2016 spring portfolio
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Selected works from my studies at Pratt Institute School of ArchitectureTRANSCRIPT
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corey arena portfolio
spring 2016
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CALCULATED DECAY REPRESENTATION III // PROFESSOR ADAM DAYEM // FALL 2015
HOUSE SUBDIVIDED DESIGN II // PROFESSOR MICHELE GORMAN // SPRING 2015
DEGREES OF ENCLOSE DESIGN I // PROFESSOR SEBASTIAN MISIUREK // FALL 2014
ATTENTIVE PERFORMANCE: CHINATOWN LIBRARY INTERMEDIATE DESIGN I // PROFESSOR EVA PEREZ DE VEGA // FALL 2015
UNSTABLE BODIES: ARCHITECTURE MADE WEARABLE TECHNICS // PROFESSOR MICHAEL CHEN // FALL 2014
APPROPRIATED MATERIALITY INDEPENDENT EXPLORATIONS // SPRING 2014 TO PRESENT
emergent behaivior x topography: swarms at wave hill INTERMEDIATE DESIGN II // PROFESSOR ENRIQUE LIMON // SPRING 2016
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top view
top view
isometric view
isometric view
constructing pentagon
constructing icosahedron
constructing stellation
removing solids exploding solids out
top view
isometric view
CALCULATED DECAYDeveloped from a stellated icosahedron, this
proposal is defined by its self destructive geometry,
where scaled and copied portions of the figured
intersected the initial form, creating punctures.
These punctures allow occupants partial views
past the mass, and the projects massive scale
provides opportunity to walk underneath,
directing circulation, and slowing the procession
to and from the auditorium.
The monolithic form intersects the floor, wall, and
ceiling, and these collisions result in deformation
of the existing building, creating sloping surfaces
that recall the projects geometry. This reaction
develops the project to an entirely immersive
scale, and the decayed geometry becomes integral
to the site.
Parametric Variations for Icosahedron
Pentagon and Icosahderon Analog Construction
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Atmospheric Renders at Gods Eye and Worms Eye Perspectives
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HOUSE SUBDIVIDEDThis project accommodates the needs of two
fictional occupants with opposing characteristics
and required programs. The first character is a
woman who is constantly jumping from place
to place, called Parkour. She acts as a nomad,
moving from townhouse to townhouse, seeing
architecture not as programmed and restrictive,
but instead as an open field that she passes
through. The second character is a man who
does not use his legs and instead drags himself;
for the purposes of the project, he is referred to
as Paraplegic. He is unavoidably restricted from
entering and accessing certain parts of the project
because of his limited capabilities
An imagined massive block mirrors the
dimensions of the former townhouse. Light rays
and walls that continue laterally across the block
perform a slicing operation that divides the block,
and every other block is deleted, leaving a series
of voided spaces that are bound by monolithic
extrusions. Using the individual sliced parts, a
recursive subdivision operation populates in the
voided space.
Pratt Townhouses - Site
Space as Solid, Daylight as Carving Tool
Floor and Walls as Frame Contruction
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Above: Construction and design through parallel projection. Below:Character Motion Studies
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HOUSE SUBDIVIDED
Against the frame, the extruded volumes intersect
and become absorbed. Using the frame of the walls
and floors, combined with the studied light rays,
the subdivided spaces form extruded masses that
lift upwards and are held by the frame. Populating
the entirety of the void, the subdivision masses
shift to align with the studied light rays, as they
expand past the bounds of the initial townhouse
into the front towards the street.
The blocks continue to shift as they begin to
accommodate their two occupants. Their physical
movements and demands dictate the subdivided
masses positions, which allow for a semi porous
architecture of stepped masses. Additionally, the
initial massive volumes begin to be cut and voided
using subdivision systems when the bodies move
and look around the space.
Perspective-Visibility Study
Serial Horizontal Sections
East (Front) and West (Rear) Elevations
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Final Model; 9 X 24 X 18
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degrees of enclosure: Pre-hybridization
Left Page: Triangular prisms with four different
dimensions assemble together with varying
spacing.
The generated rule set allows for a consequentially
rotating masses that alternate in permeability
and is notable for being entirely orthogonal in
elevation, with curving triangles in plan.
Right Page: A layered drawing set begins with a
series of orthogonal lines that are shifted at an
angle. The resulting components from the overlay
are emphasized alternatingly. Opposite vertices
are connected and the resulting form is three
dimensionalized, where the components are
extruded to form prisms, and their vertices are
connected diagonally.
A Approach Hand Draft Drawing and Model
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B Approach Hand Draft Drawing and Model
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degrees of enclosure: hybridized
An array of assembled nooks and planes produce
a spectrum of different available enclosures,
allowing individuals the choice of varying degrees
of isolation.
Using the proportions and spacings of approach
a, each prisms alternates between being solid
masses and hollowed spaces with an open face.
This generative rule set allows for an entirely
different view and enclosure for each space.
Degrees of Enclosure exhibits the following:
FRACTURED MONOLITH:
A distant impenetrable assemblage rises from
individual prisms. In elevation, the project
maintains its A approachs orthogonal appearance.
IMPLIED BOUNDS:
A lowered ground, looming planes, and protruding
members define a confining yet permeable space.
The crossing and connecting elements of B
approach are added to the prisms connecting
surfaces, which acts as the parameters for the
ground condition.
