Sample Portfolio: Eliezer Perez | Virginia Tech M.Arch II Selected Works

SAMPLE PORTFOLIO / ELIEZER PEREZ 2019-2020 M.ARCH 1 CANDIDATE AT VT WAAC / CONTACT : ELIEZER @VT.EDU | (407)-404-4674

experience

education

CB DesignTech, Group - Architectural Intern Virginia Alexandria Center - Graphic Design Assistant August 2019 - current2020-

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Masters of Architecture anticipated graduation May 2021 GPA: 3.97

Key Organization, member of a service-disabled veteran-owned small business design firm.

• development, and production of graphics for(SDVOSB) internal and external I assisted in aspects of practice and project management organizing projects, preparing usages. documents to be sent out, to clientforemails, site documentation, well as working • Regularly tasked withresponding crafting material marketing, social media, as and recruitment purposes as well as large scaleand banners and signage forAllon-campus usage. through marketing/graphic design, internal organization. required ideas to be efficiently • Outsideinofa my the graphic design have been assist in manifested wayrole thatascaptured the spirit of aassistant, SDVOSBI design firm, expected prioritizingtoclear the organization and management of lectures, special events, as well as meeting with communication and effectiveness. Being a relatively young design firm, I was also considerably students who require technical assistance. tasked with creating project templates, standard detail blocks, as well as developing internal organizational strategies to streamline the overall design process from CB Design Group - Architectural Intern April 2020 - September 2020 schematic to construction administration.

• Assisted in aspects of practice and project management organizing projects, preparing Virginia Tech, Alexandria Center - Graphic Design Assistant 2019documents to be sent out, responding to client emails, site documentation, as well as working through marketing/graphic design, and internal organization.

Currently involved in closewith coordination with thetemplates, director of standard Virginia Tech’s • Considerably tasked creating project detail blocks, as well as Washington-Alexandria-Architecture-Center in organizing, developing, and producing developing internal organizational strategies to streamline the overall design process graphics internal to and external usages.

Regularly tasked with crafting material for marketing, from for schematic construction administration. social media, and recruitment purposes as well as large scale banners and signage for Eleven18 Architecture - Architectural Intern/Associate July 2018 - December 2019 to on-campus usage. Outside of my role as the graphic design assistant, I have been expected assist in the organization and management of lectures, special events, as well as meeting with • Initialwho roleneed as anhelp. intern consisted mainly of working through schematic design concepts students as well as responding to necessary updates in construction documents.

• Time spent developing sketches, diagrammatic drawings, digital models, and 2018-2019 Eleven18 Architecture - Architectural Intern/Associate renderings.

• Transitioning to a full associate, my responsibilities expanded to working from Initial role as an intern consisted mainly of working through schematic design concepts as well as schematic design phases through construction documentation as well as some aspects responding to necessary updates in construction documents. I spent time developing of construction administration visiting sites to document progress. sketches, diagrammatic drawings, digitalinmodels, and renderings. to as a full associate, • Considerable time was also spent site documentation andTransitioning site planning, well as my responsibilities expanded to working from schematic design phases through construction aspects of practice and project management responding to client emails, coordinating documentation as well some aspects of construction administration visiting sites to document with engineers andasrelated team members in meetings / presentations. progress. Considerable time was also spent in site documentation and site planning, as well as aspects of practice and project management responding to client emails, coordinating with engineers and related team members in meetings / presentations.

University of Central Florida Bachelor in Design in Architecture graduated May 2018, with honors GPA: 3.80

skills Proficiency in...

AutoCad Sketchup Adobe Creative Suite Hand Sketching / Physical Modeling Microsoft Office Familiarity of...

Revit Enscape Rendering Rhino

contact: eliezer@vt.edu /(407)-404-4674

projects think tank for historical thinking: 1 - 17 research institution for academic development

PART-let: 18 - 33 parklet pilot program proposal for the city of Alexandria’s King Street area, developing a kit of parts in the process that is applicable to various locations across the city.

