Gerome Ventura architecture portfolio
Gerome Ventura
4th Year B. Arch. Spitzer School of Architecture email: geromeventura1@gmail.com c#: +1 (646) 479-2869
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barrier Long Island City Project Spring Semester ‘17 Professor Ali Hocek Collaboration: Gerome Ventura and Nitasha Tiene
Gantry Plaza, Long Island City, Queens Professor Hocek Gerome Ventura and Nitasha Tiene This project is about designing a library at Gantry Plaza in Long Island City. The semester’s main goal was to be familiarized with creating construction documents, as well as making analysis of the existing conditions to create designs that suits the communities’ needs. With the prior information that we received from our professor, the studio was able to move forward to analyze the pre-existing conditions. The whole class were divided into 6 groups to work on designing their assigned site and to show an exceptional amount of work for the final project. Due to the severe flood zone, my colleague and I decided to work on preventing the flood. Our design is more of a fort, preventing the water from going in when flooding occurs. We also played with volumes and how it can be interlaced with the wall along with the programs we made in the process. The main part of the library gives a panoramic view of the city skyline, providing a peaceful and quiet environment.
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Redesigning Aaron Davis Hall Facade Professor Wines Gerome Ventura Due to the new problems addressed in the beginning of the year in Aaron Davis Hall as the new facade was built, the faculty took the challenge and redesign the facade in order to improve the conditions and possibly design it in the future. The whole third year studio was assigned to find problems and make the design coherent to the rest of the campus. Evidently, the campus from north to south is mainly in a chronological order, in terms of styles of each building as it expands towards the south. With the new CUNY Science Buildings in the Southern campus, Aaron Davis Hall and Spitzer School of Architecture is very modern compared to the north side of the campus, with the exception of Grove School of Engineering. One of the main problems I saw when visiting the site was circulation of space and leakage from the rain, along with the poor lighting conditions. With those, I translated circulations of the space into surfaces. These surfaces are bifurcated throughout the front facade of the building, giving an active flow of the space and providing passive lighting and protection from leakage.
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geometry and transportation Parrish Museum Analysis and Pavillion Project Spring Semester ’16 Professor June Williamson Nitasha Tiene, Kristy Lau, Roberto Nasr, and Gerome Ventura
Parrish Museum Project Professor Williamson Gerome Ventura This project consists of three parts: Parrish Museum physical model, folly (pavilion) within the site, and a transportation to cater a specific group of audience around the Hamptons. Parrish Museum was built to have an exceptional understanding of the design in geometrical rules and translations. It can be seen through the use of materials, the structural system and how the plan is drawn out. The studio is divided into 3 groups to complete putting together the physical model of Parrish Museum. The second exercise was to design a folly within the outskirts of the building. Most of us were assigned to get a spot around the open area and design based on what we learned from making the physical model of the Parrish Museum. My design consists of geometrical composition, giving a sense of relation to the Parrish Museum itself. The similar use of material and structure were put into account to further build a relationship with the building. The third exercise was to create a vehicle and itinerary for a specific audience and provide a tour around the Hamptons. Since most of the roads are usually empty, the audiences that I picked were teenagers who are artistic and usually longboards around town. When you see longboarders, they are usually alone skating the streets. I saw this as a small problem so I designed a vehicle that would unite the longboarders together.
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social app Social Impact Industrial Design Fall Semester ‘17 Professor Suzan Wines KMG Group (Kristy Lau, Matthew Hangad, and Gerome Ventura
#chat Professor Wines KMG Group (Matthew Hangad, Kristy Lau, and Gerome Ventura This semester’s project is about designing a product to support Syrian refugees located in Turkey. The exercise we focused on is designing in smaller scale, thinking deeper with a specific problem and solving it through design. With the professor’s help and backed by the Zahn Center competition, the products that were designed in studio could potentially start a business and so forth. During the semester, my team shifted from problems to problems, leading into bigger problems. As we shift around the semester, we decided to focus more on a bigger and broader problem, cyberbullying. With that identified as our main problem, we developed an app to mitigate cyberbullying as well as connecting people with the same interests. This app would create microcommunities, giving a positive environments locally.
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Gerome Ventura
4th Year B. Arch. Spitzer School of Architecture email: geromeventura1@gmail.com c#: +1 (646) 479-2869