Andreea Dan Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2023

Andreea Dan Tulane University Bachelor of Architecture, professional degree

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Imbalance

Resilience

4. The Cut, The Skin, The Bandage

8. Filter

5. Equilibrium

7. Public Space, Monuments

9. Material Use Research

11. Early Design Work

12. The Masterplan

13. Cultivating Cohousing Community

14. Thesis Preparation

10. Digital Media

6. Between the Lines

2. Amending Dead Spaces of American Domesticity

Imbalance

third year studio instructed by Ruben Garcia: individual

sectional interconnections through open shifting

Imagined within New Orleans’ CBD, the proposal works to unify both its setting and visitors within the building through sectional relationships, moving from the public ground floor to the increasingly private upper offices. Offsetting of a parti cube with a centralized courtyard allows for grand terrace spaces on the interior and exterior, made possible by steel cantilevers and trusses within the proposal’s structure. Openness is welcomed through a transparent and fluid ground floor broken into four permeable interiors, as well as open office plans above.

Structural Composiition

Interior Courtyard

Front Elevation, Camp St

Floor

Front Approach, Camp St

Amending Dead Spaces of American Domesticity

fifth year thesis instructed by Cordula Roser Grey and Ammar Eloueini: partnered

community vitalization through the public-private intermediary

partner

Tess Temple

The traditional understanding of suburban and domestic boundaries no longer serves contemporary urbanism. The recurring condition within the domestic fabric of South Los Angeles of the individualized home can be imagined to revitalize and infill dead spaces into a community threshold condition, which protects the safety and livelihoods of residents while simultaneously integrating a new urban landscape into a previously suburban neighborhood.

Existing Issues Proposed

scenario for growing resilience through education

An everchanging climate urges for sustainable resilience in the built environment. The proposal links a resilient community with the crucial education of future and present generations; located in an industrial segment of New Orlean’s Garden District, the project places itself as a center of possibility and an extension of sustainable landscaping. An open and fluid plan intiates a close relationship between what is built environment and what is natural environment.

Project Axon

The Skin, The Cut, and the Bandage

experiential coliving for continuous growth

fifth year studio instructed by Juan Medina: group

group members

The proposal is based on a competition brief for a coliving community in Seville, Spain and was com pleted in five weeks. The goal of the design is to bond residents through cooking and dining with community spaces that vary in privacy type. Three solid volumes composed of the interior residential spaces spatially open toward the site block, and are wrapped in a semi-transparent mesh skin that is fully occupiable for community intent. A public central courtyard is created that connects to the continuing proposed park on the surrounding site.

Alyssa Barber

Tess Temple

VOLUMES WRAPPING THE SOCIAL PLAZA

Transparent Cloud and Solid Interior

Ground Floor and Extension

Street View Collage

Standard Resident Floor Plan

Social Courtyard

Exploded Axon and Correlating Moments

Proportional Equilibrium

fouth year abroad studio at Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC): group

group members

Alyssa Barber

Tess Temple

computational and scale exploration in Mondrian form

Posed with creating a computational ruleset through Grasshopper based off of a precedent, the proposal creates a masterplan scale of architecture based entirely on Piet Mondrian’s compositions. Moving from the scale of a facade, to a building, to a block, and to an overall masterplan, the project computes the same ruleset of space division with optimized iterations accounting for certain optimal features, computing an overall score to determine the best solution.

Project Axon Model, Diagrams

Programmatic Correlations

Between the Lines

fifth year studio instructed by Juan Medina: partnered

interstitial circulation for community experience

partner

Alyssa Barber

The proposal investigates interstitial spaces through the implementation of exterior-interior spaces in the exploration of a community library space in Nerja, Spain. The space progresses through stepping public spaces Circulation creates a continual experience for the user as slow and fast movement are divided into ramps and stairs, intentionally creating connections between different programmatic spaces.

Open Oblique

Interior Facade Terrace

1794 CARONDELET ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR A CANAL TO BE EXCAVATED TO BAYOU ST. JOHN

1794 IMPRISONED AND ENSLAVED LABORERS DIG A CANAL ON THIS SITE

1797 CARONDELET CANAL FALLS INTO DISREPAIR

1810 TREMÉ, THE OLDEST BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD IN AMERICA, IS LAID OUT AND IS WELL UNDERWAY

1817 CANAL RESTORATION COMPLETE AND REOPENED

1892 HOMER PLESSY’S CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN NEW ORLEANS.

Public Space and Monuments

1896 PLESSY V. FERGUSON “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” COURT RULING AFFIRMS RACIAL SEGREGATION. WITHIN A FEW YEARS EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SEGREGATED IN LOUISIANA IS.

1925 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS BEGINS FILLING CANAL/BASIN INTO GREENWAY 1934 THE PARENTS OF RICHARD BERTHELOT LEMANN, WHO DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, DONATE MONEY FOR TWO NEW PLAYGROUNDS – ONE FOR WHITE, ONE FOR BLACK CHILDREN

1935 OPENING OF LEMANN PLAYGROUNDS. THE CITY USED FUNDING TO INSTALL EQUIPMENT AT LEMANN #1, BLACK RESIDENTS HAD TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR SIDE.

