SAMPLE(S) ARIF JAVED
PRATT INSTITUTE M.ARCH CANDIDATE 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 expected graduation CLEMSON UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Arts in Architecture | Clemson, SC August 2010 - May 2014 expected graduation 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
EXPERIENCE 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
SKILLS DIGITAL Drafting : Rhinoceros + AutoCAD + Vectorworks 3D Modeling : Rhinoceros 3D + Maya + SketchUP + Revit Parametrics : Grasshopper for Rhino 5 Rendering : V-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
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 presents itself with both harmony and cacophony in the same breath. It is at once landscape and building, though never quite either of these in full. The material and formal argument of the exterior translates into a spatial and circulatory argument on the interior, through a freeform ramping processional from the landscaped berms of the ground into the main shell object.
Typical residential floor plan (n.t.s.)
LIVING + THE OTHER BROOKLYN, NY | MULTI FAMILY HOUSING PROFESSOR : MARIA SIERIA | FALL 2015 200 unit housing development in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with mixed use ground floor. An attempt to pose an alternative to the monontonous monoliths for living currently peppering this semi-suburban South Brooklyn neighborhood through an enagement with a Piranesiinflected sublime.
NOUVEAU ROCAILLE DESIGN FINESSE SEMINAR PROFESSOR : FERDA KOLATAN | SPRING 2016 The Nouveau Rocaille is an excersise in contradiction: it is a derivation of a past art movement, the Rococo, that through digital design techniques attempts to become a contemporary spatial object. This exploration revealed that though the Rococo movement and the present are centuries apart, the nature of modernity between the two are far more similar than they are distinct.
Ground floor plan (n.t.s.)
TOWNSCAPE NEGOTIATIONS NEW YORK, NY | K-6 EDUCATION CENTER PROFESSOR : CRAIG KONYK | SPRING 2015 Moderate scale proposal for a K-6 school in lower Manhattan. Meant to explore both the notion of the school as a microcosmic metropolis for the children as they begin their academic and social journies and the contextual connection to the city surrounding. These two polemics are unified and mitigated through a reading of Nikolaus Pevsner’s approach to Townscape planning and the picturesque.
First floor plan (n.t.s.)
Ferry Dock
Ticketing + WC + Waiting Area
URBAN FABRIC STITCH BROOKLYN, NY | FERRY TERMINAL PROFESSOR : ALEX BARKER | FALL 2014 Small scale ferry terminal and public plaza intervention proposed for Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Produced in the first studio in the M.Arch studio sequence (Fundamentals studio), this project was an exploration of how local changes to a proposed unit system can cause global architectual changes ranging from skin to structure.
Cafe
Supermarket + Commercial
Public Plaza
DECONSTRUCT FORM FITTING SEMINAR PROFESSOR : HART MARLOW | SPRING 2016 Deconstruct is an experiment in form-making, aesthetics, digital fabrication, and tailoring. Contemporary fashion designers and tailoring techniques were looked at as a departure point into the formation and fabrication of an object that was the result of a digital tailoring process.
SPECIES WALL PAVILION WITH HARRISON ATELIER | BUILT FALL 2015 CR10 POTENTIAL FIELDS EXHIBIT | GERMANTOWN, NY The Species Wall Pavilion existed as one realization of a larger body of research and design conducted at Harrison Atelier investigating the human imprint on earth as an evolutionary force in the Anthropocene. I was involved in all aspects of this work, from conceptual design and research to mold fabrication and panel design.
DIA COLUMN COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING PROFESSOR : BRIAN RINGLEY | SUMMER 2015 DIA Column is a product of an exploration of processes and possibilities of parametrically controlled CNC fabrication. Specifically, the focus was on how joinery logics could be milled into a 2D sheet of laminated materials (pictured below). The joinery logics allow traditionally rigid materials to easily move from 2d sheets into a 3d structural object.