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Graduate School M.U.D. Master of Urban Design Portfolio for admittance
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m: 786-972-7347 e: ernest.e.bellamy@gmail.com
Professional Experience
Distinctions | Publications | Presentations
Beilinson_Gomez Architects \\ April 2014 - Present \\ Miami, FL \\ Architectural Designer
Community Scholars in Affordable Housing Fellow \\ 2016 \\ Miami, FL
• Created SD’s, DD’s, & CD’s in AutoCAD • Designed & Rendered projects in SketchUp • Arranged As-builts from Existing Plans/Microfilm • Performed Building Code Research • Performed Material Research & Selection • Performed Site Surveys • Coordination with Clients, Contractors and Consultants • Presented at Client Meetings and Design Review Board Meetings
Design2Form, Inc. \\ November 2011 - June 2012 • October 2012 - April 2014 \\ Miami, FL \\ Design Consultant • Formed SD’s, DD’s, & CD’s in ArchiCAD and AutoCAD • Designed & Rendered projects in SketchUp • Arranged As-builts from Existing Plans/Microfilm • Performed Building Code Research • Performed Site Surveys • Presented at client meetings and community meetings
EDGE Studio \\ July 2012 - October 2012 \\ Pittsburgh, PA \\ Intern via UDream Fellowship • Modeled 3D models of projects in Rhino • Created SD’s, DD’s, & CD’s in Revit and AutoCAD • Completed Site Surveys • Coordinated between Consultants • Created Design Schemes for Renovation Projects
TSAO Design Group \\ Summer 2005 • May - December 2010 \\ Miami, FL \\ Design Consultant • Modeled & Rendered projects in SketchUp • Conducted Site Surveys • Arranged As-builts from Existing Plans/Microfilm • Produced SD’s, DD’s, & CD’s in AutoCAD • Performed Material Research & Selection • Coordinated between Consultants • Presented at Client Meetings
Gibson/Darr Architecture + Consulting \\ Aug 2008 - March 2009 \\ Chicago, IL \\ Architecture Intern
Office of Civic and Community Engagement - University of Miami || South Florida Community Development Coalition || Catalyst Miami
Associate Architect Member of the Year \\ 2015 \\ Miami, FL AIA-Miami
Co-Chair, AIM (Architects in the Making) Summer Camp \\ 2015 - Present \\ Miami, FL AIA-Miami • Counselor between 2013 - 2014, became Co-Chair in 2015 responsible for Level 1 (Ages 8-10) Architecture Educational Programming. Program Fund-raising, and Field trip implementation. Opa-locka: Mirage City Exhibition \\ 2013 \\ Miami, FL HistoryMiami Museum • Showcase of Design2Form Interventions within the Magnolia Park Neighborhood of Opa-locka, as part of the future movements of the City. UDream Urban Design Fellow \\ 2012 \\ Pittsburgh, PA Remaking Cities Institute | Carnegie Mellon University
Medellín: Public Space Perceptions + Reconnections \\ 2011 \\ Publication: Forward 111: Landscape
AIA National Associates Committee • Publication exploring the impact of urban design innovations on the 20+ year movement in Medellin, Colombia, towards improving social, political, and economic advancement and decreased dependence on narcotrafficking to support physical and social infrastructure.
The Urban Revitalization of Medellín, Colombia \\ 2011 \\ Atlanta, GA \\ Presentation
NOMA Conference, 39th annual • Presentation exploring the impact of urban design innovations on the 20+ year movement in Medellin, Colombia, towards improving social, political, and economic advancement and decreased dependence on narcotrafficking to support physical and social infrastructure.
Martin Roche Scholar \\ 2009 \\ Chicago, IL
AIA Chicago • Independent Study Abroad Scholarship focused on research and studying the 20+ year movement in Medellin, Colombia towards improving social, political, and economic advancement and decreased dependence on narcotrafficking to support physical and social infrastructure.
Clinton E. Stryker Award \\ 2006 \\ Chicago, IL
Illinois Institute of Technology • Recognition of distinguished leadership and impactful contributions to the institution and broader community.
