Academic Portfolio | 2020

architecture portfolio | alyanna subayno

Résumé

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Learning in (a) Place

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WTE Housing

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Food Hub Center

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Rome as Found

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Alyanna Subayno

asubayno@iastate.edu 319.654.4383 www.issuu.com/alyannasubayno www.linkedin.com/in/alyannasubayno

Education Bachelor of Architecture College of Design, Iowa State University Rome, Italy | Ames, Iowa Expected May 2020

Awards College of Design Dean’s List | Fall 2015 - Present Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Competition Finalist | Fall 2019 Large Firm Round Table Fall Meeting and Dean’s Forum | Fall 2019 DLR Group Architecture Scholarship | Fall 2019 Lightfoot Internships in Architecture Scholarship | Summer 2019 Whirlpool Foundation Scholarship | Fall 2015 - Spring 2019 Charlie Cutler Architecture Award | Spring 2019 Mary Rickey Scholarship | Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 Leonard Wolf Leadership Award | Spring 2018 Reeder Memorial Scholarship | Fall 2015 - Spring 2017 National Conference on Race and Ethnicity Scholar | Fall 2016

Skills ArcGIS, AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, Bluebeam PDF Editor, Enscape, Microsoft Office, Rhinoceros, Sefaira, VRay

Extracurricular National Organization of Minority Architecture Students President, Vice President | Fall 2016 - Present Datum, Student Journal of Architecture Writer, Treasurer | Fall 2017 - Fall 2018 Design Ambassadors Club Tour Leader | Spring 2017 - Spring 2018 Wind Ensemble Member | Fall 2015 - Spring 2017

Experiences ZGF Architects : Architectural Intern May 2019 - August 2019 Portland, OR INVISION Planning | Architecture | Interiors : Architectural Intern May 2018 - August 2018 Waterloo, IA Design Studies 301 : Teaching Assistant August 2019 - December 2019 Ames, IA Design Studies 102 : Peer Mentor January 2018 - May 2018 Ames, IA College of Design, Dean’s Office : Undergraduate Assistant August 2018 - Present Ames, IA Build Multicultural Mentorship Program : Peer Mentor August 2016 - Present Ames, IA

References Amy Perenchio Associate Principal | ZGF Architects | Portland, OR amy.perenchio@zgf.com | 503.863.2463 Luis Rico-Gutierrez Dean, Design Administration | Iowa State University lrico@iastate.edu | 515.294.7427 Andrew Gleeson Architecture Lecturer | Iowa State University agleeson@iastate.edu | 515.291.6914

Learning in (a) Place Preserving Culture through Equity

New York City, New York | Spring 2019 - Fall 2019 Partners: Marilyn Stephanou, Henry Melendrez, Vinay Porandla, and Obhishek Mandal Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Competition Finalist Prior to WWII and the results of white flight, Flatbush - located in Brooklyn, New York - housed a community of Italian, Irish, Jewish, and African-American residents. While most areas of the community were working class, there were a few prosperous areas - Prospect Park South had a substantial number of affluent homeowners and a sizable number of doctors residing on a stretch of Parkside Avenue. By the mid-’80s, however, a great number of abandoned buildings appeared in the community, with apartments falling into a state of disrepair. While crime had generally always been a problem in the community, it was particularly unbearable during the ‘70s and onwards. Furthermore, a number of stores on Flatbush and Church Avenues were looted during the 1977 blackout, while a drug epidemic devastated the area during the 1980s.

With the diverse community continuing to flourish within Flatbush - due to the rising number of White, Latino, and Indian-American residents that have moved to the neighborhood in recent years the aim of this project is to provide a solution that simultaneously sustains and fosters this ever-growing district. The program encompasses mixed-income housing (independent senior living, affordable housing, and market rate), commercial/retail tenants, and community spaces, all while seeking to address issues such as gentrification, housing equity, preservation of culture, as well as dynamics of a mixed-income community.

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While racial diversity and vibrant culture persists in the borough of Brooklyn, the area continues to suffer from discriminatory values - to a point where it is struggling to preserve its heritage.

