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Gregory DalfonzoArchitecture Portfolio
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.” -Patrick Rothfuss
As a student, I am learning to ask the unanswerable questions that will push my design endeavors farther.
THESIS PROJECT Cape Town Civic Tower
PRIOR PROJECTS Chicago Studio - Cermak Axis
Roanoke Building Museum Blacksburg Middle School Blacksburg Graduation Hall Japanese Apartment
OTHER WORK Sketches
Photography Constructed Drawings
CONTENTS
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CAPE TOWN CIVIC TOWERTHESIS:The goal of the three dimensional city is the complete dissolution of the ground plane. This is not to say that everything should simply be moved up and into skyscrapers, but that the public realm should be so evenly distributed in space that ascertaining the original ground level is impossible. In a sense, ground level becomes nowhere and everywhere at once. It becomes relative to the observer.
My thesis examines this new typology through the program of a civic tower in Cape Town, South Africa, set in the year 2076. The site was chosen due to the juxtaposition of mountain and sea, creating a upper and lower reference point for a city that has none. Additionally, Cape Town was chosen due to the low to mid rise buildings, which create the possibility, that as the city grows taller and more dense, the idea of connecting all the buildings at multiple levels, and with public transit, could be realized.
The civic tower takes 6 programs that are typically sprawling low rise buildings and distributes them in a vertical arrangement, creating three towers and three crossover spaces. The
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WORKCURRENT programs were split into these categories based on the need for light and the size of individual spaces in the program. The transit fills one of the crossovers, halfway up the tower, and the elevators exist in the interstitial space between the towers.
Far Left: aerial views of Cape TownCenter Top, The site as it is todayCenter Bottom: The site in 2076, with my projectFar Right: Googl Street View of the Site
CAPE TOWN CIVIC TOWERTHESIS:
LIBRARY
LIBRARY
MUSEUM
MUSEUM
TRANSIT
TRANSIT
THEATRE GYM
GYM
TSCHOOL
SCHOOL
MUSEUM
THEATRE
THEATRE GYM
TRANSIT
SCHOOL
LIBRARY
EXISTING CITY TYPOLOGY
PROPOSED CITY TYPOLOGY
Left: Parti Diagram of the current iteration. The school library and museum are arrayed vertically, while the gym, transit, and theatre are arrayed horizontally.
Bottom Left: typical configurations today. Short long buildings that take up a lot of ground area.
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WORKCURRENT Center Top: The City as it is today
Center Bottom: The city as with ground dissolved, circa 2076
Right: Massing models from throughout the semester
CAPE TOWN CIVIC TOWERTHESIS:Left: Section\Elevation of the tower.
Center: Plans of various configurations of he tower
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DIAGRAMMATIC PLAN AND SECTION OF PHASE III
SCHOOL
LIBRARY
MUSEUM
TRANSIT SERVICE SPACE
ELEVATOR CORE
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
FITNESS CENTER
Right: Diagram of iteration III (future)
NETWORKCERMAKThis group project focuses on integrating McCormick Place Convention Center into the surrounding context to activate the area as a single cohesive neighborhood. This will create an intermingling of local Chicagoans and Convention-goers that more fully utilizes the potential of this area. The method is tripartite: an urban master plan, new programmatic spaces, and a connective pathway come together to bridge the human scale with the aggrandized scale of McCormick Place.
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FOURTH YEAR
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Activation of existing elements
Creation of a tightly woven urban network.
Manipulation of scale and context.
CERMAK NETWORK
HISTORICALRESIDENTIALRETAIL DEPAUL STADIUM HOTEL DATA CENTER PARKING MCCORMICK NORTH MAIN ENTRANCE MCCORMICK SOUTH GRAND CONCOURSEHYATT HOTEL
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TATE
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TATE
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TATE
MCCORMICK EAST NORTHERLY ISLANDBURNHAM HARBOR
BUS STOP LOCAL BUSINESS OUTDOOR MARKET BRIDGEPATH WITH PROGRAM INDOOR PARK
25’ 100’ 200’ 400’
YEARFOURTH
HISTORICALRESIDENTIALRETAIL DEPAUL STADIUM HOTEL DATA CENTER PARKING MCCORMICK NORTH MAIN ENTRANCE MCCORMICK SOUTH GRAND CONCOURSEHYATT HOTEL
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TATE
RO
TATE
RO
TATE
MCCORMICK EAST NORTHERLY ISLANDBURNHAM HARBOR
BUS STOP LOCAL BUSINESS OUTDOOR MARKET BRIDGEPATH WITH PROGRAM INDOOR PARK
25’ 100’ 200’ 400’
BRIDGENORTHERLYThis portion of the aforementioned project focuses on a connection from McCormick Place to Northerly Island. The floating bridge connects the soon to be park designed by Jeanne Gang to McCormick and the surrounding neighborhoods. It also completes a loop, incorporating the new park more thoroughly into the city fabric. The design borrows hexagonal language from the Studio Gang project, which allows it to fold into a compact mass via tesselation to let ships pass into the harbour.
