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1. Poncho 1

2. Poche 3

3. Movin’ On Up 5

4. Case Studies 7

5. Ground Up 9

6. The Inexact House 13

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East Side Elevation

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1. Kitchen2. Living Room3. Bedroom4. Staircase5. Studio/Gallery

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West Side Elevation

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The aim for this project was to create a personal and professional space for a sculptor. The façade is intentionally blocked out and has reveals for light to come through, imitating the inexact way marble is cut in a marble quarry. The most of the professional space goes underground to camou�age the passage of time and let little as possible direct light in. The living area has many clearstories creating a blur of hidden lighting during the day. The front of the house has been visually blocked as two main roads run through underneath. As a compensation, the back of the building has been opened up to let sunlight and air in.

The Inexact House

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7. Precedent Analysis 17

8. Urban Analysis 21

8.Site Analysis - II, Chealsea, NYC 27

East Side Elevation

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The aim for this project was to create a personal and professional space for a sculptor. The façade is intentionally blocked out and has reveals for light to come through, imitating the inexact way marble is cut in a marble quarry. The most of the professional space goes underground to camou�age the passage of time and let little as possible direct light in. The living area has many clearstories creating a blur of hidden lighting during the day. The front of the house has been visually blocked as two main roads run through underneath. As a compensation, the back of the building has been opened up to let sunlight and air in.

The Inexact House

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SPRINGAs our first project, we had to make a poncho out of as-signed materials. My group got colored paper. We were given various origami techniques to explore. After some experi-mentation, Me and my group partner found a ceratin grace and bounce in the unit model we settled on. We attatched three unit models to create a larger unit model. The poncho was constructed from the unit models. We selected three col-ors that complemented each other in a tonal decrememn-tal value. The size of the unit model also got smaller as the color got deeper. The Poncho goes deep down on the front but stops after the neck on the back side.

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PocheIn our second project, we were supposed to create volumes that relate to our poncho. The volumes were to be multi directional and not limited to a specific plan/dimention. After a final mass was decided on, we had to boolean that mass out of a 12” x 6”x 5” Volume to create a poche’d space. The mass was inspired from the poncho into a series of truncat-ed pyramids and pie shapes. Put to together, we found a system which complimented the bounce and flow of our poncho.

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1C_ Movin’ on Up

Rutuja Ganoo and Sherry | Shanks Studio

Exploded Axonometric Drawing

1C_ Movin’ on Up


Exploded Axonometric Drawing1C_ Movin’ on Up


Exploded Axonometric DrawingExploded Axonometric Drawings

Movin’ On UpIn the third part of this assign-ment, we was to make a stair-case out of the poched mass. The staircases were to harness the shape and structure of the Poche model and guide a per-son to the top.We were given the freedom to design our own type of stair-

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The Paper HouseIn this project, we were given houses to study and find differ-ent relations in. I found that in the paper house by Shigeru Ban, an S-shape configuration comprises of pa-per tubes that define the interior and exterior areas of the paper house. This was the first project in which paper tubes were au-thorized for use as a structural basis in a permanent building. The large circle formed by the interior tubes forms a big living area. A freestand-ing paper tubes column with a 1.2m diameter in the surrounding gallery contains a toilet. The exterior paper tubes surroundingthe courtyard stand apart from the structure and serve as a screen. The living area in the large circle is without furnishing or detail other than an isolated kitchen counter, sliding doors, and movable closets.

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Ground UpIn this project, we were given Mies Van Der Rohe’s Crown Hall and told to insert a stair tower in the building with a program of an auditorium, cafe and storage unit.

We wanted to push Mies van der Rohe’s Crown Hall to its limits while still respecting a lot of what Mies himself put into the building. The diagram shows the blending of exterior space to interior space through thresholds. We decided to imi-tate Mies’ main entrance (red) and use it to drag the ground into the basement (blue). This is especially clear in the section (next page), which uses poche to clearly distinguish ground from building, as well as circu-lation from our new entrance, past the auditorium, and up to the roof. The section also shows how the facade, an inverse Mies facade as shown in the montage, crawls up the build-ing and connects the cafe to the roof access, meeting you as you arrive at the top of the stairs. Finally, the plan gives and idea of the spacing of the stairs from outside to inside compared to the long stairs going up.

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The Inexact HouseThe aim for this project was to create a personal and profes-sional space for a sculptor. The façade is intentionally blocked out and has reveals for light to come through, imitating the inexact way marble is cut in a marble quarry. The most of the professional space goes un-derground to camouflage the passage of time and let little as possible direct light in. The liv-ing area has many clearstories creating a blur of hidden light-ing during the day. The front of the house has been visually blocked as two main roads run through underneath. As a compensation, the back of the building has been opened up to let sunlight and air in.

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Precedent AnalysisWe were given a select of very crucial projects to architecture and asked to assess and anal-yse them through the help of detailed AutoCAD drafting of plans and sections and expres-sive, meaningful diagrams. The emphasis of this assignment was of the diagraming capabil-ities and what we saw the proj-ect tried to express. Diagrams were also asked to be made into models.

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Concept Diagrams - Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center

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Concept Diagrams - Ryue Nishizawa’s Moriyama House

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East Elevation - Contemporary Arts Center

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Analytical Model - Contemporary Arts Center

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Urban AnalysisA site in Syracuse City was as-signed to each student and we were to carefully analyse the site and what makes it unique. Diagrams were heavily empha-sized on and our project had to come from our diagrammatic observations. My project stands with a purpose to make the building as a another alley of art that the community ex-presses.

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Geometric Relation

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Site Analysis - II, Chealsea, NYCA site in Chealsea, New York City was assigned to each student and we were to care-fully analyse the site and what makes it unique. Diagrams were heavily emphasized on. The change with this project was that we had think of a spe-cific program which included a restaurant, 6 living units and a common space. We were told to think in terms of overlaps and spatial blocks, and what the building could mean in terms of diagrams.

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