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JLII

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a collection of creative work by

JOHN LUCAS II

CONTENTS UNDERGRADUATE

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PROFESSIONAL 44 46 48 TRAVEL SKETCHES 52 ARTWORK 64

INCISA SCHOOL ONONDAGA LAKE LABORATORY E-WASTE CENTER FIRENZE MAP ARCHIVE LYMAN LIBRARY VILLA PHIDIAS MODERN VERNACULAR LITE MACHINES AIT LABORATORIES GNUZOO ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE DRAWING/PAINTING

UNDERGRADUATE 2007 - 2012

INCISA SCHOOL INCISA, ITALY

Begun as a group project to help determine a concept for the growing

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city, it was found that the existing infrastructure was no longer sufficient to transport both pedestrians and vehicles.

INCISA | EXPECTED

INCISA | CURRENT

The group decided it was best to move

INCISA | RELIEF Initial diagrams in collaboration with Lina B., Carol V., Pasradis D.

the pedestrian traffic through the site for safety. This move offered the opportunity to provide a new civic center for the community to grow around.

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NEW PIAZZA

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PIAZZA TRANSITION

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PIAZZA ENVELOPE

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SITE PLAN

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PIAZZA (V-RAY/PHOTOSHOP) CHIPBOARD MODEL

(NEXT PAGE) PIAZZA LANDSCAPE BUILDING THRESHOLD FLOOR PLANS PROGRAM ALIGNMENTS ATHLETICS ADMINISTRATION CLASSROOMS

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The project called for a combined school and community center. Initially conceived, the piazza became a public center for the city enclosed by the area of the school. Splitting the required program among athletics, classrooms, and administration, the school is able to promote education while also generating flexibility among programs that could be useful to the community.

Circulating through the site, the terrain becomes useful in generating security among the programs. Academic related programs are moved to the upper end of the site while the community piazza and other public programs are moved to the lower edge.

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NEXT PAGE- CLASS PIAZZA (V-RAY/PHOTOSHOP)

HALLWAY

GYMNASIUM ENTRY

EXPLODED AXON

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PIAZZA PATHWAY

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SITE PLAN

BUILDING CIRCULATION PROGRAM ALIGNMENT

CIRCULATION

LEISURE LEARNING

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BUSINESS

ONONDAGA LAKE LABORATORY SYRACUSE, NEW YORK Onondaga Lake on the edge of Syracuse, New York has been classified as one of the most polluted lakes in the world. The Lake Laboratory is thus tasked to not only research how to

SOUTH ELEVATION

correct this problem, but also to educate the public on how the pollution affects the ecosystem outside of the lake water itself.

The complexity of the site reveals it as a park that also has the attention of an interstate system nearby. Anchored

VIEWS

REGULATING LINES

at the north edge of Onondaga Lake, the laboratory designed as a filtration system. Filtering water, sunlight and occupants, the building separates tasks from interfering with one another.

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LAKESIDE VIEW

WOODEN MODEL NORTH EAST CORNER SOUTH ELEVATION FIRST FLOOR INTERIOR

CHIPBOARD MODEL

NORTH ENTRY VIEW TOWARDS SYRACUSE EAST ELEVATION

LONG SECTION

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Conceptually the building is designed to show moments of effect.

The public is revealed to the issues of pollution through the documentation of the museum portion. The research portion employs a lab oriented design.

The sustainability of the project lies in its ability to filter harmful elements and distill them into their most useful attributes. Therefore water is cleaned and used for toilets and wetlands.

Sunlight is shaded to allow light without generating unnecessary heat buildup.

The entire project becomes a model of awareness.

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CHIPBOARD MODEL

FIRST FLOOR PLAN GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SKETCH MODELS

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PRODUCTION LINE L E-WASTE GALL GALLERY NORTH ELEVATION ELEVAT

FIRST FLOOR PLAN P

NORTH ELEVATION CROSS SECTION

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E-WASTE CENTER SYRACUSE, NEW YORK Modern technology has allowed great advances in information; however the constant evolution of technology fosters the limitation of older equipment.

In order to recapture the benefits of technological advances it is necessary to recycle older equipment for components that can be repurposed into newer units.

Placed near the Inner Harbor of Syracuse, the recycling center not only becomes a model of sustainability, PRELIMINARY SKETCHES

but also of awareness. Revealing the recycling process shows the benefit of its use. The more people know about how to dispose of their older hardware the more likely they are to dispose of it correctly.

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PUBLIC | PRIVATE

SYRACUSE WASTE TRANSITION WOODEN MODEL

AREA OF INFLUENCE

CIRCULATIONS

GREEN SPACE

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The recycling center is pieced together as a museum, recovery center, and research center. In order to make the public aware of other possibilities with technology the assembly line of the recycling center is revealed. This allows people the opportunity to see how things are built. and what components are necessary for technology to operate.

