Portfolio | Averie Cohen

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CONTENT Vertical Village 3 Frame of Adaptability 11 Diversifying Suburbia 15 Resiliency in New York City 21 315-317 Broadway 23 Coco Beach Research 27 Framed Landscape 28 Community Head Start and After School Facility 29 Rare Books Library 31 Design + Integration: Term Project 33 Microhome Assignment 35 Carol Kurth Architecture + Interiors 36

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Cube City 37 Community Pavilion 38 Other Works + Media 39

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VERTICAL VILLAGE Spring 2023 Professor Fei Wang ARC 409 Integrated Building Desing Studio In Collaboration with Georgia Fernandes

Wenling is a coastal city located in the Taizhou region of China. Here the culture is vibrant, with a tight-knit community filled with tradition. Rapid urban development has been challenging the balance between natural and artificial. Because of its geographical location, Wenling has long suffered from natural disasters, especially typhoons.

On this cliffside we are proposing a vertical village community center, striving to bring together community through music, art, and the exchange of both knowledge and local goods. The form is inspired by the woven paths of the town, traditions like the weaving of hats, and the intertwining of land and sea. The design is made to resemble the same scale as the buildings in town, as if the project was always meant to be there.

The design is heavily focused on the structure given the harsh weather and site conditions. The buildings use a series of cantilevered trusses embedded into the cliffside to hold mechanical and structural systems.

Although the structure is heavy, it is lightened with a triple paned glass facade allowing for mostly unrestricted views of the sea. The natural, local materials like stone, rock from the mountain, and wood help to intertwine the exterior and interior together.

This community center is a safe haven for the town literally, culturally, and sustainably.

While this is a new construction project, the design, materiality, and cultural implications are a tribute honoring the town of Wenling.

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FRAME OF ADAPTABILITY Spring 2022 Professors Davide Sacconi and Joao Ruivo ARC 407 Architectural Design Studio 6 In Collaboration with Georgia Fernandes, Catherin Kovalcik, and Sarah Fellingham

This abroad center is designed by a frame of adaptability. The gridded, structural system of frame is being used to create hubs of connection between the dwelling, office, and educational spaces. The project focuses on the analysis of educational, workplace and housing precedents in order to build a design. The projects was first studied as architectural forms through precedents, collage, and study of London’s built landscapes. At a second stage, the archetypes were tested different sites in London, allowing further exploration of the relationship between architectural form and the physical and social context of the city. The site given for this design was Dalston, on a parking lot, ajacent to a community garden.

The curve of the garden inspired the curved shape of the work/ study space which breaks the grid of the dorm. The curve is intertwined with the structure, but still keeps adaptability in mind by having interior walls that can be adjusted for each student. The mesh panels are interchangeable too, allowing for privacy The mesh being adaptable also allow for changing needs in environment and users, such as gardens and balconies for leisure and circulation.

Overall, our frame of adaptability is how we imagine a student abroad center could thrive- by immersing students in an ever-changing environment that would allow them to interlace studying, working, and living in a new setting, all nested under a more structured overall frame.

The structure and adaptive opportunities tied in with a seam balance each other out to create a balance of work, education, and social life.

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DIVERSIFYING SUBURBIA Fall 2021 Professor Lawrence Davis ARC 307 Architectural Design Studio 5 In Collaboration with Isabella Bai The project began by analyzing Mattydale, NY and how the site and people are affecting this suburban area. The biggest issues observed were lack of diversity, lack of social interaction, and lack of food accessibility that have caused the decline of the neighborhood.

This project proposes the design of a “nucleus” block that to serve its immediate surrounding blocks. The project aims to be a space for the mixing of generations, ages, and cultures by creating a diverse environment spatially and catering to the needs of different cultural groups to encourage co-habitation. The architectonic strategy of the platform is used to open up the ground plane for commercial programs and activate the artificial second ground for living private spaces.

Utilizing this strategy aims to address all three major issues: diversity, social interaction and food accessibility.

The houses are desgned to spatially accommodate the living preferences of minority groups by taking inspiration from traditional hispanic and chinese house floor plans and in particular, their relationships between interior and courtyard, interior and exterior, public and private. The goal of this project is to inspire other suburban blocks by being an experiment as to how a contemporary diverse suburban block can not just exist but thrive.

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RESILIENCY IN NEW YORK CITY Fall 2022 Professor Adriana Chavez ARC 500 Cities At Risk https://arcg.is/1rC480 In Collaboration with Padmini Rajan The vision is an emergency station in multiple danger zones of Spanish Harlem. The size of each station will be based on need of the area. This infrastructure will educate the community about the rising climate risks in Spanish Harlem and protect the community in climate emergencies. By creating these spaces we provide for shelters for shade to lower heat levels and will reduce the amount of concrete on the streets being surrounded by flood barriers like sustainable vegetation and non concrete materials.

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315-317 BROADWAY Fall 2022 Professors Ivi Diamantopoulou + Rami Abou-Khalil ARC 407 Architectural Design Studio 7 In Collaboration with Padmini Rajan This scheme aims to use the logic and depth of the cast iron facade to create a strategy through two specific moves: peeling and layers of the facade. These moves allow us to show that landmarks are not meant to blend in, but should draw the attention and interest of the public.

