N.ARCHITECTURE NADIA CONSTAN-TATOS 320 E 42ND STREET APT 714 NEW YORK CITY
NACT NA RCHIT ECTURE
PuBLIC ReSIDENTIAL PARAMETRIC
urBAN
PEDAGOGICAL
MISCELLANEOUS
CONTENT PREMATURE APPROACH SECOND YEAR - RESIDENTIAL EXPERIMENTATION THIRD YEAR - REFUGEES POST-PREMATURE HONOURS - HOMELESSNESS MASTERS - NATURAL DISASTER
Y02 - residential duality residential | dualism |architecture Y03 - space for refugees refugee | social | residential | architecture H01 - homelessness and museums social | sustainability | embodied energy M01 - houston healing natural disaster | health | urban M02 - the sound of Harlem music | culture | urban | social M02 - sound and skin impaired | parametric | prototype M02 - pedagogical pluralism education | childhood | social | urban
NADIA CONSTAN-TATOS
2012
Y01 1st YEAR University of Pretoria
EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE
Undergraduate BSc Architecture
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ARCHITECTURE)
POSTGRADUATE
2013
nd
Y02 2 YEAR University of Pretoria
05161993 SOUTH AFRICA
Undergraduate BSc Architecture
2014
20122014 PRETORIA
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
2016 PRETORIA
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE HONOURS
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
20172018 NEWYORKCITY
MASTERS URBAN PLANNING AWARDS EXTECH AWARD LEBBEUS WOODS AWARD FOR VISIONARY DESIGN
3rd YEAR Y03 University of Pretoria
EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate BSc Architecture
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
GOTTSMANN ARCHITECTS
20152017 JOHANNESBURG
JUNIOR ARCHITECT
2015
WORK EXPERIENCE Gottsmann Architects
URBAN RESEARCH
TERREFORM UR
residential and commercial
2017 NEWYORKCITY
RESEARCH
(+1) 646 465 0822
2016
nadia.constantatos@gmail.com
HONOURS H01 University of Pretoria
Postgraduate Bachelors of Architecture Honours
ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
SORKIN STUDIO
2018 NEWYORKCITY
DESIGNER
BUILDING & FACILITIES
STV INC.
2018-PRESENT NEWYORKCITY
DESIGNER
2017
MASTERS City College
M01
Postgraduate Masters of Urban Planning
2018
WORK EXPERIENCE STV Incorporated
building and facilities - criminal justice, emergency operation facilities
PROFICIENCY Autodesk Revit AutoCAD Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Sefaira Lumion Arduino SketchUp Q-Gis Rhino Grasshopper
Photography Oil painting Sketching Pottery Friendly Creative Team Player Avid Learner
UNDERGRADUATE
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ARCHITECTURE)
2013 PRETORIA 20Y
LOCATION
LOCATION PRETORIA CBD
B
WORK-PLAY RE
RESIDENTIAL DUALITY
Y02.2
The brief of the project was to design our first residential complex in a spatially restricted site. The brief required us to create a integrated residential and commercial space. The vibrant site in the CBD of Pretoria, possesses landmarks and monuments contributing to its character of mediated space. When looking to the separation and transportation between home and work, while catering for social life, my aim was to encourage the duality of space that will be heavily restricted in the future. The accessibility acts as the divider between home and work, where the exit from the core depends on the users desires and whom they will be housing or entertaining. The sustainable conditions have been adapted to these uses of social life in the home interior, where the vegetation moves according to the orientation, cleaning the air and providing shade.
ROTATIONS WORK FROM HOME
S
vertical vegetation would wrap around the building, densified on the western side, improving the energy efficiency of the building. This twisted facade cools the structure in the hot summer months, providing building protection, enhanced health and well-being through the improvement in air quality in a highly polluted environment.
RE
SPACE FOR REFUGEES
Y03.1.1
Over time the African city centre remains a manifestation of how different groups negotiate differences between each other in space, and more importantly how these different groups have managed to negotiate these differences within themselves. The brief comprising of creating a place for refugees, where the student possessed the freedom to pick a country - mine being Morocco. The medina of Fez’s essence of dwelling is measure by a balance of creation and preservation – where people dwell in a working city, as well as a monument. I aim to foster this autonomy through how this working city is perceived from its bystanders as a monument, while preparing those for the context in which they have been placed.
CULTURE + HEALING
Morocco is an Islamic place where women and children are restricted by cultural norms, where they are marginalized in society. I want to create a space specifically for women and children where they are no longer alienated in their own environments, in their own context. The aim is to create a space dedicated to a different kind of therapy, where the removal of their physical bodies expose and enable them to the emotional damages derived from their previous habitats. This is achieved in an open-environment, yet only to its users - in a space where they learn skills that teaches them how to construct their own home, in order to alter the image of capable beings, not because of their gender but because of this exposure to “male” activities of instruction. As they gain more independence & courage to go out into the world, their temporary dwelling develops into a permanent home at their own pace – where the structure may get bigger as their family grows, along with the healing process, eventually confronted with reality possesses the skills in order to do so.
CHRISTOFFEL ST
MALTZAN ST CHURCH ST
CONSTRUCT
LEARN
HEAL
CONFRONT
EXISTING FABRIC AND OPEN OPPORTUNITY
PROPOSED SOUND NODES
WALKWAYS
SOUND AND MOVEMENT
112th St
M02.1
Harlem holds a passionate history, a history of displacement and segregation, where key points in America’s history took place - the drive of Marcus Garvey in Black nationalism, and the UNIA parade - the music continued.
