Peteris Lazovskis Portfolio

Peteris Lazovskis plazovskis@gsd.harvard.edu 857 253 8575 123 Elm St Apt 2 Somerville, MA 02144

Selected Works

Peteris Lazovskis plazovskis@gsd.harvard.edu 857 253 8575 123 Elm St Apt 2 Somerville, MA 02144

Education 2016 - 2020 Cambridge, MA

Harvard University Graduate School of Design Masters of Architecture I

2009 - 2013 Ottawa, Canada

Carleton University Bachelor of Architectural Studies

2012 Berlin, Germany

Technische Universität Berlin Academic Exchange

Work Experience May - Aug 2020 Cambridge, MA

The LADG Research assistant Mapped under-developed hillside neighborhoods in Los Angeles using ArcMAP; compiled neighborhood histories; graphically re-interpreted data in figural collages

May - Aug 2018 Boston, MA

Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd Architectural Designer Radcliffe College renovation - constructed 1:1 mockup of custom translucent ceiling panels and detachable connections; produced construction documents Wellesley College pavilion - designed wooden bench to be fabricated from single piece of lumber; produced construction documents

May - Aug 2017 Toronto, Canada

Williamson Williamson Inc Architectural Designer Turkey Point Barn - schematic design and design development; costing package Osler Bluffs Ski Lodge Addition - structural coordination; final phase of construction documents

2013 - 2016 Toronto, Canada

Montgomery Sisam Architects Architectural Designer St. Thomas Elgin Hospital New Wing - construction documents of exterior wall sections Belmont House Renovation - schematic design through construction administration Durham College Center for Collaborative Education - successful design pursuit, schematic design ErinoakKids Center for Treatment and Development - three month design pursuit, with NORR Lakefield College Dining Hall - schematic design Kipling Acres Long Term Care - custom millwork design; construction documents

Jan - March 2012 Rīga, Latvia

Brīnišķīgo Projektu Birojs Architectural Designer Lattelekom Building - adaptive reuse proposal; design development Sarkanmuižas Parks - design competition

May - Aug 2011 Ottawa, Canada

Students’ Design Clinic Designer Independently leading small residential projects from client meetings to construction documents, overseen by Ottawa Society of Architects Selected projects - three storey deck with built-in storage; addition with wheelchair access

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Academic Work Experience Sept - Dec 2019 Cambridge, MA

Billie Faircloth, SCI 6123 - Construction Systems Teaching Assistant

June - July 2019 Cambridge, MA

Jennifer Bonner, MALL Environmental Consultant, CNC Fabricator

2017 - 2020 Cambridge, MA

Harvard GSD FabLab CNC Operator

Awards May 2020

Peter Rice Prize - $5,000 Thesis project - ‘Warm Physiognomies for Cold-Climate Mass Housing’, for ‘[...] proven competence and innovation in advancing architecture and structural engineering.’

April 2019

KPF Traveling Fellowship - $10,000 Study of naturally ventilated, load bearing masonry construction in Northwestern Europe

March 2019

American Institute of Architects, Committee on the Environment, Top 10 Student Project ‘Coolth Capitalism’ - GSD MArch I, fourth semester studio project, with Thomas Schaperkotter

April 2019

Plimpton Poorvu Real Estate Design Prize - Second Prize, $10,000 ‘Carbon Park’ - evolution of GSD MArch I, fourth semester studio project, with Thomas Schaperkotter and Augustinas Indrasius

Oct 2017

Lafarge Holcim Next Generation Award - Fourth Prize in North America, $10,000 ‘Airflow Carving’ - GSD MArch I, second semester studio project

Skills Digital

AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, VRay, MasterCAM, ArcMAP, Adobe Suite, Excel

Fabrication

CNC milling, manual milling, woodworking, casting, laser-cutting, 3D printing

Languages

Native Latvian and English speaker, proficient in French, basic German

References Jonathan Grinham

Lecturer, Harvard University

jgrinham@gmail.com

1 617 495 8807

Kiel Moe

Architecture Chair, McGill Univ.

