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WORKS VOLUME DESTINY PROFESSOR : STEPHEN SZUTENBACH VALENCIA COLLEGE | SPRING 2016

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DESIGN IV

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SYMBIOSIS PROFESSOR : STEPHEN SZUTENBACH UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | FALL 2017

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DESIGN VII

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ABSOLUTE FORM PROFESSOR : JOEL SETZER UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

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SPRING 2018

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DESIGN VIII

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DESTINY DESIGN IV

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SZUTENBACH

DWELLING FOR A TYPOGRAPHER This project aims to create a harmony between the site and the dwelling of a typographer. The parameters of the site, an open prairie hill, informs the overall orientation of the dwelling by cutting the site along its longitudinal axis. The design of the building is based on the manipulation of the word Destiny through scale, trajectory, and void. The word Destiny is a very powerful and captivating word that prescribes the life of typography as a constantly evolving art. The void within each module produces a constant rhythmic expansion underground while in juxtaposition to the lightly broken terrace footprint left visible aboveground. This footprint frames the tower in the background to people walking on the public trail tangential to that of the hills perimeter.

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SECTION

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PENCIL + WATERCOLOR PAPER

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SPRING 2016

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VALENCIA COLLEGE

BOK TOWER GARDEN, FL

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KERNING AND TYPOGRAPY VOID Kerning is the process of adjusting the space between individual characters of a word to become visually pleasing. The goal is to dissect the scale of the anatomy of type (serif, apex, aperture, etc...) individually to each character as well as respect to the word as a whole. Then, to manipulate the void between each character to filter light and form a spatial quality.

Through the process of dissecting the anatomy of type allows for the understanding of the interior of each void. By placing these voids within each module and extracting the mass, only then will each mass become inhabitable.

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TYPOGRAPHY VOID

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PROCESS

LIGHTBOX I Diffusion

LIGHTBOX II Reflection

TYPOGRAPHY VOID SECTIONS + LIGHTBOXS

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PROCESS

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DESTINY

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TRANSVERSE SECTIONS

DESTINY

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PENCIL + WATERCOLOR PAPER

DESTINY

DESTINY

DESTINY

DESTINY

DESTINY

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LIVING SPACE

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STUDIO SPACE

SECOND

TELESCOP

The rhythmic sequence of the expanding volumes allows the residen

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PLANS

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PENCIL + WATERCOLOR PAPER

MEDITATION SPACE

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PIC ENTRY

nt to experience each module to its individual scale and spatial quality.

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SYMBIOSIS DESIGN VII

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SZUTENBACH

Oakland, California’s income gap is fractured into two distinct incomes, lower and upper. The goal of this project is to improve the sociological state by integrating all economic incomes on the site; creating a social fabric to grow. The master plan for this project aims to blur the line between the two incomes and have these two independent systems become co-dependent by means of symbiosis.

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SITE MODEL

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FALL 2017

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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

OAKLAND, CA

CULTURED BACTERIUM This project looks toward symbiosis through the process of bacterial growth of biosynthesis to derive the overall form of the structure. Biosynthesis is a multi-step, enzyme-catalyzed process where compounds modify, convert into more complex compounds, and join to form macromolecules. As the compounds are converting, it allows for them to integrate into select voids or stems into new sections of growth.

CONTINUED GROWTH

CELLS REPLICATE

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RESULTANT OFFSPRING

GROWTH & REPRODUCTION

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TRANSDUCTION

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GENETIC TRANSFER

POLYMER

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MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

PROGRESSION

PROCESS

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CULTURED BACTERIA

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MICROSCOPE (200X ZOOM)

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PETRI DISH

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AGAR

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TRILATERAL COMPOSITION This building aims to revitalize the immediate context that is comprised of five public schools (south-southwest), a community college (southeast), and residential towers (north) with essential public facilities. With these three existing developments, they become the three main nodes that anchor the thresholds of the building to the site. The thresholds placement become the immediate access point for the surrounding context to its corresponding public facility. The interior program is composed of a library, a health care facility, and public workshops that becomes the framework of the trilateral form.

FORM SEQUENCE

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SECTION MODEL

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FORM PROGRESSION

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CORE PROGRESSION

CORE PROGRESSION

OAKLAND LIBRARY - FIRST LEVEL RENDER Showing the undulating mezzanine level in the library and the shared space of the atrium.

