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JULIE ANN CORMIE CV WORK SAMPLE

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JULIE ANN CORMIE

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B.Env. D Arkitekt MAA t +45 26 20 83 87 e julieanncormie@gmail.com w julieanncormie.com

PROFILE

D.O.B. NATIONALITY EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

Architectural Design Possesses a strong theoretical understanding and has developed a process based approach to design which is able to operate at a wide range of scales. Familiar with building technologies, and excelling in the area of conceptual development, model fabrication, sketching by hand, along with digital drawing and rendering skills.

Graphic Representation Excellent design sensibility, editing and layout skills. Strong conceptual development skills and ability to execute ideas effectively and efficiently.

Young, enthusiastic Architect seeking full time employment in a collaborative studio environment. Brings a keen eye, fresh design ideas, and a willingness to learn. Looking to contribute to a dynamic studio to gain experience in all scales and stages of design development and project execution.

Software Proficient at Adobe Creative Suite specifically Illustrator, Indesign and Photoshop, with a working knowledge of Autocad 2013, Rhino, Mac/PC platforms, and familiar with V-Ray. Ability to learn new programs quickly.

23.11.1985

Communication Effective written and verbal communication skills in English, basic abilities in French, and beginning studies in Danish. Strong presentation skills and ability to express complex ideas through drawings and models.

Canadian Master of Art in Architecture Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Department 2: English Kandidat Copenhagen, Denmark

Interpersonal Skills Possesses leadership skills, and thrives working as part of a team. Ability to multi-task and has strong organizing skills.

09.2012 - 06.2014

Bachelor of Environmental Design University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

09.2008 - 06.2010

Department of English and Fine Arts University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts

09.2005 - 06.2006

Conflict Resolution Diploma Canadian Mennonite University Outtatown Program South Africa

09.2003 - 05.2004

High School Diploma Westgate Mennonite Collegiate Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

09.1996 - 06.2003

White Arkitekter Copenhagen, Denmark Model Builder / Competition development

06.2013 - 07.2013

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Copenhagen, Denmark Model Builder

02.2013 - 05.2013

Peretti, Peretti Architeckten Vienna, Austria Intern / Competition development team

02.2012 - 06.2012

RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Founding Member, Graphics / Gallery Co-ordinator

04.2010 - 06.2011

DeJong Construction Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Assistant to General Contractor

04.2010 - 04.2011

Two Degrees Interiors Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Junior Designer

05.2011 - 09.2011

Dorsey Reforestation Inc. Kenora, Ontario, Canada Forman, Treeplanter

Work Ethic Demonstrated by diversity and depth of work experience. For example, thriving in extreme working conditions while tree planting in Northern Canada. Supervisory and management responsibilities were fulfilled during taxing conditions which demonstrates the ability to perform under pressure, mental toughness and resilience.

SELECTED WORKSHOPS/ EXHIBITIONS

Open City - Fabric Formed Concrete Workshop Set just ouside Valpariaso, Chile, this workshop was led by Ronnie Araya from C.A.S.T. (The Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology at the University of Manitoba) UBuild Collaborative design installation - Curated and organized and done in conjunction with Joe Kalturnyk and Janice Laflaire at RAW Gallery of Architecture & Design, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada.

PUBLICATION

AWARDS & GRADES

REFERENCES DESIGN PORTFOLIO

April 2013

January 2010

June 2010

Warehouse Journal 18 Student work - 4 page spread and hand drawings featured as section dividers University of Manitoba, Canada

MAA at The Royal Danish Academy Thesis (Afgangsprojekt): received the highest possible mark - 12 (for an excellent performance displaying a high level of command of all aspects of the relevant material) Dean’s Honour Roll University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture

COMPETITIONS

2007-2010 (summer terms)

Kreider O’Leary - Systems of Copenhagen kreider-oleary.net Lead by British poet & architect, this workshop investigated the idea of Copenhagen as a series of overlapping systems which resulted in the shooting and editing of 7 documentary films exhibited at KADK

CHART Art Fair Invited Architecture Competition at Kunsthalle Charlottenburg Copenhagen, Denmark Design and execution of a pop up restaurant pavilion for Atelier September in collaboration with Benjamin Lucraft

Available upon request Full Portfolio available upon request - Please see attached work sample and find more at www.julieanncormie.com

2014

2008-2010

08.2014

SELECTED PROJECTS

APPROACH

My core architectural research interests have evolved around the premise of duality. A fascination with the role of symmetry, asymmetry, balance and tension has given rise to the testing of the inherent frictions, sometimes obvious but sometimes latent, in a given physical, theoretical and programmatic contexts.

These investigations have generated design opportunities to engage in and test the boundary conditions between entities.

The following is a small sampling of the process and the results of this work.

01 CHART Art Fair Invited Architecture Competition August 2014 Pop Up Restaurant for Atelier September Designed and built in collaboration with Benjamin Lucraft Site: Charlottenborg Courtyard Copenhagen, Denmark

This temporary restaurant pavilion, designed and built for the duration of CHART Art Fair in Copenhagen, was divided in two distinctive parts, each with their own pace, type of interaction, and spatial qualities.

Behind, a shrouded sake bar accommodated seven seated guests who could unwind over a sake or a cup of tea, the seating raised up to be at the eye level of the bar staff serving them.

In the front, an elevated service bar acted as the accelerated space, where the staff served freshly grilled corn and local cider.

Above which, the storage loft’s contents could be seen slowly depleting over the weekend of the fair.

We re-assembled and refinished the old school wooden scaffolding planks to create the floors, bar tops and ceilings which rested atop the timber frame construction.

