Nataly Hakopian Portfolio 2025

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NATALY HAKOPIAN

she/her

natalyhakopian@gmail.com 626-733-5905 www.linkedin.com/in/nataly-hakopian

ABOUT I am seeking an opportunity to contribute to a team where I can continue to learn and grow as a designer. I believe architecture should connect people and place, integrate thoughtfully with its site, and serve communities with inclusive solutions. I am adaptable, detail-oriented, and motivated.

EDUCATION

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA BACHELORS OF ARCHITECTURE AUGUST 2020 - AUGUST 2025

WORK EXPERIENCE KESS PROJECTS

INTERIOR DESIGN INTERN · RESIDENTIAL JUNE 2023 – SEPTEMBER 2023 · Created detailed furniture plans balancing functionality with aesthetic appeal. · Supported material selection and sourcing to align with project goals and client preferences. · Coordinated with vendors to manage sample requests and ensure timely material availability. · Crafted PowerPoint presentations for client meetings, showcasing project concepts and proposals.

RICHARD NEUTRA VDL HOUSE

DOCENT · EDUCATION/ HISTORIC PRESERVATION SEPTEMBER 2023 – MAY 2024 · Led tours at the VDL House, educating visitors on the history of Neutra and his home. · Engaged with diverse audiences, answered questions, and communicated architectural concepts. · Managed tour groups and schedules efficiently.

SKILLS REVIT RHINO 7 AUTOCAD

VRAY GRASSHOPPER TWIN MOTION

HONORS

LUMION ENSCAPE LASER CUTTING

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR ADOBE INDESIGN

JACK AND MARILYN ZUBER REMEMBRANCE THIRD YEAR HOUSING AWARD CPP INTERIM SELECTION F2023, F2024, SP2025 DEANS AND PRESIDENT’S LIST

INVOLVEMENT

ENV JAPAN STUDY ABROAD SUMMER 2024

CLIENT PRESENTATION CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS 3D PRINTING

CONTENTS 01 THIRD PLACE LIVING 2025

02 MULTI-PURPOSE STADIUM Collaboration with Natalie Kim 2024

03 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2022

04 SANTA ANA RESIDENTIAL 2023

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THIRD PLACE LIVING MISSION JUNCTION, CALIFORNIA This multi-family housing project in Mission Junction explores how housing can connect communities through integrated “third spaces.” Beyond providing shelter, it embeds shared resources such as a café lounge, tech zone, and study pods that support remote work, studying, and social interaction. These spaces respond to shifting lifestyles where people increasingly seek accessible, flexible places to gather outside of traditional libraries or offices.

The site, located between a high-traffic street and a quieter residential street, informs the building’s organization: public-facing programs engage the active edge, while residential entry faces the calmer side. Proximity to Los Angeles State Historic Park strengthens the project’s role as a community destination, offering direct access to green space and a place for people to work, connect, and unwind.

A subtractive massing strategy carves courtyards, terraces, and balconies to provide both collective gathering areas and private retreats. A steel frame grid establishes order and flexibility, while independent walls shape specific programs. Together, these systems allow the building to adapt to diverse households and evolving daily life, demonstrating how housing can foster community and support long-term living.

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1 BEDROOM 578 SF 20 TOTAL

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STUDIO 416 SF 20 TOTAL

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3 BEDROOM 1247 SF 6 TOTAL

2 BEDROOM 816 SF 16 TOTAL

40,799 TOTAL SF OF UNITS 62 TOTAL UNITS COMBINED

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MULTI-PURPOSE STADIUM CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA This proposed stadium for Cal Poly Pomona uses narrative design to balance athletics, culture, and everyday campus life. While gymnastics is the primary sport, the venue remains flexible for basketball games and performing arts events, creating a hub for both competition and community gathering. The design centers on three user perspectives: the performer, spectators and the students. These profiles guided the spatial organization, ensuring the building serves beyond scheduled events.

Architecturally, solid walls ground the project at a human scale, while a truss system introduces cantilevered spaces for dynamic circulation and viewing. Site planning connects the venue seamlessly to campus routes and parking, while layered floor plans separate public, athlete, and VIP flows. A facade of translucent panels, glass, and warm wood balances transparency with welcome, creating both anticipation and connection.

Ultimately, the stadium merges technical precision with user-driven narratives, offering a flexible, inspiring space for athletics, culture, and daily student life.

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GENERAL CORPORATE PLAYERS STAFF PRIVATE MIXED ZONE - PLAYERS AND STAFF MIXED ZONE - MEDIA ENTRANCES

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SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA This project explores circulation and freedom of choice through the relationship between a grounded plinth and a twisting tower. The plinth integrates seamlessly with the site, blurring boundaries so that the ground becomes building and the building becomes landscape. Two programmatic strips guide circulation, while a framed courtyard welcomes visitors arriving from the adjacent parking garage.

The plinth serves as a solid, civic base housing a fabrication lab, model shop, and café at ground level, with a lecture hall and gallery above. In contrast, the tower emphasizes flexibility and interaction, accommodating a lobby, seminar rooms, studios, and office spaces.

Materiality reinforces this duality: the plinth’s robust concrete contrasts with the tower’s delicate fabric façade. Adjustable exterior panels act as “curtains,” allowing occupants to manipulate light, privacy, and openness, making the building responsive to both environmental and programmatic needs. Connections between levels such as the café overlooking the lobby creating layered spatial experiences, merging circulation, visibility, and choice. Ultimately, the design creates a dialogue between solidity and lightness, offering users both structure and freedom within a single project.

GALLERY CAFE FABRICATION LAB MODEL SHOP STUDIO

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Alexander Pang Nataly Hakopian

EX04 CPP/ARC ARC2021A SP22

STRUCTURE

MULLION GLASS

MECHANICS

PURIFY MESH 30

FACADE DEVELOPMENT

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FACADE FLEXIBILITY

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SANTA ANA RESIDENTIAL 610 NORTH SANTIAGO STREET, SANTA ANA, CA 92701 This multi-family housing project explores how architecture can negotiate the threshold between public and private life. The site sits between a busy train station and a quieter residential street, and the building responds by placing civic spaces and retail toward the public edge while reserving live-work units and residential entries for the private side.

Courtyards and green spaces serve both residents and the broader community, creating layers of interaction across the site.

Daylight and ventilation informed the design through a rotation of stacked units, producing a terracing effect that increases natural light and air flow. This strategy also generated a variety of unit types, accommodating households with different needs and promoting inclusivity. The movement of the mass blurs lines between podium, retail, and residences, weaving the programs together into an integrated whole.

The façade system continues this idea of layered thresholds: transparent glazing activates public-facing programs, while more opaque or frosted elements provide privacy for residences. Large and small window modules overlap, creating visual ambiguity where retail meets housing. Two major civic spaces anchor the project, an indoor art center at the train station entrance and an outdoor performance space along the promenade, offering opportunities for creativity, music, and community gathering in a city where green space is limited. In doing so, the project reimagines multi-family housing as not just shelter, but as a shared framework for living, gathering, and connecting.

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PUBLIC COURTYARD

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