YAEL LEBED selected works 2020
Y A E L
L E B E D 647.544.0156 | ylebed@ryerson.ca
Summary of Qualifications
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Well experienced in leading team projects for schoolwork and extra curriculars. Proficient in drafting conventions and construction document production. Thrive on challenges of learning new skills and implementing new ideas. Well versed in professionally confronting complications amongst team members Fluent in Russian.
Technical Skills
AutoCAD 2020 Revit 2020
Rhinoceros 2019 V-Ray 2019
Illustrator 2019 Photoshop 2019
InDesign 2019 MS Office Suite
Education
Bachelor of Architectural Science (Co-op) | Ryerson University | September 2017 - Present | CGPA: 3.3 Professional Experience
Junior Technologist | Precise Detailing Inc. | November 2019 - Present • Draft the mounting details for precast concrete cladding assemblies using AutoCAD 2019. • Revise red lines on drafting documents and create unit lists for entire projects. • Manage the workload of simultaneous projects and submit shop drawings for fabrication. Waitress and Bartender | Duffs Famous Wings | January 2016 – December 2019 • Served a section of 10 tables at a time in a high intensity dining shift. • Worked day shifts requiring the solo management of dine-in tables, take-out orders, and clearing tables. • Trained new employees in all front-of-the-house positions. Student Leadership
Financial VP of the Architectural Course Union | Ryerson University | September 2017 – Present • Outreach to sponsors with budget requests for events such as Orientation Week, Soft Skills Workshops, and Health and Wellness Workshops that are organized by the Union. • Manage the student-led events of the Architectural Science Program throughout the school year. Architectural Science Mentor | Ryerson University | September 2019 – Present • Counsel a first year Architectural Science student with digital software and project production. Extra Curriculars
TimberFever Design-Build Competition | Ryerson University | September 2019 • Responsible for the design concept and the digital model production of a public installation. • Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team in the fabrication of the wooden installation using hand and power tools.
Immigration Scholar’s Residence | 77 Brock avenue, Toronto | Year 2 An annual cohort of scholars, some with family, would be living and studying in the residence during their research of immigration in Toronto. It is essential to provide the residents with a sense of belonging; a threshold from the busy streets and a place for their personal possessions. However, in order to maintain the critical impression of the residents’ presence in Toronto, the units were designed such that the threshold between the street and the unit is an exterior experience inuenced by the detached house and row house typologies. Upon entry, the resident has a direct linear view to the outside such that the connection to the surroundings are never lost.
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bottom: experiential section *exhibiting in the year end show 2019
ground level 1 courtyard 2 library 3 washroom 4 cafe below grade 5 elevators 6 single resident unit 7 shipping and receiveing 8 bicycle parking
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level two 1 single resident unit 2 family unit 3 elevators
below: site plan
The challenge Most high-rise residential buildings deny the resident of views to the outside along their path to and from their unit. Such a design approach creates the impression that their unit is isolated from its surrounding. In a residence for immigration researchers, it was important for the residents to sustain the association of their unit as within the city of Toronto.
The solution Residents enter their unit directly from the outside. Privacy is granted by a change in elevation off of the street, as well as, the passing through an intermediate courtyard.
north elevation 1:600
“He conceived of today as worth living only if guaranteed to be just like the past” - Umberto Eco | Collectibles
My investigation into what makes a house feel like a home concluded that personal possessions contribute a great deal of comfort. The quote above sparked the theory that once people populate their homes with articles of their past, their house can begin to seem like a museum of their life as it has been. If this theory is coupled with the aforementioned challenge of isolation, a person’s home can be divorced from its location entirely. To restrict such an effect, a shelf was designed into the assembly of the wall between the interior and exterior, such that belongings could be cherished above a window that displays Toronto. theory painting
north section 1:600
wall elevation and wall section 1:500 tripple-paned skylight metal cladding panel hollow core steel beam w flange steel beam brick 25 mm air space 100 mm rigid insulation vapour retarder 16 mm denseglass sheathing 203 mm non-load bearing steel stud 203 mm steel stud track 16 mm gypsum panel
reflective aluminum cladding
double-paned glass fibre glass window frame hardwood flooring
16 mm gypsum panel angle support bracket
250 mm concrete slab
exterior concrete paving gravel 100 mm rigid insulation
concrete footing drain pipe
Doris Salcedo Art Museum | 74 Church street, Toronto | Year 2 Doris Salcedo is a Columbian-born sculptor. Her work is a physical manifestation of her painful experiences in politically troubled Columbia. Salcedo comments on loss and trauma through her rendering of commonplace objects such a wooden furniture and clothing as either broken or useless. A museum of her work was perceived to be a damaged house for damaged objects. From the exterior, the almost solid, tilting mass of corten steel becomes a monument for Columbia’s struggle. Inside, visitors observe Salcedo’s artwork under dim artificial light and limited natural light until the final exhibit which concludes the visit with an exit onto a caged terrace.
