Eranga De Zoysa
DESIGN PORTFOLIO
Eranga De Zoysa Nationality: Canada Age: 30, DOB: 14/09/1986
e: eranga@outlook.com p: 917-622 6309
Profile
Education
As a recent Master of Architecture Graduate from Ryerson University, I am passionate in producing unconventional, meaningful and thought provoking architecture while contributing high quality work in every aspect of my career. I am committed to building a long term working relationship in the architectural discipline where I can continue to develop my design and technical skills by entering the OAA internship in Architecture Program.
Selected Awards Nov 2015
2013 - 2015
Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada M. Arch
2005 - 2009
Ryerson University, Toronto Canada B. Arch Sci
Exhibitions and Publications Feb 2016
Graduate Thesis Work Exhibition Ryerson DAS, Toronto
Sep 2015
Sukkahville Competition, Lula Forest, Nathan Philip Square, Toronto
Oct 2015
Nuit Blanche: Ripple Exhibition Queen’s Quay Terminal, Toronto
Oct 2014
Inundation: Jakarta Exhibition Paul H. Cocker Gallery, Toronto
Feb 2014
AR.CHI.TECT [Redefined] Symposium Design Exchange, Toronto
Oct 2013
Nuit Blanche: Light_Scape Exhibition Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
Alpha Rho Chi Bronze Medal
National Professional Fraternity for Architecture and Allied Arts
Industry Employment
Software Proficiency Revit Architecture Auto CAD Rhino + Grasshopper 3D Studio Max SketchUp GIS Mapping Adobe Creative Suites V-Carve / Aspire < Venice 2014 Architecture Biennale - UK Pavillion
06 2016 - 01 2017 2010 - 2013 2008 - 2009
RSVP Architecture Studio, NYC. Junior Architect Alex Temporale & Associates (ATA) Architects Inc. Project Lead Byron Carter Architect Inc. Architectural Technologist
Table of Contents
Conflict Spaces
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Page 1 - 10
Housing a Community in Need Cali, Colombia Page 11 - 20
Student Innovation and Co-Lab Toronto, Canada Page 21 - 38
Palace Pier Canopy Etobicoke, Canada Page 29 - 34
*Published: 325 Ryerson University ‘08-’09 Magazine *Presented to the Mayor of Niagara - Ted Salci
Ektόs Landing
Niagara Falls, Canada Page 35 - 36
Light_Scape
Toronto, Canada Page 37 - 38
Augmented Reality Publication: Wall Assemblies and Reality Page 39 - 40
Experimentation in Design Page 41 - 48
Pavillion Projects Project Overviews < Toronto Nathan Philips Square - 2015 Sukkahville Compeitition Winner
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CONFLICT SPACES Master of Architecture Thesis | 2015-2016
Building a Spatial Container of Memory to reveal the inverted relationships between the people and spaces within conflict zones, with the building and site situated in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzogovina that responds to the Siege of Sarajevo through 1992 - 1995.
Conflict Spaces Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 This thesis investigates the transformations architecture undergoes within spaces of conflict and how it is intrinsically targeted throughout conflicts as built form represents the memory and history of the oppressed. To this end, architecture becomes an object those with power seek to deconstruct and reconstruct according to their own needs, thereby producing a new set of memories and guiding a new history. This thesis produces a spatial container of distributed memories within the cultural center of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzogovina, which acts as an observation of the changes that places and artifacts of memory go through during a conflict.
Thesis Committee Arthur Wrigglesworth - OAA, MArch, BTech, Supervisor Scott Sørli - BASc, BArch, Secondary Reader Vincent Hui - MBA, MArch, Program Representative John Cirka - PhD, MScArch, BArch, Program Director
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Legitimizing Violence
Liminal Entities
Panopticon
Architecture as Container
Slow Violence
Rhizome Tunneling
Urbicide
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Site Context Map
Bosniak Institute
Project Location - Derelict Building
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Srebrenica Genocide Museum
Business / Residential Hotel / Hostel Museum / Library / Cultural
Jesus Heart Cathedral
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Tunnel Under Airport
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Sniper Alley
Olympic Village Track
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Exploded Axonometric of Spatial Container
Program Elements
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Memory Matrix
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Key Plan locating Tunnel 1 + 2
Tunnel 2: Light Rays
Concept of reconfiguring conflicted space for light rays
Light Rays in tunnel rendering
Tunnel 1: Entering the Conflict
Light Rays in tunnel schematic diagram
Tunnel 2 Entrance below street level
Photograph of artificial tunnel created during the Sarajevo Conflict Conflict Spaces
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Spatial Container - Inverted Architecture + Vision Shard
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Key Plan locating Inverse section and the Vision Shard
Vision Shard Condition
Sarajevo Panorama locating view port guided locations of importance
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Inverted Architecture
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Inverted Architecture tunnel rendering Conflict Spaces
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Memory Matrix Reaching the base, the visitor is faced with journeying into a shallow reflective pool with a lattice of girders supporting boulders above. The boulders are representative of the burden of memory, and questions how a people move forward with the memory of the conflict. Throughout the various conflicts that have been looked at, they have had very different outcomes of moving forward; some of them have chosen to forget the memory entirely, some have rebuilt with the intention of focusing on the future, and others have
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allowed the memory to remain in their desecrated forms untouched. The point of this thesis is not to judge, nor to condone an option that states which method is most suitable, however leaves that open to the visitor as they determine whether the memory of conflict should be retained, whether the collective memory that forms the identity requires the gradual eradication of the violent past or to consolidate it within the future re-identification of a people and their communal space.
