PORTFOLIO Rebecca Levy
CONTENT Resume COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Data Center, Johannesburg Sharing House, Bushwick
ECOLE SPECIALE PARIS
Thesis, Petite Ceinture, Paris Music Tower, Paris
PROFESSIONAL
Studio Fractale, Social Housings, Paris Surf-House, Florianopolis, Brazil Agence Search, Scenography, Paris Studio Daniel Libeskind, L Tower, New York
COMPETITIONS
StreetFest Competition - Storefront, New York Teddy Cruz Workshop, ESA, Paris Paul Virilio Workshop, ESA
SOFTWARE
Rethinking BIM - Revit Renders - 3DS Max
Rebecca Levy Architect DESA (France) Columbia University, MSAAD Candidate levyrebecca88@gmail.com 917.553.5115
Experience 2011 - 2012 Studio Fractales, Paris, France Junior Architect Renovation of 108 Social Housing in Pierrefitte - Design Document Phase Renovation of 199 Housing - Gennevilliers - Construction Phase Construction of 40 Social Housings at Athis Mons - Extentions - Construction Document Set 2010 - 2011 Private Client - SurfHouse, Florianópolis, Brazil Project Architect Design and Construction of a two-story “ Surf house ”, 150m2/1.614 ft2 2010 - 2011 Studio Fractales, Paris, France Intern Architect Restoration of 427 Social Housing at Athis Mons - Design Documents Phase Construction of 40 Social Housing at Athis Mons - Extentions - Competition Renovation of 107 Social Housings in Paris - Competition 2011 Teaching Assistant of Matthieu Poitevin Architecture Core Studio II , Ecole Speciale, Paris 2009 Agence Search, Caroline Barat - Thomas Dubuisson, Paris Winter Intern Architect Moscow’s Biennale Scenography - Preparation of Information Panels and Artwork Labels Maison des Sciences de l’homme - Design Document Phase and Model Making 2008
Studio Daniel Libeskind, New York Summer Intern Architect Residential L Tower Project, Downtown Toronto - Model Maker
Education 2013 Columbia University, Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design, NYC 2011 Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Master of Architecture, Paris (Honors) 2010 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Exchange Student Program, Jerusalem, Israel 2006 Lycée Montaigne, Baccalaureate, Science Section, Physical Chemistery Specialization,Paris
Skills Software: Language:
Revit . Autocad . Rhinoceros . 3DS Max . Grasshoper . GIS . Adobe CS6 Suite . Final Cut French (mother tongue) . English (fluent) . Italian (good) . Spanish (notion) . Hebrew (notion)
Competitions - Exhibitions - Awards 2013 Streetfest Competition - Ideas City 2013 - Storefront 2012 Best Thesis Award, ESA School, Paris 2011 Exhibition “ Diagrams,” ESA, Paris - 2 Drawings Exhibited - Preparation of the Exhibition 2009 Award Winner of Workshop Presided by Teddy Cruz, Gypsy Project, ESA, Paris 2008 Award Winner of a Workshop Presided by Paul Virilio, Futuristic House, ESA, Paris 2008 World Challenge W Competition, Willmote Agency, Paris 2007 Award Winner of a Workshop Presided by Daniel Buren, Frame the City, ESA, Paris
DATA CENTER Jo’burg Columbia University, Fall 2012 Critic : Mabel Wilson In collaboration with Eirini Anthouli
Data Center
RecordHive Johannesburg functions according to a variety of different urban elements that have contradictory origins. However, these elements work together to create a single entity, the city. Based on this idea, the proposal follows the logic of the accumulation of architectural spaces and design elements, combining a variety of scales. The RecordHive is a data center that experiments with the music and sound of Jo’burg. As the city functions as fragmented elements, the building operates in the same manner. One part of the building is dedicated to broadcasting music and the other part produces music. Moreover, the parts are dependant on each other.
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Jo’burg
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Data Center
Ground Floor Plan
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Jo’burg
Auditorium Floor Plan
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Data Center
Exploded Axonometric
CIRCULATION ACCES BROADCASTING + CONCERT HALL GENERATOR
OFFICES
ARTISTS’ STUDIO LIBRARY PIRATE RADIO MEDIATHEQUE
JUKEROOM
MULTI ACTIVITIES ROOMS STUDIOS / INSTRUMENTS / LABS
EXHIBITION SPACES
EXHIBITION SPACES
CONCERT HALL AUDITORIUM
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Jo’burg
Structural Elements Nodes
Columns
Facad components
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Data Recorders
Kiosks and Trees RecordHive is not only a building but a new urban network, a series of architectural elements scattered throughout the city of Johannesburg. These kiosks have different purposes and scales. The Trees are designed as street furniture. On the other hand, the Kiosks are mobile structure in constant movement. All the music and sounds collected are documented in the hub and will be considered the heart of the RecordHive.
