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I am a student enrolled at the New Jersey institute of technology, currently in my third of the five year bachelors of architecture program. Throughout my three year experience in the practice, I have learnt the techniques necessary in producing technical drawings as well as how to adequately and professionally use programs such as Adobe Illustrator, photoshop, Revit architecture, Auto cad and Rhino 3D. Apart from my software talents, I have also acquired techniques with the simple paper and pencil which comes to use when working on diagrams. Additional crafting skills in BIM and physical models allow me to excel past my school mates. An internship at your firm would allow me to experience firsthand, realistic problems architects face and I would be able to apply what I learned to my own practice.
WORK EXPERIENCE Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
Dominion Contracting Co.
Iron Worker -I assisted in the assortment of re-bar steel rod assemblies in the D.C. Clean Rivers Project
Aug 2012 - Present
Librarian Assistant -Shelved books left by students -Supervised librarian display show case Oluwadabira Lana (Moses) Current Address: 607 Sandy Ridge Drive Glen Burnie, MD 21061 Mobile: (443) 694 7748
Van Houten Library, NJIT
Jun 2010 - Jul 2012
National Aquarium in Baltimore
Exhibit Guide -Completed the certification course required to educate myself in specific topics ranging from general animal facts to environmental care -Engaged visitors in conservations about exhibit
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Iron-bound
NEWARK
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library
Waln ut st .
Iron-bound
SITE Adam s st.
This library design attempts to blend the Ironbound’s town scape with its landscape in a way such that the floor plates simply drape over programmatic spaces. In response to the multiple scales of visitor groups, planes are pulled and pushed to manipulate and differentiate between circulation spaces and programmatic spaces. The more open the space, the more comfortable the user is in the space. To emphasize the feel of community, an open plan with little to no full height partitions are used, leaving the visitors in a field of visual connections.
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Ground level
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First floor
Second floor
B A
Ground level Plan
Section A
Section B
ELEVATION 1- Walnut St.
ELEVATION 2- Adams St.
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Revit Architecture
Revit Architecture
10 Kilometers
SITE
India
I. R. Education Center
Mombasa, Gujarat in India
Grid
Program Density
Courtyards
Open
Access
Columns
The placement of the school is located near the large body of water, oriented to make use of the natural evaporative cooling. A dense yet open composition of program allows for ease of circulation from program to program. To break away from the conventional treatment of interior and exterior, enclosures blend from solid wall to porous transitional spaces. This allows for the site to be experienced as one big space rather than a series of individual spaces.
Canteen Offices
Resource
Classroom
Precast concrete roof
square framing
Rammed Earth Walls
Central Courtyard
Plan
A
B
High tensile fabric screens
Revit Architecture
Detail Ventilation section
Structural Skeleton
Rhino v
Newark
SITE
Continuous
The project depicted is located in downtown Newark New Jersey. Situated a few blocks from the Passaic river, one of the busiest in the entire town composed of both of housing and commercial spaces. The housing complex addresses the needs of groups such as musicians and artist of multiple disciplines, currently enrolled at the NJPAC (Performance Arts Center). The lot is treated as one solid mass with voids in areas of gathering. Voids correspond to the number of people occupying the circulation space. The bigger the space, the greater the volume of People occupying the space.
CENTRALIZED GATHERING THE VOID BECOMES THE MEETING SPACE FOR BOTH DEMOGRAPHICS. BOTH ARTIST AND VISITORS ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO INTERACT VISUALLY AND PHYSICALLY. ENTRANCE
Elevations
NEIGHBORS
RESIDENTS
VISITORS
40%
100%
PROGRAM
50%
NIGHT CLUB
PERFORMANCE SPACE
COFFEE SHOP CAFE ELEVATOR SHAFT STORAGE GALLERY SPACE
Revit Architecture
SITE
Newark
edge housing IMPLIED CIRCULATION THE SITE IS DIVIDED BY THE TRAIN TRACKS CREATING TWO SEPARATE CIRCULATION ROUTES.
NODES BOTH TRAIN STOPS
GATHERING AREAS RECEIVING THE MOST FOOT TRAFFIC DUE TO EXISTING CONTEXT.
GROUND ENCLOSURE
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DN
DN
DN
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DN
Plumbing Electrical/ Gas
Spatial Division
Staircase
Curtain Wall Placement
Balcony
SITE
Newark
52 James St.
A new Newark As the city of Newark advances and grows, it struggles with keeping its modern aspects in balance with its roots. This “brick city’s” evolution is reflected in the design of the facades of this building. The first step we took was to look at the buildings of the area and abstract their vertically divided shape. Then we conformed the shape to the program and to the site’s wind and sun patterns. Next, the shape was split horizontally, based on the “strips” of the neighboring row houses. The materials were chosen to highlight the difficulties each aspect of Newark has connecting to each other. From the first side, one can only see brick, and as one walks past the facade, the whole view changes to glass. Although the glass and brick connect with the strip and they can both be seen together from the
NEW NEWARK
OLD NEWARK