Fusilero Portfolio: Selected Works

FUSILERO 2018-2022

PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORKS

PROFESSIONAL

2015-2019 2020-2021

2018 2018-2021

2013-2014

COHEN DESIGN/BUILD Massapequa, NY

Architectural Intern Jenna Efrein Glass Miami, FL Glass Artist Assistant

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SoA

Coral Gables, FL

Fabrication Lab Assistant School of Architecture

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Chicago, IL

Architectural Intern Capital Improvement Program

CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES

Miami, FL

ADA Compliance Intern New Builds & Refurbishments

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Coral Gables, FL

Model Shop CNC Operator School of Architecture

CANNON DESIGN

Chicago, IL

Architectural Intern

REBUILD FOUNDATION

Chicago, IL Architectural Intern

EDUCATION

Masters of Architecture in Urban Design October 2022

Xeno-Urbanism: Making Space for Inclusive Design Thesis Advisor: E. Zaroukas

University College London The Bartlett London, England

Bachelor of Architecture Minor of Fine Arts May 2021

U-SOA Rome Program Fall 2019

General Studies May 2017

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL

GPA: 3.66

emfusi94@gmail.com

City Colleges of Chicago

Chicago, IL

GPA: 3.53

ALPHA RHO CHI, Agamedes Chapter University of Miami

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MINORITY ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS, NOMAS, University of Miami

TAU SIGMA DELTA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY, Beta Gamma Chapter University of Miami

LEADERSHIP PUBLICATIONS

TAU SIGMA NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY, Theta Eta Chapter University of Miami

2012 2020 2021 Worthy Associate Architect 2020-Present

Charter Executive Treasurer 2020-Present President 2018-Present Charter President 2018-2020

AWARDS & HONORS

B-Pro Thesis Report Prize

Dean’s List

Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society

Tau Sigma National Honor Society Dean’s List

Presidential Scholar Provost’s Honor Roll & Dean’s List Honor’s List Dean’s List

AVES Vocational Scholarship 2nd Prize NewHouse Architecture Competition Honorable Student ACE Mentor Program Canon Design Paid Internship ACE Mentor Program Honorary Mention NewHouse Architecture Competition University of Illinois-UC Landscape Architecture Paid Program

Miami, Florida, USA

Brazil, James Food Wheel, Urban Prototyping Vol. 1 2018, Studio James Brazil Correa, Jaime BARRIO DE LA MERCED: the Results of the Brian Canin Urban Design Studio 2020

2022 2020 2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 2013 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012

linkedin.com/EmilyFusilero Risk Management Chair 2018-2019 Brother 2017-Present

URBANISM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECOMPOSING TEMPORALITIES LONDON, ENGLAND

FOOD WHEEL MIAMI, FLORIDA

NI LAGO, NI CANAL MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

DISTRETTO LATERANO ROME, ITALY

ARCHITECTURE

GLASS WORK

PLAY SPACE SOUTH BEACH, FLORIDA EMERGENCY SHELTER ABACO ISLANDS, BAHAMAS

MICCOSUKEE MUSEUM EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, USA

GLASS BOWL GLASS CASTING

GLASS FLOPPY BOWL GLASS BLOWING

PERMEABILITY | ARCHITECTONICS GLASS CASTING

URBAN MORPHOLOGY OF AQUAMARKET

DECOMPOSING TEMPORALITIES DECOMPOSING TEMPORALITIES

DECOMPOSING TEMPORALITIES

LONDON, ENGLAND 2021-2022

FACULTY: CLAUDIA PASQUERO, FILIPPO NASSETTI

PARTNERS: LESEGO BANTSHENG, YUXUAN SUN, VINAY PORANDLA

Decomposing Temporalities is an inquiry on the underside of cities, where waste is concealed and confined to the periphery. The project exercises the extended mind theory through biological, indigenous, and artificial intelligence, reorienting wastewater treatment in urban morphologies. In the face of climate change, extreme flooding threatens London’s wastewater treatment facilities. Through mycelium’s bio-intelligence and indigenous cosmotechnics, the project constellates waste treatment not as a utility under threat, but as an integral part of dynamic urban ecologies.

To combat both degraded water quality and flooding, 8 radical geo-engineering models were developed. With decentralized water systems, urban space can reduce surface runoff accumulation at centralized water bodies. The models proved that by integrating porosity within urban morphology, further open spaces can facilitate infiltration and combat flooding whilst serving varying combinations of urban and ecological habitat diversity.

