Architecture Portfolio 2022

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CONTENTS mirwaisnoory7@gmail.com Syracuse School of Architecure Class of 2024

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A Suburban Plaza

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Rare Books Library Archive

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Facade Design Exploration

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Arctic Revival

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Community Arts & Trades Learning Center

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p. 13-20

p. 21-26

p. 27-34

p. 35-42

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Project 1 - A Suburban Plaza

Professor Larry Davis 2021 3rd Year, 1st Semester In Collaboration with Jingge Zhao

This project is a suburban housing project located in Mattydale, NY. The project increases social interaction through increasing density and attracting a younger age group and starter families. Decided we wanted to create a “destination” in the neighborhood. Wanted to bring the commercial necessities closer to the inhabitants of the neighborhood, creating places for people to gather and socialize.

The project is on a 2-block site located next to a park that contains multiple baseball and soccer fields. We wanted to bring the park into our project and project the park and its sense of publicness and activity through the neighborhood. We do this by centering our project around this “plaza path”. There is also an existing bus route that runs through the center of our site, which further aids in bringing more people and energy overall into the project and connects our residents in the project to the local urban network. The overall aim was to create a flexible system that responds to the issues we are trying to address.

Affordability is increased through creating more units and shared spaces.

There are 3 building typologies with one of them being 2 Apartment buildings with commercial spaces on the first floor. Some units have also been subtracted on each floor to create additional space for more private communal areas.

Two of our row house masses have been raised to accommodate for parking and storage on the ground plane of the project. This creates an elevated platform that acts as a public space that is further privatized compared to the rest of the communal spaces and also serves as a “Backyard” space of the row houses.

The use of pre-laminated timber is them employed to connect the buildings in the project back to the neighborhood through materiality and form. There are also scaffold structures that come off of the facades of some of the buildings which can serve as extra enclosure for when activities would need to spill out of the buildings into here. This is the same with the “drum pavilions” that we have.

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Diagramming

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Ground Level Figure-Ground

Upper Level Figure-Ground

Public Area

Pedestrian Corridor

Program Layout

Bus Route

Driveable Surface

Unit Layouts Row House

Floor 1

Floor 2

1-Bedroom Apartment

Studio Apartment

Roof/Terrace

Corner Row House

Option 1

Option 2

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Ground Floor

Site Plan

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2nd Floor

Project Plans

3rd Floor

4th Floor

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Central Communal Area

Central Communal Area From Second Floor

Cross Section 1

Cross Section 2

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Long

Street View from South East Corner

Under East Apt. Building

West Row House Corridor

Section

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Street View from North East Corner

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Balcony View from East Apt. Building

Central Communal Area and Scaffolding of East Apt. Building

Central Communal Area and Scaffolding of West Apt. Building

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Physical Model

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Project 2 - Rare Books Library Archive

Professor Britt Eversole 1st Year, 2nd Semester 2020

The formal concept of this structure is a topheavy, boxy and continuous form carved out of a large solid mass, with many subtracted elements repeated throughout the building itself.

Within the various types of spaces that are carved with this resulting network are different programs dedicated to a lobby, an archive storage system, galleries, reading and working spaces, offices for the building and bathrooms.

The archive proved to become the main focus of the architecture, making it the single most-emphasized space in the building. As one moves back and forth, up and down throughout the building, they are constantly being reoriented to this large archive space and are also provided many visual connections to it as well.

Next come the gallery/exhibition spaces and the reading and working spaces. These wrap around the archive and main circulation mass that is planted around the center of the project.

Meanwhile, the reading/working spaces were designed to allow much more natural light to slip in through apertures I produced in the facade.

At just below the rooftop terrace we have the gallery and archive offices. These spaces give a different sense of privacy here that is unique compared to the rest of the project.

Finally is the rooftop terrace, which continues the language of faceted forms and will have you finally come out of this cave-like structure to fully connect to the outside. Here you are met with full views to the surrounding context including the highline.