The sustainable operation of the facility is coupled with the overall design.

In order to capitalize on the climate of Syracuse, the facility uses public spaces as buffer zones to the actual production spaces. Thus sunlight and heat can be captured and transferred where they are needed.

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FIRENZE MAP ARCHIVE FLORENCE, ITALY Maps are a crucial piece used to decode history. However the meticulous need for preservation requires spaces to provide a pleasant environment without harming the materials inside. Therefore the concept of antinomy, the existence of an object is based on the existence of another is used. In this case, form and show are utilized. The form casts the necessary shadow on the maps which thus creates the form of the building.

Focusing on the darkness of a theatre the map stacks are organized around a central shadow. More active programs are oriented towards the river to benefit from the daylight and to displace the effects of shadows.

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SITE PLAN

LONG SECTION CROSS SECTION SUN/SHADOW DIAGRAMS

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VIEW TOWARDS FLORENCE

LIBRARY STACKS

MAP CAFE (PHOTOSHOP/SKETCHUP) FLOOR PLANS

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LYMAN LIBRARY SYRACUSE, NEW YORK The limited space for stacks on the campus of Syracuse has forced the individual schools to find space for specific subjects. Housing information for the life sciences school, Lyman Hall has a perfect need to fill in its form.

Lyman Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus, is a typical hallway planned building. One central hallway provides circulation to all the rooms on either side of it. With new desires to embrace the circulation of a library the new addition pulls circulation elements to the exterior of the library. This allows more space for the stacks while simultaneously reversing the role of circulation in buildings.

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN READING ROOM VIEW EXTERIOR STAIRWAY VIEW (PHOTOSHOP/HAND SKETCH)

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EXPLODED CONCEPTS ENVELOPE CIRCULATION PROGRAM ADJACENCY STRUCTURE

VIEW NORTHWEST (PHOTOSHOP/HAND SKETCH)

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VIEW NORTHEAST

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

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MODEL VIEWS

CROSS SECTION

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FOAM MODEL

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PAINTING LAYERING

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SITE PLAN

CHIPBOARD MODEL

VILLA PHIDIAS

FINGER LAKES, NEW YORK Designed as a combination PAINTING ROTATION

PROJECT ROTATION

of parts, Villa Phidias is based upon the diagrammatic understanding of a painting. Given “Figure on a Porch� by Richard Diebenkorn, the project first begins to layout the regulating lines of the painting. Around the horizon the painting began rotating upon itself.

Concurrently a large regulating line was found to be the focal point of the painting. This helped in design of the landscape as the lines began to show highs and lows within the painting.

Combining the rotation and focal line of the painting, the project was given a strategy in how to go about actually designing the home.

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In order to connect the buildings together, the house is built with a series

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of courtyards that push and pull around the axis of rotation. As the building rises from the landscape its courtyard pushes into it. However to maintain the importance of this axis residents are not revealed its presence until the final approach. Therefore as people move through the landscape they are shielded from the final view of the project until the last moment when they are on axis and looking down to the water. At that final moment the project becomes more than a house; it becomes an experience.

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SECTIONAL MODEL VIEWS

FIGURE’S VIEW

BRUSH STROKES

LANDSCAPE LINES

LANDSCAPE SLOPES

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MODERN VERNACULAR PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The Dominican Republic has a rich history of community among its

COMMUNITY HOTSPOTS

DENSITY OVERLAPS

RESIDENCE PRODUCTION

MAJOR TOPOGRAPHY

HIGH-DENSITY RESIDENCE

FLEXIBILITY

MINOR LANDSCAPING

CIRCULATION

COMMUNITY PRODUCTION

residents. In order to modernize the community for a more vacation oriented group, the community of Punta Cana is developed upon the flexibility of relations. Built near an underutilized golf course the community is split among differing size requirements. Each unit is capable of holding a family, but its true potential is revealed through the connection with other units.

Therefore as vacation families vary in number so to can the community of which they are a part. No matter the size, each community has the ability to grow and shrink with its occupants.

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MASTER SITE PLAN

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PUBLIC COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY ENTRANCE

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PRIVATE COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY (RHINO/V-RAY/PHOTOSHOP)

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Elevations of the community PRIVATE ELEVATION

units are based upon the density of the occupants. Therefore edge communities not only have fewer residents, but they also have lower sites. This allows the larger and denser units to get a view past the edge communities. Useful for any developer, the need to showcase

COMBINED RESIDENCE

amenities is a major benefit to attracting more visitors.

COMMUNITY SECTION 1

COMMUNITY SECTION 2

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PROFESSIONAL 2009 - 2011

LITE MACHINES LAFAYETTE, INDIANA Designed for a client that builds aerodynamic prototypes, the building based on the circular rotations of a helicopter’s rotors.

