Dana Mastrangelo M.Arch Candidate Design Portfolio by loodini2

Internship Application Summer 2022

M.Arch Candidate Carleton University Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism

Dana Mastrangelo’s Portfolio

B.Sc in Architecture McGill University Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture

Collection of works from McGill University, Carleton University and Professional Practice

DANA MASTRANGELO

Summer Internship 2022

Spring 2018 - Fall 2021

DESIGN PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS CURRICULUM VITAE

DESGIN STUDIO WORK 01 - MASTER’S STUDIO: COMMERCIAL GREENHOUSE DESIGN 02 - FINAL BACHELOR’S STUDIO: FLEXIBLE COMMUNITY CENTRE DESIGN 03 - COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO: PRIMARY SCHOOL DESIGN 04 - PRECEDENT ANALYSIS 05 - 3RD SEMESTER DESIGN STUDIO 06 - PIRANESI

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OTHER COURSE WORK 07 - ARCH 543: THE CITY AFTER WALKING 08 - ABSTRACTION OF A BORGES STORY 09 - SIMULACRUM, PETRA

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PROFESSIONAL WORK 10 - PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 1 - LOGO DESIGN 11 - PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2 - GRAPHIC DESIGN 12 - PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 3 - RENOVATION

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PERSONAL PROJECTS 14 - PERSONAL PROJECT - RENOVATION 15 - ARTWORK

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*All photographs are my own. *All drawings are my own unless stated otherwise.

Contents

M.Arch Architecture Candidate

Master’s of Architecure, M.Arch Azrieli School of Architecure and Urbanism CARLETON UNIVERSITY

The Azrieli School of Architecture

Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture, B.Sc. Faculty of Engineering MCGILL UNIVERSITY

CONTACT

WORK EXPERIENCE

Email mastrangelodana@gmail.com Phone +1 (514) 654-5005 STATEMENT OF INTEREST Master of Architecture student with diverse work experience involving small built projects, graphic design, and administration. Focused on gaining further experience in the architectural field with an internship. Enthusiastic problem solver, energetic, and talented performer with model-making, communication, and leadership skills. SKILLS Teamwork, Creativity, Flexibility, Communication Skills, Adaptability AutoCad, Rhino, Revit, Procreate Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop Programming C++, Javascript

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES September 2021 - Diploma scheduled to be obtained for April 2023 August 2018 - April 2021 Diploma obtained Winter 2021

Teaching Assistant September 2021 - December 2021 Carleton University Scheduled September 2022 - December 2022 Guiding first-year undergraduate architecture students through the designs of their 1st architectural studio projects, Grading, Teaching technical, architectural drawing techniques. Graphic Desginer June 2021 - October 2021 Drop The Vape - CHU Sainte-Justine Logo design for CHU Ste-Justine campaign to inform teens of the risks of vaping. Administrative Assistant & Receptionist June 2015 - Ongoing Construction Ampro Managing payroll weekly, Administrating Accounts Receivables and Payables, Sales, Answering calls, Administrative tasks, Weekly scheduling for jobs and for client meetings. Graphic Designer/Interior-Design Consultant April 2019 - October 2020 9185-0628 Quebec Inc. Website, logo, and brochure design and distribution management. Redesign and execution of the company’s entire office space. Graphic Designer/Marketing Consultant April 2019 - August 2019 Mr. Borders Inc. Website, logo, and brochure design and distribution management. Redesign and execution of exterior showroom for the company’s products. Construction Worker June 2019 - August 2019 Mr. Borders Inc. Pore and form custom cement borders for commercial and residential sites.

