Ermira Kasapi

E R M I R A

K A S A P I

undergratuate architecture portfolio 2013

CONTENT

ACADEMIC SSA

HATCH ACADEMY -

SSA

INTERLOCKING CUBES PAVILION - RESIDENTIAL

HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

NYCCT

CUBE HOUSE PROJECT - SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCIAL

NYCCT

BROWNSTONE RENOVATION - HARLEM NY

NYCCT

DELINEATING PATH - ARCHITECTURE WITH MUSIC

NYCCT

CUBES IN A LANDSCAPE - ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE

BUILDING ARCHITECTURE NYCCT

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION STUDIES

INTERESTS PAINTINGS / DRAWINGS / SKETCHES PHOTOGRAPHY

HATCH ACADEMY HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

year site supervisior collaborator

spring 2013 harlem, new york, ny prof. Adam Hays Demir Purisic, Diana Zwatzich, Jose Jimenez

The Harlem school of the arts (HSA) is located in Harlem, New York and was founded in 1964. This school offers different art programs to student of all ages.

The approach to this project was to provide interchangeable spaces to accommodate the core programs such as music, art, dance and theatre, I offered an alternative school which provides alternative education. It is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. These schools have a special curriculum offering a more flexible program of study than a traditional school.

DIAGRAMATIC PROCESS The existing structure has been stript apart and the remaining elements are the floor slabs and the columns.

Structural changes were made to accomodate the new theatre. The progams circulate around the new theatre structure.

PARTI

traditional

alternative

theatre

existing

theatre

1.

existing

2.

the structure

3.

the egg

1. program distribution

existing

proposed

PRIVATE/PUBLIC CIRCULATION Circulation is devided into two main branches.

The students have a private entrance and there is a complete freedom of muvement in the interior spaces. The public is devided from the private spaces but they are visually connected with the students. Their circulation is carried along the egg theatre structure landing them inside the sitting area.

4.

5.

no walls

the caves

6.

the warehouse

2. circulation

public

private

DEVELOPMENTAL DRAWINGS Proposed floor plans and longitudinal building section showing the arrengment of spaces and the distribution of the program.

longitudinal building section

final model side view

final model perspective view

first floor plan

second floor plan

PROGRAMATIC “SEPERATION�

Harlem School of the Arts is known for its diversity in programs and participants. This school features the arts, music, dance and drama. The challenge was to design spaces that would be multi-functional and interchangeable, thus making spaces much more efficient as well as stimulating to the students.

the mountain

the slider

the cave

the cocoon

the rat

INTERLOCKING CUBES PAVILION RESIDENTIAL HOUSING

year site supervisior collaborator

fall 2012 bushwick, brooklyn, ny prof. Christian Volkmann shared the site with Mary Rizaldo

The site is located in Bushwick, in Brooklyn between Bogart Street and Harrison Street. The project requires the integration between a group of students and a family. The challenge is to provide private and public spaces where these two groups can interact as well as retain their privacy. Moreover, the building located on 72 Bogart Street has a huge impact on the site and the design process. The challenge was to integrate the building tenants, who are artists with the students who will occupy the new spaces.

DEVELOPMENTAL SKETCHES A study of the site, the possible circulation, placement, acessability and programatic distribution.

PROPOSED DESIGN DRAWINGS Nature and green spaces are scarce in this neighborhood and the introduction of green spaces to gather will increase the collaboration between the existing neighborhood and the newly designed structure.

The change is elevation will provide a greater dynamic experience with the site and the habitats of the spaces.

east elevation

DEVELOPMENTAL DRAWINGS

The final project is presented through sections and elevations and diagrams.

It is important to note that the modern features of this residential building tie harmoniously with the surrounding Bushwick though art and sense of community. passive cooling and light diagram

longitudinal building section

city block elevation

north elevation

building section

DEVELOPMENTAL DRAWINGS A floating tower will be the connector between the urban environment and the art pavilion. Each facade of this structure will reflect the nature if its environment, a rough heavy front for the urban civilization and a soft linear movement toward the interior of the site.

