Nwamaka_Onyenokwe_Portfolio

“As we open up to each other, we form a bridge into unfamiliar traditions, banishing the fear that often accompanies change.�

Yo-Yo ma

Texture_Materiality_Context_built

This portfolio by Nwamaka Onyenokwe, illustrates a number of works produced within the 4 years studying at Ryerson Uniersity’s Architectural Science programe. These works range from cad work to renderings and even photography; illustrating my passion for art , texture, materiality and forms as well as my final year thesis which was a year long work.

TITLE_Growth in a contextual world CATEGORY_Illustration DATE_May 2010 EXERT_this illustration demonstrates the way in which architecture is corelated with

the contextual world we live in, as it is the world and its inhabitants in this environment that we build for, hense the context is always taken into consideration which enables the growth of this context.

TITLE_Henry Moore Gallery CATEGORY_3rd year Studio Project DATE_May 2009 EXERT_this year long studio project focused

on developing a museum to house the sculptures of world renowned, Henry Moore. My proposed museum circulated mainly on a grand stair located on the ground floor, that was to cater to subcontiously directing people to the room where Henry Moores greatest woorks were located. Structurally held by cables to give an aesthetic and architecturally pleasing feel, which added to its interesting quality.

basement

The Grand Stairs

The Henry Moore Gallery

TITLE_The Rockefeller Centre in the spirit of FOA CATEGORY_3rd yearTheory Group Project DATE_April 2009 EXERT_this was a studio-style theory project, designed

in the spirit of Foreign Office Architects. The task was to re-design the Rockefeller Centre using the principles of FOA, and in a sense enter into the character of the practice. The building’s shape and form was determined using the contextual qualities of the project’s surrounding and by outlining the major nodes and creating connecting lines, we extracted these lines to create hanging corridors that would link the now taller structures of the rockefeller centre. We proposed to still keep the major occupant spaces.

The Rockefeller Centre

TITLE_Parkview Complex CATEGORY_3rd yearTheory Group Project DATE_January 2009 EXERT_Focusing on the Ontario Building Code

this project was produced to accommodate retail spaces as well as residential. This project was developed to allow us as students become familiarized with the building code and hence design a bulding that is OBC compliant.

TITLE_Lake House CATEGORY_3D visualization class project DATE_June 2007 (2nd year) EXERT_this class project was produced to develop my 3D modeling and rendering skills

and ended up being my first architectural rendering.Modelled from scratch the building is a lake house designed for a new couple in ontario.

TITLE_Urban Redevelopment of Florentine_proposal CATEGORY_Independent Study Project (Italy_Israel) DATE_June-December 2009 EXERT_A leftover space in the city of Tel Aviv, Florentine, was selected

by a group students to analize and redevelop; guided by Staff and students of the University of Tel Aviv for an Independet study. A space recognized for its small scale industries and rampant run down and abandoned buildings, we proposed to revive the mixed use nature the Florentine was known for. A community based structural fabric was to be established, with a mix-use commercial-residential progrmme setting, working with the existing structures by fine-tuning and strengthening to create a safer community. An addition or incorporation of green areas was also added to give a sense of wholesomeness and healthiness to the community.

RESIDENTIAL

RESIDENTIAL

COMMUNITY CENTRE COMMUNITY CENTRE COMM

OMMUNITY CENTRE

Existing Conditions

Removing unusable buildings

COMMERCIAL

UNITY CENTRE CENTRE

COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL

Enlarging and connecting streets

RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL

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New residential and mixed use buildings

COMMERCIAL

COMMERCIAL

Green spaces / Park

Amphitheatre

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SALIMS JOURNEY

TITLE_Salim’s Journey CATEGORY_4th year Thesis DATE_April 2010 EXERT_the thesis topic, Architecture in a World of Conflict, was based along the Silk road

which is the worlds oldest land and sea trade route that spanned the Euro-Asia Diaspora. I selected Syria, Damascus to be an area of focus that dealt with the conflict of war in relation to it’s neighbour Iraq. In the process of developing my thesis, I created a character called Salim which would help me develop an architectural solution to the conflict that himself and his family are facing in response to War and being a displaced individual, residing in foreign land. I developed a recreation centre for children in the area called Yarmouk that presently housed Iraqi refugees in Syria and is known to be “little Iraq” in Damascus. The building would then become a threshold space in Salim’s story where the war is his past, the sports centre is his transition space to his goal of freedom, peace and identity where he exerts his energy playing soccer which is his favourite sport.

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TO TO TO TO

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GO GO GO GO

Iran

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Saudi Arabia

SYRIA

Damascus IRAQ

the conflict ...of war

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This centre will not just cater to Salim, but his family as well.

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1_Ramp Entrance 2_Admi istration 3_Socc r Lookout deck 4_Bask tball lookout deck 5_Bask tball court 6_Socc rField 7_Cafe 8_Fema e changing room 9_Male changing room 10_Pool area 11_Pla ground 12_Pic ic area 13_Out oor gathering space

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Male_Pool _Facility

Basketball_Room

Basketball_Viewing_Deck

This is the soccer field where Salim’s Journey would potentially end; it is here he feels fulfiled

Architecture school has acted as a THRESHOLD space in my life where I can now go forth and be in a place of satisfaction a d fulfilment.