Allison Schwartz Portfolio

Allison Schwartz Syracuse University B. Arch 2025

Allison Schwartz

(757)-284-1522 | aschwa15@syr.edu issuu portfolio| linkedin

EDUCATION Syracuse University School of Architecture | Bachelor of Architecture

Expected May 2025

GPA 3.6 | Dean’s List - eight semesters | Chancellor’s Scholarship

Syracuse Abroad | London, GB

Spring 2023

Sustainability on Trial: Environmental Justice in Northern Europe

Syracuse Architecture NYC Program SUNY ESF | Sustainable Construction Management Minor

Construction Estimating, Materials Marketing , Environmental Impact Analysis, Renewable Materials, Capstone (PM)

Fall 2023

Expected May 2025

RELATED EXPERIENCE Architecture Intern | IKM Inc. | Pittsburgh, PA

June 2024 - Aug. 2024

• produced renderings in Enscape and Photoshop + exterior construction details while modeling in Revit for projects focused in healthcare and K-12 programs • researched products, specifications, and communicated with product representatives for lighting design proposals included in client meetings • participated in on-site analysis and construction site visits to healthcare and collegiate projects • discussed preliminary massings strategies for K-12 fieldhouse using Revit, Rhino, and Sketchup

Urban Voids Drawing Class Workshop | Architensions | New York, NY Architecture Intern | Bottega17 | Florence, IT

December 2023 May 2023 - June 2023

• completed final competition submission while adhering to deadlines for mixed-use high school campus by modeling with Rhino + drafting in AutoCAD for renderings and physical models • modeled in Rhino exisitng church from the approx. 1500s using analog drawings • discussed and sketched through precedents for preliminary design of church rennovations

LEADERSHIP Resident Advisor | Office of Student Living | Syracuse, NY

Apr. 2022 - Present

Architecture Peer Advisor | School of Architecture

Aug. 2021 - Jan. 2023

Food Recovery Network | Executive Board Member

Nov. 2021 -Aug. 2022

Social Media and Outreach Coordinator

Student Supervisor | Graham Dining Hall | Syracuse, NY

Nov. 2021 - Dec. 2022

Future Designers for Syracuse | Social Media

Nov. 2020 - May 2022

Content Creator

SKILLS Drawing Visualization Software Manufacturing

AutoCAD | Manual Drafting | Hand Sketching Rhinocerous | Adobe Photoshop | VRay | Lumion | Grasshopper Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | BlueBeam 3D Printing | Laser Cutting | Wood | Foam Core | Paper

01

Perforated Inversion of Slocum Hall

02

Remembering “Old”

03

B17 Education Center

04

Facade Optimization

05

Landmark Preservation Civic Center

06

Urban Voids

Billingsgate

of Life Sciences

05 02

03

06 01

04

01 Perforated Inversion of Slocum Hall with Sreya Pillai Spring 2024 Lawrence Davis Syracuse, NY Using mass timber, this project expands off of the exisiting facade of Slocum Hall. The structure appears in a typical grid with the gallery and review volumes interupting the intensity of the grid with double height spaces facilitated by transfer beams.

The book core of the library has been condensed to allow for open seating arrangements for the studying and social aspects of architecture school. The core also creates a structural gradient with the columns becoming smaller until the exterior screen. This screen mirrors the hatches placed on the windows and floors of Slocum Hall to communicate the visual branding of the School of Architecture on the exterior.

Rhinocerous, V-Ray, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

Schwartz

as concept

1

as structure

2

as enclosure

Schwartz

Pillai

3rd Floor a Terrace b Study Space c Balcony d Review Space

Slocum Hall (existing) a

b

A

c

d

Pillai + Schwartz

Pillai + Schwartz

Proposed “library core” as a translation of Slocum Hall’s exisitng open atrium, creating a dialectic inversion between the exisiting and proposed spatial relationship

A B

C

D

Schwartz

B

C

D

Pillai + Schwartz

Pillai + Schwartz

Pillai + Schwartz

existing inside Slocum Hall

proposed

02 Remembering “Old” Billingsgate with Hanbyul Oh and Graham Warren Spring 2023 Vanessa Lastrucci Amber Bartosh London, England After becoming familiar with Old Billingsgate as a building, we furthered our understanding of its relevance as a historic site. Our interventions have questioned the role of memory devoid of and dependent on intangible and tangible aspects of humanity’s marks throughout time.

The question that guided our process returned to the idea- what does the word “Billingsgate” want to be defined as today with already 1,000 years of meaning? How does it want to be remembered into the 21st century? And, what can it be defined as in the future?

