Architectural and Landscape Architecture Portfolio

ANDREINA SOJO SELECTED WORKS Master of Landscape Architecture Candidate 2022

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THE GRAND WATER STATION, The Urban Tower SITE

TERM COURSE TYPE

Park Avenue & 30th St, New York City, New York Fall 2020 ARC4322 Architectural Design VII Academic Project Pair work with Jared Cook

Can a building in Park Avenue pay homage to the water infrastructure system by developing a landmark that celebrates the water’s presence in the city?

The proposal is a tower attached to water tunnel No.3 in Manhattan.

The new intervention aims

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Role in the pair project:

the tower

Analytic

Diagram: Understanding Shadows and Urban Scale along Park Avenue

Presence of Water in Space

Open Square

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Water Drainage System

Space for Water Interaction

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Park Avenue

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30th Street

Space for Water Interaction

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Water Drainage System

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The tank’s structure explores organic forms in space, and its connection to Water Tunnel No.3.

The volumetric intervention also serves as the datum of interior spaces and human activity.

Program 1. Cafe 2. Storage 3. Continuation of Park Avenue 4. Gallery 5. Main Celebration of Water 6. Bathroom 7. Reception for Residents 8. Multipurpose Space

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Study: Water in Space

Oyster Bar

Residential Common Areas Pump Station Exhibition Standard Residency Capsules

Water Storage

Restaurant

Administration Area

Retail Cloud

Lobby for Residents Pump Station

Parti Diagram

Parking Aqueduct N.3

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The Urban Threshold: Continuing Park Avenue

The Main Celebration of Water: Interior Public Space

Retail Cloud and Connection with the Main Public Space

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The Inverted Dome

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Housing

Primary Secondary Exterior Structure Exterior Structure

Water Screen Structure

Water Screen

The movement of water inspired the design of the screen system. The water screen’s structure holds 8”x8” metallic panels that rotate with the wind to mimic the liquid’s undulating movement. Consequently, The porous screen reveals and converges different layers of the tower’s structure, and it creates a new dialogue between the interior space, the urban context, and light exposure.

Oyster Bar

Housing

Dining Area Theater

Gathering Space Commercial Cloud Main Space

Longitudinal Section: Embodiment of Human Occupation

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The Grand Water Station from Park Avenue

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This project will provide a space that celebrates New York’s water infrastructure achievement, or as the New Yorker would say the “champagne of drinking water”

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THE URBAN VESSEL,

The Univeristy of Florida Gallery SITE

Downtown, Gainesville, Florida INSTRUCTOR Alfonso Perez alfperez@aol.com 352-294-1473 TERM Spring 2020 COURSE ARC3321 Architectural Design VI TYPE Academic Project Individual work How could a Local Gallery continue with Downtown Gainesville’s rich cultural history?

Base Object

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The project embraces the concept of an institution as a vessel for people along the scenic area of Downtown Gainesville.

UF Gallery responds to the city’s fabric condition by mimicking the city’s patterns of proportion, form, proximity, and repetition to create an urban entity.

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Public Space A B A. Glass with student’s names C. Seating

Concrete Skeleton

Planar System

Skin A. Vertical Panels

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Second Floor Plan 1.Public Gallery 2.Restrooms 3.Public Gallery 4.Public Gallery

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1.Reception 2.Administration 3.Private Gallery N#1 4.Private Gallery N#2 5. Public Gallery 6. Local Artist’s Exhibition 7. Restrooms 8.

UF’s Multipurpose Room

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Public Gallery

Private Gallery

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THE CHAPEL

A Space for Devotion SITE

Newnans Lake, Gainesville, Florida TERM Fall 2020 TYPE Personal Work

Architectural poetics emerging from a resilient landscape in order to create remarkable spiritual experience.

Can a pavilion contribute with Gainesville’s community faith?

The proposal is to repurpose Newnans Lake by creating a place for worship on top of the body of water. The purpose of the chapel is to serve locals and visitors

to reconnect with the individual through devotion for the spirit and its own nature.

The pavilion also looks to respond to the Newnans -

The Chapel

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Structural Axis

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Primary Structure

Skin

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South Elevation

East Elevation A light study in sacred spaces becomes a time study, by documenting the movement of the structure across the interior of the pavilion. The project looks to integrate the sensory stimuli of the environment with porous surfaces interior spaces.

