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
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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