Architectural Portfolio 2024

• Worked on architectural and landscape retrofit projects using AutoCAD, Revit, BIM360, SketchUp, InDesign, and Photoshop

• Organized site audit data in Excel spreadsheets and Revit schedules

• Participated in schematic design for conservation projects

• Undertook roles in helping prepare construction documents and specifications

• Assisted in feasibility studies and historic research

• Worked on projects with AutoCAD, Revit, Rhinoceros, and Photoshop focused on residential and mixed-use typologies

• Assisted in preparing working drawings and detailing

• Organized material library and laid out finish boards

• Supported student initiatives and design-build projects

• Collaboration with other student groups to plan social events and industry exposure opportunities for the student body

• Produced an annual financial budget to the Dean of Faculty and Board of Directors

• Accurately bookkept and maintained budgets for events, design-build projects, and other student groups

• Documented meeting minutes and contributed to event planning

• Reviewed student project proposals

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Forest of Memories

Small Buildings | Fall 2021

Promenade Enfilade

Architectural Design Studio I | Fall 2023

Parkdale Idea Exchange

Integration Studio | Fall 2019, Winter 2020

Corktown’s Contemporary Culture Centre

Heritage Conservation Theory | Fall 2021

FEW Nexus Co-work Office

Advanced Architecture Studio | Winter 2022

ERA Architects

Collection of Professional Work

FOREST OF MEMORIES

Riga, Latvia

Course / Small Buildings

Instructor / Baruch Zone

Academic Work / Fall 2021

Team / Alvin Huang, Carolina Ramirez, Mayan Ebrahim

The Chamber of Memories was designed in reflection of the fundamental truth of death - that we leave this world the same no matter our social status - which puts an existential awareness on our beliefs and values as we are still here. The columbarium evokes this notion in both its function and architecture. It is a place for celebration of one’s life, a place to share stories of deep memories, and embrace feelings associated with loss.

Exterior Render (In collaboration by Alvin H. & Claudia N.)

The massing takes cues from the larger site of the Riga Cemetery and the columbarium starts as an incision of axial relationships to the site where the peeling out of shapes are lifted from the ground and float back onto the site in layers. The glass columns along the chambers of niches recall the dense surrounding forest.

Exploded axonometric (In collaboration by Mayan E. & Claudia N.)

Renders (In collaboration by Alvin H. & Mayan E., & Claudia N.)

Section (In collaboration by Carolina R. & Claudia N.)

PROMENADE ENFILADE

Laval, QC

Course / Architectural Design Studio I

Instructor / Dr. Salmaan Craig, Dr. Naomi Keena, Daniela Leon Academic Work / Fall 2023 Team / Olivier Racine

In relation to the big box mall typology, the project wants to preserve the convenience and accessibility but proposes to move from a standardized organization which contributes to waste and loss of community identity, to a heterogeneous configuration. The proposed typology will aim for the implementation of sustainability, the strengthening of the (local) economy as well as the (re)anchoring of community practices” (Jonas, Nessel, Troger 12).

The circular marketplace helps to increase the commodification of practices of repair, re-use or the “waste to worth” principle and change people’s mindsets from mass production and fast fashion to slow craft production. The implementation of such a “sharing economy” framework can contribute to increasing social inclusion. The project aims to emphasize inclusive sociability, where the new mall typology addresses social infrastructure and not just pure consumption.

Exterior Render (In collaboration by Olivier R. & Claudia N.)

Library/Book

Rental Space

Enfilade Diagram (Circulation Organization)

Room in a Room Diagram (Space Organization)

Sorting Center

Interior Renders (In collaboration by Olivier R. & Claudia N.)

Reception Atrium

Cafe

Physical Model (designed & fabricated with Olivier R..)

PARKDALE IDEA EXCHANGE

Toronto, ON

Course / Integration Studio

Instructor / Veronica Madonna + Zaiyi Liao

Academic Work / Fall 2019 + Winter 2020 Team / Avem Gomez

Located at the corner of Queen St. West and Cowan Ave., this site is at the center of many community buildings in the Parkdale neighbourhood. To address the fast pace, isolating urban context and user experience of the city of Toronto, this building aims to be a place that slows people down and encourages social interaction while also being a connection point between the surrounding community buildings. The concept for this idea exchange is to be a community hub that engages the community with dynamic opportunities for collaboration regardless of age, religion, gender or ethnicity.

In the second phase of the idea exchange project, the design aims to further refine details to express the original design intent of encouraging social interaction in and outside of the community building. This is achieved by further developing the design to respond to the surrounding context through transparency and outdoor spaces, as well as through an interconnected space.

