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MARIA DING [ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO] 2014-2019

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UNDERGRADUATE WORK

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

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THE MAGIC HEDGE ARCH 4101: Design VII November 2017

POD CITY ARCH 5101: Design IX November 2018

A WORLD WITHOUT WORK ARCH 4201: Design VII May 2018

HIGH LINE HOTEL ARCH 3101: Design V November 2016

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DESIGN PROJECTS

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HOUSE OF HANDS FUTURE OF WORK ARCH 4500: Visual Representation Weston Baker Creative Group August 2017 November 2018

ART PROJECTS

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BRIDGE AT CROSSWATERS ARCH 2613: Structural Systems November 2015

PINK ON WEDNESDAYS Graphic Design February 2018

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DESCENT Sculpture November 2014

ANALOG Drawing November 2014

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3. HEAL IT’S LIKE YOUR JOB

4. HIGH LINE HOTEL

2. POD CITY

1. THE MAGIC HEDGE

There are some locations on Planet Earth whose ground is so saturated with ‘goings on’ that they plead for attention.

Such a place is the Montrose Magic Hedge, a man-made spit of land in Chicago that pushes out into Lake Michigan.

Once a base for Nike nuclear missiles defending the megalopolis, it is now a safe haven for over 400 species of birds on their semi-annual migration on the Mississippi Flyway. The pastoral setting, crisscrossed by eager-beaver bird watchers, also makes a perfect cover for illicit sex.

The studio seeks to create a project for the intersection of Nukes, Migration and Forbidden Love.

THE MAGIC HEDGE ARCH 4101: DESIGN VII INSTRUCTORS: BEN NICHOLSON ERIN PELLEGRINO Cornell University // November 2017

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The studio begins by making a deep study of the life of a bird and its nest, utilizing the Cornell Ornithology Lab, the world’s center of bird study. An Everything Drawing, a new form of architectural representation, is created that demonstrates the figurative, technical, textual and diagrammatic aspects of understanding the complexities of space. The Operational Imposter is a physical form of the ideas represented in the Everything Drawing. The model further demonstrates the rich interconnectivity of all that constitutes a construction, be it emotive, practical, political or global.

Addressing the site of the Magic Hedge in Chicago, the studio combs through its nuclear history, and study of underground of illicit love. Using the abandoned Nike missile launch site, this project seeks to create a nightclub distributed amongst three towers that changes its function throughout the day. Hidden in these towers are: walls that shift up and down to create hidden entrances; rooms that rotate to release aviary creatures; a roof that slides open to reveal a dance floor situated on a launch pad. The aim is to produce a discreet social gathering place for the local queer community generated by the exaggeration of transitioning from day to night. A similar Everything Drawing is made of the rich politics & practicalities that compose rustic parkland within a pulsating urban fabric.

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The Operational Imposter

Day Plan

Night Plan

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Morning Routine in Gay Community

Evasion of Bird Watchers

Day in the Life of a Cruiser

Outing to Cruising in the Magic Hedge Forest

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Secret Entrance to Night Club

Missile Launch Pad as Dance Floor

“Cruising” Away into the Night

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Transformative Spaces and Form

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POD CITY ARCH 5101: DESIGN IX INSTRUCTORS: DAVID LEVEN STELLA BETTS THOMAS PHIFER GABRIEL SMITH IN COLLABORATION WITH: CHARLY KRING Cornell University // November 2018

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POD City is located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Red Hook is isolated by the Gowanus expressway. As a result, the neighborhood is an intimate environment. POD City uses analysis of Kisho Kurokawa’s Capsule Tower in Tokyo. The Capsule Tower exemplifies affordability, due to the density of micro units build for the single working man. The Metabolist movement advocated for modularity and organic architecture that was reproducible. However, the capsule tower failed to provide space for families and sufficient light for all units. Though the Capsule Tower has a small footprint, it lacks common space.

