Kaitlyn Idhaw - Portfolio 2024

Kaitlyn Idhaw 2024

Portfolio

Syracuse Architecture

Kaitlyn Idhaw

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kaitlyn Idhaw kcidhaw@syr.edu 570.892.0511 2

Syracuse Architecture

1. STONE QUARRY ARTIST’S COMPLEX

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2. SENECA LAKE MICRO-HOME

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3. SYRACUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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LANDFORM CONCEPT TITLE

ARC207: Project 1A_Student Name

4. ENTOURAGE & CONTEXT

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5. PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

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6. LAYERING SYSTEMS & DECOMPOSITION

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STONE QUARRY ARTIST’S COMPLEX

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Syracuse Architecture

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The Stone Quarry Artist’s Complex takes the historical site of Stone Quarry art park and situates a series of buildings meant to be the home, studio, and gallery of visiting artists. The art park hosts artists seasonally to install primarily sculptural art within the land of the park. By adding the complex, the park would be able to host multiple artists at the same time and include a more diverse media with the addition of an inside gallery space.

Syracuse Architecture

Media - Rhino, Adobe Illustrator

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The design centers around the relationship between the ground, triangular buildings and floating grid. The buildings ground the grid as it peels off of the landscape. The grid acts as circulation between buildings and sun shading for a sculpture garden underneath it. The grid also dictates the form of the interior walls inside the buildings creating dynamic floating volumes in section diversifying spatial conditions.

Syracuse Architecture

Media - Rhino, V-ray, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

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SENECA LAKE MICRO-HOME

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Kaitlyn Idhaw MATERIAL INVENTORY

DECK EMBEDDED IN SLOPE RAILING POST SUPPORT

WOOD CLADDING

DECKING

INTERIOR WALL FINISH

2” x 4” DECKING 1/2” Drainage gap

BLACK STEEL FINISHES MULLION Removable for glass replacement

GLASS RAILING PANELS 19’6”

MULLION Removable for glass replacement

9’5”

10’1”

3’2”

+ 0’0” (+ 475)

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WALL DETAILS SCALE : 2” = 1’

CORNER STUDS

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Stacked for strength

OPERABLE WINDOWS Allow passive cooling and cross ventilation

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CORNER TRIM PLYWOOD

16’2”

DOUBLE GLAZING Two Pane Windows

20’11-3/4”

28’8-1/4”

BATTENS or FURRING Cladding attached MULLION Removable for glass replacement

34’8-1/4”

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WATERPROOF MEMBRANE WOOD CLADDING Horizontal Bevel Siding

31’6-1/4”

INSULATION

Fiber glass panels

2’10”

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INSULATION

Fiber glass panels

10’6-1/2”

12’6”

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6’0”

2” x 10” STUDS

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FIRST FLOOR PLAN 0

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6" 1'

PLYWOOD

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1/2"=1'-0"

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2'

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1 Entry 2 Kitchen - 8’ x 12’ (144 sq ft) 3 Desk Space - 5‘ x 6’ (30 sq ft) 4 Stairs 5 Dining Penninsula - 8’ x 4’ (32 sq ft) 6 Living Space - 8’ x 8’ (64 sq ft) 7 Operable Windows 8 Cantilever Above - 20’ x 8’ (160 sq ft)

BATTENS or FURRING Cladding atÆ tached

PLYWOOD

WATERPROOF MEMBRANE

SHEETROCK

WOOD CLADDING Horizontal Bevel Siding

Syracuse Architecture

The Seneca Lake Micro-home is a group project that explored the design of typical building systems. The design aimed to use wood framing construction, a point foundation, and cantilevered condition to create a house that peeled off the landscape towards the view of Seneca Lake. The home is meant for up to two individuals and prioritizes the view of the lake. This is done through the use of two rectangular modules that are superimposed and floor to ceiling windows on the short end of the modules.

Group Members - Emily Segal, Lillian Marsh, and Madeleine Merrill

Media - Rhino, Lumion,

Kitchen & Dining

Adobe Illustrator

23’6”

21’6-1/4”

10’1”

9’5”

+ 0’0” (+ 475) 2’7-1/2”

6’6”

Hallway to Balcony

3’6-1/2”

3’2”

8’10”

4’0”

10’0-3/4”

28’8-1/4”

5’11-1/4”

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34’8-1/4”

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+ 9’0”

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0 1/2"=1'-0"

6" 1'

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2 Kitchen 3 Desk Space 4 Stairs 7 Operable Windows 8 Cantilever Above 9 Bedroom - 8’ x 8’ (64 sq ft) 10 Hallway - 3’ x 8’ (24 sq ft) 11 Closet - 3’ x 5’ (15 sq ft) 12 Bathroom - 6’ x 8’ (48 sq ft)

Living Space View to Lake

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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6’0”

6’0”

9’6-1/4”

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Bedroom View North

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The materiality of the structure uses wood to emphasize the perpendicular linear nature of the modules that are connected with a diagonal roof and skylight. The wood is accented with glass and black steel elements to contrast the light colored wood. The renders display the views that the home provides and investigates interior and exterior experiential conditions.

