781-870-0258 | richicoronado@gmail.com | Shrewsbury & Boston, MA
Bachelor of Science, Architecture | Urbanism Concentration
Merit Scholarship recipient
Dean’s List – Fall & Spring 2020 | Summer 2024
AutoCAD
Rhino
Revit
Graduated, April 2025
Graduated, April 2024
SKILLS WORK HISTORY
Arch GIS
Microsoft Office Suite
Bluebeam Photoshop Illustrator
InDesign
After effects
Laser Cutting
3D Printing
Drafting Blender V-ray Enscape Fluent in Spanish
Habeeb and Associates Architects- Worcester, MA
Medium-size architecture and design firm.
Architectural Designer Intern Fall 2021 | Spring 2022| Summer 2023
- Using CAD, Revit, and Bluebeam software to produce construction documents.
- Reviewed submittal and other administrative items such as RFP helped move projects along.
- Working under license architects doing CD, CA redlines.
- Going to the site for initial site conditions and field measurements.
- Working with the team to transform preliminary information into 3d and 2d drawings.
JMC Subway- Shrewsbury & Worcester, MA
Locally owned restaurant specializing in sandwiches and salads, table service, and catering.
Assistant Manager, Sandwich Artist, Team Member Aug. 2017-2024
- Efficient sandwich artist skilled at connecting with people and promoting products.
- Detailed Sales Representative well-known for turning problem accounts into long-term customers.
- Hiring, training, and developing new employees.
DC Carpenters – Shrewsbury, MA
Small carpentry business focused on residential work, additions, and renovations.
Construction worker June 2016-2025
- Install windows, doors, drywall, stairs, cabinets, and various other fixtures when required.
- Capable to operate different tools, equipment, and machines.
Activities & Interest
Concerts Art Museums Reading Traveling
1 REACTIVATING TIQUISATE
Urban interventions that transform infrastructural exploitation in Tiquisate by reclaiming transit corridors through regenerative mobility, bamboo construction, and inclusive, community-centered public spaces.
Tiquisate, Guatemala
2 WONDER TO INSTILL WANDER
Urban interventions that reconnect Cedar Grove and Ashmont by reconfiguring transit infrastructure into active public spaces and civic hubs. This strategy enhances mobility, fosters community, and creates inclusive third spaces for gathering, movement, and connection.
Dorchester/Mattapan , Neighborhoods in Boston
3 ACCLIMATIZATION ASCEND
Interventions that explore the public realm by bridging thermal comfort and spatial awareness from the at-grade condition to the top of podium. Roof structure with acclimatization zones guide vertical movement while responding to Dubai’s extreme climate through shade, airflow, and light.
DIFC district, UEA
4 THE STACK
Urban housing that responds to East Boston’s diverse community by addressing education, food access, and housing needs. The design integrates varied unit types and communal amenities connected by pedestrian streets and green spaces, fostering community interaction and promoting multigenerational living.
East Boston , MA
5 THE CIRCUIT
This project fosters creativity and community engagement through a sustainable maker space that integrates geothermal and passive climate systems. Dynamic solar-responsive fins modulate light, temperature, and privacy while framing views. Creating spaces that supports a range of fabrication and learning spaces alongside public zones for gathering and collaboration.
Lowell, MA
REACTIVATING TIQUISATE
CULTURAL ERASURE | MONOCULTURE | MASTER PLAN | URBAN REGENERATION | TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE | WALKABILITY | SUSTAINABILITY | CIRCULAR ECONOMY | PUBLIC REALM
This project addresses the spatial and social consequences of the United Fruit Company’s monopolization of transportation infrastructure in Guatemala, particularly in town of Tiquisate.
The town’s fragmentation is met with a vision of regenerative infrastructure that prioritizes formal and informal mobility, community spaces, sustainable bamboo construction, and pedestrian connectivity.
The master plan approach aims at a phase-by-phase bases to give the necessary tools to the ever-growing community of Tiquisate.
Through six targeted interventions along Tiquisate’s main artery and four mobilityfocused strategies including regional bus and paratransit stations, integrated markets, and tuk-tuk lanes. The project aims to transform exploitation into empowerment through urban design.
