2021 Portfolio

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TOTA HUNTER

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resume

Tota Hunter E // tota.hunter@gmail.com P // 832.948.5802

Education

Experience

2016-2021 Bachelor of Architecture Syracuse University SoArchitecture

Syracuse University Architecture / Remote

Business Minor Martin J. Whitman SoManagement

Led and taught a group of first year representation students in order to help students improve their digital drawing skills. Responsible for grading the work of entire class, which included 46 students in various time zones.

Renée Crown Honors Program SU Abroad London, England Balkans Region Florence, Italy

Spring 2019 Summer 2019 Fall 2019

Awards

Summer 2021

Teaching Assistant

Gensler / Houston, TX

Summer 2019

Intern

Partook in the design, research and post production process of a pro-bono intern project, that aimed to provide a campus for a bridge program for foster youth. Created renderings and a campaign book for a local church renovation project.

CSPE Architetti , Florence, IT

Fall 2019

Intern

Magnum Cum Laude

Assisted in creating a series of diagrams for a hospital project in China in order to aid in the proposal of the project.

Dean’s List

Architecture Scholarship Full tuition, Merit-based

PBK Architects / Houston, TX

Honor’s Grant Recipient Thesis Research Funding

Summer 2014

Intern

Shadowed experienced architects in the different phases of developing projects. Organized physical and digital files pertaining to public school related design projects.

King+King Design Competition Honorable Mention

Freedom By Design / Syracuse, NY Director

Skills Digital Rhino Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Vray/Enscape AutoCAD Revit

Provided overall structure for the program and was the mediator between team, faculty, and administrators.

Fabrication Wood Working Hand Drafting Ceramics Drawing Laser Cutter Foam Cutter

Language English

2016-19

Kazakh

Russian

Project Manager

Oversight of final stage of construction on the historic Westminster Church ramp, and beginning design of ramps for store entrance in the historic town of Cazenovia,NY.

Involvements Freedom By Design (FBD)

Success Saturday Tutoring

American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS)

Student Peer Advisor

Architecture Student Organization (ASO)

date | Fall 2021

location | Syracuse

course | Thesis

Bent Matter Woodshop | Rhino 7 | Vray | Illustrator | Photoshop | Website

As humans continue to construct and shape the built environment, there is inadequate concern of understanding and addressing the issues at hand. The power of commodities to transform the built environment is accelerating. Systems of production have evolved with efficiency and profit in mind, resulting in the creation of processes that heavily rely on the exhaustion of our natural resources. Although the implications of such processes are oversimplified and abstracted, the underlying issues of environmental degradation, overconsumption and the resulting social inequities remain to be true. This thesis aims to politicize wood and its commodification within the building industry by examining the implications of design decisions and current supply chains. The sourcing of timber products has deep set environmental and social ramifications in the grand scheme of things. Through the integration of architectural and political ecology, this thesis aims to homogenize the interests and goals of both fields to address underlying issues in the age where human activity has detrimental ramification on the climate and the environment.

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advisors | B. Eversole, J. Larsen, J.F. Bedard, R. Hubeli

SU SoA

forestry machinery

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world trade of forest products

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prototypes

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formal variations of chair

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physical production of final form

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construction method of physical production

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date | Spring 2020

location | Ireland

course | ARC 409

Light Bath w/Patrick de Gracia

Rhino 6 | Vray | Illustrator | Photoshop

Lighthouse as Bath is a series of concrete walls that erect from the ground and agglomerate into monolithic structures. These concrete volumes reside on the cliff’s surface, their vertical nature enabling them to blend with the striations of the rock. Between these walls are containments of water hovering above the ground, embedded into the earth, excavated within the cliff, and submerged inside the ocean.

The sequence of these pools as the user descends from land to sea is symbolic of a reversion to nature. What initiates as an individual experience of change, the user is exposed to more collective means of cleansing as they navigate through the project. Conditions for bathing, although singular in function sharing the same space, then transitions into pools that force users to inhabit the same body of water. Eventually, the concrete walls of the project dematerialize into the cliff’s face and reveal the ocean resting beneath it. Concrete no longer contains the water, platforms that extend into the sea gesture at the expansive quality of the final pool. The user is free to wander within the ocean as the lighthouse serves as a beacon for their return.

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professor | Richard Rosa

SU SoA

interior perspectives

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section + elevation

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section perspectives + plans

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interior perspectives

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date | Summer 2019

location | Yugoslavia

course | ARC 500

Void w/Julia V. Ocejo Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign

The course aims to investigate three typologies in which architecture was employed as infrastructure. The research targets the former Yugoslavia, particularly New Belgrade, Serbia; Seaside resorts along the Adriatic Coast; Tange’s Master plan in Skopje, Macedonia.

Through the employment of forensics, analysis, journalism and physical documentation, students needed to develop a methodology to separate and examine the built environment. A void is a territory that is constantly being engaged and disengaged by the individual.

It can be understood as all of the potential space that is occupied by an individual and can be seen in varying scales of operation. Voids are the transitional spaces from one activity to another, a territory where actions play out. They are not merely empty spaces but rather undefined zones without clear functions where any form of action can happen. They are the free spaces for human expression and therefore they allow the individual to shape and reshape these territories.

