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Sophia (Sophi) Lilles sophialilles@gmail.com / @svlilles on instagram / +1 347-697-3450

education Aug 2017 - May 2022

PRATT INSTITUTE _ brooklyn, ny

Aug 2013 - May 2017

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MANILA _ philippines

Bachelor of Architecture, GPA: 3.9 Awards: Drawing Excellence Award for Representation 2 Distinction: Pubished in college-wide archival book InProcess Edition 23, 24, 25 Full IB Diploma, Score: 38

experience Sept 2021 - Dec 2021

DOUBLE R DESIGN, Design Intern _ brooklyn, ny

Mar 2021 - May 2021

PRATT SoA, Project Assistant _ brooklyn, ny

Feb 2019 - Aug 2021

OVERLAY OFFICE, Architectural Design Intern _ brooklyn, ny

Sept 2019 - present Aug 2018 - May 2019

June 2018

Source textiles and vintage furniture, photograph funiture/products, attend and sell at markets such as Field and Supply, meet with clients, design small scale interior schemes, design and curate images for the website and instagram Collect student work, process and edit images, curate assets into portfolios Design, 3D model, draw, and render for current projects and competitions, make physical models for show rooms, source materials, communicate with clients, design and manage the firm’s website, plan and curate the firm’s instagram

PRATT SoA, Design Teacher Assistant _ brooklyn, ny Mentor 1st and 2nd year studios regarding design, representation, and model making.

PRATT SoA MEDIA, Social Media Specialist _ brooklyn, ny Ran the Pratt SoA instagram (@prattsoa) through posts and stories, documenting and sharing student and faculty work, to curate and showcase design achievements

LOR CALMA & PARTNERS ARCHITECTURE FIRM, Architectural Design Intern _ manila, philippines Solo project of the preliminary interior design of luxury brand retail store, Homme, inside Solaire Casino, via drawings and renders to detail material and types of product displays

June 2016

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, Intern _ manila, philippines Designed a social media platform to spread awareness on the sustainable development goals for 2030 and worked with ADB employees and present the final project to them

Aug 2013 - May 2017

PROMOTING RURAL EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES, Service Organization Member_ manila, philippines Travel to provinces in the Philippines to teach and play with students in local schools as a way to promote education and creativity

skills Rhino, Vray for Rhino, Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Revit, physical model fabrication, technical handdrafting, photography, Microsoft Suite, Google Suite

interests Slow fashion, dirty realism, foreign film, non-fiction, wabi-sabi, sewing, film photography

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01 AIRPORT OF 2040

02 THE CREATIVE COLLECTIVE

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03 OPEN FACTORY

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04 THE CONTINUOUS WALK

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08 PARAMETRIC WALL

10 LOR CALMA + PARTNERS

11 PERSONAL PROJECTS

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airport of 2040 Instructor_Jason Lee Studio_Dirty Realism, Green New Civic Date_Fall, 2020 Site_Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines

This project investigates how the intersection of routines may create the opportunity for civic experiences in spaces of dirty realism: the idle airport reality.

The future airport is the epitome of efficiency by technology.

While the technology has advanced, the airport still remains as important to everyday life as the present. All types of people: passengers, airline crew, aviation staff etc, still interact with the airport on a daily basis.

This project takes advantage of the individual routines of a person in an airport in order to interfere with and intersect different routines. It subverts the highly choreographed airport by blending flow and stagnation within programmed places and circulation spaces.

Here, an individual with “waiting” as part of their routine may spend their time with others in similar situations rather than idly killing time within their designated place.

This is an antithesis to the technology-driven future of the airport that equalizes occupants and creates opportunities of physical chance encounters and civic engagement.

Re-imagination of a 1960s Philippine Postcard

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site: Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines

occupants flight dispatcher on break

airplane crew flight delayed, waiting for call time

passenger missed flight, waiting for the next one

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This project exists as a reimagination of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in the Philippines. NAIA accommodates 6 million passengers a year and has been consistently ranked the top 10 worst airports in Asia. Like many airports, NAIA is a vital part in the Filipino’s daily life. The Philippines has 2.2 million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), who are people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. Besides exporting service, the country also heavily relies on the tourism that comes in to contribute to the Philippine economy.

