• produced renderings in Enscape and Photoshop + exterior construction details while modeling in Revit for projects focused in healthcare and K-12 programs
Expected May 2025 Spring 2023
Expected May 2025
June 2024 - Aug. 2024
• researched products, specifications, and communicated with product representatives for lighting design proposals included in client meetings
• participated in on-site analysis and construction site visits to healthcare and collegiate projects
• discussed preliminary massings strategies for K-12 fieldhouse using Revit, Rhino, and Sketchup
Urban Voids Drawing Class Workshop | Architensions | New York, NY December 2023
Architecture Intern | Bottega17 | Florence, IT
• completed final competition submission while adhering to deadlines for mixed-use high school campus by modeling with Rhino + drafting in AutoCAD for renderings and physical models
• modeled in Rhino exisitng church from the approx. 1500s using analog drawings
• discussed and sketched through precedents for preliminary design of church rennovations
LEADERSHIP
Resident Advisor | Office of Student Living | Syracuse, NY
Architecture Peer Advisor | School of Architecture
Food Recovery Network | Executive Board Member
Social Media and Outreach Coordinator
Student Supervisor | Graham Dining Hall | Syracuse, NY
3D Printing | Laser Cutting | Wood | Foam Core | Paper Aug. 2021 - Jan. 2023 Fall 2023 Nov. 2020 - May 2022
Nov. 2021 - Dec. 2022
01 Perforated Inversion of Slocum Hall
with Sreya Pillai
Spring 2024
Lawrence Davis
Syracuse, NY
Using mass timber, this project expands off of the exisiting facade of Slocum Hall. The structure appears in a typical grid with the gallery and review volumes interupting the intensity of the grid with double height spaces facilitated by transfer beams.
The book core of the library has been condensed to allow for open seating arrangements for the studying and social aspects of architecture school. The core also creates a structural gradient with the columns becoming smaller until the exterior screen. This screen mirrors the hatches placed on the windows and floors of Slocum Hall to communicate the visual branding of the School of Architecture on the exterior.
Rhinocerous, V-Ray, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop
structure
enclosure
3rd Floor
a Terrace
b Study Space
c Balcony
d Review Space
Slocum Hall (existing)
Proposed “library core” as a translation of Slocum Hall’s exisitng open atrium, creating a dialectic inversion between the exisiting and proposed spatial relationship
Pillai + Schwartz
Pillai + Schwartz
existing
inside Slocum Hall
Pillai + Schwartz
02 Remembering “Old” Billingsgate
with Hanbyul Oh and Graham Warren
Spring 2023
Vanessa Lastrucci
Amber Bartosh
London, England
After becoming familiar with Old Billingsgate as a building, we furthered our understanding of its relevance as a historic site. Our interventions have questioned the role of memory devoid of and dependent on intangible and tangible aspects of humanity’s marks throughout time.
The question that guided our process returned to the idea- what does the word “Billingsgate” want to be defined as today with already 1,000 years of meaning? How does it want to be remembered into the 21st century? And, what can it be defined as in the future?
As we build for today in speculation of the future, we are also creating history. This marketplace is our response to the omnipotent passage of time that ultimately puts all of our work in the past.
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.”
- Gustav Mahler
The form of the arch was built and reconfigured throughout the site for centuries and symbolizes a place of gathering and exchange
Old Billingsgate
Billingsgate Fish Market
PROPOSED
PUBLIC
Billingsgate
Billingsgate Market
The ghosted arch structure of the proposed memorial acts as a symbol to the cultural history of the site lost to privitization.
Warren + Schwartz
Blynesgate
Byllynsgate
Bellens gate
Proposed
Warren
Main metal rebar sculptural support
Density of lateral bracing increases gradually towards the top of the memorial to obscure the larger structural members
Oh + Warren + Schwartz
Warren + Schwartz
03 B17 Education Center
Summer 2023 Internship at Bottega17
Design Competition in Via Torino of the Municipality of Aosta | 2nd Place Florence, IT
The design proposal was the combination of high school discplines relating to both art and engineering in Northern Italy. The project work ranged from modeling the stair cores in Rhino, creating AutoCAD templates for the maquette, and producing linework for the submission boards towards the final stages of the competition submission.
