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WORCESTER ROME MV COMPANY

1960’S URBAN DESIGN STUDIO / FALL 2010 ROMA INTERVENTO CITTA / SPRING 2010 97 FRANKLIN TERRACE / SUMMER 2010 QUAD CITY APPAREL / SPRING 2009

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EDUCATION

RELATED WORK

Northeastern University | Boston, Massachusetts Candidate for Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture Minor in Urban Studies Awards: Dean’s Scholarship

2007 to present 2009 to present 2007 to present

Boston University Space Management, Facilities & Planning | Boston, Massachusetts Drafting Services Assistant Verification of existing floor layouts Involved in special design layout proposals Converting existing paper document control to electronic files Transferred field measurements into digital files using AutoCAD

2009

Hutker Architects Inc. | Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts Summer Intern Conducted site visits with architects and construction managers Assisted in preparation of drawings for specifications primarily using AutoCAD Assisted in various projects including large private residences and commercial buildings Attended public meetings, workshops and conferences addressing the various projects

2007 to 2008

FREELANCE

47 Franklin Terrace | Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts Created 3D model of existing home Proposal of multiple schemed layouts Created presentation documents for construction Met with client throughout various stages of design

2010

OTHER WORK

Quad City Apparel | Mendham, New Jersey Owner and Graphic Designer Designed and update company’s social media, website and blog Conceptualize ideas for publicity gains while maintaining the company’s brand Create stickers, brochures, fliers, promotional shirts, and other designs for printing purposes

2009 to present

Papa Razzi Trattoria, Bar and Restaurant | Boston, Massachusetts Server Process cash and credit transactions Become familiar with large food and changing wine menu

2009 to present

Giordano’s Restaurant | Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts Server Monitor contentment of guests Advise customers on menu selections based upon their likes and dislikes Exhibit timely and excellent customer skills when serving patrons in a busy restaurant

2005 to present

VOLUNTEER

Habitat for Humanity | Kauai, Hawaii Painted and sided home Reorganized and cleaned out a local thrift shop Constructed and assembled structural walls for single family home

2007

RELATED SKILLS

Revit AutoCAD ArchiCAD

Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

VRay Render Kerkythea Rendering Advent Artlantis Render

Model Making Google SketchUp Word | Powerpoint

INTERESTS

Freelance Design Digital Photography

Snowboarding Sketch Drawing

Hockey Digital Art

Softball Baseball

REFERENCES

Leanne Giordano

Manager

leannegio@hotmail.com

508.693.0184

Gregory H. Ehrman

Architect

gehrman@hutkerarchitects.com

508.693.3344

Jim Winnett

Head Draftsman

jwinnett@bu.edu

617.592.7280

Portfolio available upon request

CHRISTOPHER GALLO 139 St. Alphonsus Street Boston,MA 02120 321 Franklin Street Martha’s Vineyard,MA 02568 201.400.0046 Gallo.c@husky.neu.edu

The goal of this portfolio was to present my work in a variety of different ways, aimed to allow the viewer to read through a mixture of architecture, graphic design, and freelance work that I have created.

The work shown on the following pages are a collection of projects created between 2009 till the present.

Throughout all of the design processes, I strived to express multiple strategies of representation paying close attention to graphical clarity and presentation skills.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating this.

Thank you.

PREFACE

Christopher Gallo

WORCESTER 1960’s Urban Design

Worcester Site Development and Rejuvenation Fourth Year Studio

urbanINCUBATOR Location: Worcester, Massachusetts Semester: Fall 2010 Professor: Amir Kripper An approximately 22 acre area of the urban fabric on the northern and eastern edge of the Worcester Common was razed and replaced by a tower office building, a slab office building, an interiorized shopping mall, and parking garages in the 1960s (although conceived in the 1960s, construction was actually completed in 1971).

