MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO LILA NGUYEN
about me I am a fourth year architecture student at Laurentian University. My goal is to use my education, professional and personal experience in architecture to design a social housing project that is able to promote public safety within the community.
LILA NGUYEN www.linkedin.com/in/nguyenlila/
lnguyen1@laurentian.ca
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY
FBP ARCHITECTS
Sudbury, Ontario 2017 - 2019 (Expected)
Bachelor of Architectural Studies
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, Ontario 2012 - 2016
Honours Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies Majored in History and Design Minored in Urban Studies
CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE Toronto, Ontario 2016 AutoCAD Fundamentals Certificate
FIRST AID & CPR-C
Canadian Red Cross, January 2018
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY Laurentian University, September 2017
(416) 890 - 9883
Architectural Designer, May 2018 - September 2018
• Create a Master Detail Index for wood and block party walls, firewalls, common details for apartments, townhouses, detached and semi-detached houses. • Create prelimilary designs according to the Ontario Building Code for a residental corner model. Assisted with floorplans, elevations and calculating G.F.A.
MADISON GROUP
Housing Administrative Assistant, August 2016 - September 2017
• Responsible for all general office activities such as photocopying, faxing, mailing, filing, telephone calls and handling courier services. Office Receptionist back-up. • Assist Senior Project Coordinator; creating spreadsheets and helping with data entry with low and high-rise housing upgrades. • Assist overflow work from administrative and executive assistants.
CASSIDY AND COMPANY
Junior Draftsperson, September 2015 - July 2016
VOLUNTEER
• Prepare, compile and draft technical drawings containing plans, elevations, sections and details. • Create streetscapes and basic electrical plans. • Transfer hand-drawn plans to AutoCAD. • Responsible for quality assurance and control with adherence to company standards.
PHILIP BEESLEY ARCHITECTS INC.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM
Laurentian University, September 2017
Toronto, Ontario, January 2019
Sculpture Installation Production of Aletheia
PHILIP BEESLEY ARCHITECTS INC. Toronto, Ontario, February 2018
Sculpture Installation Production of Amatria
NUIT BLANCHE
Sudubry, Ontario, January 2018
Greeter
Daniels Faculty Assistant Registrar, October 2014 - April 2015
• Advise students on inquires relating to the Faculty of Architecture and responding to phone inquires. • Plan events for undergraduate students. • Give tours to prospective students and parents around St. George Campus. • Performs a variety of internet research functions, word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
SKILLS
CO-OP
ADOBE
TEEPLE ARCHITECTS
Illustrator, InDesign CC, Lightroom, Photoshop, Premiere Pro
Toronto, Ontario, Janurary 2011- June 2011
DIGITAL FABRICATION
• Assist with model making of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum. • Edit AutoCAD floor plans and draw elevations. • Create Adobe Photoshop renders. • Design interior door film for Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics in Waterloo.
MICROSOFT OFFICE
ACHIEVEMENTS
AUTODESK AutoCAD
Laser Cutting
Excel, Powerpoint, Word
3D MODELING & RENDERINGS
Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Grasshopper, Sketch-Up
• Dean’s Honours List 2018 • LU In-course 4th Year Scholarship 2018 • Public Choice Award for ‘PANIC ROOM’ installation at Nuit Blanche (Sudbury) 2019
table of contents selected works
academic
01 02 03 04
VERT-UP (PART 1) student housing project ART GALLERY OF SUDBURY art gallery design concept OAK SAVANNAH landscape protection plan RIBBON TOWER abstact building concept
art installations
05 06
LJÓMA nuit blanche MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION parking day
professional
07
FBP ARCHITECTS residential house design
vert-up
01 vert-up
advisor: shannon basset location: sudbury, ontario software: rhino, illustrator, photoshop & v-ray team size: two duration: one semester
Vert-up is a play on the word vertical and ‘vert’ as in the French word ‘green’. Our thesis: Reclaming land in an urban environment. Where nature is a vertically built destination. By transforming an empty parking lot into a student/ entrepreneur housing. By merge the public spaces vertically throughout the building for the urban spaces to contine from the ground up. With the lack of green spaces downtown Sudbury adding greenry vertically to connect the master greening plan together. All drawings were shown are done myself, except housing typologies done by R.Heavens.
