Adeniyi Onanuga Portfolio Draft 2021

ABOUT ME

Hello! I’m Niyi Onanuga, I use he/him pronouns, and I’m a proud first generation Nigerian-American. I have always been passionate about humanitarian aid and how the world works at a technical scale, so I grew up with a STEAM career in mind.

This technical outlook paired with my desire to leave the world a better place than I found it lead me to the path of Architecture; as I hope to create beacons of hope that will continue to help the world when I no longer can. I started my Architecture education at Drexel University in the Fall of 2019, and plan on graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree of Architecture in 2025, along with receiving my license as I intend on partaking in the IPAL program offered by Drexel Unviersity. Alongside my Architecture education, I continue to volunteer in both my home and new community in Philadelphia, and also teach youths and other students through teaching assistant jobs or summer conferences.

OTHER INTERESTS

PHOTOGRAPHY & NATURE

YOUTH EDUCATION & SERVICE

3D ANIMATION & PROP DESIGN

BAKING & CAKE DECORATING

WRITING & CHARACTER DESIGN

TABLE OF CONTENTS COMMUNITY CENTER DESIGN

6-11

APARTMENT AND LIBRARY DESIGN

12-17

ROWHOUSE DESIGN

18-23

BOATHOUSE DESIGN

24-29

MULTI-USE BUILDING DESIGN

30-35

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

36-41

REPRESENTATION

42-46

COMPETITION ENTRIES

47-49

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

50-53

RESUME

BREWERYTOWN ROWHOUSES PROJECT PERWINKLE

FALL - 2021 - 10 WEEKS INSTRUCTOR: JACKLYNN NIEMEC A block of 10 lots intended for residential rowhouses located in Brewerytown, Philadelphia. My project, Project Periwinkle, derives its focus on green spaces, stormwater management and the use of contextual building technologies and materials with new, sustainable technologies from the Marsh Periwinkle, a snail that burrows into marshgrasses to grow its own food through fungiculture. These new technologies and spaces allow for this block to become partially self-sufficient; through water recycling and preparing food together, this project aims to create a community through a shared sustainable activity (Title Photo: Shared Outdoor Space, Periwinkle Pavilion.)

CONCEPT STATEMENT: CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH A SUSTAINABLE SHARED ACTIVITY CONCEPT AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM This Diagram visually explains the how the concept carried the design, showing the sustainable cycle from locally collected rain water to sustainably grown rooftop produce finishing with a shared ‘Farm to Home’ Kitchen and eating area.

STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Sustainability is a driving factor for this design, as such, I created an innovative water recylcing system that combines rainwater collection, greywater recylcling, and runoff reuse to create a self-sustaining irrigation system that also feeds back into the system after being passively filtered by the facade’s exeterior rainwater filtration systems.

Site Gentrification Analysis.

The drive for community and self-sufficiency came from the tenuous relationship the site has with gentrification. Instead of emphasizing the differences between the new and old, this project seeks to embrace them.

Annotated Kitchen Perspective.

The Kitchen space focuses on applying the many facets of the community while also serving as a business incubator for existing families in the neighborhood or new startups that just moved in.

Rowhouse Precedent.

This Rosewood Street precedent demonstrated the nature of the existing buildings, serving as a starting point for my design.

Facade Study and Research.

The facade of the houses in this project tell two stories: one of the past with its vernacular brick and recessed porches, and one of the future with its passive water filtration.

Study Models.

These Study Models helped me play with the massing and which parts of each residence I want to be public to the street, semiprivate to the community, and private for the residents.

Elevation and Section.

These drawings highlight the details of the facade while also demonstrating the structure of the green roof and the wall systems.

Exploded Wall Section - East This section focuses on the three story buildings on the East side of the project. This side of the project has the multi-generational homes along with co-housing units suspended above the community kitchen.

Sample Floor Plans.

These floor plans display what the co-housing units look like and how they share a first floor with the community.

Exploded Wall Section - West This section focuses on the two story buildings on the West side of the project. This side of the project has the other co-housing units that share a green roof garden with the community.

Sample Section.

This section demonstrates the push and pull of the units, creating pockets of communal spaces and covered gathering places.

West Units: Winkies.

Rooftop Green Spaces.

Winkie Section Perspective.

Title Picture: Periw

winkle Pavillion.

East Units: Whelks and Periwinkles.

Kitchen Spaces.

Whelk Section Perspective.

APARTMENT BUILDING AND BRANCH LIBRARY PROJECT TSUBAKI

WINTER - 2021 - 10 WEEKS INSTRUCTOR: JEREMY VORHEES An apartment complex and Philadelphia Branch Library sharing a site on the corner of 40th Street and Wallace Street in Philadelphia. My project, Project Tsubaki, derives its horizontality, repetition, and assymetrical balance from the form of the 18 Scholars flower, a subspecies of the Camellia Japonica. This form is used to bring in a variety of lighting conditions and create sightlines in, out, and through the project as a way of creating an ideal learning environment.

(Title Photo: Street Corner View of Apartment Complex)

CONCEPT STATEMENT: CREATING AN IDEAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT SITE ANALYSIS This Analysis explores the relationship the site has with the three main psychological factors for learning: lighting, noise, and views. By finding areas in the project that work best for learning, the program of the library withdrew to the ideal location, while the apartments served as the engaging factor to the rest of the community.

LIBRARY PROCESS SKETCHES The Library quickly became the focus of this project, even though it is a smaller part of it, area -wise. In my perception, i wanted to create a library that effectively mitigates noise while also using light as a delineation of space: brighter areas being meant for gathering while dimmer areas meant for private study. Lastly, the library focuses on transparency and the ability to see both the tranquil greenery in the back of the site and the engaging urbanscape around it.

Site Factors.

The focus on the psychological factors in architecture came from both an intent to create an engaging and innovative design along with the prominence of the corner.

Elevation Drawing.

I designed a facade that plays with both light and sight. With both setback glazed panels and extruded forward structural glass, this project creates unique lighting conditions while also allowing for views around and through the project.

Study Diagrams.

During the early design phase, I experimented with the three main factors I discovered in my Site Analyis: lighting, noise, and views.

Facade Study and Research.

The facade of the houses in this project tell two stories: one of the past with its vernacular brick and recessed porches, and one of the future with its passive water filtration.

Study Models.

These Study Models helped me play with the massing and which parts of each residence I want to be public to the street, semiprivate to the community, and private for the residents.

Typical Floor Plan.

The second, third, and fourth floor all follow a similar arrangement of units. The single loaded corridor and perforated form allows a resident to see out to the city and in towards the green space from nearly any point in the building.

Section and Elevation.

As part of both the affordability and sustainability of this project, Project Tsubaki utilizes locallysourced reclaimed timber in its Cross-Laminated Timber and bamboo paneling, as golden bamboo is an invasive species in Pennsylvania.

Ground Floor Plan.

The first floor and fifth floor of the apartments are given entirely to the community as a place to gather or to quietly observe the neighborhood around them.

Library Sections.

These sections demonstrate the double height qualities of the Library, allowing for more generous indirect lighting while also letting the space feel open, reducing anxiety caused by claustrophobia-inducing spaces.

Site Sections.

These sections demonstrate the structural grid of this project while also demonstrating my intentional departure from it to create a variety of spatial conditions.

Wallace Street View.

Rooftop Green Spaces.

Title Picture: Stre Lancaster Street View.

Section Perspective.

Resident Community Spaces.

eet Corner View.

40th Street View.