BRYAN CORDOVA ARIAS Architecture Portfolio
PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT Bryan is currently in his fourth year undergraduate career at Syracuse University earning his Bachelor of Architecture degree. He has completed studies in England, Italy and Nordic European countries. He has gained invaluable experience over the past two years working and learning from pedagogical academic fields and people for whom he has completed projects and publications outside of school. Bryan is a driven, logistic and curious individual who enjoys opening himself to foreign perspectives and how the built environment works. His experiences at home and internationally range from sustainability and health to other cross-disciplinary design interests. He seeks professional practice at an internship that can continually challenge and expose him to new fields.
CONTACT Email: bicordov@syr.edu Phone: +1 (516) 884 3575
EDUCATION May 2021
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Expected
Minor in Sustainable Construction Management | Minor in Nutrition Dean’s List | GPA: 3.4
Fall 2019
Syracuse Architecture Abroad
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B. Arch.
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Syracuse , NY
London , UK
Designed radical intervention within London’s Green Belt. Analyzed cities urban fabric and development of brutalist architecture buildings. August 2019
Sustainability & Environmental Justice in Europe
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EU
Surveyed environmental crises within Nordic communities. Relayed analytical and ethnographic research to broad audiences. Spring 201 9
Syracuse Architecture Abroad
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Florence , IT
Surveyed and sketched Italian architecture of cities across the country. Designed local intervention for university campus in Florence.
EXPERIENCE Summer 2019
Archer + Braun
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London , UK
Curated portfolio to exhibit firm’s built projects for the 2019 London Open House. Participated in client discussion panels. Summer 2018
Full Serv ice Contracting, Inc
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Long Island , NY
Worked on field construction sites and renovation projects. Carried out labor services with concrete materials and waste.
SKILLS Language
Digital Software
Bilingual English , Spanish
Revit, Rhinoceros (V-ray, Grasshopper, DIVA), Adobe CC (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), SketchUp, Navisworks, BlueBeam, Microsoft Office Suite
Competent Italian
Physical Modeling Hand drafting, Sketching, Laser Cutting, Concrete Casting, Museum Board, Wood
‘NO-STAIR CITY’ PROJECT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Timber Towers
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‘No-Stair City’
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Villa Qualcosa
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Hybridizing Form
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Survey of Italian Architecture
01 Timber Towers
Located in the waterfront harbors of Long Island City, this 2018 design entry for the Timber in the City competition looks at urban housing in a vacant lot along Queensboro Bridge. Considering both waterfront and street axes, the design accentuates the existing sloped topography by splitting the ground plane into two dynamic communal spaces. Its mass structural timber elements and radial landscape frame the cities panoramic views to spark public activity in an otherwise bare and underutilized site. Creating a congregational space upon entrance for tourists, locals and residential dwellers to share were of the earliest schematic design goals carried throughout the project.
Syracuse Architecture ARC307 Studio Instructor: Daekwon Park Fall 2018
Collaboration with Timothy Tamulonis
PROJECT SITE MODEL
PROJECT SITE ANALYSIS
SITE RENDERING
PERSPECTIVE RENDERINGS
MODEL PICTURES
02 ‘No-Stair City’
Learning from Archizoom’s No-Stop City, the design of this project is a theoretical reinterpretation of the urban metropolis as a social condenser. Here, the everyday businessman finds leisure, land and laughter in a generic commuter town of the greater London Green Belt. Here, life does not stop— the crazed individual runs from night to day, from home to alone. The architecture is stripped to its most brutal qualities through a collage of repetitive patterns, elements and forms. Here, luxury finds lifestyle. The design situates itself as series of multilayered platforms at different scales. Through plan and section, a concrete plinth explores the qualitative nature above and below the modern tower block in a transitional, adaptable and flexible open space. Large structural service elements puncture the plinth carrying the tower to the foundation and thus the delivery of the user to the unit.
Syracuse Architecture London Studio Instructor: Davide Sacconi, Jad Semanan Fall 2019
Collaboration with Emily LeDoux, Kayleen O’Brien
PROJECT COLLAGE
concept collage: Mies van der Rohe
unit plan PROJECT AXONOMETRIC
PERSPECTIVE COLLAGES
03 Villa Qualcosa
Villa Qualcosa or “Something Villa�, is the typological study of an Italian villa and its overarching relationship to the landscape. Observing the historical stratum as a tool for design, this intervention reconstitutes elements of a villa type into a series of formal, informal and awkward relationships onto an otherwise confined site block. Optimizing the Florentine site of the studio, the design reestablishes its tie to the vernacular by combining a set of geometric proportions and axial relationships through vistas, arcades and colonnades. Preserving the interior courtyard, the site is accentuated with its direct visual connection to an existing tree that becomes a focal point and central space for the community. The goal was to preserve as much of the existing courtyard, apartments, gardens and piazza.
Syracuse Architecture Florence Studio Instructor: David Shanks Spring 2019
Collaboration with Katrina Abad
PROJECT AXONOMETRIC
DIAGRAM STRATEGIES
PROJECT PERSPECTIVES
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
04 Hybridizing Form
Located in the signature shopping center of SoHo, Manhattan, Hybridizing Form is the procedural analysis and abstraction of the street-storefront display. Using Steven Holl’s Storefront Architecture as precedent, Phase I of the design tests the formal malleability of a thin sheet of metal flashing. Modular units are produced seamlessly folding atop one another creating multi-layered surfaces and unique spatial conditions. Phase II examines this construct with the applicability on 141 Wooster Street. A layering sequence of extrusions array vertically onsite to allow spatial depth within the façade.
Syracuse Architecture ARC207 Studio Instructor: Daniel Kidd Spring 2017
PROJECT RENDERING
PROJECT SITE ANALYSIS
ph ase II
ph as e I
141 WOOSTER STREET ELEVATION
05 Survey of Italian Architecture
Over the course of four months, a series of analytical sketches were produced surveying classical Renaissance architecture across Italian cities. Thinking through the built environment, buildings were interpreted through site plans, sections and diagrammatic and axonometric representation whilst on travel. Shown are selected works of the sketchbook.
Syracuse Architecture Florence Instructor: Luca Ponsi Spring 2019
Email: bicordov@syr.edu Phone: +1 (516) 884 3575