Isabela Restrepo 2024 Arch Portfolio

Isabela Restrepo +1 484 885 1238 | irestrep@syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE School of Visual and Performing Arts | Fashion Design Minor Cumulative GPA 3.48 Architecture Full Tuition Scholarship Renee Crown University Honors College Program Study Abroad Program | SU London, SU Florence Skills Software Rhinoceros AutoCAD Photoshop Illustrator Indesign V-Ray Enscape Q-GIS Grasshopper Other Drafting Modeling Sketching Laser Cutting 3-D Printing

Experience GRT ARCHITECTS Brooklyn, NY Summer Intern Render, drawing, design, code

Activities Point Publication Founder of student-led publication for the SOA

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SOA Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Architectural Drawing for Non- Majors course, ambassador for the Architecture Minor Program

Architecture Ambassador, SOA Tour guide, information sessions

ANTHROPOLOGIE Glen Mills, PA Personal Stylist Languages English Spanish Italian French

Native Native Intermediate Basic

AIAS, SOA Graphics team member (eboard) and coffee and crit director (exec) Covers Workshop with Something Fantastic and Oana Stanescu Precedent-based production Design Team, SOA Architecture at Zero competition Public housing research/development

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01. Extractive reuse

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02. Barrio

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03. Make Your Bed & Lie in It

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04. Selected Work

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Extractive Reuse

The designing of a process that shapes a space ARC 408 | Fall ‘23 | Prof. Olivia Gori

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An already established use of the prompted site and within the town but a disconnect between all of these moments idiosyncratic to Rio Marina results in a series of diffused interventions on several notable sites which were: 1. The Mine 2. The Path 3. The Platform 4. The Town The intervention intends to blend each site’s differences while also responding to what had already been happening on each site.

Magnetite

Coal

Iron

Groundwater

Groundwater Contamination

Seawater Pollution

Native Trees

Deforestation

Reforestation

Agriculture

Livestock

Shifts in Mining

453 BC

1814

1900

The ecological and economic history deeply rooted in mining lead to a revival of abandoned infrastructure to create a new material which will be found as several objects dispersed throughout these four sites.

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1950

2009

1970

2003

Native Animals

Native Animal Callout

Native Birds

Population Arriving

Population Leaving

Air Pollution

Native Bird Callout

Invasive Species

Invasive Species Callout

Heavy Metals Callout

Key Dates

Eras

Model series of the quarry, path, and platform

Through these four sites we create a process which has a beginning and an end. In each of these sites the permanence of our hand varies. In some, we acknowledge our intervention by sealing it. Some age and wither away. In others, it is placed and apparent, but eventually packs up and goes away.

Site 4 objects

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Grounnd and First Floor Plan

JULIA BOLUKH / ISA

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Barrio

Pockets of Puerto Rico ARC 307 | Fall ‘22 | Prof. Marcos Parga

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ABELA RESTREPO

Just as vernacular Puerto Rican Casitas spring up throughout the gardens of Melrose, Barrio creates flexible spaces for this particular type of gathering and cultural expression.

In these shared spaces, neighborhood residents are seen sharing food, dancing, and any other facets of what may preserve the idea of home from hundreds of miles away. It’s an act of taking back parts of the city and revitalizing them to reinforce the community the residents hold dear.

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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Barrio aims to give the city access to this space typology without the risk of being displaced.

A system of “casita” spaces is established throughout a primary 30ft grid. Standardized units on a secondary 10ft grid become the building blocks for endless permutations of space distribution with the agency of those inhabiting. The middle floor of each vertical 10ft grid is reserved for negotiation between the inhabitants of the top and bottom floor.

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

IX Risograph perspective of the “backyard” spaces - four 12”x12” panels JULIA BOLUKH / ISA RESTREPO

Risograph elevation - four 12”x12” panels

JULIA BOLUKH / ISA RESTREPO

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+27’ 8.5’

6.5’

10’

XIII

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Concrete - primary grid CLT Panel Timber columns - secondary grid Polycarbonate

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KITCHEN PLAN

Plan of one 30ft unit

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10’

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Insulation

scale

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Plan of Casita space

The permanence of the primary 30ft grid is expressed with a dominant concrete materiality and the fluid moving parts allow for informal adjustment of space with lighter cross laminated timber panels. The framework not only evokes a need to fill, but also creates a lighter spatial language sensitive to the surrounding context.

JULIA BOLUKH / ISABELA RESTREPO

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Make Your Bed and Lie in It “Feelings are transitionary spaces” Summer ‘23 | Self Directed

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This project explores the possibility that emotions are spatial. After closely documenting thoughts and feelings throughout the year, the project gathers and analyses them.

It reflects on what happens next, what to do with all of these lessons.

“At the end of this, she will gather those twelve months, create a space within herself, and inhabit it. She will have more questions than she started with but she will be at home. I will fill her with permanence. A space to hold her during her growing pains. I will gladly make my bed. I will take my time. I will cry as I lie in it.

I have missed it very much after all.”

This is the spatial manifestation of this year’s reflections and feelings. They are simple emotions and therefore simple spaces.

It was to be something monolithic, solid, warm, natural, close to the heart and to the earth. Able to be manipulated by hand. Clay.

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Selected Works

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SOA

POINT

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FALL 2023

WHO ARE WE? Point is a student - led, designed, edited, and produced publication interested in showcasing student voices on a variety of topics.

WHAT’S OUR POINT? Our goal is to provide a platform that enables students to share work, ideas, and questions that personally interest you.

In the same way that architecture lends itself in many different directions, we think it is important to capture the various impressions and “points” that inspire us as learners.

WHAT’S YOUR POINT? Next steps? We need your help to understand what kinds of topics our students are interested in discussing and exploring. Controversies, emerging technology, hot - takes, case studies, semester projects, faculty interviews, etc. We want to know what you want to talk about.

Then, we will send out a form for you to share your point!

This could be sketches, text, drawings, models, etc. However you see yourself best conveying your point. Each issue will compile the submitted works sent through the QR code. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

MAKE YOUR POINT

Romi Moller | Isabela Restrepo | Emma McDevitt | Bruno Yeh

rmoller@syr.edu | irestrep@syr.edu | ermcdevi@syr.edu | byeh02@syr.edu

Point Publication Issue 1.

Introduction Fall ‘23

Professional Work GRT Architects Summer ‘23

Museum competition rendering

Connecticut home extension rendering

Modelmaking

Photography