studior.o.m.ikerworkarchitecture portfolio
Project Designer | Powers Brown Architects | July 2021 - Present
▪ Developed conceptual design presentations, aerials, renderings, and site plans
PhilosophyMoviesPhotographyDrawing& Sociology Pick-up Soccer Biking
▪ Interpreted municipal ordinances and building codes and applied to projects to verify compliance
Book Cover Commission | Independent Architect | Dec. 2019 - Jan. 2020
Logo Commission | New Horizon Drone Services | Apr. 2018 - May 2018
University of Houston | Bachelor of Architecture | Magna Cum Laude | May 2021
▪ Utilized AutoCAD and Revit to design and present 3D models of proposed locations to clients and stakeholders
• Built a styrofoam and carbon- ber RC naval re-supply drone tracked with RFID to test its use for a safer naval emergency operation.
Art Commission | Independent discussion group | Dec. 2020 - Jan. 2021
Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts | Since 2019
• Assisted in red-lining plans of renovation of Consulate of India in Houston via site visit
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• Articulated original design ideas to client and translated concepts into artwork for a book cover.
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• Collected documentation of door schedule of LoneStar renovation project with site visit photos
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• Presented drawings for a client review of a restaurant design proposal. Learned ways in which designers delegate their work for commissions in this internship. Trails
Architecture Intern | Acumen Design |June 2014 - July 2014
Architecture Intern | FS Group Architects | June 2016 - July 2016
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• Developed concept sketches and utilized Photoshop and Illustrator to create professional branding logo for company.
Intern | Shipcom Wireless | June 2015 - July 2015
• Designed an image that illustrated the group’s critical values of analyzing socio-political phenomenon through the lens of Deconstruction.
HarvardX: Architectural Imagination with K. Michael Hays | Summer 2017 r
5th Year / Fall 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self
Maggie’s Centre Houston
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Art and Music Library
4th Year / Fall 2019 Prof. Duke Fleshman
4th Year / Spring 2020 Prof. Ronnie Self
5th Year / Spring 2020 Prof. Geoffrey Brune
Research Center
FW Modern Art ExtensionMuseum
Spottssqft Park, Houston, TX
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The design divides research and development spaces and community engagement lofts into two parallel bars. The program focuses on producing and displaying renewable technologies in an experiential way. A ramp utlizes the momentum of the park trail to weave the curious and interested on a gradual journey in between an architecture which exists within the
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and drawings over photographs highlighted the main problems and opportunities of the site. The park began to unravel its pathways and moments, both by design and by unintentional wondering.
site Observationanalysissketches
the larger path
It became clear that the site in question needed to be part of the larger picture, a social ecosystem embedded in another.
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Theconceptproject criteria introduces into a friendly community park the intrusive process of production. This project is an attempt to reconcile an integrated design between its site context and programmatic content by starting with the organizing principle that choreographs them: the line of fabrication.
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Jules Saulnier
A study of the history of the modern factory informed the architecture of the building, which is to express its skeleton frame as a symbol of fabrication.
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Packard Motor Co. Forge Shop Albert Khan Detroit, Michigan,1910US
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Les Ateliers
Menier Chocolate Mill Noisiel-sur-Marne, France
AEG Turbine Factory Berlin,PeterGermanyBehrens19091871-1872
Luckenwalde,SteinbergMontataire,Voirin-MarinoniFranceAugustePerret1920-1930HatFactoryGermanyErichMendelsohn1921-1923
Transverse section through buildings
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A central ramp was studied rigorously to explore how a promenade can weave through the building like a Thistrail. programmatic factory is analogous to the process of experience: the“...likepromenade.atrail.”
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Cancer Rehabilitation Center 10,000 sqft Medical Center Prairie, Houston TX 5th Year / Fall 2020
Prof. Ronnie Self
A community center for those affected with Cancer. The design integrates an existing pocket prairie with spaces for quiet contemplation, gathering spaces for support groups and other activities, and a small library. The project is driven by Jay Appleton’s concept of Prospect and Refuge written in his 1975 book, Experiencing Landscape.
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The architecture of the walls are intended to act as thresholds that embody the clarity of space and frame the view towards the prairie.
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Marika-AldertonGlennArchitectureTadaoAndoCasaWabiMexicoMurcuttHouseAustraliaGlennMurcuttBoydEducationCenterAustraliaBird-house
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The building exists as a place of refuge that connects to the exisitng trails. It becomes a destination of the architectural promenade while enhancing the focus towards the prairie.
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5’ 10’ 20’ Library Section ...like a birdhouse
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Urbanity
Library for art, music and literature 22,000 ElDoradosqftBallroom, Houston TX
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Emancipation Avenue, once a living, growing street - an artery of the Third Ward and of Houston’s Black community, has slowly become a barren landscape of empty lots, forgotten buildings, deteriorating structures, and remaining residences of a historic urban character that faces the changes of gentrification.
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In order to create a sense of place, the cultural Library for Art and Music envelopes central courtyard gardens. The space aims to cultivate an intimate dialogue with its architecture and encourage a social engagement of the various programs through these various courtyard
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60’ AVEEMANCIPATION ELGIN ST. STBASTROP STUART ST LOBBYGRAND ADMIN RESEARCH& PARKING PROMENADE PARKING ENCLOSEDGARDEN GARDENGARDENURBAN READING ROOM ART & PERFORMANCECAFE
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Instances of grand social activity exist in what feel like the alleys of large markets. They are niche and intimate tents filled with the chatter of barter amidst the artifacts of labor from growing businesses. How peculiar are the conditions that have allowed this activity to completely change the social composition of the street, if even for a few hours.
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A strategy of carefully designed edges communicates the centrality of the courtyard. Structural clay tile is used in its natural color on these edges as a way to emphasize the sense of place.
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Materiality will embody this approach in its delineation of the edges of the courtyards. The library spaces are treated as vaults of natural light by a playfull compression of vertical space, while the exterior spaces experience instances of horizontal compression.
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4th Year / Spring 2020
60,000 sqft Fort Worth, TX
Prof. Ronnie ForestSelf
Cenotaph Museum
The extension to Tadao Ando’s Modern Art Museum approaches the existing forest of trees with metaphoric sensibility. The existing museum carves space with monumental walls, whereas the extension fixes space with a column grid; a concrete ode to the trees. Fabric systems used to diffuse light into the spaces are hung as canopies whose light and thin material quality is juxtaposed with the compressive strength of the concrete columns, like leaves to a tree.
Museum Extension
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Columbarium Furumori KoichiTreeFrancisStudioJapan2014HalleDrawing
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The process involved an iterative exploration of the column grid and how it can be used to create a transition with the landscape.
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