EILEEN NUNES KOO P O R T F O L I O
786.469.9692 ENUNE018@FIU.EDU
Determined and self motivated graduate from Caracas, Venezuela, with a passion for architecture and design at its many levels, and the difference it can make in our communities. Looking to obtain a challenging architecture position where my skills will be tested and my knowledge strengthened.
EILEEN NUNES KOO PERSONAL
EDUCATION
786.469.9692 ENUNE018@FIU.EDU
2 1 0 1 B R I C K E L L AV E N O. 3 4 0 1 MIAMI FL 33129
Mixture of youthful exuberance and determination to develop new ideas and inspiring designs. Multi-cultural background; at ease in adapting to different groups and a great team leader/player. Fluent in Spanish and English, basic Italian and Portuguese. Experience in international architectural environments. Knowledge and experience in financial and market analysis , web design and sustainable systems. +2 years experience in woodworking and metals machinery. Strong building skills. MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, MIAMI, FLORIDA 2011 - 2015 3.8 GPA, Magna Cum Laude 2014 2012
Architecture in Genoa Study Abroad Program - Urban Interfaces Netherlands Study Abroad Summer Program - Social Housing and Living with Water
ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE MIAMI DADE COLLEGE, MIAMI, FLORIDA 2009 - 2011
SKILLS HONORS
AutoCad, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketchup, Rhino, V-Ray, Microsoft Office, modeling, lasercutting. 2 Years of Woodshop/Metalworking experience. 2014 2014 2013 ‘09-’14 2009
Villagers Scholarship Award Miami Beach ‘Design by Complaint’ Charrette 2nd place Tau Sigma Delta Honors Society Dean’s List (Miami Dade College, Florida International University) State Academic Excellence Award (Caracas, Venezuela)
CERTIFICATES
2015
FIU Graduate Certificate in Architectural History, Theory and Criticism
PUBLICATIONS
2014
‘Start-Up Living: a live-work development project’. Featured on particlehaus.com and criticalrevival.com
EXPERIENCE
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY MIAMI, FLORIDA Graduate Assistant January 2015 - April 2015 Research assistant for the Study Abroad program. Documented, organized and designed the student works booklet from the 2014 Study Abroad Paris/Milan program. SDH STUDIO AVENTURA, FLORIDA Architectural Drafter September 2013 - January2014 Produced and redlined architectural and construction documents, as well as organized and classified the company’s library of catalogs and compiled material/finishing schedules for 4+ projects. CITIMARINE YACHTS LLC MIAMI, FLORIDA Advertising Designer October 2012 - August 2014 Web Assistant Brand development for the company, including logo design, creating advertising layouts and graphics for sales, event flyers and branding merchandise, as well as editing product photographs. Also collaborated in building and maintaining the company website using (Prestashop: Ecommerce software). OMM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT MIAMI, FLORIDA Administrative Intern June 2012 - August 2012 Archived and managedthe company’s legal documents, assisted in supervising the construction and maintenance work on the property, as well as in the organization and overall supervision of cultural events such as lectures and workshops.
AFFILIATIONS
2011 2012 2013
AIAS member VotoDondeSea volunteer (Venezuelan Voting Awareness Organization) Tau Sigma Delta National Honors Society
START-UP LIVING
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START - UP LIVING
A sustainable small-business community for Overtown Miami Spring 2014 Design Studio Nine Instructor Olivia Ramos Featured as a proposal for http://criticalrevival.com/ Featured on http://particlehaus.com/
Working with the growing movement towards shared office spaces and more independent businesses starting to take over the market, this project seeks to create a new model of a live/work community, where young entrepreneurs interact and network in a communal environment. The live/work program helps bring fellow entrepreneurs together, creating a network that helps them learn, develop and grow by sharing clients, brainstorming together and also living together. This personal connection will bring a stronger bond between residents that will help in their professional relationships as well. Working closely with developer Chris McLeod, a passionate campaigner for the conservation of North Miami Ave as a Historic District, we focused this project on strengthening this neighborhood’s identity and its entrepreneurs, preserving the smallscale feeling of a small community that
grows and depends on local markets. This utopian idea of “keeping it local� is the very basis of this project, giving entrepreneurs an opportunity to create a successful business from scratch with the support of fellow business owners and their community. It will also serve as a new model for sustainable living, through the efficient tank system that will serve the entire building and contribute to making it function off the grid. Each unit is specifically tailored to the needs of a person in that field, every unit connected by the common area/lobby that serves as a meeting room and kitchen Each floor of the residential building will be made up of live/ work spaces that can be occupied by only one professional/entrepreneur of each industry. This will create a unique job market that lends itself to each resident collaborating with one another and sharing clients, securing business/work in a way that the commune is self-sustaining and work is guaranteed.