This 1960s intervention also built over the existing street pattern thereby truncating many of the original urban connections. Although the commercial space in the tower and slab remains economically relevant and occupied, after several futile attempts to revitalize the mall in the 1980s and 1990s, the city of Worcester, in cooperation with the state and private investors, has decided to tear down the mall and garages to make way for a new development that can succeed in the 21st century context.

The studio will be divided into two distinct periods. During the first part of the semester, we will develop a new urban design for the 22 acre site including new street and public spaces, and new urban typologies that will be specifically planned and located. This urban design will then serve as the guidelines for the second part of the semester where you will take one urban type and develop it at an architectural scale. The result of the studio, therefore, will include an "urban design" and an "urban architecture."

urbanINCUBATOR

diagram figure ground

section programmatic

perspectives north angle birds - eye

The concept developed as an effort to deconstruct the bulky mass of the existing site and its structures. This developed into both the carving of streets into the monolithic site, in addition to the creation of a series of public spaces, pedestrian, network. Moving beyond the bounds of the site, the node system could be strategically implimented, linking the city square to the surrounding urban diagram and providing centers of growth and development across Worcester. condition, figure ground With the lack of circulation and porosity in the existing site, it was crucial to develop a new strategy that was dedicated to continuing the surrounding street fabric and establish a set of regularized blocks. Establishing a plinth level at fifty feet, the mass of the site becomes more dynamic yet still at a human scale. Developing this idea of the “node,” public areas dedicated to a variety of activities, with mixed program support a self-sufficient block strategy. With the introduction of green space, both atop the plinth and on the ground levels, it created open, public spaces that tended to a set of activities.

The scheme shown represents the buildings extruded above the plinths and courtyards excavated from the blocks. A circular language was derived from diverse possibilities and unbiased faces. Eventually, this nodal idea could be translated outside the site, linking the city to its center creating epicenters for growth and economic revival.

programmatic sections

civic/cultural/academic

retail/food office

housing/hospitality parking

south side

east side

urbanINCUBATOR

urbanINCUBATOR HIGHER KNOWLEDGE

DEVELOPED THOUGHT

BASIC EDUCATION

Conceptual Scheme Research Library, Private/Shared Offices Faculty Offices Laboratories Indoor/Outdoor Exhibition Space Studio/Crit Space Workshop Non-Profit Leaseable Offices Cafe N

Auditorium

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1/16” = 1’ 0”

Mechanical/Electrical/Restrooms

Program Distribution city

Taking the urban incubator think “tank” idea, I divided the box into three levels of thinking.

The separate boxes are then pulled in opposing directions in relation to the nodal plan.

With a central atrium uniting the three levels it allows for communication between both the levels and it’s residents.

building

promote communication

promote educational thought

Striving to create communication between levels and its occupants, as a community center should, the form was developed. Opening the building to allow for people to pass through from the city and drawing their attention to the interior lobby space where the non-profit spaces and café stands.

openness/porosity

building

center for the people

vertical motion

atrium/light

basement

fourth floor plan

ground floor plan non profit offices cafe restrooms workshop

studio space crit space restrooms

exhibition space exhibition deck

fifth floor plan

sixth floor plan

laboratories storage

With a vertical notion of movement up to the second floor, one reaches the crowded studio space continuing to the indoor/exterior exhibition space. Above that level one could reach the laboratory spaces with the faculty offices above that. The building is divided between “work and learn” as seen in the programmatic axonometric. The final arriving point is the research level, where the progression to “higher thought” is complete.

third floor plan

second floor plan

auditorium restrooms mechanical/storage

private faculty offices

research shared offices research private offices library lounges viewing deck

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basement

second floor plan

third floor plan

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UP

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ground floor plan

fourth floor plan

fifth floor plan

sixth floor plan

sectional perspectives east view west view

perspectives west elevation north elevation streetside perspective

model work

urbanINCUBATOR

ROMA Roma Intervento Città

Villaggio Olimpico Conceptual Housing Plan AIA Rome Center School

cityREJUVENATION Location: Rome, Italy Semester: Spring 2010 Professor: Cinzia Abbate The city of Rome is a layered palimpsest, sometimes visible, sometimes only felt as the memory of something lost. In either case it embodies the complexity and dynamics of a city that functions, lives, grows, and decays like an organism, always in flux, yet diverse and rugged enough in most places to resist rapid change. In other areas it is so fragile that its artifacts remain in a state of collapse, marginalized.

