ABOUT ME
giancarlo.joyner@gmail.com
@giankiboy
Design, at its best, is an act of empathy, a way of wholeheartedly acknowledging the communities, cultures, and histories that give a place its soul. As a designer, I am driven by the belief that architecture is one of humanity's most enduring forms of storytelling, capable of carrying culture forward and honoring identity, ultimately shaping how people experience a sense of community and belonging. These convictions sit at the heart of how I see the world.
With a foundation in literature, art, and human geography, my design practice is rooted in deep analytical research, clear communication, and a relentless curiosity about how communities relate to the spaces they inhabit. My work strives to untangle complex social, economic, and environmental challenges, and to leave behind spaces that are visually and functionally sound, but above all, profoundly felt and meaningful to the people they serve.
MY EDUCATION
University of Miami
Bachelor of Architecture, Minor in Sustainable Development & Geography
2026
University of Miami School of Architecture
Rome Program
Spring 2025
Bishop O’Dowd High School
2021
MY EXPERIENCE
Architectural Design Intern
H-Level Architecture
2026
Creative Studio Consultant & Assistant
University of Miami Libraries
2024–2025
Architectural Intern
Stofft Cooney Architects
2023-2024
MY SKILLS + EXPERTISE
AutoCAD
Rhinoceros 3D
Grasshopper
Revit
ArchiCAD
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Lumion
Enscape
ArcGIS
Ultimaker Cura
Bambu Studio
Gendo AI
Microsoft Office
Google Suite
Lightroom
Python
Figma
Claude
Perplexity
LANGUAGES I KNOW
*each “+” denotes additional proficiency level
English
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Italian
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Spanish
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HONORS & AWARDS
University of Miami School of Architecture
Undergraduate Design Studio Award Nominee
2024
University of Miami
Provost’s Honor Roll
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
University of Miami
Dean’s List
2021, 2022
COMITES
Maria Manetti Shrem Award
2021
University of Miami
‘Canes Achievement Award
2021
College Board
AP Scholar with Honor
2021
MY CERTIFICATIONS
LEED Green Associate
USGBC(US Green Building Council)
In Progress...
Learning Revit 2026 by Paul F. Aubin
LinkedIn Learning
2026
Rome, IT, 2025
Alma Femina begins from the quiet and urgent premise that home, for many women, is not a given. It is a co-housing project for three of Italy's most structurally vulnerable populations: survivors of domestic violence, single mothers holding households together alone, and elderly women aging in isolation. The project responds directly to ISTAT data on Italy's ongoing femicide crisis and rising rates of elderly solitude, statistics that conceal a widespread, often invisible absence of safety and belonging. Alma Femina proposes architecture as a response: a mechanism of protection, transition, and long-term community for women navigating precarity at different life stages. Each population is assigned a distinct residential typology suited to its needs, from secure, transitional units for survivors to more integrated, communal arrangements for elderly residents, while shared spaces throughout the complex foster cross-generational solidarity among the three groups.
The site itself carries a unique and layered history. Its three constituent buildings date to 1906, originally constructed as the Società Automobili di Roma, an automobile manufacturing plant built alongside an adjoining warehouse complex. The site was later repurposed as the Reale Fabbrica delle Armi, a weapons factory and barracks serving Italy's World War I effort: its central volume housing administrative offices, flanked by twin structures that quartered factory workers. This lineage, bound up with militarism and industrial production, imbues the existing fabric with a latent architectural language of defense and fortitude, a motif the project deliberately reauthors: from a site once organized around the machinery of war and labor, toward one organized around protection, care, and communal resilience.
The schematic strategy hinges on a process of subtractive intervention: hollowing out the existing volumes and dynamically reinserting rectangular masses within them to proliferate courtyard conditions throughout the block, a device long employed in the dense urban palazzina to admit daylight despite tight lot lines and party-wall proximity. In parallel, the project abandons the buildings' original floor-to-floor organization in section and elevation entirely, granting license to carve fenestration freely through the existing envelope, evoking the permeated, voided condition of Roman ruins.
This formal language draws direct lineage from Luigi Moretti's Casa Girasole, a canonical Roman palazzina whose rendering technique closely emulates an archaeological artifact dating to Roman antiquity. Alma Femina inherits this sensibility, reframing the site's fortified industrial past as a contemporary ruin: one that reclaims the power once embedded in its militaristic and industrial motifs for the solidarity of the collective domestic life it now protects.
Collaborators: Giancarlo Joyner & Fabio Cesaroni
Studio: ARC408
Professor: Luca Galofaro & Stefania Manna
Fourth-year Spring Semester, 2025
University of Miami School of Architecture