Sonali Mistry Portfolio

SONALI MISTRY PORTFOLIO

SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE 2020-2025

1 Public Urban Spaces

1.1 Play Town

Page 6-13

1.2 Haunted Highate

Page 14-21

1.3 Urban Spatial Analysis

Page 22-23

1.4 Rome Art Museum

Page 24-25

1.5 Site Survey Skecthes

Page 26-27

2 Awareness Through Representation

2.1 Southall Housing

Page 30-31

2.2 Rangoli Installation

Page 32-33

3 Immersive Landscapes

3.1 Mohawk Education Center

Page 36-37

3.2 Permaculture Village

Page 38-41

3.3 X-Crew

Page 42-45

4 Analogous Art

4.1 2D and 3D Art

Page 48-49

somistry@syr.edu

973-307-7202

EDUCATION

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

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 skills and water safety and helped schedule and manage classes.

Mistry Design LLC / Summer Intern

JUNE 2018 - AUGUST 2018, NETCONG, NEW JERSEY

Developed a design booklet, selected finishes, and made architectural drawings for an apartment complex.

SKILLS AWARDS

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

Rangoli Installation at Syracuse University Campus 2022, 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

EXTRACURRICULARSICULARS

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 / Community Outreach Chair

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Planned community events aim to unite the campus and community; raised $1300 through Henna Nights, worked on various community projects, and designed and constructed a rangoli installation on campus.

Architecture Ambassadors / Peer Advisor

AUGUST 2020 - MAY 2022, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Recruited and welcomed students into the Syracuse Architecture program.

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 structure with playful and organic spaces encased within. Each space is formed by fabric and metal piping to allow for its form and 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.

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 ROME ART MUSEUM

ARC 307•2022•Richard Rosa

Located in the center of Rome, where the front of the site faces the Piazza Farnese and back faces River Tiber, this project aims to fit these two faces of the site while also conceptualizing the idea of layering extracted from the Villa Giulia. The building features two ideas of layering: through the thick thresholds separating the different spaces and the layering of spaces in section as the building progressively gets shorter as it gets closer to nature where the last space features a garden.

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 housing condition 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. This axon displays my study of Southall housing and what occurs on the inside, where the South Asian identity is represented in the front and the more deprived population is represented in the back- the outhouse.

2.2 RANGOLI INSTALLATION

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

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.

3.2 PERMACULTURE VILLAGE

ARC 208•2022•Marcos

Parga

Sequence Through Design

This village aims to be closed off to the outside world as it is fully immersed in the terrains to force the idea of community and community living. The idea of living in the dark, cold undergrounds is unsettling, parallel to the unsettling idea of shared living, and parallel to the unsettling form of the village in plan. As the users go deep into the terrain, they will discover the more private living spaces. They will also find lightwells that are shared between rooms to force interaction and to reconnect with nature. The single and family units are adjustable for growing families as they can expand into the lightwells. This village provides an escape from the outside world, tucked deep into the landscape.

Family Unit Configuration

Single Unit Configuration

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

Reconfigurability of Cabin in Physical Model

Axon Diagrams of the Temporal Spaces: Dining Hall, Cabin, and Bathroom

ANALOGOUS ART

Series of self-guided work exploring themes of architecture and identity through architecture.

4.1 2D & 3D ART

2020•Diane Phares

Experimentation of different mediums in a series of works.

Oil Paint of a Hindu Temple, collaged, and printed on fabric. Worn as a sari or dupatta.