• Completed SD’s & CD’s • Rendered 3D models of projects in SketchUp • Created As-builts from existing plans and photographs • Developed marketing material with Adobe Flash & Illustrator
Education
Chicago Park District, Capital Construction Department \\ June 2007 - Aug 2007 \\ Chicago, IL \\ Intern
Illinois Institute of Technology \\ 2009 \\ Chicago, IL Bachelor of Architecture + minor in Urban Studies
Syracuse University \\ Spring 2008 \\ Florence, IT Florence Study Abroad Program
• Performed Site Inspections of newly installed Park Equipment and Facilities & Maintenance issues of existing facilities. • Led research into archive management system and how it could be implemented through interdepartmental offices. • Helped maintain the Chicago Park District Planning Archives.
Miami-Dade College \\ 2003 \\ Miami, FL
Design and Architecture Senior High School D.A.S.H. \\ 2001 \\ Miami, FL
Associate of Arts (Architecture Concentration)
H.S. Diploma (Architecture Concentration)
Carney-Neuhaus, Inc. \\ June 2001 - August 2004 \\ Miami, FL \\ CAD Technician • Completed Civil Design CD’s • Aided and performed Site Inspections. • Field Surveying • Produced Business Development and SD PowerPoint presentations for company proposals. • Created 3D landscape visualizations with Photoshop.
Proficiencies AutoCAD, Revit, ArchiCAD, 3DS Max, SketchUp, Rhino, ArcGIS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Acrobat)
Projects Center for Global Activisim..........................04 Civic Center....................................................10 HiDEE Homes................................................15 Larimer Green...............................................19 Three Points Cross........................................23
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IIT B.Arch 5th Year • Spring 2009 | O: a spatial moment of power Urban Design Proposals for The Chicago Circle Interchange || Faculty: Marshall Brown
Center for Global Activism
A proposal for repurposing the Circle Interchange into a consequential civic space. Its purpose is to reignite the flame of activism that Chicago once had and that now seems to be waning. The city’s advocacy, much like that of the world, is being filtered by extreme moderatism. The space is informed by those active in their strong and passionate beliefs. What Chicago lacks is an adequate amount of authentic public space for activism to occur and gestate. The center provides assembly spaces for people to gather and merge, whether it is for a similar cause or conflicting causes. The idea is to allow movements to interact at various levels and through different mediums. The program is extracted from the instruments that activists use to promote their causes. It allows artists to display their propaganda, scholars to address spectators and provoke thinking, poets to stir the admirer’s soul and for hopeful people to assemble for the inalienable situation of mankind. The center provide a place for the different elements to interact and create a catalytic activist energy; it brings back the center for the people that Daniel Burnham once prophesied.
The Circle
I -90/94
Union Station
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Greektown Neighborhood
Built in the Expressway Construction Era of the 1960’s, The Circle Interchange is a major access node for all vehicular travelers into Downtown Chicago. It also has close proximity to most major downtown transit hubs, Greyhound, Bus Terminal, Union Station Amtrack, and Regional Commuter Rail services by METRA . The Interchange is also a major barrier fragmenting the neighborhoods that surround it from connecting harmoniously, leading to four distinct conditions surrounding the site of Density, Voids, Barriers, and Transient.
Circle Interchange
Downtown Chicago - Loop
University of Illinois at Chicago
City Greyhound Terminal
Major Transit Hubs
Interstate Lines
Parallels of Activism
groupwork
1954
U.S.. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
1995
MILLION MAN MARCH
1948
INDIAN INDEPENDENCE
1863
NEW YORK DRAFT RIOTS
1790
1919
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
1965
1970
SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID 2003 FIRST PALESTINIAN 1989 ENDS IRAQ WAR PROTESTS INTIFADA BEGINS TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS
ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
2000
SECOND PALESTINIAN INTIFADA
PROTESTS BREAK OUT FOR THE FALL OF BERLIN WALL
T S GLOBAL ACTIVISM CHICAGO ACTIVISM C V 1886 I HAYMARKET RIOT
1901 WOKRING WOMEN’S M UNION 1889
1968
1971
2006
OPERATION PUSH
CHICAGO SEVEN
IMMIGRATION RALLY
1970
CHICAGO’S FIRST PRIDE PARADE
JANE ADDAMS FOUNDS HULL HOUSE
2003
IRAQ WAR PROTESTS
1981
WOMEN IN TRADE
1937 LITTLE STEEL STRIKE
Programming
TRAINS
200,000 SQ FT
Circle as HayMarket Sq.
