Jacob Banton Portfolio

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Jake BantonM. Arch Program

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Jacob (Jake) Banton1313 Summerhawk Ln.Fenton, MO [email protected]

SkillsAutoCadRevitRhinoSketchupAdobe InDesignAdobe IllustratorMicrosoft Office

ProfileHighly motivated, dedicated and creative worker, used to large workloads and meeting deadlines from school and previous work experience. Good communication skills attained from working with children, working in retail, and being apart of student senate at KU.

EducationUniversity of KansasHonors StudentM. Arch Program: Graduation 2015Minor in Public PolicyGPA: 3.69

References: Paola SanguinettiDepartment Chair - School of ArchitectureUniversity of Kansas785-864-3862

Mark SchultzManagerBed Bath & Beyond636-207-9206

InvolvementMulticultural Scholars Program

Served term as KU Student Senator

Study Abroad in India

Work ExperienceBed Bath & Beyond Inc. - Manchester, MO June 2012 - PresentSales Representative

John Burroughs School - Burr Oak Camp - St. Louis, MO June 2009 August 2009Assistant Counselor

Laumeier Sculpture Park - Art Camp - St. Louis, MO June 2008 August 2008Assistant Counselor

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Site/Mapping Studies 3 - 6

Music Practice Rooms 7 - 8

Wilcox Collection Museum 9- 10

Marfa Culinary Institute 11 - 15

Case Study House 16

Parametric Facade System 17 - 22

Moore Housing Complex 23 - 28Contents 2

3THE MARKET, KANSAS CITY - 2011

THESIS

The Market at Kansas City is an example of a once alive and vibrant urban core that since degraded into the fabric of the city. It is yet another casualty of modern city planning in the second half of the 20th century. Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter describe this planning as having a ten-dency to space worship where open space is preferred to dense city blocks. Here, buildings have been razed to create surface parking lots and The Market itself has been literally cut o from the surrounding city, boxed in by freeways on three sides and the river on the other. This has caused a loss of a sense of place. The Market used to be the center of a dense urban area and it was because of this density that it naturally formed into a thriving core. Since then density has dropped dramatically and The Market has gone from urban core to relic, trying desperately to hold together what's left of the neighborhood. Now, The Market is dissolving into the urban fabric and seems to be out of place as a bustling market full of life in the middle of a lifeless, hollowed-out part of town. JAKE BANTON

JAKE BANTONThe Loss of Place and Urban Density:The Market, Kansas City

SCALE = 1 = 240

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LEGEND

BLACK: Buildings

GREEN: The Market

BLUE: Missouri River

YELLOW: Highway

RED: Railroad

Site Studies

The following are a selection of maps done analyzing a specific site or a certain architectural concept. The goal was to take ideas of architectural theorists and use them to study a site, then find a way to display your research and conclusions visually in the form of a map.

Each map has an accompanying thesis that directs the viewer what to look for in the map. This first map is split into two parts.

4THE MARKET, KANSAS CITY - 2011

THESIS



SCALE = 1 = 240

NORTH

LEGEND

BLACK: Buildings

GREEN: The Market


YELLOW: Highway

RED: Railroad

THE MARKET, KANSAS CITY - 2011

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SCALE = 1 = 240

NORTH

LEGEND

BLACK: Buildings

GREEN: The Market


YELLOW: Highway

RED: Railroad

THE MARKET, KANSAS CITY - 1907

The Market at Kansas City is an example of a once alive and vibrant urban core that since degraded into a shell of what it once was. It is yet another casualty of modern city planning in the second half of the 20th century. Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter describe this planning as having a tendency to space worship. As a result of this space worship, The Market has transformed from a space definer, to a space occupier and has since lost its sense of place. Buildings have been razed to create surface parking and The Market itself has been cut off from the surrounding city, literally boxed in by freeways on three sides and the river on the other. Today there is only one remaining block of buildings that contribute to The Market on the south side. Having no significant buildings of its own, The Market itself cannot serve as a city core. It was the surrounding buildings that helped define the space and create the node that was The Market. Without these, it will never return to its previous state. Now, The Market has gotten to the point where one no longer feels as if they are in an important location in the city.

