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KRISTINA ORTIZ SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE

Kristina N. Ortiz

73 Cowles Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704 914-885-4311 Knortiz@syr.edu

Objective:

Creative Architecture student seeking to be impeccable at design skills to gain broader commercial and residential experience. Collaborates to ensure accuracy, precision, and efficiency through teamwork and knowledge of Architectural software programs.

Education: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Bachelor of Architecture

GPA: 3.2, Dean’s List Recipient

Expected: May 2024

Syracuse University Florence August 2022- December 2022 Study Abroad Architecture Program in Florence, Italy

Work Experience:

Fleetwood Pastry Shop- Mount Vernon, NY 2017-Present

● Highly dedicated bakery worker with a strong customer service record and meticulous eye for detail.

● Ensured clean and neat bakery workspace at all times.

● Developed production methods to maximize efficiency in coordination with staff and management.

● Oversaw bakery operations and provided assistance for high-volume orders as needed.

Architectural Intern

Pickard Chilton Architects- New Haven, CT June 2022- August 2022

● Utilized computer- assisted design software and equipment to prepare project designs and plans.

● Assisted in the preparation of presentations, drawings, and various studies and research.

● Included in closely working with head architects of the firm.

● Learned professional ways and aspects of architecture during observations in client meetings.

● Worked in AutoCAD to prepare laser cut files to be printed

● Assisted in the model shop to prepare site models to be shipped for out of state client meetings.

Additional Experience:

Nanny, Westchester, NY 2016-2021

● Provided a safe environment for children in the developmental stages of infancy through school age.

● Assisted with homework/tutored children of various ages.

● Educated children in the benefits of healthy habits such as nutrition, hygiene, and bathing.

● Engaged in playing games, arts and crafts, and making learning fun.

Skills & Certifications:

Computers - Proficient in Microsoft Office and Excel, Adobe Creative Cloud services, and Architectural software such as Rhinoceros 3D.

Individual Project 2019 Protrusion Winery Individual Project- 2020

Robotic Univeristy

Individual Project/ Research- 2021

Machinery Hall Group Project- 2022

Migration and Demographics

Group Project2022

Model Photography Group Project- 2022 Marinellina Group Project- 2022

The Influence of Patterns

The Influence of Patterns

The creation of patterns are essential in the beginning of understanding the relations within Architecture. The steady flow of the curves and it’s intertwining nature represents the ideals of designing and growth of projects. Patterns offer the incentive of guiding an architect to identify combinations of architectural building blocks to provide basic effective solutions. They serve as an aid to design cities and buildings. It’s helpful to dive into delineating patterns in carefull matters to be able to break them down and eventually use them to further create and design future means. Understanding the form, geometry, color, and texture allows the process of designing to flow naturally.

Letters and shapes were used as an effective way to begin to understand how different geometries can coincide with each other and begin to mesh together. Each letter has its own axis and it’s own respective hatch, as well as the shapes do. The shapes lay behind the letters and the axis lines, allowing for the drawing to create a sense of dimension using foreground, middleground, and background.

Protrusion Winery is located on a five- acre square along Henry Road, on the East wall of the Carneros Valley which also straddles off of a branch of the Carneros Creek in Napa County, California. The State of California suffers from inherent conflicts of severe wildfires on one hand and grapes, wine, and tourists on the other. The best way to come to a solution to suffice each of California’s conflicts would be to establish a Napa winery facilitating both ecological outreach programming and wine tasting.

Protrusion Winery is home to a small drone operation dedicated to continuous surveys of the country’s fire vulnerability, and an education and outreach program where visitors can sample local wines while learning about the complexities of ecologies and human- generated development.

The claim that the Architecture of Protrusion Winery makes revolves around sequence. More imporantly, it concentrates on the sequence of guests, workers, and wine production flows. The singular building presents areas for both public spaces and production spaces which is divided by a protruding wine red colored wall. The more transparent side of the building represents the public spaces, whereas the darker and more opaque portion of the building represents where the wine production would start, flow, and end. Both public and production spaces are divided by the protruding wall but eventually create an open courtyard space for visitors to casually flow around in after entering the building. Visitors are able to pass through the courtyard to get into the other side of the building where they would come face-to- face with a glass wall that allows them to see the lower level of the building where the wine production takes place. The protruding wine red, thick walls are seen from everywhere inside and out of the building. It is created to divide, protrude, and interact with the role of the winery.

PROTRUSION WINERY

Surrounding vineyards help make it necessary on choosing a location within the given site due to climate and soil conditions.