kiel.moe@mcgill.ca

1 514 398 4040

Sheila Kennedy

Kennedy and Violich Architecture

skennedy@kvarch.net

1 617 442 0800

Betsy Williamson

Williamson Williamson Inc.

betsy@wwinc.ca

1 416 703 9271

Selected Works

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Academic Work Warm Physiognomies for Cold-Climate Mass Housing Harvard GSD Thesis, Spring 2020 Coolth Capitalism Core 4 Studio, Spring 2018 Airflow Carving Core 2 Studio, Spring 2017 The William Faulkner School for Puppetry Arts Option Studio, Spring 2019

Professional + Independent Work Kipling Acres Montgomery Sisam Architects, 2014 Turkey Point Barn Williamson Williamson Inc., 2017 Two Apartments in Riga, Latvia Independent Commission, 2017 Gravenieki Independent Commission, 2015 Ability Platform Independent Commission, 2015

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Warm Physiognomies for Cold-Climate Mass Housing

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Thesis project at Harvard GSD

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Spring 2020

Instructors

Jonathan Grinham John May

Recipient

Peter Rice Prize 2020

The structural and thermodynamic depth of a thin facade.

How to recast inherited Soviet-era housing blocks as contextually enduring architecture?

How to harness the thermal mass and embodied energy of their concrete and steel frames?

This project looks to the complementary and multivalent structural, thermal and geometric qualities of clay masonry, in order to develop a repeatable cladding system for massproduced residential buildings in the colder climates of the former U.S.S.R., resulting in a facade logic that is both functionally and visually rooted in its milieu.

Given the spacious urban planning unique to the epoch, this approach replaces highstrength but also high-embodied-energy reinforced concrete facade panels with deep brick moment-frames, forming a thickened, but highly articulated, skin; stacked vertically, these moment-frames form buttresses, which replace the shear function of the deteriorated facade panels, while also using their hollow bodies as chimneys for single-sided, solarassisted, buoyancy ventilation. Composed mostly of the human-scaled brick module, the assembly is at once structurally and environmentally performative, while projecting a physiologically relatable image of variety and texture.

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Warm interior air pre-heating incoming exterior air in brick cavity Buttresses and lintels form thick moment frame Wood layer acts as structural connector, thermal insulator, and air-tight gasket Exterior stone lintels carved to maximize sunlight through windows

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Coolth Capitalism Date

Spring 2018

Form finding within a financial reality

Partner

Thomas Schaperkotter

Instructors

Matthew Soules Jonathan Grinham

This project explores a convergence between finance capitalist investment power, emerging carbon economies, and the ecological stewardship of dense urbanization.

Recipient

American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment Top Ten Student Project 2019 Plimpton-Poorvu Real Estate Design Prize Second Prize 2019

Set in downtown Los Angeles, the proportions of the towers are mined from real estate trends, which encourage a proliferation of slender buildings that are documented primarily as financial investments, secondarily as shelter; architecture is thus decoupled from the corporeality of habitation, and the maximization of its environmental potential.

This proposal strives to demonstrate that the power of real estate investment, coupled with the carbon sequestration of massive timber construction, might forge a new type of ecological development for dense, built environments.

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Finance capitalism pushes real estate towards objects valued as pure commodities. Supertall skyscrapers in New York are sold as ‘icons’.

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9 Dekalb Ave

432 Park Ave

111 West 57th St

Central Park Tower

These commodities are valued for their investment quality rather than spatial habitation, or civic contribution.