Sketching Group Organizer - Nulla dies sine linea Carleton University Organized an online sketching group for peers within the school of architecture as an initative to create 1 drawing a day for the year 2022 Project Manager Home Backyard Renovation Project Designed my home backyard to maximize space for a pool, lounge area, cooking space, and large deck. Selected all the materials and plant species. English Tutor John Abbott College Helped students become better English writers by reviewing their essays and/or going over grammar lessons. AWARDS Scholarship & TA Position Carleton University I was awared a full scholarship to the Masters of Architecture program at Carleton, along with 2 teaching assistant positions to teach the undergraduate design studios. Participation Bursary College Ste-Marcelline Awarded to the student who was involved in the most extracurriculars throughout their entire high school career. 1st Place Kiosk Design Robotics Competition CRC Awarded to the team with the best kiosk (12’ x 12’) that maintained both aesthetics and sustainability. LANGUAGES

English (Advanced), French (Advanced)

Curriculum Vitae

DANA MASTRANGELO

EDUCATION

SOUTH-EAST AXONOMETRIC

PERSPECTIVE INTERIOR ENTRANCE

URBAN FOREST

MASTER’S STUDIO: INSTITUTIONAL GREENHOUSE DESIGN

Urban Forest is an institutional greenhouse project located in Hull, Gatineau, across the water from Parliament Hill, used to plant tree saplings and then relocate them into densely urban portions of Ottawa. A progression of landscape strategies is used to cleanse the soil from its toxic condition. The site previously served a paper mill, where the soil inherently became toxic from the factory and all the material and minerals that were deposited as a result. In response, the tree species’ locations for the site are designed in a manner to remediate the site of its toxicity. The building, programmed for four greenhouses, labs and educational spaces, mimics and responds to the varying conditions of the land through its layout, roof structure, materials, and renewable energy strategy. Duration: Fall 2021, Entire Semester Instructor: Lisa Moffitt, Jerry Hacker

Master’s Studio: Institutional Greenhouse Design

PERSPECTIVE EXTERIOR GREENHOUSE & COURTYARD

This transition of softscape, where the soil is constantly being turned over for saplings, to hardscape, where the soil is left untouched and trees are meant to grow on the mountain of earth, would inform the building to respond to those transitions informed by the soil, the topography, and the varying tree height.

Master’s Studio: Institutional Greenhouse Design

The site is divided into three zones: New Earth, Bioremediation, and Toxic Soil, as different means to restore the site from its toxic condition. The first zone would involve excavating a portion of the soil and replacing it with new earth for the saplings since they are intended to be relocated. Instead of bringing the soil to a dump, it would be transported and mounted at the opposing end of the site, along with additional soil excavated for the building. Here, similar plant species already growing on the land can be planted and remediated the site throughout a longer period. This is also a means of commemorating the previous use of the site. In between those two spaces, a middle ground where toxic soil is maintained, but active strategies of bioremediation would be used to quicken the process of detoxing the earth, involving the integration of specific plant species and bacteria.

NORTH ELEVATION

GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:200

SITE PLAN

SCALE 1:500

BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:200

Master’s Studio: Institutional Greenhouse Design

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

Master’s Studio: Institutional Greenhouse Design

A screen of vine species is used as a means of shade during the summer months and, when the leaves would fall for winter, a means of passive heating.

02 COMMUNITY STAGE

FINAL BACHELOR’S STUDIO: FLEXIBLE COMMUNITY CENTRE DESIGN 02

Final Bachelor’s Studio: Flexible Community Centre Design

Community Stage is the result of my final studio project from McGill that I did with my partner, Lia DiGiulio, of a flexible community centre situated on the corner of Maisonneuve and boul. St-Laurent in the heart of Montreal. The project involved using a mode of flexible design to accommodate more program than available space allocated. These programs included a library, an exhibition space, a theatre, a physical activity space, a maker space, and a café. In turn, the building required the capacity to continuously alter itself in a manner that would allow some of the programs to be able to occur in the building but be able to change when different programs were required instead. In response, we designed a building that would use theatre mechanisms that, unlike a traditional theatre, would operate intelligently by detecting signals and cues inputted by the users of the building to determine the outputted programs and the way these programs interacted with one another. Duration: Winter 2021, Entire Semester Instructor: François Sabourin Partner: Lia DiGiulio

We began the project by detecting our relationship with technology throughout the course of 24 hours. We focused on technology’s capability to influence our attention on various tasks at hand. By developing the score, we acknowledged moments of the constructive and destructive behaviour of the technology depending on if it helped us with a task or lead us to become distracted and no longer productive. To translate this experience with technology into architecture, we studied these constructive and destructive modes of interference by programming a game with JavaScript. In the game, a player would let their eyes be tracked while viewing a screen displaying 4 videos simultaneously, with bubbles floating on the screen that would begin by blocking the audio and visuals of the 3 other videos that the viewer was not actively looking at. After 5 seconds, the bubbles would invade the entire screen, encouraging the player to look at a different video instead. In architectural terms, the game’s ability to selectively reveal and block what was being shown reflected the similar experience of attending a theatrical performance. With this analogy, we designed the community centre to use these mechanisms. For a community centre, we saw that by using the theatre’s dramatic structure, as well as the constructive and destructive interference from our game, we could foster the important roles of a community centre: to broaden relationships/skills and to strengthen relationships/skills.