5JAKE BANTON The Scale of Sprawl: Pedestrian vs. AutomotiveLawrence, Kansas NOT TO SCALE

LEGEND

BLACK: Buildings

YELLOW: Roads

ORANGE: Tributary Roads

BLUE: Sidewalk

GREY: Parking

Iowa Street

23rd St.

33rd St.

6th St.

North Park St.

Speed Limit: 20 mphActual Speed: 10 - 15 mph

Speed Limit: 40 mphActual Speed: 45 mph

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THESISThe term sprawl has many connotations, many of them negative. One of the causes of this negative feeling is because sprawl fails to create signicant public space, which Hayden argues nurtures a sense of identity and social memory. One of the reasons why it fails to do this is because it is not built on the human scale, but rather an auto-centric, all-in-one scale. Examples of this can be found anywhere in the world as well as here in Lawrence. An easy way to compare these two dierent scales is comparing Massachusetts Street, which is built around a pedestrian scale and Iowa Street, which has been built on this much larger scale. Comparing segments based on equal driving time (approx. 3:45 min) one can begin to see just how large this dierence of scale is and how sprawl will never be able to create signicant public space simply because it is too big and is heavily focused on the car and not the pedestrian.

JAKE BANTON

Site Studies

The term sprawl has many connotations, many of them negative. One of the causes of this negative feeling is because sprawl fails to create significant public space, which Hayden argues nurtures a sense of identity and social memory. One of the reasons why it fails to do this is because it is not built on the human scale, but rather an auto-centric, all-in-one scale. Examples of this can be found anywhere in the world as well as here in Lawrence. An easy way to compare these two different scales is comparing Massachusetts Street, which is built around a pedestrian scale and Iowa Street, which has been built on this much larger scale. Comparing segments based on equal driving time (approx. 3:45 min) one can begin to see just how large this difference of scale is and how sprawl will never be able to create significant public space simply because it is too big.

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JAKE BANTON Radio Cities: How baseball denes Kansas City and St. Louis

1 = 170 miles

THESISAs Americans, many times we view other cities across the nation through their professional sports teams. As we travel we might say, Oh, were getting into Yankee territory, or Lakers territory. This phenomenon can be attributed to our national broadcasting systems. What once was just local or regional has now become national or even international thanks to radio, television, and the Internet. Paul Virilio says in The Overexposed City, The city is no longer organized into a localized and axial estate. He notes that the development of communication technologies promoted the merger of discon-nected metropolitan fringes into a single urban mass. Evidence of this can be seen in Kansas City and St. Louis. Both of these cities have a MLB team with a nation of fans who support them. Games are broadcast on the radio from the main city but also through aliates in towns and cities across the region, creating a huge nearly solid area where the game is broadcast. If one views these cities by means of their sports teams, this has the eect of massively magnifying the area of what we would call the city, making them as big as an entire state. So even if a traveler leaves the actual city limits, they are still very much within this newly created city every time these radio stations go on air.

JAKE BANTON

St. Louis

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Kansas City

Radio Aliate Local ReceptionArea

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LEGENDAs Americans, many times we view other cities across the nation through their professional sports teams. As we travel we might say, Oh, were getting into Yankee territory, or Lakers territory. This phenomenon can be attributed to our national broadcasting systems. What once was just local or regional has now become national or even international thanks to radio, television, and the Internet. Paul Virilio says in The Overexposed City, The city is no longer organized into a localized and axial estate. He notes that the development of communication technologies promoted the merger of disconnected metropolitan fringes into a single urban mass. Evidence of this can be seen in Kansas City and St. Louis. Both of these cities have a MLB team with a nation of fans who support them. Games are broadcast on the radio from the main city but also through affiliates in towns and cities across the region, creating a huge nearly solid area where the game is broadcast. If one views these cities by means of their sports teams, this has the effect of massively magnifying the area of what we would call the city, making them as big as an entire state. So even if a traveler leaves the actual city limits, they are still very much within this newly created city every time these radio stations go on air.

