Lawrence Boyer, Selected Works 2022 by Lawry Boyer

LAWRENCE BOYER SELECTED WORK | 2022 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

CONTENT

ACADEMIC WORK: TETRA TOWER

GABLED TORUS

BETWEEN MYTH & UTOPIA

WESTCOTT CAMPUS LIBRARY

LANDBAR

HL_95

WORK WITH DOMAIN OFFICE:

THESSALONIKI FOOD HUB

SMITH RANCH

EL LISSITZKY’S WOLKENBUGEL 2

INFORMATION

REFERENCES

CONTACT INFORMATION

CURRICULUM VITAE

TETRA TOWER Professor Mitesh Dixit

The Tetra Tower is a data center and monument to human desire and consumption. The primary programmatic issue is for the nonhuman, yet is the life support for contemporary consumer society: data servers, which store and process our preferences, desires, and identities. Humans have alway stored things of value to accumulate it and consolidate power. Historically this has been grain, minerals, precious metals, and today: data. The urban data center tower is nothing more than today’s grain silo, relocated to an urban site and become spectacle to those fueling it.

Type: Institutional Location: Syracuse, New York Size: 35.000m2 Date: Fall 2018 Team: Ava Helm

TETRA TOWER

Birmann 21, 1996 Height: 149 m Floors: 24

AT&T Corporate Center, 1989 Height: 306.9 m GFA: 157,934.0 m2

Business Men’s Assurance Co., 1963 Height: 85 m Floors: 19

John Hancock Center, 1969 Height: 456.9 m GFA: 260,126 m² Floors: 100

Bank of America Building (San Fran), 1970 Height: 237 m Floors: 52

One Shell Plaza, 19571 Height: 218 m GFA: 113,924 m2 Floors: 50

AIG Tower Hong Kong, 2004 Height: 185 m GFA: 39,014 m² Floors: 35

Shenzhen Stock Exchange, 2013 Height: 245.8 m GFA: 265,000 m² Floors: 46

432 Park Avenue, 2015 Height: 425 m GFA: 74,322 m² Floors: 96

Four Houston Center, 1983 Height: 262 m GFA: 62,639.5 m² Floors: 55

Interra, 1984 Height:160 m GFA: 52,852 m² Floors: 50

780 Third Avenue, 1984 Height: 173.7 m GFA: 43,600 m² Floors: 49

Irving Trust Operations Center, 1983 Height: 99.1 m GFA: 46,451 m² Floors: 23

300 Madison Avenue, 2003 Height: 175.3 m GFA: 106,133 m² Floors: 38

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Crocker Center,1983 Height: 220.4 m GFA: 93,832 m² Floors: 54