Mycelium’s ability to treat waste and facilitate decomposition inspired the study of its wastewater treatment potential. Mycofiltration coupled with the Bheri aquaculture sys-tem can result in waste treatment that is not divorced from urban ecosystems, but a vi-tal member of them. The mycelium prototype named Mygregate becomes an exten-sion of the voxelized relationship between ground and foreground, aggregated to form a negotiation of diverse forms and shapes. By employing the architectural design pro-cess to include the nurturing and growing of living micro-organisms, we design new relations between humans and nonhumans and ultimately – a post-human state.

Waste treatment design as a part of urban ecologies allows spaces for the negotiated aggregations of spaces that redesign human and urban relationships with waste. The proposed landscape increases urban porosity through open spaces and water basins that embrace flooding by facilitating water infiltration, vegetation, and fish far ming through aquaculture. Architecture responds to the aggregation of biological, indige-nous, artificial, and human intelligence. In this exploded intellectual project, its design-ers also thus have agency.

PROPOSED

ENGINEERING MODEL 1

GREATER LONDON URBAN CONTEXT

WETLAND BIOME MORPHOLOGY DETAIL

FLOODING PROJECTIONS

YUXUAN SUN & EMILY FUSILERO PRODUCING MYGREGATE GENERATIONS 1 & 2

FULLY GROWN MYCELIUM

MYGREGATE IN MOLD

MYGREGATE COMPONENT A

AGGREGATION OF BIOLOGICAL, INDIGENOUS, ARTIFICIAL AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

FOOD WHEEL VENDOR

FOOD WHEEL FOOD WHEEL FOOD WHEEL

MKTplace, MIAMI, FLORIDA SPRING 2018

FACULTY: JAMES BRAZIL

COLLABORATORS: YASSER ABUALFARAJ, MAARYAM ALANZI, MIKE ARNISPIGER, DR. CHARLES BOHL, JOHN HEINRICH, SHRUTI KHANDEWHAL, BELTRAN LOZANO, LUKE GARDNER, RAM MATHEUS, MADISON SEIP, SOFIA SILVA

MKTplace is a community-driven prepared food market and public space project that serves to activate vacant space in underserved neighborhoods by providing inexpen sive incubator space and a venue for community events, arts and culture, and everyday socializing. MKTplace is a product of the Third Place Project initiated by Dr. Charles Bohl, Director of the U-SoA MRED+U program, and funded by the Knight Foundation.

MKTplace was launched to unleash the power of placemaking to create great gathering places that can act as a catalyst for community building and econom ic exchange. The prototype that was developed can be considered as an “activator” in which we proposed to develop a butterfly building, a light and movable pavilion which may activate temporary public space around the concept of food - an urban activator!

The Food Wheel is this urban activator, a nomadic-rolling device that hosts two mo bile food vendors whilst deploying a series of playful yet functional marketplace furniture. The 8ft (d) x 7ft (w) wheel unfolds on either side a vertical edible garden-cum-herb bar and information point- cum-video projection zone. The vertical edible garden was envisioned by Emily Fusilero

Drawing inspiration from creative placemaking design-art initiatives of the MKTplace, students designed and developed a fabrication information model (FIM) in which the entire prototype could be unfolded and manufactured by computer numerical controlled (CNC) milling machines in one afternoon. The total project time-frame was 8 weeks; 2 weeks de sign, 1 week material testing/logistics, 1 week fabrication and 4 weeks assembly.

FOOD WHEEL PROTOTYPE DEPICTING ENGAGEMENT WITH VERTICAL EDIBLE GARDEN

EMILY FUSILERO

FABRICATING THE FOOD WHEEL

EXPLODED ASSEMBLY OF FOOD WHEEL

FOOD WHEEL, URBAN PROTOTYPING VOL. 1

FULLY DEPLOYED FOOD WHEEL, STUDIO JAMES BRAZIL

DRAWING

SITE PLAN

NI LAGO, NI CANAL NI LAGO, NI CANAL NI LAGO, NI CANAL

BARRIO DE LA MERCED, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

FALL 2020

FACULTY: JAIME CORREA PARTNER: EDUARDO VENTURA

Ni Lago, Ni Canal is an urban intervention in Barrio de la Merced, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the center of Mexico City. Historically, Mexico City resides on the land that once was Tenochtitlan where the native peoples utilized canals as a means of circula tion throughout their city and interconnectivity between floating parcels of land utilized for farming and irrigation.

