MICHAEL GAWARGI 2022/2023 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

1 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Undergraduate Student Wentworth Institute of Technology 2024 MICHAEL GAWARGI

MICHAEL GAWARGI

Department of Architecture Fall 2020 - Spring 2022

Taking part in the Architectural Profession will allow my ideas to come into reality and have a chance to change the built environment in a positive way.

2

MUSEUM FOR THE MECHANICAL ARTS

Year - Spring Semester 2022

Studio Name - Studio 4

Software Used - Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, ENSCAPE

Location - 48 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

CONCEPT STATEMENT - My artefact is all about pressure from top to the Bottom also my threshold t is all about pressure from bottom to the top. My goal is to have all the visitors keep moving up and down through the building. I conduct that by having the stairs in different places of the building to have the visitors walk through the building to learn about the artefact and the threshold. The stairs represent the pressure of the artefact and threshold by making the visitors move up and down the stairs.

This project had multiple phases, phase 1 was artefact and physical model, phase 2 was a threshold Near MIT and It’s Front of the chapel, phase 3 was my interaction and design.

4 TEACHING

Year - Spring Semester 2022

Studio Name - Studio 4

Software Used - Rhino, AutoCAD, Laser Cutter.

PHASE ONE - In this phase, we chose an artifact and created lines with the laser cutter to represent our artifact and explain how it works on chipboard. My book binding press artifact is all about pressure from top to the bottom. I represented my artifact through perspectives, 2D elevations, and scale figures.

6 BOOK PRESSING ARTEFACT

Physical Study ModelPhase 1: Book Pressing Bord

PHASE TWO - After phase one, I created a threshold located next to the MIT Kresge chapel. This threshold needed to be influenced from phase one which was the bookbinding press. In the threshold, I took inspiration from the mechanism of the bookbinding press and how the pressure comes from the top to the bottom to press the papers together. I used the same mechanism, but I rotated it and made the pressure come up from the bottom to the top to open the ceiling of the threshold. I represented my threshold through perspectives, 2D elevations, and scale figures.

7 THRESHOLD Year - Spring Semester 2022 Studio Name - Studio 4 Software Used - Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, ENSCAPE Location - 48 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

Perspective From The Digital Model

Physical Study Model

Phase 2:Threshold Bord.

NARRATIVE DIAGRAM

NARRATIVE STATEMENT - A museum can hold a lot of things, for example a museum can hold art pictures or arte facts or books sometimes it can hold all of them.

Museums are the ideal place where stories can be told and that en courage the visitors to make their own meanings of those stories.

8 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE AMHERST STREET PRINCETON AVENUE 1. Lecture Hall 2. Classroom 9. Auditorium 10. Maker-space 16. Rare Book Area 18. Research Library 16 10 1 18 10 2 2 9 SECTIONS AA SITE PLAN

9 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE 19 19 PRINCETON AVENUE 1. Lecture Hall 2. Classroom 3. Family Rest Room 4. Kitchen 5. Cafe 6. Shop 7. Elevator 8. Loading Area 9. Auditorium 10. Maker-space 11. Of ces 12. Conference Room 13. Directors Of ce 14. Storage 15. Mechanical Room 16. Rare Book Area 17. Reading Rooms 18. Research Library 19. Lockers 1 5 6 4 3 10 2 7 11 13 12 14 15 9 16 10 7 17 17 17 18 Mezzanine Floor Plan 3rd Floor Plan 2nd Floor Plan St Floor Plan UP UP UP UP UP UP Down UP Down SECTION PERSPECTIVES AA PLANS

10 Stone Ballast DO W Styrofoam RTM-X Concrete Roof Slab DOW Tuff-R Header Wood Brick Floor Finish Rebar Drainage Ground Proctor WaterprooWrapng Membrane Trusses System Window Framing Glass Window Insulation Concrete Concrete Ground Finish Foundation Footings Gravel DETAIL WALL SECTION SECTION PERSPECTIVES BB CIRCULATION

11 19 19 UP UP 19 19 19 UP UP 19 19 UP UP 1 2 3 4 4 5 INSIDE STAIRS JOURNEY OUTSIDE STAIRS JOURNEY ELEVATOR JOURNEY Columns Floors / Ceiling / Roof Trusses System STRUCTURE DIAGRAM CIRCULATION DIAGRAM DOORS DIAGRAM SEASONAL SPACE DIAGRAM

WOOD BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL

Year - Fall Semester 2021

Studio Name - Studio 3

Software Used - Rhino, Illustrator, InDesign, ENSCAPE

Location - 41 WoodenBoat Lane, Brooklin, Maine.