growing movement towards shared office spaces
more entrepreneurial start-ups in every industry
Many shared office spaces have been popping up in the Miami area, such as Buro, Pipeline, LAB Miami and others. It becomes clear that entrepreneurs want to be around other entrepreneurial minds, to brainstorm, network and feed off each others energy. This community style business model has been around for a while, with groups such as BNI, a community that allows only one professional from each industry per meeting. This was there is no direct competition, and members feel at ease to share clients and intel. In this building, conveniently located between the financial district of Brickell and arts movement center of Wynwood, creates an affordable opportunity for
new model of livework community
young entrepreneurs who are just starting out, and do not have the resources to finance an office as well as living quarters. Start-Up Living provides a specially tailored live-work unit for each industry, with six different typologies on each floor. The units each are designed as loft spaces, with an office/ workspace on ground level and a bedroom upstairs.
INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURS = LIVE WHERE YOU WORK
Clockwise from top left: Exterior street view, common area/ lobby, Lawyer Unit, Architect Unit, Miscellaneous Unit.
Lawyer unit
Ground floor plan
1. Lobby/ common space 2. Kitchen 3. Miscellaneous Unit 4. Lawyer Unit 5. Architect Unit 6. Artist Unit 7. Business Unit 8. Programmer Unit
The ground floor retail targets the more public services, perfect for a restaurant, bar or coffeshop. Their intimate dimensions are tailored to smaller businesses as an affordable space to start out, with a loft bedroom space that looks over the shop. Each shop has its own entry and street-side seating, while the residential floors have a separate entrance an lobby . Typical unit floor plan
SCHNEBLY’S REDLANDS WINERY AND BREWERY MASTER PLAN
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SCHNEBLY’S REDLANDS WINERY AND BREWERY MASTER PLAN Proposal for expansion in Homestead, Florida Fall 2013 Design Studio Eight Instructor Camilo Rosales In collaboration with Edgardo Betancourt Lorena Reyes Bahamon and David Rojas
This master plan proposal sought to create a seamless experience throughout the winery that highlighted the sustainable processes and features that make it unique. Adding many new spaces such as a brewery, banquet hall, chapel, gift shop and amphitheater, all woven together by a continuous path around a tranquil lake creates a smooth transition from the existing terrain to the new. Being a sustainable company, the master plan seeks to showcase these organic proceses instead of hiding them behind closed doors; all winery and distillery areas are open to the public tours, and the water filtration system is visible towards the rear of the site., as well as the composting area. As a main gesture, the entrance to the property goes through a pathway between elevated crops and waterways, which runs with water that has been treated at the facilities. These ideas help make the site as cost-efficient as possible while still creating
a beautiful way of showcasing Schnebly’s unique wine and beer making processes. All of the buildings, except for the chapel, are designed and built from retrofitted containers, adding to the sustainable agenda of this winery. The proposed buildings are designed in an environmentally conscious way, taking maximum advantage of sunlight and natural ventilation. All crops are kept together to make maintenance easier, as well as provide pleasant views from the street and parking area. All of this program is connected by a continuous walkway that goes around the entire site. This circulation pattern allows an easy point of orientation for visitors as well as an easy tour path. It also connects both the winery and beer brewing area, while still maintaining their own identity and privacy.
This 418,000 square feet addition includes: 150 parking spaces, a brewery and beer garden, visitors center, banquet hall, restaurant and kitchen, amphitheater, chapel and proposed lake. It also includes a vermi-composting area and a water treatment facility. The services facilities and entrances are all strategically located so that they are out of the general public‘s eye and are accessible from the old entrance, which is used as the employee and service entrance in our proposal.
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Master plan proposal
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Taking advantage of the scenic surroundings, the “Chapel of Light� blends seamlessly to its surroundings in materiality and form. The most important aspect in spiritual spaces is light; this together with a tranquil natural setting make for a perfect space for intimate gatherings. The chapel is essentially a plane that folds over itself to create a space inside, becoming larger as it arrives to the altar.
