BRICE M. SCHIANO ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 2018-2020
EDUCATION
Univ. of Southern California M.ARCH +2 | 2020-22
Univ. of Florida
B.ARCH | 2016-20 Summa Cum Laude
CONTENTS
Private Dwellings Lago di Garda, Italy
Design 08 | Spring 2020
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Verona, Italy
Design 08 | Spring 2020
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Venice, Italy
Design 08 | Spring 2020
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Orlando, FL
Competition | Winter 2020
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Volunteer | Summer 2018
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Hudson Yards District, NY
Design 07 | Fall 2019
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One Penn Plaza, NY
Design 07 | Fall 2019
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Los Angeles, CA
Grad 2 | Fall 2020
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Built Landscapes
Design / Build Gainesville, FL
Of The City
PRIVATE DWELLINGS
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VILLA - LAGO DI GARDA | SPRING 2020
Design 8 is the final studio of undergrad and it was used to study, understand, and engage through rigerous modes of inquiry the meaning of dwelling. We developed two seperate priavte homes, a Palazzo and a Villa. The contrast focusing on their context. Through formal transformations, metaphor, and material we shaped spaces to further our understanding of what it means to dwell in either of these contexts. Palazzo | Villa Univ. of Florida Design 08 Spring 2020 Prof. Lisa Huang & Peter Sprowls
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VILLA - LAGO DI GARDA | SPRING 2020
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VILLA - LAGO DI GARDA | SPRING 2020
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PALAZZO - VERONA | SPRING 2020
Ground Floor
1st Floor
2nd Floor
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PALAZZO - VERONA | SPRING 2020
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Univ. of Florida Design 08 Spring 2020 Prof. Lisa Huang & Peter Sprowls
BUILT LANDSCAPES
The Venetian Lagoon is an extremely delicate and dynamic force that drives the life and rhythm of the Venetians. Over time the lagoons tides have become more severe threatening the life of the city with the potential to sink looming in the future. This constructed landscape looks to use architecture in conjunction with coastal morphodynamics to create a model for what could be a protective barrier for the city but also allow the lagoon to behave how it is meant too; as a changing force. These changes produce a dynamic landscape across the seasons that allows for people to visit and enjoy the natural landscape of the lagoon.
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VENICE | SPRING 2020 16
“Ecology is the beautiful uncertainty of coexisting”
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Project Team:
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RESTITCHING PARRAMORE | WINTER 2020
Agostina Portabales Steffi Leoni V. Bandril Brice M Schiano
Competition Winter 2020 CBDX: CITIES FOR ALL International Design Ideas
RESTITCHING PARRAMORE
Within the cliche phrase, “the wrong side of the tracks” underlies an unfortunate truth where historically, many cities used physical and geographic barriers to reinforce racist beliefs. The effects of segregation rippled down into today’s urban landscape leaving indentations that continue to divide and oppress neighborhoods. This has economic, political, and social repercussions that influenced our site in downtown Orlando, Florida. On the Eastside of the brazen and deliberately named Division Avenue, lies a wealthier neighborhood where 70% of the demographic represents white Americans. Named Thornton Park, the neighborhood benefits from high-end restaurants, bars, tourism, and well-lit streets for pedestrian safety. In contrast, the neighborhood Parramore on the Westside represents a 76% black demographic, where unemployment has been as high as 23%. Parramore is a neighborhood that has been greatly impacted by segregation, and despite the city putting their efforts to “revitalize” the community, the neighborhood has not reaped the benefits. The tear in the Urban fabric is widened further apart due to a noisy railroad, and a monsterous I-4 highway that runs from North to South.
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RESTITCHING PARRAMORE | WINTER 2020
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RESTITCHING PARRAMORE | WINTER 2020
Existing Condition
Construction
Integration of Stitch
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Autonomous Vehicles
Night Life Our proposal restitches the fabric of Parramore to unify and provide equity to the community. Our aim is to do this in a way that prevents gentrification and benefits the current residents the most. Similar to the effects of a stitching needle, the project punctures north of the neighborhood to weave together the economic, and social benefits of Orlando’s tourism and provide safe pedestrian traffic to the underserved community. The design provides ample space in contrast to the narrow sidewalks, to ensure social distancing and offers unique views of the city. Along the walkways are strategic points of entry to encourage residents to easily enter, and connect them to important intersections or destinations. This will help both communities, Parramore and Thornton Park, with entertainment, job growth, and transportation. Highlighting local shops owned by residents was important to truly celebrate the culture of the community, and support the residents. 23
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RESTITCHING PARRAMORE | WINTER 2020
Directly, the project will not fix all of the problems of racial inequality, instead, it seeks to support and highlight the best qualities of the neighborhood and stimulate economic growth, a sense of identity and importance, to offer equal opportunities to the members of the Parramore.
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Existing Condition
Construction
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Facilities
Night Life
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DESIGN / BUILD |SUMMER 2018
Univ. of Florida Summer 2018 Prof. Charlie Hailey Prof. Elizabeth Cronin
DESIGN BUILD- PLAYGROUND FOR SATCHELS PIZZA
Satchel’s Pizza had been burned down by a fire affecting much of the playground outside as well. When Re-opening we were given the opportunitity to design and rebuild the new playground while also using as much recylced materials as possible. The intent of the project was to design not a typical playground with swings and a slide, but create spaces and zones that would enaged with the senses of the children to play and become interactive with the architecture and while providing a safe place to play.
