolio spring 2011

Documents

group spaces

patients rooms

new community garden

riurban design principles

group residences

common spaces

immediate access

greater access