Portfolio

Daniel Zalles

Contents Design 1 Design 2 Technics Representation

Fall 2016 // Maria Vrdoljak

Elevation

Design 1 Obstrucing and dividing abstract space informed a spatial system of interlocking and sliding volumes that become entrapped with angular planes.

These angled volumes and sharp webs shape the circulation into moments of compression as well as an upward circulation that spirals within itself.

Final model

Abstract design approaches

Sectional drawing

Approach perspective

Spring 2017 // Farzam Yazdanseta

Design 2 An analysis of site and program spawned a condition where the existing structure of Pratt’s East Hall building was extracted and manipulated by a foreign system which framed, sliced, and pulled the site.

The maniuplation of these forms served two seperate and opposite “actors” who’s program created relaxed passive space and intense moments of action and enagement.

The project focused on experimental representations and abstraction of the existing building element to meet the needs of the actors.

Aggregation diagrams

Final model

2 contrasting actors that shape the “contextual manipulation� of the project, creating active and passive space

Fall 2016 // Frank Gesualdi

Technics Using an understanding of tension, load force, and contouring, these technics projects are performative models that aid in the completion of a task or movement while still using as little material as possible and the thoughtful distribution of force through each project.

Tasks that resulted in these structures vary from supporting a spherical weight, spanning a distance and designing a cantilever that supports weight, and the design of a body cushion that facilitates the movement of 2 actors.

Body motion analysis was used as the basis of the forms and joints used in the cantilever

Cantilever

Body cushion

Fall 2016 // Nathan Hume

Representation 1 An exercise in learning to construct, cut, project, and move a set of wooden blocks. The final product of these lessons resulting in the collision of two assemblies that subtract from eachother and tumble through the page losing piece by piece, as if it were an object falling through earth’s atmosphere.

The result of this fall being the gardual decay and seperation of the pieces as if they were astroids burning into dust.

At the end of this fall the block finally crashes into the edge of the page.

Daniel Zalles | Representation 1 | Final | Nathan Hume | Fall 2016

Spring 2017 // Brandt Knapp

Representation 2 As a creative and technical challenge we were given an unbuilt project by Claude Nicolas Ledoux where we were reimagined and documented this mysterious and idealistic wood cutter’s home and workshop. Along with this project we studied a similar structure and began to merge the two designs and reimagine this speculative rendering.

Personal Project Unbuilt schematics for a neo-classical building that adds neuance to the modulation of classical elements. The style of these Ledoux’s schematics drew my interest and became the focal point of later experiments

Specualtive schematics for a structure that manipulate the form and elements of the wood cutter’s house

An abandonded wood cutter’s house, seeing the project as a forgotten artifact in decay