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YAEL ASMAN Wynnewood, PA 19096 | H: 610.659.4665 | ya373@drexel.com

EDUCATION 2024

B.Arch: Architecture Westphal College, Drexel University － Philadelphia, PA, USA

2007

M.D.: Medicine Goldman Medical School; Ben Gurion University of the Negev － Beer Sheva, Israel Passed United States Medical Licensing Exams 1-3, certificate No. 06817654

WORK HISTORY 2021-

Blackney Hayes Architects Architectural Designer

2016

Family Medicine Residency: managing a medical practice as primary provider, working with peers, teaching students. extensive experience in patient-communication skills.

2010

Research Fellowship - Organ Transplantation - Harvard Medical School Laboratory and clinical research, statistical analysis, composition and editing of articles & publications.

2012

General Surgery Residency - Petach Tikva, Israel Working as a part of a team of surgeons in a central tertiary medical center. Participating in & leading many surgeries, coping with large work volumes, extreme settings and long work hours, supervising surgical emergency room, teaching students, publication of 2 articles in medical journals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25644857/ https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/jco.2011.29.4_suppl.566

VOLUNTEER WORK 2018-

Community Design Collaborative, 1218 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA Volunteering at the Community Design Collaborative: participant in a project of conceptual design for restoration/preservation of a group home for high school students.

2018

CRIT Magazine, AIAS writer, contributed to issues 83, 84, 86 [2018-2020] https://indd.adobe.com/view/bc6d1992-e4c9-4e8a-b13e-0af1a9e72dd7 https://indd.adobe.com/view/dcf9ebb4-1d79-4b83-9ed8-2bcb4e0c22da http://www.aias.org/resource/crit-issue-83-july-2018/

2018

Teaching Assistant, Architectural History, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

SKILLS

AutoCAD REVIT Rhinocerus 3D SketchUp

LANGUAGES

Complete fluency - English, Hebrew Partial fluency - Russian, Arabic

REFERENCES

Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis, AIA; Department Head, Architecture, Design & Urbanism, Westphal College, Drexel University Tel: 215.895.0207; ua27@drexel.edu

Enscape Lumion Twinmotion Adobe Suite (Ps, Ai, Id)

TABLE OF CONTENTS Resume Studio Ethiopian Satellite Preschools (fourth year, 2021) [04] Uluru Welcome Center (fourth year, 2020) [06] Powelton Wellness Center (third year, 2020) [08] The Rowhome (third year, 2019)

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The Boathouse (second year, 2019) [12] Photography [14] Drawing [16]

ETHIOPIAN SATELLITE PRESCHOOLS Fourth year Studio | Spring project | 3 weeks Instructor: Prof. Alexa Bosse A prototype for a preschool that wishes to promote education, health and equality in Central Ethiopia

Abay Ethiopia is an NGO that operates in Central Ethiopia, with the purpose of fighting against poverty and promoting equal opportunities, mainly through the development of Education, Health and Community support. This was prepared as a part of a competition by Archstorming to design a prototype for a preschool that will be attached to the local school building and share its site. The design intent was to create a friendly, open-armed building complex that would s utilize ready made materials available en-site. Concrete blocks, corrugated metal boards, dimensional lumber and simple mortar became honor-worthy design tools that can be used to create warm, welcoming and unique spaces. Flexibility of program is kept by utilizing movable / removable partitions. The circulation was exteriorized and roof slopes were utilized to create a rain water collecting system.

Design was made simple and straight forward so it could be easily reproduced / enhanced as needed.

Principal spaces are facing the school yard to allow for beneficial connection with the older children.

Climate is comfortable year round, with sun at high altitude, and can rise to North, as well as south (on different months). Prevailing wind comes from the west. Therefore, large fenestrations were positioned facing west, to allow for ventilation and evening light.

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Latrines kept separate from main spaces but are close enough so the rain water collection system on the roof can feed them with flush-water.

Covered outdoor space positioned at the back, adjacent to active play area. This creates a more private niche for smaller children.

Graduated roof system functions to collect rainwater that would run off through both central roofs. from there these could be utilized in various ways, from agriculture, to farming to be used as a trickle-play for the children.

