This document is the portfolio of Daniell Azalcman, an architect. It contains summaries of several of Azalcman's projects, including graphic studies of the Columbia University student center and a novel excerpt, models of Manhattan's zip code system and a New Orleans photography project, and proposed designs for a New York City bike share station and library. It also lists seminars taught by Azalcman on topics such as perception, abstraction, design, and architectural photography.
This portfolio comprises projects from my first year in the MArch program at Clemson University. It also includes my final exit project from my undergrad program in interior design. Hope you enjoy :)
Barcelona Study Tour Abroad Research PaperDaryl Kern
Can Architecture Affect Positive Social Change in Port Cities? The Barcelona Model: A Case Study of Applying Micro-scale Solutions to Waterfront Renewal Projects
Landscape architecture is about catching a fleeting moment of our environment and making it legible through design. These moments, over time, reveal a process that was hidden in plain sight. This portfolio showcases my design strategies to change perception and acknowledge process based design, with each of these projects at different scales.
While landscape architecture has taught me the value of all the qualities that go into shaping our space, my education in architecture backs that up with intricate working details. My strongest skills are that of design detailing and exploring representation through mixed media.
Every project in the following pages opens me up to diverse explorations and my passion for this unknown adventure is what I hope for even in the professional realm.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
This portfolio comprises projects from my first year in the MArch program at Clemson University. It also includes my final exit project from my undergrad program in interior design. Hope you enjoy :)
Barcelona Study Tour Abroad Research PaperDaryl Kern
Can Architecture Affect Positive Social Change in Port Cities? The Barcelona Model: A Case Study of Applying Micro-scale Solutions to Waterfront Renewal Projects
Landscape architecture is about catching a fleeting moment of our environment and making it legible through design. These moments, over time, reveal a process that was hidden in plain sight. This portfolio showcases my design strategies to change perception and acknowledge process based design, with each of these projects at different scales.
While landscape architecture has taught me the value of all the qualities that go into shaping our space, my education in architecture backs that up with intricate working details. My strongest skills are that of design detailing and exploring representation through mixed media.
Every project in the following pages opens me up to diverse explorations and my passion for this unknown adventure is what I hope for even in the professional realm.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
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The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
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Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
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Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
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In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
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Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
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LERNER PROJECT
THE ERASERS PROJECT
MANHATTAN TRANSFORMATION
STUDIOS
EAMES SUITCASE
MIDTOWN PASSAGE
BIKE-SHARE STATION
LIBRARY PROJECT
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NEW ORLEANS RECOVERY
SEMINARS
RECYCLABLES
EVOLUTION OF A SKYLINE
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY
THE MAKING OF MANHATTANVILLE
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5. LERNER PROJECT
A graphic study and the resultant model from a
project to photograph and document the Columbia
University student center, built by functionalist
architect (and former Columbia Architecture
School Dean) Bernard Tschumi. This particular
design attemted to capture the fragmented,
effervescent quality of light as it interacts with the
glass northern facade of the building, particularly PERCEPTION
during dusk. FALL 2006
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7. THE ERASERS PROJECT
This project is a visual analysis of an excerpt from
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1953 novel The Erasers, where
the protagonist documents his travels through an
anonymous -- presumably fictitious -- French city.
This model is a physical mapping of the interplay
between the main character’s narrative conscious
and his dialogue with the strangers he encounters
throughout the 30-page passage.
PERCEPTION
FALL 2006
8. MANHATTAN TRANSFORMATION
New York City’s zip code system is illogical and
often arbitrary. Neighboring codes are seldom
consecutive, and more often than not jump
hugely from zip to zip. How, then, could this
strange disorderliness--in a city of grids and
consecutively numbered streets and avenues--
be repaired?
This model attempts to address the island’s
seeming lack of organization by
simultaneously highlighting its gross lack of
contiguity and allowing anyone to interact with
the model (and thus, Manhattan) on his or her
own terms. The completely malleable outer
frame of the island can be shifted across all
axes to reorder the zip codes in any system
desired. Since each individual zip code is
placed in ascending height according to its
number, the first and most obvious
realignment would be to create a new
Manhattan with a consecutive and contiguous
series of zips. The entire structure can even be
unwound and reconnected to place the codes
on the island’s exterior, inverting Manhattan’s
habitat from isolated island to a lake ringed by
small communities. Structure can be set in mo-
tion, and order can be created from chaos.
11. EAMES SUITCASE
Human have spent years trying to come up
with creative ways to control light
diffusion in interior spaces. In Charles and
Ray Eames’ home, however, the two archi-
tects developed a binary language of
light--either fully allowing the Santa Monica
sun to penetrate their house’s numerous glass
panels, or completely deflecting its path with
the facade’s opaque segments. This either-or
construction combined with the Mondrian-
esque linearity of the house’s exterior
elevations drastically changed the way in
which light enters and diffuses a room. In-
stead of predictably and consecutively spaced
windows simply designed to act as conduits
for natural lighting, the geometry of the
Eames House creates within the building in-
tersecting and interacting volumes of sunlight
that each diffuse differently throughout the
interior. My suitcase aims to echo the many
ways in which light and translucency interact
with each other and to capture the segmented
way in which those volumes project them-
selves through space. Where one section
might look solid, a few abbreviated move-
ments show that in fact the illusion of opacity
merely comes from a series of interacting and
cooperating units which each interact differ-
ently with ambient lighting. In this way, light ABSTRACTION
becomes a volumetric solid; capable of creat- SPRING 2007
ing its own space within an interior.
