Hallie Meyer - First Year Portfolio

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Syracuse University 2022-2023

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marching band showcase

movement studies

architectural drawings

personal works

-08 -12 -14 -20

the syracuse pocket

marching band showcase

studio guide:

Prof. Terrance Goode, First Year Design Studio, Fall 2022 site:

84’ x 84’

Temperate Climate

brief:

Create an exhibition pavilion for between four to six musical instruments. Concepts including observing and recording sequentially experienced architectural spaces, and the unifying architecture and its setting through treating both as part of a continuous spatial field experience to be explored.

Carnegie Library - done in collaboration with Pamela Ituarte Camera.

first draft:

tuba display & interaction room materials:

foam core & copper wire

first iteration: Full instrument pavilion & performance center

ideas:

Beginnings of the use of the pinwheel as a design tactic.

inspiration:

Mies van der Rohe’s

The Brick Country House (1924)

Theo van Doesburg

Rhythm of a Russian Dance (1918)

& the work of Anni Albers

second iteration:

Full instrument pavilion & performance center materials:

bristol board & museum board

ideas:

Iterating the pinwheel with the courtyard/stage at the center .

inspiration:

Louis Kahn

Exeter Library (1971)

the final pavilion:

Designed to house six instruments commonly found in marching bands and hold shows and interactive exhibits

ideas:

The pinwheel as an organization and movement strategy. Used pavement, roof structure, and narrow halls to enforce further ideas about movement and directionality, Just as marching bands focus on movement and rhythm during performances. The center acts as a smaller stage space while the outdoors feature a large unobstructed path for bigger performances.

materials:

museum board, plywood sticks, polystyrene, foam, foam core, copper wire

renders:

top left : display hall

top right : interactive room

bottom row : back arbor/exit

final illustration:

Prof. Aurelie Frolet, Representation I, Fall 2022

Color palette taken from Knot by Anni Albers

movement studies

studio guides:

Prof. Terrance Goode (2022) & Prof. Iman Fayyad (2023), First year Design Studio, Fall 2022Spring 2023

my water bottle (2022):

The purpose of this project was to study an object used in everyday life and its movement while being used. I studied the swing of my water bottle from the handle as I walked.

top : movement envelope (pencil)

bottom : movement animation (pencil & colored pencil)

take out or get in (2023): get in : chronophotograph & study

take out : chronophotograph & study

The purpose of this project was to study yourself in motion using an everyday-appliance in two ways: one being the “normal” way (ie. taking a coat from a closet), and the other being a misuse (ie. getting in a closet). I then digitally tracked the movement of my body through the space.

confined (2023):

I used the idea of confinement to create a spatial sequence. I focused on a spiral as it is the only shape that ends in its center. A ramp sloping up toward the middle adds to the sense of confinement.

materials:

CNC mill, foam, chipboard

inspiration:

Richard Serra

Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres (2001)

Barbara Hepworth

Pendour (1951)

architectural drawings

studio guide: Prof. Aurelie Frolet, Representation I, Fall 2022

brief:

Works physically produced for a variety of different projects for Representation I.

materials: black and white charcoal

materials:

pencil

inspirations:

Cuthbert of Cockpool

Comlongon Castle (15c.)

Richard Diebenkorn

Ocean Park No.63 (1973)

personal works

brief:

Art works created during my time in high school and afterward in my spare time. Before deciding on architecture, I always had a love for drawing and painting.

materials:

p.15 : colored pencil

p.16 : black & white charcoal, ballpoint pen

materials:

pencil, digital medium, scratchboard

materials: college brochures & letters

materials:

p.19 : spray paint & handmade stencil, digital medium, watercolor

p.20 : colored pencil

precedentstudy delft montessori school

studio guide: Prof. Iman Fayyad, First Year Design Studio, Spring 2023

precedent:

Herman Hertzberger

the Delft Montessori School

brief:

Study a modular building from the past and evaluate it based on accessibility for different user groups. Work with a partner to create an aperture (or focal window) within the existing building framework. Redesign or edit the existing building to make it more accessible for a specific group/groups of people.

