Mirwais Noory Spring 2023 Portfolio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Old Billingsgate: On Display

Old Billingsgate: On Display involves the transformation of the Old Billingsgate Market into an event venue, while preserving the valuable Victorian-style facade, by utilizing a unique structure that starts from the basement and grows to float the facade.

A Suburban Plaza

A Suburban Plaza reimagines the traditional American suburb by improving commercial access for neighborhood residents. The design features 2 apartment buildings constructed of pre-laminated timber with shared communal spaces. They are connected by a “plaza path” to a nearby park and existing transportation routes.

Arctic

Arctic Revival features building designed ecological threats. signed to interact with and includes a water and stores samples climate information.

Revival

Mirwais Noory

Syracuse University School of Architecture

mirwaisnoory7@gmail.com

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Community Arts & Trades Learning Center Revival

features an archive to protect against The archive is dewith certain vessels water collection system of ice with historical information.

Community Arts & Trades Learning Center involves the design of a learning center that allows members of the community to visit and learn the trade offered. The trade chosen was woodworking, as it is fairly simple and offers many practical uses.

Ideas for West Park

Presbytarian Church

DXA Studio

Proposal for redesigning a historic church in the Upper West Side of New York City to add new residential units while preserving the congregation’s home. Includes a lower-rise addition designed by DXA that blends seamlessly with the existing architecture and adds a modern twist.

Project 1 - Old Billingsgate: On Display

4th Year, 1st Semester

This project involves the preservation and presentation of the iconic riverside facade of Old Billingsgate Market, a historic site located in the heart of London, is the central focus of this architectural project. Despite the building’s transformation into an events venue, its Victorian style facade remains unaltered, a valuable piece of London’s history deserving recognition and preservation.

The design proposes a structure that originates in the basement and grows from the vaulted spaces while carrying a heavy language. As the structure rises, it transforms into a lighter form and creates a large cantilever to float the facade, preserving the openness and public space of the pier. The structure is designed to allow visitors to appreciate the Victorian style facade as a work of art and understand its framework and history.

The basement has been imagined as a restaurant/bar that embodies the aesthetic of the vaulted spaces, and an elevated platform serves as a bar and seating area. The project also aims to capture a piece of the plaza and protect it from potential sea level rise.

Professor Amber Bartosh 2022

In Collaboration with Aiden McGorry and Lucas Rossington

Facade Front Elevation

Basement Plan

Project 2 - A Suburban Plaza

3rd Year, 1st Semester In Collaboration with Jingge Zhao

A suburban housing development in Mattydale, NY, designed to enhance social interaction and create a neighborhood “destination.” The 2-block site is centered around a “plaza path” connecting to a nearby park, and features existing transportation links to the local urban network. The project aims to create a flexible system that addresses community needs and encourages public gathering spaces.

The housing development features 3 building typologies, including 2 apartment buildings with commercial spaces,in an effort to increase affordability. The buildings are designed with shared spaces creating private communal areas. The row houses feature raised masses to accommodate parking and storage, creating elevated public spaces with a private feel. The use of pre-laminated timber and scaffold structures connect the buildings to the neighborhood and enhance community spaces.

Cross Section 2

Cross Section 1

Central Communal Area

Central Communal Area From Second Floor

Street View from South East Corner

West Row House Corridor

Under East Apt. Building

Street View from North East Corner

Balcony View from East Apt. Building

Central Communal Area and Scaffolding of East Apt. Building

Central Communal Area and Scaffolding of West Apt. Building

Physical Model

Groups chose a type of ecosystem or body of water that is facing a large ecological threat. The body of water that we chose to research was the Arctic. The main ecological threat that we chose to address in the Arctic region was the thinning and loss of sea ice. This is part of a large, devastating feedback loop which is slowly crippling arctic ecologies.

Theoretical “vessels” were designed which adressed our ecological threats. Our vessel sprays desalinated seawater onto surrounding ice as it passes. It also implements the use of regular saltwater and sprays it into the atmosphere to increase and brighten cloud cover, which is part of a process

Project 3 - Arctic Revival

Professor Julie Larsen

2nd Year, 2nd Semester

2021

In Collaboration with Christian Morgenweck

The vessel was modeled using foam and sponges. This left a resulting network, which was then covered and cast in soap.