Tree Kiosk
Collection of Trees
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Jo’burg
Stage Kiosk
Record Kiosk
Instrument Kiosk
Head Kiosk
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Data Center
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Jo’burg
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SHARE HOUSE
Brooklyn, Bushwick Columbia University, Summer 2012 Critic : Sam Chermayeff and Johanna MeyerGrohbr端gge
Share House
Traveling population
The world we are living is in constant transformation; shift in political, social, economical and new technologies have a huge impact on the way people live. One recent geographical transformation has been the increase of traveling populations. Nowadays, it has become common for families to live between different cities. This observation is the result of different facts, economical issue, cities disorders and family visits. A new form of nomadism is taking place in our society where a smartphone has become more essential than home. This project addresses how a designer can create a new form of property which spans between different major cities.
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Bushwick
57.51 Millions International Immigrants in America
71.1 Millions International Immigrants in Europe
32.5 Millions International Immigrants in Asia
26.5 Millions International Immigrants in Middle East
20% International Immigrants
8.7% International Immigrants
0.83% International Immigrants
18.9% International Immigrants
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Share House
Vacancy As a consequence of this moving population, vacancy has become a real issue in major cities. It is difficult for a certain class of people to have access to ownership in cities where almost one third of the buidlings are empty. How can a designer find a solution for this nomadic lifestyle and offer the possibility for people to buy a property at an affordable price? Based on an hypothetical two years cycle, the project explores how 6 families can all live together in the same building, but not always at the same time. People’s different schedules overlap, to fit as many people as possible in one building and avoid any vacancy. 1. Permanent Residents Schedules 2 Years Cycle
2. Available Spaces when the Regular Tenants are Away Hostel Tenants Availability AROUND 40 % OF VACANCY
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3. Booked House Regular Tenants + Other GypsHouseTenants
Bushwick Family 1
Person 1
Person 2
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
NYC
NYC
NYC
NYC
Paris
Tel Aviv
Rome
London
Dublin
Tokyo
Toronto
Athene
> 3 kids > 88m2
> 30m2 > Willing to share
Berlin
> 30m2 > Private bathroom
Couple 1
> 46m2 > Private bathroom > Shared Kitchen
SCHEDULE
Work 1
> 73 m2 > A lot of employees
Couple 2 > 46m2 > Willing to share
SCHEDULE
SCHEDULE
NYC
NYC
Sydney
Rio de Janeiro
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
PROPERTY
RENT
RENT
RENT
RENT
RENT
RENT
Share/Borrow
xxx $/month
Share/Borrow
xxx $/month
Share/Borrow
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Share/Borrow
xxx $/month
Share/Borrow
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xxx $/month
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Share House
Share Time
Building
Instead of sharing spaces, people will share ownership. GypsyHouse gives the possibility to buy a small space in several cities. Having a toilet in Berlin, a drawer in New York, and a shower in Paris becomes the new form of ownership. People are part of a community where they share with or without interacting. Storages define the building. The individual is the only fixed element. From one storage to another, connections can be made through different organizations.
Floor Plan in July
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Floor Plan in May
Bushwick
Scattered Storages
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Share House King Size Bed > 3.5 m2
Buy a Storage A set of storages is designed and installed in each GyspHouse. They are the same in every city but may be organized differently depending on the individual’s need. These removable elements, made of wood may contain 1 to 5 properties inside. Different functions can be found in these units that can open up and close down to create a new floor plan every time.
Bathroom > 2.5 m2
Mix Kitchen/Bed > 6.8 m2
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Bushwick Open Room > 3.3 m2
Single Size Bed > 2 m2
Kitchen > around 1.5m2
Sofa > 1.5 m2
Mix Bathroom/Bed > around 5m2
Regular Storage > around 1 m2
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PETITE CEINTURE Interpreting the Abandoned Railway with Sounds Paris, 19e Arrondissemnt Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture Critic : Lionel Lemire, Françoise Quardon Thesis Project
Abandoned Railway
Frozen Music 1. Sentier de la Station
View on Station du Bassin (2)
2. Bassin
3. Jaures
This urban project is based on a 1,5 km small ring of abandoned railway in the 19e Arrondissement. I elaborated a process of composition based on ralationship between architecture and music.