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CURRENT WORK
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Tesselation
Integration
Completion
Motion
ROANOKE BUILDING ENVELOPE MUSEUMThe Roanoke Building Envelope Museum responds to the surrounding civic center to create an icon for Downtown Roanoke. The copper cladding references the nearby Wachovia Tower, while the 122 foot height maintains visibility from other streets and gives back a part of the site as park space. The central atrium acts as a gathering space while emphasizing the gentle twist of the structure and the sky bridges complete the building structure while emphasizing sweeping views of downtown Roanoke.
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YEARTHIRDCentral Organizing Space
Material Choice
Individual Parts Create a Unified Whole
ROANOKE BUILDING ENVELOPE MUSEUM
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YEARTHIRD
MIDDLE SCHOOLThe Blacksburg Middle School is based on three main principles: the replacement of double loaded corridors with open atria, the usage of roof space as open green space, and views within and without. A central atrium organizes the building and provides usable interior space. The roofs of the cafeteria and auditorium become large open fields, while the offset of each floor plate creates an adaptable ribbon of green space on each floor. The roof acts as after hours community space and takes advantage of sweeping view of downtown.
BLACKSBURG
Stairs Teacher Prep
Female Bathroom SciencePrep Science Lab
Stairs
Cafeteria Roof
StudentOpenStudyArea
StairsStudent Open Study Area
Project BasedLearning LabMale Bathroom
Project BasedLearning Lab
ADAElev-ator
ClassroomClassroomClassroom
Classroom
StudentOpenStudyArea
StudentOpen StudyAreaStairs
Media Center Roof
Stairs
Auditorium
Gymnasium
Classroom
Storage
ClassroomClassroom
Resource
Classroom
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YEARTHIRDAdaptable Green Space
Interior and Exterior Views
Central Spaces Replace Corridors
GRADUATION HALLBLACKSBURGThe Montgomery County Graduation Hall creates an experience out of graduation through the use of processional architecture that reinforces the idea of graduation as a moving on. A glass cube acts as an entrance hall and uses light to respond to changing environmental conditions. A glass staircase leads underground to a gallery showcasing student work. A tunnel then leads to the graduation planetarium. The planetarium creates the illusion of leaving the current world behind, reinforcing the metaphor of graduation as a signifier of moving beyond the comfortable.
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YEARTHIRDSpatial ExperienceGeometric MinimalismTransparencyResponse to changing environmental condition
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ROANOKE BUILDING ENVELOPE MUSEUMJAPANESE STYLE APARTMENTA renovation project that began with a single column and defined wall and ceiling evolved into a Japanese style apartment. It takes advantage of typically low geometry to create a sense of openness, while using Shoji style wood and paper sliding screens to segment the symmetrical spaces. The layout is oriented to take advantage of southeast light in the bedroom and southwest light in the kitchen and conversation areas. The apartment embraces order and simplicity through careful control.
Evening Light
Reflected off closed Shoji Screen
Passes through open Shoji Screen
Morning Light
Bedroom
Closet
Bathroom
ConversationPit
Dining Pit
Kitchen
Foyer
WORKCURRENT YEARSECOND
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Section-Conversation Pit and Bedroom
Section-Entry Hall Section-Dining Room
Japanese Aesthetic
Low to the ground design
Adaptable Spaces
Sacred vs. Profane
Symmetry
SKETCHES
Great Court at the British Museum
Norman Foster + PartnersLondon, England
EUROPEThe Virginia Tech Eurotravel Program is an exploratory study abroad program that focusses on learning European Culture, Architecture, and Urban Life. Students are encouraged to document what they learn through sketching, photography, and other methods.
Feel free to visit our web page, that I lead the design team for.
http://www.eurotravel.arch.vt.edu/
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YEARFOURTHTop Left:Oruptgaard MuseumZaha HadidCopenhagen, Denmark
Top Right:NY Carlsberg GlyptotekWilhelm DahlerupCopenhagen, DenmarkBottom Left:
Copenhagen Opera HouseHenning LarsenCopenhagen, Denmark
Right:Notre Dame Du HautLe CorbusierRonchamp, France
ROANOKEEUROPE PHOTOGRAPHY
FOURTH YEAR
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DRAFTED DRAWINGSMy first semester of studio, I earned a B+. My professor said that anyone not happy with their grade could attempt to, over winter break, work up to a better grade. I was not happy with my grade, but I also realized that it was fair. Rather than try to argue, I did perspective drawings and design exercises over my break, and when I got back, my professor was extremely pleased. I re-earned myself an A for that first semester.
The perspective drawings I did over winter break, led into an exploration of drafted drawing in the second semester of the year. I created a set of 6 drawings, size 18x24, along with a few unfinished failures. I mostly used pencil, but explored pen as well. Rather than draw from observation, I chose to draw from imagination, only using real life as inspiration.
These are the two drawings that I consider most successful.
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YEARFIRSTPerspective
Interpretation
Shading
Precision