Leandro Igna, Architecture Portfolio

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LEANDRO IGNA

ABOUT ME A young architecture student aspiring to gain more professional experience with a well-known reputable firm. Despite being a shy and introverted person during high school, I have grown to become more self-driven, highly motivated individual where I exert 110% in any work or task assigned to me. Other hobbies I enjoy outside of architecture include hip-hop dance at different studios across Sydney

EXPERIENCE JUNIOR TECHNICAL DRAFTER

STUDENT ARCHITECT

A role involving drafting numerous architectural drawings such as window schedules, floor plans and window details. The role requires great attention to detail as these drawings will be submitted for fabrication, with little room for error. A-Tech Australia is responsible for manufacturing high-performing windows from single-residentia homes to 60-storey high rises all across the country.

A role highly involved in drafting numerous architectural documents such as plans, renders and others in which are used to push forward new projects around the Blacktown LGA. This role also involves Development Application (DA) review of new residential flat-buildings (RFBs) and providing input on other projects such as parks, recreational areas, schools and train stations. With the numerous responsibilities in this role, collaboration and communication skills are essential where a large diverse skill-set is needed to tackle numerous tasks

APR 2023- PRESENT

SKILLS 1. Advanced Rhino skills (with basic Grasshopper knowledge) 2. Intermediate AutoCAD skills 2. Advanced knowledge of Adobe Suite (particularly with indesign and illustrator) 3. Advanced modelling skills (both CAD and physical models) 4. Basic REVIT skills (willing to learn) 5. Advanced rendering skills (V-Ray, Lumion) with post-production (Adobe Photoshop)

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY BACHELOR OF DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE (2019-2021) 6 GPA / 79.42WAM

ST MARYS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (2017-2018) 90.6 ATAR 2018

ST CLARES CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL (2013-2016)

ACHIEVEMENTS

JAN 2022- JAN 2023

FOOTLOCKER SALES ASSISTANT SEP 2020- APR 2022

Sales assistant role highly involved in customer service whilst wielding a strong product background knowledge of sneakers and athletic apparel from a range of different brands such as Nike, Adidas, Puma etc. The role involves learning about the customer on a personal level to satisfy their retail needs whilst also creating a positive store experience

6. Fluent in English and Tagalog 7. High work ethic 8. Great Communication skills 9. Critical thinking 10. Teamwork 11. Fast Learner 12.Flexibility 13. Open to constructive feedback 14. Ability to take leadership roles

REFEREES CELINE WANNAJAROEN

FOOTLOCKER MANAGER 0466252078

MARINA GONCALVES

www.drive.google.com/file/d/1 6CudcftwXYvm2a5xqhbY8369J zttjSM9/view?usp=sharing or www.issuu.com/li2022/ docs/leandro_igna_student_ portfolio_shor_1f6a100a2172be

LINK TO WORKS FOLDER www.drive.google.com/ drive/folders/1O9QuuaH8ny_ eezih7F1-ANuXZHX8DIfC

DETAILS PHONE: 0468854197 EMAIL:

LEANDROIGNA06@GMAIL. COM

STUDIO 6 TUTOR 0412602995 marinaamg@gmail.com

ADDRESS: 7/15 Fennell Street Parramatta 2150

SENIOR ARCHITECT, BLACKTOWN COUNCIL

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MATTHEW SALES

9839 6909 Matthew.Sales@blacktown.nsw.gov.au

ST MARYS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

LINK TO PORTFOLIO

> earning a band 6 grade in three HSC 2018 subjects (Advanced English_Advanced Maths_ Visual Arts)

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INSTAGRAM: @ARCHI_DRO LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin. com/in/leandro-igna3806521b4/

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1 1ST YEAR SEM 1: SHAPE HOUSE 7-13

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2ND YEAR SEM 2: MITIGATING LONELINESSSTUDENT HOUSING 14-19

3 3RD YEAR SEM 1: CONSENSUAL BANALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY 20-27

4 3RD YEAR SEM 2: HIGH SOCIETY 28-32

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5 WORK AT BLACKTOWN CITY COUNCIL 34-40 6

The house not only attempts to frame breathtaking parts of the harbour but also subverts this idea and frames other parts of the landscape typically unappreciated and ignored This is furthered by the house’s spatial division through disconnection where its inhabitant travels through outside thresholds in order to navigate through the house, satisfying their appreciation of nature and the surrounding context.

