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ZHOU, XIAOJUN B. ARCH Portfolio -2018.04
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This portfolio contains works from design and analysing studio projects developed during my second semester of freshmen year in School of Architecture from Syracuse University while pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture Degree. The projects were chosen to highlight the diverse scale and approaches emcompassed in my design studio education. Exploration of urban context, time, space, tectics, environment, and program have all been mainly considered.
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OO1 CITY
AND ARCHITECTURE 4-7
002 URBAN BUILDING AND FACADE 8-15
003 DESIGN
FROM OUTSIDE IN AND INSIDE OUT 16-23
001 CITY AND ARCHITECTURE THE ONADAGA NEW YORK SALT WORKS
THE ANALYSIS OF SYRACUSE AND ITS ARCHITECTURE GROUP PROJECT AMONG B.ARC STUDIO WITHIN SECTIONS A city can be understood by the shared conditions which may exist at diverse scales including the overall urban form. As a result, Those conditions can be revealed and studied through a process of formal analysis that is similar to the architectural analysis. However, while the analysis of individual buildings and cities both include investigations of space and the surfaces within urban analysis these topics are generally more complex and of course much greater. Another significant difference is the role played by temporality in urban analysis; because cities evolve over time, understanding the history of a city’s growth can help explain its present form in a way that generally does not occur in individual buildings. Generally, this analysis will emphasize the aspects of buildings that participate in the shared conditions that help contribute to a city’s identity.
The natives knew nothing about hte properties central New York. Simon Le Moyne was the firs European to note the sites brine springs 1654
THE SALT CITY The French returned to this area and built a mission produce slat since then.
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s in st ERIE CANAL 1825
on the shore of lake and
Villages of Syracuse and Salina voted to merge. CANAL FILLED CITY OF SYRACUSE FORMED 1925 1848 WW2
1820 1839 NAME CHANGED TO SYRACUSE RAILROADS
POPULATION DECLINED NEW BUILDINGS AROSE -the War Memorial -I. M. Pei’s Everson Museum of Art I-81 HIGHWAY DESTINY USA 1959 2012
1870 1936 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY REMOVAL OF TRAINS FROM DOWNTOWN
1990 CAROUSEL CENTER MALL
As railroads declined, automobiles became the king. Overneed roadways carried arterial traffic while interstate highways lead in four direction.
Salina and Onodaga C Erie Canal I-81 Railroad
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1900 URBAN PATTERN OVER TIME
In collaboration with Dara Jin & Fernando Claudio
Current
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Genesse Turnpike Creek
1850’s Clinton Square Hanover
Erie Canal (1825-1925)
Gridley Building
1900’s
Syracuse Savings Bank
M&T Bank Building
1950’s Columbus Circle Soldiers and Sailors Monument
2000’s
The Clinton Exchange (Post Office)
Park/ Ice skating
002 URBAN BUILDING AND FACADE THE ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL URBAN BUILDING-- POETRY FOUNDATION LOCATED IN CHICAGO GROUP PROJECT BETWEEN GROUPS OF TWO WITHIN SECTIONS OF B.ARCH STUDIO An individual urban building specifically Poetry Foundation designed by John Ronan will be analyzed. The analysis will address how the external pressures of urban form and the internal pressures of program organization within the building. Particular attention will be paid to the composition of the building’s façades at this moment. The selected case study building is located on significant public space and major pedestrian streets. Both of these factors produce great emphasis on at least one of the building’s façades as both a spatial and representational condition. The Poetry Foundation has a series of three layers that separate the building as one walks through. These layers include the front zinc and steel facade, a glass wall, and a ribbon of wooden bookshelves. These layers effectively help divide the public spaces of the building into a gradient of increasingly private ones throughout the building. They also help deconstruct the scale and bustling feel of the city into one that is more private and humanlike. This is to do with the goal of making the buildings visible to the public, while still retaining a shade of mystery that reduces the feeling of being on display to the rest of the city of Chicago. These layers are able to do this with the experience of their different materiality, separation of programing, and solid/void spacing. It is also aided by how the layers, and building itself, interact with their surroundings.
In collaboration with Veronica Marz
TA C T I C S
THRESHOLD M AT E R I A L I T Y
MOVEMENT
D O C U M E N TAT I O N
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Zinc Screen
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January Sun Path
Tactics of Building Massing W
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December Sun Path
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Wood
In collaboration with Veronica Marz Glass and Steel Zinc and Steel THRESHOLD
M AT E R I A L I T Y
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MOVEMENT
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Aluminium Tube Oxidised Zinc Screen Steel Header
Steel Column
Steel Column and Header
Aluminium Bracket
Aluminium Tube Ground
Oxidised Zinc Screen
Facade Composition Relation
In collaboration with Veronica Marz
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Base Mass of Building
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26x
3 Glass Wall Facade 3.5y y y
Steel Columns 14y
1/2y 62y
Front Facade x
Zinc Screen
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Layers Expanded and Proportioned
003 DESIGN FROM OUTSIDE IN AND INSIDE OUT DESIGN OF BUILDING WITH ARCHIVE PURPOSE WITHIN ASSIGNED SITE INDIVIDUAL PROJECT Assigned one of three sites in downtown Syracuse, each containing an existing building which is to be removed. The site is typologically distinct in its urban site condition including an “infill condition�. In forming the design approaches I put more attention on urban contexts determine architectural form, and to what degree does architectural form its urban context. Infill condition has one elevation facing Hanover Square and one elevation facing the interior of the block. I designed the principal elevations of the archive building with close attention to the urban conditions of their given sites, with totaling approximately 15,000sf as the Archive of the City of Syracuse.
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CONTEXT
CIRCULATION
ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENT
PROGRAM
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SCALE: 1/6” = 1’
FLOOR 1
FLOOR 3 Wall Section
SCALE: 1/4” = 1’
SCALE: 1/12” = 1’
SCALE: 1/12” = 1’
FLOOR 4
SCALE: 1/1
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FLOOR 2
12” = 1’
SCALE: 1/12” = 1’
FLOOR 5
SCALE: 1/12” = 1’
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Front Facade
SCALE: 1/4” = 1’
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ZHOU, XIAOJUN PROFESSOR RYAN BALL B. ARCH Portfolio -2018.04