To Re:Vision
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Within my cover letter, I mention my work for Zukin Realty and for the Syracuse University MakerSpace. I have provided my examples of such work here:
Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau
Dr E.L. Trudeau was both a researcher and patient of tuberculosis. In 1885, Dr. Trudeau moved to Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of NY and founded the world’s first tuberculosis research center. The natural environment of the Adirondack Mountains was essential to these studies because clean mountain air was believed to be a viable cure for tuberculosis at the time.
Dr. E.L. Trudeau’s development of nursing facilities attracted a close-knit community of tuberculosis patients, including some of his own family and friends. Many contributed to craftwork around the village, and some even were architects who helped develop the town.
Octagon-form in Architecture
Octagonal architecture became essential for tuberculosis village for a few reasons:
Patients spent 8 hours a day on the cure porch receiving fresh air
Octagon houses receive light from all of the sun’s angles, allowing its resident to experience a complete day’s cycle
Octagon houses can circulate breezes from any direction
Deeper meanings became applied to the octagon. The octagon became known as a shape to signal a middle ground between the divine healing powers of nature and the constructive routines of mankind.
The octagon also symbolizes the 8th day of the week – a new beginning.
The original sanatorium closed in 1954, after the discovery of effective and practical antibiotic treatment.
Today, the buildings in Trudeau’s village are owned by Zukin Realty, whose real estate specialty is preserving the life of historically-significant buildings while breathing new life into the infrastructure’s functionality. The cottages are geared to become quiet vacation rentals for those that need some fresh air.
Green = Residential
Blue = Event / Hospitality
Red = Maker / Artist Spaces
Yellow = Offices / Commercial
An interactive PowerPoint maps helps present development plans
users can click on building silhouettes to read about each building’s history and status.
octagon-form numbers for addresses
sketchings of the
octagon-form typeface
Syracuse University MakerSpace
The MakerSpace offers 3D printing, embroidery, and other fabrication services to all of Syracuse University. The work presented here are the ways in which the MakerSpace informs, and advertises itself to its audience.
Manuals made for Instagram-story format, mobile screens made in click-through format
by hosting guides on social media, the MakerSpace can inform attendant’s design process before they even arrive
Contributing designs to a fashion show to raise visibility of the MakerSpace
The MakerSpace took to the runway at Syracuse University’s Fashion Design Society to present its fashionable fabrication abilities.
The theme “Abiotic Wanderers” called for designers that could portray mankind’s separation from organic nature.
Mask 3D modeled in Blender, 3D printed, and then and glow-in-the-dark to portray radioactivity.
Lasering graphics onto the back and sleeves of a leather jacket to portray wildfire