The large north-faced skylights offer natural daylighting while shielding direct light from the south. The design has undergone a vast number of alterations in order to both meet the needs of the client and keep the project with in budget.

ENTRANCE ELEVATION

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produced for Keystone Architecture Inc.

VIEW FROM STREET

FLOOR PLAN

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produced for Keystone Architecture Inc.

AIT LABORATORIES INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Years ago, I worked on schematic

BUILDING PHOTOS

designs to show the client possibilities for the design. After a series of designs, the labs were fitted with conference rooms and skylights. This offered the building a break from the sterile environment of a medical facility, After a

SITE PLAN CAFETERIA SKETCH CORRIDOR SKETCH

few last minute changes, the design was on its way to a 2011 completion.

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GNU ZOOLEGGERS LAFAYETTE, INDIANA

produced for Keystone Architecture Inc.

Designed as a new bar and night club, the clients wanted to visualize what their existing carriage house could become. Maintaining the major spaces and constructing new interior partitions, the design is a reflection of contemporary influence.

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WALL COLORS (REVIT)

DANCE FLOOR / STAIRWAY

MEZZANINE FLOOR PLAN

MEZZANINE

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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TRAVEL SKETCHES 2011

SANTA CROCE FLORENCE, ITALY

FACADE CONSTRUCTION

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SECTION/PLAN SECT SE C IO ION/ N/PL PLAN AN AXONOMETRIC AXO XONO N ME M TR T IC I

SANTA MARIA NOVELLA FLORENCE, ITALY

FACADE CONSTRUCTION

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PIAZZA SAN PIETRO/COLOSSEUM ROME, ITALY

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FIGURE GROUND

SECT SE CTIO ION/ IO N/ /PL P AN A AXONOMETRIC AXO ONO OME M TR TRIC IC C SECTION/PLAN

GEOMETRY GE OM MET TRY GEOMETRY

FIGU FI GURE GU RE GROUND RE GROUN RO OUN ND FIGURE

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CO CONTEXT ONT NTEX EX XT ENVELOPE EN E NVE VELO OPE PE

SECTION/PLAN SE ECT C IO ON N/ /PL P AN N AXONOMETRIC AXO XONO NOME NO ME ETR TRIC IC C

COLOSSEUM COLO CO L SS LO S EU EUM M AND A D AN PIAZZA PIIAZ AZZA ZA A FITTING FIT TTI T NG

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DUOMO/CHIESA SAN. ANNUNZIATA FLORENCE, ITALY

SAN SA N ANNUNZIATA ANN NNUN UNZI UN ZIA ZI ATA VIEW ATA VIEW VI EW W SAN.

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FIGURE GROUND

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S SAN SA SAN. AN N A ANN ANNUNZIATA NN NUN UNZI U Z ATA ZIAT ZI ATA

BAPTISTRY

PIAZZA CONTEXT

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PANTHEON ROME, ITALY

SECTION

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ELEVATION

PLAN

SECTION/PLAN SECT SE CTIO ION/ N/PL P AN AXONOMETRIC PL AXO XONO NOME M TR ME TRIC IC

CASA DEL FASCIO COMO, ITALY

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ATRIUM DAYLIGHTING

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SAN GEORGIO/IL REDENTORE VENICE, ITALY

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AXIALITY Y

SECTION/PLAN AXON

PIAZZA STAIRCASE NAPLES, ITALY

SECTIONAL SECT SE CTIO IONA NAL AXONOMETRIC AX XON O O OM MET ETRI RC RI

FACADE

GEOMETRY

REPETITION

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ARTWORK 2004 - 2010

PERSONAL MURAL

ORIGAMI YIN YANG (COLORED PENCILS)

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PERSONAL COLLAGE (GRAPHITE)

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STILL LIFE

BLANKET APPLE (PASTEL) DUM BLOCKS (WATERCOLOR) FARMHOUSE (PASTEL)

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999 CRANES (PAPER)

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FIGURE DRAWING

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STILL LIFE 1 (GRAPHITE) STILL LIFE 2 (GRAPHITE) CONTOURED SHEETS (COLORED PENCIL) WOMAN SITTING (GRAPHITE)

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ICONS

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KING TUT MASK (GRAPHITE)

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES (GRAPHITE) OBAMA (ACRYLIC)

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CONTOUR LINE

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CONTOURED OUTLET (GRAPHITE) BROKEN OUTLET (GRAPHITE) WALL OUTLET (GRAPHITE)

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PORTRAITS

FIGURE 1 (GRAPHITE) FIGURE 2 (GRAPHITE)

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BROTHERLY LOVE (COLORED PENCIL)

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John Lucas II Portfolio 2011