Education is a main aspect in this regard, where the disparities between schools serving opposite ends of the economic spectrum are unequally funded. Flatbush, a community with lower than average income, has become part of the disadvantaged system - with under-performing students at a public school level, affecting their forthcoming futures.

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This proposal seeks to address issues such as finance, access, and resources when it comes to education - focusing mainly on the idea of life-long learning. With this scheme, the fragmented ground level serves to provide a variety of open learning spaces for all ages, as well as discreet residential access. Vertically, the community spaces are followed by several floors of age-in-place housing.

At its core, the architecture is subtle but responsive; it has its own identity but is respectful of the built and social context. The forms - which are folded, rotated, and fragmented to draw the greater community into the site - address the block-size scale of the site, interwoven with the idea of permeability and adaptability.

Furthermore, the mass mimics the pre-existing urban fabric of the city - with buildings lining the street frontage and voids in the middle to create outdoor spaces.

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WTE Housing A Residual of the Grid

New York City, New York | Spring 2018 Prof. Andrew Gleeson Partner: Marilyn Stephanou Driven by profit-hungry real estate and land owner’s quest for money, Manhattan has become an assemblage of banal, regularized, and contextually discriminatory blocks. Throughout time, zones of the city’s fabric have developed its own autonomous identities; zoning and code restrictions have been exploited, and the grid has been interrupted by spaces that do not comfortably fit into the regularized matrix - all resulting in a heterogenous environment. As land gets scarcer, developers become more desperate - proposing slim, tall towers on small plots, a direct manifestation of the urge to gain profit out of the most senseless spaces.

The inevitable energy of capitalism forces a solution out of these residuals of the grid; in response, architecture - more so than ever - must react to these needs.

The proposal follows the logical program of developers in Hudson Yards: condominiums and apartments, addressing a spectrum of economic strata while exploring strategies of creating a healthy and equal urban space in an environment of congestion. The grid and its residue guides the conceptual and physical processes of this design - keeping in mind questions such as: what is our role as architects in contributing to the profit-driven urban fabric? What are different ways we can give back to the city and create urban space that is responsive to the occupants? What formal strategies and reactions to residuals of the grid can we develop to reflect or even critique the context of blind capitalism?

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Trash takes many forms – recyclables, compostables, hazardous, etc., all of which are required to be sorted and transported, with infrastructure and humans playing a direct role in the process. New York City, in particular, ships its refuse to landfills all over the country, with only 20% directed to waste-to-energy plants.

As the city aims to send zero refuse to landfills by 2030, while still exporting approximately 24,000 tons of discarded material per day, waste reduction poses to be an immense challenge.

This calls for a solution, one that is local and diverts the city’s waste away from landfills.

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The framework of this architecture is waste reduction. This includes the breakdown of four typologies - landfills, compost gardens, waste-to-energy practices, and zero waste initiatives all of which have a direct effect on the proposed infrastructure.

Embedded into Manhattan’s matrix, WTE Housing focuses on two aspects, the people and the environment, as well as aiming to provide a safer and cleaner environment for all people to live and enjoy - an oasis away from the refuse that continues to accumulate throughout the streets of New York.

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ProSolve370e modules are coated with titanium dioxide (TiO2), a de-polluting technology that contains cleaning and germicidal qualities, which are activated by sunlight.

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When situated on polluted sites, the modules break down and neutralize harmful toxins, such as Nitrogen Oxides and Volatile Organic Compounds found in fossil fuel emissions.

The modules only require small amounts of UV light and humidity to reduce the air pollutants - PM, CO2, O3, NO, CO, VOCs - to harmless levels of each.

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Food Hub Center Food Culture and Urbanism

Minneapolis, Minnesota | Spring 2017 Prof. Roman Chikerinets Partners: Obhishek Mandal and Alex Dutoit We all have to eat. But how should we eat? From edible schoolyards, skyscraper farms to directly packing what you eat, and even to sidewalks that grow produce, designers are beginning to inspect the global food problem and propose inventive solutions.

