Spitzer School of Architecture | 2021-2022

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN | GRAPHICS | PHOTOGRAPHY

POP JOSLAINE MANOS

TEL: (929)434-8000

EMAIL: PMANOS001@CITYMAIL.CUNY.EDU POPJOSLAINEM@GMAIL.COM

LOCATION: 215-29 HOLLIS AVENUE QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11429

EXPERIENCES

STUDENT LEADER

FUTURE ARCHITECTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST, PRESIDENT

MAY 2022-PRESENT

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 APRIL 2022-PRESENT

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

2020-2022

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.

TEACHING 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 13-21) in Queens. Develop and lead Design Co-Ops for monthly projects.

LEARNING & APPLYING

UPENNPRAXIS, URBAN DESIGN INTERN

JUN 2021-SEPT 2021

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 APR 2021-JUN 2021

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 APR 2021-JUN 2021

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

OBJECTIVE

I AM A SECOND YEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENT WITH A PASSION FOR DESIGN. I AM SEEKING NEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL ENCOURAGE ME TO KEEP LEARNING WHILE I OFFER MY SKILLS AT HAND. MY NUMBER ONE MOTTO IS TO LEARN.

EDUCATION 2021-2026 BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING MAJOR 2017-2021

BERNARD & ANNE SPTIZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

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MAJOR FINALS

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STATEMENT PIECES

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DISPLACING BOUNDARIES

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.

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DISPLACING BOUNDARIES

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Viren Brahmbhatt

Site: Manhattanville Neighborhood, Upper Harlem NYC

Concept: Scalar Exchange Intervention

| 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

my intervention as generated by the narratives revealed in the mapping portion of my research, transforming or disrupting the very urban networks which

TRANSPORTATION

WALK MTA BUS TRAIN

General parameters such as transportation and density of population helps me understand how the people in my site is conjugated.

My initial research tells me that the most densed parts of Manhattanville is the NYCHA Manhattanville Housing units and the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University. Two very different spaces right across from one another.

| 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 LOWER DENSITY OF PEOPLE

HOTSPOTS OF SOUNDS BOUNDARY OF SOUNDS

MAPPING MANHATTANVILLE

The pink indicates the transportation of Columbian students, mainly by bikes and shuttle buses. While the orange indicates the movement of Manhattanville residents through walking and train rides.

I saw that there is a clear cut between these two colors, showing how these two communities do not blend, but rather conjugate within themselves.

By looking at the historical context of Manhattanville, I found that this area used to be a factory district. Elements of subnatures and materials are revealed.

Diagram that shows local resources: parks, recreational centers, schools, grocery shops, etc. There is a lack of general reouces in Manhattanville.

MANHATTANVILLE HOUSES

JEROME L. GREEN SCIENCE CENTER

Simplifying the site into pixels help me look at the environmental pallet that I am working with, and this guides me when picking out materials for my intervention.

Manhattanville although seemingly modern on the western portion of Broadway, was once home to many industrial and dairy factories. After the modernization of Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus, it was important for us to revive this industrial history in the material selection of our design, thus we chose materials such as steel, gabion and concrete. Along with the sites history, we wanted to build sustainably and made sure to use recycled wood in our Timber details as well as the implementation of greenery along every aspect of the  site.

CENTER

FOR: PROTESTS CENTER FOR: HOLIDAY FESTOON

At the center of the site is an area provided for the community. The center is designed as an area where events such as protests or even holiday gatherings can occur. Since the Manhattanville Public Housing Community Center is at a distance and in-accessible to those who do not live there, this focal point of our site allows for the people to express their creativity.

The focal point being in the center of our site represents the unison of foundation, resources, and community. It represents strength of agilty. This space encourages the neighborhood to use it however way they would like and thus highlights what matters to them.

VIBRATIONS HARVESTED FROM TRAIN PASSING

KINETIC ENERGY COLLECTED AND TRANSFORMED INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY

ELECTRICAL RUNS ALONG TRAIN PLATFORM COLUMNS

NATURAL ENERGY USED TO ILLUMINATE THE SITE

Upon first contextualizing our chosen site, one of the most unattractive features was the subnature produced by the train tracks. The 1 train running along broadway produces sound as well as vibrations 24/7. In order to adapt with these conditions, we would implement a Kinetic energy harvester to transform the continous vibrations electrical into energy to power our site.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

RESEARCH 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.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

RESEARCH 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.

Semester 2 | Year 1

Instructor: Professor Tyler Survant Site: Willow Lake, Flushing NYC Concept: Ecospace Folly

| 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.

CARAVAN

RESEARCH CARAVAN

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.

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 Lake- the Ring-Billed Gulls, whose wings can

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FRAMING PUBLIC VS.PRIVATE

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Viren Brahmbhatt

Concept: Private Dweller to Public Citizen

| 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

DIAGRAMMING NETWORKS

Semester 2 | Year 1

Instructor: Professor Tyler Survant

Site: 685 Third Avenue, Manhattan

Concept: Diagramming Ecosystems

| In order to understand any environment and its complex definitions and perspectives, it is necessary to understand how an ecosystem can function and its relationship with its built environment. This project investigates how ecosystems and built environments interact and specific skills to illustrate this connection and relationship are displayed through many various diagrammatic styles. Different building scales and a variety of ecosystems, both abiotic and biotic have been heavily researched.

| One of the diagrams that I have created to look into the ecosystem of my site frames the materials into it’s most simpliest form. By placing them respectfully how they are laid out on the site, we get a general mood of this location.

685 Third Avenue, Manhattan: ManMade Landforms with a mix of Biotic and Non-Native Biotic Components

UNCOVERING URBAN GRAIN the

Identifying POPS to experience 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.

UNCOVERING URBAN GRAIN the

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Viren Brahmbhatt

Site: Midtown Manhattan Concept: Discovering through Sectional

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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.

PALEY PARK W 55TH ST AND 6 1/2 AVENUE

UNCOVERING URBAN GRAIN the

WORKING DWG

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MICRO SCALE

Semester 1 | Year 1

Instructor:

Professor Greg Melitonov

Concept: MICRO

|My objective for this initial study is to get used to seeing things more closely, gain greater perspective, and translate what I saw in the microscale of the world into visual representations that distill ideas found in our built environment and abstracts them down to drawings utilizing the most basic tool of representation we have, the line.

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PASSIVE OBSERVATIONS

Semester 2 | Year 1

Instructor: Professor Tyler Survant Concept: Diagramming Ecosystems

|Collection of drawings during my second semester from the Framing Context project and Research Caravan project.

Pier 3, Brooklyn: Man-Made Landforms and Biotic Components on top of Natural Landforms, Native Wildlife

Governor’s Island, Manhattan: Natural Landforms, Native Wildlife and Plants. Man-Made Landforms and Abiotic Components.

Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, Brooklyn: Man-Made Landforms and Biotic Components

THOUGHTFUL SKETCHES

CONSTRUCTIVE DESIGNING

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Viren Brahmbhatt

Site: Manhattanville Neighborhood, Upper Harlem NYC

Concept: Scalar Exchange Intervention

|Collection of drawings showing the process of drawings that illustrate changes in design.

STATEMENT PIECES

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EKPHRASIS TEMPLE OF DENDUR

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Ruo Jia

Course: Survey of World Architecture I

of the

|This paper encouraged me to visit the Temple of Dendur at the MET using an architectural lens to observe the site and decribe my interaction with it.

CONVERSATIONS THE CLOISTERS

Semester 3 | Year 2

Instructor: Professor Ruo Jia

Course: Survey of World Architecture I

|This paper encouraged me to visit the Cuxa Cloister and react to the site in comparison to the Temple of Dendur.

URBAN MURAL

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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DANCE AT THE SQUARE

PEOPLE CITY of the

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