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VENICE BIENNALE 2023
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FRAGMENTED CITY
STUDENT LIFE
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IMAGE 3D FABRICATION
FUTURE MATERIALITY
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INFORMED INTERSCALAR FLUIDITY
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URBANITY MASH-UP
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CORRELATED RESILIENCES
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AERIO
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THESIS PAVILLION
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REIMAGINED RESIDUUM
ENTANGLED MATTER
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SoAD PUBLICATIONS
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About New York Institute of Technology New York Institute of Technology is a private, degreegranting, not-for-profit global university committed to educating the next generation of leaders, inspiring innovation, and advancing applications-oriented research and entrepreneurship. With 90+ degree programs, the university provides a technology-infused education to 8,000 students at campuses in New York City (Manhattan) and Long Island (Old Westbury) in New York; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Vancouver, British Columbia. More than 112,000 New York Tech alumni are part of an engaged network of physicians, architects, scientists, engineers, business leaders, digital artists, healthcare professionals, and more. By learning how to analyze and question assumptions, New York Tech graduates are culturally aware and prepared to meet current challenges and foster future growth in their professions.
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About the School of Architecture and Design The School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) is a vibrant community dedicated to academic excellence. Our transformative and continuously evolving learning experiences prepare students to engage with leading design practices in a global context. We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in all its forms and encourage action and leadership. We are committed to interdisciplinary research initiatives and professional degree plans that promote collaborations with Schools and Colleges on campuses and sites, as well as with national and international communities, institutions, partners, and organizations. SoAD at New York Tech is a place where ideas infuse innovation and advance discovery. We like to call New York Tech the home of doers, makers, and innovators, a place where we invent the future. Those words really do sum up the incredibly creative work that comes from our outstanding students, faculty, staff, alumni architects, and designers. SoAD is composed of talented and diverse students supported by distinguished faculty and exceptional staff with extensive credentials and competencies. Our locations allow both New York and Long Island campuses to attract accomplished practitioners as part of their faculty. The School prides itself on this direct connection to the profession. A large population of alumni is fully engaged with us, creating robust working relationships and partnerships. We are very grateful for all the outstanding firms that hire our graduates and support our students with generosity and guidance. |7
The school established three specific educational aspirations, which guide its mission: Design Intelligence, Building Technology, and Leadership.
School of Architecture and Design - Mission The mission of the School of Architecture and Design (SoAD) at New York Tech is to provide a design and technology-based 21st-century integrated education in the architecture, construction, interior design, and digital art that fosters leadership in the profession and within the diverse local and global community.
• Design Intelligence is about cultivating intellectual rigor by emphasizing dynamic creative processes and knowledge-based innovative practices. • Building Technology underlines the importance of combining technological advances with interdisciplinary learning experiences. • Leadership is an attribute of character instilled in students through collaborative, program-wide team projects. • To help students think and act creatively and critically as designers within a global framework, SoAD actively pursues local and international educational and professional exposure opportunities. It does so through: • Summer study abroad programs and international studies, opportunities for visiting professors and scholars, partnerships, experimental design studios, collaborative projects, and workshops. • Support for specific projects, lectures, scholarships, and programs that benefit the architecture, interior design, and digital art programs. • Mentoring programs and input with regard to current trends in the industry and exposure to advanced applied research. • Identifying and promoting internships and innovative career opportunities for current New York Tech students. |9
SOAD 2023 Departments Architecture Digital Art and Design Interior Design
Degree Programs UNDERGRADUATE Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Bachelor of Science, Architectural Technology (B.S.A.T.) Bachelor of Science, Architectural Technology (B.S.A.T.)+M.Arch Bachelor of Science, Architectural Technology– Construction Management (B.S.A.T.CM) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Design (B.F.A.ID) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interior Design (B.F.A.ID)+MBA Bachelor of Fine Arts, Digital Arts (B.F.A.DA) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design (B.F.A.GD) GRADUATE Master of Architecture I (M.Arch. I) - 4 semesters Master of Architecture II (M.Arch. II) - 6 semesters Master of Science, Architecture, Computational Tech. (M.S.ACT) Master of Science, Architecture, Health and Design (M.S.AHD) Master of Science, Architecture, Urban Design (M.S.AUD) Master of Fine Arts, Digital Art & Design (M.F.A.DAD) Master of Fine Arts, Fine Arts & Technology (M.F.A.FAT) Master of Arts, UX/UI Design and Development (M.A.UX/UI)
