BRYAN CORDOVA ARIAS Architectural Portfolio
PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT Bryan is currently in his fifth year undergraduate career at Syracuse University earning his Bachelor of Architecture degree. He has completed studies in England, Italy and Nordic European countries. Through these experiences he has gained invaluable exposure and knowledg e learning from other interdisciplinary fields. Bryan is a driven, logistic and curious individual who enjoys opening himself to foreign perspectives. His interests at home and internationally concentrate on sustainability, health and well-being for bettering our community and the built environment. He seeks professional practice at an internship that fosters collaborative innovation.
CONTACT Email: bicordov@syr.edu Phone: +1 (516) 884 3575
BRYAN CORDOVA ARIAS EDUCATION
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | School of Architecture | Syracuse, NY
2016 - 2021
Bachelor of Architecture - Dean’s List - Our Time Has Come Scholar International Study: Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland | Spring 2019 - London, England | Fall 2019 - Florence, Italy Minor in Nutrition
2017 - 2021
SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry | Sustainable Construction Minor in Sustainable Construction Management with focus in Energy Systems and Building Information Modeling Accredited Partnership Institution with Syracuse University
Fall 2019
Sustainability & Environmental Justice in Europe | Professional Elective Surveyed environmental crises of cultural, infrastructural and architectural projects within Nordic communities. Relayed analytical and ethnographic research to broad audiences.
EXPERIENCE Summer 2020
Fall 2019
ARCHITECTURAL INTERN | Worrell Yeung Architecture | New York, NY Made renders and orthographic drawings for residential projects across New York and Connecticut. Led schematic design, site analysis and research of building codes to present in client meetings.
GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN | Archer + Braun Architecture | London, UK Curated architectural portfolio to exhibit firm’s built work for the 2019 London Open House event. Engaged in discussion panels with lead architects and clients.
Summer 2018
FIELD EMPLOYEE | Full Service Contracting Inc. | Long Island, NY Worked on renovation projects and labor services for on-field construction sites
AFFILIATIONS SKILLS
NCARB - AXP Enrolled DIGITAL Revit, Rhinoceros (V-ray, DIVA), Adobe CC (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), SketchUp, Navisworks Proficient in working remotely and in different timezones
PHYSICAL + FABRICATION Hand drafting, Sketching, Site surveying, Laser cutting, 3D Printing
LANGUAGE Bilingual: English (primary) | Spanish (secondary) Competent: Italian - A2 Level | German - A1 Level
LEADERSHIP 2019 - Present
OTHC - Our Time Has Come Scholar Representative amongst Black and Latino students leading volunteer initiatives within local Syracuse community
‘NO-STAIR CITY’ PROJECT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Greenhouse & Spa
01
Communal Complex
02
Timber Towers
03
‘No-Stair City’
04
Hybridizing Form
05
Villa Qualcosa
06
Survey of Italian Architecture
07
01 Greenhouse & Spa
For three months during the summer Bryan worked remotely for Worrell Yeung Architecture. One of his first projects for the firm was to design an extension piece of a client’s countryside house in Connecticut. The project, North Salem Farm, was undergoing construction at the time of joining however he was able to lead the schematic design for the Greenhouse and Spa as pictured. He produced a series of axonometric diagrams, exterior renderings and presentation drawings to explain to the client. The design restores the existing shed and frames the landscape by working adjacent to the site’s horizon.
North Salem Farm Worrell Yeung Architecture Summer 2020
Professional Work for Worrell Yeung Architecture
EXTERIOR RENDERING
intervention strategies
ground floor
first floor
02 Communal Complex
Located in the suburban heart of Syracuse, New York, the Jones Family Life Center extends its communal reach to surrounding residential dwellings. Designed for local Bishop Robert Jones, its employed curving and differentiating wall construction are meant to create meandering paths that prompt travel. Thus, these free flowing spaces create intersections for the public to gather in either of the three building typologies: the local school, the gymnasium or the central church. The project was apart of an Integrated Design and Comprehensive studio. It received an honorable mention participating in the annual King + King Architecture and Student Design Jury.
Syracuse Architecture Comprehensive Studio Instructor: Sekou Cooke Spring 2020
Collaboration with Nicholas Wahler, Edson Wong
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
03 Timber Towers
Located in the waterfront harbors of Long Island City, this 2018 competition entry for the Timber in the City series 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
SITE RENDERING
PROJECT SITE ANALYSIS
INTERIOR RENDERINGS
FINAL MODEL
04 ‘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
unit plan SITE AXONOMETRIC
PROJECT NARRATIVES
05 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
FACADE RENDERING
phase I
phase II
STREET ELEVATION
PROJECT SITE ANALYSIS
06 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
SITE AXONOMETRIC
DIAGRAMMATIC STRATEGIES
PROJECT PERSPECTIVES
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
07 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 site specific contexts, buildings were analyzed beyond plan and section diagrammatically represented as ‘process’ 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