contact Gmail : nmendis@buffalo.edu natashatmendis@gmail.com Phone: (516) 595-5485
o b j e c t i v e Natasha Mendis is a currently a junior attending University at Buffalo’s, pre-professional career in Architecture, with a minor in Environmental Design. She is a determined to graduate in May 2019, with a Bachelor’s of Science and Architecture Degree. She is actively seeking a part-time position in the architecture/ relating fields in order to build and utilize on her skills, as well gain professional experience as a young designer.
e d u c a t i o n High School: Floral Park Memorial Floral Park, NY Attendance: Sep 2009-June 2015 New York State Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation/ AP Scholar June 2015
College: (Current Junior)
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University at Buffalo Bachelor of Science and Architecture (Expected May 2019) Major: Architecture Minor: Environmental Design
2-D REVIT Auto-Cad
p e r t i n e n t a c a d e m i c e x p e r i e n c e High School:
3-D Google Sketch Up Rhinoceros V- Ray / Grasshopper
Ecotect 3DS Max
Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
Windows Microsoft Word Microsoft Power-point Microsoft Excel
-3-year Architectural Technology Technical Program (Sewanhaka District) -1st year coursework: Architectural Drafting : (1 year/1 c-credit) Computer-Aided Drafting I (1 year/1 c-credit) Exposure to Auto-Cad, Google Sketch-Up, and Adobe Creative Suite - 2nd year coursework: Architectural Computer-Aided Drafting II (1 year/1 c-credit) Intermediate Auto-CAD drafting and BIM-Building Information Modeling using REVIT Site layout, zoning laws, property setbacks, and individual room design Physical Structures Theory 1: (1 year/1 c-credit) Exposed to standard construction practices as well as estimating quantities for a building project. Learning stair design, roof design, and bath and kitchen layouts. Models making -3rd year course work: Architectural Drafting III: (1 year/1 c-credit) Advanced Auto-CAD and REVIT techniques CAD Drafting III: (1 year/1 c-credit) Study advanced design, board layouts for a full set of working drawings and model Building Construction Theory: (1 year/1 c-credit) Covers electrical, plumbing, heating, construction, estimating, perspectives, and shade and shadows.
sk i l l s ANALOG Hand Rendering Sketching Acrylic / Watercolor Painting Model Making Laser Cutting CNCing 3-D Printing Collages Board Layout / Presentation Photography
Team Building Design Intuition Collaboration Fast Learner Self-Starter Innovative Sustainability Responsive
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College: University at Buffalo Bachelor of Science and Architecture 1st year (Fall 2015-Spring 2016) (12 credits) - Architectural Drafting -(Depth Understanding of 2-D programs (Auto-CAD, Adobe), as well as 3-D programs (Rhino) Explore drawing and modeling as interdependent design activities. Two-dimensional work informs and tests our three-dimensional work and vice versa. Studio projects emphasize the development of 2D and 3D constructions modes of seeing, thinking, and making
2nd year (Fall 2016-Spring 2017) (12 credits) - Application of more depth of 2-D and 3-D programs, Adobe Suite, 3DS Max -Digital Work Using landscape as a way of responding to a wide range of contextual forces such as social factors, ecological developments, and various urban agendas.
3rd year (Fall 2017) (6 credits) - Application of more depth of 2-D and 3-D programs, Adobe Suite, Rhino, REVIT -Digital Work / Model-making (Understanding of 3D- Printing, CNC, & Laser cutting) Comprehensive design of a buoyant structure designed to straddle the water’s edge and interact directly with the vast volume of water along the Erie Canal waterfront. The main focus will be the development of a tectonic system (structure, space, and enclosure) to both remain buoyant and to permit the occupation of space. This constructed environment will be examines the relationship to the larger site context and the environmental forces to which the buoyant structure must respond.
affiliations • Alpha Rho Chi (APX) Senenmut Chapter Position: Secretary (Worthy Scribe/ E-Board Position) Spring 2016- Present - Professional Fraternity of Architecture and the Allied Arts
• The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning EngineersASHRAE Student Member Fall 2016- Present -Association that directly impacts and interacts with the energy efficiency industry.
• National Organization of Miniroitity Architecture Students (NOMAS) Student Member Fall 2017- Present -Contributes to the community and diversity to the -students of architecture .
• Community Health Global Initiative (CHGI) Student Member Fall 2017- Present -Identify, engage in and advance innovative and sustainable solutions to significant global health problems.
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CELESTIAL VAULT
AEDICULE
PERCEPTUAL THREAD
DESIGN STUDIO I/ MEDIA STUDIES
DRAWINGS
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AEDICULE DESIGN STUDIO i STUDY OF FORM AND FUNCTION
THe relationship between the human body and hoe people relate to different spacial heiarchy . An aedicule in my terms after studying the concept and looking into the history. It’s defined as a space within a space, that’s habitable. It’s almost portal like, walking into another dimension. I wanted to play with the lighting, so the client feels like they are in another dimension It’s peliminary ideas I wanted to connect the funneling aspect, because it was both seen in my interloc, how the dowel is funneled in. As well, in the seating devicehow the client is funnled into the seat, ther person should feel comfortable yet confirmed
INTERLOCK Given three terms to define, the definitions were to create an interlock with three objects without the use of technical adhesive.
