SARA CASTELLANO

Hello! I’m a designer focusing on architectural design and planning. My goal is to create human centric design, collaborating with the users throughout the design process.

I believe architecture should be for people to enhance their experience of the environment.

  • Currently based in Boston as an architectural designer with experience in the higher education, science and tech, and healthcare architecture fields.

  • Service Design focuses on the current experience of users, analyzing the qualitative and quantitative data to inform how it can be improved and synthesizing data to develop solutions.

  • With a basis in both architecture and service design, I aspire to help my community by asking questions and listening to provide tailored solutions. Current focuses center around community development in Oak Grove studying food waste. I am involving myself within communities to develop relationships and collaboration.

  • Past experiences in media such as collage, charcoal, and digital media. Currently experimenting with lithography and book making!

Click here for my portfolio

MY PROCESS…

Hand-drawn diagram of a green roof system with an extensive green roof, shallow soil profile, and habitat creation in water, highlighting gradient of ecology and an ambient 3D landscape.
A miniature model of a modern building or house with a person figure sitting on the steps, set in snowy terrain under a dark sky.
A black and white collage of various scenes of African American people engaging in daily life activities, set against the background of a large house with a porch, stairs, and multiple windows.
A parking lot with several parked cars, surrounded by brick buildings, with a tree on the left and some industrial equipment on the right. There's a modern, illuminated structure above one of the buildings.

Click here to peek into my sketchbook

  • What is the problem we are trying to solve? How does the system currently work? These are all initial questions I ask when starting out on a design journey. Sketching and Analytical Data have been my favorite tools to solving this question.

  • What is the ideal solution? Developing a list of goals to work towards in design. Collaging and visual media are my tools of choice to answer this question/.

  • How do we get from the current to the ideal? This is often the toughest question to answer, yet the most exciting. I use a combination of sketching, diagramming, and modelling to answer this question.

PORTFOLIO

PORTFOLIO

Architectural design & process

RESUME

currently…

  • Person holding a white origami paper sculpture resembling a geometric flower or star, sitting at a wooden table.
  • A black and yellow floral illustration with three flowers on a branch, signed 'CEB' with a decorative border.
  • A detailed architectural model of a multi-story building with a sloped roof, created from light-colored materials, placed on a white surface.
  • Miniature model of a three-story house with a gabled roof, made of white corrugated material, mounted on a wooden base with rocks around it.
  • A glacier floating in a body of water with mountains and low clouds in the background.
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  • A community space called Eqquise environmental floating park with people walking on a wooden pathway, trees, plants, modern buildings, and a boat in water, under a blue sky with some clouds.