Jamie BarronUndergraduate Student PortfolioUniveristy of Illinois at Chicago

jamie.barron@gmail.com(630) 881-4315

Mt. Tithe2-11

“We Were Wrong”12-19

Anim(pl)ate20-27

Literacy Chancel28-31

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Main Work

Appendices

LeClaire-Hearst32-35

Heavy Timber36-38

Formally Naïve39-41

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Mt. Tithea hybrid typology

“Families that pray together, play together.” At Mt. Tithe, chicago’s only mountain adventureland, families can attend church in the morning and spend the rest of the day exploring. While families can spend their time advernturing through the wil-derness, spelunking, climbing gnarly rock face and swimming in the lake in front of the great Marble peak, the adults can emerse themselves in the rush of gambling. The best part, unlike any ordinary casino, all of the money patrons of Mt. Tithe lose is tax deductible as a charitable donation!

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CasinoThe iconic theme serves to distract attendants from any time or place. The pyramid is a volumetric stand in to represent an environment that can convince people they are in a place which is no-place.

Parking GarageThe insane volume of parking required to service a megachurch couples with the never-ending con-sumption of parking near down-town Chicago

MegachurchA megachurch is a single congrega-tion containing 10,000+ members. A stadium style auditorium is best suited to entertain the needs of the church.

310,000 ft

parking

casino

megachurch

17’ 6’12000 = 1,224,000 ft 2

250,000 ft

Chicago Metropolis/Interior UrbanismThe Chicago Board of trade serves as an example of how interior urbanism functions in the larger metropolis which evolved out of the 1920’s in Chicago. The chicago board of trade serves as an example of how a building can embody BIGNESS by encouraging the shell of the building to consume all of the funtions of a single-function city. The Chicago Board of Trade is literally a city of Exchange, designed to be a machine for trading.

Casino+Megachurch=Parking!The task at hand is to use the analysis of the chicago metropolis, to create an environment that would be best suited for the hybrid typologies of a Casino and A megachurch. After an indepth analysis of the programs com-monly consumed within the two programs, a commonality emerged between the two. Both the type Casino, and the type Megachurch, employ massive amounts of parking. Enough parking where parking itself becomes a mass larger than that of the original programs.

Parking has architectural promise as a programs. Some architects push parking off to the side, avoiding the elephant in the room. I decided to be honest with my methods. This project utilizes BIGNESS to consume the

-ated by the programs with the fantasy environment so beloved by casinos.

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MarilynThe reveal is a rare but illustri-ous moment when forces outside your control give a glimpse of what is underneath the dress. This view is illusive and only available to those on the lake

Utility PocketMt. Tithe has 4 utility pock-ets which harbor a multi-level beach

The GhostA spectre is neither here nor there can you spot it? Patrons enter the arms when they ride the ferry.

Elastic-FitJust like a waist-band, an

keep the fabric in place.

DrapeSometimes it is more tantalizing to allude to a shape rather than despeately shout it. The drape is implemented to highlight the most voluptious natural curves the structure offers.

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mountain system sectionupper left - casino cavernsupper middle - glacial lake

upper right - Marble peak churchlower left - spelunking cavernslower middle - climbing tower

middle section Bshowing climbing tower

and multilevel beach

middle section Ashowing spelunking and

casino caverns

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showing infrastructure networks

spelunking space climbing space parking space

environmental level plan“inside” left - casino

“outside” middle - interactive area“inside” right - megachurch

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Parking Garage/Spelunking Caverns

Entrance Cavern/Glacial Meadow/Marble Peak Climbing

11Gambling Grotto

Obsidian Lounge

“...We Were Wrong...”a cautionary tale

[…] Incoming transmission […]

[…] Recorded at 0900 hours on 14 Jan. 2005 [...]

Distress call! Do you copy?

This is Derek Bittler of the Homunculus Engi-neering Corp, Unit 465L reporting. Previous emergency broadcasts have stated our situa-tion but as this is likely my last chance at com-munication I will repeat it for you here.

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The time bomb that is our very home

course we’ve known for years that consumption of the Element FD that we mine from the nearby mountain has adverse effects on our behaviors, including addiction, rage and with-drawal from society. Nonetheless, we continued to use it as our sole bodily sustenance and building material. Element FD, though addictive when improperly consumed (as became the case with most of our citizenry), is highly nutritional and is also sur-prisingly well-suited to constructing

nature when processed has allowed us to build everything from dazzling

did this all despite both historical documents and contemporary sci-

-table and catastrophic collapse of the mountain’s carapace. Now, we see

elite were tragically correct.

