Portfolio Spring 2020

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Sydney

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email s.a.yakowenko@gmail.com phone (732) 540 0204

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Element House

Hajjar Competition 4-5

Site Cloister

Aledia da Mata, Site Cloister in Portugal 6-9

Incubate

Microorganism Modular Project 10-15

NCMA

Museum Addition to Neue Gallarie 16-19

PA Community Art Center

Metal Arts Community Center 20-23

Kayak Rental Center

Bald Eagle State Park Kayak Rack Design 24-27

Library Studies

Sendai Mediatheque Models 28-29

Hand Drawings

VISCOM 30-31

Projects

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Sydney Yakowenko B. Arch Penn State

email s.a.yakowenko@gmail.com phone (732) 540 0204

Achievements Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society

2018-Present

Experience Digital Fabrications Laboratory Assistant

Working and assisting with 3D printers Lasercutters and CNC Routers GIVE Volunteers

Working on Permaculture and Farming in Thailand

2018-2019

Working on Waterbottle Masonry and Construction in Tanzania

Habitat For Humanity

Building Homes, working with placing roof trusses, framming, demolition, and siding.

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2019-Present

Personal

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Skills P K P P P P P K K P P P P P P (P)roficiency (K)nowledge

Rhino Revit AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Adobe Illurstrator Microsoft Office Grasshopper Minitab Express Hand Drawing Wood Working Welding Blacksmithing 3D Printing Lasercutting

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How to Combine the Four Seasons with the Four Elements to maximize the experience of those forces of nature for the residents of the House. Fire is the heart of the home, where people come together both inside around the fireplace and outside around a firepit to bond with eachother. It During During the the Fall, Fall, there there is aisstrong a strong connection connection from from indoors indoors toasto outdoors outdoors as the the weather weather is starting is starting to to During the Fall, a strong connection from indoors asas the weather isthere where ais familys life is centred and revolved around.

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Third Year 1 Week Computer Drawings and LaserCut Model

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During During the the Spring, Spring, it is it the is time the time time for rebirth rebirth and and growth, growth, and and that that what is what earth earth represents, represents, thethe During the Spring, it is the forfor rebirth and growth, and that is is what earth represents, the courtyard courtyard allows allows a relationship a relationship with with the the beauty beauty of the the new new life forming forming more more intimately. intimately. courtyard allows forfor afor relationship with the beauty ofof the new lifelife forming more intimately.

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Incubate

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Aledia da Mata Site Cloister Creating a musealogical path to the Megalith by using the exsisting conditions to help enhance the Void. The Void is Discovered from using the central point of the megalith and extending it to connect to the edges of the rocks to create a cone of vision experienced from within the Megalith. This cone of vision becomes a “no build zone� to preserve the beauty experienced from the vastness of the gap in the rocks.

Third Year 6 Weeks Computer Drawings Professor- Katsuhiko Muramoto

Concrete Bearing Wall Vapor Barrier Insulation Gypsum Board Corten Steel Wall Steel Stud Corten Steel Wall

Concrete Bearing Wall Vapor Barrier Insulation Gypsum Board Mullions Glass Corten Steel Wall Steel Stud Corten Steel Wall

Glass Air Gap Glass Mullions

Structure Section Diagram

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Structure Plan Diagram

PRESERVING THE VIEW THROUGH THE VOID

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Exhibition Space Interrior Perspective

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1 Administration 2 Gift Shop 3 Storage Closet 4 Meeting Room 5 Cafe 6 Multipurpose Space 7 Researchers Offices 8 Bathrooms 9 Classroom 10 Exhibition Space 11 Archive

Site Section, and Floor Plan

In order to preserve the fantastic natural void of vision created by the stones when one is looking out from within the megalith, it was necessary to determine the allowable build zones in order to refrain from interfering with the natural void of vision experienced from within the megalith.

Starting with the center point of the inside of the megalith, and connecting to the exsisting gaps between the stones in the stone formation created axis that determined the cone of vision from within the megalith. These axis thus dictated where the building site is allowed to be.

Concept Diagram and Site Plan

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Incubate State College, as the home of a Global University, is also home to people who come from all around the world to study, bringing different ideas and cultures to one central point. The site is at a very pivotal location in the town as it is on East College Ave. which is the main downtown road that faces to university. The location provides the perfect setting to facilitate a building which can provide fluditiy in cirrculation to help infulunce a mixture of all aspects of the building from, ideas to densities, program, and interrior versus exterrior.

