ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

. . . from my earliest memories, I’ve been captivated by the artistry of buildings - a legacy inherited from my builder grandfather. As a child, I stood in awe before structures he helped shape, absorbing every detail of their construction.

These tales kindled my fascination, culminating in a degree where I proudly stood as the top graduate. With unwavering commitment, I’ve unearthed my purpose: to enhance lives through architecture and thoughtful design.

I’ve grown as an architect who listens, guides, and translates aspirations into spaces that elevate well-being. A fervent advocate for sustainability, I’m drawn to crafting eco-conscious havens and pioneering passive house designs.

My interests span from architectural and interior design to pioneering passive houses, all underscored by a flair for psychology, physics, cultures discovery and the culinary arts.

My expedition isn’t solely architectural; I’ve embraced motherhood, evolving into a maestro of patience, time management, and innovative problem-solving. A tenacious overachiever, I constantly challenge ceilings, pushing boundaries with each stroke of my design.

I love to shaping a world where the sky is just the beginning . . .

Haros Maria

QUALIFICATIONS

▪ Honors Bachelor Degree of Science in Architecture, Coventry University, 2015-2018

▪ Diploma Interior Design, New Skills Academy Certification, 2023

▪ Masters Degree in Construction Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, ongoing

WORK EXPERIENCE

▪ Arcadis Project Engineering, Iasi, Romania, ARCHITECT, Aug 2018 to present

▪ Dimmer, Iasi, Romania, ARCHITECT and PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGNER, Jan 2021 to present

▪ UpWork, Online platform, ARCHITECT & INTERIOR DESIGNER, Jan 2019 to present

▪ BIM Collaborative Project Simulation-ARCHITECTURAL INTERN, Coventry, Oct 2017 – Jan 2017

▪ Penta Stil Studio, Iasi, Romania ARCHITECTURAL INTERN, May 2017 – Sept 2017

PROJECTS EXPERIENCE

▪ Residential houses, apartments, semi-detached houses

▪ Multifunctional

▪ Commercial offices, retail

▪ Industrial warehouses

▪ Others healthcare

▪ Modular constructions

▪ Interior design houses, apartments, offices, restaurants, retail, furniture

▪ Passive houses

▪ Sustainability awarness

SOFTWARES

▪ Microsoft Office

▪ AutoCAD 2D

▪ Revit - intermediate

▪ Dynamo - Beginner

▪ ReCap

▪ Infraworks

▪ ArchiCAD

▪ SketchUp

▪ Photoshop

▪ Illustrator

▪ Premiere

▪ InDesign

▪ Lightroom

▪ Lumion

▪ Enscape

▪ Twinmotion

▪ Rhino- beginner

▪ Grasshopper - beginner

LANGUAGES

▪ Romanian - native

▪ Russian - native

▪ English - advanced

AWARDS & HONORS

▪ Best Design Award

Coventry University, UK

▪ Nomination to Presindet’s Medal

RIBA, UK

▪ AJ Student Prize

Architects’ Journal, UK

SUITABILITY TO ROLE

▪ Architect

▪ Interior deisgner

▪ Passive house designer

▪ Urban planner

ZAHA HADIDNICOSIA,CYPRUS (PERSONAL LIBRARY)

1. Graduation project - Urban Development

2. Graduation project - Multifunctional Building

3. BIM interdisciplinary collaboration project

4. Multifunctional Learning facility

5. Architectural study studio - Daylight study. Students’ perception and the impact on them.

6. Energy efficiency calculation (global coefficient of thermal insulation – G value) (thermal transmittance – U value)

Coventry is facing a major issue caused by the ring-road. It encloses the city center in this way causing a strong dissruption between the center and the rest of the city.

As the number of students is rising considerably each year, being concentrated mostly within the center, the residents are pushed away from it even more.

The new proposed urban strategy and the new central development is breaking this boundary with a minimal intervention, and at the same time, it keeps the rong road in place, without interrupting the vehicles traffic.

The urban structure of Coventry create open-air squares along its streets. These public pockets offer a wide range of activitie for residents. The city’s design principles can be simplified and constrained to four main components:

MAIN ROADS, AUXILIARY STREETS, URBAN SQUARES & EDIFICES

The main intervention of the whole development is to allow and encourage the natural interraction between residents and students. This is belived to be achieved by the blend of the ring-road with the newly proposed development.

The integrated functions would facilitate the interraction. Furthermore, the ground floor functions will be flexible and will be changing by the season, depending on the end user and its demands. For instance, during summer all the students based functions will be changed into residents targeted facilities.

The created public square offers a wide range of activities for all the age groups and interest groups.

Moreover, the volumes of the building create new, permanent streets. However, seasonal pathways, will be penetrating the volume seasonallly, leading the end user into its interior spaces, fading in this way the clear difference between the indoor and outdoor spaces.

Within this design many parameters are embeded. The main considerations are:

Sunlight and natural ventilation - The facades which have direct sunlight around the year, dictate the position of the functions that require warm and bright spaces.

