Jacob Kelly-Salo

Creative Works

Architecture is designed under two competing and complimenting perspectives; Response and Intuition. This produces a design that is not only unique to the place, but also unique to the designer. Through this combination, the design becomes one of an infinite interpretations of an infinite number of factors by a unique individual. This is where my excitement for architecture lies.

SCB Architecture Intern Drafted Construction Documents 3ds Renderings Created Presentation Graphics Small Design Projects Site Analysis Built ModelsSFS Architecture Intern Designed Small Projects Rendered Images Drafted in Revit

Awards Runner-up: Manko Design Competition 2nd Place: AIA Student Design CompetitionScholarships Klover Architects Inc. Scholarship (x2) Palmquist Architecture and Design Scholarship Arwin W. Martin Memorial Scholarship

Hand Graphite- Drafting and Drawing Ink - Drafting and Drawing Hand Modeling Wood WorkingDigital Rhino Revit AutoCAD 3ds Max Adobe Suite

Kansas State University Candidate for Masters of ArchitectureShawnee Mission Northwest High School Graduated

ViolinSpanish (Intermediate)Soccer RugbyHiking

January-August 2015

Summer 2014

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2012, 201320142015

2011-2016

2007-2011

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jACOB kELLY-sALO

Email: jkellysalo@gmail.comPhone: (913)232-1464

I.O.O.120 Hours Competition Piecespring 2015

Bike KitchenRunner-up: Manko student competition 2nd prize: Aia Student CompetitionFall 2014Professor: Bruce Wrightsman

Craft CenterFall 2013Professor: Judy Gordon

Bike KitchenRunner-up: Manko student competition 2nd prize: Aia Student CompetitionFall 2014Professor: Bruce Wrightsman

Craft CenterFall 2013Professor: Judy Gordon

The 2015 12o Hour competition focused on the town of Pyramidean, an abandon soviet satellite. The town sits on the island of Svalbard, approximately 600 miles north of Norway. Due to the inhospitable environment in which the town exists, the buildings and their contents have remained untouched by time. This unique condition allows Pyramidean to remain a perfect snapshot of the day it was abandon.

The competition set out to find inventive, creative, and non-traditional means of exhibiting the town historically and architecturally.

I.O.O.(120 Hours Competition Piece)

InternationallyOperatedObserver

The beacon is designed to house the servers as well as serve

as a light node for ships and explorers.

The skin of the tower is composed of translucent photo-

voltaic cells to assist the tower’s need for energy. The skin is

scaled to serve as a method of venting off excess heat that could be generated through the various

electronic components.

The tower is supported by a board form concrete base. The

form of the base allows for I.O.O.s to enter and exit out

from the bottom of the tower.

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Pyramidean sits beneath the glaciers and peaks of Svalbard. Nearly 600 miles north of Norway, the town has very few visitors due to its distance from any form of civilization. The lucky few who have had the opportunity to visit Pyramidean have all had the same answer when it came to methods of preserving the town. Leave it be.

This is a tall order to follow when instructed to rein-vent how we visit and explore architecture. In many cases, architectural interventions are intended to maintain the past through reinforcement of struc-ture, refinishing materials and cleaning. However, Pyramidean hasn’t run into these problems and in some cases, never will.

With the inhospitable climate that Pyramidean resides in, Pyramidean sits almost completely un-touched by time. It was at this point in the project when it was decided that Pyramidean shouldn’t receive an intervention, it should just be observed.

The solution that I came up with is a combination of emerging technologies to address the two biggest challenges of the project; access and preservation. The design uses a panoramic camera fixed to a quad-copter. The quadcopters are distributed from three towers just off the coast of Pyramidean where they will be linked, serviced and charged from.

The intention is that anyone from around the world can log into these towers, access a quadcopter and explore the town in real time. This is intended to eliminate the need to make a journey across the North Sea to visit Pyramidean. Additionally, the quadcopters are lightweight and quiet allowing for the tranquility of the town to be preserved and for its relics to be left intact.

