E zra Rossi Graduate Portfolio
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Diaspora
Sunnyside Yard, Queens, New York City, NY Fall 2018 - Design VII Group Work Professor Joshua Treadway
San Francisco Study House
San Francisco, CA Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II Group Work Professor Jason Alread & Stephen Belton
Duality of Knowledge
San Francisco, CA Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II Group Work Professor Jason Alread & Stephen Belton
The Scar
UCF Downtown Campus, Orlando, FL Spring 2019 ►♫☼│◘││ Design VIII Individual Work Professor Kourtney Baldwin
The Unconcious Man
Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II Individual Work Professor Mark McGlothlin
UF Student Housing
University of FLorida, Gainesville, FL Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II Individual Work Professor Mark McGlothlin
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Diaspora
Demographic diversity and assimilation define the borough of Queens as it is one of the most culturally diverse areas in the United States. The diaspora of people from all over the world has transformed Queens into an area where respite is a common factor for thousands of people. The assimilation of cultures for those native to the land of Queens and also for foreigners has enrich the culture of the urban fabric.
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Site
Sunnyside Yard, Queens, New York City, NY
Term
Fall 2018 - Senior Year
Professor
Joshua Treadway
Team
Erickson Diaz, Samuel Inojosa
Program
Three towers; residential, educational, and business. All connected by a bulding that holds public spaces
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Gesture Diagrams
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Site Plan
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Paper Model - Process
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Landmarks Diagram
Residential & business Towers’ Section - Longitudinal Section
Transformation Diagram
Demographics Diagram
Education Tower - Longitudinal Section
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Retail Space - Business Tower’s Podium
Plaza Space 10
Central Courtyard 11
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San Francisco Study House This project involves the creation of a residential community of scholars in San Francisco, California. Because these residences will be occupied by many different individuals over time, The proposal retains a degree of flexibility to accommodate many different minds, bodies, and personal narratives. These “scholars in residence” will reside on a short-to-medium term basis. Many will work on similar or complimentary scholarly projects. Because of these unique circumstances there is an opportunity to conceptualize various indoor and outdoor living spaces/activities as overlapping/shared resources between individuals’ spaces that extend the engagement between scholars beyond workspaces into socialization and living.
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Site
San Francisco, CA
Term
Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II
Professors
Jason Alread & Stephen Belton
Team
Anthony Maldonado & Daniel Abraham
Program
Eight one/two-bedroom residential units
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Perpendicular Section - Front
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Per
rpendicular Section - Back
Longitudinal Section
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1st Floor
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2nd Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
5th Floor
Rooftop
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Duality of Knowledge
Long has been the debate regarding whether technology and digitalization have killed the book or provide to information has been detrimental to the book as an entity. Nevertheless, in the other si accessible to wider publics, it has given authors new horizons to re-define the book as more intera order of ideas, the book has become, then, a commodity or artifact to be enjoyed for what it is, n sight. In response to that phenomenon, the architecture of the library intends to celebrate technol
the book as a celebrated artifact. Interaction between users and mediums, cross-pollination of i become central topics that inform the materiality, and spatial arrangements that define the libra but as a place of reverence to the book and the progress of technology.
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Site
San Francisco, CA
Term
Spring 2021 - Graduate Studio II
Professor
Jason Alread & Stephen Belton
team
Anthony Maldonado & Daniel Abraham
Program
Library
r given it new life. It is often said that the internet and the easy accessibility that electronic devices de of the spectrum, digitalization has made popular centuries-old publications by making them active medium, as well as provided platforms for new voices and stories to be heard. In that same ot only because of its historic significance, but also because it engages other senses other than logy as the medium by which knowledge reaches out in an universal way, while also celebrating
deas, and spreading of information ary, not only as place of interaction,
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Elevation Colage
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Site Analysis
Exploded Axo
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1st Floor
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2nd Floor
3rd Floor
4th Floor
5th Floor
Perspective Section 27
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Detailed Section
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Courtyard
Courtyard
West Entrance 30
Grand Stairs
Soutwest Corner
Labs
Auditorium 31
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The Scar
In 1930 started a discriminatory practice of fencing off areas where banks would avoid investments based on community demographics, specifically AfricanAmerican communities. The community of Paramore has suffered a detraction of worth and space due to the redlining practice. This practiced was abolished in the 1960s; however, today, more than 50 years later, the scars of redlining still segregate the Paramore community. Introducing three interventions that utilize a horizontal structure as their main mean of circulation and public interaction breaks the idea of segregation and introduces the idea of unity.
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Site
Parramore Community, Orlano, FL
Term
Spring 2019 - Senior Year
Professor
Kourtney Baldwin
Program
Three buildings that hold health, educational, and residential spaces all connected on their second floor
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Site Plan
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Gallery Space
Bridge Connection
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Northeast Corner
Entrance
South Elevation
Pedestrian Experience
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Longitudinal Section
West Entrance 39
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The Unconscious Man
This project reconsiders the precursors of architecture by reframing the ideas of the primitive hut as a modern construct. Having two archetypal characters homo faber (working man) and homo ludens (playing man). The process unpacks unpacking, reconsiders, and reconstructs the ideas of the primitive hut conceptually, aligning these ideas through the lens of two feuding actors, and then organizing, conceptualizing, and defining the contested ground that lies between.
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None
Term Professor
Mark McGlothlin
Program
A tower that contains residential apartments, studios, a museum, a theater, and a school Fall 2021 - Graduate Studio III
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A bipolar man reflects on the coexistence of his alter ego with his unconscious self.
Working man: A workting man is only distracted by the captivating actions of his playing alter ego. Said actions become irritating with every attempt to focus on work. It has become imperative to look over the seemingly unconcerned playing man who is absent but the eco of his leisure bounces in the working man’s head. Playing man: The playing man wonders around in search of distraction. His anxious desire of fun overpopulates his mind with undone ideas. Ideas that could only be achieved with company. His path is a constant line of uncertainties, and every effort of diversion seems to be a reminder of his solitude.
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The incomplete desire of both personalities has left them wondering about their efforts of detour and concentration correspondingly. One looks for solitude while the other seeks company, both unconscious of their substantial balance.
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UF Student Housing
Part of the University of Florida master plan, dorms for undergraduate, graduate, and honors students will shape the experience of thousands of students. Gator Village will emerge through the complex tapestry of oft-conflicting wants and needs of different groups within the greater UF community. In this project the college experience is juxtaposed to the personal student experience in order to analyze the true benefits of a college community and whether the “college experience” is an overgeneralization of a multidimensional experience. Found in this study is the fact that while the college experience is cultural, hierarchical, historical, and inherited, the student experience is personal, phenomenological, modern, factual, and about rediscovery.
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Site
Gainesville, FL
Term
Fall 2021 - Graduate Studio III
Professor
Mark McGlothlin
Program
Student Dormitories
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Units - Scattered
Units - Grouped
Apparent alignment
Units - Settled
Consequential communal spaces
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level 01
level 03
level 10
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Site diagram studies
1 - Cross Section
2 - Longitudinal Section
Site Plan
Lobby looking at Library and study rooms
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lobby
Dorm Hallway
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