Kassandra Leiva :: Design Portfolio by Kassandra Leiva

K a s s a n d r a L e i va Design Portfolio

Table of Contents

1. Architecture studio Design Sculpture Garden 4

3. Urban Design

Inter-shell Pavilion 8

The Green Connect, Green Loop

Reflection Pavilion

4. Academic Work

Cantileverage Parametric Enclosure

Chair Design

Flamengo: The Board Game

Serpentine Pavilion Video Analysis

ICU: Inter-Class Unity

Villa Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Este: A Reinterpretation

5. Photography

6. Sketches

7. PAINTINGS

2. Professional Work Kilo Graphic Design 36

Junior Spring Studio : Sculpture Garden Professor Hayley Eber 4

A. Section

B. Section

C. Front Elevation

Sculpture

Through this sculpture garden I intended to create a home for two very different sculptures on the Princeton University campus. As the two main sculptures I chose an abstract form and an earth-inspired sculpture. Given the challenge of bringing these two together, I decided to create a garden with two main components: the path which uses the original sidewalks of the university grounds as a guide become an undulating walkway of green tinted metal where certain areas rise above ground (maximum height of 10 ft.) all the while imitating the fluidity of the Oval with Points sculpture; the second component is the modulated surface resulting from an accumulation of many oval cylinders emulating the tree bark surface of the Titan sculpture. Overall this sculpture garden is supposed to frame the university campus in a way that both emphasizes its architecture and alienates it by creating an almost extraterrestrial, eroded environment. Ideally the cylinders themselves are multi-functional, serving as planters, seats, and steps to climb on and off the smooth path.

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Maclean House Henry House

Stanhope

Nassau Hall DUMPSTER ENCLOSURE

Alexander

Oval with Points

West College The Titan

Location on campus

Sophomore Spring Studio : inter-shell pavilion Professor Paul Lewis

The Inter-shell pavilion is meant to evoke the inevitable continuity of space through seamless curvilinear walls. The design is based on a series of lofted closed curves whose beginning and end are indistinguishable because where one closed curve opens the resulting tunnel, another curve ends it. As a continuation of both space and surface through tunnel formation, it is reminiscent of the Klein bottle phenomenon where exterior and interior are coexistent and simultaneous in time and space. The very materiality of this pavilion, with its translucent nature, allows a penetration of light and shadow from both the inner and outer world that conveys a peaceful atmosphere, diminishing all friction that can be experienced from leaving an open space and entering an enclosure.

Cuts from back to entrance

Front entrance

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Back

Cuts from entrance to back

Lofted Plan

Junior Spring Studio Final : Reflection Pavilion

Professor Hayley Eber

The Reflection Pavilion is a reinterpretation of nature from the point of view of an enclosed space. Following my interest in blurring space and structure perceptions. This is Mobius strip of sorts, whose structure at the most basic level consists of individual vertical curving members, contrary to the smoothness inherent to a Mobius strip. The resulting intermittent effect of the walls places the individual in a state being that iterates what he or she is experiencing within the reflective enclosure while revealing sections of what is occurring outside of it. I experimented with folded paper to explore curvature possibilities of one continuous sheet and proceeded to translate the folded faces into individual curved members in order the create the final form. The pavilion would be situated between the two remaining buildings from the old Dinky train station to be part of the new Arts and Transit Center of Princeton University. The pavilion reacts to the main paths intersecting within its site and has a reverse mirrored form: The left is an enclosing shell functioning as gallery space, transitioning to a bridge and on the right it opens into an open-air auditorium in which the structural members, now flattened, become separate seats on the ground. 12`

Computational Design Studio : Cantileverage Pavilion Professor Axel Kilian

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This pavilion was a parametric design exercise using Rhinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plug-in, Grasshopper, along with Arduino technology. Based on two rings, one over the other, delineating the planes for the ceiling and the floor, respectively, each ring is subdivided into several points. From top to bottom structural members converge at these points between the two rings. The number of members converging at points is of course alterable with the Grasshopper number slider. The overall volumetric space enclosed by the top and bottom is then used to generate the flatter members, which populate the space in a random manner with volumetric inertia to guide the directionality of the members. I then filtered these members, leaving only those that intersected structural members or the ceiling or floor and removing the rest. The resulting pavilion was one that forms out of an initially chaotic looking collection of cantilevered members but in fact each of the forms has purpose as either the roof or floor, central weight-bearing structure, or intersecting planks that are either ornamental or intersect the central members as a spiral staircase of planks. The Arduino connects to each step so that each one lights up upon being stepped on, and once the pressure is released, it leaves a fade effect, a light trace accentuating the notion of order embedded in chaos.