A1 04 Regional Bus Station Axon Perspective
A2 04 Regional Bus Station Perspective
B1 03 Semi Permanent Markets Axon Perspective
B1 Regional Bus Station Side Elevation
B1 Regional Bus Station Front Elevation
B1 Regional Bus Station Materiality Exploded Axon
WONDER TO INSTILL WANDER 2
PUBLIC SPACE ACTIVATION | THIRD SPACES | PARTICIPATORY PLANNING | CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE | COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | RE-USE OF OLD INFRASTRUCTURE | MIXUSE DEVELOPMENT | IMPROVED MOBILITY | STAKEHOLDERS
This project proposes a twopart urban revitalization strategy focused on Cedar Grove and Ashmont, two neighborhoods along the Mattapan Trolley Line. This urban revitalization strategy reconnects Cedar Grove and Ashmont through adaptive reuse of underutilized transit infrastructure. The Cedar Grove station is relocated to Codman Yard’s edge, transforming the yard into a public plaza with a farmer’s market, drive-in, and open space. In Ashmont, the existing trolley loop
becomes an active corridor with bike lanes and youthfocused third spaces allowing for walkability, gathering, and meandering.
A new civic hub on a cityowned site offers middleincome housing and essential services like a clinic, library, and Boys & Girls Club.
This proposal enhances mobility, fosters community, and strengthens identity making both neighbors vibrant, inclusive, and well-connected urban destinations.
This project features a steel frame roof with multidirectional undulation, supporting a field of aluminum pipes at varying heights.
Integrated within the system are fans and lighting guide a meandering path through a series of acclimatization zones that ease the transition from the hot desert climate to intensely cooled indoor environments.
These zones mediate vertical movement from
grade to top of podium, responding to Dubai’s extreme temperature shifts.
The entrances pierce through the podium structure, creating sensory focal points that engage scale, light, and tactility.
By weaving architectural performance with climatic responsiveness, the intervention activates the public realm by transforming the podium into an accessible, shaded, and socially vibrant space.
Worms Eye Perspective
Top of Podium | Level
50’-0"
30’0"
160’- 0"
TOP OF PODIUM
Sectional Perspective | A | Entrance at Grade
Entrance at Grade
Sectional Perspective | B | Mall Level
Sectional Perspective | C | Top of Podium
THE STACK 4
MULTI FAMILY HOUSING | DIVERSE NEIGHBORHOOD | COMMUNITY NEEDS | FOOD ACCESSIBILITY | MULTI GENERATIONAL LIVING | COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DESIGN | MIXED-INCOME HOUSING | PUBLIC REALM ACTIVATION
This urban housing project responds to East Boston’s diverse demographic by addressing key community needs such as education, schooling, and food accessibility.
Through site-specific research and urban analysis, the design integrates a mix of residential unit types from micro-units, studios, one bedroom, and threebedroom apartments to accommodate a range of household sizes and income levels.
The project incorporates communal spaces, a daycare, market, gym, and retail frontage, all connected by pedestrianonly streets and green spaces.
These elements foster community interaction, social equity, and accessibility while activating the public realm and promoting sustainable, multi generational urban living.
Bremen Street
RETAIL RETAIL RETAIL
RETAIL
OUTDOOR COURTYARD RETAIL RETAIL EMEGENCY HALLWAY
GROUND FLOOR SCALE: 1/16”-1’
Micro Unit
Studio Unit
One Bedroom
Three Bedroom
Study Model
Short Section
Side Elevation
THE CIRCUIT 5
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN| PASSIVE HEATING AND COOLING| MAKER SPACE | FABRICATION LABS | COMMUNITY HUB|
CLIMATE-RESPONSIVE DESIGN | SUN-RESPONSIVE FACADE | GEOTHERMAL ENERGY | FIN SYSTEM
This project is a sustainable maker space and community hub designed to foster creativity, technical learning, and community engagement.
The building incorporates geothermal systems and passive heating and cooling strategies, including a dynamic fin system that responds to solar orientation.
These fins modulate light, temperature, and privacy, framing specific views while adjusting in size and angle according to the sun’s path.
Inside, the building houses a wide range of fabrication and learning spaces, such as woodworking, welding, ceramics, robotics, and digital labs, complemented by public areas like exhibit zones, a library, lounges, and a cafe.
