JOAO PEDRO ELLERY ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2020
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
TABLE OF CONTENTS STUDIO HEL 9000 SANDBOX LABIRINTO DIA BEACON: MATTA CLARK
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TECHNICAL DIVA HALL OUTHOUSE
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INDEPENDENT + RESEARCH VERTIGO FULLONICA CRIT REINCARNATION
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HEL 9000
URBAN DATA CENTER ARC 207 - FALL 2018 This studio project attempts to examine three typically unrelated conditions of: the city, data centers, and towers. These issues are of the utmost importance today, when information and technology are developing at extremely fast rates. If they aren’t investigated by architects now, these topics can become problematic to future conditions concerning the built environment. My proposal projects a dystopian scenario where data center towers are sold to large corporations as commercial goods that represent the company’s corporate power. HEL 9000 is one unit of a series of Data Center Towers found in the modern city. These units help centralize data and improve server connections and speed by moving away from the countryside. The HEL 9000 unit is a good that provides 100% efficiency in the maintenance and powering of data servers. HEL 9000 will be delivered with a working unit who will live and work within the limits of the tower.
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PRESENT-DAY RENDER
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SPECULATIVE RENDER
GHOSTED AXONOMETRIC
AXONOMETRIC OF DIFFERENT “BREATHING” PHASES
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ASSEMBLY AXONOMETRIC
FLOOR PLANS
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SANDBOX
CONCRETE + STEEL SCHOOL ARC 208 - SPRING 2019 This project explores the design of a concrete manufacturing + steel wielding school in the Syracuse Skytop Quarry site. The focus of the studio was on landscape manipulation within physical, historical, and programatic contexts of site. My project focuses on the relationship between natural and man-made ruins over time. It develops the relationship between pedestrians and school-users, as well as landscape and manmade interventions. The project is divided in three narratives that are in play with each other. 1) The first narrative focuses on the school and its users understanding the activities and history that occured on the site. To do so the building is lodged underground following markings of human “ruins�. 2) Upon emerging from the tunnels, the students are struck with light as they find themselves in a large, open workyard. This space is focused on the physical learning experience and is divided in smaller sections for different activities. These spaces are mobile and can extend into the classrooms dug into the earth. 3) The second narrative is a consequence of the human activity on the site where the pedestrians want to uncover the land to reveal the workings of the school. This mirrors the history of the site and the back and forth between human and natural ruins that cover and uncover each other.
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SPATIAL NARRATIVES
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GROUND PLAN
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UNDERGROUND PLAN
MODEL PHOTOS
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC + SECTIONS
STUDY MODELS PHOTOS
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LABIRINTO
PETIT BRANCH LIBRARY ANNEX ARC 207 - FALL 2018 This project aims to replace the existing Petit Branch Library located near Wescott Street in Syracuse, NY. The neighbourhood has a mostly residential program with a nearby commercial street. Labirinto is formed around 2 narratives: the passing neighbourhood resident, and the library user. Based around 2 courtyards that serve as meeting spaces, the interior space is made up of maze-like corridors that weave around corners and the courtyards. The exterior openings are suggestive of the approach to the building from different streets and their visibility of the library. Where the building is seen, an opening is punched open. Inside, the narrative switches to one that uses light as a guide to program. The wall openings along with courtyard lighting invites the visitors to walk down corridor spaces (filled with bookshelves) with the goal of finding reading nooks, classrooms, and meeting spaces
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AXONOMETRIC
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FRONTAL ELEVATION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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FLOOR PLANS
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DIA BEACON: MATTA CLARK DIA BEACON EXTENDED EXHIBITION ARC 208 - SPRING 2019
This project aimed to extend one exhibition from the DIA Beacon Museum that is located in the same neighbourhood as our site. My exhibition displays the works by Matta Clark. The artworks range from the building scale “cuts” to wall sections ending with 2 dimensional artworks that depict the large scale interventions on houses done by Clark.
My project abstracts and decomposes the narrative of entering a traditional suburban domestic environment by splitting the “house” into 3 components.
