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Kathryn Connor Nocella

Curriculum Vitae

The Commons 6

The Edge Intervention 8

Bridge Bathroom in West Side Park 12

Supshun 16

Roxanne’s Room 20

Gestalt 24

The Fisherman’s Wife 26

Collages of Home 28

Nocella Original Designs 30

Debutante 34

Ephemeral 36

Kathryn Connor Nocella

Education

Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture: Graduate Program MArch

Expected date of graduation: May, 2025

2025 Jim del Grosso AIA Scholars Program

College of Charleston (2011-2015)

B.S. in Anthropology, minors in Spanish and Studio Art. Honors College, Cum Laude

Phi Eta Sigma since 2011, Lambda Alpha since 2013, Global Scholar: SpanishIntermediate High, 2015

Research

Architecture

2024-Current, Architectural Design Intern, Group 1.6: Part time work building three dimensional models in Revit and renderings of built projects for marketing purposes.

Summers 2023, 2024, Architectural Design Intern, CBP Architects: Full time work drawing existing conditions, conducting surveys, rendering marketing material and compiling environmental information for construction products specified.

Roxanne’s Room: Making Space for Sex Workers 2024-2025

An architectural investigation into the structures and strategies used to marginalize groups of workers and how to subvert these structures through architectural tactics that raise the standard of living for these workers.

Teacher Culture in Title 1 Schools 2014-2015

A short ethnographic documentary of the relationships in a 6th grade class of Charleston inner-city African American students working with teachers of different ethnicities.

Gringa Girl in a Chilean World 2013-2014

An ethnographic account of my study abroad experience as a female American college student, living with a Chilean family in Santiago, Chile

Alternative Spring Break 2013

Grant writing with Non-profit LAMB for extended art programming to keep young adults out of gangs in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. A half semester program with a week trip to Honduras.

Creative Management Roles

Butcher’s Sew Shop Instructor 2018-2023

Skills

Digital: -Revit

-Auto-cad -Rhino

-Photoshop

-Illustrator -InDesign

-Vray

-Enscape -Excel -Word -Google Docs

Analog:

-Sewing Machine/Hand -Embroidery

-Chemical/Natural Dyeing -Bookbinding

-Weaving -Collage

After school and day camp programs for children 5-15 years, and workshops and private lessons for adults. We use hands-on learning to bolster creative and kinetic skills.

Oxbow Summer Art Program Summer 2016, 2017

Head Counselor (2017): Organized and executed pre-camp leadership meetings and managed budget. Delegated daily counselor activities and responsibilities, and continued with regular counselor duties. Camp Counselor (2016): Created and co-taught workshops. Organized and led various creative activities. Managed 7-8 girls (ages 13-17) daily for two week periods.

Rensing Center Non Profit Artist Residency Program Assistant Director, 2015-2016

Wrote newsletters. Created and emailed campaigns. Scheduled artists’ stays. Planned, organized and administered events.

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Summer 2013, 2014

Worked with patrons and exhibitions. Wrote blogs. Installed art shows. Administered and promoted events.

Ph: 864.380.4109

Em: katie.nocella@gmail.com

Web: nocelladesigns.com

Leadership Roles

Art Workshops 2018-2023

Led a variety of workshops for sewing, bookmaking, weaving and embroidery through different programs in Philadelphia.

Swim Coach McCarter Community Pool 2011-2012

Gave swim instruction to children ages 3-18. Organized events and dinners for families.

Urbane Renewal Founder, President 2009-2011

A sewing and design collective that promoted up-cycled fashion design and entrepreneurship through charity events.

Exhibitions and Press

Fine Art Center Alumni Show, 2025, Greenville, SC

Periplus Summer Workshop Exhibition, 2024, Crete Greece

Design Philly, 2023, Philadelphia, solo display at Cecil Baker Partners’ Open House

Fashion show at Quadrate Academy, 2019, Philadelphia, curated and participated

CofC Alumni Highlight with the Office of Sustainability, 2019

Debutante solo show, 2018, Philadelphia, Nice Things Handmade Reviewed in Philadelphia Magazine (2018) and Philadelphia Inquirer (2018)

Herspace Group Show, 2018, Philadelphia, Show Juried exhibition

Residency at Rensing Center, 2018, Pickens, SC

Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico 2017

Tongue and Cheek Group Show, 2017, Headlong, Philadelphia

Fine Arts Center Alumni Juried Show, 2017, Greenville, SC

Salon de Refuse, 2012, College of Charleston juried show, 1st Best in Sculpture

Young Contemporaries, 2012, College of Charleston, juried show, 2nd Best in Show

London International Creative Competition, 2012, juried show, Honorable Mention

Gold Scholastics Key Portfolio Award, 2010-201, SC

Urbane Renewal Fashion Show, 2010, Greenville, SC, curated and participated

Silver Scholastics Key Award 2007-2008, SC

Travel

Greece 2024

Italy 2023

France 2018

Great Britain 2018

Ecuador 2018

Chile 2013

Peru 2013

Honduras 2013

Colombia 2011

Portugal 2007

Mexico 2006, 2012, 2017

Spain 2005

The Commons

Architectural Design Work for Group 1.6

Once home to Greenco Beverage distributing Co, the 71-yearold building was restored and remodeled to become home to an assortment of local artisan food and beverage businesses unique retail and office space. The principal remodeled the building in Auto-cad. I was given the task to model the building and it’s three design iterations in Revit from the drawings. Once built, I was asked to create renderings to show future clients and use for marketing materials.

