Architectural designer Kideney Architects 2022 - Currently
Teaching assistant, Media 2 University at Buffalo 2022
Interior design intern SmithGroup 2021
Master of Architecture
University at Buffalo - The State University of New York
GPA: 3.95/4.00 2020-2022
Architecture professor, Studio 2 and 3 Universidad Privada del Norte (UPN) 2020
Infrastructure project analyst Avianca Peru 2015-2019
Architect registration in Peru Colegio de Arquitectos del Peru 2015
Architectural designer DeCol Arquitectos 2014
Architectural assistant Mapfre Peru 2012-2013
Bachelor of Architecture
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)
GPA: 15.53/20.00 2008-2013
LIMA, PERU
Awards
Metropolis Future 100
Architecture Graduate Winner 2023
Metropolis Magazine, 2023
Design Excellence Award
Urban Design Graduate Research Group School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, 2022
Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts
Grand Chapter President, University at Buffalo, 2022
SmithGroup Award: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship SmithGroup, 2021
Top 1, Best Thesis project, Studio 10
Architecture Undergraduate program
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2013
Hali Sheriff
Master of Architecture, 2023 School of Architecture and Planning University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY, USA
Bachelor of Architecture, 2014 Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Lima, Peru
I consider that architecture can express sensations through the connection between spaces, materials, and places. The site is fundamental for decisionmaking in the concept stage and also for functional, formal, constructive, and material aspects. Architecture is also a profession that serves the people and the community, where we have the privilege of improving people’s lives by creating spaces that enhance their experiences and living conditions.
This portfolio brings together the best work of my architecture career. In each project, I analyzed and applied different strategies based on the users’ needs and the site’s specific conditions.
table of contents
Research and Observatory Center for Migratory Birds in the Wetlands of Villa
Lima, Peru
2
Buffalo Food School
Buffalo, NY, US [16]
3
Bandshell Cafe, UNITY
Buffalo, NY, US [26]
4
The Form-Works Museum
5
Buffalo, NY, US [32] Life Cycle, Redevelopment plan next to the Central terminal Buffalo, NY, US [42]
RESEARCH AND OBSERVATION CENTER FOR MIGRATORY BIRDS
Location:
Wetlands of Villa, Chorrillos, Lima I Peru.
2013-2015 / Academic Project
Undergraduate Thesis (individual project)
Lot area: 341,721 sq. ft.
Build area: 67,468.30 sq. ft.
Awards:
Remarkable thesis (2015)
Top 1 at Design Studio 10 course at UPC University (2013), Metropolis Future 100 winner (2023)
The wetlands of Villa is one of the few natural areas of importance in the city of Lima; this place is recognized internationally. It currently faces several pollution problems and a lack of ecological awareness by nearby residents.
The Research and Observation Center for migratory birds aims to encourage and motivate students, scientists, and tourists to culture, research, and birds observation; as well as raising public awareness about the preservation and importance of fauna, flora, ecology, and endangered spaces; within friendly facilities, which generate low environmental impact.
View from the recovered lagoon, looking at the main galleries and outdoor paths.
Analysis and concept process.
Concept from the terrain analysis:
• Location of the volume in the corner of the avenues, area of greater sound pollution and flow of people.
• Empty area for the recovery of green areas and wetlands.
Volumetry formed by empty spaces:
• Organization according to the functional packages.
• Empty spaces generate views, natural lighting and ventilation.
Outdoor paths formation:
• External main path.
• Uses with more flow of people and noise towards avenues. Uses with landscape interaction near to the lagoon recovered.
The project is developed on a terrain with urban and natural limits, with views to the reserved area of the wetlands of Villa. It was designed based on integrating the environment with minimal intervention on the ground, returning the green and wetland area to the reserve. Both concepts define the function and form, as well as the construction system and materials elected. Steel structure and drywall were chosen, due to the rapid construction in place, generating less sound impact.
The center aims to raise awareness among the general population of an area that deserves to be respected, enhance the natural environment’s value, and recover its use for its conservation. It is a center that encourages visitors to conserve the environment and raises awareness of the importance of the place’s fauna and flora.
The characteristics of the proposal are:
• Friendly volumetry to environment.
• Minimal intervention on the ground, generating low environmental impact.
• Volumetry occupies 12.1% of the land, generating outdoor spaces of plazas, green areas, paths, and wetland recovery within the lot.
• Natural visuals in all exterior roads and an excellent user-environment relationship.
• Ventilation and natural lighting.
• Graywater treatment.
