JILLIAN INFURCHIA
Event Design
2010 Arch Vanguard Gala
The Arch Vanguard Gala was a black tie celebration for our first graduating architectural masters students. There were about one hundred guests including students and professors.
The design of the celebration took a month of planning and extended over three levels spatially. It included a modern menu, dancing, photography opportunities, and provided a stage for socializing and celebrating.
2010 Wentworth Masters of Architecture Celebration
Lead in design and coordination of New York Style art gallery showcase hosting over 500 attendees at Wentworth Institute of Technology. The attendees included local professionals, faculty, graduate students and undergraduates.
The celebration focused on the Graduate students, displaying each individual graduating student’s thesis poster. Ten thesis projects were chosen to be displayed in full.
The Celebration also included display tables filled with physical models of the undergraduate work, a display provided by the Istanbul Travel studio, as well as a photography exhibit.
Two-Fold: An Architectural Affair
A project assigned to our Master of Architecture Design Studio. The project would result in a full scale installation to host a fashion show. It was a short charette to introduce our studio to architectural problems and issues that occur in the real world with a limited budget.
Our studio chose a barren space on campus, and amazed our fellow classmates with the spatial transformation. Our material palette for the set included string, cardboard boxes, and fabric.
The design intent was to create a comfortable, human scale space on an otherwise open air site. The string became canopies to mimic roofs, the cardboard boxes transformed into projection screens for live feeds of the event, and the fabric was constructed into screens and partitions, which the models would directly interact with.
The name of the event, Two-Fold relates to the three dimensional form of the set. Different materials connect to each other at a “fold”. From the fold another material emerges. Together the materials resemble folded panels to define spatial boundaries for the audience and models.
Each designer had to create ten outfits for our models to wear down the runway.
Publications
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VIDEO DOCUMENTATION - filmed and edited by D Chord Productions.
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Wentworth News Publication – Page 1.
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Wentworth News Publication II – Page 1.
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Two-Fold Publication – A book designed by the studio documenting the event and design process is available for sale and preview through Lulu Publishing Company.
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ACSA Publication - Due to Copyright laws, our Poster may be downloaded at the ”Poster Proceedings” location, it is located on Page 8 in the publication provided by the ASCA. Also, on page 46 of the “Downloadable Abstract Book”.