Sonali Portfolio by Sonali Mistry

SONALI MISTRY PORTFOLIO

SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE

1 Public Urban Spaces

2 Awareness Through Representation 2.1 Southall Housing Page 34-35

3 Immersive

Syracuse University / Expected BArch and Minor in Business

AUGUST 2020 - (EXPECTED) MAY 2025, SYRACUSE, NY

Syracuse University Florence, Italy Studio

JANUARY 2023 - MAY 2023, FLORENCE, ITALY

Syracuse University London Studio

AUGUST 2023 - DECEMBER 2023, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

EXPERIENCE

INC Architecture & Design / Half Year Intern

MAY 2024 - DECEMBER 2024, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Helped on luxury residential apartment layouts, made graphics for a case study project, and worked on construction drawings.

Hill West Architecture / Summer Intern

MAY 2023 - AUGUST 2022, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Helped with the zoning department. Made zoning documents, presentations, and looked at zoning codes in NYC.

Slade Architecture/ Summer Intern

JUNE 2022 - AUGUST 2022, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Picked out interior finishes and made tile layouts , organized finish sample binder, and worked on architectural drawings.

Bonnetti Kozerski / Summer Intern

MAY 2021 - AUGUST 2021, NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Made construction documents and architectural drawings, produced renderings, and picked out interior finishes and furniture.

British Swim School / Deck Ambassador and Swim Instructor

JUNE 2019 - MARCH 2020, NORTH NEW JERSEY

Taught children basic to complex swimming and water safety skills. Helped schedule and manage classes.

SKILLS AWARDS

CURRICULARSS

Rhino, V-Ray, Revit, Twinmotion, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Aero, AutoCAD, ARCGIS, digital photography, drawing, painting, social media marketing, 3D printing, and fundraising.

Overall Design Prize Syracuse Architecture Integrated Studio Runner-Up 2024, Rangoli Installation at Syracuse University Campus 2022 & 2024, Dean’s List Recipient 2020-2023 (each semester), Success Scholar Merit Scholarship 2021, Top Ten First Year Architecture Portfolio Award 2021, Scholastic Arts Honorable Mention 2020

Delta Phi Omega Sorority Inc. (DPO)/ Founding Mother

AUGUST 2022 - PRESENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Founded the first South Asian Interest Sorority on campus; philanthropy is children’s education and literacy.

National Organization of Minority Architecture Students / President and Community Outreach Chair

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Hosted fundraisers, lectures, community-oriented events, and workshops to foster an inclusive environment and represent marginalized communities in the school. Planned community events aimed to unite the campus and community.

Architecture Ambassadors / Peer Advisor

AUGUST 2020 - MAY 2022, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Recruited and welcomed students into the Syracuse School of Architecture.use Architecture program.

1 PUBLIC URBAN SPACES

Exploration of Spaces in various cities, studying and analyzing the spatial conditions of an urban landscape and translating it into built form.

1.1 PLAY TOWN

ARC 409•2024•Rocio Crosetto Brizzio

(In Progress) This project aims to temporarily house new and/or single in-need parents intending to start a life of their own. With over 65% of households in Syracuse being single parents, this design creates a community within- a sort of inner city- where parents are able to get the care and help they need with their children to eventually be well off to move out. The mass-timber project is defined by two major spaces differentiated in form and program. The more regular, orthogonal, and rational living space contrasts the more organic, provocative, circular tower where the “play” occurs. The living spaces feature slide-in units intended to be manipulated to accommodate growing/shrinking families and the units are all connected by a shared terrace on the inside and a shared balcony on the outside. Connected by bridging is the tall timber cylindrical tower with playful and organic spaces encased within. Each space is formed by fabric and metal piping to allow for its form where the inside programs include a lecture hall, a ball pit, and a rock climbing space. Collaborators: Christain Barnett

Chunk Axon showing two different facade systems.

Third Floor Plan with different unit configurations.

Physical Chunck Model

1.2 HAUNTED HIGHGATE

ARC 408•2023•Amber Bartosh & Vanessa Lastrucci

Highgate, the site of the project, is known to be haunted with the nearby cemetery and many historical incidents which all feed into ghost stories that are told in this area. The project functions as a public sculpture park during the day but at night becomes a haunted museum. The project features a series of pavilions, each based on a local haunted story, surrounded by unnerving reflective poles, preserving, and extending the existing abandoned canopy. The design aims to create feelings of discomfort, disorientation, surveillance, and claustrophobia. Collaborators: Sofia Izer & Annika Amor

Walkthrough Video Link: https://youtu.be/ f6Vm2lXq6-8?si=uVk8GIDbCIRm8pIK

Chunk Model of Vampire Room

Site Study Sketch

1.3 ROME SPATIAL ANAYSIS

ARC 307•2022•Richard Rosa

Analysis Sketches of Piazza/void spaces in Rome to better understand the larger spatial conditinon of the city.

1.4 SITE SURVEY SKETCHES

ARC 561 & 571•2023

Analysis and perspective sketches completed on site during travels to different European cities.

2 AWARENESS THROUGH

REPRESENTATION

Projects aimed to represent my South Asian identity to a greater community. Using different mediums to define spatial condition as a means of creating awareness of the South Asian identity.

2.1 SOUTHALL HOUSING

ARC 500•2023•Alessandro Toti

Axon Diagram showcasing the dialect between the inside and the outside of the house in Southall, London. Southall has a large, deprived South Asian population, and as a result there has been an uptick of immigrants living in outhouses. The photos taken represents my intial study of Southall that was then translated into the axon, where the South Asian identity is represented in the front of the house and the more deprived population is represented in the back the outhouse.

Rangoli Installation for Diwali at Syracuse University. With Max Horkenbach

3 IMMERSIVE LANDSCAPE

Projects fully integrated into its site and landscape to create an immersive experience. Contrasting but still blurring the division between the landscape and the built form.

3.1 MOHAWK EDUCATION CENTER

ARC 208•2022•Marcos

Parga

The site, Mohawk River, is known for its dangerous environmental conditions; ice jams, flooding, and poisonous algae, and this education center aims to educate users about these dangers by putting them in these conditions. The design is a narrow platform with programs suspended underneath that are submerged underwater during the harsh winter season. The linear platform breaks in the middle, where there is an inground amphitheater, forcing the user to find their path in the landscape. Education starts with curiosity and this design will require those who are willing to venture through the woods and the dangers of the site to find the prime education center.

3.3 X-CREW

ARC 307•2023•Olivia Gori

The project is centered around the theme of water exploration through the sport of rowing. The axial form of the camp allows for the rowing programs to be spread along a permanent boardwalk while the temporary housing and living programs are organically nested in the forest. The boardwalk has three rings that represent different rowing levels; the biggest ring and furthest in the water being the advanced ring. The boardwalk represents the camper’s rowing journey where they move up this path as they become more advanced. With Isabella Klug, Annabelle Sablan, & Katherine Edwards