SYDNEY ROSE MAUBERT
  • ARCHITECTURE
    • 2023 HYMNS
    • 2022 INTIMACIES
    • 2022 BRAIDS
    • 2021 TAPESTRY
    • 2021 MECCA
    • 2020 ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
    • 2020 WUYÁMUSH
    • 2020 ROBOTICS
    • 2019 ROME
    • 2018 COMPREHENSIVE
    • 2018 INSTALLATIONS
    • 2018 RENDERS
    • 2015 DRAWINGS
  • PAINTINGS
  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • EMAIL
  • REQUEST FORM
  • ARCHITECTURE
    • 2023 HYMNS
    • 2022 INTIMACIES
    • 2022 BRAIDS
    • 2021 TAPESTRY
    • 2021 MECCA
    • 2020 ALMIGHTY DOLLAR
    • 2020 WUYÁMUSH
    • 2020 ROBOTICS
    • 2019 ROME
    • 2018 COMPREHENSIVE
    • 2018 INSTALLATIONS
    • 2018 RENDERS
    • 2015 DRAWINGS
  • PAINTINGS
  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • EMAIL
  • REQUEST FORM
SYDNEY ROSE MAUBERT

hymns 
from 
a 
burning
house:
haitian 
​dispossession

Cornell AAP
Photography: Anson Wigner
​Sydney Maubert
2023
This work is an acknowledgement of Haitian heritage and homemaking. It was inspired by a sociology paper read on Miami's Little Haiti community and their difficulty integrating with society. It aims to draw attention to the casualness with which we circulate Haitian suffering in media, as well as the ways Haitian women's wonderful experiments with daily life are often overlooked. It uses collage, American wallpaper, personal archive, painting and mixed media to explore themes of homemaking, heritage and religion.

Funding is provided by the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Installation, Exhibition
See here for exhibition details, and see here to find a full statement on the work. 

intimacies
of
the
walls:
Homeplace 
and 
refusals

Cornell AAP
Photography: Anson Wigner

2022
This event is showcasing the works of Sydney Rose Maubert, related to her seminar course Intimacies of the Walls. The works represent how Miami's racial sensorium shaped its cityscape, materialized in its segregation walls, veiling the characteristic shotgun housing and Liberty Square. It seeks to examine the way that race altered the cityscape, and the ways that racial conceptions informed its informal architecture and economies. It views Miami through a black femme lens.

Installation, Exhibition

See the exhibition details here.

HAITIAN CUBAN DWAPO

Advanced Studio
​Faculty: Tatiana Bilbao
2021
This project centers her observations as a child in a Haitian- Cuban household, its rituals and practices, as guiding principles to create new datums of privacy. 

Tapestry, Painting, Mixed Media
Watch the Youtube video to see the full explanation of the project and to watch her make a 4' x 7' tapestry. ​

Cartographies
of
​Braiding

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Abeer Seikaly
2022
This design was born out of two ideas: an article about bodies being unearthed and uprooted by fallen trees regularly from the New Haven Green and about that same Green being the end point of slavery in New Haven. It explores themes of value, femininity and memory in braiding by giving women the authority to see and beautify themselves in familiar spaces. Braiding is an act women can simulate on their own or in community, and the idea is that their ancestors are burrowed underground, shoring up into a kind of vaulted, braided architecture. The structures are close enough to the body to feel intimate, yet expand a breadth far enough to gesture towards the public realm and communal nature of hair braiding among community. In a crude way, I wanted to braid the land, using the bodies sunken well beneath the collective memory of New Haven to rise to the surface. 

Architecture

Data
Collection,
Blackness
and the
Almighty
Dollar

Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Mark Foster Gage
2020
These hierarchical stances assumed through language, words like “global”, “advancement”, “development”, “civilized”, “tribe”, “urban”, reinforce a racially biased hierarchy without effectively communicating the location, status, ethnicity, region or socioeconomics conditions of the desired group of people. In the avoidance of titles, politics or religious affiliations, we fall under the mass societal faith of the City- State: the Almighty Dollar. We pray and give offerings to false idols of the monopolistic pantheon: Google, the NSA, Social Media Organizations, Fast Food chains, Children's media. The goal is to call attention to the parallels one can draw between Home, State and Church, between Afrocentric and Eurocentric worlds and forms of Globalization- parasite or advancement?

Architecture


WUYÁMUSH
MEMORIAL
AND
​FOOD
SOVEREIGNTY
​LAB

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Andrew Benner
2020
The Wuyamush center, meaning “be happy and well” in Mohegan- Pequot, the center can anchor the cultural identity to fisher’s island, attract new users, as well as an additional stream of income to the island. The climate of Fishers Island is neighborly but exclusive, most amenities within walking distance. predominantly older married couples, with  too few children in the school. Little age, racial or economic diversity on the island, combined with the collective amnesia of its original history and culture presents the appropriate climate for a memorial cultural  center.  This project is the proposal and research for a Pequot memorial center and food sovereignty lab. Residents of the island as well as new visitors, indigenous and non indigenous are granted the opportunity to contribute to an intellectual, moral and spiritual task. 