Physical

Iteration #1

Highlights an active second floor programming (circulation on Queen St. disrupted)

Iteration #2

Flowing circulation and organic threshold at Cowan Ave. (top heavy massing)

Iteration #3

Highlight/transparency of collaborative active spaces

work/read/play (active) library (collections + entrances) cores

library admin public (exhibit, shop, cafe, auditorium)

1 lobby/entrance

2 cafe

3 shop + copy

4 exhibit

5 universal washroom

6 info hall/self checkout

7 cloakroom

8 garbage + storage room

9 parking entrance

10 loading

11 storage + security

12 maker space

13 children collection

14 adult collection

15 work rooms

Interior Perspective of Atrium and Collection Spaces

1 500mm x 650mm glulam beam

2 3-ply CLT wall (105.0mm)

3 152.4mm (6”) NLT floor slab

4 reinforced galvanized steel angle brackets

5 101.6mm (4”) rigid insulation

6 A/V barrier membrane

7 12.7mm (1/2”) plywood sheathing

8 6mm acoustical mat

9 101.6mm (4”) concrete topping

10 raised access floor pedestals

11 raised access floor frame

12 laminate wood panel tile

13 ACM cladding system

14 rail hanger

15 metal rail & clip

16 linear wood panels

CORKTOWN’S CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CENTRE

Hamilton, ON

Course / Heritage Conservation Theory

Instructor / Joey Giaimo

Academic Work / Fall 2021

Individual Project

As Hamilton aims to transition from a steel industry hub to a city that attracts new industries, Corktown’s Contemporary Culture Centre aims to rejuvenate the Ferguson Avenue Pumping Station with program that supports artists and the community. Located at the foot of the escarpment and next to a residential neighbourhood, the gallery and studio spaces attract diverse creatives.

The Centre preserves the 1912 and 1930 masonry construction and restores the steel structure and window frames. Though the majority of the water pumps and pipes are removed, two pumps in the 1912 structure are kept in tact in the gallery space on the ground floor and basement levels. Towards the south of the building, there is flexible public collaborative workspaces and the addition of a mezzanine is constructed for the semiprivate studio spaces. The 1950 structure in the south-west portion of the buiilding also extends the additional workspace program on the ground and mezzanine level.

Repurpose existing steel structure to organize the partitions in the studio and exhibition spaces

Reinstate the window frames on the north facade of the 1912 building and replace the glazing panels with polycarbonate transluscent panels to filter the natural light entering the gallery space

Addition of glazed gable roof to provide natural light over reprogrammed resident studio workspace

Conversion of 1950 infrastructure to accomodate additional program

Axonometric Diagrams of Rejuvenation Strategies

1 entrance

2 gallery

3 open studio workspace

4 painting studio

5 clay studio

6 resident artists

7 washroom

8 storage

West Elevation

Section

FEW NEXUS CO-WORK OFFICE

Tokyo, JP

Course / Advanced Architecture Studio Instructor / Will Galloway Academic Work / Winter 2022 Individual Project

Tama Plaza is known as a bedroom community with limited access to food. However, the proposed site near the station for the urban farm and co-work office typology, offers the neighbourhood a flexible and collaborative environment for working adults to grow the local economy and cultivate a sustainable food culture. This project intends to take advantage of the FEW (Food Energy Water) technical network of the community to address and focus on social issues.

The co-work office offers space for the existing bank, open workspaces, designated meeting rooms, maker spaces, and various storage programming, organized in “boxes” that are laid out dispersively in the building and bridged by “agoras”. Additionally, it integrates urban rooftop farming, maintained by the restaurant eatery and shared kitchen at grade.

The building system feeds into the existing neighborhood and is the architectural consequence to accommodate the “new everyday” that includes urban farming and local foods into work life as a communal activity. The goal of this program is to encourage a healthy working and learning environment.

ageing population commuter city

incubator for new industries (workspace for small businesses, remote workers, independent professionals)

limited food access

difficult mobility

localized food and social culture

5minutewalk

targeting net-zero co-work office typology

utsukushigaoka park

Total area: 1756 m2

commercial

mixed use (residential/commercial)

residential

tama plaza station

mixed use (service buildings)

major roads

proposed site

Location Plan

solar hot water collector roof system

rooftop farming (stormwater collection system within farming on roof canopies and landscape at grade)

regulated window to wall ratio and glazing orientation + horizontal fins to provide shading

climate tile on extension of pedestrian path + social gathering space (stormwater collection)

South Elevation

East Elevation

FEW

(1) Zoning Neighbourhood Commercial Zone

(2) Extension of the street Open up to the neighbourhood

(3) Extension of the pedestrian bridge Addressing mobility

(4) Individual programmatic identities Interconnected via central atrium

ERA Architects

Toronto, ON

Sample of Professional Work / 2020 - Present

502-508 Parliament St. Toronto, ON, ERA Architects

At ERA, I assisted in the revitalization project of four rooming houses in Cabbagetown. My contribution included site visits in the design development phase, helping with modelling existing and proposed conditions in Revit, developing construction documents, and construction adminstration tasks.

Measuring Existing Conditions

Salvaged Fireplaces

Framing New Partitions

New Roof Slate Tile

New Windows, South Facade

Construction of New Porches

St. Hilda’s Senior Community

Toronto, ON, ERA Architects

For this Tower Renewal Project, I assisted in interpreting site audit and schedule data, modelling in Revit, developing construction documents, and preparing contract administration documents.

Washroom - Levels of Retrofit Diagrams (ERA)

Main Room - Levels of Retrofit Diagrams (ERA)

Claudia Ng

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