Abstract monuments

Sheltering investment

Carbon embedded in construction

Construction accounts for significant global energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

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embodied energy / emergy in buildings depending on life cycle system

global CO2 emissions from cement

Emerging carbon economies may account for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Carbon emissions pricing and trading

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HoHo Vienna, AU 24 Stories Under Construction

Brock Commons Vancouver, BC 18 Stories 2017 Completed Carbon 12 Portland, OR, US 8 Stories 2018 Completed

Natural materials will be increasingly important in 21st century construction. The capabilities of prefab engineered wood components are increasing

wood towers sequester carbon

towers placed over public pavilions

pre-cooled air drops into tower core

negative buoyancy cools pavilions

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Functionally expressive visual icon Earth core Stacked spiral egress stair Living spaces within solid wood Wood canopy Rammed earth Lightwell and lobby

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Public hardscape park Grassy mounds Light wells to parking area Tower lobbies Ventilation cores above

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Low pressure zone created by cooled earth core causes negative buoyancy to pull air into shaft

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Atmospheric moisture harnessed by functionally expressive metal netting

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Height accelerates downward air movement Cool air spilling into pavilion Air further cools public park Inevitably heating up again, the air pressure increases, and rises in thermal plumes through porous canopy Cycle repeats

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Rammed earth core Spiral agress stair Glulam shear walls CLT floor panels Solid wood poche inserts Public park Rammed earth foundation, containing commercial and public uses Structural arch as lightwell Parking area

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Earth core Egress stair Unit entrances Kitchen Dining Living Sanitary Passage Nook

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Airflow Carving Type

Studio project at Harvard GSD

Date

Spring 2017

Instructors

Elizabeth Christoforetti Salmaan Craig

Recipient

Lafarge Holcim Next Generation Award 2017

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Healthy mind in a healthy body in a healthy building The Boston Mental Wellness Centre is an exercise facility for the mind; it is meant to be used regularly, like a typical gym. Situated at the junction between public, large-scale concrete buildings and smaller, private brick buildings, it responds with a cavernous concrete base for group activities, supporting terra-cotta clad wooden volumes for individual therapy.

The mass is a bold threshold that blocks exterior environmental ‘noise’ and envelops the user in a subdued, calming atmosphere. A southern plaza slopes down into this mass, allowing sunlight into the subterranean level, and inviting users in quietly, away from the noise of the streets. The top-lit filigree wooden volumes nestle the user in a warm ambient glow with subtly bent plywood surfaces and wooden screens. The plenum space between is reserved for tactile sensory experience, with pockmarks in concrete holding sand, stones or water.

The building breathes through buoyancy ventilation. The concrete mass is a thermal battery, and the thick walls of the wooden volumes are suction chimneys. Exterior air filters through the caverns up into the mass, breezes over the sand and water, and rises up into the filigree therapy rooms above.

‘Rather than perceiving technology as an autonomous domain, the project merges technical with architectural exigencies, turning the logic of a quasi-neutral and anonymous system into one producing an architecture with specific properties – an approach that could be easily applied to a range of everyday uses and programs.’

- Lafarge Holcim Jury

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Concept model - woden filigree on massive concrete base

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Concrete mass adds street character, while wooden filigree is wrapped in terra cotta, reflecting the residential area

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Main entrances Street level public lobby Basement level group exercise rooms Basment level atrium Sloping plaza Massive concrete base with radiant piping Existing townhomes

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Multi-level atrium Shared circulation Individual waiting area Private therapy room Hollow wall for rising air

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Isometric collage 1 Discrete terra cotta volumes 2 Glulam structure hosting plywood-wrapped rooms 3 Sphere-tipped conical voids in concrete mass

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Water bath simulation At a scale of 1:50, water and air are dynamically similar, allowing for the rough approximation of how air might flow through form. Here, a heated rockite slab is inserted into plastic container with room tem-

perature water; a sectional fragment is placed on top, and ink injected with a syringe from below. As the water starts to heat and rise, the ink follows its path, demonstrating the possibility of buoyancy ventilation.

Further, this shows the possibility of providing HVAC to a building without the need for ducts - properly shaped architectural form has the same capabilities, but with the added value of beautiful space.