Time Squares Site One, 2000 Height: 221.3 m GFA: 100,277 m² Floors: 47

Georgia-Pacific Center, 1983 Height: 212.45 m GFA: 145,580m² Floors: 52

7 World Trade Center, 2002 Height: 226.5 m GFA: 156,181 m² Floors: 49

El Paso Energy Building, 1962 Height: 153 m Floors: 33

Carlton Centre, 1973 Height: 222.5 m GFA: 68,055 m² Floors: 50

Olympia Center, 1986 Height: 222.9 m GFA: 131,921 m2 Floors: 63

Mandarin Hotel, 1985 Height: 213 m GFA: 51,350 m² Floors: 49

Lutheran Brotherhood Bldg, 1983 Height: 80.5 m GFA: 113,547 m² Floors: 17

The Empire State Building, 1931 Height: 443 m Floors: 102

Research Inventory of Cores

Interfist Plaza, 1983 Height: 230.4 m GFA: 49,533.2 m2 Floors: 55

Chrysler Building, 1930 Height: 319 m GFA: 111,201 m² Floors: 77

One Maritime Plaza, 1967 Height: 121.3 m Floors: 25

Texas Commerce Bank, 1986 Height: 130.5 m GFA: 74,000 m2 Floors: 37

Jin Mao Tower, 1999 Height: 340.1 m GFA: 289,500 m² Floors: 88

45 Fremont Center, 1979 Height: 145 m GFA: 54,719 m² Floors: 34

AOL Time Warner, 2000 Height: 230 m GFA: 130,000 m2 Floors: 55

Pepsi-Cola Headquaters, 1958 GFA: 13,240 Floors: 11

Willis Tower, 1974 Height: 442 m GFA: 423,638 m² Floors: 108

Fleet Placa London Height: 30.50 m GFA: 16,536.00 m² Floors: 9

Random House, 2001 Height: 208.5 m GFA: 79,900 m² Floors: 52

Citicorp/Citibank LIC, 1989 Height: 205.1 m GFA: 146,683.0 m2 Floors: 50

Prince Plaza, 2019 Height: 204.8 m GFA: 40,877 m² Floors: 26

Sixty State Street, 1986 Height: 155.2 m GFA: 76,460.0 m2 Floors: 38

Joint Banking Center, 1983 Height: 235 m GFA: 86,365 m² Floor: 45

Allied Bank Plaza, 1983 Height: 302.4 m GFA: 170,362 m2 Floors: 71

1540 Broadway Bldg, 1990 Height: 223 m GFA: 102,193 m2 Floors: 42

One Main Place, 1968 Height: 135.6 m Floors: 34

RCBC Plaza Tower, 2001 Height: 192 m GFA: 79,757 m² Floors: 46

Rembrant Tower, 1994 Height: 135 m Floors: 36

Souteast Financial Center, 1985 Height: 232.8 m GFA: 111,483 m2 Floors: 55

Hartford Plaza North, 19561 Height: 74.4 m Floors: 20

MahaNakhon Height: 314.2 m GFA: 121,782 m² Floors:75 OMA

New York Times Tower, 2007 Height: 319 m GFA: 143,601 m² Floors: 52

TETRA TOWER

SETBACK

100% SITE COVERAGE 100.000 M2

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50% COVERAGE

100.000 M2

25% COVERAGE

10% COVERAGE

100.000 M2

Site Coverage & Massing Studies

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20 M

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+260.0M

F66

+241.5M

F65

+234.5M

F64

+227.5M

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+220.5M

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+199.5M

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Observation Deck

Party Floors

Social Media Floors

Refuge Floors @ every 14 Stories

Virtual Experiences

Virtual Shopping

Entry Level

40 M

Section + Plans

Observation Deck Height: +164.5M

Atrium Level Height: +49.0M

Typical Level Height: +7.0M

Entry Level Height: +3.5M

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Ground Level Perspective

Entry Level Isometric

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Entry

The scale of the tower alienates it from its surroundings and to the everyday person on the streets. Its size underscores the scale of human desire both metaphorically and literally due to the visibility of its countless servers - typically housed far away from cities where they are more hidden. The outermost portion of the tower is public: the consumer tower. Within each segment of the consumer tower is yet another program that feeds into our consumerist desire and generation of data.

As one moves through the various consumer levels, generating data and being consumed by their need to fulfill their desires, they climb increasingly high up the tower. The sequence is concluded at an observation deck at the upper levels of the tower - the only public space within it that permits visual access out of the tower. At this point, a viewer will become aware of the scale of the tower - and thus, their consumerism and desires.

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GABLED TORUS Professor Roger Hubeli

Gabled Torus is a series of barn-shaped volumes that collectively form a circular courtyard that facilitates a dance theatre. The Torus embeds itself in the ecology of the Berkshires where it is located to enrich the experience of both visitors and performers and their connection to the forest. Situated on the north side of the Jacob’s Pillow campus, Gabled Torus embeds itself into an existing network of paths through the site and creates porosity through its volumes by drawing paths between them into the courtyard. In the courtyard, the theatre is found, penetrating through the circular form of the rest of the building (studios, scene shop, dressing rooms, and storage to the north, and the document and prop archive to the south). An outdoor dance floor extends beyond the roof of the theatre in both directions, with tracks upon it to facilitate two movable pavilions that enable shading, shelter, and rigging in the outdoor season when performances can be put on in either in the courtyard or on the outside of the torus, surrounded by the forest. The Theatre also features two sets of large hydraulic doors that seal off the theatre and allow for regulation of climate control inside for performances and practice during the winter months or when being outdoors is not desirable. Type: Cultural Location: Becket, Massachusetts Size: 2.500m2 Date: Spring 2021 Team: Veronica Marz

GABLED TORUS

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BETWEEN MYTH & UTOPIA Professors Mitesh Dixit & Tamara Marovic