Media - Rhino, Lumion 14

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SYRACUSE YOUTH HOSTEL

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SYRACUSE YOUTH HOSTEL - INVERSION OF PITCHED ROOFS

SITE PLAN *not to scale

SECTION B-B *not to scale Trusses

DESIGN INTENT

Truss Load Paths

The Syracuse Youth Hostel was designed by me in 2023 within the site near Westcott St and Harvard Place in Syracuse, New York. The design idea was to invert, rotate and aggregate the contextual motif of the pitched roof. The enclosure is meant to accentuate the formality of the base grid and modularity of massing while acting as a natural lighting source for the entire hostel. The ribbing of the materiality references the siding found in the site but rotates it vertically to re-enforce grid. Additionally, the enclosure materiality references a greenhouse typology since a green house is included as a community engagement space. The semi-transparent aspect of the enclosure exposes the structural truss system. Spatially the semi-transparent enclosure creates diverse lighting conditions depending on time and location within the hostel while maintaining a monolithic enclosure highlighting the dynamic form and concealing the program and circulation of each room.

Gravitational Load Paths Small Live and Dead Load Paths

Louver system that is to the mid day winter encourage natural lig winter and provide sh

Wind Sun Path (Dec. 21 at Noon)

Azimuth Angle: 179.4o Altitude Angle: 23.4o

Sun Path (June 21o at Noon)

Azimuth Angle: 175.8 Altitude Angle: 70.3o

Diffused Sun Path (Dec. 21)

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Diffused Sun Path (June 21)

The structure is attached to the enclosure via a bracketing system.

*not to scale

Dynamic aspect of the south facade encourages prolonged winter sun exposure.

Enclosure is meant to express the structure while providing diffused light and privacy through partial transparency.

Truss system transfers loads on the exterior.

N ELEVATIONAL MODEL PHOTO OF SOUTH FACADE

MODEL PHOTO FROM NORTHWEST

REFERENCES: 1. “Climate Consultant,” n.d. accessed 24 April 2023 2. “Climate.onebuilding.org.” climate.onebuilding.org. Accessed April 26, 2023. https://www.climate.onebuilding.org/.

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GROUND FLOOR PLA

SPRING 2023

N OF PITCHED ROOFS

Gaps in building create shading at different points of the day.

h (Dec. 21 at Noon)

Angle: 179.4o Altitude Angle: 23.4o

h (June 21o at Noon)

Angle: 175.8 Altitude Angle: 70.3o

WIND AND SUN DIAGRAM

d Sun Path (June 21)

ARC 121 Syracuse | PROJECT 3 Architecture

Enclosure encourages partial sun exposure at all times of the year. Winter sun is encouraged through semi-transparency.

Louver system that is angled parallel to the mid day winter altitude angle to encourage natural light entrance in winter and provide shade in summer.

d Sun Path (Dec. 21)

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SUMMER

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Natural light can permeate the entire building through the semi transparent enclosure.Direct sun exposure is blocked by the materiality of the enclosure. The sun passes through the enclosure as diffused light.

Wind Speed (mph) Wind Direction (%)

N WINTER

40MPH 10% 32 8% 24 6% 16 4% 8 2% 0 0%

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The structure is attached to the enclosure via a bracketing system.

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Hatch opening generate natural ventilation when needed.

40MPH 10% 32 8% 24 6% 16 4% 8 2% 0 0%

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Primarily wind comes from the Southwest in both the summer and winter.

The wind and sun diagrams display how wind and sun interact with the hostel in the winter and summer. The wind rose surround designates the percentage of which direction the wind is coming from in the summer and winter and the average wind speed from each direction.

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The sun diagram in the center displays the path of the sun on June 21st in the summer and December 21st in the Winter. The altitude and azimuth angles are as follows: time:

altitude

azimuth

JUNE

9am 12pm 3pm

47.1 70.3 49.3

101.9 175.8 255.3

DEC

9am 12pm 3pm

11.3 23.4 12.0

138.0 179.4 221.0

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Truss system transfers loads on the exterior.

