Undergraduate Architecture and Design Portfolio M.Arch Applicant 2014
Table of Contents
Resume/Curriculum Vitae
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The Lore Studio VI
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BeCCC Studio V
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A/C/R/C Studio IV
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Modular Desk Studio IV
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SFFDHQ ARCHMedium Competition
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Post-Indust. Landsc. Carleton Summer Workshop
Resume Sebastian Matthew Wooff email: mobile:
wooff.sebastian@gmail.com 613-850-8874
Current address: 139 Huntersfield Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1T 3M1
Languages: English, Polish ( Fluent) French, Spanish (Basic Knowledge)
Education Carleton University
2010-2014
Bachelor of Architectural studies Expected Graduation May 2014 Dean’s Honor List 2013 DSA Paris and Lyon 2013
Post-Industrial Landscapes Workshop
2013
Joint Workshop between Carleton and the Architectural Association. Workshop focusing on combining 3D-scanning, digital modeling, animation and immersive projection.
Ridgemont High School
2009-2010
Ottawa, Ontario Grade 12 Honors Student
xxxviii. Liceum 2007-2009 Ogolnoksztalczace im. Stanislawa Kostki Potockiego High School in Warsaw, Poland Grades 9-11
Achievments/Recognitions Nomination for Stantec Design Competition ( pending ) 2014 Nomination for Teron Scholarship 2013 Publishing in Building 22 book 2013 Entrance Scholarship 2010 - 2014 Deans Honor’s list Publication on ARCHMedium Website 2013
Skills
Work/Volunteer Experience
Software Proficiency Revit AutoCAD 3DSMax Rhino v-ray for Rhino Grasshopper Bentley Point-tools Photoshop Adobe Illustrator InDesign Google SketchUp Microsoft Suite
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Manual Craft Sketching manual Drafting Collaborative skills
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Interests Travel - visited more than 35 countries across 3 Continents Sculptural Art and Photography Digital Media Running Rock Climbing Soccer - Goalie for “A Swift Kick to the Ball” Soccer team Film and Literature
Research Assistant
2012 Assisting Professor Manuel Baez in ongoing research development. Carried out a number of research tasks including graphic work and 3D modeling.
Intern at Ottawa General Contractors
2012
Experience in dealing with wide range of clientelle. Use of Chief Architect 3D modeling software for design purposes.
Volunteer for St. Bernard Elementary School
2013
Volunteer Coach for U-7 Gloucester Hornets Boys soccer team
2013
Volunteer for Ottawa Association of Architects (OAA)
2012
Runner for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation “Run for the Cure”
2010-
Born in Ottawa, raised in Warsaw, Poland in a Canadian-Polish household, Sebastian returned to Canada at age 18 in hopes of pursuing studies of Architecture at Carleton University. He is expected to graduate in April 2014 and continue his graduate education with high standings. Sebastian’s continuing success is a result of his modest upbringing from his parents, members of his immediate family and friends. His projects have been recognized academics and professionals for their sensitivity to site, pragmatic approach and design excellence.
1. Perimeter Bar building perimeters established around a large courtyard
the Lore
001 Studio Vi Fourth Year
Urban Housing in Ottawa with Graeme Kennedy, Stantec Competiton Nominee
Ottawa, the national capital of Canada is facing one of the largest urban expansions since the earliest 20th century. While city officials and developers have aimed to find the solution in high-rise condo towers with expensive units, the Lore aims to provide an alternative solution in the Canadian Housing market. This project answers Ottawa's growing demand for dense urban living within the city that focuses on accommodating a variety of affordable housing typologies, fosters a sense of community, engages the existing artistic body, provides public space and direct access to public transportation. The site located at 950 Gladstone Avenue, is an industrial infill site that bridges the Lower Hintonburg and Preston Street, which both contain very distinctive cultural elements in Ottawa. Currently the site is under review and a CDP is being implemented in that area. In it, the community is requesting that the area be turned into an artistically oriented neighborhood with commercial venues. The Lore strives to create a "mega-block" where multiple program functions are placed on one 3-acre site to answer the needs of the local community as well as the city of Ottawa. The Lore proposes to inject a large community garden surrounded by multiple residential components with an integrated arts station that would function cohesively with the proposed O-train stop 3 levels below the site which includes park-andride facilities. The Lore features many styles of dwellings to accommodate a large spectrum of demographics, some of them including the current market buyers, new home comers, Multi-generational families and new upcoming artists. Residences will find benefit in all the units being cross-ventilated as well as an elevated sky-park for the residences only, where communal living would be enhanced to the maximum capacity.
2. Site Links open the ground plane envelope allowing access to and from the site
3. Building Form Extrusions strategically placed buidling forms harness maximum southern daylight and views of the courtyard
4. Mass Division splitting the building form creates a continuous sky park elevated 2 stories (10m) above the ground
5. Program Insertion the in-progress CDP calls for an artistically oriented neighbourhoud. We integrated this function with future L.R.T station proposals.
Context Map Unit Breakdown Total Units: 314 Stacked Town
136m2
x12
Folk
2 Bedroom
89m2 x90
Seniors
82m2
x14
164m2
1 Bedroom & Den
1 Bedroom
3 Bedroom
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72m2
x20
72 m2
x20
T-Unit
L-Unit
175m2
Penthouse
Concrete Towns
3 Bedroom Maisonette
x20
212m2
x10
261m2
x9
T Plus-Unit
Z-Unit
Townhouse
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212m2
Fable
Fabricate
x6
117m2
x11
177m2 x4
165m2 x4
169m2
x4
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Rendered Ground Plane Site Plan N
Aerial View 8
1 Pedestrian Bridge 2 Arts Station
3 Parking
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Live-Work Units
4 Site Entrance
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Townhouses
Circulation Diagram of individualy developed condo mega-block
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view from Gladstone Ave.
view of the Skypark
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1 Penthouse 2 Glazed Roof
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Family Units
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Commercial Bar
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Exterior Corridors
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Parking Garage
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Skypark
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Courtyard
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Study Model
view from proposed O-train Platform 502
Interior Skip-Stop View
Fable Suite 2 Bedroom Unit 955.8 sq. ft (88.8 sq m)
Fable Suite 2 Bedroom Unit 925.7 sq. ft (86 sq m)
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Balcony
505
Fable Suite 1 Bedroom Unit 797 sq. ft (74 sq m)
Balcony
Entrance
entrance
Bedroom
630
Fable Suit Suite 3 Bedroom Skip Stop Maisonette Unit 822 sq. ft + 1060 sq. ft = 1882 sq. ft (76.4 sq. m + 98.4 sq. m = 174.8 sq. m)
Bedroom
Bedroom
Living Area
Living Area
kitchen
Bedroom Kitchen and Living Area
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Kitchen REF.
kitchen
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Dining
ensuite
Bedroom
living entrance
Bedroom Master Bedroom
Balcony
Bedroom
Balcony
balcony
1 Roof Terrace 2 Loading Zone 3 Arts Station platfrorm 4 Exterior Walkway
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view from Pedestrian Bridge Extension
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002 Studio V Third Year
BeCCC La Bibliothèque et Le Centre Communautaire de la Confluence Nomination for Teron Scholarship
Through formal design strategies, this project explores the idea of integrating seemingly un-relatable programs into one size constraining site. A kayak club, a community oriented gymnasium and fitness centre along with a new expanded library are joined with the necessity or fitting a "5-a-side" soccer field. Due to the large program requirement, the challenge is to consider the community centre in relation to the existing urban fabrics. The site is located on the Place Nautique in the Confluence Quarter of Lyon, France. The Place Nautique is a large manmade basin connected to the Saone River created as part of the massive Lyon-Confluence redevelopment project, under which 370 acres of industrial land will be transformed into a new multi-use neighborhood for the city of Lyon. The solution for better community engagement involves placing the soccer pitch on the basin giving it direct access to the housing district across the basin, leaving space for a large public plaza on the site where we elevate the library on pilotis 2-storeys up to create the first modern library in the city of Lyon. Each program element is placed within one of 3 buildings which are identified by the color of the secondary skin of the façade cladding. The cladding is an innovative sunscreen p l a c e d 70cm away from the curtain wall which is comprised of ceramic tubes. This makes it an ideal cladding material. It is rust, fire, moisture, and damp proof and would last the entire life of the building.
