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CONTENTS RESUME EXPERIENCE 2 VOLUNTEERS AND EXTRACURRICULARS
ACADEMIC WEAVER AND SCHOLAR STUDIO 4 NEW HAVEN FOOD HUB 6 FIREHOUSE 10 MULTI-FAITH CENTER 14 QUARRY OCCUPANCY 17 STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER 22 ANALYTIC MODELS 26 SENIOR PROJECT 28 MEDITATION CABIN 34 ORNAMENT 36
PROFESSIONAL ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS WEWORK
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EDUCATION
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Yale University Major: Architecture B.A. May 2018
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Cooper Union Saturday Program Architecture 2013-2014
Rhinoceros Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Dynamo and Revit plug-ins Graphic design - typography and book design Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator Microsoft Oice - Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Python and R Progamming languages
City College of New York College Now: Intro to Architecture 2012
WORK EXPERIENCE WEWORK - DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST June 2018 - Present - Design Technology Lead as part of the Powered by We department. • Responsible for all BIM documentation, tooling, and troubleshooting. • Layout and space design and support for architects and interior designers. • Initiatives such as a dashboard which processes metrics for existing Powered by We projects including work to meet ratios, square footage allocations, and density. Completely coded in Python. Winter 2017 to June 2018 - Building Analyst in the Systems Operations department of the Product team. • Building and reining Revit models of existing buildings in the project archive in order to mine them for data. • Troubleshooting Revit automation software; responsible for contacting staf throughout the company to resolve discrepancies in the archive. Summer 2015 - Research and Development (R&D) Intern. • Data collection, input, and analysis. Data analysis using R (programming language); data visualization and representation using Adobe Illustrator. Instrumental in the planning process for research, evaluating technology, and study structure.
NEWMAN ARCHITECTS, PC - DESIGN INTERN October 2015 to May 2018 - Part-time intern at Newman Architects in New Haven during the academic year. • Leveraging data from Revit models by working with Dynamo for model manipulation and data extraction, R for data analysis, and Tableau for quick visualizations. • Modeling schematic design and design development-stage projects and construction documents in Revit. • Producing massing models in Sketchup.
ROBERT A.M. STERN ARCHITECTS - MODEL SHOP INTERN Summer 2016 - Participant in RAMSA summer internship program, which included both work and training sessions. • Built models for projects in concept design, schematic design, and design development stages. • Made topographical sites, massing, and representational models using clay, laser cutters, and woodshop tools. • Attended training sessions on design technology, model photography, and the design process. • Participated in “Intern Design Day,” a team design challenge at the end of the summer.
CASE DESIGN, INC. - BIM INTERN Summer 2015 - Intern at CASE, a Building Information Modeling (BIM) consultancy. • BIM drafting and documenting using Revit. • Assistance with “BLDGS = Data” conference in New York City, a gathering of architecture, engineering, and construction professionals focusing on a data-driven approach to the building industry. • Administrative work in Project Soane, a crowd-sourced Revit modeling of Sir John Soane’s Bank of England.
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AWARDS
REFERENCES
Richter Travel Fellowship Summer 2017
Sunil Bald Architect and Partner at studioSUMO Associate Dean at Yale School of Architecture sunil.bald@yale.edu
Timothy Dwight Head of College Award Fall 2017
Kent Bloomer Principal at Bloomerstudio Professor at Yale School of Architecture kent.bloomer@yale.edu
Mellon Fellowship Spring 2018
Phillip Bernstein, AIA Architect and technologist Associate Dean at Yale School of Architecture phillip.bernstein@yale.edu
VOLUNTEER AND EXTRACURRICULARS PAPRIKA! - ISSUE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017 • Yale School of Architecture student newspaper. • Editor for three issues: collected and curated contributions, worked with graphic designers, and revised articles • Contributed written pieces regarding issues, such as the future of the Yale architecture department and gender issues in architecture.
REFUGEE HOUSING DESIGN COMPETITION - DESIGN JUDGE Summer 2015 • Volunteer judge for the irst round of Place And Displacement: A Marketplace in Refugee Settlements, Architecture and Public Administration Competition. • Judged 50+ entries based on qualities, such as Feasibility, Sustainability, Design, and Presentation.
