Andreas Jonathan Underlying Systems M.Arch I Portfolio
My path through art and architectural education has been an exploration of underlying systems
Memory/Terrain - Projection/Expansion - Material/Co mmunication - Pattern/Geometry - Poetics/Experience
Each project is paired with an underlying formal or conceptual relationship
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Memory/Terrain Title:Topo Year:2013 Course:Intermediate Sculpture
This assignment asked for a welded volumetric structure that would be illuminated from within. I selected contour lines from different places I have lived and overlayed them to form the following object.
Surface/Volume Material:Welded Iron Polyurethane Rice Paper
Topography lines are extracted and overlayed 6 Memory/Terrain
Light/Memory Material:Welded Iron Polyurethane Rice Paper
A psychogeography that destabilizes “where� I have been 8 Memory/Terrain
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Projection/ Expansion
Title:Where is Art? Year:2013 Course:Intermediate Sculpture
This sculpture began as a speculative proposition, intended to be not quite an art object and not quite an architecture.It became a study on material and projection. The realized piece is a work of uncertain boundaries, where exhibition and the object itself work in conjunction.
Rigid/Organic Materials:1/4� Steel Rods Wire Mesh
Blue Light Projection
Steel rod interacts with wire mesh 12 Projection/Expansion
Light is projected from two directions.
Red Light Projection
Light/Shadow 14 Projection/Expansion
Mixed Light Projection
A work with uncertain boundaries 16 Projection/Expansion
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Material/ Communication
Title:Operable Diagrams Year:Summer 2013 Course:GSAPP Introduction to Architecture
This project explored the material properties of piano wire, latex, and rockite. Students took part in a derive, observed people, and diagrammed qualities of their movement. Translating that information through different materials changed the initalinputs and created room for new programs.
Travel routes are translated into a three-dimensional diagram
Wire Model
Mapping/Diagramming Materials: Piano Wire
20 Material/Communication
Articulating surface with latex reveals inherent voids.
Latex Model
Skin/Surface Materials: Piano Wire Latex
22 Material/Communication
Rockite Model
Volume/Form Materials: Piano Wire Latex Rockite 24 Material/Communication
Introducing rockite reveals material relationships and programatic possibilities
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Pattern/ Geometry
Title:Inlet Walkway Year:2012 Course:Architectural Studio I
The project asked us to select an object from “nature�. A small rock was made the subject of study. Underlynig geometries of the crystal formations within the rock became points of departure for the design of a pedestrian walkway that moves from enclosed, to porous and semi-open.
Site/Program
Site Plan: Warinanco Park, Roselle,NJ
Point of Intervention
A site of our own creation or choosing. 28 Pattern/Geometry
Circulation that moves from enclosed to semi-open, tense to free.
Photograph of Model
Geometry/Tension Materials:Basswood Chipboard
Plan Drawing 30 Pattern/Geometry
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Poetics/ Experience
Title:Passage House Year:2013 Course:Architectural Studio II
The project first asked us to research a house well known in architectural history. Examining the history of Wall House 2 designed by John Hejduk revealed literary and coneptual poetics that evolved into a design for an architectural observatory that would exist on the Wall House’s site.
Site/Program
Site Plan: Wall House 2, Groningen, The Netherlands
Point of Intervention
“The Wall,� a brief moment of amplified experience 34 Poetics/Experience
Traversing the space becomes the mode of observing the prolonged experience of time
Section Collage
Movement/Observation 36 Poetics/Experience
Concise Resume Education: Ithaca College_Architecural Studies BA_2010-2014 Columbia University_Introduction to Architecture_Summer 2013 Internships/Experiences: Visual Resource Collection Assistant_Ithaca, NY_Fall 2011-Present Institute for Urban Design_ New York,NY_Summer of 2012 Art History Research Assistant_ Ithaca, NY_Summer of 2013 Skills: AutoCAD Sketch Up Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign
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