2013 Architectural Technologist at Chandler Associates
2015 Architectural Technologistat NORR
2017 Architectural Designer and Project Manager
Intern at the University of British Columbia
2018 Building Technologist at WSP-Architecture49
2018-2022 Freelance Architectural Technologist at Snaile
2022 Intern Architect at studioHuB
2023+ Designer at Kasian Architecture Firm
Due to NDAs, my in-office projects cannot be showcased in this portfolio. However, with +10 years of design build experience, I have included select academic, research, and recreational work to reflect my skills in hand drawing, rendering, diagrammatic and schematic analysis, research on learning, and so forth.
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RETHINKING THE NOTRE DAME
A Proposal for the Rejuvination for the Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris
Water from the River Seine diffuses
45m above the ground to create a cloud like mist outside
International Competition Independent Finalist
The sensory effect blocks traffic noise and readies the mind for englightenment
Traditional gothic architecture featured pointed arches as if reaching for heaven Its readapted exterior appears to float on a cloud, reminding us that heaven is closer than we think
While most of the architecture is conserved, the project features a new upper deck with an all glass facade and gold trimmings, inspired by descriptions of the Golden Gates. This area is meant for contemplation where one may be inspired to pursue their findings on earth.
The goal was to rethink the religious-spiritual experience and focus on creating a space that evokes enlightenment and empathy through exposure and experimental design.
The main floor features 17-35m livestreams of places under distress. Filmed at 1:1 scale, the viewers are immersed into the protagonist’s point of view. The Eyes of Notre Dame is a place of exposure and unbiased news. It exemplifies that echnology and prayer can coexist. Above all, the architecture does not care to be admired or looked at, rather, it wants it audience to look within.
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RETHINKING THE FRENCH DINING EXPERIENCE
A Proposal for a restaurant along the River, Seine, Paris, France.
International Competition
Independent Honorable Mention
This french restaurant features a three part sensory experience lead by gastronomy and supported by meaninful design.
Memory theatre: A conceptual stage that evokes memories. Guilo Camillo L’Idea del Theatro, 16, CE.
Pensorse stair: A continual stair created by four 90-degree turns. Lionel Penrose, 59.
Flanerie: A 19th century french literary term for passionate wandering.
The kitchen is situated such that food circulates in the inverse motion that the tide enters the site.
The architecture embodies Sequana, the goddess of the River Seine, and establishes synergy between man and nature - yielding a mode of consciousness necessary for the memory theatre to work.
Kitchen dimensions introduce grid to the site.
Platforms are organized like penrose stairs to encourage flanerie and contemplation. Varying elevations make semi private dining spaces and enhance views of the river.
The consummatory phase, dominated by liking, shuts down existential thoughts and puts guests in a mindset similar to deep sleep - evoking a micocasm of life experiences to be revisited and imagined.
A wine bar at the topmost floor encourages an extended dining experience. Stairs soften the built topography and create opportunities for lounging and socializing.
As the meal progresses, individuals undergo the satiety phase, leaving them heightened by the earthly leasures and people surrounding them. Waiters are made protagonists of the dining experience by highlighting their circuation with exaggerated ramps. Embodying a runway, the architecture showcases food and serves as the ideal place to be seen.
ACEDO, DIAGRAMATIC STORYTELLING
A diagrammatic narrative of Rem Koolhaas’ Bordeaux House
Academic Project Independent
Occupancy Study, Ink on poster paper, 36”’ x 60”
Red dots on the house plan resemble each member of the household. Repeated in three hour increments over a week, a narrative is formed showing how the family uses space over time.
Guadalupe Acedo is the housekeeper of the Lemoine family’s Bordeaux House which was famously designed by Rem Koolhaas. The house’s structural and programmatic mysteries are best explored through the short film Koolhaas Houselife by Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine. The camera trails behind Mme. Acedo as she runs through her daily duties around the house. We see her gather the roundabout curtains on the main floor then head to the heart of the architectural study, Mr. Lemoine’s elevator slab, which was known for its ability to programmatically merge with the floor it lands on. Given Guadalupe’s knowing nature of the well-known home, this Koolhaas case study is named ACEDO.