Floor

Structural

Ceiling

Intersectors / Stairs

Junior Fall Chair Studio Professor Jesse Reiser

Surface Modules

Structural Extruded Modules

This chairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torus-like shape was created in grasshopper and populated with a uv grid in order to organize the modularity that would make up the design. Each module consists of two parabolic curvilinear wire shapes crossed perpendicularly at the vertex. Small modules are attached to a wire mesh, which facilitates a flexible and continuous surface of modular extrusions. Longer, more stretched modules become structural components. This design reflects the ethereal quality and yet sheer strength of steel wire. The flexibility of the chair further expounds upon this paradox, adding a further dynamism to the design, both semantically and physically.

idealized module

Senior Fall Studio : Flamengo, The Board Game Professor Mario Gandelsonas

MARX THE SPOT

In collaboration with José Escamilla, Misha Semenov, Injee Unshin.

The board represents Marx’s design for Aterro do Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro. Within this map, we pulled out particular areas rich in unique sensory experiences concentrated in different ‘islands.’ These islands form an archipelago, with paths and roads forming a network of arteries that go between them. Each island has anywhere from one to six “wells,’ with each of these containing tokens portraying an individual experience. Each player’s experience within the islands and their wells depends on his or her particular speed; pedestrians are able to dig deeper into the wells to extract much more detailed encounters within the park while drivers get only a cursory taste of the landscape. Speed is noted by the particular game pieces which frame “field vision”(divided into two areas: perception field and attention field) of the board in a particular way which dictates which wells are encountered at any given moment. While each player’s path will be different, the end result is the same: an experience within the park results in a collection of experiences that can be reviewed and played back, almost like a film or musical composition. The game is designed to illustrate how Marx’s design complements and accentuates the use of Aterro do Flamengo as a circulation medium.

Junior Spring: Eliasson and Thorson Serpentine Pavilion Video analysis Professor Hayley Eber

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Foster,Reichstag

Corbu,Villa Savoye

Serpentine Pavilion

An analysis of the Eliasson and Thorson Serpentine Pavilion, this analytical film project made in collaboration with Misha Semenov focused on exposing the key aspects that make the pavilion performative: the architecture as performance in time (Fibonacci spiral, structural dynamism, implicit movement of structural lattice), inducing performative / active user behavior (circulation, movement, cycling promenade; all facilitated by the all encompassing ramp), and finally framing and staging of users (lighting, surveillance, and wall apertures working has framing devices, the idea of the promenade). The video particularly emphasizes the way in which the walk through the ramp transforms the visitor from audience in the auditorium at the start to main act in the limelight at the interior balcony. At the same time the balcony induces surveillance and overturns the notion of an audience below because now at the balcony, the visitor becomes the spectator and the audience the show. This inversion emphasizes fluidity within the spectrum of performance; it accentuates the idea of time as a spiral, where time serves as the medium for behavioral transition. Movement and time are inseparable, and this pavilion is one with time in a true seamless and self-contained continuum. Watch at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJdOEUX2eI

Senior Fall Studio Final: ICU (Inter - CLass Unity) Professor Mario Gandelsonas

elite

FIDALGA PONTO DO JAGUARÉ CORTIÇOS

poor

BURAÇAO

COLISE U

IBI RA PUERA

MARIO CARDI M NEID E APARECIDA

JARDI M PANORAMA REAL PARQUE

SOUZA RAMOS

ASCENDI NO REI S

In collaboration with Misha Semenov. (Plans, sections, axons by Misha Semenov. Final renders by me. 3D modeling by both.) Although the original prompt was to create a water-park a near a favela, this project’s ironic touch results from the need to make a solid social commentary on what in fact is the reality of São Paulo-- a city of towers with patches of favelas unseen and unexpected all throughout. There is a constant sense of ignorance and separation between the upper class and the lower class. As a result, we took a map of all existent favelas, and taking Brazilian modernism for what it is, a way to pave over social differences and not mitigate them, we chose the Oca dome and the Marquise of Ibirapuera as prototypes for the “water-parks” to be installed over favelas in order hide them further. While both prototypes use the security aesthetic (fences and framing) to create the illusion of security, the moment the visitor steps into the water, because the pools are made of glass, swimmers have no choice but to be exposed to the reality of favelas below them. This project is meant to provoke discomfort in a way that elucidates the existent social divides in Brazil that so easily can be ignored.

Buraรงao Favela

Coliseu Favela

COMIDA

Oca dome in Ibirapuera as pool for the poor overlooking the wealthy in the museum below.

31 Revealing the favela below.

Urban intervention hiding the unappealing side of the city.

