selected works syracuse university
TABLE OF CONTENTS KIT OF CURVES: Abstract Construct No.1
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COLOR BLOCK: Long Island City Community Arts Center
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PLAY PATH: Old Erie Canal Water Research Center
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SHIFTING SCAPES: Gowanus Waterfront Rock Climbing Gym
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TWO-FACED: Residential Housing Complex
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IMAGE-PLAY: Constructing Picture Windows
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KIT OF CURVES:
Abstract Construct No.1 Project: Case Study Analysis / Location: Syracuse, NY Course: ARC207_Fall 2017 / Instructor: Molly Hunker
This construct came out of an analysis of Le Corbusier’s Sarabhai House, where a formal grid was discoverd along with the iconic vault shape. This was a study of parts and wholes, solids and voids, small and big. The kit of parts can be arranged and assembled in a multitude of ways, though in this case it maintained a 9 inch cube form, which appears differently on all sides. While the vaults in the Sarabhai House are kept very systematic, stacked one atop another, the development and abstraction of this project into a construct reconsidered and manipulated the forms. Using scale and orientation as factors to be changed, The vault shapes evolved into curves and half curves that create interesting spaces that scoop and envelop. Arrangements of shapes of varying factors can create different condiditons of total exposure, semi-exposure, moderate-enclosure, and total enclosure.
Kit of Curves
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Construct Axonometric
Fall 2017
Sectional Axonometrics
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Kit of Curves
30 ndividually cast pieces
cast out of plaster of paris in foam molds
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final model | .gif stills
Fall 2017
9" x 9" x 9"
final model | .gif stills
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Mapping Site: Analysis
COLOR BLOCK:
Long Island City Arts Center Project: Community Arts Center / Location: Long Island City, Queens, NY Course: ARC207_Fall 2017 / Instructor: Molly Hunker
Long Island City is a neighborhood of overlap and informality, a place that fluxuates to accomodate for large mixings of people or small and intimate gatherings. This project seeks to engage these characteristics. This logic of mixing and linking gets brought into the project through a hybridization of programs without inherent relations, which would bring about and encourage misuse and adjustment of spaces so integral to the neighborhood. Cafe gets placed in Library, The same space can change depending on how occupants decide to use it, creating a blurring of distinction between program. Spaces are created as a reult, a vestige, of the colorful vertical masses that shoot through the building, appearing and dissapearing as one moves up through the floors or walks around the building. These vertical masses are also used to absorb the other, less sightly, or more private program. Hierarchy is established with overhead height differences, and double height spaces, and the spaces, as well as the program, flow into one another, hybridizing and blending. The cosmetic facade of the building also plays into the idea of blending and overlap. As a literal overlap of many layers of different colors and transparencies, a playful reading of the project is encouraged, and the building challenges the new and mostly glassy developments in this neighborhood.
Color Block
Long Island City Community Arts Center Project Type: Abstract Construct / Location: n.a / Size: 20,000sf Year: Fall 2017 / Instructor: Molly Hunker
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Project Axonometric
Fall 2017
Graphic Narrative
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Color Block
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Grounf Floor Plan
Fall 2017
Upper Floor Plans
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Color Block
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Model Details
Fall 2017
1’ 7" tall
sectional model splits open to reveal interior floors
1/8" = 1’ Model
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creation and infill of grid
sizing an scaling program
organization of program
connective path disrupts grid
permeable zones for play
play objects scattered
Site Strategy Diagrams
PLAY PATH:
Water Reserach Center Project: Community Center / Location: Old Erie Canal Park, Kirkville, NY Course: ARC208_Spring 2018 / Instructor: Lindsay Harkema
This project is a playscape of exploration and whimsy! A raised path and platform brings visitors up and next to tree canopy and twists around tree trunks to create a new type of nature experience while bringing people to and through different program spaces which interact with the path in different manners. Exploration of the garden area is facilitated through connections to the ground throughout the raised path, whether by stairs or slide. Through analysis of vegetation and land studies, “normative� and orthagonal buildings were situated on the site utilizing a formal grid. Columns are randomly scattered disrupts the grid to create moments of density and thus privacy, or openness in the buildings, bringing the organic arrangement of trees from the outside in. A meandering path further breaks the grid and is utilized to connect all the spaces, providing for a contrast between the formal language of the building and the informal and playful tone. A scattering of objects, from furniture to play things such as see-saws and swings, is spread across the site, allowing for playful interepretations to punctuate the entire project. These objects will shift and move around as people come and as seasons change.