Significant School of Architecture and Design Successes The School of Architecture and Design faculty and students continue to be engaged in academic and professional collaborations, and participate in industry symposia, workshops, national and international competitions, interdisciplinary grants, and exhibitions. Here are some of our recent highlights: • U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings: #21 Best Regional Universities (North); Wall Street 24/7- USA Today: ranked #1 Most Diverse Student Body among Colleges and Universities in the United States; The 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings: Ranked #2 in NY and #8 in the US for Environment, a pillar that measures inclusion, diversity, and international student representation. Ranked #2 among regional universities in the North for Student Diversity. • The School of Architecture and Design 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. | 11
• Our Master’ programs are conceived to infuse one another and create space for discussion on the role of technologies in a more accountable approach to sustainability, health, safety, wellness, equitable spaces, and governance. • The endowed Tommaso and Franca Chieco Dean’s Atelier Studio supports our top students. This year we invited the world-renowned architecture firm BIG to collaborate with an experimental final thesis studio. • We have greatly increased our fundraising activities, receiving generous grants (from the IDC Foundation, Alumni, and Friends) for student scholarships, built and unbuilt projects, activities, and student organizations, and the innovative advancement of technology-based skills. These efforts have immeasurably impacted student experiences (merit scholarships and student activities), retention, and graduation (financial scholarships) and have helped to increase our enrollment at the graduate and undergraduate levels (recruitment scholarships). | 13
CUTTING EDGE FABRICATION FACILITIES
• The renovation and expansion of the Fabrication Lab (FabLab) facilities The expansion of a state-of-the-art Digital Fabrication Lab at our Long Island campus, including a new robotics lab supported by a $2 million IDC Foundation Grant, promotes innovation and entrepreneurial initiatives. New York Tech also contributed generously to this project. • The IDC Foundation Grant is also funding the first Endowed Chair at New York Tech. The recipient is Professor Alessandro Melis, Ph.D., a leader in scholarship continues to help chart an entrepreneurial, innovation-focused approach to research in our graduate programs in Health and Design (MS.AD) and Computational Technologies (MS.ACT). • 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 applied design approaches and architectural production. Digital workshops with leading experts, industry connections, research, and grant opportunities for students and faculty are supported by CNC, 3-D printing, and robotic technologies.
FRIENDS OF THE SCHOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
DEAN’S SPECIAL THESIS ATELIER
Milan Design Week (06.2022) Installation by Liyth Musallam (B.S.A.T ’22), coordinated by IDC Endowed Chair and Professor Alessandro Melis.
Upcycling: Technology to support a new idea of recycling (03.2022). Exhibition at Italian Culture Center, Italian Consulate in NY, curated by IDC Endowed Chair and Professor Alessandro Melis and Professor Christian Pongratz.
SoAD EXHIBITIONS, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS
Garden Pavilion, Green acres Community Garden, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn: A design- built project led by Adjunct Professor Drew Seskunas with M.ARCH Students.
Archipelago Installation, Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C., Italian Republic Day (06.02.2022): project coordinated by Dustin White with student-led research team members Domenico Lucanto, Aurora Perta, Giovanni Volpe, in collaboration with the MS.AHD Program. From left Dean Maria Perbellini and Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Mariangela Zappia. “Inclusive Design Trajectories. The female voices in Architecture and Design” moderated by Visiting Professor Gertrudis Brens and Associate Professor Farzana Gandhi, with speakers Mariana Ibañez and Suchi Reddy. From Houses to Hotdogs: The Intersection Between Anti-Racism and Architecture, SOAD Student Organization lecture featuring speaker Wandile Mthiyane.
Lakisha Ann Wood National AIA Executive Vice President and CEO visited SOAD students and community, April 6, 2023.
Opening of the Italian Design Day (05.2022) hosted by NYIT SoAD, with President Hank Foley, Italian Ambassador to the U.S. Mariangela Zappia, and Dean Maria Perbellini.
TAB-Tallinn Architecture Biennale (Estonia, 09.2022),“Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism,” SoAD Exhibition led by Associate Professor Marcella Del Signore and Professor Tom Verebes with MS.AUD students Rasika Deosthali, Hitakshi Agrawal, Akshit Kumar, and Gabrielle | 25 Soares.
• Global issues of environmental awareness, climate change, sustainable solutions and social responsibility are infused into all of our curricula, lectures, and events, are core themes of our specialized master’s degrees and have stimulated conversations, symposia, and panels such as: The Future of Cities: Towards an Inclusive City- Leave no one behind in partnership with the Consulate General of Denmark in New York; the New York opening of the Salone del Mobile. Milano with the participation of the Consul General of Italy in New York; The Metabolism of a City-Lab, with the participation of UN-Habitat and part of the International Exchange Agreement with the Politecnico di Milano; The SOAD Collective | 27 Automation Seminar, and the research conference “Mucho Gusto”.
