AFIA AFRIN architecture portfolio
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AFIA AFRIN 1636 Secretariat Lane, Irving, TX, 75060 972-904-2203 afia.afrin01@gmail.com EDUCATION 2014 - 2016
University of Texas at Arlington | School of Architecture Master of Architecture | GPA 3.9
2010 - 2014
University of Texas at Arlington | School of Architecture Bachelors of Science in Architecture | Minor in History of Architecture
WORK EXPERIENCE May 2016 – August 2016
Perkins Eastman| Dallas, TX | Architectural Summer Internship Hospitality projects, produce and coordinate construction drawings, prepare files/documents, update file structure, construction details, technical specifications, attend vendor presentations and work under supervision of a project manager and project architect.
Seasonal July 2014 – July 2015
CHT SYSTEMS| Dallas, TX | Architectural Lighting Design Associate Drafting lighting design layouts for residential and commercial buildings, RCP drawings, luminaire specifications and review submittals.
August 2009 – October 2009 January 2008 - June 2009
Fairfield Inn & Suites Marriott | Irving, TX | Front Desk Marriott | Irving, TX | Rotational Internship
SOFTWARE SKILLS Autodesk AutoCad, Revit, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, SketchUp, FormZ, Bonzai3D, KeyShot, Lightroom, V-Ray, Microsoft Office SKILLS Architectural Drawings, Diagraming, Physical Model Construction, Craftsmanship, Sketching, Painting, Photography, Team Communication LANGUAGES English, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu VOLUNTEER SERVICE 2010
President of USA Volunteer Service Award from the White House
COMPETITION 2012
PARK(ing) Day Dallas Competition | Winner Annual event that temporarily transforms parking spaces into community park space in cities around the globe.
CONTENTS 01
Bioengineering and Science Building
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Academy of Science
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Parking Day Dallas Competition
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Iraq and Afghanistan Fallen Hero’s Memorial
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Eternal Island Cemetery
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Oak Cliff Cultural Center
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MeDAIChaZo Agency
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Trinity Tech Masterplan
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Digital Media Arts Academy
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Visitors Center with Virtual Reality Lab
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Other Works Notational Drawings | Precedent Studies
01Bioengineering Building ARLINGTON, TEXAS ARCH 5672 - Comprehensive Instructor: Donald Gatzke
The Bioengineering and Science Building is located in the University of Texas at Arlington. The site is on S Nedderman Dr. and S West St. The building is approximately 220,000 gross square feet. The new building is intended to provide state-of-the-art research laboratories that are sufficiently flexible to be used as multi-disciplinary teaching labs, laboratory support spaces, faculty and student offices and administrative offices. The L-Shaped building frames and defines the existing public park. The building is separated into two rectangular bars and intersected with an copper cladded ellipse. The ellipse lines up with the main pedestrian axis which runs north and south through Planetarium St. The main axis is terminated by the UTA Planetarium (round circular volume) on the north end and terminated by an ellipse on the south end. Both ends of the major pedestrian axis is terminated by these round volumes. The ellipse acts as the public vertical circulation to a highly secured building with the main lobby on the ground floor. Each floor of the five story building has interaction/social spaces and atriums to bring in natural light.
SITE LOCATION
SITE PLAN
PROCESS SKETCHES
STUDY MODELS
View from the park
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
DETAIL SECTION
BASEMENT PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Main lobby (Inside the ellipse)
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
Interaction Spaces
TRANSVERSE SECTION
NORTH ELEVATION
EAST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
Atrium space
Work station
CHILLED WATER DIAGRAM
HVAC DIAGRAM
HEATING WATER DIAGRAM
PENTHOUSE FLOOR PLAN
HVAC PLAN
Main Lobby
Roof Terrace
02 Academy of Science VERONA, ITALY ARCH 3554 Instructor: Steve Quevedo
The Academy of Science is located in Verona, Italy. The mapping model was an investigations to help me decide where the Academy should be located. After doing all the research, I learned about the importance of Porta Borsari. Porta Borsari is an ancient Roman gate and it dates back to the 1st century AD, though it was most likely built over a pre-existing gate from the 1st century BC. My design for the Academy of Science is located right next to the gate. The building is three stories and the programs inside consist of an auditorium, library, cafĂŠ, outdoor lounging area, water gallery, archeology gallery, office space, conference room, storage and roof top terrace.