academic work| 2018
SUN STUDY WINTER EQUINOX
SUMMER EQUINOX
7AM
NOON
7PM
8AM
NOON
5PM
STRUCTURE
GLULAM POST
OVERALL STRUCTURE
TOP FLOOR RESTURANT
academic work| 2018
CONCRETE STRUCTURE
SHEAR WALL
CLT FLOORS
CONCRETE SHAFT
PROGRAMS
COMMERICAL
STUDENT RESIDENTS
ATRIUMS
EVENT SPACE
HOUSING TYPOLOGIES
STUDENT UNITS
APARTMENT ATRIUM
APARTMENTS
PROGRAMS
GREEN SPACE
02 art gallery of sudbury
art gallery of sudbury advisor: amber baechler location: sudbury, ontario software: rhino, illustrator, photoshop team size: individual duration: one semester
Reclaiming an empty parking lot into the new art gallery of Sudbury. Having to included permanment, temporary and experiemental art collection in the building and sufficent storage for the art collection as well. Some of the rooms included an art studio, art library and a ground floor cafe. The shape is influenced by the laws and the new master plan for Sudbury’s green space.
VIEW FROM BEECH STREET
academic work| 2018
CAFE
LIBR EDUCA
CAFE KITCHEN
ART RENTAL GALLERY
PANTRY COAT RM/ PUBLIC LOCKERS EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
W/C
W/C
STORA
RECEPTION DESK/ TICKET STATION
W/C
W/C
W/
UP
UP
UP
ART/ EXP. GALLERY STORAGE SPACE SHIPPING/ RECEIVING
RETAIL STORE COLLECTION LOADING DECK
CUSTODIAL SERVICES STORAGE
1ST FLOOR
SECTION A MODEL
CAFE ART STUDIO/ RESOURCE CENTRE LIBRARY CENTRE/ EDUCATION PROGRAM
CAFE KITCHEN
ART RENTAL GALLERY
PANTRY COAT RM/ PUBLIC LOCKERS EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
W/C
W/C
STORAGE
RECEPTION DESK/ TICKET STATION
W/C
W/C
W/C
W/C
UP
UP UP
UP
ART/ EXP. GALLERY STORAGE SPACE SHIPPING/ RECEIVING
RETAIL STORE COLLECTION LOADING DECK
TEMPORARY GALLERY
CUSTODIAL SERVICES STORAGE
1ST FLOOR 1ST FLOOR
2ND FLOOR 2ND FLOOR
STAFF LOCKER/ COAT RACK/ MAIL ROOM
PERMANMENT GALLERY
IT/SERVER/ COMMUNICATION
PERMANMENT GALLERY
SCULPTURE GALLERY
MECH./ ELEC. ROOM
ADMIN
SCULPTURE GALLERY STAFF LOCKER/ KITCHENETTE
UP
STORAGE
STORAGE
UP
EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
W/C
W/C
W/C
EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
UP
CLEAN WORKSHOP
SCULPTURE GALLERY
DIRTY WORKSHOP
ISOLATION ROOM PERMANMENT GALLERY COLLECTION STORAGE
4TH FLOOR 3RD FLOOR
3RD FLOOR
4TH FLOOR
EAST ELEVATION
academic work| 2018
CAFE
LIBRARY CENTRE/ EDUCATION PROGRAM
CAFE KITCHEN
ART RENTAL GALLERY
PANTRY COAT RM/ PUBLIC LOCKERS EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
W/C
W/C
STORAGE
RECEPTION DESK/ TICKET STATION
W/C
W/C
W/C
UP
UP
UP
ART/ EXP. GALLERY STORAGE SPACE SHIPPING/ RECEIVING
RETAIL STORE COLLECTION LOADING DECK
CUSTODIAL SERVICES STORAGE
1ST FLOOR
SECTION B
NORTH ELEVATION NORTH ELEVATION
W/C
03 oak savannah
oak savannah advisor: scott maclvor location: toronto, ontario software: rhino, illustrator, photoshop & v-ray team size: five duration: one month
Trying to incorporate existing nature towards new developments in the Humbertown location. I helped with placing the oak tree and oak savannah’s in the correct areas of the community (green and orange dots) as well as the analysis of the strategies that will be used. All photos are taken by myself on the site visit.