Between Myth & Utopia is an exhibition culminating a six week intensive travel course across the Balkan peninsula. In this exhibition, students investigated three typologies in which architecture was employed as infrastructure in the former Yugoslavia: New Belgrade, Serbia; Sea Side resorts along the Adriatic Coast; Tange’s Masterplan in Skopje, Macedonia. Employing forensics, analysis, journalism and physical documentation, students developed a methodology to separate and examine the elements which define the layers of the built environment. Students simultaneously unpacked the physical conditions of a defined site, and examined the dominant ideologies that have created both its hard & soft contours. This chapter focuses on the use of the term and architectural element ‘slab’ and its range of normative, semi-normative, and non-normative uses across the Balkans and how its role in Yugoslavian architectures then creates ideology.

Type: Research/Exhibition Location: Faculty of Architecture, SS. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia Date: Summer 2019 Editors: Lawry Boyer, Ava Helm Copy Editor: Lindsey Brown Research Coordinator: Tamara Marovic Exhibition Designers: Lawry Boyer, Lindsey Brown, Margaret Frank, Ava Helm, Tota Hunter, Julia Ocejo Vivanco Researchers: Daria Agapitova, Lawry Boyer, Lindsey Brown, Jing Ying Chin, Junzhi Deng, Ximeng Luo, Margaret Frank, Ava Helm, Tota Hunter, Ecenur Menki, Eve Miserlian, Julia Ocejo Vivanco, Houston Parke, Shihui Zhu

BETWEEN MYTH & UTOPIA

Wooden Joist framing, subfloor structure Concrete, steel framing, etc. Thinner structural slabs Tile/Masonry Slab + Structure: Slab as an assemblage of parts New industrial Materials: Steel, Glass, etc. Reinforced Stonework

Art Nouveau

Art Deco

Beaux-Arts

High-End Materials: Plastics, Ferro-Concrete, etc Steel Cables, Concrete Beams, Exposed Structure and Joints, Balconies

Constructivism

Arts & Crafts International Modernist Style Steel Frame, separation of structure and form: Free plan/facade

Mass Production + Industrialization

Early Modern

Modernism

Steel, Glass, Reinforced Concrete. Structural Module

Bauhaus Neoclassical

1933

Nazis Rise to Power World War II

World War I Defeat of Ottoman Empire in the first Balkan War

1914 1918

1939 1945

Development of reinforced structural concrete

1912

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs

1900

1918

1930

1945

Double Tract / H Block Housing

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Regional + Architectural Timeline

ADRIATIC COAST DEVELOPMENT Economic Planning + Urban Planning Creating Utopia

Slab as architectural element; both structural and interactive through other uses Monolithic slabs; increasingly un-normative formal use; structural expressionism

Return to regional materials, facade cladding, material expressionism.

Modularity, central core with prefabricated, replacable cells that are attached.

Metabolism

Structural Expressionism

Visual emphasis on steel/concrete structural skeleton; exposed structure; structure dictates form

Brutalism

Poured Concrete

New building materials, exterior material and structural systems, prefabrication

Postmodernism

Googie

1991 1980 1981

1963

Josip Tito named President for life 1969

1947 1991

Death of Authoritarian Leader, Josip Tito 1980

Slovenia, Croatia, & Macedonia declare independence.

Third Industrial Revolution: The rise of nuclear energy

New Housing Reform, privitizing

Bosnia & Herzegovina Declare Independence; Serbia & Montenegro form Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

NATO Launches Airstrikes in Serbia Following Failed Peace Talks

1999

Cold War

Break up of Yugoslavia into independent states

Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1963

1989

2000

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Slab Typologies

Semi - Normative Slabs

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The Semi-Normative use of slabs involves the elimination of the requirement that slabs must be oriented horizontally. Slabs in this instance serve both as floor slabs but also vertically as partitions between units, and as structural walls which are expressed in the facade by bringing them past the envelope of the building. These vertical parti walls fall along a continuous 3.8 meter structural module which give the facade its rhythm while also enabling the building to be highly efficient in its construction.

These parti slabs are still layered to create a

system,

though

the

system

functions

inherently differently from normative slab buildings, holding the structural loads of the building rather than columns. Additionally, the offsetting of enclosure from the outer edges of the floor slab creates a visual recess in the facade away from the floor slab, expressing this element while also creating an additional exterior space: a balcony.

character which would be imposed on it by the inhabitants from each of the adjacent units which share it.