CONCEPT STATEMENT - To have the visitor go through a voyage with two possible outcomes, one inside and one outside. The outside of the building represents the seed and the time it takes for it to develop into a full-grown tree. The second path that a visitor can take is within the structure, it represents the process it takes for a tree to become a boat.

Each step that a visitor takes inside the built environment will learn about the skills and knowledge to construct a boat.

These construction methods ultimately inspired the overall look and feel of this installation.

SECTION (2) SECTION (1)

15 Plan Site Plan Circulation Diagram 1 2

16 Fascia So Glass Window Insulation Finishing Siding & Sheathing Door Framing Door Rebar Foundation Footings Gravel Concrete Ground Joist Beam Header Boltem Beam Connections CLT Inculation Insulation Gypsome Anchor Bolts Connections Sill Plate Window Framing Shingles Roof Sheathing Flexibilty Space Diagram

17 Fascia So t Glass Window Boltem Beam Connections CLT Inculation Insulation Gypsome Window Framing Shingles Roof Sheathing Beam Header Anchor Bolts Connections Concrete Ground Foundation Footings Gravel Ground Drainage Sill Plate Door Framing Door Rebar Detail Wall Section

PATH EXTENSION

- Fall Semester 2020

Studio Name - Studio 1

Location - World War II Memorial, Boston, MA 02115, United States

Concept Statement: This installation is inspired by previous concept studies, the light projection, and the structural cube exercises. These were small studies that helped everyone understand simple ideas and the ability to take those ideas and translate them into a built installation. Throughout the project, there are a series of layers that frame particular perspectives of the World War 2 memorial. In each standing location, one will experience a framed view that enhances the overall look of the memorial. Simultaneously the installation provides a path extension to the landscape around allowing a more walkable experience to the existing memorial.

18 THE MEMORIALS

Year

19

Plan

20 PROCESS

Section 01

21 AxononmetricPERSPECTIVE Lift Side Right

Side

Front

Side

Explosives Axon

22 Site Plan / Views Of The Site Circulation Diagram / View Diagram

View 1 - Intel Experience Of Traveler View 2 - Second Experience Of Traveler View 3 - Third Experience Of Traveler

23

Traveler View 4 - Fourth Experience Of Traveler View 5 - End Experience Of Traveler

24 Ground Floor Demolition Plan

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Year - Summer Semester 2022

Software Used - DataCAD

Location - Nault Architects Inc. 71 Hope Ave, Worcester,

MA 01603, United States

Skills Used - Hand Drawing

This is a collection of work I did in Nault Architects Inc. In summer of 2022. The first project is at Bridgewater State University Tillinghast Hall & Dining Common. In this project,

I have worked on bathrooms and offices doors accessibility.

The second project is the Phillipson Fire Station. In this project I worked on doors and windows replacements.

25

Ground Floor New Plan

26 First Demolition Plan First New Plan

27 Door Detail

28 Ara Pacis Augustae 1 SKETCHES Year - Fall Semester 2020 - Fall Semester 2021 Skills Used - Hand Drawing This is a collection of sketches and drawings that were done throughout my time at Wentworth. 1

29 2 1 Holy Family Church Of Attleboro

PERSONAL

Year - Summer 2022

Location - Holy Family Coptic Church Of Attleboro.

This project is a half-court basketball court that is intended to serve the community of the Holy Family Coptic Church located in Attleboro, Massachusetts. I created a video and rendered the site in photoshop to assist in the visualization of the new development so that community members would have a clearer understanding of the location of the new basketball court. These means of represetation also serve as marketing material with the intention of providing clarity and promoting donations to fund the new court.

30

WORK

Software Used - Rhino, Photoshop , ENSCAPE

31

32 THANK YOU Michael Gawargi T: (617) 922 3459 E: Gawargim@wit.edu

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook