Nick Fernando Architecture Portfolio by Nick Fernando

Nick Fernando

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Intern Architect, AIBC M.Arch

Nick Fernando

Employment Designer (Design-Build)

2023, LPC Construction

Junior Architectural Designer

2023, Giannone Petricone Associates

Intern Architect

2021-2022, Simcic Architecture Studio

Designer 2019 - 2021, Edward Ozimek

Teaching Assistant

2019-2021, University of British Columbia

Education

Master of Architecture

2017-2020, University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science

2011 – 2015, University of Toronto

Intern Architect, AIBC

nickyfernando@gmail.com

416-888-9212

Experience

Thesis Review Guest Critic

2021, UBC SALA

Guest Critic

2020-2021, UBC SALA

Health and Wellness Representative

2018-2020, UBC ARCHUS

Proficiencies Vectorworks

AutoCAD

Revit

Sketchup

Rhino

Grasshopper

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

PART ONE PROFESSIONAL WORK

ONE PROFESSIONAL

SQUAMISH BARN

Project Overview

A series of Agricultural Buildings and a guest house on a remote farm in BC. My first built project, I followed this set of agricultural buildings all the way from inception to construction documentation.

Work

Physical Model and Form Finding Experiments

Rhino Model With All Structural Members

Mill Cut List For All Lumber

Construction Drawing Set and Detail Design

Situated on farm land in the upper Squamish valley, this project was commissioned by the farmer who owns and resides on the property, with the intention that he complete all the construction himself. All the timber used was harvested on site and processed at a local wood mill.

In need of additional farm buildings as well as a smaller workers residence, the client was engaged with the design at multiple stages in the project. Collaborating with Edward Ozimek, I’ve worked on this ongoing project from early massing studies, to schematic design of the three buildings, all the way though construction documentation.

Given a formally challenging existing residential building on the site, a major challenge was finding forms and materiality that could respond to what existed without reproducing it. Our strategy was ultimately to produce a series of formally distinct buildings, allowing the whole to read as an eclectic set.

6 existing residence barn worker residence shed

Year Typology Location Team Phases Role 2020-2021 Agricultural Buildings Upper Squamish Valley, BC

Ozimek SD, DD, CD

Edward

Lead Designer

physical massing studies

8      workers residence schematic design

9           1      barn schematic design

10                                        

11                                                                      shed construction documentation (nts)



 

12         

  

                                           

   

 

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      

 sample construction details (1”=1’)

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13                       

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FOSTER VAN BUREN RESIDENCE

2021-2022 Vacation Home South Pender Island, BC

Marko Simcic, Emily Kazanowski, Kaitlin Dale SD Designer

Project Overview

This cabin’s precarious cliffside perch, accentuated by dramatic cantilevers, maximizes views out to the ocean and maintains much of the properties existing forest.

Work

Schematic Design Charretts and Iterations

Physical Model

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EMERGING FORM EXHIBITION: UNION

Project Overview An exhibition hosted by the Architectural Foundation of British Columbia showcasing MA+HG’s award winning renovation and lane way house project, Union . I was hired to take on this exhibition in its entirety.

Work

Project And Archival Review

Client and Gallery Co-ordination

Exhibition Design and Prototyping

Installation

Year Typology Location Team Phases Role 2021 Exhibition Vancouver, BC Marianne Amodio, Harley Gursko Full Project Project Lead

PART TWO STUDENT WORK

TWO STUDENT

SECWEPMEC CULTURAL CENTER

This building carries forward the rich architectural traditions of the Secwepemc people in order to meet the community’s contemporary needs.

A cultural center and museum for the Northern Secwepemc Tribes in BC, this project engages with the two traditional secwepemc vernaculars and plays with the tension between them. In doing so it creates a space that carries this rich cultural heritage forwards into a building that meets the community’s contemporary needs. The lightweight and porous summer-house is contrasted with the heavy, sunken winter-house through a lightweight outer skin enclosing heavy rammed earth volumes within. The space within the light skin, weaving between the heavy volumes, is flexible and adaptable to various temporary programs and needs, becoming connected or portioned by pivot doors as needed. The space within the heavy volumes, on the other hand, contains permanent programs including Class A museum storage, a Theater, Washrooms, and a small residential component for visiting Secwepemc families.

