SELECTED WORKS Resume
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Academic 01
House of Light
Research Studio I | The Elemental House 03
Urban Lung
Foundation Studio IV | Los Angeles Catastrope Center 02
Objection
Foundation Studio III | Public Surplus 04
Fluid Permanence
Foundation Stuidio I | Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay
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Fellowship 05
Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage
Sarah McArthur Nix Travel Fellowship | Research and Exhibition
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Competition 06
A New Jorejick Residence
Competition for a Family Residence in Tanzania
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Personal 07
Memory Order Dimension Travel Drawings from Italy
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Samuel Feldman
Architectural Designer | LEED AP BD+C
p: 716.868.0556 e: sef9h@virginia.edu
EDUCATION Jul 2017 - May 2020 Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia | School of Architecture
Aug 2015 - Dec 2016 Buffalo, NY
SUNY University at Buffalo | School of Architecture and Planning
Aug 2015 - May 2016 Buffalo, NY
SUNY Buffalo State College | Art and Design Department
Aug 2006 - May 2010 Pittsburgh, PA
University of Pittsburgh | School of Arts and Sciences
Master of Architecture (M.ARCH), 2020 GPA: 3.65 / 4.00
Post-baccalaureate coursework in preparation for M.ARCH Architectural history, architectural sketching, and physics courses Post-baccalaureate coursework in preparation for M.ARCH Drawing and painting courses Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Economics, cum laude, 2010 Majors in Economics, History; Minor in Philosophy
EXPERIENCE January 2020 New Orleans, LA
Trahan Architects | Extern
January 2018 Seattle, WA
Mithun | Extern
May 2016 - Jul 2017 Buffalo, NY
Habitat for Humanity | AmeriCorps Construction Crew Leader
Worked on facade iterations for an addition to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome; completed a series of exterior elevation proposals and on-site documentation; presented findings to the design team
Participated in internal charette and team meetings within both architecture and landscape architecture projects; visited building sites and completed walk-throughs of ongoing projects at various phases of construction
Lead groups in building affordable homes in Buffalo; supervised and trained teams of volunteers in daily construction activities; lead construction tasks such as framing, siding, carpentry, landscaping, and drywalling; monitored construction for quality, code compliance, and safe practices
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015 Tel Aviv, Israel
Signals Analytics | Research Analyst
Mar 2012 - Feb 2013 Tel Aviv, Israel
ConteXtream (acquired by Hewlett-Packard) | Financial Analyst
Jun 2011 - Feb 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel
NICE Systems | Financial Analyst Intern
Acted as the lead analyst on consulting project for a Fortune 500 company; utilized market research methods to support varied business missions; prepared and presented intelligence reports on new technologies and disruptive competitors; identifed acquisition targets and designed ranking models of competitors by market
Consolidated monthly financial results and built spreadsheets analyzing monthly expenditures; assisted in developing full year budget and formulating a 5-year financial plan; devised a weekly manegerial report detailing monthly and quarterly sales and revenue figures; prepared summary packages to be presented at quarterly board of directors meetings
Created and analyzed financial models for a multinational security solutions provider; prepared presentations showing quarterly growth trends for use at board of directors meetings; authorized IT capital and expense purchase requisitions; mananged financial templates, including p&l, operating costs, and capital expenditures
INTERNATIONAL STUDY Summer 2019 Summer 2018 Summer 2008
UVA Architecture Abroad | China UVA Architecture Abroad | Italy Semester at Sea | Europe and North Africa
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS Sarah McArthur Nix Traveling Fellowship
2019 Recipient
Project Title: Perceptions of Scale Through Pilgrimage Exhibition, research, and gallery talk
Student work selected for archival
2018-2019
Top three projects awarded by studio instructors each semester Selected Fall 2018 and Fall 2019
ASSISTANTSHIPS Summer 2020
Graduate Research Assistant
Workspace Evolutions project Faculty: Katie Stranix and JT Bachman, University of Virginia Summer 2020
Design Studio Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2021 | Introduction to Architectural Design for transfer students Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2019
Design Studio Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2010 | Foundation Studio II: Responsive Space Instructor Anthony Averbeck, University of Virginia Fall 2018
Teaching Assistant
ARCH 2710 | CAAD 3D Geometrical Modeling and Visualization Instructor Earl Mark, University of Virginia
EXHIBITIONS & COMPETITIONS Summer 2020
African House Design Competition: A New Jorejick Residence
Design proposol through Archstorming with design partner Ted Bazil; semi-finalists Spring 2020
Sarah McArthur Nix Exhibition
Design and installation of personal work in the Bishop Gallery Spring 2019
Kinesthetic Montage: Hong Kong Installation
Construction team, project led by Esther Lorenz for ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Fall 2017
University of Virginia Bicentennial Pavilion
Pavillion design, fabrication, and construction team member
VOLUNTEERING 08/2015 - 07/2017 Buffalo, NY
Darwin D. Martin House
09/2015 - 05/2016 Buffalo, NY
Habitat for Humanity
Landscaping, interior restoration, and office support at historic Frank Lloyd Wright home Assist with construction activities in low-income housing projects throughout Buffalo
SKILLS Software ArcGIS AutoCAD Excel Illustrator InDesign Photoshop
Hardware PowerPoint Rhino 3D Sefeira SketchUp V-Ray Word
3D Printing Bookbinding Casting CNC Routing Drawing Foam Cutting
Language Hand Drafting Laser Cutting Model Making Photography Sketching Woodworking
English (native) Hebrew (intermediate) Spanish (basic)
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
FIRST FLOOR FIRE
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR NOOK
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HOUSE OF LIGHT The Elemental House Course | Research Studio I Instructor | W.G. Clark Location | Reproducible Term | Fall 2019
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
In designing an elemental house, I began to wonder whether it was possible to design a dwelling in which the rooms do not have names, but in which portions of it are inhabited according to the character of the space itself. I made spatial castings, and in my process realized that so much of architecture is this play between St. Jerome’s overarching space and the fact that he made useful vast space by introducing smaller, human-scaled fitments. This project is a reinterpretation of St. Jerome in his study. I emphasize a material’s multitude of properties through light and texture, where the primary material is light, and the surface is simply what receives it. The spaces are modulated according to light, rather than title.
