Freshman Year Portfolio

Nicholas LoCiceroFreshman 2009 - 2010Univers i ty at Buf fa lo

Professors

Coordinator:Jean LaMarche

Professor:Nerea Feliz

Spring Semester

Project One:1. Phase One Concept Designs 2. Phase Two Structrue3. Phase Three Final Model and Drawings

Project Two:1. Phase One Individual Design2. Phase Two Modularization3. Phase Three Structure4. Phase Four Off-site fabrication, Transportation, and Re-assembly

Fall Semester:

Project One:1. Phase One Collect2. Phase Two Index3. Phase Three Describe4. Phase Four Abstracting Space5. Phase Five Activating Space

Project Two:1. Phase One Research2. Phase Two Site3. Phase Three Conceptual Design4. Phase Four Design Development

Freshman Year 2009 - 2010

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Fall Semester

In Project one, objects were purchased from Buffalo Re-Use. One needed to be reflective, another see through, and the last was chosen without specification. Next we had to find relationships between the objects, whether through function or appearance, and construct a space that related

the objects to one another.

The objects chosen here are a crystal doorknob, a light switch, and a door latch. The latch is used to open or reveal the space for a light to enter, refract off of

the doorknob and reveal the switch. The process to operate the space is, push, illuminate, reveal.

Project One

In project two three pieces of art were chosen that represent spatial qualities in architecture. Conceptual designs were focused on the qualities of the pieces rather than the actual pieces themselves. These conceptual designs were then aplied to a “gallery site.” The design of the Site was required to

have a circulation and locations inwhich to view the pieces of art.

For this project Olafur Eliasson’s “Your Spiral View,” Dan Graham’s “Triangle two-way mirror pavilion,” and Robert Smithson’s Enantiomorphic Chambers. The focus of the conceptual design for these pieces was the breaking up of planes,

layering and the creation of moments in space.

Project Two

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Spring Semester

Two volumes, a 6’x6’x6’ and an 8’x8’x8’, were taken and transformed in order to create a living space, a work space and a party wall condition between the two. The

spaces created were required to have circulation, light and ventilation.

Project One

Project 2

In phase one, a 6’x6’x8’ mass was shifted twice to create circulation, an entry and sleeping space for a minimum of

three people.

In phase two, precedent models were chosen and designs were altered and modularized. This phase was done in

collaboration with Sergio Taveras and Christa Trautman. Sergio Taveras’ design was the precedent for this phase.

Precedent Model

In phase three the chosen designs were brought up in scale and structure was added. This phase was done in collaboration with Sergio Taveras, Christa Trautman, Franz Heine, Nate Heckman, Rebecca Brower, and Lauren

Walsh.

In phase four the designs were were constructed at full scale and shipped to Griffis Sculpture park. This phase was also done in collaboration with Sergio Taveras, Christa Trautman, Franz Heine, Nate Heckman, Rebecca

Brower, and Lauren Walsh.