José Sánchez Syracuse University, School of Architecture jrsanc01@syr.edu 786-873-9971 6900 NW 179th St, Apt 201 Hialeah, FL 33015
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Contents Flicker
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Plush
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Hopscotch
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Float
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Patches
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Straps
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Piecewise
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Telescopes
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Rhythm
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Flicker Library and Office Space | New York, NY Instructor: Molly Hunker | Spring 2016
Common to New York City, construction scaffolding offers appended spaces to buildings that support social interaction and chance encounters. Flicker chooses to exploit the architectural traits innate in construction spaces and integrate them within the project through the incorporation of a spaceframe. Programs become divided into two categories: base programs that fit into white boxes to satisfy spatial and organizational needs and spaceframe programs that encourage social interactions. In integrating these two space type, a flickering occurs between them tectonically, spatially, programmatically, and visually. Flicker attempts to create an experiential haze brought upon by the blurring of structure, space, and color.
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Plush Archway Instructor: Greg Corso | Spring 2016
While often described under contentious terms, folk art environments present zealous, eccentric, and unorthodox characteristics in their craft and creation. Plush attempts to uncover these traits that exist beyond the periphery of architecture by employing techniques latent within the folk. These works often use cosmetic and formal tactics to mask their original materials and alter their appearance. In a similar vein, this project uses smooth forms and a fuzzy texture to give plaster casts a soft and cushy resemblance to contradict its material traits. Plush aims to reach a new level material, aesthetic, and architectural novelty through the appropriation of characteristics innate in the folk.
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Hopscotch Entranceway | Syracuse, NY Instructor: Benjamin Farnsworth | Fall 2015
Within the New York State Fair there is an abundance of practically everything, from fun to food to figures. Presenting this figural abundance as a field, Hopscotch employs the figural field as a catalyst for a reinterpretation of Le Corbusier’s architectural promenade. Through the introduction of the ‘game’, users are encouraged to ‘hop’ piece by piece through this elaborated ambulatory space on their own accord, but not necessarily to meander aimlessly. Hopscotch intends on making a space that is neither non-functional nor purely-functional, allowing users to move around its field to reach not just a destination but a visual and kinetic experience.
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Float Instructor: Benjamin Farnsworth | Fall 2015 In collaboration with Rex Hughes
The abstraction of site for architectural representations typically leads to work that is flat, utilitarian, and vapid. Float seeks to create a new reading of site that celebrates its three-dimensionality through the reimagining of terrain as suspended islands. In the project, the analyzed site was subdivided into smaller parts which were modeled according to their terrain data and suspended mid-air by an abundance of string. This overuse blurs the support into a haze, lending the appearance that these isolated islands are floating around within a cloud. Float attempts to merge concepts of topography and context with notions of whimsy and fantasy to lend site an immersive quality.
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Model displayed at Spark Contemporary Art Space’s “TIED UP” Exhibition
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Patches Library and Community Center | Syracuse, NY Instructor: Molly Hunker | Spring 2016
Libraries often manifest intended interactions into specific spaces such quiet reading rooms or social study areas. Patches intends on creating a layering of these unique space types through the organizational concept of a patchwork. Throughout the project a variety of ‘patches’ are placed adjacent to each other to dictate a series of experiential zones that satisfy distinct programmatic needs. These programmatic patches nestle against one another to layer their use into specific circulatory and spatial arrangements. Patches aims to redefining a typical library experience by spatializing intended interactions through careful compositions.
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Straps POPUP Public’s LFL Competition Entry | Governors Island, NY In collaboration with Rex Hughes | Summer 2016
Inspired by POPUP Public’s robust multiuse playground, Straps intends on redefining the Little Free Library to become something more dynamic and lively. Through the use of polyester webbing, the public library is transformed into a swinging bench, apt to serve a variety of uses from play to reading. In borrowing similar material aesthetics and encouraging activity, this project also intends on existing symbiotically within POPUP Public by contributing itself as a new part to its kit. Straps seeks to create a Little Free Library that encourages more than borrowing books by incorporating itself within a dynamic playscape.
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Left image produced by Rex Hughes
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Read + Relax
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Piecewise Apartments and Office Space | New York, NY Instructor: Greg Corso | Spring 2015
Often overlooked because of their banality, fire stairs provide unique ambulatory arrangements for exterior circulation in an urban environment. Piecewise exploits the potentials of these circulatory conditions to create a unique artificial landscape. This artificial landscape, formed by a careful arrangement of modular pieces that house program, produces a new ambulatory experience for users that redefines exterior circulation. Users occupy and inhabit distinct parts of this landscape, offering an individual yet communal spatial arrangement, distinct from the typical New York apartment typology. Piecewise attempts to create new social and spatial experiences by reinventing the commonly ignored potentials of exterior circulation.
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Telescopes Festival des Architectures Vives 2015 Entry | Montpellier, France Project Team: Alex Allen, Nathan Geller, José Sánchez, David Shanks
The courtyards of Montepellier’s Hôtel Particuliers produce a unique perspectival experience where visitor’s eyes are dr awn up from the ground to figures cut into the sky by adjacent urban blocks. Telescopes presents itself as an index of these upward-looking perspectives, each telescope taking the form from one of the Hôtel Particuliers featured in the Festival des Architecture Vives and reproducing its figuresky experience through forced perspective. Within the designated courtyard site, the ten figures are arranged as a microcosm of their locations throughout Montepellier for a vicarious viewing experience. Telescopes intends to contain the perspectival experience of the different Hôtel Particuliers through a heterogeneous yet self-similar series of figures.
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Images produced by Nathan Geller
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Rhythm Live Work Residence Instructor: David Shanks | Fall 2014
Inspired by the daily cycle of an artist, Rhythm seeks to offer a unique live work experience by tracing its inhabitant’s day to day life. Program is arranged in sequence, from sleep to eat to work to sleep again, to offer a guided circulation throughout the project in a loop that traces its users cycle. These programs are contained within specific sectors that correspond to necessary light offered by two distinct fenestration types. Through form and façade, the building blurs between monolith and collection to echo the division of program into distinct compartments that maintains a consistent flow. Rhythm attempts to create a residential studio that is synergic to its artist’s quotidian cycle.
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Living Room
Entry
Kitchen
Gallery
Studio
Bedroom
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