Top: Hand-sketch portrait of Mme. Guadalupe Acedo, Maison à Bordeaux Housekeeper Bottom: Diagrammatic conclusion of room use from Occupancy Study Plan Diagram (left).
PORTLANDS THEATRE
An enivonmental and structural study for a theatre project
Academic Project Independent
Solar Collector Panels
Using solar technology, energy is stored to heat and cool the building. Heat transports from the energy panels to a transfer medium (concrete) to heat the building.
Glass Facade and Concrete Thermal Mass
The glass facade allows heat to be stored within the concrete structural walls. This is particularly beneficial for heating the buildings ramps which curve around most of the building’s perimeter.
Moss Roof/Green Roof
Moss is a lightweight layer added atop the roof assembly. It aids in increasing thermal performance of storm water retention. Excess water passes through the moss, filtering large debris. The water is then purified and recycled in the building.
An Asylum Seeker Centre A Train Station
Intro to site: Dundas
West Bloor GO Station
Grid applied
Housing pods placed in response to site
Pod connects to subway station
Housing pods placed in response to site
Market halls as connectors
Grid enforces circulation within pods
Pods placed along west wing for market shipments
Clusters form at along key points on the site. Within the clusters are pods with social housing and communal kitchens for public and private use.
Rendering of 3rd level green roof overlooking market hall (level 2) and train station (level 1).
CLIMATESTUDIO
An environmental and comfort study using parametric modelling and climatestudio software
Academic Project Collaborative
Best to Worst Design Factors:
Window Material Change
Baseline
Opaque Material Change
Skylight Feature
Atrium Feature
Environmental and comfort analyses were made using climatestudio software. By changing physical attributes to the parametric model (simulations I-IV above), we can analyze which design options yield best results.
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GOLDEN MILE
A social, economic, and environmental study and proposal for Golden Mile, Scarborough
Academic Project Collaborative
In coordination with the Port Lands 2024 project, the Port Lands Theatre imagines pedestrian and row friendly pathways throughout the site. As such, the land is divided into three islands which also maximizes waterfront views. The curved waterways and pathways accentuate the theatre’s cylindrical form and entice passersby to circulate the architecture.
AMS SAMPLE WORK
UBC DESIGN BUILD - COMPLETE
WSP-ARCHITECTURE49 SAMPLE WORK
VANLIFE DESIGN BUILD
Services: Front end schematic design, site study, phasing and options designs, WELL and LEED certification applications
Services: Permit drawings and application for a commercial retail unit (restaurant), hand drawings for exterior graphics
Role: Building Technologist Programs: AutoCAD, Revit Collaborative
Role: Architectural Designer and Project Manager Intern Programs: AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Independent - Built
Project: IWANATACO
Services: Architectural design, consultation, and construction for a mobile home. Convert a 2006 Ford E-350 to include windows, deck, barn doors, bathroom, and electrical.
Role: Architect and contractor Programs: Electrical, construction, design, and budgeting
Project: Mobile home renovation
Sector: Residential
Task:
Other built projects include: Expanding The Grocery Checkout, rendering and budgeting lighting options for the Gallery Patio and Lounge, leading the rebranding, construction drawings and permit applications for The Pit (indoor public signage) and The Knoll (outdoor public signage/art installation).
Project: Heavy Equipment Transportation Centre
Sector: Commercial
Sector: Industrial
Renovation details include:
*North: Kitchen, shower system, water tank, window
*South: Storage, barn doors
*West: TV, electrical unit, freezer, dining, storage, window
Tasks include: Leading project meetings, putting contracts up for tender, negotiating with contractors, sourcing materials, rebranding existing CRUs, permit drawing and applications.
Tasks: 3D Renderings on Revit and Photoshop, redline and adjust changes on Revit.