Second Year Module- 3 Weeks Building- 4 Weeks Computer Drawings, CNC Router, LaserCutter Professor- DK Osso Asare

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Moss Module designed to connect to itself in 4D. The module exemplifies the moss’s ability to filter and store water preventing flooding and creating renewable drinking water.

Incubate

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Program Diagram

Views Diagram

Circulation Diagram 12

Project 3

Exterior Perspective

Interior Perspective

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Transverse Section

Transverse Section

Longitudinal Elevation

Longitudinal Section 14

Project 3

Physical Model Photo

Physical Model Photo 15

NCMA When carving out a solid mass you get two different conditions the solid object formed from the carving and the residual space around the solid object. This residual space has very unique geometries as it is everything around the form created allowing you to see around and through larger chunks of space allowing anyone who experiences the contrast between being in the solid vs the void to experience a moment of clarity, of understanding. Special moments of slippage are able to occur in the residual space when two solids just miss being aligned evoking intrigue in the user to continue on. These moments of slippage are where the residual spaces leak together and create a united fluid space.

Second Year 15 Weeks Computer Drawings and Plaster Model Professor- James Cooper

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You immediately enter the building into the residual space formed by the carved-out masses of program. The large space interconnected through the moments of slippage allowing you to get glimpses of people circulating who are further along in the museum. The two systems that are created when playing with the balance between the residual and the programed spaces, calls for two different systems to aid in defining the contrast between the two typologies. Heavy CMU solid spaces and connecting the voids the residual space created for the moments of clarity, is lightweight metal stairways and bridges leading you through the gallery spaces. The residual space allows for moments where you want to take a breather, rest, and recoup from the intake of art and transition into the next gallery. Having the spaces interact with each other fluidly allows for a complete understanding of space.

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PA Community Art Center

Preservation The project required to design an Art Center located in the back of the arboretum at Penn State adjacent to Hartley Woods. In addition, we were allowed to choose an art for our center to focus on. I chose metal works and based the concept of my building on the concept of the site. The arboretum is known for only housing Pennsylvania native plants, and this ideal is carried into the surrounding woods as well. Diminishing invasive species through controlled burning techniques to replant native trees in their place. The design of the Art Center started here with materials, using the ancient Jap-anese method called Shou Sugi Ban to char the wood of the exterior by exposing it to controlled fire which intern preserves it. Not only was the material inspired by the concept of the surround-ing area but also the drastically sloped roofs alternating direc-tions. Relating to the roofs of the woods, the tree canopies that overlap each other alternating directions and angles irregularly.

First Year 6 Weeks Ink on Velum Professor- James Kalsbeek TA- Julio Diarte

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Kayak Rental Center When carving out a solid mass you get two different conditions the solid object formed from the carving and the residual space around the solid object. This residual space has very unique geometries as it is everything around the form created allowing you to see around and through larger chunks of space allowing anyone who experiences the contrast between being in the solid vs the void to experience a moment of clarity, of understanding. Special moments of slippage are able to occur in the residual space when two solids just miss being aligned evoking intrigue in the user to continue on. These moments of slippage are where the residual spaces leak together and create a united fluid space.

Second Year 5 Weeks Computer Drawings Professor- Loukas Kalisperis

Upper Floor Cafe

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Project 6

Ground Floor Cafe

Kayak Rack

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Elevation

Section A-A

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Project 6

Section B-B

Birdwatch Tower Perspective

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Sendai Meditheque Library Studies In analyzing The Sendai Mediatheque in Japan by Toyo Ito has three concepts which make up the whole building, Plates, Skin and Tubes. I studied the Tubes in particlar through physical modeling and explored how they represent the fluditiy of function of the building along with all of their other purposes such as, structure, circulation, temperature, and lighting.

First Year 6 Weeks Wood and Cardboard Professor- Cathy Braash TA- Julio Diarte

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VISCOM Hand drawings of the Villa Stein in Elevation and in Plan, The Rufer House in Section and Plan, and the Uffizi a Sectional Perspective super imposed on a Plan.

First Year, First Semester Pencil on Velum Professor- James Cooper

Villa Stein

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Project 8

Rufer House

Uffizi

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Roanoke, Virgina

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Habitat For Humanity

Weaving, Thailand

Computers Classroom, Tanzania

Construction, Tanzania

GIVE Volunteers

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