This work seeks to investigate, explore, and challenge the many complexities of our built environment beginning at the scale of the hand to the scale of a global system. Craft and large-scale thinking work in tandem in order to tackle and spatialize the design objectives I have accumulated and contiue to accumulate throughout my architectural explorations.Design is an iterative learning process and as an architect,curiosities consistently lead me in new directions, towards new questions, and newly formed methods I seek to explore.
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A School for El Pantanal began in November 2013 when the initiative reCOVER organization + team of 5 student architects received the Jefferson Public Citizen’s Grant to travel to Nicaragua and design a school in collaboration with the nonprofit Granada Christian Education Center.
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The project includes the first phase, a primary school for the 800 children of El Pantanal, and additional programming including a secondary and trade school, market and specialty agriculture, and volunteer hosuing. The project strives to design effective and beautiful spaces giving priority to the community’s daily needs and wellbeing
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810 west main street mixed use residential charlottesville virginia 2nd year studio l spring 2013
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Beginning in the 1730s, West Main Street emerged as a major east-west route for the City of Charlottesville and developed as a cultural and business hub with the instillation of the Virginia Central Rail in the 1850s. 810 West Main Street will not only revive West Main Street’s activity but also attract city residents and visitors to a thriving, mixeduse, transit-oriented community. Through the manipulation of Charlottesville’s sloping topography, a new hierarchy of ground is created. The ground becomes an active greenway that encourages spaces of privacy, community, and public and retail services. Maintaining the city’s train and transportation hub, this project develops multi-unit apartment complexes along the green corridor. Building, landscape, and diveristy in program merge to construct a new throughway, inviting citizens
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801 Main Street apartments includes both duplex and single unit apartments in order to target a larger, more diverse demographic of Charlottesville residents. While the single-unit has been designed for a growing population of young professionals temporarily moving to the city and recent graduates from the adjacent university, the duplex unit responds to a growing need for family apartments. The duplex units are interlocking two-story, two bedroom units that have been designed to attract citizens eager to move to the city center from the surrounding Albermale County.
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37 58’02” N 78 28‘28” W ELEVATION: 630’ SOCIAL SPACE VISTA TO THE MOUNTAINS
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The territory of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, the State of Virginia are ridden with history—larger landscapes archeological grids awaiting exploration by its citizens and visitors. This project gains relevance through its multiple scales of topographic transformation.
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The relationship between water’s flow and constructed ground is explored from the scale of the site to the moment of roof drainage at the scale of the residential cabins. Terracing from existing vistas, the cabins draw their users across the changing topography—encouraging them to recognize and contemplate the dynamic landscape and to uncover Morven’s geological and cultural histories. The roof primarily serves as water catchment; each cabin has a unique excavation into the ground according to water’s flow at the specific elevation; the vernacular framing of the barns’ trusses on site have been transformed in order to collect and then distribute water from the roof to the heating tank to the washroom’s sink and toilet; to then return and nourish the ground by a septic field below. Within the cabin, the scale of a window and the scale of Morven are drawn together—the user finds a peace—a sense of wellbeing—in understanding the relationship between oneself and the surrounding land.
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Route 29 has outgrown Charlottesville. Over 25,000 people live between 250 and the Rivanna, and forecasts predict continued growth. As a booming commercial corridor, this strip has sprawled without plan or purpose, yielding an asphalt wasteland, a relic of 20th century sprawl. Virginia’s General Assembly will incorporate this land as a New City. The 250 overpass marks a nexus — a gateway from historic Charlottesville to the nascent 21st century city. The New City will forge its own identity, starting with the road itself. Since 90% of the current traffic is local, Route 29 becomes a street rather than a highway. The strip is New City’s Main Street, a central boulevard and focus of its commercial life. 29 is pulled apart. In between the right of way, a new city block provides valuable mixed use space and public plazas to establish identity and generate a friendly, human scaled environment.
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The New City has greater connectivity, encouraging walking and dispersing local traffic with a dense street grid. The New City embraces alternative transportation. Light rail runs down the new center blocks to Emmett Street and Downtown. The New City is a living habitat—development on the high ground works with topography, where light rail stations are the center of dense neighborhoods. Valleys are protected and serve as green corridors. The New City is a vibrant, identifiable place. Existing big box stores are interspersed with shops, offices, and residential, absorbing new jobs and residents.
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Away from the core, urban centers yield to single-family neighborhoods, attracting a diversity of residents. Community gardens, access to the Rivanna Trail, and park land encourages a healthy and playful lifestyle. In 2029, the highway is now a place.
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In reaction to the Arab Springs Uprising and the onset of the Syrian Crisis, over 500,000 refugees have entered Jordan in search of security and the promise of wellbeing. Living throughout Jordan’s urban centers and the Zaatari Refugee Camp in the Al-Mafraq region, Syrians live in fear as daily life is void of the promise of rudimentary life resources. Currently, the host nation of Jordan urgently seeks alternative water resources for not only the growing refugee population but Jordanians whose lives have been largely depleted since the war’s onset. Within one of the poorest countries in the world in terms of available water, the refugee population is a major sink on Jordan’s already depleted water supply. As the camp appears more likely to be permanent, alternative water resources must be sought. Hydroscape proposes both active and passive water treatment as an infrastructural opportunity for the construction of a permanent Zaatari Camp. Both a wastewater treatment plant and passive strategies such as the living machine serve as dynamic backbones for the development of Syrians’ quality of life. Throughout the water treatment process every structure and phase serve as a space for Syrians’ daily life. Immense industrial water tanks interact with wetland landscapes and public and private programming. Ultimately, water, its treatment, and its immediacy serve as promises of life security for the future of the Syrian population and the larger Jordanian population.