Access points and circulation: The created shape allows multiple access points from any directions, Moreover, it links the both sides of the ring-road, establishing the interraction link between residents and students.

The new building generates public suqares arounf itself. All merged by a central public space which unites all the functions visually, becoming the soul of the whole development.

Serveice entrances and Noice pollution: The ring-road is located above the proposed building. It generates an irritating and noisy environment around the new proposed space. Transparent acoustic panels are proposed to mbe installed on both sides of the highqay. It will help isolating the noise, without obstractig the views.

▪ PARAMETRICAL GENERATED HOUSING LAYOUTS

(various locations) EDINBURGH, UK, 2019

CLOVENSTONE, UK, 2019

MURRAYBURN, UK, 2019

LIBERTON, UK, 2019

PEFFER PLACE, UK, 2019

▪ Creating a rigorous site analysis

▪ Urban planning

▪ Understanding the local regulations and clients demands

▪ Creating a feasibility study

▪ Generating layout of houses apartment blocks, roads, path ways and parking spaces via parametric design tools

▪ Creating presentation renders of the proposals

▪ Creating developemnt stages presentation videos

▪ PRIVATE HOUSING

(various locations) IASI, ROMANIA, 2021-Present

▪ Obtain required approvals by the local authorities

▪ Site analysis

▪ Concept design

▪ Energy efficiency consultancy and consideration

▪ Final design in accordance with local authorities

▪ Full pack drawings for local construction authorisations

▪ Visualisations and walk-throughs

▪ Construction detailing

▪ Construction site assistance

▪ EXISTING HOUSES INSPECTION

(various locations) HOLLAND, 2019

▪ Setting up the laser scanned model

▪ Building the digital 3D model from the laser scan

▪ Analysing the buildings’ current state

▪ Providing full pack drawings on existing scanned houses

▪ SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES EXTENSIONS

BIRMINGHAM, UK, 2018

SMETHWICK, UK, 2019

DERBY, UK, 2021

CHETELHAM, UK, 2023

▪ Creating the digital model of the existing house

▪ Site analysis and feasibility studies

▪ Concept design

▪ Solar analysis

▪ Final proposed design

▪ Full pack drawings for planning application

▪ LOFT CONVERSION

COVENTRY, UK, 2020

▪ Building 3D digital model

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional layout design

▪ Full pack drawings for local planning application

▪ Utilities drawings

▪ Carpenter’s drawings

▪ Construction detailing

PARAMETRIC HOUSING & BLOCKS LAYOUT

PROCESS VIDEO AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

DETAILS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

PRIVATE HOUSING - THE PROCESS

RIGUROUS SITE ANALYSIS ENVIRONEMNT AND NATURAL CONTEXT, BUILT CONTEXT, SITE CONSTRAINS

FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT BASED ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MOVEMENT. SPACE FUNCTIONAL INTERRACTION

VIEWS WITH MOST POTTENTIAL AND FACADES THAT MUST HAVE NO OR MOST OF THE GLASSING

SKETCH VOLUME OUTLINE CONSIDERING ALL THE PREVIOUS CONSTRAINS AND THE CLIENT’S REQUESTS

FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT VITHIN THE EMERGED VOLUME

MOVEMENT AND SPACE FLOW CHECK WITHING THE NEW LAYOUT VISUAL CONNECTIONS AND MOST FAVOURABLE VIEWS CHECK

EXISTING HOUSES INSPACETION - LASER SCANNED CONSTRUCTIONS

SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES EXTENSIONS

▪ STUDENT ACCOMMODATION

NEW YORK, USA, 2019

▪ Creating the 3D digital model

▪ Façade detailing

▪ Full pack drawings for local authorities review

▪ Functional concept layout for multifunctional ground floor storey

▪ TEMPORARY VETERANS’ ACCOMODATION - MODULAR APARTMENT BLOCK

LEEDS, UK, 2019

▪ Functional interior concept

▪ Interior design concept and moodboard

▪ Building 3D digital model of the modular elements

▪ Carpenter’s drawings full pack drawings

▪ VERTICAL EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING APARTMENTS BLOCK

LONDON, UK, 2023

▪ 3D digital model of the exiting and its surroundings

▪ Proposed functional concept

▪ Full pack drawings for full planning application

▪ Design statement

STUDENT ACCOMODATION

TEMPORARY VETERANS’ ACCOMODATION - MODULAR APARTMENT BLOCK

▪ PASSIVE HOUSES

(various locations), ROMANIA, 2021-Present

▪ Site analysis

▪ Concept design

▪ Passive house design consultancy and consideration

▪ Final design

▪ Full pack drawings for local construction authorisations

▪ Visualisations

▪ Client presentation

▪ PASSIVE HOUSE MODEL

DIMMER, ROMANIA, 2020

▪ Design a clear timber frame model for customers to understand the passive houses’ principles on a real life model, generating real-life scenarios

