Anthony Iovino - Portfolio 2022 by Anthony Iovino

ANTHONY IOVINO IV

CONTENT

ACADEMIC

PERSONAL

POR O(CITY)

FARMP LEX

HAR (LE M) BLOCK

T W O FOR ONE

HMW RK

TH E CUT

S CH OOL F OR TH E AR T S

[DIS]JOINT ED

YE LLOW S PR INGS , O HIO

#A P T SERIES

CE NTE R FOR H E ALTH + C O NNEC T IVIT Y

JESS E OWE NS NOR TH REC C ENT ER

WH E R E TH E R OAD ’S MEET

V E R TICAL TE R MINAL

PORO(CITY)

Graduate Degree Project, SP 2021 Situated just south of the Arch Grounds along the Mississippi River, this proposal aims to dissolve the divorced relationship and hard edge between city, river, and people that has developed over time by introducing physically and socially porous recreational opportunities. Founded on ideas of connectivity and permeability, the City of St. Louis is now instead known for its local divisions and barriers partially caused by the build of up entangling transportation infrastructure and NIMBY (not in my backyard) program allocation along the Mississippi River. This recreational facility exists between infrastructure and building and celebrates the river, using it no longer as a barrier at the local scale of the city and its residents but instead as a physical and social connector. The project welcomes the river into the site to create a safe place for kayaking, while interior program such as swimming, rock climbing, locker rooms, and the café occupy portions of the superstructure above to protect from potential flooding. The existing Mississippi Greenway is extended up and through the building from the Arch Grounds to the pier-like roof and connects to the abandoned upper deck of the MacArthur bridge, ultimately spanning across the adjacent interstate and into adjacent neighborhoods – physically connecting the river, city and people. Prof.

Philip

Holden

Rhino

Photoshop

Illustrator

HAR(LEM) BLOCK

Harlem Artist’s Residency, Graduate, SP 2020 Titled “Flex(ing)>Place>Compact<” this studio explored “if architecture and the stories of its inhabitants can trigger change to current modes of urbanization - an urbanization in which the relevance of place has become subsidiary to economic and political considerations” (Petra Kempf, 2020). Using the urban block and the configuration of the urban grid as the entry point for this project, this studio explored the possibilities of a typical city block to be a robust and resilient urban environment driven by its inhabitants. Students were challenged to propose a concrete design that was not informed by the typical ‘top-down’ design process but instead through a ‘bottom-up’ process that addressed the multi-scalar implications from the person, to the ground, to the room, to the apartment, to the building, to the block, to the neighborhood, and to the city. Through the block’s new and existing residents Nick, Rebecca, and Beth, this project begins to unfold into existing Brownstones, the existing central void typical of city blocks, and out into the surrounding neighborhood through the introduction of a single kit of parts for all scales. The physical intervention, derived from the unraveling of their stories, takes the programmatic form of a gallery run through the adjacent Harlem Hospital Center, retail spaces, apartments, an artist residency, and newly reclaimed public green space. Prof. Petra Kempf Ph.D. | Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 5

FARMPLEX

Home: Design Your Dream Compeition, Archasm, 2020 Partner: David Tucker, Top 50 Internationally Tasked with designing a ‘dream home,’ this competition aimed “to manifest into reality the idea of [one’s] dreams, and create a house based on it. The competition aim[ed] to create a pure and highly imaginative expression of a home that will have a degree of surrealism to it.” (Brief) Our entry, Farmplex, is a modern take on the traditional farmhouse that challenges the American notions of a singlefamily ‘dream home,’ what it looks like, and how it functions. Farmplex proposes a new model for the ‘dream home’ in the form of a multi-generational duplex designed for a farming family. This duplex erases American stereotypical ideas of multi-family living by integrating the two units not only at an architectural scale but at a systematic and social scale as well; this DUPLEX is a DREAM HOME. Within the duplex, the relationship between the two units goes beyond that of a typical duplex and takes multiple forms in addition to the typical ‘party wall.’ Connected in section and through a central courtyard and a shared library, the two units, remain connected yet still separate and private. Rhino

