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2020-2021
CONTACT 904-501-2263 nicolegrueser@outlook.com nicolegrueser.myportfolio.com/
Hello, my name is Nicole and I’m an architectural designer based in South Florida. I am interested in creating public spaces to strengthen the sense of community for the people. These spaces focus on how the fusion of narrative, urban design, and public needs can articulate interesting pedestrian experiences. I also enjoy graphic and industrial design. In my free time I am an avid reader and play beach volleyball.
100%
Five year professional B.Arch 3.5 GPA
HAND DRAFTING
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ILLUSTRATOR
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Created diagrams and construction documents for high-end residential projects in and around Delray Beach, FL.
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE 2013-2016
INDESIGN
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SELF-EMPLOYED
Pedro Menendez High School 4.6 GPA
LUMION
90%
PHOTOSHOP
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AUTOCAD
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TWIN MOTION
90%
2016-2022
Process Journal
2021
AIA Ft. Lauderdale Scholarship
2021
Skills USA 5th Place Award
2016
GE ARCHITECTURE
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RHINO 6/7
FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
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WORK EXPERIENCES
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EDUCATION
2018
Created electrical and construction documents for residential projects in the Keys. APEX ENGINEERING
2015-2016
Corrected red-lined documents and created new layouts for floorplans.
instagram: nikkayarts
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RESUME
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METEMPSYCHOSIS
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MIXED MEDIA // RESIDENTIAL FALL 2020 /// DESIGN 7
AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM FALL2021 /// DESIGN 9
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THE BIO-FUSE CENTER
SEMANTIC TOPOLOGIES
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PROFESSIONAL WORK
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RANGING FROM 2020-2022
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CONTENT
METEMPSYCHOSIS Allapattah, Florida
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morphology
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Aiming to alleviate the extreme vehicle congestion in Allapattah, this project creates a new solution to residential areas. The use of electric powered vehicles are implemented within the design that links Allapattah’s history and culture to a technological and self sustaining aspect.
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SITE LIMITS
FIRST FLOOR PLAN RESIDENTIAL
ALUMINUM ROOFING
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PARAMETRIC STEEL FACADE
ACCESS WAYS
ANCHOR PLATE
STEEL FLOOR JOISTS STEEL METAL DECKING ALUMINUM FRAME W/GASKET REBAR
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GLAZED INSULATED GLASS
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RIGID INSULATION
PRE-CASTED CONCRETE
WALL SECTION wall detail of residential areas
FOCUSED PLAN
METEMPSYCHOSIS
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TRI- RAIL
BIO-FUSE CENTER New Orleans, Louisiana
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MULTI MEDIA CENTER SPRING 2020 /// DESIGN 6
Aiming to solve the extreme vehicle congestion in Florida, this project creates a new solution to residential areas. The use of electric powered vehicles are implemented within the design that links Allapattah’s history and culture to a technological and self sustaining aspect.
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morphology
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CENTER
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the skin openings differ in size according to the intensity of the sunlight and the program within the cell
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FOOT TRAFFIC creating a foot traffic diagram of the surrounding area highlighting the most visited areas
defining three different types of cells from the building proximity and geometry into three categories, static, dynamic and transitional.
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DEFINING
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pulling in vertices from areas holding a state of authority over New Orleans, Lee Circle, being a Confederate statue, the World War II Museum, the Jefferson Highway, AIA Building create a grid like pattern for an organized layout of program
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VERTICES
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ARRANGEMENT
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BIO-FUSE CENTER NICOLE GRUESER
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LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
P. R. I. E. N. U N I T E D Hollywood, Florida
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Designed from an inside out strategy, P.R.E.I.N focuses on the community aspect of living. COVID-19 changed the way we lived, quarantine blocked us from society and our social interaction was near zero percent. P.R.E.I.N creates an atmosphere where one unit is divided into 5 components. Each component is an individual and is able to be rearranged according to family size. These components contain, produce, rejuvenate, energize, inhabit, and nourish pods. This reimagined aspect of living areas allows one to interact with more people when walking in between pods. Having a larger square footage of community space versus individual space emphasizes communal living.