Box like extrusions will frame views providing a smooth transition between the two worlds.

final model

exterior rendering seen from the student’s workshops

interior rendering looking toward the student’s private bedrooms

1. first floor plan student dwellings

2. second floor plan student dwellings

3. third floor plan green roof

4. forth floor plan family dwelling

5. fifth floor plan family dwelling

CUBE HOUSE PROJECT SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCIAL HOUSE

PARTI

The model created with wood sticks and cubes has been investigated through sections and elevations.

During this process space is understood as well as created with only these two elements.

year site supervisior college

spring 2011 upstate, ny prof. Darryl Cook new york city college of technology

The design of the cube house started by experimenting with cubes one inch by one inch and sticks three inch long by one eighth of an inch wide. The purpose of this exercise is to reinterpret soli and void into residential program Program The house should accommodate a family of four or more

study model

light diagram

DEVELOPMENTAL DRAWINGS .design process The process of designing the exterior envelope of the cube house is mostly based on methods to introduce day lighting to the interior spaces. The abstract graphic composition of forms is created to serve as an inspiration during the design process. proposed cube house Abstract plans, sections and elevations of the final cube house. the house will be separated into private, semi-private and public spaces.

There will be a freedom and flexibility in assigning usages to the designed spaces.

exterior elevation

interior elevation

first floor plan

front elevation

second floor plan

building section

third floor plan

building section

forth floor plan

PERSPECTIVE DRAWINGS Final perspective drawings showing sun impact to the interior spaces

BROWNSTONE RENOVATION HARLEM NY

year site supervisior college

fall 2010 harlem, ny prof. Judith Raymond new york city college of technology

An extising four story brownstone located in upper Manhattan, Harlem. The owner asked for 4 complete apartments and a ADA accesable ground floor. The challege was to retrofit a ADA compliable apartment in an existing brownstone.

DELINEATING PATH ARCHITECTURE WITH MUSIC

The purpose of the project is to create a path from a selected song from the English alternative rock band, Radiohead. a thorough research is conducted to better understand the band, and their music. From this research a band profile is create:

year site supervisior collaborator

fall 2011 not applicable prof. Darryl Cook not applicable

Separator The song selected to create the architectural abstract path. The objective is to catalogue the experience as one listens to the song, Beginning to end with two and three dimensional strategies.

SONG / ARTIST / INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS The song is broken down into pieces and represented into graphic forms.

Elements such as the artist’s voice, instruments, rhythm, beat and sound are taken under consideration while the song is being analyzed.

The drawings show some of the syntheses samples of the song path.

guitar

piano

drum beat

artist’s voice

before

after

before

after

MODEL SYNTHESIS Ideas and other material based on the song are combined to create study models.

People have been added to represent the space created and how people engage and experience space.

FINAL MODEL AND RENDERINGS The final model and renderings derives from the previous study models and sketches.

CUBES IN A LANDSCAPE ADDITIVE AND SUBTRACTIVE

year site supervisior collaborator

spring 2011 not applicable prof. Mars Podvorica not applicable

The project asked to chose a set of opposing words that would inspire the creation of four structures using the additive and subtractive method. The words chosen to represent cube arrangement in a field. are Solid and Void. The parti for is the human body as a source of inspiration. I represent the set of words by using I chose four parts of the human body anatomy that best represent my words and a biological reaction happening in the human cells.

SOLID AND VOID Solid A functioning structure that carries its purpose.

Well designed to fulfill many tasks. A structure that is always in development and evolution.

The human body satisfies all the above descriptions. the hand as well as the vertebral column will be the focus of my cube development.

SOLID AND VOID Void Superficial elements whose function do not necessarily have a significant purpose in how the human ba:ly develops.

Human hair and the wisdom tooth are elements that are often removed and disposed.

perspective view

side elevation

section view

BUILDING ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTION STUDIES

stoquick soffit system installation

terrazzo floor system installation

subway train system study

wall systems

Steel connections

PAINTINGS / DRAWINGS / SKETCHES abstractionism A tablo painted following the abstractionist style. It represents movement through color and forms space using constructed brush strokes.

storefront design a facade des1gn for the art1sts Olivier de Sagazan to showcase his sculptures and paintings.

THE HUMAN FIGURE / COLLAGE Artists have drawn, painted and carved the image of the human figure since ancient times, i find inspiration in this well-constructed machine

A few samples of works relating to social issues represented though collages and mix-media drawing.

PHOTOGRAPHY The ability to express ones emotions and perspectives through the world around us .