ROXANNE SARRAFZ ADEH
CO N T E N T S
The Community Block
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Cellular Sanctuary
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Recognizing Tehran
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UNIBLOCK
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Petit Branch Libary
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CNY Center
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E - roxannesarrafz@gmail.com T - (315) 955-2401
Community Block Advisor: Sekou Cooke Partner: Miguel Roman Location: Syracuse, New York The system chosen to investigate aims to establish a communal landmark that evokes a feeling of welcomeness to Syracuse’s Southside residents while combating physical barriers that may currently deter community participation. The approach the community center followed a similar vernacular to the surrounding site to create a sense of familiarity and context with the use of brick and concrete as the main building materials. The exterior brick cladding offers a sense of familiarity to residents that is inviting and non-confrontational, followed by a concrete structure, and finally wood cladding to add warmth to the interior space. By using certain design strategies, such as porosity, transparencies, layers, and light and shadow, optical effects can be achieved, giving the community center a cultural spotlight in the Southside.
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Exterior Axonometric Perspective
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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Exterior Street Perspectives
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Interior Dary Care - Walkway Perspectives
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Programmatic Sections
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The formal strategy follows the idea of the Community Block as an extension of the street. By bringing an intersection of interior pathways, the design can bring a more inviting entrance that serves as a place of congregation and interaction for the residents. The structure is composed of pre-cast concrete columns, beams, and slabs. This allowed the possibility to create a flexible form-work for the roof structure as well as create a base in which the brick facade can start to formulate around and allow different layers of porosity.
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Detail Sections and Building Systems
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Facade Design Analysis
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Material Study Rendered Model
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Gymnasium Section Physical Model
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Cellular Sanctuary Advisor: Daniele Profeta Partner: Ryo Ishioka Location: Castiglione D’Orcia, Italy The new reality of data centers today is their increasing closeness to home. Edge data centers are a new cloud storage system that allows for the components of the traditional data center to fit in smaller facilities that are located closer to the areas that they manage. This is so that they can process data and services much closer to the end user for their benefit. If communities continue to follow this direction, we may soon be seeing data centers become a significant part of our urban fabric. The project proposes to rehabilitate boredom, and build emotional connections to the real world while weakening the relationships with the virtual one through a hybrid of meditation facility and Data Center. The proposal initiates a center of meditation from technology, powered by technology. The project exposes the reality of how 5G infrastructure will soon be embedded into the urban fabric and how it can be used as a tool to how people interact with such obscure and large-scale masses of light.
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Exterior Rendered Perspective
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Rendered Fragments
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Program Analysis
Serial Sections The glow of light in these meditation chapels will directly juxtapose the light from data centers – the same blue glow that hypnotizes its viewers will be manifested into a sensory form for meditation, creating the possibility of self-awareness and self reflection without any distractions. The programmatic organization of the meditation chapel will entwine to the data center, the glowing light from data centers will seep into the meditation spaces and create a vague awareness of the machines surrounding the space.
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Investigation of Light Atmosphere
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Castiglione D’Orcia Site Map
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Exterior Viewpoints
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R e c o g n i z i n g Te h r a n Advisor: Kyle Miller, Gregory Corso Location: Tehran, Iran The representation of Tehran’s urban environment has been mainly observed by foreigners through a repertoire of images in the media. These images often spotlighted the barren, exotic and abnormal characteristics of the city, dismissing other aspects of everyday life in Iran. The city is full of an array of architectural styles that date back to pre-revolutionary trends of greek columns and french balconies to post-revolutionary modernism imitations through curtain walls and high-rises. Murals painted all over the city have become a performative visual to encapsulate Iran’s ideological stances in the urban sprawl of its capital. The spectacle of the mural industry has made the Iranian capital a voyeuristic Mecca, but the imagery of these murals fail to acknowledge the people who live within its painted walls. Due to the current spatial and social divide of the city, my thesis research looks to how ornamentation can become a performative tool to locally address the absence of a collective identity in Tehran’s urban fabric.
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Bus Stop Instillation
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Reconfigured Traditional Persian Carpets
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Tehran’s Streetscape Intervention Tehran itself is an extremely diverse city, with people coming from all over the country and bringing their own languages, food, and especially styles with them. Persian carpets are no different, with each region having their own weaving colors, styles and techniques. This makes each carpet not only unique but recognizable to Iranians as to where it came from and whose identity it may represent. Carpets are very two dimensional ornamental objects that are either hung or displayed on the ground. This became the start to a 3 dimensional investigation of 4 carpets from different areas of Iran. After modelling the carpets I performed different architectural modelling techniques on each of them to see how they may begin to be interacted with in a larger scale that still promotes their original cultural functionality. The carpet installations are unprogrammed meant for user definition, interpretation, and perhaps recognition. The instillations become a place of culture where natural and artificial are forced together into a state of constant reconfiguration and discovery.