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This flood level has its title of “danger zone” repealed due to permanent infrastruture--mostly housing-being raised clear of the waters and the peninsulas redirecting the flow.
THE FLOOD: 206 MARK 04. SYSTEM RIVER + FLOOD 1:500 S.SHARP
Drains emptying into the river on the lower east bank also serve as backwash channels that provide a safe route for water to bleed into the city.
THE FLOOD: 208 MARK (SPECULATIVE) 04. SYSTEM RIVER + FLOOD 1:500 S.SHARP
The path that the Yamuna will take is less clear in the event of a 100-year flood and is likely to cause damage to the city. This illustrates how the floodwater might be contained with the use of a higher wall along the parallel embankments. As the highest point on the peninsulas reaches to 209, residents would remain safe.
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The Yamuna supplies the city of New Delhi with much of its drinking water, channeled from the river by a network of pipes at the point of entry of the river into the city. Yet, within the space of a few kilometers, Delhi dumps much untreated sewage and other toxic effluent into the river rendering the river “dead� and posing serious health hazards not only to the city but also all downstream cities, towns and villages. This work addresses the fundamental schizophrenic dilemma confronting New Delhi. In a series of design phases, the studio worked as a collaborative office to tackle the critical issue of how to create a vision of the flood plain of the Yamuna, presently ignored as a potential urban recreational core for the city. Currently, rampant encroachment by new construction, illegal sand mining, and hazardous pollution and industrial waste afflict this area along the river. The site offers significant design opportunities at the urban / landscape / infrastructural scale, as well as at the scale of individual architectural interventions. Beginning with an intensive phase of research and speculative design proposals at the scale of the riverfront, this works zooms in on specific areas along its banks- the 30 percent of the city living informally, without access to a reliable, sanitary source of drinking water.
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URBAN FABRIC 01. RESEARCH HOUSING AND PUBLIC SPACE
INFRASTRUCTURAL
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Various urban spatial patterns emerge throughout the Yamuna River corridor in Delhi. In illustration of the relationship between formalized residential and public space and corresponding land value, these spatial typologies indicate a relative consistency between inhabitant, value of site, and location in relation to the river with a greater concentration of minmial public space and low land value on the banks and east of the river. The study additionally gives insight to the informal development of space along the Yamuna.
This map illustrates the current mobility condition of Delhi. Dark black lines represent major highways, light gray line smaller roads, dashed lines represent metro and train lines and light black represents dirt roads on the flood plane. Access to the river is limited and for the most part blocked by roads or traintracks. The roads currently on the flood plain mainly service farmers.
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THE EVOLUTION OF DELHI 01. INVESTIGATION + ANALYSIS FLOOD+RIVER 1:7500 A.IACCARINO
Since the emergence of the Mughal Empire, the city of Delhi has had an intimate history and urban interaction with the Yamuna River. However, with the development of Lutyen’s Plan and the rule of the Birtish Empire, Delhi has turned its back on the River- a neglected site of life, ecology, and and most essentially water. The Yamuna Corridor Masterplan returns Delhi to the river banks- restitching the urban East and West.
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HOUSING IN THE FLOODPLAIN
Using the floodplain of 19.8 km , and it’s edges as the primary sites for a new housing infrastructure, a new population of approximately 290,000 are supplied shelter, accommodating for over 50% of the 1 lakh housing shortage. Targeting areas of particular densities and demographics, the housing is easily accessible for those areas to transition to, as well as introducing a mixed typology to encourage mixed demographics in the new “downtown” of 1:500 Delhi on the floodplain with an average population density of 38,160 people per square kilometer.
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1 km 3-6 story formalized housing to relocate 17,912 people from slums in Northeast Delhi 5 person/unit average 40% 1 BHK 57% 2 BHK 3% 3-4 BHK
HOUSING | POPULATION 53,440
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1 km 2 3-8 story formalized housing to relocate 15,888 people from slums in East Delhi 4 person/unit average 56% 1 BHK 39% 2 BHK 5% 3-4 BHK
HOUSING | POPULATION 11,552
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0.5 km 2 6-7 story formalized housing to relocate 4,032 people from slums in West Delhi 4 person/unit average 100% 2 BHK
HOUSING | POPULATION 25,296
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1 km2 dense 3-6 story housing units to relocate 14,616 people from Okhla and southwest Delhi slums 5-6 person/unit average 78% 1 BHK 22% 3 BHK
5 HOUSING | POPULATION 129,920
proposed floodable housing
1 km 2 dense flood-adapted 6-8 story housing units to relocate 40,000 people from slum in Southwest Delhi 6 person/unit average 100% 1 BHK
PROPOSED HOUSING PROPOSED HOUSING 04. SYSTEMS
Using the floodplain of 19.8 km2, and it’s edges as the primary sites for a new housing infrastructure, a new pop-
Housing in Delhi.....ulation of approximately 290,000 are supplied shelter, accommodating for over 50% of the 1 lakh housing shortHousing in Delhi.....