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Located on the hill proposed in this master plan, it is surrounded with just enough landscape to permit a private ceremony, while still being connected to the rest of the site.
Floor plan
outdoor reception area
Final model photogra[hs from presentation to Peter Schnebly
The structure is a light frame of wooden elements that wrap around the space, filtering the light and allowing it into the space in a delicate manner that changes as the day goes by. The chapel is oriented in a way that the setting sun will light up the altar with a beautiful glow. The structure’s openness and lightness renders it exposed to the elements and surroundings, resulting in a structure that is hollistically experiential and spiritual. A covered walkway offers a sheltered path from th foyer to the banquet hall. Between these is a small garden, which lends itself to small outdoor receptions. The view to the rest of the winery provides a perfect backdrop to any event in the chapel.
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BALLOONIA
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BALLOONIA
Conceptual design for public installation on Lincoln Road, Miami Spring 2014 Design Studio Nine Instructor Brett Moss In collaboration with Miguel Pio and Anica Lompre Awarded Second Place in Wolfsonian’s “Power of Design” Charette Exhibited at Florida International University Miami Beach Studio, “Design by Complaint” Exhibition
This installation was a proposal for the Wolfsonian’s first annual “Power by Design” charette for FIU students. Its aim was to redesign the public pavilion which defines how the pedestrian walkway of Lincoln Road terminates at the urban intersection with Washington Avenue, recontextualizing the existing pavilionns along Lincoln Road designed by Morris Lapidus. Balloonia’s concept was to create an interactive public space that symbolizes Miami’s unique identity and encourages commuunity spirit among its visitors. The pavilion is an interactive structure that represents in a playful and vibrant way the great diversification that makes up Miami’s “melting pot”. Hundreds of bright, differently colored balloons hang at different levels, representing the different cultures that make Miami such a unique and wonderful city. The visitors are immersed among balloons
of different colors and sizes, symbolizing the diffferent cultures, and they can interact and gather with other visitors in the gathering saces inside, enhancing the idea of different cultures coming together. These gathering spaces, formed by the balloons that surround it, make a symbolic reference to Lapidus’s original pavilion that once marked this plaza. At night, the balloons light up with a soft glow, and shine brighter when the visitors brush against them, enhancing the idea of plic interaction in the pavilion and how the balloons come together as a single, glowing entity. The pavilion is a place that gives pedestrians a fun, enticing place to come to and begin their Miami Beach experience, bringing together people and cultures in the dynamic way that Morris Lapidus intended. Balloonia is a unique introduction to the Lincoln Road Mall, and a symbol of Miami’s spirit.
Current circulation
By studying the current pedestrian circulation, which was very linear with no interaction in the center, we decided to tilt our pavilion at an axis that promoted exploratory circulation, while also slowing down the visitors’ pace by not giving such a harsh urban “hallway”, so to speak. The landscaping is based on these patterns of pedestrian circulation, and integrates green spaces among the balloons and around the structure. The proposal respects the existing landscaping conditions of the site, and does not alter the location of the existing trees.
Circulation with proposed pavilion
The pavilion is a playful solution to dealing with the strong winds and heavy noise, which gets filtered through the installation. The wind turns into an active factor in the pavilion, blowing the balloons in the breeze and making it more dynamic.
The former pavilion by Morris Lapidus, 1960
Plan wth gathering spaces
Longitudinal section
CARACAS HEALTH CENTER
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CARACAS HEALTH CENTER
Health center and residential complex in Caracas, Venezuela Summer 2014 Comprehensive Studio Instructor Michael Repovic
The Caracas Health Center takes advantage of the city’s pristine landscape and climatic conditions to create a recreational environment that is fully engaged with its natural surroundings. Taking note from other public parks and buildings, the center is designed in ascending platforms that are not quite at ground level, giving the plazas a sense of privacy while still being open to the public. The platforms ascend gradually, following the sloping topography of the landscape, and creating different plaza spaces for the visitors to restfully enjoy. It also creates perfect opportunities for yoga classes, Pilates, and other types of improvised activities, surrounded by luscious vegetation and smooth concrete surfaces. This dynamic play of concrete slabs allows for interaction between them, from the parking levels to the sports facilities. Most buildings in Caracas have their amenities on private, higher levels due to security reasons; here the idea is
continued by placing the sports facilities on an upper floor to keep a sense of exclusivity to the center, but maintaining it fully open to its surroundings. On the First Level, a collection of half courts provide an active platform for athletes, protected by a vertical garden façade that creates a light, beautiful barrier from the highway below, while also purifying the air. A wooden deck gives way for a resort-like pool area, with an all-around view of the Caracas landscape.
