1st Semester Architecture Portfolio

Architecture Portfolio 2016 owinkler@syr.edu

Table of Contents

Exercise 1

| Form and Making

| 01

Exercise 2

| Elements and Operations of Form

| 02

Exercise 3.1 | Scale, Movement, and Context Exercise 3.2 | The Application of Scale and Movement to Abstract Form Exercise 3.3 | Reacting to and Acting on Context

| 08 | 10 | 12

Exercise 4

| Case Study Analysis

| 14

Exercise 5

| A Public-Private Studio

| 16

Exercise 1: Form and Making

Students were tasked with producing a cube per linear, planar, and volumetric material. In this project, the idea of branching was employed loosely as a guide

Exercise 2.1-2.3: Elements and Operations of Form

The goal of this exercise was to produce a 6” cube from each material, and have them ordered by one operation. The operation ‘branch’ was kept from Ex.1and utilized throughout this exercise

2.1 Sketch for linear element 2

2.1 Sketch for linear element cube

2.3 Sketch for volumetric element cube

Exercise 2.1-2.3 (Cont.): Elements and Operations of Form

Exercise 2.4: Elements and Operations of Form

The aim was the production of a 9� cube from a choice of any two formal elements ordered by any two operations

Exercise 2.4 (Cont.): Elements and Operations of Form

The operations ‘branch’ and ‘intersect’ were utilized and portrayed by linear and planar elements

Exercise 3.1: Scale, Movement, and Context

This exercise dealt with the analysis of a building, on the Syracuse University campus, Eggers Hall

These perspective drawings depict the path taken through the building

The Application of Scale and Movement to Abstract Form

Exercise 3.2:

This project centered around the transformation of object from 2.4 into a representation of a 24” x 24” space fit for human scale and movement.

6” Study Model

Exercise 3.3: Reacting to and Acting on Context

Taking the buildings from Ex. 3.2, the project dealt with the transformation of individual buildings by designing a collective organization including other students’ buildings.

This exercise focused on the formal and programmatic analysis of a house.

Exercise 4: Case Study Analysis

Diagrams analyzing Casa de Vidro, designed by Lina Bo Bardi

The final project requested the design of a building to house an artist’s private studio and a public gallery space to exhibit the artist’s work.

Exercise 5: A Public-Private Studio

The design of the building took precedent from an inherited Case Study Analysis from Ex. 4, Double House by MVRDV

The design of this building is heavily dependent on the diagrams analyzing light/dark and public/private, which determine the placement and program of spaces.

Ex 5 Sketches

The photography exhibited on the ceiling illustrates the quality of the building of the separation of space and surface.

By using the ceiling, it can have the effect of separating the program of rooms from the program of their ceilings.