I approached the open spaces between buildings to reactivate these networks, where music acts as a connector amongst all. These spaces, however, will be clear from streetview - yet the access remains a mystery. I explored soundwaves and drew out my emotions while listening to famous Jazz artists of the time such as Scott Joplin, analyzing how these bubbles of activation could bring back what was lost from the relocation of the Cotton Club. I want to bring back the stoep culture, where 111th street was previously a pedestrianized street - the street activated by social gathering.
110th St 109th St 108th St 107th St
106th St
1st Ave
The beginning of the second semester requested a two week project to get the creative juices flowing before our class visit to Costa Rica. The circumstances on which to reflect on were located in Harlems’ 125th street and Park Avenue. The confused situation “on the ground” in the area consisted of vacant lots surrounded by major transit hubs, viaducts retaining capacity beneath and intermodal confusions in a space of a contested history. This was where I dug into the history and culture of Harlem that no longer presents itself in dignity and pride, but disintegration.
111th St
2nd Ave
HARLEM INTERFERENCE
3rd Ave
UR
UR
HOUSTON HEALING
M01.1
The start of this project displayed a sense of urgency, where the semester took a turn to current state situations. After Hurricane Harvey, a larger intervention of the skin and bones that make up our cities demand change. Upon site exploration between the zones of the Medical and Museum District of Houston, one can conclude how humans separate various entities, where the museum district sits in stark contrast to the medical side - where the arts can benenfit human healing, can it not? This segregated approach is evident in human views of nature and city - viewed as two oppositional entities due to our inability to deal with the events. In the past, “natural disasters� such as flooding were seen as a blessing, as evident in Ancient Mesopotamia, where the cities were designed around the benefit during these occurences. The integration of nature into urban environments can benefit us all – psychologically, emotionally and physically. Man and nature need to live in harmony, however this can only be achieved where both parties benefit through sensitive design that accommodates for both the unpredictability of nature and the needs for man to survive. As the arts can benefit human healing, nature can contribute to human life if our cities can accommodate it.
CAN THE ILL NOT BENEFIT IN THE TRANSIENCE OF ART AND NATURE?
Nature is affected by humans and affects humans in return. This can be seen in the destruction of hurricane Harvey, where although the museum district received little damage to the physical body, the staff was affected, posing problems on the functionality of the museums. This is where I propose the destruction of nature as updating these exhibits, open to the public and travelled through by the inhabitants with regards to quotidian functions, providing for the disjointed site where the flooding cleans away the old to provide for the new, yet the past will remain. The medical center has floodgates, where although stops the damage to main powerhouses within, it prevents pedestrian access in times of need. The site is disjointed due to its clear boundaries from low scale residential, to open natural space, to high rise medical center. My aim was the cut up the plan, and merge all three – man, nature, culture and health.
residential
Nature and recreation
hospitals
MEDICAL AND MUSEUM DISTRICT
500 YEAR FLOOD
The existing demographics consist of high income non-hispanic white families, to students and elderly, where the site consists of destinations rather than effective interstitial space.
Undeveloped Residential_Multi-Family Residential_Single-Family Social_Parks & Open space
residential museums
Hermann Park
TU
EP
NC
CO
Commercial_Public & Institution Commercial_Office Commercial_Other
AL
hospitals
PROTOTYPE
K OR EW
AM
FR
Latour works on the notion if a body is not affected and is not affecting, then it is no longer a body of life – or more accurately, it is no longer a body.
hospitals
museums
residential
UR
POSTGRADUATE
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK MASTERS URBAN DESIGN
2018 NEWYORK 24Y
SOUND AND SKIN
M02
AKA: "SPURT"
LOCATION THE HIGHLINE
In a city where people are substantially unaware of their surroundings, techology can be utilised to feel sound. WEST 34th STREET
62
86
72 WEST 30th STREET
62 60 65
TEAM NADIA CONSTANTATOS RENEE THOMAS ESTEFANO TORRES ALEJANDRA ZAPPATA
WEST 23rd STREET
60 55 69
AWARDS EXTECH AWARD CURRENT: ZAHN COMPETITION
62 70
WEST 14th STREET
Using Arduino to translate captured sound waves into ear pocket pulsations, a way of seeing and simultaneously feeling sound. Deaf people or people who cannot perceive outside sound (such as people with head-phones or earplugs) can now feel sound. From High or Low Sound indicators, the frequencies or decibels are translated into a soft pulsation motion that pushes air onto the skin. The most sensitive parts of the skin are most ideal for the placement of the device. When looking to nature and survival, the skull of an owl is designed to indicate where sound comes from and is enhanced by the satellite shape of its feathers that enhance sound. When looking to technology and how coils work on deaf people is a transliteration of the purpose of the project. Understanding how this works on the exterior and seeing/feeling these pulses
SENSORY POCKETS
The objective is thus translating sound into a sensory pulse COMPONENTS: Silicone, Arduino, Servo, High and Low Sound Detectors
EXOSKELETON
AR
ARTWORKS
PEN ON PAPER 2019
SIBLING PORTRAIT, OIL ON CANVAS 2011
PEN ON PAPER 2019
OIL ON PAPER 2011
SELF PORTRAIT, OIL ON CANVAS 2011
NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 2019
HOWTH BRIDGE, IRELAND 2011
AR
FASHION
FASHION SHOW 2009