A Portfolio by:

JEFFREY BELSICK

STUDIO 5STUDIO 6EXPLORATIONMOTIONSKETCH - PHOTO - SNOW

DENVER NEWS AGENCY

MEMORY

PERSONAL SPACE

COLFAX BRANCH LIBRARY

STUDIO 5 COLFAX BRANCH LIBRARY

By increasing the transparency between public and private, security, and how information is viewed, this branch library breaks down the boundaries and redefines the rules of the traditional library system.

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Lifting the street edge blurs the boundaries between the public street and the semi-private plaza.

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The two story search screen allows everyone to view, click, and continue searching on each others search window. This transparency of search information blurs the rules of the library by allowing ones conscious of others to determine what is or is not appropriate.

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DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARYDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Denver News Agency Project is a mixed use office building, accomodating two merging newspapers, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain news. The design addresses two primary issues, how to connect a pedestian system of 16th St. Mall and Civic Park: and how media information is conveyed and displayed.

When a news reporter covers a story, the actual events become filtered through the process of interpretation, documentation, and then dissemination. This happens unconsciously. For example, if the reporter photographs in black and white, a different interpretation could result from a color photo. This process begins to inform the building and the pedestrian movement from the informal area of the 16th Street Mall and the formal space of Denver’s Civic Park.

At the 16th street side, pedestrians scroll though a mechanical belt which displays the initial notes taken by the reporters of events. This end forms a gateway enticing movement through the building connecting the public space at each side of the building. Further-more, the gateway binds the two news agencies together.

The form of the building draws one through the primary public zone and the filter of the media floors. The destination of the formal public space of Civic Center Park emerges through the refraction of the building. This side relates to the scale of public and mass media displaying the final print of the newspaper projected on the facade of the building.

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STUDIO 6 DENVER NEWS AGENCY

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The year is 2089, a benchmark for technology and the initial transformation of the world’s social structure. After years of research, GOOGLE and FUTURE NOW (a bio-medical Co.) have merged together to develop the first Resource Information Systems (RIS) Chip. This chip is surgically implanted into the growing minds of children. It enables their minds to instantaneously access the internet through GOOGLES’ Web Site to retrieve real time information and raw data. After this vast amount of information is accessed, it is applied to real life circumstances. As the years pass, a split in the social structured occurred between the tradional people, who had to memorize and apply their knowledge by seeking expensive higher education, and the CHIP HEADS who were able to access unlimited amounts of information for instant recall and application. Years later, because the Chip heads only recalled raw data without connecting the information to the 5 senses, their memories of previous life experiences have faded with time. This MEMORY RECALL FACILITY has five program spaces, TOUCH, TASTE, SMELL, SOUND, and VISION to provoke the life time memories for CHIP HEADS.

Where to begin? Well, sitting here today, after 192 yff ears, mymm fy iff rst profound mff emory ofy mf ymm childhood y was when I was probably 3 y years old. I was watching mymm fy aff ther cultivating the land surrounding our home in the hot morning sun during the summer months. I WAWW S THREE YEARS OLD IN 2032. EVERYRR SAY TURDAAA YAA MORNIY NG HE WOULD WORK IN THE FIELD, METICULOUSLYLL IY RRIGATIAA NN

TAKING SAMPLES,TT AND TESTING THE SOIL. AS I GREW OLDER, I BEGAN W TO APPRECIATE HIS PAA APP TIENCE FOR AA THE FUTURE. HE WAWW S PLANTING MATAA ERIAL SEEDS FOR BUILDING OUR FL AFF MILIES FUTURE. EVENTHOUGH THIS CONCEPT WAWW S HIGHLYLL EXPERIMENTY ALTT ATAA THATAA TIME, HIS

STRONG DETERMINATIONAA WOULD PREVAILVV INL THE FUTURE.

