Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio
Leen Othman
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Hard-working architecture student with an exceptional track record of reliable attendance and high-quality work. Looking for opportunities to grow and expand my knowledge. Strong collaboration and teamwork skills to thrive in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
LEEN OTHMAN ASSOCIATIONS - AIAS - Medlife UCF - Habitat for Humanity
SKILLS
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Associate of Arts: Architecture (Apr 2019) - Valencia College, Orlando, FL - GPA: 4.0 - Presidents Honors List: Spring 2017- Spring 2019
Bachelor of Arts: Architecture (Apr 2021) -
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL GPA: 3.9 Placed Top 10 in UCF Pin-up Spring 2019 UCF AIAS member National Honor Society
EXPERIENCE Bento Asian Kitchen and Sushi, Shift Lead (May 10, 2020 – Current) - Provided a friendly welcoming customer service. - Entered customers’ orders while monitoring their special requests, and food allergies. - Kept workplace clean and organized. Habitat For Humanity: - Worked with a team to help build low income houses. Jordan Volunteers: - Provided assistance to families in need and to nursery homes with friendly, positive teamwork. - Supported in maintaining a fun, secure, and respectful environment for all children.
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Creativity Attentive to details Time management Great organizational skills Excellent teamwork skills Great communication skills Bilingual (English - Arabic)
PROFICIENT IN -
Certified in Revit Lumion Photoshop In Design Rhino V-Ray ICDL Certificate: Microsoft Office Auto-Cad
Content Curry Ford West1 Parramore 2 The Atlantic Center for the Arts 3 Bok Tower 4 Ehwa Womens University 5 Perception of Time and Movement 6
Supermarket Bash 7
1 Creating a Place at Curry Ford West
Proposing a master plan to revitalize the District of Curry Ford West. The plan was inspired by local businesses such as shoe/clockmaker. Due to the history of these craft stores, an expansion to arts and crafts was made. The plan was designed to engage, involve, and include. Offering a space of leisure, and space of stimulation to reach all the demographic in the area. Collaboration with Alexandra Kehoe
An overall video of the project: https://youtu.be/ohBDM67h5dk
Ambiguity Duality
Abstract analysis using diagrams and a junk model to layout rules for the project as well as to understand the connection between the spaces and the programs provided. Encompass
Stimulation Node For the experience
Programs Offered - A craft learning area allowing people to learn, display, and sell different crafts. - A rooftop terrace with different shops and eateries with a bar sitting below. - A spaces for events such as a farmer’s market, and food trucks. - A large park, divided for dogs, children, and an outdoor gym, creating green space for each demographic.
Leisure Node For the exhibition
Programs Offered - An artist residency program with an open studio underneath for different crafts including glass blowing. -An expansion of the initial daybreak diner. -Outdoor seating with fire pits, a theatre, gallery, and an outdoor board games area. - A gallery that wraps around the space with a bookshop on its second floor.
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Presence in Parramore
Project: UCF Creative Village Location: Parramore, Orlando FL Year: Fall 2020 Collaboration with Alexandra Kehoe
We based our programs on the priority of community development. There is a huge artistic following in Parramore, as oppression promotes creativity as an outlet. Giving these students a platform to work with, and giving them opportunities to develop the skills to communicate their ideas, and progress them academically, is the base of the design.
base and at the top of our tower. This shows the envelopment of the community within the structure.
3 The Atlantic Center for the Arts
Project: Rebuilding the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Location: New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Year: Fall 2019
We tend to mess with nature, but we know our boundaries and our limits on how much we can manipulate the land. Although we mess with the landscape, it’s not a battle between land and structure; it’s a compromise or trade off as we meet in the middle to find a common ground. Even though they may seem like two contrasting sides, one does not overshadow the other. They are equally as important for the society, and they make each other stand out more.
The juxtaposition of human development and nature through a mindful negotiation leading to connection that promotes a framed collaboration.
Music Studio (Silence)
Performing Arts Studio (kineticism)
Gallery (Observation)
In-Between Spaces (Liminality)
Glass Blowing Studio (Converge)
Glass Blowing Studio The converging elements creating a form that expands and reconstructs in a varied ways. Glass reacts in different ways when combining with different materials resulting in a reaction that creates different embellishments. For example: - Colored glass creating stripes. - Dipping the glass into water creates a shattered glass effect. - Baking soda creates air pockets in between layers of glass.
Sections
Floor Plans 1-Hot Shop. 2-Bench. 3-Water Works. 4-Storage. 5-Restrooms. 6-Study room. 7-Structure Garden.
4 Designing through Personality
Project: Underground Residential Building Location: Bok Tower Gardens. Lake Wales, FL Year: Spring 2019
5 Ewha Womans University
Ewha Womans University is a private women’s university in Seoul founded in 1886 by Mary F. Scranton under Emperor Gojong. It is the first founded university in South Korea. It is currently the world’s largest female educational institute.
Project: Ewha Womans University Architect: Dominique Perrault’s
Physical model of Ewha Womans University to understand ground articulation
6 Perception of Time and Movement
The transformation in the movement of time through different elevations due to the contraction in the center. Illustrating a story where people believed that time moves slower when you are further away from the center of the earth, and how they reacted to this thought by moving and living on high mountains to live longer.
7 Supermarket Bash After walking through a market we were asked to pick one product to base this project on. The product that my project is based on is an arm and hammer clump and seal cat litter with a fresh scent incorporated in it. This product works once it interacts with the cat’s waste. This interaction results in a transformation of the characteristics of the product such as its texture and scent. I represented this in my models by having more open spaces and smaller delicate systems for the touch before the external process. On the other hand, I created stereotomic and enclosed spaces as well as using thicker materials to mimic the rock-solid touch post the process. In my model one system represents the fresh scent and another system represents the cat waste. The first system neutralizes the second system to get rid of it, which results in a transformation in both systems. This reflects in the change of spaces from a calm, more inviting, and open spaces, to more angled spaces that mirror a chaotic and violent reaction.
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