Daniella Noronha Selected Works
Daniella Noronha Architectural Intern Contact daniellamaenoronha@gmail.com (832) 530-2327 Skills -Rhino -Revit -Sketchup -Autocad -Autocad Architecture -Bluebeam -Enscape -Lumion -Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator -Construction Experience -Structural Analysis -Hand Modelling -Lasercamm -Screen Printing Education Clements High School| 2015-2019 Virginia Tech | 2019-2024 Extracurricular Activity IAWA | Member WUVT Radio Station | DJ and PR Director
Awards Houston Alumni Chapter Scholarship | 2019-2020 Chicago Studio | 2022-2023 Dean’s List | 2019-2023 Honor’s College | 2019-2023 EOG Scholarship | 2023-2024 Experience CIDA Architectural Intern| 2023-2024 Worked on multiple projects ranging from residential to commercial throughout different project phases Perkins and Will Architectural Intern and Mentee | January-May 2023 Received Mentorship from Perkins and Will employees and worked on presentation drawings for the Damen Green Line Project. Shah LLC Architectural Intern | April-July 2022 Documented As-Builts for car dealerships and residential properties in Christiansburg. Virginia Tech Print Shop Print Shop Associate | 2019-2024 Assisted students with printing document and using lasercamm, set up appointments, maintained printers and plotters,
Table of Contents 1. Boundaries of Interaction
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2. The Forest
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3. Strings and Things
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4. Artist’s Residency
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5. Damen Green Line Station
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6. Journey to A Waterfall
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7. Fall Travel
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1. Boundaries of Interaction Advisor:: Paola Zellner Basset Site: Boston, Massachussets Thesis My thesis is focused on creating a transition home for victims of domestic violence. With my design, I hope to create a space that not only enforces safety, but is a space for single women, mothers, and elderly women to call a home. I wanted to study how he traditional elements of triple decker housing, which have been sustainable and effective at community building for decades, could be used in the site in order to create a space that has layers of public and private areas catered to the needs of the residents. My thesis, on a more general level, hopes to discover how we can move throughout a city with ease, and how spaces can be dynamic in how they cater to our different needs as we navigate our movement through them. Utilizing the existing Alley-Eblana Brewery, my goal is to create a site that has transitions from a more guarded space, to a more free layered area for this community.
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Beginning explorations consider how existing triple decker housing strategies could be models for creating a sustainable community between the women of this community.
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2. The Forest In collaboration with Ellen Liu Advisors: Chip Von Weise and John Syvertsen Site: Chicago, IL Fourth Year, Second Semester This semester focused on creating affordable housing and a philharmonic center for the community of Southshore in Chicago. The community of Soutshore has a high amount of single mothers, most of whom work outside the community. Our design focuses on creating a community where there is a symbiotic relationship between single parents, particularly mothers, one in which parents can trust each other and the community to help raise their children. To develop this concept, we looked at the forest, and how the forest’s biodiversity supports symbiotic relationships between different organisms. We developed four elements which serve different functions in our own complex: the nest, the canopy, the roots, and the hills. The forest supports the concept of “hummingbird parenting”, which is the idea that parents should feel safe to let their children develop freely. We wanted to give the families of Southshore, a community with higher levels of violence, a place to feel safe and free.
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creating entrances in proximity to existing cultural centers helps create a symbiotic relationship between our community and the greater community of southshore.
bike paths help to create a safer experience for pedestrians where they are further from the street.
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utilizing CLT and glulam for the structure helps to create the warm feeling of being in a nest, fostering a feeling of permanence and safety for the residents of “The Forest”.
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sheathing balconies and exterior hallways in polycarbonate creates a feeling of openness for inhabitants, whilst simulataneously shielding them from the street.
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the walkable hills help guide circulation between the philharmonic and the apartment complex. Together, they form the roots of the building, providing oppurtunities for interaction and learning to the community.
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3. Strings and Things Advisor: Hunter Pittman Site: Blacksburg:, VA Third Year Second Semester Strings and Things is a project which focuses on the renewal of the Blacksburg Farmer’s Market. The project focuses on creating a community for the inhabitants of Blacksburg and the residential complex being built. The project creates a dialogue between private recreation and public recreation through the apartment’s opposing orientation to the music/bookstore and the cafe. These stores are meant to have more public accessibility, which is why they have direct proximity to the farmer’s market. While the buildings of this site have different functions, the use of the same material (mass timber) and the circulation the green space creates offers a unique and special connection for the inhabitants of the site.
