Building Memory jeremy smith
The translation of what we experience into memory is a process of reducing a building composition into its essential parts for cataloguing and communicating effectively.
Transit Canopy Conceptual Design Rust Belt (2012)
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This conceptual design strategy for a mass transit canopy creates a statement both iconographic and utilitarian; addressing the scale of city (context (a) and pedestrian (user) in a simple, provactive manner. Here, the flat canopy acts as a datum which supports sustainability above and a unique, pedestrian environment (b) below.
(a) Santa Catarina Market Barcelona, spain (2005)
Enric Miralles & Benedetta Tagliabue
(b) Metropol Parasol Sevilla, Spain (2011)
J. Mayer H. Architects
operational lessons from running (2012)
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For architectural practice to excel it must shed both stubbornness and ego to embrace the improvisational requirements of process to be collaborative, flexible and intelligent. Lessons regarding operational or organizational tactics are not limited to fields of design and construction, ques exist in our everyday lives that only require a moment of pause to offer valuable guidance worth consideration.
Wallpaper: a catalog of select design work 3 1/2 years out of grad school
Jeremy Smith
Let’s Be Social! a recipe for public space in 4 easy steps (2011)
POST + Jeremy Smith Design
Let’s Be Social! is a recipe for activating underutilized space (a) while playfully synthesizing ideas (b) and projects (c) that highlight the latent potential in our everyday environment.
(a) All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland
The Sculpture Center, Cleveland (Oct. 30+31, 2009)
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(b) Lo-Fi Architecture: A Modest Proposal + A Pictoral Manifesto
Pecha Kucha Night Cleveland, Volume 3. MOCA Cleveland (May 8th, 2009)
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(c) Pop Up City Various Sites, Cleveland, Ohio (2008-present)
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
Matte-Trucco’s Fiat Works defined the attitude, inventiveness and utility that laid the foundation for many emerging design practices today. The factory embraced the assembly process as automobiles were assembled on the massive sloped concrete floor leading to the test track on the roof, then finished on the opposing ramp to be sold and shipped at the lower level.
deception Anywhere, Great Lakes Region (2011)
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entry text from the Zombie Safehouse Competition
Sited in a typical Great Lakes vineyard, deception places sustaining life ahead of destroying it amidst a zombie epidemic. The safehouse is an artfully simple mirrored box, that reflects its surroundings while using sustainable practices to power, supply water and grow food. When not under attack, a section of wall panels rotates open to access the vineyard (or farmland if sited differently)and act as a beacon for other survivors looking for refuge.
new balance Cleveland, OH (2011)
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entry text from the Cleveland Design Competition
new balance proposes an integrated educational model that embraces global learning while supporting local collaborations to extend the classroom beyond the student body. The school is treated as a campus; separated into faculties or departments, eliminating the hierarchical segregation of the traditional model and allowing rooms to gain a level of specificity that utilizes shared equipment, laboratories, and storage. The “mixing” of grades supports a greater energy in the corridors and common areas that allows unique additional programmatic elements to be successful. As a globally oriented school, a large assembly / projection area supports web chats with enough space for the entire student body, while its glass volume engages the pedestrian on the street and extends the boundary of the educational experience. The adjacent art gallery gives students the ability to exhibit work regularly, and the cantilevered agricultural green provides hands-on learning; lifted off the ground for security, the canopy and orientation further integrate the school into its environment. The purpose of new balance is to go beyond technology without focus, and integrate a program that excites and inspires students to learn. New educational models, like the Cleveland International School, are emerging at an imperative pace, leaving the question: Can architecture make a difference in pushing the frontiers of education?
new balance is ready to prove it can.
Subtraction & Residue Diagram
Liftspace Cleveland, Ohio (2009)
Jeremy Smith Design Design Diagram
Liftspace transforms and underutilized site in downtown Cleveland into a unique space ripe for social experience. Digital culture has reformatted the way we perceive and interact with the urban environment, reducing architecture to sound bytes along a path. Liftspace responds to this notion not with noise, but utility, accomplishing a lot with minimal effort. It is playfully direct and unapologetically public.
This project was produced for an exhibition titled: All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland, held at the Sculpture Center the end of October 2009. The curators/organizers put out an open call for ideas to reinvigorate vacant sites in the city. Liftspace explores attitude on both a formal/programmatic and graphic level.
Student Housing Cleveland, Ohio (2010)
Jeremy Smith Design Programming Diagrams
This initial study locates program in response to orientation and context, describing how design responds to existing forces.
Good design starts with a strong Diagram
Erik Spierkermann’s typeface exploration for Gravis, the largest Apple distributor in Germany, to create a unique identity as “Digital Lifestyle.”
