ALANNA LAUTER |
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture | Winter 2015
contents urban housing
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sky office
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harlem commons
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elementary
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cartouche iv
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cartouche iii
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cartouche ii
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cartouche i
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place
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path
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threshold
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resume
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ALANNA LAUTER |
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture | New York City | Winter 2015
URBAN HOUSING |
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Collaboration: Matthew Addeo + Miguel Lopez | Fall 2014
URBAN HOUSING REACTIVATING the intrinsic nature of neighborhood of the Gowanus canal to generate a logic of the zoning and adaptation to have a new urbanism was the first step in developing an affective and site specific housing initiative. The three major components of this urban regeneration was to study local ecology, immediate and peripheral infrastructure and private and public programmatic zoning. By establishing new districts of re-zoning of this area it would increase the productivity and connectivity of this area and institute new attitudes to the land use of the site. This strategy then will be able to be applied schematically across the entire length of the canal. The urbanistic approach to Gowanus is to enhance the connectivity of the districts that surround the canal and formalize and infrastructural system that solves environmental and flood related issues, which embraces the water front placement of the site. Part of the housing project was to create new circulation across the site, which would embrace the scale of row house typology that inhabits the neighborhood, and provide more dynamic community spaces. By adapting the courtyard typology and the row house type this rigid mat planning is reinterpreting to allow for this new system of urbanism to penetrate the edges of the site and break apart the density to allow for new activity.
industrial + manufucturing
public facilities + institutions
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open spaces + parks
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1-4 Initial site analysis: Public Facilities, Industrial Manufacturing, Commerical, Parks + Open Spaces 5 Housing Density: Gowanus Proper — Partial Brooklyn Housing Density
URBAN HOUSING |
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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1 Proposed Site — Urban planning extents of intervention 2 Diagram — Process of urban planning strategy 3 Mapping — Program Density around Gowanus Canal
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Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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Street ends GOWANUS CANA
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1-3 Diagramatic Urban Plan Schematics 4-7 Study Model — Urban Plan Schematics
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Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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1 Urbanistic Master Planning Scheme 2-5 Housing Diagrams + Massings
LIVING SPACE
PRIVATE SPACE
one bedroom dwelling three bedroom family dwelling circulation parti
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Plan — Dwelling Typology Circulation Parti Isometric Plan — Dwelling Typology Multiple Dwelling Section Dwelling Master Plan
URBAN HOUSING |
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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1 Perspective Plan — Dwelling Connections + Courtyard Sitting 2 Courtyard Penetration
URBAN HOUSING |
Julio Salcedo-Fernandez | Fall 2014
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SKY OFFICE |
David Hotson | Collaboration: Lenny Chen | Spring 2014
SKY OFFICE
THE CITY has so many opportunities for us to view our built environment from the vertically provided from towers that have implanted across the footprint of the island. With the obsession of creating newer and more sensational experiences to frame moments that define the environment that surrounds us there has been a push and strive to become taller and more visible. However, the architecture and the built environment are only one factor allows the City to maintain its stature. The network of subways that exists under the sub-terrain level is a component that has been developed to a high degree of efficiency in a functional manner. However, for two datum that have such a strong influence on the way that we interact there is disconnect between the way that they relate to each other. Sky Office begins to break apart the ground line that separates these two functions and allows light, air and activity to penetrate down into the subway and up through the atria of the building. The frames that were activated in the allow a person from any floor to not only see the city at eye level and upwards, but allows them to look down all to the subway platform. The dialogue between these offices and the space below the ground create a new experience for how people interact and see the vibrancy and ongoing activity that takes places in New York City everyday. With this new typology of buildings in the city we would no longer be able to ignore the underbelly of the city and would create new spatial awareness while traveling.