Senior Fall Studio : An Reinterpretation in Glass of Villa Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Este Professor Mario Gandelsonas

Starting from the Villa D’Este, a 14th century garden in Italy, I decided to represent the garden in a way that highlighted the most important aspect of water. Cardinal D’Este’s garden was created so that through a slope upwards it provided a grand entrance into his villa, while the entire design was fraught with the latest water engineering of the time in order to flaunt his money and power. As an attempt to subvert his gaudy demonstration, I decided to redesign a minimalist garden that rather than directly emphasizing the villa, disorients the visitor first. I took the paths of the original garden and the map of the waterways (pools, fountains, pipes), overlaid, and intersected them. While the intersections where path meets water-way breaks the water-way plan, creating openings, the remaining plan of the waterways generates tall semi-opaque blue tinted glass walls. The idea is to imitate water’s aesthetic minus its gently flowing nature. In the original garden, water was certainly prominent, In my version, water is overpowering to the point that it is embodied in walls around the visitor, creating a labyrinth that gives just enough light to let you find your way, but enough opacity and reflection to make it difficult to navigate. The bottom ground condition is loyal to the original garden’s incline, but the ceiling consists of the top slice of the ground inverted in order to create a gradual feeling of increasing enclosure as you reach the villa: the ceiling is closing down on you and the ground lifts you closer to the ceiling simultaneously. Yet the maze-like nature of the glass garden prevents any sudden realization of this aspect of tightening of space due to the natural fragmentation of space resulting from the labyrinth. Gradual, subtle, yet overpowering, water is monumentalized in glass.

Bird’s-eye view of Villa D’Este

Original path plan

Plan of waterways

Paths through labyrinth

Professional Work at Kilo Architectures, France

Bus Station for Marrakech

Baccarat Hotel

As graphic designer at the firm I worked at during the summer of 2014, I took the CAD drawings of the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projects and made graphics for the website and upcoming book of Kiloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.

Baccarat Residences

Urban Design

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This urban design project required extensive research on the typical inhabitant of Bridgeport, Conneticut in order to create a green loop. To comprehend living conditions I created the avatar Clarissa, a thirty six year old Colombian immigrant mother working in the civil service and as an environmental studies teacher. Following her life through projected population statistics, I created green spaces that would be most useful to her. To maximize the utility of these spaces I looked at all the places she would frequent the most based on the statistics. Sample locations are dotted in yellow on the map and listed with photographs below.

The Green Connect will feature bike stations that have central screens with an interface that informs the passerby of nearby bikes belonging to the bike share system in addition to giving information on nearby wildlife to improve environmental education. Using data pushing technology, The stations are able to send information automatically to smart phones so that people in a certain radius of proximity are able to access the information conveniently and quickly.

Biking

Wildlife

Biking

Wildlife

You are here

Elementary School High School

City Hall

First Home

38 Second Home

The GreenConnect Connecticut始s Greenway

Post Office

Market / Shops

Pharmacy / Jobs

Studio / Hobbies

The GreenConnect Connecticut始s Greenway

Green transit and Environmental education all in one.

Academic Work The Faustian Bargain

POWERFUL TRANSPARENCY GLASS: STRUCTURE SPATIAL DIFFUSION ENVIRONMENT

Kassandra Leiva ARC 311 Professor Nat Oppenheimer

A research report on the structural, atmospheric, and environmental functionalities of glass.

Light Play or Inevitable Blasé?

following the mudbrick road trench 2.5.4 A∆ / 5y+ the road intersection

Kassandra Leiva Art 304 Professor Nathan Arrington

An archaeological trench report on a road intersection in Stryme, Greece and hypothesis on the death of a city.

By: Kassandra Leiva ARC 307: Midterm Paper Professor Bruno Carvalho

An analysis on the neurotic nature of city life. An intertextual comparison between Simmel and Raban. Kassandra Leiva FRE 351 Professor Natasha Lee

Life-Lines of Trajectory An analysis of Vertov’s Man with the Movie Camera

agency of architectons

the automatons of architecture Kassandra M. Leiva ARC 302 Paper Professor Spyros Papapetros

An investigation on Vertov’s hectic film depiction of the city, founded on linear trajectory of framing and montaging.

A close reading on Der Golem and Metropolis Kassandra Leiva ARC 455 Professor Spyros Papapetros

An exploration the half-human-half-architectural figure in film and its resonance in a society.

L’espace, l’individu, et la lumière Analyse des espaces publics et privées

An investigation on the public and private spheres in French society through the lens of Prévost’s Manon Lescaut.

Palais Ă Versailles, France

Paris, France

Notre Dame, Paris, France

42 Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

43 SESC Pompeia, S達o Paulo, Brazil

44 Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables Florida

Notre Dame, Paris, France.

National Archives, Paris, France

45 Pharmacy, Tenerife, Spain

“A Note On Social Inequality,” Painting in acrylic.

47 “A Note On Our Earth” Painting in acrylic.