Photoshop

Illustrator

THE CUT

Great Smokies Research Institute, Graduate, AU 2019 Beginning with a series of week-long charrettes, this comprehensive studio, titled 4 Extremes x 4 Sites x 4 Beginnings, explored extreme conditions in our nation’s national parks. Assigned to explore the extreme condition of ‘Invasive Species’ my charrette projects explored the manifestation of invasive qualities through Site, Light, Thermodynamics, and Gravity. The final project proposal was a research facility located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, that aims to start a dialogue around one of the most invasive species in the park - man. Positioned adjacent to and above a man-made cut in the mountain-side, this design aims to create a new experience for the visitor, allowing them to experience the cut from afar, from below, from within, and from above, respectively. The procession through nature, up to and through the cut, to the other side of the cut allows the viewer to constantly reflect on the significance of the physical deformation of the natural landscape caused by man. Through a series of layers, bridges, and cuts stemming from the existing cut of rock, the building’s visitors are enabled to discover their relationship between themselves, the cut, the nature, and the distortion. Prof. Philip Holden +Valerie Greer | Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator

ARETHA FRANKLIN SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS 2018 Gui Competition, Undergraduate, AU 2018 Competition Finalist - Top 10

Located along the Dequindre Cut greenway just north east of downtown Detroit, the Aretha Franklin School for the Arts lies at the intersection of urban and suburban and the intersection of served and underserved. The school is situated in Lafayette Park, home to several Mies van der Rohe buildings, and is directly adjacent to an elementary school and the busy Lafayette Street. The design emphasizes the importance of the program that defines the school itself - the performance spaces, the gallery spaces, and the athletic facilities - while supporting these functions by providing dynamic spaces and expressive forms as venues used by the school, the public and those used by both. Through program, form, and spatial experiences the school explores dichotomies internally and externally, creating a welcoming creative and educational space that can be a beneficial amenity to the greater city of Detroit with both indoor and outdoor performing and art spaces. Three undulating ribbon surfaces weave around each other to create three distinct enclosed forms that hold these pieces of program in fluid yet defined spaces. Through the exploration of materiality and color, these three massive, expressive objects explore dichotomies such as light and dark, inside and outside and front and back to create a spatial quality that at times can be confusing and ambiguous as it changes one’s perception and understanding of the spaces they occupy. Prof. Kay Bea Jones | Rhino | Photoshop | Illustrator | ArcGIS

YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO

Three Buildings for a Small Town, Undergraduate, SP 2019 In homage to Robert Venturi’s “Projects for a Small Town in Ohio,” students designed three buildings for the center of the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio: a Library, a Town Hall, and an Inn. The Library was designed and overall site strategies and building locations were developed over the course of the first 7 weeks. The Inn and the Town Hall were investigated simultaneously over the last half of the semester. The goals were mixed: to produce an object that could be interpreted as a narrative; to deal with the site in ways that made use of existing fabric, but to build on it and make it work in unexpected ways; to respond to the program in ways that enhanced its effectiveness and quality of experience; to focus on the system of circulation paths to develop systems of interest and reveal the structure of the various narratives and reveal programmatic pieces and their relationships through a thoughtful movement choreography; and to design the spaces outside the buildings as components with as much validity and usefulness as the enclosed program and to develop relationships between the two systems. Prof. Douglas Graf | Designed by Hand | Rhino | Illustrator

