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seth wienholt portfolio

2024

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the decussation gallerie..............................................1 2023 hajjar competition..............................................5 fire station #44...........................................................7 2023 piranesi competition........................................11 baltimore art house...................................................13 contact info..............................................................17

decussation NOUN

The action of crossing especially in the form of an X

The Decussation Gallerie, a project I worked on my first semester of my Second Year, was to be an art center, built on the Isle of Que, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. The focus for this project was comprehensive design, or creating a piece of Architecture from start to finish. The main challenge of this project was to create Architecture in a flood plain. My focus for this project was to blur the threshold between land and water, and create a harmonious approach of the Art Center from both the water and land. This approach creates a moment of decussation for the person interacting with this archtiectural instillation. To deal with this decussation, as a designer, I employed various stragies which will unfold as you browse through the deliverables of this project.

2021/Architectural Design Studio 2/THE DECUSSATION GALLERIE

“intersecting the dramatic overlap of water and nature to promote the interaction with both.”

2021/Architectural Design Studio 2/THE DECUSSATION GALLERIE

SECTION C

2021/Architectural Design Studio 2/THE DECUSSATION GALLERIE

2023 hajjar competion

the purpose of this competition was to creativley interpret the architectural style of william hajjar into in an apartment complex featuring two bedroom, one bedroom, and studio apartment units

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/2023 HAJJAR COMPETITION

THE 22ND ANNUAL HAJJAR COMPETITION

A SYNTHESIS OF CENTRALITY THROUGH DISUNION

SITE PLAN (1” = 500’)

SECTION A (1/8” = 1’)

PARTIAL FACADE SECTION (1/2” = 1’)

SECOND FLOOR PLAN (1/8” = 1’)

USING HAJJAR’S GOVERNING PRINCIPLES OF A CENTRALIZED “SHOE BOX” DESIGN WITH A CONVERGING SPACE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VOLUME, THE INTENT FOR THESE APARTMENT SPACES ARE TO SYNTHESIZE THESE IDEAS THROUGH FRAGMENTING THE TRADITIONAL HAJJAR FORM. THESE SPACES WHICH PROMOTE CENTRALIZATION ACCOMPLISH THIS THROUGH USING CIRCULATION IN A INTEGRATED MANNER, WHICH EMPHASIZES THESE PRIMARY SPACES EMBEDDED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE OVERALL FORM OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND UNITS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN (1/8” = 1’)

TWO BEDROOM UNIT - KITCHEN ISLAND PERSPECTIVE (NTS)

TWO BEDROOM UNIT - BEDROOM PERSPECTIVE (NTS)

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/2023 HAJJAR COMPETITION

undulate VERB

To have a smoothly rising and falling form or outline

Fire Station #44 was a project I desinged in the first semester of my third year. This project truly pushed my limits and expanded my desing “toolkit” as well as the strategies I use as a designer. This project balanced site deisgn, heating cooling, and lighting requirements, structure, and sustainable building practices all under a common goal of Architectural Synthesis. This synthesis stemmed from re-inforcing my concept for this project, which was pushing private spaces and “pulling” public spaces to the street level of my Fire Station design through an undulating form connecting the private Apparatus Bay to the Public Community Museum. So, the concept that dicated the synthesis for this design was able to be articulated in my final desing through the same aspects of site deisgn, heating cooling, and lighting requirements, structure, and sustainable building practices.

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/FIRE STATION #44

“to ‘push’ public spaces towards the community, to ‘pull’ private spaces towards the landscape of the site”

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/FIRE STATION #44

2023 piranesi competion

The 2023 piranesi competition was a week long competition centered around adding a thermal bath addition to Villa Adriano in Roma, Italy.

My group’s addition to Villa Adriano centered around bridging the connection between the existing antiquarium and the new addition to the site of the thermal baths through “bridging” a cafe space between both of these structures, allowing for a piazza space underneath. These moves activate the mostly unused portion of the Villa Adriano site, as well as architecturally resolving the issue created with new construction on a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As well as the architectural intervention, this project also centered around a set of branding deliverbles, marketing the addition to Villa Adriano to the public. My group placed 1st in this competition.

2023/Architectural Design Studio Roma/2023 PIRANESI COMEPTITION

cleaving VERB

To split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.

The Baltimore Art House has a dual purpose program; a public geared community theatre, and an apartment complex for the creatives working in or helping facilitate the use of the public theater. Due to this complexity in program, the challenge, architecturally, is determining program layout. To resolve this problem, it seemed apparent to utilize the ground floor as a lobby and theatre program, with the apartment complex resting above the theater. However, to create efficient circulation and quality of life in these spaces, the apartment complex volume was cleaved and then rotated by 11 degrees to mimic the site boundary for visual clarity. This project centered around comprehensive design. Through this I focused on IBC building codes, HVAC layout, lighting schemes, passive building standards, structural schemes, and wall sections. All of these modern construction requirements were reflecting in my overall design.

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/BALTIMORE ART HOUSE

“splitting apartment units over a public theater, creating an atrium space, ‘activating’ the baltimore site conditions.”

2023/Architectural Design Studio 3/BALTIMORE ART HOUSE

contact info

email..............................................saw6089@psu.edu phone number................................+1 (443)-536-8802 website.............................................sethwienholt.com address.....................................320 south fraser street

2024/Contact Information