J A S O N K R U S E

SAMPLE WORK

Fabrication

Contents

Urban Housing

Sports Complex and Youth Center

Boston Symphony Center

Museum for Innovative Objects of Design

MacBride Environmental Learning Center

Philosophy

The designed environment for the future is not created by trying to change the world but by changing the way people look at the world.

E x p e r i e n c e

BNIM Architects | Student Intern Architect (May 2011-Aug. 2011) Collaborated within a project team on a higher education building at the end of the programming phase and through schematic design. Utilized technical skills in AutoCad, Google Sketchup, and Revit. In addition, responsible for developing presentation graphics and renderings.

OPN Architects Inc. | Student Intern Architect (Jun. 2010-Oct. 2010) Contributed to two public institution projects in schematic design, design development, and construction document phases. Utilized technical skills in Google Sketchup and Revit programs.

Iowa Architectural Foundation | Community Design Program (Jun. 2010) Analyzed and designed with a team of four architects, a landscape architect, and two landscape architecture students within a Charrette environment in Crescent, IA to create a master plan for the Crescent community to begin improvements on streetscape and civic buildings.

(Oct. 2009) Collaborated with a team of four architects and a landscape architect in the Lincoln-Fairview Historic district of Council Bluffs, IA. Primary work done in developing a master plan to connect two historic monuments and unify a neighborhood’s streetscape.

L e a d e r s h i p A c t i v i t i e s / H o n o r s

Design Across Boundaries Co-President, Partnered with a community in La Croix, Haiti over two years developing and designing a youth center and sports complex.BWBR Prize Runner-Up New York Housing Project | Selected from 70 projectsFigge Art Museum Architecture Gallery Exhibition Industrial Design Museum | Chosen from 50 projectsConstruction Specifications Institute Competition Nominee Boston Symphony Center | Nominated from 25 projectsPublished in the Student Journal of Architecture (DATUM) Boston Symphony CenterHansen Prize Finalist Denver Sustainable Community | Selected from 15 group projectsCollege of Human Sciences Entrepreneurship Showcase Best of Show | Selected from 30 projectsOPN Architects Inc. ScholarshipAmerican Institute of Architecture StudentsCollege of Design Ambassador

C o m p u t e r S k i l l s

3D Studio Max, 3D Printer, AutoCAD, Adobe Products (Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier Pro), Google SketchUp, Kerkythea, Laser Cutter, Microsoft Office (Excel, Power Point, Word), Revit, Rhinoceros (w/ Grasshopper)

PROGRAMDevelop a permanent center for childhood education on the Macbride Recreation Area located between Lake Macbride and Coralville Lake.

ABSTRACTWe unifi ed the 480 acre site with designed environments that encourage awareness and discovery of the natural environment. To achieve this goal, the topography became a fundamental element. A topography line became a pathway across the site to help understand the 96’ elevation change as a child wanders through the site. Along this site we have distinguished seven moments that become areas to gather, explore, and learn about the natural environment. Like artist installations, planes cut through the landscape to create these places. The environmental learning center acted as another one of these moments along the pathway to become a hub/trail head for the entire site. Three planes cut through the site to house the vital functions of the center: fi ve class rooms, an event space for 300, and administrative offi ces. The sense of exploration starts on the approach of the building as a mass cuts through a prairie and continues as the building leads the visitor through and opens them up to the south and the pathway.

Team Members: Sarah A’Hearn and Peter McDermott

MACBRIDE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER SOLON, IA

SPRING ‘12NORDMEYER

WEEKS 8

PATHWAY FROM NORTH PARKING

1 EVENT / CLASSROOMS2 LOBBY3 ADMINISTRATIVE4 CONFERENCE5 SHELTER

6 GREENHOUSE7 MECHANICAL8 KITCHEN9 STORAGE

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SustainabilityLooking at the wholistic approach of the entire site, we wanted the building to be another learning tool. Our group worked with an Iowa State University engineering student on building energy models. This process helped determine material properties and fenestration percentages to create the most effi cient envelope and mechanical system for the building’s load and operation hours. Using high performance systems and materials, we achieved a building that is 59% better than code. With this analysis, we also calculated LEED points to approximate a rating; with no renewable energy sources on site we estimated a Gold to Platinum rating.

LIVING MACHINE DIAGRAM

LIVING MACHINE PLAN LAYOUT EXTERIOR EAST: CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS

TYPICAL CLASSROOM

MAIN ENTRANCE AND SHELTER

FALL ‘11SUBASINGHE

WEEKS 13

PROGRAMEstablish a satellite center for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, including 1200 and 300 seat performance halls and all necessary support spaces. To generate revenue, the client also requested 25,000 sf leasable offi ce space.

ABSTRACTLocated at the crossroads of Boston’s central business district and the North End neighborhood, the Boston Jazz Center focuses attention on the local social stratifi cation, historic Haymarket (open-air fi sh market), and the new Rose F. Kennedy Greenway. Growth along the greenway led design issues to confront an intervention with site forces and fl ows. Embracing these movements through and around the site, we elevated the majority of the program above street level, allowing the ground fl oor to act both as a link to downtown and a hub for the Haymarket. The design evolved into two elevated moments that encompass an inner dialogue; a gathering space shared by the audiences of both performance spaces.