With alarming statistics on food, and food design inviting people to consume more by eating, buying, and eventually wasting, questions regarding how architecture can cooperate must be resolved. Can food and its architecture refashion itself and its tastes for the better? Can architecture house and provoke more local consumption? Can it educate people about what healthy food is, and provoke community action on food inequality and food security? Can we as designers, artists, and architects, be the provocateurs of such change? Can our cultural production inspire a better future for our health, our food production, and our planet?

The project asks to look at a new typology, the food hub - one that rigorously engages with the questions of food culture, food security, food equity, and food miles. In the development of the program, the proposal remains sensitive to the urban context and its ecologies, keeping in mind questions about local food production and further global problems associated with food.

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Site, 330 N. 1st Ave Restaurants and Bars Live Music and Nightclubs

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Through research on food culture and new trends that allow for the rethinking of the cultural norms associated with food, practices of vertical farming - the method of growing agriculture in vertically stacked layers - acts as the basis of this proposal. Seeking to address issues regarding local food production and food miles, this facility manages the aggregation, production, storage, distribution, and the marketing of the produce it grows.

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Collect The use of photovoltaic cells allow for the harvesting of sunlight to be used for the aquaponic system, as well as the vertical farm.

Cultivate Vertical Farming is the practice of growing food in vertically stacked layers, utilizing indoor farming techniques and agricultural technology.

The use of an aquaponic system sustains the vertical farm through aquaculture, in which the waste produced by fish are used as nutrients for the plants.

Consume Vertical farming decreases long food distance transportation, allowing local citizens to enjoy fast, fresh, and homegrown produce in the restaurant and underground marketplace.

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The aquaponic system combines aquaculture and hydroponics (the growing of plants without soil), growing both fish and plants together in a single integrated system.

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Aquaponics use the aquatic animal’s waste as an organic food source for the plants while the plants naturally filter the water for the fish.

With plants and fish working as a symbiotic combination, the aquaponic system allows for sustainable organic crop production, aquaculture, and water consumption.

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Rome as Found Layering Urbanity

Rome, Italy | Spring 2019 Prof. Simone Capra, Consuelo Nunez, and Marta Bertani Partners: Alicia O’Neill and Andrew Miller Rome acts as one of the most significant learning experiences in architecture and the urban condition, simultaneously presenting the relationship between urban morphology and architectural typology with the challenge of designing within a specific context. Furthermore, European urbanity consists of overlapping architectural spaces, structures, materials, uses and typologies, as well as the scarcity for new buildable areas. As a challenge, it is vital to investigate the role of urban left-over and in-between spaces as potentialities.

The goal of this proposal is to design a contemporary architecture embedded within a multi-layered site, merging together ancient history, the modern century’s urban texture, and the idea of urbanscape.

The program includes a social hub, office spaces, as well as housing. The work is consistently oriented towards the sensibility of the relationship and creation of a strong dialogue between the site and the image of the city - both physically and metaphorically.

The intent of the composition strategy is to manage the language of contemporary design in relation with the architectural expression of the pre-existing, countering the idea of the site as an empty space or a Tabula rasa. In this sense, the project is designed as an instrument to interpret and present a site as an apparatus to improve social dynamics and shape the contemporary city.

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Perceiving the site as a paradigm for contemporary design approach, the proposal optimizes the existing pedestrian and vehicular streets to organize circulation and essentially, the entire landscape and architectural concepts.

The existing park, as found, is bounded by retaining walls with only three points of entry, which secludes the park from its urban context and limits who is able to inhabit this public space. The project seeks to reimagine the division - between the park and its context - by replacing the walls with a sloping terrain, allowing the public to enter from any point on the new circulation path. This idea of open accessibility shapes the building’s form, using the woonerf concept to transform the street between the masses into a social space which accommodates a variety of activities, rather than just a channel for (vehicular) mobility. This threshold - the lively street - drives the overall form and organization of the proposal, in which the spaces are divided based on a spectrum of public to private.

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