Play Path
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Catalogue: Formal Logic
Spring 2018
Project Axonometric
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Play Path
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Interior Floor Plan
Spring 2018
Interior Floor Plan
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Play Path
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Perspective: On the Path
Spring 2018
Perspective: Garden / Playground
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Project Strategies: Sectional Chunk
SHIFTING SCAPES:
Gowanus Rock Climbing Gym Project: Rock Climbing Facility / Location: Newtown Creek, Brooklyn, NY Course: ARC208_Spring 2018 / Instructor: Lindsay Harkema
This project can be read as an overlay of artificial and natural landscapes, each shifting to accommodate for any given program. The natural landscape, the built ground plane, and the undulating roofscape interact in different ways and combinations to indicate varying functions and level of privacy or publicness. The tension that occurs between landscape layers literally manifests itself in the form of a swooping roof that anchors itself on the rock walls, which act as thickened structural columns. This is reflected in the plan, which organically curves strategically to bring people into areas for gathering or climbing. The project to take advantage of the existing topography of the site, which gradually slopes down to reach the waterfront. As a large part of the site is well within the flood zone, a large marshland is planted to act as green infastructure to acommodate for the typical flood storm runoff. As one gets closer to the water, layers of enclosure are gradually reduced, revealing an open and inviting waterfront promenade intent on drawing the local community as well as people from further places into Gowanus.
Shifting Scapes
a. entrance
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b. interior landscape
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Sequence Perspectives
Spring 2018
c. exterior covered landscape
d. exterior open-air landscape
d.
Project Section
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Site Master Plan
TWO-FACED:
Domino Sugar Housing Project: Residential Tower / Location: Domino Sugar Site, Brookyln, NY Course: ARC307_Fall 2018 / Instructor: Lori Brown Collaborator: Giovanna Veiga
This project reconstitutes the SHoP’s Domino Sugar Factory development and focuses on Site E, the only that connects the rest of Williamsburg to the waterfront. This design reconstructs the project to respond to both the immediate site context of the shorter three-story residential buildings that surround it but also to the growing population and commerical interest building in the area. The ultra-dense affordable housing units take advantage of the FAR of the site and is raised in order to activate the ground level as a public space and a connective corridor to the waterfront. The entrance to the residential housing sunken into a corner of the site, reiterating the public nature of the sidewalk level. What does happen on that public promenade includes a library, a public plaza, and a ramp that peels off from the ground to form the roof of an indoor/ outdoor marketplace and bring people out to the waterfront.
Two-Faced
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Project Axonometric
Fall 2018
Perspective: Public Plaza
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Two-Faced
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Project Section
Fall 2018
Project Section
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Two-Faced
the model
me
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Model Details
Fall 2018
3’-0" tall
1/8" = 1’ Sectional Model
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IMAGE-PLAY:
Constructing Picture Windows Project: Reseach / Location: Syracuse, NY Course: ARC500_Spring 2018 / Instructor: Jonathan Louie Collaborator: Oswal Perez
Using an original base image of the Allianz Headquaters by Weil Arets Architects, swatches of materials were pulled and then manipulated to create a new material. We added depth and layers to the previously flatter materials and designed plays between motion and stillness, hard and soft edges, color and lack thereof. We combined different techniques and layered process over process to create totally new materials that still somehow resembled the original patterning of the original materials. We then took these new materials and photoshopped them into the original image, creating new versions of the original image. This process highlighted certain panels and changed the flat, non-hierarchical original facade. By keeping the base structure the same, but superimposing and overlaying materials, we sought to confuse and perplex, while creating a new facade for the Allianz Headquarters. We want to question the distinguishing of materials representaions virtual and real, and explore the idea of using architectural representations as a means for designing new and exaggerated realities.
Image-Play
Allianz Headquarters.jpg
Allianz Headquarters_v26.jpg
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Allianz Headquarters Manipulation
Spring 2018
highlighting foreground
changing color and grain of curtains
motion vs. stillness
Material Manipulations
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Image-Play
cnc milled foam
vaccuum forming
applying reflective spray paint
window hanging in exhibtion
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process and exhibition photos
Spring 2018
shadows change with different lighting conditions
36"
18"
1:1 physical model
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THANK YOU!
BONNIE YU tel: 1(917)957-9878 email: byu104@syr.edu Syracuse University School of Architecture class of 2021