VARIOUS 34 - 37 Graphics commissioned by Virgnia Tech WAAC for various events / marketing.

CARVING

Think Tank for Historical Thinking Virginia Tech WAAC / Fall 2019 / Marcia Feuerstein

WALL The “Think Tank for Historical Thinking,” was a project devised out of Marcia Feuerstein’s core graduate studio at the Washington-Alexandria-Architecture Center. The intent of this studio was to design a “place for thinking” in an urban context.

The “think-tank” being an especially significant program in the D.C area, a key challenge was considering how to reinvent the institution as more than just that, and rather an oasis for thought; the architecture inviting just as much thought as the program and context itself does.

A series of “hollow” cast-in-place mega concrete structures offer a quiet retreat for thought making and academic research. A textural study of the site revealed its many physical and coded barriers to general occupation. To address this, inspiration was taken from medieval English castle building practices were receptive space was carved into the protective mass of support walls. The concrete structures offer protective environments for intimate work in the dense urban fabric of Old Town Alexandria.

English castle floor plan sketches by Louis Khan (top); Site highlighted in red (bottom).

SITE

Various scales of occupation, water collection and light well systems activate internal volumes creating opportunities for meditative thought on a site previously unwelcoming to any productive thinking at all.

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ST. Old Town Alexandria site context (left); Conceptual site and texture study/analysis (right); Photoshop.

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SITE STUDY

Site photo collage looking East from Henry St. 2

3 | Think Tank

HAND MODELING + SKETCHING Sketch collage: overall city observations were collaged to create a model of understanding changes in the language as we walk out from the historic site area to newer urban areas on the outskirts of Alexandria. The intermingling of rich history and new urban projects serve as part of the basis for the overall think tank design: an urban oasis in a dense urban city.

Conceptual model: suspending controlled space in a carved mass, creating a protective complex.

Physical model: cast concrete, plexi, bass wood.

Hand sketch: developing “carved” mass.

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Conceptual model: suspending controlled space in a carved mass, creating a protective complex.

Physical model: cast concrete, plexi, bass wood.

Hand sketch: developing “carved” mass.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN + EXTERIOR RENDERING

Ground Level : Entry / Circulation / Gallery + Exhibits / Public Forum / Auditorium / Reflective Plazas

Patrick Street entry (right) keeps a low profile, mimicking the Henry Street entry despite internal programming (left) being configured in distinctly different configurations. Complex circulation creates opportunities to utilize pathways as opportunities to wander, pace, and explore. Empty facades are utilized to display public murals, while frosted glazing offers a theatrical display of silhouettes in the glowing light, both of which attempt to activate activity along street edges and the adjacent open alleyway. Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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UPPER LEVEL 1- DIRECTOR’S OFFICE 2-OFFICE 3- PRIVATE READING ROOMS 4-COMMUNAL READING ROOM 5-WORKSHOPS + FLEX SPACE

Second Level: Offices / Small Reading Rooms / Conference Room / Workshops + Flex Space

SECOND FLOOR PLAN + GALLERY RENDERING

Reading rooms remove users from the site, offering curated views, and reflective oases for solitary and /or small group work.

Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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PUBLIC ALLEY ELEVATION

CENTRAL READING ROOM

CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM OCCUPIABLE COLUMNS AS ROOMS (TYP.)

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North facing glazing systems optimize natural offset lighting in circulatory and receptive spaces, eliminating need for excessive lighting / power requirements, and reactivates activity with formly not occupiable borders (literal and coded). Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

11 | Think Tank

Large group work is conducted in the central reading room, offering an outlet of light in the otherwise compressed complex of smaller work spaces and offices. Curtain wall systems are equipped with glazing panels in varying transparancies/opacities, optimizing ideal light. Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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LARGE READING ROOM VISUALIZATION: RENDERING + CROSS SECTION

Sectionally, there is constant changing in grade, enforcing an “active” style of circulating while also creating moments for conversation-style pits and/or oases for solitary thought and work. Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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OCCUPIABLE “COLUMN” SECTION + SKYLIGHT POURED-IN-PLACE CONCRETE STRUCTURE

(Left): <<< Delicate, sometimes unseen, systems craft experiential spaces.

