108 Design Portfolio Jasmine Greytok

ARC 108 PORTFOLIO Jasmine Greytok

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Exercise 1

THE ANALYSIS OF A CITY AND ITS ARCHITECTURE Pages 3-6

Exercise 2

THE ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES Pages 7-11

Exercise 3

DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING Pages 12-19

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Exercise 1

THE ANALYSIS OF A CITY AND ITS ARCHITECTURE

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Urban Analysis

The Blocks and Streets of Syracuse Collaboration with Julia Chou, Michael Heller, Niall Ingaldson, and Ivania Rivera In this exercise as a group, we analyzed Syracuse through it blocks and streets to get a better understand of how the city worked. Other groups included history, buildings and public spaces. Together we created a book of all of our analysis within the four groups.

Syracuse’s unique location in the path of the Erie Canal as well as several major railway lines contributed to its development into a prosperous and hard-working industrial city. However, in the post industrial era, Syracuse has felt the ramifications of the scattered and rapid planning of its blocks and streets.

Topography Onondaga Lake/ Creek I-81 and I-690

Syracuse University

Destiny Mall

Downtwon Syracuse

Highways Arterial Roads Collector Roads

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Hierarchy of Streets

Topography and Size of Downtown Syracuse

1 mi

530-670 400-530 270-400 130-270 0-130

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Road Usage

Grid Patterns and Irregularities 5

Downtown YMCA, Warren Parking Garage, Food & Entertainment, St. Paul’s Church

Onondaga County Justice Center, Syracuse City Court, Everson Art Museum,, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office Clinton Plaza Apartments, Law Firm, Food & Entertainment Jefferson Tower & Madison Tower (apartment complexes)

530-670 400-530

Route 11

270-400

I-81

130-270

Route 5

0-130

I-690 New York State N

N

Road Lengths

Population by Block

Churches Civic Buildings

City of Syracuse

Education

Washington Square

Food & Entertainment

Syracuse University

Health Care

Downtown Syracuse

Residential

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Blocks of Syracuse

Land Usage

Exercise 2

THE ANALYSIS OF URBAN BUILDINGS AND THEIR FACADES

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Urban Building Analysis Biblioteca Villa de Gracia Collaboration with Rachel Ly and Daniella Hofer For this exercise, we were broken into groups again and were told to analyze the facade of an urban building that was assigned to our group. This builds off of our previous exercise and would prove to be our precedent for the following exercise.

As the architect Josepp Llinas said, the Biblioteca Vila de Gracia (Vila de Gracia Library) was to signify a coat draping a person. As one looks at the facade of the library, it does not seem to be one a normal library would have.

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Sitting on a busy intersection of one way roads, Biblioteca Vila de Gracia displays certain parts jutting out and others sucked into the building that is distinctive in comparison to the surrounding buildings. Upon closer inspection, our case study analyzes how these oriented “pushes and pulls” distort the “wrapper” of the building become an autonomous being that governs the inner and outer tectonics of the structure.

By hanging off the structural elements of the building, the facade is manipulated by these imperative geometrical altercations to influence the walls, the program, and the development of the space inside and outside.

Unrolled Elevation

concrete glass wood

Materiality

grid negative space windows

Window Rhythms

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Pushes

Final Form

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Pulls

grouping of outliers regular groupings windows

Window Annotations

Interior FurnIture VS. Exterior Facade

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Exercise 3

DESIGNING AN URBAN BUILDING

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Urban Building Design An Archive For The City Of Syracuse

Our third and final exercise was designed to encompass all that we had learned from the two previous exercises. We took our knowledge of the city of Syracuse and our precedents from exercise two, to come up with and design our own archive for the city of Syracuse.

Through my analysis of downtown Syracuse and my precedent Biblioteca Villa de Gracia, I designed an archive for the city of Syracuse. I took the idea of pushing and pulling from my precedent and created a vertical and horizontal ribbon system.

These weaving ribbons offered views of the city from its corner condition. Finally, I used color to help emphasize my ideas. Through applying color as a cosmetic enhancer I was able to create horizontal stripes that would follow my horizontal ribbons and mask the vertical ones.

Precedent Analysis, Site Analysis, and Massing Analysis 13

Relief Models 14

Final Relief Model 15

Massing Models 16

Final Massing Model 17

Sections and Ground Floor Plan 18

Fourth Floor

Third Floor

Second Floor

Ground Floor

Fourth Floor

Third Floor

Second Floor

Ground Floor

Elevations 19

After reading “The Cunning of Cosmetics� by Jeffrey Kipnis, we gained a better understanding of the role color plays in our understanding of architecture. The main takeaways we got were that applying color to a structure or object is (or at least should be) less for ornament and more of a cosmetic choice. Similarly to how one would apply makeup, adding color to a building is meant to enhance the overall form. Ornamentation is the less desirable approach - like putting clothes on a building, covering up or masking the form while drawing more attention to the ornament, possibly even as a distraction from the actual form. In this sense, as designers, we strive to apply color in a way that complements the understanding and experience of what we create, rather than as something that draws attention away from what we spent so long creating.

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Renders

THANK YOU

CONTACT INFO CELL: (610)930-8804 EMAIL: JEGREYTO@SYR.EDU

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