Work Samples

Hunter J Perez

SEI Design Group

Designer

Paint & Sips

UB School of Architecture and Planning

UB Department of Sustainability

Hume Projects llc

Paint Instructor

Student Liaison

Graphic Designer

Designer/Builder

Student Representative

Architecture + Education

National Organization of Minority Architects Students

American Institute of Architecture Students

University at Buffalo SUNY

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

ACADEMIC

Myrtle Valley Co-Op

Pneuma

Stoop by Stoop

Shinrin-Yoku

Isolation Cabin

01 - 06

07 - 14

15 - 20

21 - 28

29 - 34

PROFESSIONAL

OUR LADY OF MERCY

DOLGEVILLE C.I.P.

35 - 38

39 - 42

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Instructor

Location

Collaborators

Myrtle Valley Co-Op

Senior Desgin Competition

Affordable Housing

Erkin Ozay

638 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, New York

Matthew Mclean

Brief...

Our approach towards affordable housing in Bed-Stuy not only aimed to accommodate a variety of living situations but to also strengthen an already existing cornerstone. Currently occupied by Myrtle Village Green CoOp the plot of land serves 100+ families around the community and produces 1.3 tons of affordable nutrient-dense food per season. With the introduction of the multi-generational, young professional co-housing and agricultural living CoOp complexes we would not only be introducing 120 living units capable of producing their own food but would simultaneously increase the plots annual yield to 5.2 tons of fresh produce.

The shift in geometry uniquely provides ample lighting per growing situation while also gently sloping up between each tier to provide amenities accessible to the neighborhood such as a community kitchen, laundromat and a grocery store utilizing excess produce supported by the installation of hydroponics.

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Pneuma

Tectonics of Bouyancy

Aquatic Pavilion

Christopher Romano

Buffalo Outer Habor, Lake Erie

Katelyn Broat, Deron Charly, Denice Guillermo, Anita Lin, Jing Yu Lu,

Brief...

Researching the occupation of water via living examples and our own creation of buoyant personal vessels generated the vision for a flexible architecture.

Collaborative design studies prompted the emergence of a “breathable” space to challenge how we might occupy the waters. During the early 1960’s the precedential work of pneumatic structures presented by firms such as Bidair gave movement to the exploration of an inflatable built environment.

Pneuma not only draws inspiration from biological specimens but also from the historic industrial barge systems that were more familiar to the site. With the recontextualized system as the counterweight to the pressurized beams the vessel can achieve adjustable buoyancy. The fibrous husk provides a flexible cage in which the outward expansion of an inflatable translucent loop provides reinforcement against the forces of water and gravity.

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Collaborators

Stoop by Stoop

Brief...

Residential

Brian Carter & Jin Young Song

Flatbush Brooklyn, New York, NY

Lukas

Stoops serve an important function as a spot for brief, incidental social encounters. Often recognizable as staircases that lead to a building’s entryway, stoops invite community members of all ages and socioeconomic groups to regularly engage with one another. In addition, stoops encourage healthy, sustainable, safe and equitable communities as neighbors watch and care for each other. This space is recontextualized in “Stoop by Stoop” to be accessible to residents in independent senior living, affordable, and market rate housing units.

Residents are comforted by the familiarity of neighbors as they live and grow together in a connected community. Age-in-place design encourages residents to engage in their community knowing that they are investing in a long term home. “Stoop by Stoop” invites Flatbush to participate in its marketplace, family businesses, community center and public courtyard to combat gentrification, build understanding and celebrate the urban fabric with the people of its’ neighborhood.

Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition

Fetzko, Bethany Greenway, Stanika Mathurin, Morgan Mansfield, Harsana Siva, Petreen Thomas

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Teaching

Asst.

Location

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Shinrin-Yoku

Ritual Space Exhibit

Pavilion

Matthew Hume & Karen Tashijan

Kelsey Habla & Thomas Horvath

Patrick Delgobbo, Bethany Greenway, Anita Lin, Caroline O’Neil, Alex Perrino, Dominic Samoraj, Zakaria Siddiqui, Adam Rousseau. Art Park, Lewiston, New York

In the pavilion bathing was envisioned as the act of mentally cleansing with the body’s movements throughout the space replicating that of more traditional practices. The year-long project started with individual research into interlocking systems and how they can relate to the body.

As one enters the space they are led through with the orientation of the floorboards, which run perpendicular to the foot. There are two thresholds that lead the body through moments of compression imitating vulnerability and isolation associated with preparation to the ritual. Moving out the body re-emerges onto a platform presented to the elements. The extension encourages more time to be spent here in rest and reflection before returning to the day with refreshed mindfulness.

Bird House

The Isolation cabin is a personalized designed tiny home. The site of choice is nested in a break within the tree line on the outskirts of the Times Beach Nature Preserve.

Buffalo’s Outer Harbor provides the perfect balance of a cabin in the woods but also a downtown living experience. The first floor presents the aquatic zone of the preserve to the living room/ kitchen area. The Inspirational views provide southern & northern light to promote the acts of creating, growing and sustaining inside. The bedroom/ desk space occupies the mezzanine outlooking downtown Buffalo at a height of 26’ above the water level to clear any obstruction. The cabin includes offgrid features such as natural cross ventilation, water collection, and onsite waste management meant to contribute back to site.

Our Lady of Mercy

Since 1928, our Lady of Mercy has served as a prestigious private school for young women of all faiths and backgrounds for grades 6 through 12. With a decline of newly devoted nuns the school and its facilities will adapt to utilize the remains of their spaces.

Working with one of the partners and a team of consultants we devised a 15 year plan for the renovation of the to-be vacant floors, addition of a new cafeteria and the erection of a stadium wedged between their new athletic fields. With the report generated we hope to drive excitement for the community and alumni population to further the development of this project.

DOLGEVILLE C.I.P.

38 Slawson St, Dolgeville, NY 13329

roject Manager: Eric Tomosky

Technical Adivisor: AJ Bellavia

Public schools as clients often lead to long term relationships with the districts. These large facilities constantly require architectural work to keep them functioning through constant wear and to keep up with growth in the community. I had the opportunity to work directly with a project manager to find solutions for numerous existing design issues with their K-12 facility, devised a bus garage addition and a new concession stand to pair with the recenlty constructed field. Phase 1 is wrapping up while we’re currently handling submittals for phase 2.