academic work| 2016
academic work| 2016
04 ribbon tower
ribbon tower advisor: alex josephson location: toronto, ontario software: rhino, illustrator, photoshop & grasshopper team size: two duration: one month Ribbon Tower was inspired by the movements of the ribbon during a rhythmic gymnastics outline. The movements were then used to form the shaped of the tower. Also by using grasshopper we were able to translate the movements on the video to twodimensional platform. I helped create unique curvature of each ribbon in grasshopper and using Photoshop to layout the various colours to represent different moments in time.
academic work| 2015
academic work| 2015
ljรณma
05 ljรณma
location: sudbury, ontario materials used: wood, & led lights team size: four duration: one month
Ljรณma meaning glow in Icelandic. A Sudbury Nuit Blanche art installation. Creating a geometric shape to display a glow to the environment and highlight the beauty of nature material of wood. Helping with the production of gluing the individual pieces together to create a square and photos are taken by myself.
art installation| 2018
mutually assured destruction
06 m.a.d
location: sudbury, ontario materials used: wood team size: five duration: three weeks Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D), is a reflection on the lost identity of Sudbury. With many historical landmarks getting demolished and replaced with parking lots, what now will happen to the super stack. This installation aims to create awareness for the lost natural landscape and its iconic symbol of Sudbury. Photos are taken by M. Vos Coupal and D. Tyers. My group members and I worked on cutting 6x6 wood to size and applying photos on to the block of wood. As a team, we assembled the installation together.
art installation| 2018
07 fbp architects
fbp architects advisor: johanna m. location: vaughan, ontario software: autocad, photoshop team size: two duration: two weeks A proposed residential house design with the Ontario Building Code and the city’s by-laws. I created the floorplans and elevations to maximize the space and flow within the house, with assistance from advisor. Roof designs were done by advisor, and flankage elevation done in collaboration. Render was done myself.
UNFINISHED BASEMENT
FINISHED AREA OPT. 3PC. ROUGH- IN
UNEXC. OPT. COLD ROOM
O.T.A.
UP
UNEXCAVATED
BASEMENT
professional work| 2018
FRONT ELEVATION
5'-6" FREE STANDING TUB
GARDEN DOOR
MASTER BEDROOM 20'-7 1/2" X 18'-5"
OPT. GAS FIREPLACE
OPT. GAS FIREPLACE
LIVING ROOM 20'-7 1/2" X 17'-4"
LOW WALL
ARCH
MAKE-UP
MASTER ENSUITE BREAKFAST 17'-0" X 12'-11"
W.I.C.
ARCH
ARCH
ARCH
PWDR.
DINING 14'-9 1/2" X 11'-2"
W.I.C
DN
LAUNDRY
RAILING
RAILING
BEDROOM 5 15'-2 1/2" X 13'-0"
O.T.B.
FOYER
PORCH
UP
BALCONY
O.T.B. O.T.A.
UPPER CABINETS
FRENCH DOUBLE DOOR
DEC. LEDGE
GARAGE 18'-10" X 19'-11"
W.I.C.
ENSUITE 3 OFFICE 14'-10 1/2" X 9'-11 3/4"
LIN.
ARCH
DEC. LEDGE
BENCH
OPT. ISLAND 72" x 24"
ARCH
MUD RM. DN
WALK -IN CLOSET
COFFERED CLG.
ARCH
ARCH
STEPS AS PER GRADE
ENSUITE 2
COFFERED CLG.
ARCH
WO/ MICRO
WALK-IN PANTRY
BEDROOM 2 11'-7" X 17'-4"
ARCH
KITCHEN 17'-0" X 14'-6"
POCKET DOORS
ARCH
FLUSH BRFST. BAR
ISLAND
W.I.C.
ENSUITE 4
ARCH
BEDROOM 3 19'-0 X 14'-5 1/2"
FAMILY ROOM 18'-7 1/2" X 14'-2"
BEDROOM 4 18'-7 1/2" X 14'-2"
ROOF BELOW
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
professional work| 2018
FLANKAGE ELEVATION
thank you for your consideration.
LILA NGUYEN
lnguyen1@laurentian.ca (416)890-9883