7Music Practice Rooms

The challenge for this project was to make an addition to a building, but not in the usual location. We were instructed to design music practice rooms that attached to a stair tower of a campus building. This project gave us a chance to learn a few basics about acoustics in architecture and it was our first experience designing part of an actual building. The goal for this space was to create a room filled with indirect light. The acoustic ribbon on the ceiling is transparent and a strip opening along the top edge of the wall illuminates the folds. There is also a side window that creates a light box in the front of the room.

9The idea for this space was to create a permanent place for the plaster collection The University of Kansas has of famous figures that is now partly in storage. A site was chosen right on a main campus street for high visibility. I chose to put the collection in a glass box that would be highly visible during the day and at night to encourage those passing by to stop and see the collection. On the bottom floor there is a lecture hall, reading room, and conference rooms so the building can have multiple educational functions.

Wilcox Collection Museum

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The building has a modular layout, programmed so that museum spaces are on the street level and the educational spaces are on the lower level with views to the grove. The program also includes an outdoor classroom to take advantage on the site fully.

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This culinary college in Marfa Texas started by focusing on program and how one begins to design a building. The concept for this building was one of shifting boxes. Inspired by Donald Judds Aluminum boxes in the complex he has down there. We were also tasked with creating a building that fits well into the urban fabric of the city and worked to main-tain the streetscape.

SITE PLANMARFA, TX

Marfa Culinary Institute

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To start the design process, many quick studies were done with the pro-gram. It began as a simple massing ex-ercise, to see how much space it would take up on the site. Circulation studies were next to see how to move people through the masses that were created. At this point a form began to emerge. Along with other site factors like the local vernacular and the culture of the town, it became clear what the building wanted to be and what the best way to organize it was.

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TEACHING KITCHEN TEACHING KITCHEN

TEACHING KITCHEN TEACHING KITCHEN RESTAURANT KITCHEN

LIBRARY

TEACHING KITCHEN

TEACHING KITCHEN TEACHING KITCHEN

STUDENT LOUNGE

RESTROOM

RESTROOM

FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTOR'S SUITE CAREER SERVICES

RESTAURANT SEATING

BAKE SHOP

ADMISSIONSDEMONSTRATION LABCLASSROOMCLASSROOMWINE ROOMTRASH/RECEIVING

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LECTURE HALL

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Marfa Culinary Institute

The plan was divided into two sections, a public area and a private area. The more public area faced the street and con-tained spaces for retail and administration offices for the institute. The more private spaces of the teaching kitchens and classrooms were separated by an inner courtyard and breezeways.

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AXONOMETRICSECTIONS & ELEVATIONS

While the program didnt require a fully multistory building, it was important that the building had a significance presence on the street. This was to keep with the urban fabric of Marfa and main-tain the building wall along the main drag of town. Because of this, the building was arranged so that the two story levels of the building were street side and the one story levels faced the back of the site.

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This case study house in Monaco examined the possibilities of building a house on a near vertical cliff. The house takes inspiration from the contour lines of the site. These ribs form the main structure of the house with the vertical circulation behind embedded in the cliff. The rooms are glass jewels that protruded from the ribs and give great views to the town and sea below.

Case Study House

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Team Turbo Through the entire process, we maintained the idea of incorpo-rating Turbines into a system that would transform and create a structure that would support itself and potentially the tur-bine. Weaving and twisting was incorporated due to the nature of the vertical turbine. The kinetic movement of the turbine influenced the entire surface of the wall.

Jake Banton, Daniel Gregory, Stephen Howell, Connor Rollins, Ashley Weber

The main idea of the project was incorporating turbines into a system that would transform and create a structure that would support itself and potentially the turbine. Weaving and twisting was incorporated due to the nature of the vertical turbine. The kinetic movement of the turbine influenced the entire surface of the wall.

Parametric Facade System

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System Function

Wind Energy

Sun Shading

Turbine

Strips/Fins

The depth of the facade gradually de-creases as the fins approach the tur-bine. The change pulls the wind towards

the turbine to be harvested.

The turbine is the lightest element. The fins widths increase at their centers

to shade the area behind.