Computer game link: https://editor.p5js.org/danamastrangelo/full/DVjIelloM

Final Bachelor’s Studio: Flexible Community Centre Design

René-Lévesque Boulevard

St Dominique Street

Public Square

A’

St Laurent Boulevard

René-Lévesque Boulevard

St Dominique Street

Public Square

Ceiling Plan Plan Stored Furniture on Pulleys

St Laurent Boulevard

Program Exhibition Space Venue (Theatre) Physical Activity Space Library Makerspace Cafe Multi-Use (General)

Final Bachelor’s Studio: Flexible Community Centre Design

UNDER THE HILLS

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO: PRIMARY SCHOOL DESIGN

Under the Hills is the result of the comprehensive studio I did in my 3rd year with my partner, May Bi, of a primary school situated at Municipal Golf Montreal next to Parc Maisonneuve. We began the project by outlining what a school meant to us. We concluded that a school enables learning from the curriculum taught inside the school as much as it does to its attached environment. Since the site was a golf course, we decided not to remove the grass plain’s visual queue by burring the building underground and pushing the ground from below to generate soft hills. In doing so, the children can have a continuously varying relationship to the building and its surroundings. It scales down to the size of a child in certain areas and offers transition spaces that allow for the visual understanding of going underground or onto the roof. The school also acts as a guide for circulation, where the soft transition of paths invites users to be raked onto the roof or into the forest. It also offers moments of constriction followed-by release within its curved floor-plan, suggesting spaces for interaction or individuality. Duration: Fall 2020, Entire Semester Instructor: Mariel Collard Arias Partner: May Bi

Drawn in collaboration with May Bi

Comprehensive Studio: Primary School Design

Drawn in collaboration with May Bi

The building gently intervenes into the landscape to allow students to take control of their experiences. As students inhabit the school space day in and day out, a play of transitions above and below ground diversifies their daily schedule experience. They can decide to run over the rooftop hills or take the underground route when heading to class. Together, May Bi and I worked on all the drawings produced in this project. They reflect the synthesis of both of the ideals we envisioned for creating spaces where the children from all grade groups could come together and interact. The drawings here demonstrate how important it was for us to maintain its theme of the building’s varying relationship in both scale and environment. The curved roofs provide at once areas of double-height spaces and spaces only where children can fit.

Comprehensive Studio: Primary School Design

CUT-AWAY ISOMETRIC Drawn in collaboration with May Bi

Large glass walls allow light to enter underground spaces and establish a visual connection to the exterior, the world above ground. Terrazzo floors, wooden ceilings, and concrete walls imitate the Earth’s tones and textures to create a warm underground ambiance. Ultimately, the school aims to connect children to nature through transitions above and below ground and the new landscape on the school site.

Comprehensive Studio: Primary School Design

This project is important for me for its unorthodox form, which was strictly designed to draw users in and out of the building very explicitly. Its form enables nook spaces only big enough for children enabling them to feel like they have their own space in such an institution. The waffle slab allows for a larger span to allow more room for children to play and run without interruption. This building really reflections my belief in how architecture should be designed to reflect its use. A playful environment should have a playful form.

WALL DETAIL Drawn in collaboration with May Bi

Comprehensive Studio: Primary School Design

SCALE 1:10

04 GEOMETRIC DECONSTRUCTION

3RD SEMESTER DESIGN STUDIO

Duration: Fall 2019, Entire Semester Instructor: Vedanta Balbahadur Individual Project Given the liberty to choose any object in a museum, I chose a human skull where I had the occasion to deconstruct it and create drawings based on a set of chosen rules. I chose to flatten the microtopography, the cracks, and the skull’s symmetry that generated a drawing that I later transformed based on the expansion of my chosen characteristics. The drawings here show the best of the iterations generated. The following task was to lift the drawing three-dimensionally. I got to distinguish myself by using unconventional modeling tools. The negative space and the defined lines made me instantly think of maps and their roads in the drawings. This interconnected system was best displayed by lifting the images with nails and string on plexiglass to let the model inform further images with their shadows and elevations.