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Optional programmatic spaces can be easily added and operate in the same flexible way as the original program

Removable partition are modular, and could be either completely removed, removed only partway or kept closed, to create full separation between the two rooms. This can allow for re-purposing smaller rooms into bigger ones, depending on the program / class size.

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ULURU WELCOME CENTER Fourth year Studio | Fall project | 7 weeks Instructor: Prof. James Row A hospitable space that sets to negotiate a visit to an timeless aboriginal sacred ground in central Australia

Uluru, formerly Ayer’s Rock, is an immense rock formation that has been a part of the local religions of Aboriginal minority in Central Australia for centuries. The Rock harbors ancient myths as well as painful recent memories of discrimination, now overturned with the current diversity inclusive policy of the Australian government. Fed by Legends and folk tales, this design wishes to emulate traditional building forms and techniques. Use of sustainable materials such as rammed earth and energy sources renders a set of buildings that is gently inserted into this renowned site.

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POWELTON WELLNESS CENTER

Powelton Wellness Center was made accessible from all surrounding streets to let in various types of users, including neighborhood residents, students from nearby university and remote visitos. Proposed layout Third year Studio | Final project | 10 weeks corresponds with anticipated use: Doctors’ offices and suites (radiology, pharmacy) are readily accessible from the main street and are stacked in Instructor: Prof. Jeremy Voorhees three floors, while primary care area was oriented to the back entrance with good vehicular access. Two ancillary buildings serve as a center for nutrition and emotional counseling, and a fitness center. These were A large atrium and and a serious of interconnecting rotated to face different sides of the site, to create a unique experience roofs turn an inclusive body-mind wellness center into a in each building. A small relaxation/rejuvination garden was designed to continuum of spaces in a path to health. combine with the open and inviting site landscape.

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EXAM ROOMS ENTRANCE HALL, RECEPTION

AFF LOCKERS

CAFE, GATHERING SPACE

Soft Threshold | Existing elevated plaza was made accessible by wide sit-on stairs to create an inviting threshold and promote pedestrian interaction.

Solid-Void Relationship | Solid mass was to be penetrated with several carvings that allow for visual communication between the various parts of the site.

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

MEETING ROOMS

FITNESS CENTER

NUTRITION CENTER OM & KITCHENETTE

CONSULTATION ROOMS

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THE ROWHOME: A PROPOSED DESIGN FOR CO-HOUSING TYPOLOGY

FORMING A COMMUNITY: SHARED OUTDOOR RECREATION SPACE AT THE BACK YARD

Third Year Studio | Fall Final Project | 10 weeks | 2019 Instructor: Prof. Jeremy Voorhees Floor openings and alternating atria mechanism to expand a tight co-housing unit

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The five co-housing units were arranged so that their backyards adjoined to create a mutual public space.

Considering the nature of co-housing way of life, this seemed appropriate: the union allowed for one large space in which a community could be formed. The space is conceived as multi-functional and complemented modestly with greenery. This space shielded from the public realm and therefore intimate for the tenants of the units.

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THE BOATHOUSE

Second year studio | Final project | 10 weeks Instructor: Prof. Jeff Krieger Proposed boathouse design @ Philadelphia’s Boathouse Row

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Philadelphia City Rowing program is the potential client of this studio project. Its aims to incorporating youth in the sports of rowing while supporting their academic success and community involvement. Research singled out values of excellence and comradery, which guided the massing of double gabled roof in an ascending arrangement. The two halves, each under one set of gables, are somewhat facing each other. The gabled roof form also pays tribute to the adjacent historic boathouses. The interior consists of an unobstructed central space with flanking utility cores.

This allows for easy transport of rowing boats on the ground floor, and a multipurpose gathering space on the second floor. Care was taken to separate rowers and visitors circulation systems, while allowing for some encounter.

A large, river-facing viewing porch was set, and the general wish was to create a generous space that would honor the sports, the program and the historic site.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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2016

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Upper Philadelphia, Lower Philadelphia, 2016

DRAWING

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2016, Charcoal on paper