SINAN HUSIC
PORTFOLIO 2015
HELLO,
My name is Sinan Husic and I am currently a second year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. I was born in a small city in Bosnia, where my father also first learned the trade of stone masonry. He taught me the art soon later once we settled in Canada which sparked my passion for fabrication across a multitude of media and various methods. Throughout my work I always seek feasible solutions to architectural issues in a pragmatic sense, keeping in consideration the social, environmental, political and economical implications of every architectural intervention in question. I hope you enjoy my selected works!
CURRICULUM VITAE
SINANHUSIC
sinan.husic@yahoo.ca www.sinvn.com 289.808.6199 178 Templemead Drive L8W3G4, Hamilton, ON, CA.
SKILLS
AutoCAD
Rhino
PROESSIONAL SUMMARY
Revit
V-Ray
Dealt with various contract administration projects as well as involvement with adesign devlopment team at Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc. Five years experience in the construction/ contracting industry, primarily concerned with client contracts and budgets, project management, and carpentry. Proficient in Adobe Suite and CAD software, web design, and basic knowledge of HTML/ Java script
Grasshopper Photoshop
Illustrator
InDesign
Modeling
Drafting
Digital Fab.
Skills include: problem solving, respectful interaction with clients and leadership through experience with project development and management. Fluent in English, Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian; written and verbal.
EDUCATION
2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 8 University of Waterloo School of Architecture Bachelor of Architectural Studies Candidate
2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 2 Sherwood Secondary School High School Diploma, Honours
EMPLOYMENT
2 0 1 5 Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc. Architectural Assistant
O n - G o i n g SES Construction
Contractor, Estimator, Designer, Carpenter, Stone Mason
2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 Absolute Contracting Carpenter, Stone Mason
2 0 1 0 Architectural Metals North America Site Labourer
INVOLVEMENT
2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 3 Cultural Folklore Group “Bosna u Srcu”
Instructor, Assistant Choreographer, Performer
2 0 0 9 - 2 0 1 4 Volunteer Maintenance for BIC of Hamilton Landscaping, Cleaning, Roofing
TRAVEL
2 0 1 1 Detroit, Havana, Chicago
2 0 1 2 New York, Chicago, Holquin, Louisville 2 0 1 3 New York, Puerto Plata 2 0 1 4 Zagreb, Sarajevo, Bihac, Mostar, Chicago
May 24, 2015 To whom it may concern: This letter is in reference to Sinan Husic, who was employed by Diamond Schmitt Architects from January 6 to April 30, 2015 as a student architect. He left our company to return to his studies at University of Waterloo. During his time at our office, Sinan has worked on a variety of projects: The Government Conference Centre Renovation in Ottawa, The National Arts Centre Renovation in Ottawa, the Laurier University Exchange Building and some work for our promotional department. Sinan participated in internal project team meetings, and meetings involving consulting engineers and client representatives. He has been responsible for the development of presentation material for milestone reviews ws with approval authorities. Sinan contributed to the development of the National Arts Centre Renovation drawings in Revit, in collaboration with a large team of Diamond Schmitt architects. During his work term with us, he has worked with many people in the office, gaining exposure and responsibility with different project types in different stages of development. He is eager to learn and applies this knowledge to tasks assigned. He approaches his work with confidence and professionalism. We wish Sinan alll the best in the development of his career.
Yours truly,
Associate, Architect jmallard@dsai.ca@dsai.ca
INDEX
WORK EXPERIENCE 12
STUDIO WORK
Architectural Assistant
Diamond Schmitt Architects Inc.
22
6Ball
42
G.Alt
54
B [ ] X - A Paradox
72
Architectonics
86
Artist’s Residence
PERSONAL WORK 106 108 110
Architecture + Landscape SSEF Competition Entry Community Centre
Fundamentals of Architecture Small Scale Living
Srebrenica
Scratchboard
Emotion Studies
Painting
The Frustration of Dreaming
Installation
WORK
EXPERIENCE
National Arts Centre 24.04.2015
Diamond Schmitt Architects with Jennifer Mallard, Jessica Cheung, Sanchali Chowdhuri, Ryan Mitchell, Elcin Unal, Krister Holmes, and Chris Glebe Ottawa, ON
12
The National Arts Centre was one of the major renovation projects that I worked on during my time at Diamond Schmitt Architects. I joined the NAC team that had already been hard at work on the project for a little over two years. With hopes to help push the project further, I helped the team with various design proposal changes along with design research to present to clients. I also helped with the documentation of the existing building through Revit — modelling the building’s structure that could later be used by the clients for building maintence purposes. Along with 3D modelling in Revit, I also helped 3D Model the building and the addition in Rhino in order to produce a 3D printed version of the project that could be used to present to clients in physical form.