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13. MIDTOWN PASSAGE
Midtown Manhattan is home to dozens of mid-
block passages that constitute privately owned
public space, most of which were created by
zoning changes in the 1970s that permitted de-
velopers and architects to build taller structures if
they included public passages. This project is an
exploration of how those public spaces could be
enriched from their current conditions to include
programmatic function -- in this case, as an open- DESIGN I
air book exchange program.
FALL 2008
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15. BIKE-SHARE STATION
This project is an exploration of Manhattan’s
perimeter and its transportation infrastructure.
Situated at the 72nd Street Boat Basin, the
bike-share station functions as an extension of
the bike path, creating both a resting place for
cyclists and a vista from which to observe and
contextualize the New Jersey and Lower DESIGN I
Manhattan skylines.
FALL 2008
16. LIBRARY PROJECT:
PROGRAMMATIC DETAIL
This project is rooted in the examination of
existing library systems and structures in an effort to
create a small-scale design model linking program, material,
and space. The detail to the right is a section of an automated book
retrieval and reshelving system housed in the underground core of a library.
The library’s main floor is left open and available for the other programmatic functions
frequently associated with libraries
19. LIBRARY PROJECT:
CHINATOWN SITE
Given a location at the corner of Canal and Eldridge
Streets in Manhattan and a list of specific programs
to include, this project is an exploration in specific
site construction. This library combines the usual
functions of a standard NYPL branch with space for
an outside organization, the Center for Urban
Pedagogy. Housed in the interior core of the building,
CUP’s offices are allowed to interact with the rest of
the library through the translucent strips of plexiglass
that act as windows for the interior space and ex-
trude to serve as bookshelves in the library’s exterior DESIGN II
space. SPRING 2008
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21. NEW ORLEANS RECOVERY
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, amateur photographers
posted more than 500,000 images of New Orleans and the
surrounding area on photo sharing sites like Flickr,
Webshots, and Pbase. This project was an attempt to
collect and organize just some of those “crowdsourced”
images through a group we created on Flickr to create an
interactive map of existing conditions and ongoing
renovation in the Mississippi Gulf region.
[With Jane Price Estrada, GSAPP ‘08] NEW ORLEANS
SPRING 2007
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23. RECYCL ABLES
This project is an exploration and comparison of re-
cycling programs in roughly 20 different cities around
the world. Analytic research and data compiled on
each region’s government-implemented recycling
program is supplemented by images taken by volun-
teers in every city of their weekly recycling output.
While perhaps less telling than raw statistical data,
the photographs will serve as a visual representation
of the diversity and volume of a standard household’s
recyclable output, and an indicator of how successful
various incentive programs work across the world.
ANALOG>DIGI
FALL 2008
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25. EVOLUTION OF A SKYLINE
The image of the downtown Manhattan skyline is
instantly recognizable. For nearly a century, buildings
like the former world trade center towers were
symbols of the success of a nation. However, the
evolution of the Manhattan skyline involves a
constant and cyclic process of creative destruction.
Following September 11th and the destruction of the
world trade center, then-Governor George Pataki and
Mayor Rudy Giuliani founded the Lower Manhattan
Development Corporation to initiate a program called
RenewNYC. Over the next several months, the LMDC
approached 24 different architecture firms to propose
their own plans for the site. But the decision process
was contentious and every design was rejected.
In August of 2002, developer Larry Silverstein took
over the project and asked seven architecture firms to
collaborate on a join master plan for the world trade
center. These were SOM, Foster, Shigeru Ban,
Richard Meier, United Architects, Daniel Libeskind,
and Peterson/Littenberg Architecture. This video
shows each of their original designs at the beginning
stages of planning. In a visual description of the sky-
line’s creative evolution throughout this process. ANALOG>DIGI
FALL 2008
[With Christopher Macies, CC ‘09]
29. THE MAKING OF MANHATTANVILLE
The Manhattanville Valley lies on the west bank of
upper Manhattan, sandwiched between
Morningside Heights to the south and Hamilton
Heights to the north. From the start of its
industrialization in the mid-19th century, the area
was converted from wooded forest and farmland to
a major transit hub for New York City -- containing
the West Harlem Piers on the Hudson, the
landmark Riverside Drive viaduct, and the city’s
first above-ground platform for the first New York
City subway line at 125th Street and Broadway.
By the 1950s, however, rapid urbanization
overtook the rest of the city and left Manhattanville
on the outskirts of New York. Many of the existing
structures were relegated to storage facilities and
autobody shops, and the area began to stagnate
without any significant subculture. Today,
Columbia owns most of Manhattanville, and has
plans to build another campus in the 17-acre tract
from 125th and 133rd Streets between Broadway
and Amsterdam. This project -- which exists at
www.manhattanville.net -- is a culmination of a
semester’s worth of research and nearly three
years of photographs in an attempt to capture
Manhattanville as it exists now -- on the cusp of its
INDEPENDENT
next major reincarnation. FALL 2008