Eli Eskenazi
Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio
Spatium Infinite Installation Design 101
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Voyeuristic Multiplicity Staircase Installation Design 102
Pages 8 - 11
Blooming House Active Dwelling Design 102
Pages 12 - 15
AdaptĹ? Graduate Dormitories Design 301
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Turbulence Archive Library Design 202
Pages 24- 29
IABA 2013 Experimental Space Internship
Pages 30 - 33
Protomorph Gallery Installation Pages 34 - 37
Representation 3
Wave Hill Academy Educational Complex Pages 38- 43
Design 201
Artek Rebrand Web Design Pages 44 - 47
Internship
Aethere Boathouse Design 302
Pages 48 - 51
Spatium
Infinite Installation
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A process-based installation allows juxtaposition represent no such juxtaposition and this result in torqued forms and thickness, and plates and movement. If the catalysis is immediate, if the system is consistent, a subsequent monument allows continuity show no such continuity and this becomes blades and flattened stability, and radical sags and an altered experience of space. A dreamed cut allows volumes represent no such volumes and this result in surrealism and amplitudes, and dreams and an infinite space. If the tempo is right, if the pieces assemble, an undefined momentum allows continuity show no such continuity and this becomes curves and distortion, and montage and an altered experience of space.
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Tempo A courteous light makes a space show no such light and this makes shadows and copies and voids and a projection. If the tempo is right, if the pieces assemble, a thoughtful apparatus causes shapes show no such shapes and this creates volumes and spaces and tunnels and a relationship.
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Voyeuristic Multiplicity
Staircase Installation
Danielle Willems
Brooklyn, NY
Pit Multiplicity presents an intervention that reinvents a site from the ordinary perspective of the everyday architecture student at Pratt Institute. By analyzing the movement of the human body through that space and translating it into a diagram, it creates a subdivision/tiling system that would lead into what became a 3D model that merges into the staircase as voyeuristic element that breaks the reality of time. Using the subdivision drawing as a base, a set of rules determined the shapes in which the site becomes divided. From then, the exploration of the physical possibilities in different materials recreate these geometrical juxtapositions and develop prototypes with a joinery system that mimics the one used in the staircase to become extracted and adapted to conect all the pieces in this model as a whole. Voyeuristic Multiplicity attaches to the pre-existing architectural elements of the site to marge as it creates enclosure and room for new experiences. These active renders of the installation proposal while it’s been embodied and circulated during various programs allow understanding the re-invention of the different points of view through in the different materiality among the structure.
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Program Chosing Higgins Hall's "Pit" as a site allowed me to analyze three different programs for which this staicase is used. First, Solitude is the program that remains the most common as the Pit is found empty most of its time; therefore, it becomes a narcissistic structure that is photogenic and looses its functionality. Second, Circulation becomes an active program for this staicase as students transit thorugh it in order to transport towards the lecture room during class periods. Finally, Presentation is the least usual activity on this location; around every three weeks the Pit is used a a place to pin-up work and discuss students' proposals.
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Blooming House
Active Dwelling
Danielle Willems
Brooklyn, NY
Blooming Components investigates the rupture between exterior/ interior and private/public through a series of reactive components that become apertures allowing light to come into the residence and to regulate the entrance of air and rain into the house. Designed for a retired gardener, this project if designed from analyzing flower patterns and it is programed for cultivation and growth of vegetation. The idea of voyeurism plays an important role in this project as the composition of material is systematized to create the possibility to observe different spaces of the house at any time from many points of views. Ideally, the project should merge with the nature to create a green landscape for animals, plants and a self-sufficient environment for that invites the outsiders to interact with the client.
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AdaptĹ?
Graduate Dormitories
Donald Cromley
Brooklyn, NY
Located at Pratt Institute's Brooklyn campus in Clinton Hill, this graduate dormitory proposal develops the idea of adaptability among architectural conditions. The entire building consists of a “free plan� organization where the interior walls of all of the units can be reconfigured through time in order to adapt to the incoming graduate students according to their living needs. In addition, the facade system is composed of a double railing mechanism where panels slide freely and can be operated to regulate light and privacy throughout the day according to the programmatic conditions of each space. Each panel is designed to have a simple frame so that the graduate students can also become a part of the building's design by creating their own facade panels with simple milling operations; as a result, each person can walk to its terrace and take out a panel to allow more sunlight to come in or change it to another one that suits its needs. Moreover, the building has an open lobby entrance which leads to an open courtyard that provides public spaces for the students to work or interact with more privacy.
