Selected Works Aden Sterchi
2025
Aden Sterchi
Contact Info 423-710-0954 adensterchi@gmail.com
Instagram : Sterchi_Spaces LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/adensterchi
Education Bachelor of Architecture Kennesaw State University ‘26 5-Year NAAB Accredited Program
High School Diploma The McCallie School ‘20
Awards and Achievements Urban Design Studio Competition 2025 1st Place Winner Integrated Studio Competition 2024 “1531 Peachtree Offices” Selected to Compete Hope Scholarship 2020-Present
Skills Rhino AutoCad Revit
IES VE Photoshop Indesign
Illustrator Twinmotion Enscape
Covetool 3D Printing Lasercutting
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Brookhaven Crossings 4th Year Spring 2025 - Urban Design Studio
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1531 Peachtree Offices 4th Year Fall 2024 - Integrated Studio
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Unhuman Gallery 2nd Year Spring 2023
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Icon 3rd Year Fall 2023
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Brookhaven Crossings In Partnership with Lonniel Gibson
A Transit-Oriented Development Brookhaven Crossings promotes walkability, public transportation, regional rail, and other alternative means of transportation to create a model of what a TOD should look like in the Southeast. It sees a redevelopment of 50 acres surrounding the current Brookhaven/Oglethorpe MARTA station focusing on transit, commercial/retail space, creating a village feel with local retail, improved connectivity between east and west Brookhaven, open green spaces, and a redesign of Peachtree Road with pedestrians in mind.
Urban Design Studio Spring 2025
Location
Brookhaven, GA
Winner of the 2025 Urban Design Studio Competition
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As a consequence of Atlanta’s extreme urban sprawl, the site came fractured and segregated- especially for the pedestrian user. The car centric infrastructure left the 75’ wide state highway difficult to cross and the train tracks only allowed for passage via the MARTA tunnel and Druid Rd/ Dresden Dr. By lifting the train tracks up to MARTA tracks level, this allowed for full access for the pedestrian. In an addition, a pedestrian bridge and x-crosswalk were added to Peachtree Rd to help support safe pedestrian travel, while also keeping the essential highway traffic flow on a crucial and busy highway road.
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A pedestrian bridge and X-cross walk are added to make Peachtree Rd more pedestrian friendly, and the raised tracks allow for full ground level interaction
Brookhaven Village Townhouses
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Townhouse Park
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Capital City Apartments
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Brookhaven Crossings Transit Hub
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Brookhaven Library and Community Center
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Uninterrupted Public Access By lifting up the railroad tracks and placing the MARTA bus station underground, the ground-plane for pedestrians becomes uninterrupted. The existing Norfolk Southern Rail Way Line serves both freight and Amtrak trains, so leaving enough room for double height shipping containers is essential to the train platform.
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Super Structure Solution Transit Hub precedents in the United States are next to impossible to find. This European concept is translated to American Soil, and promotes a public transit lifestyle. Brookhaven Crossings combines the dying concept of malls and reintegrates it into a usable urban setting, facilitating connections rather than being an end destination.
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Pedestrian Safety The nearly 75’ wide Peachtree Road (GA141) is a huge obstacle for site connectivity. In order to ensure pedestrian safety, an x-crosswalk and pedestrian bridge were added. Peachtree Road also adopts a bike lane, skinnier lanes, and a vegetated median to help encourage slower driving.
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1531 Peachtree Offices Office, Plaza, and Market Even with a quick glance of this section of Peachtree St, it is immediately apparent that the surrounding buildings are made up of inaccessible office complexes. The 1531 Peachtree Offices are lifted from the street, allowing for public access to the site. The ground floor minimizes office activities, and makes the most amount of room for the market and plaza.
