ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO University of Florida Corinne Snyder
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Fragmented Refuge
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Urban Seams
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Variants of Display
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Disolved Edge
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Cultural Linkage
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East Asia Ancient Relic
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. -Albert Einstein
Fragmented Refuge | Urban Corner New York City, NY Design 7
Critic: Martin Gundersen
3 The tower is fragmented into two elements jointed by an exterior balcony space. The lower section remains a porous filter creating shelter [refuge] from the street, but still relates the occupant to the immediate context [community] engaging the occupant with views of the street while buffering them from the intensity of the street.
The upper fragment of the tower completely separates occupants from the immediate context and instead makes connections to the larger city-scape [habitation]. Sleeping pods provide hostel occupants with focused views where taller towers meet the skyline. These towers housing similar residential programs.
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FLOOR 1
SITE PLAN
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Near and far viewing screens
The lower common space acts as a filter connecting to the back alley. While sifting people through the perforated walls it creates a refuge from the street but still provides sheltered views. By removing occupant from intensity of the street, they become an observer. The perforated skin obscuring views inward but allowing selected views outward.
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10 Urban Seams | Fashion Institute DUMBO, NY Design 7
Critic: Martin Gundersen Collaboration with: Laura Rodriguez
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The Fashion Institute was separated into three main programmatic elements [Design, Craft, and Performance] with a fourth element, [Pattern Room], which links Craft and Design institutes. Three residential towers connect into the fashion institute at each of these programmatic element spaces. A moment of public access exposes how the element space is created that determines how the public participates. Three categories of joints emphasized the unique programmatic elements based off stitches and seams used in the fashion design program to reflect the surrounding context [separation, penetrate, and interlock].
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Joint studies investigated how fabric seams could be translated into spatial and structural conditions. Different materials were used to investigate possibilities for attachment. The separation joint between the [PERFORMANCE] tower and the institute was derived from a darted fabric seam. This seam creates more space for Accommodating recesses or protrusions from surfaces or joints. This separation lifts the tower from the Performance Institute creating a public access point in-between the two.
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A pattern maker transitions between the concepts and the object. The pattern maker must work with the design and craft elements in order to take a 2 dimension representation of an idea and create a 3 dimensional object. The [PATTERN ROOM] conceptually uses pleating or interlocking concepts to joint the craft and design spaces. The pattern room is lifted slightly and is folded over to the design center , puncturing the space with a glass bridge.
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Penetrate | Placket A Placket seam is an incision in a piece of fabric that is treated for a secondary element to be inserted i.e. a button hole. Where the [DESIGN] tower comes down to meet the design institute a communal recreation room for the students penetrates into the bottom of the tower.
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Connections made ic elements within from existing site
between the the fashion conditions that
different programmatinstitute were derived related to fabric joints.
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Variants of Display | Urban Incision Gainesville, FL Design 6 Critic: Albertus Wang The Incision becomes an exaggeration of the different layers of display presented in downtown Gainesville, Florida. As it progresses upward each level of the incision shifts to provide different variants and interactions of display. The ground level turns the corner of the transparent storefront by creating a recessed void housing an indoor outdoor bar. A solid volume housing the permanent gallery protrudes over it. The repetitive windows create a perforated envelope to reveal activity in the interactive visiting gallery. The top level creates display within itself providing views to the interactive gallery below allowing the activity to become the exhibit itself.
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SECTION A
Temporary Collection Gallery Interactive Gallery Permanent Art Collection Galery Bar / Cafe
SECTION B SECTION A
GROUND FLOOR
SECTION B
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
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Man-made Beach [engage] Rock barriers edge the beach containing the artificial sand and preventing the rising and falling tides from washing it away. Provides occupants with direct access to beach.
Scrubby Flat woods [buffer] Adjacent to the marsh, low shrub and pine trees grow above the sea grass to create a vertical edge . The root systems of these plants grip the sand and prevent erosion.
Brackish Marsh [preserve] Crystal river empties in to the bay mixing fresh and salt water creating a brackish wetland and marsh that protects many animals like manatees and scallops.
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Site Conditions
The naturally existing boundary and edges present in the Florida land scape mediate between the different conditions. In attempt to create a buffer between the man made recreation areas and the natural preservation areas, a parametric panel was used to transition between these that take the observer through the nature and create a seamless transitional slip edge A parametric hexagon sets up a network of paths interconnecting and dispersing as they enter into the preserve area changing how the occupant engages with the land scape.
Dissolved Edge | Florida Landscape Fort Island Trail, FL Design 5
Critic: Micheal Kunstle
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Beach Pavilion The component becomes a concrete structure on the beach keeping the man-made sand in place while providing sheltered sea grass pools . Walk ways loop through the grass allowing people to engage with the sea life and ecosystems around them. The beach pavilion creates a moment of shelter. The component is populated to create moments of density where a pavilion folds up from the structure. The woven porous structure supporting the pavilion is reactant of the roots of the sea grass matted with the clay and sand.
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Cultural Linkage | Performing Arts Gallery Charleston, SC Design 6
Critic: Albertus Wang
Class Mapping Studies
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Green Spaces
Circulation
Demographics
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Urban Density
Charleston Side-yard The side yard is associated with the Charleston single house. The house is on and narrow half of the lot is the side yard. This house type was developed to catch breezes to cool the house. The house is “closed” to the street but “open” to the side yard with the larger windows and porch opening up to the side-yard .
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The Charleston side-yard was the inspiration for an out-door stage. The stage links the programs of service and performance. The loading dock services the upper levels art galleries and are directly linked with the performance stage allowing the gallery servicing to become the performance. The stage is available however- many times the artist must prepare the piece for display at the gallery i.e. touch ups on large sculptures etc. The built areas become the voids left over from the side yard and loading dock becomes the edges that form the performance space. Circulation pushed to the exterior wrapping around large trombe walls. The two galleries become elements wrapped in an opaque envelope linking together by a transitional node directly above the stage connection.
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East Asia | Travel Sketch Book
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Ancient Relic | Small Wild Goose Pagoda Xian, China Design 8
Critic: Albertus Wang Collaboration with: Gabriella Gullien, Sophia Cane
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Circulation
Three conditions were found when analyzing green space with in the city of Xi’an: the garden within architecture, and architecture within the garden both as a space maker and an object. These conditions existing in the area surrounding our site, and became a catalyst for the organization of SITE B and SITE C. Historically important Intersections and axis were found that became the main organization for the site.
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Garden within Architecture
Architecture as an Object
URBAN SCHEME
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