cecilia concepcion portfolio
dos fabricas design studio 4
inside/outside design studio 2
collision
design studio 3
counter composition constructed environments
object-ground relations design studio 1
hybrid thresholds mediums 1
resolution mediums 2
urban relief summer primer
watercolor art studio
cecilia concepcion portfolio
dos fabricas
group project with carlos acosta perez critic: dylan baker-rice; consultants: reid freeman (facades), alfonso oliva (structures), bob kearns (mep) 1
WEST ELEVATION
DESIGN STUDIO 4
PLAN AND SECTION
2
Dos Fabricas is an industrial structure that incorporates two processes — a recycling and waste to energy facility, together with an educational component of a public gallery. The juxtaposition between industrial processes that deal with garbage and art combines high and low culture elements that brings a new perspective to what these facilities can be. Recognizing the future flood plains in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, the project embraces this and welcomes the water into the site boundaries to create a new ecology. The building is also lifted to allow the various processes in the building to continue uninterrupted in the future. Using bioreceptive concrete and classical architecture elements such as arches, Dos Fabricas is a proposal that anticipates the aesthetics of a ruin by finding a connection between nature and infrastructure—not as a place that needs to be demolished or forgotten, but as a place that brings nostalgia and beauty.
High Rise city Low Rise City
Industrial
3
ROAD RENDER AND STRUCTURAL CHOISY VIEW
DESIGN STUDIO 4
PROGRAMMATIC CHUNKS AND SITE CONTEXT
4
ENTRANCE HALLWAY
5
GALLERY
VAULTING SYSTEM
DESIGN STUDIO 4
RECYCLING ROOM
6
library courtyard
gym
learning space
learning space
courtyard
shared learning space and circulation courtyard
gym
courtyard
combination classrooms indoor pool courtyard
backstage auditorium
inside/outside
critics: erich schoenenberger and joseph giampietro
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MASSING ON SITE MODEL
DESIGN STUDIO 2
PLAN AND SECTION
8
CIRCULATION STUDY MODEL
COMBINED MASSING AND CHUNK MODEL
Situated in Red Hook, Brooklyn, this proposal for a maritime middle school incorporated multiple courtyards with interlocking spaces that combine and break apart. Inspired by an investigation of private and public spaces through a grid of sine waves, Inside/ Outside created overlaps and in between spaces, and evolved into a dynamic learning environment that respects the need for both shared and individual learning.
CHUNK MODEL
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COURTYARD
DESIGN STUDIO 2
FRONT ELEVATION
10
STUDY MODEL
collision
critic: thomas leeser
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CHUNK MODEL
DESIGN STUDIO 3
MASSING AND CHUNK MODELS
12
1 LIAWALL TED NDETAIL OITCES CURTAIN AND FLOOR PLAN "0-'1 = "3 001-A
Following the logic of angles in a game of pool, Collision was a rethinking of the fire stair as a dynamic circulation that generated larger program spaces and smaller private residential spaces. Stemming from a study on the relationship between two buildings through circulation in Brooklyn, the project evolved into a study of the creation of public and private interior environments. SECTION DRAWING
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CHUNK MODEL
DESIGN STUDIO 3
DIAGRAMMATIC COLLAGE
14
STUDY MODELS
counter composition critics: jefferey roberson and george louras
15
MASSING MODEL
CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENTS
MARKET
16
HALLWAY WITH WATER FEATURE
HALLWAY WITH GREEN WALLS
Using Theo Van Doesburg’s Counter Composition VI painting as the basis for the plan, this flower market was an adaptive re-use project of a lumber yard fronting Sarah D. Roosevelt Park in the Lower East Side. Counter Composition used elements of earth, air, and water to create an interior that exuded lightness that contradicts the harshness of the exterior facade.
PLAN DRAWING
MASSING MODEL WITH ROOF
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UNFOLDED ELEVATION
CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENTS
UNFOLDED ELEVATION
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COMPOSITE OBJECT MODELS
Object-Ground Relations focused on introducing principles of design through an iterative and recursive process of making. With a series of abstract exercises, the studio created formal, spatial, and material relations by producing a physical object derived from casting negative and positive records of familiar objects.
object-ground relations critic: alexandra barker
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COMPOSITE SITE MASSING MODEL
DESIGN STUDIO 1
GROUND PLAN DRAWING
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Further developed as a Manhattan play space, issues of the site as it relates to the program and relationships between interior and exterior spaces were also brought into consideration.
OBJECT SECTION DRAWINGS
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COMPOSITE SITE MASSING MODEL
DESIGN STUDIO 1
GROUND SECTION DRAWING
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THRESHOLD SECTION DRAWING
hybrid thresholds critic: hart marlow
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COMPOSITE DRAWING
MEDIUMS 1
TRANSITIONAL MODEL AND THRESHOLD COLLAGE
24
An exercise on spatial perception, Resolution was an exploration of the articulation of spaces through interiorities. This was expressed through the gradiations of the curvilinear language and various depth levels to the pixelation of the interior’s surfaces.
resolution
critic: joseph giampietro
25
CORNER RENDER
MEDIUMS 2
PLAN DRAWING
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Designed as a preparatory course for incoming M. Arch. students, the Primer 1 course introduced computational and representational tools through a conceptual urban relief space in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
urban relief
critics: olivia vien and hart marlow
CECILIA CONCEPCION 27
URBAN RELIEF
PRIMER 1
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
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NOTRE DAME DU HAUT
Formed as a painting exercise with watercolor and ink as mediums, this series depicted various architectural periods from the Romanesque to the Modern.
watercolor critic: eileen escueta
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BASILICA DI SANT’ANDREA MANTUA
ART STUDIO
KARLSPLATZ STADTBAHN
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