FOLIO
CURRICULUM VITAE How To Solve The Rising Issue of Global Warming
Possibility
fACEBOOK MEETS ARCHITECTURE Modular Man
Furniture Design
3D PAINTING Human AnatomY
Table of COntents
Living Architecutre ProtoCells
Villa Brusca
Parametric Tower
TIME AND ARCHITECTURE Guggenheim Museum
2D Painting
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Douglas MacArthur
CURRICULUM EDUCATION Honours Bachelor’s of Arts and Science Degree Architectural History, Theory and Criticism Studies Major French as Second Language Minor Fine Art History Minor
2007 - Present Universit of Toronto
COMPETITIONS 2008 Ranked First Place/ Winner of the Competition Toronto, Canada REC-Line Competition
REZ (International Student Competition for the 2009 Designof a Residence Building) Toronto, Canada Participant
2010 Participant Toronto, Canada
IIDEX/Neocon Canada
SKILLS English French/Français Italian/Italiano Albanian/Shqip Photoshop Illustrator InDesign VRay MentalRay
Languages Written/Spoken
AutoCAD Adobe Suite
Rhinoceros 3D Studio Max
VITAE EMPLOYMENT 2008 - Present City of Toronto
Summer Student Employment and Social Services Created floor plans for office rennovations Handled clients requests regarding their financial needs Created promotional posters for various community events
2010 - Present University of Toronto
Work-Study Position
Assisted the Director of the Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies Program with administartive tasks
Created floor plans as well as renderings for a professor’s client in the department
MISCELANEOUS 2009-2010 University of Toronto
Head of Marketing Comittee Bachelor of Arts Architecture Student Society
Coreographed posters for group events Promoted various architectural events
2010 - Present University of Toronto
Vice-President Bachelor of Arts Architecture Studies Society Assisted in the development of certain events: Master of Landscape Architecture Program Lecture Portfolio Seminar Open House
How To Solve The Rising Issue Of Global Warming?
One Possibility.... Green Design/Technologies
Solar Pannels are one type of technology which convert renewable energy into energy for day to day Use
Solar Pannels are one type of technology which convert renewable energy into energy for day to day Use
Wind MIlls Convert Wind Energy, another type of renewable energy into energy that can power heating systems and such
There Exists the problem of sustainability in the technologies...
lIKE eVERY TECHNOLOGY IN TODAY’S WORLD EVEN THE “GREEN” ONES UNDERGO THE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING. tHE gASES EMMITED BY THESE iNDUSTRIES CONTRIBUTES IN gLOBAL wARMING
SUSTAINABILITY
The Longevity of this technology is inferior when compared to the scale of time for our globe
Problem Remains that they belong to:
traditional architecture Architecture after the industrial revolution focused heavily on mass production and standardization of the ways buildings came about.
The introduction of the I-Beam or H-Beam became standardized during the modern period. this is one example of the
Another element which is crucial to the process of constructing architecture is a group of people employing heavy machinery
prefabrecated materials
All of these elements will result into an inert object, which requrires manitenance. THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE
This technology is used to sustain buildings which are nOT sustainable to start. They Use up a lot of energy and the net loss does not exceedes the net gain
Therefore, all we did was design green....
LIVING ARCHITECTURE
INVESTIGATED BY DR. RACHEL ARMSTRONG, A NEW POSIBILITY IN APPROACHING SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND A TRUE DESIGN WITH NATURE.
a pROTOCELL REACTING vIGOROUSLY WITH ITS SURROUNDING. iT DEFINES ITS OWN ENVIRONMENT BY THE PARTICULARITIES IN THE bEHAVIOUR.
A colony of protocells reacting with H2O in order to create a new type of material one that can be rigid enough to sustain walking
ARC335H1F Prof. Etienne Turpin Sept. 2010
Protocells
The initial agent in the Compostion of Protocells is The RNA (RiboNucleic Acid)
The Other Key Component that constitutes in the composition of a protocell are Amino Acids
NO DNA A COmbination of the latter Elements constitutes in the creation of a Protocell. It performs things that are Categorized as only Living
Different Categories of Protocells Atra Quaere Darkness Seeking
This Protocell Avorids light it remains in cool temperature and creates solid shapes
Ilumina Quaere Light Seeking
This Protocell Seeks the Presence of light in order to Multiply. It Creates support
Fortitudo Strength Platform
This Protocell Provides the rigid surfaces in order for the individuals to step on top of them
Protocells can be a remarkable solution for the sinking of Venice. The Protocells can act as a catalyst for creating a landscape into the lagoon that has invaded Venice. The three types of protocell colonies can create forms that which are not only sustainable but also long term solutions. Although the process of the settlement is long, these metabolic matters are able to respond to external natural occurences.