WYBCX YALE RADIO - DJ AND WRITER Fall 2016 to present • Host of the show “PoMo Hour,” where postmodern art and architecture discourse met contemporary indie rock and shoegaze music. • Writer for RDBNPNG, the Yale Radio Zine: concert and album reviews as well as feature length pieces on music and culture.
DESPIERTA BORICUA - VICE PRESIDENT Fall 2014 to Fall 2017 • Acted as a liaison between Despierta Boricua, the Puerto Rican student alliance, and La Casa, the Latina Cultural House at Yale. • Organized guest speaker events, dinners, and parties for the Puerto Rican student community.
YALE PRECISION MARCHING BAND - MEMBER Fall 2014 to Spring 2016 • Clarinet player.
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WEAVER AND SCHOLAR STUDIO
FALL 2017, CRITIC: TURNER BROOKS he Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, located in Bethany, Connecticut, includes several artist studio/residences. his threeweek studio project was an investigation into creating a living and working environment suitable to both a weaver and a scholar, who would alternately occupy in this 600-square-foot space. My solution was to separate the work space and the living area through elevation and an occupiable stair, which featured storage and a cozy desk area underneath. Most of the furniture is built into the house, maximizing space through simple forms.
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NEW HAVEN FOOD HUB FALL 2017, CRITIC: TURNER BROOKS New Haven Farms, City Seed, and New Haven Land Trust are three independent organizations dedicated to providing access to healthy produce to New Haven residents, especially immigrants and marginalized communities. In this ive-week studio project, we designed a “food hub� for the three organizations to share. he program included farm land, a green house, oices, classrooms, a market, and an industrial kitchen. My design relied heavily on berming the landscape to allow for circulation across the site and onto the top of the food hub. he focus of my design was a two-story kitchen with cooking one level and dining on the other.
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Left: A small site massing model (approximately 7� in length). he kitchen sits at northern edge of the site, tucked into the earth. Pedestrians may access the kitchen from the roof. Employees of the three organizations would enter from the southeast parking lot, proceeding through the crop ield between the oice wing and greenhouse. he curved structure toward the southern edge of the site is the market, located conveniently to the parking lot. A small shed for kayak storage is situated by the water, activating all parts of the site.
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FIREHOUSE
SPRING 2017, CRITICS: JOYCE HSIANG AND ALFIE KOETTER he assignment for this ive-week project, which took place during junior spring studio, was to design a irehouse for New Haven’s ninth square, located in the downtown area. My project features a concrete circulation wall which clings to the perimeter of the site. he occupiable spaces protrude from the wall and create interior rooms as well as outside terraces.
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his project relied heavily on the concept of the circulation wall. I built a detail model at 1/4" = 1' scale to explore the ways in which the ireighters could move from space to space through the large concrete wall.
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YALE MULTI-FAITH CENTER FALL 2016, CRITICS: BIMAL MENDIS AND ROSALYNE HSIEH he junior fall studio assignment was a multi-faith center designed for Yale’s campus. My project was an attempt at creating an ethereal, spiritual experience without using any markers of architecture that referenced a speciic religion. I was inspired by the unity implied by circles and extensively researched architecture with circle-derived plans. I designed my project by irst creating negative space and then creating a membrane of cloth-like surfaces.
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QUARRY OCCUPANCY FALL 2017, CRITIC: TURNER BROOKS Project: Design a small refuge for a single human occupant, to be located at the Stony Creek Quarry in Branford, CT. I designed a series of perforated “screens” made of wood. hese screens frame views of the stunning quarry, while creating a shield of privacy and letting in a great deal of natural light. he screens are organized to simultaneously create open, breathable moments, as wells as ones of silent contemplation and undisturbed rest.
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I set out to build a version of my refuge to it the roof terrace of the Yale School of Architecture building, Rudolph Hall. Analyzing it as a new site, I treated the terrace as a quarry and the New Haven skyline as a landscape. he result of this endeavor was two full-size “screens,� which interacted with the site to create both private space and a careful series of frames through which to view New Haven.