Task: Renovate and rebrand one of the restaurant units in UBC’s student centre. Above is Fl!p S!de, a 100sm commercial retail unit. Below is the renovated unit, rebranded as IWANATACO, featuring a new side window and custom sketched graphics.
*East: bed, storage
Roof: Window, deck, roof storage, solar panels
WSP-ARCHITECTURE49 SAMPLE WORK
Services: Front end schematic design, site study, phasing and options designs, WELL and LEED certification applications
Role: Building Technologist Programs: AutoCAD, Revit Collaborative
Construction drawings available upon request from Architecture49.
Projects and responsibilities include:
*BC Transit HandyDart Terminal Station, Hamilton Transit Centre, Rouge Hill Go Station: Site study, interior design options, preliminary plan designs on AutoCAD, 3D renderings on Revit and Photoshop
*City of Burnaby Parking Lot: Feasibility study, permit application and drawings, design and phasing options modelled on Revit.
*Architecture49 Office Renovation: WELL and LEED certification application, interior design options, budget, permit application and drawings on Revit. [Team lead, completed project].
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Project: Rouge Hill Go Station
Sector: Transit
Task: Site study, interior design options, preliminary plan designs on AutoCAD, 3D renderings on Revit and Photoshop
MIRA
A dialogue generator inspired by Gordon Pasks Conversation Theory A visual dialogue transcription and memory aid
Personal project Independent https://tinyurl.com/mira-aconversation-generator
Mira is a conversation generator between a, yourself, and b, a person, place, thing, or concept of study. Both a and b may be played by the one person. The idea is for the user to apply their knowledge of b, the topic of study, to their own curiosities and creations. See right side of page for details.
Is there anything we can note about tone, feeling, or values when analyzing users’ strokes to captions?
E-LEARNING: RESEARCH
EMPATHETIC LEARNING WITH A.R
Information Representation
An intro to Empathetic-Electronic Learning
Left: Research Information Representation
Research on Empathetic-Electronic Learning using Augmented Reality
Iconography + Representation shows how familiarity influences retention and comprehension speed
Iconography + Repetition
Display + Scale
How we organize and represent data
Conversation Theory: Legend
UX/UI
Live Broadcasting + Participation
L’ = Convo between A and B about subject D’(R)
L° = Convo between A and B about how they can respond to D’(R)
+ Scale on a treadmill portray the same set of data in goal oriented (numbers based) means and story oriented (process based)
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Live Information + Broadcasting involves participatory learning and emotional value which is benefitial to understanding and storing information
Conversation Theory: Precedent and Application
Cybernetics: Conversation Theory
Information Architecture
PROC’= Process = Opportunity for new findings and hypothesis
Gordon Pask’s 1975 theory became a framework for cybernetics. It organized the ways in which A, man, and B, machine, can learn from one another (see diagram above).
This project applies the Conversation Theory model to the Daniels Faculty Building in the hopes that the new architecture, its curricula, and syllabi become responsive to the wellness of its users.
Display
Display + Scale on a dual monitor can display one set of information across both screens (left)
multiple sets of information across both screens (right)
E-LEARNING: RESEARCH
EMPATHETIC LEARNING WITH A.R
An intro to Empathetic-Electronic Learning
Top: Information Architecture-Comic Con
Research on Empathetic-Electronic Learning using Augmented Reality
Top: Precedent Study - Comic Con
Bottom: Information Architecture-Spatial study of human senses
Botom: Spatial Study on Physical Extents of Human Senses
In analyzing Comic Con, we see information projected by objects (left), architecture (bottom) and through costume particpation (Right).
How can these factors maximize our learning?
The following are VR models showing the geometries and scaled extents of human perception for the purpose of discovering how to design spaces for better learning.
https://tinyurl.com/ml-senses
E-LEARNING: DESIGN
An intro to Empathetic-Electronic Learning
An AR Architecture School
A Synesthetic Learning Model A Response to Teaching Online
Masters Thesis Independent
https://youtu.be/sAMtLnZm_S0
AR/VR Overview: Site (Daniels Faculty of Architecture, 1 Spadina Cres.)