REINFORCING STRUCTURE DRAINAGE INSULATION

Light is reflected, bounced, and diffused, while water collection activates an additional sensory layer: sound.

STACK SPACE CARVED INTO WALL

Seating and stack space is carved into the interior of the wall, maximizing floor space, and shading sensitive reading material from daylight.

SEATING RECEPTION

<<<< Elevations are kept (Right): minimal, assimilating into their streetscapes proportionately, but reserving some identity in a more contemporary material palette of concrete paneling, painted steel, and native wildflowers. Empty facades are utilized to display public art/murals in lieu of typical entry signage.

WATER COLLECTION

AutoCad, Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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+ HENRY STREET ELEVATION

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PATRICK STREET ELEVATION + SMALL READING ROOM RENDERINGS

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Think Tank for Historical Thinking Virginia Tech WAAC Fall 2019 Marcia Feuerstein (Right): <<<< Patrick Street entry serves as main entry to think tank programs. Left structure mimics Henry Street entry offering an external opportunity for window watching as silhouttes pass behind the frosted glazing which shields internal circulation.

Left structure utilizes a similar language, but opens glazing allowing entry to the one public structure of the complex which houses dining services. Public art is utilized on empty facades to draw interest and establish identity. <<< Vignettes reveal small (Left): experiential reading rooms.

Wood paneling is utilized to create a warm and inviting space for reading and research.

Stack space is built into wall to shade reading material from the various sources of light.

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Reading rooms.

King Street (Part)let: Urban Parklet Virginia Tech WAAC Spring 2020 / Susan Palladino Completed in collaboration with the Scissor Studio.

As part of the City of Alexandria’s continued efforts to enhance the pedestrian experience and safety of it’s diverse community, the city’s parks and recreation department collaborated with Virginia Tech’s Scissor Studio to develop possible master planning schemes and at least one viable parklet proposal to be developed and built at the end of King Street at the waterfront and also serve as the prototype for a new pilot parklet program in the city. <<< (Left): Site plan highlighting the Old Town area of Alexandria in red, with the focus of scope being in the smaller black circle. <<<< Site observations and physical (Right): studies of the area were first conducted to access needs/challenges/obstacles, aesthetic direction, and obtain necessary site measurements.

Site: King Street Old Town Alexandria, Virginia

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INITIAL PROPOSALS

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THE WHARF FOR LEASE

LANDINI BROTHERS RESTAURANT PIZZERIA PARADISO

PAPER SOURCE

SILVER PAROT

URBANO AMERICA

BUGSY’S

O’CONNELLS POPS ICE CREAM

CREAMERY ICE CREAM

FISH MARKET

MIA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT LUCKY KNOT

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The City of Alexandria’s initial master plan proposal for King Street’s pilot parklet program was initially open to interpretation. Left graphic represents the City’s initial proposal. Right graphics showcase aggressive yet more engaged possibilities for the block’s reimagining. Street paint is utilized to create a long winding “cross-walk” down the new pedestrian street, colorful sidewalk striping is utilized to highlight entries of businesses, while similar logic is used to highlight parklet spaces, street furniture, trash receptacles, etc. AutoCad, Photoshop

Low-profile wheel stops replace need for fencing, maintaining a clear sightline down the street.

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This scheme programs/codes this King Street block in color, creating public art and a system of navigation/discovery.

INITIAL INITIALPROPOSALS PROPOSALS

“One good room to be in”: inward focus, activities in the air, shading.

“One playground to explore” : outward focus, activities on the ground.

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Initial conversations with the City of Alexandria led to the commissioning of two parklet proposals partnered with two local ice creamery businesses in the 200 block of King Street.

Pedestrian ways along King Street act as thoroughfares, with little opportunity to sit or engage with other passerby.

