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Daniel Purtha

Architectural Designer | 3D Visual Artist

Seasoned Architectural Designer with extensive experience producing high-quality single and multi-family housing, mixed-use, and commercial projects with emphasis on understanding the user experience. Proven expertise utilizing BIM software and visualization tools to optimize design and deliverables, resulting in projects that are on-time and within budget. Recognized for multi-discipline collaboration to strive for maximized potentials of the design along with upholding the highlest level of quality documentation and deliverables.

Career History

Architectural Designer | Job Captain | Associate - Studio Meng Strazarra [Seattle, Washington] ---> 2023 - Present

◦ Develop designs from schematic phase into construction documents.

◦ Create renderings to help clients understand design concepts and options.

◦ Provide mentorship to junior staﬀ regarding code interpretation and design standards.

Architectural Designer - Otak [Portland, Oregon] --->2019-2023

◦ Create project documentation per direction from architects and designers.

◦ Produce graphics for iterative design processes and realistic renderings.

◦ Assist in creating in-house best practices for Revit model development.

BIM Modeler - SXD [Portland, Oregon] --->2018-2019

◦ Translated sketches and diagrams into 3D models for architects, engineers, and consultants.

◦ Consulted with small architecture ﬁrms for training sessions and created standards of practice.

◦ Developed renderings and VR/AR simulations and water-tight energy models for performance analysis.

Design Technologist - University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art [Eugene, Oregon] --->2016-2018

◦ Analyzed acoustics of former giftshop and entry lobby areas before renovation.

◦ Lead designer in new interior design of space. Provided guidance on furniture and ﬁnish selections.

Design Intern - R+B Architects [Indianapolis, Indiana] --->2014-2015

◦ Historic preservation focused design processes, including grant proposal documentation.

◦ Develop as-built drawings and work directly with clients to provide design iterations and solutions.

Education History

Certiﬁcates: ArcGIS + Drone Studies - Portland Community College [Portland, Oregon] --->2021-2023

◦ Develop research strategies to better visualize the context of areas varying in scale from individual buildings to entire metropolitan areas.

◦ Gain Remote Pilot in Command experience and additional licensed ﬂight time.

◦ Produce 3D models and interweave technologies into BIM modeling and analysis strategies. Focus on BIM and ArcGIS Pro data integration into Unreal and TwinMotion softwares.

Masters of Architecture - University of Oregon [Portland/Eugene, Oregon] --->2015-2018

◦ Concentration in urban design infrastructure and how it relates to social phenomena.

◦ Facilitated research projects on how urban noise eﬀects public health, along with design prototypes to mitigate these issues.

Bachelors in Biology - Purdue University - Indianapolis [Indianapolis, Indiana] --->2012-2015

◦ Focus on veterinary medicine and pathology.

◦ Liaison and President of Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club.

◦ Member of Undergraduate Student Government Senator and Campus Sustainability groups.

Associates in Applied Science - Ivy Tech Community College [Indianapolis, Indiana] --->2008-2010

◦ Focus on architectural design and drafting.

◦ Graduated Cum Laude.

Skill Set

Problem solver who is passionate about learning new technologies and abilities to design and analyze the

environment. Quick to learn new software and processes and troubleshoot issues. Goal-oriented self starter that works well both in individual and collaborative settings.

Renderings + Visualization

Being able to visualize a propsoed project is vital to understanding its context and aﬀect upon its immediate site and adjacent surroundings. Whether it’s a large-scale community space such as a theater or arena that is in an urban setting, a mixed-use high-rise that will alter the city’s skyline, or a single family home in a surburban development, each has its own impacts on its neighbors. The lesson here can be a data driven analysis that informs the iterative design process, enabling those with stakes in the outcome to have a fully immersive experience of the proposed design. This is also true in terms of interior design - being able to understand how furniture placement really works in a space, along with materials and color palettes.

In the follow images, these visualization opportunities were used to examine how the proposed designs impact the surrounding spaces. First are exterior renderings of a project on Capitol Hill - a location that stands to be a keystone of the Broadway corridor. The interaction between interior and exterior is a critical part of the success of this design; a well-lit and open facade create this connection along with a sense of security for pedestrians in the evening. Next are images of the experience of being in the proposed designs of an aﬀordable housing ground and second ﬂoor lobby spaces along with the living area of a student housing unit. Choosing an appropriate color scheme was critical for the client and was accurately shown here with custom Revit families and material textures. The two similar images were used to experiment with both the output between Enscape and TwinMotion along with how the space changed between a neutral color palette and one with bolder colors.

