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2 Jack LaFontain 1 (314) PROJECTS: Education Kansas State University (KSU) Manhattan, KS expected College of Architecture, Planning, and Design M. Arch - 5 year NAAB accredited program University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Department of Architecture, Urban Planning + Design M.Arch - 2 year NAAB accredited transfer program GILLHAM PARK POOLHOUSE & PROMENADE SILENCE & LIGHT STUDENT RETREAT Honors Chancellor s Scholarship fall 2011 offered by University of Missouri-Kansas City Transfer Honors Scholarship offered by Kansas State University fall 2013 Involvement International Institute of St. Louis volunteer tutor for adult English & Literacy program for immigrants and refugees Tricycle Transit Pedicabs summer-fall 2012 one of thirty six riders in quickly growing Kansas City pedicab service (tip based pay) NYC EAST VILLAGE ART FORUM STAVANGER MARKET PLACE PERFORMANCE PAVILION Skills Proficient: Sketchup, Rhino, Adobe CS6 (illustrator, photoshop, indesign) Intermediate: 3ds Max rendering, Adobe Premiere Pro Developing: Revit, V-Ray, AutoCad, Ecotect Other: Model construction, laser-cutting, MS Office, MacOSX, Windows, photography BUTTERFLY BOX TENSEGRITY OTHER WORK References available upon request

GILLHAM PARK POOLHOUSE & PROMENADE Prof.

below. It is a place to stop for coffee and food, go swimming, or simply a way to get from one place to another.

Two building masses are set into the hillside creating spaces of shelter and prospect while allowing for an open plaza between the pool.

3 GILLHAM PARK POOLHOUSE & PROMENADE Prof. John Eck Arch-302 Fall 2012 This project creates a path between a residential area and a recreation center at the top of a hill and a large outdoor park below. It is a place to stop for coffee and food, go swimming, or simply a way to get from one place to another. The design engages the hill in the same harmonious manner the existing limestone outcroppings do. Two building masses are set into the hillside creating spaces of shelter and prospect while allowing for an open plaza between the pool. Pivoting doors allow the pool to be secured during closed hours. Limestone walls create the boundry of the pool and its restrooms, café, and mechanical/storage rooms. These walls also create public circulation routes that are carved into the hill circulation 2 served vs servant 3 private vs public 4 site plan 5 model, closeup of primary space 6 model, view from east of site 5 4 6

1 2 1 Floor plan -public restrooms -cafe & plaza

above -shelter below -horizontal structure supports

5 1 2 1 Floor plan -public restrooms -cafe & plaza -swimming area -promenade 2 Detail model -overlook above -shelter below -horizontal structure supports pv array 3 East-west section -stitches Locust St. (upper) and Gillham Rd. (lower) together -connects residential & educational zone with park to the east 3

northern facade 6 plan of upper three floors and surrounding site This center provides a retreat for students and teachers to think, study, and practice

Once inside, light is focused through screens, narrow gaps, low windows, and skylights.

temporarily store electronic items. In this way, the visitors attention is brought toward the light and away from unecessary distraction.

6 SILENCE Prof. John Eck Arch-304 Spring 2013 LIGHT STUDENT RETREAT circulation 2 parti 3 light - single spaces 4 model, view of southern facade 5 model, view of northern facade 6 plan of upper three floors and surrounding site This center provides a retreat for students and teachers to think, study, and practice without distraction. The building is subtle: set behind trees and a vine-covered facade. Once inside, light is focused through screens, narrow gaps, low windows, and skylights. Upon entering, one is immediately confronted with light filtering through the bamboo in a small enclosed light-well and an attendent is available to temporarily store electronic items. In this way, the visitors attention is brought toward the light and away from unecessary distraction. Visitors can retreat to one of the personal study spaces on the upper floors, or into one of three pavilion classrooms for group yoga. The auditorium space punctuates the end of a linear path beyond the bamboo light-wells and is designed to cantilever into the most quiet and tree filled part of the site. Its central space, enhanced by skylight and square terraces, provides an uncompromised silent space available at all times as a personal retreat and for unique larger group occasions

study -yoga class pavilions on ground floor 3 model

7 2 1 first floor plan 2 section perspective -pedestrian streetfront -vine screen -3 flrs of quiet study -yoga class pavilions on ground floor 3 model photo -north facade -single study spaces -classroom pavilions 1 3

1 2 3 4 1 pedestrian approach from west 2

neighboring building 4 large meditation &

secluded & tree filled part of site 5 section

8 pedestrian approach from west 2 southern facade & entrance 3 view from neighboring building 4 large meditation & performance chamber, cantilevers into most secluded & tree filled part of site 5 section north-south -street & pedestrian plaza -entrance & lobby -bamboo light wells -basement restrooms -meditation/performance chamber -lightly wooded hillside 5

2 san t Sq uar e St St 3 When the Jefferson theater was torn down in 2000, this lot at 211 E. 13th St. became known as the mystery lot.

A propopesed pedestrian connection to the L line along E14th St.