• We have developed strategies for the continuous integration of emerging and advanced technologies in curricula that positively impact the learning process as well as the profession. Technology-based curricula are enriched with interdisciplinary courses, workshops, and experiential learning activities. • We successfully continue to explore agile and advanced new learning modes through the application and aid of professional design programs, software, and digital platforms, which support our learning activities (including simulation programs, Revit, BIM360, VDC practices, Miro, AR/VR/MR, and Robotic Total Stations). • Our undergraduate programs’ curricular revisions facilitated accelerated paths combining the BS.AT with the M.Arch., the ID with the MBA, and the BFA with the MFA, thereby reducing costs for students. • The Master of Architecture degree program received Initial Accreditation in 2022 and demonstrated compliance with all NAAB Conditions.
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SUCCESS AND AWARDS
Awards, conferences, symposia, exhibitions, installations, competitions, and professional work • NYIT Presidential Award to Assistant Professor Dong-Sei Kim for Student Engagement in Research, Scholarship, or Creative Activities; and to our Teaching Assistant Professor Evan Shieh for Excellence in Teaching. •
Among the several design competitions and extracurricular activities that involve our students, three undergraduates and two graduates students were named in Metropolis Magazine’s Future 100 list, a prestigious award that recognizes the next generation of architects and designers.
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B.Arch student Carolina Flores-Iglesias received the AIA Long Island 2023 John Notaro Scholarship Award, which promotes student involvement in the architecture profession.
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B.Arch student Julia Andor (B.Arch ‘23) was promoted National Vice President at American Institute of Architecture Student.
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Dean Maria Perbellini is an Advisory Board Member of the NYC Architecture Biennial.
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4th Conference part of the series “The Future of Cities” within partnership with the Consulate General of Denmark in New York. The 2023 edition focuses on “Towards an Inclusive City- Leave no one behind.”
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Book launch “Design Dangerously: la Casa del Fascio by Giuseppe Terragni in Como, Italy.” Conversation with Antonino Saggio and Peter Eisenman.
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Presentation and Open Dialogue with Lakisha Ann Wood, Executive VP/CEO of AIA about the Future of the Profession, Student Engagement, and the Role of AIA in the bridge between Academia and Practice.
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Students Participate in the School of Architecture and Design 2023 Workshop “Metabolism of a City” with Politecnico di Milano and UN-Habitat and part of the International Exchange Agreement between SoAD and Politecnico di Milano.
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As part of the capstone 2022 Global Studio in the M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design program directed by Professor Marcella del Signore, students participated in a one-semester joint studio taught by Professor Tom Verebes in collaboration with the Institute for Future Human Habitat at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School SIGS.
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SoAD Faculty participated in the International Conference “Future is Urban.” Resilience, Livability, and Resource Conservation at the Institute of Architecture and Planning, Nirma University in Ahmedabad, India. They were Giovanni Santamaria, Marcella Del Signore, David Diamond, Tom Verebes, and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa.
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Faculty members, in collaboration with New York Tech’s College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, 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. They 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.
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An amazing SoAD Marketing and Media team spearheads the design and production of strategic visual materials and the 6th edition of the school magazine Atmosphere featuring the work of our students. Our presence on social media has significantly increased.
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SoAD has focused on overseas partnerships with universities, industries, professionals, and organizations to leverage our global presence. We established MoUs and agreements with renowned universities and organizations, including Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Bari, IUAV, PUC Rio, UIC Barcelona, Consulate General of Denmark in New York, New York City Architecture Biennial, Institute for Future Human HabitatTsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School SIGS (in progress), 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. Some of these agreements include revenues.
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We developed international initiatives supporting the acceptance of postdoctoral and Fulbright scholars for semester-or year-long research contributions and collaborations. All of our global initiatives are linked with undergraduate, M.Arch., and M.S. design curricula.
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We created a Student Success administrative and academic structure developing new initiatives for student recruitment, retention, and effective advising measures and actions resulting in a constantly increasing enrollment.
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At SoAD, we are committed to advancing the design field in extraordinary ways and helping students to transform an interest in a leading career in sync with the evolution of professional practices.
STUDENT LIFE AT SoAD
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SUMMER ABROAD PROGRAMS
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• The School of Architecture and Design has been also involved in several international projects such as: • Collaboration with MACCA - Open Air Museum of Contemporary Art in Tuscany (2023-2024). • Partnerships: Peccioli Municipality. Italian Institute of Culture NY, Italian Trade Agency NY and Miami, Noguchi Museum NY. • Organization of Constellation Art Exhibition (20232024). Partnership: Peccioli Municipality. With worldrenowned artist Paolo Canevari. • Participation in Research Grant: CRUNCH - Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices Support from: Urban Europe/ EU, JPI Europe, Belmont Forum, Sustainable/ UKRI Urbanisation Global
VENICE BIENNALE 2023
• The School of Architecture and Design curated the Collateral Event titled “Students and Researchers. Creative Practice and University Education” at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2023 Venice Biennale. We presented the research of our SoAD MS. Programs and hosted the work of 20 Universities from around the world.
