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Russell Scheer grew up on the shore of New Jersey. He is currently a student at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. His passions have taken him to study at the Syracuse Architecture program in Florence and New York City. Russell’s interests lie in the study of controversial and informal architecture and has hobbies in photography and travel.

P.I.P. Concrete

Vegetation

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Filter Fabric

Drainage Pipe Corrugated Metal Roof Deck

Gravel

Water Retention Layer

Thermal Insulation

Double Glazing

Aluminum Curtain Wall Mullian

Maple Wood Hand Rail

Steel I-Beam

Glazed Hand Rail

Converging Flows

Located on a primary bird migratory path, this project acts as a rest stop for commuters traveling on interstate 5, as well as an observation space to view the various bird species and their tendencies. The design takes into account the local watershed by recycling its own water. It also uses its slanted glass walls and crossing mullians and ramps to prevent birds from hitting its large spans of glass.

[eco]Center

Serving as a transit center for the people of Broad Channel and New York City, the [eco]Center is also a viewing space that highlights the ecology of Jamaica Bay. The building’s form allows for the collection of the landscape’s natural temporalities and the interactions between organisms and their environment. The building’s exterior facade is intended to create a focal point towards the environment created within the central void. The center holds information on the bay’s ecological tendencies, such as the changing tides and the relationships between plants and organisms of this wetland zone.

Tennis FacilityConcrete Shell Structure

Calculated using RhinoVault Plug-in for Rhinocerous3D, the concrete shell structure was designed to span the entire tennis facility with 50% fenestration.

601 University Avenue

In dialogue with Rem Koolhaas’ essay, “Whatever Happened to Urbanism?” This project proposes a formal design that is intended to revitalize the urbanity of the Syracuse University campus as well as to give the city of Syracuse a hub to connect with the students of the University. By creating an environment in which students using the mixed use facility and pedestrians using the sidewalk can interract, will allow for a merge of activities, pedestrian traffic, and the various patrons of the university facility.

Architecture for the PupilAs an extension of the Syracuse University Law School, this project creates a learning environment within the once sacred garden space of the Villa Rossa, located in Florence, Italy. By reinventing the courtyard space into an outdoor courtroom, this programmatic device will create dramatic judicial scenes, new to the eyes of the S.U. students as well as the people of Florence.

Taking precedence from Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio, his conceptual ideas that portrayed “architecture for the people” is taken to a different level of understanding. By opening the Villa Rossa courtyard to the street and creating central pulpit spaces, an immediate relationship can be made between peers... teacher to student... judge to jury... lawyer to citizens.

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Russell Scheer | 4 Donna Court | Asbury Park, NJ | 908 433 5631 | www.russellscheer.com