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DIEGO BECERRA PAEZ Syracuse University School of Architecture Diegobecerrapa@gmail.com +1.941.725.7658 New York, NY

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Education

Skills PROGRAMS • Rhino • Sketchup • AutoCAD • Revit •V-Ray • Illustrator • Photoshop • In Design • Lightroom

LANGUAGES • ENG: Fluent • SPA: Fluent • POR: Proficient

Leadership RESIDENT ADVISOR Office of Residence Life Syracuse, NY Fall 2018 • Present • Communicate and collaborate with hall staff to establish a united leadership team. • Utilize problem-solving skills and mediate discussions during ambiguous and/or unexpected situations for 23 students. • Assiste in the training and evaluation of new RAs. CABINS WORKSHOP Dalhousie University / Nova Scotia, Canada Summer 2018 • 1 Mo.

May 2021

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Syracuse, NY

Fall 2019

NYC SEMESTER PROGRAM New York, NY

• B. Arch. Architectural Design • NCARB accredited degree

• Off-campus real estate-based architecture program & internship program.

Spring 2019

LONDON ABROAD PROGRAM London, United Kingdom • Architectural studies at SU London

Spring 2016

THE KINGS ACADEMY West Palm Beach, FL • High school studies diploma

Experience Fall 2020 • Present

REAL ESTATE INTERN Amsler Advisors / New York, NY

Summer 2020 • Present

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER & ARCHITECT Personal Project / Yucatan, Mexico

• Volunteered on a service project with a non-profit camp. • Built 4 cabins from skematic design stages to fully built form, within a time frame of 4 weeks.

• Assist with data gathering for comp projects by updating performa sheets that generates revnue projections. • Research venues and vendors to obtain information for performa sheets. • Support owner with ongoing projects for clients on an as-needed basis.

• Oversee a restoration and development project in a historic district. • Comply with Mexico's historical code guidlines and adhered to the real estate process of Mexico. • Created personal financial plan including revenue projections and a preforma sheet. • Work with the contractor to get quotes for the renovations and additons. • Update design plans through project and conceptialized idea for senior thesis.

Fall 2019 • 4 Mo.

ARCHITECTURE INTERN Workshop APD / New York, NY • Supported team with design development, construction drawings, and material documentation, using AutoCAD & Revit • Followed site planning code guidelines on hospitality and residential projects. • Participated in conceptual diagramming and drawing for furniture layout in elevation and plan view for client proposals.

Summer 2019 • 2 Mo.

RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE INTERN Taller Mid51 / Yucatan, Mexico • Worked on the restoration of historical residences in Mexico for private clients. • Adhered to the real estate process, historical code guidelines and participated in site visits. • Created concept models, renderings, diagrams and drawings for client presentations. • Utilized translation skills ENG-SPA to work with international clients.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Modular Campus 6-13

High Tides 14-19

Zeebrugge Sea Terminal 20-25

Outer Park 26-33

Wooden Cabins 34-37 4

01 02 03 04 05

CANARSIE

Modular Campus "Modular Campus" works to back the idea of material and programmatic impermanence in a university campus atmosphere. This concept introduces a system of easy-to-assemble modules that can be deployed across Syracuse University's South Campus and issue several programs requested by the students. Modules are arranged within a grid structure, drawing precedent from city scaffolding. The system in its entirety is wrapped in a thermal envelope that creates a semi climatized space, functioning year-round. Elements of the skin are operable to create ventilation in warmer seasons and bring outdoor activities into the project. This suggests a level of participatory design and habitation by students of the university who have voiced concern over a neglected area of campus. By engaging with the existing settlements of South Campus and improving their environmental performance, the demand of energy is able to be reduced to a fraction of its current usage. "Ephemeral Campus" acts as a prototype for future passive campuses that have the versatility to cater to the needs of students each year. Mediums : Sketch Up, Rhino, Illustrator, V-ray, Lumion, Photoshop Members: Jack Hymowitz,. Diego Becerra, Charles Chu. Professor: Nina Sharifi