Tacoma Multi-Family Housing Project

This project is located in Tacoma, Washington in an area that has a very large number of mixed-use and commercial buildings. The sites to the east and south are major commercial lots, along with large amounts of surface level parking.

This provides a challenge to create an inviting facade that promotes interaction from people driving by. The Tacoma city plan for this site’s boundary is to create a major arterial padestrian walkway, thus providing work/live units on the ground

ﬂoor and a large courtyard area overlooking the main site. Due to not having a signiﬁcant amount of existing residential lots adjacent to this property, safety is of utmost importance - one way to understand how the public might feel while passing by the building is to visualize it at night. This also lends to understanding lighting to help provide not only the safety factors, but also how it may engage with the padestrian walkways as well - creating maximum visual appeal at all times of the day.

Kennsington Production + Housing

This project is located in Portland, Oregon in an area that has a very large number of mixed-use and commercial buildings with a combination of single and multi-family housing mixed into it. Bordering the site to the east and south are major arterial roads, along with frequent-stop bus stop

locations. Following the theme of a mixture of uses and housing types, the proposed project is a culmination of each of them. Because there is such a large amount of people passing by the site, maximizing the potential to engage with both pedestrians and automobile traﬃc was important. Views were also important to this site since the downtown skyline is located directly across the river; this allowed for a complete southern exposure to place a garden space on the southwestern corner of the site. Due to the slope, there was enough space to have a production facility on the ground

ﬂoor that would use the plants grown to create a hyper-local production cycle. The housing on the main level and above would be a mixture of

rowhouses above the production facility - a potential to house traveling artists - and mixed income housing. A barber shop would engage the community on the prominent southeast corner that will act as a retail space for the products created on-site. A cafe on the northeast corner of the site will also act as a third-space and gathering location for the local community.

Circulation

Residential

Green Space

Cafe

Barber Shop

Production Space

Fill In

Dekum Street Rowhouses

This project is located in Portland, Oregon in an area that is predominantly single family housing with a few multi-family and commercial buildings. The site is bordered on three sides by small scale single family housing and streets that encourage slower traffic speeds along with lots of pedestrian use. The need for housing density is very high in this area, so a compromise to coordinate with the existing scale of the surrounding buildings in the neighborhood, rowhouses were proposed. Another equally important aspect of this design was to allow for a maximum amount of eyes on the street to allow for security and active engagement from the residents while maintaining a sense of privacy while inside. A number of design elements allow for this, starting with the ground floor entry sequence. From the public right of way, there is a rain garden to create a privacy gradient (along with providing a natural storm water filtration system), along with a slightly elevated patio that is partly covered. On the second floor, there is a large bay window with built-in cabinetry to encourage active and passive engagement from the inside while peripherally connected with the outside. The roof-top terrace is an additional way to engage with the surrounding area from the maximum building height allowed for the zoning code but also still allows the residents in this space the ability to be connected.

Construction Documents + Details

One of the more critical parts of any architectural project is the details - the instructions for how to put the building together. The wall sections and details chosen were from a project in Phoenix, Arizona; the development of the sections and details were particularly challenging due to its exterior ﬁnishes because they were materials that aren’t commonly used in the Paciﬁc Northwest so few people had a deep knowledge of how the assemblies were put together and how they transitioned from one to the other. The process also included a thorough dive into building codes for the jurisdiction, along with zoning codes to make sure we were utilizing the proper materials. Once a draft of the sections and details were developed, we discussed them with a product reprepsentative who gave us some minor critiques and were submitted to the city for permit. This site was also challenging in that it was changing its land-use type from commericial to residential, which came with its own list of stipulations that needed to be addressed in order to successfully change the type. These stipulations ranged from types of site privacy fencing, bike and automobile parking amount and locations, as well as coordination between the civil and landscape consultants to ensure trees and greenery were meeting their minimum coverages while not interfering with ground-level transformers.

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