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Pratt Institute M.ARCH 2017
ARIF JAVED PRATT INSTITUTE | M. ARCH CANDIDATE 2017 185 HALL ST. APT. 1402 | BROOKLYN, NY 11205 (843) 834-0834 | arifjvd@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE : Locating a professional position within the wide reach of the architectural discipline that complements my existing
education and experience while also challenging and supplementing this base skill set and understanding. Architecture is a fundamental form of cultural production; I have found this in both the design of custom single family houses in South Carolina as well as modest installations in Brooklyn, and look forward to continue this exploration going forward in the field.
EDUCATION PRATT INSTITUTE
Master of Architecture | Brooklyn, NY August 2014 - May 2017 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture | Clemson, SC August 2010 - May 2014 Off campus study Fall 2012 in Genoa, Italy at Clemson’s Charles E. Daniel Center Susan and Hary Frampton Grant, SC Life Scholarship, SC Presidential Scholarship, Pelham Travel Grant
SKILLS DIGITAL
Drafting : Rhinoceros + AutoCAD + Vectorworks 3D Modeling : Rhinoceros 3D + Maya + SketchUP + Revit Parametrics : Grasshopper for Rhino 5 Rendering : Cinema4d + Arnold + Ray + Maxwell Render + Mental Ray + Kerkythea Graphics : Adobe Illustrator + Photoshop + InDesign + AfterEffects Fabrication : Strong familiarity with 3D Printing, Lasercutting, CNC-Milling, and related softwares Miscellaneous : Basic knowledge of C, C++, and Python programming languages ANALOG
Sketching, basic drafting, physical modeling, basic wood and metal working
EXPERIENCE PRATT INSTITUTE | Teaching Assistant : Advanced Computer Media | Prof. Robert Cervellione
January 2017 - May 2017 | Brooklyn, NY I aided Robert Cervellione with many aspects of his Advanced Computer Media course, including technical supervision, design critique, and all other general student needs. This is a required course in the first year of Pratt’s M.ARCH degree. MARK FOSTER GAGE ARCHITECTS | Architectural Intern
June 2016 - November 2016 | New York, NY Mark Foster Gage Architects combines the assets of a fully licensed architecture firm with unique and pioneering expertise in emerging technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations. The internship provided ample valuable opportunities to collaborate with a highly skilled design team and produce work that engages contemporary architecture design methods, theory, and philosophy. HARRISON ATELIER | Designer
January 2015 - February 2016 | Brooklyn, NY Harrison Atelier is a Brooklyn based architecture and design firm specializing in pavilions, installations and performances Assisted in design, documentation, and fabrication of architectural competitions and installations Significant contributions in the realm of architectural visualization and competition submissions Species Wall 2015 submitted and selected as part of ACADIA 2015 conference DESIGN DIVISION (City of Charleston) | Apprentice
May 2014 - August 2014 | Charleston, SC Design Division is the urban design division of the city government of Charleston, SC Heavy involvement with both architectural and urban scale design proposals in the public realm Tasks ranged from conceptual visualizations to master plan design and drafting to research of zoning, urban makeup, transportation design, etc BEAU CLOWNEY DESIGN OFFICE | Architectural Intern
August 2013 - December 2013| Charleston, SC Beau Clowney Design Office is an architecture firm specializing in single-family custom residential homes Tasks included code research, site visits and documentation, 2D drafting and 3D computer modeling
WALTZ IN THE ALPS
Toggenburg, Switzerland | Concert Hall Professor : Erich Schoenenberger | Spring 2016 With Alihan Oney + Erick Maldonado
A 500 seat concert hall housed in a shimmering golden shell exterior translates into a spatial and circulatory argument on presents itself with both harmony and cacophony in the same the interior, through a freeform ramping processional from the breath. It is at once landscape and building, though never quite landscaped berms of the ground into the main shell object. either of these in full. The material and formal argument of the
Promenade plan
Musical object section
Multi-material physical model
SCIENCE ISLAND COMPETITION
Kaunas Island, Lithuania | Honorable Mention With Mark Foster Gage Architects | Summer 2016
Floor plan +1
Entry level plan
Atrium + Lobby rendering
From MFGA : “we believe a science and technology center should open the minds of new generations ot the possibility of entirely new forms of curiosity and discovery. Our proposal for the Science Island Kaunas project not only assumes this is possible but made it the goal of every decision of the design process.� Working on
this project greatly expanded my understanding of the capabilities of architectural sensation; I worked on all phases of the project though my primary contributions are felt in the overall exterior massing and interior layout and design.
THE INFRASTRUCTURAL SUBLIME Sao Paolo, Brazil | Transportation Hub Professor : Sulan Kolatan | Fall 2016
Can an infrastructural object be considered nature in the same way that flora, fauna, and hydrology are usually viewed? This urban design and transporation hub proposal argues that yes, infrastructure, object, and nature are all chimerically unified. A
neighborhood in Sao Paolo, Brazil becomes a prototypical mixed and hyperdense self sufficient node within a larger polycentric network. Within this, the transporation hub is the center of a new opportunity focused take on infrastructure.
Transportation hub “ground” plan
Plan showing main hive
For this piece, contemporary fashion designers and tailoring techniques were a departure point for formation/fabrication of an object resulting from a digital tailoring process.
ARTIFACTS
Form Fitting (left) + Nanotectonica (right) Seminars Professors : Hart Marlow (left) + Jonas Coersmeier (right) | Spring 2016 + Spring 2017
In this artifact, nano-scale images of natural systems were closely studied, then translated through drawing and modeling into a small piece, between architecture and sculpture.
These two artifacts are the result of two seperate seminar classes which both used research based methodolgies to inform the design and production of small scale sculptural objects. These pieces operate not quite as architecture but as physical results
of an intensive research into specific topics. Both pieces were also exercises in achieving a high level of craft using contemporary digital media and fabrication techniques. They use multiple different 3D printing methods and finishing techniques.
RETAIL REALITIES : TESLA
Brooklyn, New York | Retail Store Professor : Marc Simmons (FRONT Inc) | Spring 2017
Physical model of building in site
Can artifical light become a medium for architecture? It is so often an integral part of the way architecture is perceived however it is rarely used as a medium or driver of the design intent. Working with noted facade consultant, Marc Simmons of Front, Inc., was
Illuminated prototype fabricated model
an invaluable experience that led to the creation of illuminated prototypes to test novel ideas about artificial light as an architectural medium. The bioluminescent effect of this Tesla design is meant to evoke the sensation of driving in its most visceral sense.
Interior rendering Elevation rendering (left)
Axon detail of car paternoster