ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Leah Rassie School of architecture Syracuse University Fall 2016
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!First Year Studio Assignments Professor: Ted Brown TA: Christian Martinez
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Exercise I
Form and Making
Exercise III
Elements and Operations of Form
Exercise III I
Scale, Movement and Context
Exercise IV
Case Study Analysis
Exercise V
A Public-Private Studio
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EXERCISE I
FORM AND MAKING
For exercise 1, we were required to make preliminary study 3’’ cubes out of each of the three categories of materials basswood strips (linear element), Strathmore museum board or foam core board (planar elements), and insulation blue foam sheet or foam cube (volumetric elements). As a final deliverable, we had to make a 6’’ cube out of one of those materials. The goals of the project were to understand the basic formal language of architectural “elements” and their implications in producing form, to practice careful craft, to develop individual design thinking and to address the issues of a design problem.
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EXERCISE II
Elements and Operations of Form
This exercise was organized as a series of four investigations (2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4). The first three involveD the design of an object within a 6’’ bounding cube AND the fourth involves a 9’’ cube. Unlike exercise 1, this exercise addressed the developments of spaces within the volume. The exercise addressed formal “operations” identified in the book “operative design: a catalogue of spatial verbs The first three one material but the other two materials. The goals were to experience the project as an iteration, to grasp vocabulary of elements and abstract operations and to apply the knowledge produced in the previous exercise.
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2.1 Linear Elements
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2.2 Planar Elements
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2.3 Volumetric Elements
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2.4 Two Elements
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FInal elevation
Final sections
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EXERCISE III
Scale, Movement and Context
In Exercise 3.1, we were asked to observe, experience and graphically represent conditions of scale and movement through sequences of spaces as exemplified in Syracuse University campus. We had to work in small groups to make drawings on site, and then re-draw these in assigned format in the studio. The process of producing these drawings started from direct observation and measurements using human scales.
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3.1 Analysis Of A Campus Building : Newhouse III
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Alvin’s Orthographic Drawings
FINAL NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE 13
3.2 The Application of Scale and Movement to Abstract Form
In Exercise 3.2, we were assigned another student’s object produced in Ex. 2.4 in order to transform it into an architectural model at a scale of 3/8”=1’-0”, which means that the 9” cube represents a building in the form of a 24’-0” cube. The spaces and their interrelationships of the original objects were asked to be refined in order to produce a sequence of architectural space that would be experienced by occupants and elements that provide scalar reference and enable movement, such as stairs, doorways, and windows. 14
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3.3 Reacting to and Acting on Context In Exercise 3.3, we were asked to locate our project on a specic, assigned site, and refine its spatial organization in response to the immediate contextual conditions of the site. We worked in small groups to compose our individual building / site ensembles by combining them into a larger whole. response to the more expanded contextual conditions including the spatial organization of neighboring buildings and shared paths of move- ment on the site that have been collectively determined by the group. The over-all goal for this exercise was to utilize the nature of materials, their assembly and connection techniques, to recognize the impact of scale and sequential experience on architectral form and space by observation of existing buildings, recording, analyzing and communicating these observations through manually-produced drawings made with craft and to integrate tthe use of formal operations that produce spatial relationships with elements.
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EXERCISE IV In this exercise, we were asked to apply the understanding that we developed in the previous three design exercises to the graphical analysis of an architectural precedent. Analysis is a key component of a robust design process, which allows architects to understand the work which has preceded them by creating their own original drawings. For this purpose, I was assigned a house designed by Peter Eisenman. The goals of this project was to perform rigorous and reliable research to gather information about the assigned case-study building, to make insightful observations and produce in-depth analysis based on research so that we improve our architecture strategies and techniques to subsequently apply to our own design work. 20
Case Study Analysis : House I by Peter Eisenman
EXERCISE V In this exercise, we were asked to apply the lessons previously learned to design a studio and exhibition gallery for an assigned artist. The goals of the project were to Consider contidition of public-ness and private-ness in architectural designs, as well as light and space related to the specific use, examine and develop a structed and conscious design process, apply knowledge produced in previous exercises and produce well-crafter modls and drawings. I was assigned Painting as a medium so I had to research lighting issues a painter would encounter. My design revolves around the cross shape strips that intersect and drive through the space and divides it into 4 quadrums, each containing living spaces, circulation spaces, work spaces as well as exhibition spaces. For my studio’s case, we also had to design the garden that was on the site.
A Public-Private Studio
Professor Brown’s Sketches
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Works Cited
20, 2014 Date:March, Author:Vanessa Matos, and Peter Category:Eisenman. “Atlas Of Interiors.� Atlas of Interiors. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2016.
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