• All spaces are accessible for people with disabilities.
Main open space to the wetland, ideal for birdwatching.
First floor plan
Second floor plan
Project model showing the galleries, outdoor spaces and pedestrian paths, landscape and recuperated lagoon.
For the project, certain criteria have been taken according to the analysis of the terrain and environment, for the correct choice of materials and the construction system to be used; to guarantee structural safety, speed in construction time, maintenance, flexibility of spaces, integration into the environment, according to the climate conditions of the place and that their elaboration has the least impact with the environment in its production. The materials in the project are superboard with wood finish, stone, bamboo cane and wood.
For the structural system, foundation slabs and piles throughout different parts of the project. Also, steel beams and columns and drywall system partitions, using superboard in all exteriors. In addition, composite slabs will be used for the mezzanines. For volumes with large spans, a structure with steel trusses is considered. The proposal to use the metal construction system and drywall walls, guarantees faster construction on site and lightness on the ground with characteristics of high water table.
Elevation E-1
Section B
Section A
Elevation E-2
The center has open spaces of plazas, green areas, and pedestrian paths intended for bird watching and walking, always maintaining an excellent user-environment relationship in the entire project. It also has a site gallery, temporary and permanent exhibition galleries, conference room, auditorium, restaurant, research area, and workshops for children, library, service, and administrative areas.
Open spaces between exposition galleries with views to the wetlands.
BUFFALO FOOD SCHOOL
Location:
153, 157 & 163 Delaware Ave and 76 & 80 W Huron St. , Buffalo, NY I USA.
Nov-Dec 2021 / Academic Project
Studio 3 MArch. program
Lot area: 61,178 sq. ft.
Build area: 103,757 sq. ft.
Project published in Dezeen.
Software used:
Revit, Enscape, Photoshop, Lightroom.
The Buffalo Food School aims to raise awareness of healthy eating. It is a school where you learn the proper growing conditions that vegetables and fruits should have, how they should be cooked and sold.
The building is developed based on sunlight conditions, in order to take advantage of the maximum capture of the sun in the winter months. Within the project, there are different spaces for harvesting with different conditions of light, shade, and root depth to ensure the correct growth of the plants. Likewise, on the last level and in the main circulation, a vertical hydroponics area is proposed, accompanied by the greenhouse effect of the building, ideal for winter harvesting.
All harvests obtained at the school, would be destined for the community market, which is part of the project, and also be sent to daycares, nursing homes, and homeless shelters, to contribute to a healthy diet.
W Huron St Building facade
3 Design options through concept models and circulation diagrams.
EXPLODED AXON KEY
Vertical circulation
Egress stairs
Public/ Farming area
Farming learning Plazas
Food school axon south-west
View from Delaware Ave. looking at School Main entrance.
On the first and second levels are located most of the public and semi-public spaces. The third and fourth levels are intended for general learning and kitchen classrooms, connected to exterior/interior spaces that extend the classroom for food harvesting.
UNITY A COMMUNITY DANCE SPACE
Location:
Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Buffalo, NY I USA.
Sept 2021 / Academic Project
Studio 3 MArch. program
Lot area: 49,119 sq. ft.
Build area: 5,996 sq. ft.
Software used:
AutoCAD, Revit, Photoshop.
“Unity” is a space for the community, a place where families and seniors can go at any time of the day and make use of the spaces.
The project is defined by the site, the footprint of the trees, the people and the history of the place, integrating with the environment. In its beginnings, the park contemplated a building called “Parade house”, which had a dance hall among other spaces. Unity seeks to recover the dance hall and make it a dance hall-flexible space.
The bandshell and café are located at each end of the project, where jazz music will be played. The restrooms are public, which helps the park in general as it lacks these.
Dance hall, also used as multi-use space.
Concept design
VIEW 1
From the dance hall looking west
Plan organization
ORGANIZATION
Bandshell
Bandshell
SECTION-ELEVATION North-South looking
Bandshell
Dance hall Gender neutral WC Cafe
It was designed based on concepts of integration with the environment and minimal intervention on the ground.
Likewise, the verticality of the tree trunks is reflected in the use of circular columns. The use of a circular plan helps to have visuals around the perimeter, having a permeable volume without cutting the visuals towards the other side of the street.
As for the materials, the walls are made of concrete formwork in wood and the slabs are formwork with a polished finish. These materials help the easy maintenance of the place.
Anthropic rock is a stone that is created, and modified by humans. The best example of it is CONCRETE. Like a sculpture that emerges from stone, this museum emerges from this anthropic rock called concrete. The museum as art is not natural but Culture.