3D Printed Model
14
Plan view
15
View of North side of the building
16
View of North-West corner/entrance of the building
17
View of North face of model
18
East face of the model
19
View of the South-West Corner
STUDIO
WORK
6Ball
04.06.2015
Lola Sheppard with Tony Li Toronto, ON
22
6Ball is a collage of installation, infrastructure, and public engagement. The project aims to tackle two major issues: the treatment of water in the Don and the lack of public interaction with the river in its urbanized setting. By situating the interventions in the urban sector of the Don River, they intend to increase public interaction with the Don via LED lights that will act as twenty-four hour art installations for people to interact with through a few pavilion style interventions. The floating balls double as water treatment devices containing graphite in the core which will remove pollutants and contaminants in the river as they travel down the stream. The pavilion interventions double as facilities for the LED balls. They will maintain each sphere with inspection stations, service stations and distribution stations. The infrastructure thus creates a closed loop of water treatment that simultaneously engages the public. By engaging the public through technology and art; 6Ball’s goal is to ultimately draw people back to the Don River as it once did.
Don River Night Time Render
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Rendition of what the Don River at night with the LED balls floating through the river
Current Don River Condition
25
Current condition showing a lack of occupiable space around the urbanized portions of the Don
Context Map
26
Context map showing the area of intervention
LED Ball Detail
28
Render of the proposed floating LED balls
Exploded LED Ball Detail
29
Exploded detail of the LED ball showing its various components
LED Flow Diagram + Intervention Sites
30
Each of the coloured blocks are indicated along with their respective areas of intervention
Intervention 1: Site Plan
32
The first intervention hosted onto the pedestrian bridge at Riverdale Park
Intervention 1: Perspective
33
The inervention shown as a series of floating planes suspended from the bridge that act as garden and viewing spaces of the Don and of the city’s skyline
Intervention 2: Site Plan
34
The second intervention hosted onto an adandoned bridge near Corktown Commons
Intervention 2: Perspective
35
The second intervention suspended from the existing structure and floating within the Don acting as a play area and botantical garden
Intervention 3: Site Plan
36
The third intervention placed in the most urbanized section of the Don River
Intervention 3: Perspective
37
The third intervention depicted as a floating bike path that winds through the existing highway structures and around a roof-top BMX park
Invertention 3: Model Photos
38
Looking south from the Don River
39
Looking north from the highway ramp
Intervention 1: Model Photos
40
Detail photo of the floating planes
41
Arial shot of the planes crossing over each other
G.Alt
24.04.2014
Terri Meyer Boake with Joel Tremblay Galt, Cambridge, Ontario
42
G.Alt was a collaboration between myself and Joel Tremblay for the annual SSEF Structural Steel competition. The 2014 competition required us to explore ways that we could “span” — the theme for the years competition. The direction we chose to take for the competition was a span that was tangeble to us as students: a spanning member that was close to the school that could be utilized by the students of Cambridge. We decided to look into the socioeconomic impacts of building a pedestrian bridge ontop of an existing bridge infrastructure near the School of Architecture in order to connect current student housing and the insititution together with a safe and well-lit path that could be utilized by the students. This would act as a safe alternative to the routes students generally take if they live on the opposite side of the river. Of course the project was not simply limited to connecting the students. The aim was also to create another pedestrian connection to the community of Cambridge.
