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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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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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
20 Baranes Model Photos
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24 Baranes Process Model Photos
26 Baranes Process Model Photos
28 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
58 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection
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
74 Baranes SectionGround Level 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
78 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection
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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92 Baranes Wall Section Details
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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
98 Baranes Drawing & Architectural Form
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
elena baranes
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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Awards, Publications & Appointments
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