Cynthia George | Architecture Portfolio | 2021

C Y N T H I A H E L E N A G E O R G E

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | 2021

CYNTHIA HELENA GEORGE

CHGEORGE0402@GMAIL.COM

EDUCATION SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Bachelor of Architecture // August 2016-May 2021 (expected) // Syracuse, NY Florence Abroad Program (Fall 2019) // London Abroad Program (Spring 2019)

PEDDIE SCHOOL

High School Diploma // August 2012-May 2016 // Hightstown, NJ Ranked in Top 5 Private High Schools in NJ, Top 75 Prep Schools in USA

EXPERIENCE ARCHITECTURE INTERN at IKON.5 ARCHITECTS

Summer 2018, 2019 + 2020 // Princeton, NJ and New York, NY - Collaborated with firm designers in early design development of upper-level education projects - Developed presentation drawings and renderings for meetings with clients - Constructed detailed iterative and presentation physical models - Introduced new, advanced design and modeling softwares to firm production - Facilitated office expansion to establish a second location in New York - Participated in continued-education seminars provided for firm members

UNDERGRADUATE ASSISTANT for ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

Spring 2021 // Syracuse University School of Architecture - Leads discussion sessions in collaboration with graduate students - Facilitates analytical conversations on course content amongst students - Mentors enrolled students in critiquing theory and improving course-related assignments - Assesses student progression in coursework and grades submissions

ARCHITECTURE INTERN at CENTRO STUDI PROGETTAZIONE EDILIZIA

Fall 2019 // Florence, Italy - Prepared conceptual diagrams and images for project proposals in client meetings - Analyzed and refined conceptual design of ongoing innovative hospital design within firm to improve inpatient care and wellbeing

OFFICE MANAGER at KATHLEEN M. KUTALEK, DDS, LLC

June 2013-January 2021 // West Windsor, NJ - Managed office finances through processing insurance claims and bills - Coordinated treatment plans for recurring patients with other dental practices - Developed office’s graphics and website to modernize public presence - Assisted chairside with periodontal procedures and surgeries - Improved office health and safety practices to align with heightened PPE standards

SKILLS DIGITAL

- Rhinoceros - Revit - SketchUp - AutoCAD - Adobe Suite - Diva - Grasshopper - Microsoft Office - Materialise Magics

AFFILIATIONS - VRay - Maya - Mudbox - Metashape - SU Podium - Keyshot

FABRICATION - 3d Printing - Laser Cutting - CNC Milling - Woodworking

ANALOG - Hand Drafting and Sketching - Hand Modeling

REPRESENTATIVE on DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION COMMITTEE September 2019-current // Syracuse University School of Architecture

HEAD ART EDITOR of AMPHION MAGAZINE September 2014-May 2016 // Peddie School

MEMBER of OUTLAWS DANCE TROUPE Fall 2018-current // Syracuse University

HONORS + AWARDS SOURCE RESEARCH GRANT ($4000)

2020-2021 // Syracuse University // award to fund architectural thesis

ROBERT W. CUTLER SCHOLARSHIP 2019-2020 // Syracuse University School of Architecture

CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARSHIP Fall 2016-current // Syracuse University

DEAN’S LIST

Fall 2016-current // Cumulative GPA: 3.8

CYNTHIA HELENA GEORGE

CHGEORGE0402@GMAIL.COM

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SLOW URBANISM

PLAYTIME EXQUIS

POLAR IMPETUS

A SENSORY URBAN PARK

EXQUISITE REC CENTER

TOWER IN CENTRAL PARK

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2m

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TWISTED FAUX

MICROHOUSING ABOVE NOHO

RITU[WALL]S

MISCELLANEOUS

DISTORTING MUSEUM ISLAND

BUILDING-UP THE CITY BLOCK

LE MURATE LIBRARY

COLLECTION OF ADDITIONAL WORK

SLOW URBANISM: A SENSORY URBAN PARK As an antithesis to the proposed rapid development of Xiong’an, an unbuilt hyper-technologically advanced city, a waste-to-energy power plant is transformed into a sensory public park, preserving the initially proposed green conditions on site in the city plan.

