Monika Knickrehm 2020 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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06 CONTOURED ALPHABET

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07 TECTONICS+FORM: ANALYSIS

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08 TECTONICS+FORM: PAVILLION

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09 SLIVERS PRIZE COMPETITION

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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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07TECTONICS+FORM: ANALYSIS COURSE: Studio 207 INSTRUCTOR: Sou Fang

The first portion of this project used analysis as a mode of understanding various definitions and scales of tectonics, analyzing tectonics as space-defining / space-enclosing systems and investigating tectonics as an expression of ideas by developing a position for architectural design. I looked at the Dominus Winery located in Napa, California and designed by Herzon de Meuron. The main tectonic and shell of the building is a gabion wall system that contains an intricate stacking of locally sourced rocks. While this wall serves a practical purpose of naturally maintain the temperature inside the winery, it also lends itself to the formal architectural ideas, allowing the appearance of the building to operate in a state of duality. While the building appears monolithic and extremely solid from a far, on closer inspection inspection is completely permeable and creates a dappled light effect within the building.

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08TECTONICS+FORM: PAVILLION COURSE: Studio 207 INSTRUCTOR: Sou Fang

The second portion of the project focused on the design challenge of generating a tectonic-form strategy in response to the programmatic needs of an art exhibition and event space for the School of Visual and Performing Arts at the edge of the Syracuse University campus. Multiple aspects of the design strategy needed to be resolved in relation to tectonic vocabulary and strategy - ultimately into a single cohesive building proposal. The final design objective was to forge a mutual resolution of architectonic systems, programmatic requirements, and context engagement. The conservatory I designed emulated the conditions created by the rocks in the gabion system of the Dominus Winery through a tectonic wall that created a dynamic hierarchy of space throughout the building.

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ORIGINAL FORMATION

RE-DEFINING BOUNDARIES

PROGRAMMING

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RE-INTERPERTATION

RE-ORGANIZATION

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09SLIVERS PRIZE COMPETITION COURSE: Studio 208 INSTRUCTOR: Ted Brown

The William J. Slivers’ Prize is a long standing tradition within the Syracuse School of Architecture. The48 hour design competition is held annually in the spring semester of the second year for all studio students. The brief asked students to create a single Axonometric Hybrid drawing that speculates on alternative relationships between ground and building. The design exercise was to be informed by previous work done in the Fall 207 studio and one case study selected from a provided list. My design incorporated ideas from the Leça Swimming Pool complex by Alvaro Siza with a marketplace I had designed in Studio 207 for the Onondaga Creek. It challenges the traditional approach to waterfront designs and uses the creek as the driving force behind the circulation of the design.

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