Perforated Skin

Space-frame Structure

Supporting Columns

Archive Floor With Central Mass

Fingers and Ground Floor

Water Collection System

An “archive” that protects and aids against the ecological treat we chose.Our archive acts in a similar manner to the vessel, keeping the cloud-whitening aspect. The vessel also interacts with the archive, docking at any one of three fingers, dropping off the brine that it collects up as a result of the desalination process.

The layout of the building is centered around the water collection and spraying system that cuts through the center of the project, revealing one of the processes that occur within the building. The brine is accessible for locals who would like to use the solution as a food preservation method. It is also used to supply the fish vendors at the bottom of the mass for the same reasons.

In the archive, we have chosen to store samples of ice which contain lots of historical information about our world’s past climate states and other past environmental qualities.

The exterior skin of the archive is made of a reflective material, allowing for sun rays to be reflected off the building mass. This skin is then supported by a space frame structure and an accompanying system of columns.

This project involves the design of a learning center that allows members of the community to visit and learn the trade offered. The trade chosen was woodworking, as it is fairly simple and offers many practical uses.

Project 4 - Community Arts &

Trades Learning Center

Professor Benjamin Vanmuysen

2nd Year, 1st Semester

2020

These bays differentiated by roof type, formal characteristics, and the manner in which light is let in.

The formal makeup of this middle bay is derived from the negative space formed by the left bay.

These 3 main volumes (bays) are then extruded back through the site.

Red is responsible for supporting the middle structure.

Red is responsible for supporting the middle structure.

Red members responbile for supporting middle bay structure.

There is an outdoor gathering space located in the middle bay that works as a rest/eating area, and combines the programmatic responsibilities of all 3 bays, allowing for small events and presentations to take place.

3 Extruded Bays

3 Extruded Bays

What to Do With a Crumbly Church West Park Pre b i d li h i

https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/west-park-presbyterian-church-landmarks-reconstruction-demolition.html

As the 3D modeler for the project, I was responsible for creating the digital model of the church and its surroundings, as well as producing the final elevation renders of the proposal. The model was made using Rhino 3D, and the elevations were done through the use of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Project 5 - Ideas for West Park Presbytarian Church

clever conversion; it’s a master class in how the style of one era can harmonize with that of a completely different time.

The project was a proposal for a possible redesign of a historic church in the Upper West Side of New York City.

What about money? Even such a sensitively thought-out design will fail if it doesn’ t pay. DXA’s design requires a financial compromise. A new from-scratch apar tment block on that site could accommodate 101,000 square feet of usable space; DXA’s design yields about 77,000, which makes the math more complicated and margins tighter. The high-rise tower option would be a more straightfor ward construction project (but a costly and probably dead-end political battle), yield more deluxe views, and bring a more assured return The lower-rise version is a more innovative project with correspondingly squishier math. Even so, it should be enough to keep the congregation in its home, pay for the restoration, add a couple dozen family-size homes to the Upper West Side’s supply, and bring in revenue to make investors happy. With that in mind, the LPC should deny the hardship application and urge the congregation to pursue a more nuanced and preser vation-minded design For what shall it profit a neighborhood to gain a whole condo building and lose its soul?

The main goal was to come up with a design that would allow the congregation to remain in their home while also adding new residential units to the site.

The proposal designed by DXA was a lower-rise addition that blended seamlessly with the existing architecture while also adding a modern twist.

https://www.curbed.com/2022/07/west-park-presbyterian-church-landmarks-reconstruction-demolition.html

P R O D U C T I O N C R E D I T S

Architects: DXA Studio Jordan Rogove, Wayne Norbeck, L ester Katz, Shahab Faroughi, Gwon Hong, Mir wais

Noor y, and Katie Eveleth

Broker: Brown Harris Stevens Development Stephen Kliegerman

Construction Estimator: McG owan Builders Mar tin McG owan and Junior Pinchin

Final elevation renders

Final render, produced by Shahab Faroughi and Gwon Hong

Mirwais Noory

mirwaisnoory7@gmail.com

Syracuse School of Architecure

Class of 2024