Heather Borozny Architectural Graduate Portfolio

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SOF T SHADE Hand-cut and assembled | Photo manipulation with Photoshop

Strands of folded felt that can stretch to be adjusted to create a customizable acoustic sun shader.

Intead of cutting holes, this process involves cutting a slit and folding the felt so zero waste is produced.

Visualization - closed

Visualization - expanded

3/4�

3/4�

Folding process Closed arrangement

Folded components

Open arrangement

SUBTRACTIVE PROCESSES Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | 3D Printed | Spray painted

As supporting material to ‘Divertable Space’, this project explores subtractive 3D modelling processes developed from subtractive painting processes.

Adaptive circulation

Unfolded elevations

Adaptive assembly space Axonometric views

Immersive photograph of physical model

Subtractive painting

Physical model

DIVERTABLE SPACE Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Subtracting from an abandoned building, this project proposes a methodology for disfiguring abandoned architecture to spark reuse.

East elevation (front facade)

Interior view

South elevation (faces alley)

West elevation (faces park)

Street view

North elevation (faces street)

DIVERTABLE SPACE Drawn in Rhinoceros | Edited in Illustrator

This process applies a Hausman-logic to architecture where buildings are subtracted from to create new trajectories and to reconfigure space.

Floor plan: Level 10

Floor plan: Level 9

Floor plan: Level 8

Floor plan: Level 7

Floor plan: Level 6

Floor plan: Level 5

Section A

Section B A

B Floor plan: Level 4

Floor plan: Level 3

Floor plan: Level 2

Floor plan: Level 1

Floor plan: Level B1

Floor plan: Level B2

Material assembly precedent: Chanel Pavilion by Zaha Hadid

Site Plan

DIVERTABLE SPACE Hand-painted | Diagrammed in Illustrator | Modelled in Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

This project takes place in a speculative setting where the building is partially deconstructed and 3D printed with recycled carbon fiber by robots and drones as a prototype for revitalizing abandoned structures.

Placed Aggregates

Positive Layer (Black)

Ideal curves inventory

Level of irregularity

Too irregular

No Edge Bottom Edge

Subtractive Painting Live Traced

Park view

*scale of curve based on size required for detail resolution

Negative Layer (White)

METHODOLOGY

INVENTORY CREATION PROCESS

Subtractive Painting

Inventory

INVENTORY SELECTION PROCESS

Painted Aggregates

Ideal level of irregularity

Top Edge

Legend

Too regular

1

2

Existing building

3

Position ideal curves from inventory with rails intersecting at least two perpendicular faces

4 Material close-up Sweeped curve objects

Booleaned objects

DIVERTABLE CITY Drawn in AutoCAD | Rendered in Illustrator

As a precurser to ‘Divertable Space’, this project explores the same methodology as a means for reclaimimg productivity in the obsolescence of Downtown Detroit’s urban demolition and surface parking sites.

Through the layering of different material subtractions, interuptions and diversions create a new pedestrian network for public access. This project began with the implementation of autonomous vehicles to reduce the necessary vehicular infrastructure.

AUDIO-TONIC Modelled in AutoCad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Chiming multi-unit dwelling that challenges perceptions of privacy through manipulating intensities and presence of sound.

Main floor plan - communal amenities

Street view

The large plastic tubes hung from the facade chime together as the wind blows, or as someone passes through them. Designed for communal living, residents have their own private living spaces on the upper level, and share kitchen and living/entertainment spaces on the main level.

Studies on the social psychology of noise found that people perceive spaces with higher levels of noise as providing more privacy than spaces without noise. In this project, high intensities of plastic chimes are arranged in areas where privacy is desired.

Second floor plan - private living quarters

AUDIO-TONIC Modelled in AutoCad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Varying densities of the plastic chimes creates both an audio and visual distinction between levels of perceivable privacy.

Private bedroom

Second floor hallway

Private living room adjacent to bedroom

Main floor shared dining space

CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Modeled in Maya and Rhinoceros in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Rendered by Sarah Sy

Located along Calgary’s Bow River, this project inserts itself into a revised revitalization plan for the city’s East Village. As part of a social sustainability strategy, the project extends into its surroundings to enhance the waterfront with a variety of public spaces and amenities.

Site plan

Wall Section

South street view

CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Drafted in Autocad

The main floor of the building features public amenities such as a resource library, a gallery, a cafe, and an open auditorium leading up to the upper level where research offices are located. The lower level has a parking lot which is open to the site and waterfront.

Main floor plan

CULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER Designed in collaboration with Sarah Sy | Drafted in Autocad

As part of a comprehensive studio, these drawings are a selection of the documents produced in collaboration with Sarah Sy.

Section A

Section C

RETROFITTING GLORIES Modeled in Grasshopper and Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in Rhinoceros and Autocad

Designed during a study abroad program in Barcelona, Spain, this train station introduces a new stop to an existing train line and connects it to the existing metro station. This would serve as a transportation hub with additional connections created to existing bus routes and tram routes above ground. In response to the Mediterranean climate of Barcelona, this project experiments with open-air materials and level connections while maintaining security and universal accessibility.

Section through multiple transit modes

Plaza view

Section through plaza

Street view with connection to viaduct

Interior view

HOTEL ESPOSTI Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Hand-drawn | Hand-made physical study model

Hotel designed for Milan, Italy with adjustable louvers that allow guests to customize day lighting levels to their personal preferences.

Elevation

Park view

Process sketch of restaurant interior

Interior of restaurant

Study models of restaurant

Interior of restaurant

HOTEL ESPOSTI Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max

The height and location of the louvers corresponds to the interior program based on potential concerns for glare and privacy.

Rotating louver detail

Typical bedroom

Typical bathroom

Typical floor plan with axonometric of standard room

Typical dining/office space

GARDEN BOX Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Prototype for integrating small rentable pre-fabricated greenhouses in an urban context for local farming.

The Seed Exchange tower is dressed with an interior metal grid from which envelopes of seeds may be hung to create an active facade.

Aerial view of site

Interior view of the Seed Exchange tower

Rentable pre-fabricated modules use lock-in-place corner connections, as commonly used in shipping containers.

Locked together, the modules form a canopy system above public spaces.

Lower rented greenhouse module with walking platform

Upper rented greenhouse module

Lower rentable module with walking platform

Upper rentable module Sample arrangement of various modules

GARDEN BOX Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Located in Calgary’s Kensington Village, the site includes a supermarket, a cafe, restaurants, an office building, small retail stores, and the Seed Exchange tower.

Existing train platform with greenhouse module canopy

Greenhouse modules penetrating into the market

Ground floor plan

KLINE PAVILION Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in autocad | Hand-drawn

Memorial pavilion designed to display Black Reflections painting by Franz Kline.

North elevation

East elevation

West elevation

Street view

Layered gestures

Ground floor plan

Aerial view

Process sketch

Process sketch

South elevation

FUR NITURE Hand-drawn | Physical construction photographed | Edited in Photoshop

Left: Desk designed for children in Africa built without electricity. Right: Donated chair from Toronto’s Furniture Bank revamped for the Chair Affair live auction charity fund-raiser.

This was part of a collaborative project involving Ryerson University’s Interior Design, Architecture, Early Childhood Education, and Film students.

Completed chair

Constructed desk imagined inside the school built by the architecture students

Process sketches

Concept sketch

MULTI-SPECIES HOUSE Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop | Drawn in Autocad | Built by hand and with laser cutter

Multi-species dwelling unit that houses a young family and wild Jack Rabbits that are common to Calgary.

Master bathroom interior

Front view peering inside the site

Site view

Physical Model

Floor plan

Rabbit’s-eye view

LUCID PAVILION Modelled in Grasshopper for Rhinoceros | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

Plastic translucent beach pavilion designed as abstract shell.

Perspective

Material iterations

Side view

Interior view

Aerial view

ROC KET CONDOS Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

As an alternative to dumping subway cars into waterways or disassembling them for recycling, this project proposes repurposing retired subway cars into condominiums.

Street view

Dining and living area

Typical bedroom

Courtyard view

ROC KET CONDOS Drawn in Autocad | Rendered in Illustrator | Modeled in Autocad | Rendered in 3DS Max | Edited in Photoshop

The subway cars used on the main floor of the building provides commercial opportunities, while the units above are large enough for one to three bedroom condominiums.

Section of one bedroom unit

Two bedroom floor plan

Ground floor plan

One bedroom floor plan

Three bedroom floor plan

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