initial studies:

In my initial studies of the Delft Montessori School by Herman Hertzberger, I focused on identifying the purposes and intentions behind each room and their placement. Through this, I could begin to identify the different user groups of the building and which rooms/areas were more-suited toward each group. Due to the buildings status as a montessori school, I found it important to quickly identify spaces tailored to a child’s scale and needs versus spaces made for adults/teachers.

aperture:

Working in collaboration with Mehmet Ali Ozturk, we identified an area lacking in natural light and that didn’t fit into Hertzberger’s language. We then created in that area a space that emphasized the difference between child and adult scale. We created a series of boxes that followed the logic and design of Hertzberger’s windows with similar mullion ratios and skylight continuations. However, each box decreased in 2ft increments, starting at 8ft and decreasing until it was 4ft tall (with aligning door sizes). Similar to other areas of the school, this made it so there was an area for students to emphasize the idea of the school being “their own little city”. We then added an outdoor area that followed the logic of an existing outdoor area at the entrance of the building.

ada redesign:

In my redesign, I focused on the narrow halls, random obstructions, and changing floor levels within the classrooms. My redesign expanded the grid on which the classrooms sat and added ramps that followed Hertzberger’s original modular logic. Making it so non-abled body people could experience the building easily and efficiently.

the tower

studio guide:

Prof. Terrance Goode, First year Design Studio, Fall 2022 materials:

chipboard & spray paint brief: For this project, I had to come up with a list of rules to follow to make a 9 inch tall tower. My rules were as follows:

“Using only rectangles, extrude and/or stack the forms to create a 9 inch tower that adheres to a 3 by 3 grid, with the rectangular forms aligning at the edges of the grid lines. In the empty space between the rectangular forms, square forms must be implied/seen, either through carving or careful placement.”

digital design work

studio guide: Prof. Joel Kerner, Representation II, Spring 2023 brief: Works digitally produced for a variety of different projects.

the syracuse pocket

studio guide:

Prof. Iman Fayyad, First Year Design Studio, Spring 2023 site:

Syracuse, NY

Corner of Crouse St & E Genessee St

Temperate Climate

total site area : 15,400 sq ft.

buildable area : 10,500 sq ft.

brief:

Create a youth hostel to go on a site in the Syracuse area using a modular shape, or “tile” as the main organizational strategy. The hostel must meet a variety of program requirements in addition to having an “x-factor” program feature to serve the residents and/or the Syracuse community.

ideas:

To encourage residents to communicate with one another, part of each room will be designated hall space that when joined with other room modules becomes long large gathering halls.

original single room plan

tile explorations: A study of my original module and how it fits into itself.

program studies:

Building on the above explorations, I began formatting my hostel rooms according to required square footage requirements and program requirements.

tile explorations in 3D:

To further study my module, I cut out eight wood tiles and began arranging them in many different ways. After finding an arrangement I liked, I traced the exposed edges with a colored marker materials:

wood, scroll cutter, black paint, paint markers

the pocket:

After testing my shape in numerous ways, I found I was drawn to the negative shapes it created. I began to play with the idea of pockets of open air space that could run throughout the whole building. I then tested different plans and mixing the order of the floors using physical massing models. materials:

chipboard, laser cutter, paint

the final hostel:

The hostel sits 4ft within the earth and is three floors high. It has 48 beds total, and can hold up to 100 people in its largest room. Its key features are a daycare, an outdoor amphitheater, and its 2 central courtyards, or pockets. These spaces are designed to aid in communication, connection with nature, and community.

program explanation:

The central courtyards serve as the anchor points for the hostel. All program elements branch off from the pockets and try to provide a different view point of the nature inside the pockets. The 3rd and 2nd floor are fairly similar to preserve equity throughout all floors. Single rooms are specifically placed to preserve quiet and privacy, but also provide opportunities for conversation with neighbors.

ROOM/KITCHEN

materials:

chipboard, laser cutter, babies breath, foamcore inspiration:

Douglas Cardinal National Museum of the American Indian (2004)

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN