Andrea Herrada

ANDREA HERRADA ______ Student Work Portfolio 2018

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01. ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND

THEIR FACADES

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02. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING

(From Outside In and Inside Out)

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03. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS OF

DIAGONAL 80

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04. PETIT LIBRARY ANNEX

SYRACUSE, NY

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05. SILO CITY COMMUNITY ARTS

CENTER

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06. THE AGGREGATE WITHIN AGGREGATE

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01. ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES

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SOU FUJIMOTO First-Year Studio Analysis Project

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In this exercise we analyzed an individual urban building in a group effort. In this context, we paid particular attention to the composition of the buildings facade and how its context produced any emphasis on design. In the case of the Musashino Art University Museum and Library, designed

by Sou Fujimoto, the conext is less important than the concept of design and translation of that within the building. Fujimoto believed a library to be much like a forest.

By using a spiral organzation, that begins with the facade, Fujimoto designed a system that circulated around a concept of Searchability and Strollability.

01. ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES

MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

Circulation

Scale: 1: 200

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d Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan

Scale: 1:128

01. ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES

Structure and Function

Using these massive bookshelves as walls, Fujimoto was able to create a maze-like experience within the library that communicated his belief of libraries as forests of knowledge.

By punching openings into these walls the circulation throughout the building changing to allow a more freeflowing path that breaks off from the organized path that the walls provide. This further enforced the concept of Searchability and Strollability that was the lirbary was intended for.

MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

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Bookshelf Structure System

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Section A through the Musashino

MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY MUSEUM LIBRARY Longitudinal Section

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01. ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES Scale 1: 16

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02. 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, 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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Archive/Bookshelf Wall

Screen

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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.

02. DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING

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03. 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

03. TECTONICS CASE STUDY ANALYSIS

DIAGONAL 80 ANDREA HERRADA HERRERA STUDIO

HORIZONTAL FRAMING

VERTICAL FRAMING

INTERNAL FRAMING

SERIES 1

SERIES 2

SERIES 3

SERIES 4

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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 manner that the original steel frame was.

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04. PETIT LIBRARY ANNEX SYRACUSE, NY

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04. PETIT LIBRARY ANNEX - SYRACUSE, NY

PETIT LIBRARY ANNEX Second-Year Studio Design Project

Moving from the previous analysis case study, this project used the previous project as a precedent as we took on the task of designing an annex for a local library in Syracuse known as the Petit Library. Using the same process of identifying a kit-of-parts, I moved through a series of schemes, rearranging these pieces until the program and spatial organization fit together. The resulting angled edges come from a grid system used to create the intial pieces for the kit-of-parts. As we moved from the inital design process, the challenge was in finding an efficient way to organize space and program in a way that would make the visitor’s movement from the exisitng library to the new annex seamless.

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Kit-of-Parts

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04. PETIT LIBRARY ANNEX - SYRACUSE, NY

Second Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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05. SILO CITY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER

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Second-Year Studio Design Project

05. SILO CITY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER

ART BETWEEN THE SILOS

Site Plan

Meant as a work space and exhibition space, this project challenged me to work with a site that was not only the largest I ever worked with but also the most engaging, making a very dynamic conversation between the existing buildings and new community center. Located in Buffalo, New York, the site of Silo City posed very difficult choices that pushed me to create a compelling sequence moving through the open waterfront landscape. Taking inspiration from the texture of the silos surrounding, I developed an underlaying grid of silos that I used to organize and shape movement and program throughout my building.

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Ground Floor Plan

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Axonometric Drawing

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06. SILO CITY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER Viewpoint Aggregate

Occupiable Aggregate Occupiable Aggregate

Ground Condition Aggregate

Small Aggregate

Ground Condition Aggregate

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Small Aggregate

Second-Year Studio Design Project

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THE AGGREGATE WITHIN AGGREGATE

Diagram showing geometric aggregates and the way they influence to form of the building.

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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Site Plan with Ground Floor Plan.

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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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Ground Floor Plan detail.

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Final Model photos.

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