3rd Semester Design Studio

SPACIALIZING Inspired from the images and models generated, the spacializing task required to think about the string model and imagine how it would generate space. This allowed me to look at the different height variances found in the string and conceptualize what they could inform. As shown in the image of slopping roofs drawn over the nail and string model, a series of these images were made, and they began to make spaces when folded onto one other. This spacializing model results from one of the many iterations that followed the rules made to create this three-dimensionality. Painted with a dark exterior and reflective interior, people are invited to look inside and explore the caves produced within the folding surfaces.

3rd Semester Design Studio

This was one of the most exciting projects I got to work on; I loved having the opportunity to inform design decisions with abstract models. I believe model-making is an essential process to design and should be part of every design process.

SITE A

Following the spacializing model, the task was to place the spaces created onto a site and modifying the model accordingly. Since the site was open to interpretation based-off a series of rules, I determined a space that has a similar geometric topography, as well as a cliff. Instead of placing the model onto the site, I wanted to site and model to open a repertoire and embed the model into the site. The model made here shows the similarity between building and site, but painted in contrasting colors to identify the building’s individuality from the location. The form could be lifted out of the site and explored to further understand the interior’s nooks.

3rd Semester Design Studio

THERMAL BATHS

3RD SEMESTER DESIGN STUDIO

Since the project was embedded in the earth at different topography levels, each unit’s respected floor level would determine a functional variable: temperature. Since hot air rises, other buildings’ attachment was instilled at the tops where the buildings’ edges below extended into poles for support. Cold baths were programmed in the buildings below-ground, hot baths in the buildings at ground level, and vapor rooms in the buildings above ground. This final outlook of deconstructing and reconstructing allowed me to learn how to design to enable the function to follow form and understand what it means for a building when it has certain context, materials, and shapes.

3rd Semester Design Studio

Following the geometric deconstruction and reconstruction, the task was to assign a function dependent on the forms generated.

06 SOEUL KINDERGARDEN BY JUNHMIN NAM PRECENDENT ANALYSIS

Duration: Fall 2020, Two Weeks Instructor: Mariel Collard Arias Partner: May Bi The kindergarten by Junhmin Nam is an inviting and nurturing focal point in a neighborhood in Seoul for children. Its connection to nature and emphasis on sustainability teaches school goers about nature’s importance and influence on their daily lives. By catering to its users and neighborhood, the project promotes a better learning environment and fosters personal growth. This precedent analysis executed by myself and my partner May Bi was a very deliberate project that allowed me to learn how to visually represent certain themes and values found in architectural work.

Precedent Analysis

GROUND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN Drawn by May Bi

BASEMENT 1 FLOOR PLAN

Precedent Analysis

STRUCTURAL EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS

Duration: Winter 2019, Two Weeks Instructor: David Covo & Vedanta Balbahadur Material: Conte de Paris Individual Project

Piranesi

PIRANESI: EXTENSION OF BOARD 10

This project involved expanding Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 10th Board of The Prisons (Le Carceri). The original etching was interpreted to have a broken bridge under a large arch. I designed an extension to unveil the other end of the bridge and its collapse at the center. The bridging theme inspired the design to additionally bridge the dark interior to a contrasting bright exterior. Ambiguity is struck by the uncertainty of how high the bridge is, and also through the narrative created when one attempts to understand why the bridge collapsed and where the exterior leads to.