9 NYC EAST VILLAGE ART FORUM Prof. Torgier Norheim Arch-404 Spring 2014 LIVE LISTEN Un ion LEARN Squ are EAT, DRINK REPAIR PLAY WATCH 1 RIDE SKATE Stu Av e yve E1 3rd 4th E1 3th 2 san t Sq uar e St St 3 When the Jefferson theater was torn down in 2000, this lot at 211 E. 13th St. became known as the mystery lot. The site is comprised of a lot on mostly resedential E 13th St. and a smaller lot on largely commercial E. 14th St. where the theater had its entrance. The edge along E 13th is maintained by a screen of permeable bamboo, allowing access under the building to the plaza beyond. A propopesed pedestrian connection to the L line along E14th St. further energizes a mix of program on site and increases access to rentable gallery space for up-and-coming artists. The forum contains apartments, a cafe & restaurant, a skate/bike store and repair shop, a skate park/art plaza, an auditorium, and ample rentable collaborative gallery space. 5 1 building circulation 2 circulation from E 14th st. to E 13th st. 3 important subway and transportation flows 4 model, 13th st elevation 5 sitemap w/ subway routes 6 model photo, interior of block 4 6

66 S 1 I 2 3 A B A B A B 2 3 1 1 model photo, E13th st view 2 double-height super floors for flexibility and adaptability 3

10 66 S 1 I 2 3 A B A B A B model photo, E13th st view 2 double-height super floors for flexibility and adaptability 3 E13th st elevation 4 section showing skate park, lobby, auditorium, and two double height super floors of flexible gallery space 4

11 lower (plaza) level plan 2 first floor plan 3 second floor plan 4 third floor plan (balcony) 5 plan of upper floors (gallery) 6 section from subway & E14th street & the L line to E13th st 6

STAVANGER MARKETPLACE COLLABORATION Prof.

re-energize the market in the heart of Stavanger, Norway.

the surrounding urban context. From the first three weeks of research, we were able to determine these opportunities and formulate strategies.

12 STAVANGER MARKETPLACE COLLABORATION Prof. Torgier Norheim Arch-404 Spring 2014 PHIDA: Permiability Transportation, cultural nodes, & harbor This collection of discoveries by STUDIO 3 led to the formulation of urban strategies that re-energize the market in the heart of Stavanger, Norway. The current conditions of the marketplace allow for many opportunities to create a greater sense of place through the definition of the edges and the linking of lost or untapped connections within the surrounding urban context. From the first three weeks of research, we were able to determine these opportunities and formulate strategies. The following four weeks were spent implementing these strategies and articulating the three elements that would fulfill the opportunities: the urban floor, the campanile, and the cultural armature. Multiplicity is defined by 1+1 = 3. Found in the summation of systems and their lateral sub systems, when two seemingly different elements combine to produce a synergy between them that activates a waiting environment. It is this in-between that holds all of the opportunities. The whole then becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Light is both a particle and a wave, but how do the parts and the whole become visible together? The variables of design should be present in every scale from urban formation to architectural details. When exploring an environment the one gives insight to the others. The culmination of its smallest elements should reinforce the whole. Harmony Imagination Diversity Existing edges, green spaces, & flows/nodes Plan of urban floor, 5m and 2m levels Plan of urban floor, 8m level Adaptability

13 urban activity - underground urban activity - above ground section - Haakon VII section - from lake to harbor

14 Campanile section & plan view from Haakon VII East - open top Exploded axon of campanile and cultural armature base of campanile - street level base of campanile - underground

15 CICO PARK PERFORMANCE PAVILION Prof. Nathan Howe Digital Architecture II Fall floor plan 2 entry, night rendering 3 section 4 section 5 east elevation 6 south elevation 7 section perspective This project required the design of a pavilion for CICO park in Manhattan Kansas, and served as a way of learning effective workflow between Rhino and Revit as well as final rendering capabilities. 7

project, inspired by the Lepidopteron Society, was to craft a

specimen before being released into the wild.

geometry based on the small white s hindwing, and the perch

16 BUTTERFLY BOX Prof. Lauren Wendlandt Envd 201 Fall 2011 The purpose of this project, inspired by the Lepidopteron Society, was to craft a box that could temporarily house a single live butterfly specimen before being released into the wild. This box is designed for the small white (pieris rapae), a common garden pest. The handle is modeled like a small garden tool, overall geometry based on the small white s hindwing, and the perch modeled after its wild food sources. 1 open mode 2 spring loaded mechanism 3 butterfly wing geometry 4 closed mode 6 perch, wildflower geometry 2 View from audience 1 3 View from stage 4 5

17 TENSEGRITY Prof. John Eck Arch 302 Fall 2012 OTHER WORK: This exploration into the work of Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson entailed building multiple study models and creating effective ways of tensioning and joining elements to achieve floating compression. The stability and beauty of the system ultimately relied on custom built parts. Despite the rigidity of the overall system, the copper tensioning units paradoxically twirl and flutter in motion due to their shape and mass. PHOTOGRAPHY: 1 1_Tensioning device, custom connections 2_Initial study model, inadequate end connections 3_Second study model, custom rivets at ends 4_Final product, multiple scales 5_Final model, three scaled octohedra 6_second study model, durable, in use today graphite rendering - paimio sanitorium graphite sketch - powell gardens 5 6

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Joshua H Shaw. 127 Colonial Circle Unit C Chicopee MA

Joshua H Shaw. 127 Colonial Circle Unit C Chicopee MA Joshua H Shaw 127 Colonial Circle Unit C Chicopee MA 01020 617 821 5112 josh.shaw79@gmail.com Education Boston Architectural College Candidate for Bachelors Of Architecture 2007-present Springfield Technical