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JOSEPH MOZDZANOWSKI FIRST YEAR STUDIO 2017
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1B. CONTENT 1C. 2A. 2B.
PARTS AND WHOLES
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ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN ANALYSIS 8-13
DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING -
URBAN ARCHITECTONICS 14-17
SKINS AND BONES IN THE CITY 18-22
PARTS AND WHOLES 1A In the Parts and Wholes investigation I created an object which would address the impact of a whole on its constituent parts and the second object addresses the cumulative impact of assembling individual parts into a whole.
John Wood, Royal Crescent Housing, Bath, England, 1774 Aerial view of townhouses
Object 1: Part to whole
Repetition
90 degree rotation
Mirror and Rotation
Mirror
PARTS AND WHOLES 1A Whole to part. In whole to part students drew lines which were perpendicular and parralel to the shapes outer geometry. Students then selected three drawings which they deemed most succesfull and drew them back into the initial geometry of shapes.
ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN ANALYSIS 1.B
This exercise asked students to perform two explorations; one reguarding a formal architectural analysis of buildings located in different cities, and the second reguarding an urban analysis of downtown Syracuse. Our group analyzed the Writers Theatre in Glenoce, Illinois. Topics for analysis included program, movement, surfaces, and massing. In Exercise 1B.2, students were asked to complete a comprehensive study of the buildings of syracuse. Studies focused on aspects such as materiality, function, and form.
The Writers Theatre has a public walking area which is lifted and cantelevered in order to bring its occupants to tree level
Writers Theatre Window fenestrations.
Materiality
BUILDINGS OF SYRACUSE
The Gridley Building Horatio Nelson White 1867 Limestone
Marble
Carnegie Library James A. Randall 1905
Brick
The Phoenix Buildings
Concrete
Brick
1972
Everson Museum of Art I.M Pei 1965
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The Jefferson Street Armory 1907
Urban Architectonics 2.A In Exercise 2A, students will address the issue of tectonic expression in a schematicway, by designing the relationship between an enclosure system and the structural frame of a simple building on an abstract, hypothetical urban site. The site is on the corner of the intersection of a major, primarily vehicular street which runs east-west and a minor, primarily pedestrian street which runs north-south. Guiseppe Terragni, “Casa del Fascio�,
SKINS AND BONES IN THE CITY 2.B This exercise asked students to explore the problem of tectonic expression in urban contexts through the design of a thick facade system. In the first part of the exercise, students were asked to explore a case study analysis of the surrounding buildings in order to understand the architectural presidents of the soho area. In the second part of the exercise, students were asked to respond to and re design the common construction types in the surrounding area and their corresponding facade articulation. Students finished with a full building to fill the selected site.
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Roof EL. 60’-0”
Fourth Floor EL. 45’-0”
Third Floor EL. 30’-0”
Second Floor EL. 15’-0”
Ground Floor
Wooster Street Elevation
EL. 0’-0” 0’
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2’
1/4”=1’-0”
4’
8’
First floor shallow plan
Third floor shallow plan
Third floor plan
First floor plan
10ft Facade Section cut
Exterior perspective