NICHOLAS
LICAUSI
EDUCATION
CONTACT
NJIT 2012 - 2017 Pursuing a Bachelors of Architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Albert Dorman Honors College. Current GPA: 3.78
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EXPERIENCE
COMPETITIONS
Mancini Duffy - Designer 2017 - Present New York, NY. Experimentation with technology, exploring new ways to practice architecture, schematic design, and Revit
Lead Designer 2016 AIAS Freedom by Design Parklet Design, winner. Oversaw the design and building of a parklet using donated pallets and lumber.
Solar Decathlon China - Project Manager 2016 NJIT, NJ. Developed the master 3D model and oversaw the animation and rendering team.
Architensions - Intern 2015 Architensions, Design our Ryde, finalist. Coordinated to produce a diagrammatic video using After Effects.
Vidaris - Intern 2016 New York, NY. Collaborated on highrise facade details and OSHA certification with on-site experience.
Co-Designer 2015 AIAS Freedom by Design UVSO daycare, finalist. Developed facade design in a charrette.
Architensions - Intern 2015 Brooklyn, NY. Managed a diagrammatic video of a civic center for the Design our Ryde competition.
Project Manager 2014 NJIT masonry brick build, second place. Led the studio as the project manager and the liasons to the masons.
Archimuse - Intern 2016 New York, NY. Developed contract set documents and physical models for commercial and residential architecture SPB Architects - Intern 2015 Rocky Hill, NJ. Developed contract set documents and physical models for several homes. One Office Architects - Intern 2014 Brooklyn, NY. Collaborated on design development for the renovation of a villa in Spain.
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AWARDS Arcnet Architects Inc. Endowed Scholarship. NJIT College of Architecture Design Showcase featured project. India civic center featured in a book of student work.
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SYMBIOTIC INSERTIONS EXTENSIONS OF LIVING SPACE What: Professor: Location:
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Airbnb-esque Hotels Stephen Zdepski Florence, Italy
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How do we add a modern additions to to the historical city of Florence? Rather than building in the piazzas, obstructing views of the residents and the tourists, the hotels are situated on the roofs of the existing buildings.The piazzas are left with minimal interventions to preserve open public space along the Arno. A traditional hotel is catered to tourists that come for a week and then leave, but the design looks to create a more lasting connection. Situated as an extension of a home or business, the design bridges the gap between Airbnb and a Hotel. The units infill the voids in the urban fabric, creating a new layer of architecture above the city. 6
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D.O.TT.I.E. DIGITALLY OPERATED TECTONIC INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT What: Profesors: Location: With:
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Solar Decathlon China Adam Modesitt, Will Prince Dezhou, China Twenty-five architecture, interior, and industrial design students
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connected to the central space. It stores and displays the fourof generations. objects memory, symbolizing the harmony between the four generations.
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Four generations living in the house are encouraged to utilize the house’s core or memory room for a more communal way of living. The massing is pushed and pulled to accomodate second floor program connecting the exterior form and the memory room. Two skylights pierce the roof increasing the vibrancy of the core. The first floor is carved away to create logia, connections between exterior and interior program, and a contrast of materiality. 16
Openings Light Openings for for Light Openings for Light
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unfolded memory room elevation
The central, double-height space in the house acts as a meeting space for the family, framing special moments. Nooks and and openings are used to create a playfulness and highlight the flexibility of the dwelling. A “memory wall� is directly connected to the central space. It stores and displays objects of memory, symbolizing the harmony between the four generations.
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COGNIZANCE IRONBOUND BRANCH LIBRARY Professor: Location: Accolade:
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Joy Siegel Ironbound, Newark, NJ Design Showcase 2016
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utilities group study super-structure
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The vertical circulation is connected to a four story wall of books. An open floor plan allows the three zones to have their own identity in the design, creating multilevel interactions.
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A structure driven design process led to three volumes contained within an envelope. Each structure is respective to the program within, emphasizing the idea of past, present, and future.
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HYBRID CITY MASTER PLANNING Professor: Location: With:
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Alessandro Orsini South Bronx, NY Donovan Kirkland, Frank Deblasio, Viviana Gonzalez, and Lucas Koch
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Hybrid City integrates landscape and vertical structure where landscape is any horizontal fabric, natural or man made. Through the process of integration the city combines multiple systems to create a new whole that performs as a unit. The buildings are conceptualized as a vertical city block, allowing the spaces between the structures to remain green public space. It allows for a coexistence with the existing industrial program that had previously taken over the coastline, and now exist underground, with access through the corridors. The corridors become the streets within the block, creating access to the transportation networks and layers that have been delaminated within the site.
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ALEXANDER AVE LIVE / WORK HOUSING Professor: Location:
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Alessandro Orsini South Bronx, NY
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Living and working in the same space fosters a sense of community. Small businesses owned by people who live in the building produce an engagement not found where commercial and residential are divided. Decreasing the separation between live/work forms a shared ownership where the user is more inclined to maintain their space. The building combats the negative aspects of gentrification with designed shared regions. They can walk or bike from their unit directly to where they work increasing chance encounters with other residents and reducing their ecological footprint.
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Shifting the connection from isolated living and working space will create eyes on the street to minimize antisocial behavior. This generates a safer space for the residences and the community. By shifting the scale of a vertical block to a horizontal skyscraper there are more eyes on the street. The height is limited to increase the connection to the ground plane and the existing urban fabric. Units delaminate from each other to provide individual and communal semi-private zones. The level of privacy of the terraces is based off of views and connections between units. 40
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ANEMOI NOAA RESEARCH FACILITY Professor: Location:
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Jesse Lecavalier Little Egg Harbor Township, NJ
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Anemoi is a self-sustaining coastal field station that utilizes wind power with twelve wind turbines attached to rotating cantilever workspaces. Scientists' offices revolve around four central vertical circulation shafts that stradle the pier. Workspaces rotate according to the direction of the wind, or desired location for workspace functionality. 46
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observatory
scientist workspace
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Helical turbines spin around the towers generating power for the research facility while blurring the facade. Bridges connecting the four towers offer communal spaces for the scientists. 48
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Michael Mostoller Newark, NJ Jeffrey Thomas
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three bedroom unit
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Units share a terrace that becomes a two story crenellation in the facade creating connections between apartments. Diversity of occupants is created by three unit typologies. 52
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A twenty-two story residential tower sits on the east side, and mixed use lowrise buildings sit along the other edges, maximizing solar gain to the central courtyard. licausi.nicholas@gmail.com
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The unit's facade is treated with a metal screen filtering light while providing energy through solar panels. 54
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Elevation of Eight Units
Metal Screen Grid
Four units share a terrace in which the two bottom units have a shared balcony while the two top units have juliet balconies.
Grid contrasts the units from communal and circulation space while highlighting the terraces.
Grid Divided into Solid / Void
Solid / Void Applied to Grid
Facade organized to maximize views out of the units and minimize obstructions.
Void space becomes openings for every room and and solid becomes solar panels to power the building. licausi.nicholas@gmail.com
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PALLET PARKLET DESIGN-BUILD COMPETITION
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The Parklet provides a communal space for NJIT students featuring two folding benches, creating an interactive experience and multiple functions. During studio, the benches fold up and become a pin up wall. After studio, the benches fold down and form a social space. The parklet became an auxilary space for studio, a place to eat your food from the food trucks, and a manifestation of the efforts of the volunteers of AIAS Freedom by Design. 62
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Parklet built in the last two weekends of August, 2016. Pallets and lumber donated by Triangle Packaging and Prince Lumber. Special thanks to my friends and the volunteers of Freedom by Design for making this build possible.
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digital portfolio
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