Edras Brown_Summer 2024_Portfolio Link

Syracuse Architecture

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Edras

James

Brown

407-982-9967

Eddie My name is Edras Brown, but I go by Eddie. I am an adoptee from Guatemala, but I grew up in Irvine, California. I have lived in San Diego, Orlando, and D.C, however I found myself loving upstate New York. I am a current 4th year out of 5 in the Syracuse School of Architecture program.

During my time here, I have developed my creative and analytical skills, as well as improving my ability to effectively manage my time. And while I love the initial phases of the design process, presenting final designs and explaining the concepts behind the design drive my creativity, and are the highlights of my projects. I intend to keep enhancing my knowledge in different areas to help me persevere and grow as a professional. I aspire to use my creativity to move away from the notion of architecture as a sole concept of fixed structures, to a more dynamic response to the needs of the community, therefore resulting in built form.

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Bathing In Rust

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LPC Village

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Pocket Avenue

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School of Parts

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Amoeba

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Bathing In Rust

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Bathing In Rust Dealing with human tensions and scarcity of clean water

Elba Island, consisting of a long history of mining and degradation, is home to many abandoned iron mines. Using one of these abandoned iron mines, I constructed a bathhouse and rainwater purification center (with housing).

Location: Elba Island, Italy Site area: Abandoned Mine, Rio Marina Typology: Bath House & Rain Water Treatment Professor: Luca Ponsi Group: Jack R. - Emma B.K. - Toni S. Year: 4th, ARC 408

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The project consists of a grand entry stairway, communal baths, individual baths, housing, work stations, communal kitchen, water tower, and purification center.

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Drawings concentrate on important connections between old concrete material and the new rammed earth and dark red steel material.

The water tower is a new beacon of clean water for Rio Marina, consisting of all the newly purified rain water. The purified water is added to the towns water supply, in addition to pumping out to the town through public water fountains.

Scientists, doing soil and water research, live on the site in hopes to prevent further degradation of the land from the mines historical iron runoff

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LPC Village

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LPC Village Challenging the typology of a civic institution

As a civic institution, I want to design a space that bridges this disconnect between the people of the East Village and the city.

The people need to be more involved in decisions made about what should be preserved in NYC by the LPC, or New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Location: East Village Site area: Burned Down Church on Corner Lot Typology: LPC Head Quarters & Social Hub Professor: Rami Abou-Khalil Group: Shannon G. Year: 3rd, ARC 308

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The Ground floor contains the hearing hall & Plaza, where the LPC holds hearings for possible Landmarked buildings, and is surrounded on all sides by programs. The design consists of four masses,1. Church facade, 2. Material Library, 3. Gallery, 4. Offices. These all come together to form a multi-functional plaza

The plaza allows spray painting, hanging of posters, fliers and ads to bring the community alive and prompt more engagement with this civic institutions.

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Pocket Avenue

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Pocket Avenue Challenging what domestic space could look like

This is a communal housing project that aims to break away from the traditional nuclear family. The design uses three empty lots to cater to a statistically large group of single parent families in the Bronx neighborhood by providing housing and creating a support system for them. To aid in this, the design includes an elderly population to work and co-live with the single parent households.

Location: New York City, Bronx Site area: 3 Infill Lots Typology: Module Living and Working Professor: Marcos Parga Group: Charlie G. Year: 3rd, ARC 307

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To expand this new community beyond the limits of domestic space, we propose a ‘time bank’ to break the gap between the residents and neighbors, forging a new relationship beyond the built structure. The ‘time bank’ or acts of service occur in these “pockets” or spaces found in the building.

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The living spaces allow for interchangeable and negotiable spaces for families to grow and develop over time.

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Pocket Avenue

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School of Parts An exploration of portable education tools on a site

Located on a sloped, river bank site along side the Mohawk River, this ecological training center caters to two primary audiences: the trainees and general public. The linked program begins together at the entry, then disperses into the landscape, eventually meeting back at the waters edge.

Location: Mohawk River, NY Site area: Flooding River Plain Typology: Ecological Education Center Professor: Timothy Stenson Group: Individual Year: 2nd, ARC 208

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The Training center, library and campsites provide trainees the capability of learning about habitat preservation during the summer.

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The gravel patches along side the winding paths allow the trainees to set up the temporary schools contrived out of recycled wood pallets.

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The locations along side the site are based on the habitats found, such as the water, river bank, forest, and plains. Due to the flooding nature of the site, the design allows the trainees and general public to experience many ecosystems as they walk along the winding paths.

The trainees utilize moving carts as a method of transporting materials around the site and are able to convert them into mini shelters. The temporary classroom is relocated on the site every week during the summer.

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Pocket Avenue

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Amoeba An exploration of column size fluctuation

The Amoeba is a community center oriented around a local non-profit organization: Syracuse Grows. Syracuse Grows aims to create food justice through education, advocacy, and resources in the support of urban food production. Working together, the Amoeba provides spaces like the fruit walls, auditorium and study pods to assist in their expansion.

Location: Down Town Syracuse, NY Site area: City Corner Lot Typology: Community Center Professor: Jessie McCormick Group: Corrine Soo Year: 2nd, ARC 207

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Utilizing a column system, the generated spaces can vary in size, height and materiality based on the programmatic needs. Wooden columns form light wells for the plant pods at the bottom. Concrete form spaces for the educational programs.

Library and garden spaces orchestrate the primary structural system for the Amoeba: as a series of occupiable columns.

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Syracuse Architecture

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Edras

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