Project Team: Adriana Dunlap Jonathan Haist Amanda Herring Brice M Schiano
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DESIGN / BUILD |SUMMER 2018
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DESIGN / BUILD |SUMMER 2018
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OF THE CITY | FALL 2019
Project Team:
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Agostina Portabales Brice M Schiano
Univ. of Florida Design 07 Fall 2019 Prof. Judi Monk
OF THE CITY
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Engaging in New York City, the two projects set to explore how we design vertical interventions while responding to the urban context. We set to investigate the opportunity of creating more dynamic and engaging public spaces and environments in both the towers themselves but also in the hinge of how they expand into and out of the ground plane. The exploration into how we can move the public realm up off the street and into more elevated positions helped mold the spaces we created in the towers.
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HUDSON YARDS DISTRICT | FALL 2019
Creating a dialogue between the two towers as they create a ‘gateway’ down 8th Ave into the Penn Station plaza.
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Lifting public space off ground level creates a new dynamic type of movement. Instead of just engaging the urban grid in only a horizontal orientation, it causes the pedestrain to engange in the vertical as well creating new opportunities.
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ONE PENN PLAZA | FALL 2019 38
speculative atmospheric perspectives
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Haystacks by Claude Monet
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ONE PENN PLAZA | FALL 2019
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The physical spaces we live in, work in and play in have a profound impact on our culture and social fiber.
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ONE PENN PLAZA | FALL 2019
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ONE PENN PLAZA | FALL 2019
The Wheat Field by Claude Monet
How do we take the architectural landscapes painted by artists, such as Monet, and transform them into the built urban enviornment?
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GROUP EFFORTS | USC INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
The goal is not just to develop student housing but to create a student dwelling, which is more of a dialogue of physical structure and human activity. A relationship between the tangible and intangible aspects of housing. Different cultures have different forms of home that is a product of long-lasting diffuse of knowledge shared by all for all. Thus the model becomes a result of the collaboration of many people across periods of time. The International House celebrates individuality, differences, collaboration, and expression. The project aims to provide a framework to re-focus back onto the individuals who make up the international house instead of hiding them behind a singular face.
Univ. of Southern California ARCH605A Fall 2020 Prof. Selwyn Ting
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
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630 ft
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1,100 ft 425 ft
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EXISTING SITE
1/64’’ = 1’ - 0’’
SITE EXPOSURE TO SURROUNDING CONTEXT
SITE ENGAGEMENT OF EXISTIN
SITE MAP
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The Site is located on an important corner of USC Village that is not only a major intersection but across from a main campus entrance. The site now is an empty lot with a bisecting sidewalk making its only use a transient one. With the intervention of the proposal the site becomes highly visible at the intersection coming from all directions and will thus become a symbol of the entrance to campus, but also a obvious place for people to meet or gather.
1/64’’ = 1’ - 0’’
NG CONTEXT
The two streets that border the site are heavily used in both vehicular traffic and pedestrian/bikers. The proposal starts to engage the existing movement corridors by pushing and pulling on the site edges to give more space where more people are likely to be as well as starting to create buffers from the busy streets to create a more pleasant plaza environment without disconnecting it completely from the visual of the street or campus. 51
GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
The Phrase “Kit of Parts” is used to describe the assembly as a way of expres the opportunities for the residents to give more identity to their own units. Usua student housing the only way of self expression is by what posters you put on the w In this proposal there is a lightened scaffold that extends out of the main structu provide a depth for balconies to exist between causing them to read more prima the assembly . The balconies then become a space for students to use and manipu how they desire. The addition of a operable screen provides an additional laye students to control privacy, and sunlight, but also contributes to the overall readin the building and the dynamic change in the perception of the building over the tim the day.
PROGRAM ORGANIZATION PUBLIC CIRCULATION/ COMMON SPACES RESIENTIAL UNITS PUBLIC SPACE / RETAIL/ PLAZA
CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
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PUBLIC CIRCULATION/ COMMON SPACES DYNAMIC STAIR ELEVATOR / FIRE STAIRS / UTILITY CORRIDORS / BRIDGE
STRUCTURAL DIAGRAM
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EXPLODING AXON ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
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1 - Lobby 2 - Flex Space 3 - Cafe 4 - Common Space 5 - Plaza 6 - Pavilion 7- Mechanical 8 - Public Restroom
FLOOR PLAN- 7TH FLOOR
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
The introduction of adaptable scaffolding in the public space begins to challenge the traditional, building and plaza urban adjacency. The idea is that plaza and building conflated-one produces the other. The function and perception of the building is not a singular identity but one that is flexible and changes over time for what is needed or desired.
SECTION A-A
WITH THEATRE PLAZA CONFIGURATION
SCAFFOLDING CONFIGURATIONS
*MULTIPLE SCALES
- MOVIE SCREEN (03) - SUN SHADE (04) - MARKET / FAIR BOOTHS (05) - EXHIBITION (06) - ART INSTALLATION (07) - LIGHT POSTS/ BENCH (09) - CONCERT STAGE (10) - ARTIFICIAL TOPOGRAPHY
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FULL APT
DOUBLE / FAMILY OCCUPANCY FULL KITCHEN + LIVING SPACES 400 SQF
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MICRO APT
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
SINGLE OCCUPANCY; SMALL KITCHENETTE 200 SQF + 50 SQF BALCONY
DORM STYLE
DOUBLE OCCUPANCY; 200 SQF + 50 SQF BALCONY
MICRO APARTMENT PERSPECTIVE
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SECTION B-B
WITH OVERHEAD SUNSHADE PLAZA CONFIGURATION
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DETAIL OF SECTION B-B
GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
DETAIL OF SECTION A-A
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GROUP EFFORTS | FALL 2020
EXHIBITION SCAFFOLDING INTERVENTION
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The incompleteness of the building is to help users connect to their environment through its porous boundaries, less rigid and more engaging. The incomplete invites appropriation and misuse, and open to multiple interpretations. This also provides more transparency in the public areas to encourage curiosity and connect visually across the site and campus.
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Frames from GIF
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