Rhinocerous, Adobe Ilustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Aero, Lumion, Vellum, Basswood, ProCreate

Warren + Schwartz

As we build for today in speculation of the future, we are also creating history. This marketplace is our response to the omnipotent passage of time that ultimately puts all of our work in the past.

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.”

- Gustav Mahler

“Billingsgate” as Definition of “Place”

The form of the arch was built and reconfigured throughout the site for centuries and symbolizes a place of gathering and exchange.

PAST

PUBLIC

Blynesgate

Byllynsgate

Bellens gate

PRESENT

PRIVATE

Old Billingsgate

PROPOSED

PUBLIC

Billingsgate

The ghosted arch structure of the proposed memorial acts as a symbol to the cultural history of the site lost to privitization.

Warren + Schwartz

Billingsgate Fish Market

Billingsgate Market

Thames Path Public Spaces

Current

Proposed

Warren

Main metal rebar sculptural support

Oh + Warren + Schwartz

Density of lateral bracing increases gradually towards the top of the memorial to obscure the larger structural members

Oh + Schwartz

Warren + Schwartz

03 B17 Education Center Summer 2023 Internship at Bottega17 Design Competition in Via Torino of the Municipality of Aosta | 2nd Place

Florence, IT The design proposal was the combination of high school discplines relating to both art and engineering in Northern Italy. The project work ranged from modeling the stair cores in Rhino, creating AutoCAD templates for the maquette, and producing linework for the submission boards towards the final stages of the competition submission.

Rhinocerous, V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD

rendered post internship

completed w/ B17

04 Life Sciences Facade Optimization with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum and Jayden Schexnayder Spring 2024 Nina Wilson Syracuse, New York The existing Life Sciences building at Syracuse University has high energy loads as an extensive lab space and roof greenhouse. In thinking about how to decrease the building’s carbon footprint beyond its initial design, we researched methods of integrating energy efficiency into the facade.

This culminated in exploring the limitations of current solar panel screening devices in conjunction with speculative technology that could integrate mechanical members to keep the panel surfaces in alignment with sunpaths for “total” optimization.

Rhinocerous, Adobe Illustrator, Athena Impact Estimator, Grasshopper

As Built

About Mitrex Mitrex is a company based in Canada specializing in building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) that utilize the sun to generate electricity through their solar glass and solar facade technologies. BIPVs are advantageous because they can replace the outer layer of the structure while the solar technology can be concealed behind it. Solar panels are typically building-applied photovoltaics (BAPVs) that cannot be concealed and require more space which limits their use, often relegated to roofs, poles, or the ground.

https://www.ellenzweig.com/work/syracuse-university-life-sciences-building/

The solar facade has four separate, yet thin layers (glass/customizable facing, solar cells, back sheet, and aluminum honeycomb) which allow for lightweight, customizable, high-strength panels. They also offer a wide range of surface treatments via their facing which can take on the aesthetics of several materials from brick, wood, to even personalized graphics with varying levels of wattage production. Additionally, they can come in a variety of shapes, sizes, configurations, and orientations from flat tiles to fins and circles to hexagons. The layer of solar cells is also customizable and provides thermal resistance and noise control while ensuring durability and safety. Overall, the system can be used as a solar facade, noise barrier, siding, or spandrel panel.

TERRART® Tiles Mitrex Color Samples

https://nbkterracotta.com/products-services/terrart/terrart-large/

Schwartz

Existing

Redesign

Brittis-Tannenbaum

Red illustrates the current amount of direct sunlight entering the lab and classroom spaces - attributing to heat gain and glare.

Schexnayder

Proposed interior operable vertical louvres allow for direct, indirect, or the near absence of sunlight as controlled by the building occupants.

Redesign with Solar Panels While solar panels are generally deemed as “sustainable”, we do want to acknowledge the amount of energy that goes into their production, mineral extraction, and the transportation emissions from these extraction sites worldwide is very detrimental at the scale of the global supply chain.

To acknowledge this is the ATHENA analysis, “Project Extra Materials” accounts for the materials as raw objects that comprise solar panels to gain the closest estimate as possible using this software.