Beacon

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Pyramidean Site Map Drones Exploring Pyramidean

Bike KitchenRunner-up: Manko student competition 2nd prize: Aia Student Competition

The Bike Kitchen, located in the Crossroads Dis-trict of Kansas City, Missouri, is intended to serve as a place specifically designed for cyclists and the mechanically minded. The facility would contain a variety of different spaces including; a presentation space, a workshop, community space, bike store, cafe, administration space, bike storage, and display space. With the Bike Kitchen residing in an up and coming neighborhood of Kansas City, care must be taken in assuring that the Bike Kitchen integrates tastefully at a variety of different scales.

The design also offers the opportunity to explore what exactly a bike kitchen is. Being a relatively new building type and having only previously been run out of warehouses and garages, bike kitchens don’t have a defined building type leaving the door wide open in how the building’s appearance, function and spaces are to be defined.

Intro

The Crossroads district is one of the most popular destinations in Kansas City. Beginning as an indus-trial hub in K.C. the District was later revitalized as people began to repurpose the old warehouses into shops, studios, restaurants and bars.

During the initial phases of the project, I divided the site into three different scales; the district, the block, and the site. Each one of these scales possesses its own challenges that need to be met by the design. In a district as eclectic as the Crossroads, a design wouldn’t do well to just patch a hole in the urban wall. The design should attempt to address both its urban and aesthetic context.

When examining the site at the district scale, I found that the majority of commercial activity took place to the West of the site, just South of the performing arts center. In sharp contrast, directly to the East of our site is next to nothing save for a few parking areas and abandon lots. However, what also lies to the East of our site is one of the primary future bike routes that the city has planned. With these two vastly different parts of the district in mind, the design takes into ac-count from which direction each type of traffic will be coming from. The West entrance of the design leads directly to the cafe and shop while the East entrance leads directly into the bike kitchen and workshop.

Crossroads Integration

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At the block scale the design uses the adjacent buildings to not only define heights, but material choice as well. The building to the south of the site is made out of brick. This is carried through the bike kitchen as the anchoring brick elements. To the north of the site sits a steel and glass building. Again, the bike kitchen matches its height and material choice placing the steel and glass element on top of the brick elements. This gesture symbolizes an old meets new mentality in the design as well as in the crossroads as a whole.

Block (Above) Site (Below)At the site scale the design intends to use a combination of both passive systems and mechanical systems to keep the spaces comfortable while saving energy. The shop, offices, and cafe are conditioned by a mechanical system. However, the bike kitchen and workshop are cooled through stack ventilation out of the operable roof and heated with southern glazing in the winter. When the temperatures reach their peaks mid-season, the bike kitchen has an entirely separate mechanical system to assist the passive systems.

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Indoor zone - Mechanical system

shop and kitchen zone - passive and mechanical systems

Defining a bike kitchenWith the design tastefully engaging its context, the focus shifted to what exactly a bike kitchen is. As mentioned before, a bike kitchen doesn’t have defined characteristics or archetypes to borrow from to establish itself as a place for bikes. Instead of looking at other mechanical buildings or possibly where bikes are made, I instead examined what a bike is in its simplest form.

A bike is an instrument for channeling human movement. It serves as an extension of its user designed for the sole purpose of making human powered movement more efficient and focused.

This idea developed into designing the bike kitchen as a series of mechanisms. These mechanisms could change or enhance the space based on the programmatic, utilitarian and climatic needs of the users in the space. These mechanisms not only make

to, in much the same way as a bike, channel human movement into something more efficient and focused.

The design focused on 4 main mechanisms centered around the bike kitchen space. The 4 mechanisms are furthered detailed on the following pages.

the spaces more functional but also more efficient. With spaces being able to serve dual roles, the building can be more compact.

The mechanisms are also intended to be displayed, not hidden. With the mechanisms in public view, the design takes on a mechanical aesthetic, showing off the function of the spaces as well as what goes on inside the bike kitchen. Each one of the mechanisms is hand operated using select mechanical principles

The bay doors are designed to be operated by anyone at the bike kitchen. The bay door is turned on its center to make opening the door nearly weightless. The doors open out to the exterior courtyard to allow cyclists to come in right off of the street. The doors also allow cooler air from the courtyard to come in replacing the hot air that is vented out of the roof.