Circle as Ttinanmen Sq.
PLAZA MONUMENT 400,000 SQ FT
SHELTERS 100,000 SQ FT SOUP KITCHENS
100,000 SQ FT
PUBLIC HOUSING
600,000 SQ FT
PROPAGANDA
200,000 SQ FT
POLITICS
PARKS
PHILANTHROPY
groupwork
ASSEMBLY
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
VIETNAM ANTI WAR MOVEMEMENT PEAKS
1994
1987
1968
2008
TIBETAN UNREST
GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS 432,000 SQ FT
BROADCAST T.V. FILM RADIO
GALLERIES
EXHIBITS
1,136,000 SQ FT
ACTIVIST
ORGANIZATION
BASES 1,296,000 SQ FT
EDUCATION JOURNALISM CREATIVE WRITING
PHOTOGRAPHY THEATER
FILM 1,136,000 SQ FT
25% 1,600,000 SQ FT 12.5% 800,000 SQ FT 27% 1,728,000 SQ FT 35.5% 2,272,000 SQ FT
Circle as Martyrs’ Sq.
Circle as Firdos Sq.
TOTAL
6,400, 000 SQ FT
High-rise Towers Plazas
Propaganda Low Density Buildings
Politics
Tia na n
Supplementary Actors
Philantropy
Assembly
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Highway Infrastructure
Core Site Programing
Core Levels
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CGA Scale Comparisons
Site Appropriations/ City Connections: Congress Parkway Pedestrianscape, Greenways topping expressway system
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Transit Level
Diagrammatic Site Section
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Main Plaza during a demonstration
Diagrammatic Site Section
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Spring 2011 | Dawntown/Architectum Design Competition
Civic Center
A city without a center; At the heart of Miami lays a forgotten void, left unresolved, never to be answered. Through the city’s evolving history, unlike the great cities of the world of which its name is in regard, Miami is a city with no front door, no place for congregation, and no sense of center in its urban core. With a city hall almost 5 miles outside of the urban core, no main house of worship and little free space for leisure and gathering; many are left to flee the urban core to seek out life elsewhere leading to a community with a feeling of little merit and pride. A city with a Soul. So what can we do to raise the spirits of a community, to express the ideals of government while also promoting the freedom of speech, religion, leisure, and recreation? We give the city a center.
St. Martha’s Catholic Church seat of the Miami Archdioceses 6 mi. outside of Downtown
Wynwood Arts District | Miami
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2 mi. outside of Downtown
Ocean Drive | Miami Beach 3.5 mi. outside of Downtown
2 mi 3.5 mi 5 mi 6 mi
Coconut Grove | Miami 5 mi. outside of Downtown
Miami City Hall 5 mi. outside of Downtown
Fragmented Centers
Luxury Housing
A place for the day Imagine reading near the water, kids rolling down a hill or enjoying a peaceful lunch in the park. City Center affords the opportunity for leisure and learning via a library, museum and revived park space.
Cathedral / Religious Services
Youth Housing
Museum / Plaza Area
Pool / Plaza Area
Shops / Restaurants
Cluster D
Shops / Restaurants
Cluster C
Cluster A
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A place for the night
Cluster B
Imagine listening to a burgeoning artist music, dinner by the bay. City Center keeps the city alive with activity with shows, street performances, boat tours and dinning.
