Edson Wong
Spring 2017 Studio Portfolio Syracuse University School of Architecture
Exercise 1 Exercise 2
Exercise 1 A.Case Study
B.Urban Analysis C.MakerSpace
A.Pulitzer Art Foundation by Tadao Ando The Pulitzer Art Foundation was a building designed by Tadao Ando built in St. Louis MO and established in 2001. Ando designed the building around 3 spaces that would create more of a heightened experience for the permanent art work in the area. While also creating a division of Public and Private spaces that he believed where artist would be inspired in those public spaces and create while in those Private spaces. As he would define it better as Sanctuary and Labratory.
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B. Downtown Syracuse Urban Analysis Downtown Syracuse has a hystorical background on why the geometries of the streets are the way that they are. Back in late 1800s Syracuse started to develope around pre-existing trails made by Native americans in that area. Then the Eerie Canal was built which help create the other geometry of the perusian grid that syracuse has based their city off of. The Perusian Grid is a way of organizing streets where streets connect/Lead to monumental areas which in syracuse are the Public Spaces. These two hystorical paths following the Perusian Grid helped develop the geometry of Downtown Syracuse Today
1870s Downtown Syracuse
Todays Downtonwn Syracuse
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1870s Figure Ground Perusian Grid Eerie Canal Indian Trails
Train Tracks Downtown Syracuse Bus Route Syracuse University Bus Route
Todays Figure Ground Perusian Grid Public Spaces Transportation
C. Public Art MakerSpace After Going through the past two Exercises and learning how to abstract things through diagrams and also using context, helped set the grounds for our personal design project which is a makerspace. The way I tackled abstraction and context was through creating a building that is designed for the context of the future of Syracuse. Syracuse has a 2040 plan thattakes multiple innitiatives in order to improve the City. One of the innitiatives is to increase and preserve public art. The maker space I have designed is to allow artists to have multpiple environment and context within the building to design art work that can be produced there and shipped out to a similar like context of the spaces the building creates.
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Exercise 2
A. Urban Architectonics
B.Thick Facade Design
A. Urban Architectonics Structure is an essential component that cannot be avoided when creating a building. As time progresses different structural systems will devolpe and help not only fortify the building but allow more freedom in designing a building.But the most basic post and lintel structure is still very relevant and used today.The main point of this exercise is to create a formalistic enclosure that incorporates, ignores, intertwine or any other method that works with the structure.
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B. Transparent Privacy In soho aka the Cast iron District is known for their Thick facade design on top of the Cast iron structures that keep the building up the Bottom of most of the buildings are commercialized while the top areas are more private and used for office spaces and sometimes residential. In this exercise we are designing a thick facade that works with the context of that district. My design was based off bringing more glass into the street that has multiple buildings that uses brick which creates a very private like space throughout the street. My concept while designing was to consistantly use the geometries of the set columns and supports to create areas and rooms but while also using the same geomtries on the facade to Project Title layer glass which would create denser opacities in certain areas. Where i would correlate that with tthe private spaces of my building
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