Tim Jockers
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(412) 944 - 5420
Architectural Design Student
My name is Tim. I am passionate about expressing myself through hard work, humor, and design. I enjoy opportunities to challenge situations and push the boundaries of comfort zones to gain new understanding and personal growth. When I started at Kent State University, I had no specific plan for my future, but I knew I wanted to help others in a tangible way, and architecture presented itself as a . Through classes and growing awareness of the world around me, I have come to understand the massive potential for architecture to to help provide solutions to problems, challenges and conflicts. Architecture gives me the avenue to use my creative capabilities to create a better world. In this age of technology, architecture has no ceiling of possibilities; I am extremely excited about the opportunities this field offers.
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Modern cities lack a fundamental connection to their context, Design is outsourced for grandeur, materials outsourced to emancipate capital, connections broke for status. The historic city center of Florence offers a limited opportunity for new meaning and a new beginning for the modern and contemporary ideas to be displayed or written. Until now cities have vigorously preserved their historic centers, allowing for little to no exterior expression or interpretation to re-stitch the delicate historic fabric.
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This project encourages the connection of the arts to the experience of education among students, specifically Kent State University. It is believed that the integration of the fine arts can indirectly contribute to better student attendance, lower dropout rates, can help students create better social connections (which lowers fighting rate), and can positively impact the learning of students of lower socioeconomic status as much or more than those of a higher socioeconomic status.
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This project was iteration from the theory led exercise called "A Mr. Calvin Story". In this story, a man named Calvin would walk to the store every Sunday for 50 years to get milk. This iteration was to depict Calvin's "monotonous" journey from his home to the store. If we analysis his movements and catalog them by a constant frame of reference (labeled as time) we are allowed to develop a deeper relation to Calvin as "we" the user of the pavilion can experience just as many variations to our "walk to the store" as Calvin would've in his fifty years of life. This exercise was an prompt to explore the possibility of the phenomenological reduction and architecture design of Deja-vu. Learn More>>>
I was apart of a team of 8 students and 2 facility members from Kent State University to design and set to construct a pavilion 30 feet tall and ice as its sole structural component. The 2018 International Snow & Ice Construction Competition was apart of the annual Harbin (China) Snow and Ice Festival. The local school in Harbin, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), organized an architectural and structural design competition between, Cambridge University, Kent State University, Eindhoven University of Technology, and HIT.
Touch uses a physical architectural interface as a form of communication to interact between the occupants. Touch is designed for individuals with special needs and others challenged with current methods of communication. This project allows for the opportunity to begin communicating using "Touch", by interfacing with a medium that transcends language through a more meaningful and efficient form of communication – play.