Roof LiftBay DoorThe roof lift is intended to only be operated by the staff. The intention of the roof lift is to vent off hot air in the summer months. The mechanism uses corkscrews to drive the roof up. These corkscrews serves dual purpose. First, the roof opens very gradually making the crank easy to turn and second, the roof can’t come crashing down if the staff member stops cranking.

Floor Panels Bike LiftThe floor panels transform the center of the bike kitchen into any number of differnet functional spaces. Using a system similar to that of a click pen, the floor panels can be raised once to seat height, or twice to table height. This mechanism can be used to set up work tables, auditorium seating or even displays for open house events and First Fridays.

Each one of the bike lifts can store around 90 bikes in a space that can conventionally hold 20-30. As visitors arrive they can store their bikes on the bike lifts if they don’t need them right away. As the bike lifts fill with bikes they begin to display the visitor’s customized creations, embodying the creativity inside and making the bike kitchen visually unmistakable.

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Craft Center

A craft center is a space specially designed to serve as a school for students of three different types of craft (metal, pottery, and glass). The craft center would house a studio for each of these different crafts as well as spaces to teach and critique. The craft center was also intended to highlight the crafting capabilities of the prairie surrounding the site and serve as inspiration and direction for the students at the center.

While the device created interesting splotches, it highlighted something grander, the crafting ability of water. This idea was highlighted further by examining the hills around the site. Each hill is carved from limestone or limestone aggregate by the weathering of rain and snow over time. For the design of the craft center, I wanted to harness this crafting capability and highlight its presence in the surrounding landscape of the prairie.

Now it came to mind that the craft center could be created from this weathering process however, the erosion rate of limestone ranges from 1 mm to 5 mm per millennium so this was out of the question. So while we may not be able to highlight the creation of space through weathering, it is still possible to highlight its effects and process.

When I was first told that I would be designing a craft center I would be lying if I didn’t say that macaroni art and homemade ornaments were the first thing that came to my mind. The assumption was that we would be designing a place for people to create knick knacks and adorable Christmas presents. I was wrong.

The colored splotches on the front page of this project aren’t a Rorschach test. They actually served as the starting point for the project. As the project began we were instructed to create a device that showcased some form of crafting capability of nature. What I ended up creating was a water drip which through a manipulation of the view using mirrors made the splotch appear to grow as if it was something organic. A combination of yellow, orange and red water where placed in the drip and as the colors combined, it formed an interesting layered pattern.

water as a crafter

As the slashes become more stained over the years, the rust color brings out the pattern of the slashes. Eventually, the facade begins to take on the appearance of the surrounding prairie grass through the golden hue of the rock and the rusty lines.

This illustrating of the craft of the prairie is intended to provide inspiration for the different forms of craft that will take place at the center. As students, faculty and visitors come to the craft center, they will be greeted by this reminder of the crafting power of nature.

This led to the combination of limestone and corten steel. Limestone in this case is the canvas of the de-sign making use of large 2’x3’ blocks with large slashes across each face. Between each of these blocks would be a corten plate sitting above each block. Overtime, the rain and snow will slowly wash the rust off of the steel plates. As the water drains down the slashes in the rock, the rust will stain most deeply in these intentional gouges.

Limestone and Rust

This is a very nice serif font.

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-The parking on the site is intended to have a minimal impact on the surrounding prairie. The parking lot is made from decomposed granite and uses natural prairie grass swales to control drainageParking

Massing Circulation

The studio and gallery make use of different kinds of light. The gallery uses louvers to direct light back into the space and the studio uses a gabion roof to diffuse light equally to provide optimal light for working in.

Light

The massing of the design in section highlights the use of earth in sky through the building as an alter-nating rhythm between each.

Earth and Sky

The Device

Gabion Roof Study

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