NYIT alumni and faculty developed an architecture proposal to design urban areas in Nuoro, Italy.

One week after earning their NYIT bachelor of architecture degrees in May 2011, three grads pursued an international design opportunity with a group of former professors and an NYIT student.

Nickolas Batis, David Flecha, and James Yankopoulos teamed up with Adjunct Professor Giovanni Santamaria to collaborate on a project that invited 10 teams of young architects to create a proposal for Nuoro, a city in Sardinia, Italy. The initiative, “Progetto Urbanu: 10 Design Projects for Nuoro,” challenged each team to propose a design for urban areas.

Team NYIT, the only team representing the United States, also included Beyhan Karahan, professor of architecture, who provided insights on sustainable building, and senior architecture student Peter Cecora.

“The competition was a great experience for us to work together with professors as a designer-designer team, instead of the typical student-teacher team,” says Flecha.

In their design, the NYIT team emphasized sustainability through a self-controlled environmental system. The team’s proposal uses an artificial fault in the center of the city to divide areas of commercial and residential buildings.

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