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03 D ES IG N EXPL O RATI O N
HOUSING IN THE FLOODPLAIN
M adanpur K hadar D el hi
agri c ul t ure and rec reat ional s pac e in f loodz one
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8-10 story BHK housing
IRRIGATION
mobilit y + wat er dr ainage
informal market grounds
pedestrian leisure path
FLOOD PLAIN
FLOOD RELIEF
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neighborhood agricultural plots (15x16 m space per unit)
leisure park and recreation
bus stop per neighborhood
ritual space
6-8 floor 1 BHK housing
informal market exchange
multimodal transportation stop
INFORMAL COURTYARD BELOW
daylighted waterway access
k-5 primary school+sports fields
fl o o d s c a p e + e l e v a ti o n l e v e l s
s i t e s t rat egy
f looplain hous ing ax onomet r ic
This design intervention redefines the construction and design of housing along the floodplain in the Madanpur Khadar Bund currently at an elevation of 203.8 and thus entirely flooded during the monsoon season. Six to eight story affordable 1BHK and 2BHK apartments will house an existing demographic of 40,000 along the river banks. Although an increase in density, the density is designed vertically as to create a large swath of public space and subsistence agriculture along the river. Each unit will be allotted a 15x16 m space to feed themselves annually and to serve as a potential source of profit. New irrigation canal infrastructure, flood spillways, and daylighted water treatment drains serve as major axis connecting this region into the city core. Delhi’s larger water system defines both residential and public space for citizens.
semi-public backyard
exterior courtyard ritual space
FLOOD PLAIN
wetlands water treatment + park
RIVER BANKS
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deloitte revit + model making arch 3260 university of virginia
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The Revit software generates opportunities for design exploration and evaluation providing material and structural drawings essential for a project’s analysis and development.
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axi8rg@virginia.edu 508_847_7898 current residence: charlottesville virginia permanent residence: boston masschusetts
education
the university of virginia school of architecture september 2011-may 2015 bachelors of science architecture worcester academy preperatory school september 2007-june 2011 high school diplomacy
gpa 4.0 gpa 4.5
extracurricular initiative reCOVER october 2013-present
A student-based design project in granada nicaragua involving the phased design and construction of a multiple education, recreation, and market facilities. Included on ground experience at the site abroad as well as working directly with the client, general contractor, and construction team.
re-CENTERING DELHI
Co-Editor january 2015-present
Position involving the creation, publication, and oversight of UVA School of Architecture’s school-wide research and design proposals for the City of Delhi, India’s Municipal Government and Planning Board.
Madison House Big Sibling Program
Head Program Director may 2014-present Program Director may 2013-april 2014
Volunteer program based at Madison House- a nonprofit organization in Charlottesville VA. Involved the oversight of 200+ volunteers, management of a 15 person program staff, and a partnership with the city’s education department,.
University of Virginia Alpha Phi Sorority
Director of Philanthropy; 2012- present
Position included the planning, management, and marketing of events benefitting the Women’s Heart Health Foundation. Additionally served as the chapter’s fundraising and donor representative.
University of Virginia Club Field Hockey
2011- present
Alternative Spring Break Program jamaica march 2012 dominican republic march 2013 Nashville TN march 2014
Student-run service organization in which I commited three spring vacations to working in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic as a student teacher and in Nashville TN as volunteer for Nashville Food Project’s urban farming initiatives.
AIAS [American Institute for Architecture Students] UVA First Year Representative 2012 Secretary 2013
UVA chapter of the national student run AIAS organization which provides services and resources on issues critical to an architectural education.
professional experience + employment
mass design group boston ma externship december 2014 january 2015 sasaki associates watertown ma externship june 2011 june 2012 oaklander coogan & vitto new york ny externship december 2012 crozet pizza and buddhist biker bar waitress + bartender august 2013-present
recent honors
university of virginia jefferson scholar university of virginia school of architecture intermediate honors university of virginia jefferson public citizens grant university of virginia raven society initiate SEED network SEED design certification aga khan, swiss embassy re-CENTERING DELHI studio work on exhibit university of virginia school of architecture selection of studio work for accrediation+publciation worcester academy cum laude
contributing professors + professionals inaki alday anselmo canfora elizabeth roettger peter waldman pankaj vir gupta megan suau matthew pinyan nancy freedman richard vitto
study abroad
China India + Southeast Asia
jefferson scholars foundation foreign travel studues summer 2013
Granada Nicaragua
jefferson public citizens grant summer 2014
proficiency
autocad rhinoceros 5.0 revit adobe illustror adobe photoshop adobe indesign microsoft office sketching hand drafting model making cnc routing
issuu.com/alexandraiaccarino axi8rg@virginia.edu 508 847 7898