Advanced sustainable energy production becomes integrated with intimate experiences with nature. The park is designed through the initiatives of Slow Architecture, which is best achieved through intimate and genuine human engagement with the built environment. Sensory excitement and temporality, rather than formalism and permanence, become essential to facilitate this deep relationship with one’s environment.

The plant is elevated above the ground, and the park below is left open for freedom of movement between different climatic sensory zones. By stripping the plant of its shell and exhibiting the mechanical components, the plant becomes an icon for the city as a symbol of the green ideals of the city. The material products from the waste-to-energy plant as a tangible trace of the process can become integrated with the experience of the park, thus adding to its slowness by users engaging with the energy production process in another nuanced way.

SPRING 2020

c/o ELISE ZILIUS PROFESSOR: FEI WANG

PROPOSED FIGURE-GROUND PLAN

POWER PLANT

INVERTED TO ACTIVATE GREEN SPACE

SERVICE + CIRCULATION

CONNECT + FORTIFY URBAN PARK

ELEMENTAL PAVILIONS

URBAN PARK

SERIAL PLANS

POWER PLANT FLOOR PLAN

URBAN PARK FLOOR PLAN

FIRE PAVILION

meditation room / greenhouse

ASH PAVILION

playground / pottery studio

WATER PAVILION tea house / sauna

AIR PAVILION

music room / fitness center

DETAILING OF PARK CLIMATIC ZONES

DESERT CLIMATE

FLOWER GARDEN

MARSH CLIMATE

TAIGA CLIMATE

STEEL FRAME DETAILING

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

PLAYTIME EXQUIS: EXQUISITE REC CENTER The increasingly dense living conditions in London pose a demand for alternate urban communities which are accessible from the city center. Currently under-utilized in stark contrast to the city, when redeveloped the Green Belt provides room for experimental architecture which will generate better self-fulfilling lifestyles.

As an homage to their unbuilt projects, within this design, the definitive characteristics and relationships of distinguishable forms of OMA are deconstructed and densely layered while maintaining their identifying features. The recomposition is suggestive of a new hypercomplexity which generates a breadth of programmatic opportunities for self-fulfillment through leisure and creation. This peculiarity and playfulness in form and use propose a regenerative and self-sustaining urban ecosystem as an alternative to the existing conditions of London.

SPRING 2019

c/o V. AGGARWAL, A. GUO, L. SPRAGUE, + L. ZHAI PROFESSORS: DAVIDE SACCONI + JAD SEMAAN

3D COLLAGE TESTS

STUDY MODEL ANALYSIS

SERIAL PLANS + ELEVATIONS

LAYERING OF FORMS

ELEVATIONS

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

RENDERED IMAGES: EXPANDING COMMUNITY

SECTIONAL AXONOMETRIC

POLAR IMPETUS: TOWER IN CENTRAL PARK This tower implemented within the park is designed to bring attention to the impact of New York City on its surrounding environment, uplifting sustainable design with the potential for the tower itself to evolve and grow with the betterment of green technology. Seven subjects of environmental change are explored: waste, street congestion, water quality, air pollution, light pollution, noise, and future growth (broken down by level for each group participant). The design focuses on the dichotomy between negative and positive effects on nature, which can be understood through two interrelated forms and programs. Each system relies on the other structurally and programmatically to develop a complex discourse on how a super-urbanized area shapes its surroundings.

SPRING 2018

c/o J. DE GRACIA, K. DO, J. HYMOWITZ, P. LIM, S. MARINELLI, + R. PERIWAL PROFESSOR: MARCOS PARGA

TYPICAL SECTION

FORMAL + STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT

FINAL MODEL, 1:50 scale

RENDERED IMAGES

SECTION + PLAN LEVEL -1: WASTE

TWISTED FAUX: DISTORTING MUSEUM ISLAND Based in the heart of Berlin, the location of this site has a history of a strong, definitive language of architecture. This central borough of Berlin had many of these old, iconic buildings destroyed and was faced with the challenge to recognize the area’s history as well as the city’s need to develop to fit its future. This design of a community arts center uses the form and facade of the site’s previous, demolished building. These are then transformed into a new, unprecedented form thus interrupting the landscape of its surroundings.

