Syracuse University School of Architecture
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A 60-unit social cooperative housing complex combatting speculative housing and food insecurity in Syracuse, New York.
Professor: Omar Ali, Fall 2024
A community center, educational and vocational training hub, and public space for at-risk youth in Mexico City.
Professor: Ayesha Ghosh, Spring 2024
A small educational and event space for Syracuse University Fashion Design students studying abroad in the Shimokitazawa neighborhood of Tokyo.
Professor: Ayesha Ghosh, Spring 2024
A 60-unit social cooperative housing complex combatting speculative housing and food insecurity in Syracuse, New York.
Professor: Omar Ali, Fall 2024
This project speculates on a system outside of the free market that provides housing and opportunities for horticulture and accessible produce within the food desert of downtown Syracuse. The housing is characterized by interior single-loaded circulation paths that redefine the typical hallway as gardening spaces. The structure is capped by an operable greenhouse roof system that stitches the two housing masses together. The double-height ground floor containing nutritional support programming creates a gradient from public to provide through its permeability with the site, which provides community gardens and public green space to an area that is otherwise densely urban. The project unites housing and horticulture to foster community wellness through residents’ stewardship of the building’s site and interior.
A community center, educational and vocational training hub, and public space for at-risk youth in Mexico City.
Professor: Ayesha Ghosh, Spring 2024
“Un Lugar Para Todos” investigates the structural potential of inverted arches and the programmatic and circulatory implications of their repetition and modulation. This structure specifically explores the relationship between the inverted arches and the roof condition, resulting in a terraced roof system activated through connected circulation and programmatic elements such as the public theater, gardens, and outdoor classroom. The building is primarily made of rammed earth, a traditional Mexican building material that compliments the organic greenery in the project and aids in passive heating and cooling. Light and air enter the building through expansive glass facades that create conversation with the surrounding city and contrast the weight of the rammed earth.
A small educational and event space for Syracuse University Fashion Design students studying abroad in the Shimokitazawa neighborhood of Tokyo.
Professor: Ayesha Ghosh, Spring 2024
This 2-week design exercise centers on the use of inverted arches as the building’s primary structural system, which was further pursued in “Un Lugar Para Todos.” The structure’s tectonics allow for uninterrupted open spaces ideal for large events, such as fashion shows, and are accentuated by the building’s stacked and slanted massing. The primary system is expressed and celebrated on the front facade, in which the arch punctures the gridded glass facade that frames it. The building features a floating linear stair against the front facade that leads from the lobby to the event space on the second floor and to the educational studio spaces above, thus forming a strong connection between floors, promoting light filtration, and allowing circulation to become monumental.