Architecture

Forgotten
Black
​Mecca

Architecture Elective,
Faculty: Justin G. Moore
2021
Miami's history of low income housing reveals two interesting conditions: the architectural memory of its racial segregation and its fragmented black and indigenous identities. The conditions in which these populations currently live in were designated in the 1930s, post WWII, through FDR's New Deal and redlining practices evidenced by congestion in Black communities like Overtown, Liberty City and Coconut Grove. Throughout this research, the term "Black Mecca" emerged many times in reference to either Overtown or Liberty City, which prompted further research into Black American Meccas. This project is the proposal for Miami's Black Meccas, a cultural center that is the intersection of Miami's diverse communities. The program includes space an Islamic seminary and Christian seminary, an African market place, kiosks and community farming. 

Architecture

Ideal
Hexagonal
Voronoi
Regions
&
Parametric
Design
in
Honeycombs

Study,
Faculty: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Andrew Benner
2020
The following exercise was done through Yale's School of Architecture, to allow students to study the mathematical beauty and perfection of honeycombs. The respective renderings and diagrams all demonstrate the beautiful proportions which dictate honey combs as individual cells and a collective bee hive. Many of these same proportions emerge throughout architecture, particularly that of the sacred. The pleasure that the honeycomb and its respective bee evokes is nothing short of the Kantian sublime, a mathematical beauty that calls upon our smallness.

Study, Math

Goombay
​Plaza 

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: David Trautman
2018

​PICKNEY
​HOUSE

Study,
Faculty: David Trautman
2018
Goombay Plaza was a project from a third year comprehensive studio, which is meant to function as high end housing/office spaces for the people of Coconut Grove, bridged by commercial shops. 

Architecture
Pickney House was located in Coconut Grove in Miami, FL, and marketed for a Bahamian neighborhood, as a part of Goombay Plaza. It was inspired by the little houses that reside on the mountainside in Haiti, hence the namesake. The objective of this project was to design work that is detachable and easily transportable. The kiosk is also flexible enough in design to be a vendor for any variety of products. In the rendering shown immediately above, second column, second row shows it as a bakery.

Architecture​
Download the PDF attached to read the full project. ​

Parting
of the
Seas:
Parametric
Acoustic
​Panel

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz
2020
This studio was concentrated on study acoustics with space and design, conceptualizing through model making. The first few weeks were spent studying the basic principles of acoustics and then applying that knowledge to basic geometries we might often see or use in design, by making plastic foam and acoustic foam modular designs. We produced several absorption and diffusion sound panels, which would eventually be applying to our real life studio space, an open plan loud studio. The Murphy Building in the University of Miami is a hermetic studio space, with a large program, including guest jurors in pin- ups,  students in desk crits. 

Architecture, Fabrication

Equitable
Design:
Acoustic
Helmet
for
Children
with
​Autism

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Joel Lamere, Max Jarosz
2020
This helmet is meant to be worn by sound sensitive users, specifically autistic children. This studio was dedicated to studying parametric and acoustic design. The studio cultivated different methods of design, sketching different geometries and ultimately fabricating an unusual and fun helmet. The helmet's interior and exterior surfaces function to do the work of sound containment and expulsion. Like many children who enjoy playing dress up, this is a tool for escapism, protection from sound and a container for child- like innocence, fun and curiosity. The models are hand cut with a wire cutter and milled with a CNC table. 

Video: Fabrication Lab, University of Miami School of Architecture, Maxwell Jarosz. 


Fabrication

The
Set
Housing
​Development:
 
Competition
Entry

Competition,
Lead: Germane Barnes
2018
The images and video shown are samples of renderings done for a commission to represent a project designed by local, Miami based architect Germane Barnes, in which he entered in a competition. See the fully realized project on Germane Barnes' website.

Competition

Brickell
​Stage

Installation,
Design Team: Cristina Canton, Jaime Correa, Adib Cure, Steve Fett, Carie Penabad, Elie Mehreb, Bernardo Rievling and Qiazi Chen. ​
2018
The Brickell Stage is a group installation done by the faculty and students at the University of Miami School of Architecture. The installation was erected during Art Basel and is the winner of the Public Space Challenge, The Miami Foundation's ideas contest that invests in creating and activating parks and public spaces, along with the Miami- Dade County Transportation & Public Works and Friends of the Underline. This piece was also featured in Dezeen.