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Terrace Terrace Offices Offices Gallery/Exhibition Space Gallery/Exhibition Space Reading/Working Space Reading/Working Space Archive Archive

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1st Floor 5th Floor

Section1

Section 2

2nd Floor

6th Floor

3rd Floor

7th Floor

4th Floor

Roof

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Interior Renders

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Sectional Perspective

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Front Elevation

Side Elevation

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Project 3 - Facade Design Exploration Professor Britt Eversole 1st Year, 2nd Semester 2020

The main focus of this project was the exploration of depth and void and how one can play with them to realize the true potential of a facade. To start, I studied the precedent “Casa del Fascio” to better understand facade configurations. Taking from my precedent, I then placed a grid on the facade and used it to inform the formal decisions.

Through this, powerful moments of spatial qualities are created.

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Physical Model

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Project 4 - Arctic Revival

Professor Larry Davis 2nd Year, 2nd Semester 2021 In Collaboration with Christian Morgenweck

For this project, we were assembled in groups of 2 and were tasked with choosing a type of ecosystem or body of water that is facing a large ecological threat. The body of water that we chose to reasearch 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.

Polar Bear

Algae Seal

Plankton Arctic Char

Greenland Shark

Beluga Whale

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We were then asked to design theoretical “vessels” that adresses our ecological threats. The 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 called “cloud-whitening”. This allows for more sun rays to be reflected back into the atmosphere.

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We modeled out our vessel using foam and sponges and were left with a resulting network, which we then covered and cast in soap.

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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.

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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.

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Perforated Skin

Space-fram Structure

Supporting Columns

In the actual 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 Archive Floor With Central Mass accompanying system of columns.

Fingers and Ground Floor

Water Collection System

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This project involves the design of a learning center that allows members of the community to visit and learn the trade offered. The trade I chose was woodworking, as it is fairly simple and offers many practical uses such as home improvements, and the ability to further develop their skills to use in a professional job setting.

There is also 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, and allows for small events and presentations to occur.

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Project 5 - Community Arts & Trades Learning Center Professor Benjamin Vanmuysen 2nd Year, 1st Semester 2020

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Physical model where I started to group the individual programs in 3 different bays depending on function.

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Structure Axonometric

3 Extruded Bays

1’ = 1/32”

3 Extruded Bays

Structure Axonometric 1’ = 1/32”

These bays are differentiated by roof type, formal characteristics, and the manner in which light is let in. The formal makeups are also designed to relate to the neighboring context.

Red is responsible for supporting the middle structure.

Visual/Physical Connections Across 3 Bays

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

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

Red is responsible for supporting the middle structure.

ual/Physical Connections Across 3 Bays

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Wood Workshop 1,793 sq ft

Wood Workshop 1,793 sq ft

Storage 294 sq ft Classroom 744 sq ft Wood Workshop 1,793 sq ft

Mech. Equip. 66 sq ft Storage 294 sq ft Classroom 744 sq ft

Mech. Equip. 66 sq ft

Storage 294 sq ft

Classroom 744 sq ft

Store/Gallery 1083 sq ft Bathroom 104 sq ft

Loading Dock 294 sq ft

Bathroom 104 sq ft Mech. Equip. 66 sq ft Ofice 215 sq ft

Store/Gallery 1083 sq ft Bathroom 104 sq ft

Loading Dock 294 sq ft

Bathroom 104 sq ft Ofice 215 sq ft

Store/Gallery 1083 sq ft Bathroom 104 sq ft

Loading Dock 294 sq ft

Bathroom 104 sq ft Ofice 215 sq ft

Programatic Components 1’-0” = 1/8”

Programatic Components 1’-0” = 1/8”

Programatic Components 1’-0” = 1/8”

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e for structure.

3 Extruded Bays

3 Extruded Bays

Visual/Physical Connections Accross 3 Bays

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Mirwais Noory mirwaisnoory7@gmail.com Syracuse School of Architecure Class of 2024