Architecture Portfolio | Orian Broza

ORIAN BROZA

I’m Orian, a second year student at the Waterloo School of Architecture.

To me, architecture extends past more than just the built environment, and I am inspired by its ability to positively impact others and grow our cities, cultures, and communities. As a budding architect, I aspire to challenge myself to create meaningful, holistic work. I hope that you can use this portfolio as a way to get to know me a little better and see why my passion, motivation, and willingness to learn would make me a great addition to your team.

Apart from architecture, I enjoy exploring new places , playing basketball and volleyball , adventure sports , and a good crime thriller novel .

EducationSkills

Digital Analog

Rhino 7

Revit

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Lightroom

Enscape

Grasshopper (beginner)

Microsoft Office

Hand drafting

Model making

3D printing

Sketching

Laser cutting

CNC milling

University of Waterloo

Cambridge, ON

2021 - 2026

Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Co-op Program

Qualifications

Solid visualization and 3D-modelling skills gained through various academic projects. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills developed in various leadership and collaborative roles.

Games Attendant

Captive Escape Games

Jun - Jul 2022

Toronto, ON

Experience Community Involvement

Responsible for all escape room customer touchpoints: room setup, welcome, guidelines and storyline, providing clues, room reset, space maintenance, reservation management.

Achievements

Event Coordinator

Jan - Apr 2022

Waterloo Architecture Student Association

Led the ideation, organization, and execution of multiple school events.

Chief Editor

The York School

Sep 2020 - Jun 2021

Proofread and edited incoming articles from journalists for school’s digital newspaper. Set up and maintained Sports section.

Excellent Academic Standing

University of Waterloo 80%+ Academic Average

President’s Scholarship of Distinction Faculty Award

University of Waterloo 95%+ Entrance Average

The York School (IB Diploma - IB 41)

InterestsLanguages

English Hebrew Spanish (intermediate) Italian (beginner)

Travelling Reading Adventure sports Analytics + statistics

2021, 2022 2021

2021

Basketball Screenwriting Acting (theatre + film) Fitness + nutrition

A Slice of Life

Toronto, Canada

Design Studio ARCH 193 (Winter 2022)

Isabel Ochoa Sifei Mo

Skills

Rhinoceros 7, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Enscape

How can a building bring together a diverse new community in a developing neighbourhood?

A slice of life – of everyone’s life - is food. It transcends culture, language, and age. Situated in the West Donlands, a developing neighbourhood with a wide variety of ethnic heritages, the Slice of Life Library and Community Hub encourages community involvement, collaboration, and interaction across the life cycle of food, emphasized through program and circulation. A hydroponic garden leads straight to a communal kitchen, which seamlessly flows into an indoor/ outdoor cafe, providing a platform for diverse cultures to be shared and celebrated. A bright and open library program, as well as an accessible green roof, offer moments of both socialization and rest, and a stepped sunken courtyard helps ground the building.

The library occupies a triangular shape that faces southeast, engaging the surrounding pedestrian space and forming an unabridged path from one side of the block to the other

The exterior space of the southeast side of the building is lowered, forming a stepped sunken courtyard that ties together the exterior and interior

GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE STREET RESIDENCE

FRED VICTOR’S PERMANENT HOUSING

CANARY DISTRICT APARTMENTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING

demographics

The second floor is extruded to provide shade for the courtyard below, and structural south-facing louvers regulate solar gain and light penetration

A green roof, benches and skylights are added to the library to maximize natural daylight and enhance the building’s connection with nature

massing

upper floor plan

plan

floor plan

second floor library perspective

Anchored

“A Bridge to a View” CISC Steel Construction Competition Lunenburg, Canada

Building Construction ARCH 173

Visual Communications ARCH 113 (Winter 2022)

Terri Boake Isabel Ochoa

Rhinoceros 7, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Enscape

How can a bridge provide a walkable view of a national treasure?

Located in the Most Beautiful Small Town in Canada of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Anchored is a bridge to a view of the quaint port town’s colourful waterfront and its surrounding peninsula. Inspired by the town’s main attraction of Bluenose II, a replica of an early 1900’s racing ship and vessel that served as a provincial icon for Nova Scotia, the bridge presents itself as an historic ship anchored to a dock. The main structure is supported by 5 masts placed at the junctions between each section with sloping supporting cables that represent sails, and a steel tieback system that invokes a traditional capstan.

Skills

Derek Shin

ground plan

In order to achieve the “anchored” effect, the bridge had to be designed accordingly. The tensile forces of the steel tieback system (which is anchored by a concrete deadman) are equaled by the mast and tension cables.

force diagram

site plan

Octagonal

Dual-Pitch

500mm

Engineered

Welded

locked

locked coil strand galvanized steel cross clamp

3

deck - substructure connection

grub screws stainless steel fasteners

500mm x 300 x 200 rectangular HSS sections

engineered oak planks

bolts

500mm x 400 x 200 rectangular HSS section

5

pre-expanded expansion anchors

concrete foundation ; precast concrete piles drilled into the rock / ocean floor filled with concrete on-site

mast - foundation connection tieback - cable connection

octagonal HSS sections; able to be assembled on-site base plate

flemish eye cable connector

galvanized steel turnbuckle

galvanized locked coil strand pre-expanded expansion anchors

concrete deadman (hidden)

Solace

Cambridge, Canada

Design Studio ARCH 192 (Autumn 2021)

Brenda Reid Fiona Lim Tung

As part of a collaborative neighbourhood plan that intends to provide housing for students and youth in the Cambridge region, Solace functions both as a youth shelter and student residence, adaptable to any situation. The residence provides a reprieve from daily life - the common room includes both spaces for larger gatherings and smaller, individual spaces that allow for relaxation and reflection, with the addition of a small greenhouse and materiality linking the residence to its forest-like surroundings. Separate paths of circulation throughout both floors allow for complete privacy, with residents enjoying a private garden in addition to the larger, communal patio and terrace.

How can a common room be private while still retaining its sense of community? How can the space provide both an enclosure and refuge?

SkillsInstructorsCoursesLocation

Rhinoceros 7, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

floor

floor

north elevation

south elevation

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Akersveien

Off-grid Research

Environmental Building Design ARCH 126 (Winter 2022)

Anna Beznogova

Rhinoceros 7, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Enscape

How can a residence give back to the Earth without taking away?

Located in the windy capital of Oslo, Norway, 18 Akersveien is a retrofit of an abandoned carpenter’s workshop; surrounded by a myriad of colourful houses and buildings that have lost their lustre, this urban oasis symbolizes a return to Norwegian vernacular architecture in its brick and timber structure, which now houses two climatologists researching the worsening climate change in Norway. By reusing the existing structure, 18 Akersveien substantially reduces its embodied energy, and its vast rain garden and constructed wetland help prevent stormwater runoff and allow the building to catch up to the “clean city” lifestyle that the rest of Oslo has.

SkillsInstructors

Leif Lovlin

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main floor upper floor

elevation

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site plan

In the summer, operable windows and clerestory windows provide natural daylighting and ventilation

In the winter, radiant floor heating provides efficient warmth throughout the interior and triple-pane windows prevent cold air from seeping in

living space

climatologists’ office

south elevation

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section

Cambridge Co-op Housing

Tenants of the cluster unit have a private terrace Bicycle owners can access the storage space off of the site

Located in Cambridge, Ontario, project is a modification of the Housing building in Berlin, Germany; based on lived experience, observation of the conditions this presentation panel highlights modifications placed on addressing crisis in Cambridge environmentally-conscious

In addition to the building’s with the public through storage and option terrace facing outwards link with the neighbouring Cambridge

Cluster apartment been extended to number of its residents now private

“Cambridge aims to become a more bike friendly city” (Coxson, 2022)

In Berlin, bikes were stored outside of the buildings. Transforming one of the option rooms into bike storage and a shed helps connect the residents to the growing biking infrastructure in Cambridge , prevents bicycle theft , and encourages a healthier, cheaper, and more environmentally-friendly mode of transportation Grand River

Maintaing public to the option other spaces the homeless the building still to enrichment opportunities

“Housing of the future has to be housing for the common good.”

Ontario, this co-op housing the River Spreefeld Coop Germany; modifications were experience, textual evidence, and conditions of the Cambridge site; highlights the focus my addressing the homelessness and emphasizing modes of transportation

building’s engagement through its all-access bike rooms , the private outwards creates a visual neighbouring Trinity Park and Cambridge River

OTHER RESIDENTS

CLUSTER UNIT RESIDENTS

apartment terrace has to acommodate residents and is private

Hallway to terrace private to residents of the upper floors

Oftentimes, when a chronically homeless person is placed in housing, it is challenging to reing themselves back into society, and they face many difficulties early on, most times alone. As homelessness in Cambridge continues to rise, the cluster apartment provides a solution that encourages collectivism and a communal living structure that gives users access to assistance and guidance from others

public access option rooms and ensures that homeless not living in still have access enrichment and growth opportunities

Although the communal spaces in the cluster apartment are shared, each tenant has their own individual room that includes a kitchenette, bathroom, and private terrace

“Chronic homelessness in Waterloo region climbs 34 percent in 6 months” (Senoran, 2021)

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