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Exploring architectural concepts in film: Chungking Express (1997) by Wong Kar-Wai

midnight express [ comfort in the familiar ] blurs definition of space + place

intersection of separate routines

intersection of separate routines

intersection of pursuit and routine

interaction of choices

- “you brush past so many people everyday, some you may never know anything about, but others might become your friend someday.”

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home of the creative collective Instructor_Salvatore Tranchina Studio_Work-Live Housing Date_Fall, 2019 Site_Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY Partner_Beren Saraquse The Home of the Creative Collective is a mixed-use housing complex where occupants live to create. The occupants are young artists, filmmakers, and freelance creatives who have the freedom to work in different scales, within their own unit and throughout the building. Diversity is influential at multiple scales, and the project aims to satisfy the needs and encourage the achievements of those living in the neighborhood.

The units are designed with the idea that the occupants can expose their work. Individual customizable units allow them ‘to see or be seen’ creating. Within the building, the occupants’ work environments are vastly different. Each one of the fourteen workrooms within the building is able to provide for specific needs, which allows the occupants to produce their best work.

The neighborhood is introduced to the creative experience by having a separate access zone throughout the building. These zones speak to the different scales that help achieve multiple cultural perspectives.

This project challenges social exclusion through art and creativity. This allows for equiability within occupants, the neighborhood and even Brooklyn. A person who lives to work demands the home of the Creative Collective.

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Front Facade Physical Model

Units are aligned by the individual work spaces, resulting in a gallery style corridor, allowing occupants to show their work from inside their units.

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Sectional Physical Model at 3/4” = 1’-0” scale

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open factory Instructor_Sophia Gruzdys Studio_Civic Vortex: Rome Date_Spring, 2021 Site_Piazza d’Aracoeli Rome, Italy The Open Factory is a collaborative social and economic engine between temporary and permanent occupants. The marketplace aims to integrate asylum seekers into local life.

Locals and asylum seekers come together to exchange different ways of making, crafting, creating. Through a collaborative production zone, asylum seekers have the support from locals to grow their lives in Rome.

The creation and exchange of goods and knowledge becomes: a neighborhood activator; a connector between locals, tourists, pilgrims, and asylum seeker; a new daily life, in the setting of a piazza.

The layered configuration of the factory (learn, make, exchange) is connected to the surrounding fabric through a main promenade. The promenade allows a passerby to turn into a participant of the factory.

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Early Nolli Map study

View from the piazza looking toward the work rooms

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Good morning! Time to prepare our workshops for the daily market.

Today, this bottega is showing and selling different items all made of jacquard, perfect for the summer time!

After having lunch, check out the current exhibition, showcasing a few special pieces that were created this month!

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Some classes are starting now, todays classes include: Italian, making leather goods, and ceramics.

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(and at various times) People can arrive and depart from Open Factory through a bus stop

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Don’t forget to go to the theater for the info session today about the first steps to filling out the Refugee Application.

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After a full day, catch up with your friends, family, and new aquaintances at the outdoor dining space. Have a delicious meal with a side of fresh focaccia from an earlier cooking class! Good night!

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Walking through the promenade

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the continuous walk Instructor_Leonard Leung Studio_Sports Community Center and Emergency Shelter Date_Spring, 2020 Site_Far Rockaway, Queens, NY Partner_Chloe Ni Located in the Rockaway Peninsula, a site prone to natural disaster, this sports community center activates the neighborhood by providing a focal gathering point, while also transforming into an emergency shelter. The building understands the stakes of the flood line and is designed to be flexible, adapting to the needs of the community. It features a gym, bowling alley, skate park, and rock climbing wall. The shelter components are folded into the architecture of the building, so in the event of an emergency, occupants have easy access to retrieve and assemble the temporary living spaces.

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the carved gallery Instructor_Abigail Coover Hume Studio_Museum Extension Date_Fall, 2018 Site_The Met Cloisters, NY This project is designed around the idea of experience driven by destination, done by exploring carved solid planes and using the cut, doubly-curved thickness to assign heirarchy and reinforce the different spaces. These thicknesses are highlighted with the marble material found at the Met Cloisters.

The middle courtyard, being one of the most important spaces is made up of these cuts.