1935 THE BLACK-LED LEMANN PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION FORMS, CONTRIBUTING $82.75 FOR PLAY EQUIPMENT

1960 NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC SCHOOLS BEGIN RACIAL INTEGRATION

1956 INTEGRATED ATHLETIC AND SOCIAL EVENTS BANNED IN LOUISIANA

1963 LOCAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS MARCH ON CITY HALL, 10,000 PROTESTERS IN ATTENDANCE

1963 A FEDERAL COURT ORDERS PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES OPERATED BY NORD TO BE DESEGREGATED

1966 CLAIBORNE EXPRESSWAY DISRUPTS COMMUNITY LIFE AND BLACK BUSINESSES

2005 HURRICANE KATRINA

2008 LAFITTE HOUSING PROJECT DEMOLISHED, REDEVELOPED

2009 THE PUBLIC POOL LOCATED ON LEMANN #2 REOPENS

2011 THE LAND SURROUNDING THE POOL IS CLEARED OF DEBRIS

2015 LAFITTE GREENWAY OPENS FOR RECREATION

2017 A COMMUNITY PLAY SPACE AT THE FORMER SITE OF LEMANN #2 IS COMPLETED BY THE NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION (NRPA) AND NORD

fourth year research studio instructed by Emilie Taylor Welty/Tiffany Lin: group

group members

Leah Bohatch

Tiger Thepkanjana

Hayley Burroughs

Seth Laskin

Laura Gonzalez

Vivien Hartin

Talazia Manuel

Alex Disimone

Camille Kreisel

Andres Perez

investigation of historical monuments in America’s history of racial injustice

The question of “How do we remember?”, in relation to historical racial injustices, is analyzed through looking at monuments in America’s public spaces. The course of the semester was spent engaging with the community of a previously segregated New Orleans park, proposing a hypothetical monument on the space that acknowledges this history, and finally holding an exhibition to showcase the findings.

Proposal Plan

Proposal Modules

DETAILS COME TOGETHER

A new point of interest is created within the overall city, with two different approaches to night and day.

In the day, the pavilion is a white abstract beacon to the plaza. In the night, it stands as two linear strips of light, bringing attraction to the square and marking its entry.

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE OF THE PLAZA

All elements join in union to create both porousity and solidity at different moments, with the lightness of the column balancing an opaque space that one can occupy above.

Filter

The material palette consists only of provided wood and thin metal as structural stair support. The delicacy of materials is paired with a boldness of stark white color contrast in the urban setting.

A GEOMETRIC COMPLETION

All elements join in union to create both porousity and solidity at different moments, with the lightness of the column balancing an opaque space that one can occupy above.

The material palette consists only of provided wood and thin metal as structural stair support. The delicacy of materials is paired with a boldness of stark white color contrast in the urban setting.

fifth year studio instructed by Juan Medina: individual

hypothetical entry for the recurring Concentrico festival competition

The Concentrico festival explores the possibilities of a temporary pavilion installation that reimagines a public square in Spain. The design proposes to filter the space of the square, creating an interstitial entry space within the from the street, as well as a second experience where the city is meant to be percieved only through the intentional viewing of the sky and building roofs nearby,

RELATIONSHIPS:

Approach, Plaza

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TWO EXPERIENCES, TWO LEVELS

RELATIONSHIPS:

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PROPORTIONAL BALANCE

DETAILS COME TOGETHER

The pavilion proposes an interjection to the plaza through the creation of abstract space that both defines the plaza boundary, and lends a new perspective to the site around it.

The pavilion proposes an interjection to the plaza through the creation of abstract space that both defines the plaza boundary, and lends a new perspective to the site around it.

A new point of interest is created within the overall city, with two different approaches to night and day.

In the urban metropolitan area, simplicity is inserted in a way that redefines what being within an urban context means. Two new spaces are created; one below that partially restricts users from the rest of the plaza, and one above that forces all users to turn to the sky of the city.

In the day, the pavilion is a white abstract beacon to the plaza. In the night, it stands as two linear strips of light, bringing attraction to the square and marking its entry.

In the urban metropolitan area, simplicity is inserted in a way that redefines what being within an urban context means. Two new spaces are created; one below that partially restricts users from the rest of the plaza, and one above that forces all users to turn to the sky of the city.

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE OF THE PLAZA

COMPLETION AND

All elements join in union to create both porousity and solidity at different moments, with the lightness of the column balancing an opaque space that one can occupy above.

The material palette consists only of provided wood and thin metal as structural stair support. The delicacy of materials is paired with a boldness of stark white color contrast in the urban setting.

Material Process Research

RIOS summer internship research project: group

group members

Hope Codiga

Morgan Lomax

Sen Du

Jordan Zauel

investigation of local material extraction, usage, and reusage

The research focuses on the ever-relevant topics of design for dissassembly, material extraction, lumber offcut usage, and assisted migration; and how these processes can contribute to sustainable construction. The knowledge gathered culminates into a hypothetical reimagination of the RIOS building facade and courtyard in Los Angeles, implementing all the processes into one synthesized design.

through 3dsMax. The material of an everyday object is challenged, a skewed perception of fruit through glass is displayed, a physical animation of digitalized sea creatures takes life, and a modern day still life questions gravity.

Capture and Escape, Physics Simulation Scenes

A Still Life Animates

Bagel Shop, Plan

Bagel Shop, Model

Bagel Shop, View

Sectional Hoiuse

Horizontal House

partner Alyssa Barber

Proposal Axon

Water Armature

As urban environments face increasing housing shortages, the concept of a cohousing community with sharable amenities is posed; the proposal offers a community centered around sustainable agriculture cultivation and culinary practices. Community farms varying in privacy form the basis of the proposal and emerge an environmentally conscious lifestyle in the residential New Orleans community.

Project Axon

Exploded Axon, Correlating Views

Thesis Preparation

fifth year course instructed by Cordula Roser Grey and Inaki Alday

an investigation on the architectural thesis, past and present

The semester begins with a deep investigation into Le Corbusier’s Unite D’Habitation as a project following an architectural thesis of urban living as a highly efficient machine, looking at related projects, figures, and events. Thesis topics of interest are then investigated and researched, and the concept of the architectural threshold as a potential for the reimagination of community interaction between the domestic and the urban is explored for a future thesis.

Unite D’’Habitation: Related Projects Timeline