POD City is a village in which common spaces, family size units and individualized balconies celebrate each inhabitants’ identity. POD City is oriented so that each unit has direct daylight. Prefabrication allows units to be affordable and reproducible. All elements of the construction are planned through a “kit of parts”. POD City is built in phases to support the renovation of NYCHA. After POD City is constructed, 185 residents of one NYCHA building will move into POD City. The original NYCHA building will be repurposed into work spaces and indoor farms. POD City’s small footprint allows all it’s towers to be connected by communal markets, preschools and amenities.

Neighbors will gather together in communal spaces within their tower and visit each other on shared balconies. Each resident makes their space an extension of their identity and is able to present this through their personal balcony. POD City celebrates the equality of light, representation and gathering.

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Massing Studies

Kit of Parts

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Phase 1: 2018

Phase 2: 2025

Preschool

Phase 3: 2030

Phase 4: 2035

NYCHA Adaptive Reuse

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Site Plan

Market Level Plan

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A WORLD WITHOUT WORK ARCH 5101: DESIGN IX INSTRUCTORS: SAM CHERMAYEFF DANICA SALEM Cornell University // May 2018

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“Imagine a world- oriented toward healing rather than disease, where physicians believed in the natural healing capacity of humans beings, and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.”

In a world of UBI money will no longer be the source of motivation. Post-capitalism will be dictated by the power of knowledge: knowledge to heal, knowledge to improve, knowledge to live. With this holistic approach to selfhealing in mind, the project proposes to utilize practices in traditional alternative medicine, encompassing all aspects of the patient’s life and their past to provide an individualized treatment for citizens of UBI. Combining humanistic and biomedical therapy, the wellness center seeks to maintain eternal health and vitality.

Current treatments are concerned with seeing immediate results in treating diseases due to limited time and resources. Alternative medicine however will focus on curing future diseases. The treatment is preventative rather than reactive; the architecture is adaptive rather than designated; the experience is prolonged rather than direct.

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Program Research

Massing Model

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Pharmacy and Consultation

Operating Theatre

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HIGH LINE HOTEL ARCH 3101: DESIGN V INSTRUCTOR: HENRY RICHARDSON Cornell University // November 2016

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At a glance, the project outlines a mixed-use complex nestled into the gaps and interstitial spaces along the High Line. Located in Manhattan, the High Line as we know it today is a major pedestrian park elevated above the streets of the Chelsea region. It excites urban renewal at every opportunity, bringing life to its surrounding locations.

The multi-purpose structure for retail, guest rooms, apartments, leisure and green seeks to engage the High Line’s pedestrians, offering them the opportunity to see New York from an entirely new viewpoint.

Derived from a series of vertical planes, the hotel is penetrated by glass apertures and walkways to frame intriguing scenes along the High Line. A gradient of private to public spaces allows the everyday pedestrian to easily navigate themselves towards the High Line while the transition from public to private helps hotel resident to find their way back to their living quarters. Moments such as green atriums and resort terraces situated along either side of the linear park provide this smooth transition and draws visitors of the High Line into the plethora of new amenities provided.

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APARTMENT HOTEL OFFICE LOBBY/RETAIL GREEN SPACE RESORT LIBRARY OPEN CORRIDOR SERVICE

Penetration of Vertical Planes

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Programming of Spaces

Ground Level Plan

High Line Level Plan

Apartment Level Plan

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DESIGN PROJECTS

2. HOUSE OF HANDS

4. TOMPKINS HISTORY CENTER

1. ALTERED REALITIES

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3. FUTURE OF WORK

On every Friday for the entire 12 week duration of the program, the 12 interns at the Chicago office in collaboration with 5 other interns across the North Central region in the Detroit, Minneapolis and La Crosse offices worked towards producing a research proposal: what does it mean to design for altered realities? We soon began to interpret designing for altered realities as acknowledging the human experience.

