Chris Aniftos 2022 Portfolio

chris aniftos

Designer and artist

Chris aniftos Designer and Artist

About Hi there! I am an NYC based architect and artist. I am heavily inspired by colorful representations/fabrications of light and space, as well as the capturing of ethereal moments within the spaces we share. I am currently working on my M.Arch at Pratt Institute having received my BFA in Architecture with a minor in Architectural History from the Savannah College of Art and Design. I love to create, and to make others experience the joy I get from expressing myself and creating through my works.

Education

Contact Phone

2019 - 2022

Pratt Institute GAUD

Brooklyn, NY

Master in Architecture/ GPA: 3.8

516-941-7783

Email

2015 - 2019

csaniftos@gmail.com

Location

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture/ GPA:3.6 Minor in Architectural History

Brooklyn, NY, 11205

Social

Professional Experience

@ csnift (Instagram), chris-aniftos.squarespace.com (Website)

2022-Present

AutoCAD Revit

Winter/Spring 2022

Rhinocerous Grasshopper Maya Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

2021-2022

Adobe InDesign

Jaroff Studio

Hicksville, NY

Design Intern My responsibilites as a Design intern with Jaroff Studio included 3D modeling and drafting for a grand stair interior element for Tiffany’s in Manhattan using Rhino and SolidWorks primarily. I personally carried out the sole 3D model work for a curved glass handrail that will be implemented in the element. I assited in the fabrication and shop work for the mockup of the Grand Stair, asisting the fabricators with whatever help they needed. I have assisted the studio with organization, I filled out RFQs and Purchase orders for the various projects the studio carries out. I providided modeling work and drafting for a project the studio was working on with David Yurman, as well as various interior projects the studio did in the residential sector

Pratt Institute

Brooklyn, NY

Graduate Research Assistant/ Shop Monitor Operate as a shop monitor for the CNC mill in the School of Architecture.

I assisted students fabricate their projects, providing them a safe and controlled environment to express their work through fabrication means.

I partook and assist in fabrication based research carried out by the intstitute

Adobe After Effects Fusion 360 Summer 2021

Unity Microsoft Office Suite

Educational Experience Teacher Assistant

New York, NY

Architectural Designer My responsibilities as an architectural designer with Legeard Studio include draft work using AutoCad and Rhino, sourcing interior design pieces for our clientel in the high end residential section, and puttogether procurement packages. I design interior elements and architectural spaces for high end residential spaces such as 432 Park Avenue, as well as for resturants such as Boucherie.

Software

2021-Present

Legeard Studio

Pratt Institute

Professor Peter Macapia ARCH 880N:Security, Space, and Power: Contemporary Themes in Political Philosophy and Architecture ARCH 880WP: DISCOURSE ON RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND SPACE

Ilan Dei Studio

Los Angeles, CA

Design Intern My responsibilities as a Design Intern with Ilan Dei Studio included assembling a design package for the Toluca Lake location of the Lemonade restaurant chain. I designed various interior design elements given to us by the concept architects using Rhino and Fusion 360, as well as digitally prepared a number of them for fabrication. I outputted construction drawings of products for the installers to reference during assembly and installation. I participated in the fabrication and building of these products using methods such as CNC mills, laser cutters, and hand tools, often handling the fabrication of various elements myself. I worked on the project from concept to prototyping to final product. My secondary task for the summer was to assist the studio in the concept and design development of autonomous shelters that were being conceptualized at the time. This included the beginning stages of a branding package in the form of conceptual renderings and a website design. I participated in the beginning stages of prototyping through fabrication

Chris aniftos Designer and artist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROFESSIONAL

Lemonade (Toluca Lake)

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Ilan Dei Studio

EDUC ATIONAL

Governor’s Island Artist’s Residence

29-100

ARCH 601

Fraggle Rock ARCH 704

Where We’ll Spend Our Lonely Days ARCH 805

PERSONAL Hybrid Facade Mediums I

Feeling Space Mediums III

Arbouressence Timber in the City

Movement Series

Sound and Motion Project

Visual Art

101-146

PROFESSIONAL

My responsibilities as a Design Intern with Ilan Dei Studio included assembling a design package for the Toluca Lake location of the

Lemonade restaurant chain. I designed various interior design elements given to us by the concept architects using Rhino and Fusion 360, as

well as digitally prepared a number of them for fabrication. I outputted

LEMONADE (TOLUCA LAKE)

construction drawings of products for the installers to reference during

Ilan Dei Studio

assembly and installation. I participated in the fabrication and building of

these products using methods such as CNC mills, laser cutters, and hand tools, often handling the fabrication of various elements myself. I worked on the project from concept to prototyping to final product.

