graphic designer JAC CORNELIUS PROFESSIONAL SAMPLE john.adams.cornelius@gmail 708.927.7797 The site is located below street level, which posed some programmatic and aesthetic obstacles. It was my intent to encourage foot traffic into the site and to connect the separate levels of the building using illuminated fixtures, culminating in a brand wall as the focal point of a lounge area. In keeping with the client’s existing on- site marketing, we chose acrylic to create a series of chandeliers. The “fins” in each array lengthen incrementally along both X and Y axes to increase visible surface area. This radial sweep is reminiscent of the brand logo and satisfied the client’s stringent branding requirements. CONCEPT 1 Powell St., San Francisco A flagship retail site like 1 Powell provided our client a unique opportunity to strengthen their brand and raise their profile. My team and I proposed a series of eye-catching fixtures to make the space more inviting and interesting. Lower Level Entry Foyer Entrance SCHEMATIC Mounting Configuration (pictured upside-down) I developed a series of acrylic fin mounting configurations in order to determine which would best suit the needs of our client. Light placement, fin layouts, and mounting brackets were vetted and pared down to four concepts. Iteration “d” was chosen for its ability to conceal individual fin mounts above the ceiling surface. The concept employs a series of metal “pans” fitted into a metal housing which can be mounted directly into a recessed ceiling. This concept would also allow for pre-assembly on the ground, reducing installation time and overhead. a. b. c. d.
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graphic designerJAC CORNELIUS
PROFESSIONAL SAMPLE
john.adams.cornelius@gmail 708.927.7797
The site is located below street level, which posed some programmatic and aesthetic obstacles. It was my intent to encourage foot traffic into the site and to connect the separate levels of the building using illuminated fixtures, culminating in a brand wall as the focal point of a lounge area. In keeping with the client’s existing on-site marketing, we chose acrylic to create a series of chandeliers. The “fins” in each array lengthen incrementally along both X and Y axes to increase visible surface area. This radial sweep is reminiscent of the brand logo and satisfied the client’s stringent branding requirements.
CONCEPT1 Powell St., San Francisco
A flagship retail site like 1 Powell provided our client a unique opportunity to strengthen their brand and raise their profile. My team and I proposed a series of eye-catching fixtures to make the space more inviting and interesting.
I developed a series of acrylic fin mounting configurations in order to determine which would best suit the needs of our client. Light placement, fin layouts, and mounting brackets were vetted and pared down to four concepts. Iteration “d” was chosen for its ability to conceal individual fin mounts above the ceiling surface.
The concept employs a series of metal “pans” fitted into a metal housing which can be mounted directly into a recessed ceiling. This concept would also allow for pre-assembly on the ground, reducing installation time and overhead.
a. b. c. d.
graphic designerJAC CORNELIUS
john.adams.cornelius@gmail 708.927.7797
A prospective Italian manufacturer generated the construction documents and evaluated the engineering specs. An architect out of California also evaluated the final design.
This collaboration was essential to the project’s success due to San Fransisco’s stringent seismic building codes for ceiling-mounted fixtures.
The site’s unique light conditions informed the design of the overhead fixture lighting as well as the scale, placement, and orientation of the fixtures.
Pictured (above) - rendering simulating the “golden hour” light just before dusk in mid-summer
Pictured (right) - rendering simulating chandelier lighting at entry to lower level
Light Study
Pictured (left) - material study with different light configurations
Pictured (right) - focal wall in lounge on lower level
Simulating the acrylic’s thickness, opacity and vibrance helped to ensure uniformity between the chandeliers and the branded focal wall.
Once the acrylic specs were finalized, l simulated several lighting configurations to inform our final design. We determined that insufficient light was refracted down through the acrylic fins from strip LEDs alone (as pictured at top-left in concept b). Also, any bulbs mounted directly above the fins would be difficult to replace. For these reasons, we opted to use recessed cove lighting
in all ceiling coffers. However, the LEDs were powerful enough to backlight and emit through the acrylic panels of the focal wall.
graphic designerJAC CORNELIUS
john.adams.cornelius@gmail 708.927.7797
In order to frame the Sublime Machine exhibit, I created a faux playbill in the Art Deco style popular during the early days of the theremin.
It reflects the theatrical and mysterious nature of the device, whose mechanisms are mostly invisible and whose sound is unmistakably otherworldly.
CONCEPTSublime Machine
ACADEMIC SAMPLE
The use of human form and symbolism is designed to attract and engage viewers from afar. When a viewer comes “in range” of the machine, it generates an audible tone. This would ideally create an environment of realization and experimentation
My initial concept resembled a hollow human hand made of wire, which would serve as the magnetic coil. Early tests confirmed that the magnetic field generated in such an asymmetrical volume was not ideal.
However, my initial concept of using an evocative human symbol progressed into pair of angular eyes, with the coils located at their respective centers.
A theremin is an instrument which translates electromagnetic interference into an audio signal. A typical circuit board is engineered to be compact, but without being constrained by size, I reorganized the theremin’s existing circuit board design into a radial layout.
The machine seeks to attract viewers from a distance and then respond to their presence with a continuous note whose pitch and volume is proportional to the viewer’s proximity. However, the function of the Sublime Machine is not confined to the realm of utility. Charles Eames famously raised the question, “Is beauty not useful?”. My goal is to cause a realization in the audience about the complex nature of our world and how we experience it.
graphic designerJAC CORNELIUS
john.adams.cornelius@gmail 708.927.7797
CONCEPTCabinet of Curiosities
Though designed primarily as a housing for the Sublime Machine exhibition, the Cabinet of Curiosities accommodates many other programs. The site is located between the Hennepin Center for the Arts (within the historic Masonic Temple of Minneapolis) and the relocated Schubert Theater located on Hennepin Avenue between 6th and 7th Sts.
The building is designed to accommodate and promote the programs of the adjacent buildings while retaining its own identity.
The study of positive vs. negative space explored in the Sublime Machine exhibition is continued in the building’s facade.
Each space’s window opacity and setback from the street is a measure of its relation to the program of the larger site.
The building’s main level features a two-story lobby which is partially illuminated from outside by the marquis spotlights.
I disrupted the regular polarity of the concrete gridwork and em-ployed an undulating staircase as a nod to the revivalist vernaculars of the adjacent Masonic Temple and The Schubert Theater (Richardso-nian Romanesque and Beaux Arts, respectively).
A basic concrete gridwork continues the structural rhythm of the adjacent buildings through their collective center.
Pictured at left -
Large scale laser-cut site model with superimposed digital rendering at half opacity to accentuate shadows.