Black
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Black Domestic Home: Deconstructing
Suburbia uses the bathroom as a microcosm within the suburban home, Sydney used the drawings of Alexander Kira as a vantage point, seeing promise in imagining new bodily configurations in a historically unchallenged space. 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.
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Cartographies
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In a crude way, Sydney wanted to braid the land, using the bodies sunken well beneath the collective memory of New Haven to rise to the surface. This was born out of two ideas: an article she read 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. The last person sold there was purchased for $10 and immediately emancipated. The braids are audacious like the women who make them, but they’re functional- using a kind of catenary system by casing them in concrete hung upside down, and flipping them. These nomadic sites, deployed adjacent to the domestic realm next to the porch or in the backyard, can independently generate senses of domesticity and in the urban realm and pay homage to the history in a public realm, like the Green. This object can be a generative thing where we can organically maintain our community, abstracted from languages and forms we understand. This proposes two iterations occur in New Haven: public park and a memorial.
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Data
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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?
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WUYÁMUSH
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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. This project allows suffering to speak. 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.
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Forgotten
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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.
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Ideal
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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 |
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Goombay
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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.
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Parting
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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.
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Equitable
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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 |
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The
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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.
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Brickell
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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 |
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High
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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.
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Transformations in
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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 |
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Wolfson
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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 |
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Asilo
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“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 |
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Key
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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.
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Karnikara
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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.
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Figure
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Figure drawing, drawn from life, done 2018.
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