During Primaryrr sy chool, I could begin to see the growth of the seeds in the field outside mymm wiy ndow. Tirelessly, mymm fay ther cr ontinued to work the fields on Satut rday my ornr ings forming the futut re. Primaryrr sy chool was for cr hildren between the ages of 8 to 14. I did not begin until I was 10 because my parents were uncertain what the fuff ture would hold foff r me. After a couple offf yf ears, finally my ymm fay ther cr onvinced mymm my other tr hat it t woult d probabla y bey the best wat y fory mmr e

jumpmm start into the 22nd

centut ryrr . Primaryrr sy chool was developed five years before I started, so there still was not any long term evidence of any problems with the procedure. The school was developed by GOOGLE and FUTURE NOW, which was a bio-medical research compm any. In a joia nt ct ollabora ation, they dey veloped a RESEARCH Ia NFORMATION SYSTEMS CHIP (R.I.S. - Chip) which could access anny

infoff rmation and allow our mr inds to instantaneously recall thy e infoff rmation. Once the two inflff uential and powerfuff l compm anies merged, everyone who could affff off rd the chip, foff r their children, jumped on board. The education system and social structure would change dramatically from this point on.

The chip and impm lant surgery wy as extremely exy pensive at that time. Unfoff rtunately, only thy e wealthier faff milies were able to purchase their childrens fuff ture. At tht e age of 1f 0, the R.I.S. Chip was impm lanted into mymm by rain. The RIS chip enabled us to retrieve and update our brr ains with all the information availabla e in the world. No longer woulr d RIS studet nt hat ve to memorize and research raw data. Everyrr tyy hing could be down loaded from tm he Google system tm o our

brains for ir nstant rt ecall. Primaryrr sy chool was developed for usr RIS chip kids or ar s the other kir ds called us, chip heads. RIS primary school way s an accelerated program fm off r us chip heads. Our school foff cused on connecting infoff rmation retrieved foff rm the cm hip to an actual application of the inff off rmation. Because we didn’t have to learn every detail, we graduay ted frff om school at 14m years of agf e. After gff raduation, every chy ip head had to enroll in a paid work study

program tm o CONTINUE THEIR DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION RECALL TO REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS.

Because of this technologyf and school syy stem, a hair line frff acture began to reveal a split in the social structure in the United States. The children, whose parents could afford the chip, had an enormous advantage over tr he children without tt he RIS chip. We graduated at 14 at nd began making a living, career, and advancements. Unfortunat tely, the other kir ds had to finish High School and then continue to Higher Educr ation. The financial gap wia dened dramatically

between us and the traditional kids. While they wy ere going further into debt we were already advancing through careers. I remember my mothe150150r and father telling me stories of college yf ears. In the following years, colleges and universities, would become extended education for the lower class of people who could not afford the RIS Chip. Eventually, Higher Educationn

became looked down upon, for the underprivileged. The lesser path to take. The fracture in the social structure would continue to separate for years to come.

After primff ary school, I begay n ma ymm work studyy as a fy iff nancial advisor foff r an accounting fiff rm in dowm ntown. At the fif rm, I continually dey veloped the path of retrieving information and appla ing it rt eal working SITUATIONS. AT THE AGE OF 16, I ALREADY HAD AN AD VANTAGE OVER PEOPLE W HO HAD 10 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BECAUSE OF tht e chip. I worked and saved as mum ch money posy sible by ly iving at home until I compm leted the work-stuu

at tt he age of 18. Immediately, I packed mymm bay gs, bought at hostel pod and headed for Eurr ope.

Initially I was nervous abouty living in a hostel pod, however; mt y parents told me about how they used to have to share rooms with 12 other people when they usedy to stay at hostels. y The pod was small, but at least I had mymm own space. The onlyy dify fff iff cult thing about the pod was reservations at the hostels. Shipping was pretty cheap then because the newer pods wherr e so light weight. So, I ended up living in 14 different ct ountries for

abouta 2-t 4 months at at ta ime. I would find some workr hek re and there, but onct e I got bort ed I just hat d mymm pod sy hipped to another hr ostel in a different ct ountryrr . Traveling for ar nother cr ouple of years I headed back home.

Waking up in mymm oly d room on am Satut rday my ornr ing, I nervously pey ered out mt ymm wiy ndow. There in the field, I could see my father patiently working his planted material vegetation. Finally, I found a job wora kr ing for Str arbucr ks Financial Corporr ation. Starbucr ks, which once started out at s just ct offee shops, has transforff med into the largest rt eal-estate corporr ation in the world. I was ecstatic to join such a solid foff rce considering all of thf e corporatte

buyouts then. It wat s quite a pra ogressive corporr ation then. They sy tarted out byt sy erving coffee in the their cr offee shops. Continually, they bey gan to expand their busr iness and PURCHASING THE REALESTATE OF THE SHOPS. They wey re opening up 20 businesses a day ay nd purchasing the real estate through out tt he world. Over tr he years they pury chased more realestate than all of the combm ined fast food rt estaurants in the world. They wey re trulr y ay power housr ee

the real estate market. They coy ntinued to purchase and develop real estate until whole city blocks in majoa r cities werr e owned by them. Damn, I made so much money advising their financial purchases.

