Samuel Feldman | Buildner Portfolio Competition Edition#3 Winner by buildnercompetitions

PORTFOLIO Samuel Feldman

SELECTED WORKS Resume

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Academic 01

House of Light

Research Studio I | The Elemental House 03

Urban Lung

Foundation Studio IV | Los Angeles Catastrophe Center 02

Objection

Foundation Studio III | Public Surplus 04

Fluid Permanence

Foundation Studio I | Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay 05

Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage

Sarah McArthur Nix Travel Fellowship | Research and Exhibition 06

A New Jorejick Residence

Competition for a Family Residence in Tanzania 07

Memory Order Dimension Travel Drawings from Italy

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Professional 08

Professional Architectural Work Residential Work at Various Scales

References

Samuel Feldman, LEED AP BD+C Master of Architecture ‘20 University of Virginia School of Architecture

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Samuel Feldman

Architectural Designer | LEED AP BD+C

p: 716.868.0556 e: sfeldman10@gmail.com

ASSISTANTSHIPS Summer 2020

Workspace Evolutions project Faculty: Katie Stranix and JT Bachman, University of Virginia

EDUCATION Jul 2017 - May 2020 Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia | School of Architecture

Aug 2015 - Dec 2016 Buffalo, NY

SUNY University at Buffalo & SUNY Buffalo State College

Aug 2006 - May 2010 Pittsburgh, PA

University of Pittsburgh | School of Arts and Sciences

Master of Architecture (M.ARCH), 2020 GPA: 3.65 / 4.00

Post-baccalaureate coursework in preparation for M.ARCH Architectural history, architectural sketching, drawing, painting, and physics courses

April 2021 - September 2022 Portland, OR

January 2020 New Orleans, LA

January 2018 Seattle, WA

May 2016 - Jul 2017 Buffalo, NY

Design Studio Teaching Assistant

ARCH 2021 | Introduction to Architectural Design for transfer students Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2019

Design Studio Teaching Assistant

ARCH 2010 | Foundation Studio II: Responsive Space Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2018

Teaching Assistant

ARCH 2710 | CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization Instructor Earl Mark, University of Virginia

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS Hacker Architects | Architectural Designer Acted as architectural staff in a highly colloaborative team on a complex 300-unit multi-family housing project spanning a split-zone city block in NW Portland; provided design and production support from SD through 100% DD phases, including a Design Review submission; responsible for facade articultion, modeling, rendering, interior studies and drawing production

Polyphon Architecture & Design | Job Captain Conducted site analyses, design, drafting, documentation, and delivery of drawings for residential projects at a variety of scales and through all project phases; proposed site-specific massing strategies and schematic iterations; prepared permit documents; developed construction document sets; produced marketing graphics

Trahan Architects | Extern Worked on schematic design facade iterations for an addition to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome; completed a series of exterior elevation proposals and on-site documentation; presented concept drawings to the design team

Mithun | Extern Participated in internal charrette and team meetings within both architecture and landscape architecture projects; visited building sites and completed walk-throughs of projects at various phases of construction

2019 Recipient

Lead groups in building affordable homes in Buffalo; supervised and trained teams of volunteers in daily construction activities; lead construction tasks such as framing, siding, carpentry, landscaping, and drywalling; monitored construction for quality, compliance, and safe practices

Signals Analytics | Research Analyst

Mar 2012 - Feb 2013 Tel Aviv, Israel

ConteXtream (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) | Financial Analyst

Acted as the lead analyst on consulting project for a Fortune 500 company; utilized market research methods to support varied business missions; prepared and presented intelligence reports on new technologies and disruptive competitors; identified acquisition targets and designed ranking models of competitors by market

Consolidated monthly financial results and built spreadsheets analyzing monthly expenditures; assisted in developing full year budget and formulating a 5-year financial plan; devised a weekly managerial report detailing monthly and quarterly sales and revenue figures; prepared BOD summary packages for quarterly presentation

NICE Systems | Financial Analyst Intern Created and analyzed financial models for a multinational security solutions provider; prepared presentations showing quarterly growth trends for use at board of directors meetings; authorized IT capital and expense purchase requisitions; managed financial templates, including p&l, operating costs, and capital expenditures

Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship

Project Title: Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage Exhibition, research, and gallery talk 2018-2019

Student work selected for archival

Top three projects awarded by studio instructors each semester Selected Fall 2018 and Fall 2019

EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS Summer 2020

African House Design Competition: A New Jorejick Residence

Design proposal through Archstorming with design partner Ted Bazil; semi-finalists Spring 2020

Sarah McArthur Nix Exhibition

Design and installation of personal work in the Bishop Gallery Spring 2019

Kinesthetic Montage: Hong Kong Installation

Construction team, project led by Esther Lorenz for ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Fall 2017

University of Virginia Bicentennial Pavilion

Pavilion design, fabrication, and construction team member

Habitat for Humanity | AmeriCorps Construction Crew Leader

Aug 2013 - Mar 2015 Tel Aviv, Israel

Jun 2011 - Feb 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel

Summer 2020

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Economics, cum laude, 2010 Majors in Economics, History; Minor in Philosophy

EXPERIENCE October 2022 - March 2023 Portland, OR

Graduate Research Assistant

INTERNATIONAL STUDY Summer 2019 Summer 2018 Summer 2008

UVA Architecture Abroad | China UVA Architecture Abroad | Italy Semester at Sea | Europe and North Africa

SKILLS Software ArcGIS AutoCAD Excel Grasshopper Illustrator InDesign Photoshop

Hardware PowerPoint Revit Rhino 3D Sefeira SketchUp V-Ray Word

3D Printing Bookbinding Carpentry Casting CNC Routing Drawing Foam Cutting

Language Hand Drafting Laser Cutting Model Making Photography Woodworking

English (native) Hebrew (intermediate) Spanish (basic)

HOUSE OF LIGHT The Elemental House

Course | Research Studio I Instructor | W.G. Clark Location | Reproducible Term | Fall 2019

In designing an elemental house, I began to wonder whether it was possible to develop a dwelling in which the rooms do not have names, but in which portions of it are inhabited according to the spatial characteristics themselves. In making castings, I began to wonder how one might occupy such spaces and render them habitable. I realized that it was through implementations of living that a space truly becomes useful in nameable sense. In my process I understood that so much of architecture is this play between St. Jerome’s overarching space and the introduction of smaller human-scaled fitments. In my final scheme, I emphasize a material’s multitude of properties through light and texture, where the primary material is light, and the surface is the canvas that receives it. The spaces are modulated according to light, and the title of the rooms is made secondary, assigned their functions based on scale and textural qualities. Normal functions are put at bay to make this read clearly. I have limited the number of materials to three: concrete as the primary structure, wood as the secondary functional element for nested spaces, and glass for apertures, light, and illumination. Fitments of wood are inserted into larger spaces to bring a multitude of experiences in scale and options for retreat into larger or smaller spaces.

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

BRITISH CASTLE FLOOR PLAN SKETCHES by Louis Kahn Kahn’s interest in castles, namely the use of thick walls and carving to create subtractive nestled spaces, inspired me to adopt a strategy of thickness and carving in my own design. What started as a massing process soon turned into a casting process, where the labor that came to define it was in the construction of the negative space around which the cement cured.

FINAL MODEL Northwest

Source: Brownlee, David B. and David G. De Long. Louis I. Kahn: In the Real of Architecture. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizzoli, 1991, 68.

ST. JEROME IN HIS STUDY by Antonello da Messina Within those subtractive spaces, I began to see an inhabitation strategy in the likes of St. Jerome in his study. Fitments of wood with a warmth to contrast the coolness of the concrete superstructure make this object of living functional and habitable.

FINAL MODEL Southwest

Source: Battisti, Eugenio. Antonello, il teatro sacro, gli spazi, la donna (Il labirinto). Palermo: Novecento. ISBN 88-3730021-2.

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

CLIFF EDGE HYBRID

EXTENSION

SUBTERRANEAN MIRROR

ASCENSION

INTERIOR TUNNEL

CANOPY DWELLING

FLANK

STEPS

GARDEN HOUSE

ZIGZAG

INTERIOR CISTERN CLIFF SITING

CANTILEVER

BRIDGE

HILL SITING

PROTRUDE

INTERIOR CAVES

CAP

INTERLOCK

ITERATIVE MASSING MODELS

STAGGER

ANCHOR

HINGE

INTERIOR CLIFF

PODS

INTERIOR CANYON

ITERATIVE CASTING MODELS

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

WEST ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

SOUTH ELEVATION

SUBTERRANEAN PLAN & MODEL

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

FIRST FLOOR FIRE

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR NOOK

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

THIRD FLOOR OVERLOOK

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR CHAMBER

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

TRANSVERSE SECTION

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible

HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible DISSECTION A Multi-Directional Spatial Understanding Though seemingly a static box on the outside, the interior generates a kinetic and constantly shifting section through which the inhabitant experiences a prismatic movement of light throughout the day and year. Like-wise, the ever-changing interior conditions encourage the inhabitant to adjust and inhabit spaces as they see most germane, rather than naming rooms based on function.