With an exhibition space, auditorium, lobby, offices, and lavatories, the extension design relates back to the original design of the Met Cloisters in terms of enfiladed spaces, curved thresholds, one path circulation, and a courtyard as the destination.

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Isometric view of building design on the Met Cloisters hill extension site.

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Gallery Typologies with the spherical cuts, resulting in the doubly-curved thicknesses.

EXHIBITION SPACE FOR EDUCATION

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farsighted Instructor_Eric Wong Studio_Cinematheque Date_Spring, 2018 Site_E Houston and Lafayette, Manhattan, NY This cinematheque tower connects the cinema volumes with passageways and thresholds that embody the same effects as the cinematic techniques that director Edgar Wright uses in many of his movies.

Wright uses methods that alters the speed of a scene ultimately creating different scales of zooming and focusing as both a visual and physical experience. The passageways and stairs in this building compress, expand, divide, and turn in a way that makes the occupant start to focus and zoom in on where they are walking.

The building has a large diagonal cut through the middle that divides program and brings light into the main lobby. This cut appears again below the lobby so that pedestrians can walk through the building at ground level, experiencing this floating glass volume above.

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analyzing the resor house Instructor_Michael Caton Class_Representation 2 Date_Spring, 2018

Mies Van Der Rohe’s unbuilt home design, Resor House, focused on the house as a “single-volume pavilion.” The design was highly impacted by the river flowing under it so that the house looked like a volume floating ontop of water.

Mies then designed interior spaces to highlight the views of the sight, maximize light, and still resemble a single volumetric form. To explore the effect of the river, I rearranged the building by placing the river on the outer ends of the the building, and reorganized spaces based on program and speed, breaking reorganization of space ground floor down the design into discrete volumes.

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parametric wall Instructor_Sebastian Misiurek Class_Representation 3 Date_Fall, 2018

This is a proposal for a parametric wall located in a lobby of my design. This class was an introduction to Grasshopper with an emphasis on Vray rendering for Rhino.

The wall consists of a pyramid-like module created by revolving a triangle. Aggregating this module with the different degrees of rotation starts to confuse the viewer as to what module is being pulled outward versus being pushed back, subtely blending front and back.

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overlay office Internship, Brooklyn, NY Director_Abigail Coover Hume Date_February 2019 - December 2020

Overlay Office is a design and architecture firm focused on the interplay of geometry to create spatial experiences at all scales. My tasks included assisting in: designing, modeling, and drawing for current projects and competitions, and marketing through instagram curation.

2019 The Home Competition Submission

Plan and section perspective, and stair construction of Brooklyn Townhouse renovation

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MASTER BATHROOM 272 SF

BATH 4 45 SF

HALL B 65 SF

BATH 3 40 SF

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Website (overlayoffice.com) published oblique plan (left) and interior view (above) of an Interior renovation project for the Pierre Hotel

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lor calma + partners Internship, Manila, Philippines Director_Eduardo Calma Date_Summer 2018 Project_UNIVERS Store at Solaire Casino, Manila, Philippines This is the design for a luxury streer wear brand retail store UNIVERS in Manila, Philippines. The design was conceptualized around the idea of hanging line geometry from the ceiling (brass stick forms) meeting volumes from the floor (marble) to create various displays. The displays focused on modular and adjustable pieces. The hanging displays would have panels to place posters or brand names as well as hanging space for the items of the corresponding brands.

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personal projects 01_hawakan Hawakan is a fundraising initiative led by young Filipino Artists.

The Hawakan Exhibition and Virtual Auction took place in Manila, Philippines, in the Summer of 2020, a few months into the surge of the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibition was a way for young Filipino artists to achieve tangible change within underserved communities during a time of uncertainty. Through the auction and sale of prints, Hawakan raised 650,000 PHP for Partner Foundations including ABS-CBN Pantawid Ng Pag-Ibig.

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02_in the name of love: black lives matter This project was a fundraiser through the online sale of a scale figure set, geared towards designers to use in their drawings. The fundraiser was a response to the increase of police violence towards the Black community in May of 2020. All proceeds went to organizations aimed to support and protect the Black community.

03_staying home in color I put together this free, downloadable coloring book released in August of 2020 featuring illustrations from my friends. This was a way to promote staying home and safe while still having fun and being creative in the time of a pandemic.

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