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Senior Architect

An award-winning licensed architect with 5 years of experience in designing high profile projects across the Philippines spanning various scales and typologies with a specialized focus on sports facilities I have here a selection of my architecture; built, conceptual, and under construction Know that these projects are made possible only through the architects I’ve teamed with and the clients with whom we collaborate

Address: Doña Josefa Village, Almanza

Uno, Las Piñas City, Metro Manila, Ph

Email: job.balayan@gmail.com

EDUCATION

BS ARCHITECTURE

University of Santo Tomas (2013-2018)

• 2018 College of Architecture

Thesis of the Year

• Outstanding Thesis

•Published: Vision Magazine, Cover project. 2019

• Archiprix 2019: Philippine Thesis

Representative, UST (Santiago, Chile)

• UIA Student Delegate 2017 (Seoul, South Korea)

SOFTWARE

2D Drafting: AutoCAD

3D Modelling: Sketchup (extensions)

Rendering: Vray 3.0, Lumion 11

Post Production: Photoshop

Microsoft; Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Ar. Job Vittorio A. Balayan

CORPORATE WORK EXPERIENCE

SENIOR ARCHITECT

WTA Architecture and Design Studio

San Juan City, Philippines (September 2022-July 2023)

•Works directly under the Principal Architect/ CEO to provide architectural drawings on sports stadiums and highrise residential projects from conceptualization through to construction drawings.

•Collaborates with directors and teams to provide guidance on production drawings of a 3,000sqm and 6,000sqm sports arena.

•Coordinates with various government agencies and the internal team on the development of a 17 hectare provincial sports city development.

•Leads a team in coordinating client's engineering team RFA's and RFI's on a 21storey residential project currently under construction.

JUNIOR ARCHITECT

WTA Architecture and Design Studio

San Juan City, Philippines (July 2018-August 2022)

•Worked with the design team under a Senior Manager with minimal supervision.

•Collaborated with the principal architect/ CEO on specialized sports projects and master-planned developments.

•Contribution to the entire design process, from concept development to the preparation of final contract documents.

•Produced Architectural digital and physical 3d models. Renders, client presentations and publication materials.

•Writer, Presenter, and Host for WTA Labs and Anthology Festival

AWARDS VIA WTA

Architizer A+ Awards Special Mention

•FEM Stadium (2023)

Chicago Athenaeum International

Architecture Award

•Horizon Manila (2022)

WAFX Overall Winner

•Horizon Manila (2021)

WAF Water Category

•Horizon Manila (2021)

WTA Best Team (Horizon Manila) 2020

Best Performing Junior Architect 2019

DESIGN INTERN

Buensalido + Architects

Makati City, Philippines (May 2017-August 2017)

•Worked under the design team in supporting the production of 3d models, renders, and floor plans for residential and hospitality projects.

PERSONAL PRACTICE

Constructed Single Family Dwellings

•Nueva Ecija (2023)

•Kawit, Cavite (2022)

•Batangas (2021)

•Las Piñas (2018)

•Las Piñas (2019)

•Alfonso Cavite (2016)

Constructed Commercial Spaces

•Pares Pares Food Stall

•Taguig (2021)

•LEADS International Office

•Calamba Laguna (2018)

•Quezon City (2019)

Corporate Space Conceptualization

•LEADS Agriculture Bigasang Hiraya (2019)

•LEADS Trading Hub: Co-Working (2019)

•Pandoy Roasters Retail Layout (2020)

CONTENTS

NOOKS

•The Book Nook

•H4

•built and in-building

ENCLAVES

•Samar Provincial Museum and Arboretum

•The People’s Den

•The Silhouette MRDC

•Garden City Cavite

LANDMARKS

•Undergraduate Thesis

•Horizon Manila

•FEM Stadium

•Spark Samar Sports City

NOOK NOOK – WHO’S THERE?