THE FALLEN BRIDGE

REIMAGING 5255 AVENUE LOUIS COLIN

ARCH 543: The City After Walking Garage Louis-Colin is found carved out of Mount Royal as part of the University of Montreal campus. The reimaging drawing aims to unveil its relationship to the microscale of its users: drivers and pedestrians, to its macroscale of the rest of the campus, and to the city of Montreal. The medium of the drawing, presented as a gif, emphasizes, at once, the dynamic and static interconnections that weave within the concrete structure through the act of framing and being framed. Moving through the frames, the viewer can understand the vast scales in which the building interacts, for each composing drawing can be interpreted at multiple scales and views. Duration: Summer 2020, Four Weeks Instructor: Daniela Leon Medium: Gif (6/15 Frames)

ARCH 543: The City After Walking

ABSTRACTION OF A BORGES STORY ARCH 532: ORIGINS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE

These collages I crafted express the multiple layers of interpretation of space behind Louis Borges’ “Parable of the Palace”. In light of the omnipresent theme of duality between religion and science found within the parable, the collages aim to represent these opposing forces through their ability to be read in opposing vertical directions. The first collage aims to synthesize the labyrinth described in the story. The second collage aims to transport the story into a real place in the world. Images of Pompei are used to connect the opposing views of the two characters’ envision of the palace.

Abstraction of a Borges Story

PARABLE OF THE PALACE

Duration: Winter 2020 for Six Weeks, Instructor: Prof. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Material: Canvas, Paper, Glue

SIMULACRUM, PETRA ARCH HISTORY I

Duration: Fall 2018, Two Weeks Instructor: Prof. Ricardo Castro Material: Plywood, Acrylic, Papier Mache, Paint Partners: Fabrice G. Arellan & Lia Di Giulio

Simulacrum, Petra

The simulacrum attempts to represent the lost city of Petra in Jordan. Since the city was carved out of the mountain, the piece tries to recreate the city’s textural experience when navigating inside the box. The city is also well known for its innovative water system at the time. The pipeline is recreated in the simulacrum from the exterior. Water is poured and cascades down into the box. Since crowsteps were a common motif used in facades, they detail the exterior of the structure. When someone places their hand in the box, they experience both dry and wet sensations upon entering the city. My role was to contribute to design and paint the box.

11 LOGO DESIGN

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 1 Duration: June 2021 - October 2021

I was contracted by Hôpital Ste-Justine in Montreal for a campaign of theirs called ‘Drop the Vape’. This program would attend high schools across the province to educate students about the risks of vaping. Inspired by ‘Drop the Mic’, I went through a highly elaborate process of hand-drawn designs, selected colour palettes, and came to a final output the client admired.

Professional Project 1

INITIAL LOGO

FINAL LOGO

12 GRAPHIC DESIGN

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 2

I also got the opportunity to create their website (www. constructionampro.ca) and take-charge of various flyers for the asphalt division and their transport division. Here are some of the many examples.

I received the opportunity from my employer to renew the old logo and make it more modern. Since the company is involved in asphalte, I imagined a road running through the logo and reduced it to the abstract form of the ‘A’ and made multiple iterations until my employer found the one they preferred the most.

Professional Project 2

Duration: April 2019 - August 2019

BEFORE

AMPRO OFFICE RENOVATION PROFESSIONAL PROJECT 3 Duration: April 2020 - June 2020

I had the occasion to work on a renovation project and see it through from beginning to end and even got the chance to be part of every task involved in the construction process. The offices initially had very yellow-beige walls; the space felt small and dark. I proposed the materials and sketch displayed here to my employers to propose a way we could brighten-up the offices and provide them with a more modern look. Various textures, such as a rock wall behind the reception desk and brushed metal, were used to provide different focal points and occasions to reflect light. I feel thrilled to have been part of this process, and I learned a great deal from laying ceramic on the floor and painting the stucco ceiling.

Professional Project 3

*The entire floor was renovated; the rest of the rooms are private offices. 13

Professional Project 3

14 RENOVATION DES MOHICANS

PERSONAL PROJECT I conceptualized the design for the work that was executed in our home backyard. Originally, there was nothing but grass and a black fence. The design’s intent was to bring the materials from inside the home, wood and exposed concrete, to the outside. Shrubs were planted around the fence for privacy, palm trees and exotic flowers were installed within the yard to encourage a vacation-like experience. I had the opportunity to entirely selfdirect this project and provide the plans shown here to the contractor. Duration: Spring 2018 - Summer 2018

Personal Project

BEFORE

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VARIOUS ARTWORKS

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Various Artworks

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LINES

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