Active-Use Sections

SUMMER

Section

1”=1/8ʼ

WINTER

Section 1”=1/8ʼ

Deployable Modules

FRAME 3

STAIRS 2x 1

2 8x 4x

27x 4x

2 3

STAIRS

27x

ASSEMBLE

TRANSPORTATION

CONCRETE SLAB

SCAFFOLDING

MODULE PLACEMENT

SKIN ATTACHMENT

1x 1x

Operable Elements

2 A

Window

Table Bar

Doorway

Outdoor Space

CONCRETE CONCRETE SLAB SLAB

TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION

SCAFFOLDING SCAFFOLDING

TABLE TABLE

4x4x

11 8x8x

ASSEMBLE ASSEMBLE

MOD M

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

H E

STUDY ROOM

SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

Heat Mapping Plans

F 1

A G

TEAM ROOM

EL A

LAUNDRY

MOVIE ROOM

EL A

SAUNA ROOMS B

A MEDITATION SPACE

STUDENT LOUNGE C

SAUNA ROOMS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

LOUNGE

STUDY ROOM

MEDITATION SPACE

STUDENT LIBRARY

TEAM ROOM

C EL B

LIBRARY E

LAUNDRY

MOVIE ROOM

DANCE STUDIO

QUIET ROOM

EL B

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

QUIET ROOM

DANCE STUDIO YOGA SUITE

QUIET ROOM

SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

YOGA SUITE

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”FLOOR PLAN

H 1

SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

B A

A C

D B

E BUS STOP

C E

STUDY ROOM

F F

TEAM ROOM

GYM

MARKET

G G

CORE SMOOTHIE STUDY BAR ROOM

TEAM ROOM

LAUNDRY

MOVIE ROOM

F E H BUS STOP

F G

GYM

MARKET

LAUNDRY

MOVIE ROOM

CORE SMOOTHIE BAR

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

GROUND FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

SCALE: 1-0’ = 1/16”

Summer Conditions

Winter Conditions

Zeebruge Sea Terminal For a study abroad program in London, UK.

A team of 6 members and I worked on a case study of OMA's archived proposal projects that were not built for different variables. We got assigned OMA's Zeebrugge Sea Terminal in Bruge, Belgum, which was part of a competition with the purpose of connecting the UK with Europe, as the Single European Act had just been aproved back then. We went through stages of deep research on the building’s context, its volume, its history and its main focus: a social condenser. The final product was illustrated only in sectional view, a perspectival collaged image and a 5 ft. model. The goal was to represent in section what Zeebrugge Port would look, feel and behave like if it was ever built back then (a social condenser). While at the same time we took our own view of the project and curated a juxtaposition take in the social condenser matter, that reflected how the Zeebrugge Port would behave nowadays with the current political environment: Brexit. What once was a European Union with an open borders act, now is been affected by a hard border deal under Brexit. Working as an antithesis to OMA's social condenser, the spaces change to limit trade, control the borders and ultimately disengage the dynamic coexistence of any social behavior. Mediums : Autocad, Illustrator, V-ray, Foamcore Modelmaking. Members: Alec Rovensky. Diego Becerra, Jamely Ramos, Julia Ocejo, Kalani Mah, Maria Gutierrez and Stephanie Michell.

14Professor: Davide Sacconi

Research Case Study

Collage Image

Active-Use Sections OMA's Proposal

Proposed Juxtapositon

OMA’s Program

EASTPAK

ARRIVALS

18 ARRIVALS

Physical Model

Outer Park For a semester off-campus program in Manhattan, this partnered project consisted in the study of resilient precedent projects in order to respond to the current flooding circumstances in Canarsie, NY. The goal was to create a berm along Jamaica Bay, with the main focus being Canarsie, addressing not only flooding issues but also the ecological conditions that currently are being neglected and segregated through NYCHA infrastructure and the Belt Parkway on Canarsie Park. Learning from Central Park and its hidden engineering system -the way circulation and its different ecologies were handled; we wanted to implement some of the strong methods into Canarsie Park to successfully address the NYCHA community, its adjacent ecology and the different kinds of traffic. Some of the early-stage research included studies from the near coastal conditions as well as a series of diagrammatic ecological sections that later on translated into our proposal. Mediums : G.I.S., Rhino, Illustrator, V-ray,. Members: Luke Miller, Diego Becerra. Professors: Angela Co, Lizzie Hodges, Shawn Amsler.

Flooding Current Flooding Conditions

Proposed M

CANARSIE CANARSIE

Section

B noitceS

Analysis

Masterplan

Proposed Berm Study View From the Berm

RELATIVE TO NYCHA

SLOW PACE

Flood Area Protected Area Park

FAST PACE

FAST PACE +20 ft

Belt Parkway

500 Year

Berm Metro Lines / Evacuation Tide Gates

NAVD 88

100 Year

n Cuts

Upland Shrub

Marshland

Vertical Vegetation

+20' +20' 500 500 Year Year 100 Year Year 100 NAVD NAVD 88 88

30’ 30’ 20’ 20’ 10’ 10’ NAVD NAVD 88 88 -10’ -10’ -20’ -20’

'02+ raeY 005 raeY 001 88 DVAN

’03 ’02 ’01 88 DVAN ’01’02-

Park An Current Ecological Conditions

Proposed Ecolog

Non-urban Wildlife Preserved Habitats

30%

3 1

70 % Urban Wildlife Urban Recreation

CURRENT CONDITIONS

Section Callout

Marshland Upland Shrub

Current Ecological Study Bushes

Sport Fields/ Lawn

Vertical Habitat/ Bushes

Intertidal Zone

+20 ft 500 Year 100 Year NAVD 88

Vegetation: London plane tree, paperbank maple, silver linden

Wildlife:

racoons, squirrels, mice, warbler

Vegetation: beeches, Vegetation: Thornless honey loctus, magnolia, red maple, noeway maple.

Wildlife: warbler, squirrels, raccons.

Vegetation: Smooth

bar berry bushes, swamp white oak.

