FREDDIE SOTELO
Pratt Institute | Undergraduate Portfolio
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Fall 2012 I Core Design Studio I
PLANAR UNFOLD critic: Ezra Ardolino
Spring 2013 I Representations II
HANSELMANN HOUSE critic: Aaron White
Fall 2013 I Comprehensive Design
SPATIAL OSMOSIS critic: Lawrence Blough
Spring 2014 I Integrative Design
SEQUENTIAL QUAD critic: Salvatore Tranchina
Fall 2014 I Advanced Design I
SYNERGY TOWER critic: Aybars Asci | Gary Haney
Spring 2015 I Advanced Design II
FLUID LEARNING critic: Zehra Kuz
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01 Fall 2012 I Core Design Studio I
PLANAR UNFOLD critic: Ezra Ardolino
Spaces are conceived as a series of humans layers. These layers, are the backbone in habitable typologies. These layers are conceptually describes as the bone, muscle and skin. The bone becomes the structure while the muscle are the spacial qualities of the form. The skin is the transparent layer between the outside and inside. The final form demonstrated architectural characteristics such as linear flow from each organ or clusters of space. The lines became a continuous transition from one side to the other, as if each pocket of space transitioned from one room to another. This idea captured the sense of sequence from one area to another, pocket to pocket, folding to unfolding.
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FORMAL ASSEMBLY An reinterpretation of a six by six square grid was utilized to establish a two-dimensional form. Furthermore a section of the new drawing was taken and represented in three dimensional form. This form became a spatial interpretation of a two dimensional line. This new form still maintained its former qualities. This new form was reinterpreted in a wooden model and along sectional drawings to depict possible uses for people.
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HABITABLE APERTURE The guts of the conceptual design allows for different typologies of habitation. The users can walk, read, play, or establish social connections between one another. These pockets of space are connected with the bone, transitioning to the muscle or inner walls and ultimately exposed to interaction through the skin.
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02 Spring 2013 I Representations II
HANSELMANN HOUSE critic: Aaron White
The objective was to document a project, in this case Michael Grave’s Hanselmann House. Research of the house was need to draw a series of plans, sections and elevations that matched the architect’s work. Using construction lines, every completed drawing became a projection from the first, As each drawing was completed, a spatial interpretation was recognized. In this case, the architect implemented the sense of shifting. This idea was recognized in the way the walls were placed in plan and the movement of the facade in the perspective drawings.
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ANALYTIC SCALE The implementation of the research was represeted through a series of anylitcal drawings. The idea of the scale in the architecture elements were emphasized through a numerical formula. Furthermore, the architectural elements of the Hanselmann House presented emphasizes on linearity and motion.
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03 Fall 2013 I Comprehensive Design
SPATIAL OSMOSIS critic: Lawrence Blough
Dealing with the issue of creating a flexible housing space within a dense urban fabric was one of the main challenges in the design. The building, specifically the skin, was to take on a more important role than simply protecting the inhabitants from the exterior environment. The project involved investigating the role of the facade in activating the program to accommodate the users. The skin that wrapped the entire dormitory organized the program in layers, one being creating a cell-like sleeping units while maximizing the community space. The “community� space became a series of zones which were connected through a vertical campus.
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URBAN ANALYSIS The intervention is located between the institution and a major vehicle artery. The program is the result of these studies, the sleeping units are on the back side, facing the yard. On the contrary, the main communal spaces face Grand Avenue, becoming part of the urban performance.
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Student Circulation| Pratt Institute
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PERFORMANCE The language of the skin differs in opposite elevations. The result derives from the micro and macro conditions where the sleeping units are minimized to their most extreme condition in favor for an open island of social activities. The skin facilitates the extreme condition by establishing a language of built in furniture conditions and a vertical circulation on the opposite side.
