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JESSICA GROSSI architecture portfolio
INSIDE OUT: CONSTRUCTING THE CUSTOM ENVIRONMENTM. ARCH I Thesis Project, Trenton, NJ (2011)
INNER COAST: OUTER LIMITSPavilion for America’s Cup, San Francisco, CA (2011)
THE CITY WITHIN THE CITY: FORTEZZA DA BASSOInstitute of Architecture, Urbanism, & Civil Engineering, Florence, Italy (2010)
KGW SALON & SPAFreelance Documentation & Design, Lawrenceville, NJ (2010)
CATALYZING THE URBAN EDGEUrban Library and Community Center, Syracuse, NY (2009)
SEAM, BORDER, SKIN: LOFTED PROFILESLibrary Addition for the People’s Place, Syracuse, NY (2009)
PROJECTIVE CARE UNITHealthcare & Safe Motherhood Clinic, Tamale, Ghana (2010)
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JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ARTEnclosure Study (2011)
URBAN ANALYSIS: FORM AND IDEOLOGYDiagramming the Development of Florence, Italy (2010)
SEAM, BORDER, SKIN: PROGRESSION OF THE SECTIONSectional Study of Bibliothèque Sainte-Genevieve (2009)
FREEHAND CHARCOAL DRAWINGS(2008)
COLOR STUDY PAINTING AND COLLAGE Little Yellow Horses by Franz Marc (2006)
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DESIGN
Trenton, NJ Scale: 1” = 500’
Scale: 1” = 150’Route 206 Corridor
My thesis delves into the notion of interior environments as reflections of personality that can directly affect the public realm, in this case Trenton NJ. My project be-came an implementation of structural furniture upon the city of Trenton and, as such, its attempt to redefine hous-ing and ideas of interiors. The impetus for this was the concept of the Soul Box, the Art Nouveau idea of using the interior as a way of expressing individuality as well as becoming a haven from the urban metropolis. Howev-er, the Art Nouveau style had a difficult time responding to the masses as it lacked the ease of mass customiza-tion and mass production. Half a century later, IKEA was able to tap into this idea of the Soul Box while being able to produce products that can be customized at an af-fordable price.
Though IKEA addresses the interiors of the domestic realm, it fails in applying the system of flat-packed prod-ucts to the creation of complete spaces. Seeing this void, my thesis began to develop a structural furniture system that, though comprised of basic components, has the potential for customization at any economic lev-el. Mercer County, New Jersey, especially along Route 206 in Princeton, Lawrenceville, and Trenton, was seen as the best example of a clear cross section of all eco-nomic levels. Trenton became the focus site as it was the densest and most impressionable, with a variety of user groups and housing situations. The user groups were defined as Family of Four, Single Mother, Retired Couple, and Single Male/Female and were seen as renting or owning property. Currently, Trenton is mainly comprised of single family attached homes, with two families occu-pying one house. The implementation of structural fur-niture within these buildings, as well as adjoining vacant lots, allows for the capacity of the house to increase and the customization of the interior and exterior for the user. In the case of 513-521 Brunswick Avenue, the two houses and one vacant lot were transformed from housing four user groups to eight distinct user groups.
INSIDE OUT: CONSTRUCTING THE CUSTOM ENVIRONMENTM. ARCH I Thesis Project, Trenton, NJ (2011)01
513-521 BRUNSWICK AVENUE
MASTERBEDROOM
2 BEDROOMS
2 FULL BATHS
KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
STAIRCASE REC ROOM
1 HALF BATH
MASTERBEDROOM
2 BEDROOMS
1 FULL BATH
KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
STAIRCASE1 HALF BATH
MASTERBEDROOM
1 BEDROOM
1 FULL BATH
KITCHEN
DINING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
STAIRCASE1 HALF BATH
1 BEDROOM
1 FULL BATH
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
561 BRUNSWICK AVENUE
OWNER| Walter T. Morton
RESIDENTS| Susan Sporn, two children
SUSAN SPORN|
32 years old Black Native to New Jersey High School Graduate Employed| Salary Worker ESTIMATED HOUSEHOLD INCOME| $40,000
SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED
495 BRUNSWICK AVENUE
SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED
OWNER| Clinton J. Carter
RESIDENTS| Clinton J. Carter, wife, two children
CLINTON J. CARTER|
39 years old Black Native to New Jersey High School Graduate Employed| Private Wage Worker ESTIMATED HOUSEHOLD INCOME| $55,000
535 BRUNSWICK AVENUE
825 BRUNSWICK AVENUE
OWNER| Jose E. Rivera
RESIDENTS| Jose E. & Juanita Rivera
JOSE E. RIVERA|
63 years old Hispanic Native to New Jersey College Graduate Employed| Retired Private Wage Worker ESTIMATED HOUSEHOLD INCOME| $60,000
OWNER| Brunswick Village Apart-ments
RESIDENTS| Abel Reyes
ABEL REYES|
24 years old Hispanic Native to New Jersey Did Not Graduate High School Employed| Salary Worker ESTIMATED HOUSEHOLD INCOME| $16,000
1 TO 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT RENTALS
SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED
PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS
PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS
PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS
PROGRAMMATIC REQUIREMENTS
