Grac e an n Ni c o losi Yale University ‘20
Graceann Nicolosi
Education
graceann.nicolosi@yale.edu graceannnicolosi.com 773 610 0620
2016-2020
Yale University, New Haven CT B.A. Architecture with distinction | GPA 3.6 | Major GPA: 3.77
2018 Summer
DIS: Study Abroad in Scandinavia, Copenhagen, Denmark Architecture Foundations Studio (A) Advanced architectural communication and design skills through analysis of existing buildings and by solving realistic architectural problems in a Danish context. Constructed physical and digital modes
2017 Summer
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK International Relations (A-)
2012-2016
Antilles School, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands GPA 3.9 Highlights: National Honors Society Vice President 2016, Class Vice President 2015-2016, Volunteer for Boys and Girls Club
Work Experience
Varsity Athletics
Skills 1
2019 Summer
Springline Architects, Intern, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
2017 Summer
13D Research, Intern, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
2016 Spring
Don Hebert Photography, Assistant, U.S. Virgin Islands
2013-2016
St. Thomas Yacht Club, Sailing Instructor, U.S. Virgin Islands
2016- present
Yale Varsity Sailing – Competes in intercollegiate sailing competition – Dedicates 35 hours per week, four days of practice and weekend competition during both fall and spring seasons Awards/Highlights: – 2019 Team Race National Champion – Sperry Women’s National Champion (2017 & 2018) – 3x ICSA All American (2017, 2018, 2019) – 3x New England Crew of the Year (2018, 2019, 2020) – 2nd Team Race Nationals (2017) – 2nd ICSA Gill Coed Nationals (2017 and 2019) – First Team Crew All NEISA (2017, 2018, 2019)
Responsibilities included producing digital models of medium to large scale projects throughout different phases of design, visiting sites to document existing conditions and take measurements, preparing and compiling drawings and materials for presentations to clients
Reviewed articles and helped organize research topics for weekly investment newsletter
Assisted photographer in packing/unpacking studio equipment and organizing files
Instructed children aged 5-13 how to sail
Rhino, V-Ray, Sketchup, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Hand Drawing
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Salt Haven
Pop Smith Community Baseball Center
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Danish Eatery
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Crown Street Community and Wellness Center
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Dwelling and Site
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Mobile Life
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Lunch Time
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Dominant void
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Salt Haven Senior Studio, Spring 2020 Critics: Steven Harris, Gavin Hogben, Deborah Berke
Nomadism has a long and dignified history within human cultures. Although it pre-dates the settled patterns of agricultural and urbanized societies, it now survives only as fragmentary practices at the margins of a hyper-normalizing C21 global culture. In the United States, people are giving up traditional housing, either by choice or circumstance to start their lives on the road; living in vans, RVs, ‘schoolies,’ trailers, and campers. Some drive across the country, chasing seasonal jobs, while others are simply seeking an adventure. Salt Haven works towards reimagining how community gathering can take place in a nomadic society. The scheme finds a middle ground between settled and nomadic. It places an emphasis on creating communal, temporary, and adaptable spaces.
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Alamo River
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The site for this project is located at the shores of the Salton Sea in Southern California. Although it was once a thriving vacation destination, the salinity levels of the lake have become so dangerously intense that it has resulted in not only the abandonment of its tourism, but also the loss of nearly half of it once booming fish populations. Wetland Canals puncture the site to both organize the campsites and to correspond to a larger water filtration system. The proposed water system interacts with the greater site by filtering out and preventing harmful chemicals from entering the Salton Sea through a multistep process involving the Alamo River, sedimentation ponds, algae ponds, and constructed wetlands.
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Creating an environment that is consistent with the transient nature of nomadic communities led to early explorations of a ‘pop-up/down’ community which accentuates the ‘here today, away tomorrow’ nature of nomads. To alleviate the lack of private space, the site offers nomads an opportunity to temporarily expand their home. Individual campsites are constructed from a set of movable and foldable walls. The position and arrangement of the walls can be tailored and customized to meet specific, individual needs of each occupant.
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L: Axonemetric Rendering R: Push, Slide, Unfold Wall Mechanism 8
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Section exploring different arrangements and uses of camp sites 10
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L: Arrival of visitors and possible configurations R: Close-up rendering of an individual camp site 12
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Pop Smith Community Baseball Center Senior Studio, Fall 2019 Critic: Turner Brooks and Adam Hopfner
The Pop Smith Little League Baseball Team and their facility is one of the oldest in the New Haven area, and also one that is very run down and badly needs to be re-designed to support and accommodate the increasingly enlarging vibrant community that is serves. This center is designed to address not only the needs of the players, but also the friends and family of those players. The center includes a cafe, study space, storage rooms, meeting spaces and an indoor batting cage in efforts to remain conscious of the variety of weather and seasons in New Haven.