By considering the environmental factors in to the praying.

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THE FLOATING JOIN, Urban Library SITE TERM COURSE TYPE

Can a public library

Eldermen and Foundters Square, Winterpark, Florida Spring 2020 ARC3321 Architectural Design VI Academic Project Individual work

retake a social ambition

tory preceded by social segregation. Part of the change started in the last century when the urban fabric was conceptually reconstructed by joining both sides of Winter Park.

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Urban Density and Context

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Library Commons

Book Storage

Auditorium

Study Room

Social Area

Cultural Cafe

Storage

Lobby

Private Rooms

Volumetric Gesture Operation: To Fold

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Part of the design includes a horizontal axis as the datum for circulation, both in the plan and section. The linear organi highlights the past of Osceola Park and Hannibal Square. Winter Park once was divided by the train rail until 1967, when i as a join for both sides of the city. For that reason, the glass bridge retakes the social meaning of the train rail by kee connection between the library’s interior spaces.

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Third Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Library Commons Ground Floor Plan

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TheessenceofthelibraryisdefinedbyWinter Park’s scale, density and context. For that reason, the public space allows user, visitors and locals, to have access to recreational and cultural activitiesthatcelebratesdifferentlayersofWinter Park’s history.

The library was articu dialogue between the

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1 Perforated Steel Panels

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Tinted Metal Panels

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Main Space: Interior Gathering Space

ulated based on the “The cave effect” phenomenon which creates a contruction’s layer and the users.

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Screening System

Structural Ribcage

Planar System

Elderman Square: The playground for social interaction

Strategy

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Carve (Operation Applied)

Compress

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GRAPHIC SKILLS SET, Exploring Medias TYPE TERM

Academic Projects + Personal Work Fall 2021

Individual Analysis from The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, FL

LARP 533: Final Perspective Gene Compou

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erated from a und Curvature

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Individual Sketch Studies

LARP 511: Representing Landscapes , NJ

LARP 533: Understanding Perspectives , PA

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LOOPING RHYTHM, The Garden SITE

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania TERM Fall 2021 COURSE LARP 501 TYPE Academic Project Individual Work

How can a garden improve Fairmount park’s natural areas and create connections between the living and non-living matter in an extensive system?

TheprojectstudiesthefeedbackloopinrelationtoSwainsonThrush,FallandWinter migrating bird specie. The garden looks to understand the bird species’ dynamics within Fairmont Park’s ecosystem, and its impact as an ecological corridor parallel to the Delaware River.

The path connects to the

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Case Study Little Sparta by Ian Hamilton Finlay Garden in Dunsyre, Scotland

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Movement and Space

User+Writing

User + Stones

User + Trees

Appreciating Cycles

Looping Rhythm

Generative Garden Design Ideas

existing routes, and the design gesture accentuates Fairmount Park’s beauty

Measuring

Formations

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Media Exploration Dictated by the Actual Slope

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Transect

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and Fall Bird’s Migration Study

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Nesting

Bug Hunting

Nesting Boxes for Swainson’s Thrush

Bathing

Structure for

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A Mineral Amphitheater

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Swainson’s Thrush

Highlighting Umbrella Trees and Natural Arches

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Connecting the Tree of Heaven with The Spiderweb‘s Exhibition

Observing Through

Appreciating Insects from a

Recognizing the Oasis for

the Bird Blind

Different Perspective

Migrating Birds

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How could the designer enhance the user through materiality?

The looping Rhythm as “Little Sparta” looks for a social response by sculpting local mineral formations. In this case, the intervention organizes rocks from rough to highlyrefinedsurface.Last,theobjectiveistocreate irrigation channels for

Swainsown Thrush to take a

bath near Fairmount’s Park creek.

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The Urban Park SITE

Fishtown, Philadelphia TERM Spring 2022 COURSE LARP 502 TYPE Academic Project in Progress Individual Work

+owcanwedefineTracesinFishtownneighborhood?

Traces are

a physical registration that works as evidence of

the past and demonstrate change in the present. Traces juxtaposelayersofinformationandconstantlyredefinesthe way we understand space.

Establishing Connections Between the Urban Neighborhood, Historic Infrastructure and the Body of Water.

