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ATMOSPHERE 05 ATMOSPHERE

NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

ISSUE 05 2021-22

This annual publication displays archives of students’ work containing projects & imagery from the academic year of Fall 2020 - Spring 2021, selected by Atmosphere editorial staff with support of faculty members.

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Cover credits: Arch 340_Visualization III Faculty: Sergio Elizondo Student: Sarah Shamalov

ATMOSPHERE 05

ISSUE 05 2021-22

DEAN’S NOTE

The School of Architecture and Design at New York Tech continues its successful trajectory, prioritizing a student-centered and meaningful environment based on academic excellence and caring mentorship. It is with enthusiasm that I welcome you to our annual student-led publication “Atmosphere 05. ” I would like to take this opportunity to share with you some SoAD highlights.

The recent period of correlated crises has presented us with unforeseen constraints, but also opportunities to be creative in implementing digitized practices as a means to reimagine our teaching and learning modalities, our tools to deliver, communicate and effectively share information and knowledge. To stimulate imagination and creativity, a fertile school should facilitate exploration beyond disciplinary boundaries, allowing students to take risks in their discoveries. The recent works at the School of Architecture and Design included in this publication manifest the pursuit of a diverse set of skills supported by novel digital sensitivities, an achievement of expertise, which engages emerging technologies in design iterations and experimentations. The design opportunities that we offer include interdisciplinary projects involving vulnerable local and international communities, curricular activities, and initiatives focused on issues of social justice, equity, diversity, environmental resilience, urban adaptation, and processes of sustainable growth.

The School has recently expanded its footprint and ambitions with the addition of the Department of Digital Art and Design, with degrees in Fine Arts and Technology, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, and UX/UI Design. Notably, we were invited to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2021. Our faculty and student works were featured in the Korean Pavilion and participated in curatorial appointments, exhibitions, installations, and symposia in the Italian Pavilion - Resilient Communities - sponsored and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and curated by Alessandro Melis, the new SoAD IDC Foundation Endowed Chair. We successfully executed a $2 million IDC Foundation Grant, awarded for the renovation and expansion of the Fabrication Lab (FabLab) facilities at our Long Island campus, including a new Robotics Lab.

Entrepreneurial initiatives and workshops with leading experts and industry partners promote research and grant opportunities for students and faculty. In the fall of 2021, we started two Master of Science programs: Architecture, Computational Technologies, and Architecture, Health and Design. From 3-D printing models and artificial intelligence within the design process to augmented reality, simulation, and robotic systems to aid construction and amplify the spatial experience to a stronger interaction with data and information for computational analysis, we offer speculative yet evolving design approaches and architectural production. These two programs are conceived to complement each other and create space for discussion on the role of technologies for a more accountable approach to sustainability, health, safety, wellness, equitable spaces, and governance. With excitement, we created the endowed Tommaso and Franca Chieco Dean’s Atelier Studio for our top students, inviting the world-renowned architect Alberto Campo Baeza to teach a topical studio with alumni engagement and funds.

We have increased our fundraising activities, receiving grants (IDC Foundation, Alumni, Friends) for student scholarships, student-led projects, activities, and organizations, and the innovative advancement of technology-based skills. Global issues of environmental awareness, climate change, sustainable solutions, and social responsibility infuse all of our curricula, lecture series, events, and initiatives, and have become part of our design studio projects; inform virtual conversations in our school community with external guests; stimulate sym-

posia and panels (The Future of Cities: Urban Regeneration in a Time of Crisis; Design Innovation: Resilient Cities Learning For Science; Critical Density: Health, Ecology, Economy & Equity; among others); and are core themes of our specialized master’s degrees.

We have developed strategies for the continuous integration of emerging technologies in curricula that impact the profession. Technology-based curricula are enriched with interdisciplinary courses, workshops, and experiential learning activities through the application and support of professional design programs, software, and digital platforms (including simulation programs, BIM360, VDC practices, Miro, AR/VR/ MR, Robotic Total Stations, etc.).

