DAVID ACEVEDO A CATALOG OF CHOSEN WORKS
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AN EPHEMERAL HOME
YEAR 4 | SEMESTER 2
COMPETITION 2020
PG. 6 - 11
PG. 14 - 19
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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VILLA PARADISO
ON THE MEND
YEAR 3 | SEMESTER 2
YEAR 2 | SEMESTER 1
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PG. 32 - 35
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BOOK I
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS YEAR 4 | SEMESTER 1 2ND PLACE RECIPIENT, ANNUAL KING & KING ARCHITECTS DESIGN COMPETITION, 2020 SITE: SYRACUSE, NY | COLLABORATOR: ANGELA MURANO SKILLS USED: RHINO 6, VRAY, ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, GRASSHOPPER, MODEL MAKING
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The project looks to create a discourse on what it means to have a successful academic journey. Located at the end of a proposed academic promenade at Syracuse University, the project physically manifests said discourse into the design of a new architecture school. An initial study involved reinterpreting a structural joint of our choosing into a concrete model, where the idea of balance became a central theme to our project. We concluded that a successful academic career requires a balance of productivity (work), resource (assets), leisure (play), and discourse (learn). Balance within the programmatic scheme involved the rethinking of established educational tropes that consist of hierarchy and boundaries. This is accomplished through a lack of formal programmatic divisions in plan with a landscape-like ground plane that facilitates a fluid feedback between areas of various programmatic use.
SITE PLAN
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Initial Precast Concrete Joint Study
Primary structure consists of precast vierendeel trusses that are supported by structural tees comprised of large precast girder beams on precast columns.
Concrete Roof Slab
Precast Concrete Truss
Concrete Floor Slab
Main Precast Concrete Beam
Main Precast Concrete Column
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INITIAL JOINT STUDY | STRUCTURE AXONOMETRIC
Programatic Balance
This allows for a cloud-like perforated mass, formed by precast concrete panels, to balance above where one can visually ascend to the “cloud of knowledge” via the glass cores that puncture it.
Radiative Heating
Hidden Systems
Solar Chimney
Rainwater Recycling
PARTI DIAGRAM | SYSTEMS AXONOMETRIC
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(TOP) BUILDING SECTION
(BOTTOM) INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES
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BOOK I
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AN EPHEMERAL HOME
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Modern city life accelerates the lifestyle of its inhabitants through the comforts of technology. Although presentday luxuries have allowed humanity to flourish, society has consequently lost its innate connection with nature. Considering recent global events, there is an opportunity to re-establish the house as a bridge between man and nature, a harmonious composition that utilizes both modern mechanics and the fundamental elements of primitive design. An Ephemeral Home thrives upon temporary phenomena to establish the basics for living. The floor is a blank canvas. Through the tap of your phone, a system of undulating panels accommodates the varying needs of occupation; the bed retreats below, and a desk assumes its place. However, a set of hearths designated for water or fire-based amenities inform potential arrangements. These occurrences transpire between thin layers of cloth that filter in nature, a reimagining of enclosure that captures wandering figures dissipating with the light. Enclosure is no longer firm and stationary where through the envelope’s reconfigurable ends, user and space can dissolve into nature at any given moment. Together, these elements sit atop a reflective mound that now mirrors the foundation of its predecessors, rendering the house baseless. COMPETITION 2020 COLLABORATOR: SHAAN LAKSHMANAN, PATRICK DE GRACIA SKILLS USED: RHINO 6, VRAY, ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN
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PROGRAM DIAGRAMS
ADAPTIVE USE VISUALIZATION | BUILDING PLAN
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BUILDING SECTION AND ELEVATION
BUILDING PLAN
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BOOK III
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VILLA PARADISO YEAR 3 | SEMESTER 2
SITE: FLORENCE, ITALY | COLLABORATOR: SHAAN LAKSHMANAN SKILLS USED: RHINO 5, VRAY, ILLUSTRATOR, PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN
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AXIAL PERSPECTIVES
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The project looks to incorporate the Italian architectural typology of the villa and the garden in the redesign of the Syracuse Abroad architecture school that would include multiple studios, exhibition space, lecture halls, along with repurposing existing cafes and library space. We incorporate various elements of the villa and garden typology, such as focal points and axis, framed views and perspectives, varied elevations, and programmatic allocation in proximity to garden.
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Two major cross axis would intersect on an existing large stone pine tree that resides in our campus, highlighting Aristotle’s notion of learning under a tree. A grid would be imposed under these axis which would suggest where elements such as doorways, windows, pathways, shrubbery etc. would be placed staying loyal to the notions of symmetry and order found in Italian villa typology.
SITE AXONOMETRIC
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MAIN CAMPUS GROUND PLAN
Villa Pia
Villa Gamberaia VILLA GAMBERAIA
egio Rosa
Villa Bombicci
VILLA CENTINALE
Villa Centinale
Programatic Allocation to Garden
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Villa Giulia
Villa Poggio Torselli
VILLABarbaro BARBARO Villa
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B VILLA TYPOLOGY SAMPLES
Villa Gambera
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(TOP) AXIS A SECTION PERSPECTIVE
(BOTTOM) AXIS B SECTION PERSPECTIVE
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BOOK IV
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ON THE
MEND YEAR 2 | SEMESTER 1
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A multi-purpose community center for a site in Syracuse that was located in the center of a barren and incohesive community. The design took inspiration from the surrounding context by first utilizing a series of rectangular bar forms applying a brick type material which is prevalent in the city of Syracuse. The thick terracotta brick layer skin was overlayed over a wooden frame to allow more flexibility in terms of opening up the brick walls for both fenestration and circulation. The ground floor of each bar is retracted at different lengths in order to open up the ground plane and establish it as an area of communal gathering. The goal was to allow this scheme to seamlessly integrate into an already existing contextual language while establishing its own language in order to become a monument of the site. SITE: SYRACUSE, NY SKILLS USED: MODEL MAKING, RHINO 5, VRAY, ILLUSTRATOR
MODEL SITE PHOTO
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MODEL PHOTO | SECTION PERSPECTIVE
EXPLODED STRUCTURE AXONOMETRIC
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ADDITIONAL WORKS
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LONDON GREEN BELT SOCIAL CONDENSOR
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BRUTALISM REIMAGINED
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THESIS PREP: “A NURTURED RESPITE FROM DEEP-ROOTED DISPARITIES”
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PHONE ADDRESS EMAIL
(617) 461-0829 156 Tenth st. Lowell, MA 01850 deaceved@syr.edu