About.
Workshop. An activity at which a team engage in intensive discussion towards a shared passion.
Launched in 2019, we provide architectural services from initial concept through construction documentation and administration. With ten years experience, our expertise and focus lies in commercial and public projects, high performance energy efficiency and indoor air quality, and understanding traditional and urban architecture.
Jonathan Saccoccio
Principal Architect
AIA, NCARB, CNU-A
Upon receipt of his Bachelor of Architecture in 2010, Jon returned to southern Vermont to pursue his license and continue working in residential construction. His summers of construction work significantly inform his ability to design and deliver projects.
In the fall of 2014, Jon joined Stevens & Associates, where, as Project Architect, he added to his experience and knowledge on projects that range from residential to community planning and commercial works.
In 2019, he started JA Saccoccio Workshop, with the mission of continuing the type of work and service he provided at S&A.
His interest in the field focuses on how to merge design concepts with the pragmatism of implementing the ideas. He believes that a practical knowledge of both architecture and construction will produce innovative, effective and enjoyable spaces. He executes this interest through design but also working in his shop, experimenting with ideas in design and wood-working assembly techniques.
Gabrielle Ciuffreda
Project Coordinator
Gabby brings nearly 20 years of legal, asset management and real estate development experience to JASW. Most recently, she worked in overseeing the financing and redevelopment of a $31 million rehabilitation of three historic buildings in downtown Bennington Vermont that were repurposed for commercial and mixed-income housing. She has focused on mixed-use and industrial development, historic renovation and Brownfields environmental remediation.
Gabby is skilled in project financing including tax credits (New Markets Tax Credits, Federal Historic tax credits, state historic tax credits), loan sourcing, and grant procurement/management (HUD CDBG, USDA Rural Development, VTrans, VHCB, EPA/Brownfields).
Gabby is committed to community and civic engagement. She is the current Chair of the Windham Regional Planning Commission and its Brownfields Steering Committee. She also served at the state level as a member of the VT Downtown Development Board, which supports the preservation and enhancement of Vermont's downtowns and village centers, and distributes the state's rehabilitation tax credits and various grants. She served on her town's Select Board for four years, and on a local non-profit board whose mission was to renovate and repurpose the local historic grange building into a community center.