PROGRAM LAYOUT

LIBRARY

HEALTH CARE FACILITY

WORKSHOPS

NON-DENOMINATIONAL SPACE

CIRCULATION

GROUND

STRUCTURE

ORGANIZATIONAL AXOS Interior articulation

LIBRARY RENDER

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ORGANIZATIONAL AXOS

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TRANSVERSE SECTION PERSPECTIVE The gesture mimics the process that derives the overall form, biosynthesis, where the bacteria stems from single cells into new sections of growth. Cutting transversely through the building shows that sequence of growth from the core to the ends of the programs on either side. Causing the center most point to become the densest, whereas the new sections are left open-ended; translating the density into distinct volumes. The central volume extends towards the three nodes while creating a relationship to the immediate program and engaging the central atrium through its overarching form.

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SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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WORKSHOP TRIAGE HEALTH CLINIC RECEPTION RESTROOM CAFE WAITING AREA I PUBLIC LIBRARY LIBRARY MEZZANINE PRIVATE STUDY ROOM OPEN STUDY SPACE LIBRARY CHECK-OUT 5 0

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PLAZA LEVEL PLAN

MEZZANINE LEVEL RENDER Waiting Space II view of the central interior atrium joining the library.

PLAN

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MEZZANINE RENDER

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ABSOLUTE FORM DESIGN VIII

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SETZER

PLATONIC THEORY OF FORM This project was inspired by Plato’s, “Theory of Forms.” Plato defines form as the representation of all the true qualities of reality. A form is not the physical matter but the representation of all things physical and non-physical; answering the question, what is that? A form will remain constant through time but the ‘thing’ it is representing will always be in a constant change, a transcendence of time and space.

Hypostatizing the theory through the means of a pure shape, a square. Allowing the pure shape to represent all physical and non-physical things instead of a single reality. The square extrudes along a singular axis to represent the formal basis of time. This framework allow for simple gestures of impressing, carving, and filtering to represent the spatial changes through time within the object. This form of representation will become the template of exploration for this project.

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THEORY OF FORM

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PENCIL + WATERCOLOR PAPER

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SPRING 2018

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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA

SPATIAL OVERLAY

PROCESS

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

SECTIONAL SEQUENCE

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ARCHEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE CONCEPTUAL AXONOMETRIC The project pivots to the interest of the occupant for the dwelling, archeology. The axonometric explores the field of archeology in relation to architecture through the development of ruins. The axonometric diagram utilizes the template from the theory of forms where a pure shape extrudes to represent the formal basis of time. The diagram portrays the duality of the ‘new’ that derelicts the ‘old’ over time and that negotiation within the layers. The excavation process exposes those layers as well as the voids from matter that was once there to tell the story.

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ARCHEOLOGY AXO DIAGRAM

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PENCIL + WATERCOLOR PAPER

DWELLING FOR AN ARCHEOLOGIST This project focuses on creating a dwelling in conjunction with archeology through the understanding of its form. Processual archeology which is one of three methods of excavation, bases its archeological data off the site and the immediate context. This method becomes the main influence for the dwellings placement and interior expression. The dwelling becomes an artifact on the site where the layers of voids are defined by each program and its relationship to the immediate surround.

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FORM

EXTERIOR/INTERIOR PARTITION

SECTIONAL SEQUENCE The section shows the constant undulating program on the right side in juxtaposition to the linear circulation space on the left side.

PROGRAM SPACE

STRUCTRAL MEMBER PROGRAM PARITION

CIRCULATION 10 0

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SITE PLAN

FORM COMPONENTS

The main influence for the dwelling’s placement was the south facade’s interaction with the water’s edge to capture the texture inside.

The wildlife encompassing the site optimizes the privacy for the occupant and frames the dwelling.

SECTIONAL DIAGRAM

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SITE PLAN

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AXO DIAGRAM

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SPATIAL OVERLAP The layers of plexi-glass shows the spatial relationship of the different programs as a single system.

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CONSTANT VS. DYNAMIC The program (north) changes in a spatial sequence while the circulation (south) runs constant.

DUALITY OF INTERSECTION The render depicts the relationship of dwelling and context as well as the relationship of the interior and exterior.

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