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Last week, a great chasm appeared in the south face of the mountain and

an untold amount of raw, granulated Element FD thundered down into

our city in waves, destroying much of our city and annihilating our infra-

structure. Those citizens who weren’t

to widespread Element FD addic-tion many of our recent buildings

display poor craftsmanship and proved themselves to be ineffective

shelters in this emergency. As the

into thick ropes the vast majority of our population were entombed in the

thought would protect them.

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I can’t help but feel responsible. We knew better but looked the other way. Everything was just so easy the way it was.

I’m so sorry – we were wrong.

[…] Transmission complete […]

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Animplate

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Anim(pl)ateformal technique

Located at the heavily urbanized crossroads of hu-man and natural systems, this project has been de-signed to represent the intermingling of both. Both systems emerge wtih their own individual char-acteristics which develop from for the forces that drive them. The plates recall the urban grid and

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their natural roots. Ultimately both systems work synthetically to mash into a greater whole, creating new visually stimulating public spaces while blan-keting an art museum.

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pullup-animplates

delaminate to envelope up-roof

carve out shapes divide volumedynamic

As a city Chicago is a booming metropolis, but there are still many lingering connections to its past as a swamp. The site for this project is located along the north branch of the Chicago river which makes it a crossroads for both heavily urbanized metropolis and what remains of natural systemsconnect with the natural systems and tend to be more organic, with the strong and powerful orthogonal shapes which connect so strongly with the white city metropolis.

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grass

polishedsteel planters

wooddecking

plaster

concrete

animplates

roof exterior interior main gallery

basementexterior

circulation diagram

program diagram

officesoutdoor auditoriumcafestoragegallery (white) main lobby

indoor auditorium

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inhabitable roof plan underground passage plan

in-between plan

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gallery section

entry section

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Literacy Chan-cel, 21st centu-ry library

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Literacy Chancela library for the 21st century

In the digital era, books are readily available at -

tous nature of information in the internet era has created an opportunity for the library, which has been threatened with extinction. The library for the 21st century can still maintain its small neigh-borhood presence by becoming a place that creates reverence for literature and offers a space where people can remove themselves from the hustle and bustle of the city to relax in peace and quiet. The design of the Literacy Chancel seeks to highlight these opportunities for seclusion which are rarely available in the tech era.

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B - 3’ -0”

1 8’ -0”

2 20’ -0”

3 32’ -0”

isometric section A

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isometric section B

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600 Feet300 Feet

150 Feet

45th Street

44th Street

45th Street

46th Street

47th Street

Cicero A

ve

Lam

on A

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La C

rosse Ave

Laporte A

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Lavergn

e Ave

Law

ler Ave

LeC

laire Ave

Leam

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Laram

ie Ave

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LeClaire-Hearst

Community Redevelopment Master Plan

Community Corridor

Cicero A

veC

icero Ave

Community Corridor

S N

S N

Cicero A

veC

icero Ave

Establish a Central Community Corridor.

Expand Field House as Community Center

Enlarge Facilities for a growing community

Instert much-needed grocery store

Integrate new housing density into existing

Generate stronger economic corridor presence

1. Centralize 2. Expand

3. Expand 4. Add

5. Blend 1. Flip

Community Center (Field House Expansion) The expanded Field House will function as community center

rooms, senior center, learning center, and community lounge space.

LeClaire Missionary Baptist Church Expansion The proposed expansion for the LeClaire Missionary Baptist

meeting rooms, a multimedia resource center and a commercial sized kitchen with a annexed banquet facility.

Community Grocery Store The most vital addition to this community, this grocery store will provide food service and will be supplemented by a community kitchen and healthy eating education center that will enhance the accessibility and aweness of healthy eating lifestyles.

LeClaire Metra Station A stop will be added to the Metra-Heritage Corridor Line to pro-vide easy access to downtown Chicago for the LeClaire Hearst com-munity. The station will also provide additional weekend parking for activities at LeClaire-Hearst Park.

