Architecture Portfolio _ Nicole Siarov

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CV NICOLE SIAROVA

Montreal, Qc, Canada.

EDUCATION

Study Exchange in Barcelona

Escola Tecnicà Superior de Architectura de Barcelona - UPC - 2022-2023

Bachelor in Architecture

Université de Montréal - 2020-2023

Minor in Interior Design

Université de Montréal - 2019-2020

Architectural Technolgy

Cégep de Saint-Laurent - 2016-2019

WORK EXPERIENCE

Architecture Internship Atelier Boom-Town January 2019

Flexxco, MAC Métal Architectural Architecture contracts 2020-2023 , private clients,..

Ski Instructor Ski Mont-Blanc 2015-2019

Assistant Coach (Artistic swimming) Synchro CDN 2017-2018

SOFTWARES KNOWLEDGE

Revit, Autocad, Sketchup, Rhino, Photoshop, Indesign

WRITTEN AND SPOKEN LANGUAGES

French, English, Spanish and Bulgarian

LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

Dear Sir or Madam, It is with interest and enthusiasm that I submit my application.

I am currently a third year student in the Bachelor of Architecture and I would like to continue studying in this field further. Having done an internship in a firm in Montreal, having completed my technical training at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent, and currently doing a study abroad program at the Escola Tecnicà Superior de Architectura de Barcelona during the last year of my bachelor, I have developed a great interest in the design of a project and the artistic side of this field.

These experiences and living abroad while studying with people from all around the wolrd have given me a great sense of resourcefulness, and I want to deepen my theoretical background. I believe that the teaching at your University would bring me a lot of new knowledge on both a professional and personal level.

I am aware of the work that needs to be done to achieve this, and I have the ability and motivation to reach my academic goals. I thank you for the attention you will give to the study of my file,

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need additional information.

Sincerely,

Nicole Siarova

The clients of this house are two professionals with two young children. They want to leave their condo to move into what will become the family residence. With a target area of 1800 ft.2., this home is designed according to the needs of the different members of the family. In the Pointe-Saint-charles district, there is a certain industrial cachet. This element is taken up in the project through several elements, among others such as a stainless copper coating in the front facade.

There are very subtle angles that add dynamics to the building. On the front facade, an angled recess encourages us to enter the project and creates an intriguing depth at the entrance. Also, the link between the interior and the exterior is very important, whether through a continuity of the layout between the two or the many large openings that bring a lot of brightness to the interior.

Wall Section Cut

Wall Detailed Section

longitudinal section

MIL Housing, Campus UdeM

This project of 40 accomodations allows us to make a link between the past railway and the current vision of the MIL Campus Indeed, the project aims to preserve the collective memory of the former site history while integrating it into the current and future context. The typologies are designed to take up the classic Montreal typology. The use of double heights in homes also offers a quality of life and significant light. The project illustrates a desire to link the scale of Montreal’s collective housing to this new institutional hub. This desire is reflected in the setbacks in the gradation of volumetry in order to mark the transition between the monumentality of the MIL campus, and the limit of the houses of Outremont. On the ground floor, stilts make room for pedestrians and integrate the community space on the ground floor. The site of implantation by its place and its context suggests several institutional and community spaces through the primary school, the intergenerational community center and the many parks. The project allows itself to exploit this community context in order to push it further by providing access to the roof of the neighbouring intergenerational community centre. by integrating a collective greenhouse (in light green in the axonometry on the right).

GROUND FLOOR AXONOMETRY

The different houses, whether it is the 60 m2, 90m2, 120m2 or the visitor house, are all inspired by the Sea Ranch House, a project made by Charles Moore where we can find a new way of thinking the space. Indeed, in these houses, we can find some of the ideas of the Sea Ranch House such as the idea of a box inside of a box. Like little matrons (also known as Matryoshka dolls), inside the bigger shell (the outisde structure of the house), we can found smaller elements like boxes that define different rooms. The outside structure is separated from the different structures that make up these rooms.

Each of the inside boxes are composed by wood panels that can be open and that are aligned with the glass panels so that the habitant can choose to open up his space to the outside as he wishes.

Course: Proyecto III (ETSAB-UPC)

Nomad offers a temporary home and workspace for digital nomads. Coming from all over the world, an exchange is created between these young proffessionals and their different cultures. This coliving space brings people together under an ecological architecture. Many patios offer continuity from indoor spaces to the outside allowing visitors to enjoy them while having some privacy. In addition, the studios located at the 4 corners of the land allow the common areas to be at the center of the plan in order to create as many encounters as possible.

Single Studio with mezannine

Communal Kitchen

Exterior Bar

Vegetable garden

Communal spaces (living room, work space, ...)

Exterior spaces

Double Studio with mezannine

The expansion of the Faculty of Music pavilion is located on a site bounded by three thresholds: the existing one, defined by the building in place, the city, defined by the site that projects towards Montreal, and the nature, defined by the surroundings of the mountain Mount Royal. The proposed expansion, located on the mountainside, is composed of three volumes along each of these thresholds and whose shape is inspired by them. The interior spaces are distributed in these three volumes according to the desired atmosphere inside. Nature provides a healthy atmosphere for concentration, such as what is found alone in the forest. The city, on the other hand, generates more collaboration and the noise that comes with it. It is by using these thresholds, not only for the elaboration of the three volumes, but also to define the uses inside, that links are created between the site, the existing building and the annex.

At the center of the project, large appropriable steps evoke the meeting of the three thresholds. These steps offer a connection to paths leading to the top of the mountain, a connection with the volume of the existing on each landing, but also a view towards the city thanks to the dominant opening of the library.

To build the pavilion of the existing faculty of music, the mountain was dug causing a break in the slope. By playing with stepping heights, the three new volumes recall this natural slope of Mount Royal that was once present.

The very façade of the extension allows an understanding of the interior organization of the buildings. A game of screen printing, opacity and transparency, to control the views and the light, allows to see the structure of the building, as well as its different levels. This screen printing set also allows you to control the light to minimize heat gains in summer and thus reduce the required air conditioning energy.

MODEL 1:100

Cardbord, White acrylic, Clear and frosted acrylic

Pastel Drawings

Duration: 30min (on the left); 15min (on the right)

Course: AME1212 Expression 2 et 3D (UdeM)

The Table ; 594x841mm ; pastel on cartridge paper

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