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STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER SPRING 2018, CRITIC: SUNIL BALD he irst portion of studio was to design a house for ive vampires or other non-sleeping occupants, for which I designed a series of nested boxes in order to create layers of private space. hen, we created ive obstructions on a site which designed a sixth space, a void. Later, we focused on creating a student activity center composed of spaces for performance, movement, thought, cooking, and making (ive in total), which would occupy the void on the site.
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Above: A site plan, originally drawn at 1/64� =1’. he ive spaces, placed amongst the obstructions, are complemented by long walls which impact the site and create exterior interventions.
Space for performance Space for movement Space for cooking Space for thought Space for making
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ANALYTIC MODELS SPRING 2016, CRITIC: ARIANE LOURIE HARRIS he Analytic Model is a course for second-term sophomore architecture majors, taken in tandem with a class called Drawing Architecture. We spent the semester focusing on an architecturally signiicant house, analyzing its major concepts through a series of exploratory models through lenses including program, tectonics, and environment. I focused on Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 and argued that its design is centered around the concept of “meandering” as a departure from the Corbusian idea of rationality and the house as a “machine for living.” his concept manifests in the plan’s adherence to and betrayal of a grid, as well as its relationship to the Golden Ratio.
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Opposite page: Final circulation model diferentiating between interior and exterior and emphasizing core stair. Built at 1/4" = 1' scale.
Below: Early circulation model highlighting meandering movement and axiality.
Above: Plans, sections, and elevation of Villa E-1027, hand drawn at 1/8" = 1' scale.
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SENIOR PROJECT:
THE CONTEMPORARY CONCERT HALL AND DEMOCRATIC DESIGN
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SPRING 2018, ADVISOR: MIROSLAVA BROOKS My senior project was a mixture of a design studio experience and theory based research. During June, 2017, I went to Paris on a funded fellowship to visit Jean Nouvel’s Philharmonie de Paris and Charles Garnier’s Palais Garnier. I took over 1,000 photographs, visited both buildings multiple times, watched performances, took tours, and sketched extensively. Senior fall (2017), I continued my exploration by performing a comparative analysis of Philharmonie de Paris and Palais Garnier, rooted in the research I completed this summer in Paris. I completed a written and visual comparative analysis of these two buildings. Senior spring (2018), I created a series of analytic drawings and models of the Philharmonie de Paris and wrote an accompanying paper on my indings.
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Circulation
Urban Fabric
Conceptual Grid
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he inal model explored a key intersection between the folly grid and the entrance to the Philharmonie de Paris.
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MEDITATION CABIN SUMMER 2018, INDEPENDENT PROJECT his cabin was designed in response to a small design competition hosted by Ozolini Teamakers. he prompt was to envision a cabin of no more than 160 square feet which could be occupied for up to 5 days as a place for silent meditation. My project sought maximal integration with the landscape while maintaining a sense of cozy enclosure. Although the loor space of the cabin is small, there are layers of privacy. he sleeping area is the most private, with no windows and a nook-like recession away from the main space. he open meditation area is much more public, with views both outward and inward, and great deals of southern sunlight. he occupant can close eating and sleeping surfaces to add more space, allowing more room to move around and position furniture comfortably.
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ORNAMENT
SPRING 2018, CRITIC: KENT BLOOMER Kent Bloomer’s Ornament seminar comprised history and theory of ornament as well as a design project. My investigation was inspired by the organic forms of Art Nouveau as well as the rational geometric patterns of some contemporary design. I devised a system of units which varied in thickness and complexity, and applied these units to a grid system to create an ornament for a railing.
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RAMSA MODEL SHOP SUMMER 2016 At RAMSA, I built models for projects in concept design, schematic design, and design development stages. I had the opportunity to create models of all scales, including site models and detail models.
Above and left: A model I built during summer 2016 in RAMSA's model shop. Materials: Foam, spray paint, museum board.
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WEWORK SUMMER 2016 As a part-time Building Analyst, I built and managed Revit models of WeWork projects that did not previously exist in BIM. I kept our “Property Record� up to by consistently updating models to match real life conditions and our current modeling standards. In my current position as a Design Technologist, which I have held since June 2018, I develop Revit standards, test tools, and build custom content. I also set up views such as the opposite bottom image. Beyond my Revit responsibilities, I develop tools using Python in order to analyze our building data and represent that data for designers and strategists within WeWork.
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THANK YOU.
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