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The house utilises windows in order to frame the beauty of the surrounding Australian landscape provides a comfortable living space.

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Creation of domestic spaces through the use of components in which adhere to a certain rule set. These components can form various spatial elements such as walls, ceilings, floor slabs and voids as well as furniture

To provide a more comfortable living space, changes to the home have been made where the narrowest portions of the house are 1000mm wide.

Material changes have also been implemented including the use of wood in the outside walkways to further establish a connection with nature and allusions to the client’s views of nature.

1st Year Sem 2 Tutor: Rainy Huang ms.pr.huang@gmail.com Domestic Housing

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guest toilet + mini courtyard

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toilet (public) light entry

courtyard

lounge area/fireplace

viewing gallery

LIVING ROOM_ COURTYARD

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adjustable wall panel (door)

light entry

study desk

photography area (w/ skylight

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STUDIO

viewcones

dining table (horigatsu)/ sitting area

light entry

kitchen

double-height pantry viewcones

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adjustable wall panel (window)

bedroom

bathroom

light entry

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s t u d e n t h o u s i n g m i t i g a t i n g l o n e l i n e s s

‘Loneliness, partly social isolation and partly our own subjective interpretation of our lives, is a public health problem in our cities: It makes our lives shorter, our bodies more subject to disease, our minds vulnerable to depression and other mental illness’1 ‘Data released this year from the Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed a 210% increase in the number of students who left university as a result of mental health issues between 2010 and 2015 ’2 Numerous studies indicate growing evidence that feeling isolated has effect on health of university students, both physical and mental. One study in particular found that two thirds of the research group had experienced problems of loneliness and/ or isolation, especially in the early months of commencing university.

Students residing in student housing in particular have been found to experience both personal loneliness because of loss of contact with families, and social loneliness because of loss of networks.

Both forms of loneliness have been noted to be at times exacerbated by experience within institutional sites, and through constant social media engagement.

Within the studio lens, we explored ways of mitigating vulnerability, loneliness and insecurity, through planning, cross programming of functions, creating tangible connections to community; architecture to promote social inclusivity and positive interaction.

2nd Year Sem 2 Group partner: Leona Zhang Tutor: Jenna Rowe jenna@jennarowe.com.au Student Housing

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amenities: lounge, kitchen, outdoor garden, gym

amenities: lounge, kitchen, study, communal shower

amenities: lounge, kitchen, study

communal gardens

two-person dormitories

single-person dormitories accessibleperson dormitories

three-person dormitories fire escape ground floor gallery

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Dormitories

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Communal shower + sauna

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Dining area

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Accessible dorm room Lift

Communal shower + sauna

Private dormitories above shared communal spaces in which are connected through a series of elevated walkways and staircases Fire exit

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c o n s e n s u a l b a n a l i t y i n t h e 2 1 st c e n t u r y

Modernity is a contemporary condition intrinsically paradoxical, due to the clash of two conflictive narratives: rationalism and the romantic/sublime/picturesque imaginary.

Expressionism is defined, for the purpose of this tutorial unit, as a recurrent disruption of the rational narrative, in art, cinema, architecture, with creative embodiments of acts of disobedience against normalizing conventions (order, regularity, cohesiveness, completeness). The rational streak celebrates the heroic as symbol of the triumph of technology over nature; the romantic streak dwells on tragedy, it is at peace in its destructive role, yet it misses an allmighty source of power that remains chimeric, unattainable.

What could not be repressed or “metabolized” by the normalizing modernity appears as the monster, the aberration, the abject.

In this studio, we will be working under the premise that the contemporary lacks a sense of wonder, particularly in relation to technology.

The wandering eye, is both a reference to our client – the car driver –, who “wanders” around (and the aesthetic of movement associated to that) as it is a wink to the “wandering eye” of the disenchanted lover that is looking for the next big thing in their romantic life amidst a severe streak of boredom in the Wetherill Park site.

The wandering eye also refers to the picturesque and expressionistic sensibilities that nervously dissolves form or introduces disruption against a compositional pattern of order, clean geometries and repetition. The studio will explore the monumental capabilities of the “exception” (or the “accident”) when played against principles of order and standardization, within the vernacular banality of Sydney’s periphery.