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Midterm Project
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By:
PRECENDENT
Afia Afrin
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GLAZING
CONCRETE MASONARY
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Midterm Project
CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE
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Afia Afrin
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Afia Afrin
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03 PARKING DAY 2012 DALLAS, TEXAS | Competition Winner ARCH 3553 Instructor: Wanda Dye
Parking Day is an annual event that temporarily transforms parking spaces into community space in cities around the globe. We were the winners of the 2012 competition. The community space was successfully tied into the streets of downtown and attracted people to enjoy the seating. The seats were cut from culverts and stuffed with recycled material bean bags. The PVC pipes were used to create the vibrant barrier from the ongoing traffic and the public space.
ARCH 3343|Computer Graphics Graphic representation of Parking Day Dallas 2012
04 MEMORIAL DALLAS, TEXAS ARCH 4556 Instructor: Joshua Nason
Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial located in downtown Dallas. The idea of “compression� is imbedded into the design of the memorial. The walls compress in terms of length and width. The only connected walls are the outer walls which represents soldiers going to war together. The walls inside are not connected, which represents how all of the soldiers do not return home safely together. The memorial also has seating for people, that outlooks beautiful wildflowers that block the views to the opposite parking lot. The site is a hybrid between a public space and a memorial.
Site Plan
05 ISLAND CEMETERY NEW YORK, NY ARCH 4556 Instructor: Joshua Nason
The cemetery is called Eternal Island. It is located in New York, near of Governors Island. The big idea is to give New York City an unlimited capacity cemetery since New Yorkers are facing a shortage of space for them to rest in peace. The Eternal Island will have both cemetery and open space attempting to solve the problems of both space and pollution. The ecological burial method is called, Promession. The way the cemetery will work is the deceased will be buried and plants will be planted on top of the graves to absorb the nutrients. These plants will be barricaded with digital fencing which will display the names of the deceased. After the two year growth cycle, people can pick those plants up and the rest will be donated to NYC to make the city more beautiful. This will leave half the cemetery to be open park space for people to use. Essentially, the cemetery will be alternating throughout the island, which means everything on the island is temporary and the only thing that is permanent is the island itself.
The time line below shows how the cemetery will alternate and rotate through out the island each year. It is a systematic approach to death which allows for the island to never run out of burial space.
The pavilions in the island make the cemetery accessible to people. Pavilion “A” contains several chapels. While Pavilion “B” provides vehicles to get around the island such as golf carts and bikes. The pavilions sit under a canopy that provides shelter during bad weather.
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06 Oak Cliff Cultural Center DALLAS, TEXAS ARCH 4557 Instructor: Albert Marichal
Oak Cliff Cultural Center is located in Dallas, Texas on S. Bishop Ave and Sunset Ave. The Cultural Center is spilt into two buildings and inbetween is a plaza that references the width of Jefferson Tower. The urban form of the building is derived from the important buildings near the Cultural center. Currently Bishop Ave is lively only on the north side and not nearly as active on the south end on Bishop Ave. Adding the Cultural Center near the North Oak Cliff Library will make Bishop Avenue a cultural, retail and entertainment hub. The building is sliced diagonally to invite people into the Cultural Center as well as its public spaces. The Spanish steps were not created to take you a destination but rather a space for meeting and gathering like an agora (gathering space) overlooking the neighborhood. This is where people can hang out and meet even when the Cultural Center is closed. The main elements of the program are organized on two levels and has multiple double volume gallery spaces, auditorium, classrooms, multipurpose rooms, dance halls, studios, cafĂŠ and etc.