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Facade ARRANGEMENT

Aesthetics Perforation

Structure

The Structure is used to hold the tur-bines in place and provide an anchor for the large structural fins. The fins are able to hold themselves up, but cannot provide adequate support for the turbine.

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Parametric DesignExaggerating the twist in the facade to for sunshading and a space

for a turbine.

An attractor point and rotate were used to achieve the dynamic

surface.

Used attractor points that represent the turbine. Series were used to cre-ate variance in middle of triangle.

Multiple pieces went into creating a parametric tur-bine that could be changed in relation with the fa-

cade.

Started with basic geome-try that was combined to

form the volumes.

specifications were neces-sary to produce an accu-

rate model.

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Fabrication

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This project was part of a design-build studio that worked closely with Zahner Metals in Kansas City to design a conceptual facade system using parametrics. This project was the first time when the entire studio was working and designing the same thing which is much like how an actual firm works. The idea was to create a system that could change according the natural forces of light and air. Where the most wind hit a building, a spot would open up for a wind turbine to collect energy. Where more shading was needed, each strip would become deeper to provide that shading. This being an installation we wanted to create an area for more human interaction so we curved the structure in a 8 form so it could stand on its own and create spaces for people to walk into. On one end are perforated benches made of wood for people to sit on and of course at night lighting was added so it glows.

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MOORE HOUSING PROJECTUNIVERSITY OF KANSASJOE COLISTRAFALL 2013 TAYLOR MONSEES & JAKE BANTON

Moore Housing Complex

In 2013 an EF5 tornado ripped through the town of Moore Oklahoma and much of the town was leveled. Surprisingly, the area had experienced several tornados in previous years, yet building codes were not changed to deal with this constant threat. This project was meant not only to show Moore that architects have an interest in helping the community rebuild, but also to act as a conversation starter to show what a denser urban fabric might bring to the city as well as future planning for natural disasters.MOORE

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2013 MOORE TORNADO DESTRUCTIONFOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF MOORE OKLAHOMA BY A DEADLY TORNADO BOTH IN 1999 AND 2013, THE TOWN IS IN NEED OF A NEW RESILIENCY PLAN. THE NORMAL CON-STRUCTION OF SINGLE FAMILY WOOD CON-STUCTION HOMES HAVE PROVEN INCAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING THE DEVESTATING TORNA-DOS. WITHOUT INCORPORATING TIE DOWNS TO THE FRAMES AND SAFE ROOMS IN EVERY HOUSE, BUILDING THE SAME STRUCTURES IS NOT PRACTICAL. ANOTHER TORNADO HITTING THE TOWN COULD ENSUE EVEN WORSE DAM-AGE THAN BEFORE. OUR PROPOSED RESILIENT MIXED USE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX IS ONE OF MANY VIABLE OPTIONS.

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4TH AND BROADWAY

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THE SITE WAS CHOSEN BASED ON ACCESS TO THE CITY AND THE SURROUNDING CITIES SUCH AS OKLAHOMA CITY. AT 4TH AND BROADWAY, NORTH OF THE PROPOSED PARK WAS PREVIOUSLY A STRIP MALL COMPRISED OF THREE DIFFERENT BUILD-INGS. INSTEAD OF DESIGNING ONE CENTRALIZED AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX, WE SEPERATED OUR DESIGN INTO THREE BUILDINGS AND A PARK-ING GARAGE. THE PARKING GARAGE ON THE EAST OF THE SITE CREATED A BUFFER FROM THE THUN-DERING TRAIN THAT RUNS NORTH TO SOUTH. THE THREE SEPERATE STRUCTURES MIMIC THE PREVI-OUS OCCUPANTS OF THE SITE.

The site was chosen based on access to the city and the surrounding cities such as Oklahoma city. At 4th and Broadway, north of the proposed park was pre-viously a strip mall comprised of three different build-ings. Instead of designing one centralized affordable housing complex, we separated our design into three buildings and a parking garage. The parking garage on the east of the site created a buffer from the thundering train that runs north to south. The three separate structures mimic the previous occupants of the site.

