Mark Zlotsky
Mark.Zlotsky@gmail.com
number 973 533 4441 address 416 4th Avenue Apt. 4L
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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urban palazzo
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talking city
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commedia dell'architettura
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casting liberland
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artifact mĂŠlangorium
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hierarchy of needs
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scholastic gateway
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personal endeavors
1 urban palazzo
an interior from the exterior King & King Comprehensive Design Competition: Third Place Design and production in collaboration with Kanyalak Kupadakvinij
project: After programming the New York Public Library offices, renovate the historic library on the south east corner of Bryant Park to accommodate the new programs as well as flexible office spaces. Incorporate structure, HVAC systems, egress, and other performative features.
response: A vertical climax in the Manhattan grid, midtown’s towers invoke a sense of hostility. Urban Palazzo takes spatial inspiration from Palazzo Strozzi to shelter visitors from the overwhelming context with an intimate ground floor public space. The base houses the library offices, convention center, and a restaurant. The tower stacks the flexible offices with a mechanical room in the center and an employee cafeteria on top. The core is a concrete blade protecting the tower from southern sunlight. Each work space is within 25 feet of an operable window and the roofs and courtyard collect rainwater for recycling.
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2 talking city poveglia's nomads
Design and production in collaboration with Kenny Kim
project: An internaitonal competition to revitalize Poveglia, an abandoned relic in the Venetian lagoon, into an international campus that respects the existing flora and addresses Venice’s global tourism and local traditions. response: The silt beneath Venice was sculpted from uninhabitable marshland into a habitable foundation, and the city stood high on wooden stilts. Venice became the quixotic vision of a floating city that is both directly informed-by and ignores its context. As a result, the only ‘sacred’ elements are architecture and traditions. New cultural sites that introduce festivals only compete with the historically-informed ones. Talking City extends Venice’s structural system to completely decouple Poveglia’s buildings from their site to create nomadic buildings that travel to Venice in order to inflect the existing festivals with programmatic and spatial interventions, while lending the city academic facilities.
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
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1: Poveglia / August - March 2: Carnivale / March - April 3: Biennale / April - July 4: Festa del'Redentore / July - August
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Nomad 3 / Library
Nomad 4 / Gallery
Nomad 5 / Theatre Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Carnivale / March - April
Biennale / April - July
Festa del'Redentore / July - August
Poveglia / August - March Rhinoceros and Photoshop
1 commedia dell'architettura 3 casting architecture
2015 Syracuse Architecture Thesis Exhibition
project: Develop a thesis and apply the research to a project.mative features.
response: Commedia dell’arte is a form of street theatre in which an exaggerated cast of society’s archetypes play out situational tropes. The result is an accessible art form and a sly commentary on social issues. The façade transforms an anonymous structure into a character with values. Baroque palaces were clad with ornament to express playful grandeur, while Corbusien homes were bare and sympathized with the machine. Applying the commedia lens to architecture, we can see and design architecture as a series of motives, actions, and reactions among buildings in order to enhance the legibility of their identity and tell a story. The Syracuse University campus was concieved with Beaux Arts intentions, but as it developed, the ideals were lost among insensitive spatial interventions. The campus became a jumbled collection of mute buildings. By superimposing the Divine Comedy narrative onto the campus, the existing buildings can be exaggerated in order to reinforce the once vague spatial relationships.
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bays and windows are overscaled for the campus context
thin brick curtain reinterpreted as a literal fabric curtain
Lasercut illustration board, 3d printer, and spraypaint
4 casting liberland applying commedia dell'architettura Liberland Urban Design Competition Finalist
project: An international competition to design an urban strategy that reflects the anarcho-capitalist government and philanthropic ideals of the young micronation, Liberland, located on a seven square kilometer parcel of land between Serbia and Croatia.
response: Casting Liberland is an application of the commedia dell’architettura model by designing the stage for the characters to perform on. Motivated by freedom, Liberland aims to become a commercial nation built by entrepreneurial individuals who collaborate and compete in a true free market. Despite spatial limitations, Liberland is situated near existing amenities the nation may utilize in order to focus on commercial growth. By spatially organizing with a dynamic, scale-less spatial module with a focus on the expression of the façade, Liberland will emphasize the individual’s identity while remaining a unified whole as it fluidly expands. In order to adapt to local contextual forces, the scalene module may infinitely combine or divides itself into orthogonal, centralized, or dynamic stages. The geometry has the flexibility to form simple grids, hexagonal webs, and disorderly networks.
Rhinoceros and Illustrator
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Agricultural Capacity Population: 1.4k-2.8k
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5 artifact mélangorium a curation through a piranesian lens Palladio Award
project: Study the works of Piranesi and choose an aspect that interests you to design a Piranesium. The site replaces an archeological museum on Piazza Santissima Annuziata, Firenze.
response: Artifact Melangorium is a redesign of the archeological museum’s garden with the addition of a contemporary art pavilion. Studying in Rome, Piranesi etched artifacts of antiquity as they were on site, solated on blank canvases, and deconstructed into elements. He discovered Rome’s unique consistency of ancient and modern fabric. The project displays Roman, Greek, and Egyptian artifact overflow. Relics are curated through a Piranesian lens in an outdoor sequence extending the museum’s interior. The project climaxes in a contemporary gallery, programmatically lacking in Florence.
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
Study model and itterative sketches
Graphite perspectives
6 hierarchy of needs
a mutualistic relation with gentrification
project: Renovate the old coal power plant, ‘The Bat Cave’, along the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, into artist studios. Including studio spaces, live-work apartments, galleries, and event spaces, introduce an “x-factor” program.
response: Taking advantage of the new attention from gentrification, Hierarchy of Needs introduces a financial office, laundromat, and showers to educate artists financially to manage and market their work, while providing basic hygienic resources. According to Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs, by covering basic living requirements, artists are encouraged to experiment. The goal is to slowly filter through the artists of Gowanus by means of assimilation, education, and dissemination. The site is treated as a monastery: a place of secluded work, and a destination for tourism. The two aspects are separated into a pinwheel of private program pierced by a public circulation, galleries, and event spaces.
Rhinoceros, Illustrator, and Photoshop
AutoCAD and Illustrator
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
7 scholastic gateway bridging yale and new haven
project: Design faculty housing for short and long term stay on the eastern edge of Yale, next to Robert Stern’s new student housing. Along with classrooms, an auditorium, restaurant, and library, include a unique programmatic element.
response: Due to socio-economic differences, Yale is a self-contained island within New Haven. Scholastic Gateway uses Yale’s tower and axial typologies, as well as its architectural diversity, to place a new axial entrance into the campus along the Erie Canal Heritage Trail. The project takes advantage of the transient faculty by allocating an outdoor space for public lecture to be shared by both Yale and New Haven. This program is an attempt to make the existing yearly public lecture event more accessible for New Haven by sharing the space.
Rockite, wire mesh, and piano wire
Graphite, Watercolor, AutoCAD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
living living
storage storage
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Ink and Watercolor 1’=1/4” 1’=1/4”
Ink, Watercolor, and Photoshop
Ink, Watercolor, and Photoshop
8 personal endeavors
Acrylic paint, 6" x 6"
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