Building Form Diagram
Axonometric Diagram
Section Perspective
07 MeDAIChaZo Agency CHAPULTEPEC, MEXICO ARCH 5670 Instructor: SanMartin
MeDAIChaZo Agency Building is a multi-programmed 10 story tower. The building is divided into two programs, Supercomputer/Data Servers and Chapultepec Incubator. The Supercomputer/ Data Server section include 25.000sqf of data servers, mechanical rooms, labs, offices and a restaurant. The Incubator section is 20.000sqf of small, medium and large rental spaces, library, IT area, storage and an auditorium. The project also has a 1.000.000 sqf of public space, “CHAPULTEPEC Zocalo.” The public space is mostly a “hard” surface. There are gardens throughout the plaza with transplanted Chapultepec trees, which provides abundance of shade in the mostly hard surface. The public space is open for all types’ civic and cultural activities. The enormous public space accommodates festivals, events, group gatherings. The public space has a super canopy that allows for markets and people to gather under giving them shade and shelter.
08 Trinity Tech Masterplan DALLAS, TEXAS UTA CENTER FOR METROPOLITAN DENSITY GROUP: AFIA, CRISTINA, MICHAEL, NICK, SANTOS
Trinity Tech proposal is a Live/Work/ Learn District. The masterplan features GeoTech office, hotel, residential, magnet school, day-care, retail and cafes. The north side has learning institutions: college level Media Academy (designed by me), museum, STEM high school. The proposal also has a plaza dedicated to showcasing student work, robotics games, and kiosks for beta testing media academy student work.
09 Digital Media Arts Academy College level private institution with programs that are designed for the world of entertainment, media and technology. The approach is centered on real-world industry experience. Programs include: gaming, simulation, robotics, media, film & television, web & technology, art and design. It is a four story building with the total of 112,100 sf (Parcel Size: 51,000 sf). There is 136 parking spaces and the total cost of the building is 10 million (800 student’s $30 thousand tuition a year).
10 Visitors Center-VR Lab Bryce Canyon National Park, UTAH ARCH 5670 Instructor: Joshua Nason
My project is a Visitors Center with a Virtual Reality Lab in Bryce Canyon National Park. The program for the project was a very difficult challenge. It felt like anything we put in the canyons would destroy natures authenticity. I decided to place my design at the top of the rim and not touching the actual canyon below. The idea for the program came to my mind when I started to think how to make peoples experience better when the visit the canyon and equally fulfilling for everyone. Bryce canyon has a series of switch back ramps that you take when you hike the trails. The switchbacks are steep and NOT handicap accessible. Only the top ½ mile section of the rim is wheelchair accessible. That’s where the idea of having a VR Lab came from, is to give anyone with a physically disability the same magical experience of walking through the trails of the canyon and get 360 degree views and feel what is like to hike the very same canyon. So when it came to actual form and design of the building, I looked at the fundamental nature of the Bryce Canyon and its formations.
LEVEL 2
WEST ELEVATION
LEVEL 1
EAST ELEVATION
VR LAB PLAN
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
SECTION THROUGH VR-LAB
Winfree Building Fort Worth, TX
Weber Building Fort Worth, TX
11 Notational Drawings These are few notational drawings I did on site around Dallas and Fort Worth using graphite pencil and my sketchbook. I believe analyzing a building through a drawing is seeing it all over again with a fresh pair of eyes. I can forget details of a building but I know when I look back at my drawing it will all come back to me. St. Partrick Cathedral Fort Worth, TX
Nasher Sculpture Garden Dallas, TX
T&P Station Fort Worth, TX
Flat Iron Building Fort Worth, TX
Webb Chapel Park Pavilion Dallas, TX
Precedent Studies Precedent studies have helped me understand the ideas and concepts behind selected architecture. It is important for me to analysis both historical buildings as well as modern. Precedent studies have helped me get an understanding of what has come before, and use that knowledge to help me define and develop my own design concepts.
Precedent Study Neugebauer House by Richard Meier Model: Basswood
Historical Precedent Analysis Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne Material: Trace paper
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