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Undergraduate Portfolio (2011 - 2015)
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G R E G J I M M I E
This book contains a collective record of personal and academic projects that explore research, design, and making. It is the aim of this book to display a passion for the art of making through these developed projects and their comprehensive processes. The initial concept and core value for each of the following projects was the pursuit of knowledge. With this basis, projects were developed through both digital and physical methods with enthusiasm, eagerness, and a
desire to learn.
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Community Design Studio // Revitalization of Boston’s Government Service Center
Team: Lisa Angulo, Greg Jimmie, Pablo Rivera, Anthony Rodriguez, Jacob Wilson
Professor: Mark Pasnik
Fall 2014
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F O R M I N G
E C O L O G Y
Through a series of additions, landscape
renovations, and interior transformations,
Government Service Center will be redefined
into a new, eco-centered complex; the
epicenter of Boston’s new ‘Eco-District’. The
complex will feature spaces designated to a
science center, a new high school, privatized
ecological research spaces, and spaces for
government offices. In the plaza, through
methods of water collection, purification and
reintegration, landscape and marsh elements
will mitigate the storm runoff of both the site
and its context. Finally, through a series of
public spectacles and ‘satellite’ public pavilions,
the new scheme will put its processes on
display for its community.
Center for Boston’s Ecological Development
Ecological Organisms
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Existing Site Proposed Site Water Run-Off Path
Proposed Building Mass
Education Facilities
Research Laboratories
Government Offices
Proposed Site
Competition Entry // Landscape Intervention in Boston’s North End
Team: Panharith Ean, Greg Jimmie
Awards: 2nd Place
Images pulished in the Wentworth Architecture Review
Advisor: Ingrid Strong
Spring 2014
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R E C O R D I N G E P H E M E R A
Permanency of the existing site gives a formal
distinction to the North End, leaving a static
impression to the landscape. Drawing from this
condition, the intervention seeks to emphasize
temporality: moving, changing, performing -
qualities which appear absent from the fixed
landscape. The unmoving profile of the site
then becomes the backdrop to the Ephemera.
Vertical elements reflect the immediate
[passerby movement] and eventual [seasonal
changes and weathering]. These conditions
allow the vertical members to be performative.
These polished aluminum verticals allow one
to move with them, dance with them, see [with
them, in them, through them].
The position of the verticals is derived from
an existing spatial hierarchy created by the
trees. These verticals create fragments of
spaces, opening and closing views through
their specific arrangement. At specific points
between two spaces, these elements rotate,
becoming interactive thresholds. Sectionally,
the vertical elements blur hard edges of
rectilinear spaces while a fine mist is introduced
to obscure the horizontal boundary between
the two stages. Materially, mist has a formless
quality that enhances the Ephemera.
Through this investigation, the intervention is
the sensitive device that records the ephemera.
Landscape Studio // Music and Arts Center at Wellsley College
Professor: Ingrid Strong
Fall 2014
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The relationship between inside and outside
was the most imperative parameter when
designing this complex. Occupants inhabit the
interior while circulation occurs on the exterior.
A series of cascading steps create dynamic
terraces that can be inhabited while
simultaneously remaining a circulation path
leading up to the quad. The steps remain set
into the landscape creating the impression that
the complex is a natural element to the site.
Concrete, rectilinear spaces are scattered
and embedded into the steps. Subtly, these
spaces stretch out from the staircase landings
to create an ambiguous integration between
interior and exterior.
Wrapping these spaces is a pre-fabricated
lattice system, made from a porous stone
material that is meant to degrade and
decompose over many years. Planted into
the ground, and in close proximity to the
overgrown vegetation on the roof; greenery is
encouraged to grow on the lattice. It is desired
that over time this will overtake the whole
lattice system, creating a perception that even
while being inside, one is still inhabiting the
landscape.
A G G R E G A T I N G
S P A C E
Private v. Public
Facade Degradation
Tectonics Studio // Ship Building Complex in East Boston
Images published in the Wentworth Architecture Review
Professor: Ingrid Strong
Fall 2013
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F O L D I N G
I N H A B I T A T I O N
Origami is a medium which gives a designer
the ability to take a two dimensional object and
shape it into a rich and compelling form. The
project’s concept stems from this process and also
from studying the creation of space from a two
dimensional surface. The given site has a strong
line of demarcation that separates industry from
residential. The intention of the project then quickly
evolved into the unification of these two regions
by laying them under a single surface and folding
that surface to create space..