ROBOTIC UNIVERSITY

Robotic University is located in the NASA Plum Brook Station which sits right below downtown Sandusky, Ohio. This campus is specifically located near the Zero Atmospheric Pressure Chamber which provides a Zero-G facility that creates a nearweightless or microgravity environment for a duration of 5.18 seconds. Considering this in it’s design would lead to it being an opportunity to create a research-focused university. Conducting aeronautic and astronomical research requires many mechanical and intellectual facilities. Humans, robots, and machines work, live and recreate together. This campus would introduce both human and non-human participants, as well as create spaces for animate and inanimate automation.

Robotics are capable of doing many things a human can do and even more. The list of robotics breaks down their respective functions, occupied areas and moving speeds. Other than their functions, speed is a significant factor to deal with when creating spaces for these robotics. It comes down to a matter of speed when dealing with the human interactions of campus and the safety of both participants, as well as the topography of the site which was designed to compliment the speed and areas in which they would be able to move smoothly throughout the campus.

As a way of studying the life of a college student or robot living within the campus, the shared communities that are scattered throughout the site serve as multi- functional spaces for both the human and nonhuman population. These multi- purpose communities are spaces that correspond to the life of COBOTS which is human collaboration and robots meshed together. The shared communities that are proposed follow the curvilinear shapes that the site and roads follow, as well as introducing a secondary pathway that is elevated and programmed for exterior spaces. The elevated, exterior spaces introduce spaces like testing sites to examine the mobility, endurance, manipulation, and power of the robots, as well as robots functioning for security purposes, charging robotic and drone stations, and outdoor learning facilities. The stacked cores that run through the buildings are joined by central hackerspaces that are both robotics, drone, and human friendly. Rooms that don’t function as dormitories, function as open planned makerspaces and hackerspaces. The living spaces have the luxury of opening to balconies where students can set their drones free for the day. The long circular structural supports extrude throughout the entire building and have a platform at the top for drones to land, rest, and sleep on. These buildings function to support the life of a college student and introduce the present but also futuristic language of robotics to live with students and not around them.

Programmatic Diagram

Interrelated Programs

Linear structural elements that protrude throughout each of the multi- purpose platforms. Each structural piece is designed to have a platform for drones to “sleep” and “rest” on throughout both day and nights.

The secondary platform that is accessible for students, faculty, and robotics to circulate on/ throughout.

Main core units that stack throughout each multi- purpose building with a joined hackerspace/ makerspaces in the center and spiral starcases surrounding the shape.

The boomerang, curvy shaped buildings that house human and non-human activity.

Buildings put into persepective with the platforms and folded planes.

MACHINERY HALL

Machinery Hall is an adaptive reusive project that is located within the Syracuse Univeristy campus. The project is situated between two campus quads that are joined by both an exterior ramp, as well as a glassed in box that contains a separate path of circulation. Two ideas that were driving factors throughout the design process were transparency and collaboration. Both of these ideas go hand in hand, transparency promotes collaboration through the use of glass within the project. Having spaces that can be seen into allows work from the I-school, Engineering, and Architecture students to be seen by each other which is not usual on this campus. The use of hotdesks in the middle of the upper floor, the 3d printers along the wall, and the glassed-in collaboration spaces, all allow for transparency as you can see all the work processes from the schools. To further push the concept, the space surrounding the Kuka robot was taken into great consideration and made the main space to showcase the technology and processes. The Kuka was surrounded fully by glass to allow all users to experience it, a counter work area was also added to allow students to do work while watching the kuka. There was only one spot in the project where a chunk of the wall was removed and it was to accommodate the viewpoints of the Kuka. Not only can the robot be seen by users inside the building but from users in the new addition lounge/ cafe area, and people outside the building who are simply passing by. Both additions were designed to force flow through and around the building while livening up and interacting with the surrounding context. By creating the flow using the outside ramp it creates a moment where a passerby is able to catch a glimpse into the building and get drawn in with curiosity of wanting to experience the rest of the building. While using the ramp you can see into the upper floor of the addition, as well as the lower where you overlook the cafe and the Kuka in action. Another important use of transparency is to preserve details of the building. This building is a historic part of the Syracuse University campus, so making the additions glass allows for expansion while minimizing the view obstruction of the existing building.The use of transparency helps to preserve existing architecture, and assists collaboration throughout both the users of the space and users of the campus.

