architecture PORTFOLIO Garnet Garcia Syracuse Universiry Spring 2017
table of CONTENTS
exercise
1A: Cities and Their Buildings
exercise
1B: Architectural + Urban Analysis
exercise
1C: Designing an Urban Setting
exercise
2A: Urban Architects
exercise
2B: The Wooster Street Site
WHOLE TO PART this particular
assignment
required for the students to take irregular shapes from a large grid of shapes and create internal spaces frame.
based
on
the
extrenal
exercise 1A: PARTS AND WHOLES: CITIES AND THEIR BUILDINGS The
individual
investigation
within
this
exercise
were
based on two connections regarding the formal and spacial relationships between cities and the individual buildings of which they are compromised. to
study
the
relationship
The
of
goal of the exercise was
cities
that
are
“macro”
and
exclusive,
but
ized by overall shared conditions of both the
“micro” these
character-
scale, as well as the patterns of form and space.
two
connections
are
not
mutually
instead incorperate fragments of a larger pattern of architectural organization.
SCHOOL OF ECENOMICS TOULOUS, FRANCE the building i was assigned
to was the school of economics in toulous, france, by grafton architects. my partner and i collab-
orated on creating diagrams that represented the building.
exercise 1B: PARTS AND WHOLES: ARCHITECTURAL + URBAN ANALYSIS This ings
whos
pressures part
exercise dealt with the analysis of a group of build-
of
formal
strategies
emanating and
from
are
the
understanding
molded
city those
of
by
the
which
external
in the more comprehensive terms of urban form.
external
they
are
pressures
MOVEMENT AND MASSING this is a diagram that illustrates the central/main circulation through the different levels of the building.
CONTEXT AND FENSTRATION this diagram shows the detail-
ing of the buildings main ramp in a relation to the views of the city itself.
VIEWS FROM THE STRUCTURE the windows and openings of the building were carefully consid-
ered to expose the ones in the building to the surrounding city.
MATERIAL IN CONTEXT this key diagram in the ect showed the reddish/pink
proj-
brick
that was historically significant to the city of toulous, and how the architects took into account this detail to tie the building to the city.
e x e r c i s e 1 C :
PARTS AND WHOLES: DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING Students were assigned to design a Makerspace in the Downtown Syracuse area. The contention of this exercise, reflected in the choice of the makerspacem, was constructing a program that asserts the assemblange of difference systems, materials, and
components that can and should play an expressive part in its conceptual proposition. of
tectonics
within
It
reflects the important discourse
architectural
theory.
There
were
3 different sites given out, each one featuring different typological conditions of urban context.
DIAGRAMS two things that were critical to
the
design
makersspace
process
was
the
of
my
movement
of the sun in relation to the building,
and
the
context
the surrounding buildings
cially the downtown ymca).
of
(espe-
EXERCISE 2A given the freedom of abstract design, i chose to have my
enclosure designed like an open pavilion/gazzebo public access.
with
complete
exercise 2A: URBAN ARCHITECTS This
assignment emphasized the role of tectonic expression
in architectural form.
Students
were assigned to design a
relationship between an enclosured system and the structural
frame of a simple building on an abstract, hypothetical urban site.
The
goal
was
the
understand
the
relation
an enclosing surface and its structural system.
between
my roof was designed with the g
that went into the structure by layer
would create a unique experience in the
levels of shading still allowing a generous
goal of controling the amount of light
ering sheets of translucent
“glass�.
this
the structures interior, with the different
s amount of natural light in.
THEME OF TRANSPARENCY continuing from the previ-
ous project where i used different levels of shading to control light
in an interior space, glass panels
with different levels of opacity are used in the facade to control light and represent the gradient from a private to public in the building.
exercise 2B: THE WOOSTER STREET SITE In the final exercise of the semester, students were given a site, located on Wooster Street in Soho, in downtown Manhattan. The goal was to create an external facade that complimented the context in its design, as well as develop a structural system within the building. The assignment required students to pay attention to contextual details and design patterns in the Soho area.
EARLY DIAGRAMS a lot of planning
went
into deciding how to dicscipline the panels within the facade as well as the moments in which to interrupt the opacity gradient with completely
transparent
panels.
the shallow plans and sec-
tions above show the idea of the extruded floor plates that extend outward
.
these panels interrupt
the gradient of opacity. small moments in relation to the circulation were also chosen as a location for the transparent panels.
FINAL MODEL