> Memory Matrix - Rendering
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Centro Comunitario Esperanza Housing a Community in Need | Fall 2013
Having travelled to Colombia and witnessing firsthand the informal settlements and illegal activities that include controversial youth involvement, it is necessary to provide a rehabilitation facility to allow for the youth to re-enter society leaving behind their baggage and building a better future for themselves.
Housing a Community in Need Centro Comunitario Esperanza Community Center for Troubled Youth Fall 2013 - Cali, Colombia The Centre for Internally Displaced People of Siloé acts as a point of social reintegration for the people of Silo and Cali, Colombia. Located at the center of Siloé, the facility acts as a nodal point for the community and is within close proximity to public transportation and the employment areas of Cali proper. Intended to become part of the defining characteristic of Siloé, the Centre provides a visual identity as well as a much needed gathering place for a community that is slowly improving its socioeconomic condition. Conceived as a juxtaposition of materiality, with the two structures comprising the building being distinguished by their construction in either concrete or bamboo, the stereotomic and tectonic elements become the driving characteristic of the programmatic function and formal aesthetic of the building. At the core of these two distinct entities lies a common space uniting both programmatic elements. This intentional void functions as an interior circulation space as well as a series of platforms from which the building becomes alive when the daily activities of its users animate the central space.
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Community Center for Troubled Youth Designing to bring the lost children back to the society requires an understanding of their needs for community, security, trust and flexibility. This is achieved through the following: 1. Provide Security to ensure successful growth 2. Provide Flexibility in the spaces to give the youth responsibility and a sense of control 3. Renew their trust in their community and the community’s trust in them
Deconstructing Bamboo allows the construction of various different architectural objects such as: Louvers, Guard Rails, Partition Walls, Cladding, Roof Shingles, Water Collectors and Planters. Deconstruction of Bamboo for multiple uses
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Student Innovation and Co-Lab Bio-Logic Driven Architecture | Winter 2014
Architecture can benefit from being thought of as living organisms whose functions and behaviors are determined by the relationship between the parts within a whole. The process of adding a bio-logic to both the makeup of the internal layout of the program and the specific collaborative environment resonates with resilience and knowledge exchange that is abundantly evident in natural systems.
Student Innovation & Collaboration Lab Winter 2015 - Toronto, Canada Ryerson University contains various MakerSpaces, Fabrication labs and TechShops. The essence for these spaces is to be as collaborative as possible and bring together various departments within the school to produce new technology. The issue is that these spaces are typically hidden away within multiple buildings within the campus thus the essence of collaboration is non-existent. Much like the requirement for a central library for the campus, the proposal brings together all the innovation spaces and produces a single collaborative environment. The architecture will be an example of how biological procedures can be applied to a building to support the collaborative spirit of the building.
Site Plan and Context Map The site is located on the intersection of Gould st. and Yonge st. This will play an important role as it becomes part of the gateway into the main campus.
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Using buffer zones to add and exchange “intellectual creative capital.” Using the circulation zone as pathways that distributes the core zones between buffer zones that allow intellectual collisions to occur, the primary model to be used is the Ecological resilience model as it is commonly found in nature due to the complexity in natural systems.