LeClaire-Hearst Housing The New LeClaire Courst housing will re-establish the Chicago grid and promote a gradual increase in building height and density from south to north. Parking will be aligned with the alley system, allowing for all housing to front a Pedestrian Corridor.

Future Commercial District Expansion Growth of LeClaire Heast economic thoroughfares should incor-porate courtyard style building which move parking to the rear and

47th street.

Community Garden System Underutilized land within the community will be used to imple-ment a Community Garden System that will place small garden plots in areas that cannot support housing or are currently unoccupiable. The garden will encourage participation in healthy life styles similar to michelle Obama’s White house Vegetable Garden.

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Restrooms40’x31’

MeetingRooms35’x30’

Kitchen57’x26’

Basement Second Floor

Learning Center56’x20’

Balcony(700 Seating)130’x80’

Nursery 48’x 12’

Banquet Hall75’x50’

Restrooms40’x31’

Offices +40’x20’

Sanctuary +Pulpit, Choir Seating, And Backstage(Lower Level 1000 Seating)130’x120’

Entrance Lobby56’x20’

Additional Levels

Community Corridor

Current LeClaire Missionary Baptist

Church

Administrative/Community

Based

Sanctuary

AnnexedSpace

Coverd Canopy

CommuntiyLounge

ExistingField

House

Various RoomLayouts

Room forFuture

CommunityCenterGrowth

Various RoomLayouts

CommunityCorridor

Variations on Extent of Expansion

A.

B.

C.

Lounge

Lounge

Lounge

Pool Room57'x64'+Sauna

FitnessCenter65'x40'

Locker Room47'x25'

Sauna20'x15'

Locker Room47'x25'

Aux.37’x17’

LearningCenter37’x35/’

Senior Center48’x27’

Meeting34’x24’

Meeting34’x24’

Day Care74’x44’

Aux.37’x17’

Aux.37’x23’

FitnessCenter37’x57’

ComputerLab37’x35/’

Senior Center48’x27’

Meeting34’x24’

Meeting34’x24’

Day Care74’x44’

FitnessCenter75'x30'

Locker Room47'x25'

Sauna20'x15'

Locker Room47'x25'

Aux.37’x17’

ComputerLab37’x35/’

Senior Center48’x27’

Meeting34’x24’

Meeting34’x24’

Day Care74’x44’

Aux.37’x17’

Storage37’x23’

Cicero Ave

47th Street

Gradual increase in new housing size and height from South to North to generate continuity between existing neighborhood and new development

45th

Move typical street parking to rear of new housing develop-ment to generate communal pedestrian friendly corridors

Typical System New System

Current System New System

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Heavy TimberMaterial Study

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roof plan - leftfloor plan - right

elevation - leftsection - right

roof plan - leftfloor plan - right section details

plan details

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structural decking cold roof

panel door with single rabbit frame

sliding ventilation board

asymmetric roof purlins

tensioned beams and mortised floor joists

nonoperable insulated glass unit

endgrain brick wall with com-pression joint fabric

roof joists motrise and tenon joined into wall beams

floor joists joined into wall beams

wall beams tenoned into founda-tion wall

foundation wall cast with box joint set upon footing

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First Row: TronerSecond Row (L-R): Long Cat, Chunky, Chippy, Leaner, Cozy, Sad Building, Split Facey, ‘The’ Veteran, Quilty, NormalThird Row (L-R): Slumpy, Poop Sock, Shacky, Pillows, Normal, Stretch, Melty, Double Stuft, Gym SockFourth Row: Pizza Boy

UIC School Grade 4April 27,2011

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Formally NaïveAn experiement in being awkward

With the goal of creating a formal project with played down machismo and instead developed a quality of honesty through its for-mal awkwardness, these buildings were developed in a back drop of an average, muted city block, with the intention of enhancing the way each formal technique can express itself honestly and modestly without steroids and body building. The project is likened to a grade school class because each building represents a type of formal ambition which has the niave qualities of an innocent youth before it gets tainted by formal vanity and serious problems like programmatic performance or energy economy.

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left: Chunky

right: The Veteran

left: Pizza Boy

right: Pillows

left: Normal

right: Slumpy

left: Leaner

right: Chippy

left: Quilty

right: Troner

left: Poop Sock

right: Double Stuft

left: Gym Sock

right: Long Snail

left: Sad Building

right: Cozy

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