VALERIA BARDI COHEN Pratt Institute School of Architecture architecture portfolio
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Film Production Company.................................................Intermediate Design II Spring 2020 EDITING
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Tapering Programs........................................................Intermediate Design I Fall 2019 12’
Botanical library........................................................Intermediate Design I Fall 2019
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Laminated Projections................................................................Design II Spring 2019
Shifted volumes generating pathways...................................................Design I Fall 2018
Epidemia:Infection detected.................................................Representation III Fall 2019
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Transformational staircase vignette..........................................Representation II Spring 2019
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Professor Dragana Zoric
SP2020
This semester consisted of two different projects while developing the same idea of a cinema and film production company. This project, being siteless, explores the idea of a scultupral circulation while including structure. The Dom-Ino acted as a main precedent to understand the relationship of the slabs, circulation, structure and program.
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Professor Dragana Zoric
SP2020
Film Production Studio as an addition to Hunter College Mannhattan, New York
Inspired by films and cinema, this proposal focuses on framing and tracking the human eye as a way to create the spaces and moments in the architecture. The idea of a cinema as being a world in which we, as occupants, not only attend to watch the final result: the movie. But also, have the experience of the editing, filming and production of these story-telling pieces. Overlooking and interaction between programs is what truly create the essence of the building, from the inside and outside. While adapting the views that the city offers, outdoor spaces are programmed as well, consisting of open outdoor theaters with the intent of framing and incorporating the new yorker experience.
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Professor Ajmal Aqtash
FA2019 20’
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This proposal, located on a given site at the MET Cloisters, focused on developing the idea of the collection of plants, as books. Once deeply exploring the wall condition and thicknesses, my interest was driven by the creation of spaces in which everything is derived from the wall; furniture, program and plants. This ambition of imbeded program into the wall created a much more flexible and transformational architecture. The ground+wall+roof condition plays a major role in this project, making the structure sit, carve and peel the ground itself, causing the roof to be occupiable and act as a landscape in some instances. Roof skylights were essential when designing for program as a space. However, for plants, skylights were placed in the thick wall poche in order to follow the heliostat process of bouncing natural light within the walls and columns.
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Professor Ajmal Aqtash
FA2019
This project explores the relationship of the wall and roof condition, while adapting different wall poches in order to dictate programs. The aggregation of modules create the central circulation as being an interior open space in which the separation between programs is driven by the geometry of the wall poche while creating pockets for more private spaces. The roof, as indicated, is informed by the geometry of the plan and carries the wall poche with the idea of tapering not only the wall, but also in section, meaning that the roof tapers from thicker to thiner. Skylights are the main character for light circulation and ventilation,
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Professor Anthony Buccellato
SP2019 Let’s PLAY The hybrid proposal explores different architectural conditions and ideas, including the relationship of the body scale, movements, positions and activity. Given the site, this project is intented to be located between two Pratt Main Campus townhouses. After multiple experimentation through different systems and design language, the hybridization of both: planes and volumes, generates the design, following a set of rules such as carving, splitting, laminating and folding.
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Anthony Buccelatto
SP2019
1:1 Scale Model 8ft x 5ft Selected design by studio to develop the project. This exercise explores and analyzes the body scale and transitions while learning assembly systems and aggregations of structural systems. Materials: 2x4/1x2 vertical elements MDF Plywood sheets
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Farzam Yazdanseta
FA2018
The introduction of three different systems: frames, planes and solids. This project experiments the relationship between these systems in order to create a final hybrid design. Volumes were extracted from a series of overlayed ruled-based drawings. The linear system, acts as a carving component that creates the carved paths of the design.
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FA2019
Technique: Rendering An architectural pattern was developed throughout the course, while creating story boards in order to generate a story through the medium of renderings. I was inspired by fictional and evolutionary architectural representation. These series of vignettes consists of multiple iterations of a consistent space while varying in geometric forms. Keeping the idea of being a space that gets affected through time, yet it evolves geometrically.
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Professor
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SP2019
Based on the analysis of the main staircase of Phillips Exeter Academy’s Library, by Louis Kahn, this project consists of a variety of drawings that explore this piece of architecture as being something flexible and infinite that could transform, twist and multiply to create a new version or architectural proposition.
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