The two proposals serve as a yin and yang for social experiences, utilizing contrasting seat confi gurations and vegetation as a visual screen to alter each space’s internal/ external atmosphere, offering respite and extending the possible dining area opportunities for the adjacent businesses.

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FINAL PARKLET PRPOSAL

Ultimately all previous proposals were scrapped at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current site at the end of King Street was chosen to create an extension of the waterfront district, with past concepts being melded together to create a super-sized parklet.

The “combined” parklet offers scales of occupation and socialization with a focus on celebrating the various systems/engineering holding together the structure; a celebration of the diversity in scales, experiences, occupations, and peoples of Old Town Alexandria, Virgina.

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BASIC PARKLET COMPONENTS + D-I-Y ASSEMBLY

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Simple instructional graphics were created per the City of Alexandria’s request so that the process of construction, assembly, deconstruction, and possible reconfi gurations of the parklet proposal could be understood by any Alexandria resident/business interested in participating in future applications for the city’s pilot parklet program. Revit, Photoshop %FMJWFSBCMFT ESBXO XJUI &NJMZ #SPBEXFMM BOE PUIFST

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PARKLET DETAILS

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Cross-sections at various points along the parklet, revealing the internal structure at typical seating condition areas, and all table surfaces. Seating is built into the structure of the required street barrier wall which also serves as the base for the attached privacy trellis. AutoCad, Revit Photoshop %FMJWFSBCMFT ESBXO XJUI &NJMZ "TIXPSUI BOE PUIFST

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9' - 10 1/4"

Steel mesh trellis 2" x 2" Painted Steel Tube (14 guage) 1" x 2" Painted Steel Tube (14 guage) TYP.

4' - 2 1/2" 1' - 5 1/4"

4" x 5/4" Black Locust Wood Paneling

2' - 8 1/4"

2' - 5"

2' - 1 3/4"

3' - 6 1/4"

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2" x 1/4" Painted Steel Plate 1" x 2" Painted Steel Tube (14 guage) TYP.

2' - 0"

2' - 0"

2' - 0"

2' - 0"

8' - 0"

SECTION A : A

SECTION C : C

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1" x 1" x 2" Steel Angle, Welded to 1' x 2" Steel Tube

High-Strength Steel Hex Head Screw with Phillips Drive, 4-40 Thread Size, 1" Long

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Trellis Detail 12" = 1'-0"

TYP. Cap All Open Tube Steel with Plate TYP. All Cut Trellis Edges Capped With Rubber Cap and Glue

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TRELLIS DETAIL B

1' - 6 1/4" Steel Mesh Trellis

6' - 4 3/4"

1' - 3 1/4"

Uline 20 x 11 x 30" Trash Can 2" x 4" Wood Substructure

4" x 5/4" Black Locust Wood Paneling

1" x 2" Painted Steel Tube (14 guage) TYP.

1" x 2" Painted Steel Tube (14 guage) TYP.

2" Painted Steel Angle (1/8" guage)

1' - 6"

0' - 8"

3' - 5"

2" x 1/4" Painted Steel Plate

3' - 6" 1' - 8 1/4" 0' - 9"

3' - 9 1/2"

1' - 0"

2" x 1/4" Painted Steel Plate 4" x 5/4" Ash Wood Paneling

2' - 9 1/2" 8' - 0"

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PARKLET DETAILS Seating is fi xed to address issues with unintended reconfi guration/theft, joints and connection points are revealed to celebrate the structure and raw characteristics of materials. Revit, Photoshop %FMJWFSBCMFT ESBXO XJUI &NJMZ "TIXPSUI BOE PUIFST

1 1/2"

12"

1" Diameter Painted Steel Tube

19 1/4"

20 3/4"

12" Diameter Ash Wood Seat

Steel Structural Pipe Fitting Floor Flange

4" Steel Plate (1/4" Guage) 3 A503

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Stool Section 6" = 1'-0"

High-Strength Grade 8 Steel Hex Head Screw, Zinc-Aluminum Coated, 5/8"-11 Thread Size, 1-3/4" Long