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Exterior air enters through caverns It filters up through porous concrete, and is heated via radiant piping

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Freshly heated air flows across plenum space, adding to sensory experience Air flows up hollow wall

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Plywood ribbons enveloping rooms and channeling air Wooden floorboards as air diffuser Hollow wall for rising air, noise insulation and perpendicular window light scoops Window inlet Spaces between terra cotta volumes for vertical circulation between therapy rooms

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The William Faulkner School for Puppetry Arts Date

Spring 2019

Instructors

Mack Scogin Helen Han

Tracking ghost impressions Following threads through a foreign universe irreversibly carves traces of embodied histories into the beholder. A school in a forest surrounds young minds with the depth of natural change; a school moving through the forest constantly changes perceptions of that change; movement on an abandoned track, winding through small towns, forlorn quarries, and rickety sidings grafts the ghosts of past realities onto the learning experience.

The movement of a hand, holding a string, has the power to imply what is not explicitly said; the movement of a setting along a path determined in a different time can suggest a trajectory that present conditions would find inexplicable.

Thus the art of puppetry finds its way to the student through ghosts of affect, which show us their simultaneous indeterminacy and universality. In the words of Mack Scogin, they teach us how to “sustain interpretation over time�.

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Professional + Independent Work Kipling Acres Montgomery Sisam Architects, 2014 Turkey Point Barn Williamson Williamson Inc., 2017 Two Apartments in Riga, Latvia Independent Commission, 2017 Gravenieki Independent Commission, 2015 Ability Platform Independent Commission, 2015

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Kipling Acres professional work

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Project at Montgomery Sisam Architects

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Autumn 2013 - Spring 2014

Location

Etobicoke, Ontario

Team

Ed Applebaum Matt Galvin Evelyn Casquenette Matteo Terzi Dave Saunders Sarah Miller Revit wall sections, details Peteris Lazovskis

Senior care in residential area Conceptually, the facility is an efficient twowing arrangement, with a central dining and service core. The massing and exterior material palette, however, projects a more nuanced, heterogeneous and residential feel, to complement its surroundings. In the earlier phases of the project, lots of community consultation led to a sophisticated exterior composition approach, that attempted to break down the institutional massing into seemingly individual maisonettes I worked on the project during its construction document phase, and spent several months working on wall sections and details.

The highlight of this experience was the chance to work closely with Evelyn Casquenette to develop exterior details between the two wings, which were built in different phases.

The interior detailing was equally interesting, as it involved fine woodwork combined with cheaper and more durable materials.

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Millwork ‘memory’ boxes Wall sections Dining areas and terraces at two building phase junction Multi-use space, with ceiling hosting infrastructure, as well as sliding partition track Terrace railing details Interior railing details Window details

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Turkey Point Barn professional work

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Project at Williamson Williamson

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Summer 2017

Location

Caledon, Ontario

Team

Team leader Shane Williamson Structural engineer Dave Bowick / Blackwell Renderings, CAD drawings, costing package Peteris Lazovskis

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Towards a sustainable agricultural vernacular The client required a large barn to house agricultural equipment, repair workshop and staff spaces. He was adamant about reducing the energy footprint of both the construction and operations of the building.

We responded by nestling the bulk of heatable spaces below grade, which simultaneously allowed us to increase the south-facing roof angle thereby increasing the efficiency of the solar shingles. The south facing clerestory would heat the thermally massive earthen floor, while the larger north clerestory would reduce the lighting requirement, while serving as the high exit point for interior ventilation.

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Tectonically, we searched for a robust and simple logic of long-span engineered-wood members, whose spacing would be wide enough to accommodate ground-access garage doors. Collaborating closely with Dave Bowick, we iterated through reciprocal trusses, long span CLT members, and arrived at a centrally-pitched truss hybrid.

By the end of the summer we had entered design development, and had prepared the first costing package.

