Monika Knickrehm 2019 Design Portfolio | Syracuse University School of Architecture

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Monika Knickrehm Design Portfolio School of Architecture Syracuse University

CONTENTS 01 CARTESIAN PRISM

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02 GROUND CONTROL

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03 HOUSE HOME + HABITAT

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04 COLLECTIONS LIBRARY

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01CARTESIAN PRISM COURSE: Studio 107

INSTRUCTOR: Richard Rosa

This project deals fundamentally with the definition of space and the development of relationships between spaces. It entailed three different phases that dealt with different phenomena of the cartesian world; Cartesian Prism defined, developed and activated. In the final phase, cartesian prism activated the verb shear was used to guide the design, while maintaining the sophistication and clarity discovered in the first two phases.

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02GROUND CONTROL COURSE: Studio 107

INSTRUCTOR: Richard Rosa

The goal of this project was to design a very modest house that activates a significantly larger parcel of land. The design investigation focuses on the spatial lessons and the relationship between figure and field, solid and void and interior and exterior. The idea that site and a strategy of outdoor room-making can initiate the fundamental proposition for the design of a house and its corresponding setting, is essential to the project. The project specifies that it is meant to be for a pair of individuals who are either collectors or artists. This design, meant for a couple that collects maps, is a series of L’s that are pulled apart to allow for the site to be experienced and a sequence of compression and releases. The use of mirroring L’s remind us that the design is meant for a pair while making big moves that maintain the sobriety and clarity of the design.

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03HOUSE HOME + HABITAT

COURSE: Studio 107

INSTRUCTOR: Richard Rosa

This project is a formal analysis of Villa Bianca designed by Giuseppe Terragni. It looks at the domestic program, clear spatial organization and formal basis of the design through freehand sketches, diagrams and re-creating the original plans and sections. The diagrams identify the conditions of space, form, sequence, program, structure, and site. Terragni divides the public and private sections of the building through a series of vertical and horizontal planes that towards and away from each other. The literal planes perched on the top level of the building create crucial volumes that envelope the actual facade of the building.

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04COLLECTIONS LIBRARY COURSE: Studio 108

INSTRUCTOR: Nicole McIntosh

This project is an architectural intervention in a dense urban environment that addresses issues about the notion of public space within the public or private urban building. The program is a small urban library that is dedicated to a special collection of books or artifacts. The ambition of the project is to engage with the urban context in ways that rethink the normative relationship between library and context and to develop a special programmatic element or figure that operates as the hierarchical or driving force behind the design.

The project focuses on defamiliarization through the use of terrazzo by taking a material typically used in commercial flooring and applying it to the facade of a building.

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05(RE)PRESENTING COURSE: Studio 108 INSTRUCTOR: Nicole McIntosh

An artifact that reconsiders the design of the collections library with the intention of distilling, projecting, and embodying the main ideas or motivations of the project.

During the critique of the collections library, the negative spaces created around the library were heavily focused on. By reversing the negative and positive spaces of the library, this artifact emphasizes the duality and conversation throughout both sides of the design.

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06CONTOURED ALPHABETS COURSE: Representation II

INSTRUCTOR: Molly Hunker

In Representation II we looked at the guiding logic that created the type font Helvetica and applied it to various forms of 2D and 3D modeling. This particular project transforms shapes guided by a Helvetica inspired logic into a complex 3D object. This 3D object is then manipulated so it can be produced as a contoured object.

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