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Described by her professors as a “maker and a thinker with a strong emotive dimension to her work”, Erin Pellegrino is interested in the human qualities of architecture. Currently, she is pursuing a Master’s of Architecture II from the Harvard Gradute School of Design. Previously, she graduated from Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture in 2014 where her design excellence was recognized with the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal for her thesis on architecture and perfume. In spring 2013, she was nominated to represent Cornell University’s Bachelor of Architecture program for the AIANYS student work competition. She has also been awarded the Seipp Prize and York Prize. Erin has worked for a range of firms and institutions, as a designer at FXFOWLE, as an artist’s assistant to Jane Philbrick, as a Teaching Associate at Cornell University, and as a shop assistant at both the Cornell University and Harvard University fabrication shops. Most recently she was awarded first prize in Redesigning Detroit, a competition for the redesign of a vacant city block in Detroit, Michigan. This was a result of a collaboration with Davide Marchetti, a Roman architect and visiting critic at Cornell University’s Cornell in Rome program. In the summer of 2011, Erin traveled to South Africa as a part of a Design + Build team to construct an early education crèche in Johannesburg. Other projects include a collaboration with Jake Rudin on a renovation of a Richard Meier home in Ithaca, NY, which was awarded a Historic Ithaca Preservation Award as well as construction of a Ceremonial Japanese Tea House in Danby, NY.
Project Type: Academic - Thesis Awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal Advisors: Mark Cruvellier and Mark Morris Fall 2013 “[Architecture] is fundamentally confronted with questions of human existence in space and time; it expresses and relates man’s being in the world.” - Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
How can space illustrate the un-seeable? How can it engage our senses? This thesis project was an attempt to orchestrate the architecture of the invisible, one that is sensed primarily by the nose rather than the eyes. Taking advantage of an abandoned railway tunnel, the work focuses on the mediation of human perception and the earth’s richness of botanicals and essences. Both public and private, the intervention moves from city to garden through a Parisian perfume academy. The scheme consists of several distinct moments along the linear rail track: the entry, the botanical cells, the bar and distillation area, the studios and scent rooms, the master’s studio and finally the exit/emergence into the Parc Montsouris. The composition is a processional experience to understand the interplay of space and scent. A large sectional model, made of cedar, was a useful tool in presenting the invisible qualities of the project, while still maintaining a traditional representation of an architectural scheme. The drawings were developed using various hand and digital techniques to convey atmosphere, sectional qualities, and challenge typical perception in a two-dimensional format. The representation of the project was aimed at uncovering the invisible qualities of our senses, and bridge a disconnect between space and the experience of the body within it. The project was given the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal in May of 2014, which is awarded for exceptional merit in architectural design.
THE ENTRY
THE UNDERGROUND BAR
Here is where city and garden merge. Upon entering the site through a large trellis, the visitor is guided through a structure that supports greenhouse cells. This is where many of the products for distillation are grown throughout the year.
Here is where human and nature collide. Now totally underground, the bar begins the spatial zone of distillation. Here, both the oils and the body is prepared for perfume. The bar continues along the axis of the garden, and serves as a crucial point in user-interface. Alcohol is an integral part in the perfuming process, as it becomes a vehicle for dilution for the oils. It is also simultaneously preparing the skin by momentarily dilating and then sealing the scent within the skin’s pores. In moderate amounts, alcohol can cause blood vessel dilation which improves circulation. This is why people report feeling warmer while they are drinking. Improved circulation means that the rate at which your body’s natural frequency interacts with perfume is increased, thus increasing your natural chemistry and ability to interact with the oils in perfume.
THE STUDIOS
THE MASTER’S ORGAN
Eight studios occupy the tracks in the uncovered area within the park. This portion of the old track is put back into use, as the studios are rearrangeable. Branching off from this, new tracks have been added to serve as turnoffs into the north wall. Within the wall are eight scent rooms and their corresponding libraries, the studios serve as a regulator to the libraries, and the shelves of perfumes correspond to the furniture and openings within the glass studio. This allows the studio to function as a space of learning as well as a place of study. The scent rooms are derived from the composition of the eight categories of fragrances. Their forms constructed from the timing and anatomy of the different scents, their properties, and characteristics. Above the scent rooms sits an atomizer. This lamp-post sized apparatus disperses the scents from the studio and scent rooms below, and is featured above each of the different rooms. A fragrant vapor is emitted into the park at times controlled by the students and the master.
Here is where the Master is placed, serving as a gatekeeper and composer. His organ is situated at the entry to the exit tunnel, where he has the ability to control the scents that are released through the main atomizer. This atomizer also serves as the main apparatus around which the exit circulation occurs. Its introduction into the park is both a marker and a folly, finally punctuating the grand inner-workings of the world below. It is here where the main idea of the architecture is finally revealed to the world above.
