2021-Jan 2023 Selected Works

POP JOSLAINE MANOS

TEL:

EMAIL:

(929)434-8000

popjoslainem@gmail.com

LOCATION: 215-29 Hollis Avenue Queens Village, NY 11429

AFFILIATIONS

FUTURE ARCHITECTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST, PRESIDENT

As President, I set and monitor the goals of FAME in weekly and monthly increments. I appoint committee chairpersons and maintain close contact with other clubs and faculty advisors. I also represent the organization to the campus and designing community at large.

CCNY AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS, 2ND YEAR REP

As 2nd Year Representative, I encourage my fellow studiomates to engage in meetings and activities hosted by CCNY AIAS. I share internship, fellowship, and job opportunities with the 2nd year architecture students. I am the go-to person for all 2nd years when there are suggestions or concerns about the organization.

NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, COUNCIL LEAD

Manage “Youth Be Heard” initiative on Digital Literacy; actively addressing the issue of the Digital Divide amongst the Youth (ages 18-25) in New York City. Managed meetings, organized records, finalized each committees weekly agenda.

MAY 2022-PRESENT

AUG 2022-PRESENT

WORK EXPERIENCES

TEEN PROGRAM AT POMONOK COMMUNITY HOUSE, ARTS & TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST JAN 2022-PRESENT

Sharing my passion for art, engineering and architecture while ensuring an engaging and intellectually stimulating experience for teens (ages 1321) in Queens. Develop and lead Design Co-Ops for monthly projects.

UPENNPRAXIS, URBAN DESIGN INTERN

Manage the CONSTELLATION project: a series of six sculptures made of welded steel and ceramic bells, creating a constellation of bells across Governors Island from mid-July to mid-October. Collaborate with Urban Design architects from Pratt Institute School of Architecture to develop Governor’s Island Bee Sanctuary: Pollinator’s Pavillion.

CTE CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING, INTERN

Job Shadow organization in bi-weekly rotations: Drone Cadets, Oracle, Apple Inc. Develop technical drawings under a mentorship woth Aerospace Engineers from Pratt & Whitney.

NASA GEOSPATIAL CENTER, INTERN

Job Shadow NASA’s Geospatial Engineers at Bronx Community College, learned ARCGIS to create urban mapping proposals.

EDUCATION HISTORY

BACHELORS OF ARCHITECTURE | GPA: 4.0

Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York

JUN-SEPT 2021

APR-JUN 2021

APR-JUN 2021

2026

Brooklyn Technical Specialized High School 2021

HS DIPLOMA, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING CTE DIPLOMA | GPA: 3.9

PAVILLION

This Manhattanville Intervention sits underneath Broadway’s train tracks, the barrier between Manhattanville Campus of Columbia Univeristy and Manhattanville Housing, pushing the conversation of displacing binary elements of this site- safety, gender, access to resources, and community.

ADVOCACY OF THE LAND | This project consists of two phases. In the first phase, I established a ground for intervention by mapping the visible and invisible networks that shape Upper Harlem. The second phase is where I get to design an intervention.

| By considering this urban space with sensitivity to the range of scales in previous projects, I positioned my intervention as generated by the narratives revealed in the mapping portion of my research, transforming or disrupting the very urban networks which give those narratives their shape.

| To start off, I map both the physical and invisible forces that will constitute networks, particularly considering the sub-nature or the hidden implications of forces.

CARAVAN

Mobile ecospace that encourages safety measures for researchers at Willow Lake, Queens, while respecting and imitating the surrounding built enviornment and networks of ecosystems.

ADVOCACY OF WILDLIFE | The intention for designing my own eco-space was to produce an integrated understanding of basic building works such as orientation, form, shading, etc., and passive design strategies like heating, cooling, lighting, etc. within my own ecosystem.

| Building on top of my first year knowledge and research gained in my site and material research projects, this eco-space provides a multi-functional lounge, work, and exhibit area that considers both the biotic and abiotic factors of its built environment.

SEASONAL ADAPTATIONS FOR RING-BILLED BULLS

The site is also called the Bird Watcher’s Paradise because of its strong birdlife and a recent 2021 initiative will conduct research on the state of Willow and study its native and migratory birds.

J ANNUAL SIGHTING

F M A M J J A S O N D

Head Body Bottom

The shelled nickel-coated aluminum panels (used for a camouflage effect and act as natural ventilation) imitate that of the most prominent bird in Willow Lakethe Ring-Billed Gulls, whose wings can develop physical changes depending on season and location.

ADVOCACY OF THE COMMUNITY | To highlight my understanding of site technology, I will look deeper into my chosen lot, which sits within the class’ study area of upper North Manhattan and propose a chematic design for it. My design will reference previous research and exercises and incorporate design thinking that draws from an understanding of zoning calculations, landscape and topography, the relationship between built and unbuilt ground, opportunities to rethink the socioeconomic context of the study area.

5 Year Change of a Highschool Diploma or Less

From 2016-2021 Map 4

Data Source: ACS 2016

Street Across Lot 126

Rectified Building, Photomerge

A

Proposed Buidling Mass and Programs:

I analyzed how teens and young adults coming from households with divorced parents have lower chances of obtaining a highschool diploma or more. To tackle this issue, it is important to think of new programmings that could be added to this study area that encourage these target groups to pursue higher levels of education.

I propose a full facility building with the ground floor/level 1, being a community/learning center that promotes recreational learning activities and level 2-8 is a urban museum.

5 Year Change of the Amount of Separated and Divorced Parents

From 2016-2021 Map 5

Data Source: ACS 2016

Level 1: A Community Center that engages with teens and young adults while providing new experiences and skills in arts, music, trade, and craftsmanship- all of which do not have enough resources presented in the neighborhood and useful when encouranging a higher education.

Level 2-4: A museum run by an organization(s) that help teens and yound adults in the neighborhood design their own projects, exhibits, performances, and artwork. Where the minds and voices of these target groups can conjugate in a safe environment.

Zoning Analysis

Street Type | Narrow

Base Height (min-max) | 40’-65” Setbacks | 15’ Building Height | 75’ Lot Coverage 65%

Site Information

Data Source: ZoLa, Oasis NYC

Address: 209 West St, Manhattan 10030

Block | 1940

Lot | 126

Lot Area | 1,699 sq ft

Zoning District | RT-2

Lot Frontage | 16’

Lot Depth | 104’

Rear Yard (min) | 30’ Max. Allowable Residential FAR | 3.44 Max. Allowable

Commercial FAR | 0 Max. Allowable Facility FAR | 6.5

Schematic Building Massing

Level 1 - Facility 01, Community Center

16’ * 97’ = 1,552 sq ft

Level 2-4 - Facility 02, Museum

Max Allowable Residential Floor Area: (3.44)*(1,699 sq ft)= 5,844.56 sq ft

Max Allowable Commercial Floor Area: (0)*(1,699 sq ft)= 0 sq ft

Max Allowable Facility Floor Area: (6.5)*(1,699 sf)= 11,043.5 sq ft

16’ * 97’ = 1,552 sq ft; 4,656 sf for 4 levels

Total SF= 6,208 sq ft

4 | FRAMING PUBLIC VS.PRIVATE

| This project focuses on the connective tissue between networks and structures and understanding the nuanced transition between the private and the public spheres of urban life. I begin to inquire into the city by looking at the liminal spaces in my own daily routine, not as architectural residue but rather as sites of architectural potential.

| Referencing the 1890s invention of bioscopes, I created my own device that allows people to experience my own routine as my bioscope divides the sub natures that I recognize- sound, smell, the density of use; and place them in moving frames.

2 out of various frames showing different views I see on my way to studio

Identifying POPS to experience intimacy within the big city.

| For this exercise, I am to engage in drawing as a process of discovery – drawing forth; drawing out. After exploring the crooks and crannies of Midtown Manhattan, I charted the new/previously informal paths through the urban fabric and document those paths sectionally. In doing so, I was able to examine and analyze the site built up over time as a pastiche of public and private, formal and informal.

| By analyzing a pathway of POPS, I create an opportunity for public citizens to feel intimacy within the big city

Pre-pandemic, Midtown was one of the busiest places in NYC. When the virus throttled New York City in March 2020, the heart of Manhattan emptied out fast. Now, Midtown is starting to thrive again. Tourists, office workers and New Yorkers from other neighborhoods are returning to the heart of the city. How can you maintain the feeling of intimacy with the city in a place full of bustling offices or shops?

I discovered Privately Own Public Spaces (POPS) and how they contribute to the feeling of intimacy. The route I designed deflects the traditional way of walking directly on avenues, but instead, creates an opportunity for people to be “private dwellers” in the big city.

SECTION ZOOM IN - CAFE 10 E 53RD - ARCADE 53RD

0 6 | CONSTRUCTING PAVILLION the

ADVOCACY OF WILDLIFE | During my internship with UPennPraxis, I contributed to the manufacturing and constructionof the Pollinator’s Pavillion at Governor’s Island. The project, led by of Professor Ariane Harrison of Pratt School of Architecture along with Pratt master students, introduced me to looking at improving environmental issues through a combination of architecture and research.

Harrison is leading a study on native bees in hopes of decreasing the overproduction of honey by honey bees by gaining and recording over 1,000 types of native bees. These types of bees, which don’t have a queen or operate as a hive, making them challenging study subjects, are critical to agriculture and the ecosystem as a whole, as most flowering plants on the planet need pollinators to reproduce. The pattern allows for each bee to safely inhabit a hole and be researched.

Drafting with paper and cardboard

Constructing with wood and concrete

Each square unit houses 15-30 bees and each exterior spike includes a built in camera that was engineered to record photos when it senses motion by the straw holes.

Mixing and Pouring

Framing Setting

0 7 | PEOPLE THEIR CITY and