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nicholas venezia

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Camas Pedal Bike Shelter

StudioKyoto Downtown RevitalizationiWPA 2.0 competitioniiLyceum CompetitioniiiMuseum for The Tiber RiverivBillboards for Urban Agriculturev

Project ManagerCommunity design/buildfoundation of an m.arch education

ModelsThesisiStill Life ExerciseiiMuseum for The Tiber Riveriii

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The Production of Buildings: an adaptive reuse project in Portland, Oregon. Major explorations include permanence in architecture, photography and physical modeling.

Thesis

Camas Pedal Bike Shelter

StudioKyoto Downtown RevitalizationiWPA 2.0 competitioniiLyceum CompetitioniiiMuseum for The Tiber RiverivBillboards for Urban Agriculturev

Project ManagerCommunity design/buildfoundation of an m.arch education

ModelsThesisiStill Life ExerciseiiMuseum for The Tiber Riveriii

Hand Media

Sketches from NYCiiSukkah City Competitioni

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The Production of Buildings: an adaptive reuse project in Portland, Oregon. Major explorations include permanence in architecture, photography and physical modeling.

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Camas Pedal Bike Shelter

Camas Ridge Community SchoolProject Manager$18,000.00Fall 20092010Spring 2010 - Summer 2011Steel, douglas fi r, concrete, corrugated metal roofi ng, native plants

Community design/buildMultiple disciplinesBudget uncertainties Revolving TeamFlexible and enthusiastic clientCustom Fabrication

From pre-design through construction, this project was the foundation of my architectural education. The design/build organization through which this project was carried out, called designBridge, is student run and operated with a unique organizational model grounded in curricular obligation, made limitless by extracurricular dedication. The Camas Ridge Community School Bike Shelter is estimated at $18,000 in materials, all donated during the design phase thanks to fund raising efforts of the team in collaboration with the school.

A revolving team of 30+ student /parent /professional volunteers supported a small core of leaders over a year and a half.

Build Lead: Nate PoelCo-Project Managers: Caitlin Gilman (Winter and Spring 2010) Sara Vernia (Fall 2009)

Faculty Advisors: Juli Brode and John Rowell

Disciplines Involved: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art Education

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This respect, this concern for permanence has, I believe, something to do with the essence of works of art - that they emerge from a specifi c time and also display the characteristics of that time, in form and style and use of material, but at the same time pass through it or bring that time along with them in still memory into an endless future.

- Rudi Fuchs, The Ideal Museum, 1987

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Thesis: The Production of Architecture

Fall 2010 - Spring 2011Portland, OregonArt Center30,000 sq. ft.Steel, concrete, glass.

Perception and narrativeAdaptive ReusePermanenceExclusion of 3-D computer modelingPhysical modeling and photography

A building in support of an existing narrative.

Professor Howard Davis and all of his students. Most notably: Will krzymowski Joe Sadoski Christopher Nielson

Peers: Jon Hammett Chesely Kristin Kelsey Will Lopatriello Jesse Crupper Hank Warneck Ashley Gibson

Professional outreach: Flint Jamison (YU) Stephen Duff (U of O) Mark Donofi o (U of O) Ian Gelbrich (Boora Architects, Inc)

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Yale Union Laundry Building

YU Contemporary Art Center

Yale Union Laundry Building

Windows and polycarbonate panels of varying opacities bounce sunlight into the courtyard. Angles of the new facade are generated to refl ect the old building from various positions inside and outside of the existing building.

witness associate appearance and materials with pre-existing opinions

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a building in support of an existing space

observe the narrative of an urban environment

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a space that changes with our perceptions, specifi c to our individual dispositions

The ascension to the second fl oor gallery begins at the street and ends with a view down the length of the grand space. By this point the new building’s purpose is clear; to create an experience that supports the existing building.

The new galleries are objects that physically shape the experience of visitors while offering artists the opportunity to create art based on perception at a variety of scales.

studiois communicating schematic ideas to a diverse audience.

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5 Studio Projects

Kyoto Study Abroad, 2009WPA 2.0 Competition Entry, 2009Lyceum Competition Entry, 2009A Billboard for Urban Agriculture, 2010A Museum for The Tiber River, 2010

Studio is a process dedicated to communication. Learning from my peers was the most valuable part of that process. In our curriculum, studio was not about designing space, rather it was about communicating ideas and opinions of the built environment. The value of this process when translated to real projects is in the cohesion of the design team. More clarity during schematics leads to a more unifi ed design approach throughout development and execution of the project. This is particularly valuable during the detailing and construction documents phase, when hundreds of decisions are made daily by the individuals producing those documents.

