CAROLYN AUCLAIRUndergraduate Portfolio

Syracuse University School of Architecture

‘PARK PAVILION’ | Car [+] Pedestrian Shared SpaceBoston, MA

‘MID MANHATTAN EXPANSION’ | New York Public Library Office TowerNew York, NY

‘ALT-81’ | Urban Intervention For Interstate 81Syracuse, NY

‘RECONFIGURING COLUMBUS CIRCLE’ | Syracuse Film InstituteSyracuse, NY

‘UNIVER[CITY]’ | An Urban Campus Within A Historic FabricFlorence, Italy

‘STUDY ABROAD HAND DRAWING’ | Survey Of Italian ArchitectureFlorence, Italy

‘UFFIZI FACADE ANALYSIS’ | Facade As IdeaFlorence, Italy

SCULPTURE | Metal Dynamics Syracuse, NY

CURRICULUM VITAE

CONTENTS

PARK PAVILIONCar [+] Pedestrian Shared SpaceBoston, MA

This comprehensive design studio was based on the typological study of parking garages as monuments and as a civic podium. The selected site supported a variety of programs and activities, as the aerial view showcased vastly different reactions to the public plaza on a weekly basis: markets and parking spaces. The end result was the integration of garage and five shared space pods, which serve the needs of both the cars and visitors to the Harrison Avenue area.

Drawings: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Rhino 5, V-RayProject designed in collaboration with Alyssa Francis. Images produced by C. AuClair.

Drawing: Rhino 5, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop

Drawings: Rhino 5, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop [site context via Bing Maps]

Parking Pavilion

Column and Beam Grid

Suspended Steel Catwalks

Exterior Curtain Wall

Car Park Double Tee Decking

Wood Clad Pod Spaces

Drawings: Rhino 5, V-Ray, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop [site context via Bing Maps & Google Maps]

Drawing: Rhino 5, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop

MID-MANHATTAN EXPANSIONNew York Public Library Office TowerNew York, NY

The focus of this studio was the exploration of the skyscraper and office tower typology and designing a twenty-story office tower in Midtown Manhattan. The proposed site of this project included a pre-existing six-story branch of the New York Public Library to be absorbed and integrated in the design scheme. The formal rationale of the project was to create regulated variety by proposing four different floor plates in order to create isolated terrace conditions and increase the number of corner offices for the occupants.

Drawings: Rhino, V-Ray, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Model photos, in site context and aerial view, plans of floor plates, longitudinal cross sectionDrawings: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

ALT-81Urban Intervention For Interstate 81Syracuse, NY

This semester group analysis focused on the future of the I-81 viaduct, which will reach the end of its useful life in the year 2017. The proposed design solution was to rebuild the viaduct up to the design standards and insert new commercial developments, including commercial storefronts, restaurants, spec office space, and a hotel with a casino serving as the primary attractor for the visitors to the area.

Drawings: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, SketchUp, V-Ray for SketchUpVisiting Critic Studio Project, Design and images produced in collaboration with Kaitlin Wolfe and Phil Bongard.

SYRACUSE FILM INSTITUTEReconfiguring Columbus CircleSyracuse, NY

The focus of this project was to design a Film Institute and Theater space, while engaging the adjacent public plaza adjacent to the site. The primary design gesture was to construct the Institute itself as a monolithic seventy foot box as the secondary programs “crashed” into the form disrupting the geometry, specifically the office spaces, classrooms, and the theater. The theater is suspended above the ground plane and creates an additional gathering space in order to strengthen the connection to Columbus Circle.

Drawings: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Process Sketches, Study Models

UNIVER[CITY]An Urban Campus Within A Historic FabricFlorence, Italy

This Florence based design studio was focused on the idea of the urban fabric and how to negotiate the introduction of the private university campus within a historic city. The primary design challenge were the juxtaposing concepts of campus and city, private and public, which led to a surgical insertion of “strands of space” to emphasize movement of students, tourist, and Florentines alike.

Drawings: Hand Drawing, Ink on Mylar, Adobe Photoshop, Collage

Drawings: Process sketch, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Drawings: AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator

Drawings: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Collage

STUDY ABROAD HAND DRAWINGSurvey Of Italian Architecture | Analytical And ObservationalFlorence, Italy

A series of on-site, freehand, and analytical drawings collected over the course of four months, eight cities, and two sketchbooks. This intensive study of various historic places of Architecture throughout Italy began with several weeks of ‘Florence Walks’ and culminated in a four day trip to Rome at the end of the Fall semester.

