A quantitative analysis of Syracuse Urban Morphology
Florence Exchange
In collaboration with Kalin McMahon, Lucy Ziesing In collaboration with Peng Gao Phd. Syracuse University In collaboration with Peng Gao Phd. Syracuse University
Program: Syracuse School of Architecture
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A living museum for lost things and ideas in Berlin, Germany
An examination of spatial and temporal patterns of gunshot violence in Syracuse 2009-2023 in Bogotá, Colombia
A modular home located in Seneca Lake, New York 42.637, -76.871
In collaboration with Annika Amor, Lucy Ziesing, Shannon Grech Personal Work Personal Work
Syracuse School of Architecture Syracuse School of Architecture
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Undergraduate Research Building Structures Syracuse School of Architecture Undergraduate Research
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Histories
Superimposed Education Hub Design for Disassembly Ceramic Assemblies Textures of Space Low Gravity
A spatial analysis of urban form , building typology, and build year in Wondang, South Korea
A testing ground for the Design for Disassembly Movement
Seoul Exchange Program: Ewha Womens University
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An assembly of forms, materials, and textures A collection of rock climbers in action A system of alternative education in Wondang, South Korea
Personal Work
A study of handbuilt and wheelthrown ceramic objects In collaboration with James Barbier & TJ Wickersham
Ceramics Department
Seoul Exchange Program: Ewha Womens University
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Comprehensive Design Studio | Syracuse School of Architecture Innovation and Integration of Systems Thinking Award
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Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Personal Work
Digital Photography
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Personal Work
Digital Photography
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1. Port Trireme
A ruin that decomposes into the landscape
In
collaboration with Kalin McMahon, Lucy Ziesing | Florence Exchange Program: Syracuse School of Architecture
Archaeological Sites on the Island of Mozia in Sicily, Italy
Port Trireme is inspired by an ancient typology of Pheonecian vessels and is located on Mozia, an island located on the western side of Sicily, Italy. It is a camp designed for children ages 13 to 16 to learn the ancient art of boat-making.
The proposal aims to respect and acknowledge the site’s rich history and culture as Pheonecian archaeological ruins by weaving into the site’s fabric and around pre-existing landscape. Pathways, which contain elements of informal program, weave into the framework of the main programmatic spaces fluidly in a way that blurs the boundary between building and pathway.
The fluidity of the pathway guides the visitor along the site and through the structures, creating spaces for visitors to rest. The structure is along the coast to highlight the importance of the lagoon to the ancient Pheonecian culture and its boat building history.
Boat Workshop Perspective
Site Plan Viewing the Mozia Coast Cabin Perspective
Physical Models
Port Trireme Cabin View
Port Trireme Cabin Top View
Port Trireme Model View
Campers live, work, and play on Mozia and explore the island and the surrounding lagoon using boats. Elements of program including cabins, eating space, and auxiliary space, circulate around the main workshop space which contains five areas for each of the boat projects. This workshop space is a collaborative space and a way to support community by bringing campers from different cabins together. During the summer camp season, Mozia visitors can engage with the boat workshop and gain insight into Pheonecian history and culture.
Overlapping & Intersecting Path Perspective
The structure explores temporality through time designed for aging and with consideration to the eventual overgrowth. The intention is that over time, the structure will be covered with plants seamlessly flowing back into the landscape. The exploration of time connects the site back to the history of Mozia exploring how the building will one day become a ruin.
Material Decomposition
Wood Panel
New Construction
Wood Panel
30 years
Wood Panel
70 years
Wood Panel
120 years
Canvas Covering
New Construction
Temporality: Port Trireme during active use
Canvas Covering
30 years
Canvas Covering
70 years
Temporality: Port Trireme as a Ruin
2. Urban Morphology
A quantitative analysis of Syracuse Urban Morphology
In collaboration with Peng Gao Phd. Syracuse University | Undergraduate Research
Background
This research project investigates the long-term affects of historically unjust practices of redlining, urban renewal, and the Federal Highway System in Syracuse, NY .
Syracuse location within Central New York Syracuse street density Syracuse city boundary and census block
Calculations
Occlusivity (Oc) measures the openness of the urban fabric to the sky which affects air circulation and quantity of daylight. Occlusivity is the ratio of built space and unbuilt space in the given interval (Adolphe 2001). Porosity
Porosity (Po) measures air flow relative to the ratio of the useful open volume to the total volume of urban fabric. The speed of the air flow along the “pores’’ depends on the local unevenness involve (Adolphe 2001).
Rugosity (Hm) is the measurement of air speed in which the higher the rugosity factor, the slower the mean air speed. Rugosity is the ratio of building volume to urban fabric volume (Adolphe 2001).