CENTER FOR HEALTH + CONNECTIVITY

United States Post Re-Imagined, Undergraduate, SP 2018 In this studio, students were asked to not only design a physical building for the United States Post Office, but also the system and network that drives it and its architecture. An analysis was first complete on how the United States Postal System works and functions and how it could potentially be improved. After analyzing many research models and visiting Post Offices and distribution centers, a concept thesis was developed that focused on ‘connectivity,’ an ideal that at the core of the Post Office has begun to fade. Using ArcGIS to then analyze specific sites and neighborhoods, potential cities and locations where investigated where this reimagined post office building and system could begin to unfold and positively re-establish itself. West Oakland, California, is one of many U.S. cities that is physically isolated by city infrastructure and through designed and embedded segregation remains underserved and ignored. This re-imagined physical and systematic model of the Post Office is one that weaves together health care and the post in order to reconnect the isolated neighborhood through the use and expansion of the city’s existing networks. Through the development of existing networks within the city, the Center for Health and Connectivity is able to bring transportation, healthcare, and postal services to an underserved community devoid of these basic amenities. This is what the United States Postal Service could look like physically and how it could function systematically. Prof. Karen Lewis | Rhino | V-Ray | Photoshop | Illustrator | ArcGIS

CENTER FOR HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY

WEST OAKLAND, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE REIMAGINED

NORTH BROADWAY, CLEVELAND, OHIO A LOOK INTO COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES THAT ARE PHYSICALLY AND SOCIALLY DIVIDED AND ISOLATED BY CITY INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW THE POST OFFICE AS A PHYSICAL SPACE AND SYSTEM NETWORK CAN START TO RECONNECT THESE NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

CEDAR CREST, DALLAS,TEXAS

THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY ACTS AS A COMMON CONNECTION POINT BETWEEN THE LOCAL HEALTH CARE NETWORK, THE LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AND THE USPS NETWORK. TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY USPS AND THE EXISTING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

AROUND THE COUNTRY, COUNTLESS CITIES ARE PHYSICALLY AND SOCIALLY DIVIDED BY CITY INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS HIGHWAYS, TRAINS AND EVEN CANALS. MANY OF THESE ISOLATED NEIGHBORHOODS LACK THE SERVICES AND AMENITIES THAT THE REST OF THE CITY HAS ACCESS TO.

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LOCAL RESIDENCE

THE POST OFFICE AS A BUILDING AND SYSTEM CAN START TO REMOVE SUCH ISOLATION AND BEGIN TO RECONNECT THESE NEIGHBORHOODS BACK TO THE REST OF THE CITY. PILOT LOCATIONS FOR THE NEW CENTER FOR HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY INCLUDE CLEVELAND, OHIO, DALLAS, TEXAS, AND OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

EXAMPLES OF SERVICES AND AMENITIES THAT WILL NOW BE AVAILABLE WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND CONNECTIVITY: PUBLIC TRANSIT HUB BIKE SHARE HUB DOWNTOWN/AIRPORT SHUTTLES POST OFFICE HEALTH CARE HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CLASSES

CITY BIKE SHARE

CITY BUS

TO BIKE SHARE LOCATION

VIA CITY BIKE

TO LOCAL BUS STOPS

VIA CITY BUS

GROUND TRANSPORT VIA USPS SEMI-TRUCK

COMMERCIAL FLIGHT

PRIORITY MAIL PROCESSING CENTER DEPARTURE CITY

PRIORITY MAIL PROCESSING CENTER ARRIVAL CITY

UPS CARGO FLIGHT

BOX TRUCK FEDEX CARGO FLIGHT

BOX TRUCK

CHC

FROM LOCAL MAILBOX VIA USPS GRUMMAN LLV

PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER ARRIVAL CITY

PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER DEPARTURE CITY

BOX TRUCK

FROM LOCAL BUS STOPS

BOX TRUCK

CITY BUS AIR MAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER DEPARTURE CITY