It is important to highlight the key access ways and functionality of the project to make it stand out as a building that can be used by multiple groups of people. Being that it was an exclusive space before that no one, let alone sutdents on the campus, were able to use makes the reintroduced project a special place. Students and staff would be attracted by the swooped staircase that is framed in by a large glassed box. Surpassing that and moving alongside the glass box onto the ramp allows viewers to be attracted to what is occupying the spaces within the project, causing an influence of individuals to gravitate towards that space. Moving over the ramp allows for the primary access way that sits on the upper level of the quad. The majority of the occupants would typically use this entrance being that it’s situated on the quad where there are hundreds of students walking through each day. The newly introduced Machinery Hall allows itself to maintain it’s historical preservation building typologies that relate to the campus, while also introducting modernised aspects of materiality and conditions through its additional pieces.

Migration and Demographics

Beginning with the topic of migration and demographics, it took a compilation of extensive research on migrants and their journey of getting to Sicily and what the immigration processes are like to form an idea of the newest populations of Sicily. Many of these immigrants come from North and Eastern Africa and are sent to Sicily by boat. A large portion of the data covers the process after arrival. The major points of access that focus on points of arrival as well as primary and secondary reception centers are only the beginning steps of what endures the life of an immigrant. The data compiled in the chart is fulfilled with statistics on race, ethnicity, political centers, and demographics. The board is positioned in a specific way that flows from South to North. This non-traditional way of laying out information reflects on the work that is being portrayed being that it is in the direction of the flow of migration for migrants coming from Africa into Sicily. The flow of migration pushes up, since Sicily sits right above Northern Africa.

The primary and secondary reception centers are mandatory steps after getting off of the boat and moving into civilization. There are numerous centers that have been taken over by each other as the years go on, although some names continue to stick around as they are easier to refer to. Hotpots and S.A.I centers are currently the centers that are used today to filter and process the documentation of migrants. The key word to use when referring to this process is filtration. There is always a ‘yes’ and ‘no’ route that could be taken. In other words, accepted or rejection. These facilties often times portrayed racism which effected the journey of individuals being able to create a new life, although often time rejection didn’t necessarily result in deportation. After the long and exhausting journey of getting to the secondary reception centers, the wait only continued. Documents needed to be reviewed, filtered, and processed many times, therefore the S.A.I oftentimes provided services for the individualssuch as temporary housing, liguistic services for language, food, orientation on potential work/ careers, etc.

Studying the beginning stage of the life of an immigrant is shows that the process doesn’t stop after the journey of getting to another country.

Marinellina is a structure of integrated reception for incoming immigrants that are adapting to the Sicilian culture and lifestyle. It sits right above the coastline of Marinella di Selinunte in a Southern Italian village. The program is a structured reception that provides for women and children migrating into Sicily. Marinellina houses the facilities necessary to accommodate both the mother and child, which include includes facilities to assist within the migration process, educational and trade skill centers, early childhood and daycare facilities, housing, medical clinics, therapy and counseling. These programs are categorized into 5 different clusters; education, childcare, health, residency, offices, and leisure- forcing itself to create a miniature city composed of differently programmed neighborhoods.

Marinellina

After refinining the streets and pathways that pedestrians use to circulate throughout the mini- city, Marinellina reflects on it’s surrounding context of the city of Selinunte by creating a dense urban center open to the public, in hopes of blending the barrier separating the migrants and the locals. Each of the five neighborhoods have their own representation that conforms to the city itself- ranging from curves, to cut-offs, to corridors, a grid system, and massing blocks. Being that there were 21 buildings on the site, only two of which were designed in detail- which were the daycare facility and the library space. These two buildings on the site were two of the more busy spaces that occupied both mother and child, so they were able to give the most accurate representation of what the city would look like in terms of movement, activity, and program.

The daycare center is a curvey shaped building that has large arched windows and infleuntial African tile represented on the facade. The three- story building has play spaces, classroom areas, cubbies for personal belongings, and flexible spaces that can be conformed to the acitivties of the children, like playing and sleeping areas. The open concept of the daycare allows for it to be a flexible space for the children to enjoy their time as they wait for pickup.

The library facility is a collaborative space used wihin the city. It has no restricted access, meaning even residents of the city of Selinunte are allowed to visit and use the space as anyone else would be able to. The three story building is defined by floor, meaning the below grade floor is the childrens area, the middle floor is a general library area with book cases and reading tables, and finally the top floor is where there are private meeting and collaboration rooms. The library space is composed of both marble and tile that has various glass pieces on the facade. It sits right across from an outdoor leisure space that gives individuals the opportunity to take a book and read outdoors. Being that the majority of the mothers that use these spaces are taking classes and working, the library space is essential in partaking a calmning and quiet- workspace enviornmental role.