Joseph Caputo Portfolio 2020

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Joseph Caputo Syracuse School of Architecture 2022 jcaputo515@gmail.com 908.307.6457 17 Deerfield Trail, Monmouth Jct., 08852

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Architectual Design: Highline Monolith

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Small House

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Vertical Village

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Byte the Dust

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Representation: Roof

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Column

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Drawings

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Highline Monolith New York, New York Fall 2019, With Astra Sun Prof. Marcos Parga Genetic modification of biological organisms has led to many types of hybrids.

We are able to create new organisms like seedless grapes or increased yield corn that is resistant to pesticides and herbicides as a result of the control humans have over genetics. What genes or characteristics of traditional domesticity and the public sphere can we extract and combine? The new hybrids that result from these combinations can aid in a new human condition.

The current biopolitics of living are outdated and are not responsive to the diversity of lifestyles there are out there. We are redefining the typical way of living through a communal housing project by the Highline in New York City.

Finding new forms of apartment living is crucial for this city living that can create a more community-based living. Looking at New York City we are reconstructing the way that we experience apartment living. This is perceived by taking a monolith and placing it in a previous apartment building and destroying interior walls. Apartments are replaced by movable rooms that can be constructed into bedrooms or living rooms. The monolith is the bringer of creation through destruction and designing new living spaces. Using the Monolith itself to have space to craft these units in any form desired. It has shared bathrooms and kitchens with other families to form force interaction and comingling with other residents. The monolith and building structure is also encased in a metal mesh and ivy to circulate the CO2 and unhealthy immissions of the surrounding air.

The redesign of the apartment complex into this new form is not only to provide a cheaper means of living but also to bring the relationship of the people together. Constructing the community feeling of the suburban within the city living. A revolution of discretion of forced loneliness but to force human collective interaction and self-expression.

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Site Plan 1/32”= 1’ 10’ 25’

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Monolith within Building

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Roof Terrace

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Ground Floor Plan 1/8”= 1’ 50’

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1. Resident Construction workshop 2. Computer fabrication lab 3. Public workshop

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4. Communal Kitchen 5. Communal Bathroom 6. Maintenance room 7. Resident Entrance 8. Garage 9. Housing units

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Chunk Floor Plans Cluster Floor Plan

Cluster Floor Plan

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Customizable pegboard living areas

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Small House

Hershey, Pennsylvania Fall 2018, with Eve Miserlian, Ava Helm, Maryasa Krivitskiy Prof. Bess Krietemeyer The building is situated in Hershey, Pennsylvania in a local green space. The building is designed for a couple escaping from the their lives in the city. The building is a long corridor that transitions from more public to more private.

The long corridor is then broken with a area of window that encompusses the whole exterior. The home is meant to take up very little space and to hide in the landscape. The building is a minimal design and construction in an attempt to blend more with environment and be a blueprint for repitition within similar environments.

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Steel glass frame system

Montana Walnut Sifing 2x8 wooden studs

Pine Wood interior panneling

Hidden Gutter

2 x 8 Double Top Plates

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Steel glass frame system 0.5� Montana Walnut Sifing Water and Air Barrier Behind Sifing Hidden Gutter 2x8 wooden structure Batt Insulation in between the studs Vapor Barrier (Behind Wooden Studs) 0.5� Pine Wood Interior Panneling

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Hidde Gutter

Glass Curtain Wall

Hidde Gutter Reveal/ Drip

North Elevation 1/2”=1’0”

Curtain Wall

Kitchen Island

Steel Window Mullion

Montana Walnut Wood Panneling

Hidde Gutter Reveal/ Drip

West Elevation 1/2”=1’0”

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2”x8” Wood Framing, 16” OC Fiberglass insulation Wood Cladding .5” Plywood .5” Gypsum Board

Bedroom Glass Window Steel Mullion

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Steel Mullion Jamb

1/16” x 3 1/2” Casing Stuff with Glass Fider Insulation

3/4” x 2” Head Extension

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Glass Window Steel Mullion

Stool with Relieved Back pron with Return Mitered Ends 2 x 6 Treated Sill Glass Fiber Sill Sealer Drip

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4” Perforated Pipe Crushed Stone

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Slanded Water Drain

Roof

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2 x 8 Wood Framing

3 1/2” Trim shingles 1 x 3 nailer

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Drywall Ceiling

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Roof Shingles

3 1/2” Trim shingles 1 x 3 nailer Wood Cladding Air Barrier Drywall Ceiling Gypsum Board Recessed Lighting Fixture

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11/16” x 3 1/2” Casing Stuff with Glass Fider Insulation 3/4” x 2” Head Extension

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Glass Window Steel Mullion Stool with Relieved Back Apron with Return Mitered Ends

Hardwood Flooring

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Rosin Paper Water Proofing

Batt Insulation 2 x 6 Treated Sill Concrete Footing Ground

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Vertical Village Bronx, New York Spring 2020, with Karen Chow, Zach Kobi Prof. Angela Co The area of Mott Haven in Bronx, New York has been left in the background and was not given the resources that it needs. During the relocation of the Riker jail into smaller localized jails in each borough of the City. Mott Haven would be one of those locations and would seriously hurt most of the neighborhood.

This apartment complex would take over part of the land near the jail to provide a better building construction that would better the community and help it grow.