Barrio de la Merced is a vibrant neighborhood of both temporary and permanent market structures as well as residential neighborhoods. This proposal unifies these compo nents while paying homage to the former canals and urban typology of Tenochtitlan.

The proposal’s defined park space, designed by both participants promotes recre ational activities using chalupas or small boats that patrons can ride through the manmade body of water as well as a interactive swing ride at the southeast corner of the park. Pe destrian bridge systems straddle either side of the manmade body of water and is termi nated by the green spaces filled with flora native to the Mexican climate.

Adjacent to the bridges is a long, mixed use bar-building with an arcade designed by Eduardo Ventura. The building typology is reminiscent of the large market hall to the southernmost point of the site and consists of retail spaces on the lower floor and offices spaces on the upper floors.

The residential block building is a common housing typology in Mexico City and is punctured with varying sizes of outdoor courtyard spaces that each possess a unique and defined identity within the project. The residential block building, designed by Emily Fusi lero includes retail spaces on the lower floors and is circumnavigated by an arcade. Varying types of residential spaces are located on the upper floors.

EAST - WEST SECTION

NI LAGO, NI CANAL

VIEW THROUGH INTERIOR COURTYARD: PUBLIC POOL AMMENITY

STREET VIEW OF PROPOSED RESIDNTIAL BLOCK BUILDING, ACTIVATED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS, AND WATER CONNECTIVITY

VIEW THROUGH INTERIOR COURTARD

TERMINATING THE VISTA: TOWER CORNER CONDITION

NI CANAL

KEY MOMENTS OF PROPOSED URBAN INTERVENTIONS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

DISTRETTO LATERANO DISTRETTO LATERANO DISTRETTO LATERANO

ROME, ITALY

FALL 2019

FACULTY: JAIME CORREA

PARTNERS: KARLIE LOBITZ, REBECCA RUDNER, KYLE FERRY

Distretto Laterano is an urban intervention into the historic and multi-layered city of Rome. Located in the historic Laterano neighborhood, Distretto Laterano is an urban vision that rationalizes and unifies the space between San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Croche.

Site proposal and rational rhythm of structures was established by all members of the group. Resolution between the axes of San Giovanni and Santa Croche is established by the towering visual of an obelisk, linking the two churches. Mixed program buildings frame San Giovanni to create a large, open piazza with an obelisk highlighting the hierarchical center designed by Rebecca Rudner. Along the axis, mixed used bar buildings puncture through the Aurelian Wall, designed by Emily Fusilero and at night, transform into brilliant light box es to illuminate the once dark park. Green wall interventions cap the existing structure of the Aurelian Wall and return the structure to it’s original height and to decipher the old from the new also designed by Emily Fusilero. Between these buildings, green spaces are inserted to promote social interaction to the residents designed by Karlie Lobitz. The red facades are an homage to the Holy Sacrament of Communion and where participants drink from a chalice of wine, referred to as the Blood of Christ.

BUILDING 1ST FLOOR PLAN

SITE PLAN

ACTIVATED PARK BETWEEN INTERSTITIAL SPACES

AURELIAN WALL INTERVENTION VIEW AT NIGHT DEPICTING THE ILLUMINATED LIGHT BOX CONDITION OF THE PROPOSED STRUCTURE. NEW VERTICAL GREEN WALLS RETURN THE ANCIENT WALL TO ITS FOR MER HEIGHT.

VIEW OF PIAZZA ANCHORED WITH OBELISK AND FRAMED WITH MIXED USE BUILDINGS

VIEW THROUGH PEDESTRIA NWALK WAY CUTTING THROUGH PROPOSED RHYTHMIC BUILDINGS

PLAY

SITE PLAN

PLAY SPACE PLAY SPACE PLAY SPACE

SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI, FLORIDA

FALL 2018

FACULTY: SHAWNA MEYER

PARTNERS: SOFIA CONTRERAS, MADISON SEIP

The vibrant neighborhood of South Beach located in Miami, Florida is home to countless venues for nightlife and a buzzing social scene packed in restaurants and bars. South Beach has long catered to an audience of adults who can take advantage of all of this spaces. Ocean Drive, a popular tourist attraction along the beach is cladded with these entertainment spaces that are open until the early hours of the morning.

However, South Beach is still home to many families and young children who add to the character and vibrance that make up South Beach. After further research and site documentation, we found there was a lack in safe spaces that catered to a younger audience. Play Space resolves this gap in the urban fabric of South Beach by providing retail spaces and affordable residential units in a playful built environment. By catering to the younger demographic of South Beach, Play Space offers a safe environment where imagination and recreational spaces can be explored by all and attempts to bring out the young child within all of us.

