2011-2016
GABRIEL BOYAJIAN ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO
TABLE OF CONTENTS Academic Work
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Academic Work
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Built Work
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(203) 947-3239 gnboyajian@gmail.com gabrielboyajian.com
About Me Hello! Thank you for taking the time to view my portfolio. My name is Gabriel and my dedication is architecture and everything related. Over my academic career I have consistently applied myself to foster design methodologies and fabrication techniques to further my relationship with the art of building. Participating in numerous design-build projects both academically and professionally has allowed me to absorb and create a large skill-set from hands on experiences. My architectural interests have stemmed from my love of Sculpture and History alike which I utilize as a basis to explore and exploit any design problem. Please enjoy my work.
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Radical Domesticity / Comp Studio: Live Work Space in Downtown Portland, OR Academic Work
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Academic Work
Built Work
At the heart of the studio brief was the idea of a “radical domesticity”. My partner Brooke Shea and I saw the studio as a way to intently research materiality, form, and movement as methods to achieve a “radical” result. By completing four intensive case studies examining the Loblolly House by Kieran Timberlake, Shutter House by Shigeru Ban, Delta Shelter by Tom Kundig, and HL23 by Neil Denari we began to break down these projects into the three categories of material, form, and movement. The site located in Downtown Portland Oregon asked for mixed use livework environments. By affectionately using Portland’s informal slogan “Keep Portland Weird” the project developed into a hybrid tower using the Bosch-Rexroth Aluminum structural system allowing for each unit to be pre-fabricated off-site and allow occupant driven customization. All drawings done in collaboration with Brooke Shea.
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Kinetic Perforated Facade
Stationary Bosch Framing System
Glazing
Green Roof and Patio Space
Mechanical Diagram Scale: 1/8”=1’
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FACADE DIAGRAMS:
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Shutter Movement
Shutter Movement
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Shutter Movement
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Bump Sizes
Bump Sizes
Bump Sizes
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Withdrawn Monolith VC Studio: P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S with Marcelo Spina LA Mart Addition, Downtown LA Academic Work
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Built Work
This project is highly speculative in nature. The intention was to create an addition to an existing building which could be read as an autonomous entity yet still feel as if it were part of the original building. The end result was a withdrawn monolith which is both iconic in nature yet in a sense does not attempt to draw too much attention to itself. As part of the studio criteria, texture or pattern was to be derived from the figure itself and projected onto it in order to create tectonic manipulations within the figure. These manipulations are translated as apertures, structure, and other spatial articulations within the figure.
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A Formal Affair:
Architecture School and Dormitories On the Highline, NY Academic Work
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Built Work
This project attempted to synthesize the formal attributes of Brutalist architecture with the articulation of applied digital techniques. Thus the affair between these two differing architectural styles produces a hybridize form that does not fit into either category but blurs the edges between the two. The playful yet heavy monolith becomes a new character in the star studied neighborhood adjacent to the highline. Attempting to engage the context and public through anthropomorphic gestures the identity is further blurred during the architecture’s transition from the ground materializing into figure. The project was featured in the Of Possible Mediums Traveling Exhibition in 2013-2014.
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Syracuse Inner Harbor / Landscape Studio: Landscape and Wildlife Rehabilitation Syracuse, NY Academic Work
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Built Work
This studio project asked sought to create a network of boat docks around the coastline of Syracuse’s famously polluted Onondaga lake. With ecological and historical contexts heavily present my partner Max Rosner and I focused on the site known as Syracuse’s Inner Harbor. With intensive mapping a research the design fosters and creates an artificial ecosystem for ferry riders to utilize and admire while the local populations of flora and fauna benefit from the man made intervention. With the use of panneling tools we created a interesting environment which generated water ways, rising water level barriers, planter beds for different types of marsh and water grasses, and a system which could be multiplied and enlarged not only at the immediate site but the lake at large. All drawings done in collaboration with Max Rosner
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Time Square Danteum:
Uncovering New York’s forgotten Past Times Square, NY Academic Work
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Built Work
The studio brief was simple, through intensive historic research and documentation uncover forgotten secrets of New York’s famed 42nd St. Stemming from my own personal interests in New York’s theatre typologies I began to slowly uncover the locations of New York’s theatrical venues from the early 1700’s to present day. New York’s theatres attributed to the importance of 42nd street intersection with Broadway creating the nickname, “Cross roads of the world”. Reimagining One Times Square symbolically as an inverted Tower of Babel begins to compound and reveal the historical changes the iconic building has gone through. Inserting programmatic functions of concert venues, theatres, and museums, the new One Times Square transfers memories through multiple audiences adding to the cacophony of 42nd street.