FAMILY
SINGLE MOTHER
COUPLE
SINGLE
Single Mother
Couple
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SINGLE (2’) UNIT
DOUBLE (4’) UNIT
DOUBLE (4’) UNIT
LEFT NOTCHED
RIGHT NOTCHED
CORNER UNIT
RIGHT GROOVED
LEFT GROOVED
CUSTOMIZIBLE PANELS
INTERIOR PANEL
RIGID/BATT INSULATION
WEATHERPROOF SHEETING
EXTERIOR WALL PANEL
CUSTOMIZIBLE PANELS
INTERIOR PANEL
SUPPORT STRUCTURE
REAR PANEL
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COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
INTERIOR WALL FURNITURE COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
EXTERIOR WALL FURNITURE COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
SPATIAL CONSTRUCTIONWITH CORNER STRUCTURE
SPATIAL CONSTRUCTIONWITH CORNER STRUCTURE
WALL FURNITURE COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
WALL FURNITURE COMPONENT ASSEMBLY
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The design vehicle for this investigation was the new America’s Cup racing facilities in San Francisco, a stra-tegically sited event space that could have an effect on the public life of the city beyond the timeframe of the event. The project engages questions of how ar-chitecture can intervene in and proactively transform San Francisco’s Embarcadero, a former working port that is now an urban waterfront landscape. The scope of the project involved designing new facilities at Piers 27-29 for the America’s Cup race, including the main pavilion, public hospitality and exhibition area, media center, viewing platforms, and yacht berths. The inter-vention was allowed to make connections at the site’s edges, to the Embarcadero, the adjacent piers, and the Cruise Ship Terminal.
The early phases involved the design of a three-dimen-sional “construct” which delved into ideas of inward and outward oriented spaces. The ideas addressed through this construct offered the beginnings for ar-chitectural propositions to be brought to the site. A reinterpretation of the evolving coastline of San Fran-cisco yielded a construct with continuous surfaces that folded upon one another, creating spaces that could be imagined as occupiable above and below.
Ultimately, the idea of evolving profiles became the strategy for design, integrating the original structures located upon Pier 27-29 as drivers for the creation of a new architectural profile that would rise out into the bay. The lofting of the truss systems of two separate structures towards one another and to the bay creates a new profile. As a result, the final structure becomes a series of folding surfaces that act as interior and exte-rior seating platforms with views oriented towards the America’s Cup racing route.
INNER COAST: OUTER LIMITSPavilion for America’s Cup, San Francisco, CA (2011)02
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Treasure Island
AlcatrazGolden Gate Bridge
Marin Headlands
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ForeDeck Club
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This project presents the opportunity to think about, experiment with, and determine an at-titude regarding the thinking and making of the built environment and its relationship to a given set of histories and values that exist in a Euro-pean city. The Fortezza da Basso of Florence was originally a defense station for the Medici government in the 16th c. Today the Fortezza is home to Florence’s largest annual fashion shows, trading events, and concerts. It also rep-resents a miniature representation of the city of Florence itself. The Fortezza offers two recurring conceptual and physical problems that occur in contemporary cities: the challenge of con-temporary representation in a historically de-fined context and the problem of fragmented urban form, space, and program.
Interdisciplinary demands are quite strong on the arts of architecture and urban design. As such, the proposed program is the design of an Institute for the Advanced Study of Architec-ture, Urbanism, Civil and Environment Engineer-ing. The building and grounds are seen as open to the public and as an extension of the urban environment of the city. Acting as an extension of the urban environment, the proposed struc-ture becomes a part of the larger surrounding infrastructure, mimicking the train tracks that wrap around the Fortezza da Basso. Just as the train network link the city of Florence to its sur-roundings, the Institute acts as a direct connec-tion to the walls and existing buildings within the Fortezza, moving students and visitors through-out the entire site.
THE CITY WITHIN THE CITY: FORTEZZA DA BASSOInstitute of Architecture, Urbanism, & Civil Engineering, Florence, Italy (2010) 03
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Main Salon
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Facials & Waxing
Reception Waiting
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KGW Salon & Spa required the assessment and creation of a renova-tion proposal for an existing one story residential house in Lawrencev-ille, New Jersey. The project included designing an enclosed sun porch addition to the rear of the house to act as the main salon space while the existing interior spaces were reprogrammed as ancillary sa-lon and spa areas.
