Sample portfolio 2014

A L E X A N D E R A LMA N p: 732-986-6957 | e: aalman22@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________________ BIM Designer with over 5 years of experience in Architecture and Construction, currently working in the Audiovisual, Security, Telecommunications, and Medical sectors. I have experience in high-end retail, residential, commercial and healthcare with work spanning from Union Square to

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renderings

pg. 01-02

data centers

pg. 03-04

commercial | retail

pg. 07-08

conceptual architecture

pg. 09-12

student housing

pg. 21-28

programming investigations

community

pg. 17-20

urban planning

revit families

pg. 05-06

pg. 13 -16

pg. 29-30

RENDERINGS #

$! ! % With over 5 years of experience and a wide range of clients, A. Alman is well-practiced in I am Art using Rhino, 3dMax,Vray and Photoshop. both thefor creation and delivery high-quality, striving a photorealistic endofproduct. photo-realistic renderings.

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DATA CENTERS Incorporating’ Google Maps' maps futures Incorporating Google futures needs, needs, Digital Digital contracted Globe contracted SMW for design a Globe SMW for design of new of data new data center. Anticipated end of construction center.

Anticipted end of construction summer summer SD package 2015.

SD2015. package complete.complete.

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REVIT FAMILIES In order toMedical accommodate both Columbia and for Modeled Equipment Revit families Cornell University programs maintainingwith NY Presbyterian Hospital.while Coordinated the breadth of service knownequipment for, NY the quality projectandmanager and medical Presbyterian Hospital models contracted planners, I created withSMW highforlevel of design, coordination, management of an help detail and quality. Notand only did our models expansion.

Overteam 100 at separate of the production SMW, pieces it also allowed the equipment werethemodeled in great to ease. clients identify equipment with detail greater improve the quality of communication on the project and better serve the needs of the staff.

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COMMERCIAL | RETAIL Based on reputation record, The client for this and project wasChurchill Churchill, the contracted M.Arch Architects design, Architects permit, furniture leasing company. toM.Arch and construction a new corporatethe werecoordinate hired to design, permitof and coordinate showroom DOB expediting andWith constructioninofManhattan. the new corporate showroom. landmark coordination the architect, I draftedservices the DDwere and also CD drawing provided.

Project was recently completed.landmark sets. In addition, I provided expediting, coordination and interaction with the client.

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CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE Emergence: the performance of an of This project isTracking about tracking the performance acrobat through timetime and space, a careful an acrobat through and space.

A series of anatomicalwere studymade was tracking conducted of keyand human drawings rotation bendjoints. the course seriesfollowed of ing of Over key body parts of anda month joints. aSoon created.

Soon followed a and spacial adrawings spacial were depiction of the performance thus depictiontectonic of the performance andwas thederiving from creating language that development the body itself.of a tectonic language.

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STUDENT HOUSING The student wasbegan located block awayof from In 2007 Prattdorm Institute anaexpansion their primary inBrooklyn, NY campus. our campus an up-in-coming partThis of the neighincluded new administrative borhood. several Pratt Institute’s expansionbuildings consisted of and student dorm.buildings The aim and of this project was new aadministrative a student dorm. to a student dorm provided both adorm Mydesign project’s aim was to that design a student sense of openness andwith light.a The dorms were that provided students sense of openness divided intoThe modules were linkedinto through a and light. dormsthat were divided modules circulatory network of elegant walkways.

In that were linked through circulation. Not only did addition providing each unit aasmall this allowto each dorm unitdorm to have small terterrace space, this design facilitated interaction race space but it allowed the students to interact amongst residents and the amongst and eachbetween other and share spaces. surrounding context.

New Informal Paths

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Ground Floor

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Second Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

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COMMUNITY Nano-technology revealsreveals a novel myriad of of strucGiven nano-technology a myriad structural patterns connections, it served tural patterns and and connections.

Using this nanowell as of a point of departure for aperformed concept in two model a daisy, the structure submitted competition. directionalfor plane forming aInvestigating rigid skeletal the structure. nanomodel a daisythe the plasticity structure of performed in In addition, ofthrough Maya, form two forming a rigid skeletal of and directional space wasplane, evolved through a manipulation structure.

Through plastic analysis, form and the geometry of a Taurus. space were evolved using a manipulation of the geometry of a Torus.

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Site circulation map

Form analysis

Structural form analysis

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Module circulation map

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URBAN PLANNING Throughhas economical and political Detroit experience hard timesturmoil, over the years.

Detroit has been reduced a ghostturmoil, of the city it Through economical and to political Detroit oncebeen was. reduced Abandoned lots now account over has to virtual ghost city. for This city 50%abandoned of the city, while crime rates has lots reaching overand 50%poverty along with continue to of rise.

Thisand project seeks facilitate high levels crime poverty.

Mytothesis project the matriculation peopleback back into Detroit proposes to bringofpeople into Detroit through through main Midtown Avenue. artery, Woodward it’s main it’s artery Woodward within Midtown Avenue.

Given social and political constraints Detroit. Because the organizational system of -the and the fact that the organizational of for highways and roads became more system of a barrier the highways and roads has become a barrier growth, I propose growth through informal circulafor growth - requisite growth must originate in tion and development. By utilizing the abandoned informal circulation and incremental lots as a new form of urban void, both novel forms development. Similar to the re-thinking of of circulation and activity spaces can evolve, thus abandoned lots in areas like the Hayes Valley in sparking urban by growth in the surroundinglots urban San Francisco, utilizing the abandoned landscape. as a new form of urban void, both novel forms of circulation and activity spaces can evolve, sparking urban growth in the surrounding urban landscape.

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Secondary Educaction

Utility Use

Commercial Land Use

Industrial Land use

Open Spaces

Residential Use

Overall Land use

Vacant Lots

Commercial Nodes

Industrial Nodes

Utilities/Communication Nodes

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Urban Growth : Abandoned Lots

Present: Abandoned Buildings

Present: Existing Buildings

In 15 Years

In 18 Years

In 9 Years

In 20 Years

Urban Growth : Woodward Avenue

In 1 Year

In 5 Years

In 12 Years

In 5 Year

In 10 Years

In 12 Years

Urban Growth : Residential Nodes

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Urban Typologies

Alcove Typologies

Module Typologies

TowersTypologies

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Morph 01

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Morph 02

Morph 03

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PROGRAMMING INVESTIGATIONS Ultimately, the artist has to become aware that just Through art the alone decomposition abstraction of through he won’tand achieve immortality. new machinery, new means and thinking Therefore, the artist must accept that heabout knows programming and experience were uncovered. nothing.

However, once he enters the mind of a physicist the combination of the internal and external world become coexistent and therefore the man who is an artist and the physicist will become immortal.

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