DOWEL
The Board is the thickest and largest piece acting as the main body that the sheet caresses to. The Sheet is the thinner piece which circulates around the other pieces. The Dowel is key-ed into the board and sheet, placing everything in place.
SEATING DEVICE The quarter circles are slotted into the board and the triangles to hold the form. The triangles serve as the support system for the weight and the board. Same idea taken from the interlock, now the pieces are needed for the seating device to be a whole such that it ties back with the interlock. Each piece is equally important.
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3 PERCEPTUAL THREAD DESIGN STUDIO III SITE LOCATION: GLEN PARK, BUFFALO NY FORM AND FUNCTION The semester had been based off a precedent study which had purposely gone through multiple uses throughout the building’s lifetime. The firm and trans-formative qualities of the building allowed it to last for the time being until present day. After picking either a firm or trans-formative aspect of the precedent, a projection drawing was produced Taking into consideration how people access and use the so desired spaces, horizontal circulation is explained by the various routes that exist, which depends on the function of the spaces. The relationship people have with each other, and each space is critical information that the designer needs to know. The use of facilities and how people interact with these needs have an outcome to the obstacles within the space. To read and interpret. a significance. The existing building’s structural details through transitions in the way space is used through different obstacles. In an abstract sense that a person may encounter a “welcome”, “interrupt”, “choice of direction”, “seduction”, “confrontation”, and “persuasion.” Visualizing the spaces in use to encompass an image.
Horizontal circulation is explained by the various routes that exist, depending on the function of the spaces. Creating a fabricated series of paths, the study of high, medium, low travel is seen through as a “welcome”, “interrupt”, “choice of direction”, “seduction”, “confrontation”, and “persuasion.” Dividing the movement by the intensity of various colours correlates to the importance of certain movements. The lines that run across change from slow to fast movement, and using void is a huge part of how people use to access spaces through circulation.
Palazzo Della Ragione located in Padua Italy is known to be the widest rooms with a roof un-supported by columns. It is used as a tourist sight, but people usually move from entrance to exit in a straight line. The building is often used for multiple art exhibitions which indefinitely changes the movement within the space.
BASE FLOOR OF PALAZZO
Following and after analyzing Zaha Hadid experiments with the new spatial concepts that intensify existing urban landscape in search of a visionary aesthetic included all field of design, moving from urban dimension to products, from interiors to furniture. She is fundamental to the relationship between architecture and landscape which, combined together, lead to unexpected results in terms of dynamism of forms. In her exhibition the movement of people within the space they would after analyzing the movement of people within the space they would follow the pieces. It seemed as the work persuaded where heavy, medium, and light travel would be.
FIRST FLOOR OF PALAZZO
S I T E A N A L Y S I S : G L E N P A R K, B U F F A L O , N .Y. LAND USE Buildings Dense Foliage Light Foliage Water Paths/Streets Parking Lots
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PERCEPTUAL THREAD
Changing the whole idea of taking the forms and shapes of the transitional diagram. I had taken the experience from the movements from the diagram, rather than extruding the physical forms. Making it all structurally on one level, with a series of ramps interconnecting into the site. The building successfully connects to the paths that are located in the park. With that the public accessible routes ,would have a high density movement, compared to the more private areas which would have less access, and therefore less circulation. Having the same ideology of high, medium, and low density movements through circulation. For program, the building was given a seminary. So using this program as a way to be with the building, was to mesh public and private. The way of the flow of circulation could be hindered as to what part of the building you were in. So for the centre of the building would be a main central circle of gathering for prayers and as you dispersed out each room conveyed if there was access for heavy travel or light travel. So the type of religion that was occupied in this type of building was people who believed in Pantheism. Since the building inter-connects with nature, it’s reverence of it‘s universe as the ultimate focus and the natural earth is sacred. So it reconciles the concern for humans and the concern for the planet. So having people circulate and connect within the site is pivotal to the program and the experience it gives.
4 D E S I G N S T U D I O I/ M E D I A S T U D I E S DESIGN STUDIO I/ MEDIA II - IV
EXPERIMENTAL AXON Our axonometric drawings were each individual designers interpretation of gathered information from the screwed photographs. With this set up for the axonometric drawing the designer had the freedom to experiment by projecting, adding, and subtracting certain aspects from both photographs. By doing so, what was once a 2 dimensional photograph, created multiple 3 dimensional objects that did not contain any scale.
Focusing on these particular objects it allowed photos to form geometric sequences, than could generate spatial structures. With that the axonometric was put onto 2 wooden board to create a wooden relief site. Then after with excavation, adding, and various other methods, a threshold and a cut plane were placed on the wooden relief site, and the original wooden model had been placed to fit the conditions for the client of the project.
IMPERSONATOR We were asked to place our original wooden model and use various methods of cutting, rotating to accomplish a habitable space for a client we were given, this specific client was a librarian named Deborah, she was very structural in the way she thought so the idea was to use the patterned planes, and horizontal lines with the intersecting dowels to create a form a unity and a condition that is seen very integral to her outside personality. But the other side of her personality was that she was DB Stardust which led way for an extroversion type of architecture. By taking the arc from the wooden model, it made way for an atrium for her performance area. Also extracting multiple objects to create seating area was very doable with the circulation that was created in the front. Circulation was something that was thought about alot throughout this process, essentially she is one person, she just has two persona. So there should be that fluidity from one side to another without physical barriers.
LANTERN ANALYSIS- MEDIA III
5 DRAWINGS PERSONAL WORK