On a bea autifulff fall day, our cr ommmm ittee had a meeting with architects developing a ca ity bly ock in down Chicago. There I met mt ymm by eautiful wifff eff Lexus, foff r the next 115 years. She opened mymm eyy es up to so many ideas, fy off rms, and passions foff r life. Initiallyff , I wasn’t sure if I sf hould marry her because she y wasn’t a chip head. There were still too many unknown questionsy about the chip and how was it goit ng to effect ourt lr ives. Our lr ove for er ach other mr elted us togethee

as one.

She would discuss the shadows and reflections created by ty he transparent buit ldings and how they cy ompm licated and distorted the buildings. She felt tt hat mt odernrr ism rm emoved the compm licated, extra, details of the buildings, but onlt y ry e-introduced the compm lexity iy n the form of dim sorientated shadows and reflections. She talked a la ot at bouta tt he transportation systems that woult d change the cities. She envisioned cities with only py edestrians and bicycles, no vehicles besidd

for sr ervice. At the edge of the city, sky ry ises would become the parking area aa nd then one would have to use public trams to reach their destination. This would alleviate the mass VEHICLE CONGESTION IN THE CITY, SOLV E THE PARKING SITUATIONS, INCREASE DENSITY, AND PROV IDE OPEN SPACE FROM THE CURRENT SURFACE LOTS. PEOPLE WOULD DRIVE UP TO THE VEHICLE ELEVATORS ON THE

EXTERIOR OF THE PARKI NG SKYSCRAPERS AND THEN THEIR CARS WOULD BE PLACED IN PARKING SLOTS IN THE BUILDING. UNFORTUNATELY, I T WOULD NOT BE UNTIL AFTER HERE DEATH THAT HER DREAM WOULD BECOME REAL ITY. EVEN THOUGH I WAS ABLE TO CHURN UP ANY AMOUNT OF I NFORMATION, SHE WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO DI SCOVER PROBLEMS ANDD

CREATE WORKABLE SOLUTIONS. SOMETIMES I HAD WISHED THAT I HAD NEVER HAD A CHIP HEAD.

Our marriage was constantly by eing monitored by oy thers. At tht at time, the split in the social structures became QUITE OBVIOUS. FROM WHAT MY FATHER TR OLD ME, IT WAS LIKE INTERRACIAL marriage when he was just a kid. A chip head marrying a traditional person. People frff owned upon marriages between us. The traditional people thought that chip heads were spoiled, unimaginative, and financially my ade too mum ch money. The chip heads

thought that the traditional people should have worked harder to obtain the chip and they don’t hay ve the ability toy recall 2% the amount of inff off rmation that we were able to recall. Our love was undivided.

With mymm fy iff nancial abilities, Lexus, design our 2rnd

house. The virtuat l home. The design was a first of it ts kind and purely ey xperimental. Damnm , It wat s just brt eath taking. She had started the design after developing a virtual construction document system. The virtual Cds provided a virtual map for the construction worker erecting a building. Using lasers and colored light the building could virtualll

be displayed for construction at the site. No longer would workers have to measure distances or find level and plum. The location was already visible, all they did was create the connection. Inorder to decrease the complexity, layers of the virtual building were controlled and displayed to the appropriate phases of construction. Chip heads could only have researchh

but not though up the idea.