Built for the 1960 Olimpics by architects such as Adalberto Libera and Luigi Moretti, this site experiments with the tenets of modernist urbanism, left incomplete despite the recent additions to thearea by Renzo Piano and Zaha Hadid.

The assignment was to develop a new plan of the existing site paying close attention to the building forms and its context. Designing to tend to an array of occupants, from single occupants to families, the housing had to be carefully arranged.

Starting with two housing towers consisting of two and three bedroom units, they were anchored on either end of the “needle” piercing through the site.

Inside those are four bar buildings that were designed to cope with the younger crowd with studios and one bedroom plans. With ground floor retail spaces designated on all buildings, it allowed for the development of a circulation path that links the entire infrastructure. With flanking amenities like a garbage/recycling center, a sporting facility and a daycare, the site strategy was creating with the intention of reviving the neighborhood that seemed to lack the personality that it originally had.

2.1 m

7.3 m

4.8 m

2.1 m

8.8 m

spine

anchor 2m

4m

8m

2m

1.5 m

weave

7.3 m 3.1 m

2.2 m

10 m

core

1.9 m

6.8 m

1.5 m

diagram concept

floor plans three bedroom one bedroom studio two bedroom

typical floor plan tower

typical floor plan bar

section site

plan ground floor

cityREJUVENATION

MARTHA’S VINEYARD 97 Franklin Terrace Gallo Limited Design Freelance

plan first floor

perspectives kitchen and bath

Living in Martha’s Vineyard for the past seven summers, it allowed me to become familiar with the architecture that was typical for the island. Living within a smaller household, I gained an appreciation for optimal usage of space and became familiar with making tighter spaces more useful and reach its maximum gain.

After a neighbor of my family bought a house down the street from us, it was in need of a renovation. After meeting with the buyers of the house, a single father with two children, the house was in need of a new layout, specifically i the kitchen and opposite bathroom. Assigning me the task of developing a set of arrangements for these spaces, I strived to open the space more while still fulfilling the family’s needs for the common necessities. Utilizing my skills from previous coop work going on site and interactin with plumbers, contractors and other city officials, I was able to confirm a final layout for the home. The project is currently under construction and is planning to be finished by early 2012.

10’ 10”

5’

20’ 2”

SHOWER

CLOSET MASTER BEDROOM

BEDROOM 1

MASTER BATH

BATH

CLOSET

LIVING ROOM PORCH

KITCHEN

BEDROOM 2

26’

QUAD CITY APPAREL Clothing Company

Graphic Designer and Owner Freelance

The Internet has come to provide a platform from which artists can market, sell, and distribute their music at little to no cost. This progression, in conjunction with the development of inexpensive recording products, has made the services of existing record labels increasingly obsolete. As a result, more and more musicians are deciding to manage their own careers as opposed to signing with record companies; these are today's Independent Artists.

The Independent Artist can market his or her music through a Facebook or Myspace page, sell and distribute songs through iTunes or Amazon, and find gigs through Sonicbids and Reverbnation among many others... And still, when it comes to promotional T-shirts, bands must foot a hefty bill.

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design website and social media logo work

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Quad City Apparel was founded during the summer of 2009 by a team of musicians, business students, and artists who shared the same passion for Music and Fashion. Their goal was to create a brand that would represent the Independent Music movement and to establish an underlying business process that would help advance the careers of individual "Indie" artists.

Quad City Apparel invests in Independent Musicians' promotional T-shirt lines, bearing all costs and associated risks. If the shirts sell, both Quad City and the band make money. If no shirts are sold, the artist will not have spent a dime!

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