PORTFOLIO Jennifer Baohui Chen
SUMMARY • Proficiency in Adobe Suite and Rhinocerous softwares • Diligent designer passionate about storytelling, materiality, and sustainable design • Experience editing architectural documents in design firm setting • Extensively developed interpersonal skills from experience as a caricaturist • Fabrication and digital layout experience from working in sign shop
EDUCATION JENNIFER CHEN 647-825-1178 jb3chen@uwaterloo.ca jbhcdesign.com Candidate for Bachelor Of Architectural Studies Year 2B | 20791489
SOFTWARE Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom Adobe Illustrator Adobe Indesign AutoCAD Rhinoceros Grasshopper V-Ray SketchUp
SKILLS Visual and Oral Presentation Hand Sketching Model making Laser Cutting Graphic Design
INTERESTS Architecture Design Creative Writing Illustration And Animation Costume Making Video Games Mindfullness
University of Waterloo Bachelor of Architectural Studies September 2018- Present | Cambridge, Ontario
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE TCA | Thier + Curran Architects - Architectural Assistant January 2020 - March 2020 | Hamilton, Ontario • Used AutoCAD to edit architectural drawings for a postsecondary campus building to improve clarity and reflect most recent design changes • Drafted proposals, contract documents, and promotional images using Adobe Indesign • Updated company website’s information and news with Squarespace • Provided office support as needed Kaman’s Art Shoppes — Caricaturist April 2015 - August 2019 | Vaughan, Ontario • Illustrated guests in Canada’s Wonderland under tight time constraints • Conversed with guests to determine personality, customize drawings, and address concerns • Promoted drawing and framing upgrades to guests to increase sales, selling an average of 60% of drawings fully upgraded Signarama Markham— Sign Shop Assistant, Secondary School Co-Op Placement October 2016 - January 2017 | Markham, Ontario • Designed sign layouts on Adobe Illustrator according to customer orders • Fabricated signs by operating die-cutting, printing, and hand equipment
University of Waterloo School of Architecture Sustainability Collective - Member January 2019 - Present | Cambridge, Ontario • Shared ideas and collaborated with other members to promote responsible waste management on campus • Organized transportation and proposal to rescedule classes for student body to attend Waterloo Climate Strike • Set up and sorted space for students to drop off and re-use spare materials at end of term
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THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHT AND SOUND Multi-Performance Space Design Studio - Fall 2019
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The Festival of Light and Sound is a bedazzling, makeshift space of many performances.
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After passing through the alleyway threshold, one finds themselves in an atrium illuminated by many coloured skylights and their illusionary reflections.
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Eventually, they escape from the festival in a narrow, translucent, and winding walkway that opens to a quiet, vast space.
The festival below is now at a distance. Here, people not only watch the singular performance, but also the performance they just came from.
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BOX HUB Library Design Studio - Winter 2019
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At the intersection of two rail tracks, an industrial road, a major artery, steep hills, and vegetation, the library inspires gathering, vibrancy, and social collision.
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The kitchen sits at the heart of the library and the hub of the community. Surrounding it are four other boxes, which hold hubs of activity.
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Kitchen
Admin
Reading Circulation
Bottom of Hill
Public Program Facing Street
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15° Slope
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Book Deposit Chute
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The library’s form is made of cubes that intersect to create complexity. It mirrors how spaces can intersect to create community.
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An interfacing space connects them, creating a geometric and complex form. Between hubs, people collide, and possibilities are open.
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WEAVING BRIDGE Storefront - Sketchbook Gallery Installation Design Studio - Spring 2019
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This is a study of tensile materials, and how their interweaving properties can create new structure and forms.
gravity
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+ Sides on Frame
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The structure indicates a space for display and interaction. It consists of a suspended large frame, which then in turn suspends six triangular platforms. Ballast Detail
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Carabiners Metal loops on top frame Rope connecting top frames to each other and ceiling Eye Hooks Bowline Knots to close loops Hollow Table Concrete Balasts with metal loop Cable Clamps
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The result is a swaying and permeable space; a dynamic, forest-like atmosphere.
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10 AINSLIE STREET SOUTH Infill House Design Studio - Fall 2018
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10 Ainslie Street South is a site in the historical district of Galt, Cambridge. It has problems that are typical of urban infill sites. - Lacks vegetation - Cramped and narrow - Dark - Noisy - Lacks inherent privacy
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To combat these problems, the house has a multi-storey atrium, which acts as the heart of the home. Natural light pours in from above. Nodal spaces attach themselves to the atrium and circulation space in the centre.
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The use of brick and steel is an homage to Galt’s industrial origins and historical buildings.
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A brick screen shelters the interior while filtering light.
With visual connections between different work and living areas, this house becomes a spacious, yet cozy, ‘town within a town’.
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I’m an architecture student, a designer, a storyteller, and a nerd. I doodle, sketch, and imagine the stories of things we make so we can imagine a kinder future.
Thank you. Jennifer Chen