Fall 2023 Portfolio

portfolio

CLASS OF 2027 B.ARCH CANDIDATE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 2022 - 2023

HALLIE MEYER

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FIND ME:

hpmeyer@syr.edu

www.linkedin.com/in/halliemeyer

https://issuu.com/hpmeyer/docs/fall2023portfolio

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PROFILE:

My name is Hallie Meyer and I am a diligent and adaptable creative looking for opportunities to connect with design professionals.

I am currently a 2nd Year student at the Syracuse University School of Architecture with a minor in Applied Anthropology. In my education, I strive to explore the histories and cultures of people around the world and the built environments that shelter them. Through this course of study, I hope to grow my knowledge of past to then apply to modern day issues.

Coupled with my value of the past, I emphasize and incorporate analog methods of design just as much as digital ones. Using hand sketches and film photography, I bring my ideas to fruition and document them with the same intentsity.

I am keen to work in a setting where the political and social implications of a project are heavily explored. I value reflections on history and varied aesthetics for a wide ranging audience.

MUSIC SHOWCASE

SYRACUSE POCKET

PERSONAL WORKS

PRECEDENT STUDIES

BEACON

SHIFTING SANDS 6.

pg. 01-08

pg. 35-36

pg. 09-16

pg. 25-28

pg. 17-24

pg. 29-34

syracuse pocket

FIRST YEAR STUDIO - SPRING 2023

MODULAR/TILE STUDIES

STUDIO GUIDE SITE

Professor Iman Fayyad

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.

ORIGINAL SINGLE ROOM PLAN

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.

TILE EXPLORATIONS:

A study of my original module and how it fits into itself to form rooms.

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, belt sander, 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.

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

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.

INTERIOR RENDERS

INSPIRATION

Douglas Cardinal National Museum of the American Indian (2004)

precedent studies

DELFT MONTESSORI SCHOOL - HERMAN HERZTBERGER

INITIAL PROGRAM STUDIES

Professor Iman Fayyad

STUDIO GUIDE INFO BRIEF

Delft, Netherlands 1960 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.

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.

FURTHER PROGRAM/SITE STUDIES

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.

OVERLAY DEMO PLAN

RENDER OF ADA REDESIGN

precedent studies

HATHIGAON - RMA

COLLABORATION

WITH DALIA JIHA UNROLLED SECTION

SECTION OF ROOF CONDITION

Professor Marcos Parga

STUDIO GUIDE INFO BRIEF

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 2018

Conduct an analysis of an architectural precedent with a unique and strong relationship to site. Focus analysis around issues specific to site, context, and change over time. Study the spatial logics and characteristics that emerge from each building’s relationship to ground, as well as the building’s relationship to broader cultural, environmental, and material contexts.

In our studies of Hathiagon, we found that the plan was organized through the repetition and rotation of the same rectangular module. Within that module, the paths of the elephants, the visitors, and the caretakers were all carefully considered so that they would not overlap. In section, we found that RMA used the strategy of building from the ground, and enclosing the ground structures with a light metal roof.

EXPLANATION OF PLAN MODULARITY

MATERIALITY AXONOMETRIC

FURTHER EXPLANATION OF PLAN MODULARITY

shifting sands

AN EXPLORATION OF DUNE MOVEMENT VS. LAND POLITICS IN THE WESTERN SAHARA

Prof. Marcos Parga

Dalia Jiha

BRIEF

For this project, we were asked to study the architectural and political implications of a natural landform (the dune). We found that dunes are constantly moving and forming due to wind. Considering that most dunes are in desert contexts, we began looking into the highly disputed desert territory of the Western Sahara. We tracked the movement of the dunes versus the different wars and conflicts that occur in the area. Our findings pointed out the irony of fighting over a territory that constantly moves and shifts.

DIAGRAM OF CONFLICT

MODEL EXPLANATION

This model plays with the idea of a diorama and how its essentially a 3D still life that can only be looked at from the front, as the back reveals of the complexity of the creation of the diorama. The model is a black box that can be opened from the front or back. From the front you see all the complex issues going on in the Western Sahara but without explanation. The back gives an explanation and forces the viewers of the diorama to see the entirety of my research process.

BOX

MATERIALS

CLOSED

OPEN FRONT

OPEN BACK

Wood, band-saw, belt sander, laser cutter, acrylic paint, paper.

DUNE MAP ABSTRACTION PROCESS

After studying the dune formation process and the conflict of the Western Sahara, I began to abstract a map of the dune formations in the Western Sahara using a process similar to the use of the Western Sahara land. Ergo, different competing groups find a resource they want, then they try to divide the land into territory, and then they expand using industrialism to cultivate land resources.

