Benjamin Wang Syracuse Architecture Fall 2017 Portfolio

BENJAMIN H. WANG

PORTFOLIO, FALL 2017 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

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Exercise 1 p. 4

Exercise 4 p. 16

Exercise 3 p. 12

Exercise 1: A Vocabulary & A Grammar Exercise 1.1

Explore the concept of form and design three 4.5”x4.5” cubes, each with a different architecture concept and material: line (basswood), plane (chip board), and mass (insulating foam). Reflect the assigned idea of “overlap.”

Exercise 1.2

Incorporate all ideas from the smaller cubes and design a 9”x9” cube.

Drawings: floor plan, section unfolded elevation Transitioning from my smaller studies to the larger cube model, I continued the basswood stick model of triangles. These triangles create a space while linking mass and plane.

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Exercise 2: Scale, Movement & Context Exercise 2.1

Observe, experience and draw the Carnegie Library at Syracuse University. Drawings (plan, section and elevation) use the human body as measurement scale. Collaborators: Emily Hu, Jasmine Greytok, Patrick Riley.

Exercise 2.2

Individually create a model based on the learnings from the studies and drawings, I designed a pavilion with triangles to create pods of space with a spiraling circulation.

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Benjamin Wang

Jasmine Elizabeth Greytok

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Exercise 3: Learning to Learn From Architecture The Glass House, 1950 Lina Bo Bardi Incorporating learnings from previous exercises, analyze concepts of a significant architecture structure and create drawings (including axonometric), diagrams, and models highlighting its key aspects. My drawings study private vs. public space, materiality, light, and site plan.

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Exercise 4: Design as Synthesis Within a specified site in an artist colony, design a house that integrates a living space, working space and exhibit space in a single building for an artist.

Assigned artist: Media Arts, specifically computergenerated imagery (CGI) and Motion Capture (mo-cap).

Similar to mo-cap, or the process of recording motion in objects or people, my building’s triangular form acts like a “suit or armor.”

However, parts of my building remain visible to capture the “body” and “suit” working together.

My studies include drawings, circulation models, sectional models, and final model.

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Professor: Keyla Hernandez Teaching Assistant: Christine Robillard Benjamin H. Wang B.Arch 2022 Barchwang@gmail.com