Gabrielle Knauf Portfolio 2024

PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE

Selected works by:

GABRIELLE KNAUF

Interior design Portfolio

Gabrielle Knauf I 3rd yr l B.Arch Student @ Syracuse University

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Buffalo, NY HousingComplex

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LandscapeAnalysis

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DigitalMasterPlan

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DigitalAgora

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TheCage

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_BuffaloNY HousingComplex

Located in Buffalo, New York, I was tasked to design a multi family housing complex, serving minimum 40-60 unit spaces. Located on the corner of Delaware and Allen St, this particular corner represents the intersection between the inner city scape, Delaware arraying from the radial city plan, in comparison to Allen St.; a main street of AllenTown, located just beyond downtown.

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My design takes into consideration 4 key concepts from the city’s context. First analyzing the typical dimensions of the narrow city townhouse block. Secondly, like most city plans, the exterior buildings are coded for public space, creating a boundary between the city and the residential space behind. Next highlighting the importance and shift between Allen and Delaware. Lastly, considering the close proximity between the site and medical campus.

Interior design Portfolio

When designing the floor plan, I chose a point circulation system, to maximize the amount of viable space on each floor and to allow cross circulation between units. The L shaped units allow for flexibility between units, possibly adding a singular wall to orient a 3 person unit to 2 person.

This catering to the diverse population the close medical campus attracts with both its students and staff.

On the ground floor, I continue to occupy and redefine this inbetween space. At each access point from allen point, the front facade is offset to allow for a continuation of street life into the commercial space of each gable. This acts as a threshold at the street scale. Additionally, structural elements, such as 2 foot columns, and a repetition of the angled entrances to individual point circulation systems, mediate the interior to exterior interactions. _

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The perforated brick facade continues this idea of mediation between the interior and exterior space. Angling itself, alternating between each floor, this second skin condition, allows for maximum privacy for users.

_LandscapeAnalysis Interior design Portfolio

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static megadunes ranging around 350m in height.

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Analyzing and mapping the Badain Jamar Sand Dunes through a series of systematic filters. Uncovering the formation and disappearance of the mystery basins scattered in the southwest region. Looking for how and why they congregate in the southwest region and what allows the basins to stay static in an ever changing landform. Analyzing the aqueduct system, future evaporation and shifting of megadunes, I was able to indicate where possible infrastructure could emerge.

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_BADAIN JAMAR DESERT southeast region

_BADAIN JAMAR DESERT southeast region

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Landscape Model - Media : Acrylic, Acrylic Paint

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_DigitalMasterplan Our site located at a park in downtown syracuse, we were tasked to analyizea social media apps and abstractly apply the apps charateristics into our very own public space.

My app was snapchat and I was particularly interested in the Snap Map feature of the program. The map is a heat map, measuring the concentration of snapchats taken across the world. Through this the app generates Spotlight features allowing you to jump from one movement to another.

These intersections allow the user to move from one location or event to the next at the tap of their finger.

This is the idea that I brought forth through both my masterplan and final agora.

I looked at women’s rights / feminist organizations as my digital community. Throughout my master plan, I broke down main programs specifying each one to a correlating “wave” of feminism. Each intersecting one another throughout the plan.

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MasterPlan Model - Media : Old circuit board, Museum Board

_DigitalAgoras

As a continuation of the larger Digital MasterPlan project, we were tasked to zoom into one area of our park.

Zooming into the top left area of my master plan, I pulled diagramatic shapes from my masterplan and applied them directly to my design. The X defines the central axis, splitting the site among 4 quadrants acting independently in service to the center x building.

At the center of the X rest is the main program, an Educational Non-Profit women’s center. Like many other resource centers the program is broken down into 2 parts. On the bottom floor rests an educational center, acting as an open forum for debate and discourse. Rather the addendums to the upper levels act as warehouses for women to collect resources.

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Throughout the rest of the park the remaining 4 programs break the park down into four different landscape systems. An amphitheater design for larger forums. A community garden shown as a source of empowerment and ownership. A playground enclosed by a barrier wall for children to roam through artificial dunes and play spaces while mothers are involved in debate.

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Digital Agora Model - Media: Cradboard, Museum Board

ARC182: Representa�on II Alphabets

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ARC182: Representa�on II Alphabets

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BLOCK ARRANGEMENT 1: BLOCKS ROTATED IN PLAN AND SECTION

BLOCK ARRANGEMENT 2: Spli�ng objects in plan and sec�on to orientate in elva�on

BLOCK ARRANGEMENT 3: BLOCKS ROTATED IN SECTION

ARCH 182: REPRESENTATION II ALPHABETS EXERCISE 2B GABRIELLE KNAUF

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Interior design _TheCage Portfolio

Assigned with the site, Calabar, Nigeria, we were tasked to create a film school inspired by the nearby Nollywood entertainment center.

In Calabar I had analyzed the site conditions of surounding areas, comparing boundary walls and property lines, overall finding the lack of interaction between the two. Through my project I attempt to disrupt this normalization. Arguing a manipulation to this spatial divide without jeopardizing the privacy and safety the thickened wall provides.

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Doubling the boundary in a perforated steel structure, braced through polycarbonate, it challenges the heavy exteriors primarily seen in Calabar.

This structure, or “Cage” is then morphed and transformed in relation to the programmatic boxes on the interior. Each of these pressing against the edges of the perimeter, possibly even breaking through. This develops a relationship between the boundary and spaces within.

The two systems colliding within one another, changing the spatial logic of the cage which disrupts yet, showcases the cage’s adaptability.

Creating a double facade around the exposed exterior walls of the compound, the perimeter becomes occupiable space, unifying areas of the compound. Holding private programs, such as offices, and private studies, the cage creates opportunities for private spaces separated from the more public center of the compound’s central courtyard.

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_TectonicAbstraction Interior design Portfolio

SOUNDSUIT

CASE STUDY WORMS EYE AXON

ROOF GRIDING Roof bars angle in towards the center atrium on all sides of the building creating a funnel for percipatation runoff.

SUB GRID Beams are bolted to the exterior of the sub grid. ( Located along the preimeter. )

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CORE GRID Beams run through the Core Grid, locking into a preperforated groove, then bolted into place. ( Located through interior )

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COMPLETED ABSTRACTION

Analyzing the tectonic structure of Kengo Kuma’s Nest We Grow, I analyzed a chunk of the building by reconstructing and diagramming the building through a worm’s eye axon.

Comparing the two system framing structure that allows a sub grid to be suspended along the perimeter of the building supporting the polycarbonate facade.

Tasked with analyzing the tectonic structure of one of the eccentric SoundSuits by artist Nick Cave, then asked to transform the tectonic structure of our case study from our analysis.

The framing structure extends at various angles, cantilevering well beyond the exterior of the core structure. While many of the vertical elements continue to stay static, the beams break this typical grid, bracing to and through the substructure.

The ornament then is attached to these extended branches reimagining the ways plants and food is stored in the original Nest We Grow.

Interior design Portfolio

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Gabrielle Knauf I 3rd yr l B.Arch Student @ Syracuse University

Architecture Portfolio

Rendered Using Vray and Photoshop

Currently, in my third year studio, we have been assigned a site located on a post industrial mine on the Island of Elba. Elba has a long deep mining history and is known for its significant iron ore production in the early industrial age.

Here, we were tasked to take a typical block and begin to modify the exterior to create a composition of something that is both part and whole.

We took 3 steps to modify this piece, natural carvings, artificial carvings and introducing a new www.example.com foreign object into the piece. +00 123 456789