Enclosure completely surrounds the truss system, but the semi transparent materiality expresses the structural system from the exterior view.

N GROUND FLOOR PLAN *not to scale

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ENTOURAGE & CONTEXT

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In the composition, I wanted to expand the life and personality of the entourage and introduce program through narrative. Additionally, the composition is meant to allow the view to zoom in and out to understand the fully depth. The building typologies are divided into three types and aggregated in the site. The park and courtyards add dynamic places for interaction among the entourage creating a dynamic narrative. I wanted the populate the composition so that it was dense enough but still gave streets view and depth. Formally, the composition aimed to aggregated a diverse population of volumes and textures.

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PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

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LANDFORM CONCEPT TITLE

ARC207: Project 1A_Student Name

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Kaitlyn Idhaw The precedent analysis explores architecture through the lens of design and construction and non-architecture through architectural lens to analyze the spatial relationships that develop as a result of design or nature.

The land form analysis explores the atoll through a composite drawing arguing that the atoll is a undulating aggregation of life. The plan of the atoll uses dense stippling to denote where life aggregates in relation to the land form and the undulating section circumnavigating the plan investigates the process of the atoll’s formation.

The worm’s eye axonometric drawing explores the Grandola Meeting Center by Aires Mateus viewing the seeming monolithic mass and how it is comprised of a complex system of layering and suspending to create the appearance of a mass with dramatic vaults.

Media - Rhino, V-ray, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

LANDFORM CONCEPT TITLE

ARC207: Project 1A_Student Name

LANDFORM CONCEPT TITLE

ARC207: Project 1A_Student Name

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ARC207: Project 1A_Student Name

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Venice Hospital – Le Corbusier

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Venice Hospital is an unbuilt commission designed by Le Corbusier for the City of Venice, Italy in 1964. Le Corbusier was a pioneer of Modernism. This hospital embodies his idea of modernism while simultaneously creating an analogy to the formalism of the hospital and the structure of Venice. The site, Venice, is a city that is based around a canal system. The hospital is at the mouth of a canal in The San Giobbe region of Venice. The hospital has an intention relationship between the water and the land. The hospital can be reached by car or by gondola.

Corbusier’s design was inspired by the cellular replication of olives. Each medical area is a cell with a nucleus. From each nucleus pathways branch to connect the cells of the hospital. This replicates how canals branch to connect the land of Venice. Vertically, the hospital is organized into 4 floor and a roof garden: entrance, administration, maintenance, and treatment. They organization of these floors displays a shift from public to private as a person moves upward and away into branches closer to the sea, the more private and specialized the area becomes. Each cell structure includes a nucleus with four main hallways that branch into patient rooms and treatment spaces for the particular medical field of the cell. Corbusier designed the hospital partly manifesting his Five Points of Architecture: free façade, pilotis, roof garden, free plan, and horizontal window. The hospital itself includes everything but the horizontal window. There are no windows in the hospital.

Instead, there is a system of skylights that let daylight in without the inhabitants seeing the apertures themselves.

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patient rooms

centers

treatment rooms

transitions

maitenence rooms

modular circulation

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entrance administration

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administrative rooms

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treatment

ramp transitions

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roof terrace

building circulation

These precedents analyze the buildings at multiple scales revealing detail as the scale increases. The Venice Hospital explores the megastructure typology and when analyzed closer reveals the themes of cellular replication and aggregation of a unit to create the complex.

The Shack in the Rocks is a small building that is observed as a whole and magnified to inspect the construction details questioning how elements of the building meet and how Sean Godsell Architects chose to design the joinery at the intersections.

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LAYERING SYSTEMS & DECOMPOSITION

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Starting in plan, I aggregated circles around an angled grid to create interior and exterior conditions and spatial overlap that I could translate to the 3-dimensional model. The model focuses on the relationship between three aspects: the topography, the cylindrical elements, and the superimposed grid. This relationship creates moments of intersection, overlap, extrusion, and void.

The model to the right takes the cylinders as a continuation or voiding of the land form and differentiates the overlapping grid to enforce the relationship each grid has to each other, the cylinders, and the land form. The model explores what would happen if this system ground construct decomposes over time. It investigates what would happen if the tide ate away at the land form affecting the entire system in three stages.

Media - Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Laser Cutting, Plaster Casting, Spray Painting, Clay Modeling 3