Herrada Portfolio

ANDREA HERRADA ______ Student Work Portfolio

Andrea Herrada Syracuse University School of Architecture aherrada@syr.edu (813) 210-6634

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING (From Outside In and Inside Out)

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02. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF DIAGONAL 80

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03. THE AGGREGATE WITHIN AGGREGATE

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01. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING (From Outside In and Inside Out)

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First-Year Studio Design Project

Building Wall

02. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING

THE WINDOW AS A SCREEN

Building Screen

In every project there exists a significant relationship between the facade of a given building and its context. This relationship can define its design and, in turn, define the context as well. It is this exchange that creates the environment and experience of a space as a whole. Keeping this in mind, this project takes from the context around it and responds in a language that is defined by the window as a screen. Given the previous precident of Sou Fujimoto's Musashino Art University Museum and Library (shown to the left), this new archive space uses the original spiral organization to define the conversation between context, facade, and the inner spaces of the project.

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02. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING

Given that the sites for this project are in the city of Syracuse, NY, it is important, as with any design, to consider the relationship between context and design. By taking windows from surrounding previous buildings and altering them, there remains a subtle and delicate relationship with the context of the building. As one enters the first layer of the facade, it can be seen that the screen has a relationship both with the outer context and the layers that come after it, going deeper within the building. By maintaining this language, the circulation and spatial orientation of the inner spiral become clear and organized.

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02. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

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03. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

DIAGONAL 80 AMID Cero9 Second-Year Studio Analysis Project

In this exercise, we analyzed the tectonic structure and design of the case studies given in order to uncover the role that tectonics can play not only in the structure of the building, but the overall design as well. In the case of AMID Cero9’s Diagonal 80, the underlying steel frame of the building becomes the most important component of the structural security and visual design . By leaving the steel exposed, the frame adds an internal visual experience for the visitor that begins to become the core of the design.

Exploded Axon Drawing DIAGONAL 80

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Projective Worm’s Eye Axon DIAGONAL 80

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FUNCTION

FRAME

VOID

PUBLIC/PRIVATE

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DIAGONAL 80 ANDREA HERRADA HERRERA STUDIO

HORIZONTAL FRAMING

VERTICAL FRAMING

INTERNAL FRAMING

SERIES 1

SERIES 2

SERIES 3

SERIES 4

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03. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS In response to the tectonics analysis, I designed an abstract construct made up of the same geometric language found in AMID Cero9’s Diagonal 80. In order to begin to define this language, it was necessary to identify a “kit-of-parts” (top right figure) that makes up the tectonic system of the steel frame in Diagonal 80. Using these pieces I assembled my new construct in the same language I had interpreted the original steel frame to have.

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Second-Year Studio Design Project

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Site Plan with Ground Floor Plan.

Designed for the site location of a rock quarry in Syracuse, New York, this project was meant to be a museum specifically for rocks either found on-site or in places abroad. I found the play between the site and program subject to be quite interesting in its parrallelism, leading to my conceptual focus on a building that would make the visitor feel almost as if they were a rock themselves (or part of the greater whole). This would be done through the idea of a rock made up of many aggregates of varying degrees of scale, the human scale being one of them, in order to imply the idea of the visitor themself being an aggregate within an aggregate.

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Using varying scales of aggragates within the form of the building allowed for separate functions to be assigned to the differing sizes. To counter this language, a dialogue of geometric void and geometric aggregate was deisgned. The primary function of this geometric void was to create voids to frame views along the building, implying the building itself to be a part of the museum exhibtion as well. The secondary function of geometric void was planar and acted as landmarks to show where a visiter could either experience a certain view or certain artifact.

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Study Models for geometric void (top two images).

Final Model with geometric void.

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Ground Floor Plan detail.

The internal sequence would be organized with a similar languages, geometric floor voids/carvings mark certain things at certain scales. Sometimes this means an area to view an artifact, and other times, a change in floor texture or elevation to make the visitor feel as if they are passing through one space to another. The formal languages of the internal spaces is designed to be in varying scales of aggregates once again; the room being the largest scale, transition spaces being the next largest, followed by the artifacts themselves and finally, the visitor.

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