URBAN LUNG

Los Angeles Catastrophe Center Course | Foundation Studio IV Instructor | Katie Stranix Location | Santa Monica, California Term | Spring 2019

The site of intervention is located at the junction of several transportation lines, including the congested terminus of Highway 10. This adjacency means that the site is constantly exposed to harmful atmospheric pollutants, and in this reality is where I seek to consolidate a design approach that mitigates, treats, and abates smog. I am proposing a series of vegetated and mechanical interventions working in tandem that neutralize smog components in distinct ways, while creating thresholds of treatment. The first threshold is a vegetated berm that sits directly on the highway. The second threshold is a mechanical strategy in which the structure removes smog particulates from the atmosphere via structural columns fitted with filters. The third threshold is a field strategy, wherein the remainder of the site becomes landscape, an extension of the park which currently exists to the southwest of this site. My design proposal will create an “urban lung” or a “cocoon” which acts as a protective barrier against smog emanating from Los Angeles and the vast transportation systems. The overarching goals are to activate an underutilized site, to create a structure that actively removes harmful pollutants from the air and creates a healthy zone of public space, and to connect to a larger system of parks that exists adjacent to the site and running along the coast.

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

ON THE CUSP A Disaster in the Making

NODES OF MOVEMENT Connecting to an Existing Network of Parks

California is at the precarious threshold of multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, and flooding. However, one disaster that constantly envelopes the city is pollution. As smog continues to permeate the air, new ways of building must be implemented to curb such toxins, and in this necessity is where I propose a building that creates an urban lung through several air treatment interventions.

Tongva Park by James Corner Field Operations sits between the waterfront park and the building site. I start by proposing a new park that connects the two into a larger park network, where an infinite permutation of paths affords visitors a larger cocoon of green, breathable space. I use an existing tunnel on the site to bisect my building proposal and create a connecting corridor. SITE MAP

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

SECOND FLOOR 19. Main Exhibition

FIRST FLOOR

12. Cafe 13. Outdoor Patio 14. Site Exhibition 15. History Exhibition 16. Beach Exhibition 17. Surf Exhibition 18. Pollution Exhibition

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GROUND FLOOR

SITE PLAN

LINGUA FRANCA Adopting a Common Language The figure-ground reads as an homage to the shoreline of Southern California, with homes splayed along the curving perimeter of the coastline. A mound descending from the plinth on which the six volumes rest becomes both a circulation corridor and a habitable part of the landscape, while melding the architecture and the landscape architecture into a unified whole.

The ground floor below the plinth houses a subterranean play on the senses. Shafts of light penetrate from voids in the floors above, reminiscent of light prismatically refracting as it enters the deep ocean water. The circulation strategy encourages visitors to meander and weave, both in the vertical and horizontal, so as to experience a diffusion of the senses.

1. Entrance / Reception 2. Shop 3. WC 4. Introduction Room 5. Exhibition 6. Workshop 7. Storage 8. Mechanical 9. Theater WC / Changing 10. Theater 11. Theater Entrance

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7 6

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

5 6 10 3

7 3 8

KEY: 1. Art & Play Field 2. Palm Grove 3. Lounge Hill 4. Tunnel 5. Auditorium Entrance 6. Exhibition Volumes 7. Plinth 8. Main Entrance 9. Tram Platform 10. Park Extension

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

SITE AXONOMETRIC

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

Field Strategy | Oxygen-producing plants

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

Facade Strategy | Smog Screen

Vegetated Strategy | Carbon-absorbing plants

Mechanical Strategy | Smog-Filtering Columns

URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California

Steel Bracing

Double-Glazing with Translucent Insulation

Silicon-Coated Glass Fiber Fabric

GALLERY

Adapter: Extruded Aluminum Section Rigid Insulation Waffle Slab

Steel Facade Framing Column

SUBTERRANEAN

STRUCTURAL SYMBIOSIS Facade and Frame in Harmony I developed a system in which steel sections run through the structural steel columns, adding lateral rigidity across the length of the volume. This also allowed me to affix the facade to these bars via steel arms and extruded aluminum sections. The facade screen is wrapped around these sections, allowing for a taut connection and easy replacement over time.