Project Type: Competition, First Prize Collaboration with Davide Marchetti Architetto Spring 2013
Using the surrounding urban fabric as the generator for a new vision of the city, MiniCity Detroit utilizes the historic and present urban conditions to materialize a concept that directly responds to the site. Bringing the existing physical form and history into the plan, the conditions set by the site provide a framework for renewal. At the pedestrian level a new urban space is formed; conceived of as the extension of Woodward Avenue, providing a space for transition as well as an active urban core. Both above and below, an elevated platform for public events such as fairs, outdoor markets, music concerts and festivals is introduced to the proposal. The design pulls the existing urban grid into the site to generate the driving axes of the scheme, allowing for a merging of both the historic city and its potential as a new addition to the woodward avenue corridor. The high-rise extrudes from this framework in an industrial red brick-style, inserted as a new architectural addition to the Detroit skyline.
POPHOUSE
Project Type: Academic Collaboration with Frederick Kim and Katie MacDonald Fall 2013
Pop House is a climbable, modular shelter that adapts to various alpine sites. Deployed by helicopter as a planar assembly, the shelter folds open on site to become a three dimensional space. The structure’s modular system allows for units to be placed along slopes of varying heights. Wooden joints are moved into place and secured with dowels. Inside, beds fold out to accommodate both sleeping and socializing.
Laminated Veneer Lumber
Rotatable Joint
Connection Rod
Silicon Water Seal
Level adjustable foundation
SCHOOLMILL
Project Type: Academic Professor Todd Saunders with Mark Cruvellier and Nikole Bouchard Fall 2013
In Kvamsøy, a small town located in Balestrand, Norway, Norodd Baug runs a workshop for art and architecture students to travel to Norway for a short period, and learn about woodworking. This intervention adopts Norodd’s program, and locates itself on the periphery of the town at two elevations. The first is situated in the forest, where students can learn how to fell and mill the wood for their projects. More importantly, to work with wood and understand--through hands-on projects-the intracacies of the material. The structure itself is a way to occupy a wooden joint, and aims to engage the students in both how it is built and consumed. Here, the students can meet , learn , build , stack and burn the wood they work with. This stems from the already existing ritual Norodd engages in with his students: the morning campfire to plan out the day. The second part exists on the fjord, close to the homes where the students stay during their time in Norway. Adopting another frame that sits on the coast, a series of floating saunas on the water, that can exist separately or combine into a swimming pavilion. This is meant as a way to give back to the community for their hospitality, as well as a place for the students to relax and, once again, inhabit the joint.
POCKET CRECHE
Project Type: Academic Professor Andrea Simitch Team: Luis Corzo, Wei-Yen Hsieh and Shuping Liu Spring 2011
The goal of Pocket Crèche was to create a structure that would exist as a unique learning experience that the children in the community could call their own, and that the building would play an integral part in the learning process. The building is comprised of four main systems, each based off of their own module. Each function independently and purposefully to allow for ease of construction. The first system is the roof, which mainly acts as a water collection plane. Its purpose is also to direct light into the classrooms and office via skylights. These skylights provide for ambient lighting in summer, as well as direct lighting in winter. The second system is the structural framing system made of Unistrut. It is a kit-of-parts construction, which is readily available, easily constructed, and structurally sound. This allows for complete customization of structure, as well as the possibility for Pocket Crèche to exist not only on its own, but also as a precedent that can be easily adapted and employed elsewhere. The third system is the exterior barrier, a large living garden fence. The fourth system exists within the classrooms, as a series of built-in furniture walls that divide the classrooms and respond to the program housed within.Each classroom receives twenty cubbies and coat hooks, as well as furniture that allows for ample storage and interactive use by both student and teacher. The furniture allows for imaginative play, reading nooks, arts and crafts and most importantly an ability for every student to be engaged in the classroom, with a space of their own.
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FIRE, SMOKE, + SKIN Project Type: Academic Professors Ben Nicholson and Taylor Lowe Fall 2012
Fire, Smoke, + Skin is an off-the-grid, transformable hunting blind in New Harmony, Indiana. As a part of the Anarchitecture studio, the work was conceived as a member of an anarchistic community. The architecture serves a client who uses the two blinds throughout the year to shot, skin, and process the successes of his craft. The blind is transformable in various different ways, and is made of the leather pelts collected during the hunts. The project investigates the practice of hunting, how architecture can enhance this way of life, as well as its role in a cooperative anarchist community.
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The products and byproducts of the blind are then traded throughout the community, and the siteplan on this page delineates these relationships.