Art installations in the entryway of the project bends curiousity and invites you into a large courtyard building. The ground floor of the structure is filled with various sizes of retail spaces and programs that encourage social interaction and play. Swings descend into the center of a large courtyard and activates the space below with movement. On the upper floors of the project are various unit sizes to cater to any individual or family. These units are connected via exterior circulation and animated with suspended bridges and nets that can be used for relaxation while be suspended in the air. Other program ammenities include a childcare center, a playground, recreational gym, laser tag, and a teen space with a virtual gallery and a shared co-working space.

SECOND FLOOR PLAN, THIRD FLOOR PLAN

ENTRYWAY PERSPECTIVE

TEEN SPACE

UNIT ASSEMBLY EXPLODED AXONOMETETRIC WALL PANEL TEXTURE STUDIES

ROOF

WALL PANE COLUMNS AND SINGLE UNIT

BAHAMAS EMERGENCY SHELTER BAHAMAS EMERGENCY SHELTER

BAHAMAS EMERGENCY SHELTER

ABACO ISLANDS, BAHAMAS

SPRING 2020

FACULTY: TERRANCE RILEY, MANUEL CLAVEL ROJO

Located in the northern region of the Bahamas are the Abaco Islands, approximately 180 miles off the cost of South Florida. The Abaco Islands are comprised of two main islands, Great Abaco and Little Abaco and smaller barrier cays. In this region reside a population of about 17,225 people near the principal settlement and capital, Marsh Harbour.

In 2019, Hurrican Dorian flattened and flooded Great Abaco Island. It was the stron gest and most devasting hurricane to hit the Bahamas with sustained winds of 185 mph, storm surges, and torrential rain. It is estimated that more than 600 residents lost their lives in this natural disaster. Months after the devastation of Hurricane Dorian, the Abaco Islands have still not recovered and the devastation appears to be the same as September of 2019.

The goal of this 8 week studio project is to provide the communities impacted by wake of the devastation of Hurricane Dorian with permanent core community facilities and basic core housing that is designed to grow with the developing community as their circumstances and finacnces progress. This allows for the potential of expansion of a stable community and stimulates their local economy as core elements transform with additional expansion units using appropriate technolo- gy and high quality building materials.

The main component is a flexible modular wall system that can be quickly assembled by local craftsmen to create a basic housing unit. The different iterations of the wall system provide a variety of screens, windows, doorways, and canopies. The wall panels utilize an inva sive species of bamboo in the Bahamas, plastic bottles and steel frames reducing any wasted material and improving the efficiency of available resources.

STEEL FRAME

WINDOW WALL SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

SINGLE UNIT ASSEMBLY

BASIC WALL SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

CLOSED PANEL

STEEL FRAME

TOP SINGLE

WINDOW WALL SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

CLERESTORY SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

STEEL

WINDOW

CLERESTORY SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

STEEL

TECTONIC

SCEEENED WINDOW TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

KITCHENETTE / DINING AREA FLIPPING PANEL

PIVOTING PANELS

CLOSED PANEL

KITCHENETTE FLIPPING PANELS

DOOR-WALL SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

STEEL FRAME REMOVE

BAMBOO SLIDE

BRACING

TOP SINGLE

SCREEN SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

PERMEABLE WALL SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

STEEL FRAME

PERMEABLE SYSTEM TECTONIC ASSEMBLY

3 BEDROOM UNIT FLOOR PLAN

2 BEDROOM UNIT FLOOR PLAN

SITE PLAN OF MICCOSUKEE MUSEUM CAMPUS

MICCOSUKEE MUSEUM MICCOSUKEE MUSEUM MICCOSUKEE MUSEUM

EVERGLADES, FLORIDA

FACULTY: JUAN CALVO SPRING 2019 PARTNER: MARIA APARICIO

The Miccosukee are a federally recognized Native American Tribe in the state of Florida and reside within the Everglades. Originally from the region of Georgia, when European’s were encroaching on the territory of the Miccosukee, they were forced to relocate further south in the eighteenth century and became part of the Seminole Nation. Descendents of these Seminole Tribes established communities along Tamiami Trail, a roadway completed in the 1980s that splice through the Florida Everglades.