THE BOOK NOOK

Project under WTA Architecture and Design Studio. Conceptual

Leave a book, take a book. Form studies experimenting on paths, forms, and alcoves. Nesting cozy crannies in larger contexts

H4

Personal Practice. Permit Drawings

Maximizing corner triangulations, this residence for a family of artists highlights site views, and embraces tropical design tendencies

NOOKS IN BUILDIN

Site

TAKEN BY CLIENTS Personal Practice, Built and under Construction

These projects stand as a testament to the dedicated families who tirelessly strive to create nurturing homes for their loved ones and establish prosperous businesses to shape their future endeavors.

ENCLAVES

-Imagine a cave carved out of a big mountain An independent part of a bigger whole

WARAY PEOPLE’S MUSEUM AND ARBORETUM Project under WTA. Permit Drawings

A museum for the people of Samar, through their land, their stories, and their environment.

Enclaves| Samar Provincial Museum and Arboretum

KEYPLAN

Culture

History

Nature

Enclaves| Samar Provincial Museum and Arboretum

DANGLAY AND BAGAHUPI Sons of Dimatakdol. Leyte

and Samar Forefathers

In Waray folk history, Dimatakdol was the first of their forefathers The islands of Leyte and Samar were once connected via an isthmus When Dimatakdol fell ill and eventually passed, the land was split between his two kids Through a conflict over the fertile land of the isthmus, they enraged Bathala Forcing the god to throw thunderbolts on the land, the fragments created tiny islands where the Isthmus once was Thus, the separate islands of Samar and Leyte came to be

The Architecture thereafter draws from the legend of origin and geological history

LANDSCAPES

An intersection between rocks, water, and caves

MATERIALITY

Architecture with material honesty. An exploration of raw finishes and exposing patina and bio growth.

Enclaves| Samar Provincial Museum and Arboretum

Enclaves| Samar Provincial Museum and Arboretum

THE PEOPLE’S DEN

Project under WTA. Permit Drawings

The basketball court is a vital part of every barangay. The people’s Den is an evolution of the Filipino community hub centered around sport.

TEAM:

•William Ti

•Job Balayan

•Joseph Borromeo

a unifying promenade

THE SILHOUETTE Project under WTA. Construction

A Streamlined vertical village. In San Juan City. One unit per floor residential exclusivity.

TEAM:

•William Ti

•Job Balayan

•Drew Chua

•Joseph Borromeo

Enclaves| The Silhouette: Residential Building

GARDEN CITY CAVITE

Project under WTA. Construction

A biophilic residential block. Stacked garden spaces with residential units filling the voids.

TEAM:

•William Ti Jr.

•Job Balayan

•DJ Maloom

Enclaves| Garden City Cavite: Mixed Use Development

THE PHILIPPINE CENTER FOR MIXED MARTIAL ARTS: The Filinvest City Multipurpose Indoor Arena And Training

Complex

Project Undergraduate Thesis: Conceptual

The Philippine national sport is currently homeless. The proposal provides an architectural solution that involves a contemporary marketable approach and serves as a social, public space in a 21st century urban context

Landmarks| The Philippine Center for Mixed Martial Arts

Landmarks| The Philippine Center for Mixed Martial Arts

Structural Concept

Landmarks| The Philippine Center for Mixed Martial Arts

•Monica Sunga •Yvette Shih •JC Cruz

A 417 Hectare master-planned mixed-use development. Designed with the aspirations of creating a Manila, inspired by it’s organic growth via a river spine. Rather than a topdown regimented plan, horizon is designed as one that sprouts from communities.

Icons| The Philippine Center for Mixed Martial Arts

FEM STADIUM Project under WTA. Completed

A park that seats 12,000. The stadium in Laoag is designed to be a stadium for the people, of the people, and by the people. With ornamentation, materiality, and program reflecting the people of Ilocos, the stadium provides a venue for things bigger than sport.

•Stephanie

TEAM:

•William Ti

•Thea Rodriguez

•Job Balayan

•Jose Florendo

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SPARK SAMAR SPORTS CITY Project under WTA. Construction

A master-planned sports city centered on non-linear forms of the athletic body.

Sinewy, human, and barrier-free design for the people of Samar.

TEAM:

•William Ti

•Thea Rodriguez

•Job Balayan

•Jose Florendo

•John Robert Pasia

•Rob Mallorca