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Ilan Dei Studio

Concept Renders

Ilan Dei Studio

Ilan Dei Studio

Ilan Dei Studio

Final Product

Ilan Dei Studio

Ilan Dei Studio

Ilan Dei Studio

Curved Bench Assembly Drawings

Ilan Dei Studio

Curved Bench Construction

Ilan Dei Studio

Light Shelf Assembly and Construction

Ilan Dei Studio

Round Table Assembly and Construction

Ilan Dei Studio

Wall Panel Floor Plan

Ilan Dei Studio

Wall Panel Assembly Drawings

Ilan Dei Studio

Ilan Dei Studio

EDUCATIONAL

ARTIST ’S RESIDENCE GOVERNOR’S ISL AND

GOVERNOR’S ISLAND ARTIST RESIDENCE ARCH 601

FRAGGLE ROCK ARCH 704

WHERE WE’LL SPEND OUR LONELY DAYS ARCH 805

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ARCH 601

Elevations

Sections

ARCH 601

Floor Plans

ARCH 601

Exploded Axon

Site Plan

ARCH 601

Physical Model

ARCH 601

NIGHTCLUB

FRAGGLE ROCK

BROOKLYN, NY 11201 ARCH 704

Initial Massing and Solar Study

ARCH 704

Tide Study

Neighborhood Study

Traffic Circulation

ARCH 704

Material Studies

ARCH 704

Site Plan

Long Section

Nightclub Section

Industrial Section

ARCH 704

Floor Plans

ARCH 704

Elevations

ARCH 704

Chunk Model

ARCH 704

Systems Axon

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ARCH 704

Structure Study

Column and Arches Diagram

Waffle Slab Diagram

ARCH 704

Materiality

Wall Studies

ARCH 704

Wall Detail

MEP Section Diagram

ARCH 704

Fractal Studies

ARCH 704

Physical Model

ARCH 704

Courtyard

Cafe

ARCH 704

Industrial Nightclub Transition

Bridge Patio

ARCH 704

Nightclub Upper Level

Nightclub Lower Level

ARCH 704

Unity Building Walk-through

CLICK TO VIEW ARCH 704

ARCH 704

ARCH 704

HOME COMPETITION WHERE WE’LL SPEND OUR LONELY DA YS

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Arch 805

Domestic Housing in it’s current form has led to a state of over-stimulation loneliness, anxiety, and apathy in an isolated state. Located on the Camp Hero bluff in Montauk, New York, the design enacts a layering of the phenomena that define the inward and outward aspects of our world. The natural via Earth, Water, and Light and the digital via media projection and heat mapping. The layering serves to provide an illusory journey through one’s own isolation, projecting the imagery of ourselves inside and outside of the space, leading to subsequent freedom.

This space serves as a threshold for the domestic dwellers, somewhere where they can spend time away from their own lives. From the lonely precariat to the couple going through a rough patch in their relationship. The space intends to transform and disorient the solipsistic mind to a state where it can relate to that which is outside itself, through itself and its perception as well as the simple banalities that bind it. The users will find sentimentality, sympathy and ethereality with themselves and lead to insights towards their exaltation from the confines of their own domestic programming. The space will allow them to spend time parallel from their everyday lives, allow them to regroup, reflect, and transcend the anxieties domesticity offers. Through that experience, the domestic machine is altered by the forces that surround it and dwell within it rather than the forms that define it forming a new constellation on the self, the family, and the relationship.

Arch 805

Inward

Arch 805

Outward

Arch 805

Layering Plan

Section and Axon

Arch 805

Arch 805

H YBRID FAC ADE

PERSONAL

HYBRID FACADE Mediums I

FEELING SPACE Mediums III

ARBOURESSENCE Timber in the City

VISUAL ART

Misc. Personal Artworks

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Hybrid Facade

Model Views

Hybrid Facade

Hybrid Facade

Hybrid Facade

FEELING SPACE

Experiential interactive studying beauty in a digital space. Music by myself and Paul Aronson Feeling Space

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Feeling Space

ARBOURESSENCE

Arbouressence

Concept Vignettes

Arbouressence

Section

Arbouressence

Structural Detail

Plans

Canopy Detail

Arbouressence

Play-space

Residential Patio

Arbouressence

Residential

Pool

Arbouressence

Entry

Gym

Arbouressence

MOVEMENT SERIES

Movement

Movement 1 Still Renders

Movement

Movement 2 Still Renders

Movement

Movement 1

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Movement

Movement 2

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Movement

VISUAL ART These are a selected collection of my personal artworks and designs I’ve worked on over the years. In my free time I tend to find myself experimenting with different forms of visual expression ranging from word art to abstract architectural renderings and vignettes. Although these works were created for myself, as a form of relaxation and enjoyment, they are some of my favorites that have come out from the time I spend with myself. I love to create, and to make others experience the joy I get from expressing myself through my work.

Visual Art

Bike Part Study

Hyper-Graphic Illumination

Visual Art

You Go.

Visual Art

Would You Be Happy?

Firewood

Visual Art

Green and Gray

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Triumph

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