Winnie Tam | ARC 107 Miller | SU Fall 2018

Winnie Ngai Lan Tam

Syracuse University School of Architecture Studio ARC 107 Professor Kyle Miller Fall 2018

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Cartesian Prism

Action Space

House Home Habitat

Ground Control

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CARTESIAN PRISM

Explore the relationships between linear and solid elements, planes and frames, and mass and void through foam core, blue foam, and bassword sticks. The prisms are developed in size and complexity. Once further developed, the prism is activated by a force. Here, it is ‘interlace.’

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SETS

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HYBRIDS ELEMENT:1

HYBRIDS ELEMENT:2

INDIVIDUALS

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DEVELOPED

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ACTIVATED

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ACTION SPACE

Design an action space for Joe Hisaishi, a composer and music director for Studio Ghibli, through experiments in spatial definition and abstraction. In the final design, the use of planes and frames takes precedence by capturing entrances, making the site welcoming, and preventing the client from feeling enclosed. The legibility of sequence is present across the three main spaces. The wall becomes an organization element in dividing activity spaces.

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NANJING HOUSE DAVID ADJAYE 2012 NANJING,CHINA

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HOUSE HOME HABITAT Explore residential architecture through analysis of David Adjaye’s Nanjing House.

The main strategies of this design are as follows: 1.Organization of objects suggests division of room. (sequence) 2.Irregular composition of elements creates unpredictability. (composition) 3.Distinction between mass and void establishes public and private space. (spatial volume) 4.Intersection of curves and edges creates geometry. (formal order)

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GROUND CONTROL Find the relationship between figure and field. The house is to complement the site, a slope. Elements are borrowed from the Nanjing House, Esherick House, and E1027 to explore possible designs. The final design is largely inspired by the curves of the Nanjing House, as movement is organized through them. Sequence is organized along long parallel walls. Spatial volumes also help dictate sequence; the compression of spatial volume used to create sequence.

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