The research process goes through many phases and this summer, we were asked to uncover, analyze and synthesize data, and then take pause. The prototype phase is beyond the scope of the summer and so the goal was to come up with more abstracting, less concrete solutions. During the beginning phase of our intern research, we based our assumptions for future trends on the analysis of historic fundamental invention. We achieved this by looking at design on 6 scales: Cities, Communities, Buildings, Rooms, Furniture, Objects. We learnt that technology influences us and we influence technology.

ALTERED REALITIES GENSLER CHICAGO IN COLLABORATION WITH: NORTH CENTRAL REGION INTERNS Summer Internship // August 2018

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Next, we took our expertise and applied it to our topic of altered realities. Innovation changes the way we see and interact with the world around us and our task was to research, analyze and synthesize data studying how cultural and technological changes have shifted the way we behave. Within these synergistic teams we crafted hypotheses. Each team created their own hypotheses based on member expertise and collaborative analysis.

Through case studies analyzing the influence of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality on our experience frameworks, we learnt that our relationship with technology is complex and always changing.

The final step is to come together. Based on our previous research, we established our hypothesis on fostering a future in which People and Technology can strengthen each other. Our visualization of a new Mixed Reality studio incorporates interactive technologies integrated into the office, client meetings and site visits as well as a new team of design specialists. To prepare for this major change, we developed a road map for Gensler to follow while formulating this new studio. The emphasis on predicting and preparing for scenarios beyond our present time reflects the use of design as a tool for imagining the future and systematically working to execute that future.

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Introducing

Your first day...

Mixed Reality Studio VR Experience

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Mixed Reality Designer New Hire

Interactive OďŹƒce Desk

Welcome to Gensler!

The MR Studio INSTRUCTIONS

For i-phone: 1) open i-phone camera 2) focus camera on QR code 3) do not take photo, link should open in brwser automatically

For Samsung Galaxy: 1) open Samsung Internet app 2) tap in upper right hand corner 3) tap “Scan QR code�

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Scan me to see the new office!

Visualizations in Site Visits

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We looked at design on these 6 scales.

CITIES COMMUNITIES BUILDINGS ROOMS FURNITURE OBJECTS

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CITIES & COMMUNITIES

The history of a city is cumulatively affected by every individual’s cultural incidents.

2010 1700 employees

2011-2012

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2017 17,000 employees 2016

$ 252.69b 2015

$ 243.11b 2014

$ 229.33b 2013

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$ 220.28b

$ 215.61b 2011

$ 206.17b 2010

$ 197.97b

SEARS

Dan Gilberts and Detroit’s GDP

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Timeline of technological inventions from 1920 to 2018 exploring the rise and fall of manufacturing thorugh Sears and Amazon.

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Research

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STRATEGY

TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY

To extend our analysis, we created a matrix, which sets the technologies on one axis, and modes of experience on another.

With post-it notes, we thought through the positives and negatives of each ‘altered reality’ in each scenario.

In order to predict the future, we needed to develop deeper knowledge of how Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are used in the present.

We brainstormed activities and places that use technology, and picked one that represented a ‘routine’ activity and one that represented a ‘leisure’ activity. These activities went on to serve a scenarios for us to analyze.

VR + VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)

AUGMENTED REALITY (AR)

MIXED REALITY (MR)

replicates an environment that simulates a physical presence

Real world environment whose elements are augmented by computer sensory input

merging of real and virtual as a way for objects to co-exist and interact in real-time

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COMMUTING Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality

EMOTIONAL

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experience

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_ Have valuables stolen while immersed in other world

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cause financial and emotional harm

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STORYTELLING The iPad and the Segway: 2 technologies which were believed to be revolutionary when they were launched.

Introducing Alisha: The virtual voice-enabled home assistant.

Introducing Manuel: The silent communication accessory.

Alisha goes beyond booking your appointments and playing your songs; it helps with education. It is a handy tool to use for homework, and thus wins the parents’ vote.