PROTOCELL COLONY
CONCEPT DRAWING
Some Comic Relief
A Day In Class... Final Reviews I Hope He Gets Trashed....He’s So Arrogant
Can’t Bare to Look at it
....This Is My.... Model....
Next Page... So Where is
Your Model?
investigating one of the more recent phenomenon
One of the more recent virtual phenomenons in today’s society is the emergence of FACEBOOK. With more than half a billion people around the globe having an account this site has truly become a remarkable setting for social interaction in the virtual world. Since we live in an information technology age we have become greatly influenced by interacting in a digital world rather than the real world.. Therefore IN this Project I am endeavouring in creating a structure based on the spatial arrangememnts that constitute the privacy iof the individual profiles. SOme individuals are comfortable sharing all their profile information with everyone, hence making it public, other a little less and so forth. This has caused some controversy in the recent years since this website has been responsible for taking people’s reputations, jobs, relationships of even lives. On the other hand it has given people opportunities to meet old friends, allowed for online dating, job or sometimes even saved peoples’ lives. Although there are a myriad of functions in the site, the project will investigate the spatial metaphors of privacy settings on facebook.
ARC113H1F Prof. Christos Marcopoulos Jan. 2009
Private
Restricted
A selected Number of Friends
Default Setting
Public
Friends Only
Network Friends
The Internet will be the support for the frame which will represent the settings of such profiles, henceforth the spcaces represented in the model. The goal is to see how the physical arrangement of such spaces affects the social dynamics. How a face-to-face interactions isolates the who try to hide behind the screen of a computer, or the ones that do not prefer any social interactions.
Information Highway.....The Core of communication is evidently the internet
Detail of the stability of the branch as it is held by a 2mm screw offering mobility
As one progressively reaches the peak of the network the branches become more exclusive due to the privacy settings, however their number increases along the circumference of the circle
The habitable spaces in the form of branches based on the privacy setting and popularity of one’s profile there is an augmenting number of individuals that have access to the space information
The models seems a direct translation from the complex space that deals with the privacy on facebook. there seems an immediate relationship between individuals that desire popularity and a larger social network, therefore they remained grouped on the longer “branches� of the entire network frame. Individuals that require more privacy remain detached from the large social branches
Further Elaboration on the Result of these numbers in the following page
5
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An Algorithmic Computation
1 A simple calculation of positive integers: 1, 1, 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5...... These numbers are found in nature
2 5 13
In order to determine the pattern that the branches will take as they attach into the trunk, in this case, The information Highway, i have employed a simple algorithmic arrangement. Since the longer branches house the greatest number of individuals they are the least in number in order to balance population that remains in private section.
Edges of Each Branch Will be Connection Points For each side of skin
An Explosion of the Frame That Further Explores the Orientation Of Each Branch with respect to the bulk of the frame or, information Highway
By Lofting The Lines In a triangular Shape the resulting Skin takes a complex yet logical pattern
PRELIMINARY RENEDERING
INTORDUCING
Modular Man Le Corbusier Never Told me About such a thing as facebook
2 ft 1.5 ft 1 ft 3/4 ft
The measuerements of the structure are colossal
SECTIONAL RENDERING
VIEW FROM LOWER LEVEL
VIEW FROM UPPER LEVEL
TIME
UNDERSTANDING IN
"...for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one."