Located in the historic Allentown, the museum, is a space designated for art and people to:
- Acknowledge, respect, and communicate with its context.
- Integrate pedestrians at street levels with shops, cafes and green areas.
- Interior and exterior spaces where children can learn, enjoy and create art.
- Informal Forum and exterior gallery, where new artists, students, children and the public can express art.
- Freedom to artists to develop art at different scales.
- Plataform to apreciate art and city.
Central atrium
Scheme Concept: Carving stone
1. Site
2. Extrusion
3. Align with the Lenox Hotel
4. Carving
5. Central Atrium central cut
6. Project volume
Project birds eye view
The project provides the following characteristics:
REGIONAL/COMMUNITY DESIGN
- Building massing reinforces character/ rhythm of Delaware Avenue and North Street.
- Enhances network of cultural and educational institutions in the area including Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural - House, Kleinhans Music Hall, Jewish Community Center and local schools.
- Visual link and continuity of path with the Jacobs Executive Development Center.
- Museum entrances, café and shop activate street frontages.
- Proximity to public transportation, and car/bicycle share sites.
LAND USE AND SITE ECOLOGY
-Green roof replaces building footprint and minimizes storm water run-off.
-Street level trees enhance pedestrian experience.
-Lower ground level gardens provide outdoor green spaces for museum education and conference facilities.
LIGHT AND AIR
- All galleries and support functions are daylit.
- Offices and education spaces have operable windows/natural ventilation
- Waffle roof diffuses daylight in central circulation space.
- Windows in galleries self-shaded by building volume; fritted glass skylights diffuse light from above.
Circulation system (People and Art)
BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN
- Use of thermal wells/ground water for heating and cooling to reduce mechanical loads/costs.
- Minimal glazing enhances thermal performance of building envelope.
- Thermal mass of concrete utilized to assist in heating/cooling building.
MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
- Use of recycled aggregate in concrete.
- Fly ash added to concrete mix to reduce embodied energy and recycle industrial waste.
- Construction waste to be
instead of going to landfill.
Double height gallery Illumination
Single height gallery Illumination
LIFE CYCLE, redevelopment plan next to the Central Terminal
Location:
Central Terminal, Memorial Dr, Buffalo, NY I USA.
Oct-Dec 2022 / Academic Project
Urban Design Studio, MArch Program
Project area: 846,699 sq. ft.
Team group with: Enrico D’Abate, Brendan Flowers, Kira Podmayersky, Chenhui Yang.
In response to a national epidemic of intergenerational loneliness, the Life Cycle aims to redefine the American neighborhood by accommodating residents of all ages. Inspired by the 8-80 Cities model, Life Cycle offers a curated blend of housing options, community services, and employment opportunities that, together, will inspire intergenerational connectivity and enable Broadway-Fillmore’s older population to age-in-place.
The project is located on the southern lot of the Central Terminal, and its purpose is to create affordable housing units and lease-to-own townhomes together with job opportunities, education, community gathering space, park space, and connectivity with the rest of the city. Likewise, new uses are proposed for 2 of the existing buildings on the lot, the post office and the REA Building. The project was designed taking into account sound factors, due to its proximity to the train lines, connectivity with the current structure of the neighborhood, and providing quality public space.
Design parti diagram. Three park areas defines the project, improving the lack of green and public space
MED CAMPUS
NORTHLAND
LIFE CYCLE PROJECT
DOWNTOWN
CANADA
LAKE ERIE
SOUTH CAMPUS
COMMERCIAL CENTER
CONNECTING BUFFALO
Main activities nodes
Life Cycle project
Existing NFTA Metro
Existing Amtrak lane
Proposed train lane
Existing bike lanes
Proposed bike lanes
Parks
BUFFALO NIAGARA INT. AIRPORT
Noise level map
Uses diagram with the mixed uses and its relationship with different ages groups.
Sustainability systems map Land use map
As part of the project, a new design for Memorial Dr. was proposed, providing more green areas with trees, public parking lots and a cycle path that connects with the rest of the city. For the streets design, priority is given to pedestrians, with streets mostly for walking and only internal vehicular avenues for access to the different uses of the project.
The sections show the different sustainable aspects, such as the use of large green areas, accompanied by a rainwater retention system. Likewise, in all the buildings there are green roofs, solar panels, and rainwater collection. Through the surfaces of the panels, rainwater is captured to be used as grey water in the building.
