Mason Malsegna 2018 Architecture Portfolio

MASON MALSEGNA SU Architecture Portfolio 2018

About Me

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My name is Mason Malsegna and I am a second year undergraduate at Syracuse University. I am currently obtaining a minor in sustainable construction from SUNY ESF. Through design I pull from the needs of the context and integrate my projects into the community with sustainability in mind. I would like to focus on creating structures that have the most impact on the community and the least impact on the environment.

Other than my architectural studies I spend time creating art and exploring.

Table of Contents

Projecting Tectonics

4 Precedent Analysis

Petit Public Library

11 Annex Addition

Osaka Recreational Hub

24 Innerloop Idiosyncrasy

Projecting Tectonics In this exercise I analysed the tectonics of Zumthor’s Vals Bath in Switzerland. This process allowed me to identify the structural qualities, material expression and assembly.

Zumthor’s Vals Bath uses a local sourced stone to directly relate to the site that it carves itself into. To its benefit the baths look as though they are a piece of the site pertruding from the ground. The fundamental building blocks of the baths are large masses that are constructed of quarried stone to allow for the structure to relate to the natural environment context.

These masses play a significant role on how an occupant interacts with the building. The construction technique of small fissures between the cantilevering roof slabs eminate weightlessness of the heavy objects overhead. The tectonic system of the building allow for the exploration of the visitor to be unique and random.

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Precedent Analysis

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Projecting Tectonics Study Model 1

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Study Model 2

Analysis

Chunk Axon of Vals Bath

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Projecting Tectonics Kit of Parts

Cap

Mass Cube

Floor

Mass Cube

Capped Roof

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Tectonic Diagrams

Pertruding Masses

These masses and caps are larger tectonic elements that are pieced together to create a haphazard circulation that contains differentiated spatial qualities. Zumthor uses a set of masses with caps to create the space, and within each of those masses lies progam that is utilized on the individual scale, creating a unique experience. These masses pertrude out of the ground relating the bath directly to the Earth.

Spatial Sections

A

B

C

E D C

D

B A

E

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Projecting Tectonics Modeling Textures

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Final Model - Veneer Caps

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Petit Public Library This exercise involved adding an additional annex to an exisiting local library in a nearby neighborhood.

This addition includes interior and exterior programs that consist primarily of a workshop, tool library, and interior/exterior work space.

When beginning my design for my annex I understood that the context called for something that was foot-traffic friendly. The site was surrounded by family homes and called for something that fit into the quaint context, but also something that held its own identity among the other buildings. To address this concern I sunk the annex into the ground to meet the pedestrian on the sidewalk rather than tower over them.

When understanding the primary system behind my building, it can be seen that I took the concept of programmed masses from my previous precedent study. This allowed for me to create a constant and clear language for the project to be developed upon.

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Annex Addition

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Petit Public Library

SideWalk Conditions

Wide Sidewalk (Commercial) Slim Sidewalk (Residential) Proposed Sidewalk 0

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50

150

300

600ft

Foot-Traffic Projections

Public Parking

Circulation Parking Parking Lot

0

50

150

300

600ft

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Petit Public Library

0 10

16

40

100

200ft

Annex In Context

0

5

15

30

50ft

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Petit Public Library

BB

AA

G

A D

C

F

E

B A - Meeting Hall E - Circulation B - Classroom F - Bathrooms C - Shop G - Work Yard D - Tool Library

0

18

5

15

30

50ft

Floor Plans

BB

AA

K

L

I

J

H H - Classroom I - Bathrooms J - Circulation & Storage K - Office L - Petit Public Library

0

5

15

30

50ft

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Petit Public Library

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Study Models

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Petit Public Library

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Final Model

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Osaka Recreational Hub The analysis of this project began in a similar way to the methodology of Ateleir Bow Wow’s “Made in Tokyo” book. The book began looking at the idiosyncratic building typology of Osaka Japan and how unique, functional architecture would satisfy the void-phobia with the incorporation of infrastructure and recreation space.

The site itself is located within an active off-ramp in the Abeno Ward of Osaka, Japan. There is a subway station and bicycle parking directly to the South East tip of the site. This, along with the site being located within one of the densest neighborhoods in the city called for a pedestrian oriented program and interaction with the city. The site is elevated within the offramp to create an oasis from the dense urban lifestyle that most are exposed to. I introduced a walkway on top of the active innerloop in order to reclaim some of the hardscape brutality that is the city.

When beginning design I looked towards and abstract model of design, creating massing models that I would later use as a library of formal moves to accomplish my strategies as well as creating an abstract collage that would later inform site conditions.

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Innerloop Idiosyncrasy

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Osaka Recreational Hub

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Precedent Formations

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Osaka Recreational Hub

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2

3

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Kanazuka Park|1.3km|16 min

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Tokiwa Park|.7km|8 min

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Sanmeicho Park|.6km|7 min

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City Park|.15km|2 min

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Fuminosato Park|.6km|7 min

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Kitatanabe Park|.85km|10 min

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Bishoen Park|1.1km|13 min

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Kitatanabenaka Park|1.0km|12 min

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Momogaike Park|1.0km|12 min

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Hannannaka Park|.45km|6 min

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4

5

8

10

9

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Pedestrian Relationship

1 Asahicho 3 Chome 2

2 Abenosuji 1 Chome 3

HIGH

3 Abenosuji 2 Chome 5

6

4

4 Matsuzaki 2 Chome 5 Tennoji Cho Minami 1 Chome

1

6 Tennoji Cho Minami 2 Chome 7 Sanmeicho 1 Chome 8 Matsuzaki Cho 3 Chome

7

37

9 Sanmeicho 2 Chome 10 Misonakone 1 Chome 11 Fumi no Sato 1 Chome

8

12 Miyukoen 3 Chome 36

13 Fumi no Sato 2 Chome

9 10

35

14 Sentenari 3 Chome 15 Matsuzaki Cho 4 Chome 16 Hananomachi 1 Chome

11

15

12

34

17 Showamachi 1 Chome 18 Fumi no Mura 4 Chome 19 Showamachi 2 Chome

33

20 Momokamachi 2 Chome 21 Momogaikecho 2 Chome 14

13

22 Showamachi 3 Chome 23 Hannan Cho 3 Chome

31

24 Hananomachi 2 Chome

32

30

25 Ojicho 2 Chome 26 Ojicho 3 Chome 27 Abeno Motomachi

16

28 Aioi Street 1 Chome 17

29 Sunny Through

29

18

30 Matsudo Totsu 1 Chome 31 Matsudo Totsu 2 Chome

25

32 Ojicho 1 Chome 33 Maruyama 1 Chome

24 19

28

34 Abenozu 5 Chome 35 Kyoritsu 1 Chome

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26

23

22

20

21

36 Abenozu 4 Chome

LOW

37 Abenosuji 3 Chome

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Osaka Recreational Hub

A

B

0’

30

10’

50’

100’

Hub In Context

75’

61’

47’

33’

19’

4’ 0’

0’

10’

25’

50’

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Osaka Recreational Hub

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Floor Plans

A

B

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Osaka Recreational Hub

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Final Model

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Mason Malsegna masonmalsegna@gmail.com +1 (585) 880-7014