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Rendered Site Plan N
1 Extract soccer pitch from site into the basin
2 Allow for 100% of program requirements
3 Increase program capacity for Urban benifit
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Rear Plaza View
Level 3 Plan
Level 2 Plan
Level 4 Plan
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South Section
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Front Plaza View
Library View
Structural and Mechanical Distribution Diagram Return Air Supply Air Load Transfer
Gymnasium View
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003 Studio IV Third Year
A/C/R/C Almonte Carleton Research Centre
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure that he does have that mind, does have that soul" ~Louis Kahn The proposed Research Centre site is situated in the historic centre of Almonte, Ontario, initially known as "Shipman's Mills" that was first settled in approximately 1824. On it sits the Almonte Old Town Hall which is a designated historic building and is a highly regarded element within the town. There were two challenges for this project. Firstly, create a flexible and constantly adjustable institutional building by manipulating around the frustrating site conditions. Secondly, proposing an architectural presence that is being both respectful and innovative to the current site conditions and to the citizens of Almonte. The New Almonte Carleton Research Centre aims to provide multifunctional spaces, available for any type of program of research, as well as becoming a collaborative satellite between the town hall and the students and researchers of Carleton University. The public would benefit from having full access to a new and modern library with traditional books along with computers, a new auditorium, an elevated river walk and a new public park on the roof intended to provide space for outdoor public events during any season. This solution manages to introduce a sisterly building to the town hall and being responsible to the surrounding context. "The nature of space reflects what it wants to be" ~ Louis Kahn
1 Program Chaos program elements create a clutter around the old town hall
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2 Foundations the proposal aims to bridge over two parcels of land and extend out above the water
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Living the residences are placed behind the library bar to create a privacy buffer
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Platform the research facilities are placed on the level of the old rail tracks which engages the pedestrian traffic
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Buisness offices are logistically placed above the research labs for purposes of collaborative meetings
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Garden Play a large community Park is placed on the roof which becomse accessible via ramp
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Atrium View Map
Library View
Site Plan
River Walk View
1 Interior Atrium 2 Library Entrance Level 3
Exterior Reading Area 6
4 Exterior River Walk 5 Computer Library
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6 Auditorium Entrance
2 East Section Cut
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East Elevation
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Roof Park View
View across Mississippi River
1 Auditorium 2 Apartment Level 3
Library 4
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4 Roof Park 6 5 Research Lab Level
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6 Office Level
South Section Cut
North Elevation
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004 Modular Desk Studio IV Third year
Prototype Project with Devin Braun, Neil Carder, Ulrich Mugamba, and Shaghayegh Poursalimi. Nomination for Teron Scholarship
Studio is a space where architecture students spread their new and creative ideas onto paper and physical models. For this project, our group focused on the particulars of studio space, its cohesive messiness and disorganization, as well as the space being a place of work. We concluded that the current students are taking up to much personal space and not promoting enough collaborative space. In our process we had evaluated the flow of studio, the nature of the rough finish of the Architecture Building, and new ways of creating both a personal and collaborative work desk. This project presented numerous questions that as a group we had to address regarding the original functions of the drawing board, a model desk and a place for a laptop. With the digital being a more prominent tool in the design field, we felt the need to keep some of the more traditional methods of drafting and cutting present in our design. We decided to re-use the pieces of a regular locker that had deteriorated over the course of its existence and upgrade it with our ideas to create an improved studio environment.
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Drawings taken from original shop drawing panel A) Axonometric of Chair Assembly B) Detail showing one side of the Drawers sliding out C) Detail showing of the desk assembly D) Axonometric of table extension E) Detail showing the assembly of the drafting table
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SFFDHQ
ARCHMedium Student Design Competition Entry with Audrey Caron and Macy Laporte, ARCHMedium Website Publication
The New San Francisco Fire Department Headquarters proposal reinvents the typology of the city's Fire department, it's long history and it's responsibility to the community. This new Building creates an environment that is suitable for all citizens to interact directly with the fire department through the Architecture, a concept that is slowly being neglected by public serving institutions.
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The New Headquarters provides a large service area adjacent to The Embarcadero for immediate access to the city streets. The control and training towers ascend from the manmade landscape of the facility's roof representing the triumph over the fire in 1907. The physical appearance of steel cross bracing assures a safe and robust building while being accessible and fast serving in times of need.
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San Francisco Fire Department HQ Site
organization
landscape
engagement
The dock area provides ample space for public accessibility including shaded park areas, bike paths, walking paths that integrate with the SFFD HQ interior lobby space. The fire station is identified at the entrance on the West, and is mainly situated along the North side of the pier.
Visitors may walk the paths along the ground level or venture up the sloped surfaces of the facility. The sloped arms bring the viewer along the horizon line until they reach the top where a view of the bridge is framed by the two towers.
The outdoor space provides an attraction with the appearance of the towers rising above the sloping structure which emphasizes San Francisco's efforts of revitalizing the city and will forever be remembered as a beacon of support.
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006 P-I Landscapes AA Visiting School Workshop Publication in Building 22 book
In July 2013 the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism hosted its first Architectural Association Visiting School for a nine day workshop. During the workshop, students from both Carleton and the AA were introduced to a series of intensive workshops on 3D-scanning, digital modeling in 3DSMax, animation and immersive projection. Using the scanned point clouds of Carbide Wilson's Ruins in Gatineau Park, Quebec, and re-modeling the points, we created a fabricated environment that was projected into the Architecture Building in order to re-imagine the ruin and the park through a 3D projection which formed an evocative experience of digital space. See Link to view Video Projection:
https://vimeo.com/82810854
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Transformations and manipulations of the point cloud data across various scales lends to the creation of the fictive landscape installation. Navigating through the digital environment allows for exploration into impossible scenarios such as moving through the inside of walls, or floating above a waterfall.
Video Projection with Guest Critics Present
"Architecture is most appealing with simple lines and clear ideas. A city on the other hand becomes alive when it is rich with experiences and surprises. So the paradoxical challenge is to simultaneously create simplicity and variety, diversity and coherence." - Bjarke Ingels, Bjarke Ingels Group
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