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Copper Frits on Glass Panels COLLABORATIVE ZONE 1/2
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Student Innovation & Collaboration Lab
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Exploded Axonometric of Copper Frits on Glass Panel
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Night Exterior Render
Palace Pier Canopy 2012-2014 - Toronto, Canada Client: Brookfield Properties
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Ektόs Landing
SSEF Steel Structural Competition To reach out and touch the falls was the basis of the structural platform. The concept was derived from a species of snakes in Madagascar that elongates to reach branches or prey at a challenging distance. The skeleton of the snake inspired the system of trusses that support the platform. The snake is a type of ectotherm (Ektós is from Latin which means “outside”, therm meaning “hot”, i.e. blood regulated by an external heat source).
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*Published: 325 Ryerson University ‘08-’09 Magazine *Presented to the Mayor of Niagara - Ted Salci
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Light_Scape: Nuit Blanche Installation October 2013 - Toronto, Canada Located in the BATA Shoe Museum, Light_Scape was an interactive installation that was designed to become a Lego like experience, allowing the visitors to generate their own landscapes using LED cubes that contained a Velcro exterior. These cubes could be placed in multiple configurations including being stacked on top of each other and being bridged across multiple sculptural forms. This provided the users of Nuit Blanche a hands on experience to build without any limitation and within the confines of their own creativity. The result was a magnificent immersive experience, with limitless configurations that filled the dark room with an array of continuously changing multi-coloured light.
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Augmented Reality
Methods of Presenting Architectural Ideas Interested in Augmented Reality and its possible applications in presenting ideas in a new way to clients. One of the tests conducted on a project in the design phase. Created in 3D Studio Max using Flash compliant methods, the model was converted into Papervision 3D. A script was created to understand when a Camera detects a Tag to display the 3D Model in space relative to the tag. The proposal was to allow clients to hold a virtual model in his hands using a tag printed on paper or on a smart phone.
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Publication: SAB Magazine Wall Assemblies and Reality February 2012
[Industrial Research Assistance Program], Participating in in aa program programwith withthe theNRC NRCcalled calledIRAP IRAP to make informed decisions quicklyATA on Architects the effectsInc. of conducted research into producing a database within BIM software [Revit] that addressed the performance issues [Industrial Research Assistance Program], ATA Architects their detailing designs. The effort was published in SAB of materials. the architect make informed decisions quicklyshowcasing on the effects ofoftheir detailing Inc.different conducted researchThis intoallows producing a databasetowithin Magazine with images some the research designs. The effort was published in SAB Magazine with images showcasing some of the research using THERM BIM software [Revit] that addressed the performance using THERM to demonstrate the research activities. to demonstrate the research activities. issues of different materials. This allows the architect Writers Mark Driedger Melissa Smith Eranga De Zoysa
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Graduate Symposium Centerpiece
To create a holostic image of the emerging architectural typology of parametricism; the task was to create a centerpiece to showcase how parametric design can be inbued in common objects around the symposium. The idea of the centerpiece came up as a method to bring light into a dark space [The Toronto Design Exchange] while invited speakers and audience members mingled and discussed the ideas that were brought up during the talks. The final design involved using Rhino and Grasshopper to develop two seperate schemes of center pieces. The overall center piece is a triangulated object with cut outs in two options: -Randomized boxes using Grasshoppper -Randomized Triangles that were then selected for deletion.
Sketch Design 1 Involved producing a triangular pyramid form which would allow light to leak through CNC Routed gaps in either acrylic or corian. The sketch can be seen below in 3D as created within rhino and the associated grasshopper definition.
A cool Blue LED was used to contrast the warm candles surrounding the fixture. Corian 1/2� slabs were specially glued together to produce a thick base.
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Parametric Centerpiece
The rhino file and associated grasshopper definition for Sketch Design 1
Sketch Design 2 involved triangulated forms that formed a box. The black painted material would contrast well with the light that shone through and involved producing random triangular and box forms which were then laser cut. The Corian base would create a distinct reveal that allowed light to leak through the bottom of the base.
The contrast between the cool wite light and the warm candles prroduces a inviting atmosphere to discuss the symposium points that were brought up.
Final Sketch Design Model in site at the Design Exchange. As is visible, the light leaks through the bottom base via white acrylic reveal and through the randomized holes laser cut through the black cardboard material.
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2D-3D Art Experimentation Corian as Canvas
A personal exploration into creating art work through the use of a CNC router on Corian to produce half-tone art. By producing lines that vary in depth and thickness, the material becomes a canvas for art through the use of grooves that are curved to illustrate the biologic nature of the original image - the fossil image of a microscopic radiolaria. Using a a 3/4� V-bit endmill on the CNC mill so that the circle diameter had a linear relationship to the depth of the plunge Once routed, the corian was spraypainted gray and sanded on the surface to allow the spray paint to only exist within the grooves to act as a highlight.
