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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIOb. arch thesis: mind the gapadvisors, vincent mulcahy + till hoffmann, spring 2014charles goodwin sands memorial award

le corbusier remix critic, mark morris, fall 2013

img wall critic, jenny sabin, spring 2013

tsim tsa shui star ferry port critic, george hascup, fall 2011

schoolhouse south africa: pangaea critic, aleksandr mergold, spring 2011schoolhouse south africa finalist

BUILT WORKschoolhouse south africawith cornell university sustainable designarchitizer a+ award for student design/build engineering news record’s best small project

MATERIAL STUDIESstructural model: lincoln park pavilioncritic, mark cruvellier, spring 2012

hammondsport pavilioncritic, vincent mulcahy, spring 2010

end tableswith jon negron, spring 2014

ROME STUDY ABROADdrawings/collage

villa giulia analysiscritic, jerry wells, fall 2012

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02 | stephanie gitto | THESIS DESIGN STUDIO

NEW YORK CITY SUBWAYmind the gapthis thesis, situated in New York City’s subway system, aims to create thresholds between the city above and the city below, transitional spaces between a variety of urban neighborhoods and landmarks, and a hybridized architecture of banal programs and highly fantastical spaces. this thesis uses the phenomenology of the church as a precedent for a mediation of the real and the other, re-deploying it as a transformed, subterranean architecture, out-of-context and out-of-

scale.advisors: vincent mulcahy, till

hoffmann, spring 2014 -charles goodwin sands

memorial award

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04 | stephanie gitto | THESIS DESIGN STUDIO

THESIS DESIGN STUDIO | advisors, vincent mulcahy + till hoffmann | 05

06 | stephanie gitto | THESIS DESIGN STUDIO

THESIS DESIGN STUDIO | advisors, vincent mulcahy + till hoffmann | 07

08 | stephanie gitto | DESIGN STUDIO

MODEL PHOTOS, INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP COMPILATIONS

SHADOW PLAN

ROCKEFELLER C E N T E Rle corbusier r e m i xproposal for a kinetic sculpture gallery housing le corbusier’s morning sculpture exercises using architectural ideas and forms from the rooftop appartement de beistegui. this proposal is situated on the rooftop gardens of rockefeller center and seeks to open, close, and focus view through a series of ever-shifting moving walls and strategic framing

devices.critic, mark morris,

fall 2013

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VIEW INTO ENTRANCE

10 | stephanie gitto | DESIGN STUDIO

VIEW IN THE GALLERY GARDEN VIEW OF ST. PATRICK’S CATHEDAL AND SAKS 5TH AVE

DESIGN STUDIO | critic, mark morris | 11

12 | stephanie gitto | DESIGN STUDIO

S E R P E N T I N E P A V I L I O Ni m g _ w a l lproposal for a pavilion of layered wall types that filter and mediate light for various effects and foci. this project involved scripting and 1:1 prototyping to create a continuous feedback loop of material hypothesis and reality. the lighting effects were created through perforated and folded metal, a secondary layer of a loosely knit material, and a final layer of warped plastic, each relating to one another via a hierarchical

system of points. critic, jenny sabin,

spring 2013

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PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH SINGLE-LAYER METAL

PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH KNIT

PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH PLASTIC

LIGHT PROJECTION PROCESS

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PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH DOUBLE-LAYER METAL

PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH DOUBLE-LAYER METAL, KNIT, + PLASTIC

PHOTO OF LIGHT PROJECTED THROUGH SINGLE-LAYER METAL, KNIT, + PLASTIC

METAL FABRICATION PROCESS DIAGRAM

DESIGN STUDIO | critic, jenny sabin | 15

16 | stephanie gitto | DESIGN STUDIO

HONG KONG

tsim sha tsuiproposal for a residential tower and boat dock, botanical garden, bath house, and farming terrace on the site of the star ferry terminal. the project came about as a re-collage of kowloon and hong kong in

three dimensionscritic, george hascup,

fall 2011

c i r c u l a t i o nh o t e l / c o n d of a r m i n gm a r k e t sb o a t - l i f tb a t h h o u s e | 17

18 | stephanie gitto | DESIGN STUDIO

pangaeacompetition proposal for an early childhood development center in the new townships of johannesburg, south africa exploring the concepts of earth meeting sky and the formation of two objects breaking away from a continuous earthen wall. part of a three-phase competition completed in a group of three students in collaboration with cornell university sustainable

design.critic, aleksandr mergold,

spring 2011 -finalist, schoolhouse south

africa competition

S C H O O L H O U S ESOUTH AFRICA

PLANOMETRIC DIAGRAMS

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1:2 SCALE PROTOTYPING OF EARTH WALL CONSTRUCTION

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CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

DESIGN STUDIO | critic, aleksandr mergold | 21

22 | stephanie gitto | BUILT WORK

c . u . s . d .images and drawings of the final schoolhouse south africa project, built summer 2011 outside johannesburg in cosmo city, a post-apartheid settlement. design developed by students and construction done by students and local workers. done in partnership with education africa, basil read, and cornell university

sustainable design. summer 2011

architizer a+ award for student design/build

engineering news record’s best small project

S C H O O L H O U S ESOUTH AFRICA

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24 | stephanie gitto | MATERIAL STUDIES

scale model of studio gang’s lincoln park pavilion exploring its unique structural system of double curved glue-lam members. this model used digital and analog techniques to create the glue-lam members assembled into the pavilion’s vault formation with pin

connections at the base.critic, mark cruvellier,

spring 2012

lincoln park p a v i l i o n

FORM WORKS AND DOUBLE-CURVED MEMEBER, MADE OF 39 INDIVIDUAL SQUARE SECTION STICKS

MATERIAL S T U D I E S

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MATERIAL S T U D I E S

left: plexiglass models exploring stratification through light and water in

the finger lakes region.critic, vincent mulcahy,

spring 2010

this page: three tables made of walnut, steel, and “color” (plexiglass and paint), playing with variations in form but ultimately creating a cohesive triptych of side

tables.with jon negron,

spring 2014

brick origami + hammondsport p a v i l i o n

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DIGITAL COLLAGES COMPLETED IN ROME, ITALY IN FALL 2012.

28 | stephanie gitto | ROME STUDY ABROAD

ROME STUDY A B R O A Ddigital collage + facade studyleft: digital collage of nude studies and other drawings from semester in rome, italy including drawings of floor mosaics and the skyline from the

palazzo quirinalethis page: analytical ink drawing and paper relief model of villa giulia that examine the facade’s “flattening” as elements move outward from the central bay, or “deepening” as one approaches from the

diagonal.critic, jerry wells

fall 2012

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DRAFTED INK DRAWING OF VILLA GIULIA

PAPER RELIEF MODEL OF VILLA GIULIA

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