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1 Exterior Perspective 2 Interior Perspective
SKY OFFICE |
David Hotson | Spring 2014
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1 S-N Wall Detail 2 S-N Section
SKY OFFICE |
David Hotson | Spring 2014
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1 E-W Section 2 Concept Perspective 3 E-W Wall Section 4 Proposed Subway Plan
SKY OFFICE |
David Hotson | Spring 2014
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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4th Floor Plan
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5th Floor Plan
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6th Floor Plan
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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1 Floor Plan — 1 - 5 2 Structural Diagram 3 East Elevation
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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David Hotson | Spring 2014
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ARCHITECT
AL Architects PC 141 Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031
315 LAFAYETT
New York, NY 10012 Block No. 522 Lot No. 41
PROJECT NAM Sky Building
No. Date Issue R
Drawn By: AL Archite Date: 05/12/14 Checked By: Scale: Varies
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East Elev South Ele DRAWING NO.
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1 South Elevation 2 Concept Sketch
SKY OFFICE |
David Hotson | Spring 2014
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HARLEM COMMONS |
Alberto Foyo | Collaborators: Matthew Addeo + Andy Liu | Fall 2013
HARLEM COMMONS
HUMANS beings are naturally sociable creatures that strive through interaction, connectivity and expressing philosophy through conversation and artistry. The word commons derives from the Latin words comoinis, comoinis, comoine that means; joint, public, general, universal, related, and sociable. This facet of human behavior that brings people together is highly articulated in architecture, which is why the concept and construction of public space is so vital. Throughout history each culture has defined public spaces differently, but the essence of why these spaces are built can all be related back to the metaphysical awareness that humans need a space dedicated for interaction. Part of this interaction also comes from the theory that we as humans are constantly learning and trying to improve the way that we live. Throughout history there has been cities constructed around the bases of philosophy and improving our way of life, and through this typologies of architecture were constructed around the idea of building spaces that are shared, public, and for the common people. The types of commons that we see built in cities used to be the center of debate where people would have discussions about ethics, politics, art, culture, science and religion because those were tools that allowed us begin to understand the world that we inhabited. The importance of having these public spaces to improve our society was not a luxury, as it seems like it has been defined as today, but it was a necessity for learning and cultivating new ideas.
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Concept Perspective Sketch — proposed massing Concept Perspective Sketch — site manipulation Site Plan Diagram Final Site Proposal
HARLEM COMMONS |
Alberto Foyo | Fall 2013
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In terms of commons today, the idea seems to be more superficial rather than it being a nature space to accommodate while designing. Today we have developed our craft and minds around technology. However, as diverse of a tool as technology may be to us in this new generation it has hindered this idea of commons being a necessity for us. The expression of our knowledge has been dispersed among writing, and most recently into the virtual world where communication, as globally available as it might be, has become a more inclusively personal experience. There is no longer a need for spaces to be constructed around the idea of conversation and debate, and now the word commons is defined as a place for people to just “be” or “hangout.” It is used today as a place for multifunction use because we today cannot define what a public space really does for our society in terms of improving how we live. This is because we have built new spaces that allow all the different aspects of human life to develop separately instead of it being a communal growth. No longer do we use commons as a place to invigorate how science and art express how we feel about our society, but rather we use it as a place of display where we go to ‘observe’ and ‘interact,’ but this sort of experiences that we have are not as substantial to our development anymore.
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1 Dwelling Typology Plan 2 Grotto — underground entrance 3 E-W Section/Eleveation — orientated North
HARLEM COMMONS |
Alberto Foyo | Fall 2013
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HARLEM COMMONS |
Alberto Foyo | Fall 2013
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elementary steps | Antonio Dioronzo | Spring 2013
LEARNING and education during early childhood development is incredibly important. The space that a child inhabits while they are cultivating new skills and behaviors can be directly linked to the setting and space that they are exposed to. Not only are these early years of education important for a child’s intellectual growth, but also it is imperative on their social and experimental manners. Being able to have a space that is specific to a child’s needs fosters an enormous amount of creative and didactic thinking. This elementary school did was to take the sections of the building and begin to break apart the scale of the walls and make moments and opportunities for children to interactive and morph their environment to enhance their senses of play and exploration. By pushing and pulling the wall to accommodate the heights of children and adults allows the wall to not only be a barrier between spaces but it also allows for program to be inserted into that area. These zones of the “wall” curl into each other so that thresholds between rooms become longer and eliminate the need for traditional doors and instead create spaces for specific activities to take place. These moments become windows for children, storage, tables, displays and allows the building’s walls to become multifunctional. This is also apparent on how the exterior façade is articulated so that from the street children can have a more exact identity on the spaces in the school that they can call their own.