VIA CITY BUS

BULK MAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER DEPARTURE CITY

CONNECTIVITY

HEALTH

1 PUBLIC TRANSIT HUB

1 MEDICAL FACILITIES

2 BIKE SHARE HUB

3 POST OFFICE

3 COOKING CLASSES

4 AIRPORT SHUTTLE

4 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE CLASSES

AIR MAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ARRIVAL CITY

GROUND TRANSPORT VIA USPS SEMI-TRUCK

HEALTH CARE SERVICE CHC

TO LOCAL BUS STOP

VIA CITY BUS

5 DOWNTOWN SHUTTLE

HEALTH CARE FACILITY NETWORK

FROM LOCAL EMERGENCY CALL VIA USPS AMBULANCE

AMBULANCE

BULK MAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER ARRIVAL CITY

LOCAL RESIDENCE

TO LOCAL MAIL BOX VIA USPS GRUMMAN LLV

TO LOCAL MEDICAL FACILITY

VIA USPS TRANSPORT

JESSE OWENS NORTH Recreation Center, Undergraduate, AU 2017

This redesign of the Jesse Owens North Recreation Center in the North Campus District at The Ohio State University, aims to create a destination that welcomes both students and the public alike. Located on the bordering road of campus to the north, Lane Avenue, the building’s form emphasizes sightlines while creating a presence on both the campus and public side of the site amidst the monotonous campus fabric. Multiple public outdoor spaces a fit into the larger context and system of the university while creating places for the building’s program to utilize. A sloped roof opens up to the intersection of Lane Avenue and Neil Avenue draws the public in and welcomes them to the café and college bookstore while the sloped roof and cantilevered upper floors facing campus draw students in from the residence halls to the main lobby of the gym. Once inside the gym lobby, a large atrium looks down onto a central 4-story rock wall, stacked athletic courts, and out to pedestrians walking by on Lane Avenue. In addition to the typical basketball and racquetball courts, and cardio and weight equipment, the gym offers a lap and scuba diving pool on the lower level, a large central atrium rock wall, and tennis and badminton courts on the roof creating a diverse destination for the newly redeveloped North Campus District. Prof. Jacqueline Gargus | Rhino | V-Ray | Photoshop | Illustrator

TWO FOR ONE

Competition, Non Architecture, 2020, Publication 2021 Partner: Katie Shipman, Honorable Mention - Top 7 In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak around the world, Non Architecture held a competition that asked participants to envision what a supermarket might look like during a pandemic. Working with a limited color palette of blue and yellow, participants were also asked to explore and expand the meaning of the ‘plan’ drawing as a mode of representation. Our design identifies grocery shopping and the physical market itself not only as a stressor during times of a pandemic but also as a relief from isolation. The challenge was to decrease the numbers of customers in the store at a given moment in order to decrease potential virus spread, but at the same time to not limit access of essential goods or decrease store operations. Our design solution splits the market into two stores that operate in a single direction and share the same back-of-house space. Shelves along the two routes are stocked from the service space behind. The two stores or routes meet at ‘nodes’ that offer specialty goods and services such as a bank, bakery, produce, deli, and pharmacy. These ‘nodes’ are integrated along the path of both stores and with their own character and identifiers, offer a safe place for limited yet meaningful exchanges between customer and employee. Rhino

Illustrator

Photoshop

WHERE THE ROADS MEET Urban Socialscapes in St. Louis, Graduate, AU 2020

The Delmar Divide is one of the nation’s most intense dividing lines. Running east to west through St. Louis, Delmar Boulevard is a rigid barrier between north and south physically, socially, racially, and economically. This project titled ‘Where the Road’s Meet,’ explores the various barriers and intersections physically and metaphorically at the corner of Delmar Boulevard and Euclid Avenue and how public program and the creation of public places (not spaces) can begin to address the disparities across this divide. Examining the adjacent neighborhoods, their street grids, and their urban fabric anomalies, the discovery of the ‘diagonal’ being used as a formal mediator between the different neighborhoods became the entry point for the architectural intervention. The introduction of a public yard along a similar diagonal spans the divide, receiving and outstretching into the Fountain Park neighborhood to the north and the Central West End neighborhood to the south, begins to weave and hold together program including a library, a mentor center, a small community gym, an auditorium, and 100 affordable housing units. Through the elimination of front and back and the introduction of a series of offsets and slippages, a porosity is created along the public yard that begins to erase the hierarchies of north and south, allowing the project to physically, socially, visually, programmatically, and systematically belong to both sides of the Delmar Divide. Prof. John Hoal Ph.D. | Rhino | Illustrator | Photoshop