Team Members: Mitch Hartig and Sam Muholland

Nominated: Construction Specifi cations Institute Competition

BOSTON JAZZ CENTER BOSTON, MA

GREENWAY CONNECTIONS

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1 THEATER STORAGE / SERVICES2 GREEN ROOM3 VIP ROOM4 VIP ROOM5 ASSIT. DIRECTORʼS OFFICE

6 DIRECTORʼS OFFICE7 WORK ROOM8 LIBRARY9 CONDUCTORʼS OFFICE10 OPEN OFFICE

SECOND FLOOR PLANPLAN LEVEL AT 9ʼSCALE: 1” = 16 ̓0”

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HAYMARKET INTERACTION PEDESTRIAN PATHS

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMSSTRUCTURE DIAGRAM

FALL ‘10RAMSEY

WEEKS 13

PROGRAMThe site sits in the architecturally iconic city of Columbus, IN where a 40,000 sf museum would house the city’s under served architectural archives, education and outreach programs, and a variety of unique local and distant industrial design objects.

ABSTRACTThe building program and site strategy dealt directly in relation to the existing adjacent buildings that challenged the project with a library by I.M. Pei and a church by Eliel Saarinen. The site currently has an active edge on all sides. Because of this, the building became a medium to activate each side of the site to bring people into and through the site in order to maintain the existing fl ow of pedestrian traffi c. The private to public space works in a vertical line to allow for the ground fl oor to act as an extension to an adjacent public square. The gallery spaces then become one form elevated across the site. The gallery parti is laid out in a linear order to establish an interior condition that begins to blend the exhibition spaces together to allow for a personal experience of exploration. Establishing this relationship between the gallery spaces communicates the multiple areas of the design realm into similarities not normally seen in the everyday environment.

Selected for the Figge Art Museum ISU Architecture Exhibit

MUSEUM FOR INNOVATIVE OBJECTS OF DESIGN Columbus, IN

The exterior facadeThe exterior facadeThe exterior follows the idea of shifting the grid of the follows the idea of shifting the grid of the city. This was achieved by city. This was achieved by manipulating a rigid grid system to create fenestrations into the building into the building

S H I F T I N G T H E G R I D

A skylight system establishes the initial pathway through the galleries, but secondary paths extend off this reference point through the judgement of the visitor.

Day Night

FALL ‘10DAB

MONTHS 9

PROGRAMDevelop a 2.5 acre vacant site into a soccer fi eld, basketball court, volleyball court, and a youth center for 800 under served children. The youth center accommodates multiple gathering spaces, offi ces, equipment checkout, and a media resource room.

ABSTRACTDuring my education, I have taken the responsibility of design into a practical form through the formation of a non-profi t organization, Design Across Boundaries, which I have co-founded with a group of Iowa State University design students. Our fi rst project arose from the need for a summer and after-school program to keep children in the surrounding community of La Croix, Haiti safe. We tackled the project by looking at traditional materials and building practices already existing in Haiti and then introducing one more element to create a new structure for the project. We used the shipping container modular for its rigid structure and because of its accessibility with over 7,000 surplus containers currently in Haiti. As with every building in Haiti, the program uses vary throughout the year, so the spaces in the center become adjustable for mixed use.

Team Members Tom Fraser, Scott Mead, Michael Noonan, Kristen O’Brien, and Michael Vander Ploeg

SPORTS COMPLEX AND YOUTH CENTER LA CROIX, HAITI

WALL ASSEMBLY HANDRAIL DETAIL

EXPLODED BUILDING AXON- ASSEMBLY

DOUBLE ROOF / GUTTER DETAIL

PROGRAMConvert an existing parking lot in the heart of Soho into a twenty-four unit residential building.

ABSTRACTThe neighborhood of Soho in lower Manhattan has a multitude of layers and history, from factories to high-end retail. I chose to reconnect a fragmented community through the use of the urban dwelling. This analysis became an urban inquiry on how we develop in these urban environments in the future to create permanence by building the new into the old. With no designated open public space in the neighborhood, my proposal is to leave the site to be developed into open space and build on top of, in between, and into the existing fabric of the community. Instead of developing one project on a specifi c site, this proposal disperses the units and future growth throughout the neighborhood. I focused on one of these sites specifi cally to develop further. To connect the old and new structures, the central circulation core extends up into the new building to become the lifeline that provides structure, circulation, and utilities. Focusing on these cores that extend up, they become the focus from the building as a whole to the individual units working around them.

Runner-Up: BWBR Prize

URBAN HOUSING NEW YORK CITY, NY

SPRING ‘10WHITEHEAD

WEEKS 10

Filling the Void - This is a study on how a neighborhood might look as another layer begins to stack onto the existing build-ing blocks of the neighborhood.

GREEN SPACE NEAR SOHO

POTENTIAL S ITES WITHIN SOHO

VIEW FROM ENTRY LOOKING WEST

THE LIGHT BLANKET

The adaptability of a light source drove the design behind this fixture. The light utilizes triangulation to morph from a flat, point-specific light source to a diffused, free-flowing object.

Le Corbusier’s custom wood furniture was designed/used initially for the Unité d’ Habitation of Marseille housing project. Like all the other aspects of the Unite, the desk that was designed for a child’s room utilizes the Modulor as the bases for its spacing and layout. Le Corbusier described the Modulor as a “range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things.” The piece can stand alone or become a collective unit by the addition of the open shelf module.

Table de Travail avec Rayonnages Unité d’Habitation of MarseilleNantes-Rezé, France

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