Syracuse Architecture First Year Portfolio

Brendon Huang Syracuse Architecture 2017

Brendon Huang Syracuse Architecture First Year Portfolio Professor: David Shanks bkhuang@syr.edu

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Table of Contents Exercise 1: Parts and Wholes: Cities and their Buildings 3-4 Exercise 2: Architectural Analysis: Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art 5-6 Exercise 3: Urban Analysis: Downtown Syracuse, New York 7-8 Exercise 4: Parts and Whole: Designing a MakerSpace 9-14 Exercise 5: Urban Architectonics: Open Air Pavilion 15-18 Exercise 6: Urban Architectonics: Skin and Bones in the City 19-22 Exercise 2: Urban Architectonics

Exercise 2A: Tectonics as the Relationships between Enclosure and Structural Frame Exercise 2B: Skin and Bones in the City

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Exercise 1: Parts and Wholes: Cities and their Buildings 3

In this exercise, the students were asked to explore the formal and spatial relationships between cities and the individual buildings that make up. This can be analyzed as the buildings being part of a whole city.

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Exercise 2: Architectural Analysis: Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art 5

The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was designed by Zaha Hadid, one of the most impactful architects in the world. She wanted to incorporate the urban carpet which made it seem as if the building was an extension from the outside.

Aluminum Glass Concrete

Floor #3

Floor #6

Floor #2

Floor #5

Floor #1

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Exercise 3: Urban Analysis: Downtown Syracuse, New York 7

In our journey to determine what was part and whole the students analyzed specific buildings that were unique in Downtown Syracuse. In the following diagrams you will see the zoning laws in all of Downtown Syracuse.

CBD-OS (Office & Service)

CBD-OSR (Office & Service Restricted)

CBD-GS (General Service)

CBD-R (Restidential)

CBD-GSA (General Service A)

CBD-HDR (High Density Residential)

IA (Industrial District)

PDD (Planned Development District)

CA (Commerical District)

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Exercise 4: Parts and Whole: Designing a MakerSpace 9

After anaylzing the Parts and Wholes of Downtown Syracuse, the students were asked to design an Urban Building that would take from the context, but also give back to the site.

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First Floor

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Third Floor

Private Public

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Exercise 5: Urban Architectonics: Open Air Pavilion 15

In this exercise, the students were asked to design an open air pavilion that would have unique movements that expresses the beam system. The angled sides and roofs were used to allow dynamic lighting to enter the pavilion.

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Exercise 6: Urban Architectonics: Skin and Bones in the City 19

In our final exercise, the students were asked to use everything that we learned from previous exercises about part and whole and scale it down to one building. The students were given a site in the Soho district of Manhattan and were asked to create a facade that would be influenced by the cast-iron buildings already in Soho.

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scale: 1/8”= 1’

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scale: 1/16”= 1’

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Scale 1/4”=1’

Scale 1/4”=1’

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Scale 1/4”=1’

Scale 1/4”=1’

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