ARC 108 Portfolio

//TINA LIM / ARC 108

Portfolio Spring 2018 // Syracuse University School of Architecture// tlim02@syr.edu

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//THE ANALYSIS OF A CITY AND ITS ARCHITECTURE This exercise provided students with an introduction to the analysis of cities through an investigation of the central business district, or CBD, of downtown Syracuse. Students were then organized into teams that analyzed one of four categories: blocks and streets, buildings, public spaces, and history.

Topics in the public spaces category included analyzing materials, composition and character of spaces, as well as documenting activities and users. This analysis focused on the successfulness of a public space which was based on a number of aspects, including accessibility and proximity to retail.

Collaborators: Olivia Dellacava,Wentao (William) Liu, Haya Saqabi, Shelby Ward

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Olivia Dellacava

On the left is a series of popularity diagrams that show the popularity of various public spaces in downtown Syracuse. The top two rows shows the popularity of a daily Wednesday while the bottom two rows shows the daily popularity of a daily Sunday. The popularity of a public space determined the successfulness of it.

Wentao (William) Liu

/COLUMBUS CIRCLE

The diagrams at the top analyzes Columbus Circle, which is among one of downtown Syracuse’s more popular spaces. It is also the space that is closest in proximity to site two, where the building in exercise three is situated. The diagrams by Olivia Dellacava include a section of the monument as well as the accessibility of it. The diagrams by William Liu show the proximity of Columbus Circle to retail, transportation, and the like.

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//THE ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES This exercise asked students to analyze an individual urban building and how the facade reflects how it fits into external context as well as the internal program organization. The buildings were all libraries, which served as a precursor to the next and final exercise.

The Biblioteca Vila de GrĂ cia designed by Josep LlinĂ s borrows from the surrounding context by incorporating ideas of protrusion and extrusion, while still keeping its own internal system. Datums created by the pre-existing buildings establish the basis for the facade.

Collaborators: Anna Wu

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Setback Protrusion

Anna Wu

/BIBLIOTECA VILA DE GRĂ€CIA Wood Brick Glass Steel

Concrete Terracotta Limestone Other

The top diagram by Anna Wu shows the datum lines established by the surrounding buildings, as well as how the library breaks these datum lines. The diagram on the top left shows more specifically the relationship of the setbacks and the protrusions of the library with those of the neighboring buildings. The diagram on the bottom left shows the materiality of the library and the surrounding context buildings.

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//DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING /(FROM OUTSIDE IN AND INSIDE OUT) In this exercise, students were asked to start by processing and extracting the precedent research from exercise two and combining it with the research done for exercise one to apply those tactics to the facade. After working on the exterior, students then move into the interior to deal with organizational strategies and the demands of program. A specific relationship between the exterior and the interior is then developed through this process of working from outside in and inside out.

The building that is created is located on one of three sites which will house “The Archive of Syracuse,� which is a institution that houses historical collections and materials.

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/PRELIMINARY

The main precedent tactic utilized in this project is that of breaking datum lines, which is the one utilized by the Vila de Gracia. Like the Vila de Gracia, datum lines are established by the neighboring buildings are broken by a series of setbacks and protrusions on the facade. Being assigned Site two, which has a corner condition, it was important to think about how to facade interacts with the corner.

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SECOND FLOOR

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FIRST FLOOR

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/OBLIQUITY

The exterior facade of the Obliquity is composed of an interlocking screen that is pushed and pulled from the datum line established by the surrounding buildings. Pieces of the facade are then varied to help to delineate the program of the interior and give varying amounts of privacy.

Spaces on the interior also reflect this deviation of the facade, as the interior walls are pushed based off a grid created by the facade.

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/SITE PLAN

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/ELEVATION: E. JEFFERSON STREET

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/ELEVATION: S. WARREN STREET

/PROGRAM AND CIRCULATION DIAGRAMS

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/SECTION A

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/EXTERIOR

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Professor: David Shanks// TA: Sophie Fraser Hafter & Joshua Kayden