Silvia Mazzarri Current work
Student work Lighting Design
Muji offices Collaboration with Estevan Varas
A two floor building in the corner of 15th st. & 9th av. In Manhattan
A grid of bamboo plywood slabs covers the open areas of the building’s ceiling, changing directions at the different uses of the plan. The slabs are shaped to cover the luminaries from the view; this ones are distributed around the grid and aiming toward a white painted ceiling.
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Office 1
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Elevator Lobby
Elevator Lobby
Copy Rm.
Lunch Rm.
BELLAWOOD ASH
Office 5
Conference Rm.
Office 2 Flexible Space
EDGE LIT PLASTIC
Office 6
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Copy Rm.
Lounge
Service Counter
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NATURAL ASH Office 3
Office 4
Open Offices
Conference Rm. Lobby
Entry Storefront Display
First floor plan
WHITE OAK
Office 7
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Second floor plan
Executive Office
Ceiling mock-up First floor luminaries layout plan
Second floor luminaries layout plan
The illuminance plan on the right demo how the juxtaposition of ambient lighting and dedicated lighting presents the full extent of the design, where the working desks are accentuated. Second floor illuminance levels plan
Section
Ceiling wood grid, first and second floor
Open Office Render Below from left to right: Cove Detail, Desks, Desk’s Edge Task Light Detail, Ceiling Grid Detail, Window Shelf Detail, Grid Detail.
Student work Daylighting Design
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Collaboration with James Clotfelter & Jordana Goot
Cloud Cover study
Park Use analysis
800sqft building programed as a Community Library, located at Dry Dock playground in the lower east side of Manhattan.
Studying NYC Climate and the site determined the decision of opening the east facade for limited direct sun and two roof fenestrations.
North Wall Light Render / Interior Elevation
Fenestration Study : 9am Summer Solstice
9am Equinox
9am Winter Solstice
The east facade angle was design to block direct summer light after 11pm and aloud winter light to penetrate deep, while the roof opening will block all direct summer sun.
Daylight Factor mapping
Daylight
Reflected Ceiling Plans
Electric
Student work Event lighting
Light bar
Collaboration with Paloma Sherman
wood frame and detail of construction
Various layers are cover with a superficial wall, leaking light through cracks..
wooden frame fabric layer coves
fabric layer coves on frame
Donghia room event plan
The Light Bar was created for an event at Parsons The New School in alliance with Philips USA, a series of lectures named “luminous talks�.
25 E 13th st. second floor event plan
coves details
The design’s inspiration comes from the immateriality of light; by illuminating the back corner of the bar the front fabric virtually disappears giving the impression of wine glasses “floating on light�.
Student work Lighting
Light box
The Light box was created producing a series of small perforated boxes that directs narrow beams of light formulating a playful pattern that interchanges the light/ shadow dynamic that happens on the photographs on the right; All of this within a sealed bigger box with a fish eye pick-hole on it’s top that will aloud you to see the inside scheme.
Collaboration with Jenny Hindelang & Emanuela Martini
Student work Architecture
Housing Project
Indoor Courtyard in
PLAN Located on the south of the Alfred E. Smith NYCHA houses this 100 units housing project priorities on resilience and communal gatherings. Divided between studios, 1br. and 2br apartments the program includes a series of community spaces that include outdoor and indoor gardens, communal kitchens and general common multipurpose spaces.
1 Volunteer Period
1 Food Basket
Community Outreach
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Community Spaces
Indoor Courtyard in
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Studio
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1 bedroom
Studio 2 bedroom
Unit System and Aggregation
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Site Plan
Predicted Flooding area
Predicted Flooded area with collecting paths
Settle in zone A of the city’s hurricane map the site is considered to have a high threat of flooding based on storm surge, the design investigates buoyancy, speculating that a mobile foundation will allow a building to adapt to rising water levels.
Resting Position
Flooding Event
The mayor structure of the building is elevated in a double height from the ground, in a flooding event a half of the ground floor and the pathways will float and connect with the bottom of the 2nd floor up to 10 feet.
Wooden Structure (Engineer wood)
Core
West Elevation
Connecting Beams
Plates
SIP System
East Elevation
Student work Architecture
Elementary School
The point where Carrol Gardens and Red Hook meet is seeing constant changes, increasing the families population into this part of Brooklyn. The project proposed the design of a school for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st to 3rd grades. 12 classrooms, a lab, art room, a library, a gymnasium, a cafeteria, a resource room, administrative offices, an all-purpose/music room and a green house compose the program
The living walls (green walls) allow the school to change with the seasons and creates intimacy, ambiance and sound attenuation for the classrooms
The building’s shape creates two different courtyards. A public one by the street demarcating the main entrance and a private one where the play area it’s located