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
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HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
CLIFF EDGE
SUBTERRANEAN MIRROR
INTERIOR TUNNEL
CANOPY DWELLING
GARDEN HOUSE
INTERIOR CISTERN CLIFF SITING
HILL SITING
INTERIOR CAVES
INTERIOR CLIFF
ITERATIVE CASTING MODELS
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INTERIOR CANYON
HOUSE OF LIGHT | Reproducible
FINAL MODEL
SECTIONAL AXONOMETRIC
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
Field Strategy | Oxygen-producing plants
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URBAN LUNG LA Catastrophe Center Course | Foundation Studio IV Instructor | Kataie Stranix Location | Santa Monica, California Term | Spring 2019
Facade Strategy | Smog Screen
The site, located at the junction of several transportation lines, is constantly exposed to harmful pollutants. My design mitigates, treats, and abates smog on site through a series of vegetated and mechanical interventions. The first threshold is a vegetated berm that sits directly on the highway, the second removes and collects smog particulates from the atmosphere via hollow structural columns fitted with filters, the third is a facade screen that acts as a barrier, and the fourth is a field strategy wherein the remainder of the site becomes an extension of the park which currently exists to the southwest of this site. This creates an “urban lung” or a cocoon which acts as a protective barrier against smog emanating from LA.
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
Vegetated Strategy | Carbon-absorbing plants
Mechanical Strategy | Smog-Filtering Columns
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URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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SITE AXONOMETRIC
URBAN LUNG | Santa Monica, California
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
SITE AXONOMETRIC
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OBJECTION Public Surplus Course | Foundation Studio III Instructor | Matthew Jull Partner | Jonah Pruitt Location | New York, New York Term | Fall 2018
This project seeks to create a space that uses the block scale to tie together the surrounding community and the daily influx of new people. By raising the residences and creating an extension of Chelsea Park, an opportunity to bring people to and through the site emerges. This open land, mixed with programmatic and sensory experiences of the Exploratorium NYC, shows how public space can be more than a luxurious surplus. Using the structure of a publicprivate partnership, our intention was to maximize public use while providing a connected and intellectually stimulating setting for Public School 33 elementary school students.
OBJECTION | New York, New York
FINAL MODEL | SOUTH ELEVATION
FINAL MODEL | NORTH ELEVATION
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
PLAN | ROOF LEVEL
PLAN | TYPICAL APARTMENT FLOOR
PLAN | TRANSFER FLOOR
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OBJECTION | New York, New York
APARTMENTS Re-Conceptualizing the Social Condenser A new interpretation of Narkomfin and Unite d’Habitation, wherein double-height and interlocking multi-story units are enabled through double-loaded corridors on alternating floors. Cross-ventilation and passive cooling are possible through units that extend across the width of the building.
TRANSFER FLOOR An Extension of the Highline A floor that extends across the length of the building and acts as a structural truss for the load above. It visually connects to the Highline and invites the public to enjoy an array of amenities, including a cafe, library, gym and study space.
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
SITE AXONOMETRIC
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FLUID PERMANENCE Boundary Dialectics in Mallows Bay Course | Foundation Studio I Instructor | Luis Pancorbo Location | Mallows Bay, Maryland Term | Fall 2017
Mallows Bay is a site in flux, shifting and changing according to the natural cycles of the Potomac. In 1929, a fleet of wooden steamships built for World War I efforts was sunk in Mallows Bay, and for the last 90 years has produced a vibrant and complex marine ecology. The partial visibility of the shipwrecks creates the sensation of being in a ship graveyard, with jagged skeletal steel and timber members protruding from the surface of the water. My design seeks to reflect the visible and invisible conditions of Mallows Bay. Steel bracing for the timber façade reflects the originally hidden framework of the ships now protruding from the water, while the CLT frame reflects the hull of the ships now submerged.
FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
SOUTH ELEVATION
NORTH ELEVATION
PROCESS MODELS
FINAL MODEL INTERIOR
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FLUID PERMANENCE | Mallows Bay, Maryland
EXTERIOR VIEW FROM POTOMAC
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VIEW FROM DECK OVERLOOKING SHIPWRECKS
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INTERIOR VIEW FACING POTOMAC
INTERIOR VIEW OF EXHIBITION SPACE
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL BY RELIGIOUS LANDMARK
Location | Le Puy-en-Velay Department | Haute-Loire Region | Auvergne-Rhone-Alps Day 01 | July 4, 2019
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The Camino is deeply tied to the religious landmarks and relics that populate it. In Le Puy-enVelay, the point of origin for the Via Podiensis, two large mountains made of volcanic rock sit at the center of the village, with a statue and a church atop. For the pilgrim, this is the gravitational point of orientation. For the resident, it is a physical feature around which daily life flows.
PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE Sarah McArthur Nix Fellowship 2019 Recipient Project | Independent Advisor | Peter Waldman Location | Southern France Period | Summer 2019
At a paradoxical time when hypermobility and sedentary living dominate our modern condition, our experience of the in-between — the actual journey that defines our transposition from one point in space to another — is often wholly omitted. This project seeks to understand the true rate of human movement over time, and to likewise understand the true rate of perception of our surroundings when moving across immensely vast space by foot. My walk took me 500 miles across France and my chosen modes of representation included sketches, comics, photographs, maps, and charts, and the project culminated in an exhibition at the architecture school gallery.
PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL BY IN-BETWEENS
Location | Mas de Vers Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 18, 2019
Sometimes I walked without a final destination in mind, arriving when I felt like arriving, finding accommodation at the first available gite. As the Camino in France becomes more popular, some people are buying up property to open inns for accommodating pilgrims outside of the larger villages.
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PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL THROUGH HISTORIC URBAN FABRIC
Location | Cahors Department | Lot Region | Occitanie Day 16 | July 21, 2019
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Cahors is one of the largest cities on the Camino in France. A 14th-century fortified bridge is the central feature and a gateway for pilgrims. The gateway frames the pilgrim’s experience as a spatial and metaphorical symbol. It creates an anticipation for the in-between, where arrival at the next village is ascertained only through the labor of the body and mind.
PERCEPTIONS OF SCALE THROUGH PILGRIMAGE | Chemin de Saint-Jacques, Southern France
ARRIVAL THROUGH IMPOSED MONOLITH
Location | Auvillar Department | Tarn-et-Garonne Region | Occitanie Day 20 | July 25, 2019
People generally associate pilgrimage as a spiritual path replete with relics and religious sites, a suspension of profane time and an emergence in sacred journey. The modern pilgrim is faced with a paradox. Where the cathedral once stood as a spiritual monolith in an urban center, the new spatial anchor is the de-contextualized industrial monolith sitting in a vast landscape.
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania
View from cattle pen facing house
View facing kitching and dining area
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE African House Competition Archstorming Project | Independent Partner | Theodore Bazil Location | Getamuck, Arusha, Tanzania Period | Summer 2020
Our proposal for a new Jorejick family home is organized into three distinct dwelling spaces, tied together by a series of communal courtyards framed around the existing site trees. The heart of the scheme is the central kitchen and outdoor gathering area, which features a foot pump-operated sink, communal table, and plein-air stove for the family to cook at mealtimes and gather. Two showers are incorporated at either end of the scheme, using rainwater holding receptacles that are controlled by an operable lever. Gray water from the shower is then collected into a second cistern below, which can be brought to the surface for crops.
A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania
Site Map
Transverse Sections
Site Plan
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A NEW JOREJICK RESIDENCE | Getamuck, Tanzania
Longitudinal Sections
Axonometric Showing Water System
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View South from Nico’s house acr
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ross crop field
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MEMORY ORDER DIMENSION TRAVEL DRAWINGS FROM ITALY Course | Study Abroad Instructor | Charlie Menefee, Luis Pancorbo Location | Veneto, Italy Term | Summer 2018
I completed these drawings during a summer course in the Veneto region of Italy. This course largely studied the built legacies of Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi, and Carlo Scarpa through drawing, and sought to make sense of the infrastructural complexities of Venice and the surrounding regions through diagramming and sketching. Through my drawings I sought to understand geometrical patterns, construction strategies, and the layers of buildings that we cannot see, but which we must deduce based on what we can. Further, the scale ranges from individual building components, to buildings as a whole, and finally to complex infrastructural systems in an urban context.
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REFERENCES W.G. CLARK, AIA Edmund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture wgc2w@virginia.edu
LUIS PANCORBO, PhD Assistant Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture lgp6t@virginia.edu
PETER WALDMAN, AIA William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Architecture University of Virginia, School of Architecture pdw7e@virginia.edu
Samuel Eric Feldman Architectural Designer, LEED AP BD+C M.Arch 2020 University of Virginia, School of Architecture email | sef9h@virginia.edu