Through the use of partitioning slabs, a slab serves as the sole element which bounds interior space and separates people. Yet

The monumentality and scale of the concrete

simultaneously,

shared

elements furthers the Brutalist and Modernist

between the adjacent spaces which it defines.

style while also contributing towards the

It is shared between the two spaces and is

overall style of New Belgrade to create a

yet necessary for distinguishing them apart.

vision of a national style. Textural details

Each face of the slab wall has a different

such as the wood formwork can be seen at

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this

element

Vertical Slabs

Semi-Normative Type

the detail level but from afar, the walls seem

The IMS skeletal structural system allows for

monolithic. While housing projects such as

open programming of spaces, varied interiors,

these are often misnamed communist housing,

and efficiency of construction. While uniform

the ideological brand of Yugoslavia during the

in appearance, it enables the freedom that

time of their construction was nonaligned,

lies within. This system and its increased

and socialist. The government under Tito

efficiency

established housing such as these buildings

conditions that created new Belgrade as well

to rent to people and create a unified state.

as Tito’s new ideology. These housing units

helped

construct

the

material

remain in use today: a show of the quality of construction and the material results of the ideology which created them.

Exterior

Shared Interior Partitions

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The

un-normative

encompasses

things

which, through material use, form, or other circumstances, still seem to be slabs but are far from the original notion of what a slab is. Un-normative slabs push the definition and use of slab past achieving simply structural goals. By breaking away from being a purely structural element, the slab is enabled to serve a multitude of functions, both spatial and aesthetic: the slab becomes sculptural, monolithic, artistic, and scenic. Slab is no longer is an array of layered architectural elements, but becomes an interactive urban element. It becomes spectacle. The built environment now interacts with its user. seemingly fluid and lightweight, defying the The Macedonia Telekon Office building uses slabs in a way that engages with both the exterior and interior of the building. The office workers are able to engage in the city by walking out onto balconies which are pulled out of the facade on the ground

materiality of concrete with its hard edges, heaviness, and rigidity. Its use in a nonnormative way is the antithesis of itself and a critique of the limitations of a material, or the limitations of past architects and their use of it.

floor and see through windows that become virtual portals to the exterior world. These

While the exterior form of the building has

balconies allow workers to taste fresh air

become sculptural and highly non-normative,

while never leaving their workplace, creating

ultimately the interior of the building is

the false sense of release from their mundane

remarkably

work environment. Their form is curved and

buildings. This begs the question - is this

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normative

Un-Normative Type

Roof Extension

Window

Balcony

Benches

Telekom Office Building

new use of slab truly accomplishing anything

The exterior of the Telekon building is lined

new? What are the possible further uses of

with

non-normative slab construction and where

semi-circle profiles. They are unfamiliar yet

does it end? While the answer is open-

also echo the form of the building and its

ended especially in the future as building

curves and suggest a level of comfort past

technologies enable architects to do more

an elevated slab of rock or a flat wooden

with less, here, the use of un-normative slabs

bench, enabling further interaction with the

is in fact quite normative and is used to mimic

architecture around us. In this sense, the

something familiar, such as simulating a chair

material is codified for human interaction

out of a material which typically would be the

based off of where a ‘normative’ form such

opposite of comfort - concrete. Concrete is

as a flat plane is distorted to achieve a human

not soft, nor malleable or plush, yet its formal

function

rigidity has no certain basis.

leisure. Or at least this appearance is made on

benches

such

which

are

viewing,

extruded

from

movement,

the facade to the public and to tourists but not to those inside.

Across Yugoslavia, non-normative slabs take the form of surfaces and materials being used in unconventional locations, doing the job of a different thing - simulating a different reality.

Otherworldly

ceiling

tiles

with

impossible textures, mini golf courses with undulating terrains which are dominated by golf balls, and even playgrounds in housing blocks which are cast entirely out of concrete. Whether

for

affordability,

uniformity

material, or other motives, the distinction is clear from what we call normative uses of slabs. Or is it? Perhaps attempting to categorize construction methods after the fact is an arbitrary fetishization.