Through a process of physical modeling, the
diagrid folding pattern lent itself to a naturally
rolling form. By switching between mountain folds
and valley folds, the structure naturally produced
an interweaving geometry that formally resembles
the concept of merging two distinct elements into
one.
Hexagonal Rotation Diagrid Folding Structure
Formal Strategy
Design Studio // Urban Sanctuary in Boston’s South End
Professor: Ben Peterson
Spring 2013
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The diffusion of light has the ability to create
dynamic spaces. The use of light to blur hard
lines and edge conditions creates space that
can seem lighter and more open, creating a
separation of the real and the perceived.
Through the process of creating voids in
plaster, the idea of using light diffusion to
transform space was studied within the
confines of spherical geometries. Drawing
inspiration from the adjacent cemetery, this
urban sanctuary was designed to bring people
out from the surrounding world into a secluded
haven. The progression and movement through
spaces in the building follow a process of
mourning, reflecting, and burial respectively.
The narrative of circulation within the structure
is defined by the way light enters the building.
As the sun moves around the building
throughout the day, different spaces become
illuminated at different times.
Circulation wraps around these spaces creating
a double layered facade system through which
light can enter the urban sanctuary and diffuse
into the main spaces. The system of passages
creates a cavernous structure that becomes
a place of exploration and discovery as one
moves through each space.
U N E A R T H I N G
S A N C T U A R Y
Competition Entry // Reception Desk Design
Team: Panharith Ean, Elias Khonstantinidis, Greg Jimmie, Vien Nyguen, Pablo Rivera, Jacob Wilson
Advisor: Zenovia Toloudi
Fall 2013
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F R O N T I S P I E C E
On an academic level, the design seeks to
embody the essence of Wentworth’s student-
faculty relationship. This relationship is a
dialectic pendulum swinging freely between
student and teacher. The linear relationship
must then maintain its clarity and
straightforwardness in most things presented
by Wentworth and its departments.
The design proposed is a formal solution to
circulation problems with sensitivity to the
desired relationship between faculty and
students. The lobby space serves as the
frontispiece of the narrative of the architecture
department (that narrative being the student/
faculty dialogue), thus everything occupying
the space must strive to define that.
The proposal focuses on the ability of one
move to solve many problems; problems
of movement, of interaction, and of spatial
experience. Surfaces of milled wood are joined
by a series of vertical members to provide
a great degree of formal control. Paralleling
the department. The members of the design
combine to make, out of many, one.
Personal Project // Table Lamp Design
Fall 2014
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G R A D I E N T
Primarily, the function of a lamp is to provide
a degree of light quality to a space. This lamp
is designed to express light not only as its
primary function but to also give form to
the simplified design. Made from laser cut,
eighth-inch Baltic birch plywood, the lamp
was designed to have a rigid form. This rigidity
allows the lamp to rely solely on the light, not
only to accomplish its function but to also give
the lamp its form.
A repetitive stacking method allowed the form
to remain hidden until the lamp is turned on.
As one layer gradually pulls back the next
layer remains static; this method gives the
light quality a gradient effect. Because of the
proximity of one layer to the next, the lamp
does not allow much light through, creating an
atmospheric accent lamp with a warm glow.
Lamp Assembly
Artforming’s Summerbuild // Furniture Installation for the Rockport Fireworks Display
Advisor: Rob Trumbour
Fall 2014
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T W O X T H R E E
Two-by-three pine wood studs were assembled
in a repetitive fashion to create a multi-
functional piece of furniture that reads as a
single unit. Not only is the idea of multiplicity
expressed through the bench’s method of
assembly, but it is also represented through its
function. The undulating bench seat, as well as
seat back, allow for a variety of sitting positions.
As a two-week long team design challenge,
this was one of three pieces of furniture
designed and built for the Rockport firework
display in August 2014.
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