This would happen by redefining the townhouse and bring it into a more vertical aspect. The building stacks townhouses onto each other and each townhouse is provided with its own balcony and shared indoor front yard. It not only redefines the ordinary living situation but provides the people of Mott Haven an opportunity to create revenue through renting the other floors of the townhouse. The building also has a community town that the residence will use for various purposes that are laking within the community and space for community meetings.

Constructing this build is providing a space for the community and for the people of Mott Haven that can attempt to counteract the construction of the jail.

While listening to the community and community groups such as Bronx United to get an understanding of the needs of the community and provide that through a building.

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Ground Floor Plan Scale 1”:32’

4th Floor Plan Scale 1”:32’

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5th Floor Plan Scale 1”:32’

11th Floor Plan Scale 1”:32’

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Long Section

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Short Section

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Deconstructed Townhouse Unit Scale 1:16

Floor 3 Young Couple of Floor 2’s extended Family Circulation

Townhouse Axon

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Floor 2 Single Mom with T Grandmother visit

Teenage Daughter (Doting ting from downstairs) Elevation

Floor 1 Grandpa + dog babysitting neighboring kids

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Byte the Dust Castleignion Dorcia, Italy Fall 2020, with Sarah Perrino Prof. Daniele Profetta Loss is tragic, whether it’s due to old age or COVID. No matter the cause of death, mourning is never an easy process. During an era of widespread death, how can the mourning process be improved for a better perception of the afterlife? How can old traditions surrounding death be revitalized?

Byte the Dust is a conglomerate of a funeral home, crematorium, and a cemetery that reinvents these spaces by intertwining humanity, nature, and technology.

There are common mourning practices including a viewing, funeral, and recessional. Italy also practices All Souls Day which celebrates the dead by visiting their grave, tending to it, and leaving gifts. These practices soley involve the human aspect, but Byte the Dust introduces nature and technology.

When someone passes, a funeral will be held at the connected chapel.

Afterwards, the body will be cremated and their ashes will fertilize their plant of choice. The Transition to the LivingUrn, inspired by the plentiful Native Cypress Tree, replaces the old idea of the gravestone and allows life to continue on through nature.

An additional way to keep the dead alive is through technology. Through the power of Artificial Intelligence, one’s digital footprint will inspire a script for a film. With each death, a new character is added to the film and helps make the AI smarter. The movie will be different each year for a new tradition to look forward to on All Souls Day. Through this unique program, the community can come together and help the dead live on through memories, plants, and AI movies .This redefines the afterlife and All Souls Day. The intertwining of humans, nature, and technology reconnect the living with the dead.

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TECHNOLOGY - the AI lab inherits one’s digital footprint and turns it into a script for the movie set to produce which is then previewed in the movie theatre over several screens to encapsulate multiple stories.

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Recording Set

Theater

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HUMAN - Byte the Dust offers alternative ways to process loss, but the traditional grieving and mourning is accounted for through therapeutic offices and mourning platforms that reconnect the living with the dead.

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Offices

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NATURE - after death the body will go through an autopsy, cremation, and compost so it can return to the living as nature.

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Exploded Chunk

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Roofs Spring 2018 Prof. Molly Hunker This was a process of taking the standard forms of roofs and abstracting them. I used gable and pitched roofs and then started to abstracted these roofs to the point where they are harder to read. These roofs are meant to push ower understand of what a roof could be and how we may be able to use those thoughts in the design process.

Panel Grid Gradient Variable offset point

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ARC182: Representa�on II

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons

Exercise 04B: Matrix as Surface (Extrac�on) Joseph Caputo TA: Arman and Meghan

ARC182: Representa�on II

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 04A: Non- Planar Joseph Caputo TA: Arman and Meghan

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Columns Spring 2018 Prof. Molly Hunker These are another abstraction of an object. This is an abstraction on a Doric column. The abstraction of this column is consistent with the roof condition. Taking it the point that it is almost unknown but still able to identify that it is a column. It is designed so that when it comes to design you do not forget to think outside the box.

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2 Rvolutions

2 Extrusions

1 Extrusion 1 Revolution

1 Extrusion 1 Revolution 2 Rvolutions

ARC182: Representa�on II

2 Extrusions

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 02B Joseph Caputo TA: Arman and Maghan

Loft 1

Loft 2

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Loft 5 Loft 4

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Loft 6

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 02B Joseph Caputo TA; Arman and Meghan

Sweep 1

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Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 02B Joseph Caputo TA: Arman and Maghan

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KitARC182: of PartsRepresenta�on II

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 02D: Kit-of-Parts

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Unfolded

ARC182: Representa�on II

Building Facts / Building Fic�ons Exercise 02D: Seaming / Unfolding Joseph Caputo section 1 TA: Arman and Meghan section 2 section 3

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Cerial Section ARC182: Representa�on II

Drawings Fall 2017 These are just some of the drawing that I wanted to focus on. The one to the right is a crumbed piece of paper on a table. The paper represents throw away ideas that never became a reality. The second peice is a recreation of the Piranesi drawing. His drawing really focus on a unreallistic scale but the drawings give you a better understanding of perspective.

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Joseph Caputo Syracuse School of Architecture 2022 jcaputo515@gmail.com 908.307.6457

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17 Deerfield Trail, Monmouth Jct., 08852