EXTERIOR

TRANSVERSE SECTIONS

DETAIL SECTION

OBJECTION Public Surplus

This project seeks to create a space that uses the block scale to tie together the surrounding community and the daily influx of new people. By raising the residences and creating an extension of Chelsea Park, an opportunity to bring people to and through the site emerges. This open land, mixed with programmatic and sensory experiences of the Exploratorium NYC, presents an opportunity to show how public space can be more than a luxurious surplus. Using the structure of a public private partnership as a starting point, the intention was to maximize public use while also providing an engaging and connected setting for Public School 33 elementary school students. The Public School 33 students, the Exploratorium, the neighborhood residents, the Chelsea Elliott Affordable Housing Complex, Penn South Housing, High Line tourists, and New York at large deserve a place that can be more than a park or another high-end development. They deserve a place to exist as neighbors. This proposal is to be an architecture that lives in the gray scale of figure-ground of the city plan. It seeks to bring an alternative to gated parks and bland lots. This block has an extreme focus on public space as the fabric of daily life, and everyone can benefit while the neighborhood and New York continue to change and evolve.

OBJECTION | New York, New York

FAR 12

HYBRID

1. BAR AND PLINTH

2. RAISE, ROTATE, BEND

3. SUPPORT

4. CUT AND SHAPE

NEW GRID

FAR 6

OBJECTION | New York, New York

THE SPINE

TERRAIN

MAT

HYBRID

MASSING OPERATIONS

School Public

PARK COMB

Residential

CIRCULATION + APARTMENT TYPES

TYPOLOGY + MASSING STUDIES

PROGRAM

DIAGRAMS

OBJECTION | New York, New York

FINAL MODEL | SOUTH ELEVATION

SITE AXONOMETRIC

AFFORDABLE HOUSING An Array of Living Options and Layouts Through multiple typologies of living space within the block, a unique affordable housing option opens up in an area where such is desperately needed. Units range from 1-story studio apartments to 3-story large family units, inviting any type of living arrangement to grow organically within and become a social condenser through communal space on each floor.

The proposed building stands in contrast to the exclusivity of London Terrace Towers by extracting the footprint of the enclosed courtyard and instead create an open, inviting block. The towering Hudson Yards, likewise decadent and exclusive, is juxtaposed with the modest height of the building. Instead it connects with the intimate setting of Chelsea Park, the Highline, Chelsea-Elliott and The World School. FINAL MODEL | NORTH ELEVATION

OBJECTION | New York, New York

CONTEXT MODEL FACING SOUTH

SITE PLAN AT GROUND FLOOR

CONTEXT MODEL FACING SOUTHWEST

OBJECTION | New York, New York

SCHOOL Creating a New Academic Corridor Through relocating P.S. 33, a new academic corridor is created through the adjacency of Avenues: The World School. The site intervention gives students from these schools the opportunity to interact and learn from each other. The school also acts as stilt on which a portion of the residential units rests.

PLAN | FIRST FLOOR

PLAN | GROUND FLOOR

EXPLORATORIUM Generating a Public Surplus A subterranean exploratorium occupies the space below the park, generating a new destination for tourists, community, and students alike. It negotiates between two disparate blocks on either side, activates them, and unifies them into a greater whole.

PLAN | SUBTERRANEAN

OBJECTION | New York, New York

APARTMENTS Re-Conceptualizing the Social Condenser A new interpretation of Narkomfin and Unite d’Habitation, wherein double-height and interlocking multi-story units are enabled through double-loaded corridors on alternating floors. Cross-ventilation and passive cooling are possible through units that extend across the width of the building.

PLAN | ROOF LEVEL

PLAN | TYPICAL APARTMENT FLOOR

TRANSFER FLOOR An Extension of the Highline A floor that extends across the length of the building and acts as a structural truss for the load above. It visually connects to the Highline and invites the public to enjoy an array of amenities, including a cafe, library, gym and study space.