Rhinocerous, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD
rendered post internship
04 Life Sciences Facade Optimization
with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum and Jayden Schexnayder
Spring 2024
Nina Wilson
Syracuse, New York
The existing Life Sciences building at Syracuse University has high energy loads as an extensive lab space and roof greenhouse. In thinking about how to decrease the building’s carbon footprint beyond its initial design, we researched methods of integrating energy efficiency into the facade
This culminated in exploring the limitations of current solar panel screening devices in conjunction with speculative technology that could integrate mechanical members to keep the panel surfaces in alignment with sunpaths for “total” optimization.
Mitrex is a company based in Canada specializing in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) that utilize the sun to generate electricity through their solar glass and solar facade technologies. BIPVs are advantageous because they can replace the outer layer of the structure while the solar technology can be concealed behind it. Solar panels are typically building-applied photovoltaics (BAPVs) that cannot be concealed and require more space which limits their use, often relegated to roofs, poles, or the ground.
The solar facade has four separate, yet thin layers (glass/customizable facing, solar cells, back sheet, and aluminum honeycomb) which allow for lightweight, customizable, high-strength panels. They also offer a wide range of surface treatments via their facing which can take on the aesthetics of several materials from brick, wood, to even personalized graphics with varying levels of wattage production. Additionally, they can come in a variety of shapes, sizes, configurations, and orientations from flat tiles to fins and circles to hexagons. The layer of solar cells is also customizable and provides thermal resistance and noise control while ensuring durability and safety. Overall, the system can be used as a solar facade, noise barrier, siding, or spandrel panel.
Mitrex Color Samples
Existing Redesign
Red illustrates the current amount of direct sunlight entering the lab and classroom spaces - attributing to heat gain and glare.
Proposed interior operable vertical louvres allow for direct, indirect, or the near absence of sunlight as controlled by the building occupants.
Brittis-Tannenbaum
Redesign with Solar Panels
While solar panels are generally deemed as “sustainable”, we do want to acknowledge the amount of energy that goes into their production, mineral extraction, and the transportation emissions from these extraction sites worldwide is very detrimental at the scale of the global supply chain.
To acknowledge this is the ATHENA analysis, “Project Extra Materials” accounts for the materials as raw objects that comprise solar panels to gain the closest estimate as possible using this software.
Operable Louvre System
+ Schwartz
Aluminum Honeycomb Sheet
Solar Backsheet
Photovoltaic Panels
Colored Cladding Panels
Optimization
05 Landmark Preservation Committee Civic Center
with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum
Fall 2023
Rami Abou-Khalil
New York, NY
This proposed version of a new LPC Headquarters uses values outlined in formal documentation and points of debate in hearings. These include materiality, scale, and proportion. Through this proposal, we strategically question what is “appropriate” for expansions in the historic district of Greenwich Village.
This sculptural form uses brick, a ubiquitous material found in historic buildings, to subvert the original masonry facade of an abandoned clinic while doubling its usable space.
Subversion of the historic facade takes place visually through the parametric rotation of brick.
Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz
Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz
Brittis-Tannenbaum
The bricks are exisitng facade subverted
The texture facades and
This material masonry facade garden and
Ground Floor Hearing Hall
of brick references the “anonymous antiquity” of and alleys in Greenwich Village.
material acts as a protective shell, encasing the existing facade while claiming the streetscape as sculpture and exterior seating as observed throughout the district.
are rotated on an axis of 15-90o. From human scale, the facade and acitvty within is simultaneously exposed and as one’s perspective changes.
Observation Deck + Terrace
Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz
+ Schwartz
Early massing models beginning to consider public space engagement while doubling useable space for community program requirements.
Schwartz
Catalogue of Historic Features at Snug Harbor in Stanton Island, NY
Imaging the “El” in Greenwich Village, NY circa. 1920
06 Urban Voids Drawing Workshop with Architensions
with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum
Fall 2023
Nick Roseboro
Alessandro Orsini
Urban Voids analyzes the historical changes in the riverfront of the UN complex. Previous housing developments, hospitals, and parks have been privatized as the area gained international political importance.
The drawn concept of urban voids aims to document the phenomenon of traditionally public buildings, like the Ford Foundation Atrium, remaining empty due to the privitization of spaces in the city.