44
a perspectival render of the bridge within its context —  looking North
Site Plan
46
The connections to existing pedestrian pathways are highlighted in grey
Site Section
48
Section looking North
Detail 1
50
Abutment detail of the lower arches connecting with the concrete piers utilizing a post-tensioned structural system
Detail 2
51
The overhead arch detail showing their connections to one another
Detail 3
52
Detail showing the suspension wires connected to the overhead arches
Detail 4
53
Detail showing how the suspension wires connect to the floor arches
B [ ] X - A Paradox 20.12.2014
Adrian Blackwell Galt, Cambridge, Ontario
54
This project was the major 2A studio final that dealt with the paradoxes of public space. The building came about through a series of site responses and issue that had to be dealt with. These issues is what I used to drive the design of the building and its program. The major issue that was noted during the research phase was the existance of a laneway located at the back of the commercial block of buildings; but North of the site. The building was formed based on activiating this laneway inorder to avoid creating an interstitial space that could hinder the functionality of the building. The parti of the project is depicted as a large glass box that houses smaller opaque boxes within it. The facade was deliberately kept modest in order not to over-power the adjacent heritage building across the street. The glass cube and the opaque program within were deliberately arranged so that sunlight would be able to penetrate through the building at all times in order to allow the maximum amount of light into the laneway on the North side.
56
Rendering of the front entrance of the community centre looking Southwards
Space Organization Diagram
Activated Pedestrian TraďŹƒc
Program
58
Street Frontage
21m
Diagram outlining the organizational strategies of the community centre with it’s site conditions
Site Plan
59
Site plan showing the building’s relationship to the public transportation network of Cambridge
Ground Floor Plan
60
Second Floor Plan
61
Basement Floor Plan
62
Transverse Section
63
Section through the galleria, pool, and roof top dance studio
Longitudinal Section
64
Section through the pool and core, looking North
View 1
66
View from the auditorium balcony into the galleria
View 2
67
View from the pool area towards the grand staircase and galleria
View 3
68
View after entering the building from the front entrance
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71
Architectonics 23.11.2013
Rick Andrighetti Conceptual
72
Architectonics was an exploration of the fundamental building blocks of architecture. We were free to use and experiment with basic architectural elements such as collumns, walls, floor plates, openings, and volumes. The ultimate goal was to create architecture in its most purest form. Throughout this project, I chose to explore the architectural aspects of volumes and their boundaries along with the spaces that can be occupied within and around a series of arranged volumes. By arranging a series of three distinct volumes; I concerned myself with what types of spaces could be inhabited with the intersection of these volumes. How they would be used and their program was derived from inspirtation of Tom Kundig and his appropriation of positive and negative space within his own work.
Physical Model
74
Floor Plan 1 & 2
76
Floor Plan 2 & 3
77
Section A
78
Section B
79
Right Elevation
80
Left Elevation
81
82
83
84
85
Artist’s Residence 18.12.2014
Rick Andrighetti Cambridge, Ontario
86
Artist’s Residence was the final project assigned on our final term which involved creating an inhabitable architecture for an artist of our choice. We had the option to choose between artists that participated in either the visual, literary or musical arts. Once a practice was chosen, we were then to tailor our spaces with the needs of that artist in mind. In this project, I chose to design for the visual artist. Despite being a project that could easily accommodate any arbitrary visual artist, I chose to draw specific inspiration from Richard Serra and his large steel installations. Serra’s installations generally appear as intrusive in the landscape while simultaneously having an elegant atmosphere to them. It was this feel that I wished to replicate within this project by designing a large mass of Corten steel that appears to cut through the landscape. After the form of the facade was established, the interior program was meant to be strictly arranged within this mass that the artist was to occupy.
88
First Floor Plan
90
Second Floor Plan
92
Section B
94
Section C
95
Section D
96
Section E
97
Experiential Section
98
Experiential section of the building showing the gradation of light through the building
100
101
102
103
PERSONAL
WORK
Srebrenica
106
8.5” x 11” Scratchboard The image inspired from Picasso’s Guernica — but reappropriated to depict the situation in Srebrenica during 1995
Emotion: Anger
108
24” x 52” Acrylic on Collaged Canvas Bits. Part of a series of emotion studies through art and symbolism
Emotion: Confusion
109
24” x 24” Acrylic on Canvas. Part of a series of emotion studies through art and symbolism
The Frustration of Dreaming
110
5’ x 9’ Installation. Copper pipe, fishing line, and linen.
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112
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THANK YOU!
sinan.husic@yahoo.ca www.sinvn.com 289.808.6199 178 Templemead Drive L8W3G4, Hamilton, ON, CA.