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Sound Analysis, Station du Bassin (2)
Paris
View on Station Jaures (3)
Sound Analysis, Station Jaures, Hammam
View on Sentier de la station (1)
Movement Analysis
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Abandoned Railway
Tell a Story
The sound process consists of getting away from the noisy city in order to discover a quite sound ambiance.
The design is inspired by the movement of the skaters, bicycles and people. New kinds of spaces are created and become a real music show instead of being prone to urban noises and movements.
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Paris
The Basin Station is not only a school or a skatepark, it is a real public place which everyone can enjoy.
Going to the spa means putting problems aside, and dedicating a few hours to the body. The visitor coming from the city to dive into an adventure through the sounds of water, light, steam and materiality.
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MUSIC TOWER Paris, Massénat Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture Critic : Franck Salama In collaboration with Natacha Mankowski
Music Tower
Compose a Space Can architecture be heard ? Ampli-gramme is a tower dedicated to Music and Sounds in the Massenat district in Paris. Situated between the Massenat Boulevard and the Ring Road, the tower recreates the sounds of the city. The tower provides a Philarmonic, a Museum, a Music Academy and a Experimental Laboratory. The main goal is to break the borders, to bring together multi-functional buildings with the evocative sound of music. The programs are blended together into one place dedicated to music.
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Paris
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PROFESSIONAL - Studio Fractales - Surf-House, Brazil - Studio Daniel Libeskind - Agence Search
Studio Fractales
Restore a Building This project is a restoration of two housings towers of 108 Housings. In order to fix the thermal performance, we added a new faรงade with a thermal insulation. As a Junior architect, I drew the facade and prepared the Construction Document Set and consulted contractors.
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Junior Architect
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Studio Fractales
Reinterpret the Existing This restoration of 199 housings in 4 different buildings consists on an additional thermal façade, made of “Trespa” with an additional insulation. Furthermore, we restored all the 199 apartments to offer extra comfort. As an assistant architect, I worked on the Construction Document Set and worked on the site to follow the construction. I assisted with the coordination of meetings and schedules.
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Junior Architect
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Studio Fractales
Social Housings Competition, Parisian Suburbs, Athis Mons. Intern Architect
Renders and Facades Drawings
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Intern Architect
Detail Roof Component Junior Architect
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House Conception
Surf-House This is a 150m2 Surf house realized in Florian贸polis, Brazil for a private client. Florian贸polis has a climate of tropic with strong variations in day length and temperature with season, tropical temperature remains relatively constant throughout the year and seasonal variations are dominated by precipitation. The limits between inside and outside spaces are blurred. The interiors are made of a concrete structure and the outside spaces such as the terrace is made of a wood structure. The idea is to maximize the space in the shade to protect the client and his family from the sun and from the rain.
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Florianopolis, Brazil
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Agence Search, Moscow Bienalscenography
Development of the Art Pieces Locations & Organization of the Specification Sheets.
Model Builder
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Agence Search, Maison des sciences de l’homme
Model Making
Design Document Phase
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Studio Daniel Libeskind
Involvement in the L Tower’s Models.
Tools : Lasing Cutter - 3D Print
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New York
L-TOWER/ARTSLAB
5-7 THE ESPLANADE
Explanation for Clients - Connecting Bridge Design Drawings
B R A N C H A S S E M B LY - C U S TO M F O R M E D H O L L O W M E TA L TUBE FRAMING - PAT T E R N A S S H O W N , C O N T I N U O U S AROUND 4 SIDES OF BRIDGE - PA I N T E D G L O S S W H I T E
GLAZED WALLS
L.TOWER/ARTSLAB
5-7 THE ESPLANADE
- FULL HEIGHT STRUCTURAL SILICONE GLAZING - LOW-IRON GLASS - ANODIZED ALUMINUM FRAMING
OVERHEAD GLAZING
L.TOWER/ARTSLAB
5-7 THE ESPLANADE
- STRUCTURAL SILICONE GLAZED SKYLIGHTS - FRITTED CLEAR GLASS - ANODIZED ALUMINUM FRAMING`
B R A N C H A S S E M B LY - C U S TO M F O R M E D H O L L O W M E TA L TUBE FRAMING - PAT T E R N A S S H O W N , C O N T I N U O U S AROUND 4 SIDES OF BRIDGE - PA I N T E D G L O S S W H I T E
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COMPETITIIONS - Streetfest Competition, Storefront, NYC - Teddy Cruz, ESA - Paul Virilio, ESA
Storefront
StreetFest Competition
Through the invariable grid of the city of New York, how would you make a festival? The Agora is a place of congregation, of meeting and gathering, it was used by the Greeks as an open space providing a central urban place.