PASSIVE HOUSES MODEL

▪ SPACE CENTER & AMENITIES

LEIPAJA, LATVIA, 2022

▪ Building 3D digital model and surroundings

▪ VisualisationS

▪ ROYAL CLARENCE MARINA - 15,000 SQM DEVELOPMENT

GOSPORT , UK, 2023

▪ 3D digital model of exiting buildings

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional design layout for: OFFICES, RESTAURANT, STORE & BEAUTY FACILITIES

▪ Spatial visualisations

▪ Presentation and sales booklet (graphic design)

▪ Unit’s presentation sheet (graphic design)

▪ MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SIGULDA, LATVIA, 2023

▪ Building 3D digital model

▪ Visualisations

SPA CENTER & AMENIETIES

3D Moldel and surroundings building - Software - REVIT Visualisation render - Software - TWINMOTION Post production - Software - PHOTOSHOP

ROYAL CLARENCE MARINA - MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Variaty of office spaces have been designed wiithin this development. For each office unit, three options have been produced in order to fullfill any clients; requirements. Furthermore, a beauty facility, a grocery store, and a restaurant have been proposed and fitted out.

ROYAL CLARENCE MARINA - MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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EE STORES

(VARIOUS LOCATIONS), UK, 2018

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional design

▪ Cross check and tutoring colleagues outputs

▪ Full pack drawings for construction and renovation works

▪ Training new team members

COSTA COFFEE SHOPS & CAFETERIA

(VARIOUS LOCATIONS), UK, 2018

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional design

▪ Cross check and tutoring colleagues outputs

▪ Full pack drawings for construction and renovation works

▪ Training new team members

DRESDEN, GERMANY, 2023

DARMSTAD, GERMANY, 2012-2023

BERLIN, GERMANY, 2023

K-TOWN, GEMRANY, 2023

▪ Building existing 3D digital model

▪ Local regulations awareness and implementation

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional test-fits

▪ Detailed design

▪ Electrical, plumbing installations design proposal

▪ Carpenter drawings

▪ Full pack local authorities drawings

▪ Detailed furniture drawings

▪ Furniture and Materials schedules and quantities

▪ Visualisations

▪ Walk-through rendered video

▪ Panorama renders

▪ Graphical presentations (design, concept and final outputs)

▪ OFFICE TEST-FIT

PARIS, FRANCE, 2023

▪ Proposing test-fits to and existing location

▪ Consideration of local regulations

▪ Considerations of clients’ and building’s constrains

▪ Functional schedules

An existing office (Dresde, DE) is to be renovated.

Initial concept sketches help clients to have a better understanding regarding all the taken design decisions - Here,the city must be replicated into the plan.

The circulation corridor representes the Elba river, which runs throughout the whole city and connects its all landmarks into one fluent city. Both ends of the corridor must seem endless, smae as a river is.

Along the river, the main landmark buildings will be highlighted into the focus rooms, where the concentrations must be at the highest level.

The open plan workspaces, must be treated as livly space that pushes to concentracion and interraction. Sophisticated patterns, nature pieces and calm colours will help enhancing the space overall concept.

The main landmark must be the core element that brings all of the colleagues togeher. Within this office, this space is represented by the breakout area.

Each office design starts with a concept hand-sketches. Here the thinking behingd the future layouts is stated. Then, functional concept layout and multiple furniture test-fits are proposed. Meanwhile, the local regulations are taken into consideration, as the proposals must comply with authorities’ demands. Later, the design finishes with highly detailed drawings which include Overview, Furniture Layouts, Electrical, Ventilation, Carpenters’ drawings, Bespoke furniture detailing plans. Various space and materials schedules are also part of the full pack drawings. Finally, presentation render image as shared with the end users..

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CLOTHING MANUFACTURING WAREHOUSE

IASI, ROMANIA, 2017

▪ Green façade design

▪ CAD drafting plans sections elevations

▪ Walk-through visualisation video

▪ INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE

GERMANY, 2018

▪ Mass extension study for an existing industrial

▪ Preparing graphic presentation of the proposed options

▪ INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE

GERMANY, 2019

▪ Roof detailed design

▪ Construction details

▪ Local safety regulations awarness

▪ MODULAR COVID HOSPITAL

IASI, ROMANIA, 2020

▪ Designing circuits

▪ Collaborating with the wooden building company

▪ Functional concept

▪ Various sizes adaptation (extension / downscale)

▪ APARTMENT, HOUSES RENOVATION DESIGN

ROMANIA / REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA / UK / ITALY, 2018 - PRESENT

▪ Building 3D digital model of the exiting space

▪ Concept design

▪ Functional design

▪ Energy efficiency consultation

▪ Materiality concept and moodboard

▪ Full pack builder’s drawings

▪ Furniture detailing

▪ Client onsite materiality consultation

▪ Construction site assistance

Details on any projects / experiences are available on request.

Contact: +40 756 754 383 / LinkedIn

References

peterk@watsonsproperty.com iris.andernach@arcadis.com