ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Noah Pankiewicz
NOAH PANKIEWICZ
University of Pittsburgh
nmp87@pitt.edu
01 MULTICULTURAL LIVING
Low-Rise High-Density Housing
ARC 1203 | Spring 2025
02 EVERYDAY SPACE
Community Arts Center
ARC 1201 | Spring 2024
SYSTEMS
ARC 1202 | Fall 2024
Exhibited at HAARCH!!! 2025
Video Installations School of Architecture
FMST 1884 | Fall 2024
01 - MULTICULTURAL LIVING
Group Work With Hanssy Vasquez Gomez
Typology: Low-Rise High Density Hosuing
Site: Oakland, Pittsburgh PA
Instructors: Christopher Guignon and Dr. Jennifer Donnelly
ARC 1203 | Spring 2025
How can space accomodate diversity? This housing project provides various forms inspired by the vernacular architecture of the refugee user group’s home countries. These forms are the reflection of specific environmental and climatic conditions. While integrating vernacular ideas into this site provides different atmospheres, it also inspires passive strategies that respond to Pittsburgh’s climate.
The site also exists as a component of the domestic, urban, and global food systems--growing, cooking, selling, and dining as ways to share and celebrate culture. This benefits the tenants of the site while being connective for the neighborhood and contributing to Oakland’s pattern of outdoor dining spaces.
Cultural Research
Food and diversity contribute to urbanism in Oakland. The project integrates vernacular strategies of the refugee user group, responding to the neighborhood’s climate and pattern of outdoor dining.
50% Grad Student and Family
Pittsburgh
Climate: Temperate
Venezuela
Refugees to PA (2024): 447
Climate: Tropical
User-Group Diagram
Vernacular Architecture: courtyards, adjoining facades, hallways
Grocery Store
Restaurants
Convenience Store
City Zoning
Urban Center Employment
HISTORICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS
HISTORICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS
Educational / Medical Institution
Site Setbacks: 10 ft. all sides
Use
Institutional
University Residential Residential Mixed-Use
Residential
SHEAR for solar gain
CARVE for site circulation
EXPAND for rainwater catchment
SHIFT for green roofs
Massing Terracotta
Final Model Mixed Clay
Massing Model
Terracotta Clay and 1/16” Basswood
Model Clay and 1/8” Plywood
Ways of Living
Units interchangeably have courtyards and dining rooms, as these spaces are culturally vital for domestic consists of thermal mass on first-story units and glazing on second and third-story units. There is main site entrances and access to community buildings while the other two courtyards are semi-private
domestic life. The solar gain system is a public central courtyard with semi-private with unit frontages.
Dining | Glazing Along South
Corner Perspective
02 - EVERYDAY SPACE
Individual Work
Typology: Community Arts Center
Site: Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, PA
Instructors: Nickie Cheung & Marvin Toure
ARC 1201 | Spring 2024
Bloomfield has an older Italian-American community that is experiencing an influx of young professionals and graduate students of different demographics. The task is creating a space for this intergenerational community while also creating studio space for writers.
Research on the site and arts process shows the non-linear nature of both the community’s everyday life and the process of writing. The project seeks to exist within the routine of both user-groups by reflecting this sporadic energy and creating a variety of atmospheres that suit their respective needs.
VIEWS COMMUNITY
GATHERING
CIRCULATION
Final Model
Construction Paper & 1/16” basswood
Spatial Variety
The project provides space across the spectrum of public and private to accommodate the preference of writers at different stages of the process and diverse community members at different stages of their day.
Front Elevation
Longitudinal Section
Interior Perspective
Lateral Section
03 - INTERDISCIPLINARY SYSTEMS
Individual Work
Exhibited at HAARCH!!! 2025 - Pitt HAA’s Annual Showcase of Undergraduate Work
Typology: School of Architecture
Site: Oakland, Pittsburgh PA
Instructors: Utkarsh Ghildyal & Chelsea Jno Baptiste
ARC 1202 | Fall 2024
Architecture has the capacity to intersect with countless fields. For instance, it reveals socio-political narratives and conditions while involving artistic and scientific techniques. This school of architecture project attempts to forge interactions between architecture students at the University of Pittsburgh and students in the greater School of Arts and Sciences.
The building was designed through a system-based approach, beginning with the concept verb “rebel”. This involved research on historical rebellions and arranging components-lines and planes-to explore the process of rebellion through space and time. Finally, this concept was applied to the school of architecture, freeing public, interactive space from the structured and orderly, educational space.
KNOWLEDGE:
-Design & Conceptualization
-Building Science
-Patterns of Behavior
-Cognitive Theory
Pitt Student Major: Psychology Major: Architecture
Pitt Student
Final Model
basswood
Interior Collage
Tessellation Axonometric
04 - CITY LIGHT | STUDIO
Individual Work
Medium: Video Installations
Instructor: Sarah Moore
FMST 1884 | Fall 2024
Video Installation art transforms space and adds a dimension to the conventional film. The two projects shown were completed in an experimental film course where students view works, learn theory and techniques, and ultimately create their own work. The final piece, “City of Light”, especially deals with projection mapping 3d objects and using light to create form.
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