• Initiative Food-Water-Energy (FEW) Nexus. Partners: University of Portsmouth, TU Eindhoven Uppsala University, Taiwan University of Technology, Gdansk University of International University. • Organization of research workshops with international scholars like Thomas Auer, Nelson Montas, Telmo Pievani, Chris Lawer, and Simone Sfriso. These workshops focused on advanced technologies, including the Clay and Geopolymers Digital Fabrication Research Workshop.
At the previous 17th Venice Biennale in 2021, SoAD faculty and student works were featured in the Italian Pavilion- Resilient Communities (comunitaresilienti.com) at the Tese delle Vergini inthe Arsenale, sponsored and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture, General Direction for Contemporary Creativity, and curated by Alessandro Melis, Ph.D., the SoAD’s new IDC Foundation Endowed Chair. This focused on issues regarding social justice, equity and diversity, environmental resilience, and processes of sustainable growth. This exhibition included: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Section “Architecture as Caregiver”, curated by Dean Maria Perbellini includes the exhibition “Correlated Resiliencies”, with SoAD student and faculty works. (Arsenale, Italian Pavilion) Installation “AÈRIO”, designed by Marcella Del Signore, in the Section “Architecture as Caregiver” (Arsenale, Italian Pavilion) Exhibition “Correlated Crises” and a series of New York Tech’s virtual events under the creative direction of Dean Maria Perbellini. Section curated by Tom Kovac and Alessandro Melis IDC Endowed Chair. (Virtual Italian Pavilion) Panel “Expanding Critical Computational Thinking”, curated by Marcella Del Signore and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo in Venice. “Informed Interscalar Fluidity” included an exhibition curated by Marcella Del Signore with Sergio Elizondo and a site-specific installation curated by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, in “Time-Space- Existence.” (European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo in Venice)
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6. Exhibition of selected works from SoAD students and faculty curated by Marcella Del Signore and Giovanni Santamaria. (Spazio Peccioli, Arsenale, Italian Pavilion) 7. Symposium and Workshop “Design + Health, The Open City Paradigm,” curated by Professor Christian Pongratz and Chris Lawer, UMIO. (Spazio Peccioli, Arsenale, Italian Pavilion) 8. Installation “CRISPR-Locus,” designed by Christian Pongratz, Dean Maria Perbellini with Director Dustin White. (Giardino delle Vergini, Arsenale, Italian Pavilion, exterior) 9. Exhibition “Future School,” curated by Hae-Won Shin, with participation by DongSei Kim. (Korean Pavilion, Giardini) 10. SoAD faculty also exhibited at the Korean Pavilion–Future School (korean-pavilion. or.kr), curated by Hae-Won Shin and commissioned by the Arts Council Korea. 11. Our visibility and reputation have increased through the accomplishments, research, and creative activities of our faculty and students. 12. Our national and international visibility and reputation have significantly increased through the accomplishments, research, and creative activities of our faculty and students.
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Program: M.S. Architecture, Urban Design Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023
URBANITY MASH-UP
Exhibition Credits: Assoc. Prof. Marcella Del Signore, NYiT - SoAD Inanc Eray Project Team, NYiT - SoAD: Priyankkumar Barvaliya, Forum Chauhan, Shivani Desai, Fatima Harnesswala, Apoorva Kadam, Dhaval Kevadia, Madhaan Kuppusamy, Aishwarya Pakhale, Akash Paneliya, Milindi Parmar, Michal Pinhasov, Sweta Rupapara, Harsh Agrawal, Arth Mewada, Roopa Ramachandran, Nupur Patel, Saitejaswi Maddiboina, Sawani Ravindra Burse, Shikha Gandhi
At the current time, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This trend is only expected to grow and impact how we live, work, travel, and create transnational networks that affect political, economic, technological, and socio-cultural dynamics. The process of formation of global cities is associated with economic processes, the quick rise of information technology, the redistribution of capital, and the creation of flows and networks. Within this framework, the exploration of socio-cultural aspects of cities is an active parameter to read urban fabric within local and global conditions of urbanization. As cities are inherently interdisciplinary, they are historically, socially, and culturally constructed to reveal complexity and multidimensionality. Cities are socio-cultural artifacts that emerge from processes of growth and differentiation rooted in localized social and cultural conditions.
URBANITY MASH-UP
The process of Globalization accelerates forms of urbanization by creating interrelated dependencies at the global level. We are all connected and global citizens of an evolving planet. The planetary is understood as: ”relating to or belonging to a planet or planets, and relating to the earth as a planet.” In the planetary, many parameters are at stake that reveal not only the singularity of their actions or influences but, on the contrary, the complete co-dependence and entanglements of bodies. Those entanglements trace new concepts and emerging horizons for different ways to inhabit the planet vis-à-vis current challenges and opportunities that emerge from technological, environmental, and socio-cultural domains.