Cordgras, Common reed, beach plumb, salt marshland

Wildlife: Wood peekers,

Wildlife: Eastern grayfrog,

Eastern Screetch Owl (winter), red tailed hawk, eastern gray tree frog, Osprey.

Cormorant, Osprey, Great eagle, Muskrat, Diamondback turtle

nalysis

gical Conditions

Land-Use Site Analysis LAND USE

LAND USE

Detached Housing

Detached Housing Attached Housing Commercial Parks

Attached Housing Commercial Parks Zoning Area Roads

Zoning Area Roads

Natural

Urban

Intertidal / Marshland Upland Shrub Vertical Vegetation Meaddows / Lawn Circulation / Buildings Hidden Road Fast Bicycle Slow Pedestrian

Proposed Conditions

Proposed Ecological Study Vertical Habitat/ The Pinentum

Meddows/ The Sheep Meddow

Upland/ The Ravine

Salt Marshland/ Intertidal Zone SLOW PACE

FAST PACE

+20 ft 500 Year 100 Year NAVD 88 Vegetation: London plane tree, paperbank maple, silver linden

Wildlife:

racoons, squirrels, mice. Wood peekers, warbler, owls, raccoons, mice.

Vegetation: Thornless

Vegetation: beeches,

Wildlife: warbler, squir-

Wildlife: Eastern Screetch

honey loctus, magnolia, red maple, noeway maple.

rels, raccons.

Vegetation: Smooth

Cordgras, Common reed, beach plumb, salt marshland

bar berry bushes, swamp white oak.

Wildlife: Cormorant,

Owl (winter), red tailed hawk, eastern gray tree frog,

Osprey, Great eagle, Muskrat, Diamondback turtle

High Tides This project proposed a Marine Educational Center situated along three major waterway intersections. The challenge was to work with the flood events that the site was exposed to whilst making the program work with the difficult site location. The project integrated an outdoors circulation system purposely located on the most elevated topography in order to avoid flooding. Also it embedded the program that benefited the river such as the research center and the water-sports center. Through detail sections I represented the functionality and effectiveness of the project's materials to the weather constraints. The main focus was on the cold temperatures during the winter, maximizing sunlight, resisting rain events and flooding. The program interacts with the site's geographic elements. Locating the watersports/recreation center and the river research center adjacent to the main body of water, while locating the classrooms and offices on the opposite side where elevated land is located. Circulation is elevated and splits the program into public and private sectors that work parallel to the Genesee river. Mediums : Rhino, Photoshop and Illustrator. Professor: Sekou Cooke

Plan & Section Rel

Min. Mea. Max.

Mea. Min.

Max.

lative to the Tides

Max. Mea. Min.

RIV LEVE

River Level Analysis 362m3/s

MEA

10.5cm

MAX MIN

160 m3/s 26m3/s

MIN

MAX MIN

MEA

RIVER LEVELS

MEA

MAX

9.2cm

PRESIPITATION

RE DC RE EK

160 m3/s

6.8cm

E RIV

FLOODING

362m3/s

5.3cm

RIVER LEVELS

MIN

MEA

MAX

8.7cm

S NE

6.7cm

71.6cm

26m3/s

E RIV

CR EE

N GE

MAX

MEA

M MIN

10.5c

MIN

MEA

MAX

RE D

ER IE C

S NE

E RIV

9.2cm

CR EE

PRESIPITATION

MEA

MAX MIN

10.5cm

ER IE C

RE D

MEA

8.7cm

5.3cm

AN MAX A

MIN

LMEA

MIN 1.2cm

6.8cm

9.2cm

SNOW FALL

FLOODING

ESIPITATION 5.3cm

MAX 6.8cm

MEA

MAX 6.7cm

MIN

10.5cm

MEA

MAX MIN

71.6cm

41.2 cm

MEA

MIN 1.2cm

9.2cm

PRESIPITATION 8.7cm

5.3cm

6.7cm 6.8cm

SNOW FALL

FLOODING

71.6cm

41.2 cm

Detail Section

Lindsey Dierig

TOPOGRAPHY SECTIONS

Topography Analysis 225 ft

SITE

LOWEST POINT 130 ft

ST T HE IN IG PO ft 0 15

22 ft

Exterior Perspective

Climate Analysis

CLIMATE

NOV

JAN

DEC

FEB MAR

APR

JUN

MAY

JUL

AUG

OCT

SEP

RIN

Interior Perspective

Wooden Cabins For a workshop/freelab in Nova Scotia, Canada a team of 7 architecture students volunteered on the construction and design of 4 wooden cabins. Our design was chosen from our team collaboration after communicating with the client and conveying the design through 3D modeling and diagramming. This is a design build project under Dalhousie University School of Architecture summer 2018 free lab. The project consisted of carrying a design from plan drawings to built form, within a time frame of four weeks. The use of design programs, carpentry, machinery and labor, carried out the project. Mediums : Autocad, Carpentry. Members: Sophia Baker, Brennen Halliwell, Audley Cummings, Mckenna Young, Madzen Canits, Santiago Becerra & Diego Becerra.