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Iron frame mounting for panels
To continue the concept of vertical gardens, as well as the integration of interior/ exterior and architecture/landscape, the project features a perforated facade of recycled cast aluminum panels mounted on iron frames. These panels feature uneven angled holes that allow vegetation to grow freely and organically around the building.
Conceptual rendering
The facade wraps around the residential portion of the project, and the freegrowing vegetation creates an ever-changing aesthetic of the facade as well as the lighting scheme throughout the building. There are four panel prototypes used in this design, varying from extremely porous to almost solid surfaces. These panels are arranged and patterned according to the program they envelop, controlling the lighting and heat levels inside.
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The panels that make up the building’s facade are arranged in a certain pattern to create different moments or interruptions, adjusting to the program that it encloses. Most units have an open balcony in the living room and perforated facades in the bedroom, to allow filtered light without it being too harsh. The solid facade appears in most parts to conceal systams and services, such as elevator shafts, bathrooms or kitchen appliances. This facade system allows a gradual and graceful transition from the free-growing vegetation on the panels to the vertical garden that encloses the sports level. Wall section detail
SUBMERGED CITYSCAPE: MAPPING THE EDGE
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SUBMERGED CITYSCAPE: MAPPING THE EDGE
Constructing an urban interface between city and sea in Genoa, Italy Fall 2014 Design Studio Ten Instructor Matthew Rice Exhibited at UNIGE (Univercita degli Studi di Genova)
The aim is to reevaluate the relationship between the city and the water. Being a port city, Genoa’s city life is still very separate from its industrial activities; therefore we seek to bring these two together by extending the urban grid and creating a new city edge. With this intention we analyzed cruiseliners and how they are basically a city within itself; then when it docks in the port it creates an extension of this life and activity from the land out into the water. This is what we aim to achieve: a superstructure that works as an extension of the city out into the water. Much like Archigram’s various reinterpretations of the city (No-Stop City, Walking City), it becomes a group of multiple components that connect and work together to create a system, or in this case a city. This new city edge is created by extending the urban grid out into the water and mirroring it, recreating the same proportions and spatial experiences as the city itself, but reinterpreted through a play of mass and void, solid and transparent.
This strategy gives emphasis to the idea of not only bringing the city out into the water, but bringing water into the city as well. These negative and positive spaces become present in the form of buildings, sunken piazzas, bodies of water, etc. The extension becomes a grid of different spaces and typologies that recreate the dynamism of Genoa’s architectural and urban composition.
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The structure is to function as an extension of the city; it is to contain housing, commercial space, public space. The particularity lies in continuing your daily life through this structure, not having the notion that you are underwater except at certain moments. The piazza is a public room which functions as well as a market.
Port-City conceptual collages and sections
Ground floor plan
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Typical residential floor plan
Typical residential floor plan
Urban strategy - mirroring/flipping the grid
SKETCHES
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SKETCHES
On-site analytical sketches from the Genoa Study Abroad program Fall 2014 Architecture and the City Seminar Instructor Matthew Rice Selected for FIU Study Abroad Italy Student Works Website
One of the best experiences of my education at Florida International University was the semester abroad in Genoa, Italy. Taking advantage of our program’s location in the north of Italy, we were able to visit and see first-hand many contemporary and modern works in Basel, Lyon, Milan, and other cities. It was an amazing experience to understand more in depth the strategies and concepts used in Europe, that we could observe in older structures as well as modern works. Analytical sketching helped me develop a deeper understanding of architecture and its development; being able to see beyond tthe form and seeing the strategy, and then putting it to paper, was a great way to broaden my architectural mindset and conceptual thinking. The broad spectrum of architectural works that we visited taught us about urban transformations in a city, and how
architectural structures function as urban catalysts. Italy is a perfect place to learn about the relationship between buildings and public spaces, of how the piazzas and buildings are strategically connected to create communities and translate hierarchy, history and culture through form.
Sant’Ignazio Chapel - Rome
Villa Giulia - Rome
Bocconi University - Milan
Laurentian Library - Florence
Notre Dame Du Haut - Ronchamp
Il Redentore - Venice
Medici Chapel - Florence
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