This tutorial unit aims at revitalizing the monumental language of modernity – which has been emptied out of meaning through its banalization – with surveys of the bizarre, the absurd, and the surreal, using expressionistic precedents as weapons. The studio will instrumentalize compositional principles associated with Expressionism in art, cinema and architecture, such as (a) proliferation with permutation, (b) dissonance, (c) juxtaposition, (d) the palimpsest, (e) disturbance/accident/disruption, (f) unresolved accumulation, (g) multifocality, (h) the wandering eye in itself (a subject in perpetual movement), and (i) anomaly, amongst others.

Enlisting expressionist and neo-expressionist artists, as assigned precedents, each studio team of two will be unfolding the internal contradictions of the picturesque and the sublime, searching for a reluctant monumentality that defies the complacencies of the merely banal.

Our temples of peripheral ambitions should take a position on the current state of infrastructure and its symbolic fatigue, using the dialectical encounters between conflicting precedents as a testing ground for a contemporary sublime, that would be both material and performative.

Project name: Nature under a noose (Parking Garage) 3rd Year Sem 1 Tutor: Miguel Rodrioguez Casellas Group partner: Isabella Nguyen

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short film link: 1. https://youtu.be/ncN0QgOpO5E 2. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NreMlCof4URN6_wIAeFgt4KI4WMVm0u5/view?usp=sharing

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s o c i e t y h i g h

In a post-labour society, strong attitudes against the monotony of work, the impending climate crisis as well the rise of mental-health awareness will push society to shift from a productivity-centred model where workers are forced to spend countless hours in unfulfilling and often stress-inducing roles. Many indigenous cultures across the globe utilise plants and hallucinogens not out of boredom, or to relieve anxiety, but to fulfil the collective need of the group, fulfilling ritualistic frameworks centred around their beliefs and new methods of thinking. Hence, the post-labour individual will likely seek ways to cement these new beliefs, forming new rites of passage and search for alternative perspectives. The social condenser seeks to research, manufacture and utilise drugs and hallucinogens to constitute this, creating moments of social interaction between the public and work-fatigued individuals in sharing their personal psychedelic experiences. Through research, oversight and implementation: would hopefully lead to the negation of negative side effects of these drugs, allowing for new modes of thinking and ritualistic frameworks to emerge in a world battered by climate change and capitalist exploitation of the globe.

3rd Year Sem 2 Group partner: Nancy Nguyen, Khanh Dan Ho Tutor: Marina Goncalves marina.afonsomaiagoncalves@uts.edu.au Social condenser: Machine typology Full drawings and other documentation such as gifs available at: https://capstonemachine2021.cargo.site/06

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Working as a Student Architect for Blacktown City Council, this role is highly involved in drafting numerous architectural documents such as plans, renders and others in which are used to push forward new projects around the Blacktown LGA. This role also involves Development Application (DA) review of new residential flat-buildings (RFBs) and providing input on other projects such as parks, recreational areas, schools and train stations. With the numerous responsibilities in this role, collaboration and communication skills are essential where a large diverse skill-set is needed to tackle numerous tasks 2022 Matthew Sales: Senior Architect matthew,sales@blacktown.nsw.gov.au Nathan Brasier: Graduate Architect nathan.brasier@blacktown.nsw.gov.au

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Proposed upgrades for Kevin Betts Stadium in Mount Druitt, in which includes two new indoor basketball courts, as well as new outdoor fitness and recovery areas and new shared pedestrian/cycle tracks linking Mount Druitt Hospital with the suburban train/bus station. This development will hope to establish a sports precinct in the heart of Mount Druitt and subvert decades of car-centric planning with urban renewal 36

A newly proposed police station in Blacktown CBD

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The reinvigoration of an underused lane way between Dawson Mall walk and Cleeve Close in the heart of Mount Druitt with super-graphic colours applied via paints and window decals with outdoor seating and a mini basketball court. The project gave great insight in how a project progresses from concept, to tender, and construction.

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Test renders for upgrades to the proposed showroom and amenities building for the Blacktown Showgrounds precinct. The building will have capacity to hold indoor functions as well as outdoor seating for adjacent sporting events.

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