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The students expanded the repertoire of the sites in Istanbul and Santo Domingo, revisiting the relationships between different layers of the cities and re-forming new morphologies and typologies focused on the understanding of the city from a human perspective. To ensure that the AI/ML explorations are aligned with the ongoing socio-cultural exploration, students formulated their research question relative to global urban challenges and how they are grounded within the localities of the context/site to define criteria and constraints for the process. These processes aim to enable students to experiment with the potential of AI/ML tools in urban design and to create new urban narratives investigating the multiple capacities of socio-cultural practices to be a catalyst to reflect on urban formations and dynamics to reflect on local/global conditions of urbanization.
URBANITY MASH-UP
The “Urbanity Mash-up” project engages the construction of socio-cultural urban narratives through AI/ML tools. These tools include image-based AI, such as Ostogram and Runway ML, as well as text-based AI, such as Dall-E and MidJourney. The focus is placed on the translation from 2D to 3D socio-cultural urban samples and combinatorial characteristics that emerge from the AI/ML/GH processes.
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Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023
IMAGE 3D FABRICATION
Credits: Arathi Chilla, NYiT - SoAD Tharoonaskar Baskararn, NYiT - SoAD Prof. Fadhil Fadhil, NYiT - SoAD
Students developed a series of techniques that transform a 2D image into a pixelated digital model of the image that was then experimented with using PLA 3D printing and resin 3D printing. The final artifact was produced using CNC milling that resemble two sides of the same “image”. The first side is the smooth side that has a high percentage accuracy that expresses the original image. The second side is a pixelated projection of the original image. This artifact is a provocative statement that simulates the future realities and image 3D fabrication through AI produced image making and highly advanced methods of digital fabrication.
IMAGE 3D FABRICATION
This artifact is expressed through a series of 3D prints as well as a 50cm x 50cm CNC milled foam panel. Each one of these models shows a particular unorthodox workflow that moves from a 2D AI generated image to a 3D model as a variation of that image. In this particular project, students focused on a new era of digital modeling and making. With the rise of AI image making, the one question that was asked was, how can we move from image to 3D physical model?
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Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023 The artifact explores the future of materiality, combining bio material such as Mycelium and a natural material such as wood. The wood structures in this case act as the form work that hosts the mycelium aggregate. The wooden columns are computationally designed to have cavities and spaces, allowing the Mycelium to grow into.
FUTURE MATERIALITY
Credits: Beken Kefyalew Amde, NYiT - SoAD Coilin Tiarnan Mathers, NYiT - SoAD Prof. Fadhil Fadhil, NYiT - SoAD
The production of the wooden columns utilized the technology of 4th axis milling to create the final design out of 4”x 4” wooden blocks. The length of each column is approximately 50cm. Each one of the columns interacts with the mycelium differently. First column design is more focused on curvilinear smooth edges whereas the other two are focused on hard straight edges and ninety degrees corners.
Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023
The artifact resembles a hypothetical city that is designed through the negotiation of hand sketches, painting, AI images and multimedia fabrication process. The utopian city is expressed through the lines, the masses and strings of the artifact.
FRAGMENTED CITY
Credits: Mahima Kulkarn, NYiT - SoAD Prof. Fadhil Fadhil, NYiT - SoAD
The process started with a painting done by the student that then was imported into Midjourney AI to produce a variation of the painting. Once the final desirable outcome was produced, a combination of multimedia fabrication methods was implemented to produce the final piece such as laser cutting, CNC milling, and 3D printing. The first layer is the wooden base that contains all the depressions and cavelouts of the city, fabricated through CNC milling. The Second layer is the white board that contains all of the strata that map the inner roads of the city. The 3D printed masses resemble the building scale and the verticality of the city. Lastly the outer strings which are the outermost vertical parts, express the urban densities and space usage form a public and private standpoint.
Video Production: Rozina Vavetzi, Associate Professor, NYiT - SoAD Michael Hosenfeld, Associate Professor, NYiT Department of Fine Art Anila Jaho, Visiting Assistant Professor NYiT, Department of Digital Art & Design Music: Mimar Sinan Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021
CORRELATED RESILIENCES
Credits: Anthony Caradonna, Associate Dean, NYiT - SoAD Giovanni Santamaria, Associate Professor, NYiT - SoAD Marcella Del Signore, Associate Professor, NYiT - SoAD Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Associate Professor, NYiT - SoAD With the contribution of the academic work of Faculty and Students from the NYiT - School of Architecture & Design Curated by Maria Perbellini, Dean and Professor, NYiT SoAD
CORRELATED RESILIENCIES
“CORRELATED RESILIENCES” within the section “ARCHITECTURE AS CAREGIVER” curated by Maria Perbellini and part of the Italian Pavilion titled “Resilient Communities” curated by Alessandro Melis, focuses on issues deriving from processes of both exponential growth and fast shrinking which involve buildings, cities and urbanized territories globally, affecting then also local communities. This is understood in conjunction to the constant evolving of systems of production, distribution and consumption of a variety of resources. Climate change and expanding social and ecological challenges make equity, diversity and the increasing impact of systemic applied technologies crucial issues for a renewed understanding of strategies of intervention in close relationship to the multilayered urban conditions. The engagement of built space, cities and people needs to be seen as parts of an extended network that encompasses the production of information and cultural/ social infrastructures.
