RUSSELL SCHEER PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURE
INDEX
RÉSUMÉ PROFESSIONAL WORK Fradkin & McAlpin Architects, NYC Renderings, drawings, and models completed throughout internships
COMMON GROUND East New York, NY Transitional housing for chronically homeless veterans
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE PUPIL Florence, Italy Syracuse University Law School and mock courtroom
601 UNIVERSITY AVENUE Syracuse University, NY Syracuse University bookstore, student center, gym and campus gateway
ECO CENTER Syracuse University, NY Resilience center and transit hub in Jamaica Bay
CONVERGING FLOWS Nisqually, WA Interstate 5 rest stop, motel, and nature reserve observation deck
URBAN EXHIBIT Syracuse, NY Ceramics gallery and interactive plaza
SHELL STRUCTURE Cast in place concrete shell structure and digital analysis
RÉSUMÉ
Russell Stanley Scheer EDUCATION
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Expected Bachelor of Architecture Design GPA: 3.5 | Dean’s List International Study: Florence, IT SU Urban Studio: NYC, NY
EXPERIENCE
4 Donna Court Asbury Park, NJ 908.433.5631 rsscheer@syr.edu russellscheer.com
2017 Expected
2015 Spring 2015 Fall
FRADKIN & MCALPIN ARCHITECTS | New York City, NY
2015 Summer
MADISON MARQUETTE REAL ESTATE | Asbury Park, NJ
2015 Summer
INTO THE FOLD Design+Build initiative | Syracuse, NY
2014 - 2015
FREELANCE 3D VISUALIZATION | Deal, NJ
2013 - 2016
AIAS FREEDOM BY DESIGN SYRACUSE
2014 - 2015
Intern Architect Assisted in preparation for presentations, produced drawings and models for design development, and assembled brochures and marketing tools to encourage expansion for a growing firm. 3D Visualization Intern at Asbury Park Boardwalk Worked with developers and architects to create a working model for design development. Responsible for taking photos for instagram account.
LEADERSHIP
Designed and constructed an ADA compliant ramp for the Westminister Presbyterian Church in Downtown Syracuse. In collaboration with Freedom by Design. Using Rhino and V-Ray, created renderings for unsold properties to attract potential developers. In collaboration with G & G Realtors. Treasurer Vice President Managed all finances for a $13,000 ramp project. Oversaw fundraising events to fund current and future design+build projects.
SKILLS
DIGITAL
Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinocerous3D, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, V-Ray, Cinema 4D
MODELING
Hand modeling, Rockite, 3D Printing, CNC Mill, Vacuum Forming, Laser Cutting
LANGUAGES
English - native speaker Italian, Hebrew - functional
PROFESSIONAL WORK
LANDMARK COLLEGE
DESIGNED BY: FRADKIN & MCALPIN ARCHITECTS PUTNEY, VT Site model for a house and community space for the president of Landmark College in Putney, VT.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fradkin & McAlpin Architects summer internship Madison Marquette Real Estate Services summer internship
MODELING 3D printing, CNC Mill, and Laser Cutting DRAFTING Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUP, Adobe Creative Suite, hand-drafting and ink on mylar
Abilities to demonstrate a strong graphic and design talent, strong rendering skills and familiarity with Rhino and Revit, an excellent command of Adobe Creative Suite and AutoCAD, and excellent craft and model-making skills. While working with Bennett Fradkin & David McAlpin, I was responsible for redrawing and updating various projects with incomplete drawing boards. I recreated projects in rhino while also fixing various technical construction drawings. While working for Madison Marquette, I created a rhino model and renderings of the 5th Avenue pier at the Asbury Park Boardwalk in order to continue the development of a bar and concert hall on the building’s roof. My responsibilities also stretched to being a photographer for local events in Asbury Park for marketing purposes.
180 BEDFORD AVE View from Bedford & 7th Ave. | V-Ray for Rhino & Photoshop
DESIGNED BY: FRADKIN & MCALPIN ARCHITECTS BROOKLYN, NY
LANDMARK COLLEGE
DESIGNED BY: FRADKIN & MCALPIN ARCHITECTS PUTNEY, VT Science, Technology, & Innovation Center
Campus Site Plan | Photoshop
Section through Student Center Atrium | Revit & Photoshop
Science & Technology Building Long Section | Revit & Photoshop
COMMON GROUND
PROFESSOR ANGIE CO BROOKLYN, NY DESIGNED WITH RAN MEI Transitional housing for homeless veterans, community vertical garden, and small business start-up spaces.
Street Level Perspective | Rhino, V-Ray, and Photoshop
Honoring the men and women who have sacrificed their lives fighting our wars, by creating a home to help with the process of reintigrating back into modern society. Working with HELP USA, a non profit organization whose mission is to help those who are homeless and others in need become and remain self-reliant. We gathered necessary data and information on this project’s finances, in order to understand the financial impact of this development within its community as well as the rest of Brooklyn.