Manuel is used to cheat on a test. The brand image is tainted. Educational institutions ban its use. It loses the vote of parents and teachers, and people gradually stop using it.

The iPad was first seen in the iconic science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, as a futuristic device. Now it is ubiquitous.

The Segway was invented in 2001. At the time it seemed like it would change the way people think about mobility. However, now it is only used by mall cops, tour guides and Gob Bluth.

We used these two as references to compare two technologies of the present or near future to understand how they might fit into society: Alisha and Manuel.

Alisha is based on Amazon’s smart speaker Alexa.

Manuel is based on MIT’s mind-reading headset called AlterEgo.

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We project the way these two will be received and used by people, and follow their stories through the medium of Instagram.

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Alisha becomes a part of the family.

Manuel bridges the language gap.

It adopts the simplest, most intuitive form of communication, which makes it easy to personify and get attached to.

It is more than a universal language; it is a universal translator. It enables interactions with more people and gives new meaning to equality.

aCollectionofCells 400 pages in two days challenge. Couldn’t have done this without Alisha #survivingmedschool #secretweapon

View all # comments siruious lmao I thought I was the only one studying with Alisha Baby_Jesus Alisha quizes me everyday haha. 400 is crazy btw...

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OnceUponADime Cheated on midterm without doing this...

Seriously can cheating be easier when everyone is using Manuel? #notproud #Manuel100%

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On-boarding

we asked ourselves:

You receive your on-boarding package and your map of the office.

Your studio pod is in the south-west corner.

Your office’s HR Coordinator briefs you, then the Regional HR Coordinator beams in to finish your orientation.

What are mixed reality technologies actually good at?

What are the people of Gensler actually good at?

How does technology influence social interaction?

How do our social interactions influence the way we use technology?

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SEASON 2

SEASON 3

How does mixed reality alter the way we design?

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Meet the Team Several unique positions exist within the Mixed Reality Studio. You will all be working closely together to design mixed reality solutions to complex problems.

Client Meeting You and you team members beam into a client’s office for a brief update meeting.

PROJECT MANAGER

PROJECT STRATEGIST

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNER

MIXED-REALITY ENGINEER

DESIGN MANAGER

DESIGN TECHNOLOGIST

EXPERIENCE DESIGNER

MIXED-REALITY DESIGNER

You collaborate face to face without even leaving the mixed reality studio.

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3. Only with a critical evaluation of these tools will we expand and enhance the human experience.

Organizational Practice

Organizational Change

Road Map

Organizational Practice

Let’s take a step back for a moment...

A Mixed Reality studio is an exciting prospect, but how in the world do we go about starting one?

We’ve developed a road map Gensler can follow to develop this exciting new studio.

Focus: Development

Focus: Training

Focus: Deployment

Education Internal curriculum that focused on cross-disciplinary education

Cross-departmental skills Provide employees with introductory courses to other departmental software.

Project aquisition: Encourage studio leaders to introduce MR offerings to long-term clients

Have employees provide short lectures on previously completed projects to other departments.

Project management: Deploy new tools for teams to collaborate on MR development

Incentives Learning Grant: create a grant programs that will allow employees to receive staffing hours for learning.

Staffing Hire/Train employees who are familiar with techniques in new concept exploration, development, and design thinking.

Research Continued research of use cases for VR, AR, and DXD. Tools Work with partner organizations to build tools that enable better collaboration across disciplines (digital tools to develop/communicate concepts or activities that allow for collaboration).

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Work with consultants to train project/product managers on what activities are approved for use in project.

Tools Train employees on new digital tools that are used for collaboration Space Build space that allows teams to effectively participate and manage MR projects

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HOUSE OF HANDS ARCH 4500: VISUAL REPRESENTATION INSTRUCTORS: MILES GERTLER IGOR BRAGADO IN COLLABORATION WITH: ZACK CALBO JACKSON Cornell University // November 2018

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House of Hands is a collaborative research-oriented project with an emphasis on visual representation.