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Model made in collaboration with Thomas Arleo and Sherina Zhang Materials: Wood, Plexiglass, Stainless Steel
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Big Will & Friends: Exhibition Syracuse, NY
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Borrowing from the famous dictum by Frank Stella, “What you see is what you see,� this installation seeks to mock up the optical effects, figural relationships, and illusions found in Wallpaper as devices that alter our perception of the environments around us. Extending the dual relationship between art, architecture, and mass consumption, Bog Will is an installation and event that aims to exploit the perception of space and three dimensional forms. Reshaping the room through the surfaces around us. - Writing by Jonathan Louie Project made in collaboration with Jonathan Louie and NIco Carmona.
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Section and exploded isometric drawings produced by Gabriel Boyajian Photographs by Nico Carmona
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Coming to a Room Near You First constructed at the Atrium of Slocum Hall, Big Will and its’ camouflaged performers are slated to interact with a number of on campus and the larger Syracuse Community. Future installation locations include: the Rodger Mack Gallery in the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University; and as part of an arts regeneration event in an open lot in the Near Westside neighborhood of Syracuse.. 48
Shadow projection plan drawing produced by Gabriel Boyajian Photograph by Nico Carmona
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House Shapes, Elevation Set #1
Pattern and scrim layout drawings produced by Nico Carmona
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Interior of Scrim Elevation Set #2
Exterior of Scrim Elevation Set #3
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Pattern and scrim layout drawings produced by Gabriel Boyajian
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Play Perch: Tree House for the Jowonio Pre-school Design-build Project Syracuse, NY
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The client is the Jowonio preschool, a recognized world leader in innovative education for students with special needs. The Jowonio School serves children from 3 to 6 years old, guided by the philosophy that students with special needs and traditional needs should be educated in an inclusive setting. The school attempts to provide an environment where all students may take part in as many class activities as possible. This challenge informed the design to create an innovate learning environment, which gave equal opportunity to every student the learn and explore inside and out of tree house. With many student designers and volunteers working on this project my job along with fellow designer Ben Anderson-Nelson was to tackle the complicated geometry of the tree house underbelly along with the landscape design of the surrounding grounds. Student Designers: Ford Bostwick, John Cardone, Jeffery Cheung, George Guarino, Zachary Harwin, Christina Hoover, Brian Luce, Sean Morgan, Sally Morrow, Doug Moskowitz, Steven O’Hara, Michael Palmer, Michaelle Williams, Mark Zlotsky, Ben Anderson-Nelson, Tom Arleo, Jessica Borri, Gabriel Boyajian, Charles Brock, John Coleman, Mark Hernandez, Tyler Holdren, Dong Min Shin, Winnie Tu, Emily Wutz, Sherina Zheng, Daniel Hopkins 54
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Exploded axon and design diagram created by phase one design team
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Furniture Design
“The Detail Tells the Tale” Syracuse, NY Academic Work
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My furniture design projects attempt to synthesize manual and digital details in an attempt to blur the relationships between the two. With an extensive knowledge of metal fabrication I used various digital and manual fabrication methods to construct this series of benches/tables. Giving myself limitations for each piece I never exceed more than two materials for each bench with metal relevant within all three. By limiting my material choices hierarchical relationships are created for the user to subconsciously identify and engage with. Marco Frascari wrote, “the detail tells the tale.” Using representational tectonics as my prevelant design methodology I tried to embed the essence of each piece into single moments. The expressive nature of each bench/table creates a part to whole relationship with some appearing to be more honest than others.
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“It’s all over.”
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GABRIEL BOYAJIAN
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO