NICOLE RATAJCZAK
ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN
2013
NICOLE RATAJCZAK 2A \\ University of Waterloo E ratajczaknicole@gmail.com T +1.519.503.2990
Hello! My name is Nicole Ratajczak (pronounced rah-TAI-chak) and I am currently a 2A student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
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I am passionate about design as a whole - everything from architecture to graphic design to fashion. I work well as both a team member and an individual, in both school projects and extra-curricular activities. As a young student, I am interested in exploring how architecture functions in the present day urban city and how cultural, societal, and political norms affect how we experience architecture.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SKILLS
JUNE - AUGUST 2013 Internship \\ The WayFinding Group 2013 with Professor Donald McKay Cambridge, ON
DIGITAL - Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop \\ Illustrator \\ InDesign - AutoCAD - Rhinoceros - V-Ray for Rhino - Google Sketch-Up - Microsoft Office Word \\ Excel \\ Powerpoint \\ Publisher
MAY - AUGUST 2013 Casual Library Clerk \\ Musagetes Architecture Library Cambridge, ON JUNE - AUGUST 2011 Architectural Assistant \\ WalterFedy Kitchener, ON JUNE 2011 - AUGUST 2012 Part-Time Deli Staff \\ Eurofood Kitchener, ON
EDUCATION SEPT 2012 - PRESENT University of Waterloo Honours Architectural Studies Expected graduation: June 2017 Cambridge, ON
ANALOG - Hand Drafting Graphite \\ Ink - Hand Modeling Foam Core \\ Museum Board \\ Acrylic
AWARDS SEPT 2012 - APRIL 2013 Excellent Academic Standing University of Waterloo APRIL 2013 Publication of Studio Design Project UWSA Projects Review 2013
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BREATHING WALL WAYFINDING MODERN LOFTS JUNK URBAN ROW HOUSE GRAPHIC DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHY
pg 06 pg 12 pg 18 pg 24 pg 30 pg 36 pg 38
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BREATHING WALL 1B \\ SSEF Competition COLLABORATIVE \\ with Marisa Musing SUPERVISOR \\ Terri Meyer Boake
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The Breathing Wall strives to revitalize the city’s views on the importance of the natural environment and works to harmonize plant life with the fabric of the city. The Breathing Wall is modern day pop-up architecture; it is “light, quick, and cheap” in its materiality, assembly, and disassembly. It is made from recycled materials such as reclaimed light gauge steel frame members and puts recycled tin cans to use with its innovative design. As more and more people participate with the wall, it grows and becomes a living, breathing piece. In its full execution the wall is abundant in plant life and acts as a significant environmental symbol as well as an interactive part of the city and its urban fabric.
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List of components in order of appearance Left to Right -Perforated Steel Sheet -Nut and Bolt Fasteners -Panel Connector 1 -2 x 4’ Steel Stud -2 x 4’ Steel Stud -Panel Connector 2 -2 x 4’ Steel Stud -Nut and Bolt Fasteners -Perforated Steel Sheet 9
List of components in order of appearance Left to Right -Fastened Footing Insert -Steel Track -2 x 4’ Solid Steel Footing with welded Insterts
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The wall is an interactive piece; the perforated steel walls are sized to fit the standard dimensioned soup can through its holes, and participants are encouraged to plant seeds in their own recycled tin cans and insert them into the wall. The end result is a unique contrast between steel and greenery, representing the balance between the urban and green environment that every present-day urban city strives to attain.
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WAYFINDING 2013 \\ Internship COLLABORATIVE \\ with James Clark-Hicks, Lindsay Nette, David Schellingerhoudt SUPERVISOR \\ Donald McKay
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Between 2000 and 2010 the student population at the University of Waterloo grew by about 50%. During this time, and since, the University of Waterloo has built new buildings, both on and off campus, along with accompanying service areas. This has reduced open campus space and has changed the character of much of the campus. In many places, it also arrests or obscures access directly into the main campus from the Ring Road, resulting in an almost impenetrable walling effect.The most economic first step in any such strategy would be to establish gateway points into the Ring Road precinct – where anyone arriving could orient herself – supplemented by information points within that precinct. These natural gateways would combine bus stops, bicycle racks, and additional public amenities, with a clear view and an unobstructed path into campus.
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1 Davis Quadrangle
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Founder’s Square Stop - Section View
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Founder’s Square Stop - Plan View
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MODERN LOFTS 1B \\ Design Studio INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISOR \\ Donald McKay
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Modern Lofts are medium density and medium-high density apartment buildings [floor area ratio of 2.4 or greater] built on conventional-size city lots, developed without land assemblies in areas that would profit from greater density, in the periphery of downtown Toronto. In a core as congested as Toronto’s is becoming, there will be a market for apartment buildings with extremely limited parking. With small numbers of apartments per building and with modern controls, there is no need to develop such buildings with double-elevator cores. Every small building built in the core should maintain SOME commercial/institutional occupancy at ground level, and every small building built in the core should be environmentally sound in easy-to achieve ways, and should anticipate changes in use over time.
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View Into Library
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Ground Level Plan
Core Circulation Private Outdoor Space Private Residential Space
Second Level Plan - Library
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Levels 3-5 Plan - Residential
Level 6 Plan - Penthouse
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South Elevation
East Elevation
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JUNK 1B \\ Design Studio COLLABORATIVE \\ with Charles Kim, Amber Leclair, Andrea Quinn SUPERVISOR \\ Donald McKay
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Junk (definition): Old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value; in this case, land trapped in an unfortunate circumstance. Situated on a small and underused site in Cambridge, Ontario, this mid-sized residential complex works to make use of an otherwise worthless piece of land. In this exercise, we make architecture as a minimum, and we work to make in pragmatic circumstances.
Lower Unit \\ Lower Floor Plan
Upper Unit \\ Lower Floor Plan
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Lower Unit \\ Upper Floor Plan
Upper Unit \\ Upper Floor Plan
Section X
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Section Y
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URBAN ROW HOUSE 1A \\ Design Studio INDIVIDUAL SUPERVISOR \\ Tammy Gaber, Val Rynnimeri
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A row home sandwiched between other row homes suffers in terms of the amount of potential daylight that it can receive. This project explores ways in which light can be carried through narrow spaces, while also challenging traditional suburban types of program organization.
The goal with this project was to carry light throughout the home from east end to west end (and vice versa) by only using walls that are perpendicular to the east and west windows. Spaces could be separated horizontally using level changes and/or partitioning elements (ex: half wall, frosted glass, fireplace). Any necessary horizontal walls (walls running parallel to east and west windows) would be pushed against the party walls to allow light to penetrate through to the centre of the home from either end.
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Bedrooms, requiring the highest level of privacy, exist on the ground level, separate from the more public second and third levels which share vertical space (studios are a mezzanine and look down into the living room). Skylight windows provide generous amounts of day lighting for the workspaces and living room.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
NORR Architects and Engineers
RE-WORKING UNION STATION
Donald McKAY WayFinding Group WATERLOO | ARCHITECTURE
FINDING WAYS, I & II
Antoine GRUMBACH
Antoine Grumbach et Associés Architecture Urbanisme Paysage
SYSTEMS GENERATING SYSTEMS: MOBILITY AND URBAN FORM
Pamela BLAIS
Metropole Consultants, Author, Perverse Cities
BUILDING ON TRANSIT
17 OCT 07 NOV 14 NOV 21 NOV
Kelly SHANNON
Oslo School of Architecture & Design
INTERPLAYS: POLICY, POLITICS, AND DESIGN
Paul NOSKIEWICZ NORR Architects and Engineers
RE-WORKING UNION STATION
Arriscraft Lecture Series 6:45 PM | Lawrence Cummings Lecture Hall University of Waterloo Fall 2013 | Winter 2014 University of Waterloo School of Architecture 7 Melville Street South Cambridge, Ontario, N1S 2H4
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Sponsored by Arriscraft, Metrolinx, and The Region of Waterloo
Paul Noskiewicz, Project Director with NORR Limited Architects Engineers Planners, joined the firm in 1990 and has led numerous large scale institutional projects including: John Sopinka Courthouse – Hamilton ON Georgian College Student Centre – Barrie ON Calgary Courts Centre – Calgary AB General Motors Centre – Oshawa ON The Landmark Mixed Use Residential Tower – Abu Dhabi UAE Queens Park Block Technical Planning Study – Toronto ON Paul has been leading the Union Station Revitalization Project since its inception in 2007 and was instrumental working with City of Toronto and its stakeholders to formulate a vision for Revitalization to meet a growing transportation demand and address the heritage aspects of this National Historic Site.
The City of Toronto engaged NORR Architects Engineers and Planners in 2007 as prime consultant responsible for Architecture, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical engineering for the Union Station Revitalization Project, a $480 million investment in this key Toronto landmark. The principal objectives of the project are to enhance the quality and capacity of the transportation functions, rehabilitate the ageing infrastructure, increase revenue generation within the station and restore the heritage fabric of this National Historic Site.
Union Station is Toronto’s primary multi-modal downtown transportation hub, accommodating operations for inter-city train service, commuter rail service and makes connections to the adjacent inner-city subway system. The station currently accommodates over 65 million passengers per year which is planned to increase to 100 million annual passengers over the next 15 years as commuter rail operations are expanded.
The Union Station Revitalization Project has been planned and designed by NORR Limited, Architects & Engineers of Toronto and encompasses the City of Toronto’s objectives to re-establish Union Station as Toronto’s primary multi-modal transportation hub, enhance the quality and capacity of pedestrian movement to and from the station, rehabilitate the ageing infrastructure of the station, restore its heritage fabric and reinforce Union Station as a primary destination within the City.
ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES
ARCHITECTURE ON THE LINE
Leslie WOO
Vice President, Metrolinx
MOBILITY CHOICE: WHO WILL SAVE US FROM OURSELVES?
Jane FARROW Paul HESS
Writer; Professor, University of Toronto
IT’S NOT ALL CAFE LATTE: WALKING TORONTO’S INNER SUBURBS
23 JAN 30 JAN
Susan ZIELINSKI
SMART (Sustainable Mobility & Accessibility Research & Transformation) at the University of Michigan
THE WHOLE ENCHILADA: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO TRANSFORMING TRANSPORTATION
06 FEB
The Urban Role of Public Transit
JAN 23 Leslie WOO Vice President, Metrolinx
MOBILITY CHOICE: WHO WILL SAVE US FROM OURSELVES?
Arriscraft Lecture Series 6:45 PM | Lawrence Cummings Lecture Hall University of Waterloo Fall 2013 | Winter 2014 University of Waterloo School of Architecture 7 Melville Street South Cambridge, Ontario, N1S 2H4
Sponsored by Arriscraft, Metrolinx, and The Region of Waterloo
Leslie Woo leads innovative and award-winning urban planning initiatives transforming urban development in one of the world’s most liveable city regions, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. As Metrolinx’s Vice President of Policy, Planning and Innovation, Leslie is a driving force behind the region’s first ever regional transportation plan - The BIG Move – a comprehensive 25 year mobility plan envisioning transportation that will meet the needs of an additional one hundred thousand new residents every year for the next twenty years. The BIG Move is the regional transportation authority’s blueprint for delivering over $16B in rapid transit expansion in the next 10 years. Leslie is the executive champion for driving innovation and design excellence and leads Metrolinx’s network for women in management. Leslie’s strategic expertise in addressing complex urban challenges, is evidenced in her leadership role, from discovery to delivery, of the provincially legislated Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan (2006). Over the last five years this growth plan has resulted in urban intensification totalling an 18% increase in multifamily residential development and a two-thirds reduction of greenfield lands consumption and, conserving about 800 square kilometres of agricultural and rural land.
David GEROFSKY President, Great Gulf Group
Nicole Ratajczak
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OCT 17
Nicole Ratajczak
winter2014
The Urban Role of Public Transit
THE CHICKEN AND EGG DILEMMA: INFRASTRUCTURE OR DEVELOPMENT?