FALL 2017

INDIVIDUAL WORK PROFESSOR: MAYA ALAM

FORMAL EVOLUTION

FLOOR PLANS ascending, L to R

UNROLLED

SECTION

MICROHOUSING ABOVE NOHO: BUILDING-UP THE CITY BLOCK Located on the edge of the affluent NoHo neighborhood in Downtown Manhattan, the intervened block faces challenges with natural lighting in its 3-6 story infill apartment buildings with first level storefronts, and has a unique, private double-alleyway condition to the SE corner. These connected alleyways are developed into a public courtyard through the maximization and utilization of natural light and the carving-out of space around the courtyard, focusing on the wall as the operating element. The addition above the existing buildings will support young professionals in a wealthy environment, housing micro and studio apartment units in conjunction with a business center that features co-op spaces and job services; the program will affect the scale of operations based on lighting and form, as well as their location and interaction with the developed courtyard condition.

FALL 2018

INDIVIDUAL WORK PROFESSOR: RYAN BALL

UNIT PLAN OPTIMIZATION

STUDY MODELS

ELEVATION + RENDERED IMAGES

PERSPECTIVAL

FLOOR PLAN

RITU[WALL]S: LE MURATE LIBRARY Italian architecture’s rich history exhibits the potential to inscribe ritual processions into the space in which they are performed for numerous religious settings. In his studies on ritual behaviors in religious settings, Pier Vittorio Aureli explains in his book, Rituals and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space, that “movement can only be enacted by imposing a limit, a stoppage in the form of either a freestanding object or a wall.” This binding of ritual its environment can be applied outside of religious spaces, which is the catalyst of this design for a library for Universita degli Studi di Firenze’s Scuola di Architettura. Specifically, the design process focuses on the utilization of the wall as the architectural element which can have a repeated behavior inscribed into its form. Rituals within the library are distinguished by the source types which they engage with, as these archived materials require different storage and engagement procedures. Each of the three source groups, technology, materials, and books, are separated into individual ‘walls’ as buildings which differ in scale, wall specifications, and spatial experience. However, all three groups utilize mirrored ritual progressions perpendicularly to the layering of wall types within each building, engaging with the front and back edges of the wall’s cross section as a definitive beginning and conclusion of a ritual performance.

FALL 2019 c/o TOTA HUNTER PROFESSOR: LUCA PONSI

STUDY MODELS cast in plaster

LIBRARY RITUALS obtaining new information and materials accumulation through processional layers engaging with multiple source types

TECHNOLOGY digital media collection computer labs tech rentals and printing

RITUAL PROGRESSION

MATERIALS material archive workshop supply store

BOOKS

paper collections study and reading spaces preservation lab and offices

reference

search + select

collect

ELEVATIONS + SITE SECTION

SITE PLAN

FINAL MODEL, cast in plaster

COLLECTION OF WALL VARIATIONS

PLANS + AXONOMETRICS

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF WORK

AGADIR APPROPRIATION, spring 2019

CHURCH RITUAL TRANSCRIBED INTO A LIBRARY, fall 2019

ESHERICK HOUSE, fall 2016

ITALIAN SURVEY SKETCHES, fall 2019

PALAZZO DELLA CIVILTA ITALIANA: SPAZIO STUDIES, fall 2019

OMA OASIS, spring 2019

FLAMMABLE ASSEMBLAGES, spring 2021

PILGRAMAGE FOR THE SACRED PENNY, fall 2020

ITHACA COLLEGE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE, 2018 produced for ikon.5 architects

OSU NURSING SCHOOL ADDITION, 2019 produced for ikon.5 architects

OSU NURSING SCHOOL ADDITION, 2019 produced for ikon.5 architects

CONCEPTUAL 3D PRINTED MODEL, fall 2017

CONCEPTUAL 3D PRINTED MODEL, fall 2017

CONCEPTUAL MIXED MEDIA MODEL, fall 2017

PAPER 3D PRINTED MODEL IN SITE, fall 2017

CYNTHIA HELENA GEORGE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CHGEORGE0402@GMAIL.COM