Walter Sueldo Portfolio
Walter J. Sueldo wsueldo2@gmail.com 973-651-8923
Education Essex County College: 2009 - 2012 Associate in Applied Science in Architectural technology (with highest honors)
Pratt Institute: 2012 - 2015 Bachelor of Architecture
Experience Architecture iS summer intern 2011 Freelancer 2012
Studio Stigsby Freelancer 2011, 2013
James Wagman architect summer intern 2013
Published in
In Process 19: 2014 Regenerative Infrastructures: 2013
Competitions
architecture Workdshop in Rome eco-chair: 2010 -entry Unrestricted Access: 2011 - entry Land Art Generator Initiative: 2012 - short listed
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transitional information: Bowery Library
10 experimental tipology: Pratt Graduate Dormitory
22 gestural lightness:
Columbia University Boathouse
34 varied amalgamation: Parametric Scripting
Transitional Information Bowery Library
The Bowery is a site packed with historical context. Its layers of information from its first settlers to its current habitants of diverse backgrounds energizes the site with potent site forces such as historical nodes and powerful views.
This layering of information throught time allowed me to contextualize a concept in which the user is exposed to different types of information as they transtition between the spaces. The spaces themselves are registered as a pattern of changing program, void-mixed-solid, which are divided though a layered system of partitions. These partitions are derived from the organizational language of the existing urban fabric and sets a compositional order in this scheme.
Intermediate design II/Spring 2013 Critic: Richard Scherr
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Auditorium
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Fourth Level
Ground Level
Section 1
Section 4
East Elevation
South Elevation
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Main Reading Area
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5th Level Reading space
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Experimental Typology Pratt Graduate Dormitory
In collaboration with Yani Gao In this project we took the opportunity to question the housing typology. Our scheme did not favor a box organization with a double corridor as we felt it isolated the occupants and created a disjunction in the community. Our approach referenced open spaces, a courtyard configuration, and a clear organization defined by the occupants. We proposed a thin building connected with an internal street. The thin building is intended dor single graduate students and the courtyard building for married couple with kids. The ground floor of the thin building is lifted of the ground to allow a flux of people and also a connection of the inner building with the existing fabric of the street.
Comprehensive designI/Fall 2013 Critic: Lawrence Blough
Analysis of structure of a dragonfly wings + desnity of structure
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Densified skin with structural implications
The density of the wall can be derived from accumulation of people in certain spaces.
Through experimentation of the initial analog a wall system was composed that lend itself to possibilities to occupy the wall. In addition, we experimented with different building typologies.
Single Loaded + Mat Building
Double Loaded + interlocking lounges
COURTYARD 12 SCALE: 1/4” = 1’-0”
Process of the deformation of the “wall�
cutting the street
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introduction of courtyards
the typology
pull ground floor up
bleed the streetscape into the building
Perspective Section
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East Elevation
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Detail Facade Model
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Gestural Lightness Columbia University Boathouse
in collaboration with Nubia Garcia The genesis of this scheme derived as a response to the site conditions. The site, located within the sport complex of Columbia University, is prone to flooding. Our approach was to elevate all the conditioned space and keep the boat storage at ground level for convenience and ease of access. However, this created a difragmentation of a unified mass. Our solution was to generate a mass that holistically “Lifted of the Ground.� Our formal strategy was to vreate a bay system which rotated in respected to a fixed axis at one point of the bay allowing for a controlled breakage of the form but allowing it to read as a compositional gesture. This move generated a condition of great tension between the ground and the underside of the structure. The interstitial space became a gathering area, a communal courtyard and a point of entrance mitigated the last sectional bay floating and the ground.
Integraded design/Spring 2014Critic: Erica Goetz
Site Section with flood line
Conditioned vs. Unconditioned
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Shadow Studies + Weather Data
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Detailed Section Model
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Physical Model on Site
Lounge Space
Exterior Courtyard
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Varied Amalgation: Parametric Scripting
This studio served as an experiment for testing representation tecniques through material investigation. With the analysis of the behavior of my chosen material, soap bubbles with ink, a behavioral pattern occured. The displacement of bubbles as an introduction of the ink and accumulation of bubles as a result of that displacement lead to vectors that can be traced in order to arrived to a logic.
Representation III/Spring 2013Critic: Danielle Willems+Ezio Blasetti
Material Analysis
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Analysis of Displacement
Magnetic Interaction
Iterations of Magnetic Behavior
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