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This asks to be approached systemically and across several dimensional scales and fields of actions, and with strategies that foster resilience. This Exhibition showcases through topical video installations and interviews, a selection of the work produced by students and faculty from 2017 to 2021 within several studios, exchange workshops, traveling programs, and local and international community design collaborations, which are part of our curricular and extra-curricular activities at the School of Architecture and Design of the New York Institute of Technology
“Digital Design and Performative Technologies,” “Urban Ecology and Sustainable Growth,” and “Community Design and Resiliency” are the main topical foci that have been adopted to filter the variety of the work collected as result of projects, experimentations, and researches that bring together our students and faculty across several academic levels.
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Installation Credits: Assoc. Prof. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, NYiT - SoAD Thesis Students: Benjamin Sather, Brianna Lopez, Andres Carcamo, Alexandra Panichella, Isaiah Miller, Ari Begun, Oluwayemi Oyewole, Karina Pena, Peter Leonardi. Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: Palazzo Bembo, Venice, “Time-Space-Existence” Exhibition Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021
INFORMED INTERSCALAR FLUIDITY
Exhibition Credits: Assoc. Prof. Marcella Del Signore, NYiT - SoAD Visiting Professor Sergio Elizondo, NYiT - SoAD Thesis Undergraduate and M.Arch Students: Bersibeth Pfel, Chenfei Cao, Stefan Eitnier, Harold Ramirez, Jairo Aguila, Jimi Adeseun, Robert Nafie, Devora Schwartz, Zhuan Liang, Japheth Aleyakpo, Adam Giannios, Yuti Kothari, Gyeongok Noh, Sohui Noh, Aditi Pancholi, Jay Patel, Aleksandra Zatorska.
Informed Interscalar Fluidity at “TIME - SPACE – EXISTENCE” expands computational thinking across disciplines and scales from the material, to the building, to the urban scale. The New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture & Design led by Dean Maria R. Perbellini exhibition and installation developed with Thesis students is curated by Associate Professor Marcella Del Signore and a site-specific installation curated by Associate Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa.
The installation develops an interactive immersive space-environment. Renaissance models of representation (Brunelleschi’s perspective) were displaced in the Baroque (Palladio’s Flattening and Expansion of space; Borromini Spada Gallery; and Pozzo’s Frescoes). The installation develops immersive tensions between real space and augmented virtual illusionistic representation through computational design-AI, simulation, robotic interaction and an informed rbotic fabrication.
INFORMED INTERSCALAR FLUIDITY
In the exhibition, students worked across a range of scales and systems at the urban level. A series of research topics, including computation and simulation were offered as an extended field of investigation to explore the design continuum from the architectural scale to larger design scenarios.
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Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021
AERIO
Credits: Marcella Del Signore | X-Topia, NYiT - School of Architecture and Design Design and Research: Marcella Del Signore, Tatiana Teixeira 3D Printing and Engineering: LaMaquina by Noumena Material Technology: Wearpure.Tech Spatial analytics: Noumena Interaction Design and Physical Computing: Noumena, Cristian Rizzuti
AERIO
Breathing is a vital activity to sustain life and acts as an interface between the environment and ourselves. Collective ecologies of breathing practices are inherently connected to the socio-cultural production of space and the health and adaptability of living systems. Aério is a soft machine conceived as a macrobreathing organ that explores forms of cohabitation of species through the ecology of breathing and investigates health as a public value. The project links three main fields of inquiry: the public realm, socio-technical systems, and health.