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2nd LEVEL 20’-8” 8” STRUCTURAL “C” CHANNEL
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CONTINUOUS METAL PANEL FACADE
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7th LEVEL 56’-0” OPERABLE WINDOW DOUBLE GLAZED SLIDING GLASS DOOR
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SLOPED CONCRETE SLAB TOWARDS DRAIN SYSTEM 6” NOMINAL CMU WALL
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6th LEVEL 46’-8” EXTERIOR PAVING
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04 Fall 2013 I Comprehensive Design
SEQUENTIAL QUAD critic: Salvatore Tranchina
The project is focused on the idea of the inhabitant following a certain path, a narrative, between each program. The boathouse is treated as a series of volumes that are wrapped in a layer of polycarbonate skin. This wrapper accentuates the idea of the circulation and thus exposes the people walking inside the building in a formal, elegant manner. Materiality is essential, as the polycarbonate wraps the solid volumes and protrudes the openness of the focal point, where the community, rowers, and staff all meet at a focal point.
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NARRATIVE The concept starts out as bars of movement that also unlocks the possible outdoor spaces within the landscape. The site nodes become interlocking layers of movement, viewpoint, and spatial composition of hierarchy. Ultimately the formal and the node become part of the experience as a crossover circulation between community, and varsity
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| Infliction of inhabitants
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| Pivot of unconditioned space
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FOCALIZE Using the orientation forces and viewpoints shapes the form that creates a new negative spaces of landscape-like conditions- such as a courtyard space. By utilizing paths of movement, the sequence of space becomes a narrative which the transition leads to a node, where the two types of users interact and are lead to a view frame.
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ENCLOSURE Layers of material systems differentiate the distinct program bars. The expression of the duality in the systems interprets as a figure and the ground as a landscape condition.
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05 Fall 2014 I Advanced Design I
SYNERGY TOWER critic: Aybars Asci | Gary Haney | SOM
The recent ambition to build super tall skyscrapers in New York City is fragmenting the importance of adapting to the surrounding urban conditions in favor of high-end residential units.. Through a series of calculations, the design establish a balance between context and dwelling. The residential tower achieves spatial efficiency, maximizing the amount of natural daylight and responding to the near Central Park with a series of eroded conditions. This establishes maximizing openness to the site forces and engages social interaction between dwellers.
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RELATIONSHIP The outdoor areas are defined and directly adjacent to Central Park and its axial forces.
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MAXIMUM OPENNESS The driving parameter of the design is to maximize the openness and focus to certain site forces. The process, through careful analysis to achieve a balance between square footage and outdoor space efficiency lead to different floor conditions that respond to its surroundings. This idea also leads to social connection from the eroded form.
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FUTURE OF THE SKYLINE Midtown Manhattan will become the center of luxurious high-rise housing units. As these new towers will offer users spectacular views towards Central Park and beyond, the proposal will emphasize on social and visual interactions between users. Not only will this notion set the design apart from other high-rises, its slenderness and form draws attention to its unique form.
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432 Park Avenue
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111 West 57Th Street
225 West 57Th Street
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06 Spring 2015 I Advanced Design II
FLUID LEARNING critic: Zehra Kuz
Environmental fragmentation is the result of man-made urban development upon nature and its valuable resources. Natural resources are under constant attack. Water, the essential resource to all life, is being polluted and contaminated. As urban population increases, the resources will deplete, affecting our current living standards. The concept involves utilizing rainwater in order to teach young scholars and its surrounding environment how this source can be retained for the benefit of school and community.
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DILEMMA Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies is a diverse and respectful Expeditionary Learning School, committed to developing students and staff who are kind, open-minded, persistent, responsible, and courageous. In the contrary, the school does not implement this notion with the community as the existing urban conditions lack infrastructure.
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RETHINKING THE SCHOOL Although cohesive as a learning system, the school does not establish the same relationship with its surroundings. The institution’s man-made habitat does not integrate with our essential resource, rainwater. This entire hard surfaced area is a potential for a rainwater retention system in which the school and community can benefit. The usage of green roof systems and rain collecting surfaces will allow a conscientious intervention of the site, creating a new program that the school children and community will enjoy.
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INTERVENTION Through a unification of both the natural and built environment, architecture will establish an interdependence between nature and the community, emphasizing a message of present and future coexistence.
Rainwater Flow
Cistern Location
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School Water System |
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FREDDIE SOTELO Education Essex County Community College 2009 - 2012
Pratt Institute School of Architecture 2012 - Present
Contact Address 252 Hornblower Ave. Belleville, NJ 07109 Phone
862.220.6681
fsotelo@pratt.edu
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