Drawings: Graphite, Ink

Facade As Idea_ARC 578Analysis of the UffiziFlorence, Italy

Carolyn AuClair

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE/PLAN COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERING LOGGIA CONDITIONS

Built in 1851, the Uffizi was commissioned by the Medici and designed by the architect Giorgio Vasari. The location of the site and its surrounding context was of particular impor-tance in the design of both the building as well as the façade conditions. The Uffizi was intended to function for multiple purposes. It served the programmatic requirement of the offices and as a link between the Arno River, Palazzo Vecchio, and Piazza della Signoria. In order to mediate this moment of transition and connection there are two key conditions of privileged surfaces. These two facades simul-taneously function as a component within one cohesive fabric and as well as an independent unit. In this analysis it was critical to extract and compare the formal qualities of the singular bay condition as well as the Arno River front loggia condition. The procession from the Arno into the Piazza degli Uffizi was key in this study because of how the facades mediate space and transition, and marks the change from the river side to the loggia to corridor and public space. Even within the public space the Uffizi creates, it successfully links to the next experience in the city due to the unity created by the repetitive language of the façade.

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition2. Inside loggia of river facade3. View looking towards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition2. Inside loggia of river facade3. View looking towards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition2. Inside loggia of river facade3. View looking towards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

FACADE ANALYSISFacade As Idea| Analytical StudiesFlorence, Italy

An analytical study of the multiple facades of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and an observation of how the typical design of the bay unit differs from the primary facade along the Arno River. The study included both a line drawing, shadow study, and series of diagrams to draw these comparisons.

Drawings: AutoCAD, Illustrator

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi

1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition

2. Inside loggia of river facade

3. View looking tow

ards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition2. Inside loggia of river facade3. View looking towards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

Sequence through Piazza degli Uffizi

1. View of southern river facade, looking north, identification of larger bay condition

2. Inside loggia of river facade

3. View looking tow

ards Palazzo Vecchio, identification of single bay condition

SCALE: 3/16” = 1’-0”

FACADE SHADOW STUDIES

UFFIZI SITE PLAN (Not to scale)

SCULPTUREMetal Dynamics In Sculpture | FabricationSyracuse, NY

A semester long course focused on the development of fabrication techinques, including mig welding, die grinding, and metal forging through the course of three separate design prompts.

Material: Steel

Utilization of diagram as tool for generator of sculpture’s formDrawings: Rhino, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator

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EDUCATION

AWARDS

AFFILIATIONS

SKILLS

CAROLYN AUCLAIRSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | School of Architecture | Syracuse, NY

PENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL | Rochester, NY

SILVER/PETRUCELLI & ASSOCIATES | Architecture Intern | Hamden, CTEXPERIENCE

MOSSIEN ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS | Architecture Intern | Rochester, NY

SALES ASSOCIATE| Customer Service/Home Theater Specialist | Rochester, NY

LEADERSHIP/MENTORING EXPERIENCE | Karate Instructor | Rochester, NY

Bachelor of Architecture; Dean’s List

International Study - Florence, Italy: Design studio, Architectural history, travel sketching and Italian languageVisiting Critic Studio - Urban Analysis of Syracuse/Proposal for an alternate Interstate 81

Fall 2013Spring 2013

National Honor Society; AP Scholar; Advanced Regents DiplomaSenior Class Student Council Representative

Expected Spring 2015

Spring 2010

Syracuse University Founders ScholarshipThomas Wurzer Memorial ScholarshipRochester Institute of Technology Innovation & Creativity Award and ScholarshipSecond Degree Black Belt

Produced interior elevations, plan details, and construction document sets in AutoCAD

Working Thesis: ROC Interrotta

Worked independently alongside the Project Architect to develop a building prototype for a regional clientAnnotated and drafted millwork, interior elevations, door and finish schedules in AutoCADLed coordination of multiple sets of construction documents with senior engineers on staffProduced design specifications and sample materials binders for Interior Design team Attended consultant and design meetings with Principals and Project ArchitectsConverted existing conditions plans and elevations to AutoCAD drawings

Independently met with town officials for preliminary site plan review

Independently documented existing conditions of projects ranging from 1,000 to 100,000 square feetTranslated documents from hand sketches to CAD drawingsDrafted and rendered presentation drawings, plans, and sections

Produced graphic design and layout for marketing materialsTranslated Principal’s sketches to hard-line drawings

Independently produced design materials specifications book for major clientAssisted Project Architect in meetings with clients

Attended and assisted Principal with preliminary design meeting

NCARB IDP EnrolledAIAS Freedom by Design: Board Member, Head of Social Outreach, lead on-site documentation of existing conditionsStudent Liaison Team: Gave tours to prospective students; participated in Q&A sessionsAIAS Graphics Team: Designed promotional posters for upcoming seminars, activities, and conventionsSchool of Architecture Peer Advisor: Participated and led orientation and welcome activites for incoming freshmen

Digital AutoCAD, Revit, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Rhinoceros 5, V-Ray, SketchUp Pro

Analog Drafting, Sketching, Museum Board, Foam, Plexiglass, Basswood

Fabrication Metal Smithing, Mig Welding, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting, Woodshop

Gained valuable customer service experience through assisting customers in sales decisionsLed product demonstrations for larger groups of customersAssisted customers over the phone with product inquiries and purchase concerns Coordinated and scheduled delivery/installation appointments

Led beginner to black belt student classes and self defense seminars [age of students ranging from 4 to adult]Mentored and trained younger, future instructors

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