ELLIOTT PÉREZ SELECTED WORKS
Elliott Pérez 143A Webster Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey 07307 eperezsera@gmail.com 1+ 201 665 6365
Experience Wiener Architecture Group Draftsman, 2016 - Present -
Field measure and document existing conditions Produce and edit construction documents in AutoCAD for franchises (Dunkin’ Donuts & Taco Bell) Prepare colored elevations for new Taco Bell Buildings using AutoCad and Illustrator Woodridge Chen Architects Architectural Intern, 2014 - 2016
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Field measure and document existing conditions Produce and edit construction documents in Revit Asisted in the design development of an addition to the Assembly of God Church in Newark Collaborated in the proposal for the renovation of the cultural center for the Newark Public Library Education New Jersey Institute of Technology Bachelor of Architecture, Sep 2014 - Dec 2017 Essex County College A.A.S. Architectural Technology, Sep 2012 - Dec 2014 Publication
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Schindler Global Award 2017 São Paulo Un-Disciplined CMU, 2015 Skills
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Fluent in Spanish Hand drawing/skecthing Physical model making AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros 5 InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
Schindler Global Award 2017 ARMATURE São Paulo URBANISMO The revitalization of Vila Leopoldina begins with a careful understanding of the existing CEAGESP market and its interdependent system of physical, social, and cultural resources. The relocation of CEAGESP triggers a vacuum occupying the central third of the site, a vast paved surface hosting clusters of warehouses and a monumental edifice at the core of the operation. The surrounding context features a multiplicity of uses ranging from creative design studios to local restaraunts. By introducing an “armature”, a flexible ground-scape framework as a spatial connector, we aim to activate opportunities of social and cultural exchange between the different uses spanning the entire site. This reintroduces the spirit of the market, becoming an incubator of innovation and exchange, a marketplace for the local vendors and artisans, and a platform for aspiring performers. Mobility for the common resident is emphasized with bike lanes, bike sharing, and bus stops throughout the “armature” which are integrated with surrounding transit loops and the larger metro system. Combined with other activators and nodes for interaction, we hope to break the industrial scale into a more sensible urban scale. The armature will provide a wholesome dynamic human ecology that fosters growth and interaction with the surrounding neighborhoods and Sao Paulo as a whole.
The departure of the CEAGESP market is treated as an opportunity to critically examine its assets and their impact, influence, and relationship with the site. The revitalization of the site begins by identifying existing resources, distinctive activities and convergences of energy. A framework of linked strategies induces growth and development during and after the market’s transition, and envisions a more dynamic site capable of openly involving its users as active participants in the production of the city. Operating through established socio-political mechanisms and at the infrastructural, architectural, and tactical scale, Armature Urbanismo generates an interdependent system of physical, social, and cultural resources. An incrementally evolving infrastructural element, referred to as the Armature, becomes the driver of this new form of urbanism. The Armature is introduced as a conceptual tool, emerging through the connection of vacant lots and decaying properties selected for redevelopment and renovation to stitch together the remaining communities, activities, and assets on the site. At the infrastructural scale, the Armature provides utilities and services throughout the site, ensuring access to all emerging forms of urbanity. At the architectural scale, the Armature incentivizes growth and development of new hybrid programs while strengthening existing activities, and at the tactical scale operates as a framework for development of non-permanent human scaled interventions. The physical outcome of an Armature-based Urbanism is one with ramifications of resiliency for the site, fostering opportunity for growth, involvement, innovation, and cultural exchange through a hybridity of networks and spaces that enables flexibility and adaptability for the unpredictable nature of the city.
ELEVATED HOTEL BIKE PARKING + PARK Large bike parking structure with sloped occupiable roof top will support the increase in bike traffic along the armature. Connectino is available to bus transit for longer distance travel.
The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of the bridge. The covered plaza under the porous structure creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.
PARKING SPACE ABSORBER Phase 1 calls for the construction of an “absorber” typology to act as a provider of retail space, parking space, and offset the business that will be displaced by the removal of the CEAGESP market. It is expected that this building typology will be completed by the end of Phase 1 in order to absorb the functions of building being renovated and moved in the phases that follow.
CATALYZE ARMATURE GROWTH
Foster connections between renovated and repurposed structures; incorporate developing areas into evolving infrastructural network.
CULTURAL CENTER The design centers around the ground level art square, is a large space which opens up to the armature outside for the public to interact. The space serves as a “public intermediate” between the building and the city, and also connects the museum above with the film theaters below. There are many elements that resonate with the deep roots Brazilian culture as the lobby acts as the central area, where there is always something to do and something to experience.