13 FEB
ARCHITECTURE ON THE LINE Lecture Series Posters 2013-2014 Supervisor \\ Donald McKay
Formally trained in architecture, environmental studies and urban planning at the University of Waterloo, Leslie’s career portfolio includes senior roles with the Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid and Toronto Waterfront Regeneration Trust. Leslie is a 2011/12 Fellow of the International Women’s Forum, a global association of more than 4,500 women leaders from over 24 countries. She is a member of the Scientific and Strategy Council of the Institut pour la ville en mouvement (IVM); Urban Land Institute – Toronto Advisory Board; the Transportation Association of Canada’s Urban Transportation Council Executive; the American Planning Association and a retired member of the Ontario Association of Architects. Leslie has been a volunteer board director with the YMCA for the Greater Toronto Area since 2009. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Leslie is a mother of two and an active community volunteer.
Nicole Ratajczak
Paul NOSKIEWICZ
Sponsored by Arriscraft, Metrolinx, and The Region of Waterloo
ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES
ARCHITECTURE ON THE LINE
WATERLOO | ARCHITECTURE
fall2013
The Urban Role of Public Transit
fall2013
WATERLOO | ARCHITECTURE
Sponsored by Arriscraft, Metrolinx, and The Region of Waterloo
Arriscraft Lecture Series 6:45 PM | Lawrence Cummings Lecture Hall University of Waterloo Fall 2013 | Winter 2014
Arriscraft Lecture Series 6:45 PM | Lawrence Cummings Lecture Hall University of Waterloo Fall 2013 | Winter 2014
The Urban Role of Public Transit
ON THE LINE
with John van NOSTRAND, Leslie WOO University of Waterloo School of Architecture 7 Melville Street South Cambridge, Ontario, N1S 2H4
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WATERLOO | ARCHITECTURE
ON THE LINE
ARCHITECTURE
Nicole Ratajczak
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ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES
WATERLOO | ARCHITECTURE
ARRISCRAFT LECTURE SERIES
University of Waterloo School of Architecture 7 Melville Street South Cambridge, Ontario, N1S 2H4
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South Gate Bus Stop HH
Humanities Theatre Visitor’s Centre SCH South Campus Hall SCH ATM
Douglas Wright Engineering Building DWE
Building Directory AL B1 B2 BMH BRH C2 CE1 CGR CIF COM CPH CSB DC
Arts Lecture Hall Biology 1 Biology 2 B.C. Matthews Hall Brubacher House Chemistry 2 Chemical Engineering 1 Conrad Grebel University College Columbia Icefield Commissary Carl A. Pollock Hall Central Services Building William G. Davis Computer Research Centre
DWE E2 E3 E5 ECH EIT ERC EV1 EV2 EV3 ESC FED GH GSC HH
Douglas Wright Engineering Building Engineering 2 Engineering 3 Engineering 5 East Campus Hall Centre for Environmental Information and Technology Energy Research Centre Environmental Studies 1 Environmental Studies 2 Environmental Studies 3 Earth Sciences & Chemistry Federation Hall Graduate House General Services Complex J. G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities
HMN HS KDC LHI LIB M3 MC MHR ML NH OPT PAC PAS PHY
Hildegard Marsden Nursery Health Services Klemmer Day Care Lyle S. Hallman Institute for Health Promotion Dana Porter Library Mathematics 3 Math & Computer Building Velocity (Minota Hagey Residence) Modern Languages Ira G. Needles Hall Optometry Physical Activities Complex Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology Physics
QNC RCH REN SCH SLC STJ STP TC
Quantum Nano Centre J. R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall Renison University College South Campus Hall Student Life Centre St. Jerome’s University St. Paul’s College William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education & Career Services University Club University of Waterloo Place Student Village I
UC UWP V1
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WAYFINDING Information Point Directory (see WayFinding, pg. 12) Supervisor \\ Donald McKay
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THANK YOU. E ratajczaknicole@gmail.com T +1.519.503.2990