Vincent Jackow
MArch Candidate
Vincent is currently a Master of Architecture candidate at MIT. Originally from France, he graduated in 2020 from a double-major program combining engineering and architecture at INSA and ENSA Lyon.
Before joining MIT, Vincent worked in several architecture firms in France and Denmark, developing life-cycle assessment (LCA) tools and circular design methods for end-of-life materials.
At MIT, he continues to design with alternative materials, including waste and earthen construction systems, exploring the potential of digital fabrication in their implementation.
Projects
Reconstructed - Archived fragments
Within the current socio-economic and climate crises, cities have to adapt and transform their building stocks to match new pressing challenges.
As MIT’s School of Architecture is moving to the Metropolitan Warehouse, a XIXth century brick storage facility, this project imagines an archive of massive brick offcuts resulting from openings in the existing structure. Within a campus’ courtyard, these monolithic wall fragments celebrate a relocation and its ‘archived’ experiences.
From ruins and demolition waste can emerge a new circular material culture, giving value to weathered surfaces and exploring the potential of material reuse as an emerging form of creative practice.
Core 01 (Fall 2022) - Jeff Landman, Liam O’Brien, Carrie Norman
As MIT’s School of Architecture is moving to the Metropolitan Warehouse, a XIXth century brick storage facility, this project imagines an archive of massive brick offcuts resulting from openings in the existing structure. Within a campus’ courtyard, these monolithic wall fragments celebrate a relocation and its ‘archived’ experiences.
From ruins and demolition waste can emerge a new circular material culture, giving value to weathered surfaces and exploring the potential of material reuse as an emerging form of creative practice.
Core 01 (Fall 2022) - Jeff Landman, Liam O’Brien, Carrie Norman
Eastie Fish Co-Op
Can we use solar drying on roofs to extend the shelf-life of “fresh” fish?
Eastie Fish Co-Op is a sun-dried seafood production house and a didactic gathering space for locals, educators, researchers, and fishermen in East Boston. In response to the short shelf-life and energy-intense “fresh” fish we consume, this project proposes an alternative seafood preservation method using passive solar drying and natural ventilation.
The four longhouses - production, education, market, and residency - of varying orientations, truss roof typology, and envelopes are designed to correspond to their seasonal, thermal, and programmatic needs. As the building sits directly on a future flood plane, the design anticipates the disassembly and adaptation of the structure with a concrete grid frame on which light-frame wood trusses are built upon.
In collaboration with Junha Hwang
Core Studio 03 (Instructor: J Jih and Andrew Scott)
Eastie Fish Co-Op is a sun-dried seafood production house and a didactic gathering space for locals, educators, researchers, and fishermen in East Boston. In response to the short shelf-life and energy-intense “fresh” fish we consume, this project proposes an alternative seafood preservation method using passive solar drying and natural ventilation.
The four longhouses - production, education, market, and residency - of varying orientations, truss roof typology, and envelopes are designed to correspond to their seasonal, thermal, and programmatic needs. As the building sits directly on a future flood plane, the design anticipates the disassembly and adaptation of the structure with a concrete grid frame on which light-frame wood trusses are built upon.
In collaboration with Junha Hwang
Core Studio 03 (Instructor: J Jih and Andrew Scott)