Well, the virtuat l house was amazing. The home was a machine of moving air power red by sy olar sr ystem on tm he roof. She was tryrr ing to make a compm lete uninterrr uptr ed connection with the landscapa e with out at ny phyy sical walls. The house had a soothing and meditative humming rhytyy hm tm o it. I worked as a machine constantly pusy hing and pulling air. She created virtuat l doors and windows by cy reating a ca onstant tt hin stream of am ir frr om tm he top of the door tr o the floorr

At tt he top of the door orr wir ndow, a thin stream of am ir war s forced through a bla ower ar nd at tt he floor, a vaa cuum pulm led the stream of am ir. This created a ca ompm lete air cr irculation through out tt he housE. ONE SIDE OF THE HOUSE AT THE FLOOR THE VACUUM W OULD SUCK THE AITHTH NTO TUBES THAT RAN UNDER THE FLOOR AND THEN THE AI R WAS PUSH OUT BY A BLOW ER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE. THE CYCLE

CONTINUED WHEN THE AIR WAS THEN SUCKED INTO A VACUUM I N THE CEILING, FORCED THROUGH A AI R TUBE THEN OUT A BLOW ER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, COMPLETING THIS PUSH, PULL CYCLE OF AIR. For prr ivacy, all you had to do was increase the amount of pat rticles in the air. The more particles introduced, the greater the opacity oy f of ur or penings. Because the movement ot f air wf as so strong, insectss

and animals could not pt enetrate it. Furthermore, she used images projo ected into the airstream tom create virtual pictures. I guess like screen savers back when I was just at kid. Seeing her worr k on tk he house almost mt ade me reconsider har ving the chip, but it was truly toy o late in mymm lify e toff have it removed.

After coff nstruction of of ur hr ome, the social structure began deteriorating at a rapid pace. The RIS chip fiff nancially sepy arated thet United States into two classes of people. The wealthy cy hip heads and the Higher Educr ation people. Unfortunat tely, the higher education population could not even affff off rd the basic necessities of liff e and resented ff the chip heads foff r advancements foff r just being able to recall infoff rmation. Imagination was lost in all of thf e maja or corporationss

since mostly cy hip heads were making all of the corporr ate decisions. All were knew how to do was make decisions based on the actual statistics and core information. Purely analytical decisions were driving almost all of thf e corporations into bankrur ptcy. The Higher Education workers were losing jobs by thy e millions and the gapa grew at a relentless rate.

The first tt ime mymm wiy fe heard abouta mt ymm cy ompm anys buyout of GOOGLE at nd FUTURE NOW she went tt hrough the roof. As did everyrr TRADIy TIONAL AMERICAN. STARBUCKS, owning all the chip heads. Oh, she was furious. To my sy urpr rise, aftff er dir scovering their lr ong term strategy ay nd workr ing the financial numbem rs of the deal, I actuat lly fey lt ct omforff t it n mymm self af nd in other per ople that It had not hat d since I was fiff rst watching mymm dy ad cultivate the fiff eld outsidde

mymm wiy ndow. Starbucr ks was purchasing Google and Futut re Now as a human realestate investment. However, somehow they ry ealized that wit th out tt he imagination, creativity, and pure human touch of the TRADITIONAL PEOPLE, that tt hey wouly d fail just lt ike the other cr hip head compm anies. I guess it st ounds odd, but Stt arbucr ks actuat lly bry ought tt he tradional people and chip heads closer tr ogethet r. It tt ook some time for otr her cr ompmm anies to realize the potential of thh

Traditional people and that just numbers and researm ch don’t guarantee growth and success.

I guess its bitter sweet foff r us chip heads, because since we have only uy sed a small percent of of ur mr emory coy mpmm ared to the traditional people we have extremely ey arly sy igns of Alzheimer’s and difficulting remembm ering our lr ives. Short tt erm rm ewards of retrieving vast at mounts of information could never outr wet igh faded memories of our lr ifeff time.

SOUND N. vibrations in the air detectable by the ear; a thing that can be heard. V. produce or cause to produce sound; give a specified impression when heard.

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TOUCH V. 1 be, come, or bring into contact; feel or stroke. 2 harm or interfere with. 3 affect; arouse sympathy or gratitude in. N. 1 an act of touching; the ability to perceive things through touching them.

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This project explores the movement of one’s personal space and how it informs architecture. For example, the scent of a women or man defines their domain and influences the surrounding environment. In this Convention Center Project, a visitor enters their destination, and the path to their destination anticipates their personal space movement by creating a compression wave. This deflecting path guides them to their destination and informs movement throughout the building. The presentation format is a digital and analog movie capturing the essence of the design concept.

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SKETCH - PHOTO - SNOW

MODEL MATERIALS: bass wood plexi - glass museum board found objects paper mache laser cutting and etching

DRAWINGS and COLLAGES: graphite ink water colors acetone transfers gel transfers

Digital Media: photoshop illustrator form z auto cad 3d studio max premiere