HMWRK

Exhibition, Yale School of Architecture, Open Call Gallery Exhibition and Publication 2021 “HMWRK is an ongoing research and propositional non-profit project, started in the spring of 2020 by graduate students at the Yale School of Architecture, Rachael Tsai, Jack Rusk, Diana Smiljkovic, and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen. The project examines the convergence of the home and the office through multiple approaches and media in the attempt to further the understanding of the social, cultural, economic and political motifs, consequences and opportunities that such a conjunction carries. Working from home became a reality for most when COVID-19 spread globally in the early spring of 2020. In light of this, the home office is explored as an emerging spatial type, as a largely undesigned product of the urgency imposed by the pandemic but also as an aspiration with historical and commercial precedent. Intended as a collective meditation on what it means to work from home, participants were asked to draw a plan drawing of their own home office. Certain selected drawings were paired with in depth conversations about the home office space in order to tease out specific stories and experiences in medias res, while also providing an indexical, non-comprehensive survey on the home office of the present. HMWRK will be exhibited in the Yale North Gallery in Spring 2021 and subsequently publicized as a physical publication and online repository that will include the project research.” - hmwrk.work/HMWRK Rhino

Illustrator

[DIS]JOINTED

Competition, Design Class, 2020 Team: Katie Shipman, Megan Pettner, David Tucker The sudden effects of the coronavirus disturbed life as we knew it and continues to have a devastating presence in communities across the globe. [Dis]jointed: A Memorial to the Ongoing Pandemic memorializes not just the lives lost, but its devastating impact on the ‘normal’ life. Through the layering of moments of separation and disruption at multiple scales, the memorial creates varying experiences from afar and close, from outside and within, from end to end. Located on the south end of Roosevelt Island in New York, the memorial is physically separated and removed from Manhattan and Brooklyn by the East River, yet remains visible from both. On the island, visitors are forced to walk around and through large steel grids, once was a symbol of order, they are now remnants lying in disarray. Between the grids, 50 towers representing the rate of COVID-19 deaths grow out of the visually unstable ground. The towers become the most intimate scale of separation, parting visitors from one another physically and blocking views. The surface of the towers are interrupted by perforations, organized in a gradient and as a result, when looking upward, disappear into the sky. The towers rise out of the

ground,

sometimes

violently,

causing

mounds

form sporadically and disrupt the otherwise flat, neutral ground

similar

the

way

Covid-19

infiltrated

and

disrupted daily life for millions of people around the globe. Rhino

Illustrator

Photoshop

#APTSERIES 2021 - Present

As a young designer, I am constantly looking for ways to keep my mind and representation skills sharp and precise, yet also fluid outside of the office environment. An ongoing personal project that I have developed as a way to do this and stretch my creative muscles has been what I have called my ‘#Aptseries.’ This project investigates the domestic space through drawing and aims to reframe the perspective and understanding of spaces that I have grown too familiar with. This process unfolds in two different ways; either drawn as I am actively living in the space or drawn from memory, recalling perspectives and scales of my previous dwellings. Each

scenario

highlights

different

items,

events,

and

adjacencies however they all attempt to reshape the spaces and relationships as I experienced them while living there.

Rhino

Illustrator

Photoshop

VERTICAL TERMINAL

Washington University in St. Louis, Pre-Graduate Studio Entering into the first semester of graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis, all incoming M.Arch 2 students participate in a pre-semester studio titled “Design Through Prototyping - Pedagogical Investigation of Making Through Thinking.” This two-week studio revolving around the idea of the end of the Post Digital Era, allowed students to design through physical prototyping by hand, while being removed from the digital process. Although physical modeling is often replaced by the digital process, it is the physical model that aids the development of

a variety of skills including the assembly of materials,

understanding the tectonics of a design, and the skills to design without the design process being cloaked in ‘digital rhetoric’s.’ My ‘vertical terminal’ lies in a realm of tension and suspension. The design explores the relationship between stopping and going, between static and dynamic, and between the most basic of circulation systems, stairs and ramps. Modeled

out

basswood

1/4”

1’-00”

Prof. Sung Ho Kim | Designed and Modeled by Hand

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