Aluminum Honeycomb Sheet Solar Backsheet Photovoltaic Panels Operable Louvre System

Schexnayder + Schwartz

Colored Cladding Panels

Optimization

Iteration 3

Iteration 1

Summer Solstice Orientation

Iteration 3

Iteration 2

Solstice Midpoint Orientation

Iteration 3

Iteration 3

Winter Solstice Orientation

Schexnayder Fossil Fuel Consumption LCA Measure Chart By Assembly Groups (A to D)

LCA Measure Table By Assembly Groups (A to D)

Life Sciences Project: Fossil Fuel Consumption LCA Measure Chart By Assembly Groups (A to

D)

Project: Life Sciences

LCA Measures Global Warming Potential

Unit

Foundations

Project: Life Sciences

Walls

Columns and Beams

Roofs

Floors

Project Extra Materials

kg CO2 eq

0.00E+00

3.14E+04

1.95E+04

1.41E+04

1.41E+04

2.80E+04

GWP - Biogenic

kg CO2 eq

0.00E+00

-4.28E+01

0.00E+00

0.00E+00

0.00E+00

0.00E+00

GWP - Calcination

kg CO2 eq

0.00E+00

1.82E+03

6.66E+03

2.82E+03

2.82E+03

0.00E+00

Acidification Potential

kg SO2 eq

0.00E+00

1.14E+02

8.22E+01

5.00E+01

5.00E+01

1.57E+02

HH Particulate

kg PM2.5 eq

0.00E+00

2.25E+01

2.18E+01

9.39E+00

9.39E+00

1.76E+01

Eutrophication Potential

kg N eq

0.00E+00

2.37E+01

2.06E+01

9.62E+00

9.62E+00

2.24E+01

Ozone Depletion Potential

kg CFC-11 eq

0.00E+00

4.91E-03

5.04E-04

2.18E-04

2.18E-04

7.14E-04

kg O3 eq

0.00E+00

1.89E+03

2.20E+03

1.21E+03

1.21E+03

1.55E+03

MJ

0.00E+00

3.74E+05

1.57E+05

1.25E+05

1.25E+05

3.96E+05

Non-Renewable Energy

MJ

0.00E+00

3.66E+05

1.53E+05

1.24E+05

1.24E+05

3.87E+05

Fossil Fuel Consumption

MJ

0.00E+00

3.40E+05

1.45E+05

1.21E+05

1.21E+05

3.59E+05

Beams And Columns Project Extra Materials

Beams And Columns

Floors Project Extra Materials Foundation

Floors

Foundation Roofs Roofs

Smog Potential Total Primary Energy

Walls Walls

Total Total

200,000 200,000

400,000 400,000

600,000

800,000

600,000

800,000

Energy (MJ)

1,000,000 1,000,000

1,200,000 1,200,000

Energy (MJ)

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05 Landmark Preservation Committee Civic Center with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum Fall 2023 Rami Abou-Khalil New York, NY This proposed version of a new LPC Headquarters uses values outlined in formal documentation and points of debate in hearings. These include materiality, scale, and proportion. Through this proposal, we strategically question what is “appropriate” for expansions in the historic district of Greenwich Village.

This sculptural form uses brick, a ubiquitous material found in historic buildings, to subvert the original masonry facade of an abandoned clinic while doubling its usable space.

Rhinocerous, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Adobe Illustrator

Subversion of the historic facade takes place visually through the parametric rotation of brick.

Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz

Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz

The texture facades and

This materia masonry fac garden and

The bricks a exisitng faca subverted Brittis-Tannenbaum

Ground Floor

e of brick references the “anonymous antiquity” of d alleys in Greenwich Village.

Hearing Hall

Observation Deck + Terrace

al acts as a protective shell, encasing the existing cade while claiming the streetscape as sculpture d exterior seating as observed throughout the district.

are rotated on an axis of 15-90o. From human scale, the ade and acitvty within is simultaneously exposed and as one’s perspective changes.

Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz

Brittis-Tannenbaum + Schwartz

Schwartz

Early massing models beginning to consider public space engagement while doubling useable space for community program requirements.

Catalogue of Historic Features at Snug Harbor in Stanton Island, NY

Imaging the “El” in Greenwich Village, NY circa. 1920

06 Urban Voids Drawing Workshop with Architensions with Michela Brittis-Tannenbaum Fall 2023 Nick Roseboro Alessandro Orsini Urban Voids analyzes the historical changes in the riverfront of the UN complex. Previous housing developments, hospitals, and parks have been privatized as the area gained international political importance.

The drawn concept of urban voids aims to document the phenomenon of traditionally public buildings, like the Ford Foundation Atrium, remaining empty due to the privitization of spaces in the city.

Rhinocerous, Mixed-Media, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

1940

2022

Allison Schwartz aschwa15@syr.edu (757) 284-1522