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Project Type: Academic, Cornell in Rome Program Professors George Hascup and Davide Marchetti Spring 2013
This project was conceived in response to a large ancient wall that flanks the site leading to the Colosseum. Given the history and importance of walls in Rome--from antiquity to present day--the goals of the project were to push the conventions of a wall, and further redefine how it can influence and manipulate space. The double wall that lines the Via Claudia, skews the viewer’s perspective of the site from both directions, forcing a strong axis orienting the colosseum and enclosing the park spaces behind. These walls support the more public aspects of the program in the habitable trussed spaces overhead. The seven minor walls that delineate the spaces of the learning centers also act as natural ventilation towers, to input and exhaust air from above, which is treated by the water pools above the spaces. These water basins also filter sunlight into the spaces below, which are the reading and study rooms of the center.
SCHOOLHOUSE SOUTH AFRICA Project Type: Design+Build Cornell University Sustainable Design Structural Systems, Spring 2012
The school is a product of a two year process orchestrated by Cornell University Sustainable Design, an interdisciplinary student-led organization at Cornell University. Students, with the help of academic advisors and industry professionals, executed the project through a semester of research, a semester of design development integrated into the Bachelor of Architecture comprehensive design studio curriculum, and three months of construction. Students collaborated with local partners in construction and education to refine the design. Over thirty student volunteers traveled to South Africa to construct the school alongside local laborers from the surrounding neighborhood, Cosmo City. Strong emphasis is placed on sustainable passive sustainable technologies to decrease cost and energy dependency. Conscientious decisions in resiliency are found in all dimensions of the project: the architectural design, construction methods, material production and purchasing, included facilities, project financing and day-to-day operations. A year after construction, the ECD center was still not connected to the grid. The teachers, however, were not worried: they explained that these passive technologies create a bright, warm, and efficacious school without the use of electricity. This project was completed with generous support from Cornell University, in partnership with Education Africa, Play-With-A-Purpose, Basil Read Developments, and the City of Johannesburg.
COFFEE TABLE
Collaboration with Jake Rudin
am71@cornell.edu
WORK SURFACE Natural Edge Poplar
PUZZLE BOX
Experiment in Dovetail Joinery Collaboration with Charlotte Firestone
BOKS
Vessel for an instrument of measure
ASSOCIATION VOL. 6 Project Type: Publication Design Assocation, Editor-in-Chief Academic Year 2013-14
I served as Editor-in-Cheif and head of branding and publication design for Association Vol. 6. I designed and managed the production of 7000 copies of Cornell University’s student-run publication.
Project Type: Custom Branding Re: Designs
Designed and manufactured the logo, business card, and marketing material for Re: Designs.
Packaging funded by Deborah Terhune of Development Consulting cc
Schoolhouse South Africa
SCHOOLHOUSE SOUTH AFRICA Project Type: Design Build / Volunteer CUSD: Schoolhouse South Africa Summer 2011
Marketing and branding for a school in Johannesburg, South Africa. I designed and assembled 200 custom press kits for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Design+Build project of Schoolhouse South Africa.
HABITATION IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Harvard GSD, Spring 2015
RICHARD MEIER | ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE Designer, Fall 2012
SIMON UNGERS | HEAVY METAL Assistant Curator, Spring 2012
AWARDS
LEADERSHIP PAUL M. HEFFERNAN INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FELLOW
ALPINE SHELTER
RE-DESIGNING DETROIT: INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
Architect, Team Member Travelled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to oversee the construction document phase of an Alpine Shelter for the sporting association SD Freeapproved for the protection, education and training of mountaineers in the Julian Alps.
Awarded, Funding for travel to Slovenia for volunteer design project, January 2015 First Prize, Collaboration with Davide Marchetti Architetto, Spring 2013
CHARLES GOODWIN SANDS MEMORIAL MEDAL
Awarded to Bachelor’s Thesis for work of exceptional merit in architectural design, Spring 2014
ASSOCIATION, VOL. 6
ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS YORK PRIZE
Editor-in-Chief, Head Designer Cornell University Student Publication of work in the realm of Architecture, Art and Planning. Took over as Editor-In-Chief and oversaw the sixth edition under a new design, layout, and role in the College as an archival publication.
SEIPP PRIZE
ASSOCIATION, VOL. 5
DEAN’S LIST
Promotional Team, Web Designer Cornell University Student Publication of work in the realm of Architecture, Art and Planning. Worked to reinstate the publication which had been dormant for several years.