City Hall
Performing Arts Center
Library
View North from Bayside Marketplace groupwork
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Cathedral + Museum groupwork
City Hall + Arts Center groupwork
Luxury Housing groupwork
Shops, Restaurants + Park groupwork
Summary & Organization Plazas: 40000m2 City Hall: 15000m2 Miami Cathedral: 10000m2 Architecture Museum: 5000m2 Restaurants: 8000m2 Retail: 8000m2 Luxury housing: 24000m2 Youth Housing: 5000m2 Total: 115000m2
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
Luxury Housing American Airlines Arena
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Freedom Tower
Cathedral + Museum
Miami-Dade College
City Hall
Bayside Marketplace
Greenspace above Marketplace
CBD Core
Bayfront Park
Site Plan
Bayside Marketplace covered plaza
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IIT B.Arch 4th Year • Summer 2008 | Low-Rise Urbanism High-Density, Low-Rise, Energy Efficient Housing/Urbanism || Faculty: Peter Land
HiDEE Homes
As low-density suburbs expand so do the problems of environmental quality, land use, traffic, pollution, and more. These issues logically call for a response and an improved urbanism criteria. HiDEE (High Density, Energy Efficient) Homes, is a proposal for an alternative model of high-density, low-rise, energy efficient urbanism to replicate across the typical City of Chicago urban block. HiDEE Homes aids in redeveloping and densifying pockets of void within the City while also providing the sensible scale of typical suburban housing, thereby avoiding creation of the physicality of a mid-rise building and monotony of endless sprawl.
Precedent
At Issue
HOUSE
GARAGE
ALLEY
STREET
25’-0” | 7.32m
125’-0” | 38.1m
West 8, Plot 12 by MVRdV
The Typical Chicago Lot
Amsterdam, NL
Project site
A typical single story housing block near the 5200 block of Halsted Avenue in the Back-of-the-Yard’s neighborhood on Chicago’s southside. Housing densities within the area are currently at a factor of 1 (one housing unit to one housing lot). 52nd Street
Halsted Avenue
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Coming up with a proposal for how to increase the level of density within a typical single residential unit neighborhood block in a incremental fashion; All while maintaining the same form of the neighborhood. Buildings should be composed in a fashion that takes advantage of or achieves energy self-sufficiency, and high density all while maintaining a low-rise concept in order to fit in well with the character of the surrounding blocks and neighborhood.
Siedlung Halen by Atlier 5 Berne, CH
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commuter bungalow - a
row house - a
The Typical Chicago block The typical Chicago city block measures 330 x 660 ft|100 x 200 m within the block there are 48 units The typical Chicago lot measures 125 x 25 ft|38.1x7.62 m
row house - b
commuter bungalow - b
L - house
The HiDEE block The high density, energy efficient block measures the same as the typical Chicago block. However within the block there are 96 units the typical HiDEE lot measures 62.5 x 25 ft|19.05x7.62 m
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2012 | UDream Fellowship Design Charette Urban Design Proposals for The Larimer Neighborhood || Faculty: Stephen Quick
Larimer Green
A proposal for repurposing a Community Garden into a dynamic civic space, within the depressed neighborhood of Larimer. Targeted as a Choice Neighborhood of The Choice Neighborhoods program of HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), which supports locally driven strategies to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation; Larimer Green is part of a greater strategy to redevelop and reconnect the urban fabric of the neighborhood. Designed during a one week Design Charette to assist the Non-Profit, Kingsley Association, find solutions towards unifying open spaces along the main neighborhood corridor of Larimer Avenue, and creating a space for the community to enjoy.
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By utilizing and repurposing existing neighborhood shipping containers, as anchors and prominent Follies within the context of the open space, an Iconic Symbol for the neighborhood is formed that serves the dual purpose of being a meeting and utility space for the park.
Perspective from Mayflower Street/Larimer Avenue N.T.S.