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Chinatown Archive Library
Ran Oron
Manhattan, NY
Inspired on Emily Dickinson’s poem 438a, in which she narrates a space where natural elements come to life in a dual condition, this project investigates the possibility of combining wind and light studies to create a building that utilizes current weather conditions to become self-sufficient. The set of parametric rules created from overlaping both studies determined the overall massing proposal based on programmatic conditions. To create so, the project was treated as a solid mass which became carved out by the wind currents that influence the site. After a series of studies, the most promising volumetric proposal became chosen to start expanding its programmatic possibilities in the context of the Library’s archive. When air currents of different temperatures collide, a chaotic change in their properties occurs. They are characterized by having a low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time.
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IABA 2013
Experimental Space
EAA
Antalya, Turkey
Working for Emre Arolat Architects (EAA) I was assigned as a member of the design team for the office’s entry on the II International Architecture Biennale of Antalya (IABA). The main idea behind the competition was to create an “experimental space” in which the citizen of the area could walk into any of the installations and feel or perceive new experiences inside architectural surroundings. Seeing that most entries to the competition were focusing on human interaction in social spaces, Emre Arolat decided to create a unique space which would have no structure and aim to an interaction between each individual and the city of Antalya within its past and culture. The installation took place in an underground unutilized space in the middle of the touristic area of the city and was named “Öteki” meaning “the Other” to mark its distinction among the rest of the proposals. Basing the circulation on the existing conditions, the project investigated the possibility of feeling, seeing and listening to objects, images and recordings from the city’s archive in order to understand its culture detaching from the idea of a conventional museum by walking through an experience rather than an exhibition.
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Protomorph
Gallery Installation
D. Mans
Brooklyn, NY
For Representation 3 at Pratt Institute, we were asked to use our software techniques to create a virtual installation for the university's gallery. With Sony as a client, our team decided to propose an avant-garde structure that was composed of a series of modules that mimic the basic forms of the company's most featured products. The “tech expo� that would take place at this location is conformed by an inverted canopy installation that consists of four panels (A, B, C, and D) that attach to one another as a result of milling operations that create static connections at lateral moments. Each piece that assembles has the opportunity to be reoriented or even detached so that the structure becomes functional in terms of product display or circulation through its interior. The existing conditions of the site presented us the possibility to interact with the surrounding of the gallery and utilize the exposed concrete beams and columns as part of the structural components that hold the structure together.
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Wave Hill Academy
Educational Complex
Andrew Lyon
Bronx, NY
Sitting in the top of a hill, this campus like space connected by a garden in its heart serves as an educational complex that can be inhabited according to its different programatic approaches. Developed trhough a series of joined diagrams, the organization of the massing transformed in plan and section throughout the development of the academy to adapt to the site while relating to the pre-existing elements in it. Moreover, the North wing of the project consists in a combination of the Gallery, the Classroom and the Auditorium which interact with the topography by extending underground. On the other hand, the South wing has an open double height space designed for art production as well as an elevated residential space for such artist in order which shifts in section in order to achieve a higher level of privacy. This academy plays with the idea of private + public and interior + exterior as its tectonic system allows for light to enter the building but blocks the view of the hill to paradoxically create enclosures for maximum productivity.
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Artek Rebrand
Web Design
Artek Design Corp
Miami, FL
Working for Artek Design Corp. I was offered to re-brand the company's identity. Being a medium sized firm, the office wanted to expand to seek clients internationally but they lacked virtual development; as a result, I proposed not only to create a new logo, presentation cards and advertising, but to also develop a bilingual website with an interactive layout that would allow the clients to easily go through the company's projects and become able to contact them. Organized by hierarchic factors, the main page displays an animated banner that shows the most recent projects as well as a series of linked tabs that redirect you to find the information needed. The projects are divided by four search categories: construction, interior design, projects (not built), and remodeling; that way when searching for a specific type of design discipline, one can more easily navigate among several projects. Moreover, the website aims to seek clientele by inviting them to interact in their social media accounts which include a gallery of outstanding projects selected in several platforms.
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Aethere
Boathouse
Gonzalo Carbajo
NY, NY
As an ongoing design project, this boathouse aims to redefine Columbia University's rowing team. With a site along the Hudson river, this space is used not only to store the boats themselves, but also for the athletes to prepare for the season. As part of the community interaction, the project proposes different volumes that connect private and public spaces where anyone can go to the facilities to use the locker rooms, boat storage or gym. The facade systems respond to the programmatic relationships as the private spaces' exteriors are composed by a wooden parametric system that creates openings that allow natural sunlight to enter the spaces and the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful view. In addition, the public spaces consist of steel framing that hols glass louvers; by doing so, one becomes able to visually connect among the spaces while integrating the views of the boats and the river. The next phase of the project will be to develop a more successful way to integrate the spaces as the idea is to conceptualize a private-public space which still holds its functional values.
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Eli Eskenazi
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