The goal was to create a fluid relationship between the exterior and interior while preserving the detailing on the landmark in a specific and controlled network. The delicate peeling system is used to negotiate the walls from the facade and exposes areas where people can observe the exterior.

The inner volume is tilted 15 degrees and carves into the landmark, acting as a new center of gravity that provides a new logic for the way the space changes while preserving the facade. In addition, the volume acts as circulation space and opens as a light well layered with channeled glass to allow light to move throughout the entire building.

The walls are broken up into 5 types: The existing historical walls, structural walls on the interior of the project, delicate peels, and two types of glass: channeled because it allowed us to create a hidden and reveal system for viewers and for light travel, and standard glass in between the peels The proposal aims to exemplify that there is a way to insert a strong position within the building while preserving the landmark and not just replicating it.

In our design we are suggesting a juxtaposition of the landmark’s articulation and its monolithic counterpart while allowing the user to see how new design can be inspired by preservation through studying the standing landmark within the LPC. By doing so we invite the public to explore the landmark as a civic space and to encourage a more interactive community.

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COCOA BEACH RESEARCH Spring 2021 Professor Aurelie Frolet ARC 208 Architectural Design 4 Coninting further into analysing Cocoa Beach, FL, collage and then site maps of the area were constructed to analyze the local surroundings with focus on landmarks, relitivity to the water, and common trends in the reidential community.

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FRAMED LANDSCAPE Spring 2021 Professor Aurelie Frolet ARC 208 Architectural Design Studio 4 Framing landscape’s purpose is to create areas for different types of seagrass to grow in order to control erosion and help decaying ecosystems thrive along the coast of Cocoa Beach, FL. The project’s ciruclation frames the seagrass and programs into a space for reserch and public use. The seagrasses create ecosystems and shelter for endangered coastal species. The research center is located closest to the water, so it has easy access to observation areas. The two circulation systems are different for the researchers and the public as a way of creating both public and private paths of movement. The program consists of an amphitheater which then connects with the auditorium, exhibition space and the research center. The landscape and environmental issues in Cocoa Beach really were the inspiration behind this research center. The grass is imperative not only as landscaping, an immersive experience for guests, but also as natural regulatory system of the everchanging environmental conditions.

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COMMUNITY HEAD START + AFTER SCHOOL FACILITY Fall 2020 Professor Timothy Stenson ARC 207 Architectural Design Studio 3

In the southside area in recent years, more families have low incomes and are single parent households yet little has been done to accommodate this change. The goal of this project was to create an early education building that will accommodate parents’ long work days, with their children in a space where they can learn, feel comfortable and be social. Not only does this building design solve issues for many families, it is also a public gathering place that focuses on prgram and tectonics to reunite the once tight knit southside neighborhood which became divided by the construction of 1-81.

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RARE BOOKS LIBRARY Spring 2020 Professor Britt Eversole ARC 108 Architectural Design Studio 2 Located in Manhattan, New York, specifically on a corner lot adjacent to the highline sits the potential rare books library and exhibition space. A common theme throughout the building is the integrated use of public and private spaces, making the building feel open and connected to the highline that sits next door.

There is a direct connection to the highline which acts as a transition space and an exhibition space of the rare books stored in the front facade. The building is a large dark mass standing out in a landscape which is taller and more transparent.

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DESIGN + INTEGRATION: TERM PROJECT Fall 2021 Professor Nina Sharifi ARC 322 Building Systems Design 2 In Collaboration with Nihar Varadappagari, Georgia Fernandes, and Allie Gallis

Coll- Leclerc Residential housing is situated in Barcelona, Spain. Located in the northern hemisphere, which has a maritime Mediterranean climate. Our second location is positioned in Cape Town, South Africa, which is in the Southern Hemisphere subtropical zone, is in between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Throughout the project the group has analyzed both sites in terms of thermal comoft, lighting, facades, and temperatures. Based on the results found, there was a re-design of the section in the new site to acomoade for the new climate conditions.

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MICROHOME PROJECT Fall 2020 Professor Daekwon Park ARC 222 Building Systems Design 1 In Collaboration with Padmini Rajan, Nihar Varadappagari, and Arpi Cunigal

The semester long project was practice at how to create construction documents. While small in squarefootage, the home feels large due to the glass angled roof and the extra living space undergorund.

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Pavillion for the Syracuse Community

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CAROL KURTH ARCHITECTURE + INTERIORS Summer 2021 - Winter 2022 Photoshoot Staging + Renderings

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CUBE CITY Fall 2019 Professor Gregory Corso ARC 107 Architectural Design Studio 1

Cube City was one of the first models we constructued in the fall of 2019. The model was meant to teach us about shape and form. Using foam cutters and sticks to interact with dense and thin materials showed us how they both represent different qualities of buildings.

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COMMUNITY PAVILLION Fall 2019 Professor Gregory Corso ARC 107 Architectural Design Studio 1

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Final Project for 1st year studio Fall 2019

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