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TOTA HUNTER
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TOTA HUNTER
tota.hunter@gmail.com +1 832.948.5802
EDUCATION Syracuse University School of Architecture | Syracuse, NY Expected 2021 2016-Present 2016-2021 Spring ‘19 Summer ‘19 Fall ‘19
Bachelor of Architecture Candidate Renée Crown University Honors Program Full Tuition Merit Scholarship London Abroad Program Balkans Summer Abroad Program Florence Abroad Program
The Woodlands High School | The Woodlands, TX 2015
High School Diploma | Magna Cum Laude AP Scholar with Distinction
EXPERIENCE Summer 2019
Gensler | Houston, TX Intern Worked on a set of renderings and a campaign book for a local church renovation project. Part of team that designed a pro-bono intern project for a bridge program that helps foster youth who age out of the foster care system.
Fall 2019
CSPE srl | Florence, IT Intern Coordinated with Director of firm in charge of an international hospital project to clearly communicate to client the design intentions of the firm through a series of diagrams.
2015-2017
Freedom By Design | Syracuse, NY Director Provided overall structure for the program and was the mediator between team, faculty, and administrators. Project Manager Oversight of final stage of construction on the Westminster Church Ramp, and beginning design of a series of ramps for store entrances in Cazenovia, NY.
Summer 2014
PBK Architects | Houston, TX Intern Shadowed experienced architects in different phases of developing projects. Organized physical & digital files of public school related design projects.
AFFILIATIONS Freedom By Design (FBD) American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Architecture Student Organization (ASO)
SKILLS Languages Digital Fabrication Representation
English, fluent | Russian, proficient | Kazakh, conversational Rhinoceros | Adobe Cloud | AutoCAD | Revit | V-ray Hand Modeling | Laser Cutting | Wood shop | 3D Printing Hand Sketching | Drafting | Painting | Photography
CONTENT
01 MODULARITY Studio 307
02 HYBRIDIZATION Studio 208
03 CONNECTIVITY Studio 207
04 SEQUENCE Studio 107
05 VOID Summer Abroad
06 RE IMAGINING Gensler
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MODULARITY Fall 2018
Rhino 5 | Illustrator | Photoshop | Hand Modeling Affordable Housing
INSTRUCTOR Ryan Ball
SITE LOCATION New York, NY
COURSE ARC 307 Studio
PROJECT BRIEF The project will address the current affordable housing crisis in New York City by questioning the cycle of demolition in urban growth, instead of seeking to promote a model of development which allows landlords to increase the rental capacity of their property without raising rend or displacing current residents. Particularly, what might a city look like if we could build up? DESIGN INTENTION The design intention attempts to modularize the living space to allow for future growth. By providing a single 3m x 3m unit at its smallest scale, the single unit can be combined and recombined to create any arrangement of living spaces at larger scales. The setting provides itself with the opportunity to connect with its context by standing on two public program foot prints at the ground level and gradually becomes more of a private space for its dwellers.
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Community Dwellings | Interior Perspective
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Location: Bottom Row, Second from the Left |Physical Site Model - 1:16 Scale
Pictures by Shawn Tang
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HYBRIDIZATION Spring 2018
Rhino 5 | Illustrator | Photoshop | AutoCAD Research + Education Facilities
INSTRUCTOR Molly Hunker
SITE LOCATION Cazenovia, NY
COURSE ARC 208 Studio
PROJECT BRIEF The project incorporates a mixed use program that includes a restaurant, learning facilities for cooking and an outdoor program encompassing several different types of ecosystems. The program encourages a farm to table approach to food, providing the user a direct relationship to the food they consume. DESIGN INTENTION Given its isolated context in the small, historic town of Cazenovia, the project aims to create hybridized spaces within its site. The hybrid spaces allow for interaction within the multitude of programs laid out over the site. Thy hybrid moments present themselves in the form of combination of materials, architectural elements, spaces and programs. As the occupant moves from on space to another, there is an opportunity to redefine conventional spaces. By combining programs and spaces, what is created is a blurred threshold that does not identify or conform with either program. That allows for people to experience spaces as a continuous journey rather than a series of isolated spaces.