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Plan bent to focus on existing farmhouse Deep + sparse vs shallow and dense Flat vs profiled CLT members Reciprocal vs hybrid truss

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Two Apartments in Riga

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Private Comission

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Winter 2015 - Summer 2017

Location

Riga, Latvia

Team

Design, graphics, construction documents Peteris Lazovskis Construction Maris Miezitis, Ints Krigers, Ansis Markevics

Plywood planes concealing service space A large apartment in a late 19th century building was converted into two awkwardly shaped ‘communal apartments’ during the soviet era in Latvia. Typical of contemporary planning solutions, locating of mechanical and plumbing shafts was haphazard. In addition to this, the client required lots of storage, an open plan, and an aesthetic that would appeal to western expats.

The design approach celebrated the idiosyncratic mechanical locations by using these as pivot axes for thin plywood planes. These planes, in turn, subtly masked entrances to closets and a powder room, as well as general cabinets. The detailing of this tight space was worked out collaboratively with the millworker.

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Powder room and walk in closet Washing machine and laundry closet Kitchen millwork Cove ceilings, typical of 19th century apartments in Riga, illuminated by LED strips, tucked behind plywood planes

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Existing sewage and water pipes 1 3mm layers of plywood laminated onto CNC routed curved ribs Thickened wall for noise reduction Powder room Walk in closet Wall mounted shoe rack Integrated finger pulls

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Gravenieki

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Private Comission

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Summer 2015

Location

Belava, Latvia

Team

Design, graphics, construction documents Peteris Lazovskis Consulting engineer in Gulbene, Latvia Julijs Jaukulis

Structural logic as spatial concept A Latvian farmer had a dream of converting an old barn into a country inn. He envisioned a glass-clad tower, from which he could survey the landscape, as well as a traditional Latvian sauna and bathing experience. He was determined to build it himself, so conceptually, the design has evolved based on structural logic.

The first iteration severs the L-shaped existing stone mass, to separate wet from dry program, and to introduce major and minor massing.

The new volumes are supported by an interior timber frame, removing most load from the existing stone walls. To account for the small budget, it was proposed that the tower instead become a horizontal band of large glass panels, to maximize light and solar heat gain.

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Once an engineer confirmed that the existing stone walls can fully support a second story, the interior frame was given up in favour of precast concrete panels laid directly on the existing structure, leaving steel for the tower only.

Responding to the client’s persistence about maximizing bedroom space, the third design iteration fuses the two building volumes into one; to visually reduce the resulting massive second story, a large roof blankets the entire volume.

The generous overhangs echo Latvian tradition, and protect the existing stone below.

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Short sectino through tower Sauna Pool Bedroom Long section through tower Dining area Observation area Corridor to bedrooms Pool

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Ability Platform

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Private Comission

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Summer 2015

Location

Sydney, Nova Scotia

Team

Design, graphics, construction documents Peteris Lazovskis Consulting engineer in Toronto, Canada Shannon Hilchie / FaetLab

Universal access to beauty The Coxheath Hills Trails Association stopped a quarry from destroying a scenic hillside overlooking Sydney, a town in Nova Scotia, on Canada’s eastern coast. The Association cares for a trails system on adjacent land, and wished to open it up to users with mobility impairments. It was decided to make use of the former quarry road, and drive potential visitors to the top of the hill. Here they could meander down a relatively flat path towards a small cliffside, affording expansive views of the town and valley below.

The Association wished for a structure that would not only enhance the existing views, but also acknowledge the struggle to save this part of the hillside. However, the local workforce is relatively inexperienced with alternative construction methods, and all funds would have to be raised from within the community due to the non-profit nature of the Association. These factors were instrumental in the architectural choices throughout design development.

The initial design was generated as an extension of the meandering pathway, separating into two routes above the rock face. One would elevate the viewer higher above the railings, while the other would bring the viewer further over the rocks. Both would be completely accessible, and partly connected by steps for those accompanying them. From below, a network of glue-laminated arms would provide support, ‘sprouting’ in an organic manner from three individual concrete ‘stems’. This would be visually impressive upon approach, and would act as the ‘feature’ view for future marketing. When presented with a sketch of a larger option, however, the Association jumped at the opportunity to maximize the impact of their project; this option was developed further.

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