The macro-breathing organ acts as a cleaning/filtering/processing air device through the performative textile material embedded and woven into the surface. The embedded material technology is developed through an advanced polymer integrating Wearpure.Tech, a 100% natural mineral compound that has the property to mineralize primary greenhouse gases polluting the air we breathe. It can adsorb and neutralize CO2, NOx, and VOCs, converting them into active minerals. The “Air Ecologies” machine tracks in real-time the material performance at the micro-scale, visualizing the quantity of CO2 absorbed (PPM) correlated to humidity values. The visualization of data produced aims to generate and increase collective awareness of the interconnectedness between the micro and macro scales of our ecosystems. |77
AERIO
Aério is a prototype for public space that acts as a device that can re-layer urban surfaces to provide scenarios for co-dependency of living systems. By mapping prototypical public spaces, the project aims to predict scenarios for dynamic absorption of CO2 in the public realm by interpolating data relative to material technology, human occupation, density, and surrounding air ecologies. By linking social and technical systems, the project has the capacity of being simultaneously a measuring, processing, and visualization device for the public realm and, therefore, for forms of collective living. Aério was exhibited at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 in the Italian Pavilion “Resilient Communities” curated by Alessandro Melis and It is now part of the MACCA – Open Air Museum of Contemporary Art in Peccioli, Tuscany, Italy.
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Venice
Architetti/ Architects & Designers: Pongratz Perbellini Architects Christian R. Pongratz, NYiT - SoAD Maria R. Perbellini, NYiT - SoAD Dustin White, NYiT - SoAD Firms: Pimarlimestone (Pavimento, sedute e vasi in pietra/ Stone pavement, benches, poufs and vases) PI.MAR S.r.l. Mille 997 Srl / Bulbo srl (Parete in Ceramica wall panel) Berengo Berengo Studio1989 (vetro di Murano, Murano glass) NonsoloVerde Cooperativa Sociale (soluzione verde, green solutions) Program: M.S. Architecture, Health and Design Location | Year: Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2021
CRISPR - Locus
Committente/ Client: 17th International Architecture Biennale 2021, Italy
on the passing of time but also into the uniqueness of an inspiring place that went through a history of transformations: the Arsenale, one of the landmarks of Venice. “CRISPR” traits are revealed by its rules and at times latent principles which, if written computationally, are generating non-linear geometries, interchangeable as well as non-adaptive functions and relationships.
CRISPR-Locus
By bringing together stone, glass and ceramics in a lively, dynamic narration to inscribe a public open room, “a micro plaza”, the installation “CRISPR” turns spatial resonances into a stage for social encounters, an emotional observation point of the beauty and power of water, still hidden by walls and the extensive complex of buildings. It is a sensorial immersion into exaptation as a reflection
The design is translating ideas, digitally generated, into cutting edge production techniques of three key sectors, natural stone, Murano glass and ceramics, exemplifying excellence in traditional Italian artisanry, trademarks of Made in Italy. Crispr was exhibited at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale 2021, Italy and has been acquired by MACCA, Open Air Museum of| 83 Contemporary Art, Peccioli, Italy in 2023.
Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies Location | Year: European Cultural Center, “Time-Space-Existence” Exhibition, Palazzo Mora, Venice, 2023
ENTANGLED MATTER
Credits: Marcella Del Signore, Cordula Roser Gray, NYiT - SoAD Design and Research: Marcella Del Signore, Cordula Roser Gray, Tatiana Teixeira, Marcelo Chaves, Lucas Coelho Neto. 3D Printing and Engineering: LaMaquina by Noumena
ENTANGLED MATTER
The drastic increase in environmental imbalances creates the need for continued technological advances that, motivated by nature, simultaneously incorporate ecological processes. Entangled Matter is a system for dynamic matter conversion that incorporates concepts from ecosystems found in the natural world to remediate climate changeinduced stresses through new selfsufficient ecologies. It is a prototype that creates artificial habitats for life forms to grow. Technologies such as sub-irrigation systems, builtin sensors, and digital monitoring aid embedded in the system becomes an autonomous and equitable post-Anthropocene productive Environment.
Aware that open systems promote adaptation, we propose a combinatorial network of scalable entanglements, where hygroscopic materials (hydrogel) are combined with life forms (moss, microalgae) to filter the air around us and cool its surroundings through natural processes to re-establish microclimate conditions. Allowing for a symbiotic relationship between human and nonhuman species, Entangled Matter replaces adverse interactions and consciously makes natural processes.
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Location | Year: Fuorisalone di Milano, 2022
A SPANDREL-INSPIRED INSTALLATION CELEBRATING NO WASTE DESIGN
Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies
REIMAGINED RESIDUUM
Credits: Liyth Musallam, NYiT - SoAD Alessandro Mellis, IDC Foundation Endowed Chair, NYiT - SoAD Fabrication: Juliamarmi
Design that draws inspiration from the concept of Spandrel as described by Gould and Lewontin. It is based on the functional adaptation of a physical prototype of a façade system, developed as part of the Architectural Exaptation research at the New York Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture.
Crafted by Juliamarmi using Pietra Piasentina, a specific type of stone, this piece of design is planned to minimize waste. Unused sections of the initial model’s material are repurposed to fashion the panel for the installation’s pedestal. Furthermore, the components of the model are utilized to form a sculpture that adorns the top of the pedestal. This approach serves as a prime example of no-waste design and upcycling, where materials are repurposed or recycled, resulting in a reduced environmental footprint.