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WESTCOTT CAMPUS LIBRARY Professor Mitesh Dixit

The Westcott Campus Library is a reconstruction of an existing library in a suburban neighborhood outside of Syracuse, New York, which creates a courtyard within for community events. The existing library is a critical hub of activity for the neighborhood which is comprised of a younger demographic, many with children. By separating the masses, the library takes full advantage of the large site, its composition creating an additional space within, between each of the programmatic masses in which all are connected - a communal space which can be flexibly used by a flexible community of users.

Type: Institutional Location: Westcott neighborhood, Syracuse, New York Size: 1.200m2 Date: Fall 2018 Collaborators: Ava Helm

WESTCOTT CAMPUS LIBRARY

Community Meeting Hall

Children’s Space

1000 Sq. Ft. 3200 Sq. Ft. 5:8 Ratio 1:2 Ratio Open space with semi private and protected Large empty room for ad-hoc and flexible 1 arrangement - COMMUNITY MEETING HALL condition for safety of children. of many people Private view preferred Preferred isolation yet accesibility 3200 SQ. FT. Semi Opaque Semi opaque

1:2 RATIO

LARGE EMPTY ROOM FOR AD-HOC AND FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENT OF MANY PEOPLE 2 - Classrooms 1225 Sq. Ft. each

2 - CLASSROOMS 1:1 Ratio

General space for groups to convene 1225 SQ. FT.Privacy EACH Enclosure needed; not Daylight preferred 1:1 RATIO Moderately Transparent

Reading Room

1600 Sq. Ft. 1:1 Ratio Shared space for individuals and small groups Most open and public of all programs Enclosure not needed Very Transparent

GENERAL SPACE FOR GROUPS TO CONVENE ENCLOSURE NEEDED; PRIVACY NOT

Work Yard + Tool Library 1200 Sq. Ft.

Offices + Bathrooms 400 Sq. Ft.

3 - WORK YARD + TOOL 2:3 Ratio 1:4LIBRARY Ratio

Outdoor action space with adjacent indoor 1200 SQ. FT. storage space Moderately Opaque

Hierarchy of privacy in offices. Moderately Opaque

2:3 RATIO

OUTDOOR ACTION SPACE WITH ADJACENT INDOOR STORAGE SPACE

Program Matrix 1/16”=1’-0

hildren’s Space

Sq. Ft. y000 Meeting Hall

Children’s Space

8 Ratio 1000 Sq. Ft. 3200 Sq. Ft. pen space with semi private and protected 5:8 Ratio 1:2 Ratio ondition for safety of children. Open space with semi private and protected -hoc and flexible rivate view preferred condition for safety of children. of many people emi Opaque Private view preferred n yet accesibility Semi Opaque Semi opaque

4 - CHILDREN’S SPACE 1000 SQ. FT. 5:8 RATIO

OPEN SPACE WITH SEMI PRIVATE AND PROTECTED CONDITION FOR SAFETY OF CHILDREN.

eading Room Sq. Ft. 2600 - Classrooms

Reading Room

1 Ratio 1225 Sq. Ft. each 1600 Sq. Ft. hared space for individuals and small 1:1 Ratio 1:1 Ratio roups oups to convene Shared space for individuals and small Most open and public of all programs ded; Privacy not groups nclosure not needed aylight preferred Most open and public of all programs ery Transparent tely Transparent Enclosure not needed Very Transparent

5 - READING ROOM 1600 SQ. FT. 1:1 RATIO

SHARED SPACE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS MOST OPEN AND PUBLIC OF ALL PROGRAMS

Offices + Bathrooms 00 Sq. Ft. + Tool Library Offices + Bathrooms

4 Ratio 1200 Sq. Ft. 400 Sq. Ft. ierarchy of privacy in offices. 2:3 Ratio 1:4 Ratio Moderately Opaque adjacent indoor Hierarchy of privacy in offices. storage space Moderately Opaque derately Opaque

6 - OFFICES + BATHROOMS 400 SQ. FT. 1:4 RATIO

HIERARCHY OF PRIVACY IN OFFICES. MODERATELY OPAQUE

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LANDBAR Professor Bess Krietemeyer

Landbar is a public artist studio for creating artwork that uses sustainable energy. Artists in residence at Landbar can take advantage of the kinetic energy tiles which run atop a path that punctures through the building. Landbar is the opposite of a landscape project: it does not deal with issues of landscape outside of the building envelope; it creates new an entire landscape within the envelope, creating a campus of smaller rooms with a winding pathway that runs between, around, and under these rooms.