Ground Level Plan
Site Model with Elevated Rail
Section through Unit | Created in Rhino
CONCEPT By bringing the outside in a comforting and supportive atmosphere promotes recovery. Through a system of hydroponic plantings and expansive community programs, the transitional collective for previously homeless veterans will create opportunities for the veterans living there, as well as the entire community of East NY.
Livonia Avenue Elevation
Sectional Model of Unit
Atrium and Vertical Farm | V-Ray Rendering
Section through Railway
ARCHITECTURE FOR THE PUPIL
PROFESSOR RICHARD ROSA FLORENCE, ITALY This building contains a mock courtroom, library, and classrooms for the Law School in Florence, Italy.
As an extension of the Syracuse University Law School, this project creates a learning environment within the once sacred garden space of the Villa Rossa, located in Florence, Italy. By reinventing the courtyard space into an outdoor courtroom, this programmatic device will create dramatic judicial scenes, new to the eyes of the S.U. students as well as the people of Florence.
CONCEPT Taking precedent from Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio, his conceptual ideas that portrayed “architecture for the people ” is taken to a different level of understanding. By opening the Villa Rossa courtyard to the street and creating central pulpit spaces, an immediate relationship can be made between peers... teacher to student... judge to jury... lawyer to citizens.
An axial relationship is created between the statue of Savanarola, the infamous Italian heretic, and the courtroom pulpit.
SHAPE OF AIR
BUILDING FORM
CIRCULATION
BALCONIES
Marble Cladding
Classrooms Speaker’s Pulpit
Physical Library Digital Library
Structure
Exterior Reading Rooms
Mock Courtroom
Ground Level
601 UNIVERSITY AVENUE
PROFESSOR ROBERT SVETZ SYRACUSE, NY This building will become the new gateway to campus as well as housing the new Syracuse University bookstore, gym, retail shops, and a much needed night club for the #1 party school.
In dialogue with Rem Koolhaas’ essay, “Whatever Happened to Urbanism?” This project proposes a formal design that is intended to revitalize the urbanity of the Syracuse University campus as well as to give the city of Syracuse a hub to connect with the students of the University. By creating an environment in which students using the mixed use facility and pedestrians using the sidewalk can interract, will allow for a merge of activities, pedestrian traffic, and the various patrons of the university facility.
Gateway to Campus | V-Ray Rendering
Rhino, Vray & Adobe Photoshop
Typical Day in Syracuse | V-Ray Rendering
ECO CENTER
PROFESSOR JULIA CZERNIAK BROAD CHANNEL, NY Following Hurricanes Sandy & Irine, this building will act as a resilience center for Jamaica Bay, Queens, an area hit hard by both superstorms.
Serving as a transit center for the people of Broad Channel and New York City, the Eco Center is also a viewing space that highlights the ecology of Jamaica Bay. The building’s form allows for the collection of the landscape’s natural temporalities and the interactions between organisms and their environment. The building’s exterior facade is intended to create a focal point towards the environment created within the central void. The center holds information on the bay’s ecological tendencies, such as the changing tides and the relationships between plants and organisms of this wetland zone.
Section through Central Void
ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
FUNCTIONING SURFACE Wind strength becomes evident through facade
Roof Canopy
Timber Construction
Active Facade
Boardwalk
Ground Level Plan
CONVERGING FLOWS
PROFESSOR LORI BROWN NISQUALLY, WA Truck drivers, commuters, vacationers, bird watchers, and bald eagles. Rt. 5 rest stop serves all forms of traffic day and night.
Located on a primary bird migratory path, this project acts as a rest stop for commuters traveling on interstate 5, as well as an observation space to view the various bird species and their tendencies. The design takes into account the local watershed by recycling its own water. It also uses its slanted glass walls and crossing mullians and ramps to prevent birds from hitting its large spans of glass.
Sectional Model
TENNIS SHELL
PROFESSOR ROGER HUBELI BUILT WITH PIOTR JANKOWSKI Assigned to come up with a structural design for a sports complex in a context we could create.
Using the plug-in, rhinoVAULT for rhinocerous, we designed a concrete shell with seven legs and six holes in which light pours in and out of the space depending on the time of day and use. Our caluculations were proved correct after we cast the model at 1/4 scale and placed it into its landscape.
URBAN EXHIBIT
PROFESSOR ROBERT PETRIE SYRACUSE, NY A ceramic gallery and plaza by day, a glowing piece of art by night.
Designed in first-year studio, this urban landscape of lights, seating, and shade become a place for interaction as the art pieces exhibited within the gallery sillhouette against the building’s louevered facade. As the sun goes down, this vital corner of downtown Syracuse remains a safe zone for continuous pedestrian traffic. The important effect of light is expressed within the gallery space. Sloped downward, the building receives the users on ground level to a piston driven glass elevator. The light from the shaft fluctuates as the elevators pump viewers into the spiraling galleries that end back at ground level.
Sectional Model through Plaza Entry
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