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Apartment Complex The apartment complex focues on creating three 2-bedroom apartments, four 1-bedroom apartments, and apartment space for a billionare who is funding the site’s architecture. The apartment complex also utilizes a skylight system and timber in order to remain synchronous with the site. However, the roof only skylights public corridors, as there is a normal roofing system overhead private rooms. In order to create a sense of community, the complex uses a public balcony and corridors, as well as a public garden roof. . This ensures that, while housing is not multi-generational, there is a value of community, rather than isolation in this complex.
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floor plans firstfirst floor plans
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Cafe The cafe, the other mercantile building on the site, communicates with music bookstore through skylighting. Whilst the bookstore takes a more complex approach at skylighting the building, the cafe uses timber trusses to shed light on the guests. The kitchen remains more closed off from the front facade, but receives light through the roofing system. Both the cafe and the music bookstore meld entryways through the deck.
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opaque glass sun shading
4 by 6 tube beam
double glazed roof
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perforated metal ceiling
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Music Bookstore Roof Daniella Noronha Blacksburg, VA glass, polycarbonate, and steel
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The music bookstore utilizes an open floor plan to create a sense of synchronity between its two different functions: a bookstore and a music store. The public rooms to the right of the entrance are allocated for books, the first being a room for purchasing and browsing while the second is for leisure and reading.
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4. Artist’s Residency Advisor:Hunter Pittman Site: Blacksburg, VA Third Year First Semester The Artist’s Residency Project focuses on creating a commmunity for artist’s a students to study and create different art projects. The program consists of two art galleries, a cafe, five artist apartments, a sculpture garden and student housing. The lot for this project is located on the existing Squires parking lot. The site design focuses on creatingthe intermediary space between students and artist’s communal and open, while the gallery is meant to be more serene. Because the site is rather dense, the gallery space is located closer to the Squires courtyard, so as to remain more quiet and seperate from the rest of the site.
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Artist Apartments The artist apartments utilize having a skylight as their main draw. With the skylit basement, the artists are able to work in their studio secluded from the distractions of the world, yet still have exposure to nature through the garden outside the studio. Having an open floor plan enhances the connection the inhabitant has to the architecture and its environment. Having public spaces open and facing the front facade instills a feeling of connection to the garden and the elements that enhance it. In contrast, having private spaces with less glazing and on a higher floor creates a feeling of isolation and meditation, similar to that of a monastery.
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Galleries The galleries are situated next to each other, protecting the sculpture garden. The first gallery, which is more open serves to present the art whereas the second serves as more of a working space for curators of the gallery as well as a space to host events. Both galleries are cenetered around the grand moment, which is the sculpture garden.
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Student Housing The student housing units use masonry, plaster, and glasss as a mode of material differentiation. The differentiation between masonry and plaster is utlized in order to seperate public spaces from private spaces. The goal of utilizing masonry for the first floor was to create a more formal environment in which meeting spaces are held by brick. The interior of the building is walled by glass, which serves to allow the viewer to experience the courtyard
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5. Damen Green Line Station Perkins and Will Internship Advisor: Carl D’Silva and David Rader Site: Chicago, IL Second Semester Fourth Year I had the privelege to receive guidance and mentorship from David Rader at Perkins and Will. Under his guidance, I was able to work on presentation drawings for the Damen Green Line station in Chicago, which is currently under construction. I worked in Lumion, Rhino, and Adobe Suites to produce presentation drawings that were used in client meetings by Perkins and Will.
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6. Journey To A Waterfall The Waterfall
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Advisor: Hilary Bryon Site: Blacksburg, VA Second Year First Semester The Groundskeeper’s Dwelling Project focuses on creating a space in Wong Park for both the public and the park’s groundskeeper. This work is monumental in nature, with its climactic moment at the end of the structure. This project is comprised of three spaces: the groundskeeper’s room, the garden, and the waterfall. This ascent is a symbol of the connection between individual, community, and the earth. The journey to the structures climax follows Wong Park’s ascending topography, which serves to allow the water to trickle to the bottom of the structure, giving life to the prior rooms.
Groundskeeper’s Room
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7. Fall Travel Advisors: Tew, Jones, Vorster, Becker, McGrath, deHahn Weatern Europe First Semester Fourth Year For my study abroad, I had the oppurtunity to travel to 19 different countries in Europe to learn about the different types of architecture in Europe. On this trip, I sketched the different buildings I visited throughout Europe in order to understand how different cultures compose space.
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