Type: Institutional Location: Skytop Quarry, Syracuse, New York Size: 2.100m2 Date: Spring 2019

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HL_95 Professor Marcos Parga

What do people do when they think nobody is watching? Situated atop and between existing buildings, Highline-95 is a series of four residential buildings linked together by the Highline. Each building contains various ‘dark’ programs nested secretly within, some accessible to all, others shared between select residents. We each act out different personas with different people in the different sides of our lives. Highline-95 enables its users to live these each out and put them on display for others if they choose. The facade is clad in operable louvers to allow residents to reveal or conceal whatever activities they engage in. Residents can live second, hidden lives within, or express their exhibitionist tendencies, all while living in the same space.

Type: Residential Location: Manhattan, New York Size: 80.000m2 Date: Fall 2019 Team: Benjamin Wang

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Architectural Intern: March 2020 - Present

THESSALONIKI FOOD HUB

SMITH RANCH

EL LISSITZKY’S WOLKENBUGEL 2

THESSALONIKI FOOD HUB

The need for self-sustaining cities has become increasingly evident in recent years. Thessaloniki has been a major trade hub of the Balkan Peninsula since the era of the Romans due to its placement along the Via Egnatia and Thermaikos bay. However, growth in both its population and manufacturing sector has slowed in recent years, indicating a need to turn attention inward to developments that focus on higher quality of life, independence, and self-identity, while being more sustainable for the city and world.

The intent of this project is to transform a residual scar in the urban fabric into a culturally productive landscape of urban agriculture. Farming and agricultural production is typically understood as an ‘introverted’ process: one that is operated on private land and out of view. Through the injection of educational, cultural, commercial, and social programs, we will transform the site into a space of cultural identity, social integration, and civic engagement, making it the ‘extroverted’ face of agriculture and this facet of the city’s culture. The development will bring increased livability and productivity to the site and to the city of Thessaloniki while eliminating the bipolar notion of the rural-orurban landscape.

Type: Urban Design Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Status: Competition Client: Alumil Size: 400.000m2 Date: Summer 2020 Team: DOMAIN Office; Ryan Oeckinghaus, Borjan Menkinoski, Filip Velkoski, Mitesh Dixit Renders: Ryan Oeckinghaus Collaborators: FORMAT - Structures

THESSALONIKI FOOD HUB

Site

Ibrapuera

United States National Mall

Tuileries Gardens

Trafalgar Square

Central Park

Piazza Campidoglio

Zocalo

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View from Seaside

Site Isometric

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SMITH RANCH

DOMAIN has designed a ranch which is shaped per programmatic, environmental, and performance desires based on the client’s identified preferences and a site evaluation. The result is a form that is both foreign and recognizable, comfortable, but unique. Located in a setting specific to Texas, we have conceived the home as a pavilion on a ranch, Smith Ranch is both introverted and extroverted: each space has a relationship either to its interior logic or to the surrounding terrain with certain moments that provide extensive views of the of the ranch. The home is designed as a sequence of connected blocks - an arrangement that eliminates the need for long corridors and hallways. Following the client’s lead, the plan has been organized such that spaces simultaneously feel casual, luxurious and considered.

Type: Residential Location: Roundtop, Texas Status: Commissioned 2020 - On-going Team: DOMAIN Office; Amber Bartosh, Mitesh Dixit, Ryan Oeckinghaus Collaborators: FORMAT - Structures

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RECONSTRUCTING EL LISSITZKY’S WOLKENBUGEL 2

This research describes the results of a contemporary reconstruction of a recently rediscovered design for a horizontal skyscraper by the Russian-Jewish architect El Lissitzky. The unfinished state of Lissitzky’s three extant drawings and the experimental nature of his building provided the impetus for a collaboration among architects, a historian, and an engineer. Using an iterative design process that brought contemporary studio practice to bear on historical research, we reconstructed a digital model from these extant drawings. Supplementary models developed the irregularities excluded from the primary model as a means of analyzing the architect’s drawings. Our counterfactual models will be used to visualize historical data through virtual and augmented reality to further explore the design and historical implications of El Lissitzky’s Wolkenbugel 2.