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High-Strength Grade 8 Steel Hex Head Screw, Zinc-Aluminum Coated, Grade 8 Steel, 6-32 Thread Size, 3/4" Long

4" Steel Plate welded and bolted to Steel Tube below

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18-8 Stainless Steel Oval Head Self Tapping Screws Number 8 Size, 2" Long TYP. Size and Spacing for Wood Paneling, 4" x 5/4" Nominal Wood (3 1/2" x 1" Actual)

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1"

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Continuous 1" x 2" Steel Tube (14 Guage) for Bench Support External Hex Head Drilling Screws for Metal, Corrosion-Resistant Steel, Number 12 Size, 2" Long, Number 3 Drill Tip Steel Nails, 4D Penny Size, 1-1/2" Long 3/4"

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Planter detail High-Strength Grade 8 Steel Hex Head Screw, Zinc-Aluminum Coated, 1/4"-20 Thread Size, 1-1/4" Long 2" Painted Steel Angle, 1/8" gauge

Combined seat and planter-wall street barrier structure house repurposed ULINE trash receptacles which hold the layers of soil needed for trellis vegetation. Butt joints are chosen over a mitered joint to reveal connection points at folding points in surfaces. Revit, Photoshop

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Ash wood table top, 4" x 5/4" Nominal Wood (3 1/2" x 1" Actual)

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Table Corner Section 12" = 1'-0"

RECAP: PARTS, PRODUCT + QUESTIONNAIRE

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King Street (Part)let: Urban Parklet Virginia Tech WAAC Spring 2020 / Susan Palladino

A contrasting warm material palette of weather-resistant woods is utilized to create an internal space that is as durable as it is welcoming and cozy. Native vegetation that is drought resistant and high-sun tolerant is utilized to offer privacy, visual interest, and is practically easy to maintain long-term.

Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

Waterfront parklet seen from sidewalk persepctive; Revit, Enscape, Photoshop

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VARIOUS Graphics commisisoned by Susan Palladino for VT WAAC (2019-2021)

Recruiting graphic; Fall 2020 Hand sketching, Photoshop, Indesign

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Lecture series flyer; Spring 2021 Hand sketching, Photoshop, Indesign

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[re]CONSTRUCTING

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–– Carl Sagan Our favorite Danish urbanist, Jan Gehl, says that a city’s primary job is to be sweet to its people. What could be sweeter than a place to sit, people-watch, and eat ice cream at the end of King Street? The City of Alexandria has invited the WAAC to help it achieve sweetness through the design and construction of a pair of “Parklets” for the one hundred block of King Street. The Parklets will be open and in use for the entire summer, providing the City an opportunity to put that block on a car diet to test degrees of pedestrianization. Through the Parklets, we will engage the full range of iterative design thinking—from object to building to city, and back. This will be a design/build studio, hands-on and minds-on. It is open to all students who are ready and willing to commit to building a sweeter city.

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Urban Spiritual Retreat and Liturgical Garden: An urban retreat is a spiritual enclave that provides a place for respite from the life of the city, while still being situated within it. In some spiritual practices, this place is a monastery.

It is also meditative, a situation of the in-between – a liminal space, a threshold condition ǡ ǡ Ǥ ơ Ȃ ǡ ǡ ơ blink of an electronic device. Likewise, the monastic space simultaneously inhabits the immediate urban reality and an imagined celestial realm. Supporting the area within the retreat walls are landscapes and a Liturgical Garden for celebration and enactment of sacred rituals. In these indoor and outdoor spaces, a community of twenty–forty residents (monks, nuns, etc.) will dwell, worship, work, gossip, meditate, sleep, read, study, clean, learn, cry, cook, laugh, die… The monastery will also include areas to feed and comfort the lost and hungry. The site is in Alexandria.

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Left to right: (1) Course banner; Spring 2020 (2) End of Year Celebration; Spring 2020 (3-4) Social media graphics; Fall 2020 Photoshop, Indesign

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THANK YOU.

ELIEZER PEREZ contact: eliezer@vt.edu /(407)-404-4674