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Hierarchical Consumption of Persian Culture
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U N I B LO C K Advisor: Angela Co Partner: Ziyi Zhou , Chengcheng Li Location: Mott Haven, Bronx New York City’s Riker’s island is intended to be closed by 2026. One of the new jails being built will be located in Mott Haven on a police department tow pound. On a section of this lot there will also be an affordable housing development where our semester project is centered. We proposed a residential project that tackles both affordability and lack of fresh food to address community needs of the area. By implementing an urban farm on the estate we are providing the opportunity for employment and proper nutrition to both residents and the local community. Residents will have direct access to their own green spaces and facilities such as daycares, laundromats, and a gym. The community garden, fresh food market and cafe will allow the area to become both an educational experience as well as a social hub for the community to enjoy.
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UNIBLOCK Overview
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275 ft
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Zoning Analysis
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Residential Entrance
Private Terrace
Market Entrance Below-grade Parking Residential Entrance
Public Spaces Circulation Spaces Fire Stair Case elevator
Rooftop Farm Community Gardens
Studio 1-Bedroom 2-Bedroom 3-Bedroom 4-Bedroom
Program
Studio 1-Bedroom 2-Bedroom 3-Bedroom Distribution 4-Bedroom
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Unit Plan Configurations
Building Section
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Ground, Second, Fifth, & Twelfth Floor Plans
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BLINK FITNESS PLANET FITNESS GRIT CITY ROMERO FRUIT SUNSHINE DAYCARE BITE SIZE GREENS LITTLE ANTS DAYCARE
FOOD INSECURITY RATE BROOKLYN 2,660,852 473,350
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BRONX 1,436,785 16.4%
DAYCARE FRESH FOOD MARKET GYM
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MANHATTAN 1,634,989 13.3%
216,680 TOTAL POPULATION FOOD INSCURE PEOPLE
Mott Haven Food Insecurity Rate and Program Needs Our key program that brings the residents and neighborhood together is the urban farms. They are strategically placed to allow direct sunlight and a close position to the fresh food market where the seasonal crops can be sold. Throughout the seasons food will be planted, harvested, and either sold in the youth market or packaged in a fresh food box program for the neighborhood to enjoy. In the winter months, the farms will be covered by green roofs to continue producing.
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COLLLECTING RAIN
IRRIGATION
SEWAGE SYSTEM
Sewage System Configuration and Seasonal Adaption
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Wide View Exterior Perspectives
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Educational Gardening & Greenhouse Perspectives
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Petit Branch Library Advisor: Timothy Stenson Location: Syracuse, NY The Petit Branch Public Library is an extension to the current Children’s Library situated within the Westcott neighborhood of Syracuse, NY., The annex will incorporate a community meeting hall, a community fabrication shop, and a tool library. The sequencing of the project development will require us to resolve multiple aspects of our projects (program, site strategy, circulation, etc) in relation to tectonic strategies and vocabularies introduced in a case study, and ultimately into a single cohesive building proposal. Following a case study of the structure and layout of the Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai, I pushed my design narrative to follow a similar approach in the use of structure as a tool for creating an ambient space through light. The design proposal pushes the extension to the back of the lot and create an open underground atrium that will allow for the majority of the ground level to be used as a public plaza. This will allow for a sense of community inclusion and area for gathering.
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Palmyra House by Studio Mumbai Study Drawing
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Sublevel Floor Plan
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Petit Branch Library Extension Worm’s Eye Perspective
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CNY Center Advisor: Theodore Brown Location: Syracuse, NY Located at the Jamesville Quarry in Syracuse, New York, the project strives to recover an abandoned quarry which has come to be used by locals as mountain biking and cross-country skiing terrain. The educational mission of the CNY Center is to offer construction-skills training and job placement for concrete- and steel-related trades. This proposed facility is intended to provide a physical setting for this training – both classroom-based, and hands-on shop-based. Before proceeding with the design, we analyzed existing projects that strategically initiate primary architecture-terrain forms, systems, and strategies to create a new physical construct. The design narrative is primarily based on the creation of forced perspectives onto the quarry that follow the same perspective of the many other activities performed in the area such as skiing and biking. The Center creates a harsh and permanent mark into the landscape in a manner that binds it to the site and the community.
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Exploded Axonometric
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Floor Plan & Section View Scale: 1/16”=1’
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Serial Sections - Topography Study Models
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Site Plan
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