The first part of the exhibition invites the visitor to enter a split suburban house, followed by an exhibition space in the backyard that leads to an enclosed reflective pool. The project ends with decomposed walls spread around the garden merging with the land. 22
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GROUND PLAN (top) + SITE PLAN (bottom)
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DIVA HALL
STUDENT CENTER + DAYCARE + OFFICES ARC 322 - FALL 2019 This project aims to design a new student center with a daycare, office space, and cafe in an unocuppied portion of the Syracuse University campus. On top of traditional design goals, DIVA HALL explores strategies of acoustic performance, daylighting strategies, and the manipulation of the site’s ventilation. DIVA HALL is strategically situated on the site to utilize the location’s high ventilation points and maximize incoming sunlight, avoiding the shadows from the neighboring buildings. Being on the Syracuse University campus, the building needed to isolate interior spaces from the bustling and noisy surroundings. Additionally, the HALL adds an enclosed footpath for those entering the building’s first floor and those crossing the surrounding garden. Both the building systems and the design strategies work hand in hand to isolate the intimate and cozy daycare, provide natural daylighting to all rooms, and allow for the manipulation of ventilation devices. DESIGNED WITH: FELIPE BECERRA GOMEZ + ALY ABDEL BAKY + JAKE CONRAD HAYWARD
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ENTRANCE RENDER (top)
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN - EGRESS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN - EGRESS
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LIGHTING TRANSVERSE SECTIONS
SCREEN AXONOMETRIC
LIGHTING LONGITUDINAL SECTION
LONGITUDINAL SECTION + DAYCARE ACOUSTICS
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OUTHOUSE TINY HOUSE DESIGN ARC 222 - FALL 2018
This project aims to design a tiny home for a chosen climate with the goal of compacting architectural components of a home, while understanding building systems tectonics and building performance. This minature house is an advanced iteration of the common house typology. It combines the main ideas of space, circulation and light. The facade of the house is designed using two different layers, a kinetic wooden surface, and the interior shell which is made out of a thicker layer of timber. The exterior shell moves along a railing revealing the windows in the interior layer, which controls the amount of sunlight that is allowed into the house. The two large window panes on either side allow for the user to feel connected to nature. The interior of the house is separated into private and common spaces, which allow for the user to have their own personal space in the small structure. DESIGNED WITH: FELIPE BECERRA GOMEZ + ALY ABDEL BAKY 32
EXTERIOR RENDERING + SITE PLAN
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FLOOR PLANS + DETAILING
WALL SYSTEM DETAILING
NORTH ELEVATION CLOSED - SOUTH ELEVATION OPEN
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INDEPENDENT + RESEARCH
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VERTIGO
RESEARCH + DESIGN OF SHARED/AFFORDABLE HOUSING ARC 307 - FALL 2019 VERTIGO is a rooftop intervention aiming to further connect communities through a multipurpose housing and commercial project. Targeted for students and local residents, VERTIGO connects students of all ages and backgrounds in a megastructure hovering over an existing residential block in the Financial District of New York City. This project was approached through an in-depth analysis of shared housing (Airbnb) and the manner in which spatial agents and arrangements were used and designed to achieve different qualities. From working with these agents, the research then looked at the urban fabric of New York City and investigated unused urban spaces and different ways those spaces could be explored. Upon combining the Airbnb spatial analysis with the unused urban spaces, the city of NY was then seen through the lenses of demographics, zoning, surroinding program, and building codes. Ultimately these analyses lead to VERTIGO, a public and residential extension of a contextualized block into a hovering megastructure. 36
TRANSVERSE SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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BOARD IDENTIFYING POSSIBLE INTERVENTION SITES
AXONOMETRICS OF URBAN ANALYSIS
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ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL AGENTS FROM AIRBNB DATA
ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL AGENTS FROM AIRBNB DATA
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FULLONICA
BUSINESS IDEA DEVELOPMENT + REPRESENTATION INDEPENDENT WORK - JANUARY 2020 This project aimed to develop a strategy for a business in Ancient Rome. Based off research by LUIZA EBOLI, the FULLONICA embraces laundry methods of washing and drying of the time while addressing issues in the service, spatial arrangements, working standards, and public approach. Our design would extend the public streets into a frontal logia where drop-off and pickup services were held. Further back, behind the storage room, a long room (represented above) housed 100 tubs for washing and 3 central pools for further washing (with urine and detergents) and scrubbing. The double height space with open arches allowed for ventilation and lighting to enter and leave the space. These tub spaces were often dark and enclosed, thus keeping the strong stench of urine inside. This design opens the space and improves working conditions for all those involved.
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CRIT
APPLICATION BRAND IDENTITY INDEPENDENT STARTUP PROJECT- SUMMER 2019 CRIT is a startup project founded by Luiza Eboli and I in the Summer of 2019. This project looks at the current feedback and networking situation of architecture schools in the USA. This mobile application aims to tackle issues regarding the lack of feedback from professors, professionals, and colleagues and the absence of interconnectedness between different Universities. PROJECT CONCEPT DEVELOPED WITH: LUIZA MIRANDA CORREA EBOLI 43
REINCARNATION
PEN & INK DRAWING - 42 X 29cm INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE - OCTOBER 2015 44
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