Tota Hunter Architectural Portfolio

TOTA H U N T E R P O RT FO L I O Syracuse University, School of Architecture

TOTA HUNTER

tota.hunter@gmail.com +39 349 4919884

EDUCATION Expected 2021 2016-2021 Spring ‘19 Summer ‘19 Fall ‘19

Syracuse University School of Architecture | SYRACUSE, NY Bachelor of Architecture Candidate Full Tuition Merit Scholarship London Abroad Program Yugoslavia Summer Abroad Program Florence Abroad Program

The Woodlands High School | THE WOODLANDS, TX 2015

High School Diploma | Magna Cum Laude Ap Scholar with Distinction

EXPERIENCE Summer 2019

Gensler Summer Intern | Houston, TX Worked on a set of renderings and a campaign book for a local church renovation project. 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 that helps foster youth who age out of the foster care system.

2015-2017

Freedom By Design - Syracuse University Chapter Director | Syracuse, Ny Provided overall structure for the program and was the mediator between team, faculty, and administrators.

Project Manager | Syracuse, NY Oversight of final stage of construction on the historic Westminster Church ramp, and beginning design of a series of ramps for store entrance in the historic town of Cazenovia, NY

2012-2016

Independent Tutoring Tutor | The Woodlands, TX Tutored elementary and high school students that required additional help by creating lesson plans in coordination with the needs of the student to guarantee their progress and success in their academics.

Summer 2014

PBK Architects Intern | Houston, TX Shadowed experienced architects in the different phases of developing projects.

Organized physical and digital files pertaining to public school related design projects.

AFFILIATIONS Freedom By Design (FBD) American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Architecture Student Organization (ASO) Central Asia and the Caucasus Research Group (CAC)

SKILLS Languages Digital Fabrication Representation

English, fluent | Russian, proficient | Kazakh, conversational | Spanish, beginner Rhinceros | Revit2019 | V-ray | Lumion | Enscape | Illustrator | InDesign | Photoshop Hand Modeling | Wood shop | 3D Printing Hand Sketching | Drafting | Painting | Photography

Summer Intern POSITION

RE IMAGINING Rhino 6 | Lumion | Photoshop | Indesign The HAY Center | Summer 2019

PROJECT BRIEF

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

SITE LOCATION

Houston, TX

Houston community.

PROJECT ROLE

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 encompased all the worked done by the interns through out the

EMPLOYER

Gensler

summer.

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R E IM AG INING

Residential Entrance | Center Courtyard | Courtyard Amenities | Residential Courtyard | Exterior Perspective

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Between Myth & Utopia COURSE

VOID

Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign Affordable Housing | Summer 2019

PROJECT BRIEF

The course aims to investigate three typologies in which architecture was employed as infrastructure.

The

research

targets

the

former

Yugoslavia,

SITE LOCATION

Balkans Region

particularly New Belgrade, Serbia; Seaside resorts along the Adriatic Coast; Tange’s Masterplan 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.

RESEARCH INTENTION

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 f ree spaces for human expression and therefore they allow the individual to shape

INSTRUCTOR

Mitesh Dixit

and reshape these territories.

Research, documentation and production in collaboration with Julia Ocejo

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Pictures documented throughout research | Documentation

VOID

Void analysis of documented images | Figure Ground

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VOID

Final Iteration - Building in Context | Publication

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ARC 307 Studio COURSE

MODULARITY Rhino 5 | V-ray | Illustrator | Photoshop Affordable Housing | Fall 2018

PROJECT BRIEF

The project will address the current affordable housing crisis in New York City by questioning the cycle of demolition in urban growth, instead of

SITE LOCATION

New York City, NY

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?

DESIGN INTENTION

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

INSTRUCTOR

Ryan Ball

dwellers.

Final Iteration - Building in Context | Axon

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Community Dwellings | Interior Perspective

M ODULA R ITY

Street Level Engagement | Exterior Perspective

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Preliminary Iterations | Diagrammatic Axon

Protection

Enhancement

Modification

Stairs x Mutualistic

Toilet x Commensalistic

Wall x Commensalistic

Corridors x Parasitic

Balcony x Parasitic

Erasure

Window x Parasitic

Form

Use

M ODULA R ITY

Technology

Floor x Commensalistic

Window x Parasitic

Roof x Commensalistic

Ramp x Parasitic

Facade x Commensalistic

Roof x Mutualistic

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Structure | Perspectives

M ODULA R ITY

Iteration 1 - Building in Context | Axon

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Location: Bottom Row, Second from the Left | Physical Site Model - 1:16 Scale

M ODULA R ITY

Pictures by Shawn Tang

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ARC 208 Studio COURSE

HYBRIDIZATION Rhino 5 | AutoCAD | Illustrator Research & Education Facilities | Spring 2018

PROJECT BRIEF

The project incorporates a mixed use program that includes a restaurant, learning facilities for cooking and an outdoor program encompassing

SITE LOCATION

Cazenovia, NY

several different types of ecosystems. The program encourages a farm to table approach to food, providing the user a direct relatioship to the food they consume.

DESIGN INTENTION

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 spaes, what is created is a blurred threshold that does not identidy or conform with either program. That allows for

INSTRUCTOR

Molly Hunker

people to experience spaces as a continuous journey rather than a series of isolated spaces.

Building Site In Context | Site Plan

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Interior & Exterior Space Studies | Element Matrix

HYB R IDIZ ATION

Top: Educational Spaces | Middle: Green House | Bottom: Restaurant | Perspectives

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Green House, Education Center, Restaurant | Jogged Plan

Green House, Education Center, Restaurant | Sections

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ARC 207 Studio COURSE

CONNECTIVITY Rhino 5 | V-ray | Illustrator | Photoshop Community Art Center | Fall 2017

PROJECT BRIEF

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

SITE LOCATION

Philadelphia, PA

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.

DESIGN INTENTION 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

INSTRUCTOR

Tim Stenson

and engage with the building.

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Tectonic Deconstruction | Diagrams

CONNECTIVITY

Top: Street Level Engagement | Bottom: Community Space | Perspectives

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ARC 107 Studio COURSE

SEQUENCE Hand Drawing | Graphite Pencil Crouse College | Fall 2016

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

INSTRUCTOR

Terrance Goode

SITE LOCATION

Syracuse, NY

that characterize the building.