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morphology
living room
inhabit
bedroom
energize
kitchen
nourish
POSITIVE LIFE STYLE along with redesigning the components of a house, giving a new label to these spaces that reflect the positive communality emotions that these spaces evoke
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rejuvenate
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bedroom
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produce
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office
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NEIGHBORHOODS
stacked rejuvenate pods on facade adjacent to shared communal areas
a neighborhood is a grouping of pods
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possible neighborhood iterations
the alternating floor pattern is seen from the exterior facade that create exterior spaces
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redefining private space creates a dynamic where one is only alone when using the sleeping pods, this stimulates communal growth and enhances social cohesion
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CONTEXTUAL RESPONSES
each group from the class had a different site, which allowed for all of the designs to populate South Dixie Highway
all designs adhere the zoning codes and regulations for Hollywood, showing the variety of public spaces provided
POSITIVE LIFESTYLE
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TRANS TEMPORAL Boca Raton, Florida
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MORPHOLOGY
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focusing on furthering the previous functions of the Boca air field by connecting to the public domain with a series of paths and promenades. connecting the historical WWII-era airfield to a newly constructed future creating communications between one time and another.
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The existing site is made of unconsumed land from neighboring sites, in order to transform the area we will highlight the living patterns of the natural life on the site, the burrowing owls and gopher tortoises. Using these patterns in comparison with flight patterns and aviation proportions from The Turbosupercharger, create relationships through time.
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OVERVIEW
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MATERIALS
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NORTH SECTION FRONT VIEW
entrance to Trans Temporal
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SEMANTIC TOPOLOGIES Chittagong, Bangladesh
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MORPHOLOGY
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A project stationed in the bay of bangal where most of the worlds navel Architecture goes to die. Bangladesh has no Iron Ore. The cities built with the processed corpses of the most robust sea dwelling creatures. This project fantasizes a future in the past, in which a cataclysmic event isolated a number of ships in a small quadrant of the coast leading to theire destruction and rebuilding into utterly fantastic series of social spaces which celebrate the raw power of man with muthologic levels of creativity, GUided by our generative tools we make an attempt to blueprint the feel back loops and series of processes in developing a catalogue of potential spacial scenarios, carved broken and welded by the shanty-dwelling ship breakers.
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Isolating on images and subtracting a specific feature from the images to create a senario.
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Images created from the Dream App from semantic promts. After hundrededs of results, we were able to code what phrases and words generated what features in this predetermined AI app.
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Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh nicolegrueser.myportfolio.com/
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By leveraging the hybrid outputs of semantic AI neural networks, this project reforms the spatial, economic, and cultural role of ship breaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh. A catalog of entropic matrial constructs was developed as a way to extract various AI topologies and apply them within the context of the ship breaking ecosytem. The drama of these constituent actors, however, plays out in a more urban setting. In arranging these loose formal fragments, there emerges a new type of condition; one that extends off the shore and occupies ships with the very matrials used for their contruction.
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PROFESSIONAL WORKS
Las Vagas: Cocktail
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GOALS
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MAIN IDEA: Keep the design simple and sleek to allow for the floral peices to be the main focal point
COLOR STORY: Whites, creams, lavender and metals ATMOSPHERE: White, glossy, sexy, sleek -draped with bright white lights FURNITURE: Modern, rich, luxury, cool, speaks to Las Vagas
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Center: Floral Fountail, floral vases surrounding
ENTRANCE
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Dj in the back
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PROFESSIONAL WORKS Brunch Event Attendance: 300
Fit As much uner the tent No dance floor
Ceremony
Cocktail
PROFESSIONAL WORKS Wedding Event Guest Count: 500 Room SIze: 64mx73m Ceremony, Cocktail, Reception, Lounge Page Number 61 ARCHITECTURE
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One large room, drapes to reveal next room
Reception NICOLE GRUESER
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Lounge
NICOLE ANDRE GRUESER Email: nicolegrueser@outlook.com
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