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Site Plan 18
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L: Ground Floor Plan R: Lower Level Floor Plan 20
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L: Section Facing South R: Section Facing North 22
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L: Aerial Model Image R: Eastern View, Interior Image 24
Amager Common Eatery Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Foundations Studio, Summer 2018 Critic: Søren Amsnaes
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Tasked with designing a pavilion that would serve as an eatery and a gateway to the adjacent Amager Common, a large nature area by Ørestad. The eatery is to be used by the passersby and those spending the day in the area, embodying a contemporary take on the tradition of Danish eateries and creating a genuine atmosphere of ‘hygge.’
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L: Site Plan R: Model Showing Water Facing Side 30
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Model Photographs Featuring Light and Shadow Study 32
Community Center Junior Studio, Spring 2019 Critic: Micheal “Surry” Schlabs
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Currently a mid-block parking lot in downtown New Haven, the site bears a historical relationship to both the lively Crown Street corridor and city’s storied theatre district. Considering the complex social history and diverse population of New Haven, while also engaging with the work of the New Haven Farms and Common Ground High School, the center seeks to explore the amorphous, hybrid characters of program. The main programmatic elements of the Crown Street Community Center include a green house, cafe, kitchen (large enough for cooking classes) and a yoga and meditation studio.
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L: Site Plan R: Elevation 36
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L: Ground Floor Plan R: Upper Level Floor Plan 38
Dwelling and Site Senior Studio, Spring 2020 Critic: Steven Harris and Gavin Hogben
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This brief project jumped into explorations of how dwelling and site interact within simple geometric constraints. The project entails three schemes all of which highlight issues of scale and the programmatic trade-offs that are intrinsic to the architectures of the domestic. First, we were to design a single dwelling, then thirty, and then finally three house structures that occupy a site. The introduction of many more structures within the same bounds can be thought as presenting the problems of density, or, less abstractly, of switching typologies from the lone villa to the suburb to the neighborhood.
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L: Site Plan Scheme 1 R: Model Scheme 1 42
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The focus was on the plural relations between each unit and its neighboring units.
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L: Site Plan Scheme 3 R: Model Scheme 3 46
Mobile Life Senior Studio, Spring 2020 Critic: Steven Harris and Gavin Hogben
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Tasked to examine the transformation of nomad vans from motion to rest, from ‘road mode’ to ‘camp mode,’ we were to design the devices, appliances, and mechanisms that fit out of a van relative to both stealth camping and open camping. The goal of this brief assignment was to build a detailed image of mobile life within a 1950s Citroen H Class Van particularly to understand the close intimate scale of the van’s cabin space and to explore the devices that extend and retract when the van is at rest is and is engaged to its surroundings as a camp.
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L: Plan of Van in ‘Camp-Mode’ R: Folding Mechanism of Walls and Murphy Bed 50
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Model images highlighting exterior and interior space of the van 52
Lunch Time Junior Studio, Spring 2019 Critic: Micheal “Surry� Schlabs
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Having explored the recipe of gazpacho in the abstract, in terms of its production, presentation, and consumption, I conceived of a full scale vessel device for storage, transportation, preparation and consumption to facilitate its sharing between two people. The practicality of such an occasion relies on the ability to stack, nest, and unfold the components within itself. This box includes, a carrying device which turns into a place mat for picnics, two small hand sized bowls, and storage for toppings.
L: Renderings of gazpacho lunchbox R: Axonometric drawing of interior device and foldable carrying vessel 54
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L: Plan Drawing, Pencil R: Model Photographs 56
The Dominant Void Senior Studio, Fall 2019 Critic: Turner Brooks and Adam Hopfner
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This is a full- scale installation made with raw furring strip boards. The intent is to create a void more palpably present than the structure that defines itself. It calls for a rethinking of the boundary between solid and void. It questions customary definitions of “front” and “back,” and the way we interact with an object that remains stationary, yet propels the viewer to move through and around it.
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L: Rotated Views of Scale Model R: Full Scale Void 60
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Full Scale Dominant Void Installation 62
Drawings Drawing Architecture, Spring 2018 Critic: Victor Agran
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This suite of drawings are from the spring of 2018. As an introductory course, I developed visual and analytical skills to explore and communicate architectural ideas. The work focuses on basic freehand drawing skills and builds from simple line drawing to perceptual charcoal drawings and culminates in a series of tonal architectural studies of found objects.
Louis Kahn’s Yale Center for British Art Gallery Space, Pencil 64
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Yale Center for British Art Gallery Space, Pencil 66
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Louis Kahn Stair Detail, Pencil 68
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Davenport College Stair, Charcoal 70
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Intended to develop a piece of architecture (in a very loose sense) and to use imagination, creativity, and emerging drawing skills, we were tasked to invent space, light, and material from a series of found and bundled objects.
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L: Bundle Section, Pencil R: Bundle Plan, Pencil 74