Type: Research/Exhibition Date: Summer 2020 - Present Team: Samuel Johnson, DOMAIN Office: Mitesh Dixit Collaborators: FORMAT - Structures

RECONSTRUCTING EL LISSITZKY’S WOLKENBUGEL 2

Plan Diagram

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Iterative Reconstruction

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The form of the Wolkenbugel 2 is radially symmetrical - from opposite sides, each elevation is mirrored, but every 120 degrees’ rotation provides an identical elevation to the others as shown in the Plan Diagram. Every elevation ‘A’ is identical to the others, as is every elevation ‘B’, and elevation ‘A’ is the mirror of elevation ‘B’.

RECONSTRUCTING EL LISSITZKY’S WOLKENBUGEL 2

Base Geometry

Ginsburg Offices

Ginsburg Open offices

Amazon Fulfillment Center

Rolex Center

Lakeshore Drive

Toys R Us

Triangla, Boris Kidric

Taftalidze Karpos

Kisela Voda

21st Century Museum

Central park

L. Boyer 2021

Floor Plan Collages & Drawings

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REFERENCES

Mitesh Dixit Founder, Domain Office

m.dixit@domainoffice.eu

Jesse Wetzel Associate, STUDIOS Architecture

jwetzel@studios.com

CONTACT INFORMATION:

LAWRY BOYER + 1 (703) 407 -8735 LMBOYER@SYR.EDU LAWRYBOYER.COM

L AW R EN CE BOY ER EDUCATION

20 1 B ERKELEY D RIV E, S Y RAC U S E N Y 13210 SY RAC U SE U NI VERSI TY SC HO O L O F A R CHIT ECT UR E Bachelor of Architecture; GPA 3.8 Renee Crown Honors Program, Founder’s Scholarship, Dean’s List.

EXPERIENCE

D O MA I N O F F I C E Designer

L MB OYER@SYR.EDU SYR ACUSE , NY AUG 2017 - MAY 2022

SYR ACUSE NY + SKOPJE, MK MARCH 2020 - PRESENT

Concept and schematic design for Thessaloniki CBD Competition, drawing sets for residential projects, illustrations and research for various publications.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Research Assistant(s). Departments of Architecture, Communications, and Art History.

SYRACUSE NY 2019, 2020, 2021

Interstate 81 ‘Deconstructing the Divide’ Journalism project (2021), Reconstructing El Lissitzky’s Wolkenbugel 2 (2020), and Between Myth and Utopia (2019)

STUD I OS ARC H I TEC TU RE Intern, Architecture

WAS HINGTO N, DC JUNE 2019 - AUG 201 9

BIM modeling, rendering, GIS, illustrations, and site work, in service to design development and construction administration.

KY LLO + PATTA NA A RC H I TEC TS Intern, Architecture

VIEN NA, VA MAY 2018 - AUG 201 8

Conceptual design, detailing, drafting, interior design, renderings, site work, 3d modeling, permits.

SY RAC U SE U NI VERSI TY A RC H I TEC TU RE FABR ICAT ION Fabrication Lab Technician

SYR ACUSE , NY AUG 2018 - PRESENT

Woodshop, 3D print, and laser cutting aid, maintenance, instruction, and troubleshooting.

KEN FO LEY C U STO M H O MES Apprentice Carpenter & Construction Labor

VIEN NA, VA SUMMER S 2015 - 2017

Design-build residential additions, interiors, and landscaping.

PUBLICATION

HONORS / AWARDS

S KILLS

“COUNTERFACTUAL MODELING IN HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION: EL LISSITZKY’S HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPER WB2”

T AD 6.1: Histories 2022

THX FOOD HUB: AGRICULTURE AS INFRASTRUCTURE

AR XE L L E NCE 2 2022

THX FOOD HUB: AGRICULTURE AS INFRASTRUCTURE

E KOKUCA NO. 3 9 OCT 2021

BETWEEN MYTH & UTOPIA: A PERSPECTIVE ATLAS FOR THE FORMER SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

SS CYR IL & M E T HODIUS 2019

RENEE CROWN THESIS FUNDING AWARD

SYRACUSE, NY NOVE M BE R 2021

NATI O NA L BU I LDI N G MU SEU M I N TER N FEL LOWSHIP

WAS HI NGTO N, DC JULY 201 9

SO LAR DEC ATHLON MIXED USE DIVISION FIRST PLACE

SYR ACUSE , NY APR IL 2019