Popular Choice Award, Student Design/Build Category, Armadillo Creche, Spring 2013. Second Prize, Cornell University, March 2010. Honorable Mention, Cornell University. October 2010 Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Spring 2011. College Of Architecture, Art And Planning
EDUCATION
ART FOR CHANGE, HARLEM RBI Graduate School of Design | Cambridge, MA | August 2014 - Present Master of Architecture II Candidate ‘16
Managed publicity and organized a design campaign for the non-profit organization. Designed and created print work and videos for promotion and fund-raising.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
CORNELL UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Business Development Helped fundraise, promote, design, and build an Early Childhood Development Center in Cosmo City, Johannesburg, South Africa.
College of Architecture, Art, & Planning | Ithaca, NY | August 2009 - May 2014 Bachelor of Architecture; Concentration in Architectural Theory
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CORNELL UNIVERSITY DRAGON DAY 2010 President Managed and designed the construction of 50’ steel dragon, and paraded it around the campus for Cornell’s oldest tradition.
DAVIDE MARCHETTI ARCHITETTO Designer May 2013 - Present Participated in a collaboration of several design competitions. Developed the firm’s web presence. Lectured with the practice on our working relationship and technique at IUAV’s Convengo: Detroit series.
TRAVEL LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA PROFESSIONAL, Oversee Construction Documents for Alpine Shelter, Vernacular research | January 2015
RE: DESIGNS
VARIOUS, SLOVENIA ACADEMIC, Investigate housing in extreme climate and local construction | October 2014
Principal, Design Partnership with Jake Rudin, ‘14. Renovation of a Richard Meier house in Ithaca. Design of a series of deployable vacation cabins. The design and construction of a Japanese Tea House. The book design of Professor George Hascup.
PARIS, FRANCE ACADEMIC, Thesis research, site visit, perfume industry research | January 2014
FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS
SOGN OG FJORDANE, NORWAY ACADEMIC, Research of architecture’s connection to the elements | October 2013
Architecture Intern May 2013 - August 2013
FLORENCE, ITALY RESEARCH, Architectural interest | June 2013
AAP EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Designer and Assistant Curator January 2011 - August 2014 Exhibitions for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University. Exhibits include: Richard Meier, Simon Ungers, Ben Nicholson, and 10+ others.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PALERMO, SICILY RESEARCH, Architectural interest | March 2013 NORMANDY, FRANCE RESEARCH, Pilgrimage to Mont-St Michel | January 2013 PARIS, FRANCE RESEARCH, Pre-Thesis Research | January 2013
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY Teaching Associate, Introduction to Architecture Program June 2013 - August 2013 Led a group of 12 students through a Design studio, drawing and history sequence over the course of the six week program.
MATERIAL PRACTICES FACILITY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Teaching Associate, PreCollege Program June 2010 - August 2011 Served as a TA for three studio classes of 15-20 high school students for the architecture program.
SKILLS 10+ Yrs 6+ Yrs 4+ Yrs 3+ Yrs 6+ Yrs 6+ Yrs 10+ Yrs 8+ Yrs 7+ Yrs
Adobe Photoshop // InDesign // Illustrator // Flash // Dreamweaver Carpentry // Metalworking // Casting // Welding // Joinery CNC Operation // Lasercutter Operation // Objet, Zcorp 3D Printing Auto CAD // Rhinoceros // Vray // Ecotect // Sketch-up // Final Cut Pro Highly skilled in drawing, model making and handcraft Highly skilled in both analogue and digital fabrication Proficient with Mac and Windows Owns and operates Canon T3i First Aid Certified // CPR Certified // Self Defense Certified
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA PROFESSIONAL, Design/Build | June - August 2011
EXHIBITIONS
Teaching Associate, Wood and Metal Shop January 2011 - August 2014 Oversaw the safety and general practices within the analog fabrication shop. Instructed students on wood and metalworking, joinery, hand and machine tools, and the safety of the shop.
PRATT INSTITUTE
ROME, ITALY ACADEMIC, Semester Abroad with Cornell In Rome | January 2013 - June 2013
ASSOCIATION VOL. 6 Exhibitor, Various | Milstein Dome Cornell University | Fall 2014 L’ECOLE DU BON SENS Solo Exhibition, Bachelor’s Thesis | Bibliowicz Gallery, Cornell University | Spring 2014 VISITING FACULTY SHOWCASE Exhibitor, MiniCity Detroit | Sibley Hall, Cornell University | Fall 2013 ASSOCIATION VOL. 5 Exhibitor, Cooper-Meier Gallery | Sibley Hall Cornell University | Spring 2013 INSPIRE, IMAGINE, INDULGE Curator/Exhibitor, Cornell in Rome Program with MAXXI Architettura | Spring 2013 SCHOOLHOUSE SOUTH AFRICA Featured work, Pocket Creche | Hartell Gallery, Cornell University | Spring 2011
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