Our visibility and reputation have increased through the support of faculty and student accomplishments, research, and creative activities in publications (Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design), conferences, symposia, exhibitions, installations, competitions, and professional work. Examples include the Italian Virtual Pavilion; the R-Cubed: Best Practices for Community-based and Multidisciplinary, Comprehensive Disaster Response; and Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers, among others.

Faculty members, in collaboration with New York Tech’s College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, have participated in successful National Science Foundation (NSF) grants. Among other opportunities, our faculty and graduate students work on case studies with experts from the Urban Land Institute, the AIA New York chapter, and InSource, in coordination with key community stakeholder groups on a net-zero carbon district in New York City. We are also collaborating with the Research Coordination Network for the Study of the Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) Nexus for Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development. It is crucial to leverage our global presence by establishing overseas partnerships and agreements with renowned universities, industries, professionals, and organizations (Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Bari, IUAV, PUC Rio, UIC Barcelona, Consulate General of Denmark in New York, New York City Architecture Biennial, ENEL-Italian Energy Company, Peccioli Research Center, New York City Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Readiness, Career and Technical Education, and local community colleges, among others). Among the several design competitions and extracurricular activities that involve our students, in 2021, 4 students were named in the Metropolis Magazine Future 100 list, a prestigious award that recognizes the next generation of architects and designers. Moreover, while many of our alumni have transitioned into positions at some of the world’s top firms, others choose to continue their education in graduate-level programs at prominent Ivy League architecture schools building a solid path to successful professional and academic careers.

I am sincerely grateful to our faculty, students, and staff for being able to creatively embrace new visions for the future, not only accepting change positively but, most importantly, anticipating it. My special thank you goes to all our students, for the production and selection of works in this 5th issue of Atmosphere representing what we do and what is still in the process of becoming; to the exemplary guidance and care of our faculty and administrative staff, and the invaluable support of our Alumni and Friends.

We have many reasons to CELEBRATE the success of our School!

Maria R. Perbellini, Dean School of Architecture and Design New York Institute of Technology

ISSUE 05 2021-22

Natalie Harris Professor Michelle Cianfaglione Summer 2021

ASSOCIATE DEAN’S NOTE

The fifth volume of Atmosphere documents a critical moment in our global culture and the evolution of the school’s expanding programs. The exemplary student projects presented in this volume were developed during the second year of the COVID 19 pandemic quarantine and remote learning and teaching environment. The challenges of the global pandemic only strengthened the individual and shared resolve of our students, faculty and staff as our studio culture and community evolved with the nuances and potentials of hybrid remote capabilities. This publication celebrates the innovative milestones of our school’s resilient evolution and the SoAD’s proactive approach towards entrepreneurial futures and positive growth and change.

Undergraduate Architecture Chair, Dr. Giovanni Santamaria welcomed newly appointed Associate Chair Dustin White, who continues his role and Director of SoAD Technologies. ID BFA Director Trudy Brens welcomed a second record freshmen class of students while continuing the program’s curriculum development in its innovation driven future. The Digital Art and Design department’s integration into the SoAD was led by program Chair Rozina Vavetsi, and the DA+D faculty Anila Jaho collaborated on the design of this volume, with first time publication of exemplary projects from its students. Visiting Professor, Anila Jaho also collaborated with Giovanni Santamaria, MSAURD Director Marcella Del Signore, DA+D Professor Michael Hosenfeld, in the school’s video installation project titled “Correlated Resiliencies” within the Italian Pavilion Titled “Resilient Communities” curated by our new Endowed Chair Alessandro Melis in the Section “Architecture as Caregiver” curated by our Dean Maria Perbellini at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennial -2021. The MARCH program has continued its growth as NAAB accreditation procedures advance under David Diamond’s seasoned directorship. The MSAURD’s Director Marcella Del Signore spearheaded efforts to expand the program’s enrollment. The new MS programs in Architecture, Health and Design led by Director Christian Pongratz and new Endowed Chair Alessandro Melis and the MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies led by Director Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, were launched in fall 2021 for classes. The newly expanded fabrication labs at the SoAD Old Westbury campus in Long Island were inaugurated this fall in spite of the challenges of the global crisis and campus restrictions.