Exterior Renderings Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

The Edge Intervention

Design Studio | Spring 2024 | Prof. Mauricio Bertet

This design aims to address the invisible divide between Temple’s campus and the greater North Philadelphia neighborhood. The proposed building is a design for the Boyer School of Music that acts a gateway to Temple’s campus from North Philadelphia and vice versa. This is a building that is visually integrated into the cityscape of North Philadelphia by using recycled brick from demolished buildings, scrap metal from old factories and other large abandoned facilities, and incorporates the use of brightly painted murals like those found throughout the area. The proposed building will not only blend visually, but also socially, as the architecture, much like the Boyer School of Music program, invites the greater neighborhood to participate in and enjoy the space through the intermingling of open public green spaces, musical performance and educational spaces.

Comprehensive

Collage Rendering Paper, thread and Revit

Digital Diagram for Railing Inspiration 1:1 Scale Model Railing Panel

1/4” Section Revit, Photoshop

Bridge Bathroom

In West Side Park

Elective Studio | Fall 2024 | Prof. Fauzia Sadiq-Garcia

I developed a park based on the desires of the West side neighborhood of Long Beach. Through the focus groups and community outreach meetings conducted through the Terminal Island Transition plan, I included the 6 community goals gathered within the design of the park: environmental benefits, no overflow freeway traffic into neighborhoods, reduced freeway noise, more bike, and pedestrian paths, links to neighborhoods and schools, and reduced traffic. Through the exploration of this design, I created a framework for the park that included neighborhood and park integration, community orientation, and sustainability focus.

As I narrowed down to a specific architectural intervention for the park, I landed on a public restroom, an amenity used by all but not always designed with all in mind. A thoughtfully designed public restroom seemed appropriate alongside a park designed around community needs and integration. This public restroom is a combination of restroom and day shelter that includes a small food pantry/community fridge, a small medical clinic, an information center, a laundry facility, and showers.

Public parks, although public, are enjoyed by only a specific group of people, often excluding the unhoused through hostel-built interventions and signage. Having the day shelter amenities in combination with the public restroom within a public park helps to integrate two groups of people that may otherwise be separated. People become unhoused for a variety of reasons, and none of those should indicate the worth and dignity of human life. Public parks and public restrooms have opportunities to bridge communities together.

Bridge Bathroom Ground Floor Plan Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

West Side Park Site Plan and Sections Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator

8’ 28’

30’

Inspirational Collage Plaza Rendering Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator

Supshun

This project is invested in a building solution that will both boost the economic vitality of the community and have a tangible connection to the Gullah Geechee in Charleston, South Carolina. This building is a cultural market. The two floors of the proposed building have the main programs of a market, where the community residents can sell their handmade arts and crafts, and a kitchen, where people can bring raw ingredients to be cooked by local chefs. This community kitchen is both for visitors who are interested in tasting Gullah Geechee authentic dishes from local chefs and for local residents who cannot use their SNAP benefits for prepared food. They can now come to this cultural market to have their raw food prepared into a meal.

Advanced Graduate Design | Studio Fall 2023 | Prof. Na Wei

Collage Rendering Paper, thread and Enscape

Inspirational Collage Digital

1:1 Scale Model of Column

Concrete, found objects and oyster shells

Roxanne’s Room

Making Space for Sex Workers

Thesis Program Preparation Fall 2024 Prof. Kate Wingert-Playdon

In the United States, sex work, and the spaces in which it takes place, have been shaped by patriarchy and capitalism, which takes away the economic and bodily autonomy of female and female-identifying sex workers. For my thesis project I am considering the space of a motel. A motel is designed as a transient place to rest, but what happens in a motel is often much more than a simple night’s sleep. Motels are often spaces where sex work takes place. Although they may have familiar components such as a bed to lie on and four walls for privacy, they are not designed to appropriately accommodate such work. I believe it is time to rethink the relationship between motels, their uses, and their users. To understand it through a lens of feminism and sexuality. A sex motel that embraces aspects of communal living architecture and layout would provide sex workers with safety, more total autonomy, and a stronger sense of community. It’s important to have these private spaces in addition to the motel to raise the standard of living for sex workers who often face discrimination and difficulties securing housing and basic needs because of their line of work. A motel of this design challenges the way architecture commonly subverts women and the concept of the feminine by providing space that both accommodates and uplifts its residents.

Exploratory Diagram

Digital

Bed Side Drawer v. Beds Side Drawer

The Vitruvian Woman

The Modual Woman

Exploratory Diagrams Digital

Gestalt

Graduate Design Foundation

Summer 2022

Prof. Christopher McAdams

These collages are made in Photoshop in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Images of the clowns represent the feeling of living in a “clown town”, and are mixed with scenes from Italian Giallo films to emulate feelings of the extreme and outrageous through bright colors and scenes of horror. The combination of clowns and scenes of horror create a sense of false security, and that there is much below the surface of something seemingly simple and well meaning.

Clown Town, USA

The Fisherman’s Wife

An experiment in bioplastics and the reuse of items otherwise considered trash, resulted in the perfect accessories for the wife of a fisherman. Created during a residency at the Periplus Workshop in Chania, Crete.