This thesis explores empathy through augmented and virtual reality architecture. It translates the statistics from the Daniels Health and Wellbeing Report into AR/VR installations. While statistics flatten the student experience, the installations give students the opportunity to experience the dataset and empathize with their peers. With isolation from schools coming to a close due to the pandemic, I saw it necessary to create an opporunity for students to better understand how their peers are doing.
E-LEARNING: DESIGN
EMPATHETIC LEARNING WITH A.R
An AR Architecture School
A Synesthetic Learning Model A Response to Teaching Online
Designing an Augmented Reality Architecture School using Synesthesia as a Learning Model as a Response to Enhancing the Online Learning Experience
Masters Thesis
Masters Thesis
Independent
Independent
https://youtu.be/sAMtLnZm_S0
https://youtu.be/sAMtLnZm_S0
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CIRCULAR
CIRCULAR DESIGN PROJECT
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SYLLABUS
Course Outline, Syllabus, Assignments made independently for OCAD University
Created for Industrial Design Students
Winter 2023
INDS1008 Instructor Independent
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TEACHING REVIEWS
Course reviews and student remarks
Finalist for OCAD Teaching Awards Independent
OCAD U 2022 -2023 TEACHING AWARDS NOMINATION FORM
Name of Educator: Monique Lizardo
OCAD University
Michael ( JOONGMIN) Park #3187413
This is Michael Park from South Korea who is the international student. I would like to nominate the Monique Lizardo for this 2022- 2023 teaching aw ards. This year is the first time to study in Canada with physical education and I was not fully prepared to start the semester (Because of my military service, officially “the 2 years of the gap years ”) And the class “Circular Design” was the main course for this semester
The course begins with the direction of “res ponsibilities of designer” and through the lectures and research, I can get the academic assist such as emailing, continual examine from Monique even there is language barriers. Through the help, can fully comprehended how the course and design goal goes and can be able how to establish the academic milestones.
She is really supportive and enthusiastic when we doing the projects, and furthermore, she can offers some visions such I never thought before, and inspirational things. Therefore, I can develop the learning skills and criteria while studying in Canada.
As a result, I am nominating Monique Lizardo for the 2022- 2023 teaching awards. W ith this award, it will be a cornerstone for providing education that can be very helpful to other students, including myself.
Best Regards.
March 5 2023
Michael (JOONGMIN) PARK
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I’ve had the pleasure of be ng in Monique’s class this W nter 2023 semester Her classroom was a refreshing space where the students and the professor had open d scussions on how to maneuver a earning env ronment that would be benef c a to all parties Her hol stic approach to teaching created an inclusive earning space where we got to strengthen our weaknesses, as well as play to our strengths Monique is a great embodiment of the new pedagog c ethos we as a society are headed towards and what we are already seeing today
To whom it may concern,
I would like to nominate Monique Lizardo for the teaching awards. As a student in her classroom, she has developed my critical thinking skills for design practices through weekly assignments. She continues to be engaging by having students think outside the box through iterative designs and building on our practice. Beginning by identifying issues, then learning to solve them, I have personally looked at Industrial Design in a new light through Monique’s teachings by adopting problem-solving skills in order to ensure my presentations are succinct and detailed. She creates space without judgement for our ideas and allows us to discuss and build upon our own research, while also asking questions that can expand the information we’ve collected. Monique has been flexible with our work, encouraging us to reflect with our peers in order to utilize everyone’s variety of skills and work together to build stronger projects.
Monique has also introduced new concepts, such as the cradle-to-cradle chart, in order to look externally at the world’s current design processes. I have benefited from the resources she has provided in order to think more critically about the path which my assignments take. Monique has also presented us with her personal works, one of which was most notable to me was her involvement in architectural curricula writing and learning tools design for HoodCentury, highlighting her teaching in black neighbourhoods about architecture and design.
Kind regards, Joshua Castellano
STUDENT WORK 1
Circular Industrial Design Assignment to Teach Children about Recycling
