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.