This fifth volume is also evidence of the robust evolution of the team-teaching learning model and the creative culture, supportive community and the collegial spirit of faculty coordination and student engagement, that continue to foster more meaningful integrated, holistic critical lifelong learning and professional practices. The work presented in Atmosphere 5 is a record of the supportive, collaborative and innovation driven learning environment that is integral to all our SoAD programs and inspires students and faculty to strive for optimum values, human well-being and care-taking of our local and global built and natural environments.

Anthony Caradonna, RA Associate Dean for Academic Operations and Professor School of Architecture and Design New York Institute of Technology

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Nicholas Spano Professor Micheal Nolan Spring 2021

FOREWORD

The fifth volume of ATMOSPHERE is an exceptional collection of student work that showcases the evolution of the School of Architecture and Design’s pedagogy and curriculum that reflect and respond to the future of our discipline as well as pressing issues of our time. SoAD is committed to a culture of excellence and innovation by being at the forefront of critical practices in architecture and design by offering a curriculum and learning models that are rooted in integrated teaching platforms, experimentation, and applied knowledge. As 2020 marked a critical year in which many issues and opportunities have emerged, our students and faculty have critically responded through the lens of the work presented in this volume that proves the expectational spirit of collaboration, resiliency, and community of our school.

In 2021, the School of Architecture and Design was invited to participate in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Italian Pavilion- Resilient Communities, in the section “Architecture as Caregiver” with the exhibition “Correlated Resiliencies.” Through video installations and interviews, with images included in this volume, the exhibition powerfully brought together the SoAD community to envision how architecture, design, and urbanism can disclose implicit parameters and activate structural transformations in our ecological, social, and built environments through design studios, exchange workshops, traveling programs, local and international community design collaborations, part of our curricular and extra-curricular activities also included in this issue. The year 2021 also marks an important moment for the School of Architecture and Design, particularly for welcoming the Department of Digital Art and Design into the SoAD community. Through the lens of digital innovation, student work showcases creative explorations in the field of animation, fine arts and technology, and graphic design, expanding on our current mission of creative culture and innovative learning environment that ambitiously defines all SoAD Graduate and Undergraduate Programs.

The work in this issue is a vehicle to celebrate the ambitious agenda that SoAD has undertaken over the last years through pedagogical trajectories that push creative boundaries and question forms of critical practices to shape future scenarios for our interconnected local and global contexts. Our students, faculty, and community are at the core of this evolving trajectory, and Atmosphere 05 is an opportunity to reveal and celebrate the efforts and successes in our programs, initiatives, and activities.

Marcella Del Signore, RA Associate Professor Director, M.S. in Architecture, Urban Design School of Architecture and Design New York Institute of Technology

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Shelton King Professor Gregory Melitonov Fall 2020

DEAN’S NOTE ASSOCIATE DEAN’S NOTE FOREWORD

00 INTRODUCTION

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

01 DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS

DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS 1 & 2

02 CORE ARCHITECTURE STUDIOS

DESIGN STUDIO 1 - 6 THESIS STUDIO 03 TECHNOLOGY

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 1 & 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS 1 & 2 04 VISUALIZATION

VISUALIZATION 1 - 3

05 HISTORY AND THEORY

01-13

16-73

74-213

214-227

228-251

252-255

06 INTERIOR DESIGN

256-289

07 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE

288-325

08 MS. in ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN 326-339

09 DIGITAL ARTS

340-383

10 LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS

384-407

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INTRODUCTION

At New York Tech, we embrace the growing role technology plays in every facet of our lives, and we seek to leverage its potential as we reinvent the ways that architecture is practiced.

Architecture mediates between ourselves and the world around us - both in its physicality as shelter and social organizer, and in the ideas it evokes, as it reveals what is characteristic and unique about our priorities, our values and our humanity. Inevitably, our architectural heritage concretizes what Is essential about our culture, how we have invested and how we have taken care of our environment.