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professor | Mitesh Dixit

SU SoA

index of spatial voids

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index of diagrammatic voids

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spreads of void catalog

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spreads of void catalog

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date | Summer 2019

location | Houston, TX

course | Internship

Re imagining w/Gensler Interns Rhino 6 | Lumion | Photoshop | InDesign

The pro-bono project aimed to deliver support, safety, and stability of an inclusive community that is dedicated to partnering with former foster youth in building fulfilling, and meaningful futures in the Houston community. In collaboration with nineteen other summer interns, roles often shifted and overlapped. The delegated, primary roles were taking part in the design process of the residential aspect of the project; modeling and synchronizing the Rhino and Revit model of the residence building; and taking on leadership of the post-production team for the final render output of twenty images using Photoshop.

The final production was a compilation of a comprehensive book that encompassed all the worked done by the interns through out the summer.

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project manager | Aaron Bisch

Gensler

site setting diagram

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render perspectives

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date | Spring 2018

location | Cazenovia, NY

course | ARC 208

Hybrid Rhino 5 | AutoCAD | Illustrator

The project incorporates a mixed use program that includes a restaurant, learning facilities for cooking and an outdoor program encompassing several different types of ecosystems. The program encourages a farm to table approach to food, providing the user a direct relationship to the food they consume. Given its isolated context in the small, historic town of Cazenovia, the project aims to create hybridized spaces within its site. The hybrid spaces allow for interaction within the multitude of programs laid out over the site.

Thy hybrid moments present themselves in the form of combination of materials, architectural elements, spaces and programs. As the occupant moves from on space to another, there is an opportunity to redefine conventional spaces. By combining programs and spaces, what is created is a blurred threshold that does not identify or conform with either program. That allows for people to experience spaces as a continuous journey rather than a series of isolated spaces.

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professor | Molly Hunker

SU SoA

hybrid diagrams

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interior perspectives

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collective plan

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site sections

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date | Fall 2018

location | NYC, NY

course | ARC 307

Modular Rhino 5 | V-ray | Illustrator | Photoshop

The project will address the current affordable housing crisis in New York City by questioning the cycle of demolition in urban growth, instead of seeking to promote a model of development which allows landlord to increase the rental capacity of their property without raising rend or displacing current residents. Particularly, what might a city look like if we could build up? The design intention attempts to modularize the living space to allow for future growth. By providing a single 3m x 3m unit at its smallest scale, the single unit can be combined and recombined to create any arrangement of living spaces at larger scales. The setting provides itself with the opportunity to connect with its context by standing on two public program foot prints at the ground level and gradually becomes more of a private space for its dwellers.

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professor | Ryan Ball

SU SoA

diagrammatic axon of connections

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programmatic hybrids

Protection

Enhancement

Modification

Stairs x Mutualistic

Toilet x Commensalistic

Wall x Commensalistic

Corridors x Parasitic

Balcony x Parasitic

Erasure

Window x Parasitic

Form

Use

Technology

Floor x Commensalistic

Roof x Commensalistic

Window x Parasitic

Ramp x Parasitic

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Facade x Commensalistic

Roof x Mutualistic

structure perspectives

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physical model in site

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date | Fall 2018

location | NYC, NY

course | ARC 307

Connectivity Rhino 5 | V-ray | Illustrator | Photoshop

The project will seek to extract a new tectonic logic through the development of context and program into a habitable structure.

The mixed used program is intended to provide studio and gallery facilities. Classrooms will offer spaces for after-school art programs and other arts-related outreach. Supporting educational ambitions, a library is included on the list of functions. In aggregate, this program offers a civic arts opportunity for the exchange of ideas and production of creative work. The design project intends to provide inhabitable spaces that function separately but are still connected through their relation with one another. A visual connection is established between parallel studio on the other. Although, largely an inward looking structure. the community plaza welcomes the surrounding community to step into the space and engage with the building.

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professor | Ryan Ball

SU SoA

tectonic deconstruction diagrams

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perspectives

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date | Spring 2019

location | London, UK

course | ARC 407

Condenser w/Dylan Crean, Maria Gutierrez, Kalani Mah, Sophia Xing, Phang Lim Rhino 5 | Illustrator | Photoshop The project is located on the green belt of London, which is a zone that prevents further growth of sprawl; prevents neighboring towns from merging into one another. Out goal was to create a space that has not been inhabited before, in a form that condenses a city into a singular building. By using OMA’s unbuilt projects from the 1980s as precedents, this project hopes to discover the relationship between the domestic and the collective where both entities create a tension zone where interaction happens. We defined the “collective” as a social space that is accessible to people and entities that are shared or motivated by at least one common issue or interest. Various programs can be seen there such as a theater, a club, a park, and transportation center. On the other side, the domestic is solely a house where it is familiar space that relates to the running of a home, a space surrounding a person which they regard as psychologically theirs.

These two elements create a tension zone which is an opportunity for the users to interact with one another through acknowledgment of physical presence.

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professor | Davide Sacconi, Jad Semaan

SU SoA

interior program perspectives

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section + ground plan

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date | Fall 2016

location | Syracuse, NY

course | ARC 107

Sequence Hand Drawing | Graphite Pencil

The series of images explore the spacial sequence of Crouse College on the Syracuse University campus. The study intends to exhibit the natural progression through the building, stopping at key moments that characterize the building.

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professor | Terrance Goode

SU SoA

Thank you.

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