PLAN | TRANSFER FLOOR

OBJECTION | New York, New York

PUBLIC ENTRANCE TO EXPLORATORIUM

TRANSVERSE SECTION | SCHOOL AND APARTMENTS

OBJECTION | New York, New York

CORE ACCESS TO TRANSFER FLOOR

VIEW TOWARDS APARTMENTS

PATH BETWEEN BLOCKS

NEW PARK ON PLINTH

WINDOWS TO EXPLORATORIUM

TRANSVERSE SECTION | EXPLORATORIUM, TRANSFER FLOOR, APARTMENTS

OBJECTION | New York, New York

DETAIL SECTION

OBJECTION | New York, New York

FINAL MODEL | SECTIONAL SHOWING CORRIDORS AND DOUBLE-HEIGHT UNITS

OBJECTION | New York, New York

LONGITUDINAL ELEVATION THROUGH HIGHLINE FACING HUDSON YARDS

FLUID PERMANENCE

Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay Course | Research Studio I Instructor | Luis Pancorbo, PhD Location | Mallows Bay, Maryland Term | Fall 2017

Mallows Bay is a site in flux, constantly shifting and changing according to the natural cycles of the Potomac. In 1929, a fleet of wooden steamships, originally built for World War I efforts, was sunk in Mallows Bay, and for the last 90 years these war ships have ironically produced a vibrant and complex marine ecology. The uniqueness of the site owes to the partial visibility of the shipwrecks, and the sensation of being in a ship graveyard with jagged skeletal steel and timber elements protruding from the surface of the water. Most of what happens around these ships occurs below the surface of the water, invisible to the naked eye. There are no clear boundaries within Mallows bay; positions are shifting, structures are decaying, and ecologies are sprouting. My design seeks to reflect the visible and invisible conditions of Mallows Bay. Visible steel bracing for the timber facade reflects the originally hidden framework of the ships now protruding from the water, while the timber frame reflects the construction of the hull of the ships now submerged. The two buildings are aligned adjacent to two visible shipwrecks resting against the shore, so as to create a direct extension of the marine graveyard.

FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland

MUSEUM OF MEMORY A Technological Graveyard and Mausoleum The vertically staggered floor plan calls to mind a spiritual ascension, rising above the horrors of war and gaining a purview that encapsulates the full scope of this graveyard as one finally reaches the upper deck. On the way, the visitor experiences an education through artifacts and an understanding of the unprecedented rapid development of 20th century naval capacities.

EXTERIOR VIEW FROM POTOMAC

VIEW FROM DECK OVERLOOKING SHIPWRECKS

INTERIOR VIEW FACING POTOMAC

INTERIOR VIEW OF EXHIBITION SPACE

FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland

SITE AXONOMETRIC

SITING AND PLACE-MAKING Architecture through Movement and Transposition To create material unity and connection to the site, the building is constructed from mass timber and steel, a reference to the protruding skeletal remains of the fleet. The slats between the CLT members are staggered so as to bring in light and to reference the permeability and decomposition of the sunken ships. To emphasize movement, a path leads to the site from a distant lot.

SITE PLAN

Of key importance is the fact that the ships are shifting and decaying over time, water levels are increasing, and deforestation is occurring. Owing to these factors, my strategy moves the building out of the 100-year floodline, makes use of felled trees in mass timber framing, and is conscious of not disrupting the fragile ecosystem within the water.

FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland

SOUTH ELEVATION

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

NORTH ELEVATION

ADJACENCIES AND ABSTRACTIONS A Fluid Interpretation of Context

INTERSTITIAL MOMENTS A Facade through Slats and Punctures

The building footprint follows the natural topography of the site, and is located some distance from parking so as to create a necessary procession to the site - the impact of walking through the woods heightens the approach once the building is in view, and allows one to continue on the path after visiting. A service road allows for the movement of tools and materials.

The facade is composed of wooden slats affixed between the CLT framing members in a staggered manner - a slat in front and a slat behind and above. In strategic locations I have removed one or more slats so that the visitors can enter the nooks created between the timber frame, while light and views permeate the building in a ghostly and ethereal manner.

FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland

CONCEPT MODEL

MASSING ITERATION

FRAMING MODEL

FINAL MODEL EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

FINAL MODEL INTERIOR

FRAMING PLAN

JOINT ELEVATION

JOINT AXONOMETRIC

PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE The Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship Course | Independent Work Advisor | Peter Waldman Location | Southern France Term | Summer 2019

At a paradoxical time when hyper-mobility and sedentary living dominate our modern condition, our experience of the in-between — the actual journey that defines our transposition from one point in space to another — is often wholly omitted. This project seeks to understand the true rate of human movement over time, and to likewise understand the true rate of perception of our surroundings when moving across immeasurably vast distances by foot. One of the most well-known pilgrimage trails on Earth is the Camino de Santiago, a network of trails that leads to Santiago de Compostela. Using one trail in this network, the Via Podiensis in France, as the site of inquiry, the project connects disparate modes of perception into an understanding of human movement as it existed until the nineteenth century. In doing so, it examines the convergence of regional narrative and myth, sensory perception, spatial anchors, and visual purviews at multiple scales. My chosen modes of representation included sketches, comics, photographs, maps, and charts. The project culminated in a presentation and an exhibition at the architecture school gallery.

EXHIBITION | PHOTO CREDIT @ TOM DALY

PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France

NETWORK OF TRAILS ACROSS FRANCE AND SPAIN

THE VIA PODIENSIS TRAIL ACROSS FRANCE

PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France

ARRIVAL BY RELIGIOUS LANDMARK

Location | Le Puy-en-Velay Department | Haute-Loire Region | Auvergne-Rhone-Alps Day 01 | July 4, 2019

The Camino is deeply tied to the religious landmarks and relics that populate it. In Le Puy-enVelay, the point of origin for the Via Podiensis, two large mountains made of volcanic rock sit at the center of the village, with a statue and a church atop. For the pilgrim, this is the gravitational point of orientation. For the resident, it is a physical feature around which daily life flows.

ARRIVAL BY IN-BETWEENS

Location | Mas de Vers Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 18, 2019

Sometimes I walked without a final destination in mind, arriving when I felt like arriving, finding accommodation at the first available gite. As the Camino in France becomes more popular, some people are buying up property to open inns for accommodating pilgrims outside of the larger villages.

PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France

ARRIVAL THROUGH HISTORIC URBAN FABRIC

Location | Cahors Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 16 | July 21, 2019

Cahors is one of the largest cities on the Camino in France. A 14th-century fortified bridge is the central feature and a gateway for pilgrims. The gateway frames the pilgrim’s experience as a spatial and metaphorical symbol. It creates an anticipation for the in-between, where arrival at the next village is ascertained only through the labor of the body and mind.

ARRIVAL THROUGH IMPOSED MONOLITH

Location | Auvillar Department | Tarn-et-Garonne Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 25, 2019

People generally associate pilgrimage as a spiritual path replete with relics and religious sites, a suspension of profane time and an emergence in sacred journey. The modern pilgrim is faced with a paradox. Where the cathedral once stood as a spiritual monolith in an urban center, the new spatial anchor is the de-contextualized industrial monolith sitting in a vast landscape.

PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France

EXHIBITION | PHOTO CREDIT @ TOM DALY

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE

African House Design Competition Project Type | Competition Platform | Archstorming Partner | Theodore Bazil Period | Summer 2020

Our proposal for a new Jorejick family home prioritizes the preservation of communal memory while fostering a new sense of collective rootedness. The design is organized into three distinct dwelling spaces, tied together by a series of communal courtyards and framed around the existing site trees. The heart of the scheme is the central kitchen and outdoor gathering area, which features a foot pump-operated sink, communal table, and plein-air stove for the family to cook at mealtimes and gather throughout the day. This spatial arrangement is intended to remain flexible as the family grows and changes. Two showers are incorporated at either end of the scheme, using rainwater holding receptacles that are controlled by an operable lever. Greywater from the shower is then collected into a second cistern below, which can be brought to the surface by hand pump and used for agricultural and other purposes. We propose an inverted roofline to direct water to the central cistern from which potable water can be drawn.

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

SITING AND MATERIALITY Cost Effective and Locally Sourced Our proposal is sited directly adjacent to the family’s existing huts, allowing for their continued inhabitation during construction, and establishing a new threshold between the existing site path, cattle corral, and agricultural croplands. The North-South orientation of the building masses establishes a familial and spatial connection to Nico’s house, maximizes Easterly cross-ventilation, and allows for deep, comfortably shaded, inhabitable porticoes. The material selection for the project—clay brick, composite structural wood posts, woven branch screens, and a corrugated steel roof—is based around both what can be easily procured from local suppliers, as well as from the oxidic soil of the site itself. We propose utilizing the soil for on-site brick manufacturing, and call for the re-purposing of leftover, broken, and discarded bricks. The finer remnants can be recycled as aggregate for mortar and concrete, and the larger pieces appropriated for patio ground pavers.