Results
Values and spatial characteristics of buildings in representative census blocks.
30 chosen census blocks in Syracuse, NY
The values of the three Urban Morphology metrics reflect different types of spatial characteristics and have the potential to provide effective means of parameterizing 3D characteristics of building groups and their spatial heterogeneity within a city.
3. Patterns of Violence
In collaboration with Peng Gao Phd. Syracuse University | Undergraduate Research
An examination of spatial and temporal patterns of gun violence in Syracuse 2009-2023 2009 2014 2018 2023
Gunshot Location & IDW Interpolation
The results show the spatially variable degrees of gunshot impact throughout Syracuse. The spatially variable degree of gunshot impact through IDW results is mainly concentrated in areas within the Syracuse Southside.
Hotspot and Cold Spots
Outlines statistically significant localized “hot” and “cold” zones. From 2009-2023, the concentration of gunshot incidents in the influential areas has increased in specific census blocks.
Influential Census Blocks
Corresponds with statistically significant hot spot zones with 1-10+ annual gunshot incidents. In 2023, the statistically significant area located in the Syracuse Southside remains similar to patterns from 2009 despite the number of gunshots decreasing.
Comprehensive Spatial Pattern
Target Census Block Groups
From 2009-2023 the number of gunshot incidents and influential area is centralized in the Syracuse Southside with a large area of statistically significant census block groups. This influential area corresponds with the Target Census Block Groups. Gunshot incidents in Syracuse, New York from 2009-2023 are distributed in clusters concentrated in the Syracuse Southside community. Although the number of gunshot incidents decreases over time, the general trends of clustering remain the same.
The Target Census Block groups are a culminations of statistically significant hotspot areas and 10 influential census blocks in Syracuse from 2009-2023. This area is located within the Syracuse Southside. The Syracuse Southside is a significant area when seeking to understand the sociocultural mechanisms in place that cause uneven gunshot violence distribution in Syracuse.
IDW Interpolation Hot spot and Cold Spot
4. Lost & Found
A living museum for lost things and ideas in Berlin, Germany
Personal Work | Syracuse School of Architecture
Theoretical Berlin Infill Site
Interior Perspective of Museum of Lost Things
Lost & Found is a living museum in Berlin, Germany where lost items are on display for the public to view and interact with. Lost items are valuable because they provide an intimate snapshot into history. Being on display in this exhibition space reflects this value.
Axon
Front Facade Physical Model View
The formal maze structure represents the endless nature of lost things, and provides the user/viewer the personal experience of “finding” the lost thing. The formal structure of the maze is brought up through plan forming tiered apartment units. Maintaining the maze walls in plan creates an atmosphere where apartment users relearn how to live in this unconventional space. The hope is that this intimate experience reinforces the extent of which “home” is definable by the inhabitants.
South West Section
North West Section
Ground Floor Lost & Found Museum Entrance
Second Floor Lost and Found Retrieval
5. Bridging the Gap
A response to socio-spacial uneven geographies in Bogotá, Colombia
Personal Work | Syracuse School of Architecture
Mapping Site Analysis
The zoning map of Bogotá, Colombia investigates the socio-spatial patterns of the zoning policies in place that reproduce and reinforce uneven development and social inequality. This uneven development manifests itself both socially and spatially at multiple scales and illustrates how the distribution of power between private and public entities establishes itself in the spread of new development and built space. The scale comparison maps analyze the density and spread of urban programs in cities around the world compared to a site in Bogotá, Colombia.
Scale Comparison Study
Madrid, Spain Berlin, GermanyOakland, California
Social Zoning of Bogotá, Colombia
Design Project: Public Infrastructure
This proposal works to undermine the socio-spatial patterns and policies in place in Bogotá, Colombia that reinforce uneven development and social inequality by investing in a public development project between two middle class stratas. Bridging the gap between the two neighborhoods separated by a highway, the public pavilion provides community members with public amenities including showers, laundry, bike racks, market stalls, and community spaces. Formally, these programs cling onto the top-down, winding infrastructure that serves as the circulation path.
Amphitheater
6. Buoyant Micro-Home
A modular home located in Seneca Lake, New York | 42.637, -76.871
In collaboration with Annika Amor, Lucy Ziesing, Shannon Grech | Building Structures Syracuse School of Architecture Syracuse School of Architecture
Development and Massing
The floating micro home contains three modules supported by a series of plastic pontoons on a steel truss system. The birch lattice diffuses sunlight into the rooms covering both interior and exterior spaces. The module has the potential to be scalable and link together to form communities of different sizes based on the site.