Projects 1+2

Kyoto collaboration:Team Members:Victor Elliott, Peter Hanley, Michael Bowles

Professors:Ron Lovinger, Daisuke, Yumiko Nelson, Michael Fifi eld

Artist Satoko Motouji

WPA 2.0 collaboration:Jon Hammett Chesley, Will Krzymowski, Nicolaus Wright

Projects 3, 4, 5

Lyceum collaboration:Professor Erin Moore

Peers: Jon Hammet ChesleyJeff VincentAndrea Solk

Billboard collaboration:Professor David Cook

All students in the studio. Most notably:Jon Hammett ChesleyJoe SadoskiHank Warneck

Tiber collaboration:Professor James Tice

Peers:Kristin KelseyMinh LadaoDylan Woock

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Kyoto Downtown Revitalization

Design Team:Victor Elliott, Peter Hanley, Michael Bowles

Landscape Architecture Studio in Kyoto, Japan, Summer 2009

Mediating Highways and Main StreetsWPA 2.0 competition entry, Fall 2009

An extracurricular submission to the WPA 2.0 competition hosted by CityLab, an open call to solve infrastructural opportunities in America. The project proposes a multi-modal transportation hub designed to fi t under viaducts in periphery cities across the country. The main goal was to take advantage of the divergent scales of transportation in order to rejuvenate or create downtown suburban city centers.

collaboration with: Jonathan Chesley, Nicolaus Wright, Will Krzymowski

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Mediating Highways and Main StreetsProposal:Reformulating periphery cities by re-imagining orphan highway infrastructures.

We propose that USDOT investment be designated to improving the infrastructures of the United Sates Num-bered Highway system such that this historic and locally speci�c transportation network be re-imagined/re-visioned to act as supportive armatures for the healthy development of town centers in the periphery of major metropolitan areas.

Problem:These "periphery cities" are expected to become sites of major population growth as residential options in city centers become increasingly out of reach for middle and lower class America. They are largely de�ned by strip development along major transportation corridors such as state highways. These state highways are largely underfunded and have become overwhelmed by increased usage. Commercial development is de�ned by multinational corporations' capabilities to develop their own infrastructures and plug-in to the vehicular economy of the corridor. Local economies are therefore dependent on the ebbs and �ows of the global economic tides and do not contain redundant systems for self support or means of strategically engaging larger scale economies.

Opportunities:Transit Oriented Development has become an accepted method of de�ning city growth utilizing public transit as a growth generator. TOD's primary method of action is through zoning and development guidelines. The prob-lem of economic barriers created by previous reactive zoning is resistant to change by the same modes of production as it's creations. We propose that sites of infrastructural investments such as viaducts, inter-changes, and tunnels be unshackled from their de�ni-tions as purely engineering tasks and undertake as sites of invention for the design of armatures for social, cultural, economic, and ecologic development of nascent periphery cities.

Solution:Essential to the success of these sites is the mediation of divergent scales. These infrastructural interventions seek to seed and allow for the integration of the global, metropolitan, and private spheres of life. A program-matically contextual structural system is here proposed to support the needs of the highway and the main street while creating an organic armature for new typologies of hybrid culture, economy,and ecology which bridge the gap between the global and the private. The infra-structure becomes building becomes landscape becomes city.

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Sustainable Dance Floor by the Sustainable Dance Club

3. Projections inform vehicular commuters1. Existing behavior used to generate power 2. Lights activate underpass

A Billboard for Urban AgricultureReconditioning the Urban Fabric, Spring 2010A studio led by Behnisch Architekten Principal David Cook

Activate. Advertise. Educate. This project is about educating the urban population about food - the local availability of it and the process of growing it. An intervention of this nature serves to increase the density of urban agricultural practice by drawing attention its existence, instructing its feasibility and encouraging its growth through experiential participation.

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Design and Presentation Models

Thesis, 2010 - 2011Still Life Exercise, 2008Museum for The Tiber River, 2010

Projects 1+2

Thesis collaboration:Professor Howard Davis and all of his students. Most notably: Will krzymowski Joe Sadoski Christopher Nielson

Peers: Jon Hammett Chesely Kristin Kelsey Will Lopatriello Jesse Crupper Hank Warneck Ashley Gibson

Professional outreach: Flint Jamison (YU) Stephen Duff (U of O) Mark Donofi o (U of O) Ian Gelbrich (Boora Architects, Inc)

Still Life Collaboration:Professor Otto Poticha

Peer: Will Krzymowski

Project 3

Museum for The Tiber:Professor James Tice

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Sukkah City Competition, 2010 Paintings from New York City, 2011

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collaboration:Professor Jim Givens and his media class.

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A series of paintings for an apartment in New York City. Collaboration with residents, Rob and Mike Sanzillo.

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