Miami Beach Soundscape West 8 Architects Miami Beach, FL
Container City Gabriel Esper Caram San AndrĂŠs Cholula, Mexico
Parque de los Deseos Felipe Uribe de Bedout Arquitectos MedellĂn, Colombia
Spray Plaza
For cooling off on hot days with an Ankle deep wading pool and Children spray fountains
Indiana Way
Community Garden
72 Garden plots for Residents of Larimer
Performance Lawn
Open Space to sit and enjoy performances from enhanced stage, view Movies off of adjacent building wall and random play
Playground
Ample amenities for play
Central Spine
Main Pathway with canopies and seating on both sides of Larimer Avenue
Spray Plaza Larimer Avenue Larimer Avenue
Mechanical Tower
Gathering Place/ Canopy
Video Projector Grey Water Collector
Multipurpose covered space Farmers Market Seating
Playground Community Garden
Carver Street
Mayflower Street
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Performance Lawn
Cafe
Green Team Offices Two (2) work stations Storage Space
Rest rooms
Low flow/Self Cleaning 1 Regular, 1 Family/Handicap
Community Garden
To Playground
Circulation
Circulation Circulati
Stairwell Manual Dumbwaiter
Stairwell Manual Dumbwaiter Dumbw
Green House
Community Garden Storage
Braden Way Branden Way
Central a Spine
Site Plan
Ground Floor
Second Floor
Shipping Container/Gathering Place Floor Plans
Audio Video Control
For Performance Lawn Stage Events and Movie Projections on neighboring Building Facade
Grey Water Storage
Green House
Limited on-site Storage from “Smart” French Drain System for use in Bathrooms, Green House, and Community Garden.
Educational Greenhouse to educate the Neighborhood on all things Horticulture
Performance Lawn
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Spray Plaza Featuring a ankle deep pool and spray elements to cool down individuals of all ages, and spray elements to engage the youth to utilize both sides of the communal greenspace
Versital space capable of being utilized in various was. With a built-in performance deck and open space for gathering or playing field sports
Cafe
Neighborhood Micro Business Incubator for Quick, Light, and healthy fare; utilizing some of the ingredients grown on site.
Spray Plaza
Solar Panels
Ability to run pumps for spray features and light poles on the Performance Lawn
Tower Features Performance Lawn
Shipping Containers
By utilizing and repurposing existing neighborhood shipping containers, as anchors and prominent follies within the context of the open space, an Iconic Symbol for the neighborhood is formed that serves the dual purpose of being a meeting and utility space for the park.
Playground
Mitigating Water Run-off
With a well-placed “Smart” French Drain system in tandem with the Grey water storage capabilities within the Tower, The Village Green can reduce the flow of water into Pittsburgh’s combined sewer system by slowly leaching captured rain water back into the watershed
Extensive Green Roof
Low Maintenance Roof able to reduce the Heat Gain of the Shipping Container which houses the Staff Offices
Sustainable Measures
Community Garden Community Garden
The current/existing feature of the Village Green,enhanced, modernized, and accentuated with a homogenous fence and space for more residents to participate.
Site Perspective
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2012 | UDream Fellowship Design Charette Urban Design Proposals for The Larimer Neighborhood || Faculty: Stephen Quick
Three Points Cross
Three Points Cross is a hypothetical proposal in neighborhood block revitalization and redevelopment. The study area encompasses one block within the community of Larimer, one of Pittsburgh’s historic core neighborhoods. The proposal includes infill housing to reestablish the former residential density, a central, communal garden, used primarily as a semi-private neighborhood public space and pedestrian thoroughfare to secondary connections with neighboring city blocks, while also serving as a retainment and management effort of storm water. Mixed-use developments are also included in the block composition serving as the formal face of the block along the side which fronts the neighborhood’s major thoroughfare.
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Larimer
Pittsburgh
Existing Block Density
Proposed
Boundary
Thoroughfare
Connections
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Larimer Avenue - Existing
Existing Site Plan
Existing Conditions
Existing Neighborhood Conditions
Neighborhood Precedent Chatham Village Pittsburgh, PA
1936
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by: Clarence Stein and Henry Wright
Dockside Green Victoria, BC
by: Perkins + Will
Proposed Site Plan groupwork
2008
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Block Axonometric
w/ Housing Precedent + Sustainability Features
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Section 1 - Looking towards Lenora Street from Mid-Block
Section 2 - Looking towards Joseph Street from Mid-Block
Elevation - Shetland Street
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Balcony View of Secondary Public Space groupwork
Shetland Street groupwork
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Mid-Block looking towards Larimer groupwork
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Lenora Passage groupwork
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