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CONCEPT

THE MIXED USE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPLEX ENGAGES THE SITE ON THE FIRST LEVEL CONTAINING RETAIL AND OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICES. THE SAFE ROOM IS ALSO LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL BUILDING. THE SAFE ROOM IS LARGE ENOUGH TO HOUSE ALL RESIDENTS OF THE COMPLEX AND VISITORS FROM THE RETAIL AND THE NEW PARK. THE SAFE ROOM OUTSIDE OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS. IT IS A COMMUNITY GATHERING SPOT INTERSECTING THE HALLWAY.

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The mixed use affordable housing complex engages the site on the first level containing retail and other com-munity services. The safe room is also located in the central building. The safe room is large enough to house all residents of the complex and visitors from the retail and new park. Out-side of extreme weather events, it is converted into a community gathering spot intersecting the hallway.

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THE SECOND AND FOURTH LEVELS HAVE THE SAME FLOOR PLAN. SIMI-LARLY, THE THIRD AND FIFTH FLOOR PLANS ARE THE SAME. THE CENTER BUILDING IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS TWO STORY UNITS, THESE ARE THE 2 BEDROOM 2 BATH + DEN. THERSE ARE TIED IN WITH STUDIO APARTMENTS WHICH CHANGES EVERY OTHER FLOOR PLAN. A DOUBLE LOADED COR-RIDOR CONNECTS EACH BUILDING AND IS A REMNANT OF THE HYBRID MODEL. BETWEEN THE BUILDINGS, THE CORRIDOR IS ENCLOSED IN A DOU-BLE CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM WHICH OFFERS REMARKABLE VIEWS TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH.

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The second and fourth levels have the same floor plan. Similarly, the third and fifth floor plans are the same. The center building is the only one that has two story units, these are the 2 bedroom 2 bath + den. These are tied in with studio apartments which changes every other floor. A double loaded corridor connects each building and is a remnant of the hybrid model. Between the buildings the corridor is enclosed in a double curtain wall system which offers remarkable views to the north and south.

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A STRUCTURAL MODEL WAS DESIGNED BASED ON OUR INTENDED REDEVELOP-MENT OF THE SITE. THE PROPOSED STRUC-TURE INCORPORATES A RESILIENT FRAME DESIGNNED TO WITHSTAND THE HIGH SPEED WINDS OF TORNADOS. THIS MOD-EL IS A PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE CENTER BUILDING. THE STRUCTURE IS GROUNDED ON THE FIRST LEVEL WITH PREFABRICATED CONCRETE. THE UPPER LEVELS, CONSISTING OF THE APARTMENTS, ARE WOOD FRAME CON-STRUCTION WITH INTEGRATED BUILDING METHODS SUCH AS TIE DOWNS TO HOLD THE STRUCTURE TOGETHER DURING THE EVENT OF A TORNADO.

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STRUCTURAL MODEL A structural model was designed based on our intended redevelopment of the site. The proposed structure incorporates a resilient frame designed to withstand the high speed winds of tornados. This model is a portion of the community center in the center building. The structure is grounded on the first level with prefabricated con-crete. The upper levels, consisting of the apartments, are wood frame construction with integrated building methods such as tie downs to hold the structure together during the event of a tornado.


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COMMUNITY HUBTHE COMMUNITY CENTER, LOCATED AT THE HEART OF THE COMPLEX, IS AN IDEALIZED SPACE FOR GATHERING. HOUSED IN A SOPHISTICATED GLASS SHELL AND DOUBLE HIGH CIELINGS, IT IS A PLACE ANYONE CAN CONGREGATE AND ALSO SERVES AS THE MAIN LOBBY FOR THE BUILDING. A DOUBLE CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM ON THE SOUTH WALLS ALLOWS FOR PASSIVE SOLAR COMFORT INSIDE THE SPACE. THE ROOFTOP DECK OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL VIEWS TO THE PARK.

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CONCEPT

The community center, located at the heart of the complex, is an idealized space for gathering. Housed in a sophisticated glass shell and double high ceilings, it is a place anyone can congregate and also serves as the main lobby for the building. A double curtain wall system on the south walls allows for passive solar comfort inside the space. The rooftop deck offers exceptional views to the park.

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