Form
Site located in Seneca Lake in Central New York
Exterior Morning Render Exterior Evening RenderInterior Kitchen and Loft Render Interior Common Space Render
Western Elevation
Southern Elevation
Eastern Elevation
Northern Elevation
7. Histories Superimposed
A spatial analysis of urban form , building typology, and built year in Wondang, South Korea
Personal Work | Seoul Exchange Program: Ewha Womens University
Building Construction Year
Wondang is a town near Seoul, Korea that a long developed history with urban morphology and building typology unique to each era. The unique building typology includes the villa, row house, and apartment danji. Compared to surrounding areas, Wondang has developed over a long time period from 1955. Each era is layered on top of the previous creating a complex and unique urban form. In future redevelopment plans, the year 2025 is used to as a bench mark for comparing building age. This spatial analysis will inform future redevelopment plans.
8. Education Hub
A system of alternative education in Wondang, South Korea
Personal Work | Seoul Exchange Program: Ewha Womens University
Proposed Masterplan of Wondang, South Korea
Location of Education Hub
Spatially, the configuration of a traditional classroom can be described as inflexible, stagnant, hierarchical, and has a one-size-fits all approach to learning. The proposed alternative education system instead works to cater to individual needs by providing flexible, active learning spaces
Formal Design Exploration:
The Education Hubs serves as a city center and space for community gathering and shared learning both to residents and visitors. It serves as a landmark building to give character to the neighborhood as well as a catalyst for future development. The Education Hub embodies the Wondang Masterplan values of decentralized city centers, self-sufficient systems, and an agriculture identity. The main agriculture system are the hanging garden facades. These facades are envisioned to be high-tech gardens operated by drones that facilitate production, collection, and distribution of goods. Agriculture is integrated into the building as a way to celebrate and recognize the importance of food networks to the community.
Fifth Floor Perspective
Ground Floor Plan
Third Floor Perspective
Eighth Floor Perspective
Eighth Floor Plan
The programs of interior spaces are flexible and mixed-use in order to cater toward the needs of the space over time. The learning spaces are not designated for a certain type of education and are instead open to community input and interpretation. There are two major formal elements, the interior circular programmatic spaces and the pathways that wind around those spaces and form other community spaces. The circular and winding nature of the form allows the boundary between the two formal elements to be blurred as the pathway weaves in and out of the interior spaces. Additionally, the hanging garden facade generates a loose boundary between interior as exterior and it folds into courtyards and balconies.
9. Design for Disassembly
A testing ground for the Design for Disassembly Movement
In collaboration with James Barbier & TJ Wickersham | Comprehensive Design Studio | Innovation and Integration of Systems Thinking Award
This project focuses on designing a new office space for the Design for Disassembly Institute (DfDI) in downtown Syracuse using the key principles of the Design for Disassembly (DfD) movement.
The structure embodies a large-scale “kit of parts”, with regular dimensions designed to optimize the building’s prefabrication and construction schedules. The building is designed with a regular 12’ wide by 24’ deep by 16’ high structural grid as informed by the structural requirements of our material system of choice, mass timber. The main structural components are untreated GLULAM columns and beams, cross-laminated timber floor plates, and steel joint plates, which allows the structural members to be disassembled and reused as-is or cut down to fit the dimensional needs of potential future projects.
Modular Terracotta Facade Louvers System
Interior Balcony and Mass Timber Structure
Exterior Rendering in Syracuse, NY
First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan
Sun Shading Analysis
This project is an image for DfDI, and a DfD experiment. In addition to open office spaces, conference rooms, and an immersive group virtual reality simulation area, the building houses experimentation and assembly laboratories in which DfDI team members will experiment with new technologies in the realm of disassembly. The essence of this building is that it provides a framework for experimentation and expansion in the spirit of Design for Disassembly.
Third Floor Plan
Fourth Floor Plan
Section
Chunk Model 1’ = 1”
Section B2
Section B3
10. Ceramic Assemblies
A study of hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramic objects
Personal Work | Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts | Ceramics Department
An assembly of forms, materials, and textures
Personal Work | Digital Photography
12. Low Gravity
A collection of rock climbers in action
Personal Work | Digital Photography
Pinnacles National Park, CA
Rock climbing is an art of movement and mindfulness, where climbers become part of the landscape, adapting to the rugged contours and textures of the rock. These images capture moments that blend skill with a sense of exploration, highlighting the subtle beauty and quiet thrill of climbing. Each ascent is a dialogue between climber and the rock, where patience, technique, and awareness come together in perfect balance. These photographs capture snapshots of the diverse emotions experienced on rock.
