Portfolio January 2024 Lucas Rossington

Portfolio 2024 Syracuse Architecture Class of 2024

Lucas Rossington

Lucas Rossington

Table of Contents Academic Works 1

Martin Luther King Jr. Voter’s Rights Museum.................1-2

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Light Gradient.............................................................3-4

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Creators Commune......................................................5-6

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John Glenn Research Center.........................................7-8

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Kagala India Holiday Home Analysis............................9-10

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Off the Edge...............................................................11-14

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Old Billingsgate Market: On Display.............................15-18

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Integrate and Intersection: The Field House....................19-26

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Martin Luther King Jr. Voter’s Rights Museum

Spring 2020, First Year, Studio Located in New York City near High Line Park, the Martin Luther King Jr. Voter’s Rights Museum provides a site for people to learn about the struggles that African Americans and women faced to secure their right to vote. Architecturally, its ground floor atrium provides a polling place for elections and can be converted to open space for other events. Its upper floors provide large galleries to tell the history of voter’s rights in the United States. The transition between indoor and outdoor spaces is achieved through the use of central pivoting glass doors. The upper floor doors allow for the interior spaces to become a single large open-air patio.

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Light Gradient

Fall 2020, Second Year, Studio Located along Interstate 81 in Syracuse, New York, the Light South Side low-income neighborhood lacks grocery stores, and access to fresh quality foods and Internet service.

By introducing a co-op grocery store and Internet cafe to the neighborhood, neighborhood families will enjoy greater access to quality foods and the Internet cafe will provide residents with greater access to the Internet and computers.

Architecturally, users are filters from the grocery store to Internet cafe through a unique wall system. The space gradually becomes denser as one walks further into the cafe. This permits space for a large grocery space for the community, for slightly more dense space near the grocery for groups, and for even more dense space in the corners for individuals. All areas will be lit by skylights whose sizes reflect the density of the space below.

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“Commutors Commune”

1/32”=1’ Lucas Rossington Unfolded Elevation

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Spring 2021, Second Year, Studio Located just outside Napa Valley, California, one of the wealthiest areas in the United States, the “Creators Commune” is intended to provide space for low-income people to improve their economic status.

Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of “What is a workspace?” changed. Namely, there was a need for more individual workspaces. At the same time, more young people and marginalized people were trying to make their way through the world. Consequently, there was a need for more lower-priced spaces.

With different apartment types, the creators can have isolated workspaces and, if desired, a ground floor full of community workspaces for interaction among creators.

The snake-like form allows the creators views of the beautiful Napa Valley, exposure to natural light, and exterior gathering spaces in the negative space in the building. *This project was completed with the help of Meenu Pillai and Sebastian Schwarz.

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John Glenn Research Center

Fall 2021, Third Year, Studio Located outside of Sandusky, Ohio, the John Glenn Research Center is 640 acres of fenced-off, untouched land. It is home to some of the largest spacecraft testing facilities in the world. Sandusky also hosts some of the most popular amusement parks and tourist destinations in the northeastern United States.

The goal of the studio was to design a college campus that would combine the two most important industries in the region into one campus, and provide each their individual building. By developing bands of space to separate the different users, the bands can be seen horizontally in both plan and section. Then vertical bands of space connect the users both physically, in plan, and visually, in section.

Briefly, this allows tourists to gain a better understanding of the processes of space travel without interfering with the research being conducted.

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Kagala India Holiday Home Analysis

Fall 2021, Third Year, Building Systems Located on the west coast of India, this project was designed and built using a variety of primitive techniques with materials that were both local and cheap.

We analyzed the different benefits and difficulties these choices had on the project and the user’s experience.