Conducted as a partner study, our assignment was to delve deep into a sub-culture of New York City. The project seeks to illuminate the histories of the underground Ballroom culture that began in the 1970s. A product of Black and Latino queer youth, this research focuses on shedding light on a typically underrepresented community.

As pertaining to the objective of the class, the focus of representation drove the research direction. The establishment of hands as an “Avatar”, or subject of focus, guided the technical realm of the analysis. Our study of Neufert’s Architects’ Data studies informed our drawings of non-normative, undocumented culture. We wanted to create a body of work that both standardized the nonstandard movements of Vogue Dancing and Ballroom culture as well as disrupt the monotonous and sterile nature of Neufert’s drawings.

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The Body as Physical Boundaries

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Standardizations of Voguing Poses

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FUTURE OF WORK WESTON BAKER CREATIVE GROUP Summer Internship // August 2017 In a world of constant technological change and increasing automation, we ponder the future that lies ahead. As cubicle spaces and designating seating are replaced by open conversation and creative freedom, how would workspaces change in the next 20 years? The focus of design is a constant search for new opportunities of engagement, collaboration, design outcomes and practice; the shift in the paradigm of professions corresponding to new eras of economic prosperity.

This virtual reality experience attempts to visualize the technological possibilities that future prospects have to offer based on our research of complications with current work practices.

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TOMPKINS HISTORY CENTER DEA 2203: STUDIOSHIFT INSTRUCTOR: RHONDA GILMORE Cornell University // May 2018 In the town’s efforts to reconnect with its local history, the Tompkins County invited our studio to propose schemes for the adaptive reuse of an existing bank into Ithaca’s new history museum.

The proposal seeks to make history more easily accessible to visitors rather than concealing the artifacts in archives. Nostalgic items, personal memorabilia, and collectibles are therefore displayed openly within a gridded system. The grid allows for flexibility in the scaling of display frames, which can be catered towards the exhibit taking place. Visitors may also interact with displays by engaging with compartments in the shelving, cabinets and sliding racks, which creates a more intimate experience with the local culture. Partitions centered within the museum are then angled to direct viewers towards highlighted collections, generating linearity in the circulation of the history center.

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ART PROJECTS

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BRIDGE AT CROSS WATERS ECOLODGE ARCH 2613: STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS INSTRUCTOR: MARK CRUVELLIER IN COLLABORATION WITH: JEANNETTE PANG Cornell University // November 2017 The project is a collaborative effort to understand the structural systems of an architecture project of our choosing by emulating the structural properties through a physical model. Hidden in the Nankum Mountain Reserve in China is the town’s first ecolodge and wellness center designed by Simon Veleze. Devised to inspire residents to learn more about the environment while giving back to the local community, the vernacular style bridge adopts a structural system combining material, joinery systems and scale. Bamboo was chosen as the primary material as it is able to resist lateral loads and torsion due to its hollow circular cross section. A “fish mount joint” was developed to uphold the structure in which members are attached perpendicularly to each other with metal threaded rods drilled through.

Our model incorporates similar materials and joinery systems by bending wooden membranes to establish an arched form then bound with knot connections and pins. Rockite cement serves as the foundation for fastening the bridge to the cliff site.

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PINK ON WEDNESDAYS GRAPHIC DESIGN Personal Project // February 2018 Colored in various shades of pink, Pink on Wednesdays illuminates abstractions of everyday objects and scenarios. Whether you are driving down Hollywood Boulevard along flamingo palm trees or swimming in cotton candy clouds, my imaginations of new fantastical and whimsical worlds are realized within these collages.

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DESCENT SCULPTURE Personal Project // November 2014 A series of crane sculptures crafted out of recycled plastic cutlery descending from the wall, the art project evoke ideas of sustainable art by composing unique form with unconventional materials.

