INDEX
Into the Junction Fall 2024
An Esplanade Spring 2024
The Nook Fall 2023
Unison Spring 2023
Structural Model [Yoshino Nursery and Kindergarden] Fall 2023
Rendezvouz of Affirmation Fall 2023
Into the Junction
Social Housing for Trumansburg, NY
ARCH 3101: Engaged Studio - Fall 2024
Instructor: Stephanie Lee
Urban theorist Edward Soja first conceptualized the third space as being intersitial; it is a mediation between physical and imagined spaces. The design proposal aims to reinforce this connectivity; a junction is created between the home and workplace as well as tangibility and perception, in order to manifest a flexible, re-programmable, collective space.
The site is Trumansburg, New York, a village where most development does not follow the density and spatial organization of the iconic Main Street, and thus contains a lack communal spaces free of financial cost that are inaccessible without cars. The framework will keep the essence of an arterial road, while also gearing it towards pedestrains and free communal activities.
Essentially, the goal is to use the third space as a tool to create a framework for social housing in Trumansburg that is livable and self-sustaining. We achieve this through three parameters: nesting spaces via a gradient of intamacy to openness, extending walkability between housing and public spaces, and by allowing incremental growth to occur vertically as opposed to a sprawl.
An Esplanade
A Public Library Proposal for Ithaca, NY
ARCH 2102: Integrated Studio - Spring 2024
Instructor:
David Costanza
This library propsal aims to synthesize three parameters:
Program organized through three spatial regions, the structural logics of stacked mass timber beams, and the unique site conditions of the Six Mile Creek in Ithaca, NY. Rather than abiding to a strict basillica form, the bar closest to the creek is rotated towards it in order to create a greater level of intimacy in the spaces contained within this region, while the northern bar is rotated diametrically to create a private courtyard. These rotations carve out new intersitial space that acts as new secondary bars that invite procession.
The beam grid of the glulam enables the structure to have multiple readings:
It behaves as walls for compartamentalized spaces at one extreme, or columns for more open programs at the other. This gradient is enhanced with the inclusion of tertiary spaces created by a variety of vertical forms. Furthermore, the beams may slope in different directions, maximizing sunlight on the site.
Assembly Diagram
Adjacency Diagram
HVAC Diagram
The Nook
An Introverted House for Introverted Creatives
ARCH 2101: Core Studio - Fall 2023
Instructor: Ekin Erar
How can people live together without their individuality coming to conflict?
This house expands on two projects: The Anchorer, an object based on the logics of my signature, and The First Home, a chair that serves as the smallest possible house for a person.
These investigations come together to create an environment where three people: a painter, a photographer, and a fashion designer, can coexist collectively yet still live in solitude at any moment. By adapting the historic Ithaca Gun Factory site, the parameters of a preexisting bunker are used to create two other units; therefore, resulting in three houses specialized for each person’s profession. In between these spaces exists a terrace, a playground for these artists to express themselves and live with one another. In this playground, there are nooks that create a middle ground between collectivism and individuality. It is ever shifting and temporal; it may be a sprawling gathering space one day, and on another it may disappear into the snowy landscape. In other words, The Nook seeks to create empathetic design with the directness of architecture, as seen in my chair, with the ephemerality and playfullness of landscape, as seen in my signature.
Unison
A Cookhouse for Inuit Cuisine
ARCH 1102: Core Studio - Spring 2023 Instructor: Hanxi Wang
How can regional architecture be reinterpreted without direct translation or appropriation?
This question, although one without a defined and easy answer, was a challenge taken in regard to the the regional architecture of the Inuit - the Igloos of Inuit Nunangat. Beginning with research on the purposes of igloos as well as materiality of ice structures, these were synthesized and analyzed with the conceptual spatial conditions of the Wheels of Heaven by Aldo Van Eyck.
This new building contains conical forms with varying intensity of perforation; creating a gradient of openness and isolation. Crucially, this building houses several rituals and traditions the Inuit have with their cuisine, specifically with the capture of whales and its processing into meals and other tools.
Structural Model
Yoshino Nursery School
ARCH 2613: Structural Systems - Fall 2023
Instructor: Mark Cruvellier
Collaborators: Jessica Kaiman, Ola Taha
This project by Tezuka Architects is powerful in its expression of structure: the graceful curves made by the roof allow children to fully expereince the tectonics.
To represent the building, a sectional Model at 1:100 scale was ideal to showcase the structure with clarity and without redundancy. The concrete foundation and footers were casted with concrete, reinforced with metal wire. The primary structure, the columns and girders, were stained. This created contrast between these members and the secondary structure, beams and joists. Ultimately, the goal was to translate the simplicity yet effectiveness of the original structure through craft and materiality.
Rendezvous of Affirmation
A Parafictional Intervention
Architectural representation involves the translation of imagined realities into physical manifestations. While this often exhibits the role of a direct network of designers, contractors, engineers, and other specialists collaborating on constructing spaces, representation may also serve as a provocation that delves into the human condition. We often experience the banal, liminal spaces of our everyday lives that often elicit instances of informal and unplanned occupation. In the case of a staircase, a peculair alcove may have just been an artifact of construction; however it becomes a resting spot given its proximity to a window and tight enclosure. This reality can be transmutated with fiction, such as a painting that conveys a mood of ambiguity. Both elements allow the curation of a photograph, the product of a real space with fictional story telling. With a formal analysis of said photograph, an intervention of an imagined “back-wall” lies in the grayzone of reality and fiction, the space behind a staircase can have an outlandish program aside from circulation: an item exchange system that occurs once the occupant reveals a secret can be a method of unspoken affirmation.
ARCH 4509: Visual Representation: The Back Wall - Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine Wilmes
Edwin Flores Architecture Portfolio
Selected Projects
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