Section Hand Drafted Drawing
Implied Bounds: Architecture Meets Terrain
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Fractured Monolith: Final model, 24 X 24 X 18
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attentive performance: Chinatown Library
context-time:
The contemporary library faces the problem of
attention and of focus. How can an architecture
that traditionally requires quietness, calmness,
and strict focus call enough attention to itself to
be of use and of interest to the masses? Should
it attempt to fight for attention in the first place?
Can a contemporary library actually produce
an environment that promotes focus given
the ubiquitous presence of distractions via
technology. Should the library evolve to accept
distraction as fact, and if so, what defines the
library? How can a library be a library and not
Starbucks at one extreme or a book graveyard
at the other?
context-place:
Chinatown fights for your attention. The
markets cant be contained within the confines
of their buildings walls, and those markets fight
against the loud signs nearby which, again,
fight with street vendors. The street is defined
by unfocused chaos. Our site, between the
constant movement of traffic and of people,
combined with subway movement, encourages
a culture of congestion. In total opposition of
traditional Chinatown density, the neighboring
park acts a meeting place for residents while
alleviating this urban density. The trees fight
the buildings for height, and in an environment
where bright signs become a ubiquitous fabric
of noise, the sparsity of the park wins the battle
for attention.
Chinatown Site
Chinatowns Street Market Typology
Research Assemblage: Programmatic Investigation
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attentive performance: Chinatown Library
context-subject:
The performing arts are defined by the total
focus of its spectators onto choreographed
and carefully executed movement and sound.
Additionally the, performer must work with total
focus. A performing arts library in Chinatown must
provide opportunity for a variety of focuses that
differs between exterior and interior and between
programs. It must be generously accommodating
in its auditorium/performance space, and it must
also provide an environment for the occupants
to connect with texts on performances as deeply
and clearly as the performances themselves.
Process Model from Midterm
AuditoriumEntrance, Circulation Desk, and Cafe
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Reading Room Interior Render
The Stacks Reading Room Staff Offices
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attentive performance: Chinatown Library
PROPOSAL:
This library proposes spaces for closeness and
farness, where occupants may engage with
a variety of focal points. Each point of focus is
accessible, but not ubiquitous. There are places
to view the park, however sometimes that view
is intentionally obstructed. Study spaces are
fairly isolated from other program, but it opens
up to the auditorium below as well. The ground
floor not only engages multiple programs, but
embraces the street market typology that the
neighborhood provides as precedent, so that there
is simultaneously both an encouragement and
ease of congestion within the site. The buildings
centerpiece and form-definer, the auditorium, is
partially open to the floors above, allowing viewing
and listening to be extended past the given floor.
Occupants are provided an opportunity to focus
on the performance, theirs studies, or casually
check out a book, all on the same floor, with only
minimal movement to engage in these programs.
More importantly, these programs may be engaged
with total focus, and they do not distract from one
another.
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UNSTABLE BODIEs:Architecture made wearable
Beginning with plaster casts of both bodies,
precisely positioned, a series of key points were
mapped across the casts, focusing on a secure fit
that concisely wrapped each bodies curves.
Through many iterations, a system of braces were
put in place and refined to seamlessly align with
the existing fitted basswood. This system relied
on primary connection that were braced with
secondary and tertiary components.
A single band was added to make the project
entirely wearable for her.
(All photographs by Prof. Michael Chen and in
collaboration with Aleyna Turker)
Towards an Architectural Prosthetic, Studying Iris Van Herpen
Plaster Cast of Two Bodies in Space
Architecture Made Wearable
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Body as Site: Studying Formal and Spatial Requirements
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appropriated materialITY
Contemporary culture lies at a crossroads of new
building and technological advancements pitted
against historical preservation and a desire for that
which is handmade and aged. Can a new aesthetic
of destruction emerge from a field concerned
with construction? Can the worn be produced
immediately?
These independent material explorations
appropriate common building materials, like
plaster, paint, and plywood, and redefine their
purpose as a tool for aesthetic and cultural
production. Construction via destruction is of
primary concern while a newness emerges from
that which is broken. These experiments may be
scaled larger and developed in three dimensions to
begin to address contemporary programmatic and
pragmatic concerns as questions of gentrification,
artificiality, technology, contexualism and newness
dominate contemporary architectural discourse.
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emergent behaivior x topography:swarms at wave hill
Wave Hills sloping landscape provides
numerous vantage points to view buildings and
gardens, both up close and from afar. The sites
sloping hills allow for a truly three dimensional
viewing of space and form, where the viewer
can be above, level with, and below objects. As
a three dimensional space with many objects,
the site constantly presents layered parallax.
Layering of forms and spaces at different
vantage points means that every point creates
a different visible form and space, so that the
viewer, in collaboration with the architecture
and landscape, becomes a constructor of form
and space. This reality liberates the individual
to be an active participant in their built
environment because their movement and
sight activates the space.
Form and space are affected by time, more
specifically, of changing seasons, and this
constructed landscape constantly changes.
Constructing nature is an inherently
unstable practice because of the unwavering
inconsistency that the seasons and topography
afford the site.
Using rule sets based on food-gathering
behaviors of ant colonies, an artificial landscape
is generated, relying on programmatic concerns
of accessibility and visibility to interpret initial
formal products. A similar logic is applied to
tectonic/component/joinery studies, which
produce emergent forms as they aggregate.
Component Aggregation One
Component Aggregation Two
Site Study: Slope and Accessibility via Section
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Site Study: Accessibility X Visibility via Plan
Representation Experiments