KGW SALON & SPAFreelance Documentation & Design, Lawrenceville, NJ 04
This studio focused on the idea of catalytic interven-tions and the capacity of architecture interventions to generate and articulate larger urban process. The site for this project was located in Syracuse, defined by the intersection of East Fayette St. and Westmoreland on the South and Erie Blvd on the north on the east side of the city. The chosen site escapes a clear definition as it is neither urban nor suburban. The site confronts a range of scales and conditions through its adjacency to a traditional residential neighborhood to the south and the Erie Blvd commercial strip to the north. Pro-grams emerge in a seemingly spontaneous manner, inhabiting the site erratically as reactions to the exter-nal cultural or economic demand. The result is a series of urban grey zones which lack any sense of internal block consistency, unification, or programmatic ratio-nal missing.
The key element of this project was to embrace these grey zones, designing an urban library and commu-nity center within one of these zones that would en-hance itself through the strengths of its neighbor. The chosen grey zone is situated beside an urban housing development as well as several residential houses and commercial structures, all connected through walk-ing paths and views. Moving away from the housing development, the topography of the site becomes extreme in its fluctuation between being steep and shallow. With this in mind, the urban library strives to embrace these topographical changes. The struc-ture mimics the changing elevation through a series of overlapping floor plates which provide views from above and below into each area.
CATALYZING THE URBAN EDGEUrban Library and Community Center, Syracuse, NY (2009)05
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Study Models
Day Care
Main Library
Sub-First Level
Main Library
CafeGallery
Offices
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Children’s Library
Cafe
Offices
Auditorium
Basement Level Final Model
Section Middle East
Section Middle West
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Sectional Perspective
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Section B
Sectional Perspective
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A first-year studio exercise consid-ered the border line of profiles as both an analytical tool to com-prehend architectural relation-ships and a generative device for making architecture. The po-tential of a profile was explored by documenting and deploying the complex lines that make up the interior of Hendricks Chapel on the Syracuse University cam-pus. Creating a digital photo-graphic collage, the studied ele-ment, in this case the wall of the main gathering space, began to be seen as an assemblage of many parts. Multiple scaled ver-tical profiles were produced to articulate this area of the build-ing. From this, the technique of lofting in Rhino was used to ex-periment with generating surfac-es from the profiles. This resulting surface was utilized in creating a new programmatic space for use within Hendricks Chapel in con-junction with The People’s Place, a student-run operation that ser-vices the SU campus with coffee, refreshments, and lounge space in the basement. The new inter-vention functions as a library, the surface acting as built-in shelving and seating.
SEAM, BORDER, SKIN: LOFTED PROFILESLibrary Addition for the People’s Place, Syracuse, NY (2009)06
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This comprehensive design studio revolved around the design of a new model of health care facility for deployment in Tamale in The Republic of Ghana in West Africa. In addition, the program of the Projective Care Unit re-quired the specific and rigorous understanding of medical and healthcare technologies. This facility must accommodate frontline, primary, preventative, surgical, trauma, and diagnostic functions in a compact, innovative unit. Within this set of specialties there are two primary ar-eas: Intensive Care and Primary Care with sup-porting programs. While the health care facility must be flexible to accommodate a range of needs, the number one focus is on safe mother-hood with safer prenatal care, births, and early childhood.
The goal for this new health care facility is to re-examine issues of programming associated with hospital design, providing spatial arrangements dictated by equipment requirements and dis-ease treatment, thus creating an efficient envi-ronment. The resulting facility will deal with the climatic issues, utilizing SITumbra, a glass curtain wall system, as a means of addressing heat gain as well as program viscosity¬. The SITumbra will passively modulate the solar gain of the build-ing by deferring the heat away from the struc-ture through the newly developed material. All these elements combine to create a three zoned clinic, with the internal program working in tandem with the actual structure. The trans-parency of the facade increases as privacy within decreases.
OPERATING ROOM
MATERNITY ROOM
PROJECTIVE CARE UNITHealthcare & Safe Motherhood Clinic, Tamale, Ghana (2010)07
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CURTAIN PANEL 1 CURTAIN PANEL 2
CURTAIN PANEL 3 CURTAIN PANEL 4
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ARC623 Advanced Building Systems Spring 2011
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The skylights are located at the Sculpture terrace, an outdoor ex-tension of the third floor. These skylights are set down into the sides of the concrete in such a way that they appear to float in place.
Zooming in on the skylight, it be-comes apparent that the glass is not flat but rather angled down-ward towards the center of the structure. This allows water to funnel off of the glass rather than pooling above.
