ELLIOTT PÉREZ SELECTED WORKS
Elliott PĂŠrez 143A Webster Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey 07307 eperezsera@gmail.com 1+ 201 665 6365
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Resume
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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 - 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 - Schindler Global Award 2017 São Paulo - Un-Disciplined CMU, 2015 Skills -
Fluent in Spanish Hand drawing/skecthing Physical model making AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros 5 InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop
Selected Works
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Un-Diciplined CMU Design-Build Masonry Studio
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Armature Urbanismo Schindler Global Award 2017 SĂŁo Paulo Honorable Mention
Un-Diciplined CMU
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
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The Un-Diciplined CMU (concrete masonry unit) assembly was an assignment intended to produce a mock-up of a paper-project 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.
Un-Diciplined CMU
Linear aggregation drawings
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Early study models of precast concrete
Design-Build Masonry Studio
Exploring CMU cutting
Selected Cuts for Construction
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Un-Diciplined CMU
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
Elevations were drawn for each side of every wall
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Plans were made at 3in. and 6in. for every course
Un-Diciplined CMU
Exploration of physical model materials
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Cast and mold experiment
Design-Build Masonry Studio
Physical Model in foam core
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Un-Diciplined CMU
Final physical model: arcylic
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
Final physical model: arcrylic
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Un-Diciplined CMU
Final physical model: arcylic
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
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Un-Diciplined CMU
Assorting and marking up cmu for cutting
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Freshly cut cmu ready to go
Design-Build Masonry Studio
Full scale model in progess
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Un-Diciplined CMU
Full scale model: CMU
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
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Full scale model: CMU
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Design-Build Masonry Studio
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Armature Urbanismo
Vila Leopoldina, SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil
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Schindler Global Award 2017 Honorable Mention
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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.
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CATALYZE ARMATURE GROWTH
CULTIVATE ADAPTABILITY
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.
EXPAND MULTIMODAL MOBILITY 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. Strategic Framework
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.
Schindler Global Award 2017
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.
CULTIVATE SITE PROGRAMS 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.
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Bike Charging Station
Food Plaza
Badminton Playground
RV Rest stop
Sculpture Park
Ecological Playground
Food Trucks
Bus Library
Multimodal Stop
Parking Absorber
Algae Skin Office
Food Cart
Bike Share Service
Multimodal Stop
Traffic Jelly
Car-Share Lot
Silo Festival
Sculpture Playground
Green Roof Platform
Tactical Urban Interventions
Interior Courtyard
Schindler Global Award 2017 Drone Port Canopy
Bridge Overlook
Food Truck Paradise
Water Treatment Overlook
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Farmer’s Market
Artist Exchange
Bridge Catwalk
Water Purification Basin
Spring Festival
Cultural Plaza
Solar Energy Collector
Pixacao Art Scape
CEAGESP Sports
Greenhouse Conversion
Nested Incubator
Silo Residence
Skinned Warehouses
Silo Gala
Zen Exchange
Storm Management
Tactical Urban Interventions
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Schindler Global Award 2017
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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.
Schindler Global Award 2017
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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 workspaces that range from individual office modules to small production warehouses.
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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.
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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.
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ELEVATED HOTEL BIKE HUB + PARK A large bike parking structure with sloped occupiable rooftops supports the increase in bike traffic along the Armature. Connection is available to bus transit for longer distance travels.
The elevated hotel allows for circulation to weave through the site from the opposite side of Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal. 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.
ARMATURE CONNECTS TO IMPERATRIZ LEOPOLDINA (420m NE)
CORREIOS (POST OFFICE)
URBAN ABSORBER BMW (CAR DEALER)
The Absorber typology acts as a provider of retail and parking space, offsetting the businesses that are displaced by the removal of the CEAGESP market and absorbing the functions of buildings being renovated and moved.
ATURE GROWTH
ovated and repurposed ng areas into evolving g an initiative for inveson the site and incentives for community use.
NESTED INCUBATOR
CULTURAL CENTER
By introducing new housing, this lot is transformed from retail only to a hybrid catalyst that keeps the essence of the location. Incubator spaces for startup companies are nested in the courtyards to create different levels of workspaces that range from individual office modules to small production warehouses.
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 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.
URBAN PAVILION Along Av. Dr. Gastão Vidigal, collaborative working offices for the incoming USP students and entrepreneurs are instituted, along with the O-Court retail shops and pavilions. The Armature runs adjacent to the lot, supplying an increase in density. Developers invest in the vacant land and provide a public square amenity; after investing in a dense area the developers then supply the Armature with a public park for the community.
NEOGAMA (RENOVATED WAREHOUSE)
PTABILITY
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POCKET HOUSING
MAX HAUS (CONDOMINIUM)
An existing vacant lot on the site is developed into a mixed-use residential building hosting a café and restaurant local to the area. Gardens and outdoor seating create opportunities for residents and passersby on the Armature to interact.
VILA BOÊMIA Warehouses are converted into mixed use clusters of locally-owned shops, cafés, and eateries serving the native 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.
TRANSIT RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX A hybrid of residential, worker space, and retail is integrated with the Armature and a vegetated landscape adjacent to the building. Retail and worker space are initially developed to create incentive for economic growth and future residential expansion near the CEASA Vila Leopoldina train station.
FEIRA LEOPOLDINA 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.
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FEIRA LEOPOLDINA
To retain the existing spirit of the market, the inte is proposed to become absorbed by the Armatur cultural and social interaction with mixed program and transit services.
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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, encouraging community engagement throughout the dispersed platforms and pockets overlooking the river and adjacent neighbourhoods.
MODAL MOBILITY
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KIA (CAR DEALER)
LEROY MERLIN JAGUARÉ (BUILDING MATERIAL STORE)
Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo, Brazil
Schindler Global Award 2017 POTENTIAL COMPOSITION OF STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
FIAT (CAR DEALER)
ITAÚ (BANK)
EDUCATIONAL PAVILION An educational and recreational hub for the neighbourhood’s students, 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.
STUDENT + SENIOR HOUSING
WALMART (HYPERMARKET)
This framework appropriates Elemental Housing. A frame is constructed, and then half of the spaces are used for living, while residents configure the remaining half for other uses. Next to the hydroponic farm is a community farm that serves the residents and also functions as a gathering space.
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CARREFOUR (HYPERMARKET) ENGEMIX (CONCRETE PRODUCTION)
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Elliott PĂŠrez 143A Webster Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey 07307 eperezsera@gmail.com 1+ 201 665 6365