PORTFOLIO Kayla Clark ARC 108 Spring 2018 Professor McIntosh Syracuse Architecture
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KAYLA CLARK
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exercise 1: The Analysis of a City and Its Architecture 4 Exercise 2: The Analysis of Urban Buildings and Their Facades 8 Exercise 3: Designing an Urban Building 12
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EXERCISE 1:
The Analysis of a City and its Architecture Exercise 1 provided an introduction to the analysis of cities through an investigation of the central business district of downtown Syracuse. This part of Syracuse was an ideal subject because of the clarity of its formal structure. Also, the final exercise of the semester is sited in downtown Syracuse, so this exercise provided contextual knowledge and documentation for the later work. Students of each section were divide into four teams with five members. Each team investigated one of the following analytical categories: blocks and streets, buildings, public spaces, and history. My team investigated the blocks and streets categories, which consisted of the following subcategories: shapes, sizes and orientation of blocks, street organization patterns, and width of streets and sidewalks. I personally did research on the shapes, sizes and orientation of blocks in downtown Syracuse
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Downtown Syracuse, NY
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Downtwon Syracuse, NY
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Syracuse Univeristy Campus
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Residential Syracuse 26”
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BLOCKS AND STREETS Street Elements - Dumpster
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1988
19” Overall height: 53”
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19” Overall height: 53”
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Street Elements - Parking Meter Elevation
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1 National Grid Lot Daily: $4-5.00 200 Spaces 2 One Herald Place Lot Daily: $5.00 98 Spaces 3 Salina/Willow St. Lot Monthly: $55.00 50 Spaces 4 100 Clinton Sq. Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.00 220 Spaces 5 Warren Street Lot Monthly: $65.00 50 Spaces 6 Washington Street Garage Hourly: $2.00 Daily: $8.00 1,250 Spaces 7 Federal Lot Hourly: $6.00 Daily: $6.00 170 Spaces 8 M&T Bank Parking Center Hourly: $1.60 Daily: $5.35 520 Spaces 9 State Tower Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $7.00 109 Spaces
18 Fayette-Clinton Lot
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Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.00 260 Spaces 11 McBride/Water Street Lot Monthly: $45.00 75 Spaces 12 Atrium Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $10.00 800 Spaces 13 City Lot #21
Metered 70 Spaces
14 Key Bank Lot
Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $7.50 100 Spaces
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15 City Hall Lot
Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.00 80 Spaces 16 Lewis & Tanner Lot Monthly: $65.00 20 Spaces 17 Center Armory Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $8.00 104 Spaces
Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $8.00 77 Spaces Clinton Street Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $10.00 280 Spaces Onondaga Tower Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.50 375 Spaces Warren Parking Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.75 425 Spaces Fayette Street Lot Monthly: $65.00 38 Spaces Fayette Street Garage Hourly: $2.00 Daily: $8.00 575 Spaces
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Daily: $7.00 100 Spaces
36 Convention Center Lot
Daily: $6-9.00 285 Spaces
37 Harrison Center
Hourly: $1.75 Daily: $14.00 100 Spaces
Parking in Downtown Syracuse
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38 Montgomery Lot #1
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Daily: $7.00 425 Spaces
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39 Syracuse Building Lot
Daily: $6.00 60 Spaces
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40 Convention Center Garage
Hourly: $1.75 Daily: $14.00 520 Spaces Trolly Lot Daily: $5.00 400 Spaces Jefferson Clinton Commons Monthly: $65.00 125 Spaces Galleries Garage Hourly: $1.50 Daily: $7.00 175 Spaces Galleries Lot Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $7.00 80 Spaces Salina/Onondaga/Clinton Lot Daily: $6.00 200 Spaces AXA Garage Hourly: $2.00 Daily: $8.00 550 Spaces County Lot B Daily: $6.00 100 Spaces Hotel Syracuse Garage Hourly: $5.00 Daily: $5.00 560 Spaces Harrison Street Garage Hourly: $1.00 Daily: $7.00 1,345 Spaces Syracuse Building Garage Hourly: $3.00 Daily: $6.00 140 Spaces
BLOCKS AND STREETS
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35 Montgomery Lot #2
Hourly: $2.00 Daily: $5-6.50 1,000 Spaces
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Private Parking Frequently Ticketed Permit Parking 24 Hour Parking
Downtown Committee of Syracuse, editor. “Parking In Downtown Syracuse.� Downtown Syracuse Public Parking, Nov. 2016, doi:https://downtownsyracuse.com/assets/downtown-syracuse-parking-brochure.pdf.
Most Expensive to Least Expensive Scale: 1:528
.3 mi
.1 mi
Downtown Syracuse, NY .005 sq. miles
.05 mi
Downtown Phoenix, AZ .018 sq. miles
.2 mi
KEY Walking Path Distance: .3 miles Time: 4 minutes Distance: .2 miles Time: 3 minutes Distance: .1 miles Time: 2 minutes
Downtown Savannah, GA .001 sq. miles
Downtown Manhattan, NY .009 sq. miles
Distance: .05 miles Time: 1 minute Walkability .5 mile radius of each city
BLOCKS AND STREETS Block Size and Walkability
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EXERCISE 2:
The Analysis of Urban Buildings and Their Facades In Exercise 2, individual urban buildings were analyzed. The analysis addressed how the external urban form, discovered in Exercise 1, and the internal pressures of program organization within the building, are reconciled, expressed or suppressed on the building’s exterior enclosure. In this context, particular attention was paid to the composition of the building’s facade. Each of the individual buildings that were to be analyzed were done so by a team of three students. My team investigated Zaha Hadid’s Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Chicago. Even though emphasis was placed on the analysis of the most significant facade of the building, there were other topics to be analyzed as well. Those topics consisted of the architect, program distribution, movement systems, massing, performance, and engagement with architectural context.
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CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Interlocking Blocks
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Scale 1:32
107 ft 97.7 ft
83 ft
69.2 ft
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OR CONTEMPORARY ART
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EXERCISE 3:
Designing an Urban Building Students were asked in this exercise to design a new building on one of three sites in downtown Syracuse, proceeding first ‘from the outside in’ and then ‘from the inside out.’ The new building houses the ‘Archive for the City of Syracuse’, a fictitious institution dedicated to documenting the continuing narratives of the city’s urban and architectural histories. Each of the three sites is typologically distinct in its urban site condition, including and “infill condition”, a “corner condition”, and an “edge condition.” I worked with the infill site, which has one elevation facing Hanover Square across Genesee Street and one elevation facing the interior of the block. My main concept for this building is using the facade of the pre-existing building to disguise the true form and to help better situate the building in its context. This ‘true form’ consists of heavy blocks, with one side tilted inward or outward.
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Extract Slant Line
Extract Volume Profile
Place Lines on Facade
Scale Profile Down
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Samson & CO. Color
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Salon
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KAYLA CLARK knclark@syr.edu ARC 108 Spring 2018 Professor McIntosh Syarcuse Architecture
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