TOP: Night view of the pavilion CENTER R: The BBQ in action behind the reassembled and refinished bar tops CENTER L: Daytime looking up into the sake bar space // the intersection of the structure, the fabric and the shadows BOTTOM: Designs for neon signage

02 Masters Thesis Project / Afgangsprojekt 2014 Drawing the Veil EK2 - Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Department 2 Tutor: Niels Grønbæk Site: Zürafa Sokaki, Istanbul, Turkey This project deals with the notion of gendered space and aimed at addressing the dialectics between body, building and city, in the context of a government regulated brothel district in Istanbul, Turkey.

The dialogue between the existing program on the site and an introduced program of ‘fashion district’ (including atelier, textile manufacture and retail spaces) was articulated through a process of speculative transformation, a continual negotiation and inhabitation of the temporal boundary between the existing and proposed.

The project revolves around the process of delineating a new veil of perception within the constraints of the contextual framework. This veil not only acts to conceal and reveal the body, but also controls vision and thus the modes and techniques of representation.

The project aims to destabilize the notion of ‘privileged gaze’ by questioning the roles of the viewer, the viewed and the boundary between the outside and the inside. It challenges the 2 dimensional image by revealing and concealing in an extruded depth of the 3 and 4 dimensional model as testing device.

ABOVE: The site/sight plan - the abstract site through a speculative pseudoscopic device - revealing a modulation in the depth perception due to the nature of stereo vision BELOW: The site model highlighting the implicated brothel buildings implicated in the transformation. The model divides in two reveals the two elevations - and locates the viewers privlidged viewpoint OPPOSITE: Stills from film capturing the shadowed drawn by the 1:20 model

ABOVE: A drawing which unfolds the site plan into two sections looking opposite directions revealing the interior catwalk spaces.

LEFT: Three axonometric drawings showing sections through the interior brothel/atelier spaces from the optimized exterior viewpoints. The location of the private spaces above relates to the level of visual privacy created by the way the light is modulated by the depth and relation to the moving facade veils.

03 Masters Year One Project 2013 Partitioning an Animate Whole EK1 - Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Department 2 Tutor: Niels Grønbæk Site: Berlin, Germany

To keep the future parade route in the planned world capital ‘Germania’ clear of all the future automobile traffic, a series of massive underground tunnels running beneath Berlin were designed by Albert Speer, architect of the third reich in 1937.

Less than ten percent of the car tunnel system was actually completed, yet there are massive tunnel fragments partially completed that still remain today, closed up and slowly filling with water, several meters below the surface of Tiergarten. The entrances are locked, hidden from view and largely forgotten.

This project suggests to re purpose and inhabit these immense watery spaces as a anti-memorial to contrast the grandiose unrealized plans for Germania by using this project as a device to question the

notions of idealized beauty, (a)symmetry, and abstraction. The two tunnels are each bisected and the two programs are inserted: a car wash and a bath house run the length of both. The bisection line down the middle of the two programs becomes the datum creating the dissonance between the two programs and thus between the car and body.

The car wash is connected to the Tiergarten car tunnel which runs just parallel to the site. In placing the two processes of washing (car body, human body) next to each other, the wall condition begins to ask questions of occupancy, of perception of public/private space, of transparency/ opacity, and of the elemental qualities of the intersection of these bodies at different tempos.

ABOVE: Plan drawing showing the two intersecting tunnels, bisected with the two programs occupying either side of a varied boundary condition.

BELOW L: Conceptual drawing intersecting the car and body, BELOW R: A render of the tunnels and additions OPPOSITE: Rendering of intersection of bathhouse and car wash

04 Bachelor Year 3 Final Project 2010 Odeon Drive-In Cinema Motel ED3 - University of Manitoba, Department of Architecture Tutors: Karen Shanski and Ronnie Araya Site: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In the city of Winnipeg’s case, there is a physical line drawn in an attempt to create a liminal boundary condition, a continuous road that encompasses and defines the limit of the city. It could be suggested that this perimeter highway attempts to mediate the rural and the urban as a single line drawn; the edge of both the ‘City’ and the ‘Not City’.

This project inhabits the drawn boundary and manifests itself on the surface of the drive-in movie screen which is found just off the highway. The projected cinema screen of the abandoned site is re-purposed, and through a process of projection and extrusion, is inhabited as a motel for travelers coming to and leaving the city by road.

TOP: Section through the motel inhabiting the screen MIDDLE: Conceptual models, at 1:100, 1:50 BELOW: Trace drawing of the horizons as seen and drawn on the windscreen of a moving car on the perimeter highway OPPOSITE: Conceptual model at 1:500, BELOW: Drawing showing the perimeter highway which surrounds Winnipeg

05 Bachelor Year 2 Final Project 2009 Dual Programmatic Clinic ED2 - University of Manitoba, Department of Architecture Tutor: Eduardo Aquino Site: Winnipeg, Manitoba This project is a discussion of a possible architecture of choice. It ventures into a realm of grey moral, ethical, and aesthetic decisions that are part of human existence.

It presents an architecture that could become a catalytic moral environment for life choices with its dual program: an abortion clinic and a fertility clinic that coexist within the same outer skin, and within which organs with opposing functions and outcomes cohabit. It references the

metaphor of a human heart – functionally and physically discreet chambers hung together from the structural skeleton, the interstitial spaces between them divided by the septum which mediates and negotiates the interaction between the two opposing sides. Testing the role of metaphor as a formal generator, this project aimed at questioning the role of the partition in relation to two discreet programs, and how they intersect.