doris salcedo’s work
east elevation 1:500
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south elevation 1:500
exploded circulation axonometric
Visitors follow a single winding path throughout each floor. Each loop terminates with a caged view of the previously existing mural left unaltered on the adjacent building. The final floor depicts the end condition of the adjacent wall and a view of the sky to represent release.
perspective view of ďŹ nal exhibit
top left: north sectional perspective
perspective view of hallway condition
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top right: north section of hallway condition 1:300
fourth level plan liberation
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Visitors circle each atmospheric level by means of one primary circulation. The final exhibit, Plegria Muda, is one of Salcedo’s most optimistic commentaries on the importance of each individual’s proper burial. Upon the coffin-shaped tables, live grass grows. Salcedo comments, “I hope that in spite of everything, life might prevail, even in difficult conditions.” At the end of the dim space, there is a single fenestration which attracts the visitors to their exit onto a caged terrace. Although the exit into a bright exterior space is a relief, the cage surrounding the visitors emulates the sense of defeat which Salcedo’s works portray. The terrace is a space for contemplation of the artist’s work.
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1 entrance elevator 2 gallery space plegaria muda exhibit 3 caged terrace 4 exit elevator 5 freight elevator
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Dark Sky Observation Center | Bruce Peninsula National Park | Year 2 Located deep within the national park, visitors have the opportunity to experience a grounding involvement with nature that counters their ďŹ xation with technology. The observatory’s design aims to provide an immersive illustration of isolation as a product of a disconnection from nature. The experience begins with a descend underground along a ramp which winds around monolithic concrete walls that separate visitors from one another. Along the way, visitors notice that above them, a roof is blocking more of the sky continuously until only a tiny sliver remains in order to portray a separation from nature. Underground, visitors enter an interpretive center from which they proceed onto a ramp that carries them to grade while watching the visitors sitting on the mesh above them, observe the sky. Hence, a reintroduction into nature.
above: perspective of above and below ground top left: roof plan 1:150 bottom left: oor plan 1:150
top left: north section | isolation top right: south section | reunion bottom: sectional perspective
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reunion with people and nature
astronomical + astrological interpretive center
isolation from people and nature
The journey through the building can begin at either end.
Limnologist’s Research Cabin | Evergreen Brick Works | Year 1 Surrounded by ponds and marshes in the Don Valley Brick Works Park, two researchers would conduct their studies on the water and its plant life during their stay in the cabin. The feature of the cabin is the rammed earth trombe wall. The wall benefits from the solar exposure in the valley and establishes a motif of material and tectonic choices which imitate the waves of water. In terms of elevation, visitors are constantly rising and lowering between spaces in addition to the sunken sensation introduced at the entrance which alludes to the subterranean nature of water.
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Southern glazing and angled skylights allow solar rays to heat up the trombe wall. At night, the wall releases the previously stored heat into the bedrooms which are heavily insulated in order to retain the energy.
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cabin entrance living room kitchen laboratory entrance research laboratory bedroom one bedroom two washroom outdoor patio
top: east section 1:100 bottom: south section 1:100
cladding panel joint lines are continuous around the building’s corner.
glazing mullions and cladding panel joint lines follow the same curve along the building’s facade.
glazing mullions form a frame for the entrance door.
glazing mullions form a frame for the entrance door.
building envelope axonometric and details
above: interior perspective view
below: exterior perspective
left: Timber Fever Competition 2019 Our team of three Civil Engineering students and three Architectural Science students was faced with the challenge of constructing a wooden parklet out of limited resources. The requirement to sustain two plants within the parklet inuenced the design of a public shelf. The parklet would be adaptable in the contents it would hold. As an example, the diagram on the left shows how the cubes might provide a space to put a coffee down, a planter and a mini library.
top: CANstruction Competition 2018 Our team of 12 Ryerson Architecture students constructed the Raptors logo out of MDF support and food cans.
Parkdale Library 1:200 Physical Model Study Year 3 Made in collaboration with Thomas Gomez. The working model explored the expression of a delicate suspended steel structure carrying visitor circulation compared to the heavy concrete structure supporting the working spaces of the library.
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