elena baranes ysoa graduation portfolio

ELENA BARANESYale School of Architecture

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Advanced Design Studio : Material + Force = Form

Advanced Design Studio : Fazenda Paranoazinho

Design Studio : Olympic Village

Design Studio : CASIS HQ

Design Studio : Sight Study

Design Studio : Vlock Building Project

Drawing, Fabrication & Publication

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What is it like to be in a room with an instrument? How can a person understand something visually that is meant to be heard? While one instrument may be best understood in a shower of direct sunlight, another may ask simply to peer out around a dark corner into a massive empty space. I began my project by addressing these questions, conceiving of the museum’s form from the instrument out. I observed each instrument—how it is played, constructed, and its role in an orchestra in order to formulate a method of communicating the experience of each instrument’s performance using light, shadow and the relationship of the viewer to the instrument. I maintained the instrumental categories established by Yale’s current collection—percussion, keyboard, wind, and strings—in order to create highly-controlled spaces of exemplary display, through which a person might gain a sensibility about the rhythm, vibration, performance and sound of each instrument. Open storage surrounds these exemplary displays of each instrument type, an exhibition method that showcases the breadth of the museum’s collection, additionally allowing for the communication of contextual and historical information, as well as overlap between instrument types.

In order to accommodate potential future shifts in musical typology and exhibition strategy, this method of display requires an open floor plan that allows for change within an existing shell. This necessity dictated the building’s material and structural system, which achieve the spans necessary, while still maintaining the clarity and minimal nature of the museum’s diagram. The size and positioning of each box, or lantern, is modulated both by the square footage necessary to display the associated instrument type and by the surrounding site conditions. The building’s massing and siting respond to two dominant open space strategies on Yale’s campus—first, that of large public lawns, continuing the cross-campus axis across the street and providing a ceremonial termination point at the museum’s front door; and second, that of internal courtyards, breaking down into smaller open spaces that run between the museum’s masses.

Critic: John Patkau with Timothy Newton

Project: Musical Instrument Collection for Yale University

Location: New Haven, Connecticut

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO : MATERIAL + FORCE = FORM

Model Photo

6 Baranes Model PhotoSite Plan

8 Baranes Model PhotoBelow Grade, Grade, Upper & Roof Level Plans

10 Baranes Model PhotoSection

12 Baranes Exhibition Diagram

14 Baranes Model PhotoSection

16 Baranes Model PhotoClavichord Drawing

18 Baranes Interior PerspectiveView Diagram

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24 Baranes Process Model Photos

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My project seeks to create a housing prototype that can be deployed in various sections of the new city of Fazenda Paranoazinho, a 16-million square-meter estate located between Brasilia and Sobradinho slated for development into a city for 150,000 inhabitants by UPSA.

I began my project with the goal of creating a community within my block in response to the challenges associated with cultivating identity within a new city. I focused on the residential unit as having both social and domestic functions, attempting to create spaces for flexible living and working, as well as maintaining the opportunity for separation between the two.

In order to accomplish this, and to create units that could inhabit the depth of my block, I studied the Unité d’Habitation model, in which an interior circulation corridor splits two two-story units in section. I applied this to a more South American model, making the circulation part of an exterior courtyard system that expands, aerates, and lights the units. On non-circulating floors, these courtyards belong to the private realm of the unit and can be inhabited, functioning as a threshold between functions within the unit.

Each unit has a series of facades facing the street, interior courtyard, and exterior courtyard, which hang from the structural walls that run the length of the units. These facades are flexible, and respond both to exterior context and interior program.

Critic: Sunil Bald with Rafael Birmann

Project: A proposal for a mixed-use block in the new city of Fazenda Paranoazinho

Location: Fazenda Paranoazinho, Brazil

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO : FAZENDA PARANOAZINHO

Model Photo

32 Baranes Model PhotoSite Plan

34 Baranes Model PhotoGround Level Plan

36 Baranes Model PhotoSecond Level Plan

38 Baranes Model PhotoThird Level Plan

40 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveFourth, Fifth & Sixth Level Plans

42 Baranes Interior PerspectiveSectional Axon

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Unit Configuration

Interior PerspectiveUnit Diagram

50 Baranes Early Concept Drawings

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Our project conceives of Boston as built land with a pier system that mediates the connection between land and water. Our goal was to carry this relationship onto our site, examining the exchange of land and water by pulling the water up to meet the convention center, and in turn building back out into the water using a hybrid landfill and pier system that responds to water circulation and filtration needs.

Partner: Alissa Chastain

Critic: Alan Plattus

Project: Olympic Village Proposal for Boston 2024 Olympics

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

DESIGN STUDIO : OLYMPIC VILLAGE

Site Plan

54 Baranes Aerial PerspectiveSite Plan

56 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection

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60 Baranes Exterior Perspectives

62 Baranes Model PhotoExterior Perspective

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CASIS is an organization that provides access to space research to those outside of NASA. In order to continue its growth, CASIS has the opportunity to use its headquarters to advertise its groundbreaking research through public display. In order to achieve this central display of research, the interaction of researchers with equipment such as the Destiny Module serves as the organizing feature around which the building unfolds, functioning both as its conceptual and geographic center, and making pieces of CASIS’s research accessible to the public.

