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Portfolio

Hanzhang Lai ARC 108 Spring 2017 Professor Godlewski Syracuse University

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Parts and Wholes A

:Cities and Their Buildings

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Architectural + Urban Analaysis

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Designing an Urban Building

Urban Architectonics A B

:Enclosure and Structural Frame Skins and Bones in the City

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01 Parts and Wholes

Started with diving the "shells" that was choosen from the random division by geometry pattern and grid lines, I experienced different types of division by making connections between points, diagonal lines and parrallel the existing lines.

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Cities and Their Buildings

I used the operation carve, fracture and notch while producing the pattern. I pay attention to the part that is subtracted and use the negative space to create connections in between.

Uffizi Museum Skin Study

Texture

double loggia of the Uffizi help line the street space and connects the existing buildings. The ground floor are opened to the loggia as a inviting public space, which were outlined by columns.

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Uffizi. Florence, Italy (Giorgio Vasari, 1581): Art Gallery

ArchitecAsheley Dunkwu, Hanzhang Lai tural + Urban Analaysis part1

The double loggia of the Uffizi help line the street space and connects the existing buildings. The ground floor are opened to the loggia as a inviting public space, which were outlined by columns.

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Uffizi Museum Mass and Sequence Study

The Museum sequence begin with the Piazza della signoria and connects it to the Pitti Palace. It is like a large outdoor theater of the Palazzo Vecchio and connects it to the Arno River.

Piazza della Signoria

Palazzo Vecchio

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UďŹƒzi Pento Vecchio

Arno River

Pitti Palace

Massing The Museum sequence begin with the Piazza della signoria and connects it to the Pitti Palace. It is like a large outdoor theater of the Palazzo Vecchio and connects it to the Arno River.

Uffizi. Florence, Italy (Giorgio Vasari, 1581): Art Gallery Asheley Dunkwu, Hanzhang Lai

Stairway

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Onondaga County Boundary Change

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Iroquois Five Nations was formed by five Indian tribes including Onondaga tribe

Iroquois Six Nations was formed. Tuscarora was formed from portion of Onondaga and Oneida.

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Onondaga County founded

Cayuga County formed from Onondaga County, decrease more than 1/2

Southern part taken from Cortland County

Oswego County formed from portion of Onondaga County and Oneida County

EX 1B Onondaga County boundary change

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Architectural + Urban Analaysis part2

Iroquios Longhouse Study

The frame is made with barks that was cut evenly into rectangular slabs tied together and cover the poles.

Reconstruction of long house

The village is surrounded by palisades and reinforced with mud

Wooden barks were used to support. Many kinds of trees were used depending on their strength, flexibility and resistance to decay.

Drawing

Raised platforms were created as beds or storage shelves.

1556 Onodaga Village

Drawing

Erie Canal early development

Drawing of Erie Canal running through Clinton Square in 1878

Photograph of Erie Canal looking north from State Street toward the Liberty Street bridge taken in 1900

1850s Since Erie Canal was built in 1825, Syracuse started to form as a trading center between Buffalo and New York City. The city started to developed from the north side of the Erie Canal and spread over the Canal. The area formed the origin of the central business district today.

Drawing of Mules pulling barge on Erie Canal in 1883

Since Erie Canal was built in 1825, Syracuse started to form as a trading center between Buffalo and New York City.

S The city started to developed from the north side of the Erie Canal and spread over the Canal. The area formed the origin of the central business district today.

Syracuse City Map 1834

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Erie Canal in the 1850s

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Photograph of Erie Canal running through Clinton Square in 1905

Photograph of the drained Erie Canal looking north from State Street toward the Liberty Street bridge taken in 1919. It is partially filled in in preparation for the construction of Erie Boulevard.

early 1900s The Erie Canal was filled in 1925 and was turned into Erie Boulevard. During this period, the use of automobile increase rapidly. Railroads were still being used but its importance decreased a lot.

Photograph of Syracuse downtown in 1930s

The Erie Canal was filled in 1925 and was turned into Erie Boulevard. During this period, the use of automobile increase rapidly. Railroads were still being used but its importance decreased a lot.

Erie Canal in the early 1900s

Photograph of Clinton Square

Syracuse City Map 1919

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Photograph of the bustling corner of Erie Boulevard and State Street looking north toward Liberty Street in 1950.

late 1900s Highways started to replace the role of the canal used to have. I-81 and I60 were open since early 1960s, and seperated downtown from the North and the East side of the city. The area that is surrounded by I-81, West Street, Route 690 and Harrison Street become the central business district.

The Mohawk Trail and the Erie Canal

Mohawk Trail Erie Canal

The Mohawk Trail was used by the earliest European settlers since 1670s. It was used as a trade path between the English settlements of Boston and Deerfield, and the Dutch settlements in New York.

The Erie Canal was built in the 1820s. It communicates New York City and the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Both the trail and the canal serve as important routes to communicate the New York State. The place where they cross developed economically and turned into the city of Syracuse today.

The Mohawk Trail and the Erie Canal

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Designing an Urban Buildings

At a corner street located in downtown syracuse, I designed a building next to the Clinton square. A lot of curved geomoetry were used to st focus to the monument.

The makerspace volumn made of glass was cutted in to the red brick material that connects the surrounding buildings.

First Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan 1/32” = 1’-0” 2 4

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Perspective

Considering more trafic would be located on one side, I set the main focus on one side instead of center. On the back of the design is two main red brick building where the lecture hall, office spaces and public indoor spaces are locatlecture hall ed. The difference of the building heights makes it blend into the surrounding buildings, as well as provide a roof garden space for the public.

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makerspace

gallery garden

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Enclosure and Structural Frame

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With the restriction of structural system, I made two designs according to the tectonic pattern. A central space were surrounded by the semi-transparent facade.

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Skins and Bones in the City

Wooster Street Elevation

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Roof Garden EL. 66’-0”

Fifth Floor EL. 54’-0”

Fourth Floor EL. 42’-0”

Third Floor EL. 30’-0”

Second Floor EL. 18’-0”

Ground Floor EL. 0’-0”

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Facade Section

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Roof Garden EL. 66’-0”

Fifth Floor EL. 54’-0”

Fourth Floor EL. 42’-0”

Third Floor EL. 30’-0”

Second Floor EL. 18’-0”

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Facade Section

Facade Diagrams

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Ground Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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Site Plan Site Plan

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In the final project, I designed the facade located in the Soho distrct, NYC. It have a four-bay design that connect the Soho bay rhythem, while multiple squared opening that was designed to “break the grid”. The right bay is where the major core and important conference space located. A tilted roof visually connects the two surrounding buildings.

WOOSTER ST.

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Exterior Perspective

Thank You.