Jacqueline Syegco
Syegco has been practicing Architecture for a few years at a small firm in Connecticut, the state where she was born and raised. She began her career in the construction business at a young age, working as a laborer for her grandfather constructing residential foundations during high school. Surrounded by construction while growing up, she knew she wanted it to be a part of her life, leading her to pursue a career as an architect. Syegco completed her undergraduate studies locally at the University of Hartford but found herself on construction sites after graduation, drifting further from the path to licensure. It took years before she found her current position, where she now manages multiple retail, medical facility, and multi-family residential projects, functioning close to the level of project architect. At the start of the pandemic, Jacqueline decided to finish the goal she set out to complete all those years ago. She began studying at LTU and started her Architect Registration Exams (AREs). Syegco is currently one semester away from graduation and a few tests away from licensure.
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Accessible Long Spans: Pairing Current Analysis Software with Common Resources to Create Monumental Architecture with Developing Communities
MajorArchitecture [M.Arch]
DescriptionHistorically long spans have been linked to power and wealth. Developing countries, through technologies and research, have had access to the larger scale and more complex architecture. Isolated parts of the world are left to discover through accessible means. Using local means of construction, the common, accessible material is paper tubes. A form as well as a process of building can be established, repeated, and adapted as a leave behind building strategy. The technology to bridge the gap between simple tools, repeated operations, common materials, and complex geometry in the form of long span architecture is at reach. The intent is not to create a new type of form or to discover a new quadratic equation but to better establish the connection between the complex and the simple. The analysis and proof of form comes through advanced computer aided technologies and software. Markets are a critical factor for the economies in developing countries, and from precedent research, will benefit from accessible long spans achieved through this analysis. Several of the countries of Africa have the largest projected population growth in the world with Markets critical to their growth. The architect is not designing the exact form but is more of an influence on how the community can implement their strategies over time with accessible resources. Within the communities the architecture has to be adopted, and then implement sound structures with common materials to then be adapted by the people. As the economy grows, so will the implementation strategies. Using paraboloid geometry, simple tools, repeated operations, and common materials, the architect can create accessible, non-invasive long spans that can be adapted and developed to define current and future trading points in developing communities.