The stage was designed for interactive performances as shown in the images.

Production Team: Tiffany Banks, Andrew Dai, Emily Elkin, Max Erickson, Marisa Gudiel, Elsa Hiraldo, AJ Guillen, Andrea Hernandez-Torres, David Holmes, Laura Martinez, Israel Martinez, Sydney Maubert, Christel Orbe, Mario Ostalaza, Cynthia Pacheco, Dorianne Paris, Cristian Ruiz-Lucio, Jack Shao, Stephanie Tarud, Yuanxun Xia

Installation

High
Rise
Typology
Exhibition

Exhibition,
​Faculty: Eric Firley, Germane Barnes, Chris Chung, University of Miami School of Architecture.
​
2017
​Sydney Maubert produced models of the Alfred I. DuPont Building and Arquitectonica's Atlantis shown for the High Rise Typology Exhibition, Miami Center for Architecture and Design, Art Basel, 2017.

​
Exhibition

Transformations in
classical
​architecture

Publication,
​Editor: Victor Deupi, University of Miami School of Architecture.
​2016- 
2018
Sydney compiled the manuscript for Victor Deupi, "Transformations in Classical Architecture", published 2018. She worked as his editorial research assistant for two years. 

Editor: Victor Deupi
Preface: Rodolphe el-Khoury
Introduction: Victor Deupi
Essays: Jean-François Lejeune, Rocco Ceo, Victor Deupi & Eric Firley, Nathaniel Walker, Juan Yactayo,
Andres Duany, Javier Cenicacelaya, Richard John
Postscript: Victor Deupi

Photography: ORO Publishers

Wolfson
Residential
​Towers

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Roberto Behar
2017
Wolfson Residential Towers is a student housing project for the students of Miami- Dade College Wolfson Campus. The site is located on 200 NE 2nd Street, Downtown Miami, FL. The site is directly adjacent to two major factors: the metro rail and the Wolfson campus. The fronts of the site were left to our discretion, keeping in mind that the Metrorail would serve as the back.

The schematic of the plan is two towers, resting on a slab. The precedents include Lucio Costa's Parque Guinle in Brazil and Casa Rustici di Milano by Terragni. The program, in ascending order, is commercial on the ground, social on the slab, student housing in the towers, and faculty on the top. 

The ground floor is double height, composed of restaurants, mailing rooms, convenience stores, bike storage room, lobby and lounging area. Above that is an ovular massing, that functions as a social program. It has two primary functions: exercise and study. The social program is three floors tall. The first floor has three basketball courts at the core and is flanked by a bowling alley on one edge and a stage on the other. The second floor is a mezzanine, dining area, overlooking the courts. The third floor is a wellness center and study lounge, with additional amenities such as laundry, personal fitness rooms. Ascending from that, there are student dorms, topped with faculty housing. 


​Architecture

Asilo
Nido,
Biblioteca
and La
Casa di
Riposo

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Sonia Chao
2019

ROME 
PROGRAM:
DRAWINGS

Rome Program,
Faculty: Sonia Chao
2019
“Asilo Nido” building is a proposed 2-storey Montessori school, located in a residential block in Venice. Adjacent to it is a three story biblioteca that shares a courtyard with a retirement home, or Casa di Riposo. The main challenge to start designing  was dealing with sea level rise, being sensitive to the scale of the user, existing context and speaking in a vernacular respectful of the existing historic style.

In the process of project design, a balance was made between the environment’s demands, ideas of mass versus pixel led to this concept where material communicates function. The project attempts to bridge the older community with the new through the use of materiality and principles of beauty, symmetry and asymmetry in a modern context.

​
Architecture​
The slides of drawings and paintings are from the Rome Travel Program. I used HB pencils, watercolor or acrylic paintings during my time there. 

​Drawing, Water Color, Acrylic 

Key
West
Preschool
Garden
​Pavillion

Advanced Studio,
Faculty: Oscar Machado
2015
​The drawings shown above is a precedent of the French Pavillion at Le Petit Trianon and Sydney's design of a loggia in Key West, adjacent to a preschool. Sydney's design is the bottom 24x 36' sheet, pencil on mylar and the three 11x17 sheets above are the studies. HB Pencil on 11x 17" mylar.

​Drawing

Karnikara
Leaf
​Study

Architecture Drawing,
Faculty: Carie Penabad
2016
The images shown are from a leaf study from the Karnikara tree, as part of a mass documentation project of Florida's flora and fauna, with the University of Miami's School of Architecture. The first image top left was the final drawing, a stipple exercise, while the other three pencil images were sketches. 

​
Drawing

Figure
drawing

Drawing,
Faculty: Gerardo Olhovich
2018
Figure drawing, drawn from life, done 2018. 

​
Drawing​
Picture
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