SITE PLAN

VIEW FROM THE CATTLE PEN

FLOOR PLANS

TRANSVERSE SECTIONS

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

VIEW ACROSS FRONT PORTICO TOWARDS KITCHEN

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

VIEW FROM CROP FIELD TO BEDROOMS

SECTION THROUGH BEDROOMS, STUDY, AND STORAGE ROOM

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

VIEW WEST TOWARDS KITCHEN AND STUDY LOFT

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

VIEW SOUTH FROM NICO’S HOUSE

SECTION THROUGH WATER COLLECTION TANKS

A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania

VIEW FACING KITCHEN AND DINING AREA

CONSTRUCTION DETAILS

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC SHOWING WATER COLLECTION SYSTEM

MEMORY ORDER DIMENSION

Travel Drawings from Italy Course | Study Abroad Instructor | Charlie Menefee, Luis Pancorbo Location | Veneto, Italy Term | Summer 2018

I completed these drawings during a summer course in the Veneto region of Italy. This course largely studied the built legacies of Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Carlo Scarpa through drawing, and sought to make sense of the infrastructural complexities of Venice and the surrounding regions through diagramming and sketching. Through my drawings I sought to understand geometrical patterns, construction strategies, and the layers of buildings that we cannot see, but which we must deduce based on what we can. Further, the scale ranges from individual building components, to buildings as a whole, and finally to complex infrastructural systems in an urban context.

MEMORY ORDER DIMENSION | Veneto, Italy

PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL WORK | Portland, OR

PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECTURAL WORK

Residential work at various scales Project Types | Residential Period | April 2021 - Present Roles | Design, Drafting, Graphics

Over the last few years, I’ve worked on a number of residential projects ranging from 750 sf accessory dwelling units to large multi-family and affordable housing projects. In doing so, I’ve come to understand design aesthetics, budget, and client needs as a delicate balance that constantly needs to be aligned, assessed, and re-aligned. This necessitates dynamic, fast-paced problem solving, with facets and constraints that are not broached in architecture school. Becoming hyper-attuned to possibilities and constraints is key to carrying out a successful project. As I continue to grow in my professional practice, I seek to further my understanding of all aspects of project design through building and zoning code, site specifics, historical and cultural context, and environmental sensitivity and stewardship.

HACKER ARCHITECTS | Upshur Multifamily

UPSHUR MULTIFAMILY Architect Project Type Year Role Team

Hacker Architects Multi-Family Residential (Design Development) 2022-2023 Design Staff Chris Hodney (Design Principal); Jen Dzienis (Project Manager); Keri Erwin (Project Architect); Maddy Gorman (Interior Designer)

NORTH ELEVATION

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

NORTH / SOUTH TRANSVERSE SECTION

HACKER ARCHITECTS | Upshur Multifamily

ROOFTOP LOUNGE

FIRESIDE LOUNGE

UPSHUR ENTRY

SPA

POLYPHON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN | Various

N. DELAWARE ADU & DETACHED ADDITION Architect Project Type Year Role

Polyphon Architecture & Design, LLC Residential (Under Construction) 2021 - 2022 Job captain and drafting from pre-design through completion of construction documents and construction administration

LEVEL 1

DETAIL - DECK

Transverse Section

LEVEL 2

ELEVATION

POLYPHON ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN | Various

ARRAY APARTMENTS

SAUVIE ISLAND HOUSE

Architect Project Type Status Year Role

Polyphon Architecture & Design, LLC Residential Permitting 2021 - 2022 Graphic representation, marketing

OVERLOOK TERRACE

WARREN’S WAY ADU

Architect Project Type Status Year Role

Polyphon Architecture & Design, LLC Residential Under Construction 2021 - 2022 Graphic representation, marketing

Polyphon Architecture & Design, LLC Residential Design 2021 - 2022 Graphic Representation, marketing

REFERENCES CHRIS HODNEY Principal Hacker Architects chodney@hackerarchitects.com

SCHUYLER SMITH Principal Polyphon Architecture & Design schuyler@polyphon.com

LUIS PANCORBO, PhD Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture lgp6t@virginia.edu