“Only traces lead to dreams“ (Char 1986, quoted by Debray 1999:t 41)

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TRACES,

Natural Traces

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Juxtaposing Past Piers, Historic Railroad and Current Access

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Cultural Traces

Delaware River is the Datum

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Structured Field

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Understanding Delaware River as a dynamic system.

Key Issues 1

Sewage

Sea Level Rise 2

Industrial Pollution

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FEMA’s 100 years Flood Zone

Ghost Forest

RELICS AND THE WATER EDGE

Sediment Deposits Average Discharge

River Width River Depth Particle Size of Riverbed Material Gradient

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Catchment Area Watershed

Pollution

GHOST FOREST

VEGETATION AND THE WATER EDGE

EDGE CONDITION ALONG DELAWARE RIVER

Water Pollution Facilities

MHW Mean 0A

WASHINGTON AVENUE PIER (PIER 53)

INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE WATER EDGE

Traces are not abstract;

EDGE CONDITION ALONG DELAWARE RIVER

instead, they are qualitative.

MAKING THE RIVER DYNAMICS EVIDENT

WOOD DECK

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Information obtained from assignment 3A + EDSA Hydrology: Stormwater and Climate Change Hydrology: Delaware River Watershed, wetland, and tide

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DYNAMIC SYSTEMS + COST OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

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Vantage Points and Flood Risk

Evidence of Human Activity

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Traces generate purpose, work with memory, understand cycles, and initiate processes in the landscape design

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Petty Island

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Aspects to consider: 1. Impact of the industrial activity and strategies to recover the natural habitat.

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Representing the Current Condition and Connections with Delaware River

Distorting the Urban Grid and measuring

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Philadelphia, PA | sojoa@upenn.edu | 954-701-7362 | www.linkedin.com/in/andreina-sojo

EDUCATION Masters in Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

August 2021 – Present

Bachelor of Design in Architecture University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Minor in Landscape Architecture

May 2021

Relevant Honors: First Place Witters Competition , Spring 2021; Dean’s List, Fall 2019/ Spring 2021.

Associates in Arts in Architecture Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL

May 2019

Study Abroad International College of Seville, Seville, Spain.

May 2018

Relevant Honors: Highest Honors, Spring 2019; Jack Kent Cooke Semifinalist, Spring 2019; Architecture Design Studio Exhibit, Fall 2018/ Spring 2019.

Relevant Honors: William E.Greene Scholarship Alumni, Spring 2018.

Study Abroad University of Seville-Seville, Spain

May 2018

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Editorial Assistant, LA+ Journal Philadelphia, PA

SKILLS December 2021– Present

• Collaborated with the graphics and promotional content for issue announcements, calls for papers, events and social media.

• Assisted with LA+ general website and managed LA+ PennBox archives for LA+ Interruption and Green.

Summer Architectural Intern, HuntonBrady Architects Orlando, FL

June – July 2021

• Participated in all phases of commercial and healthcare projects from conceptual design to construction documents and designed architectural solutions to urban communities for seven weeks.

• Performed site visits and prepared drawings with the supervision of professional Architects and Project Managers for the Airlines Corporate Office Headquarters, UCF College of Nursing, and Advent Health Orlando.

Editorial Intern, Architectural Journalism Program

Rethinking the Future Editorial, Online Summer Internship Program

Adobe Photoshop After Effects ArchiCAD 22 ArcGIS Autodesk Autocad Enscape Illustrator InDesign Grasshopper Lumion 10 McNeel’s Rhinoceros Modeling (by hand) SketchUp Revit V-Ray

July - October 2020

• Developed weekly informative articles about fundamental design and architecture, for the design community from over one-hundred countries.

• Researched,wrote and edited online magazine materials for fifteen weeks.

INVOLVEMENT AND SERVICES Founder, Elysian by Andre Weston Gainesville, FL

Barista, Starbucks Sunrise, FL

Tau Sigma Officer, Chair of Events of Tau Sigma National Honor Society Weston, FL

Ambassador, Student Life Leadership Member Broward College, Central Campus, FL

LANGUAGE

January 2019 - Present February 2021 – May 2021 June 2020 – June 2021 September 2018 - May 2019

English (Fluent) Spanish (Fluent) French (Basic) Jamaican Creole (Basic)

ANDREINA SOJO

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