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1 Diagram of Program distribution 2 Model showing Exterior Facade
elementary steps | Antonio Dioronzo | Spring 2013
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1 Model showing Interior conditions 2 Perspective showing facade from streetscape
elementary steps | Antonio Dioronzo | Spring 2013
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Meditation Spring
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David Hotson | Spring 2014
car touc he IV
VINE PAVILLION |
Antonio di oronzo | Spring 2013
car touc he III
How long will your body last before it become
environment. vibrations. body
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Alberto Foyo | Fall 2013
car touc he II
What does the geological body absorb from us? What does our BODY emit into the atmospheric body. VIBRATIONS
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PERFORMANCE ART THEATRE |
Adam Hayes | Fall 2012
car touc he I
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Place was to repsrent a series of spaces that were representaitonal people view and experience the three senses; sight, touch and hearing.
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1 Collage of senses and moveable space vs built space 2 Model showing permeability of spaces
PLACE |
Johanna Dickson | Fall 2011
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Incorporating personal annecdotes and philosophy into designing each space in order to allow the creative process to occur I built a place that was a reflection of the types of spaces that I would want to encounter while exploring these senese, and how they connect to creative a narrative.
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An aspect of this design was that this acted as an interstitial space between unknown places. This is to reinforce the idea that this is a space for reflection of self and to develop physical and metaphysical connections between each of the senses.
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PLACE |
Johanna Dickson | Fall 2011
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PATH |
Johanna Dickson | Fall 2011
1 Photo — Lights in built environemtn 2 Section showing fragmentation 3 Section showing elongation
THRESHOLD |
Johanna Dickson | Fall 2011
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The concept established for Threshold was based off a city dweller’s view of the night sky. What was explored was how we interpret the built environment in ways that satisfy our need for natural and beautiful phenomena; such as the stars in the night sky. In this first model there are two spaces that create a division to portray the difference in what we physically see and what really exists. With one space being smaller and more defined its counter part is made to appear elongated and infinite.
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1 Model showing spatial sequence 2 Axonometric
THRESHOLD |
Johanna Dickson | Fall 2011
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In this second interpretation of the original concept this model begins to take the previous defined spaces deconstructs and brakes them apart. Acting as an ‘anti-threshold’ this model explored the concept of taking the solids in any given space and fracuturing it to emmulate different views from multiple viewports.
RESUME | CONTACT The City College of New York, CUNY The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 141 Convent Avenue New York, New York 10031 ssa1.ccny.cuny.edu email phone location
avlauter@yahoo.com 914-462-8263 New York, New York
ACADEMICS | AWARDS Bachelors of Architecture, Class of 2016
in pursuit of a minor in Architectural History
CITYWORKS — SSA Publication + NCARB Accreditation Archive Years Awarded
Dean’s List —
Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2011 all academic semesters.
Scholarship Award Compostela Institute Summer Program for Architecture & Culture, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain Summer 2014
EXTRA CURRICULAR Informality Magazine — Editor-in-Chief 2014-2015 academic year National Society Of Leadership and Success Inducted Spring 2014 SEED Certification Certified Spring 2014 Panelist, J. Max Bond Center Talk Series ‘Domino Effect’ The Rezoning of Williamsburg Fall 2014 AIAs New York Chapter 2013-Present Open House New York volunteer October 2014
ALANNA LAUTER |
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture | New York City | Winter 2015
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