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ELENA BARANESYale School of Architecture
2 Baranes
Advanced Studio : Material + Force = Form
Design Studio : Olympic Village
Design Studio : CASIS HQ
Design Studio : Sight Study
Design Studio : Vlock Building Project
Drawing, Fabrication & Publication
4 - 29
30 - 41
42 - 49
50 - 53
54 - 69
70 - 85
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 Baranes
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 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
22 Baranes Model Photos
24 Baranes Process Model Photos
26 Baranes Process Model Photos
28 Baranes Process Model Photos
30 Baranes
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
32 Baranes Aerial PerspectiveSite Plan
34 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection
36 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection
38 Baranes Exterior Perspectives
40 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
44 Baranes Interior PerspectiveSection
46 Baranes Upper Level PlansGround Level Plan
48 Baranes Model Photos
50 Baranes
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
52 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
56 Baranes Exterior PerspectiveSection
58 Baranes Interior PerspectiveSections
60 Baranes Interior PerspectiveElevations
62 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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68 Baranes
70 Baranes
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
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
72 Baranes Drawing & Architectural Form
74 Baranes Drawing & Architectural Form
76 Baranes Visualization SeriesMaterials & Meaning
78 Baranes Visualization Series
80 Baranes Formal AnalysisBuilding Technology
82 Baranes Formal Analysis
84 Baranes Retrospecta