Integrated Studio Fall 2024
Location
Midtown, Atlanta
Selected for Integrated Studio Competition
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The City vs the Office Space The office mass is lifted from the cityscape, allowing for the people of the city to have uninterrupted access to the site. This separate office realm also takes some of the site upwards with it, which in turn becomes the roof for the market. The market roof allows the inhabitants of the office to experience the ‘rolling green hills’ world they took up with them- which happens to draw similarity to a certain famous computer wallpaper.
Office faces Beverly and Peachtree
Office (and some land) is lifted from the cityscape
Two sides are offset and circulation is added
Second Floor
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1 - Rigid Insulation 2 - PVC Roofing Substrate Board 3 - Counter Flashing 4 - Roof Specialties Coping, .063” Aluminum 5 - Glazed Aluminum Curtain Wall Movement Joint 6 - Spandrel Panel 7 - Glass
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8 - Steel Decking 9 - Curtain Wall to Slab Connection 10 - Steel Subframe for Cladding System 11 - Metal Panel Cladding System
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1% Slope for Drainage
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12 - Plaza Concrete Tiles 13 - Pedestals 14 - Steel Column
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15 - Concrete Slab on Grade 16 - Concrete Fill 17 - Isolation Joint 18 - Gravel
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In order to achieve the two massive cantilevers, two truss systems reinforced by the concrete cores were designed. The two trusses have a 5 foot difference in height, which creates split levels for the office floor. Both of the offset trusses then connect to each other at the corner of Peachtree and Beverly, creating a special moment as one moves through the two mega-structures.
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IES Virtual Environment Optimization After thorough testing through IES VE’s various programs, the facade and sunshade design optimize shading where it is most needed- maximizing natural daylighting and minimizing direct sunlight exposure. The combination of vertical louvers and tinted glass regulate glare and temperature, especially on the western facade. This allows for a clear floor to ceiling view of Peachtree Street, while maintaining reasonable daylighting percentages and heat levels.
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Physical Model The 1/4” scale physical model reveals the structure of the north side of the office. The model progresses left to right, showcasing the truss and its dramatic cantilever. The core can be seen supporting the truss system. Floor joists also cantilever off of the truss in an opposite direction allowing for a larger floor plate. The underground parking deck can also be seen supporting the plaza floor.
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unhuman_gallery >an_ai_art_gallery >bios//inspect//:: what does a building designed by artificial intelligence look like%?... With something like art so uniquely hum@nn, how can AI possibly caputur3 its essence)?? does AI truly understand human functionn? What is humanless desi1gn>? What is de$ign without s0ul?
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>hallucinations_ >// This project was realized during the infancy of AI image generation. After attempting to use AI as a design tool, I started to notice the extreme inaccuracies of the generator. Since the creation of this project, the phenomen0n of mistakes or false information being conveyed by artificial intelligence has now been coined the term “Hallucinations”. Instead of using AI generation as the design vehicle, this project uses its misunderstanding of the >hum@n condition to form space.
<<Naive humanist idealism>> //showattribute : unhomely
//disorientation.>> <post-functionalism
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>undefined >bios//user : C/ folder` >set view description the hallucinations of AI drives the design. The space is designed for humans by a being with no human experience. Not only that, but its contents (art) are a uniquely human experience, created by a uniquely unhuman mind.
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Icon Site Matters Icon is an exercise of site connections through creation of an armature and site from analyzation of the text “Site Matters” by Carrol J. Burns. Armature creation forces the user to form connections and extract meanings from a site, even when the site itself does not exist.
Studio V Fall 2023
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Creating a Site After developing an image based on an artifact, it was translated to a plaster sheet in fragmented sections. The plaster sheet was then smashed, effectively creating this unknown site that must be rearranged. The armature holds the shards of the site together, tying concepts together spatially.
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A New Medium The drawings seen are from the physical model that was then 3D modeled. From there, the color was done by physical water color painted onto the drawings, that were then rescanned to create this visual.
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Physical Model The armature ties the elements of the site together. Vertical, diagonal, and horizontal elements spatially relate to different locations of the site.
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