Invisible to the eye, the skylight has a gutter system built into its surroundings. Water is able to run off the glass and enter the gut-ter where it is then distributed out through a drainage pipe. Nestled within this system is the mechani-cal system below.
SKYLIGHT DETAIL
JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ARTEnclosure Study (2011)08
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The north elevation acts similar-ly to the south elevation, with a large series of glass panels look-ing out onto the landscape. The way the enclosure acts with the mechanical system demonstrates its level of transparency as a skin while retaining its exterior image of being bold and massive.
The window sills along all four sides fluctuate between being perfect 90 degree angle sill and having a 45 degree slant set out from the glazing system. This slanting of the window sill allows air from the HVAC system to come out through the envelope and up through the air supply cabinet. There is an unseen connection between the rooms and the plenum. These el-ements are hidden from the user’s sight by once again embedding these systems within the concrete core of the building.
NORTH ELEVATION DETAIL
Using historical and contempo-rary maps, photos, and archi-val resources, the development of the city of Florence through key historical periods was drawn through a series of two and three dimensional diagrams. These an-alytical drawings illustrate the city form as seen through selected armatures with specific program-matic and spatial systems that revolve around key buildings and spaces. In doing so, a hidden as-pect of the city was revealed.
Analyzing four specific armatures from overlapping time periods of Florence’s urban expansionist his-tory, it becomes clear that there is a secret relationship. These four narrative arrangements relate to one another through an outward radial progression, originating at the original Roman city center of Piazza della Repubblica. These narrative paths act as sight lines that focus towards the center of the city.
RADIAL GEOMETRIES
URBAN ANALYSIS: FORM AND IDEOLOGYDiagramming the Development of Florence, Italy (2010)09
BRUNELLESCHI ARMATUREThe second armature is the narrative created by the commissioned works of Brunelleschi, including the Ospedale de-gli Innocenti, Santa Maria del Fiore, and Santo Spirito. Once again the two ex-tremes of the progression are the same distance from the Roman center and the natural walking path from one to the oth-er includes Piazza della Repubblica.
CENTER OF FLORENCE ARMATUREThe first armature focuses upon the three different cen-ters of Florence. The religious center of Santa Maria del Fiore and the civic center of Palazzo Vecchio emerged as the new focal points of the city. However, the two still correspond to the original Roman center of Piazza del-la Repubblica, equi-distant to the true city core.
The third armature includes the projects commissioned by the Medici family, of which there were many. The narrative begins at San Marco and its gardens and travels past Palazzo Medici, San Lorenzo, Palazzo Vecchio, and the Vasari Corridor, ending at Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens. The two Medici gardens act as the book-ends for this armature and focus back to Piazza della Repubblica.
MEDICI ARMATURE
The final armature is the urban renovation by Giuseppe Poggi in the 1860s, where the city walls were demolished and a ring road with new piazzas at key points was established. The radial center for this road system is the Roman city center with Piazzale di Porta Ro-mana, Piazzale di Porta al Prato, Piazzale Dontello, Piazza Cesare Beccaria, and, most important with its own narrative progression, Piazzale Michelangelo focusing back towards this central point.
POGGI ARMATURE
Hand drafted on two 25”x38” sheets, the sectional drawing of Bibliothèque Sainte-Gene-vieve was an investigation of the ceremonial progression of space specific to the Parisian library. Since attention need-ed to be made to the seam of the two sheets, another im-portant aspect of the drawing was the understanding of Bib-liothèque Sainte-Genevieve being the seaming together of the heavy masonry base and the light iron arches of the main library hall.
From this analysis, the section of Bibliothèque Sainte-Gene-vieve was combined with that of Prada Tokyo to create a hy-brid section. The section ad-dresses the same issues of cer-emonial progression through two distinct spaces and the movement between an en-closed and heavy space with an open and light space. This is done through the merging of the diagrid glass structure of Prada and the masonry core of of Bibliothèque Sainte-Gen-evieve.
SEAM, BORDER, SKIN: PROGRESSION OF THE SECTIONSectional Study of Bibliothèque Sainte-Genevieve (2009) 10
FREEHAND CHARCOAL DRAWINGS(2008)11
Based on Franz Marc’s 1912 painting Little Yel-low Horses, this series em-ployed two different medi-ums to replicate the image through hue, shade, tint, and intensity seen in the original Marc painting. The first original is a replication through the use of paper materials such as maga-zines, cardstock, construc-tion paper, and color aid paper, all of which were cut or torn then pieced together with rubber ce-ment to mimic the general hue. The second original is executed through acrylic paints on canvas, using at most ten different acrylic paint colors, which were then mixed to match each specific color of the image.
COLOR STUDY PAINTING AND COLLAGE Little Yellow Horses by Franz Marc (2006)12