Our field of operation spans from the infrastructural elements of our region, communities and institutions, to those of individual dwellings and their components. The School of Architecture and Design’s forward-thinking, professional education prepares students for professional leadership and community engagement. Under the guidance of a faculty of experts, degree candidates learn to think critically about architecture, design, and the world around us and to approach their work with intelligence, confidence, and the rigor of practice. Fostering a dynamic studio culture is one of the keys to enable a productive, positive and inspiring learning environment. Diversity is the cornerstone of the student experience, where self-expression and diverse ideas and perspectives thrive. Our studio-based education encourages productive collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and global citizenship. Students gain hands-on experience and are equipped with skills to work collaboratively across disciplines, contributing to reshaping spatial, material, and cultural practices in the 21st century. Our international initiatives, travelling studios, study programs and outreach workshops are conducted around the globe, affording students immersive global and cultural experiences. This allows them to create unique portfolios of original works, and to make contacts in the region’s unparalleled networks in industry, the profession and in academia.

Located in Old Westbury, NY, and in midtown Manhattan, NYIT’s academic programs in Architecture + Design deliver technology-infused 21st-century design education, and guide our graduates from professional study to professional practice. All NYIT SoAD degrees have STEM designation, making our international graduates eligible for the extended OPT visa. The professional M.ARCH Degree has continuing candidacy status from the NAAB. The professional B.ARCH Degree has enjoyed continuous accreditation status since 1978 and will be up for reaccreditation in 2025. The BFA.ID has enjoyed CIDA accreditation since 1984.

Professors David Diamond and Giovanni Santamaria

B.ARCH

BACHELOR of ARCHITECTURE

5 Year Program 160 credits

The B.Arch. program, accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), offers candidates a rigorous, studio–based program of study to develop each student’s talents and professional abilities, while opening paths to pursue individual topics in the fifth year. During the first four years of study, students are challenged by increasingly complex and technically demanding issues, from form, composition and visualization in the first year, to progressively comprehensive problems of design exploration, experimentation and integration in subsequent years. Upper year studios concentrate on building design, community and urban design, and comprehensive design, with an emphasis on sustainability, using advanced architectural technology and design and fabrication strategies. This program culminates in a student driven, research and design thesis in the final year. The first- professional B.Arch. prepares students for New York State licensure and reciprocal licensure in other jurisdictions. The B.Arch. program is offered at NYiT Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses.

B.S.A.T.

BACHELOR of SCIENCE in ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY

4 Year Program 132 credits

NYIT’s Bachelor of Science in Architectural Technology develops skillsets in architectural design, building technology and project management. Coursework in the first two years of study is shared with the B.Arch. The subsequent two years offers to students courses in project integration, advanced technology, digital modeling, spec. writing and onsite construction observation. Students may opt to concentrate their elective credits to develop a major concentration in Construction Management. New York State recognizes the value of a B.S.A.T. Degree by offering an accelerated path to in-state licensure – 4 years of education plus 5 years of professional working experience. Successful graduates of the B.S.A.T. are eligible to apply for the 60-credit, 2-year, NAAB accredited 1st professional Master’s Degree Program. The B.SA.T. Degree is offered at both our Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses.

B.F.A.I.D.

BACHELOR of FINE ARTS in INTERIOR DESIGN

4 Year Program 109 credits

The mission of the B.F.A.I.D. program is to create globally engaged environmentally sensitive professionals who posses artistic sensibility, intellectual ability, and hands-on technical proficiency; to prepare interior designers for a lifelong process of interdisciplinary exploration and an acute understanding of human relationships and the built environment. The program stimulates creativity and engenders personal self-confidence, which is the earmark of leadership. The B.F.A.I.D. focuses on the relationship between human performance and environment through an innovative mix of studio design projects, profession-specific coursework, community-oriented projects and professional internships. The program is crafted around contemporary issues, theory, and historic precedents, using both analog and the latest digital media platforms. This program also offers students the opportunity to jump-start a 1- year MBA with a concentration in design management. The B.F.A.I.D. is offered at the Old Westbury and Manhattan Campuses.