For example, using thermal bridging analysis, glare analysis, and facade analysis, a redesign was performed. Trying to maintain the primitive nature of the original project in this redesign was key. Thus, by adding large east and west-facing canopies to reduce direct sunlight, there were cooler interior temperatures and glare reduction. *This project was completed with the help of Jackson Braden, Cheuk Kiu Leung, and Joaquin Lee 9

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Kagala, India Interior Temperature: 20 °C ExteriorTemperature: 29.65 °C Average Temperature All Year

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Off The Edge

Spring 2022, Third Year, Studio, Abroad Semester in Florence, Italy Located on the floodplain of the Ombrone River in the Tuscany region of Italy, Off the Edge had to contend with many edge conditions existing between the span from the embankment to the river.

The river’s edge (shoreline) is diverse in terms of physical qualities and their significance to the reading of space. The edges present themselves as volumetric, definitive, disruptive, and continuous as well as flat, transparent, gapped, and connecting. While many of them share features, no two are exactly alike. The project employs edges as architecture, exploring how they can act spatially, organizationally, materially, and as a mode of movement. The edges allow for crop growth, food commerce, and garden education. These are integrated throughout the site to support the ground and ecosystem of the floodplain. *This project was completed with the help of Jackson Braden and Jenna Hammond.

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Off The Edge “NATURALIZED”

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Old Billingsgate Market: On Display

Fall 2022, Fourth Year, Studio, Abroad Semester in London, England Located in central London, Old Billingsgate Market (a Victorian-style building) was originally built to house a large fish market. The building has been taken over for event space. The only part of the original project remaining is the facade along the Thames River.

The removal of the original facade up and away from the building itself presents the facade as a painting that appears to float, like that of a glass easel painting.

This allows viewers to appreciate the facade itself, both from across the river and within the building. The elegant facade is no longer associated with the uninspired event space within, but instead celebrating it as its own entity, leaving behind the rest of the building to continue to draw further away from its graceful origins. *This project was completed with the help of Aiden McGorry and Mirwais Noory.

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Integrate and Intersection: The Field House

Spring 2023, Fourth Year, Comprehensive Studio Located in Chicago IL, the field house is tasked with connecting Humboldt Boulevard, a four-lane to 606, an elevated abandoned railroad line now used as a bike and walking path. The project allows all users to continue their routes without interference from cars underneath and pedestrians or bikers on top.

Programs are adjacent to each axis, ground level, and storage is disguised underneath the original structure of the 606. On the 606 level the passive (office and management uses) and the active(fitness facilities uses) are on opposite sides of the passage through the building. Above is a green roof full of open and closed-air program spaces. Tying all levels together is a step system that helps to form spaces of gathering and travel throughout the project, most prominently on the roof and then expanding on to the previously neglected Humboldt Boulevard green space. *This project was completed with the help of Leonardo Frydman 19

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Integrate and Intersection: The Field House

Enclosure and Structural Sectional Axonometrics A main focus of the comprehensive studio is to begin to understand how a building would come together in its true built form. To help better investigate the accuracy of the project, sectional axonometrics were employed to understand the building’s envelope and structure. The enclosure drawings allows for the understanding of how an insulation barrier must be formed to help the buildings performance. Other exterior systems considered and represented include the window system, green roof drainage, and stone pavers on the green roof. In the structural drawing, the enclosure is stripped out and the focus is shifted to how the building will stand up. The development of the structure was mediated through these drawings, which led to a bi-axial void form slab and waffle slab. The bi-axial void form allowed for the 20’ cantilever and increased thermal performance, while the waffle helps to accomplish structural and aesthetic goals of the project.

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Ground Floor Plan

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Roof Floor Plan

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Professional Works

Rossington Architecture, Summer 2022 Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, here is a series of exploded axonometric drawings that help to highlight different aspects of the program, floor plan arrangement, materiality, and window placement.

These drawings are all for single-family projects and were created to help the clients understand how their future homes would look.

Thus, by using the medium of axonometric drawings, the layperson can better understand how the final project will look. *These projects were completed and designed by Phil Rossington of Rossington Architecture.

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