Architecture Portfolio

Gianell Gonzalez

01 Gallery Pavilion

PSCE 2100, Digital Spatial Narrative, Carlo Frugiuele, Spring 2021

02 New Ground

PUAD 4010, Architecture Design Studio 5, Michael Morris, Fall 2020

03 Fluidity: In between Spaces

PUAD 3011, Architecture Design Studio 4, Eva Perez de Vega, Spring 2020

04 Case Study: Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor

PGAR 5015, Representation and Spatial Analysis 2, Jason Ivaliotis, Spring 2020

05 The Thermal Machine

PUAD 3010, Architecture Design Studio 3, Martina Kohler, Fall 2019

06

Community Music Works

PUAD 2011, Architecture Design Studio 2, Clementina Ruggieri, Spring 2018

Other Work

Study Models

Drawings and Sketches

Form Studies

Sculpture

Gallery Pavilion

PSCE 2100, Digital Spatial Narrative, Carlo Frugiuele, Spring 2021

The Gallery Pavilion renders were a semester long project in Digital Spatial Narrative. The physical modeling techniques allowed for direct exploration of spatial relationships, direct observation of interactions of surfaces and volumes with light, and direct testing of three-dimensional effects. A series of analytical exercises, starting from building the sculpture to modeling the pavilion surrounding it, gave an understanding of baseline techniques using of 3D modeling and developing renders.

New Ground

PUAD 4010, Architecture Design Studio 5, Michael Morris, Fall 2020

Hart Island, Island in the Bronx, New York

Concept

A floating pathway leads to a disconnected elevated path that will not be accessible until the year 2100 when the expected sea level rise will match the two to make the connection.

Process

The floating path serves as an experiential physical time meter to climate change that everyone can periodically visit and record the progress, while the elevated path is a datum reference. The meeting of the floating path and elevated path can serve as a memorial to sea level rise in itself.

Following the marked graves, the elevated path creates an ecotone of it's in-between space of land and the path that will overtime be submerged.

New Ground Experiential View

Hart Island prior to landfill of 1884

Marked Graves

Flooding Map

Placement of berms implemented to maintain the original form of the island before the historic landfill

Section shows the connection point between the floating path that is anchored through the soft sediment and the elevated path

This section is cut through the floating and elevated path to show the relationship of the two paths across the island

Section cut across the berm

Section from the Northeast looking West, captures the moments of waiting

Fluidity: In between Spaces

PUAD 3011, Architecture Design Studio 4, Eva Perez de Vega, Spring 2020 Red Hook library and community center with an urban intervention.

Concept

This project is about the space where land and water meet, and the fluidity of existing within "the in-between". Drawn to the site for its proximity to the edge of the water, this established our theme of harmonizing nature and culture.

Process

The concept drawing shows how we imagined waves cutting through the site to form the building. The negative space in the middle became a protagonist for the project. As we created the program, the middle space became a central garden, and program was placed surrounding.

Due to Red Hook's susceptibility to floods, we decided to intervene on Dwight and Lorraine streets with Bioswales. These bioswales are a key component to the site's stormwater management system. Stormwater is collected from its surroundings and discharged into the swale. The soils are layered to promote infiltration while the native plantings add a new biodiversity, which has now created a new edge.

Group: Gianell Gonzalez, Ruth Grigorov

Project Role: Collage Renderings, Study Model, Sections, Elevations, Bioswale section, Vertical Garden, Landscape

Study Model

Program

Bioswale Section

Exploded axon addressing the relationship between classrooms, adult reading areas, and the auditorium.

Spring Landscape

Green Roof and Vertical Garden

Case Study: Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor

PGAR 5015, Representation and Spatial Analysis 2, Jason Ivaliotis, Spring 2020

Peter Zumthor’s architectural notability is summarized in the philosophical concept of Phenomenology -a belief in the primacy of sensory and experiential qualities in architecture. Bachelard and Heiddeger were two of the philosophers whose work the development of phenomenology in architecture was based. Phenomenology in architecture is understood as more of an orientation toward thinking, making and poetics rather than a formal architectural language.

Group: Gianell Gonzalez, Ruth Grigorov, Rachel Markowitz, Madeline Klingspor

Project Role: Plan Diagrams, Render

Series of sections cut revealing the multiple layers of levels inside the Therme Vals

The Thermal Machine

PUAD 3010, Architecture Design Studio 3, Martina Kohler, Fall 2019

Thermal comfort dwelling for sisters, Sonja and Santana Cruz in Phoenix, Arizona.

Concept

Santana and Sonja Cruz are polar opposite sisters with different interest, personalities, and thermal comforts. The aim was to design a dwelling customized for the two personas and their thermal comfort.

Process

Site Assessment of the climate, wind, sun, and water was necessary in order to use the environment to successfully decide on a design. Using materials such as limestone, to act as a thermal mass that would keep the heat out during the day and using a system of 4 swiveled doors positioned to catch the winds as a strategy to flush out the heat.

Group: Gianell Gonzalez, Autumn Mullin

Project Role: Site Plan, Diagrams, Plan Diagrams, Model, Plans, Renders

Shade Diagrams

Diagram of multiple levels

Interior render of communal space where both sisters meet

Model 1:8

Community Music Work

PUAD 2011, Architecture Design Studio 2, Clementina Ruggieri, Spring 2018

Community Music Work in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Concept

The CMW intervention is centered around Community Music Work’s inward and outward looking programs through the use of positive and negative spaces.

Process

Arriving at the sidewalk of auburn place, the entrance is located through the side of the positive form which houses the inward programs, such as classrooms, private practice rooms, and main performance space on the second floor that houses a view towards the Manhattan Skyline.

Each of the classrooms has the ability to be divided with a system of concrete swivel doors that will give access to the courtyard and would divide each room into two.

The courtyard would be the prime location for the potluck events as well as gathering for students and members of the community. Accessible by a ramp from the playground, the negative space dips down 16 feet below sidewalk level, with wide steps useful for seating and lounging while continuing down into the outdoor performance space, thats provides the community with music during times of use.

Model 1:8

Study Model 1:20

Model 1:8

Study Models

Several selected study models from Materiality and Assembly (PUAD 2031), Spring 2019, Carolin Mees Bristol, Copper Wire Plaster, Veneer

Sketches and Drawings

Several selected sketches from Architecture Design Studio 1 ( PUAD 2010), Fall 2018, Sandra Arndt

Form Studies

Studies using three squares and one line to express the definition for Construction, Distraction, and Collapse, Drawing and Imaging (PUFY 1030), Spring 2018, Ori Kleiner Acrylic, Illustration board, Digital

Sculpture

Sculpture for Space and Materiality Final (PUFY 1020), Fall 2017, Carol Peligian Plaster, Acrylic Block