FINAL DUNE MAP ABSTRACTION

Once the abstract dune map was created, a thick black line (or scar) was drawn over-top, representing the division of the land and also simultaneously touching each element of the abstraction process.

POINT OF INTEREST

From there, it became clear that there was a unique point of interest within the dune map, where every part of the abstraction (find, divide, expand) was occurring and overlapping.

VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE SCAR

This final drawing is meant the illustrate the futility and damage of physical land divisions. The scar cuts through the desert landscape, destroying dunes that overtime will return and submerge it. Its purpose would be to act as a superhighway, with two sides to separate the user groups of the desert completely. Separated through horizontal beam slats, user groups may now have the land to themselves, but ultimately cannot experience it to the fullest due to the walls they have constructed.

INSPIRATION

Sam Jacobs-“Against Nature”, Superstudio-”Continuous Monument”

FINAL 3D MODEL

The final model further represents the idea of physical land divisions ruining nature. It is essentially an extended zen garden in the shape of the point of interest. Instead of a rake, the zen garden is arranged using construction vehicles. The entire model depicts the process of division through construction.

MATERIALS

Wood, band-saw, belt sander, acrylic paint, plastic trucks, sand, rocks.

music showcase

FIRST YEAR STUDIO - FALL 2022

SPACIAL EXPERIENCE COLLAGE

Professor Terrance Goode

STUDIO GUIDE SITE BRIEF

Temperate Climate

Total Site Area: 7,056 sq ft.

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.

COLLABORATION WITH PAMELA ITUARTE CAMERA

ITERATION

Full instrument pavilion and performance center

Louis Kahn - Exeter Library (1971)

FINAL PAVILION

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

EXPLANATION

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.

INSPIRATION

Mies van der Rohe-The Brick Country House (1924)

Theo van Doesburg-Rhythm of a Russian Dance (1918) & the work of Anni Albers

FINAL MODEL

MATERIALS

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

beacon

SECOND YEAR STUDIO - FALL

2023

BEACON AT NIGHT

BRIEF

STUDIO GUIDE SITE

Syracuse, NY

Labrador Hollow Unique Area

Hang Glider Launch

Microclimate-Similar to High Mountain Adirondacks Bog

Total Site Area: 40,000 sq ft.

Buildable Area : 11,500 sq ft.

Design a hiking hut that will act as a guest house and community center. It should be a social hub for hikers, backpackers, hang gliding enthusiasts, and locals. The project will explore new ways of understanding tourism and its impact on the landscape, the potential of community management initiatives, local resources, and cultural traditions in promoting circularity and social revitalization, and how architecture can play a role in fostering and sustaining such approaches. The Hut will test new spatial strategies, concepts, and approaches for shaping small-scale developments in architecture towards decarbonization and ecological transition.

Professor Marcos Parga

PLANS

EXPLANATION OF PLANS

The section organization process was split between two levels. The first floor is more public facing spaces while the bottom level is exclusively rooms and gardening space. On the bottom level, the transition area/garden area is part of the existing labrador hollow slope, so visitors can experience the hill side view year round.

EXPLANATION

The Beacon is essentially a community center/hotel within a greenhouse, within a microclimate. Visitors can choose to sleep overnight in a room or in the covered greenery or even on the flat roof space. The interior is kept at a constant warm temperature year round for gardening and enabling year round visits to the Beacon as Labrador Hollow itself is often too cold to camp at. To encourage visitors to revisit and help the surrounding Labrador Hollow Community, local environmentalists and farmers will be asked to come and host weekly seminars.

WINTER AXON

During the winter, the Beacon is completely enclosed to facilitate a warm and environmentally efficient environment

SUMMER AXON

During the summer, the Beacon is opens up the roof hatches and large glider doors to encourage air circulation and the circulation of hikers throughout the structure.

MEANING OF THE “BEACON”

Year round the Beacon will act as a lighthouse for nearby lost or seeking shelter hikers. Through the use of frosted polycarbonate and 24-hour greenhouse lighting, the building will always emit an ethereal glow. The main idea behind the Beacon is to act as an oasis in the face of the cold Labrador Hollow microclimate.

UNCOVERED FINAL MODEL

MATERIALS

museum board, plywood sheets, acyrlic paint, wood stain, polystyrene, foam, cnc mill, laser cutter, fake moss, babies breath, pine tree branches

personal works

STILL LIFE | 2022 COLORED PENCIL

SHED IN RUINS | 2021 SCRATCH BOARD

END OF THE LINE | 2020 CHARCOAL

WORKING HEROES | 2022 PENCIL

SHAPE UP | 2023 DIGITAL (ILLUSTRATOR+RHINO)