URBAN JUNGLE
MAXHAUS (CONDOMINIUM)
Located between Armatures, this mixed-use space combines recreation and retail with mid-rise residential. Retail on the ground with services lifted encourages passage through the open public space beneath, inviting a variety of uses.
CULTIVATE ADAPTABILITY
Anticipate varying density scenarios and encourage flexible programming.
MAXHAUS (CONDOMINIUM)
VILA BOÊMIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of boutique shops, cafes, and eateries serving the local artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.
MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL AND WORK This building is a hybrid or residential located on top, worker space in the middle, and retail spaces in the bottom part. The park, which is part of the armature, also runs through the building and creates a landform condition. In the first phase, retail and worker spaces come in first to create growth incentive for the space, and residential tower come later when there is a need for more housing.
Local Worker (1/2 mile radius) Outer Worker
SPONSOR HYBRIDITY
Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction.
SANTOS BRAZIL (LOGISTICS)
RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, invigorating community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighborhoods.
EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
Connect to existing transit networks, enable newly emerging forms of mobility and establish efficient transportation hubs linked to the Armature.
VILA NOVA JAGUARE
DIFFUSE SITE EDGES Increase accessibility from Vila Leopoldina by activating street edge program. Provide access from Jaguare through MLP extension and water treatment facilities. Recuperate river edge as a functioning ecological landscape.
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CORREIOS (POST OFFICE)
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NESTED INCUBATOR This lot was transformed from retail only to a hybrid-catalyst that hosts different programs. The essence of the location was kept for preserving the retail and combining it with housing. Incubator spaces for start up companies were nested in the courtyard to create different levels of work spaces that range from individual office modules to small production warehouses.
URBAN PAVILION Along an existing road at the edge of the site, Collaborative Working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs court core retail shops and pavilions. The armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the open land and provide an open square amenity. After investing in a dense area the developers then supply the armature with a public park for the community.
FIAT (CAR DEALER)
MIXED USED RESIDENTIAL An existing vacant lot on the site is developed into a mixed used residential building hosting both a cafe and restaurant local to the area. Lush gardens and plenty of outdoors seating allows for those strolling on the armature to take a small coffee break and immerse themselves in a new environment
ITAÚ (BANK)
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA
EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for all students on site, ranging from primary school kids to university students. The complex, with its meandering path, encourages activity and interaction while generating a place for gathering. Different scales of interventions provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the surrounding community.
WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armature’s pedestrian population.
STUDENTS + SENIORS FARM COEXISTENCE
WALMART (HYPERMARKET)
This framework allows for flexibility of population density and multiple future scenarios. The frame is constructed first, then half of the spaces are used for living, and the other half can be user-configured. Located next to hydroponic farms is a community farm that serves as a gathering space for residents and surrounding neighbourhood.
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.
CARREFOUR (HYPERMARKET) ENGEMIX (CONCRETE PRODUCTION)
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DIFFUSE SITE EDGES
Foster connections between renovated and repurposed structures; incorporate developing areas into evolving infrastructural network. Providing an initiative for investors to construct new buildings on the site and incentivise construction of public squares for community use.
Anticipate varying density scenarios and encourage hybrid programming. Armature runs through selected points which reflects upon context and adds new program to accommodate a projected density influx, in turn creating a new atmospheres within the site after the market’s removal.
Increase accessibility from Vila Leopoldina by activating street edge program. Provide access from Jaguare through MLP extension and water treatment facilities. Recuperate river edge as a functioning ecological landscape.
ELEVATED HOTEL The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of the bridge. The covered plaza under the porous building creates market opportunities for tourists and locals to interact. The elevated hotel features balconies that overlook the armature and roadway, and serves as an iconic attraction for the site, distinctly visible above the overpass.
WAREHOUSE GYM An existing warehouse employs the skinning strategy and is stripped down to its framework, capable of providing lighting, sound, temporary cover, and other functions. An outdoor field occupies the space, creating a public athletic complex supported by the framework’s infrastructural capacities and supplied by the Armature’s pedestrian population.
SPONSOR HYBRIDITY Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity by renovating existing structures and transforming them for public use. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction with emerging structures that operate at an urban scale.
EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY
CULTIVATE SITE PROGRAMS
Connect to existing transit networks, including Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal, CPTM L09, Estação Imperatriz Leopoldina, enable newly emerging forms of mobility, such as bike sharing, and establish efficient transportation hubs linked to the Armature. Shuttle networks mobilize resources and large groups of people across the site while bike lanes and pedestrian walkways allow for interaction at the urban scale.
Promote mixed-use and hybrid typologies to generate resilient urban activity by renovating existing structures and transforming them for public use. Facilitate new modes of work, live, and play through diverse, interdependent exchange and interaction with emerging structures that operate at an urban scale. Chris Santos Architects and Associates.
EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for all students on site, ranging from primary school kids to university students. The complex, with its meandering path, encourages activity and interaction while generating a place for gathering. Different scales of interventions provide amenities for both residents on site as well as the surrounding community.
NESTED INCUBATORS This lot was transformed from retail only to a hybrid-catalyst that hosts different programs. The essence of the location was kept by preserving the retail and combining it with housing. Incubator spaces for startup companies were nested in the courtyards to create different levels of
VILA BOĂŠMIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of boutique shops, cafes, and eateries serving the local artist and designer community. Visitors on the Armature encounter public installations and large artworks on display dotted between galleries and exhibition halls inserted into converted structures, while interspersed plazas and performance spaces create opportunity for spontaneous bursts of activity.
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA To retain the existing spirit of the market, the integration and renovation of existing buildings is proposed to become absorbed by the armature. The space is envisioned as a nexus of cultural and social interaction with mixed programs including retail, leisure, restaurants, and transit services.
RIVER CONNECTION + WATER TREATMENT Through the use of an elevated system, the Armature extends across the river and connects to a water treatment facility, invigorating community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighborhoods.
URBAN PAVILION Along an existing road at the edge of the site, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs court core retail shops and pavilions. The armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the open land and provide an open square amenity. After investing in a dense area the developers then supply the armature with a public park for the community.
Un-Disciplined CMU A Design Build masonry Studio
The Un-Diciplined CMU (concrete masonry unit) assembly was an assignment intended to produce a mock-up of a paperproject for a police station in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Although the competition had requirements and agenda of its own, the design studio expanded the given program and material theme. Shifting from the expected representation of the whole building, the focus was given to the exploration of the material parameters and cultural dimension of the project on the given site of a 6’ x 8’ x 8’ volume. The basic CMU was chosen due to its commonplace status in the construction industry stimulating unexpected readings including its cultural implications. The design process was not linear and it required simultaneous exploration and production through digital, physical, and analog methods. The immersion into systematic thinking that was embodied in the framework of the studio was key to the iterative process that allowed the final result, it was understood through the networked connections of the masonry industry and its architectural aspirations. The project also went through moments of uncertainty and frustration, as the results seemed always unpredictable or unexpected. Each step forward was treated as an accomplishment with excitement, yet research and critical inquiry were daily ingredients that encouraged the studio.
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A combination unit that deals with compression at entrace and expansion at glazing
Units are fan out and connected on the sides to occupy the acre site
3 levels of units are stacked based on the previous aggregation diagram to form a 10 units cluster.
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10 units cluster connect to one another in a similar way that the singular units are connected. It is then taken a step further and aggregated in an angulating conďŹ guration, ultimately mirroring on the center axis to central space.
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AXONOMETRIC BASE UNITS A, B, & A ( REFLECTED)
BASE UNIT A (REFLECTED) 1/4” = 1’-0”
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BANK OF ENGLAND 1 Front Court 2 Pay Hall 3 Rotunda 4 Old Four Per Cent Office (later Old Dividend Office) 5 New Four Percent Office (Later Colonial Office) 6 Bartholomew Lane Vestibule 7 Bank Stock Office 8 Four Per Cent and Five Per Cent Office 9 Consols Transfer Office 10 Consols Library
11 Lothbury Court 12 Print House Court 13 Accountants’ Office 14 Governor’s Court 15 Governor’s Room 16 Committe Room 17 Court Room 18 Bill Office 19 Reduced Annuity Office 20 Cheque Office 21 Dividend Warrant Office 22 Garden Court
23 Bullion Court 24 Chief Cashier 25 Bullion Office 26 Bullion Gateway, Lothbury Facade 27 Residence Court 28 Princes Street 29 Tivoli Corner
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View from the south east, drawn in 1830 buit between 1788 - 1833, demolished, 1925. Painting by Joseph Gandy
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Elliott PĂŠrez 143A Webster Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey 07307 eperezsera@gmail.com 1+ 201 665 6365