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ANALOG DRAWINGS Personal Project // November 2014 A composition of mechanical drawings and portraits using mediums of color pencils and drafting pencils.

These drawings range from freehand to constructed, demonstrating moments of still life or kinetic motion.

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GENSLER Architecture Intern Chicago, Illinois Involved in schematic design and design development phases for retail type projects. In charge of designing multiple options and creating proposal documents for Midway Airport in Chicago, including perspective renderings and virtual reality walkthroughs in Enscape.

Assisted clients with visualization of redeveloped space during meetings. Engaged in space planning and leasing calculations.

Collaborated with interns of the North Central Region to generate research proposal studying new design technologies.

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SLADE Architecture Intern New York, New York Conceptualized initial schemes for diverse range of projects such as children science & technology museum, slave memorial and dental retail store. Assisted with diagrammatic drawings, site documentation, and perspective renderings to establish conceptual framework.

Constructed physical model to assess different materials for interior lounge design.

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WESTON BAKER CREATIVE GROUP Junior Designer New York, New York Created brand identities, marketing materials, websites, visualizations for a variety of clients ranging from tech startups, real estate developers to financial institutions. Produced 2D and 3D content such as virtual reality models, renderings, graphic illustrations and logo designs.

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KOHN PEDERSON FOX Architecture Intern Shanghai, China Contributed to schematic design phase of the Yu Yuan Garden urban renewal project in Shanghai. Documented and produced existing condition drawings as well as historical preservation research. Assisted with concept diagrams, daylight analysis, and digital site modeling using Grasshopper and Rhinoceros.

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JIANG ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS Architecture Intern Shanghai, China Involved in construction document phase of an office type project in Shanghai. Researched and contacted material suppliers, acting as intermediate between architect and contractor. Assisted with technical drawings and perspective renderings as well as engaging in client meetings.

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EDUCATION 2014 2019

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE Minor in Design and Environmental Analysis Cornell University Ithaca, Rome, New York City GPA 3.7

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INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE Auckland International College Auckland, New Zealand Score 41, Dean’s List

RELATED EXPERIENCE AUG 2017 MAY 2018

HOTEL EZRA CORNELL Design Assistant Director 93rd Annual Event

AUG 2017

CORNELL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE Visual Representation Member Volume 11

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Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Microsoft Office Suite Rhinoceros 3D V-Ray Enscape AutoCAD Autodesk Revit SketchUp

Hand Drawing 3D Printing Laser Cutting Photography Woodshop Molding & Casting CNC Milling Metal Fabrication

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Conceptualized and directed design for the Opening Cocktail at HEC. Transformed atrium into venue that corresponded to the chosen theme by incorporating design elements. Strategized new ways of adapting existing materials to design needs and budgeted to minimize additional costs. Led team of four to execute design within time frame of two days.

Collaborated with other editors in the Department of Architecture at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in soliciting and editing texts and drawings for the new issue of the journal. Assisted with theme selection, layout design and distribution.

WEEKLY BLOGGER Cornell in Rome Published weekly writings and photographic images highlighting student experiences, guest lectures and field trips during a semester abroad in Rome. Edited text and photographs.

A fifth year student pursuing Architecture with a minor in Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University, Maria has a keen interest in contemporary urban, aesthetic, political and technological culture with predilection for intervention, exhibition, and experiential architecture work. Maria welcomes unconventional proposals that address how emerging issues in technology, science, performance, industrial design, and aspects of the changing social, cultural, and natural environment can be resolved with architecture.

Determined to excel in disciplines aďŹƒliated with her interests, Maria is an ideologically oriented and empathetic designer who hopes to find solutions that best serve the individual. Her passion for environmental psychology and pop culture can be attributed to her New Zealand heritage, where the arts and nature intersect. Maria’s primary interest is to speculate and contribute to a more resourceful tomorrow.

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