A large perimeter of stand would take place, as a translucent screen between the market and the city, to protect and hold the dynamic center. The plastic skin as a shimmering interface, which allows people to see the activities of both sides: the city and the streetfest. From the moment you enter the space, the urban atmosphere is enlivened.
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New York
Connections
Structure The roof 2” x 2” Right Angle Clamp
The roof provides protec wind and rain.
2” x 2” Swivel Clamp
Scaffolding tube endings
The frame
Heavy Duty Locking Casters with Span Pins
The frame plays the role «walls» of the structure. rods are under compres and the horizontal rods tension between two ve create a frame.
Reinforcement ring plier Reinforcement ring
Construction tarp Scaffolding tube
Connection of the tarp to the scaffolding structure
The diagonal
Variations
The diagonal are in char the stifness of the frame of the overall structure.
Dimensions
Forces
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10’ 10’
16’
16’
Various forces are affect structure such as compr reaction, tension. Here a represented compressio (balanced by the reactio floor), due to the weigh overall structure.
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6’ 8’
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Competitions
Gypsy Community The Gyspy Community in Europe has become a problem over the years in bigger cities like Paris. These “gens du voyage” keep living outside city borders, traveling from one city to another one. They have totally different life styles and traditions. Considered as robbers, citizens don’t accept them, which create a lot of tension around their campsite. The In-Out Box is a cubic steel frame wrapped with local material in order to add room and outdoor spaces to the caravans where the families live. It is suited to the Gypsy way of life as it can be dismantled and used for different purposes (laundry, coffeeshop). The project can’t reduce the tension around the political issue but offer extra comfort to this population without interfering with their custums.
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Ecole SpÊciale d’Architecture
Chrono-House People who used to once be sedentary come back to a nomadic life style. A new form of nomadism is been creating and becomes more and more important. Chrono-House introduces speed and time as a tools to create spaces. Architecture has a rhythm and a tempo which people interact with. Speed = Space / Time Every part of the house has a dynamic by allowing every space to be defined by nomads and their environment. Tuesday Mars Brutality
Thursday Jupiter Zeus
Friday Venus
Saturday Rest Decrease
Wednesday Hermes Travel _ Movement
Monday Moon
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RETHINKING BIM - REVIT Columbia University Professors : Mark Green, John Lee In collaboration with Bia Lee & Sufa Pai
Rethinking Bim
Accordéon Facade The project is inspired by the paper accordion. A modular element that is part of a whole structure varies in shape and size as it stretches out over the corner. The Accordion façade is an outer shell infrastructure that covers up the existing building. The purpose of the façade is to work as a louver system to control light and air but also to provide canopy effect for the street level as the structure extends outwards at the ground level.
South 1/32" = 1'-0"
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Elevations 3/28/2013 4:50:57 PM Scale 1/32" = 1'-0"
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West 1/32" = 1'-0"
6' - 0"
9' - 0" 6' - 0"
Size Panels Size Panels 1/8" =11'-0" 1/8" = 1'-0"
16' - 9 19/32" 16' - 9 19/32"
19' - 11 1/2" 19' - 11 1/2"
20' - 0"
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14' - 4 13/16" 14' - 4 13/16"
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GSAPP 2013
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Rethinking BIM Rethinking BIM www.rethinkingbim.wordpress.com
14' - 4 13/16"
deon
& brian
Connection Connection 3 16' - 9 19/32"
www.rethinkingbim.wordpress.com Spring 2013 Spring 2013
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Accordeon Accordeon 19' - 11 1/2"
Mark, John & brian Mark, John & brian
Corner and structural elements Corner and structural elements 2
Panels Panels 3/28/2013 5:13:18 PM 3/28/2013 5:13:18 PM Scale 1/8" = 1'-0" Scale 1/8" = 1'-0"
Corner and structural elements
Panels
Software Used : Revit and 3DS Max 3/28/2013 5:13:18 PM Scale 1/8" = 1'-0"
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RENDERS
Liege Train Station, Calatrava
Digital Craft, Josh Uhl GSAPP
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Farnsworth House
Technique of the Ultrareal, Marchmade
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