PORTFOLIO rachel
pisano
P E R S O N A L S TAT E M E N T Designing is a series of thoughts and iterations we create within a certain context. I have learned that intentional design that responds meaningfully to this context is the most successful. It is my goal in my design career to always be fully present in the design process and create environments that directly respond to the wants and needs of the community. Through my passions of preservation and design build I hope to continue to develop design skills that reflect and grow communities, and create positive visible impact. Successful design must be accomplished through constant communication with communities, continual examination of the context, and a hands on process.
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Athletic Learning Institute
Winter 2018, Polish Studio
The intention behind the Athletic Learning Institute in the Ursynow community of Warsaw is that the physical and mental aspects of daily life are completely intertwined. The building aims to create a variety of assembly spaces that differ in visibility and atmosphere to create a distinct difference between public, semi-public, and private space. Athletic and didactic spaces are also intertwined to promote the idea that physical activity and learning go hand in hand.
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Fitzgerald Community Theater Fall 2017, Integrated Studio
This small black box community theater is located on the Livernois commercial corridor in Detroit. It acts not only as a theater but as a community space that bridges the Fitzgerald Community and the University of Detroit Mercy. The building continues the commercial street wall with an aluminum screen that runs across the facade as well as the public courtyard created between the theater and neighboring buildings. The the building is primarily curtain wall covered in an aluminum screen creating and interesting facade that draws people in. At night the building would glow creating a focal point along Livernois.
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SOIL LAYER
FILTER CLOTH
DRAINAGE LAYER
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ROOF MEMBRANE
RIGID BOARD INSULATION CONCRETE SLAB 2” METAL DECKING
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ANODIZED ALUMINUM SCREEN ALUMINUM PANEL
BRICK VENEER RIGID BOARD INSULATION AIR AND VAPOR BARRIER STEEL CHANNEL WITH INSULATION
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RIGID BOARD INSULATION
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AIR AND VAPOR BARRIER CONCRETE FOOTING RIGID BOARD INSULATION DRAINAGE PIPE
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COLUMNS FOUNDATION
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First Structural Floor Plan
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Roman Cultural Museum
Summer 2017, Italy Studio This museum acts as both a community hub for Volterra as well as the informational center for the Roman Theater. It becomes the fourth wall of the theater creating a neutral backdrop that is integrated into the theater itself. The viewing areas from the museum highlight the important geometrical aspects of the theater and create dramatic moments within the building. This project seeks to mediate old and new and honor the great history of the city.
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First Floor Plan
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Viewing Platform
Fall 2016, Community Design Studio This pair of viewing platforms are located within Lafayette Park in Detroit and were created as public space for the community to observe the happenings of the park in 360 degrees. People are encouraged to interact with the structure and rest on it as well as underneath it. The two platforms work in tandem to visually connect the park across its long axis.
Front Elevation
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Concept Sketches
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Folded Space
Fall 2016, Community Studio Public space is meant to provide a space for one to be authentic. It should bring out the culture of the surrounding area and create collaboration between locals and visitors. This mixed use space in Eastern Market provides collaborative indoor and outdoor space and aims to highlight the diversity of music and people in Detroit. People are drawn into the space by the folding of the landscape into the cut and the natural transition from street space to areas of both collaborative and reflective public space. Axon
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O’ Shea Park Project
Detroit Collaborative Design Center, February 2017 This project envisioned the old O’ Shea Recreational Building into a new indooroutdoor community space with a viewing platform for the surrounding areas. My role in this project was to take the design vision of the DCDC, and the work of Dan Pitera, and portray it in a perspective rendering of the envisioned space. At a later stage of the project I was also responsible for drawing basic demolition and construction drawings for the intended structure.
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Spring Forward Facade Installation
Detroit Collaborative Design Center, March 2017
This installation portrayed an office space in a vacant storefront building on McNichols, a commercial corridor in Detroit. The facade installation was a part of the Spring Forward Block Party the community organized along the street to help the public imagine what a lively street feels like and how it could aid the community. The process involved designing the back-lit wooden panels, the logistics of their transport to the site, and the process of mounting them to the vacant storefront. Painted CNC cut
plywood, screw mounted to existing signage frame and back-lit.
Housing Project
Thomas Roberts Architect This model was completed to show basic interior conditions for a housing addition. It displays wall layouts and basic openings to get a sense of the overall space.
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Jeffersonian Building Thomas Roberts Architect
The Jeffersonian Building is a high rise apartment building that I field measured. The scope for the project was to document the existing conditions and then generate schematic ideas of how to renovate the building. I was responsible for drawing all the AutoCad as-builts for the entire building.
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THOMAS ROBERTS ARCHITECT, LLC
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SITE VISIT SITE VISIT EDITS EDITS
The Jeffersonian 9000 East Jefferson Ave. Detroit. Michigan
2927 4th Street Wyandotte, MI 48192 (t)734.250.4032
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SITE VISIT SITE VISIT EDITS EDITS
The Jeffersonian 9000 East Jefferson Ave. Detroit. Michigan
2927 4th Street Wyandotte, MI 48192 (t)734.250.4032
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St. Mathews Church Thomas Roberts Architect
The goal of the St. Matthew’s Catholic Church project was to document existing conditions in order to provide clients with a base to start a remodel. I drew the as built drawings from a filed measure and existing pictures we captured. This project is a good example of the type of preservation projects worked on at TRA.
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Existing First Floor Plan 3/16" = 1'-0"
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
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706 Beach St, Flint, MI 48502
2927 4th Street Wyandotte, MI 48192 (t)734.250.4032
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print date: 02.05.2018
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Flat Pack Chair
Fall 2018, Material + Fabrication The task of this project was to create a unique chair design using Baltic Birch plywood and CNC technology. The limitations of the project were that no glue or hardware could be incorporated, making tight fitting joinery the only method for connection. The inspiration for this design was the antique captain’s chairs my grandma used to have around her dining room table. Close attention was paid to the angle the chair slopes down and the distance between the slats to account for comfort.
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Alabaster Sculpture alabaster
The art of alabaster sculpture is unique to the region of Volterra in Tuscany. This soft stone known for its pure color is a beautiful medium to sculpt as the stone smooths and polished nicely. This work is a series of three spinning dishes that can be opened and closed as they revolve around an olive wood dowel. They were hand carved and polished.
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Plug Explorations
Fall 2018, Material + Fabrication The goal of these explorations was to experiments with different fabrication processes surrounding one object. This industrial plug was modeled three dimensionally in Rhino in order to then print it three dimensionally. The next exploration was to make a two dimensional acrylic inset piece that represented our object graphically using three different colors. The pieces of acrylic had to be flush with the surface of the wood and be tight-fit, using no glue. These processes revealed the importance of using test pieces in order to solidify the proper tolerances to use when both printing with the 3D printer or cutting with the laser cutter or CNC machines.
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Tile Lamp
Winter 2019 This lamp was a project made to represent our school of architecture as a gift to our dean. It was made out of materials that represent our school: terracotta roof tiles and Baltic Birch plywood. Light dramatically escapes through the slits made by the tiles, and the warm colors properly reflect the tones within the walls of our school. The tiles were cut with angle grinder and epoxied into a glue lammed Baltic Birch base which also encased the light. The slits for the tiles were cut using the CNC machine.
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RACHEL PISANO
aspiring architect University of Detroit Mercy