Year Typology Location Instructor Collaborators 2019 Cultural Center 108 Mile John Bass Carla Gruber

Winter House Summer House Submerged Sheltered Permanent Lightweight Airy Portable Flexible, Ephemeral Cedar Slats Rammed Earth program mat ial Secwepemc Vernacular Secwepemc Cultural Center light Fixed, Permanent Dappled Directional

exterior light study interior light study

25 1x3 1x6 8ft. member cut in thirds (80 cm) 6ft. member cut in half (90 cm) 1x4 1x4 2x4 2x4 lapped cedar facade detail west elevation

26 Summer

Equinoxes

Solstice Winter Solstice

the central space tracks the sun’s movement

render of central space

30 Private Sunrise Beginnings, Renewal PIVOT DOORS — between volumes SOLID DOORS — entry to volumes closed closed open open section

31 class A storage storage theater kitchen jan. mech. plan

ANTIFOLLIES

This project uses modular design and a kit of prefabricated parts to turn the residual spaces produced by London’s tangled streets into sites for much needed housing.

An entry for an affordable housing competition set in London, this project took aesthetic inspiration form the British high-tech architecture of the 1970’s and 80’s. This design philosophy was reinterpreted in the age of prefabrication, producing a modular kit of parts that can be recombine in countless ways to produce oddly shaped floor plans that fit neatly into the many oddly shaped residual spaces leftover by London’s messy street network. Much like follies in a British garden, these small interventions complement their surroundings by contrast. Instead of the past, however they offer a glimpse into the future.

32 Year Typology Location Collaborators 2019 Housing London Zeke Kan,Heesuk Lee, Jungyun Lee

Modular Prefabricated Units

To utilize odd shapes and sizes of the innumerable residual micro spaces around London, our project breaks down housing into its essential constitutive elements, envisioning each as prefabricated, interlocking components that can be arranged together to form units that uniquely ﬁt their sites. Each component stacks with itself, carrying utilities like water, electricity, and ventilation through direct cores up each building. The prefabrication of these elements reduces cost and building time, resulting in an affordable and quickly implementable solution to London’s housing crisis.

Circulation

Lavatories Kitchen Bedroom

Living Space

assemblage stacking

Language of Form

Anti-follies exist in an endless variety of shapes and sizes, but through their use of modular units they develop a language of their own. Each instance might be viewed as a phrase of this language, unique yet clearly part of a set. The set’s character is solidiﬁed by the common use of high tech materials such as steel and glass throughout each element. As a collection within London, their arrangement and relation produces yet another organizational logic to the city, which coexists (and at times contradicts) the existing infrastructure.

38 Circulation Living Space Lavatories

39 1:500 Space Kitchen Bedroom

FONDUE SPEAKEASY

A hole in the wall. A hidden gem. A secret club house where all are welcome, if they can find it!

Obscure from the outside but cozy within, the fondue speakeasy architecturalizes the same appeal that makes your favorite local hang out — that one the tourists don’t know about — so special. Located in Vancouver’s West End, it plays on the sense of community fostered by a shared secret, the restaurant feeling all the more special because its so difficult to find. The only outwards hit the plain box gives to its function is a bay window facing Alberni Street, from which it’s completely inaccessible. To get in you must make the journey around the block and down a back alley to find the unmarked structure sitting in a lane-way parking space....

40 Year Typology Location Instructor 2018 Restaurant Vancouver Bill Pechet

night view from Alberni St

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Once inside you see an industrial staircase with a strange light flicking down from above. You follow the sounds of conversation up the stairs only to be confronted with a blank wall. Turn one hundred and eighty degrees around the corner and finally you come to a large communal table, pots of fondue warming in the middle above gas flames, the only light source in the space. You join the dinner, now part of their unspoken club. The oversized table, window, and room remind you of being a child, but the warm light bathing the friendly faces conjures a safe sense of belonging.

light and conversation trickle down from above as you ascend the stairs P1

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