Critic: Martin Finio

Project: Headquarters for CASIS

Location: New York, New York

DESIGN STUDIO : CASIS HQ

Exterior Perspective

66 Baranes Interior PerspectiveSection

68 Baranes Upper Level PlansGround Level Plan

70 Baranes Model Photos

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In my approach to creating a visitor’s center on New Haven’s Science Hill, I used sight ratios generated by a prior site analysis study to create a structure that capitalizes on visual connections across the site. By carving into the ground and positioning walls, ceilings and floors in accordance with the sight analysis data, I used the building to direct and frame views according to the program of the pavilion.

Critic: Brennan Buck

Project: Museum Pavilion for Science Hill

Location: New Haven, Connecticut

DESIGN STUDIO : SIGHT STUDY

Site Plan

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Our proposal conceptually posits a three-story front house and a two-story back house, connected by a circulation core, in order to maximize square footage and living space. This diagram illustrates a prototypical model that can extend and contract to accommodate different non-conforming sliver lots.

Partners: Hiba Bhatty, Zachary Huelsing, Ross McClellan, Phillip Nakamura,

Mahdi Sabbagh & Emau Vega

Critics: Paul Brouillard, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld & Joeb Moore

Project: Prototype House for infill lots in New Haven

Location: New Haven, Connecticut

DESIGN STUDIO : VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT DESIGN PHASE

Ground Level Plan

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80 Baranes Interior PerspectiveSections

82 Baranes Interior PerspectiveElevations

84 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveElevations

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Upon completing the design competition phase of the project, the school and client (Neighborhood Housing Services) selected one proposal that the students worked collectively to build. As a class, we refined and completed the chosen design, created construction documents, and participated in the physical construction of the house. Tasks included site work, framing, interior work, roofing, siding and landscaping. The house is a 1,500 square foot single-family residence at 32 Lilac Street in Newhallville, Connecticut, and functions as a prototype for similarly narrow lots throughout New Haven.

Class-wide Project

Project Director: Adam Hopfner

Project: Construction of winning house design

Location: Newhallville, Connecticut

DESIGN STUDIO : VLOCK BUILDING PROJECT CONSTRUCTION PHASE

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Rome : Continuity & Change

Alexander Purvis, Stephen Harby & Bimal Mendis

Drawing & Architectural Form

Victor Agran

Materials & Meaning

Deborah Berke

Visualization Series

Joyce Hsiang, George Knight, Sunil Bald, Kent Bloomer,

Ben Pell, John Eberhart & John Blood

Systems Integration

Martin Finio, Anibal Bellomio, Eric Buckley & Craig Razza

Building Technology

Alan Organschi

Formal Analysis

Peter Eisenman & Matthew Roman

Retrospecta

Elective coursework and projects completed at Yale School of Architecture

DRAWING, FABRICATION & PUBLICATION

Rome : Continuity and Change

96 Baranes Drawing & Architectural Form

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100 Baranes Visualization SeriesMaterials & Meaning

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104 Baranes Systems Integration (Partners : JT Keeley, Meghan Lewis & Ross McClellan)

106 Baranes Systems Integration (Partners : JT Keeley, Meghan Lewis & Ross McClellan)

108 Baranes Formal AnalysisBuilding Technology (Partner : Maya Alexander)

110 Baranes Formal Analysis

112 Baranes Retrospecta (Co-Editor with Phillip Nakamura, Tyler Pertman & Jonathan Sun)

YALE UNIVERSITY · School of Architecture · New Haven, CTMaster of Architecture, 2012 - 2015

BOSTON UNIVERSITY · College of Arts and Sciences · Boston, MABachelor of Arts, cum laude, History of Art and Architecture, 2007 - 2011

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY · GSAPP · New York, NYIntroduction to Architecture, a preprofessional design course, Summer 2011

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Education

YSOA Student Representative for University Tribunal, appointed by Dean Robert A.M. Stern. 2013 - 2014 and 2014 - 2015 academic terms

YSOA Rome Travel Fellowship, Rome, Italy. Summer 2014

Drawings selected for exhibition, Yale School of Architecture. 2014 - 2015

Elective coursework selected for publication in Retrospecta. 2012 - 2013, 2013 - 2014

Published essay: “The Tragic Solitude of Dr. Pangloss,” Boston University’s Journal of the Core Curriculum, an anthology of exemplary writing by faculty and students. 2010

Writing competition winner: artifact description exhibited in Boston University’s African Studies Center. 2010

AutoCAD 2015; Rhinoceros 3D 5.0 (incl. rendering plug-ins); Revit 2015; Maya 2014; Adobe CS6; MS Office Suite

DEBORAH BERKE PARTNERS Intern New York, NYCummins Inc. Distribution Headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana, invited competition; Harlem School of the Arts theater addition, New York, New York, SD; 21c hotel renovation, Kansas City, Missouri, SD. June - August 2014

PERKINS EASTMAN Intern New York, NYWrote project proposals, project descriptions for internal and external uses, and text for client books and award submissions; conducted case study research for new projects and proposals; composed presentations. March - July 2012

DC OFFICE OF PLANNING Urban Design Intern Washington, DCWrote new design guidelines and approvals processes; proposed new collaboration strategies to other government agencies; conducted case and field studies. June - August 2010

YALE UNIVERSITY Teaching Assistant New Haven, CTTeaching Assistant for Materials & Meaning with Deborah Berke. Spring 2015

YALE UNIVERSITY Retrospecta Editor New Haven, CT Edited annual Yale School of Architecture journal of student work, lectures, and symposia; First editorial team to distribute Retrospecta to bookstores. 2012 - 2013

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