Albert Einstein
TIME ARCHITECTURE
Classisal
Modern
Time is a very intereseting concept, and a very relative one. As Einstein says in his quote: Past, Present and Future all exist simoultaneously, Architecture, is one of the fields that manifests such concept in a physical fashion. It conditions us to believe that a building belongs to a certain time. A classical building in 2010 would not be qualified as contemporary. Therefore, there exist two relative times when talking about the 4th dimension. t1 = the time which the building is build and exists in space. t2= the time which people percieve the building, to be part of. For example, people in Bilbao have often been quoted that the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry...as a ship fallen from the sky. The latter notion signifies that the building is percieved to belong to another time. Often times this sparks controversy, however it is this kind of building that breaks from tradition and makes it really stand out
t1= 1997 A.D. t2 = 2500 A.D. z
Manipulation of Glass
Titanium Sheathing
y Gradiant Transition
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Villa Brusca Ionic Column There remained one key element which defined the renaissance building and how it fit its zeitgesit. A key ornament/support remained the columns derived from the five orders
cupola The dome along with the cupola were elements borrowed from the church. Many of the renaissance buildings were a derivation of church building elements. The Patrons believed that these elements were symbolic of religion, thus there would remain a place for them in the heavens
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t1= 1550 AD
t2= 1550 AD
x FAH373H1S Prof. Alexandra Hoare August 2010
Symmetry The Rennaisance Villas Were Highly Symmetrical Architects used Vitruvius’ Principles when designing these structures
Pure Geometric Repetition Shapes
The Twisting Tower Solar Pannels
Triple Pane Argon Filled wINDOWS
THe Twisting Towers incorporate elements belonging of our time, a response to our present contingencies It includes the employment of green technologies as well as parametric design.
t1= 2005 A.D. t2= 2005 A.D.
Symmetry There still exists the notion of symmetry in the plan of these contemporary buldings as we percieve them. Not too different from the Rennaisance Villa
Curves
Curves Have Dominated The Market In Contemporary Design. Designers have been intrigued By their Regular Irregularity
Elipse
The Elipse is yet another Geometrical shape Impure; however, Highly regarded in Tower Designs
tHE fURNITURE WAS A WINING ENTRY IN rec-lINE cOMPETITION. tHE pURPOSE WAS TO COME UP WITH AN ORIGINAL dESIGN FOR A CHAIR WHICH WOULD BE MADE OUT OF RECUCLABLE MATERIALS, PREFERABLY THINGS FOUND FROM GARBAGE SITES.
The Shape of The Seat of a Generic Chair is that of a Square. This is something that I tried to Stay away From
A Regular Chair Entails four legs, which are the main supports for the weight of a person
The Shape for the New Design is circular It is uniform and delivers All Forces in the Center
The Trick is to come up with a Joining System Which Can Containg the Cylinder from Falling appart
Thinking Process
Technical Drawings
2’
18”
20”
The Primary Goal of the Design Competition was to creatively come up with a design that would incorporate recycable or biodegradable Materials...... Sisal is a duarble material which can endure high tenisile forces
the orgainc flow of lines inspired from a painting I produced in order to investigate our cognition towards abstract images.
To Quote the great oscar niemeyer: There is a great beauty in the senuous curves...
Experiments Dealing with the main challenge/success of the chair, the weaving. Different Materials behaved differently
Posture is another Important aspect in designing the chair. THe weaving Technique enable the back support to come closer to the lower back in order to adjust it
90 -105 Direction of forces when pressure is exerted on sisal
Since Sisal Has Different Physical Properties from Museums Board, The Weaving Technique Had To change. The Straight Sisal Tightens The Sides for better support.
In order to Make The Chair More Comfortable to Sit, Additional Sisal is Added in A spiral form. This is the final touch to bringing all the components.
A unique feature of the design remains its authenticity. A chair belonging to a rather religious setting. Some Have interpreted the intersection of the MDF`s as a
Cruixifix.
Boy I wonder if they have this on sale at Ebay.
3D PAINTING
The purpose of this project was to investigate a cubist painting and extract some of the more interesting “clusters of Spaces” from these paintings into a model along with technical drawings...... The human body would come into consideration, therefore there would come aneed for opeining spaces in a fre-flowing manner
Every element in the painting has been extracted by the process of extrusion or folding 1
ARC221H1F Prof. Maria Denegri Sept. 2008
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First Model Foam Core
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Model from Foam Core An Analysis Of Shadows Produced As A Result Of Various Extrusion Heights
Elevation of Some Pieces The Translation from An Abstract Painting Such As The Pedestal On Table Is NO Simple Task. Intuition Was One Of The Key Factors In Translating From The Myriad of Suggested Shapes Into Potential Forms. Since Braque`s Painting Obscures The Origin Of These Seemingly Floating Forms, The Origin Of Such Forms Becomes Arbitrary.
The evolution of the model by process of assembly.....
TECHNICAL
DRAWINGS
SECTION CUT 2 SECTION CUT 1
SECTION CUT 1
SECTION CUT 2
2D PAINTING
MOUNTAIN SCENE
Dimensions: Media:
10 x 12� Watercolor Charcoal On Canvas
Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 16 x 24”
TIME SQUARE
ABSTRACT
Dimensions: Media:
10 x 12” ACRYLIC
PORT