Marija Draskic Brancazio

One Sphere is a round room designed as a geodesic sphere, representing one planet, one circle of life, one Earth, one whole, unified community and unity of love. This project was done in collaboration and with support of SIENA CONSTRUCTION.

(2018-2022, project in construction)

Nature Center is a pavilion building within a larger context of Bonnet Springs Park in Florida. It is an education center made of natural materials, situated on the edge of a lagoon - one of the central elements of the park.

This building was designed as a team effort at Sasaki Associates, as a part of a larger project - Bonnet Springs Park. To learn more visit sasaki.com

(2019 - 2021) Lobby Redesign

This was a front entrance and lobby redesign in a historic building near Arsenal Park in Watertown MA. It was a part of the desire to help local community and arts and culture center that needed design services.

This lobby was designed as a team effort at Sasaki Associates. To learn more visit sasaki.com

(2019)

Shading structures are pavilion buildings within a larger context of Bonnet Springs Park in Florida.

This study was done at Sasaki Associates, as a part of a larger project - Bonnet Springs Park. To learn more visit sasaki.com

(2018 - Present)

Event Center is a building within a larger context of Bonnet Springs Park in Florida.

This building was designed as a team effort at Sasaki Associates, as a part of a larger project - Bonnet Springs Park. To learn more visit sasaki.com

(2019)

Fence design for a Children’s Museum in Bonnet Springs Park in Florida. Bonnet Springs Park is a project by Sasaki Associates. To learn more visit sasaki.com

Exhibition Design (2019)

“Please Touch the Art” is a tactile art exhibit and companion humanities exhibit accompanied by a curator’s talk and panel discussion at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. The exhibit provides a multi-sensory art experience that is accessible to all audiences taking special care to provide an immersive, tactile experience for visually impaired community members.

Design Study 2018

This experiment is an exploration of a threshold that separates the two spaces (sacred and profane), and indicates the distance between different modes of being. In the worlds of Mircea Eliade, “The threshold is the limit, the boundary, the frontier that distinguishes and opposes the worlds”, but at the same time it is a “point of contact, where the passage from the profane world to the sacred becomes possible".

Student project 2017

Rehabilitation Center for Young Delinquents

Breaking the Boundaries is a rehabilitations center located in Grand Center area of St. Louis. The focal group for which the project is made is problematic youth, in need of rehabilitation, and whose behavior demands spaces of specific character. Their constant disconnect from everything that surrounds them lead to thinking that reestablishing these connections is a necessary part of their rehabilitation.

Art Installation 2017

Spatial Installation exhibited in Contemporary Art Museum in St.Louis, created from the donated carbon fiber material recycled plastic materials. The main goal of the project was to develop a wall design, where all the materials would be recycled and reused. The design became a reference to a green wall, which led to designing plant-like shapes to be cut out of the plastic. Saving material was essential, and developing mathematical tessellation that would maximize the surface material became dominant principle of the design.

Build Project 2017

Located at the Lambert Airport in St.Louis, Spectroplexus is a 90 ft. long spatial installation made out of carbon-fiber and polycarbonate sheets. The quality of the materials used, makes it light enough to be easily suspended in the air, despite the size. 

Article: Spectroplexus sculpture to welcome travelers at Lambert International Airport

2016 (student work)

In La Boca, one of the oldest parts of Buenos Aires, there are a lot of abandoned infrastructural and industrial objects that can be adapted and reused to serve to the overall neighborhood improvement. Underground cultures, artists and creatives of Buenos Aires ignited a new force for development that is rapidly spreading across this, once forgotten, area. Spaces for their activities become the focus of this project. 

Madrid 2015 (student work)

This is a multiple housing project, set on the historical orchard - a patch of nature in the dense urban fabric of Madrid. It is very close to the river and a vibrant public area.

Preserving the nature is one of the guiding ideas, as well as providing comfort in relation to nature and a unique view that this particular site can provide. Architecture was formed between the trees, organizing in clusters in organic principle.

2013 (student work)

Museum of Broken Connections refers to both, historical connections that need to be reestablished on this specific location, and physical connections to the old city and the river.

The physical paths connecting the project are called the bridge and the channel (connecting to the hill and the river) and the central object itself (the building) is the nodus, where all these directions finally intersect.

2012 (student work)

Savamala represents a dense bohemian neighborhood of Belgrade, where many artists and craftsmen are situated.  Acupuncture distribution of the new elevated structures is to provide studio apartments for those individuals on top of the dense complex of the existing buildings. The paths connecting these “lighthouses” are creating characteristic playground for the visitors that would come to the neighborhood for art and crafts exhibitions, festivals and purchase. Most of the materials would be recycled from dilapidated and abandoned storages characteristic for the neighborhood.

 2012 (student work)

In the historical context of Avala Film town, centered within Koshutnjak forest in Belgrade, Sc(r)een play is a fluid theater, an institution devoted to film and theatre education.

 It is a transformative and mobile theater that interacts with nature. The scene becomes extended to the outside, and the positioning of the audience becomes more flexible, as well as the character of the shows that can be played within the spaces.