REIMAGINED RESIDUUM
Exhibited by Hoperaperta at the Fuorisalone di Milano in 2022, as well as at Cersaie, Spandrel 2 is a lighting system, and a console designed thorugh a no-waste worksflow, based on a sun screen façade system.
Spandrel 2 was designed by Liyth Musallam, a student at the School of Architecture, and Alessandro Melis, IDC Foundation Endowed Chair at the New York Institute of Technology.
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Location | Year: Italian Embassy, Washington D.C, 2022
EXPLORING ARCHITECTURAL EXAPTATION AND FUNCTIONAL COOPTATION
Program: M.S. Architecture, Computational Technologies
CREATECH
Credits: Dustin White, NYiT - SoAD Undergraduate Architecture Students, NYiT - SoAD Curators: Maria Perbellini & Alessandro Melis, NYiT - SoAD
“Createch”, resembling a white archipelago, was crafted using a CNC machine and incorporated recycled plastic to produce 3D-printed symbionts, resulting in a polymorphic configuration. Notably, the installation prominently featured the integration of one of New York Tech’s 3D WASP printers, effectively demonstrating the equipment’s versatility and capabilities through the printed artifacts. Beyond its artistic significance, “Createch” served as an educational vehicle, encouraging students to embrace their role in driving change and becoming effective researchers. The installation aimed to instill a sense of responsibility in the students and foster the development of student-led research units that push the boundaries of innovation even further.
The exhibition built upon the success of the Upcycling exhibition held in March 2022 at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York City. The earlier event displayed studentled research on 3D-printed clay ecocities, a remarkable outcome of the Master of Science in Architecture, Health, and Design program led by Professor Christian Pongratz.
CREATECH
On June 2, 2022, the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. commemorated the Italian Republic Day celebrations with an installation called “Createch,” designed by Dustin White and a team of NYIT students. Cocurated by Maria Perbellini, NYIT SoAD Dean, and Alessandro Melis NYIT IDC Foundation Endowed Chair, the exhibition aimed to investigate the potential of architectural exaptation and functional cooptation.
Through these exhibitions, the Italian Embassy celebrated creativity and innovation while promoting the fusion of architectural exaptation and functional cooptation as catalysts for transformative design.
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Program: Bachelor of Architecture Location | Year: Education Hall, School of Architecture & Design, New York Institute of Technology, 2023
THESIS PAVILLION
Credits: New York Institute of Technology, B.Arch Studio, Old Westbury campus. Thesis students design work.
THE EXHIBITION PAVILLION
The Exhibition Pavillion: From Personal to Planetary Systems: Designing for Environment, People and Economy was built in 1 week by the NYIT B.Arch 2023 studio on NYIT’s Old Westbury campus to display the studio’s thesis design work. After a year exploring how vital systems can be localized and integrated at an urban and architectural scale, the studio designed three neighborhoods to accommodate the vital systems we rely on as individuals and communities. Three sites in New York represent radically different contexts: upland, coastal and offshore. The designs for these sites are displayed as physical models and on mounted-panels in a modular pavilion. The pavilion was built by the students out of plywood and polycarbonate panels in 1 week. The pavilion clusters 5 exhibition spaces and an interior courtyard, powered by solar panels, to display the work that inspired its creation.
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PUBLICATIONS
Selection of recent Books and Publications • Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information. From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence By Pablo Lorenzo Eiroa, Routledge 2023 • New Words New World By Alessandro Melis, G. De Finis & A. Perin Editions 2023 • Entangled Matter: creating Symbiotic Ecosystems to address Environmental Imbalances Parametric Architecture. By Marcella Del Signore, Cordula Roser Gray, Tatiana Teixeira, in Parametric Architecture 2023 • Drawing Hwa-Chaeng: Mapping Contested Territories for Imagination By Dongsei Kim, Jeongye-C-Publishers 2022 • Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter Towards the possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities b`y Maurizio Carta, Maria Perbellini, J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Springer 2022 • Black hair inspires Architecture Embodying Black Identity • By Marcella del Signore, in University of Houston- Architecture and Design News 2022 • Architecture Beyond Buildings. Tiki-Taka Publication Launch and Conversation by Jinhong Jeon & Yunhee Choi, Dongwoo Yim, E Roon Kang, Dongsei Kim, Jeongye-CPublishers 2022 • Alvar Alto and the Future of Architecture by Robert Cody and Angela Amoia, Routledge 2022 • Urban Machines: Public Space in a Digital Culture by Marcella Del Signore and Gernot Riether, Paperback 2020
SCHOOL MAGAZINE
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