The goal of this studio was to design a Museum that cohesively blended into the exist ing typology of the Florida Everglades and stayed true to the Miccosukee’s structural elements utilizing the native species of Cypress trees in the area.

Our proposal’s concept focused on the tribe’s most reverent animal, the eagle. In Sem inole tradition, because of an eagle’s ability to soar higher than any other bird it is considered superior and an element of the heavens above. Motif’s of the eagle can be found adorning Seminole traditional clothing, jewelry, tapestries, and feathers are incorporated into head dress es for the chiefs of the tribes. This motif informed our Museum’s footprint and ornamentation found on the structures.

The site plan from above is an homage to the eagle. All structures are considerably planned apart to allow the visItor a full immersive experience into the natural habitat of the Everglades. At the tail of the bird is a floating dock where visitors can board boats to venture on a short trip through the canals of the Everglades. At the beak, emerges the restaurant and a constant burning fire pit that symbolizes the presence of an active tribe. On the wings are the gift shop and main building of the museum. The Museum faces East to welcome the morning sun and has several viewpoints out into the wilderness including a rooftop terrace and green space for a focused view of the setting sun.

MUSEUM FIRST FLOOR PLAN

GLASS BOWL GLASS BOWL GLASS BOWL

GLASS CASTING FALL 2018

FACULTY: JENNA EFREIN

MATERIALS: BULLSEYE SHEET GLASS

Glass casting is a multiple step process over the course of a few weeks in order to yield a finished product. Utilizing Bullseye Sheet glass, pieces of glass are cut into various shapes and forms to create a pattern block measuring. Because glass is a non-crystaline structure, score marks are cut into the glass sheet and then snapped by hand to separate the pieces.

The pattern block is fused together in a kiln reaching about 1200 degrees Fahrenheit over nearly 16 hours. After this stage, the pattern block is cold worked on a wet saw that slices the pattern block, revealing the marble effect inside. The glass pieces are arranged using a booking technique commonly found in marble tiles and woodworking. The new slices are fused together, cut into a circle and slumped into a bowl mold allowing the glass to take on the shape of a bowl. After the bowl is cooled, it is cold-worked and polished to create an even and shiny surface.

GLASS FLOPPY BOWL GLASS FLOPPY BOWL GLASS FLOPPY BOWL

GLASS BLOWING

FACULTY: JENNA EFREIN SPRING 2021

MATERIALS: FURNACE GLASS, GLASS FRIT

Glass is gathered on the end of a blow pipe from a furnace and is slowly inflated to form a bubble using blocks, jacks, and wet newspaper. As the bubble is formed, it is then rolled in various colors and sizes of glass frit which gives the glass its blue and white color ation. After the frit has been properly fused to the bubble, a jackline is reinforced and an assistant provides a punty which the bubble is transfered onto. The jackline is encouraged to break along its seam so that the bubble is now opened and reheated in a chamber to be come more maluable.

Parchoffis are used to open the mouth of the bubble to a desirable diameter and paddles are applied to reinforce a straight lip. Then, the form is reheated in the chamber until it is very soft. When the ideal temperature is achieved in the glass, the form is rapidly spun using centrifugal force causing the edges to splay outwards and flopped to form creas es.

MOCKUP

PERMEABILITY

ARCHITECTURAL SCALE GLASS CASTING

FALL 2020

FACULTY: JENNA EFREIN, GERMANE BARNES

MATERIALS: BULLSEYE SHEET GLASS, WOOD, ACRYLIC, LED LIGHT, WATER

This kiln formed glass wall is a year long project and independent study turned thesis. The concepts that launched this investigation deals with the duality of permeabili ty and architectonics. Permeability in this project will include the elements of water, light, air, and visibility.

These explorations are executed through a series of pattern blocks that have been fused, slumped, and cold worked. The completed basic tectonic elements are assembled to yield and architectural scale wall system of curved elements.

By repeating the basic unit in different orientations and interlocking the units us ing dado cuts, yields a dynamic wall system. It creates a conversation of light and shad ow and invites the viewers on either side to observe the constant changing facade and articulated openings in the system. It embraces the experience of the void and allows the void’s to become an articulate and planned space.

Using a combination of red, blue, yellow and clear Bullseye Glass, the Spring 2021 independent study will build on concepts applied from Fall 2020 and continue to inves tigate the duality of permeability and transparency through contrasting elements of light vs. shadow, solid vs. void, and pattern vs. texture.

ROLL UP MOCK UP

FRONT PERSPECTIVE

KILN FORMED TILES

FUSILERO

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