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Green House, Education Center, Restaurant | Sections
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Interior & Exterior Space Studies | Element Matrix
Top: Educational Spaces | Middle: Green House | Bottom: Restaurant | Perspectives
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CONNECTIVITY Fall 2017 Rhino 5 | Illustrator | Photoshop Community Art Center
INSTRUCTOR Timothy Stenson
SITE LOCATION Philadelphia, NY
COURSE ARC 207 Studio
PROJECT BRIEF The project will seek to extract a new tectonic logic through the development of context and program into a habitable structure. The mixed used program is intended to provide studio and gallery facilities. Classrooms will offer spaces for after-school art programs and other arts-related outreach. Supporting educational ambitions, a library is included on the list of functions. In aggregate, this program offers a civic arts opportunity for the exchange of ideas and production of creative work. DESIGN INTENTION The design project intends to provide inhabitable spaces that function separately but are still connected through their relation with one another. A visual connection is established between parallel studio on the other. Although, largely an inward looking structure. the community plaza welcomes the surrounding community to step into the space and engage with the building.
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Top: Street Level Engagement | Bottom: Community Space | Perspectives
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Classrooms, Community Plaza, Gallery | Section
Community Plaza and Cafe | Section
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SEQUENCE Fall 2016
Hand Drawing | Graphite Pencil Crouse College
INSTRUCTOR Terrance Goode
SITE LOCATION Syracuse, NY
COURSE ARC 107 Studio
PROJECT BRIEF The series of images explore the spacial sequence on Crouse College on the Syracuse University campus. The study intends to exhibit the natural progression through the building, stopping at key moments that characterize the building. Beginning at the monumental entrance with a series of stairs leading up to the building. Following the progression with a series of interior staircases and hallways that flow from one another, stopping at the central staircase that is demarcated with a series of interior staircases and hallways that flow from one another, stopping at the central staircases that is demarcated with a replica of the statue of the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Lastly, ending with another view of the building from the opposite end of the building.
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VOID
Summer 2019 Rhino 6 | Illustrator | Photoshop | Indesign Team: Tota Hunter + Julia Ocejo
INSTRUCTOR Mitesh Dixit
SITE LOCATION Balkans Region
COURSE Summer Abroad
PROJECT BRIEF A void is a territory that is constantly being engaged and disengaged by the individual. A void “evokes a need to feel and understand places, to engage and initiate, and to experience and be.” ( Jonas) It is initially thought of as the left-behind and empty space; however, the “void is anything but nothing.” (Pizzagalli) It can be understood as all of the potential space that is occupied by an individual and can be seen in varying scales of operation. Voids are the transitional spaces from one activity to another, a territory where actions play out. They are a “metaphor for the interrupted and brutally exposed land where remnants of lives are scattered, shattered, forgotten, hidden, and revived.” ( Jonas) Voids can perform in multiple ways and have an impact on the social, environmental, political and economic aspects of territories. They are not merely empty spaces but rather undefined zones without clear functions where any form of action can happen. These voids are key aspects of the human existence in their everyday life. They are the free spaces for human expression and therefore they allow the individual to shape and reshape these territories.
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New Belgrade
Sea Side Resorts
Skopje
Site Image +Figure Ground Map|Case Studies
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Void Index - Figure Ground | Analysis
Void Index - Image | Analysis
Split
Break
Carve
Threshold
Division of space.
Unintentional break.
Reduction of a mass.
Circulation through space.
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RE IMAGINING Summer 2019
Rhino 6 | Lumion | Photoshop | Indesign Team: Summer Intern Class of ‘19
EMPLOYER Gensler
SITE LOCATION Houston, TX
INTERNSHIP Summer
PROJECT BRIEF The project will address the current affordable housing crisis in New York City by questioning the cycle of demolition in urban growth, instead of seeking to promote a model of development which allows landlord to increase the rental capacity of their property without raising rend or displacing current residents. Particularly, what might a city look like if we could build up? PROJECT ROLE The design intention attempts to modularize the living space to allow for future growth. By providing a single 3m x 3m unit at its smallest scale, the single unit can be combined and recombined to create any arrangement of living spaces at larger scales. The setting provides itself with the opportunity to connect with its context by standing on two public program foot prints at the ground level and gradually becomes more of a private space for its dwellers.
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Community Dwellings | Perspective
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TOTA HUNTER 832.948.5802 tota.hunter@gmail.com