Option 1 for Sketch containing levels that include the entire drawing for milling.
Option 2 for Sketch containing levels that allow for the most white to come through without being milled.
Radiolaria image used as the base for the halftone image.
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Corian Halftone Experiment
Prototyping on MDF to make sure the cuts are appropriate at the right depth. Depending on how close or how far away you are from the object, do you get a different view and perspective of the image. If up close, the image is blurred and it won’t be until you stand at a distance that you realize the image you are looking at.
Final milling of the corian slab to produce the half tone radiolaria image. the images on the right depict the prototype against the final corian piece once completed.
Depending on the angle and the distance you stand from the final piece, are you able to fully realize the image. This type of art typically cannot be photographed to appreciate the sense of depth and feeling you get from approaching it from different angles and/or perspectives.
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Virtual Flow Lines - Toronto Mapping Erosion
A city is a living organism as much as a forest and contains various open and closed systems as well as energy that flows throughout the urban material. This experiment uses an exaggerated topographical slope of the lake to produce erosion flow lines to demonstrate the interaction of friction between the city and flow.
World Machine is a terrain creation tool that uses a left-to-right node based workflow. Using the vector data from GIS, we are able to produce a bump map of the streets and neighbourhoods to produce the friction required to produce interesting erosion maps which is the required hieght map output.
Initial data was extracted from GIS software QGis and used within illustrator to produce vector information. This information was further inserted into World Machine to produce the erosion flow map which finally gets processed in Photoshop to produce the unconventional image of Toronto.
Basic Bump Map
OpenStreetMaps (OSM) & City of Toronto Open GIS Data processed within QGis for export as Vector data.
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Vector Data from QGis extrapolated into Illustrator to provide a bump / height map as an input into World Machine. Erosion Flow Map
Erosion Flow Map
Slope Map
Photoshop Processing Layer 00 - Rear Grunge Texture
Layer 01- Rear Warm Gradient w/ Land Mask
Layer 02 - Errosion Flow Map (World Machine)
Layer 03 - Vector Line Data (GIS)
Layer 04 - Warm Gradient Fill
Layer 05 - Soft Light Overlay
Layer 06 - Vignette
Layer 07 - Curves Adjustment
Layer 08 - Brightness/Contrast
Layer 09 - Levels
Layer 10 - Hue/Saturation
Final Processed Image
Erosion Flow Map
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Pavillion Construction Work 2013 - 2015
Producing temporary pavillions throughout Toronto for various competitions and/or exhibitions. Throughout each of these, I was involved in atleast the construction and fabrication of the pavillions with design work for the Nuit Blanche Light_Scape project. Typical fabrication work involved laser cutting and CNC’ing using Ryerson DAS (Department of Architecture) Shop’s 3-axis CNC router. I was heavily involved with setting up each pavillion on site and shop tools to aid quick construction fixes on site.
Nuit Blanche: Light_Scape
Design, Fabrication, Setting up the exhibition on site.
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto Oct 3, 2013
Construction images of the Pavillion
SukkahVille: Lulav Forest Nathan Philip Square Sept, 2015
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Pavillion Construction Work
Involved in construction of the pavillion on site.
Construction images of the Pavillion
Nuit Blanche: Ripple Sponsored by Subaru
Involved with electrical wiring and construction of the pavillion on site.
207 Queens Quey Toronto Oct 3, 2015
Construction images of the Pavillion
Winter Stations 2016: LithoForm
Involved in fabrication of sub structure elements and construction of the pavillion on site.
Woodbine Beach, Toronto February, 2016
Pavillion Construction Work
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Project Overview These selected projects illustrate my capabilities and past experiences with design, technical work, and collaboration within the industry. The work shows a wide range of interests, including public and civic engagement, exhibition and installations, community enhancement and re-envisioning existing structures. Moving forward in my career, I hope to be able to develop my knowledge in these areas and bring my own skillset to the professional practice.
Conflict Spaces
Community Center for Troubled Youth
Student Innovation and Co-Lab Center
*Published: 325 Ryerson University ‘08-’09 Magazine *Presented to the Mayor of Niagara - Ted Salci
Project Example: Spencer Smith Park Pavillion (ATA)
Ektos Landing
3D Studio Max Environment
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Light_Scape: Nuit Blanche Installation
Augmented Reality
Publication: Wall Assemblies and Reality
Palace Pier Canopy: Actual Photography
Palace Pier Canopy: Rendering